The tentacles swayed, but Magellan could not understand them the way Mizuki could. She could only roughly grasp yes and no, as well as directions. Thanks to those tentacles, she never lost her way anywhere on the snowfield. More than once, they had even helped her escape danger.
"Why were they Miu Miu and Mizuki... why not me?"
Gently hugging Mizuki's tentacle, Magellan began looking forward to her vacation. Meanwhile, in the camp's main conference room, an Internal Guard from Ursus stared at the Tin Man before him. One hid his face beneath a mask, while the other simply had no face at all.
"How should we deal with her?"
"Keep her. She is the only investigator who can freely travel in and out of this snowfield. We need someone like her. Seven investigation teams have already vanished in a row, yet she can venture deep inside even alone. According to our investigation, she has a friendly relationship with E001. That may be the reason."
The Tin Man should not have been able to feel cold, but in weather like this, even the oil inside his body felt as though it were freezing. The Ursus Internal Guard before him was not someone easy to deal with.
"E001... You actually desire immortality from that kind of monster. You Columbians really are insane."
"Who can argue with that? Sigh, they already possess wealth beyond anything ordinary people could imagine, yet they still want eternal life. How could there be so many good things in this world?"
Facing the Ursus Internal Guard's mockery, the Tin Man did not get angry. He merely lit a cigar.
"Then since Ursus sent you here, does that mean they agreed as well?"
"Two months ago, on October 27, Ursus's First Reconnaissance Team made its first contact with