Mary Geoise Reception Hotel.
Queen Otohime invited Konan and Nagato to her room. Jinbe came along with them.
Queen Otohime sat in the seat of honor. To her right sat the broad-shouldered, blue-skinned Jinbe with his arms crossed; Nagato and Konan sat on her left.
"Thank you, Nagato, Konan!" Queen Otohime rose and bowed slightly to them with heartfelt gratitude.
"You saved my life before, and now you've gone to all this trouble to escort me to Mary Geoise."
"It was nothing. We had our own reasons for helping you.
"But be careful tomorrow. Besides Hody Jones, there was another, unidentified human force behind the attempt on your life."
The first main mission of this Reincarnator trial had been to change the assassination incident from the original story, in which Queen Otohime had lost her life, under his and Konan's protection.
In the original story, the one who tried to assassinate Queen Otohime was Hody Jones, an extremist among the Fish-Men.
After Nagato captured Hody Jones, he discovered that the weapon Hody had used wasn't an ordinary firearm at all, but a powerful sniper rifle from a technologically advanced civilization.
Having ruled out the possibility that Hody Jones was a Reincarnator, Nagato was certain that another Reincarnator had been involved.
Unfortunately, before Nagato could use soul-searching to read Hody's memories, Hody had turned into a mindless killing machine.
His brain had been completely destroyed, and even his soul had become so muddled that they couldn't gather any useful information.
That was why they had urged Queen Otohime to be careful. They wouldn't be allowed to accompany her inside the Holy Land Mary Geoise, and with the situation unclear, they couldn't afford to let their guard down.
Just then, Konan took out a talisman shaped like a pendant and handed it