Editing The Unexplored Summon Blood Sign:Volume2 Chapter3 (section)

===Part 3===

After waiting for midnight, Kyousuke and Librarian-chan made their way to the factory district on the outskirts of Toy Dream 35.

This was obviously to arrive while Toshima Industries 3rd Toy Factory was testing its new production line. If something was happening, they could likely get the most information if they aimed for the time when it was happening. Of course, that also meant arriving when the factory would be most cautious.

They took the monorail outside of Toy Dream 35.

The rain continually switched between pouring and letting up outside the window and they happened to catch one of the rainless periods.

“Since the factory is running, is my sister wandering around somewhere today too?”

Librarian-chan gloomily asked her question while staring out the window.

The light quickly vanished once they left Toy Dream 35. They found pure darkness. While the amusement park city was filled with decorative lights 24/7, there were only occasional fluorescent lights here. They were enough to break through the night’s darkness, but the color black stickily clung to everything.

When they stepped out onto the platform, the temperature seemed to have dropped by a degree or two.

Even without a map, Toy Dream 35’s location could not have been more obvious. A vague region of light was visible despite the darkness.

They were on the outskirts.

To coexist with Toy Dream 35, countless factories were scattered around, sometimes even affecting the livability of the area.

The mascot characters on the sides of the trucks parked alongside the road were enough to see the level of economic dependence.

“It feels weird to see an actual dirt ground,” said Librarian-chan as she looked to the puddle at her feet. “No, I guess it’s us that’s weird. People are so good at adapting to their situation.”

The area around the monorail station had nothing more than dark soil and some woods. It only had an asphalt road and streetlights, so it was almost entirely undeveloped. When they looked down a gentle five hundred meter hill, they saw a fence that seemed to stretch on forever.

That was Toshima Industries 3rd Toy Factory.

The term factory could refer to a number of things, but the one beyond the three meter tall fence was a lot like an automobile factory. It looked like a square box with each side over a kilometer long. The square factory was over five stories tall and the only distortions to its shape were the smokestacks sticking up from its flat roof at even intervals.

Kyousuke held a small pair of binoculars in one hand to observe different parts of the factory grounds.

It took him less than a minute to finish.

Librarian-chan was shocked when he handed them to her.

“Eh? Ah? You’re done already?”

“Yes. Why wouldn’t I be?”

“Because that’s a huge fortress of a factory. There have to be a ton of guards even at night… See, I barely had to look and I’ve already found a bunch! It looks like there are security cameras all over, so sneaking in won’t be easy…”

“That’s where you’re wrong.”

Kyousuke reached over to the binoculars Librarian-chan was looking through.

But not to take them from her.

He pushed them from the side to guide her gaze.

“The first thing we need to think about is where to get in from. The factory has no windows to speak of. The entrances and exits are all locked and they’re either thick steel shutters for vehicles or reinforced stainless steel doors for people. There are panels near the doors, so you probably need a card key.”

“That means we’re already out of luck…”

“We just have to change our viewpoint. Look over there.”

Kyousuke moved the binoculars to the next point.

It was a point on the ground inside the fence but a short distance from the boxy factory. A few metal tanks that resembled truck-sized cans were lying on their side in a row. The pipes connected to them ran underground.

A few large containers were lined up next to those.

Confused, Librarian-chan read the writing on the side of the tanks.

“Caution: Flammable?”

“Based on the shape of the tanks, they’re filled with LNG for gas turbines. It isn’t much for a factory this big, so my guess is it’s fuel for emergency power.”

“What good is that? If we set it on fire, it will cause a huge commotion and we won’t be able to sneak in. And it’s too far away from the factory to blow a hole in the wall if it explodes.”

“We don’t need to go that far.”

Kyousuke gently took the binoculars from Librarian-chan.

He pointed at something nearby and continued his explanation.

“This is a gentle downwards slope.”

“And?”

“There are a ton of large trucks with mascots painted on them.”

After he pointed here and there, he moved his finger from one truck, down the slope, and to the factory.

“Opening a door that’s locked from the inside is easy. …You just have to get the people inside to open it.”