After agreeing to find a safe house with a bathtub for someone, Furuya Rei sent the contact information of a low-level member of the organization in charge of logistics to Hasegawa Yu, asking him to communicate with the person himself.

This low-level member is naturally his, and when the time comes, Furuya Zero will be able to learn about Hasegawa Yu's movements from him.

Most of the organization members find their own safe houses to avoid having their whereabouts known to others.

It is true that the organization also has safe houses under its name. If you want to check, all the code-named members can be found. Therefore, they are mostly used by members as temporary residences and not for long-term residence.

Furuya Rei doesn't care whether Hasegawa Yu's residence is hidden enough. Even if the boss asks him to lead a newcomer, it is not his concern.

What he wanted to find out more right now was the identity of the newcomer.

The information that Yuya Kazami brought back to him from South Korea was very much in the style of an organized organization creating fake identities for people. After Rei Furugaya identified it, he did not ask anyone to investigate further.

As for the rest, the experimental subject is not like it; the lover is questionable.

...The heir who concealed his identity and was thrown out to gain experience?

Fūya Rei folded his hands and supported his chin, looking expressionlessly at the orange-haired young man not far away who was so happy that he hummed a song softly after learning that he could move to another safe house.

Sol Sol Sol Fa Mi…the tune was one he had never heard before, but that didn't matter.

Furuya Rei reorganized his thoughts.

He is covered in luxury goods but has no money - the luggage his family packed for him before he was thrown out; he only has a vague concept of the inner world and no specific knowledge - the superior can just lead and control his subordinates, and professional matters will be done by professionals for him; his infectious power is like that of a scary puppy virus - how suitable he is to win people's hearts.

The organization's operations were highly sophisticated, with each department operating independently. As long as they could recruit loyal subordinates like Gin, it wouldn't be a big deal if the heir remained a naive mascot.

After all, the Boss himself is not suitable for being on stage for various reasons, but only a handful of people know this, so it is only natural to launch a puppet that is easy to control.

Fūya Ling pondered, if this is true, why would the boss trust him to hand over the newcomer?

That's right. It has been three years since the last time the boss suspected his loyalty was wavering. After all, he grew up in the organization and can still be trusted.

Fūya Rei couldn't figure out what he was thinking three years ago and chose to run for a seat in parliament.

After all…if he doesn't act accordingly, the boss has the ability to push another puppet of the Karasuma family to compete for the prime ministership, which would bring greater benefits to the organization.

Now if it were me, an outsider from the Karasuma family, the boss would not be willing to allocate resources to me to compete for the prime ministership.

Thinking of this, Fūya Rei continued to observe the orange-haired young man. Could it be that the boss wanted to let the newcomer come and completely "win over" him?

Yu Hasegawa, who had no idea that his "identity" had changed three times with his predecessors and that his status was getting higher and higher, successfully communicated with the logistics staff while humming a song.

In the good mood of finally being able to soak the fish tail, he put away his phone and looked up, and was startled by the blond man with a dark face.

Hasegawa Yu called out cautiously, "Senior?"

"Which song is Xiaoyou humming? It's quite nice." Putting down his hand, Fōtani Rei changed his expression in a second and became a reliable and easy-going senior again.

Suspecting he was hallucinating, Hasegawa Yu blinked, "It's a ballad I've heard since I was a child. It doesn't have a specific name."

"It doesn't feel like a Japanese ballad." Furuya Rei pretended to be curious.

It is reasonable for a large family to send the heir to live abroad since childhood for the safety of the heir.

"Well...it could be that." Hasegawa Yu was conflicted for a moment.

This song is not only sung by mermaids in the Indian Ocean, but also by mermaids in other ocean countries.

The mermaids closest to Japan are the North Pacific, where even the sea goddess is found. Plus, regardless of which ocean they come from, they all speak Japanese, so rounding it up makes sense!

Jianggu Ling: "?"

Could it be that the Japanese nanny sang this song to the young master while abroad? And combined it with some local folk songs from abroad?

"Xiaoyou, can you sing it again? It sounds so familiar to me, but I just can't remember where it is." Fūya Rei said without blinking.

Note the melody and then look up which country's style it is related to.

Hasegawa Yu rarely failed to respond immediately, "?"

Jianggu Ling: "...??"

The two looked at each other.

"Senior, you..." Hasegawa Yu was confused. How could the senior have heard such a song unique to the mermaid kingdom?

