The New Feelings Born from Night Bureau "Connections"

North of Paris, on the highway heading toward the city center.

Although even the car owner's keys had been swallowed by Gluttony, starting the car was no trouble for a girl who could manipulate electricity.

It did not take long to get from Montmorency Forest to central Paris, but with the huge number of tourists every year, traffic and parking spaces had always been extremely tight.

At a red light at an intersection.

"So, the current situation is that the Covenant is carrying out some kind of plan in Europe centered around Dark Energy Crystals, and high-ranking members of the Royal Court who betrayed it are involved. That's what caused the accident during the National War?"

Sitting in the back seat and listening to Fang Ran's explanation, Qing Ning took quite a while to sort out the current situation. She looked incredulous. She had never expected that the upheaval in the National War, which she had thought was already the crisis itself, concealed such an enormous incident behind it.

The National War's lockdown was merely one part of it.

"That's right. Though at first... I hadn't expected it to turn out like this either."

Sitting beside her in the back seat and explaining the whole story to Qing Ning, Fang Ran spread his hands helplessly. Ever since he had decided to stay here the night before last—

A strange black sphere, Faceless Men carrying Arcane Armaments, Royal Court traitors who had already joined forces with a Covenant adjutant through communications, Zero Knights who came after him, and a lethally dangerous Executive Officer—

All those clues pieced together the shadow of just the tip of the Covenant's plan.

"Then why would their secret plan in Europe involve the National War?"

The overly complicated information left Qing Ning struggling to process it