Persona: Devil Summoner

Chapter 159 Have you ever been called away by a beautiful girl?

Niijima's real commission was puzzling. Jiang Tianwei really didn't understand why she asked the Phantom Thieves to rescue the students who were blackmailed.

If Niijima is really a person with an overflowing sense of justice, then there is no reason why she remained silent when Kamoshida was so domineering before.

But if Niijima really wasn't someone with a strong sense of justice, it couldn't explain why she would entrust such a thing, because there was no possibility that Niijima could really make a profit from it...

But no matter what, given the justice of the Phantom Thieves, they will not let off such an extortion group.

"But...regardless of what the student council president says - doesn't this commission feel like a partner of justice?"

Seeing that Niijima had left, Sakamoto Ryuji finally spoke.

Although he always gave people the impression that he was not very smart, he was frank, straightforward, and outspoken, and he quickly changed his mood.

"Yes, the great villain hidden in the mystery is punished by the mysterious thief - not bad."

Takamaki An's interest was also aroused.

Here we have to mention the difference between Chinese and Japanese sensibilities. Japan has always been popular with a kind of middle school and second-year speaking style. This is because of the tone brought by the creation of the entire Japanese literary and artistic works.

A typical example is the table tennis match. Look at how China broadcasts it, and then look at Japan... "The Empire's Fierce Tiger" and "The Empire's Destroyer Dragon", and even made a hexagonal panel... Obviously, they are bragging about their own athletes, but as a Chinese, Jiang Tianwei got goose bumps when he heard it... But Japan never tires of using such names.

Similarly, now that this strange sensibility is mentioned, the middle school mentality in Gao Juan Xing's bones is also aroused.

On the other hand, Jiang Tianwei felt nothing at all and didn't understand why these people were so excited...

"Indeed, helping people in trouble is our duty. Does this count as a unanimous agreement among all members?"

Kitagawa Yusuke asked, and Jiang Tianwei nodded: "Anyway, I agree. That kind of scumbag really should be taught a lesson."

"Okay, now everyone has agreed. Tomorrow afternoon, everyone will go to Shibuya to look for the target information."

Amamiya Ren made a summary, and everyone raised their fists high and said "oh" to encourage themselves...

If it were a normal anime comic, after everyone cheered each other on, the scene would change to show everyone asking questions on the streets of Shibuya, looking for the bad guy.

However, reality is not artistic creation. Jiang Tianwei had just finished class the next day and was about to go to have lunch with his schoolmate Fangze when suddenly a head popped in from the classroom door.

It was the head of a sweet-looking girl, which was fluffy and soft like sheep's wool, and looked like a baked fluffy cream cake.

Her hair was the same pink as cream, her eyes were like crystal candies, her skin was as smooth and shiny as pudding... her whole head was like a dessert...

Jiang Tianwei saw that she was unfamiliar, and estimated that she was not a first-year student, but a second- or third-year student. She looked a little nervous, with her hands clenched in front of her chest, like a shy little animal looking around the classroom.

(Are you here to look for someone? Well, it has nothing to do with me.)

Jiang Tianwei didn't know this senior schoolmate, nor did he think that he was the kind of human-shaped self-propelled hormone-releasing machine who could easily capture the hearts of girls. He took out the lunch box from his schoolbag and was about to meet Fang Ze Jin at the stairs, while thinking to himself: (Since the two of us are eating at the stairs because we have no friends in the class, wouldn't it be better for us to eat together in the classroom next time?).

Thinking of this, he was about to get up and leave when he saw a busybody approaching the door to talk to him. After a few words, the busybody pointed at him, and the senior student quickly walked towards him...

"ah?".

Jiang Tianwei was stunned: You really are looking for me?! Could it be that my romantic luck is really coming?!

Just when he was thinking about when he could build a super harem group more luxurious than the Forbidden City, the senior girl had already arrived.

"Um, you are classmate Jiang, right?"

She asked a little timidly.

"Yes, it's me?"

Jiang Tianwei responded.

"Well, I'm so sorry. I really caused you trouble before!"

As the senior student said this, she immediately bowed at a ninety-degree angle!

The students who had not yet dispersed all looked over here at the same time. At the same time, irresponsible whispers were heard, most of which were speculations.

The atmosphere in the air had obviously become a little unfavorable to him. Jiang Tianwei quickly picked up the lunch box and grabbed the senior sister's wrist: "This is not a place to talk, let's find a secluded place!"

The lunch time at Shujin Academy is relatively normal, and the most common dining location is the corridor where the classrooms and the canteen are located. It is almost impossible to eat in a picturesque place on campus, as in various ACG works that express Japanese campus culture.

Jiang Tianwei originally wanted to go to the vending machine near the staircase on the first floor, but when he thought about the fact that someone who was chatting here recently was recorded by the student union president, he was scared. But the senior sister had a solution, and she took Jiang Tianwei to the rooftop.

