“No, no, no, seriously?! She really said that?!”
“Yeah. Is there a problem?”
“No, it isn’t exactly a problem. Ah, or is it? Is that a problem? Anyway, it’s not something you can fix… Hah, seriously. She put a shadow on me? Huh. Seriously.”
Right.
No matter how close you were to someone, tracking their coordinates in real time was a little problematic.
I nodded pointlessly as I understood the thoughts going back and forth inside Deathbringer’s head.
Deathbringer was too busy clutching his head to even notice my agreement.
“A technique capable of locating someone even while they’re in another city… Impressive.”
Crusher, who had been quietly listening beside us, seemed to hold a rather different opinion—or at least to view the matter from a different angle.
“That would be useful when hunting.”
Given her profession, the remark itself wasn’t particularly strange, but it sent a slight chill down my spine.
Exactly what kind of prey was that “hunting” directed toward?
It was a question I had no desire to know the answer to.
“Ugh.”
“So… are you not going to read the letter?”
“Ah, right. I should.”
Deathbringer finally touched the letter he had put aside in his shock.
Even though the envelope looked fairly expensive, his hands showed no hesitation as he brutally tore the opening apart.
“Is it all right to rip it like that……?”
“I’m burning it anyway.”
Uh.
The other person was worried enough about you to come all this way—though the methods…