Whether there was any truth to the saying, Lane didn't know, but the following days suggested otherwise. Despite how nicely he celebrated the New Year's with Damien, after that, things had gotten insanely busy. Even for the Association's standards.
All because of the summit. On the fourth of January, delegations started arriving. Although the summit didn't officially start until the ninth, some people just decided to come early for some incomprehensible reason. Normally, Lane wouldn't have cared, but…
Some of those people were high-ranking officers of government organizations from influential countries and world-famous members of powerful Guilds. The Association couldn't assign any random members to welcome such important figures in their country, since that would have been insulting, thus Damien, as the only S-rank Esper in the Association other than Director Torres, had been assigned to take care of some of them.
