The half-long-haired man who came back from outside interrupted their conversation.

Kenji Hagiwara appears to be friendly and approachable, has good relationships with people in the organization, and is good at interpersonal communication outside the organization. However, he is actually quite distant in his heart.

There was once a code member who thought he had a life-and-death friendship with Speyside, and their relationship was deepening. However, until the code member died in a mission, Speyside's attitude towards him had never changed from beginning to end.

We get along very well as always, and sometimes show thoughtful gestures.

But as long as this code-named member who has gone to hell thinks about it carefully, he will find that under the seemingly good relationship, he knows nothing about Speyside's specific preferences and likes.

But I didn't realize this at all when I was with you.

When communicating with a Speyside, it's easy to reach a certain limit. But if you try to cross that line, to truly get closer, Speyside will simply use his superior emotional intelligence to fool you, or quietly watch you give in to his one-sided emotional investment.

The method of getting people to cross this line was controlled by Speyside himself.

This can be seen from the fact that only Granvit stayed with him in his social circle, and the collapse value that never changed after reaching 65%.

Well, maybe we can also add the floor we are currently on.

This is not Speyside's permanent residence, but the only residents on this floor are Kenji Hagiwara and Jinpei Matsuda, and no one else can easily go upstairs without permission.

Therefore, there are no outsiders in the corridor at the moment, so there is no need to worry too much about what you do.

The half-long-haired man, who only heard the words "dirty" at the end, looked at the young man with teary eyes, then at the young man with a perfect villain look. He couldn't help but stroke his chin and sighed, "I can't tell, Glenlivet-chan—you're quicker than Bourbon."

"?"

Glenlivet-chan had a "speak nicely" expression on her face, "He's trying to scam me!"

Hasegawa Yuu, who was trying hard to manage his idol expression, didn't actually cry. He composed himself and said, "Matsuda-senpai, that's not how you use the word '碰瓷'. I'm just a little shocked."

I am not trying to take my seniors' money, so how can I use the word "pengci"?

After hearing the young man's explanation, Jinpei Matsuda thought it was a cover-up.

What did he say that was so devastating? The fact was, after he had said a normal sentence, the fragile young master burst into tears.

If this isn’t a scam, then what is it!

Hasegawa Yu, who didn't cry, corrected his words and turned to greet the man who had just arrived, "Hagiwara-senpai."

"It turns out that the black Toyota downstairs belongs to Xiaoyou."

Spice, who had provided this information to You Xunran just an hour ago, seemed to have forgotten what he had said in the blink of an eye. "I thought it was from a member of some unfamiliar organization."

"That's the car I rented for...convenience." Hasegawa Yu felt guilty for a moment and mumbled the word "escape".

Fortunately, Speyside didn't seem to mind this. He smiled apologetically, "Are you worried about Xiaoyou and Glenlivet-chan? I just happened to have something I wanted to talk to him about, so I need to borrow him for a bit."

Matsuda Jinpei raised his eyebrows and silently glanced at You Xunran.

"Ah, I just came to get my phone, I was just about to leave."

Hasegawa Yuu signaled the man not to pay attention to him, "The two seniors, please go and deal with your affairs quickly. I won't bother you anymore. Bye~"

After watching the orange-haired young man's back disappear around the corner of the corridor, Matsuda Jinpei withdrew his gaze and met those violet eyes.

After a while, he looked the man up and down and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

He even found excuses to drive people away.

"Hmm?" Speyside looked puzzled.

"Hasegawa Yuu."

Matsuda Jinpei didn't beat around the bush. "You were the one who wanted to poach Bourbon's men, and now you're the one who wants to distance yourself from him but isn't completely."

He could feel that Hagi treated Hasegawa Yu differently from other members of the organization, so he was puzzled.

The black curly-haired man put his hands in his pockets and said disdainfully, "You're already grown up, but why are you still like a teenage JK, with moods changing every day?"

Upon hearing this, Purple Eyes JK's smile froze, "Xiao Zhenping, some of your word choice really needs to be corrected."

