Chapter 110: Chapter 110 : The bulky man answered quietly.
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"I still don't understand… why do we have to wait there?"
My words fell deaf as I tried to start a conversation with the other occupant of the room.
Sougyoku was silent, just as usual, but this time I really couldn't bear the quietness of the whole situation. Things just didn't feel… alright.
Baraqiel had sounded slightly worried when he mentioned how there was something happening… that required our immediate attention.
Which was troublesome considering how he was a big shot in Grigori, and to get him this much unnerved there had to be quite the horrible ordeal currently happening.
Which is why, despite my minor annoyance at being forced to skip school without much time except for a quick call to Sona to alert her about my forced skipping,
I swiftly prepared for what was going to be a dangerous operation that needed my utmost seriousness and attention.
Surprisingly enough, we weren't supposed to meet up with Vali right to where the issue was brewing, but we made a quick stop by one of the safe headquarters within Kanto.
The mission wasn't going to just see the Lucifer and I doing this rescue mission alone. No, we were parried with a new member to our little fun group.
It took about twenty minutes of talking for Baraqiel to finally show up with who was going to join us in the derpy posse. Standing slightly shorter than me and Vali, the girl looked to be… the same as us.
She was already donning the cloak, a red mask, dark shirt, and a pair of red baggy pants just defined her as the third member of our team.
How could I tell that she was a girl? Her shirt hardly held back the extra mass by her upper section. Plus she spoke shortly after she left the room she had been waiting by with our boss.
The young woman bowed as she introduced herself.
"I'm Kurenai, I will be under your care for the time being, Hekishoku-san, Sougyoku-san."
I blinked at the strangely familiar voice, but I couldn't truly match it to anyone I knew from the way it was filled with so much politeness.
It was odd but… I decided to trust in Baraqiel that whoever I was now going to trust wasn't going to stab me in the back.
I nodded. "It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Kurenai-san. I hope we can all be a happy, big family."
She nodded, her tense posture slightly easing at my words, but she seemed to keep quiet as she expected a response from Vali.
And instead of letting her suffer through the classic indifference from the young Devil, I spoke again.
"And I'm sure Sougyoku is fine with your presence too. He isn't much for social situations, so I would ask from you to not expect much from him in terms of conversations," I added with a smooth tone, drawing the attention from the blue-masked douche.
He didn't reply at my indirect but blatant attempt to call him out as a shy guy, but his muffled glare did its job in warranting a simple shrug out of me.
The girl seemed to appreciate the warning, and she walked up to stand on my unoccupied side as Baraqiel decided to speak about our newest mission.
"Six hours ago, one of our largest bases near Tokyo went dark," The Fallen Angel explained.
"At first we thought it was a sudden blackout, but then communications via magical means were interrupted too. We've sent two teams to check on the premises, and none has returned yet."
"Third time's the charm," I muttered, before shaking my head at this development. So something was aloof with that big base… but what and why? "Still, can I ask why this is labeled a rescue mission?"
Baraqiel gave me a long look, and I had to restrain myself from shivering at the strange glint in his eyes. I really didn't like it, nor I felt that I was going to digest well what he was planning to say.
"The base was housing two important individuals as the blackout happened. We've reason to believe that the perpetrator of the attack is planning to capture both because of their respective powers,"
The bulky man answered quietly. "Which is why, despite the low-rank that was given to the mission, I've to warn you three to be wary of any issues happening there.
Whoever managed to completely take over a base as big as that one, it had to be incredibly dangerous."
Vali snorted, but nobody gave too much weight to that arrogant gesture. It was just too easy to butt heads with him this early in the morning and I really, really didn't want to do that. Especially not in front of the rookie.
Thus I decided to press on over the identity of those VIPs, feeling like this was going to be consequential since Baraqiel looked fairly uneasy at mentioning these two.
"Sensei, please- can you give us more details? You know, the whole gist of 'Knowledge is power' and we kind of need that if the situation is that bad-"
"I know what you're trying to do, Hekishoku-kun," The man interrupted. "But I can't offer any names to either you and Sougyoku for classified reasons.
Kurenai-chan was given orders to keep the identity of the VIPs a secret from you both, and she was enlisted to guide you both to find the targets of your mission."
I huffed, glaring hardly at the man as I was so certain that he knew that I wouldn't have gone as far as to bully the new girl into giving out answers.
And I could already see Vali giving zero interest over that topic.
So I was stuck in the ignorance for the time being… even though I was tempted to press my luck further to see if I could force the Fallen Angel to slip out one of the two names. But I restrained myself at the tense seriousness displayed on his face.
I huffed. "I guess I will have to wait and see."
Baraqiel nodded at my comment.
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