A steel door stood between two black walls.
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TMP. TMP.
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TMP. TMP.
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Footsteps followed, belonging to a huge, muscular man in a brown suit. He walked between the walls toward the steel door and opened it.
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TMP.
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BAM...
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CHATTER CHATTER
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Behind the door, people worked and bustled around their systems. Multiple huge digital screens lined the room, with one enormous holographic screen in the middle, set toward the left side of the large, systematic space.
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TMP. TMP. TMP.
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The man's massive frame caught the eyes of many workers on the floor below the platform he was walking on. Some of those he passed turned to greet him.
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MURMUR MURMUR-
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"BOSS. BOSS," they said, bowing their heads as they bustled around.
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TMP. TMP.
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An Asian woman with long black hair joined him. She wore a black suit with an office skirt and glasses, and held a file close to her chest.
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"Mr. Kazuma!" she greeted.
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"Ms. Shiori..!" Kazuma greeted back. "What have you got?"
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"Last night we completely lost contact with him, and... the girl," said Ms. Shiori.
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"What?.. How?" asked Kazuma, confused.
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STEP. STEP....
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They turned right to face the stairs leading down to the main basement.
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As they started down toward the huge screens and digital networking tables, the sound of Ms. Shiori's high heels echoed.
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TAK. TAK.
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"That's what we're currently investigating..." said Ms. Shiori.
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"It's like he completely disappeared."
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TAK. TAK.
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TMP.
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They stopped before a digital table. Holograms of the earth floated above it, surrounded by other displays of information.
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TMP.
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"That's impossible..." said Kazuma, placing both hands on the table.
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Ms. Shiori turned her gaze left and looked at Kazuma for a few moments.
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"Yeah, it is," she said.
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She turned back to the hologram. "But yesterday was quite the opposite."
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"Yesterday we deployed one of our saints, ranked among the top 20 in Japan, to track and eliminate our variable..."
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TAP.
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BZEW-
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Midway through her words, she tapped a square blue hologram box with her right hand. A photo of P appeared above the table, and the same image filled the huge screen before them.
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"...or our secondary target, who disrupted our plans at the amusement park," said Ms. Shiori.
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"The black guy..." said Kazuma.
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"Our saint, ARTHUR, managed to track him down but couldn't act on him because he was in public. More importantly, Arthur had successfully made contact with an acquaintance of our primary target, Hanabi Hwang."
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The massive screen and the holograms switched to Hanabi's photo. Kazuma studied the hologram in front of him.
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"So what happened..?" asked Kazuma.
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"Her acquaintance goes by the name Yuki Izawa. She's a fitness influencer and owns a gym," said Ms. Shiori.
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"With her help, Arthur was able to get close to the primary target at night, in a casino."
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"All he needed was for her to trust him. But... she wasn't as easy as she seemed."
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The screen was already displaying photos and live feeds from inside and outside every part of the casino.
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"Not until he showed up," said Ms. Shiori, tapping again with her right hand while still holding the file to her chest.
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Tp. Tp. Tp.
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BZEW.... ZEW.. ZEW... ZEEW.....
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The holograms on the table and every huge screen, including the largest one in the middle, instantly filled with pictures and camera feeds of P.
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"This bastard..." Kazuma thought, pissed.
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"These are photos and videos of his activities last night. He was dressed in a waiter's uniform and seems to have been working there," said Ms. Shiori.
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"Did he somehow know about Arthur's plan?" asked Kazuma.
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"I don't think so, since he started a week ago... It seemed as if he knew about our plan, but I wouldn't say it was coincidence either."
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"He looked rather unaware... but I'm not sure."
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She watched the screen.
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"To cut the story short, the girl left the scene, and Arthur followed her later. But he encountered the black man on the stairs..."
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"And you know very well about the reports of Arthur's racist views on normal humans, especially black people... Well, that led to a fight that caused chaos in the casino and even got the police involved. A few people died and many were injured... The casino suffered heavy casualties."
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Kazuma straightened up, took his hands off the table and crossed his arms.
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"We couldn't get much from the casino's CCTV because the cameras were destroyed the moment Arthur unleashed his divinity. We've lost contact with him ever since," said Ms. Shiori.