Maybe there is a similar melody in this world?

Hasegawa Yu quickly came up with a logical conclusion, "Senior, if you think this song is similar to mine, please tell me."

I'm curious, so I'll go find it and listen to it later.

"...Okay." Fang Guling smiled.

Something was wrong. The newcomer looked like this ballad shouldn't have been heard by anyone before.

So it turns out that this was created by a Japanese nanny by combining foreign and local folk songs?

Today, there are particularly many question marks about Rei Furuya, who is going further and further astray and seems to be unable to come back.

Hasegawa Yu didn't care that there were no instruments at hand, and sang directly, this time with the lyrics, "The colorful breeze blows gently with the side of my face~"*

Fūya Rei once again folded his hands to support his chin.

What’s going on? I feel like I’m being purified.

It’s like a super villain who has done all kinds of evil suddenly heard the nursery rhymes that his mother used to sing to him when he was a child, and his dark heart was cleansed from the inside out.

Hasegawa Yu, who was singing, saw that the blond senior's face had darkened again, and he was sure that this time it was not an illusion.

Although it's impolite, the seniors are really like the villainous water fairies who hear the mermaid princesses singing and immediately fight back with their baroque songs in order to avoid being defeated.

Shaking off the extremely scary scene of a senior in dark rock-style clothes holding a microphone and singing "Baroque of a World Without Light", Hasegawa Yu's singing never stopped.

"The colorful dreamland of the seven seas..."*

“Why the seven seas?”

After quietly listening to a song, I wonder if the voice of the song has purified me, and I wonder if it has truly evoked doubts. "Traditionally, there are seven continents and four oceans, right? But if you break it down even further, there are seven continents and eight oceans."

Of course there is also the saying of five oceans.

"The seven seas."

Hasegawa Yu, who was extremely adamant on this point, said in a serious tone, "The seven seas are a fact."

This is how their mermaid kingdom is divided!

Fūya Ling raised his eyebrows. It was rare to see a newcomer like this.

I thought newcomers had no temper.

Hasegawa Yu decisively skipped discussing with humans the issue of how the ocean is divided in human geography, because it's all ocean after all.

He asked expectantly, "Senior, did you recognize which song it resembles?"

"No." Furuya Rei paused for a moment, avoiding those orange-gold eyes, "After listening to the whole song, it doesn't seem like it anymore."

"Is that so?" Hasegawa Yu scratched his head.

This concludes the topic of "ballads".

The logistics staff worked quickly to find a safe house that met the requirements, and within a day they notified Hasegawa Yu that he could move.

After stuffing all his stuff into the suitcase, Hasegawa Yu put the candy cane into his cross-body bag, and walked into the new safe house with Mr. Ikko and the Garfield doll in his hands.

Without bothering to pack his luggage, he immediately ran to see the bathroom he had been longing for.

The bathtub in the bathroom was not very big, just an average size that could barely fit an adult man.

Yuto Hasegawa is 181cm tall. In order to appear on camera, he always maintains a thin figure, so he fits in just right when lying down.

But it might not be enough to just conjure up a fish tail.

"yeah!"

Even so, Hasegawa Yu still raised his hands excitedly, turned around and looked for the sea salt bath ball, "Soak your tail, soak your tail~"

Noah's Ark, who had repeatedly confirmed that there were no unnecessary eavesdropping devices in the safe house, sighed and thought that mermaids were too easy to raise.

However, he did not consider the issue of money, or rather, he had never thought about it in the first place.

When he first assigned the mermaid's identity to the Black Organization, he was thinking of letting people from another world cause trouble for the organization, mainly to watch the show.

For this reason, Noah's Ark made a small deal with the boss of the organization, Karasuma Renya, who has always been wary of artificial intelligence but also wants him.

He promised not to invade and steal from the organization's network at will, and helped to create a security program that was very simple for him; and Karasuma Renya only had to hand the newcomer to Bourbon without giving him a code name, and Noah's Ark would handle the emails about the newcomer itself.

It was because Bourbon almost found Hiroki's true whereabouts and threatened his personal safety. Although it was under the orders of Karasuma Renya, it did not prevent Noah's Ark from taking its anger out on him.

Later, Kudo Yusaku intervened and his attitude was clearly biased towards Sawada Hiroki, and the two sides stopped interfering with each other.

