My transformation into a beautiful girl started with a hemorrhage.

"Huff, huff—" she gasped for breath with her mouth wide open.

at this time,

"what!--"

"What, what is this?"

The resurrected Shimomura clutched his head and rolled around in agony on the ground.

At this moment, the memories in Shimomura Izumi's mind that had been rewritten by Kei and the real memories began to collide.

Her consciousness constantly shifted between false memories and real bodily memories.

"That day, my senior and I received a tip from a passerby and went to find Sato's hiding place..."

"No, that's not right! That day we went to capture the demi-human Kobayami Kanae..."

"No, no, that's not it. We went to investigate after receiving a report about Sato's appearance..."

"No, no, we're going to capture Kanae Kobayami!"

"No, it's Sato!"

"It's Kobayami!"

"It's Sato!"

"It's Kobayami!"

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"Ah! ...What on earth is going on?!"

The logical confusion caused by conflicting memories caused Shimomura immense suffering.

At the same time, every word Hui had said to them and the strange scene before they met Xiaozhao flashed through her mind.

a long time,

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"Oh, right, Tozaki-senpai! Tozaki-senpai is in danger..."

Shimomura's love for Tosaki Yu forced her to suppress the illogical thoughts in her mind, and she began to prepare a way to rescue Tosaki-senpai.

Upon returning to the base, Shimomura Izumi, who was concerned about Tosaki Yu, immediately asked Nagai Kei and the others to go and rescue Tosaki Yu, while concealing the fact that Sato's attack on the minister would take place that very night.

However, when Kei Nagai heard that Yu Tosaki had been captured by the Americans, his first thought was: change locations, because this place is no longer safe.

My second thought is that without Tosaki Yu, the plan to capture Sato needs to be reconsidered.

He then immediately ordered everyone to move their base.

However, Shimomura stopped Nagai Kei and asked him to go and save Tosaki Yu.

Kei Nagai disagreed, because he believed that it would be pointless for his small group to go against the Americans. Furthermore, the team was originally formed to capture Sato, and sacrifices were inevitable. Therefore, the priority now was to relocate the base and continue the mission.

The three veterans, including Pingze, also preferred to continue carrying out their missions.

Having served in the military, they prioritized reason over personal feelings.

Therefore, Pyeongtaek stepped forward to speak on behalf of the veterans, expressing his agreement to continue the mission.

However, this provoked strong opposition from Nakano.

Having never experienced society, he was an innocent and passionate demi-human boy with a strong sense of justice, and he simply could not accept the sacrifice of those around him.

Furthermore, since collaborating with Tosaki Yu and the others, Nakano Otsu naively believed that they were already friends.

Completely integrated into this small group, they forgot that they were demi-humans and the other party was a member of the demi-human management committee, that is: one is the prey and the other is the hunter.

He firmly stated that he should save Tosaki Yu because she was his partner.

He even loudly accused, "Kei Nagai, how can you be so cold-blooded!"

Finally, he pulled out Nagai Kei's partner: Kaito. He questioned him, "If Kaito were the one arrested today, would you be this cold-blooded?"

Kei Nagai thought to himself: Yes.

However, on the surface, she felt she had wronged Haidou, so she couldn't say that.

In the end, he had no choice but to agree to rescue Tosaki Yu.

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Thanks to Dr. Ogura's leak, Shimomura and his team learned of the Americans' stronghold and then successfully rescued Tosaki Yu from the Americans through a sneak attack.

During this time, after Kali knocked out Douglas in the village, she shot and killed him, then disappeared into the darkness alone.

However, at the same time they were rescuing people, Sato and his team successfully infiltrated the danger management room of the contract building and killed Minister Tokugawa while the incident was being broadcast live on video.

Tokugawa, even in the face of death, promised to fulfill all of Sato's requests.

However, Sato never intended to grant any rights to demi-humans, so he decisively killed Tokugawa.

Sato, a former soldier, knew that the words of a politician like Tokugawa were not credible. Moreover, although he was a minister, the real decision-makers were not him, but the forces behind him.

As for the power behind him, if a minister is gone, another can be appointed immediately, since there are countless puppets who want to be in that position.

Although Sato's actions displeased Tanaka and the others, they agreed with him after hearing his reasons.

At this time, Tosaki Yu and his group, who had been rescued by Nagai Kei and the others, returned to their base.

They watched the video on TV of Sato shooting the Tokugawa minister, but they were powerless to do anything about it.

"It's all over," everyone thought to themselves.

They were ready to give up because the only one on the list whose whereabouts they could track was the Tokugawa minister, who was dead. Sato's next target for assassination was the president of Musashi Heavy Industries, the head of a zaibatsu (financial conglomerate).

