Persona: Devil Summoner

"By the way, let me ask, is there a person named Sakurano Ei in the Sakurano Group? How is she now?"

"Um... Sakurano Ei... ah, ah, the other party's young master, right? It seems that everyone in the Sakurano group insisted that this matter had nothing to do with her. I guess they can let her go after taking a few statements, right?"

"Okay, I get it now."

Jiang Tianwei hung up the phone. Sakurano Ying, his cheap apprentice, was the one he was most worried about right now.

She has an unhappy family, and now this family is about to fall apart.

If nothing unexpected happens, the Sakurano Group will definitely be forced to disband, and then the members of the Sakurano Group will almost all be imprisoned for a series of crimes such as smuggling guns and armed attacks.

The only one who had a chance of surviving was the "show-off" Sakurano Ei.

"When the time comes... I'll go see her when she comes out... It's not easy to be alone..."

I don’t know if it was because he was thinking about himself, Jiang Tianwei was thinking thoughtfully.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 629: The thief's warning letter? Of course I'll hand it in!

"What?! Found the Phantom Thief's warning letter?!"

The next day, in the Okumura family's mansion, Kunikazu Okumura made a sound mixed with shock and anger.

The reason was that when he was enjoying his daily cup of happy breakfast coffee this morning, he found a letter from a thief stuck on the coffee pot.

"Mr. Kunikazu Okumura, the greedy criminal who extorts and extorts money. Your profits and global surplus are all based on the cruel exploitation of your employees. Therefore, we have decided to let you confess all your crimes yourself. The Phantom Thieves of Hearts [Phantom] respectfully present."

This is the content of the letter.

Kunikazu Okumura finished reading the letter while drinking coffee, and the hum that came out of his nose was his response to the contents of the letter.

Let yourself confess? Ha! Not happening!

Although I don’t know why those people were crying before, it would be different if I thought of myself as that kind of pathetic guy.

Yes, Kunikazu Okumura had already realized it.

If failure is the original sin of the weak, then all you need to do is become a winner. All you need to do is keep winning. No matter what means you use, just win!

He was very confident that he would never become such a loser.

As for the anger at the beginning, it was not anger towards the thief's warning letter, but anger towards the fact that "someone actually broke into my house!"

He lives in a high-end residential area where many celebrities live. Normally, no outsider should be able to enter.

This shows that the security guards are just there to eat and do nothing, getting paid for nothing! This is what makes Kuniwa Okumura angry.

He didn't notice that his daughter was standing at the stairs with a complicated expression, looking at him from a distance.

In order to deal with the Phantom Thieves, Kunikazu Okumura also had his own ideas. He took out his cell phone and made a call. I guess it was to the person in charge of the company or something like that?

"I received a warning letter from the Phantom Thief. Give it to the police."

Hearing this, Okumura Haru felt his heart skip a beat. He secretly felt lucky that the Phantom Thieves' notice was made up of collages of words from newspapers, so there was no such thing as handwriting identification.

"…I told you to hand it over to the police! Aren't the police the partners of justice? Now, a kind-hearted citizen like me has had his home invaded by criminals, who even left a threatening letter!"

Okumura Kunikazu's attitude was very unfriendly. As a famous businessman who was very good at pretending, this expression seemed unfriendly, which also indirectly proved how angry he was now.

In a trance, Okumura Haru seemed to be able to see the shadow of his father in his cognitive space in him, and seemed to hear him shouting in his heart: "I will not be a loser!"

Okumura Haru went out to school, and at the same time sent a message to everyone in the Phantom Thieves to tell them about his father's whereabouts.

Today, Amamiya Ren and the others did not have a peaceful class. They were all frightened by Okumura Kunikazu's awareness.

Generally speaking, would such a villain seek help from the police?

and……

This incident is also a very special starting point.

Until Kunikazu Okumura called the police, the police had to come up with a pretext to investigate the Phantom Thieves, but with Kunikazu Okumura's call, the Phantom Thieves' position in the legal system had indeed changed. The police had long wanted to capture the Phantom Thieves, and now they were gathering their strength and preparing to take advantage of Okumura's favorable conditions to launch a decisive battle to capture the Phantom Thieves.

On the other hand, the voices on the Internet were also growing louder. Once the news that Kunikazu Okumura handed the notice letter to the police was spread, the entire network was immediately in an uproar.

