Chapter 14

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----- Same Day, Arthra Meeting Room -----

After the confrontation, everyone had an emergency meeting regarding the last encounter. The ones seated are Nanoha, Alicia, Chrono, Arf, Amy, one of the observation staff members named, Alex and a cat girl with short hair.

Lindy: Though Fate-san has her Linker Core damaged, her life is not in danger.

Nanoha: Just like what happened to me… The Book of Darkness managed to absorb some of it.

Alicia: Yeah… I'm glad that Nevada-kun has the desynch system in his attire. Without it, my sister could have had a lot more of her Linker Core taken. (And I'm surprised that Fate-chan got a slip of tongue and that Nanoha-chan is forced to tell them everything she knows about Nevada-kun up to this point.)

Chrono: And I'm glad it was when the Arthra was running. We were able to help her out much faster than in your case, Nanoha.

 We were able to help her out much faster than in your case, Nanoha

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Cat girl with short hair: Right. Oh yeah, we haven't met before have we, Alicia-chan?

Alicia: How did you know my name?

Lotte: From my father, Admiral Graham. I'm one of his familiars, Lotte Liese. I have to say, you really do look like the spitting image of Fate-chan.

Alicia: Well of course she does! She's my "younger" twin sister after all. (I don't think she knows about her real situation.)

Lotte: Ooooh! What a coincidence! I also happened to have a twin sister as well. She's the other familiar of my father and her name's Aria Liese. She looks a like I do but has a much longer hair.

Alicia: Ummm… okay. Thanks for letting me know.

Lindy: Are we done? Then let's continue.

Amy: Right. A while after the two of you departed, the security systems at headquarters all went down from a hack. That was why I couldn't give commands or contact you. I'm sorry, it's my responsibility…

Lotte: It's not like that. Because you got the system back up quickly, Amy, you were able to contact the Arthra. And we were able to grab a clear footage of the masked man.

Two flat cylinder objects distanced themselves as to display the image of said masked man in the middle of grasping Fate's Linker Core.

Lindy: But it's strange. Their equipment is the same system used by the Administration Bureau. Is there anyone out there that can crack into it from the outside?

Amy: That's exactly it. Getting past all firewalls and alarms to take the system down so suddenly…

Alex: It's just unthinkable.

Amy: I'm shifting the units around right now, but I have to think of a stronger way to blocking them out.

Nanoha: Does that mean they have that good an engineer over there?

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