They lacked the ability to know the other party's whereabouts, and without knowing their whereabouts, they couldn't set up traps in advance, so they no longer had the opportunity to capture Sato.

Just when they had given up.

On television, Sato played the final attack preview video, and unlike before, this time Sato even specified the time and location of the attack in advance: two days later at the Musashi Heavy Industries headquarters building...

Such arrogant behavior rekindled hope in everyone's eyes.

Then Kei Nagai began to formulate the battle plan.

"The final battle will take place in two days; this is truly the last chance."

The location is the headquarters building of Musashi Heavy Industries. According to the information Mr. Tozaki has, the board meeting will be held in the chairman's office on the top floor.

The special forces against demi-humans will set up a defensive line on the 24th floor.

Our hiding place is here: the storage room on the 21st floor.

We'll stand by for now; if the special forces against demi-humans fail, then it'll be our turn to step in.

My team and Shimomura's team engaged in close combat first, while Nakano attacked from the other side. I'll leave the communication support to Mr. Tozaki.

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Does anyone have any questions?

After listening to Kei Nagai's plan, everyone thought about it for a while and felt it was perfect.

However, Shimomura Izumi, who had been restless, seemed to have made a decision and slowly said, "There's something strange..."

Chapter 77 The Truth About Memory

“Shut up,” Tozaki immediately said.

Before he could finish speaking, Tozaki interrupted him.

Because Shimomura went against his wishes and let the minister have the best opportunity to arrest Sato, Tosaki Yu is still angry.

"What did you say, Mr. Tozaki?" The enthusiastic young man, Nakano, couldn't stand it anymore and immediately spoke up for Shimomura. In his heart, Miss Shimomura hadn't done anything wrong, so why shouldn't you be grateful and blame others?

Kei Nagai calmly replied, "Miss Shimomura, please speak your mind."

Shimomura first glanced cautiously at Tosaki, and seeing that he didn't say anything more, he said, "Hmm."

Then he turned to Tozaki Yu and asked in a low voice, "Mr. Tozaki, what were we doing on that rainy day, August 21st?"

Upon hearing this, Tosaki Yu thought for a moment and said unhappily, "What? Our main task right now is to capture Sato. We don't have time to reminisce about life with you."

Hirasawa, who was standing nearby, chimed in, "I remember we received a tip from a citizen that Sato had been spotted somewhere, so we took two police teams to arrest him, but it turned out the citizen had mistaken him for someone else."

Upon hearing this, Kei Nagai said, "Arrest Sato? I've never heard Mr. Tozaki mention this before."

"It's not important information, what's there to say?" Tosaki replied.

Then he looked at Shimomura and said impatiently, "And then what happened back then?"

When Shimomura heard that Hirasawa and Tosaki Yu had the same memories, he suddenly felt that he might be hallucinating because of too much stress.

He then breathed a sigh of relief and said, "No, I might be hallucinating. I thought we went to capture a demi-human named Kobayami Kanae, and then somehow her memory was controlled by her... Haha... How could such a thing happen! Sure enough, I was hallucinating."

"Haha! Controlling memories? How is that possible? Miss Shimomura must be hallucinating." The hot-blooded young man, Nakano Osamu, also thought it was Shimomura's hallucination.

Upon hearing Shimomura's words, Tozaki instinctively asked, "Kobayami Kanae, who is that?"

Kei Nagai suddenly froze. He remembered the day Sato saved him, during the fight between his ghost and Sato's ghost. The two ghosts' heads collided, and then he saw some of Sato's memories.

Since he can see memories, does it exist that there are deeper abilities, such as rewriting or controlling them? Then Kei Nagai began to think about the possibility of 'controlling memories'.

Meanwhile, veterans like Hirazawa felt that Shimomura was hallucinating. After all, controlling memories was such an incredible thing that they subconsciously didn't want to admit to such a terrifying thing.

In response to Tosaki Yu's question, Shimomura Izumi said, "In my hallucination, it seemed like the Juuga Club discovered the demi-humans through the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's surveillance... Hmm?!... My hallucination felt so real..."

"Didn't the only demi-human that the Jugo Club discovered from the surveillance footage be Nakano Osamu?" Tosaki Yu remembered that the Jugo Club had indeed discovered a demi-human from the surveillance footage.

"What? Mr. Tozaki, you arrested me because I was exposed at the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare!"

Hirasawa agreed with Tosaki Yu: "Yeah, I remember there was only one Nakano attacker."

"That's why I said I was hallucinating," Shimomura explained.

However, Yu Tozaki carefully recalled the events of that day in his mind.

My memory is very clear, but there was absolutely no mention of the demi-human Kobayami Kanae that Shimomura mentioned going to capture her that day.

But what if it's true! What if it really is!

Is it really possible to do 'memory manipulation'?