Persona: Devil Summoner

He made full use of the tactical thinking that if the enemy decreases, we will increase our own strength, and quickly replied with this sentence. Since Mingzhi is the enemy, then the enemy's money will naturally be used as little as possible, and every bit of money spent is a bit of money spent, so we should make full use of it. The last time he saw this tactic was when he was a child, when he secretly read his grandfather's Gu Long novels. There was a similar plot in Xiao Shiyilang in it. He didn't expect that it would be reproduced many years later...

Although Jiang Tianwei didn't know the whole picture of Mingzhi's plan, it was obvious that he took the initiative to make friends with this guy after knowing that he was a bad guy. He must have his own intentions. Facing this man's sugar-coated bullet, Jiang Tianwei was ready to eat the sugar coating before the bullet was returned.

It was obvious that Mingzhi really wanted to improve his favorability, and he said on the spot that money was a small problem, as long as you gave him face.

Goro Akechi finally decided to invite them to a billiard hall. It seemed to be a comprehensive game club, with darts and billiards, and it seemed that there were pedestals and wine cabinets nearby. It seemed that although this place was not a bar in name, it was actually almost the same.

It was summer, but Goro Akechi was still wearing his long windbreaker, black gloves, and carrying a metal briefcase. Jiang Tianwei had forgotten where he had seen it, but it seemed that there was a special briefcase that could be used as a blast shield in an emergency. The specially reinforced case could even deflect bullets!

It was already evening. As summer arrived, the days were long and the nights were short. The sky had not yet completely turned dark, but had a transparent texture. Akechi Goro stood in the shadows where the street lights could not find him, with his head down, wondering what he was thinking.

If someone took a picture of him and wrote a title like "Prince's Melancholy", it would definitely sell well in the Akechi fan circle.

Click.

Thinking of this, Jiang Tianwei took out his mobile phone and took a picture of him.

However, despite this "surprise attack", the phone's camera failed to lock onto the person, leaving only a blurry gray shadow. As the phone was taken out and raised, the detective prince instantly turned into a Persian monkey, ducking and sliding sideways, making a concave move to avoid Jiang Tianwei's flash.

At one point, Jiang Tianwei's excellent dynamic vision clearly noticed that Mingzhi Goro's face revealed a strong hostility... It was a breath close to murderous intent. It was obvious that he didn't like people taking pictures, especially secretly taking pictures...

Noticing that it was Jiang Tianwei, he immediately put away his inappropriate expression, sighed, and said, "Please don't take pictures of me secretly, this is an infringement of my portrait rights."

He smiled as he spoke, walked over to Jiang Tianwei, patted his shoulder, and whispered in his ear, "Don't let the thief's crimes go unexposed, only to end up in jail for other crimes."

"Well, don't take it so seriously, my good friend - this is just a joke between good friends, I have no intention of selling your photos to your fans at a high price.

"This is a far more serious charge, my friend."

Goro Akechi laughed heartily, and the two of them joked in a familiar manner as they walked inside together.

He and Akechi are now just like Lelouch and Suzaku Kururugi in "Code Geass: The Code Geass R2", who each have their own ulterior motives and are competing with each other in class. This kind of excitement, as if they are COSing the anime characters themselves, makes Jiang Tianwei involuntarily stay excited.

To be honest, Jiang Tianwei had never played billiards before. His impression of billiards was just from occasionally seeing fancy billiards performances on TV. What he remembered was not how cool the billiards performances were, but that the young lady sitting on the table holding the cue was particularly beautiful, which brought quite a shock to the young boy who was in his youth.

He still didn't quite understand why he had to hit the white ball and then let it hit other balls. This was very different from traditional ball games where you just had to find a way to control a ball. Jiang Tianwei instinctively wanted to aim the white ball at the hole several times.

On the other hand, Goro Akechi was obviously proficient in these games. He played billiards very beautifully and was really ahead of Jiang Tianwei by a large margin.

Afterwards, he took Jiang Tianwei to the dart table. This game was much simpler and more direct. Jiang Tianwei liked this simple rule very much. However, simple rules do not mean that it is easy to play. You can see that people playing darts in animations can easily hit full rings. As a first-timer to darts, Jiang Tianwei could not achieve such a legendary result.

"What, are you worried?"

Goro Akechi suddenly asked.

Jiang Tianwei didn't understand, so he asked, "Why do you say that?"

