Chapter 36: Maze.
As panic began to get a hold of him, Dante did his best to consider the situation from different angles. It couldn’t possibly be that bad, could it? There had to be something that prevented it from turning into the disaster he was imagining.
One thing stood out in his mind after he considered most factors.
’Don’t tell me you erased her NIM signals as well...’
[... It would have exposed your location.]
Hearing that response, Dante wanted to bash his head against a wall. Turns out things were as bad as he had imagined.
"... We need to move."
Throwing his half-eaten sandwich into a trash bin, he grabbed Liliana’s hand and hurriedly walked away. The girl didn’t complain, having caught on to the urgency in his voice, and waited a few seconds before asking the obvious.
"Did something happen?"
"Yes," Dante answered. "You!"
The world had decided to give him one more reason for why he should have stayed away from her, as if that wasn’t exactly what he wanted to do all along.
"If I’m right, the people monitoring you must have sent someone to look for you by now." Shaking his head, he quickly corrected himself. "No, they must have mobilized an army or something. Pray that they’re still thinking it’s just a glitch."