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"What could possibly push Arthur to use his divinity? He hates this man so much because of his skin color. Taking him out with pure physical stats should've been easy," said Kazuma.
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"I mean, he's strong enough to toss an entire car at a person, and his punches aren't something a human or even a super soldier is guaranteed to survive, even if it's just two," said Kazuma, frustrated and angry.
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"How can a regular man force him into a state of divinity..?"
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Ms. Shiori turned to Kazuma at once, fixing her glasses with her left finger, her expression serious.
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"First of all, he might look like a regular guy, but he killed almost 20 of our assassins in an amusement park without being noticed or drawing in the police. Second, he subdued your brother, Lu. Lu only survived by luck, or maybe he was spared."
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"He also killed the chairman's personal guards at a huge event, and most importantly...," she paused to catch her breath, "he killed the chairman's son, JINHO, with multiple bullets sprayed mercilessly across his body."
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"He also completely destroyed the most important event in our cult's history, the most historic moment for the ELOHIMS, by crashing an entire plane into the skyscraper where we were holding it. And he rescued the girl meant for that GREAT CHANGE."
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"It was the darkest day for the chairman... and the entire organization. Everyone around the world wants to get rid of this man for it, and they've put that responsibility on us..."
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"And it turns out Arthur is Jinho's cousin. But now he's missing... This black man seems totally harmless, but he's definitely beyond dangerous." She gazed seriously at P's image on the large screen.
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"He's an ANOMALY."
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Kazuma turned right to look at her for a moment, then faced forward again.
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"So what information do we currently have about the girl?" asked Kazuma.
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Ms. Shiori looked at him quietly.
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"...... Everything," she said.
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The screen began to display all of Hanabi's information.
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"As we know, her full name is Hanabi Hwang. Both her parents are alive, her father Hwang Dongsu and her mother Hwang Mari."
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"She's definitely not an only child. She has an older brother, SUNG HWANG, who's currently working as an engineer on the seaside of Tokyo."
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"I believe we can lure her to us with her family members and friends..."
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TAP. TAP....
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"Hmm..." Kazuma hummed, tapping his crossed right arm.
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"What about the black guy..?" asked Kazuma.
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"...... We have zero information about him. We've searched the entire database of Japan and the whole world. Since he's black, we invested heavily in Africa and the United States, but it all came to nothing..." said Ms. Shiori seriously.
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"With the AI we have, we did a lot of deep research and facial scans. We even went as far as accessing many governments' secret operations and organizations around the world, but we couldn't find anything about him."
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"All we have are the photos taken of him, nothing else. It's like he doesn't exist at all, but he's alive... He's not an ordinary guy..."
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"But he looks like one. We should be very cautious of him and use every means to take him out... and we don't even have a name yet," said Kazuma.
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"Oh, we actually do now. Thanks to Arthur, we were able to get one," said Ms. Shiori.
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Kazuma looked at her seriously and in silence, both arms still crossed.
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"P....."
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"P......" Kazuma repeated, concentrating as he looked up at P's image on the huge screen.
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"There are a lot of guys nowadays with that name..." said Kazuma.
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Ms. Shiori turned to him quietly, a dark, suspicious gaze behind her glasses.
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"Did you run research on that?" asked Kazuma.
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"Yes. We still got nothing..." said Ms. Shiori.
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"So what happened to Arthur?" asked Kazuma.
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"We sent some spies last night, but we couldn't find any sign of Arthur, the girl, or our supposed P. We could only make some rough traces, and we still haven't been able to pinpoint them. If Arthur had held the girl and P captive, it would make a lot of sense. But since this man, P, is somehow capable... I fear it might be the opposite," said Ms. Shiori, her gaze fixed on P's image.
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"Hmmmn.... Could it be... that he's a REGULATOR?" Kazuma grunted.
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Ms. Shiori's eyes widened in surprise, and she stared quietly at him.
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Kazuma dropped his hands onto the table.
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PAT-
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The scene suddenly changed to two chocolate-skinned hands, patting and resting on a railing in the shining light of the cool morning.
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It was P.
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WHOO......
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The wind blew calmly against P as he stood on Hanabi's balcony, the door behind him.
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and then Add to home screen.