Chapter 413: Information Behind
“Hoo—”
At the hidden exit of the underground base, the young girl wearing a black robe turned to look at the concealed large door, then at the surroundings that had completely blackened, and let out a long sigh.
Kazumi’s mood was still agitated. The reason was none other than the sheer amount of information contained in what Kurokawa Iori had told her earlier.
The subsequent content shocked the young girl to the point that she forgot about Kurokawa Iori’s request for a photo, which was a very strange point no matter how she looked at it. She propped her chin on her hand and began to ponder the content she had memorized.
“I’ve really heard some incredible news this time…”
Although Kurokawa Iori’s words had the characteristic of being a riddler, which villains usually liked, as long as one carefully extracted the information, they could understand his intended meaning.
If Kazumi’s analysis was correct, then those words were enough to shatter the world’s ability system as the young girl currently understood it.
Kurokawa Iori, Masashi Sakuraba, and even other executives of the organization were not members of the combat sequence. Above them, there were even more powerful positions specifically responsible for combat.
This was the crucial information that Kazumi had analyzed from his recent words. In fact, if one followed this direction of thought, it would also be evident that this was indeed the reality presented before the young girl.
Whether it was Kurokawa Iori or Masashi Sakuraba, although they both possessed very powerful abilities, from Kazumi’s understanding through her contact with them during this period, their abilities, despite being strong, seemed to be lacking something.
Whether it was perfect disguise and tentacles, or highly targeted curses and summons, upon careful consideration, it was difficult for them to become powerful abilities that could stand on their own.
Especially for what she personally experienced during the sacrifice, the confrontation between Masashi Sakuraba and Shun Muto was enough to illustrate all of this. Although they were fighting fiercely, in reality, Masashi Sakuraba had not inflicted any substantial damage on Shun Muto at all. He was mostly relying on the strangeness of his abilities to evade the opponent’s attacks.
In fact, all of this was also due to the young girl’s weakness. Because her own strength was too limited, she did not have a concrete understanding of the true comparison of strength. She subconsciously assumed that the “executive” level in the organization was already a very powerful existence.
“Is this the purpose of the [Dark] Organization’s actions during this time?”
And the true content of Kurokawa Iori’s task sounded very terrifying now. Rescuing a level above executive, the information contained in these short dozens of words was explosive.
The word “rescue” implied that this powerful existence above executive was being held captive. Whether it was held by the Heroes Association or the police department, it was enough to prove that even ability users stronger than Masashi Sakuraba were still not opponents of the heroes and had been defeated and restrained.
But it should be known that the existence of [Dark] was different from those flamboyant heroes. Without any prior intelligence, it was much more difficult to capture and arrest them than to kill them.
Moreover, the real world was not like the saintly complex in novels. Especially when everyone could possess destructive power beyond conventional weapons, the Heroes Association and the police department, who maintained public order, had a very resolute determination to kill. For evil villains within a villainous organization like [Dark] that caused significant influence, there was no possibility of adhering to “freedom and human rights” and choosing legal sanctions over killing.
The further derived meaning was even more interesting. It should be known that the [Dark] Organization had been active and suppressed for decades. The reason for being imprisoned for such a long time might mean that their abilities were so strong that they could not be killed and could only be imprisoned.
If so many powerful ability users above the mere several could be defeated, then how powerful was the peak ability of the Heroes Association’s strongest combatant, or rather, the existence that suppressed an entire era, [Thundery] Hamano Tsukasa?
The points that could be derived along this line of thought were endless. However, pushing for such analysis too far would be a waste of brainpower and useless thinking.
But what could be confirmed at this stage was that the long-standing major action of the organization was to rescue this powerful ability user, or rather, rescuing this ability user was only part of the plan. Completing the overall strength was for better execution of subsequent actions.
After all, one point was beyond doubt: Hamano Tsukasa was old and had been severely injured. No matter how he recovered, he could not return to his peak strength of the past. And now, the new generation of heroes had no one to take over his position.
The man who had suppressed the entire Neon was falling from the altar, and those lurking ghosts and monsters who had been driven underground were gradually showing their heads and beginning to move little by little.
“I can think about these things carefully when I get back. I need to investigate some information to prove my guesses. For now, I should focus on the current matter.”
“Am I going to follow another executive this time?”
Dispelling the nascent tendency of her mind to wander and think, Kazumi reorganized her direction. She would leave this kind of big-picture thinking for when she got home at night, as she was about to meet with another executive she had never seen before.
Kazumi was not too surprised by Kurokawa Iori’s arrangement. Although she had not joined the organization for a long time, the young girl also knew that her immediate superior’s responsibilities were mostly biased towards logistics and overall planning, and it was generally difficult for Kurokawa Iori to personally carry out tasks. This could be seen from Kazumi’s recent missions.
However, what made Kazumi pay attention was Kurokawa Iori’s evaluation of [Spike]. It should be noted that in the evaluation and analysis of other executives, Kurokawa Iori had excluded this Andre. This meant that this organization executive named [Spike] was different from others and might be an ability user biased towards combat.
Then, what she was about to encounter this time might be a combat scene similar to the last time, or even more intense. Although nominally it was for her to deal with psychics, it was like recruiting people in a small company; what they did after entering was up to the boss, referring to her previous cooperation with Masashi Sakuraba.
Kazumi also knew that her current positioning was probably a low-budget version of Masashi Sakuraba, and other psychic-oriented ability users in the organization were probably not very useful. Otherwise, Masashi Sakuraba would not have asked her, a newcomer, to help with such an important task last time.
Unfolding the small slip of paper in her hand and looking at the address written in neat, upright black characters, the young girl sighed slightly. A door as tall as a person appeared before her, and she stepped forward and walked in.
