A Person With Inferior Ability Returns From Demon World

It's a busy day for Shima Kakitatate, the secretary of the head of the Japanese branch of the World Ability Agency.

Today, she spends her time in front of the computer assigned to her secretary, Shima, without stepping away from it. The time is almost 23:00.

I'm currently reviewing the many requests that came in, taking into account the urgency of the requests, selecting the right person for the job, monitoring the progress of the personnel at the destination, sharing information with other branches, and securing a meeting schedule for the branch managers to attend.

The project in Sapporo is going well. The one in Kitakyushu is running a little behind. I'm sorry to say that it may be a bit of a challenge for Rank F, but we need you to hang in there. There's still a lot of work to be done.

Shima looked over the reports of each of the abilities he was dispatched to. Looking at the clock for a moment, Shima took a breath and sipped on her warm coffee.

''Fu, that's it for today ... hmm?　An emergency home text at this hour?

Shima's eyes narrowed as she was about to close her computer when she saw an email that came in from the person with the ability to be dispatched to the home for use only in an emergency.

'This is... ah, it's from Mizuho. Oh well, I forgot about the time difference. But urgent.....

Shima clicked on the email to check the contents.

The case Mizuho and the others are dealing with is a so-called out-of-jurisdiction request in the small Asian nation of Miremar, which has asked for help from the Japanese branch when other branches couldn't help. To put it simply, it was a VIP escort.

It was a matter of dispatching Mizuho and Marion, who were high rank A's among the ability holders of the Japanese Branch, who would not normally be sent with a request of this magnitude.

The intention was to give these two newcomers, who were Rank A and would become the backbone of the Japan Branch in the future, some experience.

However, there was a discrepancy with the information that had come in, and it was a problematic case that revealed the existence of several enemies who seemed to be skilled in the art of dealing with the two high-ranking rank A's, even though they were newcomers.

Therefore, while two rank A's had been dispatched, the agency had dispatched a rank D Yuto, an able-bodied person who was good at melee combat, as Mizuho had requested.

The agency can't be ashamed to dispatch two rank A's.

Originally, I would have liked to send a higher-ranking Ranker, but I couldn't make it, and even though he was Rank D, I had no complaints about the data in close quarters combat, so I gave the arrow to Yuto.

''This is........an urgent investigation request. 　I've never heard of them. But those guys made Rank A's Mizuho-san and Marion-san suffer?

Shima looked over the email from Mizuho, who was somehow disturbed by the unfamiliar enemy abilities, and gave up on going home and got up. Shima moved to a room on the same floor where the data was stored in an institution that was completely cut off from the outside servers.

In front of the heavily secured room, Shima lightly emitted her psychic powers during the retinal and fingerprint recognition and the door to the room opened.

(It's been so long since I've been here...)

In the Japanese Branch, only the Branch Chief and Shima are allowed to enter this room, which contains a database of secret information on the World Organization of Persons with Abilities. By the way, only the authorized number of people are allowed to enter this room. If there are more people than that, all the data will be automatically shut down.

Shima sits in front of the monitor in the center of the room and accesses the database. It contains the information collected by the World Ability Agency until now. The information gathered from the time of the agency's predecessor, the Guild of Abilities, has been compiled into a database, which is stratified according to the level of importance of the information.

Shima is only allowed to view the information from the second from the top of the five levels of importance, which are divided into five levels, and he cannot see the highest level of information.

Shima typed in a word that she thought was the name of the enemy's ability based on the information from Mizuho and searched for it.

''Eh.........eh?　No way!　Top information deals!　Is the tissue the Sword of Surt?　Otherwise I can't view it with me?!

Shima's face hardened in surprise, forgetting the exhaustion of the enormous amount of work he had processed today.

'The details are on the agency's headquarters case!　Oh, my God!　If you have this information in your possession, you are to inform and instruct Rome Headquarters immediately!　What the hell is going on?　We can't, we can't stay like this!

Shima looked pale and got up to contact the headquarters of the World Ability Agency as instructed and contacted the branch head, Nissae Omine, as instructed.

Yuto was on the bed in the second floor of the Mattoo mansion, in the room he had been assigned, looking at the ceiling. Gaston, who had been there earlier, said, "I'll be back, mister," and left, but Yuto reminded Gaston not to do anything more dangerous, just in case.

Gaston, who had S-class abilities and was immortal, smiled bitterly and nodded as Yuto said, and disappeared from the room.

After leaving the room, Gaston crossed his arms and tilted his head.

'Totally, my husband is a worrier. I guess he forgets that I'm a vampire~. Well, well, it's not that I'm not happy, you know.

Gaston walked proudly down the corridor of the Mattoo mansion as he said this, greeting every servant he passed with a smile.

When he was left alone in the room, Yuto was lost in thought for a while.

(This enemy is........dangerous. Both its ability and its ideology........and its purpose. What should I tell Mizuho-san and Marion-san?　(But I can't tell you where the source is coming from.)

Yuto's mind wandered over the small area he could move.

(But if the objective of the enemy psychic was as Gaston had informed him, then his request regarding the protection of General Matou was almost complete. There's no point in attacking General Mattow over there anymore. Other than that, it's not something that we, as an agency, have to think about...)

Yuto turned over in bed, feeling unsure of what to do.

"I'm thirsty. Let's go get something to drink.

Yuto got up from the bed and walked out of the room and down the hallway to ask for a drink.