Bad luck plagues him, he refuses to become a Kamen Rider.

Kaoru Ichijo smiled slightly: "As for this Lock Seed, I don't know how to use it either. It's a power from another world, and I can't pry too much into it."

"Yuxing, you need to find many answers yourself."

-

With no more questions to ask, the three left the Metropolitan Police Department and got into a police car together.

"Riddlers are really annoying!"

Yu Xing rolled her dead fish eyes and slumped over her seat.

"What exactly is the fate of the trenches?!"

"At least it cleared up a lot of your doubts, so that's one good thing."

Guihu hadn't expected to get any information, but today's gains exceeded his expectations.

"The person behind that Gurongi shouldn't dare to make any rash moves. Let's go back first, and I'll investigate the rest in secret."

The three have formed a group, and Rin Ichijo has given her advice.

"I still need Guihu to investigate the conglomerate."

Yuuki raised his hand and assigned a task to Wu Daogui.

"how about you?"

Guihu was somewhat speechless.

"Of course I'm resting. I'm just an ordinary person. I'm tired, so I'm going home to sleep."

Yuuki acted like a brat in the car, and Takato and Rin Ichijo smiled helplessly.

"Alright, wait a few days until your meeting on the Helheim issue is finalized, and then I'll take further action."

The vehicle started, and the three of them sped away from the Metropolitan Police Department headquarters.

Second floor

Kaoru Ichijo silently watched from the window. After the three left, his shoulders slumped, and he became much more hunched over.

"I don't know how much longer we can hold on."

He took out the Destiny Stone from his pocket, on which a clear and obvious crack was visible.

Once the stone disc shatters, the seal will be broken, and an unprecedented decisive battle will erupt!

"Yuxing, grow up quickly, the world needs you, we need you."

He was thinking to himself.

Chapter 48: A Team of Monsters?

After returning, the three of them each began their own work.

Over the next few days, nothing unusual happened, and even the activity frequency of the aliens decreased somewhat.

[Summer] Barbecue Restaurant

In the afternoon, after the guests had all left, Youxing slowly wiped the table with a bucket.

"Yuyuki!"

Manatsu pounced on her from behind, but Yuuki caught her without even flinching.

"what happened?"

He put down what he was holding, tilted his head, and asked the person hanging behind him with a smile.

“We went back to school a few days ago, but that old building was said to have safety hazards and was blown up.”

Zhenxia pursed her lips. She didn't believe there was any safety hazard in that teaching building, after all, she had been there so many times.

However, she didn't want to think about it too much right now. There were other places to play besides the old teaching building. If it's gone, it's gone.

"Because of the old school building issue, the school has decided to take us on a camping trip to the river near Zeya City!"

"Would you like to come along?"

After Manatsu finished speaking, she looked at Yuuki with sparkling eyes.

"That's not a good idea. I'm not a student at your school anymore."

Yu-Hsing always felt something was off about an outsider participating in an internal school activity.

"Oh, it's okay. The teachers will definitely agree!"

Zhenxia thumped her chest loudly: "Besides, if all else fails, you can sneak in by yourself. No one will check anyway."

"It'll be so boring if I go alone."

She looked rather pitiful, which made Youxing both laugh and cry. After a moment's hesitation, she nodded in agreement.

"Great!"

As soon as Yuuki agreed, Manatsu let out a cheer, causing Wu Dao Guihu, who had just entered, to turn around and look at her.

He strode over, not wanting to disturb the happy Zhenxia, ​​and quietly whispered in Youxing's ear: "The meeting has reached a conclusion."

This time, Yuuki did not participate; instead, Takatoro Kureshima went alone.

He had planned to find out who had laid a hand on his brother at the meeting, but after trying for a long time, no one responded, and the matter was dropped.

"what's the situation?"

Yuuki lowered her voice and asked Guihu.

"The higher-ups readily agreed to our proposal, but I always felt something was off."

Wu Daogui frowned, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what was wrong.

Logically speaking, it should be a happy thing for everyone to agree so readily.

"Well."

Not being in danger, Yuuki couldn't sense anything. He shook his head: "As long as the citizens of Zeya City are not sacrificed, we can only accept it even if there are pitfalls."

After all, they didn't have any better options besides this.

"Then Rin gave me some information about the conglomerate and that Gurongi these past few days. You can read it yourself when you get back."

"I'm going back to continue my investigation in Helheim. You may not be able to contact me for the next few days."

Guihu quietly slipped a USB drive into Youxing's hand, then took a few steps away, distancing himself from Youxing.

Yuuki put the USB drive into her pocket and winked at Guihu.

Guihu wisely left, but Manatsu, still lost in her daydream and grinning foolishly, didn't notice his departure until Yuuki patted her on the shoulder.

Have you decided on the specific dates for the camping trip?

Manatsu snapped out of her reverie and held up two fingers: "It's this weekend. The school doesn't want to drag it out for too long."

Yu Xing held the USB drive in her hand, smiled and nodded: "Then I'll go back and prepare."

"it is good!"

Manatsu pumped her fist, full of energy.

-

Rental house

Yuxing inserted the USB drive into her computer and, watching the slow loading progress, scratched her head.

He quickly scanned the entire room, the cramped space making him feel uncomfortable: "Looks like I need to consider moving to a different place; this is too small."

It's easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality

Yuuki thought to herself as she counted the large sum of money she had received from the conglomerate.

In just a short while, the USB drive finished reading, and the pop-up message caught Youxing's attention.

The first thing to be affected is a list of changes in the senior management of the conglomerate.

Yuuki didn't even need to think about where this list came from; it must have been obtained by Matsukura from within the conglomerate.

He quickly glanced at the other information, but lingered for two seconds on the job change of DJ Sagara.

DJ Sagara appointed as head of the information department of the World Tree Foundation, effective July 3rd.

This change happened yesterday; the person was quietly promoted internally before the meeting.

Remembering the strange man who had visited them before, Yuuki tapped his fingers on the table and fell into deep thought for a moment.

"Minister Ren, is this something the conglomerate wants to convey to the outside world through him?"

Yuuki didn't know what abilities this person possessed that made him worthy of being entrusted with such an important task by the conglomerate.

Recalling her first meeting with DJ Sagara, Yuuki only felt that the man was rather impolite.

Finding details was not Yuuki's forte, and he couldn't figure out any problems, so he decided to tell Rin Ichijo what he knew later.

Skimming over the document, Yuuki perked up and looked at the next document, which was about the Gurongi, something Yuuki was much more curious about.

The information begins with a brief introduction to the origins and some of the abilities of the Grongi. Below is the information for this particular Grongi.

"His swordsmanship is outstanding, his physical strength is extremely strong, and his ability to deceive is questionable. It is suspected that this ability is not his own, but rather an ability he obtained by cooperating with the Illusion Demon."

Thinking of that red ring, Youxing narrowed his eyes; he had never seen what the Illusion Demon looked like.

"How interesting. The strange person I hadn't seen for so long suddenly appeared beside me after I transformed into this form."

Yu Xing leaned back in her chair and crossed her legs.

"Does knowing more make it easier to get caught up in this?"

Yu Xing seemed to be deep in thought, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

He continued looking down, and the information below made him instantly lower his legs and sit up straight.

[First appearance location: Helheim]

WTF?

Yu Xing cursed, his eyes fixed on the line of text.