Knight Asylum

Chapter 147 He Must Be a Kamen Rider

"Give way!"

People dressed in clothing similar to that of the nobles of the British Empire arrogantly rushed through various departments of Servitua. Anyone who blocked their way would be pushed aside by them unreasonably, and most of the staff who were pushed aside gave way without saying a word.

Because they are assessors from the Tower of Sages in the Kingdom of Magic, the bronze belts shaped like prison doors that each of them wears around their waists and the gem rings of various shapes hanging on their legs are silently announcing their identities.

Magician.

The leader, Wright, put his hands behind his back and kicked open the door of the criminal investigation department. Dashiell, the director of the criminal investigation department, who was instructing his subordinates to investigate crimes in the mirror world, frowned and was about to shout when he saw the belt and ring on the other party, and his eyes jumped.

"What's matter?"

"Of course it's a big deal," Wright raised his chin, glanced at the people present arrogantly, and raised the corner of his mouth. "We need all the files of Z-01. This is related to the future Knight Plan of mankind."

"Red?" Dashiell was stunned for a moment before reacting, his mouth twitching slightly, "I refuse. No one can access Red's file without U's permission."

【S·L】 is the most exciting place in the world. Nothing is strange no matter what happens. Therefore, in order to prevent the emergence of a weirdo who can do whatever he wants on the Internet and cause the exposure of Selvi Tullia's research, Selvi Tullia has a completely independent network, and many important documents are also saved in the form of paper documents, including Red's files after he became a temporary employee of Selvi Tullia.

"To be precise... the supreme commander of Serviera, with permission," Wright raised his finger and smiled brightly, "but now a security assessment is underway. As the responsible party for the assessment, the Tower of Sages has the right to access all of Serviera's files to make a judgment..."

Wright paused and put his right hand back behind his waist.

"Does Servituria need a new, more suitable savior of humanity?"

Dashiell's face suddenly turned ugly. It was obvious that the funders were serious this time. They planned to get rid of not only Red, but also U. However, a series of crimes related to the mirror world research led by U popped up at this time.

Although he was very reluctant, Dashiell still raised his hand to signal his assistant to get the file about Red, but as soon as his assistant took a step, Wright raised his hand.

"No, we'll get it ourselves."

After saying that, a young man behind Wright put on the magic ring openly, embedded the magic ring into the prison door-shaped belt and turned it. A magic circle opened up beside the young man and pushed forward, and a file rack with various files appeared in front of them.

Dashiell couldn't help but curse.

"What the hell-"

As the head of the criminal investigation department, he could tell at a glance that this was one of the files that they had strictly sealed and kept.

In order to prevent the invasion of monsters, they prepared multiple defense mechanisms, from organic to inorganic. If they are not unlocked according to the process that is modified every day, these files will be reduced to ashes within a second without even a trace left.

But the young man behind Wright simply turned the ring and took out the file without even triggering the alarm.

Is this magic?! This is such a rip-off!

If he had not passed the age of youthful recklessness, Dashiell would have cursed out loud, but now he was thinking about other things. Since the magician deliberately used magic to skip over their layers of defense and accurately take out the files stored inside, they could also take out other things.

"You can't actually retrieve the files accurately. Your magic needs to be improved."

After making a cocky comment, Wright took off a similar ring, put it into his belt and turned it. A new magic circle pressed down and swallowed up the file rack. He glanced at Dashiell very deliberately, grinned, raised his hand and left with the others.

This time they visited the public relations department.

Asano, who was already frightened, immediately greeted them with a smile, and invited Wright and others to his office. He served them tea and water, and asked them about their well-being, playing the role of a lackey to the fullest. As the saying goes, you should not hit a smiling person. After seeing Asano's actions, Wright, who had heard that there was an irreconcilable contradiction between Asano and Red, immediately understood what Asano meant, and did not use magic to demonstrate as he did to Dashiell, who was obviously a tough guy.

When Asano heard that Wright wanted Red's file, he immediately clapped his hands and asked his subordinates to go and get it as soon as possible, while he stood aside, rubbing his hands and smiling.

"I remember your name is Asano, right?" Wright crossed his legs, drank the coffee made by Asano, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Yes, yes, if you need any help, just let me know. No! Please leave it to me!" Asano patted his chest vigorously. His overly servile performance made many public relations staff outside the office look disgusted.

