Chapter 286 Thirty-one Villains

In the previous missions, each time Chijiang Nayue had to play a role well before he could gain his own memories in that world.

But perhaps it was because the timeline of this world was as messy as a ball of wool, and even the world consciousness couldn't be straightened out, so he simply threw the problem back to Chijiang Nayue, letting him decide when to restore what memories.

Of course, this is the version summarized by Akae Nazuki himself. The real situation is that when his five friends recall the corresponding memories, he will gain a memory of his own perspective on this world. He can also use his understanding of his friends and his speculation about past events to manually create a scene for others that will allow them to recover their memories.

This is the truth behind the phrase 'it's up to him'.

When Hagiwara Kenji was dreaming, when Date Kou was dreaming, when Matsuda Jinpei had a flashback in the alley, and when Morofushi Keimitsu was stimulated on the observatory, Akae Nazuki acquired memories at the same time as them.

Unlike other people who knew basically nothing before each restart and had to guess the truth even after recovering their memories, Akae Nayue gained memories from his own perspective of this world. Even though he didn't get the most important part of the memory of Rei Furuya, he almost knew what happened.

[The Scottish timeline is, at most, the second death of Kalua.] Chijiang Nayue said firmly.

【Why? 】

[Because he didn't choose to die in that timeline, dying in front of Scotland was really just a... regrettable accident.] He explained calmly, [And I know myself, if the "time restart after death" thing happened once, I might stop at the stage of doubt and unable to confirm it, but if it happened a second time, I would understand this truth, and I would...]

He would try to die as soon as Bourbon was silenced, so as to turn back time.

But Kaluuya didn't do that. He was serious about helping Scotland escape the organization's pursuit and wanted to kill the person who sniped Bourbon to avenge his own generation, but he never thought about going back in time.

[Even if they in this world are not yet in my heart enough to be called family, they are still the first batch of close friends that I am very serious about dating.] Chijiang Nayue said slowly, [My biggest advantage is that I have a good memory, so I will take revenge if I have a grudge.]

The killing of his best friend is a revenge that he cannot help but take. Not only will he take revenge, he will also definitely find a way to change the fact that Furuya Rei died. So not doing so means that Kaluuya did die a second time that time.

This is why in Jinpei Matsuda's memory, the familiar stranger so swiftly admitted to being the murderer, and after being exposed by Jinpei Matsuda, he readily changed his excuse, but what remained unchanged was that he wanted Jinpei Matsuda to kill him.

After all, from Chijiang Nayue's perspective, 'he' really has a headache.

After accidentally dying at the hands of Moroki Kagemitsu, he suddenly realized that he had returned to the police academy. After finally beating up that idiot Hiro to vent his anger, he decisively dropped out of school and prepared to return to the organization to make arrangements to prevent any accidents from happening to the two undercover agents after they entered.

As a result, he managed to save these two people with great effort. When he pretended to pass by to see how his other friends were doing, he ran into Hagiwara Kenji who had an accident. Before he could rush to the scene, he was killed by an accidental discharge of a gun.

The unlucky friend must be saved, but at that time, Kaluuya asked Jinpei Matsuda for help without knowing it.

When it was pointed out to him, he didn't actually have the thought of 'sudden enlightenment' because Kaluuya had always known it, and he also understood what Jinpei Matsuda said. However, after his parents passed away, even Sharon would not say those words to him directly.

So that's what Matsuda and his team thought.

Kaluuya then thought: I don’t want it.

Asking them for help is too embarrassing, isn't it? That's not his setting. His setting is, since you said you don't want me to do that, then I will create a timeline where everyone survives.

Akae Nazuki could feel that at that time Kaluuya was happy because Jinpei Matsuda had this attitude even towards strangers. The killer who had nothing thought from the bottom of his heart that at least this showed that the several restarts of the timeline were meaningful.

The world always needs people like Jinpei Matsuda alive.

