Chapter 49 Nine Presidents

Chijiang Nayue usually doesn't try to remember the names of unimportant people.

Unless it is required by the character setting, otherwise he will just casually make up a code name as the other party's name, just like when facing criminals in private, and never put them on the same level, even if he has actually investigated their background clearly.

But this morning's appointment was a long-awaited surprise.

Yesterday afternoon in the detective agency, Akae Nazuki asked Morobushi Kagemitsu, whose cognition had been tampered with, about the information of the 'non-existent recommender' who introduced Sayuri Suzumura to the detective agency, but the latter didn't know much. After being questioned by him, he found that he only remembered the other person's name.

[Yuko Miyamoto's information is very ordinary, and it is normal and ordinary, without any trace of being washed.] The voice of Noah's Ark sounded in the headphones, [She left Osaka when she was sixteen last year and came to Tokyo to attend high school. She and Sayuri became friends at that time, but...]

"But it's because it looks too normal that it seems abnormal." Akajinazuki twisted her hands on the dark handlebars, and the cold voice under the helmet was captured by the artificial intelligence without any interference. "The demon deliberately targeted her and Sayuri."

An ordinary high school girl has no chance of getting to know an internationally wanted criminal, but the latter has countless opportunities to take the initiative to get to know the former.

Fyodor's eloquence could confuse right and wrong, something that Akae Nayue had realized as early as last year's game in Yokohama.

Although most of the people in Yokohama's underground world are defeated by Minato, not everyone can be turned against them in three days and brainwashed into sacrificing their lives for the demons.

Not to mention that later, when Fyodor was about to catch him in Chijiang that month, he used only a few words to induce A, a cadre of the port mafia, to commit suicide.

Even if he was originally a useless cadre, Akae Nazuki knew how much A valued his own life. Being able to do this, it can only be said that Fyodor's ability to manipulate people's hearts is enough to be on the same level as the master and apprentice pair of Dazai Osamu and Akae Nazuki.

Therefore, compared to the speculation that Yuko Miyamoto has been replaced by a disguiser, Akae Nazuki thinks that someone like Fyodor would choose to dye the originally pure white girl's hair black. This is safer and can make people more disgusted with his behavior.

After all, since it was possible that the other party could obtain all of Fushimi Kagemitsu's information, it was impossible for Fyodor not to know another very important thing.

Akae Nazuki's adoptive mother Sakura Brandy who was murdered ten years ago, was originally named "Miyamoto Yuu" before marriage, which is only one letter different from the innocent JK "Miyamoto Yuko" who was chosen to dye her hair black.

Just like the last time a year ago when he used the death of Officer A as a provocation to the Port Mafia and him, Fyodor's provocation this time was indeed more successful than last time.

Now, Akae Nazuki chose to leave everyone else behind at this time to meet with Miyamoto Yuko alone. This is the result he wanted to see.

The Kawasaki H2, with its sleek and handsome body painted in red and black, passed silently through the deserted streets at four in the morning, and finally did a beautiful drift, stopping in front of a coffee shop with its doors and windows closed opposite the towering Sun Tower.

The young man with black hair and red eyes was still sitting astride the seat, lazily leaning on his elbows and supporting himself with one foot on the ground. His pitch-black helmet was hanging on the side handlebar, and his light red sunglasses had unconsciously returned to his nose. His cape was casually draped over his shoulders, but it didn't fall off.

When Yuko Miyamoto opened the door of the coffee shop at the appointed time, she saw Akae Nazuki like this.

[You clearly arrived on time, Brother Yue, but it looks like you came here early to show off your style.] The built-in micro-earphones echoed Noah's Ark's precise complaints, [If that Dean Mori from Yokohama knew that the supernatural power that he considered to be comparable to "books" was used by you, Brother Yue, to transform a silent motorcycle and keep your cape from falling off, he would probably be disillusioned, right?]

No, Noah was wrong.

Akae Nayue raised her head and tilted her eyes towards Miyamoto Yuko, thinking with a little sympathy in her heart: The image of [Kleinjuku] in Mr. Mori's mind was shattered as early as when he was three years old and skillfully used his supernatural powers to help the teacher play games in class.

After leaving the detective agency yesterday, Akae Nazuki asked Noah's Ark to contact the extra 'client' in the detective agency, Miyamoto Yuko, and informed her that he would visit her early this morning.

