The badge was solid and weighty, looking like an egg with pale blue horizontal stripes. Under the street lamps at night, it gleamed with a delicate sheen, silently conveying an air of luxury.
Vodka looked at it twice and found it familiar.
Soon, he remembered. "Isn't this... an admission pass for Schindler's game launch event?"
Jiang Xia nodded, looking utterly unsurprised, as though today's party was not an engagement ceremony but a place specifically meant for collecting badges.
Uzo's next target, Thomas Schindler—the big fish that Dark Shark was about to catch—had recently arrived in Japan from the United States. Tomorrow, he would appear at the game launch event in Beika City Hall.
There, they would unveil the world's first Holographic Game, Cocoon.
Fifty Game Pods had been set up in advance at the venue for attendees to try. In other words, there were only fifty slots in the entire world.
The badge in Jiang Xia's hand was the qualification to experience a Game Pod.
Most of these badges had been distributed to high-ranking people with children. Kusano Kaoru had probably received one because she was going to be the spokesperson for this game's Japan division. This launch event also happened to be held in Japan.
But Kusano Kaoru now seemed to want nothing more than to get married and retire. She had even casually given away her badge, perhaps because she had considered that the game contained Detective elements that would appeal to a High School Detective like Jiang Xia. Who knew how she would handle her work afterward... Fortunately, it was not much of a problem—if all went well, after tomorrow, this game would never see the light of day again.
Of course, that was not the important part.
The important part was that, with this