As expected, Joshua indeed hid something like fireworks or signal flares. Upon hearing the commotion and turning back, Leon caught a glimpse of the signal flare shot out by the middle-aged Joshua through the skylight of the Sky Clipper and couldn't help but let out a deep sigh.
It turned out that the notion of everything going smoothly was just an illusion.
*With the kind of terrible luck that leads to witnessing the descent of the Holy Spirit while shopping, or encountering an out-of-control anomaly when watching a play, there was no possibility of everything going smoothly. Stability was just an accident; misfortune was the norm.*
*Moreover, this kind of bad luck wasn't the Purification Bureau's kind, where "the higher the personal Contamination Value, the more likely to encounter anomalies." It was the simplest kind of misfortune, where nothing went smoothly, and little mishaps always happened...*
