Chapter 5 About Honglu

Seeing the black-haired youth obediently follow the woman with a strong presence back to her room.

Kenji Hagiwara watched his figure disappear behind the door and lit a candle for him.

Based on his experience with women, this man who supposedly knows Honglu will likely give her a severe scolding.

The young woman was clearly suppressing her emotions, which could be even more serious than an outburst.

May God bless him.

Kenji Hagiwara and Jinpei Matsuda returned to the first crime scene.

The long-haired, heterochromatic-eyed youth was limping and diligently sweeping the floor.

Like the other two, he was also ambushed by Lego.

The difference was that after stepping on the Lego, he fell towards the direction where the parts were gathered.

I can still get up and sweep the floor now, purely because of my good physical condition.

An ordinary person might have screamed like Tom on the spot.

Kenji Hagiwara stared at the long-haired young man currently staying in his apartment.

Recalling X's question earlier, after a moment's thought, I asked the young man:

"Honglu, do you still remember the features of your acquaintances?"

The long-haired youth looked at Kenji Hagiwara with some confusion.

"What happened?"

"The gentleman who lives next door just knocked on the door and asked me if Honglu was here."

Kenji Hagiwara thought for a moment and then added more details.

"Black hair, about 1.75 meters tall, with golden eyes."

Hearing this, Honglu was even more puzzled.

The only acquaintances he might have in this world are his colleagues, who are also criminals in the LCB.

However, he had been living in this world, which was completely different from the city, for half a year and had not seen a single colleague.

Unless... that person is Manager Dante.

But that doesn't make sense either. It can't be that Manager Dante found his own head, can it?

Even though half a year has passed, Honglu still remembers the scene he saw before he was stranded in another world.

That was their sixth Walpurgis Night, which they experienced together.

People have become accustomed to this warning sound, which appears in a certain periodic pattern and is accompanied by a green light.

I thought it would be no different from the previous five times, but Manager Ding was still there, babbling on and on, muttering strange things like "magical girl, here I come."

Every time the Night of Valpurgis begins.

Manager Dante would periodically become highly aroused and begin extracting a large number of personalities, which everyone assumed was because he had observed a new personality of some sinner.

Little did anyone expect what would happen after entering that green door at Lobotomy Corporation's central headquarters.

Manager Dante, as always, directed the sinners to fight the escaped anomalies, just as the second rapier pierced the weeping anomaly.

But a sharp sound like shattering glass came from behind Manager Ding.

This voice typically appears when Dante extracts the Mirror World personality from the Mephistopheles Engine.

And there can't be an engine here.

Something's happened!

This was the shared thought of the sinners. The six people, covered by the Mirror World personality, were fighting against the anomaly and could not be distracted.

The remaining people saw a floating mirror appear behind Dante.

Almost simultaneously, their hands reached out to grab the red figure.

Even though her fingertips had already caught Dante's coat, her fingertips could clearly feel the unique texture of the garment.

Unreachable.

That red figure seemed to be from another dimension.

They could only watch helplessly as the mirror behind their manager began to shatter little by little, starting from its center.

Dante, however, focused on directing the sinners and aliens in the front ranks to fight.

Unlike the anxious sinner, he heard no unusual sounds at all, as if the mirror had turned on a shield specifically for him.

Two pale hands emerged from the broken part of the mirror, like the ghost stories used to frighten children in this world.

Those two hands gripped Dante firmly, who knew nothing of this.

To be precise, they grabbed his clock-shaped head.

Using this as a starting point, they dragged Dante, who was suddenly attacked and instinctively struggling, into the broken mirror.

They could do nothing but hear the pitiful manager's whistle blaring.

When Ms. Ryoshu, who is impersonated by W Corporation, couldn't reach Dante, she tried to use her dimensional blade to break down the barrier between them, but to no avail.

As he completely disappeared from the mirror, the sound of the steam horn also faded into the distance.

Inside the Central Headquarters, Dante and the eerie mirror vanished without a trace.

Mr. Li Xiang's face was extremely gloomy.

Lady Faust even showed a hint of bewilderment and panic.

The white-haired woman's lips were slightly parted, clearly about to say something.

At that moment, the building beneath their feet began to shake violently, and the sound of shattering glass echoed from all directions.

The golden decorations of the central headquarters also began to peel off due to the vibrations caused by the spatial fluctuations.

A hail of debris rained down on them, the desperate knight in his escape state, and the magical girl who was helping the sinners to suppress the evildoers.

As more and more rubble and decorations fall, the space begins to distort.

Strange curves appeared everywhere in sight, and the light refracted into a variety of colors.

Finally, the sinners and the escaped anomalies were swallowed up by the distorted and expanding space.