Some were genuine employees, rejoicing that their hard times were finally over.

And there are many more people who just want to have fun.

They are neither victims nor have any sense of justice. They just want to see the big shots' personalities collapse and apologize in tears on the screen.

This way, neither side has any way out.

Especially the Phantom Thieves, they cannot lose and cannot afford to lose.

With excitement, anxiety and fighting spirit, everyone worked hard to get through the boring class time, and as soon as school was over, they gathered in front of the entrance of Okumura Foods Company.

After entering the palace, Jiang Tianwei looked at the winding road in front of him and suddenly said, "Come to think of it, do we really need to take this road?"

His words made everyone focus their attention on him.

"This is outer space, right? If it's outer space, then isn't there a better and more appropriate way to move around?"

Jiang Tianwei said, looking at Sakura Futaba... Futaba was stunned and pointed at herself: "Me?"

Seeing that no one reacted, Jiang Tianwei gestured: "That's a UFO. In science fiction works, aren't those alien spaceships? Can't we just take this and fly to the destination?"

Everyone was stunned: There is such a good thing? !

Only Akechi Goro shook his head: "No. Don't forget, there is no air in outer space. If you hold your breath for a few breaths, you can do it, but you can't stand it for a long time."

Jiang Tianwei suddenly became dejected: "I should have bought an oxygen tank earlier, so that I could be an astronaut Tianwei like the diver Dave..."

Jiang Tianwei told jokes that no one except Futaba could understand. Everyone laughed awkwardly along with him, and then followed the previously selected route and quickly headed to the end of Okumura Kuni and the palace.

Just like the previous experience, after sending out the preview letter, Kuniwa Okumura's secret treasure finally materialized.

It’s just that this specific product is a bit abstract.

It was a spherical machine, a bit like the spherical core or power reactor that always appears in science fiction works. Judging from its size, it was probably slightly larger than a basketball, and it was just floating in the air.

It is worth mentioning that the various raw materials that were originally piled up in the room of this warehouse have now disappeared, and the warehouse is now empty. The door that was originally blocked and printed with a picture of the Big Universe Hamburger is now finally opened.

Inside was a UFO.

This is a real UFO, the kind you see in sci-fi alien invasion movies. The most obvious feature is that it is huge.

It's very big.

Considering the size, it is not a problem to accommodate hundreds or even thousands of people.

The hemispherical shape also resembles the upper part of a hamburger.

Everyone had just arrived here and hadn't had time to react to the changes when they saw two small mechanical arms suddenly fly out from mid-air, grab the spherical secret treasure in mid-air with a click, and quickly retrieve it!

It is not difficult to find out along the smooth long rod of the robotic arm that it was launched from the lower end of the UFO. Now it is naturally grabbing the secret treasure to the bottom of the UFO!

"Ah! My secret treasure!"

Morgana, who was most sensitive to the secret treasure, screamed and quickly directed everyone to chase after it.

Actually, to be honest, the straight-line distance is not that long, probably only about one thousand meters, which is basically the length of a physical test.

But don't forget, this is the production site of the secret UFO, so of course there are huge scaffoldings and employees building robots everywhere!

There was nothing the crowd could do but chase after them through the complicated terrain.

At the bottom of the flying saucer, Kunikazu Okumura was sitting on a suspended chair, silently watching them from the finish line.

"As expected, you are here, the Phantom Thieves... Then, die here. I am giving up this place and moving on to a new stage."

He muttered to himself, holding a very classic little gadget that looked like an air-conditioning controller in his hand, and then pressed the big red button on it hard.

"The base is in a state of tension. The UFO is about to take off. The plan to escape to Utopia has been activated. This base is abandoned. The countdown to self-destruction has begun..."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 630: Nature Does Not Mean Not to Lie

The tactic of self-destruction is now considered one of the classic settings.

No matter it is a movie or a game, when the story reaches its climax, the protagonist saves the person who should be saved or intercepts the thing that should be intercepted, or defeats the villain, so how to push the plot to the next climax in the end?

Well, it's a good idea to find something to fry.

This feeling is just like the saying passed down from mouth to mouth: "Among three longs and one short, choose the shortest; among three shorts and one long, choose the longest." Although there is no basis for it, many people believe it.

