In the cafe provided for Fire Moth personnel to rest.
A strikingly handsome young man and a beautiful young woman sat facing each other in a corner.
"What should we do?"
The girl's solemn eyes stared straight at the young man opposite her, wanting him to come up with a solution.
"How about..."
The young man paused for a moment. "We blow up Fire Moth."
The atmosphere grew tense.
"You're joking?"
The pink-haired girl, Elysia, froze for a moment and could not help asking.
What problem would blowing up Fire Moth solve?
Blanca's disappearance couldn't possibly have anything to do with Fire Moth, could it?
Why would they abduct a researcher from a research institute under their own organization?
Was there something wrong with their heads?
There really was something wrong with their heads.
Levi nodded.
In his opinion, there was a very high chance that Blanca's disappearance was the work of those politicians.
As for the reason...
His gaze fell on Elysia sitting opposite him. Noticing his gaze, Elysia, who was thinking about how to solve the problem, blinked in confusion. "What?"
"Nothing."
Levi shook his head.
The reason for all this was most likely the so-called "research data."
Those people were not researchers. They did not know how difficult it was to break new ground, nor did they possess the patience that researchers had.
Mobius's repeated failures had already exhausted those people's patience.
Their move against Blanca this time was most likely meant to give Mobius a warning.
To make her produce results as quickly as possible.
Or perhaps to make her hand over the "research data" voluntarily.
Of course, before everything was investigated clearly, all of this was nothing more than Levi's speculation.
And obviously, given how useless Fire Moth currently was, there was no way they could investigate this matter thoroughly.
Levi did not believe they could figure it out either.
As the organization gradually got on the right track, internal struggles were also beginning to take shape.
For this situation, Levi's suggestion was:
Leave Fire Moth, start from scratch, and establish an entirely new organization to fight the Honkai.
However, without financial support from various countries and continents, this was clearly unrealistic.
And once there was financial support, there was a very good chance it would turn into another Fire Moth.
If that were the case, they might as well continue staying in Fire Moth. At the very least, humanity's forces would not be divided, and even if they were fighting among themselves in the early stages, they could still contend with the Honkai.
That would prevent the Honkai from causing too much damage to human civilization.
"Ah! I can't think of anything!"
Elysia irritably grabbed her hair. Finding one person in an entire city was simply like looking for a needle in a haystack.
"Levi, have you thought of any good ideas?"
Unable to think of anything herself, she raised her head and asked the omnipotent Levi.
Levi spread his hands toward her. "Sorry, my gacha pool doesn't have any tracking abilities."
Then what were they supposed to do?
Elysia felt somewhat anxious. Mobius had contacted her at this time, clearly believing that she could find Blanca.
"Could it be that we can only use the stupidest method?", Elysia said quietly.
But with her level of authority, did she even have the ability to access the surveillance footage?
Even if she could access it, she would probably be punished by Fire Moth afterward.
Just as she stood up, preparing to drag Levi into the city to investigate, she suddenly noticed that Levi, sitting opposite her, was staring at her with a smile.
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[Some Time Later]
"Elysia" stood up from the corner, went to the counter to pay, and then left.
"You're sure this will work?"
As they walked away from the Fire Moth base, Elysia's doubtful voice sounded in Levi's ears.
That crystal flower was something he played around with every night before going to sleep. After all this time, he had never discovered any power related to tracking.
"I'm not sure.", Levi answered honestly.
As for whether the Herrscher of Origin actually had any tracking-related abilities, Levi himself did not know either.
But as the Zero Herrscher, being able to interfere with the Honkai and make the Herrschers of later generations possess human hearts was definitely something an ordinary Herrscher could not accomplish.
The Herrscher of Origin was a Herrscher infinitely close to the Honkai.
And the full name of Honkai...
"Honkai can do anything."
"You've said that line so many times."
Her ears were practically about to grow calluses from hearing it.
Elysia silently complained. After hearing Levi give such an uncertain answer, she really wanted to open up his brain and see what exactly was going on inside.
You were so decisive when answering just now, yet you weren't even sure.
"Forget it. I'll trust you this once."
In the end, Elysia gave Levi her trust.
After all, this guy had never failed a commission before.
Perhaps this time would be a success as well.
"Mm-hmm~ Thanks for trusting me."
"..."
"Stop putting on that voice."
Hearing her own voice being deliberately sweetened... she could not take it.
Listening to Elysia's slightly embarrassed voice, Levi smiled and glanced at the system panel that only he could see.
[Commission: Find Blanca! (In Progress)]
Levi stretched.
First, if he wanted to find Blanca, he had to find someone connected to her.
Levi took out Elysia's phone, unlocked it with practiced ease, opened the contacts, found a familiar name, and tapped to call.
He stood there and waited for a moment. Just as the ringing was about to end, the call was finally answered.
"Hello?"
A man's exhausted voice came from the other end.
"Hi~ Ato, could you come over here for a moment?", Levi spoke in a cheerful voice.
"Sorry, Elysia, I'm currently at..."
Ato thought she still did not know that Blanca had disappeared. To prevent Elysia from worrying too much, he had not told her about Blanca.
But in the next second, the fact that Blanca had disappeared came from "Elysia" on the other end.
"It's about Blanca's disappearance."
The instant he heard those words, Ato thought of many, many things.
Were Blanca and Elysia working together to play a prank on him?
Was Elysia actually the one who kidnapped Blanca?
Was Elysia not one of Mobius's people, but an undercover agent for every assassin organization within Fire Moth?
All sorts of questions turned into one sentence at this moment.
"Where are you now?"
Once they met, the answer would naturally be revealed.
"In front of the Fire Moth base."
After learning "Elysia's" current location, Ato immediately hung up and hurried toward the destination.
Putting away the phone, Levi looked toward the base behind him.
The Fire Moth base was built in the outskirts. There were few people around, and even if passersby happened to go by, they would only mistake it for some military base.
They would not associate it with the Fire Moth base.
Especially at a time when the name Fire Moth had not yet become widely known.
After standing there and waiting for a while, during which he thoughtfully contacted Mobius to keep her from worrying too much, he heard her voice.
"Elysia, if Blanca is injured, or..."
Mobius paused and did not say that word.
Mobius, who took life and death very lightly, showed an intense resistance when it came to the life and death of those around her.
Her voice sounded slightly cold, "I beg you, find those people..."
"Kill them."
"..."