Both Fyodor and Akae Nazuki were well aware of the result. They both knew that Akae Nazuki would definitely come alone after learning the provocative name, and start with Miyamoto Yuko, who was forcibly inserted by Shuye as a client of the detective agency. Therefore, Miyamoto Yuko agreed to his visit, which was definitely at the instruction of Fyodor.

Simply put, this was a trap that both parties were well aware of, and Chi Jiang Na Yue came anyway even though she knew it was a Hongmen Banquet.

"Miyamoto-chan, I'm sorry." He calmly followed the person in front of him all the way up to the second floor, and finally stopped not far in front of Yuko Miyamoto.

Although he called her a nickname that he had never called a little girl he had just met, his tone was cold: "I'm not in the mood to play with him today, so I might be more direct."

Before Yuko Miyamoto could even open her mouth, a flower blossomed before her eyes, and then a pair of cold hands were placed affectionately on her shoulders.

The black-haired young man who was a few steps away from her a second ago stood silently behind her, keeping a reasonable distance, and holding her hand firmly.

The voice that she had heard countless times on TV said to her briskly and softly, "Hey, tell me, Miyamoto-chan—"

"When do you plan to kill the demon who ruined your color?" Chi Jiang turned his head to the side, his eyes passed through the pitch-black darkness in the room, and his watery red eyes stared straight at the monitor on the wall with a flashing red light. "Or, you can let the demon tell me himself."

Fyodor was watching here, and Chi Jiang Na Yue understood this very well, so he looked at the demon who was watching the whole situation from behind through the monitor without hesitation.

Then he released the hand that was holding Yuko Miyamoto, and lightly stroked her neck with his thumb, making a childish and provocative gesture in the eyes of others, and raised the corners of his mouth, showing a brilliant smile at that side.

"I'm good at cat and mouse games."

His lips were not saying what it sounded like. What he actually said was: [I will find you, Feijia.]

Even though he seemed to be irritated and provoked, Akae Nazuki's mind was extremely calm. He casually patted Miyamoto Yuko, who was so frightened by the murderous intent he had just "accidentally" revealed that she dared not move.

This child is quite innocent. Never mind. I won’t scare her.

The flashing red light from the monitor opposite was imprinted on Chijiang Nayue's retina. He broke down the flashing frequency, turned it into letters, shuffled them again, and then quickly sorted them in his mind.

This was the demon's response to him.

[I'll be waiting for you in the lair, Moon-kun.]

Chijiang Nayue curled the corners of his lips, and he seemed to see the Russian man with a similar skin color to him, wearing a white felt hat and with a pale face, sitting in the safe house belonging to mice, looking calm and confident of victory.

Tsk, it seems that calling him "Feijia" doesn't disgust him, but it doesn't matter.

Miyamoto Yuko, who had not yet had time to speak, suddenly trembled and said in a trembling voice: "I'm sorry, Officer Akae."

Chijiang Nayue, whose attention had been half on her, quickly realized that something was wrong and quickly turned the girl's front towards himself.

He actually saw a bundle of explosives tied to Miyamoto Yuko's chest, which was covered by her coat.

...No, that's impossible.

What Chijiang Nayue didn't believe was not the existence of the bomb, but that he didn't believe that he hadn't discovered this before!

There was a flash of surprise in his eyes.

How was it possible, how could he not notice that Yuko Miyamoto had this tied to her body in a suicide style?

It's not that Akajinazuki is overconfident in his reasoning and observation abilities. For him, receiving the influx of information from the outside world at any time has been a daily routine for the past 28 years.

Under normal circumstances, when he saw Yuko Miyamoto for the first time, he should have captured all the information about her. Even the subtle wrinkles on the corners of her clothes would become a clue stored in his mind, and then combined with other clues, it would finally become the "labels" on other people that appeared in his eyes.

But before Yuko Miyamoto opened her coat herself, Akae Nazuki did not find any labels related to explosives on her - all other clues were normally gathered into labels!

It was as if... as if an invisible hand had erased all the clues and information that would allow him to draw conclusions.

Akae Nazuki's reasoning is not omniscience that appears out of nowhere, but a god-like talent that is very similar to his favorite idol, Detective Ranpo. The [Klein's Jug] does not enhance this talent, but is instead a restriction that protects his brain from exploding.

The only person who could erase the clues from his sight was another psychic.

