Persona: Devil Summoner

Seeing this, Shinjima raised his arms, shouted to boost his morale, and assumed an Aikido fighting stance. Amamiya Lian and Jiang Tianwei understood what she was going to do, and quickly stood in front of Shinjima, one on the left and one on the right, fearing that she would take the initiative to provoke them.

Being surrounded, if someone provokes them, and if so many shadows change at the same time, everyone in the Phantom Thieves will be badly injured even if they don't die.

"Oh my, isn't this Master Kawahara? It's an honor for us to have you here. ~"

Jin Cheng spoke very hypocritically, with a flattering smile on his face and narrowed his eyes. Jiang Tianwei felt as sick as if he had eaten a fly.

"Ouch, so disgusting..."

Long Si also showed a disgusted expression. He couldn't stand Jincheng's domineering behavior, and he also couldn't stand Jincheng's fawning. In short, he looked down on Jincheng.

"Come on, Master Kawahara, please follow me to the VIP reception room. Come on, everyone, please don't be shy."

Jincheng pretended not to hear and enthusiastically invited everyone to go to the VIP room inside the bank. Jiang Tianwei silently put his hand in his pocket, touched his cell phone, and was ready to be called at any time.

It is said that when something is abnormal, there must be something wrong. It is always better to be more careful.

Shinjima probably couldn't accept Jincheng's change at all. Her beautiful eyes were full of confusion. She couldn't understand Jincheng's change. She looked at everyone, and finally saw that everyone was leaving, so she just followed suit.

In the spacious and bright bank hall, two rows of shadow staff lined up neatly to form a path, leading everyone all the way to the VIP area. Jin Cheng walked in front, chatting with Jiang Tianwei.

Although Jiang Tianwei explained his family background, seeing how close these two people are, everyone is still a little suspicious.

As soon as they entered the VIP room, Jincheng immediately asked everyone to sit down. His men immediately brought up a pot of hot tea. Jincheng picked up the teapot and personally served tea to everyone one by one.

"Come on, you have come from afar, please have a cup of hot tea to relieve your fatigue."

Jin Cheng greeted him like this, and Jiang Tianwei waved his hand: "Don't rush to drink tea, we can talk about things first."

"Why are you in such a hurry to talk about things? Let's have some tea first."

He served tea so attentively that not only Jiang Tianwei, but even a simple-minded person like Long Si, who had originally picked up the teacup, put it down again after hearing this.

As we all know, when someone is extremely enthusiastic and insists on giving you benefits, it is usually the beginning of trouble.

Jiang Tianwei smiled and said, "President Jincheng has worked really hard this time. Come, this cup of hot tea, I should treat you."

While saying this, Jiang Tianwei stood up respectfully, put his right hand in his pocket, and handed the teacup to the other party with his left hand.

Jin Cheng waved his hands repeatedly: "This is tea for distinguished guests. It would be a waste if I drink it."

"You don't drink the tea offered by the distinguished guest. Do you look down on me?"

Jiang Tianwei continued to provoke him. Jin Cheng continued: "I have some here, I drink mine."

As he spoke, Jin Cheng picked up his cup on the table and took a sip. Jiang Tianwei continued to push his left hand forward: "I say, President Jin Cheng, why don't you drink the tea I offer you? Could it be that you poisoned the tea?"

"Ahaha, what Master Kawahara said is ridiculous... Who spread these rumors? Who is trying to frame me? Someone must be trying to alienate the relationship between our two families... Wuwuwu, my heart aches..."

As Jin Cheng spoke, he backed away, covering his face with his hands, making a sad expression. However, after taking five or six steps back, Jin Cheng put his hands down, and there was no trace of a smile on his face. Only arrogance remained.

"Huh, you are such a suspicious little master."

As he stopped pretending, there was a bang and the doors opened to the left and right. The shadow staff who had been waiting in the corridor came in one after another and surrounded everyone.

When Jin Cheng saw that his men had arrived, he was no longer intimidated and said, "What an eyesore. He takes advantage of his father's power and authority to bully others. What a disgusting guy."

Now that the relationship has fallen out, Jincheng has also changed his face.

If he were to speak from his heart, he was undoubtedly the person who hated Jiang Tianwei the most in the world.

Because Junya Kaneshiro was always bullied when he was a child because he was ugly and had a slow brain. He couldn't go to school and ended up joining a violent gang. He suffered a lot because he was not smart and had no one to protect him.

It is this past that has created the present Jincheng.

