Chapter 410: Backup
“Tch, as expected, I’ve been found out.”
A few days later, in Kazumi’s bedroom, the thin, black-haired young girl was looking at her mobile phone with a helpless expression. She looked at the avatar on the chat software that hadn’t sent any messages in days, and patted her forehead with a headache, saying helplessly.
It was inevitable that her having a boyfriend would be discovered. Mainly because of Sato Shinichi’s memorable behavior in front of so many people. It would be strange if the salarymen at the agency didn’t gossip about it after work.
Relationships within companies like this are very simple. When a large group of people leave work, it’s normal for someone who knows to tell Noyoru Yokota. This is also why the guy she considered her “backup plan number one” hasn’t messaged her these past few days, as he used to be very attentive.
“Annoying.”
Fiddling with her bangs in annoyance, the young girl skillfully slid the list to the top and sent an angry cat emoji to the culprit who caused this situation. Kazumi resignedly picked up her water glass and took a sip.
Kazumi understood “honest people” like Noyoru Yokota very well, which was why she could grasp his psychology so tightly. And based on her understanding of Noyoru Yokota’s personality, if he knew she had a boyfriend, he would definitely give up on his feelings for her, even though she had created a rather ambiguous atmosphere during their interactions.
“In hindsight, it’s really a loss…”
In a way, Sato Shinichi’s sudden visit had a significant impact on Kazumi. It was actually very difficult to find a good backup like Noyoru Yokota.
On one hand, with Kazumi’s current identity, it was indeed difficult to come into contact with psychics. Even for students in the hero department of a school, like her, who had no special traits as a civilian, no one was willing to befriend them.
On the other hand, Noyoru Yokota’s personality and experiences were also rare and easy to read and control, and his abilities were unexpectedly full of potential. Compared to that, in her past life, he would have been like a phoenix man from a prestigious university. The only drawback was his appearance, which Kazumi didn’t care about. She wasn’t a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl anymore. Let alone looking fierce, even if she looked hideous, it wouldn’t matter. In the adult world, appearance only accounted for a small part. What was more important was the benefits it could bring.
However, the fact that such a promising future professional hero was ruined by her scatterbrained boyfriend made Kazumi quite helpless.
But honestly, there wasn’t much she could do. Firstly, Sato Shinichi’s actions were unintentional. She could only say that even Kazumi didn’t expect him to come all this way to pick her up for her. If she thought about it from another perspective, even she would find it troublesome.
Secondly, it was a matter of adult loss mitigation. The help that Sato Shinichi and his connections brought her was something she couldn’t give up for now. In fact, compared to Noyoru Yokota’s potential, the benefits Sato Shinichi provided her at this stage were even greater.
Setting aside the daily material comforts the young boy brought her, Sato Shinichi’s connections with professional heroes were also very useful. For example, the internship opportunity she had this time. Noyoru Yokota would at most get her a chance to be assessed, but if it were Dragonji, who was familiar with Sato Shinichi, it would only take a casual greeting.
“Then Noyoru Yokota can be temporarily put aside. This lead cannot be dropped, I still need to find a replacement.”
Opening a familiar little notebook that she hadn’t seen in a long time, Kazumi wrote a small “X” on the line for Noyoru Yokota, which she had planned for a long time, and then derived a new line from it, leaving a blank space and putting a question mark.
Kazumi had always been a person who liked to plan ahead. She knew that although Sato Shinichi and his connections were strong and useful, even if she were a lazy person, marrying him and sacrificing her integrity would allow her to live comfortably for the rest of her life. That was the value of being born into wealth.
However, Kazumi didn’t want to face such a predetermined fact for now. If she overused Sato Shinichi’s connections, the end result would be getting deeper and deeper into it, and she would truly lose herself.
Moreover, the connections of people like Dragonji were not easy to use. The connections provided by frontline heroes like them would definitely attract a lot of attention, including the possibility of arranging her and Sato Shinichi in the same place. For Kazumi, under the watchful eyes of these absolutely righteous professional heroes, her little schemes would be completely unworkable.
Therefore, for Kazumi, having a normal channel that connected to professional heroes was the most suitable. She could quietly access the information and materials she wanted, and she wouldn’t have to hide in the shadows and accumulate power due to excessive attention.
“But how can I contact a psychic? Even an intern at a regular agency finds it quite difficult to contact a psychic.”
“Can I only start with students, school interest clubs?”
Tapping on the table with her fingers, the young girl frowned, thinking about where to find the next backup. Her recent internship experience had made her deeply aware of the invisible gap between the heroes who protected people openly and the people themselves. Even if you were a staff member of a professional hero agency, the time you could actually spend with professional heroes was not much, let alone forming a deep relationship.
Moreover, adults were even more difficult to approach. Although Kazumi had achieved good results by using her relatively mature thinking in her interactions with Sato Shinichi and Noyoru Yokota, she didn’t believe that such methods would be effective in front of mentally mature professional heroes. In fact, it might even expose her true nature.
In that case, she could only start with students. After all, teenagers were simple-minded and had a strange longing for the opposite sex, making them relatively easier to understand.
School interest clubs were the only things that could break this barrier. Some less popular clubs, due to the lack of members, included both the hero department and the regular department. This provided a way to contact psychics.
“I’ll ask the class representative for a club introduction form later.”
Recalling her knowledge of school clubs, the young girl awkwardly realized that because the original owner had never been interested in these things, she knew nothing about them other than that they existed.
She silently wrote “clubs” in her notebook and was about to elaborate on her plan when her previously calm expression suddenly changed.
A palm-sized miniature portal flashed on the table in front of the girl. As the “Ghost Gate” disappeared, a withered mouth with grayish-white lips appeared before Kazumi, saying something.
