I walked through the town of night, fiddling with the ID card I appropriated from the men in the subway.
I connected the card to my smartphone and used <b>[Cyber-Manipulation]</b> to read the info. The man was working in the material storage department. Hmmm… not quite what I was looking for. He looked muscular so I had thought he was one of the guards. If he was just a warehouse worker, there weren’t going to be many places I could get in with his card.
And that wasn’t my only problem. Once he noticed his ID card was gone and sent in a report, the card’s going to lose all of its functions.
But I didn’t think it was going to be that much of a problem. Further investigations revealed that reissuing cards would cost quite a pretty penny, and the card owner would need to go directly to the issuing office to get their card. Most people would probably go search for them first and only request card lockage once they were certain it was lost forever, right?
He just needed his mobile device to buy things, so I was thinking I’d probably have about half a day before I needed to worry about it… anyway, if things went wrong, I’d just make something up as I went along.
Besides, I could probably manage something about the card’s privileges too.
“…the 12th research center.”
It was inside a fifteen-story building in a semi-industrial district some distance away from the subway station. Or to be more precise, apparently the whole building was the 12th research center.
The 12th’s purpose within the corporation was to hold the developer department of the game as a player. She knew about how the other world was real, and how I had come back to Earth and killed a facility’s staff members.
But she still loved the idea of a real-life Dark Lady. Apparently she’d bought every single kind of promotional goods related to me.
She was also the person who’d developed the backdoor program to log into Yggdrasia. She’d been gathering similarly-minded people who used monster avatars and finding a way to contact me. She pleaded with me not to destroy this facility since they were only working on the game and nothing else, and if the place was gone, she wouldn’t be able to join the game anymore.
“I see… any other last words?”
“W-waitwaitwaitwaitpleasewait! I can be useful to you, my Lady, even here or on the other side too! You have something to do here, right?! I’ll help!”
Jennifer stared at me with sparkling eyes. I scowled, but took some time to think.
True, if I had someone aware of the inner workings of the corporation to help, it’d save me some unnecessary trouble. But if an employee went missing on the day right after such a huge mess, they might be able to follow me by tracking her.
Oh well, I could just erase her if she turned out to be more trouble than she was worth.
“They might suspect you, you know?”
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“It’s fine! It’s already time for me to leave work today, and I’ll be taking a vacation starting from tomorrow! If anything happens, I’ll tell them I got kidnapped by the Dark Lady!”
“Umm… right…”
I didn’t think the corporation was that naive anway, but well, if she’s willing.
After that, after Jennifer finished her weird performance in the security room devoid of any other people and clocked out for the day, we left for the underground parking lot and got into her second-hand car. The two of us headed for my next destination: the 4th research center.