Dragon Raja: Oh no! Lu Mingfei has been diagnosed with depression!

The Peninsula Hotel, Presidential Suite.

Lu Mingfei, Caesar, and Chu Zihang sat facing each other around the coffee table. After the meeting, Crow and Yaksha drove them back.

Fingel slept like a log in the carriage, and Caesar tried several times but couldn't wake him.

In the end, Lu Mingfei had Crow and Yaksha help carry this guy, who slept in such an unseemly manner, to his suite. His reason was that he needed to discuss the details of the demolition mission with Caesar and Chu Zihang, and because it was too important, he didn't want to be disturbed by others.

"Why refuse Genjiro? If he went into the water with us, the chances of success would be much higher."

Caesar raised an eyebrow and looked at Lu Mingfei.

After Lu Mingfei suggested that Tachibana Masamune could go underwater with them to carry out the demolition mission, Genjiro was the first to jump out and object, saying that he was the director of the Execution Bureau and that even if the branch needed to send people to carry out the mission, it should be him.

Caesar and Chu Zihang had no objection to Genjiro's self-recommendation. They had sparred with him and knew his strength. Even though Tachibana Masamune was the head of the Snake Clan, he was already very old, so old that people doubted whether he could still draw that blood-stained sword from its sheath.

Lu Mingfei decisively rejected Genjiro. His obsession with Tachibana Masamune puzzled Caesar and Chu Zihang, who were only able to ask him the question after returning to the hotel.

"This mission was destined to be difficult regardless of whether Genji joined us or not, so it doesn't matter who goes into the water with us. The important thing is that the person must be influential enough."

Lu Mingfei said calmly, "Tachibana Masamune is the most influential person in the Snake-Headed Eight Families. I have found out a lot of things. For example, there are actually many people in the Snake-Headed Eight Families who do not agree with Genjiro's status as the young master. They think he is too weak and not suitable to take over the family."

"Haven't we always been together? When did you find out about this?"

Caesar paused for a moment. "Did you hear something else from the seabed? I thought with you here, this would be the easiest mission we've ever had, but you sound a little pessimistic."

"Haven't you noticed yet?"

Lu Mingfei tapped his fingers on the table, producing a rhythmic sound.

Caesar's eyebrows twitched in rhythm as he tried to recall everything he had experienced since arriving in Japan, searching for something he had overlooked. Lu Mingfei's words gave him a sense of something unusual.

He turned his head and winked at Chu Zihang, trying to get an answer from his nemesis, but Chu Zihang actually showed a confused expression, obviously he didn't understand what Lu Mingfei meant by "not finding".

"I don't see anything wrong."

Caesar shrugged dejectedly.

"You are the heir to the Gattuso family. If one day your family faces annihilation, what will you do?"

"I will buy up all the fireworks in the city, send people to transport them to the Gattuso family manor, and then lead all the members of the student council to light them with me to celebrate this very memorable day."

Caesar snapped his fingers, brimming with confidence. "We will dance and drink whiskey under the bright lights, stepping over the ruins of all the buildings. Everyone will remember this day!"

Lu Mingfei fell silent, a rare occurrence, and looked at this seemingly sincere fool, letting out a long sigh:

"Let me put it another way: what if someone offered to light those fireworks for you?"

"You bastard!"

Caesar slammed his hand on the coffee table with such force that the solid wood table began to shake. His face contorted with rage, he said viciously:

"This is something only I can do. Anyone who wants to take my place will have to step over my dead body first!"

"Are you referring to the Japanese branch's handling of this disaster?"

Chu Zihang could no longer listen to Caesar's speech. Caesar possessed an incomprehensible passion for such matters, and his thought process seemed to be different from that of ordinary people.

In short, if he doesn't interrupt, Caesar might just stand up on the table while he's talking, and then they won't be able to get a word in edgewise tonight.

Lu Mingfei nodded:

"You and I are both Chinese, Caesar is Italian, Fingel is German, and Zero is Russian. None of us are Japanese citizens. Yet now, when Japan faces annihilation, it places all its hopes on a few foreigners like us. Don't you find that strange?"

"That does seem a bit strange, but didn't you say that Japan is a nation that admires strength? Headquarters is stronger than the Japanese branch, so do they really believe we can save their country?"

Caesar scratched his head, feeling somewhat embarrassed, and realized what a foolish thing he had just done.

"The Gattuso family is one of the board members of Kassel College and holds a very high position at the main campus. I remember you told us, Caesar, that the Gattuso family sees profit like a vulture sees carrion on the savanna, right?"

Caesar nodded, though he himself didn't quite remember; he had said these words to many other people.

"The Gattuso family owns properties all over the world, but they don't even own a house in Japan."

Lu Mingfei took a deep breath. "They gave up all their interests in this country. Do you know what that means?"

"They encountered a formidable enemy in this country, forcing them to abandon readily available markets of profit."

Caesar's expression was grave. He knew the Gattuso family better than anyone else. There were only two possibilities for them to be helpless against those guys who would even eat rotten flesh: either there was nothing left to gain in this place, or there was a ferocious beast in this place that could snatch food from the Gattuso family.

"If the Japanese branch really submits to the headquarters, given the Gattuso family's position on the board of directors, it can exert pressure on the branch through the headquarters and enter the country without any resistance."

Lu Mingfei said calmly, "But the facts prove that the Japanese branch did not truly submit. Have you heard the story of enduring hardship and biding one's time? They bowed their heads only to find an opportunity to stab you in the heart, and this mission is a perfect opportunity."

"Kassel College will not allow any dragons to hatch from their embryos. Just as the Japanese branch does not trust them, they also do not trust the Japanese branch. Therefore, they will only send their most elite students to carry out missions, and you and Chu Zihang are undoubtedly their most capable trump cards."

"The Snake Clan will definitely betray us; they will not allow anyone to leave here with their greatest secret."