°°° The date before death °°°

• Somewhere under Mexico

"I never thought these tunnels would end," Cardinal Es chuckled as they exited the tunnel, which had shrunk so much that only one person could walk comfortably in it.

They had arrived at a sort of underground bunker, just as the higher-ups had told them they would find.

"Heh, Madera would be so pissed if she realized she took the wrong tunnel," he laughed as he walked towards the bunker's door.

Five meters away from the door, he suddenly collides with an invisible wall and is pushed back a few feet.

"Anything less, and I'd have been disappointed," Cardinal Es chuckled, taking a stance.

“I really don't think you should be attacking a reflection force field,” Red called out, but Cardinal Es either didn’t hear in time or he didn’t care altogether, as he threw a punch at the force field.

THOOM!!!

An explosive shockwave cut through the air in the wake of his punch, and as expected, the force field absorbed and redirected the fo