A Leading Goal

POV: Ikeda Akihiko

'Wait, I have the key!'

Stupid me. The key was in me all along. I  didn't even recognize any weight lying in my pockets.

Damn Kenshin! He knows it all along, but he didn't say a word. He's confident that the two hours given to us is too much.

There's a timer in the device given by Seki. There's only an hour and forty minutes remaining. I'm not sure if this is accurate or if they're just spitting lies.

There's no way this counter is accurate until Saori wakes up. A person can't count that many seconds in sleep.

But I continue to follow the flow since they're serious. After knowing where the root key is, he gave me a grasp of the situation.

As per Kenshin's story, Saori ordered the people from the other towers, which are usually Seki's colleagues. She asks them to gather the remaining allies in the cave where Kenshin is first summoned.