Chapter 263 Eight Villains

The look in Akae Nazuki's eyes when looking at the robber leader gradually changed from 'where did this idiot come from' to '...', and after the other party decided to make Miss Aiko his hostage, he now began to look at his two companions with an expression of 'I'd better help him choose a crematorium in advance'.

Unfortunately, the person on the other side was not one of his peers with whom he had perfect chemistry, and he was unable to discern any information from that indifferent face.

Where did the robber leader find his idiot accomplice? Did he rely on his accomplice's brain, which was just as stupid as his accomplice's?

To Akajinazuki, most people in this world are transparent. For example, he actually knew Aiko's identity before entering the store. After Aiko spoke the first sentence to them after entering the store, he basically discovered the true origin of this seemingly ordinary shop assistant.

It can be summed up in a very simple sentence: Aiko is a Botanist.

Although Aiko tried to disguise her accent when she spoke, some of her sentences and words still had a hint of Hakata accent. The city left a deep mark on her, making it impossible for her to completely hide her temperament that was incompatible with ordinary people.

Not to mention the carefully treated gunshot marks on his hands, which were only more obvious in the eyes of people like Chijiang Nayue.

In fact, although Hakata is indeed called the city of killers by those in the know, it is not like the stereotype that any Hakata person you pick on the street is a killer.

In Hakata, there is a kind of contempt between killers based on their abilities. In the eyes of Hakata people, low-level killers are not even killers. They are only jokingly called "Hakata's cleaners". They use the crudest methods to kill the weakest people. They are simply incomparable to those at the top of the contempt chain who are supported by major forces.

The fact that Aiko was able to escape from Hakata unscathed shows that she does not belong to any faction, but is just a "free killer" similar to a mercenary. There are quite a few such people in Hakata, and when there are more of them, it will be difficult for other forces to touch them.

——In Shota's world, the lawless area that Bourbon and his friends went to with Akae Nazuki was also the main activity area of ​​these people.

Being a free killer doesn't mean Aiko's strength is worse than others. I think she actually discovered that Hagiwara Kenji was a police academy student when he entered the store, so she had that kind of instinctive vigilance, not to mention that four tall and strong police academy students came later... Aiko has been pretending to be infatuated and staring at their table, probably because of this "killer's radar of the police."

This keen observation is enough to distinguish Aiko from the bottom-level killers. It is obvious that she probably despises the upper levels of the chain. She retired from the underworld and moved to Tokyo to work in a small dessert shop. It seems that she did so entirely because of her yearning for a peaceful daily life.

As Chi Jiang Na Yue thought about it, she cursed the robber leader in her heart as an idiot. He had already said that taking his beloved son as a hostage would likely lead to death. Didn't this guy have any sense at all?

They didn't expect to be able to see Aiko's true identity as a former killer like him, nor did they expect to see Aiko's true identity as unknown but with good skills like his peers. After all, it wasn't their fault that they were stupid.

But if they are stupid and refuse to listen, that is their problem.

So Chi Jiang Na Yue had no choice but to take one last look at the robber leader, and murmured in a rare depressed tone: "It's hard to persuade the damned ghost with kind words... How unlucky."

The only thing the robber leader can be thankful for right now is that Miss Aiko has retired and wants to live a peaceful life, otherwise, he would have been shot in the head by Miss Aiko with the pistol in the drawer.

No one stipulates that a dessert shop clerk cannot be a former murderer. After all, this former murderer used to be a policeman.

Because of the previous conversation, Chijiang Nayue and the robber leader were not far away from each other, so he heard clearly the two sentences of Chijiang Nayue and regarded them as a provocation from the black-haired boy without exception.

Originally, he had already supported the shop assistant who was lowering her head and seemed to be trembling in fear, but after Chijiang Nayue's words, it seemed that the suppressed anger found an explosion point.

He threw the hostage to his companions behind him, and took a step forward. Relying on his tall and strong physique, he directly reached out and grabbed the boy's neck and pulled him in front of him, almost dragging the boy in front of him.

