The body of a Grade One Sorcerer far surpassed the known limits of humans. It meant that Aleph would be able to fun normally without sleep for several days. Though, mental fatigue was ahing.

  Everything he had seen in the span of twelve hours wore him out. It was far more brutal than the ses in honkai eruptions. It was humans who created such cruel ses.

  Once again, it reminded Aleph of how limited his power was. He could face off an army, but he could not force the majority of humanity to ge.

  Click-!

  When Aleph opehe door to his office, he saw a visitor.

  “How long did you wait for me?”

  “From the moment you made the call.”

  Before Aleph desded into the hangar, he made a call with Eio inform her of his arrival. It was already m. He could call her without interrupting her sleep.

  “How was it?”

  “Terrible.” He replied holy. “It was worse than I imagined. All of them are involved in live human experimentation. I could see why our institutes wao have more freedom.”

  Hearing this, Einstei out a sigh.

  “It’s iable. When is are at stake, nobody knows whether one could stand for humanity. We are not the type to be a united front, after all.”

  Helplessness was heard from her voice. Time proved that humanity ’t fully unite as o least in their current circumstances.

  Aleph decided to ge their topic.

  “Vill-V sent the bulk of the data here. Are there any problems?” He asked.

  “Everything’s alright. The private server we bought is enough for it.”

  Before Aleph ‘pocketed’ some of the institute’s funds for his nuclear suit, Einstein had already been doing it years ago. All of the funds are used to buy ‘private’ things—that is, things and studies that are hidden from the eyes of the higher ups.

  The bulk of them went to further the third institute’s main research secretly. The rest went to servers used to store important data.

  All of the research data from the three Fire MOTH cilors Aleph raided st night were stored ihem.

  “There are too many of them. It has to be sorted…”

  For a while, the two versed about work-reted matters.

  *****

  A few days ter, the time came for Aleph’s five-day visit to the fifth institute. Another security voy came with him. He repared this time as he brought the nuclear-powered suit in a rge bck .

  He pced it in a cart and headed towards Mobius’ office.

  “Sir Aleph.”

  “Oh. Hello, Klein.”

  He almost failed to notice the shirl in front of him.

  “ I put it in the work room?”

  “It’s alright.”

  Aleph headed towards their usual work room with a rge in tow. They passed by several gates locked with passwords. Klein unlocked them before closing them in.

  After a while, they arrived at their usual spot.

  “Hm? Yht something.”

  “I’d let you see it ter.”

  Mobius pced the report she was reading on top of the table.

  She crossed her arms and said:

  “I’ve read everythied to biological research. They are behind my progress, but their reports pointed out a lot of mistakes. But for everything they paid for, it was a waste.”

  If others heard about it, they would think Mobius was being ‘objective’ when it es to research results. Looking down on bloody repai the cost of human lives be seen as cruel.

  ‘She’s angry…’ Aleph thought. ‘This weird plex of hers…’

  Aleph uood her slightly after their months of cooperation. She looked down on these ineffit research reports due to how they “wasted” human lives just to have the same progress as hers.

  Although she was uable—a bit crazy, even—she never used another person for her experiments uhey seo it. Even so, she does not allow such a thing to happen frequently. Experimenting on herself was deemed enough.

  That was her bottom line.

  As to whether it could be broken?

  Only time could tell.

  “We ’t trol them. It’s better to use it. That way, those people wouldn’t have died meaninglessly…”

  “You have a point.”

  Aleph pced the on the er of the room. It was also then did Mobius notice the bag tied to his fingers.

  He felt her looks and expined:

  “I saved you time from them. They’re also… well… some of the food I tried my hands on.”

  “You know how to cook?”

  Mobius’ question was rebutted by her own assistant.

  “Not everyone is like you, doctor.”

  “...”

  Seeing this, Aleph decided to jump in.

  “Klein has a point. Don’t you think so?”

  “...Fine. I will take it as a challenge. We’ll see who cooks better after that.”

  Both Aleph and Klein were surprised by her words. They didn’t expect that the workaholic Mobius would put aside some time for recreational purposes.

  Seeing their surprised looks, she humphed before pointing out:

  “We retly reached a bottleneck. An hour or two will not affect our progress.”

  “I see, I see. That’s fine by me. For now…”

  Aleph walked towards the kit within this plex. He stopped and briefly looked at them.

  “ you judge my cooking?”

  *****

  “Tsk, tsk. Such a cool entrance… I want to learn from it!”

  Recalling the ‘moves’ shown by Aleph, excitement flowed in Vill-V’s body. Each of his ndings gave her an idea on which dire to work forward.

  “There’s also that phantom thief! That kind of elegance… um! It’s just right!”

  trary to her calm expert self, the current Vill-V was more lively.

  She tinued sketg fervently. It didn’t take long before it was pleted. It was the prototype of her outfit as the so-called phantom thief.

  “It’s done! A phantom thief… Aleph’s ideas are truly amazing! How e I didn’t think of it before?!”

  At this moment, Aleph remained unaware of the potential trouble he caused.