I am in Mihua, and the ladies all like me

Hua Hua Hua——

In the large corridor at the meeting place, the enthusiastic applause from both sides almost drowned out the voices.

Japan's culture of reading air is unique in the world. In Japanese society, if everyone else does this and you don't, then you are an outlier and will be ostracized.

So as long as one person starts clapping, everyone else must follow suit and clap hard enough.

Amidst the overwhelming applause, the sponsors and WSG staff greeted each other with smiles and handshakes.

Although Serabelle and Sera Masumi are also in the sponsor team, they do not belong to the sponsor themselves. At best, they can only be regarded as "family members" brought by the sponsor, so they don't need to shake hands, but they can just touch the fish a little.

The two groups of people in front of the team were still shaking hands and greeting each other. In the middle of the crowd near the front of the team, Sera Masumi leaned forward, lowered his voice, and gently touched the waist of the boy next to him with his elbow.

"...Hey, brother."

"Ah."

"By the way, President Alan seemed to glance in our direction just now, and even frowned."

"Have it?"

Serabelle turned around with a puzzled look on her face.

Although he had glanced at President Alan before, it was just a "glance" and he didn't take a closer look at all.

After all, who would pay attention to an old American man in his sixties for no reason?

"It seems so. To be honest, I didn't see it clearly."

Sera Masumi stuck out his tongue and scratched his head.

At the same time, the greetings at the front of the team quickly ended, and Shiraha Maiko, who was in charge of hosting the scene, took over the speech again.

"Thank you, President Alan, for bringing us greetings from across the ocean. Next, please follow me to the airport hospital for a physical examination~!"

"Ah, the physical examination is finally here..."

The tiger-fang girl was immediately cheered up when she heard this.

According to today's schedule, apart from welcoming guests in the morning, the only thing left is the physical examination, and there are no other arrangements for the afternoon.

In other words, as long as you pass the physical examination, you can continue to move freely and happily.

The crowd began to move slowly, and Sera Masumi moved closer stealthily, her movements like a big cat acting coquettishly.

"Hey, brother~ After the physical examination is over, let's go to your room to play after lunch this afternoon, Lan and I?"

"Oh...never mind, let's just go to your or Lan's room."

Serabelle wanted to agree out of habit, but she realized something was wrong as soon as the words came out of her mouth.

If it were a normal situation, he would have replied that there was indeed no problem, but the problem this time was that Jinghua stayed at his place last night and her luggage was still in his room.

In fact, if it were just that, it wouldn't be a big deal. For Masumi and Ran, the ones they know are Sister Yukiko, Aunt Eri, and Mrs. Suzuki, and then there's Sister Mary on Masumi's side.

If you calculate it this way, having one more Hattori Shizuka is actually nothing.

But the problem is that Jinghua doesn’t have her own room yet.

It's not necessary to kick Jinghua out temporarily just for him and Xiaolan Zhenchun in the afternoon.

That's too much.

But if they get together right away it seems too sudden. There needs to be a suitable opportunity, just like Majun and Xiaolan.

After much thought, Serabelle found a fairly reasonable excuse.

"Because if I stay in my room, Hongye and Mrs. Suzuki might come to visit me halfway, and that would be more difficult..."

"Yeah, that's right. Then let's go to my room then." Xiaolan also nodded.

"Yoshi~ Then it's a deal."

The girl with tiger teeth blushed slightly and grinned as she gave a firm thumbs-up.

But before she could be happy for a few seconds, the phone in her pocket started buzzing.

"Hold on a minute, someone seems to be calling me..."

As Sera Masumi said this, he took out his cell phone, turned the screen up and looked at the caller ID, then raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Oh, it's Brother Xiu calling."

"Brother Xiu?"

Xiaolan looked sideways curiously.

She knew that Serabelle and Sera Masumi were siblings, but she seemed to have never heard that Masumi had other brothers and sisters.

"He's my elder brother, the kind that I kiss."

As Sera Masumi explained, she pulled the sleeve of Serabel beside her and said to Xiaolan.

"Sorry, Alan, you guys go ahead and we'll follow you later."

"It's okay, it's okay. I'll go there with Sonoko and the others first."

Xiaolan made an OK gesture out of understanding.

Masumi Sera and Serabelle left the team and came to the open space next to the main passage. They leaned against a stone pillar and avoided the gaze of the large group behind them while answering the phone.

"Hello? Brother Xiu?"

"I'm sorry, Zhenchun, for calling you at this time. Has the meeting over there ended?"

The voice coming from the other end of the line was undoubtedly that of Akai Shuichi.

"Yeah, it just ended." Sera Masumi replied.

Akai Shuichi responded: "Is that so? Is Serabel with you now?"

"Brother? He's here. Wait a minute and I'll give him the phone."

The girl with tiger teeth said this, then turned around and handed over the phone.

"Brother, Brother Xiu seems to have something to talk to you about."

