Previously, Gin had wanted to silence a woman on the Shinkansen by blowing her up. But the Time Bomb he left behind had been snatched away by "Miss Anonymous" as she passed by, at the very instant before it exploded—because of that, Gin had been mockingly jabbed at by his sharp-tongued colleagues more times than he could count.
It was also after that incident that the mysterious Anonymous Organization gradually began surfacing in various places.
After the Shinkansen incident, the Black Organization had briefly taken Anonymous seriously, but soon shifted its attention elsewhere—the Black Organization was, after all, a long-established large organization with tentacles spread across the globe. They had enemies and allies all over the world and had dealt with far too many different kinds of peers.
Compared to those organizations, the newly emerged Anonymous had not actually carried out many activities related to the Black Organization, aside from causing Gin trouble. It was not until the Schindler Holographic Game incident some time ago, in which top second generation heirs from the Island Nation had been kidnapped, when Anonymous claimed responsibility, that the Black Organization truly began taking it seriously.
Yet the facts proved that it made no difference whether they took it seriously or not.
—Even after investigating in earnest, the Black Organization had somehow obtained barely any more intelligence than before.
Personnel, funding flows, operational locations... in every aspect, the Black Organization had failed to find even the slightest trace of this organization.
The Anonymous Organization was practically a phantom existence fabricated out of thin air, something that did not exist in this world. Yet it had carried out a whole series of very real operations, and had even quietly acquired technology as unimaginable as "Artificial Intelligence that could grow," before planning a large-scale attack where