At this moment, Mobius is walking down the dimly lit corridor of the BH headquarters with Setsuna, who is currently bandaging her hand, left eye, and shoulder. Both move calmly, yet with a hint of urgency. Mobius looks unusually odd, her face a mix of apparent indifference and anger at seeing her teammate so severely injured, her expression seeming like "nothingness," with no clear emotion.
"Is it true that the criminal Balthazar, with a score of 19+, attacked BH9?"
"... It is true. What do you think, that I would lie about it?"
"... We don't know his position in the Underworld. We might be facing a power greater than we imagined, or it could just be a lone undercover agent. Who knows."
Underworld's undercover agents always act in secrecy and decisiveness; they never carry out a full-scale attack on a base, especially a residential one. A smart person like Mobius would never be unaware of this, so why mention it in front of Setsuna?
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Hey, you guys don't know what Underworld is, do you? Basically, "Underworld" is a group of criminal organizations and individuals with unlimited scale, anyone who commits immoral crimes such as gambling, loan sharking, fraud, swindling, illegal substances... are considered part of Underworld, it can be said that any criminal act is in this additional world. Any race, any gender, any age,... can be in Underworld, so basically, the world is everywhere, every corner of the world. To easily gain profit and increase influence, many organizations have been created to represent Underworld to enforce illegal agreements through the use of force. In the first life, the individual named "Mao" automatically liquidated all other functional organizations, bringing the criminal organization "SAD" to the throne of the world below, this was a historical event because before that, no one could unify the organizations but could only maintain a steady balance. After the event "Change The World", Mao was supplemented by the girl and the world, completing the surplus of SAD, built the organization "FUN" and unified the world adding rules once again. There are countless more, but let's skip them and continue the story.
"Where is Balthazar?"
"He's in interrogation room M6."
"... Alright, Set, come with me."
Upon opening the door to the room, Balthazar was happily eating chocolate, with his feet propped up on the table, looking as relaxed as a guest at a party. Seeing this, Setsuna immediately searched her coat pocket and discovered that the chocolate bar she had bought moments earlier was missing. It couldn't be—she had just bought it a few minutes ago, and at that time, Balthazar was still in the interrogation room. She had taken only two steps into the room—exactly three seconds—and Balthazar had already managed to grab and devour half of the chocolate bar. Setting aside this minor detail, Balthazar had no visible injuries on his body despite the battle with the three Weavers, even though his chest had been pierced by Setsuna's sword. His calm demeanor seemed to taunt the severe injuries of the three heroes.
"Yo, how are you?"
"…!"
"Ugh!"
Seeing the relaxed appearance of the criminal standing before him, Mobius immediately used his heel to kick him in the face, a powerful kick, causing the entire base, no, rather the planet they were residing on to shake. And surprisingly, Balthazar's cheek was only chipped and a tooth was knocked out, it seemed Mobius was still holding back. Balthazar had once said that if he had called Weavers of IV or higher, he would have been able to defeat him, making Setsu's impression of Mobius' actions even stronger.
"Putting aside the chocolate, it seems like you're always causing trouble, huh?"
"After all these years, you're still so violent, you little witch…"
"You dog!"
"Agh!"
"Hey, this is going too far, stop it!"
After Balthazar's criticism of Mobius's violent personality, she immediately got angry and pressed his face hard against the ashtray on the table, causing Setsuna to intervene. Raising his face covered in cigarette ash, Bal used his tongue to lick some of the ash from his lips with a face full of excitement. As soon as the other two noticed, Bal immediately changed his expression to one of displeasure at the bitter taste of the cigarette ash, sticking out his tongue full of cigarette ash like a child and complaining.
"Ugh, so bitter…"
"... Please excuse that action. Now, Balthazar, the criminal with an astonishing score of 19+, what was your purpose in attacking Butterfly Headquarters 9 of the Outer Party? Reveal everything, and if you cooperate fully, I promise not to execute you and will ensure you receive reasonable benefits for your current position."
"Setsuna, no need to be diplomatic. Prisoner Balthazar, you have two choices right now: cooperate or face death. Choose quickly."
Setsuna's apology was followed by a cooperative and more positive offer than the usual interrogation used by criminals, but Mobius immediately brushed it aside and patted Balthazar's head with a threatening tone.
"...What do you want to ask about?"
"...Good Time... an important event that I'm 100% sure is happening, do you have anything to do with it? Tell me everything, smoothly, or I'll kill you right here, because I have the authority to do it."
"Hey Mobius, stop it!"
"...Alastprofound... it's a top secret project by FUN on ancient minerals found deep in the Void, the organization has exploited almost all of its potential and plans to use it on something... because while they were mining, they found an unknown liquid... but it wil-?"
"Shut up, you said enough."
Balthazar hesitated for a few seconds before telling the information, but immediately after that, Mobius clamped his mouth shut with a sentence that seemed to want to silence him. Setsuna immediately noticed this action, she did not stop him but gave a puzzled expression at this, did Mobius have any information that he did not want to reveal?
"Then why did you attack BH9?"
"... I want to find my brother... my brother who works in this organization."
"What?"
Setsuna seemed shocked by this information, while Mobius did not seem surprised at all, on the contrary, after Bal had revealed all this information, Mobius appeared to be happy and unusually friendly. She jumped in and hugged Bal tightly to her D-cup breasts, then sat on him and kissed his left cheek that she had kicked a few minutes ago while saying sweet words.
"Thank you Balthazar~ Your information will bring a lot of sweets to the organization~!"
"Ugh… it's too big, save me!!!"
Setsuna kept taking notes and only sighed at that desperate person, Bal originally had a pretty face like a girl so it was not strange that Mobius was targeting him.
At this moment, below the F6 prison room, Mao was lying quietly on that cat-style decorated bed, around her were furniture like mirrors, TVs,... basically everything in there was destroyed. But what did Mao use to destroy, noticing that her hands were covered in blood, perhaps she used her bare hands to smash those things, it was not easy to do this, as for herself, Mao was now just wringing her hands over her forehead, thinking about the past when she was the king of the Underworld, about the crimes she committed.
Sin, what is it? Basically, it's not as profound as people think, because it happens all the time, like brushing your teeth every morning. Sins are words, actions, and impacts that cause negative effects on people or different aspects such as business, society, etc., or most commonly, emotions. In fact, it's funny, a kid stealing a snack is a "sin", losing a computer or an item is also a "sin", not to mention the more trivial things.
"…Sin, power… what…?"
Mao raised her hand to the ceiling, as if wanting to salvage something, but her hand only felt like it was touching the air, the tiny molecules inside it, besides that, there was nothing. Blood dripped from her raised hand into her eyes, now her eyes were pitch black, sunken like a dead river when looking up at the ceiling.
"Hello, first generation."
When the catwoman turned around, the person she saw was Free, why did he come here, wasn't his only job just to stand guard outside? Not to deliver food, the food that was delivered to her while she was locked up was brought in from the space between the first and second doors because F6 was the only room with two layers of doors, so why did he come here?
Seeing Mao's bloody hands, Free clicked her tongue and lamented.
"Wrecking trouble again, tsk, you're still the same Mao, always stupid and foolish."
"... What are you doing here?"
In response to that question was a gun pointed at her, Free now with an expressionless face was looking at the catwoman who was clutching the bed sheet with her bloody hands.
"Before I answer that question, I have to kill you."
Bang!