Chapter 68 Five-pointed Star 3
The phone received a reply.
Kurosaki Utsuki glanced down at the screen to confirm. It was Ishida Ryugen who had told her to keep an eye out for suspicious individuals approaching the Miyano couple. Miyano Akemi also had Ichimaru Gin helping to keep an eye on her, so she felt relieved. Then she heard the man's voice speaking.
"When Shiho came to the United States, I had just been assigned to an undercover organization. It was a very dangerous organization, so although I met her initially, I wasn't the "cousin" who took care of her in the United States."
As he spoke, he increased the speed of the car, trying to create distance between him and the car chasing him.
"About two years ago, my undercover identity was exposed and I was forced to flee the organization. Around the same time, her research institute received funding from that organization."
"There was no connection between the two, but she seemed to know about my previous work. She then took the initiative to contact me through her "cousin" who was taking care of her, saying that she had become one of them."
Kurosaki Utsuki gasped.
"You must be joking. She's not even eighteen!"
Even if that girl matures early, she shouldn't—
Shuichi Akai continued, "It only took her one year to get the organization's code name, become a cadre, and pass on a lot of information to us."
...Okay, if the girl has talent and is willing to do such a dangerous thing, then she is not completely unacceptable.
"Until recently, she discovered that the semi-finished product of the drug she was researching was secretly taken away by people in the organization and used as poison."
Akai Shuichi began by talking about the part that concerned her most.
"She returned to Japan at the beginning of this year. My colleague was in charge of picking her up. I received news last month that she wanted to escape from the organization, but her plan did not go smoothly."
He skipped the part about implementing the plan and jumped directly to the current situation.
"It seems that the backup plan is not going well. She was exposed before I arrived."
...Is it because of the phone call to her?
"It seems that to Shiho, I am more trustworthy than you." Kurosaki Utsuki sneered.
And Shuichi Akai did not deny this.
"She did say that you are not 'ordinary' and that you possess powers beyond human reach. In fact, I have witnessed this myself."
...Tsk.
After briefly gathering her thoughts, Kurosaki Utsuki spoke again: "So Shiho was taken away by them?" She asked coldly, "Is her life in danger?"
"Not yet," Akai Shuichi replied, "The fact that she works for the FBI probably hasn't been exposed, and the organization's top brass values her abilities very much."
That's good.
Up until now, Kurosaki Utsuki had basically believed what the man beside her said, but she was extremely confused about one thing -
"Why are you telling me this?"
She was clearly an ordinary person completely unrelated to this, so what was his intention in sharing this information, which should have been kept secret from ordinary people? Was it simply because she had just been targeted by someone from that organization, or was it because he wanted her to take on another part-time job...
"You're also their target," Akai Shuichi replied. He glanced at the rearview mirror, paused, and revised his words, "No, I should say, you are 'his' target."
Kurosaki Utsuki was stunned: "Him?"
When had she ever had a conflict with a living person? And she was a member of a criminal organization...
"Have you forgotten?" The man beside him chuckled, his expression full of meaning. "I heard he grew his hair long because of the bet he made with you."
"—If you lose, please give up this job and never cut your hair again, to commemorate this humiliating defeat."
It seems... that's the case.
The accomplice of the guys who kidnapped Miyano Shiho and her, a man with silver hair and green eyes, drove away and disappeared before Furuya Rei and the others arrived after she knocked him down.
Kurosaki Utsuki frowned: "Are you saying that the organization has been keeping an eye on me all these years?"
This shouldn't be possible, right? Although her perception of ordinary people's sight isn't as sharp as her perception of spiritual power, it's impossible for her to be watched for fourteen years without noticing. After all, she is a psychic.
"No, that was just his personal behavior. He hid it well even from the members of the organization." Akai Shuichi denied it and chuckled. "After all, it was an experience of defeat."
...That's true.
Kurosaki Utsuki didn't ask how he knew such "well-hidden" information. Undercover agents couldn't dig too deep, or they might hear something so catastrophic that they could be murdered. Although she wasn't afraid of danger, she didn't want to cause any unnecessary trouble.
However, the other party seemed to have completely failed to guess her thoughts. Seeing her expression of acceptance, he asked back, "Why did you believe me so easily?"
"It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not." Kurosaki Utsuki shrugged. "The guy behind me did shoot me. He was an enemy. As for you, you don't have the strength to stab me in the back."
Before he could finish his words, Shuichi Akai swerved the steering wheel to avoid the bullet heading towards the tire.
Kurosaki Utsuki reacted quickly and grabbed the seat belt. She looked back at the car chasing her and couldn't help clicking her tongue.
"Don't run away, let's fight back," she said. "Let's find a place where there are no surveillance cameras."
The person next to him didn't raise any objections, but just asked jokingly, "Can you handle them alone?"
"Who do you think you're talking to?"
Despite the cold response, Akai Shuichi remained unmoved, still staring at the car behind him in the side mirror. "There's a gun in the locker over there."
"It's a pity that I'm still living in the old days and don't know how to use firearms." Kurosaki Utsuki tilted her head, saying regret, but her tone didn't convey much regret. "This car can be converted, right? Open the roof."
Two minutes later, the car turned into a winding mountain road where there was no surveillance for a distance. Shuichi Akai pressed the switch to lower the roof, while Utsuki Kurosaki knelt on the seat and showed her face from behind the chair.
