Editing City Series:Volume6a Chapter2 (section)

===Part 1===

In a small, dimly-lit room, the divine spell glow panel attached to the concrete wall provided a faint bluish-white light reminiscent of fireflies. That light revealed everything in the room as shadows.

It had walls, a door, a bed, a bookcase, some luggage, and many wooden boxes scattered across the floor.

A single person sat on the bed.

The black-haired young man in a black shirt and pants was Berger.

He still looked sleepy as he reached for the alarm clock sitting on the bed. He turned its display toward the wall’s glow panel to see where the hour and minute hands were.

“11:22. I guess I really do have to head back out into the Berlin night to find Hazel Mirildorf, huh?”

He yawned and worked his neck until it popped. He then nodded and stood up while scratching his head. He opened a largish wooden box on the floor nearby to reveal multiple changes of clothes contained inside. They included cold weather and mountain climbing gear, so they were not exactly everyday items.

He easily pulled out what he wanted in the dark and then changed.

First, he put on a kind of bulletproof armor called ASRA (Anti-Shock Reactive Armor). Over that, he wore a thick black shirt with latches on the shoulders and elsewhere. For pants, he wore mountain climbing ones with deep pockets.

For a coat, he pulled out a researcher’s lab coat.

Except that lab coat had a unique trait: it was black.

The collar’s insignia of the Berlin university’s department for emblem research, the basic structure, the heat-resistance, and everything else were the same as a lab coat, so the color alone was different. Its dyed color was even darker than the shadows formed by the glow panel.

“I guess this will be the last time I use this underground room. They’ll probably sniff it out,” he muttered while shutting the box.

He took a breath and reached for an oblong wooden box next to the bed…but changed his mind.

He sat back on the bed and looked up at the ceiling. The ceiling was a plain concrete square with a single bare lightbulb installed.

He suddenly looked behind him.

There was a lump in the bed’s blanket because there was still something below it.

“I guess I should feed that cat. I was the one that brought it with me, after all.”

He pulled back the blanket, expecting to find the cat curled up there.

But for some reason, he instead found a naked girl sleeping there.