Chapter 28

"So, there's more than one Item 13 now. Is that what we're going with?" Kei asked when the group finished opening all the shipment crates and discovered that Megan's deduction was correct. All of the crates had containment boxes potential of being the one used to house Item 13.

But there couldn't be more than one Item 13, Megan thought to herself. From what she recalled of the story Dennis had told her, the ingenuity that created the weapon had died with Ernest Ruskin; and even if his supposed apprentice who created the updated version had shared it, it was unlikely that he had the time to pass it on to someone else who then went ahead to create more five years later.

Plus, if the group had the technology to create another Item 13, why then did they need go through all the trouble of stealing the original one