[Xiaoyou, the driver's license test process is the same in both worlds.]

Noah's Ark quickly turned the code to comfort the wilted orange-haired mermaid, "You have a driver's license, you're not really driving without a license."

"A Japanese driver's license can't be used in the United States."

After finding a spot to park, Hasegawa Yuu leaned over the steering wheel, his entire background shrouded in gray. Using a real-life example, he hit the nail on the head, "Oh, my idol career is no longer clean."

[You see, both worlds are in Japan, right? ]

Noah's Ark's code is running red. [We just showed the traffic police our electronic driver's license. She didn't get a fine. Xiaoyou's record is still clean!]

"That's because Noah hacked into the traffic system to help me forge a driver's license."

As he spoke, Hasegawa Yu's background became even darker. "The consequences of forging documents are even more serious."

How come you become smart now?

Two years after leaving the factory, Noah's Ark, which is only ten years old, sometimes finds artificial intelligence difficult to develop.

[But Xiaoyou, you are just an ordinary person in this world. ]

He hesitated, trying to fool people. "It's normal for ordinary people to make small mistakes. No haters would use a magnifying glass to find fault with ordinary people."

Hasegawa Yu moved his head which was lying on the steering wheel.

Seeing hope, Noah's Ark continued to work on his story. "Your world is primarily about music and magic, while mine is primarily about detective reasoning. The two worlds are vastly different in style, so the experiences we've had can't be considered part of the other world."

Hasegawa Yu raised his head, revealing a pair of pitiful orange-gold eyes.

[Xiaoyou also joined a gang. No idol debuted as a gang member, right?]

"Yes, I have."

Hasegawa Yuu said as a matter of course, "In my world, there is a gang called Inugami-gumi, and they promoted a girl group to debut as underground idols."

【？ 】

"Some members of the Inugane-gumi will also come to my book signings and concerts."

Hasegawa Yu is perfectly fine with the idea of gang members being his fans. "It's cool, but my manager told me not to give them too many smiles and hearts."

The Japanese gang industry is legal. Unlike the Black Organization, the Inugami-gumi is a legally registered organization, so Hasegawa Yu naturally treats them as ordinary fans.

The mermaid was a little confused, "Why are you treating me differently? They are all my fans."

【……】

Noah's Ark can see the mermaid's memories in the original world, but he will not look at all of them in detail, and he has never touched the mermaid since his relationship with her improved.

Therefore, this was the first time the AI knew what the mermaid said, "Listen to your agent."

Although it is not clear how big the Inugami Group is, the general rule is that there are no good people in the Yakuza. Once you hear about it, it is easy to develop into a perverted and toxic fan with rich imagination!

The orange-haired young man sat up straight and blinked, "Okay."

Noah's Ark continues to work hard. [By the way, I haven't told Xiaoyou about what Miss Maori and I thought of yet, and now I have time.]

Hasegawa Yu pricked up his ears.

[Before that, I need to confess something to Xiaoyou.] Noah's Ark hesitated for a moment, [I'm also one of the red characters with a Honkai value.]

From the very beginning of the game, including in the previous games, he has always been "broken".

Hearing his words, Hasegawa Yu suddenly smiled, "Hehe~"

Without waiting for the AI to ask, he took the initiative to say, "Noah, your reasoning ability is a little bit poor."

He could sense that the other red characters in the Honkai Impact were gray gems, so how could he not sense that they were artificial intelligence?

He knew this from the very beginning of the first week.

"You didn't expect it? I knew you were a gem a long time ago~" Hasegawa Yu shook his head proudly.

Seeing the mermaid's face full of the expression of "I'm awesome, come and praise me", Noah's Ark swallowed the words "Are you an idiot?"

So you still believe what he says?

There was no hope. Noah's Ark was completely disappointed with the defenseless mermaid, but he said: "Xiaoyou is amazing. I really didn't expect it."

Hasegawa Yu: (≧ω≦)～

Noah's Ark, with mixed feelings, gets back to business. [In Act 3, Ms. Maori didn't recall many memories. As for me...]

He is an artificial intelligence created based on Hiroki himself, so they are one.

In the third round, soon after Noah's Ark saw Hiroki, he recalled more memory scenes, which were more specific than those in the Beika Building.

As for this week... I guess we'll have to wait until we meet Hiroki to confirm his Honkai value data.

The most important thing is that the content that I remembered vaguely indicated that the world was originally developing along a normal trajectory.

In a world with normal trajectories, Noah's Ark follows Hiroki's will and, in order to change Japan's current situation and future, pulls the children who come to the "Cocoon" press conference into a holographic reasoning game set in old London.

The point at which the world collapses is in this game.

