[When you finally brought the still-shaken Riko Amanai and Misato Kuroi to meet Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko Ieiri, who were handling support on the perimeter, your face, lent a somewhat scholarly air by your black-framed glasses, remained utterly calm.]
[After briefly confirming the safe handover of the Star Plasma Vessel, you did not volunteer that you had just dispatched Baier and Kekun of the Q Organization in the corridor and elevator lobby as casually as slaughtering chickens or sheep.]
[Instead, you focused your account entirely on the ancient sorcerer named "Reiji," who had awakened in the modern era through incarnation.]
[In fact, you had weighed the advantages and disadvantages with extreme precision.]
[Under ordinary circumstances, if a problem was within your ability to resolve perfectly on your own, you would most likely never share such critical intelligence openly with everyone.]
[After all, since you had already personally killed Kenjaku, the woman with stitches across her forehead who had orchestrated these ancient sorcerers' resurrection, the worst possible outcome-"world-ending assimilation," capable of overturning all of Japan-would most likely never happen again.]
[As for the remaining ancient sorcerers, scattered everywhere like worker bees without their queen, even if they came looking for you, you were absolutely confident that you could quietly erase them in some dark corner.]
[But all that confidence rested on one absolute prerequisite: those ancient sorcerers would fix their sights firmly on "you" as their prey.]
[Now, however, the situation had shifted subtly.]
[Because you had used the Time Vessel Association's payment to have Shiu Kong post a bounty far higher than in previous simulations, this timeline was now seething with hidden currents.]
[The ancient sorcerers you might encounter next would very likely target Riko Amanai, the Star Plasma Vessel. After all, as long as they got involved