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All of the stories in Punishing: Gray Raven, for your reading pleasure. Will contain all the stories that can be found in the archive in-game, together with all affection stories.
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...What?

A comprehensive data camouflage... How is that possible?!

We aren't sure. We can only guess that Huaxu is capable of such power.

That doesn't make sense. If Huaxu is capable of this degree of data camouflage, then 'she' could have just...

Asimov stops talking mid-sentence on the comms.

I warned you not to forget that possibility.

You were right. I'll get going.

We'll clarify later. Right now, you have a more urgent mission.

Since Huaxu took the initiative to appear before us, we obviously can't let this opportunity slip out of our grasp.

No matter where "she" goes, Huaxu will eventually find a way to complete the core objective... Or return to the mother terminal.

I see. In short, as long as we can find the location of that program, we can find hints on where to proceed from there.

A few days ago.

Alright, so...

Holding the cold coffee, Murray got up to leave the conference room before bumping into Celica, who opened the door.

...Miss Celica?

Did President Hassen forget to explain something?

...

Celica blankly handed Murray an ID card.

Commander Nikola asked me to give this to you. Otherwise, I wouldn't be talking to you.

As for your mission... I don't want to get involved.

With that, Celica turned and left the conference room.

...

Murray looked down to confirm the logo on the ID card and gave a wry smile.

"Ouroborus", "Scarab", "Cerberus", and "Caribou"... Which of the black ops teams would be the Commander's backup plan?

As for me... How much do you know about me?

Looks like... I have the upper hand with the information I know right now.

This will eat into some of my resources, but this risk... is worth taking.

Playing around with the ID card in his hand, Murray opened the door and left the conference room.

After he left, the only light that remained in the room was the quiet blinking from the bug in the holo-projector.