A Mysterious Meeting

[Emet-Selch]

Kyouko's stare moved onto the newcomers. She felt a bit nervous, like when Sonzaishinai departed last time.

"Greetings, Ms. Berg. We haven't met yet, though I've already heard about your work."

She cleared her throat.

"It seems that you're a bit too cautious, huh? It's dangerous to meet with strangers these days, y'know. Especially on business affairs. Well, I should agree with your attitude, because I already died once and won't let that happen again for sure."


She gazed into nowhere.

"Let me introduce myself. My name's Kirigiri Kyouko, I'm ex-Administrator of UEC. The one who was in charge for all our work done. And all our, eh, evidence has gone with all our personnel that are presumably dead for three years now."

*Cough*

"We know that you've gathered some items in Omicron Delta. Exactly, it's equipment from some our lost ships. Blackboxes, datacores, tools and beacons. Beacons were activated when you've picked them up, so we were watching your attempts to break the encryption with such an interest. If you want to encrypt our datacores, you should've had a battleship-sized quantum decryptor.

However, I do have keys from all this equipment, and I would like to take it back. All I need is data from our last ship that was sucked into an anomaly in Omega-3.

My offer is a simple one. We get everything back, you get most of the encrypted data from there, excluding something you shouldn't see. I'm sure that you're not interested in interrupting Rheinland Federal supply lines."

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