21st Century Necromancer

For now, let's set aside the action group that's in a flutter because they couldn't catch that Magician; Minami, who was magically transported to Akihabara, is currently trying to find a way to hurry back to Shibuya.

Being suddenly transported from Shibuya to Akihabara was baffling for Minami, and she was completely flustered.

Everything had just gone dark for a moment, so how did she end up from Shibuya in Akihabara?

However, Minami quickly calmed down; after all, she was someone who had died once before, and this situation was not enough to make her panic.

After making a call to Kohinata Kaori to report that she was safe, she began searching for the nearest subway station, preparing to take the subway back to Shibuya.

Once she was calm, Minami couldn't help feeling that what she had just experienced was somewhat eerie. Why could a Magician who was doing tricks with a machine head teleport her from Shibuya to Akihabara?

This wasn't something an ordinary Magician could achieve. That Magician must be no simple individual.

With these thoughts in mind, Minami remembered the events she had gone through when she "came back to life" and suspected that the Magician might also be a Transcendent being.

This guess inevitably made Minami feel uneasy; she still remembered the warning from Yu Chen and Hiromi Jounouchi when they visited her shop—that there was a Red String of Fate between her and Naoki Inomata, but a living person cannot be in love with the dead, a phrase she remembered clearly.

After thinking it over, Minami, while heading to the subway station, took out her phone and made a call to Hiromi Jounouchi.

Compared to Yu Chen, Minami felt it was better to call Hiromi Jounouchi.

Although Yu Chen was clearly more capable, Minami found it easier to trust and feel close to Hiromi Jounouchi, a fellow woman.

The phone was quickly connected, and Minami immediately told Hiromi Jounouchi about her encounter.

"Minami, you're saying you encountered a Magician who could instantly transport you from Shibuya to Akihabara?" Hiromi Jounouchi also felt the matter was odd over the phone and asked Minami, "Where are you now, Minami?"

"I'm at Akihabara subway station, about to take the subway back to Shibuya... this should be Exit C." Minami looked up at the entrance sign of the subway station and added another sentence.

After thinking it over, Hiromi Jounouchi on the phone said, "Then Minami, you take the subway now, and call me again once you arrive in Shibuya. I'll send someone to pick you up. Be careful and stay safe yourself!"

"I know, I'll be careful." Minami, hearing that Hiromi Jounouchi would send someone to pick her up, felt much more at ease.

After hanging up the phone, Minami entered the subway station and, while waiting for the train, was relieved that she had brought her wallet with her; otherwise, she wouldn't even have been able to take the subway and would have had to stay put waiting for someone to pick her up.

Watching the subway arrive, Minami made a mental note to be cautious. Although she kept talking about returning from Akihabara to Shibuya, in reality, she got on the subway heading in the opposite direction. She planned to transfer to another line later before heading to Shibuya.

With this approach, even if someone was designing something, should it be possible to avoid some of it?

Minami was very anxious, not knowing whether her actions would be useful, but at least it was better than doing nothing at all.

However, Minami didn't know that, while she was calling Hiromi Jounouchi, her location had already been tracked by the surveillance team monitoring her call and they had notified the subway station police.

"I see the girl, she boarded the subway heading towards Yokohama." Watching Minami board the subway, the subway station police finally informed the action team of her position.

Upon receiving the message, Kusanagi Ritsuko widened her eyes and spread a Tokyo subway map on the table, staring intently at the routes and pondering carefully.

"She definitely isn't heading to Yokohama, that has to be a red herring," Kusanagi Ritsuko didn't believe that Minami was actually going to Yokohama, she must want to change trains, just as they had speculated before.

Another member of the action team beside her agreed with Kusanagi Ritsuko's analysis, nodding and saying, "She probably wants to change trains in that direction, but why doesn't she transfer at Yoyogi? Isn't Yokohama farther away?"

"To shake off any possible tails," Kusanagi Ritsuko easily deduced Minami's thoughts, pointing her finger at Akihabara on the map and saying, "Suddenly being taken from one place to another, in such a situation, if worried about encountering danger, taking a different route than usual is a way to avoid danger. But why head in the direction of Yokohama, from where will she transfer there?"

The Tokyo subway network is like a giant spider web, even referring to it as an underground city isn't an overstatement.

This massive network connects all areas of Tokyo, and while it is comprehensive, the points where one can switch from one line to another are not particularly many, and one must disembark at these transfer points if they wish to switch lines.

However, to analyze where Minami would transfer wasn't easy because the possible transfer points on the subway line she took were not singular, Kusanagi Ritsuko had to ascertain where Minami would actually transfer, rather than just wait for her to return to Shibuya.

"Tech group, can you locate her cell phone signal?" After some thought, Kusanagi Ritsuko gave up on classical reasoning and opted for modern technology.

"We can only perform a rough location at the moment; there might be some margin of error, but it will not exceed ten meters," the tech group member was operating the computer, tracking Minami's location.

Cell phone tracking is a feature available on everyone's phone nowadays, in this world, as long as your phone has a signal, your position can be tracked.

"Maintain surveillance and report any changes in her location to me immediately," Kusanagi Ritsuko ordered the tech group to continue monitoring and, feeling reassured that they could locate Minami, she then moved aside and continued to watch Kohinata Kaori through her binoculars.

Kohinata Kaori had already entered a coffee shop at this time, sitting and waiting for Minami.

Seeing that the situation wasn't likely to change any time soon, Kusanagi Ritsuko took out her phone from her pocket and sent out another message using code.

"The strawberry on the cake is gone, can you buy a new one for me?"

Seeing the successful send notification and the reply from the other side, Kusanagi Ritsuko felt certain in her heart, indeed making extra preparations was the right choice, now it was a matter of whether her preparations would outplay the unseen mastermind manipulating everything from behind the scenes.