Time goes back fifteen minutes.

There were not many people coming to the men's restroom during the intermission of the concert, so Hasegawa Yu quickly washed his hands and prepared to return to the venue.

As he passed the long queue at the women's restroom, he heard a few screams from inside. Then, a thin figure rushed out with his head down.

Hasegawa Yu subconsciously moved to the side to avoid the person who was violently pushing down passersby and was about to rush towards him, but he did not forget to stretch out a foot to try to trip him.

The man's hand that was trying to push him missed, and he fell forward heavily.

Finish off!

Quickly taking out the stun gun from his small backpack, Hasegawa Yu gave the fallen man a "swish" on the waist.

The man who staggered to his feet fell back to the ground with a thud.

Three minutes later, Hasegawa Yu and the security guard who rushed over after receiving the news learned what had happened.

The cause was that a guest heard noise coming from the last cubicle where miscellaneous items were placed, and thought it was the cleaning lady. However, after calling several times, there was no response, and the noise in the cubicle did not stop.

The guest who called for help felt ignored and went forward to check angrily, but unexpectedly a thin man rushed out from the cubicle.

"How does your theater provide security?"

The female guests angrily accused the security guard, as if they wanted to eat him for his dereliction of duty.

Finally, the person in charge who arrived hurriedly came forward to temporarily calm the anger of the female guests and asked them to go to the conference room to discuss follow-up matters.

Silence returned to the bathroom door, and Hasegawa Yu, who stayed there, picked up a white wavy hairband on the ground.

It seems to have fallen out of the thin man's pocket?

Seeing that there was still enough time, Hasegawa Yu was about to ask the security guard to return the hairband to the owner, but the person he was looking for came back and looked for him.

"Ah, thank goodness you haven't left yet, sir."

The ordinary-looking security guard let out a sigh of relief and explained to the curly-haired young man, "We've called the police. We might need you to help with a simple statement."

"Can we wait until the concert is over?" Hasegawa Yu discussed with him.

"Sorry, the police require all people involved in the case to come to the scene." The security guard rejected the request in a firm tone.

“…”

Hasegawa Yuu felt something was amiss, "I just knocked the criminal unconscious, it has little to do with the case, so I don't need to make a record of this level.

I've been through similar cases."

[He lied.] Noah's Ark reminded, [Xiaoyou, there is no police car outside the theater.]

Seeing the security guard remain silent, Hasegawa Yu unconsciously put his hands on the pockets of his small backpack and tried to make an excuse, "Can I ask who the officer who responded to the call was? I know all the officers from the Investigation Section..."

Before he could finish, the security guard rushed up and took out a bottle of anesthetic spray from his pocket.

The second half of the concert is about to begin!

After inevitably inhaling some gas, Hasegawa Yu quickly held his breath and thought depressedly: Can't you bad guys say a few more words? You don't even give me a chance to delay time.

My brain felt a lot heavier, but fortunately I could still hold on.

Thinking of something, Hasegawa Yu hid the stun gun in his sleeves with his hands behind his back, closed his eyes and pretended to be unconscious, letting his body fall limply to the ground.

He remembered what Brother Ling had taught him: when faced with a situation where one cannot resist and escape and is not in immediate danger of life, one should try to follow the criminal's wishes first, and then secretly look for an opportunity to break through.

However, Nan Hao also taught him this way to deal with the perverted Stoka, but he ended up encountering a smart pervert who was ultimately evolved but had brain problems.

Hasegawa Yu: “…”

I hope he won’t meet another human like Zero.

His luck shouldn't be that bad. Hasegawa Yu let the security guard carry him up, opened his eyes slightly, and took out the stun gun from his sleeve.

"You guys are really good at finding trouble. Fortunately, these women are very easy to deceive."

"Tanabe, I've finished my side, how about you?"

Two unfamiliar voices appeared from not far away.

Hasegawa Yu silently hid the stun gun back into his sleeve.

Okay, there's no smart ultimate pervert, but there are three bad guys that he can't defeat with just one fish.

