"Give them a heads-up. It'll come in handy eventually."
Hoshino bent down, closing the distance in an instant. "Let me tell you something: the Immortal Blades are genuinely convenient and useful."
Convenient and useful?
Amiya instinctively sensed that something was off.
This was a lie!
Her intuition was sharp. When Hoshino leaned in and tried to guide her into summoning the Immortal Blades, Amiya instinctively began discerning truth from falsehood. The result shocked her greatly, but outwardly, she remained perfectly composed.
"There's a problem."
Amiya deftly changed the subject.
"When the Exalted Immortal expanded her domain, two Rhodes Island operators went missing. I hope to bring them back."
"Which two?"
"Operator Pramanix and Operator Nian."
Hoshino nodded in sudden realization.
She already had a rough idea, but she still needed to confirm it.
"Were there any facilities on Rhodes Island that suddenly malfunctioned? Like a door that absolutely won't open... something like that."
"Now that you mention it..."
Amiya's expression cleared with realization. "There is a storage room like that. It's locked from the inside, and nothing we do can open it. The engineering team said it was a software issue and is organizing demolition experts, but they're worried about a sewage backflow, so they haven't taken further action."
Well, well. They'd hidden in the bathroom.
Two gods, acting like elementary school students. How embarrassing.
And according to Amiya, both had vanished, yet only one storage room had malfunctioned. Didn't that mean...
The two of them were probably huddled together and trembling right now.
That was... hilarious.
Just imagining it was already funny, but Hoshino felt it still wasn't enough.
She would go catch them red-handed.
Hoshino walked over in silence and arrived at the storage room with the broken door. After considering it several times, she lightly knocked on