She finally got a chance to take a closer look at the car chasing them. It was a vintage car, clearly having undergone some internal hardware modifications to keep up. The driver was a broad-jawed man wearing sunglasses, and the silver-haired man in the passenger seat certainly looked familiar.
"I'm not going to pay for the car repairs."
With that, the orange-haired Shinigami agent took off her shoes and stood up from her seat, her hair and skirts fluttering in the spring breeze. Her only leverage point was the soft cushioned seat, yet she remained as steady as if glued to the spot, even as the car's steering wheel kept turning.
The silver-haired man not far away sneered and moved the muzzle of the gun towards her head. As a counterattack, he gave her a long-awaited chuunibaku experience—
"Well, next is my highlight—"
Imitating the transformation moves from the currently airing "Kamen Rider Geats", she snapped her fingers softly in her ears, dodged a bullet by turning her head, and then made the movement of drawing a bow and shooting an arrow out of thin air.
Akai Shuichi, who had been staring at the rearview mirror, raised an eyebrow in surprise. He couldn't see the arrow condensing in Kurosaki Utsuki's hand, but he felt that this so-called "old times" was completely different from what he had imagined. But then, as she released her arrow, the windshield of the car behind her suddenly shattered, telling him that this was more than just a simple chuunibaku or provocation.
From Kurosaki Utsuki's perspective, the spirit arrow she shot accurately shattered the front windshield, passed between the two people in the car, and then passed through the rear windshield and pierced the rear cover - her spiritual power was controlled just right, and this expensive-looking car was not destroyed on the spot.
Realizing that he was under unknown attack, the black vintage car immediately slowed down and kept a distance, and then the car behind it passed him and caught up.
Kurosaki Utsuki was still standing, with an excellent field of vision. She immediately saw the person driving the car, and then the corners of her mouth twitched slightly. When she saw the person in the passenger seat, the twitching of her mouth became even more intense.
“That guy—”
It's an acquaintance.
Noticing that the pursuers had changed, Akai Shuichi chuckled: "Huh." He said, "As expected, they are here too."
Kurosaki Utsuki looked down at him and said, "Have you dealt with these two before?"
It turned out to be Furuya Rei and Morofushi Kagemitsu.
The last time she saw these two people was three years ago. She helped the Metropolitan Police Department arrest an internationally wanted bomb maker. After working all night, she ran into them one after another in the police station when she was about to go home in the morning.
Although they did not clearly state their job titles at the time, she guessed that both of them were undercover somewhere, and she also helped them solve a small problem that might expose their identities...but she didn't expect it to be this organization that was targeting Miyano Shiho.
It’s a small world.
She saw the instrument case on the back seat through the gap between them, but it couldn't be a real instrument. If she guessed correctly, the person who shot her just now was one of them.
Then she would have to cooperate and block the bullets to prove that they did not let her go.
Just as she was thinking about it, Zhu Fujingguang in the car behind her raised his hand towards her.
"We worked together for a while." Akai Shuichi answered, and he laughed as if he remembered something happy. "When we first met them in the organization, we were both surprised."
That was indeed surprising. When she was discharged from the hospital, those three people squeezed into the back seat together.
The memories of the past became clearer in her mind, and Kurosaki Utsuki smiled.
Facing her two former friends, she naturally raised her hand and pointed at her head, a gesture, more like a provocation. The moment she lowered her hand, Zhu Fu Jingguang pulled the trigger with understanding, and the bullet fired accurately at her forehead.
But unlike the expectations of Morobushi Kagemitsu, who trusted her strength as a psychic and thought she could easily avoid the attack like she did just now, Kurosaki Utsuki stood still and allowed herself to be hit by the bullet on the forehead without her body shaking even a little.
Of course, it didn't matter whether he dodged it or not - the blood-static suit flowing through his body easily deflected the bullet, which grazed the top of the driver's head and went through the car window.
The driver, who was genuinely startled, couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Ms. Kurosaki, I don't have the superpower of deflecting bullets like you do."
"I'm sorry." Kurosaki Utsuki, who had been keeping an eye on the bullet's trajectory to ensure it didn't accidentally kill anyone in the car, apologized insincerely, "I'll catch the next bullet."
What you say is what you will be punished by.
Under the various gazes of the "pursuers" behind, Kurosaki Utsuki naturally caught an entire magazine of bullets from Morobushi Kagemitsu, and then threw it far into their car - by penetrating the front windshield.
The road ahead was about to enter a monitored section. After showing off her skills a little, Kurosaki Utsuki quickly sat back in her seat, fastened her seat belt obediently, and then answered the phone in her pocket that had been vibrating a few times.
The person opposite her was Hattori Heiji, who had been waiting for her arrival.
But in the current situation, she had no interest in investigating the murder case. So after a brief greeting, she stared at Rei Furuya's car, which gradually retreated in the rearview mirror, as if giving up, while informing the person on the other end of the line that she had an urgent matter and would not be able to go to the police station until tomorrow, and that if they encountered any situation too dangerous for a high school student, she must ask her to come along.
When he hung up the phone, Shuichi Akai had already turned the car around, and the one being chased became the hunter.
Cherry blossoms lining the mountain path fell onto her hair. Kurosaki Utaki casually picked up some petals and placed them in her palm, debating whether to rescue Miyano Shiho first and then consider helping the FBI catch the bad guys. Then she heard the man next to her ask, "So, who is this person next to me?"
Kurosaki Utsuki smiled again.
"Guess?" She tilted her head. "For example, a passing Kamen Rider or something?"
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