Chapter 157 Thirteen Vigilantes

Fūya Rei had never been so grateful for his outstanding ability to manage his facial expressions, which was why he did not change his expression after hearing that title.

In a flash, the image of the little devil that he acted even when he was alone flashed through Furiya Rei's mind. He clenched his fists suddenly, and one thought was clearly magnified several times by him: I must not let this Hiro find out that I came from a parallel world.

He adjusted his mood, then immediately reached out to pull down the brim of his baseball cap, turned his face away from the person opposite him and said, "I already told you that I'm not... You got the wrong person."

When saying this, Furiya Rei deliberately controlled his tone and mixed in a bit of irritation - good, then he was in a bad mood because he was being chased for no reason - even so, he did not pretend to know nothing, but turned around and casually glanced at the gun in the black-haired young man's hand.

The latter lowered his hand and lowered the muzzle of the gun as his eyes swept over.

"I'm sorry, I'm just passing by. I can leave now, sir." Furuya Rei paused and his tone softened a lot, acting like an ordinary person who was trying to remain calm because he was worried that the other party would shoot again.

He raised his hands to show that he was harmless, and in an instant, a pure smile appeared on his face, the effect of which was brought out to the extreme by his baby face: "Well... be careful of accidental discharges, guns are not toys, right?"

He explained with a few simple words that Morobushi Kagemitsu's previous shooting was an accidental discharge, and said so with a sincere tone.

Fūya Rei knew that Morobushi Kagemitsu would not attack others casually, and he was also sure that he could escape, so he did not choose his words carefully when speaking, but just quietly added a touch to the character he played.

When it comes to operating a smurf account, Furuya Rei dares to say that he has more experience than Akae Nazuki. After all, this is an indispensable skill in his undercover career. However, the skill of lying with his eyes open is indeed something he learned from the little devil Xu Xin, and it is estimated that the effect will be good when used on Hiro in the parallel world.

Well... although judging from Morobushi Kagemitsu's appearance, the effect was too good.

The young man with black hair and blue eyes just took a step forward subconsciously, which revealed his face to Furukaya Rei. The latter twitched his eyebrows and suppressed the regret in his heart.

There seems to be no difference between the parallel world's Morobushi Kagemitsu and the 29-year-old childhood friend in Rei Furuya's memory. Both of them have a half circle of stubble on their chins to cover their faces, but the dark circles under the eyes of the man in front of him are a little too dark.

But Rei Furuya felt a deep sadness from the other person - this was not a message revealed by any expression or eyes, but the fact that this person was just standing there made people feel heavy and sad.

Furiya Rei suddenly remembered a fact that he had overlooked.

This is a fallen city. This Morobushi Jingguang must have gone undercover in the organization with him here with the hope of being rescued, but he died first, leaving Morobushi Jingguang alone to continue to go undercover in an even darker organization, walking alone in this city where order has collapsed.

Hiro's personality is not suitable for undercover work, and this is something that Furuya Rei has always been clear about.

Even though he is very capable, he has been dominated by fear for more than half of his 20 years of life, so he is essentially a gentle person at all times.

This gentleness does not mean that Morobushi Kagemitsu will be soft-hearted in the organization's mission, but that this person will hide the pain in his heart and endure it himself after the end.

For example, if it is the same mission to kill someone, even if Furuya Rei can't bear it, he can quickly adjust his mentality after taking action, and use the busier undercover work to give himself no time to think about those things, until these traumas will no longer cause harm to him.

Morobushi Jingguang's high humanity and empathy prevent him from doing so. He still pulls the trigger of the sniper rifle coldly and decisively during the mission, but it takes him longer to suppress the trauma afterwards.

At the same time, the undercover work requires him to adjust himself faster. In the long run, the only things that can make Morofu Jingguang "balance his income and expenditure" mentally are the good memories of the past and the companions around him.

In Rei Furuya's own world, the little devil plays the role of balancing the two of them and anchoring their connection to the past. He guessed that the person who plays this role in this world is probably himself.

With that in mind, it's no surprise to him that Hiro feels so depressed after his death.

Furugaya Rei thought again that he had only stayed here for one day, but the mental shock he had endured was so great. How much pressure would Morobu Kagemitsu, who was an undercover public security agent, feel?

He sighed inwardly.

So, he shouldn't have appeared in front of Hiro and the others like this. Wouldn't this just provoke them for no reason?

