Alchemists do not need self-cultivation

She kept her head down and remained silent, clearly indicating that this wasn't the first time she had been subjected to such malicious slander.

"Leave this to me. You wait at the door for a while."

"it is good."

Isaac took a deep breath and slowly opened the door to the administration office.

As soon as the door opened, a heavily made-up middle-aged woman was seen shouting inside. In the instant the door opened, her gaze passed over Isaac and landed on Fujisawa Ayana, who was standing behind him with her head down.

"So you've been here all along, you lowly wretch!"

She lunged forward in a flash, only to be kicked in the face by Isaac.

"Well!!"

The instant he kicked her, Isaac slammed the door shut and locked it.

Ignoring the woman writhing on the ground in pain, he asked the head of discipline, "Where did this woman come from?"

"Boss, she's the mother of Daisuke Kawamoto, a classmate from Class 3. Apparently, she's here to cause trouble because her son broke his hand and several teeth this morning."

"Oh." Isaac nodded after hearing this, squatted down and said to the middle-aged woman, "Hey, do you know that your son is bullying his classmates at school?"

"So what!" the woman yelled, covering her nose. "It's just children playing around, and besides, that bitch is..."

Click.

Isaac drew his pistol and pointed it at her head.

"I'm a child too."

boom!

A bullet hole appeared in the woman's forehead, and she instantly collapsed to the ground.

“I can understand that your son is immature, he’s just a child. But you, as an adult, are being immature too? That Daisuke Kawamoto is really careless and has lost his own mother.” Isaac blew smoke from the gun. “Luckily, I installed a silencer.”

"Boss..." The head of the teaching department wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Isaac.

"Tell me, what is our mission in coming to Shirasaki Junior High School this time?"

"Protect 'The Listener' Ayana Fujisawa, and incidentally find the 'Amalgam' members hiding in the school."

“Yes, as you know, protecting Fujisawa Ayana is our most important mission.” Isaac said, kicking the woman’s corpse. “To ensure the mission goes smoothly, everyone who is hostile to the target must be eliminated. In the future, if you encounter a situation like this, don’t say anything, just give him a burst of bullets.”

As he spoke, he slammed his gun onto the desk.

"Those students in Class 3 of Grade 2..."

"I didn't kill them all because I thought they were just a bunch of kids," Isaac laughed. "If I had killed them all as I said before, based on 'hostility,' I wouldn't have needed to go through all this trouble of having an undercover agent in this class to find the real culprit. I could have just gone in with a submachine gun and started shooting."

At this point, Isaac sighed.

"I hope I find those agents soon; there will come a day when people get tired of the 'peace game'."

Chapter 640: Rentaro is enough

"Boss, what should we do with this body?"

"You guys find someone to take her back to her home in a bit, and I'll take care of the rest."

Isaac took the gloves out of his pocket, knelt down in front of the woman's body, and placed his hand on the bullet hole in her forehead.

A blue electric light flashed, and the blood and wound on his forehead completely disappeared.

"So, how much did we spend on this mission in total?" Isaac asked.

"The acquisition of the school and the Fujisawa Group, plus some labor costs, has already cost around two billion US dollars," said a teacher from the Academic Affairs Office. "This doesn't even include the technology we provided to those Japanese conglomerates."

“Yes, we’ve already invested a lot of money in a ‘listener.’ While we can afford these losses, we must eliminate all possible factors to justify our investment,” Isaac said, looking at the corpses at his feet.

"You're right."

"The value of a 'listener' is beyond our imagination, so all targets that pose a threat to the target must be eliminated without hesitation to ensure the mission is accomplished."

“Yes, but boss, I have a question.” He suddenly asked Isaac, “I’ve also looked into what happened to Ayana Fujisawa in the class. The cheapest way would be to assassinate the entire class. Do you think a bunch of middle schoolers can stop IW’s special cleanup squad?”

“I’m keeping them around because they’re young,” Isaac sighed.

It appears Isaac injured several classmates in Class 2-3, but this was already the best he could do to minimize casualties. Once the agent planted by 'Amalgam' is found, the rest can be released.

If he had done what he did in Yerkastrm, then this class would undoubtedly be gone.