The savior moved his fingertips, watching the countdown of the explosives move towards one minute, but his expression remained calm, and new information flashed through his mind.

A new esper who didn't appear in Yokohama last year, belonging to the "Rat of the Dead House", the name of the ability is unknown, but the effect is to eliminate some clues in reality, or perhaps it should be said that it eliminates evidence - is it only related to the "explosion"? Or is it related to the "crime"? The latter is more likely.

The Miyamoto Yuko in front of him had a look of despair in her eyes, but the corners of her mouth were trembling and raised, as if being able to die here with Akae Nayue was the embodiment of the value of her life.

"I'm sorry, Officer Chijiang." She said it again, and stretched out her hands to tightly wrap around Chijiang Nayue's waist. The explosives were also tightly attached to Chijiang Nayue because of this posture. "This is to obtain salvation, to be liberated from this sinful world!" What on earth did that Russian with strange beliefs teach her?

"These words may make the teacher's heart beat for a second, but they are useless to me." Chijiang Nayue sighed and directly reached out and pressed on the explosives on the back of the girl in his arms.

He was already told that he was in a bad mood today and didn't want to play any human games with the devil, even though the current situation was that the ordinary people he was protecting wanted to die with him.

How could something that was bound to fail cause such emotional fluctuations in him?

As Chi Jiang Na Yue moved, the air around the two of them twisted for a moment, and the explosives that were used as a trump card began to weather for no reason, and finally turned into dust and silently drifted away in the wind that shouldn't be indoors.

As luck would have it, he had also met Miss Margaret Mitchell from the group, and of course had copied her special ability [Floating]. However, since they were not very familiar with each other, the copied ability was not very effective and could only be used to clean up "garbage".

But if that's the case, then in the eyes of the demon, his ability will be limited to 'weathering objects', right?

Akae Nazuki seemed to be thinking: To test what his special ability is, it seems that this is one of the reasons why the demon let Miyamoto Yuko commit suicide.

"Bombs can't be used as toys." His thoughts ended in the blink of an eye, and before Yuko Miyamoto in his arms could react, his self-explosion ended before it even began.

Chijiang Nayue then patted her on the back and said, "It is not death that can free you and redeem you, child."

As they were talking, a ray of light suddenly flashed through the French window beside them, which was originally tightly covered by a curtain, and then the curtain slowly opened automatically.

At first glance, her eyes were dazzled by the rising sunlight. Chi Jiangnanyue blinked reflexively. The next second, her expression turned cold. She hugged the girl and switched their positions.

call out!

A bullet shattered the glass, passed through Chijiang Nayue's shoulder, and finally embedded into the ground.

"Officer Akae!" Yuko Miyamoto screamed in despair, as if her psychological defenses were completely broken.

Chi Jiang Nayue no longer had the energy to comfort her this time. The scene in front of his eyes began to tremble inexplicably, his vision gradually became blurred, and his consciousness began to fade rapidly.

"There's something on that bullet." He said to Noah's Ark quickly, "Tell Hiro-kun to take the little detective and don't come over for the time being!"

On the player panel that only Chijiang Nayue could see, a glaring debuff was already hanging under his name. Obviously, even the thing that he could knock down could not escape from the analysis of [Klein Jug].

His eyes were fixed on the debuff.

[Twin Viruses: Oh, it looks like this is a virus that requires killing each other in order to survive. Do you want to guess who the other person infected will be?]

Another one, the person infected with the virus...killed each other?

Laughter escaped from Akajinazuki's throat. He knocked out Miyamoto Yuko, who was just a chess piece, cleanly and decisively, and looked at the clean surveillance camera again.

So that's how it is. Testing out his supernatural powers was only the demon's most superficial purpose. The real purpose of that guy was to use the twin viruses to put him and someone very important to him on the two ends of the scale of life and death and let him make a choice.

Or, to put it more bluntly.

[He wants to test our relationship and verify whether I really have you in my hands, Shu.] Akae Nazuki said to her own world consciousness, [As expected of a demon, I am getting excited when hearing this.]

The fact that Chi Jiang attended the Hongmen Banquet that month proved that he couldn't have made no preparations. After all, he had originally planned to leave here and continue the exploration with his companions. The sniper and the virus only disrupted his Plan A, but it didn't matter.

The Savior always has a Plan B.*

【Let’s go. 】

He licked his lips, smiled happily, and said to the book in his heart: "It's time to go to the next world to complete the mission."