Chapter 91
◎ Alliances◎
Chapter 91: Alliances
With Sayuri Matsumoto and another Agatsuma Sayuri as bridges, the two sides have another opportunity to get along. In contrast, Ethan Hondou and Bonnie, who are locked in a small room, show a completely uncooperative attitude.
Agatsuma Sayuri successfully completed basic training with the organization's clone and left the base. When she met Mizunashi Rena again, she had become codenamed "Kil."
However, Rena Mizunoshi seemed to have lost her memory of the time when she was drugged with Veritaserum, so it was impossible to verify whether Gin's speculation that "Rena Mizunoshi discovered a traitor in the organization and was counterattacked by the other party and fed Veritaserum during the capture, but she fought hard and bit off the other party's wrist and killed him" was correct.
Because of this thrilling experience, the fact that Rena Mizunashi's personality changed a lot after becoming Kir was well accepted by others.
Agatsuma Sayuri's organizational clone didn't dare to talk to Mizunoshi Rena, who had become Kir, anymore. She always felt that the other party was on the edge of danger, and as long as there was a breakthrough, all the suppressed energy in the body might burst out at once.
She is still under the organization's close surveillance, just like Rena Mizunashi some time ago. The organization has installed a locator and a bug on her, so she is temporarily unable to contact her main body and inform the organization of information.
However, the information from the main body has told her that the two CIA members are not very convinced by their account, and are also unwilling to contact the CIA's top management for official cooperation.
This is not surprising, as they are official in their own country and are no different from other illegal organizations in Japan.
Even if they are all official undercover agents, each country has its own stance and it is still difficult to cooperate.
In fact, even within Japan itself, there are different opinions on cooperation.
Sayuri Matsumoto's father was just a low-level manager in the Metropolitan Police Department. Even in the original work, he was only promoted to middle-level management in the later period and had no say in the cooperation.
Therefore, Agatsuma Sayuri still wants to know who exactly are in "that group of people" and to what extent they can advance multi-party cooperation.
Even if cooperation cannot be promoted, understanding one's own strength is the prerequisite for "knowing yourself and your enemy, and you will never be defeated in a hundred battles①".
The other party is very vigilant, and my wife's family will not release them before receiving their guarantee. Otherwise, if they re-enter the main plot, no one knows what impact it will have on the subsequent events.
The reason why they have never dared to openly resist fate is because they can feel that if the will that controls fate discovers their uniqueness, bad things will happen.
No matter how bad it is, no one wants to take the risk after having experienced a near-death experience.
How could they dare to allow people who were ignorant of the truth to run rampant and destroy the situation they had worked so hard to maintain?
Cooperation with the authorities hit a deadlock at the very first step.
At the same time, the Agatsuma family, represented by Asami Minoru, had friendly communication with "that group of people".
The man named Tino Cabana said, "If the person who first spoke to us had been Mr. Aso, perhaps we would have been able to cooperate with each other a long time ago."
Before Asami was born, the person who communicated with "that group of people" was Kenji Hagiwara.
It stands to reason that a former bomb disposal elite with a very high emotional intelligence would not be slandered behind his back for poor communication. It can only be that Mr. Cabana himself has a distorted outlook on life.
According to the original plot, we know that the person with this name is the leader of an Italian bandit gang, and such a criminal naturally cannot reach an agreement with the police.
Ma Sheng was actually avenging his father, and although there were reasons for it, there is no doubt that he is a criminal, or has criminal intentions.
Agatsuma Sayuri heard others' analysis afterwards. Judging from her third-party perspective, she felt that Hagiwara Kenji wouldn't show an overly black-and-white bias. Unlike Furuya Rei, he wasn't the overly serious type.
But the leader of the bandit gang may have a keen intuition and be able to tell who are in the same camp as him and who are "cops".
This may be the criminal's secret to survival, allowing him to become the leader of the gang.
Even after the two teams reconcile, the existing barriers will not disappear.
There were criminals among those recruited by my wife's family, but the majority were those who could have been spared. They clearly tended to sympathize with the weak and support justice.
However, "that group of people" accepted everyone who came, and because they had no scruples, they gathered a lot of ruthless people.
The first event of the cooperation between the two parties was to rescue Hiroki Sawada who was far away in the United States.
"Isn't that brat going to die next year? Why are you in such a hurry?" Tino Cabana seemed to still be wary of members of my wife's family.
He brought his three Italian brothers and smoked in the activity room, turning the huge room into a smoky "wonderland".
My wife Sayuri was also in the activity room. After all, Morofushi Kagemitsu also joined this action. It would be better if it could end early so that he could concentrate on the affairs of Matsuda Jinpei's organization.
After being engulfed by the smoke, she fanned her nose for a long time. Unable to bear the poisoning of the smoke, she ran to the monitoring room to watch the live broadcast.
Kenji Hagiwara was also among the negotiators, but the primary negotiator was Asano Minoru. Agatsuma Sayuri observed that the medical student spoke eloquently, softly, and with a gentle demeanor, yet remained steadfast in his commitment to his bottom line.
