I Am an Emperor in a World of Mixed Anime

The investigation revealed that the driver wasn't carrying any chemicals or even gasoline; it was just a truckload of vegetable oil. Although he had indeed transported hazardous materials before, that was a long time ago, and there were no signs of leakage from the tank. As for why he thought that way and drove into the construction site as if it were a deserted suburb, that remains to be verified.

Police have taken him for a blood test to check for hallucinogens, but no test results showed that this was possible. The driver who caused the accident is currently undergoing further mental health examination.

Akira Higashino looked at the ruins of the construction site, his eyes gradually turning cold.

"Let's put these projects on hold for now, especially those locations that Kongming has already identified. There's no rush; time is on our side."

Chapter 78 I made the following arrangements

[An unnamed enemy force has been detected, brazenly launching a full-scale attack on the Empire's territory. Instead of being grateful for our guidance, they dare to obstruct the Empire's development; they deserve to die!]

[Series of Quests: Conquest (Started)]

[Task One: The High Ground of Faith. If you don't occupy it, someone else will. The more the enemy tries to stop you, the more it proves you're doing the right thing. As the emperor with divine authority, please spread faith as quickly as possible, establish a sufficient number of branch shrines, construct protective barriers, and block the invasion of evil!]

[(0/1000) Task in progress]

[Task Reward: By channeling the power of incense offerings and prayers through shrine worship into the realm of faith and purifying it, the purified power of faith can be used to nurture and resurrect subordinate deities.]

Sure enough, this time it's related to that unknown force again.

As for this reward, it can be used to improve the strength of your subordinates. Even if the mechanism is a bit flawed, as long as the stats can be increased, it's not entirely unacceptable.

Even the mountain god, if he hadn't been careless throughout, might have been able to defeat the evil courtesan, or at least wouldn't have been killed in just a few moves.

Moreover, unlike the mountain gods who are immovable and have their divine bodies placed in the shrine, the subordinate gods under Higashino Akira's command are essentially already inhabiting the nascent divine realm born from him. Their physical bodies are not restricted by their range of movement; they can fight if they can, run if they can't, and even if they die, they are not afraid. As long as the true spirit of the divine realm still exists, now, with enough faith power, he can also resurrect his subordinate god underlings.

"Let's go, let's go to the hospital first."

As soon as I approached the nearest hospital, I heard a series of soft sobs. In the lobby and outside the emergency room, there were women and elderly people crying with tears streaming down their faces, and children with blank and helpless expressions beside them.

They didn't even know Akira Higashino, the big boss who had originally given the head of their household a job.

As Higashino Akira approached, Kongming, who had been waiting there, saw him get up and walk over.

"How is the situation?"

"Reporting to my lord, of the twenty-three of our employees, fourteen have already died, three more have died after arriving at the hospital, and six are still being treated."

Upon hearing this, Higashino Akira nodded and waited for the final result with Kongming.

In the end, only four people survived. One of them was left with a lifelong disability, while the other three, who were far from the accident site, were able to recover as well as they needed rest.

Everyone involved had families to support. The man with the lifelong disability even had three children. Despite the high salaries at Yunmeng Group, his wife still had to take part-time jobs to supplement the family income. She was unable to get leave to come to the hospital immediately and could only tearfully ask her eldest daughter to take leave from school to come and take care of him.

When Higashino Akira and Kongming entered the ward, the man was still barely able to stay conscious. He was raising his hand to silently comfort his tearful daughter. When he saw Kongming and the real face of the behind-the-scenes boss that he had only seen on the bronze statue at the company entrance, he was stunned. He struggled to get up and greet them, but Kongming quickly stepped forward and pressed him back onto the bed.

"Don't move around if you're injured, just lie down."

Akira Higashino stepped forward to comfort her, but the girl beside him, her face streaked with tears, gave him a dismissive look. He patted the girl's head indifferently.

Seeing this, the man pleaded weakly, "Lord Higashino, please forgive me, my daughter..."

"It's alright."

Higashino Akira shook his head, interrupting him. He wasn't about to get upset about a young girl's resistance in this situation.

"Don't worry about your injury. Yunmeng Group will not abandon any of its employees. The group will cover your and the other employees' medical expenses during your recovery period. Your salary will be paid every month. Don't worry about your family's finances. I'm waiting for you to recover and come back to work at Yunmeng."

Upon hearing this, the man, who had been holding back his tears all day in front of his daughter, trying his best not to break down and embarrass himself, suddenly had tears welling up in his eyes.

At least, his family won't be broken up in a short time because of his illness.

"Lord Higashino... I... am very grateful to you, but I no longer have the legs to continue working for you."

“Yunmeng Group has many positions and needs many people. Even if there isn’t a position that matches your current one, I can create one for you and give you a suitable job. So this is not something you need to worry about. You just need to take good care of your health.”

He reached out and patted his shoulder, and in the calmest tone, Higashino Akira made a promise that made the man feel most at ease and deeply grateful.

After saying that, Higashino Akira turned and left for the next ward. Miyamizu Mitsuha, his secretary, quickly stepped forward, left a bag of fruit, and handed the man an envelope containing a considerable amount of cash before following him.

After visiting the few surviving employees, Akira Higashino promised the families of the employees who had completely lost their loved ones that the company would cover all funeral expenses, allow family members to take over the jobs of the deceased employees, and take over the education expenses of the surviving underage children.

These measures both appeased the public and imposed restrictions to prevent people from using the compensation to remarry, abandon their families, and remarry.

After all, they can all be considered his subjects. In Yunmeng Group, the people who are most easily assimilated and develop a genuine sense of identity with the group are these low-level employees. If they are ignored and left to rely on the murderer who may not be able to pay much compensation, many families may be broken up as a result.