Oh, I can’t listen to the concert at all.

Hasegawa Yu, who was mourning the concert with his eyes closed, twitched his ears slightly and heard a subtle sound of a mechanism sliding.

The footsteps of the three people gradually echoed, and it was the security guard who carried him into an enclosed space.

"Didn't you see the person on my shoulder? Of course I did it." The security guard said disdainfully.

"Search his belongings."

When Hasegawa Yu heard this, his heart started pounding.

The next second, he felt that his small backpack had been taken away and his pockets had been searched through.

Fortunately, the winter clothes were thick and the electric baton in the cuff survived.

After the body search was completed, Hasegawa Yu heard the three of them chatting in a relaxed manner.

Security guard: "Is Cunxi still unconscious? I told him to eat more. He's as thin as a piece of paper."

An unpleasant, smoky voice said, "Not to mention that unlucky thing where we almost got discovered... Hojo, wouldn't it be too noisy to arrest so many women at once?"

A sinister shrill voice said, "Recently, someone has been secretly targeting the taxis driven by our organization. Half a chain is about to be taken away by these bastards who are not even visible.

The delivery time is approaching, and the goods cannot be delivered in full. Will you go and fill the gap?"

The smoky voice fell silent.

"This theater will be reduced to ashes anyway. It's normal for bodies to be shattered by bombs. They won't be able to find them."

Hasegawa Yu, who was always upside down, had no time to analyze the conversation between the three people and felt that he was about to get a brain congestion.

My head feels more dizzy than before.

Feeling pain in his body, Hasegawa Yu felt as if he was thrown onto the concrete floor.

The ground was cold and damp, like it was underground near a sewer.

A familiar fishy smell wafted faintly between his nostrils, but Hasegawa Yu remained motionless.

Squealer: "Find a few more men to make up the numbers before the bomb explodes, or I'll turn you in."

The other two nodded in agreement.

As the door closed, the footsteps of the three people gradually faded away.

[There is no surveillance in the room.]

Hasegawa Yu jumped up from the ground immediately, and with the dim light in the room, he saw that the ground was covered with dry dark red color.

It turns out that the fishy smell I smelled just now was blood.

They dug several tunnels under the theater. Judging from the men's familiarity with the routes, the tunnels appear to have been there for quite a while.

Noah's Ark briefly told him about the scene the mermaid hadn't seen while feigning coma. [Even the theater's interior had been modified to include hidden passages and mechanisms. However, the theater belonged to the Suzuki Group, so the Nican Society must have used some method to secretly modify it.]

The Suzuki Group owns countless industries, and this ordinary theater is insignificant among them, so bribing or threatening the relevant persons in charge is not a problem at all.

Hasegawa Yusuke thought of the black car incident that Ling Ge mentioned to him when they were chatting on the way from Kabukicho to Beikacho some time ago. The Nimchan Society was also behind it.

"Are they engaging in human trafficking?" The young man standing in the middle of the room pursed his lips. "Noah, the location of the bomb..."

[The bombs were activated a minute ago, and I detected their signals almost everywhere in the theater.]

Noah's Ark: [Matsuda Jinpei is on his way, Xiaoyou just needs to protect herself.]

"Yeah." Hasegawa Yu closed his eyes and opened his hearing. After confirming that there was no one in the area, he raised his hand and touched the door panel.

Half a minute later, he pushed open the broken door, listened for a moment, and walked in a certain direction.

"I want to find out where the other women who were also captured are being held," Hasegawa Yu said to the AI. "We can't just leave Jinping-kun to do this alone."

The three people who captured him will not be back in the near future, and not even one person is left to guard him, which shows that the security is lax.

"There are no people in many areas here." Hasegawa Yu walked and stopped to confirm the situation.

[There's a cell phone signal point ahead, it's the person on guard.]

Finally hearing a lot of breathing sounds, Hasegawa Yu cautiously peeked out from around the corner.