Although they had known Asano was such a person, and had long understood that Asano would betray U as soon as he lost power, they had never thought that Asano would be so... straightforward and without any bottom line.

"Ah~ I do have something to ask you. As the director of the public relations department, you... must know about the mirror world, right?" Light put down his coffee and glanced at Asano meaningfully.

"I've heard something about this," Asano rubbed his hands, hesitated for a moment, then straightened his chest and shouted in anger, "I really didn't expect that U, the savior of mankind, would betray all of humanity for his own selfish desires. As the director of the public relations department, I will never hide such a thing from the public!"

Light was speechless. He came to the public relations department with this intention. As long as U was socially dead, even if U was able to survive and pass their assessment, he would never be able to continue to act as the savior of mankind. But they only wanted to get rid of U and did not intend to destroy Servius Turia. Therefore, it would be more appropriate for Servius Turia to make the announcement himself. But what he did not expect was that Asano seemed more anxious than him.

"That's really reassuring. I'll leave it to you then, Director Asano."

Just then, Asano's subordinates came running back with a pile of files. Wright used his magic ring to collect the files, then stood up and patted Asano on the shoulder. With Asano's farewell, he left the public relations department with satisfaction.

After Wright and the others walked away, Asano's smile gradually faded.

"Done?"

The man who had taken the file earlier lowered his voice and said, "They have all been processed."

Asano grinned silently and sat back in his office chair, interlacing his fingers in front of him, "Does this seem weird to you?"

The man hesitated for a moment and then nodded. "This time is more troublesome than before."

He is loyal to Asano but that doesn't mean he will glorify Asano. To put it bluntly, Asano is a fence-sitter, so he can't understand Asano's behavior of going against the trend.

"Yes, but this time, U took the initiative to bring trouble upon himself. So no matter how troublesome it is, it can only be a trap. Even if we take a step back..."

Asano paused and spread his hands.

"So what if U really falls? What can they do to Red?"

“The Sage Tower seems very confident,” the man whispered.

"Confidence? If magic is really that powerful, there would be no need for the Sage's Tower to operate through Servier Turia. That's... the power that defeated the Qualified Person," Asano shrugged, "Red, we can't be enemies. He has to be a Kamen Rider."

The man was stunned for a moment, then immediately understood Asano's meaning, bowed and left.

Chapter 148: The integrity I cultivated with great difficulty is about to be lost

Xiao Xing spent a full hour carefully reading the file on the disappearance case caused by the killing game initiated by Mei Gallima Ba provided by Red.

"How was it? Any impression?" Reid took the phone that Xiaoxing handed back to him.

Xiao Xing thought for a while and shook his head. "I don't know most of the people inside, and—"

Xiao Xing opened her mouth, wanting to say something but stopping herself, as if she was avoiding something.

"Don't worry about it, this matter is very important."

Under Red's frank gaze, Xiao Xing sighed helplessly, "If I really play the game, I won't be missing. Before the seal, the killing game I played... the killing method is beheading."

Reid immediately leaned back with his hands across his chest.

I heard that the Gurongi did not look like monsters at the beginning, but because they never suppressed their brutal heart and behavior, their bodies gradually turned into those of monsters. The human form they maintain now is exactly the form they had before they became monsters.

Red looked up and down at the petite and ethereal Xiao Xing in front of him, and imagined what it would be like if Xiao Xing chopped off someone's head...

Xiao Xing noticed Red's eyes and realized what Red was thinking, and felt helpless and ashamed. A normal Gurongi might have felt humiliated and furious at this time and wanted to teach Red a lesson. In fact... this was indeed her personality before she was sealed, but that was a long time ago after all.

However, if she did not change and angrily wanted to teach Red a lesson, the result would most likely be that she would be pinned to the ground and rubbed by Red.

When Xiao Xing thought of friction, she remembered the ambiguous straight ball that Baluba said before she left.

Just as humans have speculated, their Gurongi society advocates strength. Both men and women are brutal and sadistic. In such a barbaric and straightforward society, their thinking is often very straightforward. It is just because of the existence of the killing game that their attention is all on killing. In modern times, their killing is no longer so urgent, the pace has begun to slow down, and some parts covered up by the killing have begun to emerge.

