Light and Malia, as brother and sister, were known to Adex for a long time.
They knew him even before they found the Light Upon Us and learned nen.
They know what kind of a man he is in terms of egoistical and confident standpoints.
"If even he accepts somebody is definitely stronger than him, this is clear."
"It means there is no need for a second guess," they both thought as they listened to Adex.
Adex looked at his two enforcers and laughed.
"Haha." A small, self-deprecating laugh sounded from him.
"It seems like it must have been some time before I have been this much clearer to you," he added.
Light and Malia smiled and nodded as they left the room without saying much more and started working on gathering more intel about the people who want to hunt them.
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Reginald and Lina sat together in a coffee shop, and Lina said.
"It did not expect Conrad to get attacked."
Reginald smirked and shook his head.
"It shows that the Hunter Association is nothing great at all."
"If they cannot protect the commissioner, nobody would like to do business with them."
Lina nodded and kept her silence for a moment.
Reginald did not find the Hunter Association great at all.
In his eyes, it is just an organization that uses the "Hunter" profession as a joining group of "Nen Users" that do anything and would not be punished for it.
Lina then said.
"Anyway."
"It is important if we are careful, too."
"It would not be great if we were ambushed."
Reginald came back to his senses and took a sip from his coffee and slowly nodded.
"I do not get scared much."
"But the NEN is not that easy to predict."
"There are many ways to ambush, as you said. Reginald was confident. Even arrogant by the standards of the NEN users.
But it did not mean that he was dumb.
He knew that there are non-users who are a lot weaker than him but have abilities that are suited to take him on.
Against such enemies, he would be powerless.
"We can do nothing but be prepared against such enemies." Reginald added as he thought more.
Lina smiled and drank her coffee.
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Conrad took a deep breath.
It has been two days since he had problems with the man that attacked him in his room.
"Hmmm."
"Not that bad of a city." Conrad thought as he looked around.
After the events, Conrad trained a little bit more and then decided to go to the city that Light Upon Us is in.
Mimbo Republic – Blue Mountain City.
After he left the airship, he quickly hopped onto a taxi and paid for the fare and said to it, "Drive to the city center."
While the taxi went on, he kept on looking around, trying to gather more direct experience as much as he could.
"A city that involves both nature and modern life together."
"New York is directly a modern city, while Blue Mountain City is both," he thought.
"I can understand why people would want to live here," he commented.
After about two hours of taxi journey, he left the taxi in the city center.
"Blue Mountain Centre" is the name.
Pretty simple and nothing complicated.
"Now."
"If I want to start looking and gathering knowledge, I should look into the dark streets. The slums and people up to no good."
"These people must have small connections to the Light Upon Us somehow."
"From there, I can go up to a real member, and when I find a real member, finding the headquarters would not be hard."
Conrad then first went to a real estate agency and started to look for an ordinary place to rent for some time.
When his people arrive, they will need one place where they can operate and hide if needed.
In no time, he found a small apartment, not too close to the city center but still close enough to reach if something were to happen.
It was furnished and filled with goods.
He paid about five million yen for two weeks of renting and then looked from the window.
"Okay."
"The first thing is completed."
"Now, I need to wait for the night."
"That is when people are up to no good and show themselves in the street."
"From there, I only need to be prey and become a target for them."
Conrad understood how gangsters and lowlifes in the big urban cities thought.
They would target people they can take down without much trouble and avoid groups that would create confrontation.
Such people, in most of the cases, are being ordered by a higher-level gangster and most likely the mafia, which would have a small level of connection to more sophisticated and non-involved organizations.
"It is like a leveling game."
"The more I beat down the small-level thugs, the more I go up and reach them."
"It is easy but will take some time." Conrad concluded and smiled.
He then left the newly rented apartment and then went to a small bar close to the city center with his notebook.
He entered the bar, wore glasses that made him look like a bookworm, and started acting in a way that suggested he is not that great and knows anything about the dangers of the world.
Showing naivety all around, he drank his beer and ate chips and snacks as he wrote some things in the notebook.
People come and go; after about four to seven hours later, a group of young boys noticed him and started talking amongst themselves.
Conrad noticed them but acted like he did not.
He wanted to be approached and probably tried to be mugged.
"I would like to see what words they are going to use to try to mug me."
"I wonder if it would be a cliché or a new thing," he thought as he drank more beer and ate from his snacks.