Chapter 153 Nine Vigilantes

Ten minutes ago.

When the live broadcast was interrupted, Rei Furutani was still on the street, still immersed in his mind. He recalled why he felt that Asa was familiar, and thought about how to break the situation and rescue the hostages from the perspective of the police. It was not until a few seconds later that he realized that the surroundings had become strangely quiet.

When he noticed it, the unsettling silence disappeared again, replaced by the pale and numb faces of the people around him, and the footsteps of people running in all directions.

It was as if whatever they had planned to do no longer mattered, except getting off the streets and getting to safety while this terrorist attack took place.

But where is absolutely safe?

Asa never revealed the whereabouts of the hostages from beginning to end, so passers-by naturally had no way of knowing where the hostages were, especially the explosives on their bodies that were said to be able to blow up an entire block.

This means that no matter where they hide, they may become desperate souls. Who knows if the hostages are in the house next to them?

Therefore, Furuya Rei finally saw with his own eyes how chaotic Tokyo was.

The arrogant □□ encountered last night can only mean that the Metropolitan Police Department is not intimidating enough and has failed in its duty in this regard. Now... look at it, the citizens around us have become accustomed to this kind of case. No one even thinks of calling the police or asking them how to deal with it. Everyone's first reaction is to run away.

Furiya Rei clearly realized that this showed that there were many criminals as terrifying as Asa in the past few years, and it was not the first time that Tokyo citizens had seen such a criminal who seemed like a psychopath.

On the street corners, people who were obviously not volunteers were skillfully calling out to the minors around them to hide in their shops. A closer look revealed that many citizens who looked like ordinary people quickly found their hiding places, then squatted there and continued what they were doing.

The amazing thing is that the hiding place they found can really avoid most attacks even from the perspective of Rei Furuya... such as sniping from a distance or indiscriminate street shooting. Although explosives will ignore all obstructions and turn them into ashes, the problem is that they are ordinary people, right?

The blond-haired, dark-skinned police officer's mood and expression were extremely subtle: It seems that it is really difficult to be an ordinary person in Tokyo. Are the mental states of Tokyo citizens really okay?

It was at this time that Fūya Rei, who was hiding in the fleeing crowd, spotted a figure that was somewhat out of place with the surroundings.

To be precise, what Furuya Rei saw was literal incompatibility - even in the very tolerant streets of Shibuya, it is rare to see people wearing all black and wrapping themselves in a hooded tent in the middle of summer!

In fact, it is true that Rei Furuya does not understand these things deeply enough. This statement is completely possible in his own stable and peaceful Tokyo. He can catch no less than ten such young people on the street.

However, in this chaotic Tokyo, that calm figure is indeed very different from the panicked ordinary people around him.

Out of public security instinct and the suspicion and caution brought about by occupational disease, Fūya Rei lowered the brim of his hat, raised his legs and followed quietly, paying attention to hiding in various blind spots of the opponent's vision along the way.

After following this, Fūya Rei noticed more information. He found that the mysterious man had strong anti-detection capabilities and seemed to have almost discovered him several times.

You know, Rei Furuya's reconnaissance and tracking skills were acquired while working undercover in the high-risk environment of the Black Organization for seven years. He is confident that he can hide it from all his friends except the little devil.

As for that figure, after carefully observing the surrounding environment for a long time, Fōtani Rei still could not determine the other party's more specific characteristics, which made his doubts grow deeper.

Until that person sneaked into the winding alley on the side, Furiya Rei, who realized that the other party wanted to get rid of him, immediately put aside his caution, stared at the target's back with sharp eyes, and his muscles burst out with amazing strength. He jumped over all the obstacles in the middle in two or three steps and ran forward.

After passing through the alley, the light around me dimmed. The low ramp in front led to a brick wall at the end, and then split into two roads in front of the wall.

However, Furuya Rei did not look at any of the paths on the side. His eyes were fixed on the top of the brick wall. Because of his original running action, he subconsciously took a few steps forward and finally stood in the shadow.

