The shadow, which stood to block the exit of the duct, eventually slipped to the side and looked up towards the exit.
"As expected, it's good to have you around this way. They should be searching commercial to residential blocks by now. It's a little rough."
Eventually, the eyes that began to get used to the light began to turn the shadow into the figure of a man who knew himself.
"Mr. Phantom!! Please don't surprise me. I thought it was over."
Taro laughs bitterly and speaks to Phantom, who is grinning at the exit. Marr held his chest and exhaled heavily, tyke once again storing the gun in his hand somewhere.
"That's the dialogue over here, you. I just didn't expect you to make a scene so fast. I wonder if I couldn't be a little more discreet."
Looks a little creepy, Phantom. Taro says, "Hey, ha," and returns a dry laugh to it.
"My coincidence overlapped in a bit of a good way, so I could certainly have been on track...... what does that sound like!?
Something's creeping, but a loud, low explosion sound. Phantom can wrap his neck around Taro in a hurry to stay low.
"I planted explosives in some of the public facilities. I made it look obvious, so I don't think the average person would get involved. Someone on the guard must have accidentally touched it. He's understudied."
Phantom that emits like that without any emotion. Taro opened his mouth poking at him just because he was stunned, "Explosives?" I ask. He should have infiltrated here with one pistol and didn't have any baggage, etc.
"Mmm, to divert attention from the other side. Fortunately, there was a sale of firearms, so the ingredients were essential. Collect the bullet propellant and you'll be able to use a little ingenuity to turn it into explosives. It's cheap, you can get it anywhere, and you can make it in a short time. It'll weigh nearly two hundred kilos, so it'll be hard for a normal person to carry it... well, for a while, they'll hang out with the bomb. It's gonna be a good time to buy."
Phantom explains to Taro, yes, with some hand gestures. When Taro sighs with interest in it, he recognises that he is a former Special Forces person.
"That sounds interesting. So next time, Professor, I hope... How was that? Did you get anything?
Taro asks Phantom if it's the fate of the matter. Phantom answers with a thumb up to it, pointing behind him, "There's someone I want you to meet," he says.
"Damn, it's like a textbook. If this is the case, this kind of organization develops and produces these results. Each person's behavior is unpredictable, but when it comes to being a group, it's different. As expected, we found an anti-alliance organization. It's called resistance. Unexpected."
Phantom, who separates words and turns his gaze to Taro.
"I wonder if that means the station master here is. The Alliance is apparently not out of control. There's going to be a gap."
Led by Phantom, Taro, Marr, Taiki and Xiaomei reached the city hall with dignity. I thought I was on perimeter alert along the way, so I ran into a bunch of guards, but I was able to do it easily. Alan had been keeping me informed of the placement of the guards from Plumb, so at best it was enough to hide a little behind.
Phantom's own induction was also a familiar one, and he eliminated all the signs that seemed dangerous beforehand. If there was a kind of surveillance camera or sensor, it would have dodged it, sometimes destroying it, sometimes pouring in dummy footage. There was no path that could not be passed, and there seemed to be no such thing as an obstacle. With Taro and Marr in both hands, such as climbing a vertically stretched wall, he had made a leap as easy as five meters.
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Silently, Taro looks out at the back of Phantom's head to take the lead. There were a lot of things I wanted to ask and things I didn't know, but in this situation, I was told. Why did you come into contact with an underground organization so quickly that you could be sure that it was? And how could they have believed this one? Why is he doing so much to thank me for the translator? How much is it because he cares about his sister that he is thankful until he takes the risk?
"... Isn't the former Imperial Army Special Forces Dada? I wonder why you're following me."
Booshiri and Taro in a voice that no one can hear.
Some people even call it the Galaxy One, an awesome hunter. I don't think I'll ever order that, but if I do, I guess I can kill all the people on this station.
"I guess I could think the other way around."
The Phantom, which remains forward-facing, emits to no one. Marl and Tyke just hang their necks about what the hell they're talking about.
"It's true that you pulled me in, but I can also assume that this is the one who made the decision to follow you. I got you, you got me. Same thing. As for why, yes. One day the time will come to talk............... Look, I'm on it. From here on out, you're the star."