"Tsk..."

Looking at the phone handed to her, Serabelle couldn't help but smacking her lips.

But he took it anyway.

"What, what happened?"

"No, I just wanted to ask about the progress of your investigation... about the copycat of the Boston WSG incident fifteen years ago."

Akai Shuichi said indifferently on the phone.

"Don't ask me, I didn't check."

Serabelle refused outright: "After all, this matter has nothing to do with me. It doesn't mean that I have to help you check whatever documents you send me. I can't control your attitude of bossing around the Japanese after living in the United States for a long time, but I'm not Japanese."

"That's certainly not what I meant."

Akai Shuichi coughed lightly.

"First of all, I don't mean to boss you around. Secondly, this matter does have something to do with you."

“…What does it matter?”

Serabelle's voice paused.

Akai Shuichi said calmly: "The relationship is about your file in the FBI system."

"My file?"

Serabelle frowned.

"I'm British, why does the FBI have a file on me?"

"Well, you can only blame yourself for being too famous at the time." Akai Shuichi rarely changed his tone to teasing, "Twelve years ago, there were several bloody murders on the streets of London. Although the identity of the real murderer is still unknown, based on the clues left at the scene, the criminal should be a child of only five or six years old, and there are also blurry photos taken by witnesses..."

"It's worth mentioning that President Alan was in the last few years of his tenure as FBI director. He was approaching retirement and didn't have much to do. He might have seen your file. Maybe he recognized you during today's meeting."

A naked threat.

"……so what?"

Serabelle's tone suddenly became cold.

"Are you suggesting that I should get rid of him?"

Chapter 826: Explosion is a feature, you must try it

Serabelle's thought process has always been simple and crude, which is somewhat similar to a hand-control maniac in JOJO.

All he wants is a peaceful life, so if anyone wants to disrupt his peaceful life, he just needs to kill the person.

No matter if he is the FBI director or the president of the WSG Association.

The game Earth Online is very well balanced in all other aspects, but this is the only aspect that can be considered a public screen. Everyone only has one life, and there is no extra life (adding an extra life) like in Ready Player One.

"No, of course that's not what I meant..."

As soon as Serabelle finished speaking, Shuichi Akai's voice rang out from the other end of the line, with a hint of hesitation in his tone.

Although he considered that saying this might irritate this guy, he never expected the reaction to be so intense.

After a little thought, Shuichi Akai changed his statement to a slightly more euphemistic one.

"It would be better if you still want to maintain your current life, then you'd better not do this. After all, your file is from more than a decade ago, and it's impossible for anyone in the FBI to think of digging up the past now."

"You said 'it couldn't be anyone', but you just mentioned one yourself," Serabelle said.

"That being said, however—"

Akai Shuichi suddenly changed the subject on the phone.

"If you kill President Alan, it will easily attract the attention of the FBI. After all, he is a former FBI director. It will be a disgrace to the FBI if he is killed in a foreign country. Especially if President Alan sent a message out of curiosity before his death, asking his former contacts in the FBI to retrieve your files..."

In other words, this is not a request, but a transaction.

Tsk, that’s really troublesome.

Serabel couldn't help but smack her lips in her heart again.

"So what do you want?"

"It's very simple. Based on the report I sent you earlier, please help me investigate the identity of the copycat of the incident fifteen years ago."

Akai Shuichi said it succinctly.

"In exchange, I will secretly delete your FBI file, so that even if President Alan wants to retrieve it later through his connections, there will be no information left."

"Okay... it's not right. It's still not right."

Serabelle was about to agree immediately, but suddenly realized something was wrong and braked in time.

"So why are you so concerned about this? If it was a copycat, then the people kidnapped were just sponsors of the WSG event. It has nothing to do with the FBI, right?"

"What……?"

Now it was Shuichi Akai on the other end of the phone who was a little overwhelmed.

"Have you... finished reading the report I sent to you by express mail?"

"I took a quick look and felt it had nothing to do with me, so I didn't read it carefully."

Serabelle answered sincerely.

But it was this sincere reply that made Shuichi Akai silent on the phone for nearly ten seconds.

Then he sighed imperceptibly.

"Then you should still remember the identities of the sponsors who were kidnapped, right?"

"As I recall, the first one was a dim sum vendor, the second one was the chairman of a chaebol, and the third one was the CEO of a car company... Then one of them tried to escape because he refused to obey the kidnapping, and was shot dead by the criminals."

Serabelle repeated it more or less exactly.

Akai Shuichi hummed and continued, "The criminal who committed the series of kidnappings was a Japanese sushi chef named Ishihara. After he was arrested and imprisoned, he insisted that he had not committed any crime, and his wife and daughter also actively appealed. However, Ishihara died not long after being imprisoned, and his wife and daughter seemed to have returned to Japan after that."

"So you suspect that the criminals this time might be Ishihara's wife and daughter?" Serabel understood.

"Yes."