I watched as the people on the screen chatted and laughed as they forced the bandit leader back. With nowhere to retreat and about to launch a violent attack, the bandit leader was overwhelmed by the home-field advantage of my wife's family, and he wasn't able to gain even a single advantage over the "good guys."
Sayuri Matsumoto was also in the monitoring room. She said to my wife, Sayuri, "Not all of us are as extreme as this person."
Otherwise, Sayuri Matsumoto would not have stayed with this group of people.
Agatsuma Sayuri nodded. Just as there were people in Agatsuma's family who deserved to be killed // scum, there were naturally people in "that group" who didn't deserve to die.
In most cases, the difference is only which party is rescued first.
"If we want to intervene in American affairs, I think there are a few people who can help." Matsumoto Sayuri, perhaps wanting to prove her point, pulled out a few Broadway play tickets from her pocket. "Tickets for Seth Flockhart's performance. His fate hasn't arrived yet, but he's shown great interest in what we're talking about. He joined us early on and became a senior member."
"With regards to matters in the United States, perhaps he can help."
Sayuri Matsumoto handed over the ticket and added, "Even if he can't help, it's still good to enjoy his performance."
That's all my wife Sayuri has: six tickets to a Broadway show.
It’s not a good idea to go to a show with your boyfriend when everyone is busy and stressed out, but if you have a serious reason, then traveling across the ocean to see a show with your boyfriend becomes a serious matter.
My wife Sayuri hesitated for a moment, but finally accepted it without blushing or beating her heart.
What's wrong with decent people doing decent things?
As for who to give the other four tickets to, apart from the two that she and Zhu Fujingguang needed, she had no idea.
The conversation dragged on for a long time, the people at the front of the stage repeating the same thing over and over again in different ways, but my wife Sayuri had no patience to listen. She sat backward in her seat, her head resting on the back, sleepy and closing her eyes from time to time, and suddenly waking up just when her body was about to fall.
Looking at Sayuri Matsumoto next to her, she was still sitting upright in her seat, looking like a lady from a noble family, but from her lifeless eyes one could feel her boredom with this boring conversation.
"How about you go meet your friend first... um, 'other me'?"
This clone still used the name Agatsuma Sayuri among "that group of people", making the original body unable to think of how to call her for a while.
Sayuri Matsumoto immediately understood. Her eyes lit up and she looked at my wife Sayuri hopefully: "Is it okay?"
As she asked, she stood up and adjusted her skirt, trying to look her best to meet her friend.
"She should be able to go back after today. But it's okay anyway. Talking to you earlier should help her relieve her boredom."
Agatsuma Sayuri said this and led Matsumoto Sayuri to the room where her clone was imprisoned.
Because they were already in friendly talks with the other camp, the people guarding her were also relaxed. When they saw my wife Sayuri bringing people in, they didn't say anything and just opened the door and let them in.
Obviously, even if the clone lady escaped at this time, no one would care too much.
Seeing the two people come in, the other Agatsuma Sayuri snorted slightly in dissatisfaction, and first attacked Matsumoto Sayuri: "How could you not recognize me!"
She was talking about Sayuri Matsumoto's inability to distinguish between her and her real self, who was dressed in neutral clothes. Although her arrest had nothing to do with Sayuri Matsumoto's mistaken identity, she was obviously very upset about it.
If we switch gears and it was my wife Sayuri who was captured by them...
It seems like they can't do anything to the main body.
After all, the original body could threaten them by "killing" the clone, but they couldn't really kill the original body. It wasn't because the original body was so important, but because it would be tantamount to suicide and killing a large number of helpers who shared the same goal.
What's more, as the earliest clone, she also knew some things that the original body did not know even after recovering its memory.
Rather than saying that the original body created these clones, it would be better to say that they (the clones) held the original body hostage and forced her to come into this world.
In other words, the creation of a clone wasn't a golden finger that Agatsuma Sayuri gained after traveling through time. Instead, this golden finger proactively sought out Agatsuma Sayuri's original form, signed a contract with her, and brought her into this world, becoming the trigger for their appearance.
If the other party helps them a lot, they will still kill her. Not to mention whether it is morally acceptable, the contract itself cannot be fulfilled.
Sayuri Matsumoto's frantic explanations did not reach the ears of the other Agatsuma Sayuri. All she could see was the ignorant original body and the contract that was manifested on her, which was extremely eye-catching to the clone.
After Sayuri Matsumoto finished explaining, for some reason, she felt as if the gap between the three of them had dissipated a little. Could it be because of her explanation?
She was a little confused, and her friend gently pulled her hand and sat her on the edge of the bed, facing her wife Sayuri.
The second sentence of the other Agatsuma Sayuri is: "Do you still remember your purpose?"
She was facing her own true self, and it was very clear who she was asking the question to.
"Remember, save Zhufu Jingguang!"
"Even at any cost?"
The original's eyes were filled with clear stupidity, and without needing to be spoken, it was asking, "What price do I still have to pay?"
Indeed, this girl came from another world and had already sacrificed her family, life, career, etc. Almost everything she could sacrifice was already in another world.
Before coming to this world, everything she had had been paid as a "price".
【Author’s words】
① From Sun Tzu's Art of War: Offensive Strategy
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