"Oh, no, it wasn't because of that. The causality was reversed—I could join the Argo because I already had high clearance."
Noah explained after hearing Klein's words.
"Huh? No... weren't you only low-sequence back then too? How did you have such high clearance?"
Klein remembered that Noah had boarded the Argo quite a long time ago, hadn't he?
Thinking carefully, back then Klein had still been in Tingen City and had only just met Noah—or rather, had only just had Noah dig up his real-life identity. At the time, he had still been troubled by the crisis Tingen City was about to face.
Noah had made a deal with him, told him the truth of the crisis and its causes and consequences, then said he had matters to attend to and could not remain in Tingen City for long. He had probably been heading for the place where the Argo would set sail.
In other words, Noah, who had clearly been almost as much of an Extraordinary newcomer as Klein back then, had already possessed the clearance to board the Argo?
"It's simple. My father is Café's general manager."
"...???"
Klein raised a hand and dug at his ear, then tilted his head and turned one ear toward Noah.
"What did you just say? I think my ears suddenly rang, so I didn't hear clearly."
"My dad is Café's general manager."
"...Damn!"
Klein was momentarily struck speechless.
He had known long ago that Noah lacked neither resources nor wealth, but he had only assumed Noah had accumulated them after joining Café and becoming an Extraordinary.
After all, a path centered on doing business, much like Rosell the Great Emperor's path of invention and creation, could leverage a transmigrator's knowledge advantage to the utmost.
Unlike him—before transmigrating, when it came to