"Whoa..."

The rain began to fall throughout the Karakuri city of Liverpool.

The sky was so dark that lightning and thunder were going on in it, making the rain heavier and heavier, and it was particularly depressing.

Under such circumstances, Karakuri City is experiencing an unknown riot.

The reason for this is a sighting report that came out not long ago.

What sightings are reported?

"There's a dragon in the suburbs!"

That's just one such report.

"That's not our dragon!"

"That's the dragon of the East!"

"The dragon of the east has appeared!"

Sightings like this came out of the mouths of eyewitnesses one by one, and spread in Liverpool at a rapid pace, causing many people to make an uproar.

According to the testimony of eyewitnesses, it is said that the dragon suddenly appeared in the suburbs, and as soon as it appeared, the wind was fierce, the lightning flashed and thundered, and even the sky became cloudy, black and oppressive, as if a storm was coming, which was quite shocking.

Immediately afterward, the dark clouds centered on the outskirts where the dragon appeared, constantly expanding in all directions, and finally obscuring the sky of the entire Karakuri city of Liverpool.

It didn't take long for the rain to fall heavily.

And among those eyewitnesses, some people said so.

"The dragon is attacking something!"

"Don't you see? It's spitting! ”

"And then the air froze!"

"Is that an automata?"

"How can there be such a terrible automata?"

People kept talking like this, either fearful, excited, excited, or timid, so that the news spread quickly.

As a result, someone with a heart noticed something abnormal from it, which alarmed the police force and Karakuri force in Karakuri City.

Eventually, after some negotiations, the local government decided to send someone to the site to investigate.

But before that, there was already a team that went to the suburbs before everyone else.

It was a team of only a few people, but it exuded an ominous and dangerous atmosphere.

The members of the team all wore uniform black cloaks and wore cape hoods on their heads, hiding their entire bodies in the darkness from being seen.

This group of people with an ominous and dangerous atmosphere seemed to blend in with the surrounding rainscape, shuttling between the trees, and their footsteps were covered in rain, making them like silent ghosts, rushing to the outskirts at great speed.

It didn't take long for them to reach the outskirts of the countryside, where the orphanage was located.

“————”

Everyone in the team stopped at this moment.

There is no other reason, but because I was shocked by the scene in front of me.

Before these people's eyes was a territory that had been ravaged.

All the buildings in the territory were in ruins, burning slowly in the pouring rain, causing black smoke to rise.

The rain gradually extinguished the flames in all corners, but there were still some places that were burning tenaciously, leaving a scene as if it had been attacked by artillery fire.

However, in addition to the flames, there are layers of ice forming at a distance from the territory, which is very incredible.

The people in black looked at such a scene and fell into a speechless state.

Until a moment later...

"What the hell is going on here? Fellow yellow warblers? ”

A man in black spoke in a deep voice, questioning one of his teammates.

The man in black who was called Huang Ying raised his head slightly, and it could be judged from his wonderful posture that this was a mature woman.

And so it is.

"I don't know."

The man in black known as the Yellow Warbler spat out unexpectedly cold words.

"Just, you should know what happened last night, right?"

Hearing this, the people in black all nodded.

Obviously, all of these people are paying attention to the night meeting.

Rather, it is their job to monitor and observe the night meeting, and it is only a matter of not knowing it.

Huang Ying said so.

"The 99th is the adopted daughter of Bronson from the 'God's Workshop', and she has an unusual abnormality on her body, and after an examination by the Department of Medicine, her body seems to have been artificially modified, so I suspect that Bronson is secretly conducting forbidden experiments."

That's why these men in black are here.

"Touching the taboo?"

"Obviously not a demon king, but dare to touch the taboo?"

"There's a real need for an investigation."

One after another, the men in black made such speeches.

The man in black who asked Huang Ying at the beginning also groaned for a while, and then nodded.

"Since there is a suspicion of taboos, we really can't sit idly by."

After all...

"That's what we do at the Magicians Guild."

The man in black finally revealed the identities of the people present.

———— "Magicians Association".

It does not intervene in history, and strictly follows the will of the godfather "The Son of Time", and is responsible for managing the order of the magic world and maintaining the balance of the magic world.

These people present are none other than the Grey Cross, the actual ————combat unit of the "Magicians Association".

Their mission is to ban magic crimes and taboo research around the world, and to arrest and track down those who violate the charter of the magic world.

Now, the people who appear here are a unit that has been given the task of monitoring the holding of night parties in the academy and secretly monitoring the various developments.

Nowadays, there is a forbidden research happening under his nose, and as a combat unit in the "Magicians Association", the men in black present naturally have the responsibility and obligation to investigate and ban it.

But...

"Before we acted, it looks like there was a big fight going on here."

Huang Ying whispered these words, making the air around him tense.

That's when ...

"Who...!?"

The person who had asked Huang Ying at the beginning, and who seemed to be the leader of this department, suddenly turned around sharply and cast a sharp gaze to the territory ahead.

“......！？”

The man in black suddenly reacted quickly, and almost at the same time, he stepped on the ground and suddenly dispersed, forming an encirclement.

The swiftness of the movements and reactions proved that all the black-clothed people present were super-first-class magicians.

I'm afraid that these people all have the strength to surpass the ordinary "Thirteen", right?

Such a group of people surrounded the surrounding area and ushered in a teenager.

"Smack... Syllable... Syllable... Smack..."

With the clear sound of the soles of his feet stepping into puddles of water, the boy lowered his head and drenched himself in the rain, exposing himself to the eyes of all the men in black as he walked out of the territory.

Naturally, it's Luo Zhen.

"You..."

As soon as the man in black named Huang Ying saw Luo Zhen, he immediately reacted.

However, Luo Zhen continued to lower his head as if he hadn't found anything, hiding his expression under his wet bangs, and walked outside with his steps.

The rest of the men in black reached into their cloaks, as if they wanted to stop Luo Zhen.

"Wait!"

Huang Ying immediately spoke up, stopping his companions' movements.

The men in black suddenly stopped.

Luo Zhen still walked over as if he didn't notice anything.

It didn't take long for Luo Zhen to leave the encirclement of the black-clothed people and walk in the rain in the direction of the city center.

The people in black, you look at me, I look at you, and finally stop their eyes on Huang Ying's body.

Huang Ying was silent.

"Go in and have a look."

After Huang Ying said this, the rest of the black-clothed people retreated wordlessly, entered the territory, and searched it.

Huang Ying was the only one left, looking at the direction in which Luo Zhen left, and after a while, he stretched out his hand and took off the hood.

Under the hood was the face of a cold female professor.

"What the hell is going on?"

Watching Luo Zhen leave, Huang Ying ———— Kimberly muttered like this.

And the answer is clear only to the parties concerned.