Rinko added as she smiled. “Now, I suppose you do understand why I accepted your invitation, Kikuoka-san?” “Ahh...I understand completely.” Kikuoka weakly shook his head as he rubbed his temples with his fingertips. Kuku, suddenly, Higa, who had been staring at them blankly, started laughing all of a sudden. “See, that’s—why I said, Kiku-san. That boy is the biggest security hole in this plan.” Four days ago, on the 1st of July, she had received mail in her private address with the sender being ‘Yuuki Asuna’. It contained something that was able to move Rinko, who had been roving between her house and the school campus like a nomad, greatly. Asuna wrote about the «Medicuboid» technology Rinko provided to the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare, and how the basic design of it was used to develop a monstrous machine called the Soul Translator, which the mysterious organization called RATH was operating. The main aim to develop this machine that could connect to human souls was most likely to create the world’s first bottom up Artificial Intelligence. The boy who was assisting in the experiment, the unconscious Kirigaya Kazuto, was abducted from the hospital, and the likely destination was probably the megafloat research ship Ocean Turtle that had just entered these waters. The suspected mastermind behind this was the civil servant who had deep relations with Kazuto