Can you describe it, what is JK! According to gender, it should also be DK!

Matsuda Jinpei narrowed his eyes and said, "No changing the subject."

Spese, who loves to play tricks on Yukunran, didn't listen and added fearlessly, "If I were a JK, Xiao Zhenping would be like a DK who cares about Yukunran making new friends!"

Black curly-haired DK: “?”

Who is he doing this for?

"Tsk." Seeing that Yukunran didn't want to explain the reason, Matsuda Jinpei stopped harping on the topic. "Whatever."

"Woohoo, this 'pretending' indifferent attitude is even more like it!"

"Hagi, I think some of your word choice needs correction."

After changing the subject and making some jokes, Speyside returned to his room.

It was daytime, but the curtains in the room blocked out the light from outside, with only a faint light showing through at the edges, which barely prevented the room from being completely plunged into darkness in broad daylight.

After closing the door, the semi-long-haired man leaned against it, the curve of his lips gradually softening as a soft sigh escaped from his lips. "Xiao Zhenping's observation skills are really a headache sometimes."

As for Hasegawa Yu, Spese could clearly feel that he had been, or was being, influenced by him in some way.

So, when you are in a dangerous environment, it is normal to stay away from it and wait and see for a while to find the source of the influence, whether good or bad, right?

"If it's a small formation, I'll probably just go for it." The competition will see whether I will influence others or make changes for them.

Thinking of this, Spese felt as if there were two of him in his mind.

An idea that supports Speyside is to approach Hasegawa Yu just like he did with the members of the organization in the past.

Someone who supports Kenji Hagiwara's idea wants to get closer to him deep down.

It feels like... if I get closer, I might be able to touch the truth.

Without touching the curtains or the light switches, Speyside threw himself onto the sofa in the living room, draped one arm across his forehead, and muttered:

"I don't want to hallucinate like Bourbon...it's probably because of the nightmares I've had lately."

Those nightmares where you can’t see the images clearly but can “smell” the smell of explosions and gunpowder.

On the other side, in the black Toyota parked downstairs, Hasegawa Yu was also discussing Hagiwara Kenji with the artificial intelligence.

"Senior Hagiwara seems to be in a bad mood." The orange-haired young man said with concern, "I don't know what happened."

He's 29, almost 30, which might be the human menopause.

Even though he knew that they were members of the Red Team, Noah's Ark still disliked the people in the organization. [Organizational life is stressful, which is normal.]

"is that so?"

Hasegawa Yu, who didn't understand human menopause, immediately believed most of it and opened his eyes wide in surprise. "Are the seniors the same age?"

In other words, everyone is going through menopause?

Noah's Ark didn't answer, and the code flitted for a moment.

Fortunately, a new topic came along to distract the mermaid. [Kenji Hagiwara's collapse value is fluctuating again.]

After the collapse value stabilized, he announced the result, [still stopped at 65%]

Hasegawa Yu, who had been mentally prepared for this, blinked without showing much disappointment. "Well, Hagiwara-senpai's Houkai value is just like him, he is a cold-hearted type."

Many fluctuations/efforts to get close, still the same.

In contrast, the seemingly difficult to approach Matsuda Jinpei's collapse value dropped to 76% without anyone noticing.

It's already lower than Zhu Fujingguang, whom I met earlier.

"Come to think of it, Senior Morobushi's Honkai Value has been stuck at 80% for a while now."

Hasegawa Yuu leaned his face against the steering wheel, the flesh on his cheeks squeezed into a cute, round curve like a bun, and even his tone was squeezed into a sticky, "The people in this world are so complicated."

Especially those who stay in the organization.

Without waiting for the AI to comfort him, the orange-haired young man sat up straight again, decisively putting aside the worries that would exist in the future, and said, "Let's go back to Beika Town first."

It will be dark if we stay any longer.