There was only one guard, who was about the same size as him, but he had a gun on his waist.

Hasegawa Yu frowned slightly, trying hard to recall the information he had read about guns.

It's a Colt 1911 with a 7-round magazine capacity.

How could he make the guard use up all his bullets? Hasegawa Yu was entangled in thought, and then he estimated the distance between them and looked at the wall beside him.

It doesn't seem necessary to let people use up all their bullets.

The guard who was hiding away and browsing his phone suddenly heard a loud bang. He looked up, confused, and it didn't sound like a bomb. What was that sound?

Before he could find the source of the sound, he felt a pain in his head and a stone fell on his head.

"Who?!" He looked around and held the gun at his waist in his hand.

A shadow, seemingly wearing a white down jacket, flashed around the corner.

The guard narrowed his eyes and didn't go over immediately, wanting to contact his companions.

But the phone that had been running smoothly just now now showed a no-signal sign, and even the radio on my body was making a noisy rustling sound.

After failing to contact him, the guard tightened his grip on his gun and said, "Don't play tricks!"

There was no movement at the corner again, as if everything before was an illusion.

The guard swallowed his saliva and walked over lightly, remembering that he had weapons with him.

When he was two steps away from the corner, he suddenly stepped forward and fired a shot without saying a word.

The bullet hit the down jacket covering his head, obstructing the guard's vision. He raised his arm and was about to fire another shot, "Ouch!"

At this moment, his lower body was attacked by a strong force, hitting a vulnerable part accurately.

The guard instantly fell to his knees, his face twisted in pain, and the second bullet he fired missed his target.

“Sizzle——”

Hasegawa Yu seized the opportunity to finish off the opponent with an electric baton.

Seeing someone faint, he excitedly clenched his fist and said, "Success!"

After dragging the massive rock that had been shaken off the wall and pressing it onto the guard's back with all his might, Hasegawa Yu, who had been squatting behind the rock, brushed the dust off his hands and said, "That was a close call."

But the risk is worth it!

[Xiaoyou, your calves.] Noah's Ark was worried.

"It's okay." Hasegawa Yuu belatedly lowered his head, realizing he was hit by the second deflected bullet. "It's just a scratch, nothing serious."

"I'll go see where the ladies are being held."

On the other side, after a friendly exchange with a familiar member of the Nimatsukai, Jinpei Matsuda brought the other party and his companions who later tried to support him to the place where Hasegawa Yu was being held.

The black curly-haired man fiddled with the remote control in his hand. "Where's the person?"

The three members of the Mudslayer Society who had been captured instead of trying to capture someone raised their hands tremblingly, the bombs they were forced to strap to their chests flickering red. "Earthquake?"

Matsuda Jinpei glanced at the familiar cracks, his mind speculating, but he once again shifted the blame onto someone else. "The earthquake only shook one room in your house? Do you think I'm a fool?"

A bruised and swollen face with a shrill voice: "I, I'm a fool!"

Matsuda Jinpei: “…”

"Lord Granwit, why don't we go to the next detention center?"

He had secretly sent a signal to the people outside the theater. If he could just delay for a few more minutes...

The shrill voice, completely unaware that his signal had been intercepted by the artificial intelligence, gave an ingratiating smile, "Maybe my companions moved him away."

The other two nodded in agreement quickly, fearing that the bomb on their bodies would explode if they were a second late.

Matsuda Jinpei didn't comment, just nodded at them.

Then the four of them saw their companion who was inexplicably trapped under a huge rock and was struggling to breathe.

Like a turtle that can't turn over, only its four limbs can move.

"Save me!"

Wow! Matsuda Jinpei raised an eyebrow, looked at the wall with a large hole almost taller than a person, then looked at the person on the ground, and said with interest: "Is this also an earthquake?"

Squealer glanced at the time on his watch and said, "This time it might be a bomb, haha."

Damn it, where are the people in their organization!

