The operators firmly but carefully pulled the young woman from the kitchen and placed her in the same room as the old lady. She put up a brief, instinctive struggle—but it was soft, more out of shock than resistance.
Perhaps she was simply too stunned to see Spirit Fox operators storming her home, reacting subconsciously before her mind could catch up.
Meanwhile, the rest of the team searched the apartment thoroughly, looking for anything that might lead them to their target.
"Ma'am, where is your son?" the team leader asked directly.
Thanks to Athena's prior intelligence gathering, each operator already understood the context and the layout of the location.
"I… I don't know. Why?" the older woman stammered. "Did he do something wrong? He's a good boy—I raised him myself."
"What's going on? What did my little brother do?" the young woman asked, clutching her mother's hand for comfort. "I'm his sister. We have the right to know why you're raiding our home!"
