Persona: Devil Summoner

Goro Akechi also knew this - he had practiced this countless times by killing the weak, so he knew too well that now that he had become the weak one, he would not be able to defeat the opponent...

(You want to escape? Yes, as long as you have the green mountains, you will never run out of firewood...)

Goro Akechi thought so and suddenly shouted loudly, uttering a long "ah" syllable.

Just beside him, two Molochs suddenly appeared. Half-man, half-bull monsters with bull heads and bronze bodies appeared beside him. Akechi Goro became ruthless and passed the anger in his heart to the two demons beside him. Seeing them emitting red ominous light, this was a method that Akechi Goro was good at. He could force these demons to run wild. Whether it was a talent or something he had realized after turning useless people into useless people, that was unknown.

Akechi Goro just said: "Hello, you are fine! Just wait for me!"

After saying that, he flew away, stepped on the railing of the rooftop, and flew into the air...

"How foolish... Do you really think I would let you go? Do I look like a good person?"

Jiang Tianwei spoke to the air and shook his head. He picked up the spear blade with both hands and raised the butt of the spear like a baseball player. He swung the weapon casually, and the bull-headed monster that had just been summoned by Goro Akechi was knocked away.

The Minotaur waved its limbs in mid-air with its fangs and claws bared, and fell to the ground...

However, in mid-air, the Minotaur's figure suddenly became blurred, and its huge body instantly shrank and turned into the appearance of Goro Akechi!

"You?!"

Yes, Goro Akechi forgot...

I was tricked by Togo Ichirakusan's replacement trick before!

Although this move looks insignificant, its effect is first-class.

Goro Akechi fell from mid-air. He was not prepared and couldn't even do the most basic diving. He fell to the ground, grimacing in pain.

But before he could get up, lights flickered on nearby, and two lights as bright as daylight locked onto Goro Akechi. There were several police cars around, and countless police officers got out of the cars...

Originally, this was an ambush set by Akechi Goro, who was planning to frame Jiang Tianwei as the thief in the act. Unexpectedly, he was the one who was discovered...

He clenched his teeth and thought to himself: If I can't beat Jiang Tianwei, why can't I beat you ordinary people?

Just as he was about to call persona out, he saw a female police officer rush forward first and kick Goro Akechi in the chin with a powerful knee as he was halfway up.

There is a part called the trigeminal nerve located here. If it is hit hard, it is easy to faint!

Even Goro Akechi was knocked unconscious by the kick. Countless police officers rushed forward without hesitation and pressed down Goro Akechi's body. At the same time, they shouted: "We caught the thief! - And you! Officer Satonaka! How many times have I told you! Don't rush in alone!!!"

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 652 The villain is caught!

During his long life, an evil emperor realized a truth: the more scheming humans are, the easier it is for them to fail; so-called humans have their limits.

Unfortunately, Goro Akechi was neither the Emperor of Evil nor had he lived a very long life, so he did not understand this.

Or is it that his life is too smooth?

When it comes to Goro Akechi, everyone's first reaction is Detective Prince.

But few people know that Goro Akechi actually possessed the ability to manipulate minds very early on. With this ability, he could easily commit crimes, and then because he knew the answers in advance, he could easily crack them.

This feeling is like a person who made a test paper and answered it himself. As the person who made the test paper, he can certainly get full marks. But for those who don't know this, this seems very impressive, and everyone will respect him as a top student.

Goro Akechi earned his fame in this way.

He did this because he had an unhappy family. This is easy to understand. Usually, when a person has a very distorted psychological problem, it is usually related to the family.

Goro Akechi is the illegitimate son of a certain important person. As you can imagine, illegitimate means that it is impossible to acknowledge him. So naturally, Akechi and his mother would not be acknowledged by anyone.

In the eyes of the outside world, it was just an unmarried woman who suddenly had a child, so naturally, all kinds of unpleasant things came out. Women are prone to postpartum depression, and their weak bodies, coupled with the gossips of people around them, will naturally break down after depression becomes serious. In such a family, the mother's nutrition is naturally impossible to keep up. As a result, when Akechi Goro was very young, he had to start working and studying to earn his living.

This kind of life is very bitter, so it is no wonder that Goro Akechi hates that man for this.

However, unlike most people, when faced with such a situation, ordinary people would only think "I'm going to kill him!", but Goro Akechi thought more and it was more terrifying.

He wanted that damn father who was so concerned about his reputation and dignity to be ruined.

After Goro Akechi gained the ability to change his heart, he could kill this irresponsible father at any time, but he didn't do it - it would have been too easy for him.

A wise person must repay the other person double for the suffering he or she has endured in the past!

That's why he went to help that person as the Black Mask. In order to make his career go smoothly, Akechi Goro used his mental rampage and crippling abilities many times to help him solve one problem after another.