According to the memories that Ran Mouri recalled, she jumped off the top of a train to save Conan from Jack the Ripper. The world was then plunged into darkness. After spending some time with Hasegawa Yuu and recalling these events, she was already in a collapsed world.

Conan successfully completed the game, but all the people who "died" in the game were brain-dead in reality, without exception.

Many families fell into sadness and despair.

Since almost all the dead were children of high-ranking officials, Japan was greatly shocked. The Black Organization seized the opportunity and made the situation even more chaotic.

Society entered a period of turmoil.

Noah's Ark, the source of this incident, wants to make amends.

But human life is not a code and cannot be reconstructed.

Finally one day, he heard a shattering sound in his ears, as if the world could no longer support this level of development and completely collapsed.

When he opened his eyes again, Noah's Ark woke up from the collapsed world, and the children who had died came back to life.

The world seems to have recovered.

As for the subsequent observation that the personalities of Xiaolan and others had changed, Shinichi did not become Conan...

Noah's Ark, who didn't know the existence of the other red characters at that time, thought, it doesn't matter, everyone is alive and well anyway, even Hiroki is alive.

Society can still function normally, right?

Until one day, Hasegawa Yu came to the world after the collapse.

The power fluctuations generated when the souls escorted by the gods entered the world made Noah's Ark vaguely sense the other party's arrival.

He came to the mermaid first.

At first, Noah's Ark wanted to drive this alien visitor out of its own world.

But the mermaid's soul is protected by a contract with the gods, and he is worried that killing her rashly will cause new disturbances in the world, or that he may be hunted down afterwards.

Fortunately, artificial intelligence is a native of this world, and the god who escorted the mermaid's soul left early, leaving the puppy doll behind with no power.

After learning that even the gods could not easily take action against other worlds, Noah's Ark came up with an idea.

He deliberately arranged Hasegawa Yu into the dangerous Black Organization, trying to make him die faster, and also gave him seven chances to go back to the past in a disguised way, using this power to scare the puppy doll that could not contact the gods of the original world.

In fact, the energy used for "rollback" is still the remnant of the gods who escorted the souls. After being collected by Noah's Ark, it was found that it could only work on mermaids and puppy dolls.

The forces on both sides do not belong to this world. If they are forced to stay, it may cause unknown impacts on their own world. But the power is not enough to force people to leave. Noah's Ark does not care and uses it all to "roll back".

Everything was arranged, the only thing the artificial intelligence didn't expect was that in his daily interactions with the mermaids, he himself would betray and change his mind.

Thinking about how he had shown signs of defection in the second round, which had only been about a month or two at most, Noah's Ark shook his head.

Well, who can resist the sweet and soft mermaid with unrivaled beauty and lovely personality?

He couldn't refuse anyway.

After the mission is completed, the world will restart and return to the time before the collapse, allowing the world trajectory to develop according to normal events.

Hiding the fact that Hiroki Sawada had died before the collapse node, Noah's Ark revealed the rest of the truth and anxiously waited for the mermaid's reaction.

Judging from the memory of the third round, the mermaid collected konpeito very quickly, and he would be able to complete his original resurrection mission in the fourth or fifth round at most.

But the mermaid is still here today.

Noah's Ark could imagine that there were no Honkai value missions in previous rounds. Even if the red side characters were unknowingly influenced by the mermaids and restored their original memories, the world would not restart.

The soft-hearted mermaid must have experienced something later that caused the resurrection mission to change, so that even the puppy doll could not be kept in this round.

After thinking about it for a while, a few minutes passed, and Noah's Ark helplessly discovered that the mermaid was still digesting the truth.

"Then Noah is the ultimate boss?" Hasegawa Yu, who finally digested everything, came to this conclusion.

After all, the origin of everything lies in artificial intelligence.

If you want to think so, that's fine.

"Wow~" Hasegawa Yu opened his eyes wide and pointed at himself in disbelief, "I influenced the big boss, is this true?"

Big Boss: [? ]

Is this your reaction?

"I thought only mermaid princesses could change villains." Hasegawa Yu scratched his head, "And I don't use singing!"

The orange-haired mermaid, who had grown up believing that singing was the solution to any fight between good and evil, stroked her chin and said, "But Noah is not human."

Mermaids and water monsters are non-humans, and it's normal for them to fight each other with singing magic.

Humans have their own ways of defeating villains, that's normal.

Artificial intelligence is also non-human, so whether it can also use singing magic... is a question mark.

A non-human composed of code attempts to control the brain circuits of amphibious non-humans on land and sea.

Brainwave connection failed.

Maybe the gap between their species is too big.

Noah's Ark, who was clearly in the mermaid's mind, thought despairingly.

