Same day, Game Time PM17:25
Outer ring of Academy City, somewhere on a tree-lined path, on a long bench
"Sigh..."
After losing count of how many times he had sighed, Motan, who had been sitting here for nearly an hour, raised his right hand, gently tapping his forehead, his face full of conflict and melancholy as he murmured: "It feels like I've completely lost control, yeah, lost control. Otherwise, it makes no sense that I'm squandering precious time here when there's clearly a lot of things I need to line up and handle."
Once he thought of this, Motan, who had been idly passing the time here for a whole hour since going online, was filled with guilt.
The only piece of good news was probably that Yi Dong hadn't sent a message stating 'a sudden situation has occurred', which meant that Double Leaf should still be acting with Diana, and at this moment, Frank Hughes, who was probably wasting time in the Academy City library, wasn't under threat.
