My transformation into a beautiful girl started with a hemorrhage.

"..."

Kouta now realizes that he had underestimated the Miyazaki family.

Although Hokkaido is considered a "remote rural area" in Japan, its capital city, Sapporo, is Japan's fourth largest metropolitan area. Families who can manipulate events here are practically local tyrants.

Hazuki noticed the surprised look Kouta was giving her.

With a smile, she said, "Well? Now you know the status of our [Miyamori] family, right?"

She then looked at Kouta with a seductive gaze, "Of course, in your eyes, these are all insignificant. As long as you are willing to become a retainer of the [Miyanomori] family, you can name whatever conditions you desire. Even... even if you want me, it's not... not impossible..."

"gone!"

Kouta suddenly jumped up, stopping Hazuki from continuing to speak, and continued leaping towards the city center.

The searchers on the ground probably never imagined that the person they were looking for would leap right over their heads in broad daylight.

……

The Sapporo Police Headquarters is also the police headquarters for the entire Hokkaido region, and is located in the central ward of Sapporo.

It is also the location of administrative departments such as the Hokkaido Central Police Station, the government building, and the Hokkaido Diet Building.

It is also home to a host of media outlets, izakayas (Japanese pubs), geisha districts, and more.

This place is usually very orderly, but tonight it's rather lively.

The main feature was that groups of reporters, eagerly waiting, were squatting by the roadside, seemingly waiting for something.

The nearby police station had to deploy additional officers to maintain order, which was a further blow to the already overwhelmed police force.

The Sapporo City Police Headquarters has dispatched almost all available police officers to search for Hazuki Miyamori, the eldest daughter of the Miyamori family who has been kidnapped.

Hazuki Miyamori has been missing for a whole day, and they haven't received any messages from the kidnappers. They've even started to wonder if Hazuki Miyamori has already been murdered.

Under immense pressure from the Miyamori family, they had no choice but to resort to this thorough, door-to-door search.

The police headquarters building is located in an open area, in front of an eight-lane avenue, with the nearest buildings only a few dozen meters away, and behind it a botanical garden.

That is the Hokkaido University Botanical Garden, which has more than 4000 plant species and covers an area of ​​nearly 14 hectares.

Although this botanical garden is called the Hokkaido University Botanical Garden, it is not located next to Hokkaido University; the two are almost two kilometers apart.

At that moment, a dark figure flashed across the iron fence of the botanical garden; this figure was Kōta.

The botanical garden is beautiful and charming, but it is winter now, and there is only withered grass outside, with only a few greenhouses having blooming flowers.

There was only one security guard standing alone at the gate not far away. The streetlights on both sides of the park emitted a faint light, and beyond that, it was pitch black.

As soon as Kouta carried Hazuki into the room, he immediately felt the air grow colder.

Looking around, the withered yellow grass and the bare trees that were so thick that it would take four people to hug them made it feel like we had entered a natural forest.

Kōta was moving quickly when a long, narrow lake suddenly appeared in front of him, blocking his way.

It is described as long and narrow only in relation to its length, which is so long that you can't see the sides. Its width is estimated to be over thirty meters.

Under the moonlight, the calm water surface is like a mirror, reflecting the round moon and the sky. The round lights of the street lamps by the nearby trees are reflected in the water, like small moons surrounding the moon in the pond.

Bloated white clouds drifted slowly across the water, like a group of old women, hunched over, laboriously walking past the moon, trying to obscure it, but the moon poured its bright light through the gaps in the clouds.

One white cloud after another connects, like a wide, irregular ribbon, dividing the pale sky in two. The clouds drift by and gradually disappear into the distance.

There were also many unidentified aquatic plants growing in the water. Kouta only recognized water lilies and hyacinths, but he didn't know about the others.

Looking at the lake blocking their path, Kouta took a deep breath and said to Hazuki, "Hold on tight."

"Hey, you wouldn't... Stop! Stop, stop, stop! Shouldn't the right thing to do be to find a bridge?"

"Who knows where the bridge is? Okay, I'm going to sprint."

After saying that, Kouta took a deep breath and then sprinted forward.

As Hazuki watched the scenery flash by, she cursed the planners of this place countless times in her mind.

Why not build more bridges over such a large body of water?

She's determined to fire the designer of this place!

She really does have that power. Although Hokkaido University is a national university, it is actually controlled by the Miyamori family.

Kouta was running as fast as he could, his trampling feet leaving large craters, each several tens of centimeters in diameter, in the withered grass. He approached the lakeside with lightning speed.

With his last stomp, he shattered the shoreline and then launched himself out.

He carried Hazuki and leaped into the air. At the very top of the parabola, he was only about a third of the way to the opposite bank. If he continued like this, he would fall into the icy lake.

However, Kouta did not panic. He knew he couldn't pass it on the first try, and he had already prepared a backup plan.

He still doesn't know what this force field inside his body is.

Through his previous investigations, he already knew that when this force field was inside his body, it could enhance his physical abilities to an exaggerated degree, while covering his body surface could only defend against ordinary small-caliber pistols.

Through these days of research, he also discovered that he could mold it.

Just like now.

Just before he was about to touch the water, he controlled his strength and expanded it into a transparent circle with a diameter of five meters under his feet.

