"At the moment... it's actually not settled yet."

Seeing that Leon took the initiative to reveal his origins, the young woman, unsure how to continue her praise, couldn't help but let out a long sigh and hurriedly replied:

"Lord Amendo found himself trapped and didn't manage to tell us much about the situation here. He only informed my grandfather that our current world is a retreat. If we cannot hold on, we can use the butterfly he left to come to the present world to contact your Cleanup Bureau for help, to see if we can migrate the entire clan over."

Sure enough, we've run into trouble...

After listening to the young woman's brief account from the Old Soil, Leon recalled the somewhat familiar monkey face of the former director, and his expression couldn't help but grow more serious.

Previously, when the Four Pillar Gods were plotting in the present world, they were countered by the mermaid beauty's use of time's 'punishment', suffering a major setback on the Origin Mud Plate of the Source God Platform, with one captured and two severely injured, greatly losing their strength.

And with Director Amendo's strength, he could usually hold off two of the Four Pillar Gods in a one-on-two battle. Plus, with the Aries Director, who commanded the [Abnormal Destruction] secret technique and ranked first among the twelve directors in combat strength, the paper strength comparison was significantly in their favor.

Theoretically, the remaining three Four Pillar Gods shouldn't be able to deal with them, but yet, Director Amendo and the Aries Director still got into trouble, even without time to explain the situation in the present world.

Considering Miss Fredri's initiative to approach him upon arriving in the present world, and her substantial trust in him and the Cleanup Bureau in her Heart Lake...

"The trouble Director Amendo encountered is greatly related to you Old Soil refugees, correct?"

Standing in front of the gate of Bridge Public School, with a newspaper tucked under his arm, Leon gazed at the young woman, brows slightly furrowed, and inquired:

"I need to understand the situation quickly, so if you don't mind, I'd like to speak more directly... Did Director Amendo and the Aries Director encounter danger to provide assistance to you?"

"Yes..."

Realizing that Leon had already been lenient with his words, the young woman nodded slightly bitterly and then, with a hint of guilt in her eyes, said:

"You might as well be more straightforward. The reason Lord Amendo met with danger was mainly because of us. If it weren't for helping us, he and Lord Aries could have withdrawn safely."

As expected.

After listening to the young woman's words, a look of realization flashed in Leon's eyes.

If there were no 'worries' from either side, Director Amendo and the Aries Director should have the upper hand. But once they found the Old Soil refugees, they had someone they had to protect, thus gaining an Achilles' heel.

And he had experienced firsthand how Omnia Cicada loved to exploit such weaknesses. Considering Omnia Cicada's overreaching ways, there's almost a thousand percent chance of them targeting the Old Soil refugees to drag Director Amendo and the others into this, or maybe Director Amendo did it on purpose.

Recalling Director Amendo's proposal at the board meeting, Leon hesitated slightly, feeling that Director Amendo's 'endangerment' might be a deliberate risk on his part.

From what the other directors mentioned, this former director's usual way of doing things might include not giving up on the migration plan completely, intending to win the Old Soil refugees' favor with this method, prompting them to feel threatened and proactively contact the present world to seek migration.

"I see."

Naturally, without revealing his hypothesis, Leon's gaze flickered slightly before he continued to inquire:

"Miss Fredri, this matter could potentially concern the future of our entire tribes on both sides, so how about I first take you to the Cleanup Bureau headquarters, and then once the other directors arrive, we'll discuss a solution together?"

"Ah! Okay!"

Hearing Leon's words, the young woman nodded repeatedly and then hesitated slightly. She then gently placed her fingertip against her temple and took out a colorful butterfly fluttering its wings slowly.

"What is this?"

"This is the butterfly Lord Amendo left for my grandfather. I used it to travel all the way to the present world." 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

Extending two slender fingers, she carefully pinched the butterfly's wings and handed it over to Leon, reluctantly saying:

"Lord Amendo said it was an abnormal object numbered 011, something he took from your Cleanup Bureau's secret vault. Since I've arrived in the present world, it should now return to its rightful owner."

Return to its rightful owner... You're using idioms correctly?

Instinctively retorting inwardly, Leon extended his hand to accept it, watching as the butterfly fluttered its wings peculiarly even when pinched between the young woman's fingers. As his fingers touched the butterfly's wings, a familiar piercing noise echoed in his ears immediately.

"Buzz..."

[Name: Dream Butterfly (Dream, Space)]

[Appearance: A colorful butterfly approximately 5cm long, with closed-eye-like patterns on its sub-wings. Each time the butterfly flaps its wings, the eye pattern on the sub-wings opens slightly.]

[Ability: Lucid Dream, Dream Dance]

[Cost: Due to the unique nature of lucid dreams, the longer the user possesses this abnormal object, the more the boundaries between reality and dreams blur. Long-term possession and frequent intensive use may lead to complete transformation into a dream creature under contamination. It is advised that at least two people alternate possession.]

[Archive: The sixth-generation Cancer Director of the Cleanup Bureau, after defeating the Dream Dominator who attempted to kill her through dreams, brought back its remnants from the dream world and handed them over to the Sixth-generation Taurus Director, who forged them into an abnormal object capable of freely traversing dreams and reality.

However, when the Dream Dominator was resurrected in the deepest part of the dream world and completely escaped the present world and surrounding planes, the truth remaining on this abnormal object was stripped away, almost completely losing its effect.

It wasn't until the current Aries Director of the Cleanup Bureau found the Dream Dominator's body in the Dream Gorge of the Old Soil and killed it again that this precious abnormal object was fully restored. It was withdrawn from the secret vault by the current bureau director, used as an escape card for critical moments...]

[Evaluation: This function-type abnormal object is extremely special, though it lacks any offensive capabilities. Each time the eye pattern on the butterfly's wings completely opens, the Dream Butterfly will scatter a large amount of scale powder, allowing the holder to randomly jump across all dream planes.

And because the dream world doesn't have actual distances, this abnormal object can even leap across vast distances instantly, traversing the cosmic void directly from Old Soil to the present world... Of course, this requires your luck to be good enough.]

[Contamination Value: 69]