Matsuda Jinpei and others almost rushed forward uncontrollably, but Akae Nayue thought of their reactions and gently waved his hands behind his back twice to signal them not to act rashly.

Several people endured it again and again, but they were extremely angry at the robbers who suddenly attacked.

Matsuda Jinpei clenched his fists and cursed inwardly, then turned his head and inadvertently looked at Yu Kunran, but his gaze froze.

Hagiwara Kenji was the only one among everyone who didn't look at the center of the situation. He was staring at his own hands with his head down, his long hair blocking his expression, but Matsuda Jinpei could see the water stains that had crossed Hagiwara Kenji's chin, not to mention... Hagiwara Kenji's hands were shaking.

"Hagi!" Matsuda Jinpei was stunned. He quietly leaned over to help block his young friend. He also turned away and stopped observing. He just asked anxiously, "What's going on?"

The person behind him couldn't explain, nor was he in the mood to explain. He couldn't even say that he had just seen the owner of that face being strangled by the neck, and like Date Kou, he had broken through the psychological suggestion planted by Akae Nazuki and recalled the contents of his dream.

What was the content of the dream? Oh, of course, the damn content in the current scene where the robber leader was replaced by him and the movements remained unchanged.

and.

Hagiwara Kenji grabbed Yukinen's wrist and could clearly feel the pulse pulsating under her skin. Just like the impression given by Matsuda Jinpei, it was always strong and powerful, and would never... stop and would never turn cold.

This is not a dream, this is reality, he repeated to himself over and over again.

Kojinpei is still alive, and Konazuki is not dead either. You can calm down and save them, Hagiwara Kenji.

——No matter what that dream is, you must be able to do it!

"You're the one who should be killed, kid." The robber leader's voice came. They could only see the boy's thin back and the gloomy expression on the robber leader's face. "Say goodbye to this world...if you still have a chance after the explosion!"

Chi Jiang Na Yue's movements were restrained by the hand on his neck. He placed his hands on the robber leader's tense forearm muscles and was forced to tilt his neck back to deprive him of oxygen. Breathing became very difficult in this position, and the feeling of suffocation flooding his brain was very uncomfortable.

However, the restrained man's face did not show the hatred or pleading out of fear that the robber leader wanted to see. The boy ignored him, and even though his watery red eyes were filled with a thin mist due to physiological tears, there was no trace of him in them.

It was as if the person in front of the boy was not a vicious robber who could strangle him at any time, but a dead person, a corpse, with even a creepy smile on the corner of his mouth. The robber leader subconsciously read the boy's silent lip movements.

【You.are.abandoned.】

This was exactly the guess that flashed through the robber leader's mind when he had been staring at his mobile phone and waiting for no news.

The robber leader felt a buzzing sound in his head, and he threw the boy out uncontrollably, with fear climbing up along his spine.

What is this guy, this guy talking about? How does he know what I am thinking?!

The boy was like an ordinary person with no power to resist. After being thrown out, he might have fallen on the rows of fixed tables and chairs due to his weakness after suffocation. It is conservatively estimated that he would have broken several bones. However, the man who was originally blocked by Matsuda Jinpei suddenly ran forward a few steps and caught the boy before he could do so.

Kenji Hagiwara looked down at the extremely unsightly finger marks on Akae Nazuki's neck and pressed down on the latter's arm with a little more force involuntarily, allowing Akae Nazuki to clearly feel that his hands were shaking and that he was shivering all over.

When Akae Nazuki was strangled, her heart sank, realizing that her psychological hint had failed her again. Hagiwara Kenji's reaction further confirmed this.

He was almost laughing out of anger, and in his heart he coldly sentenced the idiot to death.

Such a stupid guy should be scrapped.

This thought ended when the leader of the robbers put a dagger to the neck of his son and used it to threaten Hagiwara Kenji, who had been holding the person without saying a word since he met Akae Nazuki, and asked him to tie the bomb on his accomplice to Akae Nazuki himself.

