Mick’s agents collected Location Seekers from the pre-Awakened, and Tomorrow began hiring them. I could tell there were twenty-nine remaining assassination quests, and the number of dots that indicated the pre-Awakened’s locations on the map window decreased day by day. All of the dots in North America had been removed, so the three men who were standing in front of the door weren’t people carrying out the orders of the System.

I returned to the call girl and pointed under the bed.

“There’s an intruder. If you don’t want to be involved, don’t come out from there,” I said.

“Stop messing with me.” She laughed mischievously because she found it ridiculous that an intruder would try to break into the royal suite of a top-class hotel in New York. If they actually broke in, they were considered bold guys. When I didn’t respond to her reply, the call girl’s eyes widened to the point where I could see my reflection in her dilated pupils. Then, she reached out towards the room phone on the table beside the bed. I immediately snatched...