Yes, it was the rooftop that was blocked off due to the Kamoshida incident.

I don’t know why the senior student had the key to the rooftop, but I saw her open the locked door easily and take him to the rooftop.

Because this place is blocked off as everyone knows, there is naturally no one here. In the empty space, there are only me and my senior schoolmate. Around us are piles of old tables and chairs, and a few potted plants that no one knows who is taking care of. The green vines meander along the wooden sticks inserted in the soil, showing a tenacious vitality in the sun.

"Um, I'm sorry for coming here so suddenly. You must be very surprised..."

The senior’s tone was soft and very pleasant to the ear.

"I'm really surprised... Yes, is there something you want to talk to me about?"

Jiang Tianwei didn't have a good impression of this rooftop... Either a loser with a lot of debts jumped off the building, or a group of bad boys swore to be the best, or a mysterious idol group practiced singing and dancing, or someone put someone else's head in a bag and challenged someone on the rooftop, a super exciting battle of hatchets against hatchets...

Anyway, there is nothing related to Jiang Tianwei on the rooftop...

Why do you want me to go to the rooftop?

And why me?

No, before that, who is this senior sister?

As if she saw through Jiang Tianwei's troubles at a glance, the senior student took the initiative to speak: "I'm Okumura Haru from the third year. Um, I'm sorry for giving you bad memories a few days ago!"

The senior student said this and bowed deeply to him again.

Okumura-senpai? I don't remember having any contact with her.

Rather, if something happened between me and such a cute girl, there is no reason why I wouldn't know about it? Did she confuse me with someone else?

"Um, did you confuse me with someone?"

"Huh? Yes, is that so?"

After hearing what Jiang Tianwei said, senior sister Okumura Haru was a little uncertain. She asked tentatively: "Just a few days ago, didn't the first-year students go on a teaching visit... I heard that two students were attacked by antisocial criminals in a store under Okumura Foods..."

“Ah…ah!!!”

Jiang Tianwei finally reacted, and opened his mouth wide: "Could it be, Senior Sister Okumura, you are this Okumura Foods..."

“Yeah…yes…”

Okumura Haru nodded shyly: "This is my father's store... After something like this happened, I feel like I should at least come over and apologize..."

"Oh, Senior, you are too serious. This is not your store's fault, it's that lunatic's fault..."

Although Jiang Tianwei used "that madman" as a pseudonym, he was not referring only to the guy who lost control of his mind and wielded a kitchen knife to chase Fangze and hack at him... Obviously, his mental disorder was different from that of ordinary people... The "madman" in Jiang Tianwei's mouth mainly referred to the mastermind behind the scenes who had unknown purposes and would casually thrust abnormal emotions into ordinary people...

(Although I don’t know who he is from and where, I will definitely not let him go... Speaking of which, can we just ask Baek Jong for help with this kind of thing? He is quite capable as a detective. Oh! By the way, can we also ask her to help investigate the blackmail gang in Shibuya?).

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 160 Going to the rooftop

Senior Okumura Haru is the daughter of Kunikazu Okumura, the president of Okumura Foods.

To make an analogy to China, it is like the daughter of Mr. Ma, the founder of Alipay. She was not only born with a silver spoon in her mouth, but she was born with a mountain of gold in her mouth!

There is a saying that although aristocrats and nouveau riche are equally rich, their temperaments are very different.

Only girls who were born and raised in a privileged environment can have the "princess" temperament of Senior Okumura Haru. Otherwise, without the influence of this family background, it would just be a "princess syndrome" temperament. Although there is only one word difference, it is actually very different.

Originally, Jiang Tianwei didn’t think that this crazy revenge action had anything to do with the Big Universe Burger, and he wasn’t seriously injured, just a cut on his foot, but it’s now scabbed over and doesn’t hurt anymore, and it doesn’t affect his exercise. It’s not like he has a scar on his face, and it’s covered with socks most of the time, so it doesn’t matter.

By the way, in the case of being injured and hospitalized during school activities, the school would reimburse the hospital fees, so Jiang Tianwei had no losses at all. Therefore, watching Senior Okumura apologize repeatedly, Jiang Tianwei felt embarrassed and hurriedly said soft words to comfort her.

Finally, at Okumura-senpai's earnest request, the two exchanged contact information and agreed that if the illness recurred in the future, they would tell her.

I really didn't expect that I would be able to get a senior's cell phone number under such circumstances... However, judging by Jiang Tianwei's personality, this phone number might be the same as the one from Shinjima, and it will never be dialed again until the two meet again.

After saying goodbye to Senior Okumura, there was not much time left for lunch break. Jiang Tianwei could only eat a few bites of lunch quickly, rush to the last class in the afternoon, and then go to find Bai Zhongzhidou to make an appointment...

The house where Baek Jong Naoto lived completely matched the general impression of "pragmatism" and "minimalism". It was a low-rent house with bare walls, and the only furniture inside was a steel pipe and wooden bed, a folding table and a cheap plastic chair.