So now, everyone in this class is dead in Isaac's eyes; he's just picking out the ones who can survive.

However, IW is ultimately a profit-driven organization, and if the amount invested reaches a certain limit, then it can only take the most economical measures.

That is, indiscriminate elimination.

Isaac placed a list on the table.

"This is?"

“Keeping someone who has caused harm to the target in the past is useless and may even cause further harm.” Isaac took out a cigarette and lit it. “Leave the cases to the professionals. Be quick about it.”

"Yes!"

Isaac doesn't have the concept of redemption. He's not a court where he can simply eliminate someone who might affect the plan, regardless of whether that person recognizes their mistake.

As I stepped out of the administration office, Ayana Fujisawa was waiting anxiously outside.

"Rentaro..."

"Don't worry, I've already shut that gossip up."

"Huh?"

"Let's go back to the classroom."

"……Um."

……

Sometimes I think that if all the classmates in this class were friendly, and Fujisawa Ayana wasn't in such a miserable situation, Isaac's job would be much easier.

They should protect each other a little during the school commute, but there's no need to stick together for the rest of the time.

I might be able to get along with these kids at school, and it wouldn't be a problem to go out and play together during the holidays.

But now...

Back in the classroom, as always, everyone kept their distance from the two of them.

Some classmates were reluctant to join the bullying of Fujisawa Ayana, but they felt that if they didn't, they would be excluded from the class and become the next ones to be bullied.

Some chose to join this large group, while others chose to ignore it.

School bullying originates from this invisible atmosphere.

But now, Isaac's arrival has changed the atmosphere of the entire class.

This shift stems from fear.

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Junior high school students in Japan finish school relatively early, and most students have club activities.

Isaac and Ayana Fujisawa didn't participate in any clubs and basically went straight home after school, which was also known as the 'Homecoming Club'.

Ayana is packing her schoolbag.

Fortunately, no one dared to block her after school today, which is thanks to the deterrent effect Isaac had here.

“Um… Fujisawa-kun…”

"Ok?"

Ayana turned around in confusion and found that class president Yuko Takishima was looking at her nervously.

"What's wrong, class monitor?"

"Um, there's something I'd like to ask you for a favor."

"Please speak," Ayana said calmly.

She looked at Yuko Takishima in front of her, and her heart was indeed very cold.

Because she was being bullied so badly, she went to talk to Yuko Takishima, who was the class monitor, and Yuko readily agreed to help her.

The tutor was supposed to come and discuss things with me after class, but I sat on a park bench until 10 p.m. and no one came.

When I talked to her about it afterwards, she actually said, "I forgot about it because of my tutoring class and family matters."

I clearly considered her a friend back then, which is why I wanted to ask her for help. But every time I brought up that matter, she would make excuses, saying that she already had enough troubles at home.

Finally, he even yelled at himself, saying things like, "It's because I'm the class monitor that you all push all the work onto me! In that case, let's not be friends anymore!"

Because word got out that she had fallen out with Yuko, she was bullied even more recklessly.

"It's all thanks to you, Yuko Takishima." Ayana Fujisawa's face darkened once again.

She wanted to see what this person, who never came to see her again after that, would say to her. This person, who hadn't even torn her own clothes or offered a helping hand when she was pinned to the ground and her clothes were torn by several girls, was going to say something to her.

"Well... Satomi is a freshman, so the teacher asked me to give him a club application form," Yuko Takishima said shyly. "To be honest, I'm a little afraid of him. Could you please give it to him?"

"...Okay, I'll pass it on for you."

She took a club application form from Yuko Takishima and casually put it into her bag.

“There’s one more thing…” Yuko Takishima said somewhat hesitantly, “About last summer vacation… I yelled at you back then, it was wrong of me, so…”

Fujisawa Ayana didn't want to hear anything more from her, so she stood up and walked past her.

"There's no need to apologize. I forgive you, and Rentaro won't bother you."

"Wait, that's not how it works..."

See you tomorrow, class monitor.

Ignoring Yuko Takishima's anxious expression, Ayana left the classroom to find Isaac.

'They always just stand by and watch when I'm being bullied.'

'Friends? They're all fake. I don't need them at all.'

'All I need is Rentaro.'

Chapter 641: Sudden Allegiance