After finally getting his phone back, Hasegawa Yu started the car while humming softly, "The transparent sky ~ has a gorgeous rainbow ~"*

Seeing that the mermaid always maintained an optimistic and good mood, Noah's Ark, who was worried that he would remember the driver's license, felt relieved and listened to him singing quietly.

I have to say, listening to the mermaid singing is really a pleasure, and it feels like all the codes are being purified.

Unfortunately, on the way back, the AI’s good mood did not last long.

Something's wrong with the cars surrounding it.

While driving, Noah's Ark, the merman's navigation system, noticed several signal points following them. His voice became more serious. "It's a fake license plate car... I captured the driver's face from the traffic surveillance."

Hasegawa Yu gripped the steering wheel tightly.

A few seconds later, Noah's Ark discovered their true identities. [These people's main activities are around Kabukicho, and they are 100% related to Kenji Hagiwara.]

Hasegawa Yu attracted a lot of attention during the few days he stayed in Kabukicho, so it is not surprising that he is now being targeted by Speyside's enemies.

This wasn't the first time the orange-haired young man had been implicated by a member of the organization. He pursed his lips, his orange-gold eyes focused intently on the road ahead. "Noah, help me send a message to Hagiwara-senpai."

"Senior, Caicai, help."

A car approached the black Toyota, and Hasegawa Yu quickly swerved to avoid it, his tone almost changing, "Wow—I'm definitely not going to send the wrong message or withdraw it this time!"

Noah's Ark silently sent the good news to Kenji Hagiwara in a mermaid's voice, and at the same time did not forget to blow up all the electronic products in the surrounding cars.

Several small flashes of fire appeared in the surrounding cars, and they immediately formed a winding S-line on the road.

Two cars collided with each other by chance and were forced to stop in the middle of the road.

Taking in this scene from the rearview mirror and hearing countless horns honking beside him, Hasegawa Yu let out a soft breath, "Noah, is there a deserted road nearby?"

There are too many ordinary vehicles on this road, which will cause harm to passers-by.

[There are a few small roads.] Noah's Ark wasn't sure if the mermaid's driving skills could handle the next road conditions. [Xiaoyou, can you handle it?]

"Tell me."

Hasegawa Yuu started to brainwash himself, "Okay, I'll just pretend that the two cars behind me are sasaeng fans following me (×3). I must get rid of the sasaeng fans."

"Nanhao and Awu can easily shake off the following car, so can I."

Trying hard to recall the actions of his agent and bodyguard, Hasegawa Yuu couldn't help but wilted for a moment, "Oh, is this my reward for driving a car that's not my endorsement brand?"

The orange-haired young man, the global spokesperson for a renowned sports car manufacturer, was shocked. "I clearly chose a work car, so it's not a breach of contract. How can they still charge me a 'breakdown fee' from across the world?"

It turns out that some things cannot be left to chance.

Last time he drove for Jōya-senpai and nothing happened, and he drove a taxi to take the driver killer to the police station and nothing happened, but now something happened when he was alone!

"It's human magic!"

【……】

Noah's Ark almost choked. So this was the reason why the mermaid originally wanted to choose an eight-seater nanny car in the car rental company, but had to change to a four-seater commercial vehicle after he stopped her.

Fortunately, there are no sports cars endorsed by mermaids in the car rental company, otherwise it would be too conspicuous here.

【Xiaoyou must be referring to metaphysics.】

Noah's Ark, whose thoughts were nearly straying, pulled himself back on track. "Humanity only knows science... Go straight ahead. There aren't many cars. I can speed up now."

Alas, being with mermaids always seems to make dangerous situations seem less dangerous.

Recalling the styles of the two worlds, Noah's Ark is contemplating, what is the difference between girls' comics and boys' comics?

No matter what kind of comic it is, we still need to pay attention to the dangers that have not yet been avoided.

With the help of his sasaeng fans (?), Hasegawa Yuu performed exceptionally well, weaving through various small roads according to the route planned by artificial intelligence, leaving only the back of his car visible to the two cars behind him.

At this moment, Speyside called.

Hasegawa Yu was busy and asked Noah to help him press the answer button, "QAQ senior."

