Tokyo: Parasite

Chapter 402 172: Awakening 2
Noguchi would naturally not stop Takashima from returning.

At work, she has always been a good and capable assistant. Even though several years have passed, Noguchi can still see the same competence and maturity in Takashima, though she is a little more silent.

They have been in contact over the years, and the last time they met was in Tokyo a few months ago.

"I have to say this up front. Once you rejoin, it won't be easy for you to leave."

"I see."

The battle with Shirai made her extremely clear-headed. It was almost impossible to kill Shirai relying on her own ability. She had to rely on external forces.

And Shirai will definitely come back to Japan and will confront the Special Affairs Bureau again. At that time, both public and private grudges can be avenged together.

After receiving Takashima Yumi's affirmative answer, Noguchi smiled faintly and saluted her: "Welcome back, Team Member Takashima."

Takashima responded: "Do I need to go through any formalities? I may not be able to help you in the battle in the short term. I have an injury and will probably need to rest for a while."

"There's no rush for now. You can go find Saga first and get familiar with the current staff structure. By the way, talk to Nishikido Ningduo."

"it is good."

Yumi Takashima did not spend too much time reminiscing about the past. After receiving the instructions, she immediately got into work mode. Just like she always did, she followed orders and left the office to find Saga.

Noguchi exhaled, and turned his gaze to Kuroki unnaturally: "Thank you for your hard work during this period, Kuroki."

"As the deputy director, this is also my job. Thank you for trusting me. Okay. Now the item is returned to its rightful owner." Hei Mu took out the director's secret key.

Noguchi took it back and felt the silent return of responsibility.

The test that occurred during the coma can be put aside for now. The most important thing now is to understand everything that has happened during these days.

"I know what you're thinking. I've sorted out every detail. They're all in there." Hei Mu pointed to the director's secret key.

Noguchi nodded in understanding, inserted the secret key into the computer, and began to browse through it carefully.

Hei Mu poured a cup of coffee and placed it on the table. After stretching himself, he took a quilt, lay down on the sofa and fell asleep.

The insomnia I had suffered these days was cured instantly without any medication. I fell asleep quickly and slept soundly.

On the other side, Saga had received the news that Noguchi had woken up and rushed back. However, before he could find Noguchi, he received instructions from Noguchi to take Takashima Yumi with him.

He could only calm down and contact his old colleague Takashima.

"It's not easy to walk outside alone."

Saga knew how difficult it was for Takashima to achieve his revenge goal. Judging from the combat power displayed by the Black Angel, he was definitely a T1-level existence, while the combat ability that Takashima had always displayed could only be said to be at an average level.

Especially after he awakened his abilities, he could realize more deeply that the gap between the extraordinary beings was far greater than the gap between humans and dogs. To those top extraordinary beings, it is no exaggeration to say that all ordinary people are ants.

Therefore, he paid more attention to the training of his players, trying his best to enable them to exert the strength of 1+1 greater than 2 through cooperation.

After Takashima left, he and Noguchi worked out the principles of extraordinary training and set the tone for training.

It can be said that the combat effectiveness of the Special Affairs Bureau's team is now far more outstanding than those wild ones, and he has made an indelible contribution to this.

"So I came back." Takashima did not shy away from his failure and accepted it calmly.

Saga signaled for the team to disband, and took Takashima with him, walking into the training facility while chatting.

"Takashima-sister!"

Fengchuan was overjoyed and appeared in front of Takashima in a flash.

If we were to say who in the bureau he was most familiar with, it would be Takashima, besides Noguchi.

At that time, Noguchi was not yet extraordinary, so it was Takashima and Nishikido who led him.

It’s a pity that the three special heroes can never get together again.

Looking at Toyokawa whose appearance had changed a little, Takashima was also in a trance.

"Long time no see, Toyokawa-chan."

"This, what is this?" Toyokawa looked at Takashima and then at Saga, hoping to hear the answer he wanted.

Saga nodded: "Yes, Takashima is back, there will be one more person to look after you from now on."

"Wuhu!" Fengchuan quickly grabbed Takashima's hand, "Hurry, I just saw Nishikido Ning coming back from Osaka. I bet her a meal and she will definitely jump up."

into the night.

When Hei Mu woke up, he found that the neon night scene was outside the window and he was covered with two more layers of quilt.