On the wall, the figure in the black hood was sitting sideways. Perhaps he had not expected that Furiya Rei would rush in so quickly, so he froze in place for a moment, lowering his head and looking at the blond-haired young man who was chasing after him.

There were buildings on both sides of the ramp that blocked the sunlight, and only the walls were within the range of light. The black hood was shining brightly, but the face of the mysterious man was hidden in the shadow of the hood, and Rei Furutani could not see it clearly from his angle.

However, what Fūya Rei could see clearly was the opponent's clothes under the canopy.

How should I put it? Can it really be called clothing? It would be more appropriate to call it armor. If you look closely, you can see that the cape on the top of the head has two unexpectedly cute pointed corners.

Who on earth would wear such cool black armor and a cape in the middle of summer? Is the shape on his head an imitation of Batman? Or does this mean that there are superheroes in this world?

No, that should be a comic character, right?

The confusion didn't last long, and Fūya Rei immediately realized what was wrong.

Although the figure was not clearly visible because he was wearing armor and was covered by a cloak, Rei Furutani clearly felt that the other person was a person who was different from everyone else in this world, just like himself.

"Aka, stop hiding, I know it's you." Fūya Rei spoke softly.

The man on the wall was silent for a while, but he didn't turn around and run away. Instead, he asked him in a slightly hoarse voice that sounded like it was processed by a voice changer: "Who is that?"

He sounds like a young boy.

Furutani Rei took a deep breath and put on a sunny smile that was very much like Amuro Toru, but his tone was gnashing his teeth.

"...Don't talk in someone else's younger voice, you little bastard."

After her identity was exposed, Na Yue Chijiang followed her character setting conscientiously, suppressed the joy of relaxation after seeing her friends safe and sound, and put away her bad taste of deliberately playing dumb.

He silently turned his eyes away and jumped down from the wall lightly.

Originally, Akae Nayue thought that after this large-scale operation was over, Furuya Rei would come to his house faster. However, before his operation was over, Furuya Rei was found alone on the street.

When Akae Nazuki saw from the surveillance video that Furukaya Rei was standing in the crowd watching Asa's live broadcast with everyone else, a long-lost sense of shame surged in her heart.

Even though he had already developed a thick skin that could rival his teacher Dazai Osamu in some aspects, the 28-year-old Akae Nazuki was almost traumatized by the thought of playing a psychopathic criminal in front of his friends.

The last time he did that, he was beaten up by five gorillas afterward and had to eat sweet curry and cilantro milk for a week.

I absolutely cannot let Furiya Rei find out that he is the one playing Asa. Akae Nayue thought with a fearless attitude.

For this reason, he decided to transfer the vigilante vest to divert the attention of Rei Furuya. Anyway, he was not prepared to hide his vigilante identity from his friend at the beginning, so he just happened to use it to take the blame.

[Zero looks dark, but he turns out to be the emperor of Europe.] Akae Nayue stood in front of her friend and complained subtly.

He deliberately put on a fully armed vigilante vest and walked around in front of Rei Furuya, with the purpose of attracting the other party's attention, luring Rei Furuya to catch up with him, and then find a secluded corner where no one was around to "recognize" his friend, and everything else could be discussed later.

Before Furukaya Rei could say anything, Akae Nazuki suddenly remembered something, his face darkened, and he decisively overturned his own evaluation: [No, Zero is still a loser.]

He didn't take the initiative to check when he invaded the police station before, but in order to ensure the stability of the operation, Akae Nazuki went to the database of the Metropolitan Police Department and the police station two days ago, and found some incredible things - this world's Furuya Rei died in an explosion while undercover four years ago.

How could the emperor of Europe die so early? And so casually, who would believe that Furuya Rei would be blown to death like this? That was Furuya Rei, his good friend who tenaciously survived in every parallel world!

Akajinazuki stared at Furuya Rei closely, his eyes moving over the blond young man's body without missing an inch. Even though his supernatural power helped him to indicate that Furuya Rei was in good condition at the moment, he still confirmed the other party's situation again and again.