So when Natalie died later, he also chose to go back in time, and killed the members of the organization who would expose the identities of the undercover agents in advance on the timeline of Kenji Hagihara, sent the young man who would hit Natalie to prison in advance, and shot the bomber who would kill Kenji Hagihara...

Chijiang Nayue's eyes widened: [What happened next? Oh, I remember now.]

Then Jinpei Matsuda died.

Jinpei Matsuda, the man who made Kaluuya feel that the world could still be saved and made Kaluuya decide to completely join the side of saving people, has died.

At that moment, Akajenna could feel that Kalua really wanted to curse and was also very confused.

Kaluuya seems to have no idea why he is doing all these things. No matter what he does, someone has to die?

Even though everything seemed calm on the surface, it was not difficult to see that Kaluuya was about to collapse mentally at that time, just from the fact that he took the initiative to hypnotize Kenji Hagiwara this time and asked him to kill him as soon as possible so that the timeline could be restarted.

He even smiled and comforted Hagiwara Kenji, allowing the police officer who was unable to do it to kill him unknowingly.

With every restart, Kaluuya would return to the police academy, and time would move forward again and again. Finally, after this restart, he found himself back on the first day of school at the police academy when he opened his eyes.

Kaluuya walked into the gate of the police academy dragging his suitcase without looking around, and passed by the half-long-haired and curly-haired young men who were also reporting at the door, passed by the gentle blue-eyed young man in the corridor, passed by the tall young man who was helping his classmates move luggage downstairs in the dormitory, and finally passed by the blond-haired young man who came out of the office.

He chose to drop out of school on the first day of school, then found Karasuma Manor with his suitcase, and killed his enemy on the first day of his restart.

Kaluuya has begun to get tired of the endless time loop. He can't understand the meaning of his actions. Every time, he seems to be doing useless work.

So this time he didn't save anyone, he just killed his enemy with his own hands and then chose to end his life.

On the one hand, he was tired, and on the other hand, Kaluuya wanted to know that if someone else killed him, time would restart, so what if he killed himself? Could this method break the cycle and stop time from restarting?

However, the reality is that suicide means real death. Kaluuya's attempt ended in failure, and the world could not be restarted because it had reached its limit. In order to save this world that was about to be broken, Akae Nazuki opened her eyes in Karasuma Manor.

This is all we can know so far, except for the very beginning.

Well, even if he really died in the end, even if so many things happened because of them... Akae Nazuki also knew that Kaluuya didn't hate any of them at all, including the 'culprit' Furuya Rei, who was probably the first person who accidentally killed him.

Even when he was most disgusted and chose to raise the knife against himself, Kaluuya never hated them.

Chijiang Nayue suddenly felt a little curious.

Now, all he needs to know is why Furuya Rei in the original timeline killed Kaluya. —

Kenji Hagiwara leaned against the window and took a long breath. His slightly lowered eyelids concealed most of the thoughts in his eyes, making it impossible to see any clues from other angles.

He was also thinking about things related to Chijiang Nayue.

——Want to pull that person out of the darkness.

It was precisely because they had seen Chijiang Nayue standing in the light that they could not bear to watch him fall into darkness.

Kenji Hagiwara, like everyone else, didn't know why, without losing her memory, Akae Nazuki would choose to stand against them this time and do something that the other party had never done before.

After that day, they returned to Tokyo and never heard from Akae Nayue again. The contact information was still there and had not been blocked, but nearly two months had passed and all the messages they sent had fallen on deaf ears and they received no response.

At the same time, after returning, they held a small meeting to exchange information from each other's memories. Hagiwara Kenji learned that Morobushi Kagemitsu, who had the memory of Scotland, was also secretly trying to investigate the intelligence of that organization.

Morobushi Kagemitsu didn't say it directly, but they learned from hints that the organization that Akae Nazuki is currently in seems to be expanding rapidly recently, and they are about to have the last weekend before graduation. According to Morobushi Kagemitsu, the big shot of the organization will soon meet with another big shot from abroad.