Boom!

The moment the circular surface was formed, it violently collided with the entire water surface, creating waves more than a meter high that spread outwards. The plants on the water swayed in the waves, and the fish underwater were also directly awakened by the shock.

Using the force of the circular surface formed by his strength to impact the water's surface, Kouta briefly paused on the water's surface. Just as he was about to sink, he launched himself again, soaring into the sky, crossing the last third of the width, and successfully reaching the shore.

"Great monster, wait, wait..."

Hazuki felt dizzy.

Throughout the journey, Kouta completely disregarded the feelings of this delicate young woman, focusing solely on speed.

If she hadn't trained in contortion and dance since childhood, she would have vomited long ago.

Xiao Xiao~~!

A strong wind blew again near Hazuki's ear.

Kouta continued running quickly. There were no annoying lakes blocking his way, and he finally jumped over the large iron fence of the botanical garden and onto a sidewalk.

The Sapporo City Police Headquarters building is now very close.

Kouta put Hazuki down, leaving the delicate little girl lying on the cold ground.

"Alright, we've arrived. Remember your promise, or else..." Kouta gave him a warning look, then turned and left. He still needed to go back to get money to pay for Hui's medical expenses.

Hazuki's mind was a complete blank. The whole journey felt like riding an upside-down roller coaster.

The fact that she didn't vomit is already a sign of her good physical condition.

As for Kouta's warning, she had no interest in listening to it at all.

A few minutes later, the cold night wind blew, and she had recovered.

Looking at the police headquarters across the street, her face was icy cold; she knew her battle was about to begin.

Step out of the shade of the tree-lined avenue and into the streetlights.

The surrounding reporters and police officers maintaining order spotted her instantly.

Finally, under the protection of a group of police officers, she squeezed through the swarm of reporters and entered the Sapporo City Police Headquarters building.

It's safe here now, because this isn't a place her father, who married into the family, can interfere with. Even if he wanted to gain power here through running for district councilor, he's still far from it...

Chapter 428 Remembering

Kouta turned and hurried home. Without Hazuki as a burden, he was much faster.

By the time he got back to his residential area,

The area has been strictly sealed off, with police tape at every intersection and patrol officers on duty. Teams of police officers and staff (forensic doctors, surveyors, etc.) are busy working inside.

A helicopter hovered in the sky, its powerful searchlights scanning the area repeatedly.

Fortunately, Kouta's house was a few hundred meters away from here, so it was not affected.

Kouta watched this scene from afar, and he could only believe that Hazuki wouldn't dare to lie to him; otherwise, if the police continued their investigation, they would eventually find him.

He took a longer route and sneaked back to his home. He didn't turn on the lights, but could see the familiar layout of the room by the faint light from his phone.

In the living room, the hearty breakfast prepared that morning had gone cold, and the trash can still contained that thick book on advanced mathematics, some kind of religious doctrine.

He walked through the living room and came to his and Hui's bedroom on the second floor. The room looked exactly the same as when he left in the morning. Half of the quilt was on the bed and the other half was dragging on the floor. The nightgown he had changed Hui out of was also scattered messily on the side of the bed.

He composed himself, pulled a suitcase from under the bed, and opened it to find it full of Japanese yen, each bill worth ten thousand yen, neatly bundled in stacks of one hundred.

Inside, there was also a plastic bag containing a large number of exquisitely designed and expensive necklaces, jewelry, and other precious items.

Kouta started counting his money. He had brought more than 300 million yen with him. After deducting the 100 million yen he had already spent on buying a house, several million yen for identity fraud, and other expenses, he still had more than 190 million yen left.

After leaving a few bundles, he put over 180 million yen into a burlap sack and left the bedroom.

After locking the door, I rushed to Miyazaki Hospital again.

On the way, I stopped at a convenience store without thinking and bought a pack of cigarettes and a lighter under the clerk's surprised gaze.

In his previous life, he suffered immense pressure every day and developed the bad habit of smoking at a young age. Sometimes he would smoke two packs a day, greedily enjoying a moment of mental comfort amidst the pungent smell of burning tobacco.

However, this was the first time he had ever smoked in this life.

Hui's coma had put immense pressure on him, and for some reason, he went to buy cigarettes again.

He left the convenience store with the cigarettes in his hand. Right there in the open space in front of the store, he opened the cigarette pack, picked up a cigarette, and was about to light it when Hui's figure suddenly appeared in front of him.

Hui hated him for smoking, and secondly for drinking. In her previous life, she tried to persuade him to smoke almost every day. Although he would agree verbally every time, he would go and buy it again the next day under the temptation of nicotine.

With Hui's earnest teachings still fresh in his mind, he suddenly chuckled: "Really, what have I been doing..."

Then Kouta crumpled the cigarette and its pack together into a ball, threw it in the trash can, and continued on his way.

It was already 10 p.m. when he arrived at the gate outside Miyazaki Hospital.

As a private hospital with excellent service, Miyazaki Hospital has staff on duty even at night, but it's not the same group of people working during the day.

Kōta explained his purpose, and the security guard called to confirm before letting him through.

Afterwards, Kengtai went to the lobby on the first floor to handle the procedures for medical expenses and hospital admission.