211 Demon Zoo, Enlightenment Hall

"...not bad. We can probably make this work." Ashton muttered as he observed the captures mingling with their new habitat.

"Probably?" Alice raised a brow.

"Well, the DBD Project is a theory so far." Ashton got up from crouching and faced them. "These things are the first sample for the experiment, you can't really expect us to succeed on our first try, right?"

"So, there's a possibility that this mission will be posted again?" Mary asked.

"Yes." Ashton didn't deny that notion. "But...these samples should last for a while. After all, they'd start reproducing once they get comfortable. The habitat I built was precisely for that goal. Who knows? Maybe by the time we need more, there will be other teams who already upgraded their badges to S-rank. By then you three wouldn't necessarily need to step forward."

"That's true. With how much the Guild Members eat up missions like madmen, it might be sooner rather than later." Blake added.