The current time is 10:15 pm. Appears that Suga and Nellson decided to meet Hardy on the rooftop of this hospital building, and now standing face-to-face with each other. Hardy's expression turned slightly surprised
“Sorry I'm going off-topic, first of all, let me introduce myself. My name is Hardy Aylward, nice to meet you”
Suga's expression turned astonished
“You expect me to introduce myself too?”
Hardy smiled
“Suga Hisoka right? I know”
Hearing Hardy know his name, Suga appeared a little surprised
“How do you know my name?”
Hardy looked doubtful
“How to say it…”
Suga’s expression turned serious. Hardy continues talking
“Alright then… actually, I'm from some kind of a secret organization, I and my comrades are given the task of supervising several people, and some of them are you and your owl monster friends”
Suga's expression turned astonished
“What do you mean supervising?”
Hardy himself appears difficult how to explain it
“How to say it… we don't know either. You could say, I and my comrades also want to find out the reason why because it's getting more and more unclear”
Suga looked even more astonished. Hardy continued talking
"That's all I want to tell you, I think you need to know about what my organization might actually want, sooner or later we will definitely be ordered to meet you anyway"
Suga's expression turned flat
"You expect me to believe what you say?"
Hearing this, Hardy appeared to remember something
“Sorry I should have given you that first”
Hardy took out a black smartphone from under his jacket and was about to give it to Suga. Hardy walked towards Suga, he then gave this smartphone to Suga while saying
"In here, there is information that we collect from you, along with some other information as a bonus"
Suga didn't immediately accept it, and his facial expression changed in astonishment. But Suga was curious about the information Hardy wanted to give to him. Suga then received this smartphone from Hardy
"Okay, let's see how far this information can convince me"
Hardy smiled
“That information is a bonus, but my main goal is to build communication with you, so I'm leaving something for you in case I need to contact you because I think we are in the same position, which is not understanding what is really going on. If something bad happens, we can… help each other maybe?”
Suga's expression turned serious but also mixed with curiosity
"Weird, if you don't know anything, it's all because of your negligence. So, why from the way you talk doesn't sound like that?"
Hardy appears to realize something
“Yes, you're right, I'm sorry. I may know a little something…”
Suga looked curious. Hardy's expression turned serious
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“Be careful of someone called Black Star”
Suga is surprised, because he knew about Black Star, whose news was busy on television, even in various parts of the world. Hardy's expression showed that something was bothering him
"You and your friends might be in danger. At that time, we might should help each other"
Suga’s expression turned serious. Hardy continued talking
"Sorry, but I have to go now, I have a flight to catch"
Hardy then turned and walked towards the wide concrete railing that was on the edge of this rooftop and then walked up to the top of it and stood there. Seeing Hardy, made Suga surprised.
Moments later, the sound of a roaring engine was heard. A VTOL aircraft to transport personnel in the form of a large fighter jet, which previously also visited the factory that Erdyn attacked, flew from the direction below the hospital, and then hovering not far from where Hardy was standing. The plane was facing Hardy for a moment, then made a 180-degree turn so that the rear door of the plane was facing Hardy. The cargo door of this plane opens and becomes stairs and a ramp to raise the cargo or for boarding the personnel into the plane. Seeing this, Suga looked even more surprised. Hardy then boarded the plane via the stairs, and the cargo door of the plane then closed. This VTOL plane then flew higher and farther. Suga could only stand in his place with a surprised expression
"How reckless they are, aren't they afraid of being seen?"
Nellson moved beside Suga, with his current size being two meters tall
“That person is so strange”
Suga looked at Nellson with a curious expression
“I don't know, but he warned me about Black Star …”
Somehow, Suga then felt a bad feeling. Suga looked at the black smartphone in his hand that Hardy had given him earlier, his facial expression then turned serious.
Back to the plane that Hardy was in, this plane appeared to have flown very high and accelerated even more, through the clouds of the night sky. Inside the plane, this plane was flown by two male pilots, Hardy is now sitting in a long passenger seat on the side of inside the plane, with a woman sitting beside him. This woman has slightly long hair, wears a women's leather jacket that fits elegantly on her body and a shirt underneath it, black trousers, and black army boots. This woman is Ely Samford, in her thirties. In front of them, Raymond who was wearing military-grade armor, sat with his arms crossed
“Are you sure about this?”
Hardy looked slightly doubtful
“For now, all we can do is to find out the real reason why we were given this surveillance mission”
Raymond's expression turned astonished
“Huh? I mean, we get on this plane and just fly into another country's airspace"
Hardy appeared a little surprised to hear this as if he had just come to his senses
"Relax, we immediately use stealth mode so as not to be chased by this country's security fighter jets, after all, isn't it faster like this?"
Raymond's expression appeared even more astonished. Ely looked curious
"And now to the real question, why tell the subjects what we were doing before being ordered?"
Hardy's expression turned serious
“It's the only way to get the organization's attention. We can't go on like this and keep doing something without knowing the real reason. The situation will get even more dangerous”
Raymond's and Ely’s expressions turned serious. Ely replied
"If you have made up your mind, I warn you guys once again that the place we are headed for at the end of our journey is something that might even beyond your imagination"
Hardy's expression turned serious, he then looked out of the window
“Of course, I won't change my mind”
Raymond looked at Ely with a curious expression
"You're the only person on this plane who's ever been allowed to go there, may I know what the criteria are?"
Ely smiled
“I think you guys already know the answer, there are no criteria. Or maybe there is, but they didn't tell me what the criteria were, and just ordered me to go there. Even then, with very limited access”
Hearing this, Hardy and Raymond appeared to have expected such an answer. Hardy replied
“Okay, that means we agreed, after meeting a few more subjects, we will go there”
Raymond's expression turned flat
“More precisely, we forced our way to go there”
Hearing this, Hardy smiled awkwardly. Hardy took out the emblem of their organization from the inside pocket of his jacket, a gold-colored emblem with a globe engraved, which had the words "G.O.DS" engraved on its surface. Above the globe engraving, there is a ribbon engraving with the words "GLOBAL ORGANIZATION OF DEFENSE" engraved on its surface, while below the globe engraving, there is another ribbon engraving with the words "HUMAN DIVISION" engraved on its surface. Hardy looked at his emblem with a serious expression, he then looked at the view outside the window
"It's time for us to go there”
Hardy looked back at Raymond and Ely, their expressions turned serious
“To the Gods Headquarters”
The VTOL cargo fighter jet they were in then flew faster through the clouds and then disappeared into the darkness of the night sky.
Somewhere on the other side of the world, 20xx AD.
The sky looks clear. There is a large white research laboratory with a modern minimalist style building, forming a rectangle shape, and five stories high. Inside one of the wide laboratory rooms with rows of tall glass windows on one side of this room that shows the view in front of the building, a man who is a researcher appears to be wearing a white lab coat, white shirt, black trousers, and black loafers. He was carrying out his research activities with a microscope, among the researchers around him who were also carrying out their own research activities. This man could be seen from behind doing his research, so his face could not be seen. Soon, the attention of the researchers in this room turned to the large wide-screen TV that was mounted high on the wall here displaying news about Black Star. The headline news that was being displayed was “Hero or Villain?”.