Layered Preparations

"Emergency mobilization?" Abner asked as he handed Xio a pillowcase. "Here, wipe off the rainwater dripping from your hair."

"After becoming a Sequence 7 'Judgment,' MI9 issued me another badge for emergency contact..." Xio took the pillowcase without complaint and roughly wiped her messy golden hair, at least drying off the excess water. Only then did she take out a shattered badge and show it to Abner before continuing, "It broke after transmitting the mobilization order just now."

"It should be a one-time Beyonder item used for communication... An emergency mobilization sent through something like that... is probably very dangerous!" Abner gave it a simple analysis with the "Pure White Eye" before speaking with a grave expression.

At the same time, he thought of how Fanny's "Dragon Tooth" bar had previously been jointly sealed off by MI9 and the "Machinery Hivemind." There had to be a connection between the two incidents.

Could it be that even after those two major official organizations had mobilized so many people, they had still failed to capture their target and allowed the other party to escape? Was that why they were now mobilizing even more personnel to search the area?

No, judging from the urgency of the mobilization... perhaps some unexpected change had occurred...

After hearing Abner, Xio nodded with pursed lips and said seriously, "I also have a bad feeling... So when I passed by your house, I thought I'd come up and borrow your 'Solomon Gold Coin.'"

The house Xio and Fors had newly rented was also in Cherwood Borough, not far from the garden villa on Kinster Street.

Didn't you consider pretending you never heard the mobilization order and simply not going? What a silly girl, with far too much of both responsibility and justice...

Abner sighed inwardly, but his mind