192 Contact

"So… you are saying that you were assigned a mission to intercept a meddling 'Clearer' who has destroyed several of our reserve gates and may have even obtained some of the reserves' contents?"

After putting aside my disappointment for not being able to announce my name as Train Heartnet, incapable of taking advantage of the limited contact they had, as he already seemed to have some information, I started by telling him what I had deduced from the attack of the shadow assassin, supposedly named Jared, and the special gates holding the corrupted elemental crystals, yet he seemed to be explaining it in a more detailed yet elusive way, I was already starting to wonder if he still believed my disguise…

No matter how one looked at it, this demon was one of the deceptive masterminds, otherwise he wouldn't be assigned as the overseer of such an important base, which would turn into a war front eventually.