What he wanted was to first push his father to the highest height, and then, when he thought he was invincible, expose his true nature in front of the media, confess his life experience, and then - admire his face distorted by betrayal, and finally the inevitable death.

This feeling is just like the cat and dog abuse videos on the Internet. Do the people in the videos not have the ability to kill the cats and dogs directly? No, they have the ability. However, they still choose to kill them in a cruel way and try their best to satisfy their sadistic desires with cruel behavior.

Goro Akechi felt this way: simply killing his father was not enough to vent his hatred, he had to make that man collapse first.

That's why he killed Jiang Tianwei's father.

Because of the appearance of this man, Akechi Goro's [necessity] became unnecessary. If Akechi Goro could not be the [only choice] in that person's heart, he would most likely not rely on himself, and his betrayal would not make him feel uncomfortable.

That's why he plotted against the Phantom Thieves - because he wanted to blame all the dirty water he had committed on the Phantom Thieves.

Yes, Goro Akechi is not going to die with his father. He is still young and has superpowers, why would he want to die with that old man? Therefore, he needs someone who can perfectly take the blame, and that is of course the Phantom Thieves.

In his mind, he first wanted to deal with the Phantom Thieves and put the blame for his disability on them, so that he could clear himself and gain his father's trust. Without the Phantom Thieves, everything would develop in the direction his father expected, and then, when his reputation reached its peak, it would be the time for his destruction.

Unfortunately, he missed one thing. The more sophisticated the plan, the easier it is to fall apart because of small details. His previous calculations were basically accurate, so he gradually developed an illusion that "my plans are perfect!"

So although he noticed that Jiang Tianwei was wary of him, he did not notice a very important thing: that he had been exposed.

Moreover, he had not expected that there was a little ghost following Jiang Tianwei... If this ghost was not there, he would not have said the key words "Ippo Art" to arouse Jiang Tianwei's suspicion. Similarly, if this ghost was not there, the letter that Bai Zhongzhidou wrote to Jiang Tianwei that year would have added Akechi Goro's own name! Jiang Tianwei might really believe that Akechi was a good person.

China says that there are gods above our heads, while Japan believes that everything has spirits and there are eight million gods. Akechi lost because of the gods.

There is no way around it. Who could have imagined that there is a completely invisible ghost girl harassing him right next to him?

Now, Goro Akechi's mind was in a mess, his eyes were hazy, and he was mumbling in his sleep. It seemed as if his brain was not working at all and he could only react passively.

"I didn't expect it was you..."

A woman's voice.

"Well, I did think of that. But seeing his weird look, I'm sweating profusely... If I were injected with this stuff, wouldn't I be the same as him?"

A man's voice.

Moreover, this man's voice... sounds so familiar...

"! Jiang Tianwei!!!!"

Suddenly, Akechi Goro roared and rushed towards the man's voice.

However, as soon as he stood up, his legs lost strength and became as soft as noodles.

His head hit the table, but surprisingly, he didn't feel any pain, but a light and soft feeling...

Yes, this is the torture chamber.

This is the place where Jiang Tianwei was "tortured" by the National Security Bureau before.

Goro Akechi was caught as a thief in the act.

Because of Jiang Tianwei's criminal record, these National Security Bureau personnel thought that all the members of the Phantom Thieves were monsters, so they didn't show any mercy to Goro Akechi, and used all the means they could, including confession agents, torture and beatings.

Goro Akechi's originally handsome face was now covered in bruises, with blood hanging from the corners of his mouth. He looked extremely miserable.

And now, in front of him were Jiang Tianwei, Niijima Sae, and... Amamiya Ren who should have been dead.

Judging from the fact that the three of them are standing together, Niijima Sae should have reformed.

As the frontline commander of the Phantom Thief Special Investigation Headquarters, she certainly has the authority to hold Goro Akechi accountable.

However, it doesn’t matter whether you ask or not.

The effect of the confession agent is no joke, it is not something that can be endured by willpower. Akechi Goro's ideas and plans have been asked in the previous interrogation.

Although this interrogation record cannot be made public, it is sufficient to convict the person.

Because Goro Akechi did not make the information of his arrest public like Jiang Tianwei did, the National Security Bureau had no intention of holding a public trial. Even the interrogation was just a formality. They only wanted to get rid of him quickly and give the public an explanation.

Jiang Tianwei sneered, picked him up from the ground, and made him sit back on the chair. With a pleasant smile on his face, he whispered in Mingzhi Goro's ear: "Don't worry, Mingzhi... I won't kill you. But... you will soon start to regret it. You will regret why you don't have a palace, and you can neither reform yourself nor be killed by me. Believe me - this feeling will not be pleasant."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 653 A Punishment More Painful Than Death

How to make a person suffer?

The best way, of course, is to dash his hopes.

Many times, destroying a person's hope is more painful than killing him.

