If it weren't for receiving data transmitted from the hospital, Kiba Mikoto and Sagiri Yuko would have made contact with him long ago.
Because it wasn't through normal networks but via satellite, it was rather slow.
However, they had also confirmed that his medicine was indeed effective against the corpse virus.
They had also witnessed through binoculars Mrs. Takagi personally demonstrating in full view of everyone - being bitten by a corpse, then drinking that medicine and not becoming a corpse.
After all the data was received, they were about to make face-to-face contact, but unexpectedly he was also departing from the Takagi house, with the purpose of collecting more medicines to manufacture a second batch of the so-called panacea.
So Kiba Mikoto hurriedly joined his team, while Sister Yuko went to the other team.
On one hand, it was to probe what cooperation agreement Souichiro Takagi had reached with him, and on the other hand, she felt Souichiro Takagi's side lacked powerful combat strength - if "Syringe" people attacked, they would probably be difficult to resist.
Currently, Tokonosu City needed someone with Souichiro Takagi's courage to integrate the remaining forces. They couldn't let "Syringe" make this city even more chaotic, or let "Syringe's" financial backers successfully take control and turn this city further into "Syringe's" experimental ground.
Right, "Syringe" had a major financial backer in this city - the Shido family, second only to the Takagi family.
So Souichiro Takagi couldn't just die casually.
"So the Shido family is also one of the main culprits behind this man-made global disaster?"
Saya Takagi said in a low voice, pushing up her glasses.
No wonder just before departure, he had specifically instructed one thing: if they saw anyone from the Shido family, regardless of who, shoot to kill immediately.
Glancing at Rei Miyamoto, this person knowing the Shido family was so dark made her expression even more gloomy.
If Koichi Shido were in front of her now and she was asked to execute him, she probably wouldn't have much psychological burden stabbing him to death directly.
Looking again at this member of "Black Label" - also an illegal organization hostile to "Syringe" - Kiba Mikoto, she was unexpectedly also a high school student.
Of course, what made Saya Takagi unable to resist looking several more times was that this person looked too much like Rei Miyamoto.
This similarity couldn't be called identical like twins - this kind of similarity should be described as... how to put it?
That fat otaku had described it as being like cosplay.
The biggest difference was hair and eye color.
Rei Miyamoto had orange-yellow hair and brown eyes, while this Kiba Mikoto had silver hair and blue eyes.
Both used weapons that were spears, just one was a cold weapon long spear, the other was a revolver.
"When you left school, you should have directly shot and killed that Shido guy."
When leaving by mini bus, they had seen this person had also survived and was running toward the parking lot. Saya Takagi felt that with his abilities, killing this person wouldn't have affected everyone's departure.
As for why he didn't kill him, Saya now could understand.
On one hand, he urgently needed to manufacture panacea and needed obedient people. If he had started randomly killing people, especially Koichi Shido who was very good at disguising himself and was indeed a good teacher in most students' eyes at school.
If he had shot him without a word, probably no one would dare get on the mini bus.
As for him having suddenly killed a student on the spot before?
At that time, Saya Takagi had also thought he was just such a cold person and was almost scared weak in the knees.
But after calming down afterward, she noticed the killed student had problems - he should have been bitten by a corpse. It just hadn't manifested yet, and he was harboring false hope trying to sneak onto the vehicle.
"Ah, I'm not complaining, I just, well, this..."
Seeing him frown slightly, Saya Takagi inexplicably panicked and explained. Obviously knowing the reason he didn't kill, wanting to say it out. But for a moment all the words seemed stuck in her throat unable to come out, somewhat incoherent.
"I know you're not complaining, so you don't need to panic like this. It actually makes me somewhat uncomfortable with your character setting."
Ejie shrugged and said.
He really hadn't expected the Shido family to be "Syringe's" partner and one of their financial backers. In that case, they couldn't possibly enter the Takagi house.
Then he also looked again at the person in front of him who was the female protagonist from the work "Triage X" - Kiba Mikoto. He hadn't expected the real her to look so much like Rei Miyamoto.
Of course, this female protagonist was much stronger than Rei Miyamoto. Not just in ability, but also in personality and willpower.
Both being high school students, Kiba Mikoto had already begun fighting for justice, executing dark people who escaped legal punishment.
"What about your partner, San-something Arashi?"
"San-something Arashi?"
Kiba Mikoto was somewhat confused - who was she talking about?
Suddenly, a name floated up in her mind.
"You mean Mikami Arashi, right? How could he be my partner? If the corpse outbreak hadn't happened, that day would have been his assessment to determine if he was qualified to join Black Label. How could he possibly form a partnership with me? Though now he should probably count as a reserve member of Black Label."
"Reserve member?"
Ejie raised an eyebrow slightly - this was somewhat different from the plot he understood.
In the plot, the protagonist had been teamed with her for some time, and later their city was first to experience riots similar to the corpse disease.
But this was similar, because it wasn't completely like corpses - living dead. In the plot he saw, it was mainly violent, like rabies.
Now it seemed if the two works existed in the same worldview, the real world's situation differed considerably from the manga, and he couldn't take all the manga plot as truth.
"Is there something wrong with Mikami Arashi?"
Kiba Mikoto couldn't help but become nervous. This man seemed to know many secrets. Could Mikami Arashi be someone "Syringe" wanted to plant in "Black Label"?
"No, he should be fine. As for cooperation regarding panacea, you can discuss details with the Takagi family later. I probably don't have time to go to your base."
"No time? Director Mochizuki has already dispatched a helicopter. Round trip would be at most ten-plus hours."
"Can you ensure you won't be attacked again by 'Syringe's' aerial military forces?"
"Uh, that's impossible to guarantee. Taking a car would be safer?"
"Didn't I say I don't have time? Besides— Hmm? Look at the sky."
Ejie, who was reminding her mid-sentence, also frowned.
The abnormality in the sky wasn't something he noticed first. Because he was talking with Kiba Mikoto and wasn't paying attention to the outside situation, much less the high altitude.
The one who noticed the abnormality was Saeko Busujima, who tugged at him and pointed it out.
"The sky?"
Mikoto pressed her face to the window, looking diagonally upward, pupils dilating. She saw something trailing flames and light streaking across the night sky.
"Is that a meteor?"
Shizuka, as the driver with a better view, also saw the sky's abnormality and said this confusedly.
"That's a missile."
Rei Miyamoto complained somewhat speechlessly.
"A missile? Could it be—"
Knowing it was also a missile, Saya initially didn't feel much crisis. Because no matter how it looked, it wouldn't fall on Tokonosu City. But immediately thinking of something, her face changed dramatically.
The worst-case scenario he had mentioned was probably about to happen - high-altitude nuclear explosion!
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