It is also said that the big shot was Kaluuya.

They didn't ask Morobushi Kagemitsu how he got this information. The squad leader joked that if they asked, he might not be able to control himself and would touch the handcuffs again. Matsuda Jinpei and Hagiwara Kenji agreed, while Furuya Rei showed an expression that said, "Who changed you, Hiro?"

The undercover investigator, who had many years of dark memories, remained calm and faced the teasing of his friends with a smile.

Anyway, ignoring all the efforts they put in to sneak in, during their internship before graduation, they were successfully transferred to help out on the grounds of "shortage of manpower", and are currently at the venue where the organization is about to hold a meeting.

This seems to be a new business that a certain huge pharmaceutical group has entered into. It just happened to open today, and they have vacated their largest banquet hall to welcome that big shot.

What a generous move! Hagiwara Kenji couldn't help but sigh.

On the other side, Rei Furuya was sitting in front of the sink, looking at the dark circles under his eyes in the mirror, lost in thought.

That day...that night in Hakata, he went to find Yumi Ran to talk, and then he heard some incredible things from Morobushi Kagemitsu. Later, he returned to Tokyo and heard from other people about the "other timelines" they remembered.

Rei Furuya listened carefully to everyone's explanations throughout the whole process. Although he didn't believe it at first, he was contacted by the public security again after returning to Tokyo. The one-eyed police officer who came to him in person asked him some questions, which happened to be related to that organization.

Then, Furuya Rei was surprised to find that everything Director Kuroda said matched what Hiro had told him before.

After some indirect inquiries, he confirmed that the offer Hiro received came from the Public Security Bureau of the Metropolitan Police Department, which was a completely different department from his. Even if Hiro was told this news, it should not have been done while they were still in Hakata.

So, how did Hiro know those things?

Until then, Rei Furuya had to believe that his childhood friends and peers were not having a "collective dream", and what they said... might be true.

This time, because the identity of the legendary big shot from abroad is very important and one careless move could lead to a diplomatic crisis, the Public Security Department seemed to have learned about the organization's appearance in advance and prepared to come to the scene to secretly observe and protect it. Therefore, a few people like Furuya who had been connected with the organization in Hakata in advance were naturally arranged here to perform security tasks.

The blond young man in the mirror rubbed his dark circles and sighed.

Rei Furuya has a good memory. For example, he clearly remembers every word that other people said when they communicated that night, so Rei Furuya actually still has a deepest doubt in his heart.

According to others, each time time went backwards was because Chi Jiang Na Yue died under their subjective or forced pushing. Then why did Chi Jiang Na Yue act so calmly towards them when the opponent had died at least five times in their hands, or even more?

Aren't people supposed to hate the person who killed them? No matter how tolerant you are, you will still have a rejection reaction, or uncontrolled PTSD or something.

But Chi Jiang Nayue didn't do that. Not only did he not reject them, he openly pretended that he didn't remember anything and became friends with them for half a month. He patiently played the role of an ordinary person in front of them for half a month. Even his attitude towards them was only cold on the surface. In fact, everyone could feel that he was relaxed when he was around them.

Forget it... Furuya Rei thought again, no matter what, no one in this world would want to be hated by their recognized friends, right? He felt that Akae Nazuki had a deep connection with that organization and was probably not the "good kid" they thought she was, but this did not prevent Furuya Rei from truly recognizing her as his friend.

Even though Rei Furuya has not recovered any of his memories yet, he still thinks so.

If a classmate who appears cold on the outside but is actually active really appeared in their police academy life, it would probably be very interesting, right?

As he thought about it, Furuya Rei couldn't help but look forward to the day when he would recover his memory.

As for Chijiang and the moon.

Furuya Rei thought nonchalantly: Isn't it good that the other party doesn't hate them?