Snippet #1178008

AUGER stopped next to the door of the bounty office. They would be the best place to learn information about Gabriel Angel. He examined the entrance, and everything seemed normal. It was a little less hectic here at the moment, since most of the big bounties were already taken. Now, just to enter...

He felt the sudden sensation of two circuits in the right side of his head. Someone was patching through to his radio... Just as expected. He stood to the side. "Excuse me, is this AUGER?" a woman's voice chimed in his ear. "The one and only," he said. "I assume you are the Ayase's contact?" He asked to be sure; though this was a private channel, the risk of it being hacked was still present. He was fairly confident this was no impostor, though. The voice sounded too happy- and yet somewhat worried.

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Glancing at the guards in the postures of their icy demise, S-9 fell in behind the Wayfarers. He glanced at his first pistol. It was getting warm, but he knew it's limits. He could shoot as much as he wanted and it wouldn't lose power, as long as he maintained it's constant intake of photons- yet the constant threat of overheating remained. The second one was a newer model, and was still quite cool. However, it's power was not modified to automatically replenish itself. Once it was out, it was done- and he had already used 10% to get through this hallway. He grinned. It was little things like this that gave him a challenge... one he had not encountered in years.

"Let's go. The longer we take, the more time they have to set up a defense."