For example, all living things have the urge to reproduce offspring.

Xiao Xing has this awareness, but she hates the Gurongi who are weaker than her and still bloodthirsty, and she sympathizes with the real Gurongi who have gone crazy, so she chooses to grow flowers.

She didn't have such thoughts when she saw Reid at first, but a direct ball from Baruba hit her heart directly, disrupting her thinking. The cognition cultivated in the brutal direct ball environment began to take effect and blurred the modern civilized [shame] that she had cultivated with great difficulty.

Red's strength was among the best even among the real Ge Group, perhaps, comparable to the strongest triangle, and Red also had the gentleness that she loved.

Xiao Xing subconsciously touched her lower abdomen with her right hand.

【Want his offspring】

Xiao Xing licked her lips subconsciously, and her ethereal face was tinged with fatal charm.

"Um... Miss Xiao Xing?" Reid felt a chill on his back and waved his hand in front of Xiao Xing. "Are you okay?"

Red's voice successfully pulled Xiao Xing back to her senses. After realizing how bold her idea was, Xiao Xing's face flushed instantly. She turned around and covered her face with her hands. "I'm sorry! Please give me some time."

"Uh... I'm not in a rush."

Xiao Xing took a deep breath for a long time, then gulped down a glass of water to suppress the heat in her body. She regained her previous ethereal look and looked at Red calmly, "Let's continue."

Reid looked at Xiao Xing, who was keeping a distance from him, with a subtle expression. His intuition told him that it would be better not to delve into this issue too deeply.

"Xiao Xing, I believe what you say."

Of course, Red believes in Xiaoxing not just because Xiaoxing doesn't seem like a bad person.

If those disappearances were really done by Xiaoxing, then as the strongest person in Mei Group, the disappearances related to Xiaoxing could not be just these few. If Xiaoxing was really playing the game, considering Gurongi's attitude of treating killing as an honor, Xiaoxing could not deny that he killed people. Even Gumumu, who was only in Zi Group at the beginning, was able to kill his way to Ge Group. There is no reason for Xiaoxing to have always been in Mei Group.

"But according to these files, it was me who caused these people to disappear. It could only be me," Xiao Xing's indifference and calmness were mixed with indescribable helplessness and pessimism.

Even in the eyes of monsters, Gurongi is a symbol of killing. In [S·L], Gurongi's killing is a common phenomenon. No matter whether it is a large-scale natural disaster-level death incident or an individual bizarre murder case, most people's first reaction is which Gurongi started the game. Therefore, no one would believe that Xiao Xing, a Gurongi, has never killed anyone in [S·L].

As a Gurongi, Xiao Xing also has that awareness.

"Xiao Xing, one day you will have to pay the price for your past," Red put his hands on his hips and sighed, his eyes clear, "but that price will definitely not be to become someone's scapegoat. If that day really comes..."

"Let me defeat you."

Xiao Xing slowly opened her eyes and looked at Red in front of her with disbelief. Her heart, which had finally calmed down, began to become restless again. Now she understood why Gamego died.

"You really are a guy who can make people hopeless. Fine, I will wait for that day with anticipation. No... I will work hard for that day."

"Uh... Actually, there's no need to be so..."

"Wait a minute!!!"

Before Red could finish his words, Sano Mitsuru rushed into the flower shop, took a quick look inside the store, and saw that Xiaoxing was very far away. Red raised his hand in Xiaoxing's direction and immediately confirmed his guess, then he opened his hands and stood in front of Xiaoxing.

"You're looking for me, right? Don't involve Miss Xiao Xing!"

"Miss Xiao Xing is fine now! If you want to know why! Because I, ahem, ahem, ahem - surrender, surrender! I surrender!"

what?

Red tilted his head.

The appearance of Sano Mitsuru was completely beyond his expectations, but despite his doubts, Red had not forgotten the things that Sano Mitsuru was involved in, so before Sano Mitsuru could give Xiao Xing a handsome thumbs up, Red grabbed his neck and lifted him up. The feeling of suffocation made Sano Mitsuru surrender immediately.

"I'll tell you about Professor Kagawa!"