What on earth Morobushi Kagemitsu was thinking about during this time, Furiya Rei had no idea. He only saw that the young man opposite him quickly came to his senses after his rebuttal. If one ignores the heaviness that was suffocating him, Morobushi Kagemitsu's performance was simply impeccable.

Apart from the initial call, the other party never expressed anything clearly.

"I'm afraid you can't leave for the time being." Zhu Fujingguang skipped the topic of mistaking someone for someone else and spoke calmly, without any real apology in his tone, "Whether it's a mistake or not, there are some things I need to talk to you about. This..."

Furuya Rei showed a helpless expression: "My name is Amuro Toru, and I'm a detective."

Sure enough, Morobushi Kagemitsu's expression changed for a moment after hearing this familiar pseudonym. If you didn't look closely, you wouldn't be able to tell. He then nodded and said, "Then Mr. Amuro, explain why you are here by chance."

As he spoke, the gun in Zhufu Jingguang's hand knocked against the iron railing next to him, making a crisp sound.

Furuya Rei secretly sighed that Hiro's disguise was too strong, and at the same time worried about how he had learned this disguise. The emotions around him were so sad that he could still look calm in such a situation. Compared with the Hiro in his memory, he just had less smiles and more superficial indifference.

Ah, this Hiro might be suspecting that he was sent by the organization to test him? But if it was Hiro, he would probably vaguely recognize him as himself, but because he is already dead here, he dare not think in that direction.

In response to this, Fūya Rei could only secretly say sorry.

Just now, Morobushi Kagemitsu fired a shot. Matsuda and the other two who were looking for him downstairs would definitely notice something was wrong and run up. In order to prevent himself from being attacked from both sides, Furugaya Rei must now escape under the nose of Morobushi Kagemitsu.

Faced with this obvious threat, the detective who called himself Toru Amuro first calmly raised his hand to check the time - there were still five minutes to six o'clock, so he should be able to make it. He and Aka had agreed on a meeting place, which was not far from this area.

Then, he shrugged at Zhu Fu Jingguang.

"Is that so? I knew that Tokyo is a simple city, but I didn't expect it to be this bad." The blond detective sighed, "Normally I would be happy to chat with you for a few more words, but I have an appointment today, and my client is still waiting for me."

The footsteps on the stairwell behind him were getting closer and closer. Furiya Rei counted silently in his heart, seized the opportunity to toss the coin he had taken out high into the air, and then, at the moment when Morobushi Keimitsu's attention was diverted, he jumped down from the edge of the roof!

"Wait!" Zhu Fu Jingguang's face changed suddenly, he rushed over suddenly, and then stopped where he was.

The fire escape was one level down from that place, and Furutani Rei took advantage of this to jump onto the fire escape and then turned over and ran down.

Zhuo Jingguang, who was hiding on the rooftop, could have shot to prevent the man from escaping, but he raised the gun for a long time but could not pull the trigger. In the end, he watched the man disappear from his sight.

Morofushi Kagemitsu, who had joined the two men who had followed the sound of the gunfire, didn't know that Furuya Rei was also relieved.

He was right. Even though this Hiro was quite different from the Hiro he knew, he would not really attack him.

Thinking of this, Fūya Rei couldn't help but raise his hand and touch his chest.

Well... I just feel a little guilty. I'll think of other ways to compensate Hiro later.

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When leaving the observation deck, Akae Nazuki took back the puppet Asa and did not rush on the road. She leisurely strolled all the way to the meeting point that she and Furuya Rei had agreed on in code.

As to whether they did this to catch law enforcement and beat up some criminals along the way, it is unknown. Who made the streets unexpectedly quiet tonight? Along the way, the vigilantes only killed two waves of robbers, which is pitifully small compared to the criminals on the streets of Tokyo in the first half of the month.

He was extremely regretful, and guessed that it was probably because no one in Tokyo would bother with a masked weirdo. Who knows if they might be provoking the next super criminal?

When Akajiang Nayue arrived at the destination, Furugaya Rei had not arrived yet.

He didn't find it strange. He thought to himself, "As expected," and found a high railing on the deserted bridge, jumped up and sat down, and his legs began to swing in the air boredly.

Well, just like what Fūya Rei thought, Akaeganazuki did deliberately trick her best friend.

He could guess that Furuya Rei and Matsuda Jinpei would both deduce Asa's final location, but unfortunately this was not the time in his script for these people to know the origins of the vigilante and the criminal. The surveillance he deliberately left behind could only capture the images due to distance restrictions and would not record the audio of their conversations.