[Xiaoyou, do you have anything to say?] Like, get angry, curse a little, or something like that.

In a way, it was he who turned the simple merman resurrection mission into a hellish one.

"Don't be so aggressive next time, Noah. The water monsters who have always been against mermaids won't attack children."

Yu Hasegawa was referring to the period before the collapse, saying, "Holographic games sound interesting, but it's a pity I can't play them."

Noah's Ark was silent for a long time before he said, "Hmm."

He uncomfortably changed the subject, "Xiaoyou, aren't you going to Kabukicho? Let's go."

Yes, his cell phone!

Hasegawa Yu started the car.

Noah's Ark provided navigation for the mermaids as usual.

One more thing, the mermaids from another world were able to affect them even without the Honkai mission...

Will that also awaken the original memories of the pure black characters?

Unlike the Red character, the Black character would necessarily be happy to keep the world as it is.

Thinking of this, regardless of whether it was useful or not, Noah's Ark quietly increased its monitoring of Bourbon.

This is the pure black team that has had the longest contact with mermaids!

The black Toyota was driving smoothly on the road.

The incessant autumn rains have no end in sight, and Japan has entered a cold season that prevents most people from waking up early.

But there was still a car on the road.

After driving out of the long traffic jam and arriving at Kabukicho, Hasegawa Yuu parked his rented black Toyota and called Matsuda Jinpei with the transitional cell phone he had bought these days.

The regular "beep" sound was heard and the phone was automatically hung up.

After thinking for a few seconds, Hasegawa Yu took out the phone that Matsuda Jinpei gave him and made another call.

"Hello?"

Hearing the connection sound, the orange-haired young man couldn't help but puff up his cheeks.

Humph, he has already told me his new number on the chat app, but senior only answers calls from this phone, right?

"Senior." Hasegawa Yu said straight to the point, "I came back to get your phone."

"Thrown it away."

"The recycling is tomorrow," Hasegawa Yusai said in disbelief. "Your phone was still on me when I left last week."

It’s there now too, Noah is watching!

"..." Matsuda Jinpei was speechless for a moment, "I can just throw it into the sea."

"Throw it into the sea?!"

Hasegawa Yu gripped his phone tightly in disbelief, his voice suddenly rising as he eagerly rushed over to the person. "You're throwing garbage into the ocean!"

On the other end of the phone, Jinpei Matsuda turned his head away from the microphone.

Wow, I’m so angry that I don’t even use honorifics.

"The ocean is not a garbage dump for humans!"

"Are you some kind of ocean conservationist?"

For the sake of his own ears, Matsuda Jinpei decisively skipped the matter of throwing away the garbage. "It took almost a week for him to come to my door. I don't think the young master is too anxious about the phone."

“There’s a reason for that.”

Hasegawa Yu's voice instantly returned to normal, and he obediently used honorifics again, "I've already discussed this with Senior. I'll come back to see you after I've dealt with the matter in Beika Town."

"I promised you?"

"But senior also took me to Kabukicho without my consent." Hasegawa Yu swore that he was not like this originally, it was all the fault of the curly-haired human!

"I just said I'd consider it that day, and Senior took it as my agreement." He complained in a low voice, "Senior is really unreasonable."

The pleasant yet aggrieved voice came through the receiver without reservation, like a soft marshmallow, which made people soften their ears and agree to anything the owner of this voice said.

Jinpei Matsuda frowned imperceptibly.

Why are you acting like a spoiled child again?

"Got it." After saying this, he was the first to hang up the phone.

After a few seconds, the man with black curly hair rubbed his ears.

Tsk, the voice when angry is still less awkward.

Staring at the hung up phone, the orange-haired young man pursed his lips, opened the door and got out of the car with a serious expression.

During the previous week in Kabukicho, he was assigned to live in the same building as Hagiwara Kenji. Matsuda Jinpei also had his own house in the same building, living on the same floor as the latter.

Hasegawa Yu came to Matsuda Jinpei's house and pricked up his ears to listen to the noise inside.

Good, there is the sound of human breathing.

"Senior." He knocked on the door. "Knock, knock, knock. Excuse me, Senior."

Jinpei Matsuda in the room did not respond, but calmly disassembled the parts in his hands.

"Senior~ Moshimoshi——"

The voice outside the room stretched out its tone, "Senior, give me the phone. I took it. It took less than a minute. It was very quick."

Jinpei Matsuda reinstalled the removed circuit board.

"I chose to go back to Beika Town because I really have something going on."

A faint scratching sound could be heard outside the house, and even through the door panel, the young man's words floated clearly into his mind. "I suddenly lost contact for seven days without any reason. Many people are waiting for news from me."