What's more, they all survived in other worlds and served as his anchors, but died in this world... No wonder the world consciousness picked up the wrong person. It's not only because Furuya Zero has his aura, but also because the Furuya Zero in this world had died a long time ago, and the world consciousness instinctively wanted to catch one to fill the gap.

Chijiang Nayuexin said that it was no wonder. When [Shu] first threw him into the cemetery, he was also surprised. Didn’t he say that he could jump to the world with Furuya Zero as an anchor?

Now that I think about it, it was true that he was placed near Furuya Zero. After all, his own Zero had not come here at that time, so there was indeed only one Zero in this world who was already buried deep in the coffin.

"You talk as if you're very old now." Furiya Rei heard the boy in front of him muttering in a low voice.

When the boy jumped down, a gust of wind blew off his hood, and Furiya Rei was able to see the boy's face clearly: short black hair and a pair of pure black eyes. The shape of the eyes seemed to have been modified, and the familiarity could not be seen without careful observation. He was wearing a matte mask on the lower half of his face, which fit his facial lines tightly. It did not look abrupt, and it unexpectedly had a mysterious beauty.

Furuya Rei was speechless for a while.

He had originally wondered whether this was Aka from a parallel world or his own little devil, but now it seemed that this style and that complaint were definitely the Akajiang Nayue he knew.

He couldn't help but relax completely.

"Please don't tell me anything else. Why did you run away when you saw me?" Furugaya Ling's eyes told Akajina Yue that if this person was not satisfied with his answer, he would choose to fight with him in the alley first.

The vigilante paused for two seconds and calmly explained, "I didn't run away after seeing you. I was in a hurry to do something else."

The boy motioned for Furiya Rei to look at the chaotic street outside the alley: "That man... Asa, his target is me. I have to deal with this matter."

At first, Furuya Rei was surprised at what his friend with a boyish body said - he had seen various versions of Akae Nazuki, so naturally he didn't think there was anything strange about the boyish body - but then he took it seriously.

However, how could Furuya Rei not understand Akae Nazuki? He could certainly tell that his friend's words were half true and half false, but he just didn't want to take the initiative to expose her.

"A... Is there anything I can do to help?" Furiya Rei stopped talking halfway through his name. He decided to put everything else aside and put solving the case in front of him first. "As for the rest, we can talk about it later."

Rei Furiya keenly discovered that Aka was acting as someone else even when facing him in this situation. He thought of the dreams he had had and immediately changed his mindset and started acting accordingly.

The vigilante, who didn't want to be exposed in front of others, understood the hint and said, "Call me Noname."

What a perfunctory code name.

The corner of Fūya Ling's mouth twitched, and he changed his tone to say, "So you're nameless?"

Wuming looked quietly at the man he had seen in the file, as if he was judging his credibility. Then he changed his mind and remembered the glaring line "Died in the Line of Duty" in the file, as well as the policemen who would go to the suburban cemetery to pay tribute to this man on his death anniversary every year.

Among the four friends of "Furiya Rei", three are the remaining capable and outstanding police officers in the Metropolitan Police Department, and one is a public security officer who has gone undercover in a high-level position in the organization. None of them are idle people, and they can all become targets for cooperation.

Thinking only takes a few seconds in the brain. Wuming quickly nodded to Fūya Rei with a calm look as if nothing had happened. It was rare for him to be willing to tell some information to someone he met for the first time.

"Fireworks are prohibited in downtown Tokyo. The fireworks Asa was talking about were not real fireworks." Wuming said, "He was referring to the Suzuki Tower."

Fūya Ling was stunned for a moment, and recalled the Suzuki Tower he saw last night when he was hiding from the pursuers, and suddenly realized: "It's the light!"

"After nightfall, all the lights on the Suzuki Tower will light up from bottom to top, and the display screen will play a video of the fireworks, just like real fireworks." Wuming nodded affirmatively. When he said this, for some reason his mood became a little depressed again, but he quickly adjusted his mood and looked seriously into Furuya Rei's eyes.

He said, "You should still remember the contact information of Officer Matsuda and the others, right?"