After the chaotic colors completely overwhelmed her vision, Honglu also completely lost consciousness.

When he opened his eyes again, he found himself sitting in a small corner.

I don't know who put him in here, but whenever he makes a move, he presses himself against the wall in front of him.

After much struggle, he finally managed to free himself from that corner.

Clearly, this is not the central headquarters, and it may not even be Lobotomy Corporation.

He walked along the building's corridors, and during this time, he didn't see a single one of Lobotomy Corporation's distinctive, huge logo.

I walked around the corner once again.

Honglu looked puzzled; there was no one in the building.

However, the occasional signs of daily life indicate that someone has definitely been living here recently, or even long-term.

He went down one more floor and finally heard faint conversations coming from not far away.

Honglu walked in that direction.

The emergency response team surrounding the bomb heard footsteps and, assuming it was another team approaching, asked without turning around:

"We're almost done here too, why did you all come?"

The officer didn't hear a response and looked over in confusion, his heart skipping a beat.

Are there still residents who haven't been evacuated?!

Didn't you receive an evacuation notice?

Damn it, what were those people in charge of the evacuation doing?

He looked at Kenji Hagiwara, who was in the center, and wanted to tell him that he was sending this young man, who was still unaware of the situation, out of the building.

The newcomer who had only been with the company for a short time but had already shone brightly was on the phone with another rising star.

He was fiddling with the bomb whose countdown had stopped, preparing to disarm it.

The two seemed to be discussing where to go after get off work.

Suddenly, a countdown appeared on the extinguished bomb.

Kenji Hagiwara's expression changed drastically, and he immediately shouted to his colleagues:

"Run!"

He then set off to escape.

But at this point, the countdown is almost zero, and no one can escape.

The police officer who found Honglu even tried to drag this unfortunate soul who hadn't been evacuated away with him.

Honglu, relying on her intuition honed from countless brushes with death, picked up the bomb that was about to explode and threw it toward the outside glass window.

This building is a high-end apartment in a villa area, and the building materials are also the best.

The exterior of the building is made of double-layered hardened glass, which cannot be moved by human force.

Kenji Hagiwara stared at the unfamiliar young man, his mind going completely blank for a moment.

He didn't even know what he was thinking at that moment.

Is it guilt for involving the public?

Or is it regret that he couldn't keep his promise to Kojinpei?

Or something else.

He just stared blankly as Honglu threw the bomb.

The remaining members of the **processing team also looked at the bomb that had been thrown.

The bomb struck the two layers of hardened glass as easily as it passed through two layers of pretty glass candy wrappers.

The deafening sound of shattering glass mingled with the roar of bombs exploding in the air.

The shockwave caused blood to trickle from the ear canal of Kenji Hagiwara, who was closest to the explosion.

Fortunately, no one died in the line of duty.

"Hagi!...hagi!..."

Matsuda Jinpei's intermittent voice came from the phone that had been thrown on the ground. Honglu picked up the phone.

This thing is somewhat similar to Dante's terminal, but there are subtle differences.

He looked at the purple-eyed youth sitting on the ground, who was clearly experiencing tinnitus or temporary deafness, and replied:

"This gentleman doesn't seem to be doing well right now; he must have been shocked."

He looked him up and down, then continued:

His ear is bleeding.

Matsuda Jinpei, who was waiting below the apartment, watched the bomb explode almost the instant it was thrown through the glass.

Thinking of his childhood friend who was still inside, he almost lost his mind.

But Kenji Hagiwara was on the 20th floor, and there was nothing he could do.

All I could do was call out his name on my phone in vain, hoping for a response.

"...Oh no...the shock...blood..."

It was a broken, unfamiliar voice that answered him.

This voice doesn't belong to anyone in their virginity-breaking group.

His voice even carried a hint of nonchalance, as if he had just picked up a cell phone while strolling around.

Blood?

Matsuda could only hear this one word.

Today, Hagi complained about the heat from the bomb suit, and we were still joking around about it.

Matsuda stared blankly up at the large hole in the glass, a chill creeping into his heart as well.

The sound of the ambulance broke Matsuda's thoughts as medical staff rushed into the apartment building.

Matsuda wanted to go in too, but his colleague stopped him, telling him not to cause trouble.

Soon, a stretcher was carried out from inside, without being covered with a white sheet.

The other colleagues followed the doctors out.

A strange long-haired young man was mixed in with the crowd; he must be the unfamiliar voice that answered the phone. There was no hagi... which means?!

Matsuda rushed toward the stretcher in two strides. Hagiwara Kenji's eyes were closed, but he was still breathing!

A few drops of blood fell near his ears. There were no other obvious external injuries on his body; he seemed to have simply been knocked unconscious by the enormous impact.

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