He was clearly living alone, but there was no sign of life, not even any garbage. This showed how good this young detective was at counter-detection...

"Hmm? Did you meet that wealthy woman on the school rooftop today?"

As soon as they met, Bai Zhongzhidou spoke before Jiang Tianwei spoke.

Sitting in the cheap chair, he fiddled with the laptop on the table, looked up from the screen, and came to this conclusion.

"Are you a person with super powers?!"

Jiang Tianwei was shocked. He was really shocked. How could someone tell who he met today just by looking at him?!

"Just a simple observation. You are wearing a scent of expensive perfume. It is not difficult to guess that you met a woman who can afford this perfume today."

"Good guy..."

Jiang Tianwei raised his arm and sniffed, but he couldn't smell anything at all. He could only give up in disappointment and said to himself, who made him not a detective?

"So, what about the rooftop? How did you know I went to the rooftop?"

"You didn't notice it yourself. Your trouser legs are covered with heavy dust. This means you went to a place with a lot of dust. But your shoes are not covered with dust, which means you changed your shoes. After excluding the possibility that you changed your shoes on purpose to mislead me, the only possibility left is that you went there wearing indoor shoes. And in your school, among the places you can go to wearing indoor shoes, the only place with so much dust is the blocked rooftop."

"As expected of a famous detective!"

Jiang Tianwei gave him a thumbs up, and his admiration for him increased: Look, this is called professionalism.

"I came here today to ask some questions..."

Jiang Tianwei told about the madman he had recently encountered who suddenly changed his mind, as well as the extortion gang in Shibuya.

Although Captain Amemiya called on everyone to go to the streets of Shibuya to look for clues after school today, Jiang Tianwei did not go at all.

The reason is very simple. Even the police couldn't catch the gang, so how could a student like me find out? If a student could find clues but the police couldn't, then the police were useless, right?

Well, professional matters naturally need to be asked to professionals, so Jiang Tianwei ran over to ask the professionals.

"Let's start with a simple conclusion."

As Bai Zhong Zhidou spoke, his eyes were fixed on the computer screen and his hands were rapidly typing on the keyboard, obviously doing some data statistics.

"I don't know any clues about the blackmail gang in Shibuya. After all, it has nothing to do with the case I'm investigating. I don't have any information about them. However, I can give you a general direction..."

"What general direction?".

"They say birds of a feather flock together. You should have your own channels for obtaining information about this type of illegal gang, right?"

"what!".

Jiang Tianwei understood what he meant.

Indeed, this kind of clearly hierarchical gang structure can often be seen in movies and TV dramas.

The lower-level gangs have to pay tribute to the middle-level gangs, and the middle-level gangs have to pay tribute to the upper-level gangs. These gangs, big and small, are like companies, and they treat paying tribute to each other as business transactions. The powerful gangs naturally know other famous gangs in the industry.

Don’t you happen to know a gang?

(I'll ask the Kawahara group if they have any clues.)

"Well, now that we've talked about the simple things, isn't it time to talk about the complicated things?"

Jiang Tianwei asked proactively, Bai Zhongzhidou nodded, and then took his hands away from the keyboard.

"Remember the thing about the cripple we talked about before?"

"Yeah. I can't forget it even if I want to."

"During this period of time, I have compiled a table of all the known cases of people being disabled."

As he spoke, he turned the computer around and let Jiang Tianwei take a look at the data inside.

But, to be honest, the densely packed characters in Excel, numbers, Japanese hiragana kanames, and English letters mixed together, look like visual violence...

"So, can I ask for a summary?"

"Generally speaking, the cripple incidents can be divided into two categories. Before the Phantom Thieves showed up, I couldn't understand why the cripple targets had no commonality. Because I had always considered cripple as the action of a certain person or a certain interest group. However, the appearance of the Phantom Thieves provided me with a completely new perspective. If the cripple murderers were not one group of people, but multiple groups, then everything would be explained."

Bai Zhongzhidou said, and changed a table with a picture to point out Jiang Tianwei: "First of all, these are the results of nearly 80% of the cases, which point to a certain political faction."

The 80% of cases mentioned by Baek Jong-jik-doo, including the previous case of the disabled subway driver, are cases where the legal representative of a large company suddenly has problems, or a politician is found disabled at home, etc. Starting with these cases of disabled people, a certain political group will accuse the corresponding agency of not being responsible...

For example, in the previous incident of the subway driver being disabled, the Land Bureau was strongly condemned by a certain political group, and the people also condemned it unanimously. With the unity of both the top and the bottom, the matter ended with the Minister of Land resigning and being replaced by a new one.

In normal cases, there is a very important factor, which is motive.

Unless the criminal is a pleasure criminal, a conviction criminal or a mentally ill person who commits a random crime, the criminal must have a reason to commit the crime.