"Who I am isn't important. You only need to know that I can clear a path for you."
Someone was monitoring my movements through the networked equipment on my armor...
Metal?
No, she was more likely reporting to SpiCa.
"Ptolemy?"
"Mm, you figured it out already? Was I that obvious?"
"Other than you, I don't know any other hackers."
Betelgeuse might have been able to do it, but she would never have volunteered to help me.
Now that I had exposed her identity, the voice on the other end changed back to Extinction's original voice.
"At least until you go to the moon, I can still assist you. I still can't hack into the lunar communication system... it uses Crystal technology from the Other Side. That stuff is beyond my capabilities."
"Thanks."
"You want to go to the moon to find the truth, and I want to know the truth too. So I'm not helping you; we're partners... I remember that child who underwent Divine Disappearance too, but I can't recall them. I just hate this feeling."
"I understand."
A massive gap appeared in the drones' patrol routes.
That was the backdoor Extinction—no, Ptolemy—had opened for me.
"We need the truth. If there really are heroes no one remembers, then everyone has a duty to remember them."
I landed on the lotus-leaf-shaped helipad. Perhaps because of the drones, there were no security guards on patrol here. They were probably slacking off in their guard booths.
There was no need to deploy helicopters in the middle of the night, so the place was quiet. I sneaked all the way to the elevator without encountering a single person.
As for the surveillance cameras along the way, Agatha had already hacked them according to plan.
Inside the elevator, I removed the Exoskeleton Armor