Although he considers himself a banker, his nature is not greedy for money, which can be seen from the fact that he generously took out 3 million to reward his subordinates. He is not a miser. What he desires is essentially [respect] and [status]. Money is just a necessary condition to obtain these two things.

Jiang Tianwei is not only good-looking, but also seems to be very smart. Judging from his physique, he should be good at fighting. He also has a good father. If you want to make a living in this field, you have to give some face to the name Kawahara.

In Jin Cheng's eyes, it was as if the perfect image of his past self that he had longed for appeared before his eyes. How could he not be angry? !

The more I think about it, the angrier I get, and the angrier I get, the more hateful I become.

The previous disguise was just to lull him into a state of complacency and to find an excuse to use him to get promoted.

It’s just that, knowing that in the palace, Jincheng’s shadow is his truest self, he cannot hide his murderous intent.

As Jincheng's men surrounded the place, Jincheng finally breathed a sigh of relief: Although the method of poisoning people did not succeed, fortunately he still had his men. These people were all death warriors. He had given them a lot of money on a daily basis. Now was the time to use them.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 181 Guarding the Four Directions

Negotiation is a word that everyone knows, but it is difficult to judge.

This is because there is a hidden premise in negotiations, which is that the strength of both parties must be basically the same.

Otherwise, if one party is too strong, then the other party is not negotiating, but asking for peace or making concessions.

Moreover, the things that the two sides discuss cannot be too biased. For example, if two countries are evenly matched, and one side says during the negotiation: Please give up resistance and commit suicide. This is not called negotiation, it is called deliberate provocation, which is usually aimed at starting a war.

This is the current situation. Jin Cheng believes that he is in an absolute advantage, so he can finally start [negotiation]. However, the negotiation he mentioned is simply asking everyone to proceed according to the blueprint he has conceived.

Then Jin Cheng smiled and said, "Okay, young master, we can talk now. It really makes me angry. I didn't expect that you are in the same group with these shameless thieves."

"What a shameless thief!"

Gao Juan Xing was not happy when she heard this and refuted it on the spot. Jin Cheng glared and saw the shadows around him tear off their masks at the same time, their bodies turned into a ball of black mud, and then reshaped their bodies...

It is much taller than humans, nearly three meters tall, with a strong muscular body, red skin, sharp fangs, a sharp horn, wearing a Japanese shawl, and holding a mixed iron double-headed sword in his hand. This posture is very famous in this era when legends from all countries can be easily found on the Internet.

ghost.

Or the red devil.

In various Japanese legends, the most common villains, whether it is Momotaro or Sansun Hoshi, are all out to conquer evil spirits. In various stories, if there is no big villain to be found, it is always right to blame the ghost.

Just like everyone's general impression, this type of demon has a strong physique and brute force, and is good at using physical attacks. Now that they are close to the Phantom Thieves, even if the Phantom Thieves are preparing to use long-range or magic attacks, these evil spirits can forcibly withstand a wave of magic damage, approach the opponent, and pull the enemy into the close combat they are good at.

Jincheng's minions reacted quickly, and Jiang Tianwei's reaction was not slow either. He waved his hand, and three strong men with yellow face, green face and purple face stood in the east, west and south. These three strong men held demon-suppressing swords, demon-subduing pestles and judge's pens in their hands, and wore gorgeous Chinese armor. They were intimidating without even being angry, and they exuded a righteous aura that no demons or evil spirits dared to approach.

Jiang Tianwei raised his hand, put on red armor and a spear, occupied the north, and formed a four-sided formation with the other three.

These three are the four well-known heavenly kings in the Buddhist system. The prototypes of the four brothers Ma Liqing, Ma Lishou, Ma Lihai and Ma Lihong in Chinese mythology are these four heavenly kings. In Japan, they are called Virūdhaka, Dhritarāshtra, Vimalakūta and Vaiśravaṇa.

By the way, the Bishamonten worshipped by Kenshin Uesugi, a famous Japanese Warring States general, is just another name for Vaisravana in Japan.

These three heavenly kings, in the Buddhist system, are the guardian gods guarding the four directions. They are specifically designed to restrain these evil spirits. The enemies present are all evil spirits, and they will naturally be frightened by this righteous spirit. Fortunately, Jiang Tianwei has not yet synthesized the Vaisravana, otherwise, if the four heavenly kings came together, these evil spirits would not dare to act rashly even if they had a hundred more courage.