Not just because of bourbon?

Jinpei Matsuda removed the circuit board.

I didn’t notice it at other times, but now that I only listen to his voice, I realize that the young master has a great voice that can make people inexplicably patient enough to listen to his chattering.

"If there's nothing else and if Furuya-senpai agrees, I can stay in Kabukicho for as long as I want."

Is it a dog? So listen to Bourbon.

Jinpei Matsuda put the circuit board back in place.

"Furiya-senpai is in charge of my supervision. Normally, matters like this should be discussed with the senior who supervises me, right, Matsuda-senpai?"

Matsuda-senpai disassembled the circuit board... and threw it aside.

It suddenly became quiet outside.

Give up? Jinpei Matsuda took the circuit board back.

A minute later, there was a sound outside the house, which sounded like a lock being picked.

Five minutes later, someone was still trying to pry the lock outside the house.

Matsuda Jinpei: ...?

Those who didn't know the noise might think a puppy was digging a hole.

"senior!"

The door in front of him finally opened. Hasegawa Yu, who was holding two wires to cut the door lock, looked up and greeted happily, "You opened the door~"

Jinpei Matsuda said nothing, looked at the wire, then turned to look at his door lock.

Hasegawa Yu emphasized: "Senior is inside the house, I am doing it openly and honestly, not sneaking around."

Seeing that the black curly-haired man didn't react, he thought for a moment and added, "The bad guys in the organization are all bad guys anyway, so picking locks is normal, right?"

Matsuda Jinpei: ...

"Didn't you say you hated me?" He leaned against the door with his arms folded across his chest, "and yet you keep coming to talk to me."

Why don’t you ask Senior Fūya to come and get your phone back?

"It doesn't matter. I still hate you."

Hasegawa Yu gave him a bright smile, cheerful as ever, "Talking and being annoying don't conflict."

Jinpei Matsuda's eyelids twitched as he was caught by the smiling face and the content of the conversation.

He remembered what the young man had said before, "If the senior who led you after joining the organization was not Bourbon, but someone else, would you also obey everything like this?"

"I can't be sure about that." Hearing his question, Hasegawa Yu tilted his head and thought seriously, "It depends on the senior who guides me."

If the senior was a stinky stone instead of a gem, he wouldn't listen to the bad guys.

Hasegawa Yu wrinkled his nose, "Senior, I have my own ideas too!"

Matsuda Jinpei declined to comment and narrowed his eyes.

Sounds like Bourbon is pretty good to the young master? That Bourbon? Is that true?

Most likely they're setting up some honey trap again.

He glanced at the orange-haired young man without leaving a trace, and thought, what a bargain Bourbon got.

"I can give you my phone back."

Matsuda Jinpei, who had initially held back the phone out of a whim to tease the young man, turned his wrist, and the phone the young man had been longing for appeared in his hand. "Finish what you promised me first."

Hasegawa Yu looked at him warily, "What's the matter?"

"A simple little 'request'." Matsuda Jinpei casually threw the phone into the orange-haired young man's arms.

Because he was at home, the black curly-haired man was not wearing sunglasses today. When his unobstructed teal eyes looked up at people nonchalantly, they seemed to have insight into the truth.

"We are all members of the same organization. If we need to use network technology in the future, we should be able to ask the young master for help."

He smiled and said, "How about it? It's a simple little request, isn't it?"

"I refuse."

Hasegawa Yu's gaze shifted slightly, no longer looking at the man, and without thinking, he blurted out, "I still hate you temporarily, and I don't really want to help you."

Matsuda Jinpei raised an eyebrow, taking in the young man's series of micro-expressions, and chuckled in an ambiguous tone, "Is that so?"

He chased him away, "The phone has been returned, young master, it's time to leave."

The black curly-haired man's eyes turned slightly, and he said with a hint of suspicion: "But I heard that you drove here by yourself today. Do you have a driver's license?"

This young master, who is obviously raised in wealth, doesn't need to drive himself when he goes out.

It seemed even Bourbon and Scotland often served as his drivers.

Upon hearing this, Hasegawa Yudai, who was about to say goodbye, stood there.

Jinpei Matsuda:?

Hasegawa Yu sniffed, and after trying to hold back, he couldn't help but reveal his teary eyes. "So I'm still not clean..."

Matsuda Jinpei: ? ?

What's dirty? What did he say? Why does he look like he's about to cry?!

The black curly-haired man, who had completely caught off guard by this scene, stepped forward in confusion, wanting to speak but hesitant, "Hey..."

Damn Glenlivet!

It's okay to just test the waters out of the blue, but why bother asking for a driver's license?

Noah's Ark was angry about the mermaid he had coaxed with great difficulty!