647. Coincidence (This month's monthly votes 200 extra update, please vote)

"Long time no see."

Isaac stepped forward excitedly. "Ever since you said goodbye last time, I had no idea where you went..."

"I've been traveling."

Sulu answered with a smile, adding silently, Just in other worlds.

"Anyway, you're so mysterious. Are all people named Sean especially amazing? I know there's a Sean in Bureau 11 too. I almost thought it was you, but he's a big shot at the fifth tier..."

Isaac was still as chatty and funny as ever.

Sulu rubbed Harlock's dog head, finding it more familiar somehow.

"By the way... why are you here?"

Having finished the small talk, Isaac glanced warily at the recorder in Sulu's hand.

Hmm... this guy's grown quite a bit too... Makes sense. Becoming a fourth-tier professional takes more than just luck.

Sulu looked amusedly at Isaac's feet, where a group of extraordinary ants he had gathered lingered.

"I happened to be traveling nearby when I saw a [Doctor of Lost Souls] making preparations. He seemed to be planning an ambush, so I waited here... I didn't expect it to be you."

Sulu "confessed."

"That simple?" Isaac pressed, somewhat incredulous.

"It's that simple!"

Sulu answered with a serious expression. "That [Doctor of Lost Souls] has already been captured by me. If you don't believe me, ask him."

When Isaac saw the Death Cultist lying unconscious on the ground, it felt as though some string in his mind was about to snap.

He suddenly stood and stared at Sulu. "You... you wouldn't happen to be Bureau 11's mysterious big shot—Sean, would you? You don't look anything alike, but there are plenty of ways to alter one's appearance with extraordinary powers."

Other than a fifth-tier professional—who also happened to possess the advanced class of [Doctor of Lost Souls], [King of Necro-Spirits]—he could think of