"I think your strength is definitely not just this. Is there something on your mind that is affecting your performance?"

"Well, there are indeed a lot of worries."

Jiang Tianwei looked around and shrugged: "But this is not the place to talk, right?"

Goro Akechi also looked at the noisy environment around him and realized that it was not suitable for discussing business, so he showed his standard business smile: "Then, do you want to accompany me to the jazz bar?"

"I'm not old enough to drink—you're not old enough to drink, are you?"

"Haha, it's really a rare experience to be persuaded by you using the law. Let's go, you'll know when you get there."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 305 Sir, do you have a past that you don’t want to look back on?

The law is very strict and rigorous.

Japanese law stipulates that people must be 20 years old to drink alcohol. Therefore, any store that sells alcohol will have a notice that says "Alcohol is not provided to people under 20 years old."

But, what is Goro Akechi? He is a detective, studying this stuff. He immediately found the loophole in this rule.

They just said that they don't serve alcohol to minors, but they didn't say that they don't allow minors to come in and sit. Isn't it okay if I don't drink alcohol? I just sit here, don't drink alcohol, and order two glasses of milk, isn't it okay?

This is the logical genius behind this.

It is obvious that the owner of the jazz bar is either a good friend of Mingzhi or has been harassed by Mingzhi with this theory several times. He turned a blind eye to Mingzhi's behavior of bringing another minor to the bar to drink drinks.

The style of this bar looks like the style in the American Western cowboy movies, with not very bright warm lights, solid wood from the walls to the floor, thick blankets, and round tables scattered in the not very wide space. It is not the type of dark, noisy and noisy bar that Jiang Tianwei imagined.

In the corner of the bar, there is a vacant seat with a piano and a microphone. It is obvious that this is the place for the resident singer. A jazz bar is a jazz bar, so of course you have to have jazz music and jazz singers! Otherwise, why is it called a jazz bar? You can't stipulate that people without a title can't go there, right?

However, it seems that we are lucky today, as it is the day when the resident singer comes to sing. I wonder if it was specially chosen by Akechi Goro.

A middle-aged lady with big wavy hair, wearing a red evening gown, walked onto the stage gracefully and gently opened the night's warmth with her slightly hoarse but warm voice.

Mingzhi Wulang took Jiang Tianwei to choose an inconspicuous position in a corner. When everyone was immersed in the song,

When he heard the sound, he asked softly: "So, what's on your mind?"

"I have a friend……"

Jiang Tianwei used this internationally accepted opening phrase, and Akechi Goro nodded in understanding.

"I have a friend who recently had a disagreement with his work partner. Both sides felt

They both thought they were right, and no one could convince the other, so in the end they just... in short, they didn't want to have any contact with each other. What do you think should be done at this time?"

Goro Akechi was delighted, knowing that what he was talking about was what he had heard on the wiretap before, but he remained calm on the surface, pretending not to know the details: "So, what exactly is their disagreement?"

"Well, my friend, he is the kind of person who believes in efficiency, do you understand? The kind of person who, if there is a problem, solves it first and then reports. My friend's friend thinks that if there is a problem, you have to raise it first, and everyone brainstorms together before solving it. My friend always thinks that this method is too time-consuming and inefficient - Mr. Mingzhi, what do you think?"

"It's inappropriate for you to ask me this question."

Mingzhi Goro shrugged, spread his hands, and made a helpless expression. He secretly looked at Jiang Tianwei's expression. He looked at this side curiously, expecting his answer. Mingzhi then slowly said: "Because, in my line of work, there is no way to report everything. You must make achievements before you can report. Otherwise, the client will definitely scold you."

He used euphemisms to not only express his approval of Jiang Tianwei's behavior, but also subtly hinted to him: You and I are the same kind of people.

"Is that so...? I-ah, I mean, my friend will definitely be happy to hear you say that."

Jiang Tianwei showed an expression as if relieved and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Well, speaking of which, it seems that there is a hacker organization that is provoking the Phantom Thieves now? What do you think about this?"

Because this is a public place after all, Mingzhi just pretended that the two of them were discussing the Phantom Thieves. This behavior is still very common. After all, the Phantom Thieves have caused heated discussions across the country. It is no exaggeration to say that seven or eight out of ten people you see on the street every day are discussing the Phantom Thieves.

