After sharing a brief, tender moment with Iris, Jonas took the sleeping girl back to her residence and tucked her into bed.
After all their exertions, the girl drifted off contentedly. Jonas left the private apartment, and as the breeze swept down the street, he felt refreshed for the first time in ages.
Neither too much nor too little. Iris really was the best!
With Iris's problem resolved, Jonas had not forgotten Eiffel, whom the girl had sent away.
Sure enough, Iris had hacked Miss Eiffel's communications, leading her to believe Jonas had ordered her to handle some business at the Wetting Conglomerate.
In the past, Iris would never have dared do something like this... strictly speaking, it had not been Iris who did it, but "the other Iris."
Of course, Jonas did not expose Iris's little trick. Instead, he pretended he had issued that order himself... after arriving at the Wetting Conglomerate and checking every document, only to find nothing that required her attention, Miss Eiffel merely grumbled a little. Once Jonas sincerely apologized, saying he had made a mistake, and promised to "make it up to her" next time, her lingering resentment vanished.
Time slowly passed, and discussion of the Alt Conglomerate and the Huacheng People continued to spread through District 25.
It was at this point that Miss Afanisi, who had been absent for quite some time, suddenly came to see Jonas.
And she brought an intriguing request.
Time, space, dimensions.
What the Void Realm Church worshipped existed beyond all three.
The origins of psionic energy stretched back countless epochs. This power brought not physical changes, but spiritual transcendence, allowing people to draw material strength through their minds. Rather than a form of energy, psionic energy was more like a medium drifting between reality and the