Leviathan:Volume 7 Chapter 1
Chapter 1 - September Revolution
Part 1
"How boring—"
Luna Francois Gregory sighed.
"The plan is proceeding smoothly without any impediments at all. And to think that I painstakingly prepared countermeasures ahead of time to win over various people involved with SAURU in the Kantou region, for the purposes of poaching, tempting, bribing, negotiating, intimidating, threatening or extorting personnel."
"Miss Gregory, I believe it is a good thing for the plan to be proceeding smoothly."
"Of the countermeasures you listed, isn't the latter half somewhat problematic in character?"
Hiiragi Yukari had responded with a cordial smile while Kenjou Genya chimed in casually from the side.
Hiiragi-san was an intellectual beauty with spectacles in her twenties and served as the chief of SAURU's Kantou branch in Japan. In charge of SAURU's Tokyo New Town office, Kenjou was a good-looking man with unkempt facial hair.
The three of them were meeting at Yokohama's Chinatown.
The trio was sitting at the open terrace section of a Chinese restaurant that was a brief walk from the train station.
The dishes on the table not only included staples of Japanese-adapted Chinese dishes like chilli shrimp and mapo doufu but also luxury delicacies such as shark fin soup and abalone steak.
These were ordered by Luna, the master-class witch commanding an extraordinary income.
Yokohama City was the heartland of SAURU's Kantou branch.
Hiiragi Yukari's office was also situated in the city. As an executive of SAURU, Luna Francois Gregory had come to this city to meet face-to-face with members of the organization—
Naturally, this was to discuss clanestine plans.
"Because everyone was so cooperative. 'Are you willing to join us...?' The new organization, the GUILD, formed around Tokyo New Town's witches and Haruga Haruomi, requiring them to quit SAURU depending on circumstances—I can't believe that currently 68% of the Kantou personnel have agreed at the first opportunity."
Luna Francois was holding several A4-size sheets of computer printouts.
Having curled up the stack of paper, she was fanning herself.
It was the name list of hundreds of SAURU members active in the Kantou region. Those who had answered "YES" were crossed out in red.
The papers were marked full of red lines.
In addition, those who consented were enchanted wtih oath magic, sworn to absolute secrecy.
"I am happy that time was not wasted, but it is rather boring."
"It's only natural for people to decide this way."
"Because everyone at SAURU knows... At this rate, mankind will only continue to suffer under the dragons' oppression, headed on a slow course for destruction."
The master-class witch at the tender age of seventeen—Luna Francois.
As representatives of ordinary people, the two adults, Hiiragi and Kenjou, responded to her tactless lament.
"Whatever, things will soon be getting hectic anyway." Luna pouted with displeasure and used magic.
The list she had been using as a fan suddenly started to burn. Within the blink of an eye, the paper was incinerated into ash by a mysterious flame, disappearing into oblivion.
At the same time, the flame vanished. This was Tinder magic.
The entire process only lasted but an instant, hence nearby people would not notice.
Even had someone noticed, they probably would have convinced themselves it was merely a fire started from a lighter.
Such was the magical power and stylishness of a Level 5 witch, whose skill in even the smallest of magic spells would still dwarf that of weaker witches.
"Looks like there are no issues in the first stage of our plan, 'in any case, let's take over the Kantou region first.' Could you two continue with advance preparations inside the Kantou branch?"
"By the way, don't we need to deal with that guy?" Kenjou nodded and asked after receiving orders from Luna.
"That elite dragon has been reported lurking at Tokyo New Town in human form. I remember the first time when he appeared before us Japanese, the location was..."
"In front of the Yokohama Landmark Tower, right?"
Hiiragi Yukari was referring to a super tall building standing at a height of 296m.
As long as the sky was clear, It was possible to see this majestic structure even from Chinatown.
"An entity named Pavel Galad, a false dragon king like Haruomi-kun."
"Leave him be. Or rather, given the current circumstances, we have no choice but to ignore him for now."
Luna showed a serious look on her face for the first time since sitting down in the open-air seating in Chinatown.
The silver dragon, successor to the Rune of the Sword, was a formidable foe who posed a threat to Harry, the boy of her love. He was very likely going to be their biggest obstacle apart from the few dragon kings.
"During the summer vacation, we had the Metropolitan Police Department search New Town but all that turned up were a few eyewitness accounts. If an elite dragon with high intelligence and magical power was truly serious about infiltrating human society, it would be very difficult to root him out... Our long-time worries have now been proven true."
During the summer, Hal and company had gone off on expeditions one after another to Izu, the American East Coast and other places.
With the turbulent vacation concluded a few days ago, September was now rolling around. For high school students like Luna Francois and Haruga Haruomi, it was also the beginning of the second school term.
After returning to Japan from New York, while drafting up plans for the GUILD, Luna and others have not lowered their guard against "the enemies."
The enemies. Countless dragons as well as Pavel Galad.
Most prominently, there was the quee who had declared Tokyo as her territory. The white dragon making her temporary residence at the Old Tokyo Concession, Princess Yukikaze—
President M, a wielder of mysterious powers whom even Luna could not ignore, had issued the following warning.
'I have been feeling uneasy the whole time recently.'
'There is a very strong premonition—Something huge will happen to the city in the near future and might need your party's power.'
Would the cause of a huge incident be Princess Yukikaze? Pavel Galad? Or a dragon previously unencountered?
Regardless, Tokyo New Town's current situation must be very dangerous.
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