"I'm sorry to bother you just now." Mori Ouwai walked over with Alice in his arms. He yawned, and his eyes were full of bloodshot.

Hinata Hajime looked at him, "Are you a member of the port mafia?"

"That's true, but it's not that important." Mori Ogai scratched his hair, "Did you see my clothes? I'm a doctor in the medical department of the Port Mafia. I've been really busy lately. I haven't slept for several days. It seems that I've never been so tired except for the Dragon War."

Doctor?

This time the desperate event has become contagious and more like a plague, so doctors should understand the situation better.

"Come to think of it, young man. You are not a member of the Port Mafia, right? You don't look like a family member either." Mori Ogai looked Hinata Hajime up and down. "All the people related to the Port Mafia have already evacuated here, leaving only people like me. Are you a doctor who was recruited?"

After three seconds of silence, Hinata Hajime nodded seriously, "Yes, I am."

[The lie was told in a very awkward way.]

【… long-winded.】

However, the other party did not seem to care about Hinata Hajime's stiff lying posture. When he heard that he was an outside doctor, he smiled and said, "So, there really is an outside doctor coming here."

"What happened here?" Hinata Hajime asked.

Mori Ogai led Hinata Hajime forward, and when they reached a square, he pointed at a dilapidated building and said, "Do you see this?"

"Here?"

Hinata Hajime looked at the dilapidated building. The floors were very dilapidated, and the remaining windows were charred. However, this dilapidation was not a natural result of time, but rather the result of external destruction. The holes in the building looked more like they were blown up bit by bit by bombs, with smoke and broken walls forming the result.

If there were someone inside... the consequences would be disastrous.

"This is how it all started." Sen Ou was holding Alice in his arms, his raised lips could no longer be maintained, his eyes were full of cruelty, "Three months ago, a member of the Port Mafia placed a bomb in the residential building and detonated it in the dead of night. Fortunately, most of the people in the building were on missions, so there were not many casualties."

Then Mori Ouwai continued walking forward, pointing to the flowerbed in front, "Next is here."

"A member of the port mafia went crazy and hacked people, then committed suicide. When we examined his body, we found the word 'despair' carved into his eyes."

"And here." Mori Ogai stopped and said, "This used to be the base of the Black Lizards, the armed forces of the Port Mafia. However, since someone shot his companions with a wooden warehouse inside, it has never been activated again."

Hinata Hajime tried his best to extract the key points from Mori Ou's words, that is, the desperate incident of the port mafia has been developing for at least three months.

"It's an unknown virus." Mori Ogai and Hinata Hajime looked at each other. His eyes were serious, but his tone was full of helplessness. "I have never seen a disease spread through communication, and I have never seen a virus that can steal the most important things in a person's heart, but these still happened in front of me, and I can only accept it."

“This is a disaster.”

Hinata Hajime opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but finally closed it.

As an outsider, not taking any action is the only way to show respect to those who have experienced it.

"Are you confused about the Port Mafia's concealment of the matter?" Sen Ouwai forced a smile. "You may even think that it is inhumane for the Port Mafia to kill the infected?"

"No, I didn't." Hinata shook his head.

"It's okay to think that way." Mori Ou sighed, "Because there is no other way."

"We gathered all the infected people together and locked them up. We tried everything to prevent the virus from spreading. But this is not an ordinary disease. It cannot be cured by taking medicine. In the end, we had no choice but to lock them up. In order to prevent those who escaped from spreading the virus, we had no choice but to do that."

Hinata Hajime looked at him, "Is this the only way?"

"Because although the Port Mafia is a mafia, it is also the umbrella of protection for the Yokohama underworld."

Mori Ogai put Alice down, holding her hand, and said in a slightly gentler tone, "We are the last line of defense of the dark world. We must not let such things into Yokohama. Unfortunately, we still failed to hold it in the end."

“You’ve worked very hard.”

"Maybe all I can say is that I tried my best." Sen Ouwai took out a bottle of medicine from his white coat pocket and said, "Here you go."

Hinata Hajime looked at the bottle of medicine in a daze, "Huh?"

"It contains vitamins." Mori Ogai said, "Remember not to answer the phone in there. No one knows which call you receive is from an infected person. If you are infected, take two vitamins. Maybe it can give you some psychological comfort."

Hinata Hajime: ...

What a strange gift.

At this moment, Hinata Hajime's cell phone suddenly rang. He clearly saw that the man in front of him who looked like a doctor was startled, then picked up his daughter and ran away. Within a few seconds, the whole person disappeared, leaving Hinata Hajime standing on the empty street.

"Okay... Anyway, we already know what we need to know." Hinata Hajime twitched his lips, "It's a good time to leave now."

After confirming that the person calling was Dazai Osamu, Hinata Hajime answered the phone and quickly left the area.

It was not until Hinata Hajime's figure disappeared that Mori Ougai walked out from behind a wall.

"He left." Sen Ou exhaled, "The call came just in time."

Alice lay on his back, "If it wasn't for that phone call, would Rintaro really have taken him to the medical department?"

