Balloon Authority

"Failure, again."

Faced with many failures, Ayame, Winston, and Kayden weren't surprised. They were already used to it.

When Bianca had pulled the string, her head had disappeared and was transferred inside the dark green balloon she was holding on her right hand.

Kayden sighed, "We used to have a total of ten members in our team. Now we are back to the original trio of me, you, and Winston."

Hearing Kayden's sigh, Ayame sighed as well, "Well, I am used to the three of us solving the problem anyway. Now I'm starting to think whether Lily had rigged it or not."

Ayame added and asked, "Kayden, do you want to resort to using your Gambling Authority?"

Before Kayden could respond, Winston interjected, "Not so fast! We still have a chance!"

"Remember, I calculated the characters including the spaces. This time, I'll count the characters of the black book excluding the spaces and punctuations, only the letters."