“Understood…… Let’s get moving, we don’t have much time.
Remember, strike at the same time.”
“Got it.”
The two hunters split off to the left and right.
Beneath the hat pulled low and the scarf, a gray cloth covered in a
pattern of black bats obscured the face. Features completely hidden
from view, the figure in the long coat walked while keeping an eye on
the alley exit. A smirk tugged at the corners of the mouth covered in
cloth.
(Pursuers from the military. They have sorely underestimated me if
they think two Stardust members will be a match for me. )
(That’s based on who you were before.)
Receiving the cognitive signal from his vanished companion, the
creature who was once Charles Sullivan turned its derisive smirk into
a wry one. Ever since turning into this form, there was no way for him
to hide anything from his compatriots. There was no sense of privacy
at all. However, the current Charles Sullivan wasn’t displeased at this
turnout. For them, this was only a natural course of events and did not
constitute a source of irritation.
Once he put all his concentration into the depths between his brows,
he could also detect what his comrade was thinking about. Through
the new sensory organ located between the right and left hemispheres
of the brain, they could easily reach consensus. He was the entity
known as Charles Sullivan, but at the same time he was also a part of
“them”.
(I see. Given their knowledge of my rank as a Satellite-Class, we can
also predict their movements. I won’t need the backup.)
In response to the Sullivan’s cognitive signal, this time the sound of
bees flapping their wings came back.
(Just in case, I’ll still make a few preparations.)
This formulated response came from his other comrade in the vicinity.
Contact between the two sides came in the next instant.
“Deserter, Demus Second. Put your hands in the air and keep them
where I can see them.”
A young woman’s voice cried out in front of Sullivan. At the same
time, a silent wave of noise impacted him like cutting through glass.
The real identity of this noise was the psion wave coming from Cast
Jammer, a device developed by the USNA Army’s R&D Department
to inhibit weaponry and equipment worn by Magicians. The inhibitory
waves from the Cast Jammer were unlike the background noise that
indiscriminately affected all magic like the ones seen in Cast Jamming
when using Antinite. The Cast Jammer specifically targets CAD
functions. By intentionally using multiple CADs to generate
additional psion waves, this directly interfered with the Activation
Sequence’s processing. Generally, this type of interference could only
occur when one individual’s psion waves were interfering with one
another, but through the analysis of their opponent’s psion wave
signatures, the USNA had successfully neutralized CADs (to a limited
degree).