[In your original blueprint for the plan, you had intended to thoroughly disguise yourself after successfully faking Riko Amanai's death and personally visit the Time Vessel Association's secret headquarters as "Toji Fushiguro" to collect the remaining bounty.]
[Your real objective was, of course, not the money. You wanted to use this perfect opportunity to enter the tiger's den to gather intelligence up close on that mysterious woman with stitches across her forehead, and even see exactly what sort of hidden network lay behind the Time Vessel Association.]
[However, that sudden, horrific car crash, which wiped out the backup Star Plasma Vessel along with the guards, was like a bucket of ice water over your head. It immediately brought you to your senses, and you decisively abandoned your original infiltration plan for the time being.]
[The ramifications and hidden depths of this affair had already gone far beyond what you could keep under absolute control at your current stage.]
[The mastermind lurking in the shadows not only possessed a top-secret intelligence network that stayed one step ahead of yours, but also a ruthlessness that stopped at nothing.]
[You had no absolute confidence that you could perfectly keep track of every change in the situation within such a vast, unknown vortex of cause and effect.]
[Leaning against the cold wall of your dorm room, you repeatedly played out the worst-case scenario in your mind. If, while investigating the Time Vessel Association's headquarters alone, you were unlucky enough to run straight into that mastermind, or the terrifying force formed by those masterminds, your current strength might not give you complete confidence in escaping unscathed.]
[Once you were exposed or even died there-if you died here, you would be left far too powerless.]
[So, after an extremely cool-headed weighing of the pros and cons,