"Huh?! It was a self-destruction?!"

Sakamoto Ryuji was completely stunned. This, this is not the time to defeat the shadow, steal the secret treasure, and change his heart? Why would he self-destruct? !

"Hey, could this be a conspiracy by Umbrella Corporation?"

Sakura Futaba inadvertently cited another famous example in the gaming industry.

Jiang Tianwei sighed, "Stop talking nonsense. There is only one thing we need to do now, and that is to catch Okumura Kuniwa before he explodes. Based on past experience, I'm afraid we will have another tough boss battle. Everyone, be alert."

After Jiang Tianwei said a few words, everyone in the Phantom Thieves nodded repeatedly.

But, until now, the Phantom Thieves have never imagined that something like that would happen in the future!!!

As the countdown continued, everyone became more nervous! They gathered all their strength and rushed to Kunikazu Okumura's UFO.

Fortunately, this UFO is really too big. Such a huge thing must require a series of preparations such as adding fuel before starting. If it was an ordinary small lifeboat, I'm afraid Okumura Kunikazu would have escaped by now.

He sat on a suspended chair, posing like Commander Ikari in the classic anime, with his hands on his chin, quietly waiting for the arrival of the Phantom Thieves.

The small ball of secret treasure had been sucked into the bottom layer of the UFO.

"You are here."

Okumura Kunikazu said this, his blue face trembling slightly. Maybe he was angry.

"Father! Don't be stubborn anymore!"

"Haru...you said..."

The muscles on Kuniwa Okumura's face twitched slightly, and everyone quietly prepared for battle. If nothing unexpected happened, he would probably reveal his true form...

"…You are so right, Haru!"

Unexpectedly, Kunikazu Okumura's tone suddenly changed and became gentle!

"what?!"

This time, not only Haru, but everyone present was confused... What is this? Why? What happened? What's going on? Why did he suddenly admit his mistake?

Then Okumura Kunikazu got down from his chair, prostrated himself on the ground, and knelt in front of everyone!

"I'm sorry! Everyone in the Phantom Thieves! I'm sorry to the ordinary employees I've hurt! It's all my fault! I will repent! Please forgive me!!!"

This was the first time Jiang Tianwei had seen someone change his mind so readily.

This, what's the situation?

Is this a conspiracy? But, but, isn't it said that shadows don't lie?

He, does he really want to repent?

It is said that a prodigal son who returns is worth more than gold. Jiang Tianwei found it strange that he said he wanted to repent so readily.

"So, please, please don't take away my secret treasure! You, your purpose is just to make me repent, right? So, as long as I become a good person, you can leave it alone! That's everything to me - Chun, yes, Chun! From childhood to adulthood, you have been a sensible and obedient child, and you would never go against my decisions. But I didn't expect that we, father and daughter, would drift apart. I still remember that it was the first time your school held a sports meeting, and I couldn't go because of work, and you cried a lot. Since then, you never talked back to me again, but, in fact, I was even more worried in my heart..."

Okumura Kunikazu seemed to have truly repented. He fell to the ground and cried loudly.

Seeing him like this, Okumura Haru suddenly softened his heart.

She was not a heartless woman, and when she saw her loved ones like this, she couldn't help but feel compassion. The other members of the Phantom Thieves didn't know what to say, but seeing that there was no danger here, they followed and took a few steps forward.

Everyone had a complicated expression, not knowing whether to persuade Okumura Haru or to take direct action. Only Akechi Goro had a look of disgust on his face.

After all, he is a righteous detective, so there is nothing wrong with such feelings.

"Father... start over. Let go of your obsession and start over. If it's you, father, then it will be fine."

As Okumura Haru said this, he took two steps towards him. Okumura Kuniwa raised his head and realized that his daughter was ready to forgive him! Ah, his daughter was so well-behaved and sensible, so...

"——How foolish!"

Okumura Kunikazu, who was lying on the ground, suddenly showed a crazy expression. He pressed the floor with his fingers, and the mechanism hidden underneath was triggered. With a hiss, a blue-purple beam wall emerged from the floor, instantly blocking the entire Phantom Thieves! Except for Okumura Haru who walked in front, everyone was locked in!

This is Kunikazu Okumura's conspiracy.