"Xiaoyou, where are you now?"

Speyside's calm voice came from the receiver, with a reassuring tone, "Can you send me the location? I'm on my way."

Without the mermaid saying anything, Noah's Ark sent the location.

Spese, who was checking the new message, was silent for two seconds, "Xiaoyou, wait for me for ten..."

With his ears half open and always alert, Hasegawa Yu heard the sound of bullets piercing the air.

It wasn't shot from the car behind, it seemed to be from farther away.

Without thinking too much, he quickly unbuckled his seat belt, followed his instinct, opened the car door, hugged his head and jumped out of the car.

The next second, a bullet hit the fuel tank of the black Toyota.

"boom--"

【Xiaoyou! 】

The blazing flames shot up into the sky. The orange-haired young man who had successfully escaped the disaster moved away from the flames while patting his chest, "I was so scared."

Fortunately, his experience of avoiding the pursuit of the American-English gang in the United States in the third round helped him a lot. Hasegawa Yu took advantage of the fact that the car behind him could not catch up and turned into an alley that the vehicles next to him could not enter.

【There are snipers. 】

Seeing that the mermaid was fine, Noah's Ark breathed a sigh of relief, but then turned angry and asked, "What on earth did Hagiwara Kenji do to these people?"

It’s really hateful. Even the snipers were arranged in advance.

Something is wrong, he thought.

The mermaid just rented a car from a car rental company today and came to Kabukicho immediately after renting it. Considering that these people received the news that the mermaid went upstairs to look for Matsuda Jin, why didn't they seize the opportunity to surround the building, but instead gave up their real target of revenge to chase after an unrelated person?

Didn’t you see that Kenji Hagiwara also went upstairs?

Or did the mermaid learn about it on the way out of the building? Then there wouldn't have been enough time to deploy snipers.

Noah's Ark naturally searched all the records before blowing up the electronic products on those people, but failed to find any useful information.

When he replanned his route, he detected that the signal point belonging to Scotland was also in this area.

Scotland... just happens to be a sniper.

Since no one around him had mentioned anything related to Hasegawa Yu before, Noah's Ark's supervision level on him was not as high as Bourbon's, so he was unable to detect his existence in time.

"Ah, my phone fell on the car when I jumped out."

After confirming by hearing that there was no one nearby, Hasegawa Yuu fumbled in his pocket and realized that his communication tool was gone. "How am I going to contact Hagiwara-senpai now?"

Noah's Ark, who had returned from a tour of Scotland on his phone, was silent, and still had no clues.

At least judging from the records in the mobile phone, Scotland appeared here for another mission.

At this moment, a crow with beautiful black fur flew over the orange-haired young man's head and landed on the wall beside him.

Hearing the sound of wings flapping, Hasegawa Yu looked up and his eyes met a pair of blood-red eyes.

A fish and a bird looked at each other.

After a while, the latter tilted his head and combed his feathers.

The former looked away and changed his position to avoid it.

Hasegawa Yu could tell that it was a crow with flesh and blood, but for some reason, he always felt uneasy.

He is clearly not afraid of birds.

Noah's Ark also saw the crow.

[Karasuma Renya…]

"What?" Hasegawa Yu asked subconsciously when he heard the name for the first time.

[This is the name of the Black Organization's boss, and the man behind the Karasuma family.]

Noah's Ark swallowed some of his own speculations and gave the mermaid a brief explanation: [The Karasuma family's iconic symbol is the crow.]

But he didn't know if Karasuma Renya had any crows. This old man who pursued immortality was cautious and timid. Ever since he had completely invaded the Black Organization's network, the other party had completely disappeared from all possible online search locations.

Artificial intelligence is not omnipotent, and the signal jammer against it is an insurmountable barrier.

When Noah's Ark first planned to throw the mermaid into the organization, they were able to contact the other party through Rum.

"Karasuma... sounds familiar." Hasegawa Yu thought, "I feel like I've heard it somewhere..."

