Raphael did not call out to Xio Derecha. Instead, he waited until she had passed him before quietly following her, meeting up with her in an alley some distance away.
Raphael first explained the general situation he had uncovered. It seemed to have begun with a strange incident at a coal mine. The workers had dug a stone resembling an eye out of a coal seam, after which accidents began occurring frequently at the mine.
The mine's owner seemed to be a believer in some evil god. After receiving a divine revelation, he had sent the contaminated miners to East Borough.
Afterward, the "Stone Eye" that had caused the supernatural incidents-Raphael did not know what it was either, so he provisionally called it the "
Stone Eye."
That "Stone Eye" seemed to have moved from East Borough to Bridge District and the Factory District. Raphael now knew that three Beyonders had gone missing in Bridge District, and their disappearances were definitely connected to the "Stone Eye."
Raphael had now found one of the missing Beyonders. He, too, had probably already been affected by the "Stone Eye."
That meant their next move would very likely involve fighting Beyonders affected by the "Stone Eye."
The two members of MI9 were a Sequence 7 and a Sequence 8, respectively, while Jonathan was a Sequence 6 Zombie.
They might soon be fighting two against three, or even two against four. After all, the "Stone Eye" might have affected other Beyonders as well.
At the same time, they needed to find the "Stone Eye" as quickly as possible. Destroying that Beyonder item would most likely put an end to the incident.
After hearing Raphael's analysis, Xio slowly nodded. Sometimes, she felt that working with Raphael was quite a pleasant experience. She did not have to