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"...It's not quite the same," said Lu Qi Zhen. "...Can you help us pass along a message? We forgot to tell her just now."
"Hm? What is it?"
"...If she needs someone to talk to tonight, we're all here."
Xina stood in place, watching Lu Qi Zhen and Jahadorei depart. She looked at the two girls with a bit of curiosity, unable to fathom how long their family had even been at this palace yet Chloe seemed to have already made friends... Where did she even find the leisure?
In the evening, Hesta drove back to the palace alone.
She had originally planned to meet up with Simoya and Zoe in the city before leaving, but at that moment she no longer had the heart for it. She urgently wanted to return to a quiet, familiar place and find someone to talk about what had happened in the afternoon.
Yet who could she find?
Ligo? Tulan?
No, Ligo was still rather unwilling to pay her any mind right now... But even if they had patched things up, this matter probably wasn't convenient to discuss with her either—to tell Ligo that an extermination battle targeting the Deep Anchor was about to take place in District 12? How was that any different from forcing her to pick a side?
Then again, withholding it from Ligo, wasn't that also forcibly making her take a stand?
As for Tulan... she had been working inside the laboratory all these years and would know no more about the upper echelons of AHgAs than Hesta herself.
Officer Silei?
Although Officer Silei held concurrent posts at both the United Government and the AHgAs workstation, she also lacked deep insight into AHgAs's interior, and furthermore, Officer Silei was not a Quicksilver Needle; she could not truly understand