After a brief exchange of empty messages, Mingzhi began to recount his experiences at Tokyo University.

Tooru Amuro was then completely Rei Furuya, because he was a year older than Akechi. When Akechi was a senior in college, he had already entered the police academy.

Two months after the start of the fall semester at university, near the end of the year, Mingzhi met by chance a student who was supposedly an auditor from another department.

In reality, he was Officer Furuya, a police academy freshman who had already been selected by the Public Security Bureau and sent to carry out a secret mission.

"A secret mission?" Yoruichi Toyama asked.

Mingzhi pushed up his glasses, and that look of weariness reappeared in his eyes.

"Arrest those they deem guilty."

Unlike the rise of right-wing forces in Japan later on.

Tokyo University, especially in the second half of the 20th century, was a major stronghold of munism.

One of the professors in the law school is a proponent of this idea.

It's just goodwill; it hasn't reached the point of faith or propaganda yet.

But he always likes to share his understanding of relevant works with students during large lectures.

For the Japanese police, this was enough to warrant an arrest.

However, it must be done honestly and with solid evidence.

Rei Furuya is an undercover agent who came to gather evidence.

To be fair, he hadn't graduated from police academy yet, so receiving this assignment was a kind of test.

There is no other way but to complete it diligently.

As luck would have it, he, as an "auditor," became close with Mingzhi and discovered that they had a lot in common.

"I should have known!" Mingzhi revealed a rare indignation when the matter was brought up. "How could a spy ever tell the truth!"

Yoruichi Toyama, however, was thinking that both of these people could be considered outstanding in their respective fields.

It's normal for them to appreciate each other.

However, out of consideration for the young master's feelings, no opinion was expressed.

What happened next was quite simple.

After collecting enough "pro-C" remarks from the professor in class, the police intervened and took the person away, allowing Furuya Rei to retire successfully.

Only the anxious and uneasy students were left behind.

Unlike others who were completely baffled by this, Akechi, as a top student who swept the entire law school, quickly guessed that it was related to that "auditor".

However, when he finally managed to find the other party to question him, he was mistaken for a hot-blooded young man from the campus by Rei Furuya, who had already graduated from university, and was given a condescending lecture.

"It's just verbal." Seeing Yoruichi Toyama's somewhat furtive look, Akechi added helplessly.

"Really?" Yoruichi Toyama didn't believe it. "They didn't do anything?"

"Do you think he can beat me in a fight?"

After careful consideration, Yoruichi Toyama concluded that without the Gundam, the elimination of the Mazda, or the Mazda's boost, Inspector Furuya was indeed unlikely to win by a landslide.

In terms of skill, we'd say it's a 50/50 split.

They are all slightly inferior to me.

Of course, neither of them should know this last sentence.

Having solved a mystery in her heart, Yoruichi Toyama was quite satisfied and leaned back on the sofa, laughing incessantly.

Mingzhi couldn't help but roll her eyes at him.

"I only told you these things because you asked me. I didn't say anything bad about him behind his back."

"Yes, yes!" Yoruichi Toyama replied rather perfunctorily. "Of course, Inspector Akechi is upright and honorable."

Mingzhi seemed to hesitate for a moment.

"If we're talking about Furuya... he's not a bad person, and he's quite capable..."

"Don't distance yourself from him because of any fear or anything..."

No, why are you talking like you're trying to reunite a quarreling young couple?

...Pah! Pah! Pah!

Yoruichi Toyama shuddered at her own chaotic thoughts, then shook her head.

"But as you can see, it's not that I'm distancing myself from him, it's that he doesn't want me to get close to him anymore."

"That's probably because he doesn't want to lose any more friends."

Yoruichi Toyama was taken aback by his wise words and stared at him with wide eyes.

"You may not know this, but Furuya had several classmates during his time at the police academy. They were very close, like best friends."

Police academy group, huh...

"I know," Yoruichi Toyama blurted out.

It's quite strange how Akechi knew about this.

"Really?" Mingzhi asked casually, but he wasn't too surprised. "It's clear that guy really considers you a friend, he even said these things."

That's a reasonable way to understand it...

Yoruichi Toyama recalled Amuro Tooru's somewhat excessive behavior when they returned from Tsukikage Island.

Friend... huh? ...

“I entered the police academy a year after Furuya, and my ears were filled with stories of those guys,” Akechi continued.

"However, Kenji Hagiwara and Jinpei Matsuda, who were both serving in the Security Department, died in the line of duty one after another. Wataru Date, who was originally in the First Investigation Division, also died in an accident a year ago. And the other one..."

"Look at Furuya's current state; he probably thinks he's destined to be a lone wolf."

When he said this, Mingzhi's smile was tinged with irony and sympathy.

Then, unexpectedly, he punched Yoruichi Toyama.

"Anyway, you better live to be a hundred and give him a good slap in the face, you hear me!"

Yoruichi Toyama pitifully covered her head with her hands.

"Hey, the police are beating people! I'm going to file a complaint!"

It wasn't that I was unhappy.

Having inexplicably transmigrated to this world, I'm actually able to make like-minded friends, for which I really have to thank that silly system.

but……

As she pondered this, Yoruichi Toyama became serious, feeling somewhat uneasy about the upcoming export issue.

“Mingzhi, suppose… just suppose, one day I’m no longer here, what will happen to you?”

Not only Amuro Tooru, but also Akechi now considers himself a very important friend, and that's absolutely true.

Because of this, the pain caused when the time comes to part is likely to be even greater.

Mingzhi tilted his head slightly and reached out to adjust his glasses.

A mischievous smile gradually appeared on his lips.

"I don't know about Furuya, but as for me, I'd probably put a picture of you on the table and offer incense to you every day."

"puff--"

The heavy mood that I had been carefully cultivating was suddenly shattered by those words.

Yoruichi Toyama angrily punched the sofa, then deliberately sat down in a more distant spot.

"It's over, it's over between us!" Then, waving his hand, he spouted nonsense, "Kotaro is still your flesh and blood, so he'll stay by your side... I'm going to disappear, to go far away, to a place where no one can find me..."

"Meow?... Huff huff..." The black cat, who was having a sweet dream while hugging a small dried fish, seemed to hear its own name, made a muffled meow, and then fell back into sleep.

Mingzhi laughed out loud, and after he gradually quieted down, he shook his head and said, "Yuanshan, do you think I've never lost a friend?"