"I was wondering why I felt like I couldn't breathe in my dreams." Hei Mu complained a little, but his tone was complaining and his face looked quite happy.

Noguchi's eyes still darted quickly through the information: "Sorry."

Kuroki walked behind Noguchi and rubbed his eyes, which had not yet fully adjusted. "You haven't seen it yet?"

"Okay, I just have some new arrangements for the future." Noguchi was writing something down while watching.

Kuroki moved closer, and when she saw the notes Noguchi had taken, her eyes suddenly widened and her expression became anxious: "Are you crazy? Testing the Holy Infant Society?!"

Noguchi paused for a moment and shook his head. “My test may be different from what you understand. I just have some new guesses about the origin of the Holy Infant Society.”

Hei Mu frowned: "Is it related to the time you were unconscious?"

Noguchi hesitated and said, "I guess so."

"Are you sure there's no danger?"

"Not sure, but most likely not. I'm just looking for the answer to a question, if my guess is correct. But I won't force it. Safety comes first."

Regarding Noguchi's speculation, Kuroki could only express temporary trust.

She was mainly afraid that Noguchi would become arrogant and want to challenge the authority of the Holy Infant Society. If that were the case, she would do her best to stop him.

Throughout history, many people have fallen victim to their own growing ambitions. She doesn't think the Noguchi she knows is such a person, but she is not sure that he will not become such a person.

"It's eight o'clock. You must be hungry. Let's go eat first."

Noguchi changed the subject. It was really difficult for him to explain this aspect. He couldn't say that he went to heaven during the days he was unconscious and saw the Supreme Being, who might be the Divine Warlock, the Supreme Saint, or even the Paladin, or God.

It was for this reason that he suspected that the Holy Infant who had given them the Holy Son Pill was actually just one of His identities.

Trinity, that makes sense.

Once you think this way, many things can be explained. After turning off the computer, Noguchi took Kuroki to the 24-hour cafeteria in the bureau.

But when I walked to the elevator, I found that it was under maintenance.

"I forgot. There's something wrong with the elevator. It'll take one night to repair. Let's take the stairs." Hei Mu almost forgot about this little thing, but it didn't matter. They were only on the fifth floor, so he pointed in the direction of the stairs.

Unexpectedly, after she took two steps, she found that Noguchi did not follow her. Turning back, she saw him standing there in a daze with an extremely serious expression. He did not look like he was going to eat, but like he was preparing for a world war.

"Ah? Did you forget to take something?" Hei Mu asked curiously.

Noguchi shook his head seriously: "No, are all the elevators maintained?"

"At least this building is." Hei Mu nodded. These little things usually weren't her business.

Noguchi was silent. He just stared towards the stairs without saying a word.

Kuroki would never have thought that Noguchi now wanted to vomit when he saw the stairs.

After all, we have heard of people being afraid of fire, water, and heights, but I have never heard of people being afraid of stairs.

"Let me take you to another elevator." After a long silence, Noguchi suddenly held Kuroki's hand.

Hei Mu was a little nervous. He looked around and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that there was no one around. "Why didn't I know there was another one - Aa ...

Noguchi grabbed Kuroki and held her in his arms like a princess. Then he turned around and jumped down the corridor at lightning speed.

Bang! It landed right at the door.

"Wow, who is so brave that he dares to jump in the main building. Ugh."

The automatic door opened, and Saga, Takashima, and Toyokawa, who had just returned from dinner and were about to look for Noguchi, almost thought they were seeing things.

Didn’t Noguchi forbid Chaofan from jumping around in the building?
Why did he suddenly start a rebellion?

And in his arms
"Ah, I haven't met the training target for today. I almost forgot. I'll go back and continue training."

"Together, I just thought of a trick, can you just shit in the void?"

Several people slipped away very easily.

"You scared me to death!" Kuroki quickly came down and tried to twist his body around Noguchi, but it felt harder than cowhide and he failed.

"Sorry, for some reasons that are difficult to explain, I can't use the stairs for the time being." Noguchi gave a reluctant explanation.

Kuroki exhaled, "You should have said it earlier. But it seems quite fun."

The second half of the sentence was spoken very quietly, but Noguchi still heard it, but he pretended not to hear it.

