Mori Ouwai stood in the office on the top floor, and the glass wall in front of him allowed him to take in everything below.
Even though the important things had been moved out before, the movements below still made people tremble with fear. Those who were in despair kept looking for the important things they had lost. The strong sense of emptiness prompted them to pick up guns and point them at their colleagues.
More and more people evacuated, leaving only a few people in the huge port mafia headquarters.
"Boss, it's time to go." Nakahara Chuuya stood behind Mori Ooga, "If we continue, those lunatics might find their way here."
"No, Chuuya-kun." Mori Ougai smiled, "I need to wait for someone here."
Nakahara Chuuya looked at Mori Ogai, "You are our leader. If something happens to you, the entire port mafia will fall apart."
"Of course I know that." Mori Ogai smiled, "But if you want to solve the problem, then I am the most critical link. If I leave at this time, then the problem will never be solved. Chuuya-kun, I order you to take the remaining people and evacuate the Port Mafia."
"But!"
"Chuuya-kun, follow my orders."
Nakahara Chuuya took a deep look at Mori Ogai, his blue eyes flashing with confusion and relief. He exhaled and answered reluctantly, "Yes."
Knowing that he couldn't persuade Mori Ogai to stop, Nakahara Chuuya didn't insist on being stubborn. As a subordinate, he believed that Mori Ogai must have made such a decision because he had some considerations and would definitely do it under the condition of his own safety. He turned around and left, evacuating from here with his last subordinates.
Long after Nakahara Chuuya left, Alice appeared from behind Mori Ogai. She lay obediently on Mori Ogai's back with her arms around Mori Ogai's neck.
"Rintaro, will we succeed?"
"Of course." Mori Ogai held Alice's hand with one hand, "It will be over soon, everyone will be back here, and Alice can eat her favorite cake."
Alice nodded hesitantly, "Okay, then I'll have the strawberry flavor."
"No problem!" Mori Ogai said with a smile, "Not just strawberry flavor, Alice can eat any other flavor."
"Rintaro, you seem very sure that you can succeed."
"Because Hinata-kun is a good kid." Mori Ogai said with a smile, "And good kids always believe in the kind words of others. Even if they are bullied, good kids will make sure everyone is safe first. Bullying such a good kid always makes me feel a little guilty."
Alice made a face in the air, "Rintaro, you are so mean."
"How can this be considered despicable?" Mori Ogai looked aggrieved, "This is clearly something that has to be done, whether for me or the port mafia."
At this moment, Sen Ouwai heard footsteps outside, click, click, very steady footsteps that walked all the way to the door of his office. Sen Ouwai looked at the door with a smile. With a creak, the office door was pushed open, and standing at the door was a familiar man.
Hyuga Hajime.
"Hello again, Hinata-kun." Mori Ogai said hello with a smile while sitting behind his desk. Alice had disappeared long ago. "I didn't expect to see you so soon. I was thinking that you might not come back until tomorrow morning."
Kamuzuru Izuru looked at him expressionlessly, "The leader of the port mafia, Mori Ogai."
Sen Ou frowned slightly.
Something is not right.
He had just met Hinata Hajime this afternoon, and the first impression of that gentle boy was still imprinted in his mind. Why did he feel so threatening now?
Wait? Red eyes?
In the afternoon, he remembered that Hinata-kun's eyes were a very gentle green color, right?
"I know why Hinata-kun came back here." Although he felt something was wrong, Mori Ougai did not delay any more. Moreover, there was no way to retreat now. This desperate frenzy depended on this moment. Ending it would be victory.
Kamiya Izuru looked at him, his red eyes were devoid of any emotion, with an expression that said "go ahead".
"Yes, you are right. Imai Ibuki is indeed a hired killer by me." Mori Ogai said with a smile: "You may want to ask me why the Port Mafia would hire a hired killer to kill a senior government official? Of course, this is a very simple question, and the answer is also very simple."
"Because he is squeezing the living space of the port mafia."
The top government officials in Yokohama are a very strange bunch. They seem to be targeting everyone they can, including the Port Mafia and the Armed Detective Agency. The two government officials who were killed went to great lengths to criticize the Port Mafia.
It is unknown how many members of the port mafia have died in their jurisdiction for no reason, and it is unknown how many lower-level officials who have resigned have been harassed by them.
After determining the pros and cons, Mori Ougai made this decision.
That is: even if it means taking risks, these two people must be eliminated.
Mori Ogai hired Imai Ibuki with very favorable conditions. The other party was attracted by his reward and successfully killed the two men. However, Mori Ogai did not expect that the organization Imai Ibuki belonged to did not allow the killing of government members. Once discovered, he would be punished for treason.
"This is probably the thing I regret most about this matter." Mori Ogai's voice was full of regret. "Imai-kun was hunted down, and the port mafia tried to protect him, but it was still a step too late. His family who were hiding were found and threatened Imai-kun, and then the desperate communication broke out."
Desperate communication, this is not a case of mass despair, nor is it a case of fratricide.
This is a case of revenge by the desperate.