In front of him who stopped, one door. The electronic plate was labeled "Mayor's Office", and next to it was a small "In Registration".
"Welcome, nice to meet you, Mr. Taylor. I'm Bruno, Otto's station master."
Taro and the others who arrived at the mayor's office were immediately passed to the adjacent reception room, where they were to meet the station master face-to-face. A lot of greetings could have been exchanged, but that was omitted by implicit understandings. I can tell you how much time Phantom earned me, but I still lost my safety with time, so I needed to hurry to get out.
"Yes, nice to meet you. I'm Taylor, Station Master of Katsushika... uh, that. I don't know what to tell you."
He was brought here shortly after he put together his thoughts, so I wondered what was wrong with Taro. To Taro like that, Bruno smiles small.
"If you have any questions, you can ask me each time. Let's talk about us first."
Nearly sixty years old, with wrinkles engraved on his face, but Bruno with a sharp eye. When he says that, he takes out the paper and the pen - surprisingly - and makes them draw a simple organization chart.
"The electronic medium is in danger of being put on record or spilled… now this is the configuration for the Enzio side: the three large-scale outlaw corps and the group of companies in which it participates. And companies like us, in general. The Allied government wants equality in times of crisis, but it's nothing but deception. They're holding Lifeline hostage and sucking up wealth."
Bruno speaks that way with an angry look as he portrays the Hierarchy pyramid culminating in a massive outlaw co-op. When he draws just two more similar pyramids, he shows each vertex connected by a line.
"This is the Enzio Alliance. And this is..."
Next is Bruno, which connects the general group of companies at the bottom of the triangle, not at the apex.
"It's our resistance. The most famous is the Resistance, and the actual place is just an information-sharing organization. The battleship has been taken away before we can get a decent countermeasure."
Bruno, who unfortunately speaks that way, in such a way. Taro said, "Taken away?" When he raises the question, Bruno nods, "Yeah, that's right," he said.
"In the name of defending against the Empire, we were half-enforced to send a fleet. It is possible to say no at once, but there is no doubt that in such a case the allocation priority of resources will be placed at an unlimited low level. In fact, there are a lot of companies that have."
And Bruno continues, "The fate of the company that did so will be dark," he says. Taro raises further questions when he arms up "I see" and raises his voice.
"When you say resources, you naturally include parts and products too... Is it natural from the percentage of secondary industries? How did they create such a situation? Isn't it too big?
It is obviously impossible to monitor all transactions, etc., and it seems to Taro that if it is banned on the table, it will not just go around the back. Even Delta, the metropolis, had such deals, and it was a treat with a security company commissioned by the Empire day and night.
Bruno sighs at one such Taro question and continues, "It's a network".
"After the collapse of the neural net, Enzio immediately unveiled its own network that the military was using. Everyone was in a mess with him, so everyone jumped right at it. Everyone praised the quick military response, but now that I think about it, it must have been a fabric stone to this situation. The network around here is already unified with their stuff, so all the information will be in the hands of the military."
When Bruno says so, he flickers at nearby terminals with an ironic look. Taro continues to ask questions about what is going on when he swallows what Bruno says.
"Network...... please wait a minute. Well, not on top of the neural net, but with a completely independent network? For what?
Even the Imperial Army only has small ones, such as its own network. Because the security of the old neural net was sufficiently credible that it was not necessary to bother to have an independent one. Use only truly deadly information, proprietary.
"I don't know. But it did happen. The Empire covered the communications network as an example, but that's just a central neighborhood. The restoration of super light speed communications around here was hopeless...... an offer from the military in such a situation. No one can say no."
That's what I said, Bruno, one sigh to show. As Taro sent her gaze toward Marr, she nodded slowly, "I know," all the time. Also a network.
"As a matter of fact, few people want to set things up with the Empire. Yeah, at least in general companies, though. But as I mentioned, I have to obey. resources, food and networks. Because there is no such thing as a company that can live without this… Mr. Taylor. Please take this fact back and spread it by whatever means you can. Maybe a company will show up to reach out for help. You can't expect it, but it's better than nothing."