[In Act 3, we saw a news report while we were still in Japan.] Noah's Ark reminded him that [The Japanese Prime Minister in Act 3 also had the surname Karasuma and was from the Karasuma family.]

"Oh! I remember now."

Hasegawa Yu scratched his head. "They said they were going to reduce the subsidies allocated to police officers. I didn't understand the reasons given, but anyway, the pay for police officers will be reduced."

What he didn't say was that at that time, Yu Sanshuume thought that the Prime Minister was mentally ill.

But this was not a good thing to say, so I kept it in my heart.

[Hmm.] Noah's Ark confirmed his words, [Luckily, this week's Prime Minister isn't from the Karasuma family.]

Otherwise, the difficulty of the task will likely increase exponentially.

Hasegawa Yu, who never paid attention to this kind of news, didn't really feel it. "The Karasuma family seems to be very powerful."

Not only did a mafia boss emerge, but there was even a prime minister!

Moreover, the "background setting" is inconsistent with previous rounds. Hasegawa Yu thinks that it is just like the changes of Public Security Officer Furuya Rei and Councillor Furuya Rei.

[Kenji Hagiwara's signal point is approaching.]

Upon hearing this, Hasegawa Yu, who was circling around listening to the enemy's footsteps, felt relieved.

He listened attentively, selected a tracker who was searching for him alone, and knocked him unconscious with an electric baton from behind.

Seeing the man really fainted, the orange-haired young man squatted down and poked him, sighing: "What the teacher taught in the karate training class is really useful! The human neck is so fragile."

Of course, the mermaid's neck is also fragile, and Hasegawa Yu did not dare to do it at first, for fear of using too much force.

After tying the man up and dragging him to a corner, he repeated the same trick and successfully knocked out two more people.

The three remaining trackers seemed to have noticed that someone was lying in ambush, so they stopped searching separately and gathered together.

Hasegawa Yu, who didn't bring enough rope, once again circled around in the alley with them.

There was no surveillance equipment in the alley, and the trackers did not have any electronic products on them. Noah's Ark knew that their electronic products were blown up by themselves, but he still felt strange.

As he thought, it would be Karasuma Ren...

"I heard the footsteps of senior!" Hasegawa Yu said excitedly in a low voice, changed his pace and walked towards the source of the sound.

"senior!"

Hearing the familiar voice, Speyside, who had hurried over to look for someone, suddenly turned around.

God knows how it feels to hear an explosion on the other end of the phone while you're talking.

When he received the text message, Speyside, who had originally been indifferent, immediately threw away all thoughts of staying away or not, and without thinking, he almost drove to the final location.

Seeing no response, Hasegawa Yu tilted his head in confusion, then looked around, "Senior, there are only three pursuers left, and I'm out of rope. Can you handle it?"

The orange-haired young man, who assumed that intelligence officers were all weak, spoke with concern, but did not forget to encourage them, "Three against two, if we try hard we should be able to do it!"

Spese remained silent, his violet eyes filled with complex emotions as he stared silently at the person in front of him.

People's first reactions will not lie.

Hasegawa Yu gradually stopped talking, and looked at the man with his beautiful orange-gold almond eyes, "Senior?"

"Why is Xiaoyou's face covered in dust?"

Recovering his composure, Speyside raised his lips slightly, stretched out a hand and wiped the young man's face with his fingertips, "Look, you've become a little flower dog."

Without time to correct his adjectives and slightly intimate gestures, Hasegawa Yu was horrified and quickly took out a small mirror from her bag and looked at herself, "!!!"

I was so busy hiding from people after jumping out of the car that I completely forgot about this!

"My image!"

Hasegawa Yu covered his face, wanting to let out a sharp roar, but because the pursuer was nearby, he had to lower the tone, "Ugh, how could this happen."

Big image management failure!

And someone saw it!

Seeing the orange-haired young man's gloomy background, Hagiwara Kenji couldn't help laughing and comforted him, "It's okay, Yuu-chan is actually very cute like this."

"QAQ"