"I just didn't expect him to really take advantage of the situation and say that he was an outside doctor." Morio sighed, "That boy doesn't look like he has any medical knowledge at all. If we really took him in, either he or I would be exposed. Fortunately, we both got rid of the embarrassing situation of looking at each other in bewilderment."

"Rintaro, when will this matter be resolved?"

"I don't know." Mori Ogai smiled and tapped Alice's nose. "But if this young man knows how to deal with this desperate incident, coupled with our data supply, I think it will soon return to normal here, and then we can eat Alice's favorite cake."

"That's great!" Alice exclaimed.

Looking at Alice cheering, Mori Ogai turned his gaze to the empty street outside. He whispered with a subtle smile in his eyes, "I hope everything will go well."

On the other side, Hinata Hajime left the influence of the Port Mafia and answered the phone while rushing to Dazai Osamu.

"Mr. Dazai?"

"Hinata-kun, where are you now?"

Hinata Hajime heard Dazai Osamu's heavy breathing and someone seemed to be running. He immediately realized that something might have happened and quickly looked at his position.

"I'm heading in your direction. I'll be there in a few minutes."

"Okay, I have something urgent to tell you now." Dazai Osamu exhaled heavily, "I found out that this incident should have come from the killer organization. The killer organization and the port mafia have a lot of connections, so the port mafia has been deeply affected, but the killer organization is also constantly infected."

Hinata Hajime stopped in his tracks. "A killer organization?"

"Do you know why the Killer Organization hasn't infected many people so far? Because the Killer Organization doesn't use communication tools, and they are hunting down every infected person." Dazai Osamu exhaled hard, "And now, these killers who hunt down the infected have received news that Tanizaki has been infected."

"Why?" Hinata Hajime asked in surprise, "Even if Despair Communications spreads, what does it have to do with them? Why do they have to kill all the infected people?"

"Because the killer organization is the most shameful thing." Dazai Osamu sneered, "The killer organization was born in the dark and lives in the mud. They have no humanity and no emotions. Once their deeds are exposed, they will cause a lot of trouble. So they have to kill all those who may lead to their exposure before being discovered by the military and police organizations in the open."

Realizing the seriousness of the matter, Hinata Hajime hung up the phone and ran forward.

We must meet up with Dazai Osamu immediately and return to the detective agency together. At the very least, we must transfer Tanizaki because his current condition is too dangerous.

But at this moment, Hinata Hajime suddenly heard his cell phone ringing.

Hinata Hajime stopped and took out his cell phone from his pocket. The next moment he saw the number displayed on the phone. This was the external phone number of the Armed Detective Agency.

"Detective Agency?" Hinata Hajime was surprised. "Does that mean the killer has passed away?"

Junichiro Tanizaki was knocked unconscious by an overdose of anesthetics given to him by Yosano Akiko. If the killer passed by at this time, Yosano Akiko and Tanizaki Naomi alone would not be able to protect the unconscious Junichiro Tanizaki.

Hinata Hajime quickly picked up the phone, but what came into Hinata Hajime's ears was not the voice of the familiar detective agency member, but the sound of electric current.

Someone was breathing into the microphone, and the hot breath seemed to pass through the microphone into Hinata Hajime's heart.

"Don't answer it!" Hinata Hajime heard Tanizaki Naomi screaming, "Dr. Yoseno, my brother is here!"

The next moment, Hinata Hajime heard Tanizaki Junichiro's voice, "Do you know where my sister is?"

With a click, the call was hung up, and the phone in Hinata Hajime's hand slipped to the ground with a crisp sound. He slowly knelt on the ground, covering his chest with his hands, and sweat broke out on his forehead. In the last moment before he lost consciousness, Hinata Hajime had never thought that even he could not escape this desperate event.

Hinata Hajime fell to the ground, his light blue eyes slowly closing.

Three seconds later, Hinata Hajime opened his eyes again, but this time the color of his eyes was no longer light green, but a pair of red pupils.

Kamiya Izuru sat up from the ground, he reached out to pick up the phone on the ground, his emotionless eyes staring at the phone.

【Where are you?】

Kamuzuru was calling out to someone in his heart.

【…Created.】

There was no sound, and no response from that person. It was like when Kamiya Izuru was just born, sitting in an empty laboratory, surrounded by cold walls, no sound, no smell, and only extremely bored experimenters.

They praised Kamuzuru Izuru as the hope of Hope's Peak Academy and were excited about his talent.

Of all the people present, only Kamijou Izuru, who was born for this purpose, did not feel the slightest bit of excitement, so he went to find Hinata Hajime, to find the self who had emotions and interests, who could be excited and smile.

He thought that after finding Hinata Hajime, he would never be lost again.

Desperate communication, everyone infected will lose the most important thing to them.

"Hinata...kun?" Behind him, Dazai Osamu stopped three meters away from him, with a hint of hesitation in his iris-colored eyes.

Kamijou Izuru stood up, his red eyes filled with indifference.