The impatient man in the corner, Cornelius, finally stopped bouncing his leg long enough to look around at the others. Even through the dark hood shadowing his face, the agitation rolling off him was obvious.
The other cloaked man gave a low hum.
"It's possible. We knew one of them was troublesome from the initial report — the boy. He survived the attack of two E rank beasts, according to our source. Something tells me that there's more to that story, though." He folded his arms beneath his heavy cloak and leaned back in his chair.
"Still, thirty Awakened and with a good amount of Elites within should have been more than enough to deal with the two targets."
"The should have," the mature woman agreed. "Yet here we are."
He shut up quickly.
The table returned to silence after that, all four of them still sitting there waiting for news to arrive.
