Do You Remember? (9)

"I figured it’d be fine since it’s the middle of the night, so I didn’t check, but is there any chance the Resistance is making a fuss right now because you’re gone from the Noah facility?"

"No, so don’t worry. Once the residents have been given their rations, everyone’s free to do as they please unless an emergency comes up. That is, until morning assembly. Besides, since an ancient weapon was deployed, they wouldn’t call the Resistance in for an emergency and risk letting them find out, would they?"

As if to reassure Kagami, whose expression had grown tense, Merry told him calmly, "Don’t worry so much. I know the Resistance well." Then—

"Then... Merry and Yuki should be fine."

Kagami breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I see," but his expression soon tensed again.

"What do you mean? Why can you say only we’ll be fine?"

"They’ve seen our faces. Merry and Yuki were hiding the whole time, so they haven’t seen yours."

Perhaps she understood from that one remark. Merry fell silent.

The being who had likely been riding the small Messiah that appeared later had escaped without Kagami and the others ever seeing them. They suspected that being might be in the Noah facility.

That meant Alice and the others, whose faces had been seen, could be targeted by someone they didn’t even know when they returned to the Noah facility...