There are countless peripheral products with the theme of Phantom Thieves. In the programs that Akechi himself has appeared on, he was also asked about his views on Phantom Thieves. After all, at the beginning of Phantom Thief literature, it was the famous detectives rather than the police who were the enemies of Phantom Thieves.

Jiang Tianwei was indeed a bit troubled by the matter of Medjay. He said frankly: "I think that the Phantom Thieves should have no way to deal with the hacker organization now. After all, hackers come and go without a trace. If you don't have some advanced technical means, it is impossible to deal with them."

Goro Akechi agreed with this. He nodded vigorously and said, "If we use the police or hire a top hacker, we might be able to fight them. But it will be very troublesome if we don't have the corresponding means."

"Tell me, if the Phantom Thief commissioned you to investigate Medjad, what would you gain?"

"It's hard to say what I've gained. If something like this really happens, I can only do my best and leave the rest to fate. But I promise you, I will definitely do my best."

Goro Akechi said as he clenched his fist, his black gloves clenched into a dark will.

"Well, then I will definitely choose to believe you, Detective."

Jiang Tianwei smiled and patted his shoulder. Akechi Goro also smiled. The two of them smiled heartily, and to outsiders, they looked like good friends who knew each other well.

However, as the saying goes, you can never know a person's heart through his appearance, who would have thought that all Jiang Tianwei had in mind was the plan.

Although Akechi Goro spoke modestly, Jiang Tianwei believed that he could 100% solve Medjad. It didn't matter whether he used his own reasoning, the power of crippling, or simply used the police's intelligence network.

Since he chose to join the Phantom Thieves himself, there must be a reason for that. He went through so much trouble to join the Phantom Thieves, only to sit back and watch the Phantom Thieves lose their reputation? That would be really funny.

This is the way of thinking that Bai Zhongzhidou taught him. Except for a small group of extremely smart people, the smarter the people, the easier it is to judge. Sometimes, it is the reckless people with poor brains who do some unexpected things.

For example, during the Three Kingdoms period, Jia Xu, as an extremely intelligent man, once devised a plan in Wancheng that almost destroyed Cao Cao. It was not his extremely intelligent advisers who saved Cao Cao, but the loyal and brave Dian Wei who guarded the camp gate and bought Cao Cao precious time to escape.

No matter how smart Jia Xu was, he never thought that Dian Wei, without a weapon, could pick up a living person and use him as a weapon - who could have thought of that?!

Judging from the fact that Jiang Tianwei was able to discover Akechi's trick, Akechi Goro is definitely not an extremely smart wise man. Therefore, as long as we think from the perspective of [interests], it is not difficult to guess what Akechi wants to do.

His purpose of joining the Phantom Thieves was one of several reasons. He either wanted to use the Phantom Thieves to become bigger and stronger and then catch them all in one fell swoop. Or he wanted to use the Phantom Thieves to eliminate dissidents and then catch them all in one fell swoop. Or, he wanted to use the Phantom Thieves to blame them for his incompetence and then catch them all in one fell swoop.

However, for the first possibility, there is no need to expand the Phantom Thieves, they can just be caught in one fell swoop. For the second possibility, to eliminate the dissidents, Mingzhi only needs to destroy the opponent himself... so it is not right either. Only the third possibility is relatively reliable.

Jiang Tianwei planned to wait for Bai Zhongzhidou to come back and then check the answers with her.

But before that, let's leave the matter of Medjay to Goro Akechi. He is a useful hunting dog. Before cooking him, you have to let him bite the cunning rabbit to death first!

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 306 Let go of that classmate!

Going to school is a student’s duty, but now Jiang Tianwei doesn’t want to go to school anymore.

If I had to ask why, it would of course be because I was afraid of embarrassment.

In the cramped train space at Shibuya Station, which was packed like a can of sardines, I would always run into Amamiya Ren by chance. We both lived in the Shigenjaya area and had similar class times, so it was natural for us to run into each other.

Although on the surface both of them said that they could still be friends in the future, but after such a fierce quarrel before, there was always a little... feeling when looking at each other again, it was just like a boyfriend and girlfriend who broke up and found that they could see each other everywhere.

"Hey, could you please come and have a chat?"

As soon as he arrived at the school gate, Jiang Tianwei heard someone coming over to talk to him. The tone and content of the voice sounded just like that of a bad boy trying to blackmail a model student.

Jiang Tianwei was wondering who was so "classic". In this era, he was still using this classic image that seemed to appear in campus movies of the last century to find fault...