After learning from Noah that Matsuda Jinpei had controlled the members of the Mud Society in the theater, Hasegawa Yu released the imprisoned female guests with confidence and led them back to the theater according to the route marked by Noah earlier.

The only thing he didn't expect was that the exit of the secret passage was actually in the utility room of the women's restroom.

Hasegawa Yuu muttered without looking away, "Special circumstances, special circumstances..."

"gentlemen?"

Hasegawa Yu came back to his senses, "Ah, the police will be here soon."

The bomb is a bit tricky, I don’t know if Brother Zhenping can handle it.

"I'm here to say thank you." Reiko Akiba, dressed in a white dress, said gently, "Are you a police officer too?"

"No." Hasegawa Yu shook his head, but did not answer his specific identity.

Under the bright theater lights, he finally recognized the woman in front of him as the singer who opened the concert.

Recalling something, Hasegawa Yu took out a white wavy hairband from the pocket of his torn down jacket, "Is this yours? It fell out of the skinny boy's pocket."

Reiko Akita took the hairband and said, "Thank you, it's mine."

She glanced at the young man who was looking towards the concert hall with a melancholy expression, "The concert probably won't be held again."

After all, most people didn't even know someone was kidnapped right there in the theater.

Upon hearing this, Hasegawa Yu hung his head. Alas, he didn't know whose number was drawn in the lottery.

It’s all the fault of that nasty villain!

Akita Reiko thought for a moment, "Sir, would you like to see the organ up close later?"

Hasegawa Yu's eyes lit up.

"Bandage your foot first."

Matsuda Jinpei, who finally caught up, sighed, "As expected, he ran around everywhere after he didn't catch Xiaoyou."

Hasegawa Yu, who was forced to sit on the chair, moved his body and said, "Brother Jinping, don't you want to go and check out the other bombs in the theater?"

"I have the remote control for the bomb. It won't explode."

Matsuda Jinpei crouched down without looking up. "As for the members of the Mud Cang Society outside the theater, they will retreat when they realize their plan has failed."

Hasegawa Yu tried to hide his feet under the chair, "Then, then I can do it myself..."

"Xiaoyou, do you know how to use a bandage? This injury can't be cured by just putting a Band-Aid on it."

Holding a bandage and medicine in his hand, Matsuda Jinpei pointed at his feet and asked doubtfully, "Do you want me to take off your shoes yourself? You didn't even cry out in pain after bleeding so much, are you afraid of bandaging the wound?"

"I'm afraid I won't be able to control my reflex and kick Brother Zhenping." Hasegawa Yu, who really didn't know how to use bandages, turned his head and muttered softly.

"Wait until you can break free."

Matsuda Jinpei, who had clearly heard the muttering, took advantage of the moment when no one was paying attention and grabbed the uninjured part of his calf. "You keep telling me to pay attention to my wound, but now it's you, how can you..."

In the middle of his words, he tilted his head back and narrowly avoided an oncoming kick.

If you're a step later, you'll get new wounds on your face.

Matsuda Jinpei: “……?”

That shouldn't be the case. Has his grip strength deteriorated?

How come it slipped out of my hand like a slippery fish?

Hasegawa Yu quickly retracted his legs and smiled guiltily, "Brother Zhenping, how about another try? I'm sure I can hold it back this time!"

Matsuda Jinpei glanced at him, patted his knees, and motioned for him to put his feet up himself.

Hasegawa Yu obediently put his feet on it after taking off his shoes and socks.

Then, during the first step of cleaning the wound, Jinpei Matsuda's sunglasses flew off.

"Ugh, I really didn't mean it, hahaha." Hasegawa Yu slumped over the back of his chair, "And I'm definitely not laughing at Zhenping-ge, it's just that my legs are itchy, hahaha."

Matsuda Jinpei, who still had a little bruise at the corner of his eye, narrowed his eyes suspiciously.

Hasegawa Yu said cautiously, "Brother Jinping, shall we do it again?"

Matsuda Jinpei: ...

The mask can’t be kicked off, so he won’t really get “disfigured”, will he?