Higashino Akira didn't want to say anything nonsensical like they were in this situation because of him. He believed that the treatment he usually gave his employees was enough to make them work their butts off. He wasn't doing this out of kindness, but simply because it wouldn't do him any harm.

Reputation and loyal followers are cultivated step by step in this way. He doesn't lack the money to feed a few people. Money that is kept is just a string of numbers. Only when money is spent, turning into popular support, territory, the number of subjects, military equipment and military expenditure, does it become wealth.

He dealt with Detective Kousaka, who was in charge of the case and came over with a deeply moved expression of admiration.

On the way back, Higashino Akira gave Kongming instructions.

"The industry cannot stop. After that, we need to take good care of those reporters and prevent them from smearing us for no reason. We need to vigorously publicize our positive aspects and the measures we have taken."

"As for those guys who took our money and still went against us, expose all the dirt and illegal evidence about them that the Embroidered Uniform Guard has collected."

“A bunch of ungrateful bastards. It doesn’t matter if those seats are occupied or not, but we can’t have enemies sitting there.”

"Speed ​​up the process of selecting sensible people to support his rise to power."

"Buy more schools and hospitals to provide education and medical care for our own people. With our size, we can support the normal operation of these places. We need to educate our own people well from a young age, so that we won't lose too much money in the end."

"Yes, my lord!"

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P.S.: I'm still writing. I accidentally fell asleep halfway through the last chapter during the day. It's really hard to adjust my sleep schedule.

Chapter Seventy-Nine: Cooking...

On his way back to Shimokitazawa, Akira Higashino received a selfie from Guitar Hero.

However, just one night later, the settings he had painstakingly adjusted to correct his social anxiety seemed to have been restored by the system.

In the photo, Goto Ichiri, wearing strange party glasses and a fake mustache, struggles to make a peace sign, his expression somewhat disheveled.

After thinking for a moment, Higashino Akira sent her a message.

'Change your clothes.'

'! ! ! '

'Something cute is needed!'

'...'

'I know this is difficult, but it's an order!'

After a long time, the other side sent another photo. When Higashino Akira saw it, he tilted his head back slightly.

This child seems to be a bit dead!

'Great, Private First Class Poch, I knew you could be even cuter!'

On the other end of the communication software, the pink-haired girl looked at the reply on her phone screen, and the gloomy expression on her face vanished instantly. She perked up immediately, hugging her phone and giggling as she rolled around on the tatami mat.

Then she saw the small figure standing quietly watching her from the doorway of her bedroom.

Erli sighed at her good-for-nothing older sister, and under Yili's horrified gaze, her mouth gradually widened, "Mom! My sister is holding her phone and giggling like an idiot again!"

"Erli! Dammeyo—!!!"

Goto Ichiri hurriedly got up and reached out to her younger sister, who was shouting and running away, trying to stop her.

But they couldn't catch up; Erli had already run far away, laughing.

Finished!

She imagined herself being interrogated by her parents at dinner, unable to bear the pressure, confessing, and being stopped by them. Then her boyfriend would come to her parents' house and either physically persuade them or pull out stacks of banknotes from his pocket and say, "I've bought your daughter!"

Either way, it looks pretty bad!

In an instant, Goto Ichiri was melted on the spot.

At dinner, at the Goto family's dining table, Ichiri watched his parents scrolling through their chat history on their phones, while he gazed at his younger sister with a wistful look.

"Oh, it's been so long since I've seen Yili wear this style of clothing, she really looks adorable!"

"Yes."

"My sister is so cute..."

Huh?!?

Goto Ichiri blinked, looking at her parents with a puzzled expression.

"Mother?"

"Hmm?" The wife looked at her eldest daughter tenderly, her expression unchanged.

"I have a boyfriend!"

"Oh... this is the child, isn't he? He seems like a nice person."

The wife pretended to realize something, too embarrassed to expose her daughter's lie, afraid of hurting Xiao Yili's self-esteem.

Where can you find a boyfriend who only exchanges three sentences a day: good morning, good afternoon, and good night, ending with a selfie? And there isn't even a single photo on his social media account. He's so careless in his pretense.

Across from her, Yili was unaware that her parents didn't believe her at all. They thought she had fabricated the story of her boyfriend. Hearing her mother's affirmation, she quickly shook her head and began to explain.

"Well, Higashino-kun isn't exactly a good kid, he has a lot of girlfriends... Oh no, no, no, Higashino-kun is actually quite nice, he doesn't mind me at all, he even says I'm cute, and he's never lied to me... It's just..."

The parents exchanged a glance and sighed silently. They hadn't pressured the child at all, so why had she given herself away and started rambling incoherently?

Erli didn't understand much about the adults' thoughts; she just looked at her older sister with bright eyes and praised her loudly, "Sister is cute!"

"Hehehe...no, no, Erli is cuter!"

"cute!"

My sister easily coaxed me into covering my mouth and giggling.

The two adults smiled with satisfaction as they watched the two sisters getting along harmoniously. They even encouraged their eldest daughter, "Since Ichiri has feelings for her boyfriend, she should work hard to make him hers. It's not good for boys to be too fickle, but our Ichiri's charm is limitless. She'll definitely be able to keep her boyfriend's eyes on her alone."

"Me? Me!"

Hearing her mother's words, Ichiri's eyes widened. She suddenly remembered what Higashino-kun had said last time. Whether it was dealing with external or internal matters, she couldn't do it. If she had to do it alone...

Oysters! Oysters! Oysters!

Guitar Hero shook his head wildly.

Someone like her, who only dares to hide at home and has no girlfriend charm or appeal, only dares to secretly share a little of other people's happiness, definitely couldn't possibly take it all!