When I turned around, I saw a yellow-haired man, hunched over, with his hands in his pockets, walking towards me. This posture was very similar to the exaggerated image of bad boys in those movies.

No matter who saw it, it looked like a bad student who was idle and unlearned and came to blackmail. Jiang Tianwei frowned and looked disdainful: "I say, Long Si, do you really need to shape your image like this?"

"Ah? Huh? Shaping...what?"

According to Long Si's estimation, Jiang Tianwei would either agree or disagree with his words, that is, yes-or-no. He didn't expect him to suddenly say this, and he was stunned on the spot.

"Speaking of your character image, you look like a gangster - at least you should pretend to be a gangster boss. Go watch The Godfather or something like that to broaden your knowledge."

"Thank you so much!"

Long Si punched him angrily and amusedly, then stretched out his arm to hook his shoulders: "I say, will you give me the honor?"

"if you……"

Jiang Tianwei was just about to say "I'll go if you treat me to something", but before he could finish his words, he heard the sound of hurried running, accompanied by heavy breathing, and a shout that was not very loud and did not have much momentum: "Let go, let go of that classmate!"

"ha?".

When Long Si heard someone coming over to talk to him, he, who was always very emotional, immediately wrote "mind your own business" on his face and glared at the person who came over.

A messy head of hair, a pair of thick glasses, a white coat, and slippers on his feet...

There is only one person in the whole school who can match this style of matching - Mr. Maruki Takuto.

Although Mr. Maruki is just a psychological counselor and strictly speaking cannot even be considered a teacher in the school, facing this kind of school bullying scene, he, with a strong sense of justice, of course chose to stand up - and then he was frightened by Ryuji's eyes and trembled all over: "Ah - don't, don't do it, it's wrong to hit the teacher!"

"I won't hit you! Really, if you're afraid of getting hit, then don't meddle in other people's business..."

Ryuji Sakamoto scratched his head, winked at Jiang Tianwei, and patted his trouser pocket. The meaning was obvious: let's communicate on the phone later.

Long Si had a bad reputation in school. Teachers and students all regarded him as a delinquent. Long Si also knew that this bad boy image would accompany him throughout high school, so he left tactfully. If he continued to stay here, it would only make the situation more complicated.

Seeing Ryuji walking away, Maruki Takuto finally breathed a sigh of relief, put his hand on his chest and breathed deeply: "Are you okay... Mr. Jiang?"

"I'm fine. But, teacher, you look like you have a serious problem?"

"No, it's okay... I am, I am a teacher... Protecting students is my duty..."

"But you couldn't protect me either?"

Jiang Tianwei saw him saying these cool lines seriously, and couldn't help but complain about him. Now he suddenly understood Fang Zexia's feelings: Many times, when you see something worth complaining about, you can't help but complain about it!

Perhaps this sentence directly hit Maruki Takuto's sore spot. This seemingly useless man hung his head exaggeratedly like a character in a comic book, and his hair was almost gray.

Seeing him so disappointed, Jiang Tianwei felt embarrassed to continue to beat him up, and quickly said, "Anyway, teacher, I'm already very happy that you can stand up for yourself."

"!Really!?"

As if the frustration just now was all fake, Maruki Takuto suddenly raised his head like a large dog, with excitement flashing in his eyes.

"Um...yeah, really."

Jiang Tianwei thought about it and finally gave a positive response.

Although Maruki Takuto didn't accomplish anything, his feelings are worthy of recognition. This is just like the C-class hero Unlicensed Knight in the popular fighting animation One Punch Man. Although he knows that his fighting power is useless, as a hero, he has to stand up in some battles.

In today's society, school bullying is so rampant in every country. The main reason is that too many faculty members, based on the principle of "less trouble is more trouble", turn a blind eye to wrong things. If everyone could at least speak up when seeing injustice like Maruki, I'm afraid the atmosphere would have changed a lot."

"Speaking of which, Mr. Jiang, do you have any plans after school today?"

As a psychologist, Maruki used a very abrupt turn. Jiang Tianwei thought for a moment and thought that he probably wanted to go to the psychological counseling room after school. From the last time Fang Ze Sumire had a psychological counseling session, it can be seen that Maruki actually cares about this counseling subject very much. Especially, this is about "happiness".

For Yoshizawa Sumire, what kind of path is happiness? Maruki and Jiang Tianwei have two completely different answers.