Priscilla, the Awakened One who had killed the previous generation's "Smiling Teresa," was unquestionably powerful. That remained true even though she had used such a despicable method as a sneak attack. The Organization had no desire to provoke her, much less to make an enemy of her.
So perhaps, in an effort to make Clare—who was unwilling to obey when it came to Priscilla—face the facts and recognize her own strength, thus giving up on some improper notion, or perhaps for some other reason, Clare's handler, Rubel, assigned Clare, the bottom-ranked Number 47 Claymore, directly to a squad tasked with hunting an Awakened Being.
Clare wasn't particularly concerned about such a dangerous mission. On the contrary, she accepted it readily.
Because she really wanted to know just how strong an ordinary "Awakened Being" could be!
After a week of traveling, Clare and Raki finally reached a small town, where they found the other three members of the hunting squad waiting for them. They were:
The strongest of the four, the Organization's single-digit-ranked Number 6, "Phantom Miria," who was also the squad leader. Miria had hunted beings with abnormal appetites—that is, Awakened Beings—seven times before.
Number 15, Deneve, who was taking part in a hunt for an Awakened Being for the second time.
And the last member was Number 22, Helen. Like Clare, she had no experience hunting Awakened Beings. Though her ranking was a little lower, she was still much stronger than Clare, who was at the very bottom.
In any case!
At first, when the three heard that Clare was the bottom-ranked Number 47 and had no experience hunting Awakened Beings, they were all shocked. They couldn't understand why the Organization had sent her.
Deneve and Helen even mocked Clare, and things nearly came to blows.
Fortunately, "Phantom Miria,"