For safety reasons, Akae Nayue simply gave the task of delaying Matsuda Jinpei and the others to Furuya Rei.

I definitely didn't do it on purpose to make things more lively, right?

Well, actually he also wanted to know what kind of character Zero would choose to play. What's the point of him acting alone every time? It's more fun when everyone plays together.

It was at this time that Furiya Rei arrived late. He saw the thin figure sitting there leaning on the railing, seemingly looking down at the river in a daze, from a distance before he even stepped onto the bridge.

It was Nameless, wearing a hood.

As soon as he approached, Wuming, who had his back to him, spoke as if he had eyes on his back.

"Let me take you home." Wuming said suddenly without any context.

Furiya Rei knew what this meant. He shouldn't have appeared in this parallel world in the first place. Aka had come here most likely to find him. Now that they had met, it was natural for Aka to say this.

Last night he was still thinking about returning to the main world as soon as he found the moon, but now he has changed his mind.

"Is there a time difference between here and home?" Fūya Rei asked cryptically.

The boy stopped swinging his legs and turned towards him. His water-red eyes, revealed after he took off his contact lenses, stared at him clearly.

"Well, I think I know what you mean - the answer is no." The little devil pretended to be very serious and cooperated with him. He lowered his voice and said seriously, "But this Tokyo... you can see it too, it's very dangerous."

"Oops, you underestimated me." Fūya Ling raised his eyebrows and asked him, "What about you?"

"Since the 'I' here is dead, you would definitely want to revive him, right? Well, I don't know how you would do it though." The mature 30-year-old police officer blinked and said in a relaxed and comfortable tone, "Anyway, it would definitely be better for me to stay, otherwise you wouldn't deliberately lead me to meet them."

He looked exactly the same as he had eight years ago, still the confident and high-spirited man he was when the two met at the police academy - of course, they both knew that Rei Furuya acted so relaxed on purpose.

Who made this Tokyo so bad? Both of them need some good memories from their own world to ease the pain.

This is where Fūya Rei's familiarity with Akae Nazuki was revealed. He did not misjudge the latter's intention and took the initiative to move closer.

As long as Furuya Rei is allowed to stay in Tokyo temporarily, then Akae Nazuki only needs to add the role of his friend into the script, leaving others with the impression that "Furuya Rei has been resurrected", and after they leave, Furuya Rei here will really be resurrected.

Doing this would be much faster than letting Chijiang Nayue find other ways to revive herself.

The wind blew over the bridge, and there was a brief silence between the two.

"Wuming doesn't need companions, partners, or friends."

After the silence was broken, the young vigilante's first words were a cold rejection. He seemed to be looking at Furuya Rei, or he seemed to be staring blankly. The only thing he said was still firm: "It only takes one person to deal with Asa."

There is no need for more people to be dragged into this vortex. It is enough for him to be the only one to pay the price.

This is what Wuming meant.

The young vigilante is convinced that his existence will bring misfortune to those around him, but he has to atone for his own sins. He is conflicted at the moment, and the struggle brought about by this contradiction gradually shows on his face, which makes Fūya Rei's heart skip a beat.

Fūya Rei could hear the hidden meaning in the boy's words, but was still choked by his blunt and unvarnished words.

Just as he was about to say something, he saw the young man in front of him let out a long sigh, reached out to take off his hood, revealing a face that was mostly covered by a metal mask.

"Wuming doesn't need a companion, but I need you - are you scared?" Akajinazuki said with a sly smile, and cleared her throat, "Ahem, then, are you still ready to consider joining? Mr. Amuro Toru, I mean maybe, possibly, probably... I still need an assistant for my 'night job'."

"It would be best if she had blond hair and dark skin, could handle both cooking and cooking, and could beat up dangerous people." He said seriously.

"You're not hiring an assistant, you're hiring 007, right?" Furiya Rei twitched his lips, then made a joke, his expression helpless, "Alas, I just found a part-time job in a bar yesterday, and it looks like I have to resign today before I even have my first day at work."

"You're looking for a job a little too quickly..." the boy complained in a low voice.

"But well, would I reject you?" Furiya Ling pretended not to hear and smiled brightly and cheerfully at Akae Nayue, "Then please give me your advice, partner."

He smiled as if he was going to take out a plate of sweet curry and pour it down Chi Jiang Na Yue's throat in the next second, so the latter shuddered, sat upright on the spot, and nodded vigorously and obediently: "Okay, no problem, whatever you say is right - partner."