Even if Mori Ougai locked up all the infected people, there would still be desperate calls coming in, calling every member of the port mafia, stealing the best things in everyone's hearts and dragging them into the abyss. Mori Ougai ordered the cancellation of the communication, but this thing appeared on the computer again.
It haunts the port mafia like a lingering ghost.
And the port mafia will never give up the Ministry of Information.
"Hinata-kun, do you think this is my fault?" Mori Ogai asked in return.
Kamizuru thought: What a boring person.
Everything will be told in a direction that is favorable to oneself, as if constantly saying: That person's despair is all his own fault.
Human egoism is the most boring thing.
Therefore, he does not like to be the dominant consciousness, nor does he like to come into contact with this world, because no matter which world it is, as long as humans exist, everything around him will become so boring, filled with human hearts that follow the same rules, dominating and being dominated.
Being dragged into despair or being pulled back towards hope.
Only Hinata would feel sad for the despair of those being dominated, and would actively save those who are about to fall into despair.
"Hinata-kun?"
Kamiya Izuru looked at him quietly. After a moment, he walked to the outside of Moriou and threw a mobile phone in front of him. The phone interface showed that it was on a call.
Shocked by Kamuzuru Izuru's completely unscrupulous behavior, Mori Ogai looked at him strangely, "Hinata-kun? What do you want to do?"
"Phone." Kamukura Izuru said expressionlessly, "I will kill Imai Ibuki. You should have something to say to him before he dies."
"I didn't..."
"You have." Kamiya Chuliu looked at Sen Ougai with cold eyes.
Mori Origai and Kamijou Izuru looked at each other, and after a moment Mori Origai nodded. He picked up the phone on the table and put it to his ear under Kamijou Izuru's gaze, but there was no sound from the other end of the phone, not even the sound of breathing, which made Mori Origai certain that Kamijou Izuru did not deliberately let him answer the desperate call.
But, is the person on the other side really Imai Ibuki?
Up to now, no one has been able to see Imai Ibuki. He is surrounded by despair. Everyone who enters is infected. Even if Mori Ogai wants to go, the people of the Port Mafia will not allow him to go.
If it was Hinata Hajime... maybe he would really be able to face Imai Ibuki.
"Imai-kun?" Mori Ogai asked tentatively.
There was no response from the other side, as if Sen Ou was not facing a person but just air.
"You don't want this to end, just give him hope." Kamukura Izuru said calmly, "Ibuki is not dead. The power of despair is keeping him alive. Even if he can't move, he can still sense the outside world and hear your voice."
"What do you mean?"
"It means that you need to work hard to restore hope to a family that has been betrayed by two parties and is in despair."
Mori Ogai's fingers tightened slightly, and then he smiled, "Hinata-kun, don't joke around."
"You know better than me whether I am kidding or not." Kamukura Izuru dragged a chair over and sat on it. "This is the opportunity I fought for you. If he can get hope from your words, then everything will be over. You should have done your homework in advance and understand that what I said is true."
Mori Ougai's expression darkened. Hinata Hajime was much more terrifying than he had imagined.
Of course, he had already written the wording. When he learned from Nakahara Chuuya that solving hopeless incidents required giving hope to the desperate, he had already written the script. He stayed here and waited for Hinata Hajime for this very reason.
Imai Ibuki's despair is for his dead family, so hope can certainly be approached in this direction.
"Imai-kun," Mori Ogai said, "I'm sorry this happened. Our relationship was supposed to be a simple employment relationship, but I also had a responsibility to protect your family. It's a pity that I didn't catch up in the end."
The other side was still very quiet, without any sound, not even the sound of wind, which made Sen Ouwai suspect that there was no one on the other side.
He looked at Kamijou Izuru, who was sitting quietly on a chair, looking at him calmly, with no sign of abnormality in his red eyes.
Or is he just too suspicious?
"But I have good news to tell you." Mori Ogai continued, "After the killer organization killed your relatives, the members I sent also arrived at that location, and then we discovered one thing, your sister is still alive, and now under our protection, she has woken up."
"Imai-kun, you still have relatives in this world."
With a click, the call was automatically hung up. Mori Ogai put the phone on the table. He and Kamijou Izuru looked at each other and fell into silence that lasted for ten seconds.
"What are you looking at, Hinata-kun?"
"No." Kamiya Izuru stood up, he walked away from Morio and came to the glass wall. It was already dark outside, but the lights had been turned on at the scheduled time. Under the lights, the mafia members who were infected by the desperate communications were still wandering around, their empty hearts still had nothing to fill.
Sen Ou walked over and looked at the person on the ground with a hint of doubt in his eyes.
The despair is not over yet?
Sure enough, just relying on a phone call is not enough to give a person hope, especially when that person is a killer.
It seems that Imai Ibuki's point of despair was not the death of his family, but his own defeat.
"Boring."
Just when Mori Ugai was lost in his own thoughts, Kamijou Izuru next to him suddenly spoke. Mori Ugai was slightly stunned. He turned to look at Kamijou Izuru. The young man standing next to him looked at the chaos on the ground expressionlessly, with no emotion in his red eyes.
