D-Genesis: Volume 9 [Parts 1 to 5] by KONO Tsuranori

Author:KONO Tsuranori
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Light Novel, partial, fantasy, comedy, slice of life, military, science fiction, dungeons, Dungeons, Adult Protagonists, Status Screens, Modern Day Japan, Multiple POVs
Publisher: J-Novel Club (generated)

Suragawa, Ichigaya

Saiga and Sakai grabbed seats at a soba shop not far from the JDA. Saiga put in two orders, then turned to his employee.

“So?”

Sakai appeared to steel himself for a moment, staring at the wall ahead, before speaking up.

“Sir. This has to stay just between us. But I have a suspicion”—he paused for a moment, then spoke at a lower volume—“that one of the devices has been stolen.”

“Stolen?” Saiga asked. What proof did Sakai have? “Did the numbers not line up?”

“No,” Sakai responded. “The numbers line up. They do, but...”

“Then why do you think one was ‘stolen’? Where’s the evidence?”

In the month since the National Center Tests, with the JDA being swamped with preparations for developing the safe floor, it had kept its original batch of leased of D-Card verifiers on hand. The current collection would be paired with an incoming order for the upcoming secondary exams. As part of preparation, JDA staff had been testing the previously leased devices one by one, to ensure they still worked. One had turned up a dud—never displaying a positive result even when pointed at confirmed D-Card holders. Since not turning on its result light would just have been interpreted as the subject not holding a D-Card, no one had noticed during the tests.

“So I figured there might be something fixable and got Tokiwa Lab’s permission to open the seal. I compared its internal components to a working copy...and they were completely different!” Sakai exclaimed, growing paler.

In other words, someone had slipped in a fake, using the same external plastic food-pack casing and an identical sticker to seal up the sides.

A thought struck Saiga—D-Powers hadn’t had time to file for a patent. If the theft had occurred prior to the Center Tests and someone had filed for the patent first...

“Did you check patent office records?” Saiga asked.

“Just in case,” Sakai responded.

However, no patent had been filed. That stuck Saiga as equally strange. Neither the thief nor D-Powers had applied? Why?

“What did Tokiwa Lab tell you?” Saiga asked.

“‘No comment.’” After muttering about how this case just got weirder and weirder, Sakai added “But wait, there’s more...”

Sakai held his phone screen up to Saiga.

It displayed a chart of Goten Industrial’s stock prices.

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