
A few days. Claire intends to go to the headquarters of the organization located on the Cloud Road. Surely he's not alone, Claire sends a message to her partner to get Claude to pick her up.
"A long time off duty. How's the dog I bought on the black market?" muttered Claire
Claude replied to Claire's message. The point is he'll pick up Claire maybe at night. After the sun completely sinks.
At 18:00
Claire wears a black style. He also wears a black jacket of a thug. Same style as Claude.
"Are you ready?" claude asked as Claire was just sitting in her car seat. In response, Claire nodded her head.
Claude's black car drove at high speed on the highway. The night only glittered with yellow light.
It's still too late. Claire and Claude stop by the headquarters of the secret organization in the farthest region of Claire's house. Selby and Senno served there.
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The abandoned village. Empty without a single occupant. Some street lights went out. Leave a gripping night.
It's almost 21:00 p.m. The journey here takes more than 2 hours.
Claude's car drove slowly over the dark and gloomy streets. It had almost reached the headquarters of the secret organization.
From a distance, two figures dressed all in black stood in front of the car in black as well. The two figures also wore black spy hats. Hardly seen his face.
The spy black hat is fitted with a golden colored pin shaped magnifying glass. One of the tools of a spy.
Claire and Claude got out of the car.
"Good night, Miss Claire, Mr. Claude" one of the figures standing before the C-C partner spoke. This voice was well known to Claire.
"Good night too, Miss Selby, Mr. Senno" Claire replied with a slanted smile.
The two partners were dressed in matching clothes. All-black. It's just that Claire and Claude don't have any special hats.
"Where did you get that spy hat?" asked Claire enthusiastically.
"Do you need to ask that? of course from our superiors" Selby replied
"Ouh~, are you guys being ruled by Mr Shibe tonight?"
"Yes, we're going on a mission together again. And it's more stressful than ever"
"Oh yeah? what mission is that?"
"We'll be leaving soon. I'll explain it in the car"
Selby enters his partner's black car. And so is Claire. Selby's car moved first. Drive in front. Claire's car was behind her.
Claire and Selby are on the phone. Selby explained their mission tonight.
"Mr Shibe ordered us to pick you both up. Because he wants us on a mission together again. Looks like the mission we ran before is paying off, Claire" Selby said across the street.
Claire activated speaker mode on her phone. So Claude can also hear Selby saying about their mission tonight.
"Looks like I understand. Under the overpass has a water channel hole with a diameter of approximately 5 meters. It should be entered by humans. Because the overpass is no longer used, the waterway is no longer used. The underground passage is the waterway. It is now thought to be empty. It's a much safer base there" Claire explained.
"Well, maybe it's like that. The guard there tonight is not expected to be too strict. Because they're busy shipping illegal goods to the black market. It's the right time for us to infiltrate. The last commandment Mr. Shibe uttered was that we should take out the information box in one of the secret rooms. More precisely the file safe. The safe code was under the table" Selby spoke explaining the length and width.
The phone call ended. They headed to the location targeted by their superiors. The headquarters of the mafia. I don't know what branch to. More likely if it's not the main headquarters.
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Rezora Bridge.
Although many overpasses have been destroyed, but it is still visible if this building was once very magnificent.
Remaining debris of the bridge that fell to the surface of the road. The surface is irregular. Either this was intentionally destroyed or hit by a gunshot attack.
The two partners dressed in black walked across the rubble of a collapsed building after parking their black car some distance away from the overpass.
"Have there ever been a clash here?" ask Selby quietly in the middle of the trip.
"Eitherway. Seems like. This debris is like a gunshot attack. But..."
"More like being accidentally knocked down" Claire argued with a doubtful feeling staring around.
"Focus on the streets. We need to find that aqueduct hole right away" Claude reminded.
Far away from the four of them, there was a small door. I don't know what that door is. Maybe it used to be a door that connects to the restroom.
In front of that door, there was a waterway hole covered with iron metal.
When Senno shifted the lid of the drain hole, it was not heavy at all. Also not as tight as the lid of the drain hole in general.
"I don't feel if the lid of this aqueduct hole was close" said Senno.
"Maybe because it's usually opened and closed. This is access to the headquarters of the mafia" Selby immediately expressed his opinion. It's true that way.
One by one of the four of them went into the water hole. It starts with Senno, followed by Selby, then Claire, and finally Claude.
The first sight they saw right now was dark. There are no lights here. Yes, it is a water channel. There was only a puddle of water near the wall of the aqueduct.
"Did anyone bring a flashlight?" Claire almost asked, but was preceded by Selby.
"I brought 2 flashlights" Claude said behind Claire.
One flashlight was carried by Senno. And another flashlight was brought by Claire. The four of them walked in tandem deeper into the waterways.
The voices of many people were touching each other. Spiders are busy making their webs. Claire and Selby are trapped in a spider web. How irritating.
The more they enter the waterways, the more tense the atmosphere. It was like going into a haunted house.
The sound of someone either opening or closing the door was heard echoing from a distance. Claire and Senno immediately turned off the flashlight.
It looks dark again. Without any light.
The sound of footsteps moved quickly towards them. This is a water channel. There may be a secret room unknown to both partners. Where should they hide now? The walls of the plain white water channel spread straight without any other space.