“Ah, it seems I forgot something.”
Near Lumen Square.
After leaving the associated Hollow where the Ballet Twins Building was located, the four members of the Angels of Delusion took the subway straight here.
“Hmm? Tenshi, what did you forget? Is it something very important?” Aria stopped and asked.
“Hmm…”
Tenshi frowned in thought, and after pondering for a moment, she shook her head gently:
“Not really.”
Actually, it was only after running out that Tenshi belatedly remembered that, according to the parts she had played through, Perlman would wake up early, fly away in an airship, and subsequently crash in the Outer Ring.
But thinking about it now, if she were to drop a hint, there was no telling what might happen next.
Besides, it wouldn’t affect her anyway; if worse came to worst, she could just take a look at the Outer Ring later.
Thinking about it this way, this matter indeed wasn’t that important anymore.
“It’s not a particularly important matter anyway, never mind.” Tenshi said, blinking a couple of times.
“S-Since it’s not anything important, let’s hurry and get going.” Sunna said.
“Hmm?
Leaving just like that?
Aren’t we going to sit down at a cafe?” Nangong suddenly spoke up, “I remember Sunna works part-time right around here, right?
We can keep you company until your shift ends, oh~”
“Nangong, shut up! I’m working part-time, I don’t work the night shift!” Sunna stomped her foot.
“I actually think going to sit at a cafe would be pretty nice.” Tenshi suddenly spoke up, “Besides, don’t we still need to handle the commission?”
As she spoke, Tenshi took A-Cai out of her school bag.
“However, before returning it to its owner, we still need to deal with it a little bit.”
Dragged along to escape from the Hollow, A-Cai had originally been in a very relaxed mood.
A-Cai’s eyes widened roundly, looking at the wine-red eyes that were half-squinting on the chubby little face in front of it.
Previously in the Hollow, this was a face that made one feel at ease.
But right now, this sense of ease turned into a sense of tension.
This was an entity who could casually pull out a bomb just by reaching into her pocket; she was going to deal with *me*?
How was she going to deal with me?!
At the mere thought of this, A-Cai’s emotion simulation center instantly overloaded, erupting with a massive amount of panicked emotions.
[A-Cai suspects you harbor malicious intentions toward it. Panic, tension +282.]
“Hmm na na?! (Y-You, what are you going to do to me? Let me go!)”
A-Cai seemed to have already foreseen its future of being modified into a bomb.
Even if it returned to its master’s side, it wouldn’t dare approach the master.
After all, if it were dealt with, it would probably end up just like those Withering Heart Attack!
The master would explode just from a touch?
Or even worse.
It would explode from just one extra glance!!!
A-Cai’s round body struggled violently, its hands constantly pushing against Tenshi’s forearm, its two ears shaking back and forth.
“Mhm hehe~ Targeted by our mad scientist, A-Cai is probably going to become just like A-Fan right away~” Nangong said with a smile.
“What’s wrong with A-Fan? A-Fan is doing great?” Sunna blinked in bewilderment.
“There’s indeed nothing wrong with A-Fan, but A-Cai is about to be frightened to death by Nangong.” Aria said.
Upon hearing Nangong’s words, A-Cai struggled even more fiercely in Tenshi’s hands.
Although it didn’t know what had been done to that fellow kind named A-Fan.
But judging from that angelic Thiren girl’s tone, it was definitely not a good outcome!
Tenshi didn’t let go of A-Cai, nor did she offer any comfort, simply continuing in a steady tone:
“Rest assured, little guy, I won’t do any special modifications to you.
“After all, I’m not a bad person either.
“I’m just deleting a bit of your Remembrance data.”
A moment later…
Lumen Square coffee shop, at a table in the corner of the second-floor terrace.
Moonlight spilled down; at this moment in the night, it was just the right amount of quiet.
Sunna brought over cake and drinks, placed them on the table, then sat down and took a large bite with her fork first.
As for Tenshi, she sat in the corner and began tinkering with A-Cai, modifying some of its Remembrance data.
“Speaking of which, are those kidnappers going to be fine?”
Aria suddenly asked:
“If we don’t want ourselves to appear in the follow-up reports and records related to that incident, what should be done about those kidnappers?”
“As for that, no need to worry.” Nangong said, “If that intelligent construct named Billy is trustworthy, then in the end only those kidnappers will claim that a group of winged, cute young girls beat them up and also intercepted an airship.
“When such things are spoken of, very few people will believe them to begin with.
“People will only think they stayed in the Hollow for too long and hallucinated from the corruption.”
“What about that hijacked big sister?” Sunna asked, her voice muffled as she had already wiped out a small fraction of the cake.
“Didn’t that Billy say the kidnappers hijacked a hacker to change the route?” Nangong shook her head, “As a hacker, adults are much more experienced than us when it comes to what should and shouldn’t be said, and when.”
“I think Nangong usually already has a very adult-like feel to her.” Aria said.
“Thanks for the compliment~” Nangong let out a soft hum.
Afterwards, Aria contacted the client.