"Brother, if we eat out every day, can we really afford the expenses? I can actually cook."

A restaurant somewhere in Osaka.

Tatsuya Kawakami brought his sister to visit his mother whose condition had improved. Because his mother suddenly called out his sister and Ye's name, the doctor thought this was a good opportunity and asked them to stay for a while longer and talk to their mother more.

Although she didn't say anything afterwards, she no longer stared blankly in a certain direction. Instead, she looked around with a puzzled look, showing a look that had not been seen for a long time.

As we stayed there quite late, we were too lazy to go back, so we just booked a hotel in Osaka and had dinner there.

Tatsuya Kawakami was about to use his old saying to comfort his sister, but he saw the uneasiness and worry in his sister's eyes.

He understood a lot in an instant.

She wasn't actually worried about whether she had enough money. Since he had comforted her many times and said he had money, even if she was slow-witted, she should have realized that her brother no longer had to worry about money.

So what she's really worried about might be herself.

She didn't want to be a mere burden, she wanted to make some contribution, she didn't want Tatsuya Kawakami to get tired of her or even abandon her one day because of her worthlessness.

This is a kind of insecurity rooted in the sister's heart. As her brother, she has not been involved in her life for a long time, so she has such worries.

Thinking of this, Kawakami stopped talking and nodded slowly: "Okay, let's cook more meals at home in the future. I'll buy more ingredients. If your cooking is not delicious, I won't buy it."

Kawakami Kazuha nodded in surprise: "I, I will do it well! Just as good as mom's, or a little bit worse than mom's."

"Okay, then I'll wait to taste your 'mother's taste'."

"Brother~" Kawakami Heye blushed and acted coquettishly. What motherly taste? These words sounded weird when used on her.

After eating and pushing the wheelchair around, they returned to the hotel, washed up and prepared to rest.

The TV in the room was on, broadcasting the news.

"Prime Minister, we can see that the recovery of Iki Island seems to be very unfavorable in recent times. The Maritime Self-Defense Force, which has already suffered heavy losses, has sunk another warship. What do you think caused all this? Is the current blind recovery of Iki Island really in the national interest?"

"Recovering territory is a soldier's duty, there is no doubt about that. The action on Iki Island was taken after careful discussion between us and the Special Affairs Bureau. This was also a rare window of opportunity. It's a pity that we didn't grasp it well. Some people even colluded with foreign enemies at this time of national crisis, causing us to be attacked from all sides, which led to the loss of our early advantages and reduced it to a tug-of-war. I strongly condemn this."

Tatsuya Kawakami looked at Koichi Abe who was giving a speech on the screen, holding the super alloy steel pipe in his arms with one hand, and remained silent.

Deep down, he didn't think this decision was wrong.

It's just too late. What were they doing earlier? If they had not been influenced by those traditionalists and had focused on dealing with the monsters on Iki Island early on, their Kawakami family and many other families would not have ended up in such a situation.

Afterwards, the compensation was cut again and again, and the promised resettlement housing has never been provided.

He was on the side of the traditionalists at that time, but now he has changed his mind and become a loyal supporter of the Special Affairs Bureau. His incompetent command led to the disastrous defeat of the main force of the Maritime Self-Defense Force in Tokyo Bay, but in the end he just passed the blame on and bowed to apologize without having to bear any cost. The lives of hundreds of thousands of people were treated as a joke.

There is no such thing in the world.

In order to selfishly exonerate himself, he put all the blame on Yoshida Hide who committed suicide, and also implicated those true patriots, causing them to suffer from the torment of conscience.

Whenever he saw Abe's face, he could hardly contain his anger.

He should not and does not deserve to live. The best consolation to the victims is to let him die.

Can.
Kawakami sighed.

He still couldn't make up his mind. No matter what, since the Special Affairs Bureau was now cooperating with him, if he killed them, he would be declaring war on the Special Affairs Bureau.

He could not guarantee that his identity could avoid the thorough search of the Special Affairs Bureau. Once exposed, his sister and mother would be in danger.

Hiro Ozaki had talked to him and said that his sister and mother could be transferred abroad, but a disabled person and a mentally traumatized person had to go to a foreign country where he was unfamiliar with the environment because of him.
"Can we really decide our own life? Can we really let go of hatred?"

he murmured.

(End of this chapter)