Noah's Ark knew that Karasuma Renya would agree to accept Hasegawa Yu more in the hope of building a good relationship with him through the newcomer, or to further use this opportunity to find the location of the artificial intelligence server.

Thinking that even if given seven chances to rewind, the ignorant mermaid would soon run out of opportunities and die completely, Noah's Ark didn't care what Karasuma Renya was thinking.

Now, he regrets it.

Once the Red Team character's Honkai value drops below 50%, it can spread from that point and affect other Red Team characters that come into contact with them. They don't necessarily have to stay in the organization...

Noah's Ark couldn't help but think about the feasibility of abducting the mermaid to the United States.

Even though he hasn't told Hiroki about mermaids yet, it's not a big deal. I believe Hiroki will be surprised.

He could buy a big bathtub for the merman, and a private beach wouldn't be impossible if he tried harder.

If he didn't know who the red team members were in Honkai Impact 3rd and was afraid of delaying the mermaid's resurrection mission, Noah's Ark would have poached them long ago.

Hasegawa Yu, who had a second-in-command named "The Next Door Prankster" living in his mind, hummed a song as he filled the bathtub with water, threw in a carefully selected sea salt bath ball, and then couldn't wait to take off his clothes and lie down in the bathtub.

A beautiful orange fish tail broke through the water, its small, smooth scales tightly packed together, each edge tinged with a faint orange glow, giving it a rounded, lovely appearance. Looking down, the translucent orange tail fin, as thin as a cicada's wing and flowing like silk, was forced to dangle outside the bathtub, giving it an inexplicable sense of aggrieved feeling.

After returning to her mermaid form, Hasegawa Yu's hair changed from short to waist-length, with slightly curled ends. Under the indoor lights, it seemed as if a faint orange-gold glow was flowing on it.

The dreamlike feeling of a mermaid from a fairy tale came over me, and the only one who could see this scene at the moment was an artificial intelligence that was two years old but ten years old.

[Xiaoyou, do you like the beaches in Hawaii?] Noah's Ark couldn't help but secretly lay the groundwork for his plan to steal her away. [The weather there is also very good.]

"Well, there are too many humans on the beaches of Hawaii."

Hasegawa Yu let out a comfortable sigh and gently swung his tail. "We mermaids rarely go there, unless it's late at night."

Noah's Ark turned to search for private beaches.

He remembered that there was one under the name of Thomas Schindler. Thomas himself died two years ago, and his Schindler Company was transferred to Hiroki. The same goes for the private beach!

Noah's Ark noted the private beach address with satisfaction. [Xiaoyou, do you want to go to the United States?]

"Hmm?" Hasegawa Yu tilted his head. "Is there a mission?"

[No.] I'm sorry to hear that Noah's Ark, [but if you have the chance to go, there's a surprise for you.]

"Really?"

Hasegawa Yu opened his eyes wide in surprise, arched his eyebrows, and showed a visibly happy expression, "I will look forward to it~"

Unfortunately, there are currently no missions to the United States, but there are quite a few within Japan.

"There will be a banquet held at the Rice Flower Building tonight. People from the Di Ai Group will be in attendance. Xiaoyou, do you want to go and join us?"

As Furuya Rei expected, the orange-haired young man agreed without hesitation.

The boss had never issued any missions to newcomers, and it was not convenient for Ling Jiang to let him get involved too much, so he took a roundabout approach.

"Don't worry, senior, I will try my best to find evidence that the killer was sent by the Teiai Group!" Hasegawa Yu clenched his fist.

"Yeah." Furuya Rei replied perfunctorily, "Your partner is still Scotland, but he won't be entering with you. You should pretend not to know each other during the banquet."

"Okay." Hasegawa Yoshinobu nodded. "Senior and Scottish senior seem to have a good relationship."

Hearing this, Jiang Gu Ling raised his eyelids and glanced at him, chuckling nonchalantly, his expression not changing much. "Why do you say that?"

"intuition."

Hasegawa Yu rubbed his chin, "And every time he comes here, his partner is always a Scottish senior, which means that Furuya-senpai often communicates with him, so it's normal that they have a good relationship."

"The relationship between members of an organization cannot be improved simply by frequent communication."

As he spoke, the blond, dark-skinned man leaned back in his chair, a dark light flashing across his purple-gray eyes. "It will be the same even if Xiaoyou takes action."

"?" Hasegawa Yu was puzzled. His senior always said weird things recently.

