Chapter 2533: There Must Be Good Food!
In the far eastern land of Stafford, a desolate place rarely visited by anyone and battered by howling winds, inside a fortress that looked like the ruins of a city, Ruru, Claire's former agent, was giving an urgent report to the higher-ups of their Organization.
He had been out of contact with Claire, that dead-last Warrior No. 47, for more than a month.
He had searched for her in many places during that time, but he had never found her again. Nor had he found her corpse, her weapon, or anything else she might have left behind. So today, he had no choice but to come here and report the matter as required.
"No. 47?"
"She's been missing for over a month?"
"Hmm..."
"No body, no discarded weapon..."
"That does make things interesting."
"What do you think? Could she really have defected?"
"It's possible!"
"But we can't rule out the possibility that, like before, she disobeyed orders and deliberately went incommunicado to do something pointless. There's a record of her ignoring orders and acting recklessly, after all."
"That's true..."
"Are there other Warriors like her?"
"More than a few!"
"Ha..."
"Indeed!"
"For example..."
"That No. 6?"
After hearing Ruru's report, the Organization's higher-ups, seated on stone chairs inside the fortress, began murmuring among themselves, neither agreeing nor disagreeing. As they talked, they moved on to other Warriors, their expressions growing wry and inscrutable.
"Ruru..."
"Let me ask you this."
"What was the last mission assigned to her—the one called No. 47?"
After pondering for a while, one of the Organization's leaders looked up at Ruru, who stood respectfully before them, and pressed him for an answer.
Although Claire, No. 47, was the lowest-ranked Warrior, she was still a Warrior of the Organization. That