He kept this expression and demeanor as he slowly turned his head and looked into Mori Ougai's eyes.
What? Bored?
"Soon this will be over."
"Hinata-kun?"
"The ending you want will come true soon, but it may not be as good as you imagined." said Kamukura Izuru.
Mori Ougai immediately realized something was wrong.
"Wasn't the call just now to Imai Ibuki?!"
Mori Ugai really wanted to solve this problem, and due to the influence of desperation for communication, he had avoided communication equipment for two months. When Kamijou Izuru handed the phone to him, he only checked the information on the call interface, but did not have the energy to investigate where the call was leading to.
Moreover, Hinata Hajime's image this afternoon was too good a boy, so he even let his guard down towards Hinata Hajime.
So that phone call wasn't directed to Imai Ibuki at all?
Hinata Hajime, deceived him?
"I also have the talent of deceiving people, although I often find such deceptions boring." Kamuzuru Izuru calmly continued to look downstairs, "Some tricksters like to deceive their peers, and they get very excited every time they trick one. Although I think all humans are the same, it doesn't mean that I won't do such a thing."
Mori Ouwai took two steps back and asked, "Who is that?"
"Military police, or government agencies." Kamukura Izuru said casually.
"Why did you do that?"
"No reason." Kamukura Izuru replied.
Everything is out of balance, everything in Mori Owl's plan is falling apart, and all of this stems from his lack of understanding of Hinata Hajime.
In other words, even the Armed Detective Agency, which has been with Hinata Hajime for such a long time, did not know the existence of Kamizuru Izuru, let alone that Kamizuru Izuru's attitude towards things is more extreme than imagined. It is useless to talk about kindness to Kamizuru Izuru.
"The Port Mafia has nothing to do with Imai-kun's death."
"You hired Imai Ibuki to assassinate high-ranking government officials."
"It was the killer organization that caused the death of Imai-kun's entire family in order to kill Imai-kun."
"So," Kamiya Izuru said without even taking a deep breath, "It's impossible for a killer who is trained as the top assassin in the organization to not know that his family will be in danger if he breaks the rules. When you agreed on the reward with Imai Ibuki, you must have promised him that you would protect his family."
Unfortunately, Imai Ibuki did not receive the protection of the port mafia.
Because for Morio, as long as Imai Ibuki died, no one else would know that it was the Port Mafia who hired people to assassinate high-ranking government officials.
Before Imai Ibuki took action, they signed a confidentiality agreement, so Imai Ibuki did not disclose the Port Mafia when he was being hunted. However, Imai Ibuki was not that stupid. He kept a copy of the agreement they signed and hid it on his body.
That's why Mori Ougai is trying so hard to suppress the outbreak of desperate incidents.
Because once the incident breaks out and once it is linked to Imai Ibuki, everyone will quickly associate it with the port mafia that also suffered a desperate incident.
Now that he can't hide it anymore, Mori Ogai is thinking about how to minimize the losses, use Hinata Hajime's kindness and gentleness to conceal his true intentions, completely hide the truth of the matter, and put his own suffering and the position of the Port Mafia in the forefront.
A perfect show of weakness.
This might be useful for Hinata Hajime, but it would not be able to shake Kamuzuru Izuru who has no emotions at all.
From the first moment he saw Mori Ogai, Kamijou Izuru saw a strong poison in his words that were mixed with honey. In those seemingly righteous and tragic words, the most despicable truth was hidden.
"...I've learned a lot." Mori Ogai looked at Kamukura Izuru with a complicated look, "I thought Hinata-kun was really a gentle and kind person, but in fact you are a jackal who is good at disguising yourself."
"No, Tron is indeed an ordinary guy whose only shining point is his kindness."
Mori Owl widened his eyes slightly.
āIām not Tron.ā
So that's how it is.
The person he met this afternoon was Hinata Hajime, but the person he met tonight was no longer Hinata Hajime, but someone else using Hinata Hajime's appearance. All the plans against Hinata Hajime were scrapped because of this outsider.
Failure is expected.
Under the gaze of Morioge, Kamijou Izuru calmly left his office. He walked quietly in the darkness, not caring at all about how much turmoil his previous actions would cause in the entire Yokohama.
The assassination of a high-ranking government official was exposed, and no matter how many remedial measures Mori Gugai took, they would be in endless trouble.
And then there is the killer organization.
Although the Japanese mafia is legal, it does not mean that killer organizations are legal in Japan. Killer organizations have always been the target of the military and police.
When the sun rises tomorrow, perhaps Yokohama will become a different world.
Back in Sangshan Town, there were no more killers in the grove blocking ordinary people from entering, and the people who had been knocked unconscious by Kamukura Izuru were also moved away. The place was empty, as if there had never been a killer organization stationed here.
Stepping up the stairs step by step, Kamizuru Izuru walked back to his previous position.
In the room where Imai Ibuki was, there were faint spots of light on the dust, illuminating the entire room. Kamukura Izuru pushed open the door, and he pulled a chair and sat next to the unconscious Imai Ibuki. His red eyes stared at Imai Ibuki, who seemed to be a corpse.
He said, "You should be satisfied."