Eternal's Trail Exposed

Just then, the elevator doors opened, and Daguza, who had gone out on an errand, returned.

In order to learn Durandal's true plan, they had investigated his past and related experiences everywhere, only to find it far more difficult than expected.

Even by pooling the intelligence networks of the Klein faction and the Terminal, they could only gather information that had already been made public.

Fortunately, they later received some enlightening intelligence.

With their last shred of hope, Lacus made a deduction based on the intelligence and asked Daguza to visit Mendel, the space station where Durandal had once worked.

Durandal was a genetic analysis specialist and had spent a long time at Mendel, practically the headquarters of genetic research. Perhaps they could find some trace of him there.

The moment Daguza entered, he opened the briefcase in his hand and reported to the others. "Whew, I'm finally back. The station's air had all leaked out, and it was badly abandoned, but who knows what happened—the Gene Research Institute's records had been cleared out completely. It was hard to find even a scrap of trash."

Upon hearing that, Andrew and Lacus immediately exchanged glances.

Durandal might have done it, so no one could follow any clues back to him.

Daguza looked apologetic as he took out several small booklets.

"In the end, these were all I found..."

Andrew glanced over, unable to hide his disappointment. They were merely a few faded notebooks that did not seem to contain much data.

But Daguza opened one and held it up for them to see. "Still, look here—it may have been written by one of his colleagues back then..."

Andrew and Lacus leaned closer to see.

Amid the hand-drawn charts was an extremely scrawled passage:

"Durandal's so-called Destiny Plan, at first glance, benefits