# Chapter 33: Lockdown
The Association headquarters was chaos when they arrived.
Hunters rushing through corridors, security teams positioning at every entrance, medical personnel moving equipment, someone was shouting orders over the intercom about lockdown protocols.
Rin and Joy pushed through the crowd toward the main security desk where an official was checking IDs.
"Matsuda and Castellanos," Rin said, showing his Hunter card. "We were told to come in, Deputy Director Reva was—"
"Fourth floor, emergency command center," the official said, barely glancing at them. "Investigators are waiting, take the east elevator, west is restricted."
They took the elevator, the tension between them was thick.
"This is insane," Joy said quietly. "Volker just attacked a Deputy Director, in Association headquarters, how does someone even do that?"
