The one who had kept in touch with Ritsuko Kusanagi was a group of mercenaries she knew, supernatural mercenaries she had met on the battlefield years ago.
There were actually quite a few of these mercenaries, some rogue supernaturalists who, for money or desire, threw themselves into this trade, doing things not restrained by the law to earn their rewards.
These rewards could be money, but more often they were things related to the supernatural.
This was the life and work chosen by the great majority of supernaturalists not content with being an ordinary citizen cooped up in the city, leading a law-abiding life.
Of course, such work, besides being unrestrained by law, was also unrestrained by morality.
These guys were real desperadoes, and they were not your ordinary mercenaries—those folks just liked to fight. But supernaturalists… if you know what pica is, then you probably have an idea of what these guys were like.
