"Quick, quick, quick!"
"Move!"
After guarding the door at the last auction, Percy had rested for a few days before it was his turn to be deployed again.
The moment he heard the shrill tolling of the bells, he reflexively pulled on his uniform and rushed out of the dormitory to assemble in the underground plaza of Investigation Headquarters.
"We're dead, we're dead!"
"The bells of Mitra Palace... I thought what the training manual said was fake."
"The last time the bells of Mitra Palace rang, it was when an 'Unknowable Grade' force destroyed an entire city, wasn't it?"
Looking at the equally panicked investigators around him, Percy took a deep breath.
"Investigators, deploy!"
A Non-Human Existence opened an 'Angel Grade' mystical item resembling a jewelry box.
Percy's vision went black. When he reappeared, he was already in the middle of a city block.
The streets were filled with chaotic, out-of-control crowds, their madness spreading as though it were contagious.
"Keep your mind amulets on you! Handle this according to protocols for the highest-grade contamination incident!"
The Non-Human Existence leading the team shouted the order.
"Any target judged to be a threat may be executed on the spot!"
The regulations in the response manual suddenly flashed through Percy's mind. He drew his revolver and aimed it at the frenzied crowd.
When the maddened mob saw the investigators, they immediately charged like zombies.
If it had merely been a crazed crowd, any investigator could have slaughtered their way in and out seven times over.
But as the crowd's mad, chaotic cries rang out, Percy could not help gritting his teeth and clutching his temples.
He felt the contamination of madness invading him!
Grotesque limbs danced before his eyes, while evil thoughts in his heart swelled at breakneck speed. It was as