ual display .

If they tried to go even further than that, most of the time, it normally ends up in a disaster . If they tried to mess with the ventilation, they might lock the suit and get themselves killed from suffocation . If they tried to mess with the force field armour, it might cause the force field armour to be projected inside and get themselves crushed inside the suit . There were many unfortunate stories like that going around . And of course, the guarantee for those augmented suits was annulled the moment they try to modify their augmented suits .

It was common-sense among the Hunters to not mess with their augmented suit or not to try to modify them if they did not want to get killed .

But of course, there were exceptions . There were cases where a modified augmented suit with upgraded output power and guaranteed safety appeared . They were usually made by people with high technical skills in order to show off their ability, or by a newly found corporation to show off its capability, or by some corporation in order to gain extra capital . Because of that, these kinds of augmented suits would appear in the black market from time to time .

If Akira’s augmented suit was really one of those modified augmented suits, it would not be strange for it to be stronger than the public catalogue spec . If that was the case, Shikarabe could easily understand that power . But even so, he still found something bothering him .

[...It’s rare to find a Hunter who has the connection to get that kind of equipment . But again, I really can’t say for sure . ]

Akira was actually using an augmented suit with a control device that was already fully under Alpha’s control . So looking from that point of view, it was not a mistake to say that he was using a modified augmented suit .

Shikarabe could guess that Akira was probably using a modified augmented suit, but that was as far as he could go and all the guesses that could come up from that fact made it more difficult to estimate Akira’s real ability .

It would be really troublesome if he got on Akira’s bad side, Shikarabe was really glad that he was able to peacefully resolve the problem about the reward for the bounty hunting request from last time . As Shikarabe thought so, he decided to be more careful around Akira, the boy that threw off his intuition .