I have to say that Mitsuru Sano is a person full of unexpected things. From coming to the door himself to being willing to cooperate without even being tortured, every step was so fast that it made Red feel surprised. Moreover, Red could see that Mitsuru Sano really intended to tell him about Professor Kagawa, and it was not a lie he made up to get through the difficulties before him.

"Mr. Sano...?" At this time Xiao Xing finally recognized Sano Mitsuru, who was held in the air by Red but still gave her a thumbs up and an expression that said I'm very reliable.

Chapter 149 Why don't you leave?

"Really? Isn't Servi Turia a human rescue organization? How can it be so violent? How can we, the citizens, feel at ease?"

Sano Mitsuru, who had just been put down by Red, immediately straightened his collar and started to complain. Red raised his eyebrows and paused with his hand that was halfway put down. Just as he was about to pick Sano Mitsuru up to make sure he could understand his position, Sano Mitsuru immediately pressed down Red's raised right hand with admiration on his face as if he had vision into the future.

"But you are obviously different! If all of Servitua were gentle, considerate and empathetic people like you, the world would definitely be a better place!"

"You guys, your face changes so quickly." Red pulled his hands out from between Sano Mitsuru's hands, "Let me be clear in advance, don't try to lie to me."

No one hates others saying nice things, but it depends on the occasion.

"How could I lie to you?" Sano Mitsuru rubbed his hands and smiled sincerely.

"Where is Professor Kagawa now?" Reid raised his eyes.

"Well..." Sano Mitsuru glanced at Xiao Xing who was standing quietly beside him, scratched the back of his head and laughed awkwardly, "Yeah, where is it? This is really a good question."

"Hey--"

Noticing that Red was in a bad mood, Sano Mitsuru immediately changed his frivolous attitude and said with a troubled look on his face, "Ah - actually I am in a dilemma too, because Professor Kagawa doesn't trust me at all. He has always been the one contacting me, and he has never let me take charge of any important links. I have always been just running errands."

Red held his chin high, looked Sano Man up and down, then raised his head slightly.

"and then?"

"That's all—" Sano Mitsuru blinked and suddenly realized something. He then reached out and held Reid's right hand without permission. "How about this, the next time Professor Kagawa contacts me, I'll contact you. How about we work together from the inside and outside?"

I have to say this is a...terribly bad and insincere proposal.

Hideyuki Kagawa possesses mirror world technology that is better than Servatius'. Catching Kagawa is almost as impossible as touching the virtual image in the mirror. The only way to stop Kagawa is to find Kagawa's research institute. Even if Kagawa can run away, the research machines and data on site cannot escape.

And Sano Mitsuru, as the proposer of this extremely bad and insincere proposal, is equally bad and insincere, and it is obvious that he wants to fool him. Kagawa Hideyuki is a genius and an experienced honorary professor. Even he can see through Sano Mitsuru's character, let alone Kagawa Hideyuki.

I guess from the beginning Hideyuki Kagawa saw that Sano Mitsuru was not reliable at all, so he didn't let Sano Mitsuru know too much.

The only thing that puzzled Red was why Mitsuru Sano suddenly appeared in front of him and so straightforwardly betrayed Kagawa Hideyuki who had given him benefits. Judging from the way Mitsuru Sano had just deceived people, he would have continued to play dumb even if he was strangled by him, unless he paid a price to make Mitsuru Sano willing to betray Kagawa Hideyuki.

As the saying goes, one does not visit a temple without a request. Sano Mitsuru, who had been nowhere to be found before, suddenly came out to show his courtesy. Either Sano Mitsuru's head was caught in the door, or something happened in between and Kagawa Hideyuki wanted to kill Sano Mitsuru but was discovered by him, so he came over to get his protection.

"I see--"

Red pulled his hand out again and shook it up and down.

"Let's not talk about the proposal of collusion. Mr. Sano, I must warn you that Professor Kagawa's research, no, the things he did for the sake of research, has caused a series of tragedies. As a participant, even if you are just a runner, you are an accomplice. If you continue to help Professor Kagawa, then Servier Turia will not talk to you."

"Of course I know - the moment I saw a true righteous person like you, I decided not to help the evil anymore. Don't worry, as long as there is any situation about Professor Kagawa, I will contact you immediately! Here is my contact information," Sano Mitsuru took out a well-presented business card from his arms.