Chi Jiang Na Yue now really wanted to go up and give the robber leader five punches and two shots.

He promptly grabbed Hagiwara Kenji's wrist, interrupting the increasingly uneasy emotions behind him, and tried to convey the thought of "I really don't care" with his eyes.

He didn't know whether Hagiwara Kenji received the message or not. Anyway, Hagiwara Kenji seemed to be very cooperative on the surface. The time bomb with the countdown still going on was thus tied to Akae Nazuki - in a way that looked very tight, but actually would fall off if pulled.

The robber leader, who was already completely unable to sit still because of Akjiang Nayue's lip movements, did not come to check after the bomb was tied. He held his beloved son and moved out of the store. The hostage in his hand and the bomb that could be manually detonated at any time were his bargaining chips, so he moved smoothly to the outside of the dessert shop.

"Prepare a car for me. Don't do anything with it, or the two bombs will explode at the same time!" The robber leader shouted sternly, "My companions will continue to guard the hostages and the next 1 billion yen here. We will only release the hostages after seeing the money. And, I will let this waiter go only after the two of them evacuate!"

The police were furious at his behavior, but for the sake of the hostages' safety they had no choice but to agree. At least on the surface they had reached a consensus with the robber leader. They watched him get into the car that was dispatched and hurriedly drove away from their sight.

How to actually do it... Of course, they would call up the location and have plainclothes officers follow the other party all the way to see where he is going!

The action outside had nothing to do with the inside for the time being. Chijiang Nayue, who was tied to a bomb, was surrounded by five people in the middle and was forced to sit on a chair. This position also directly blocked the view of the two robbers who were left behind.

So they couldn't see that in the center of this "encirclement" there was a man named Jinpei Matsuda who was studying the bomb on Akae Nanazuki's body with his head down.

The safest thing to do is of course to remove the bomb and then try to dismantle it, but the robbers are still there, so in order not to alert the enemy, we can only do this temporarily.

Matsuda Jinpei's brows had never relaxed since he carefully opened the shell of the bomb. He lowered his voice and smacked his lips: "The robbers don't look very professional, but the bomb is very sophisticated. Where did they buy it at such a high price?"

In a sense, this kind of speech was the most inappropriate thing to say in this situation, as it would cause tension among the hostages and cause inconvenience. However, Jinpei Matsuda did not seem to be worried about it at all.

Akae Nayue did not disappoint him. She sat there motionless when he told her not to move. She lowered her eyes and looked at Matsuda Jinpei who was half-kneeling in front of her and defusing the bomb seriously. She was inexplicably obedient. When she heard this, she just said "oh" and asked in return, "Then you can't defuse it?"

Matsuda Jinpei raised his eyelids and met his gaze in mid-air. His unruly curly hair trembled as he snorted and laughed. The young and energetic future police officer even showed confidence in his punctuation marks: "How is that possible? This kind of thing can only last three rounds at most. I'll take it apart for you to see!"

Akae Nazuki then raised her chin, and her gaze fell on the pocket of Morofushi Kagemitsu, who was standing at the back.

"…This robbery is essentially a diversion. The person who designed all this intends to use the chaotic scene here to distract the police and distract them from their real target. As for the real target, it is probably a nearby jewelry store, but they are not really robbing in the chaos. This is just a pretext for them to mislead you."

The boy, who had passed the police academy's written exam with all A's, had a shocking pinch mark on his neck and a bomb strapped to his body that could explode at any time, but said calmly, "What they really want to do is kidnap, and they chose the hostages for a purpose. You can go and check if any of the regular customers in that jewelry store are anxiously contacting the police, trying to get information from you about the current situation of the hostages there."

There are more than one young and energetic person here who is confident in his or her profession.

Morofu Jingguang, who had already contacted the police outside and maintained a stable communication channel at the very beginning, calmly adjusted the position of the mobile phone in his pocket to ensure that the two conversations could be received completely.

Meanwhile, Rei Furuya and Kou Date were also keeping a close eye on the two robbers, looking for an opportunity to strike.