Wuming could of course hack into their phones and leave a message, but then what he said would not be trusted at the first time. And Furuya Rei's identity made Matsuda Jinpei and others choose to investigate even if they were suspicious, to find out who was using their dead friend's phone to "play pranks".

Fūya Rei understood and readily agreed while taking out his phone to send a message. Trust made him type while asking without looking up: "Okay, I'll tell them this, what about you?"

Furuya Rei doesn't need to consider whether the contact methods of his friends in this world are the same as those he knows. As long as he knows that Akae Nazuki has hinted at him, he will definitely be able to contact Matsuda Jinpei and the others - Furuya Rei still has this level of trust.

Furukaya Rei, who didn't yet know that he was dead in this world, was tricked into a trap by Akae Nazuki, who was playing the role of an innocent vigilante.

"I should go now." Wuming put on the hood of his black cloak again, took a step back, looked at Furukaya Rei solemnly and said, "The Metropolitan Police Department can't deal with him. I have to deal with Asa before they can."

Fūya Rei frowned and thought of what Wuming had said before.

Why would Asa deliberately target Wuming? Did something happen between the two of them?

So Aka is now playing the original Wuming in this world, pretending not to know him and then dealing with Asa's affairs? This explanation makes sense, but Furuya Rei always feels weird.

"I understand. You..."

The public security elite hadn't finished speaking when he looked up and saw that there was no one in front of him.

He clenched his fists and said in a speech: "...Hey, don't be so Batman at this angle."

In a sense, Furuya Rei's guess is already very close to the truth of the script that was modified by Akae Nazuki. However, no matter how powerful Akae Nazuki is, he can't really read minds. He doesn't know what kind of role his friend has arranged for him in his heart. After temporarily separating from Furuya Rei, he found a corner to put the "book" back.

Previously, because we didn't know when Rei Furuya landed, [Shu] couldn't locate him. Now that he and his friend have finally met each other, [Shu] can naturally relocate the anchor point to Rei Furuya in this main world.

In other words, from now on, Akae Nayue can ask [Shu] to place herself near Furuya Rei at any time, without having to worry about losing her friend.

Next, Chijiang Nayue can devote herself to the "performance".

The one who is now using the identity of a vigilante is his real body, while Asa, who is using the body of a puppet, is not doing nothing during this buffer time. In the gap that the camera is not capturing, Asa is slowly coming out of the basement where he was during the live broadcast and walking towards his next destination.

Asa was still wearing the neat suit and gloves, but when he walked on the street, it was as if a ball of air was melting. No one paid attention to him, and no one noticed that the man who had aroused the vigilance of the whole of Tokyo not long ago was walking leisurely beside them.

Yes, at six o'clock, the lights of the bell tower lit up like fireworks. Even if others knew what Asa was referring to, they would just think it was an ordinary hint.

Only Wuming - or rather, only the chairman could see what Asa really wanted to express.

Because at the first banquet that the chairman attended after returning to Tokyo, the boy with black hair and red eyes looked at the Suzuki Tower and exclaimed that it was as beautiful as fireworks.

The chairman could see that Asa was not really kindly reminding the police where he kept the hostages. Asa was just telling the chairman who was watching outside the screen through this live broadcast -

"Found you, honey."

The red-haired young man was humming a tuneless song, his steps brisk, his leather heels making crisp sounds on the ground.

His destination was the Suzuki Tower.

Asa is a man who is honest with himself. He never deliberately hides or suppresses his desires. Just like now, what he said in the live broadcast certainly cannot be all true. At least he only said one reason: the reason for starting the live broadcast and the reason for installing explosives.

Asa knew it, and Wuming knew it too.

On the other side, Nazuki Akae, wearing a vigilante vest, said to [Shu] in her heart: [The drop location is the observation tower on top of the Suzuki Tower. ]

The second reason why Asa acted so wildly was the same as what Wuming told Furuya Ling.

His target from the beginning to the end was only Wuming. He wanted to take revenge on the boy who brought him back from hell through his obsession.