"Even though a crow may be covered in bright, colorful fur, it's still a crow at heart," Fūya Rei said, meaninglessly. "Without sharp claws, this alone won't be enough to catch any prey."

He will not be easily swayed by his successor (to be determined).

"?" Thinking that his senior must have something else in his words, Hasegawa Yu tried hard to think, but to no avail.

After a while, he said seriously, "Let's speak Japanese!"

Fūya Rei's eyelids twitched.

Seeing no response, Hasegawa Yu tried a codeword that could unlock normal speech, "Can you speak English?"

The curve of the corners of Jōgō Rei's mouth gradually flattened, and the corners of his forehead also jumped.

It seems that the English is not right either.

Just when Hasegawa Yu was about to try out Korean, Chinese, Thai and Russian, a senior with a mixed-race appearance interrupted him in time.

The blond man sat up straight, a bandage faintly visible on his wrist.

"I mean, I hate intuitive guys." Furuya Rei ignored the previous sentence and went straight to another unrelated conclusion.

Hasegawa Yu, who often relies on his intuition, such as how he finds his way, was startled and said, "Ah, ah."

He stole a glance at the man, then quickly looked away, his fingers aimlessly fiddling with the hem of his clothes, before taking another look. "Is he really that annoying?"

Meeting those pitiful puppy-dog eyes, after a few breaths, Furuya Rei slowly added a qualifying word, "I hate the intuitive type with natural curls."

Natural curls? Multiple curls?

Hasegawa Yuu recalled that the ends of her hair were also curly when she was in mermaid form.

Why do I still feel like I'm being hit?

Fūya Rei glanced at the orange-haired young man's extremely smooth short hair, which clearly didn't look like it had been straightened on purpose.

"Xiaoyou is an exception."

Not wanting to describe someone's characteristics in too much detail, Fūya Rei closed his eyes and added the explanation again.

As soon as the words fell, the listless orange-haired puppy suddenly stood up.

"Senior, is there anything I should pay attention to at the party tonight?" Hasegawa Yu looked at the man with bright eyes.

"No." Fūya Rei took a look at the young man's glowing face and said, "Just wear your most ordinary suit."

Doesn’t the new person look too good?

Before entering the banquet hall, Zhu Fujingguang narrowed his eyes to confirm whether the newlyweds would cause any trouble just in case.

I haven't seen him for a while. Was he like this last time?

Although he looked super energetic last time.

Zhu Fu Jingguang couldn't help but take another look. Compared with the last time, this time it seemed like a beauty filter was added several times.

Hasegawa Yu, who was simply able to get the upper hand, looked down at himself. He was wearing the most ordinary black suit. "Senior, is there something wrong with my clothes? I bought them specially for the cheap price!"

Zhu Fujingguang, who almost didn't recognize the cheap item, was silent for a moment, "This one will do. It's okay. You can go in."

He decided to stay away from the newlyweds at the banquet.

"Okay~"

The Beika Building in the center of Beika Town is brightly lit tonight, and the parking lot underneath has become a luxury car exhibition. Celebrities invited by the host of the banquet gathered here, waiting for the banquet to begin.

This banquet was an exchange meeting organized by the Di'ai Group, mainly to strengthen the relationship between the two parties for future cooperation.

This is the part that Hasegawa Yuu knows.

[This party is not that simple, Xiaoyou should be careful.] Noah's Ark reminded him, [Don't drink drinks given to you by strangers.]

"I understand that."

Hasegawa Yuu, who had separated from Morobushi Kagemitsu, looked around and saw no one around. Then he whispered, "Don't eat food that's out of your sight."

This is what his agent taught him in his original world!

Noah's Ark felt a little relieved that the mermaid was finally a little alert.

"Young Master, are you alone?" a voice sounded beside him. "I happen to be alone too. How about some companionship?"

A young man with half-long hair and purple eyes stood a few steps away from Hasegawa Yu. He was tall and straight, and his posture was casual.

A waiter passed by with a tray full of champagne glasses. The purple-eyed young man casually took two glasses from the tray and handed one to Hasegawa Yu, "Hmm?"

Hasegawa Yu, who had just been reminded by Noah's Ark, politely declined, "Thank you, but no thanks."

Who is this human being? If I don't know him, it's always right to reject him.

The smile on Kenji Hagiwara's lips froze.

Isn't his real appearance inferior to Jun Shibata or Kenichi Sawada?

The newcomer was not at all enthusiastic about his true self.