The Degree
Suspicions

Ray knew that Arthur would insist on this but he did not expect it to fall like this.

‘Now I have to think about how to execute it without suspicion.’

Ray didn't expect there would be people he knew here, it would be hard to execute his plan. Even so it doesn't mean he will stop her, the plan will still go ahead.

“There is never any guarantee that your belief is true!” Leo immediately broke free and grabbed Arthur's collar.

“You know? Terumi is like a sister to me. If anyone hurts him, I won't hesitate to destroy him!”

There is no love between Leo and Terumi. They feel more like brother and sister, even Leo admitted it indirectly. This is because both have ties in the initial four tasks.

The tolerance between helping each other in the early stages of adapting to this place was so strong that both of them developed such feelings unknowingly.

In contrast to Ray and Terumi, the woman views Ray as the opposite sex. Although not sure, Ray himself wants to learn to love the opposite sex. Terumi is a special curriculum for her to learn that.

“I know. Let's think about the next step after we hear the situation,” Arthur steadied his determination, he realized that depending on Mona's answer, the situation would not change. “For now we'd better clear up all this mess.”

As Arthur said, this is not over. Even though the madmen who were burning humans had been subverted, the flames still raged wildly.

They are lucky to be out in the open like a park but only some have good luck. There were so many casualties from this incident.

“More than that I am surprised that Secret has not acted on this at all,” Eric said while looking at the chaos around him.

Not only the property provided by Secret and its various buildings, but humans also burned here. It's strange that Secret still hasn't moved on this.

“You're right too.” Arthur began to think about the possibility that was happening. His current premonition did not say anything which meant that this event was still very gray.

“Maybe that bastard designed this catastrophe.”

Ray's words surprised everyone who heard him. The originally wrathful Leo finally managed to hold back his emotions and join the discussion.

“What do you mean the closure of this place was done with a big demolition like Open World last time?” leo asked with a bit of surprise.

Ray nodded in agreement, “Ya. Secret is a strange organization whose original purpose is unknown to us. Between searching for data or trying to eliminate us slowly. His actions refer to this.”

The best way to cover up mistakes and suspicions is to lead people down another completely different path.

Eric furrowed his brows, he sensed that something was out of place.

“I didn't really know the situation back then, but wasn't Open World destroyed because someone activated nuclear?”

“Ya, but in fact Secret has prepared it. Even he made a Shelter to take shelter,” said Ray.

Arthur for some reason agrees with this assumption, “That's true. If Secret did not plan to destroy or want no death, from the beginning they do not need to do something like this.”

Ray was surprised that Arthur came to this conclusion. What a terrible person because it was on target.

From the beginning Ray had guessed Secret's purpose thanks to a question Ray had asked him in the past. Secret's own words lead right to Arthur's assumption.

“How about those Rebellion bastards? They take advantage of this opportunity well even using the full equipment,” said Leo.

Surely it is an anomaly because Virgo acts in a timely manner. Everyone will think it is so strange.

“I don't think it's strange considering he's a figure who makes something like ten people with dangerous degrees. As with any bonus task that everyone fails to get at Open World, there may be something like that that that Virgo has,”.

For now let's throw all this havoc. To make Secret the culprit, Secret the real sinner, Secret the killer. Everything was to blame on Secret slowly.

Even Ray himself was convinced that everyone here hated this strange organization. How not? If it wasn't for them doing unreasonable tasks, painful experiences wouldn't have happened.

“It ... reasonable.” Eric agrees on this possibility, “Secret does always give a terrible indication of elimination or something like that. Could it be that he intends to reduce the majority of the people here?”

“That's unacceptable,” said Arthur, as if he felt a pain in his head. “Well, we can get through this. For now let's think of Secret as the culprit and Virgo uses his information to attack.”

Arthur can't think of anything that's causing more headaches than this right now.

Arthur and the others begin to ask people to check around if anyone survives or is trapped.

On the other hand Ray just observed the surroundings silently, he found that from a distance there were people watching him. It seems that he deliberately made Ray aware of his existence and immediately smiled as Ray looked at him.

‘What does Indri do there?’ thought Ray while watching him silently.

Indri is not alone, there he is with Hiroshi and Guren who somehow look wet. A moment later, Indri said something. Ray could not hear him but he understood from the motion of his lips which stated:

“Do what you need to do. I'll help.”

Ray assumes that Indri knows he's up to something. But there are things that have plagued Ray all this time about Indri. The one thing that Ray had wanted to know since he first met her.

‘How do I know everything about me? Even he always knew every time I started to carry out my plan.’

It's been a long time since Ray was suspicious but he initially ignored her, but after Ben came and gave a helping hand. Ray has been suspicious ever since. But he did not reveal or show any indication whether he had a plan or not.

As Ray begins to get busy on his own thinking, Ray finds Ben blending in the crowd. Not only that, but Rani and Rina are also with him.

“What do they plan to do?” murmured Ray.

Ray was sure they would do something, and then Ray understood what Indri meant. Ray approached Erina casually so that he could do something later.

Ben started to pull something out and pulled it. Immediately he threw it at the place of Arthur and the others. Suddenly it makes them uproar and it explodes, emitting a thick billowing smoke.