Episode 6: The World Crisis is Close at Hand, Part 5
“In short, I originally planned to take you away. I just didn’t expect another group of people to be after you. If they took you, my mission would fail, so I stepped in early to deal with them.
“That’s a completely illogical explanation.
The jacket-wearing lady, whose identity I had no idea about, brought me along while giving me a less-than-sincere explanation.
Besides, how did you know my name?
It’s obvious you investigated me, but why would you investigate someone as insignificant as me?
“Get to the point. Who is your lady? Why does she want to see me?”
“I have no obligation to answer your questions. On the other hand, you are quite bold to be so casual in front of this thing.”
As she spoke, the jacket-wearing lady poked my back with a hard, thick cylindrical object. I was referring to the muzzle of a gun, which seemed to have a silencer attached.
To clarify, the jacket-wearing lady is currently walking behind me. To be precise, she’s pressing the muzzle of the gun against my back, forcing me to move according to her wishes.
Naturally, we weren’t heading towards the school but rather down a small path on the back of the mountain. The destination was still unknown.
“You haven’t fired it, so how do I know it’s not a toy gun?”
“Should I call you brave or foolish… Never mind, my mission is just to take you to your destination. As long as you cooperate, this gun is indeed a toy.”
“As long as I cooperate.”
“I advise you not to resist in any way, otherwise, I will shoot this blonde bombshell next to you.”
“It seems you didn’t just investigate my name.”
They even discovered that my weakness isn’t myself.
This means the mastermind behind this is quite intelligent.
Regardless, let’s go meet this divine being first.
After descending the mountain, we found a helicopter in an open area.
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The three of us boarded the helicopter, and it flew towards another location.
…This is so troublesome. Is it that far? Where are we even going?
Sitting in the helicopter, I ask again, bored.
“Excuse me, Ms. Jacket, at least tell me your name? You know mine, but I still don’t know how to address you.”
“Su Zhixia.”
“Hmm? Su Zhixia?”
I have some impression of this name.
“Are you my classmate? No, I don’t think you looked like this…”
Su Zhixia looked at me with some surprise.
“You still remember what I look like?”
“I have a good memory.”
Actually, it wasn’t that I remembered, but I had an impression. Before the anomalies existed, the classmates in our class were too unique. Looking at those bizarre and eccentric nicknames, even with my face blindness, I could tell who was who.
Su Zhixia’s nickname was [Cultivator], with her realm in parentheses.
But now, this world has completely entered the ‘Ju Fa Era,’ and she should have returned to being an ordinary person… Well, her skills just now couldn’t be described as ordinary.
Su Zhixia narrowed her eyes, and her gaze towards me shifted from initial indifference to a hint of caution.
But in the end, she didn’t finish her sentence. It seemed she knew something else.
The final destination was the television tower.
I had attended a party for young people here with Lianbing a few days ago, so I remembered it. I hadn’t expected this to be the destination.
This time, we were clearly going to a higher floor than before, nearing the very top.
“We’ve arrived. You should explain now. Why bring me to a place like this? Speaking of which, ordinary people shouldn’t be allowed in here, right? And why is there a helipad?”
“My lady bought this place.”
She bought the television tower?
What the heck, this isn’t just ordinary wealth. I can’t even imagine it!
This probably means more than just buying the place. After all, this is a television tower. The lower floors have television station personnel, and there are also government departments… Of course, even just buying the land is excessive in my opinion.
“I thought you could maintain your composure for longer. It turns out you only show surprise at trivial matters like this.”
“Well, as an ordinary person, I haven’t seen much of the world.”
What else can I say, I’m just a kept man of a rich woman.
We took the elevator with transparent glass floors all the way up to the top of the television tower. Following the pattern, the mastermind should be here.
The door opened automatically. Su Zhixia led us into the pitch-black room and respectfully saluted, saying:
“Miss, the person you wanted is here.”
“Hmph, you actually dared to make me wait this long.”
This voice…
*Clap—*
The lights above turned on one by one, illuminating the entire space. Then, a dazzling blonde girl stood in the center.
Her twin tails were undone, and she was wearing formal attire resembling an officer’s uniform, with long boots, white gloves, and a cape.
Don’t tell me there’s the word “Justice” written on the back of the cape.
“You should know who I am by now.”
The girl proudly raised her chin. Although she was much shorter than me, she still looked down at me.
I spread my hands and said:
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“Thanks to your repeated emphasis, I’ve remembered.”
That’s right, the person before me was Zhao Zili, whom I had mistaken for Xiao An.
I feigned a weak posture, raised one hand, and asked:
“Um, a question first, you didn’t find me to settle personal grudges, did you…?”
Zhao Zili snorted unpleasantly.
“I’m not so bored as to cause trouble over something like that, but you, of all people, really annoy me.”
Oh, thank goodness. I thought I was called here for revenge.
“Let me be direct: I’m here to buy you out.”
“Buy me out? Really? How much?”
“An Juncheng, you performed memory manipulation on people at school. We’ve also investigated your identity: the tenth-ranked assassin on the Black Street Killer list, [Shadowless Rakshasa].”
Hearing that chuunibyo name spoken so seriously, I didn’t know how to respond.
Most importantly, I didn’t come up with that name myself! Which idiot gave me such an assassin name!
“These things are irrelevant…”
“Are these secrets not enough? Then, the matter of you being an ‘Undead,’ surely not everyone knows that.”
“Although there are no formal records, throughout human history, you’ve been present everywhere.”
“Hmph, and so?”
I’ve been discovered?
This is something.
“So, I’m here to negotiate terms with you.”
“Speak your mind.”
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“What do you think… right now?”
Zhao Zili spread her hands, inviting me to observe.
“…Very cute?”
Her face blushed, and she said indignantly:
“Not in that way! I mean your physique! Your physique!”
“…A bit, young.”
That’s right, I’m actually eighteen years old, but my body stopped growing.
It doesn’t seem like an illness; there seems to be another story behind it.
But what does that have to do with me?
“I’m buying you out to help me…”
“I refuse.”
Before she could finish, I flatly rejected her.
My intuition told me that getting involved in this would lead to troublesome things.
Too much trouble. I just want to live my peaceful life.
“In short, I’m not interested. Find someone else. Let’s go, Saint.”
I pulled Saint and turned to leave. Su Zhixia didn’t stop me.
The blonde girl didn’t fly into a rage. Just as I was about to leave the room, she said faintly:
“Earlier, you mistook me for ‘Xiao An,’ right? Actually, that group of people also ‘mistook’ me, thinking I was the Xiao An you were talking about.”
I stopped in my tracks.
“Tell me the specifics, novel…”
It seems I have to get involved in this mess.
