"So now we can finally carry out the Club's mission?"
Drink blew out clouds of smoke and glanced at him.
"Yes. Let's go."
Akbin said.
"We'll enter the Inner District directly through the Spirit World. The Circus's current controller lives there... capture him and take him away for questioning."
Buzz!
The two stepped forward, entered the Spirit World directly, and vanished.
A moment later.
They had arrived in the region of the Spirit World corresponding to Amber City. Within their field of vision, they could see the blurred, wavering outline of the city in the Mortal World.
They were about to continue forward when they both turned their heads at the same time.
A squad of over a dozen Beyonders in black trench coats was rapidly approaching them. They bore down aggressively, clearly not coming in peace.
"It's the Containment Bureau's 'Executioners Squad'... they're here to arrest you, Akbin."
Drink spoke with a trace of schadenfreude in his voice.
Akbin snorted and said in a low voice:
"Leave the Spirit World first. Once we shake them off in the Mortal World, we'll find a way to regroup."
Without waiting for Drink's reply, Akbin left the Spirit World on his own.
Drink sneered and glanced at the approaching Executioners Squad. He likewise chose to avoid a direct confrontation, following Akbin out of the Spirit World.
The Executioners Squad had spotted Drink and Akbin from afar, but they did not immediately give chase.
"Captain Talleyrand, that was the wanted mastermind behind the plague case, 'Akbin Kewol'... what should we do?"
A young female Executioner asked.
Talleyrand was a middle-aged man whose short brown hair stood on end in the wind as he sprinted.
"Our primary objective this time is to surround and eliminate Black Knight Bayers... the Executioners Squad previously assigned to