For example, someone struggles all his life to paint, and at the end of his life, he finally paints a room full of paintings. Then you break his hands so that he can't paint, and burn his paintings, so that his life's hard work is destroyed. This kind of grief is often more terrible than death.

After all, when people die, they have nothing, but when they are alive, they have to constantly recall the pain of shattered hopes.

From this point of view, Jiang Tianwei and Ming Zhiwulang are unexpectedly the same type of people. They are both people with pursuits.

If we use comics as an analogy, Batman would be a very suitable example.

The Phantom Thieves are like Batman himself, and they all fight crime by adhering to the principle of not killing. Goro Akechi is more like Batman's number one opponent, the Joker. As a criminal, the Joker is undoubtedly very successful. He once had the opportunity to kill Batman, or he could choose to bypass Gotham City and commit crimes in other cities, but he did neither.

So some people on the Internet analyzed that the Joker did not commit crimes but tortured Batman.

Jiang Tianwei, on the other hand, walks between Batman and the Joker. Just as he describes himself: he is neither a bad guy nor a good guy. That's all.

So, facing the murderer of his father, Jiang Tianwei's side as Batman constrained his choice: he could not kill.

However, the clown side of him told him that there were many things in this world that were more painful to the target than killing.

Jiang Tianwei already knew about Goro Akechi's plan, but not from the interrogation records, but from Baekjong Naoto's analysis.

Why did Goro Akechi set Kunikazu Okumura as his target?

First, Kunikazu Okumura wanted to marry a congressman and enter politics. It's like one day your dog suddenly said to you, "Hey, man, I don't want to be a dog anymore. I want to be a human like you. Please respect me from now on. I am your equal. You have to give me a part of your family."

As a dog lover, he was of course ecstatic, but as the master of Okumura, he was of course furious. So Okumura Kuniwa was listed as a target to be killed by Akechi Goro.

Secondly, it was also to secretly instigate discord among the Phantom Thieves.

Goro Akechi is really good at planning conspiracies.

He had guessed the identity of the Phantom Thieves long ago, so he set up a wiretap in Lubrun in advance. As a result, he learned that the Phantom Thieves had split from one group into two small groups.

So we are prepared to take advantage of this and have a dog-eat-dog fight.

But unfortunately, he didn't know that the contents of the wiretap, including the split of the Phantom Thieves, were also a deliberate plot against him by everyone!

It was part of the scheme from the very beginning.

This is the real conspiracy. It is only a conspiracy if it is not known by others! Laying out clues in advance and luring the other party into the trap, this method is very consistent with the setting of the phantom thief - this is the art of deception!

Afterwards, everyone already knows how Kunikazu Okumura escaped death.

Then he pretended to kill Amamiya Ren.

This is the matter that Jiang Tianwei is most unsure of, because after the Phantom Thieves split because of the murder, Akechi Goro actually had two choices to frame the person, one was himself and the other was Amamiya Ren.

But fortunately, because someone posted his confession record online, the whole Internet was spreading the rumor that Jiang Tianwei was the Phantom Thief. In this case, the possibility of being a target was greatly increased.

Because, the main purpose of Goro Akechi's frame-up was to clear himself of the crime. After he killed his father, he could live his life in peace. Rather than saying that the unknown Amamiya Ren was a phantom thief, it would be more misleading to directly say that it was Jiang Tianwei, who admitted that he was a phantom thief, who killed people.

As for why Amamiya Lian didn't die, it was very simple... Who still remembered that Jiang Tianwei's spear was not a normal weapon! It was a weapon constructed with magic power. Since he could summon it at will, he could naturally remove it at will!

Therefore, all you have to do is to eliminate the entire spear head before the spear tip touches Amamiya Ren, and then summon it again from behind Amamiya Ren.

Blood is very easy to disguise. As long as a blood bag is placed on the chest, with Jiang Tianwei's strength, even a gun without a tip can crush it.

So, naturally, Goro Akechi was fooled.

He mistakenly thought that Jiang Tianwei was depressed because of killing someone, but in fact, this was to create an opportunity for Akechi Goro.

Create a perfect opportunity to catch the thief.

In Goro Akechi's plan, after killing Okumura, the next person to go is Sae Niijima. This senior investigator can actually die or not, but in order to reasonably frame the Phantom Thief, [evidence] is needed. However, the whole situation in the cognitive space is difficult to handle, so the only way is to use the [present criminal] method.

So, Akechi Goro devised a vicious plan.

He planned to take Jiang Tianwei with him to change Niijima Sae's heart, which was a flagrant offense.

Then, he informed his superiors of his plan in advance and asked them to wait for the thief to fall into his trap, and then they could start preparing to capture the thief at the specified time.

It has been confirmed before that when the Different World Navigation App is activated, people nearby will be brought in together. So, how to bring a large number of people in together?

Mingzhi also has his own ideas.

That's the car.