On the street, Tachibana Kirika leaned against the window of a red Ferrari parked beside the road, a cigarette between her lips as she puffed out smoke.
Luo Shu, Natsuki Minamiya, and Suzuka Dairenji had just walked out of the hotel when they saw her.
Tachibana Kirika spotted them too. Leaning against the car window, she asked:
"How did it go? Did you catch that Time Angel's clone?"
At her words, Suzuka Dairenji could not help glancing at Luo Shu.
Luo Shu scratched his head, walked over to the Ferrari, and told Tachibana Kirika:
"We failed. We couldn't keep her there, and we didn't even reach an agreement on cooperation."
"Well, I could more or less guess from your faces."
With the cigarette between her lips, Tachibana Kirika did not look particularly disappointed. Instead, she teased him with a smile:
"So there's finally something you can't do, huh? Watching you work lately, I almost thought you were omnipotent."
Luo Shu could not help rolling his eyes, speechless.
"Instead of teasing me, you should worry about yourself, Miss Commander who sneaked out in the middle of a major military operation."
"Oh my? You don't need to worry about that."
Tachibana Kirika took the slim cigarette from her mouth with her fingers and snuffed it out, then said with a smile:
"Onmyodo shikigami aren't that inconvenient."
"As long as a shikigami wearing 'my' face is still commanding things at Sakuradamon, everything will be fine there."
"You..." Luo Shu stared speechlessly at the woman using Onmyodo to slack off.
Wasn't she afraid of being found out at Sakuradamon?
"You really haven't changed, Tachibana."
Unlike the speechless Luo Shu, Natsuki Minamiya seemed to have expected Tachibana Kirika's appearance here. She even teased her:
"You can always smell an opportunity."
Unlike Luo Shu, Natsuki Minamiya