Professor Dr. Ratio gently exhaled. "A sudden string of disappearances is undoubtedly the ideal breeding ground for chaos.
"Once the seeds of unease take root and sprout, a declaration of attack brings the crisis brewing in the shadows out into the open, urging it to grow, blossom, and bear fruit.
"And the next step-snap-is to strike the spark. Look at these missing staff members. Suppose someone discovers what they have in common. What would happen? I needn't elaborate."
The professor from the Genius Society had laid everything out in plain sight. After hearing him, Asta could not help frowning, filled with worry.
"It was all a carefully laid trap. The goal was to provoke internal strife within the Space Station from the very beginning!"
Dr. Ratio neither agreed nor disagreed, saying only, "...It's too late."
Meanwhile, some people in the Space Station's employee group chat had already begun arguing. They seemed to have learned what the missing people had in common and were now clamoring for management to step down.
"This... this..." Looking at those messages, Asta grew even more indignant.
Screwllum remained calm. "...No, this is not enough."
"Indeed." Jiang Yu nodded along with a thoroughly serious air.
"This little commotion? They're practically looking down on my fans!"
The white-haired boy's voice brimmed with confidence. He seemed to have considerable faith in those who liked him, even though, not long ago, those people had merely been staff members numbly repeating the same work every day.
This forced Dr. Ratio, who agreed with Screwllum, to swallow the words on the tip of his tongue after opening his mouth.
He had originally thought the boy had reached the same conclusion as he and Screwllum, only to find that the boy actually thought the enemy's methods were too feeble...
Still, regardless of