บท 767: The Bait

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The game room of the 'Crimson Witches' recently had a surveillance camera installed, just in case someone decided to do some 'sabotage' while no one was present. But unknown to the team inside the game, it was coincidentally 'malfunctioning' while an intruder stood in front of Emilia's pod.

Except for the tiny tuft of orangish-red hair, dull green eyes, and the dark skin of his temple peeking out from under his hooded jacket, it was almost impossible to guess what the man looked like, with even his height being uncertain thanks to his hunched figure.

'So here lies the girl that boss is oh-so-curious about, huh…' The masked man's fingers hovered over the 'full-dive pod', as if caressing it through the air, then he smiled. 'Could it be that he likes her?'

Although Darryl had sent him on quite a lot of errands before, this was the first time that Colman simply couldn't make sense of his 'task'.