Seeing his men suddenly become cowardly, Jin Cheng became furious, veins on his forehead bulged, and he shouted angrily: "You bunch of losers, are you scared already?! I have kept you in vain!"

Although Jin Cheng was furious, he had worked his way up to the position of the boss step by step. After a few angry curses, he calmed down and was able to talk about things normally: "Young Master, have you ever heard that if you cut off someone's financial resources, the sky will thunder and lightning?"

"I've heard of it."

Jiang Tianwei was not afraid of him and said this calmly.

"Well, young master, do you know how much loss your operation caused me?"

"I don't know. Didn't you give me that box of money?"

"Tsk, that kind of small amount of money is not even worth my attention. Humph, young master, do you really not know, or are you pretending not to know?"

"you guess?".

Jiang Tianwei had a rogue attitude, and Yu Gonglian found the situation very funny. Originally, although Jiang Tianwei was not righteous, Jincheng was definitely evil. But now that the two of them said these words, it gave people the feeling that Jincheng was the defender of the bank's order, and Jiang Tianwei was the unreasonable old man.

"Originally, if I had used the three million as a starting point and controlled these people step by step, my future would have been limitless."

"Mastering a few students means you have unlimited potential? According to your logic, the teachers in the school are definitely the strongest."

Jiang Tianwei was very eloquent and caught Jin Cheng's words easily. Jin Cheng said angrily: "I think you are just talking nonsense to me! Those rough men over there are useless, but that yellow-haired girl can still make money. But how much can she make? What really makes me sad is the student union president!"

Niijima was in the midst of chaos when he suddenly heard someone calling his name. He couldn't help but scream and pointed at himself: "Me?"

"Ah, of course it's you. Hehehe, the active beautiful prosecutor, Miss Niijima Ya's sister... Hehehe, do you know how important you are? If I can control you and force your sister to submit, not only will I get an obedient bed toy, but I will also have my own power in the legal world in the future! Hehehe..."

Jin Cheng said, rolling his eyes at Jiang Tianwei: "What's so great about your Kawahara family? If you hadn't been dependent on that congressman, would you still dream of opening a bank?! Launder your identity?! Become stronger and bigger?! Bah!"

After hearing his words, Jiang Tianwei felt as if this guy was burning with dark flames all over his body, and the endless hatred seemed to be swallowing him up.

Shinjima was stunned when he heard this. It took him a while to react and he said anxiously, "It has nothing to do with my sister!"

"Haha, that's not your decision. I was originally planning to use your sister to force you to come to work in my store... and then, I would wipe out all your self-esteem, secretly sabotage your shift, break two bottles of expensive wine or something, and put you in huge debt. The more you work, the more debt you'll have, and the harder you work, the harder it will be to escape. Hahaha, then you'll have no choice but to drag your sister into the water... What a pity, how infuriating, how annoying! My perfect plan was ruined by you!"

Jin Cheng's anger was directed at Jiang Tianwei without any concealment. Jiang Tianwei did not say anything, but just looked at him with contempt. Just like in gangster movies, although the gangs are undoubtedly evil forces, they can also be divided into different levels. Jin Cheng, this guy, used women to get to the top, which is not good to hear and not to say, it is simply the thinking of a little gangster.

Shinjima's face was full of disbelief when she heard this. A good girl like her would never have thought that someone could have such a vicious heart. She slumped in the chair, rolling her eyes lifelessly and breathing without emotion.

"Jincheng, let me ask you a question. Please answer me honestly."

"You ask."

Jiang Tianwei took a deep breath, looked at Shinjima Makoto again, and asked word by word: "Let's assume that I did not interfere with your plan just now and did not destroy it. Your plan only mentioned that you would use Prosecutor Niijima to take the position. So, what will happen to her sister, Shinjima Makoto?"

"What will happen? What else can I do? As long as she is obedient and patient, I don't mind keeping her here to work in my shop until the sales stop. It's okay. With her looks, she will definitely be able to save enough money to live a life of luxury before that day - haha, provided that I am really so kind as to let her take the money away."

Shinjima grabbed her arms with both hands, shaking weakly. She had never seen such evil before, and now her heart was only trembling...

Jiang Tianwei patted Shinjima's shoulder and said, "He said that. What do you think?"

“…I…I…?!”.

When Niijima was about to answer, he suddenly felt as if something in his heart had broken...

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 182-Awakening

Some people like to compare the human heart to the strings of a musical instrument.

That's why there is the saying "tug at the heartstrings and tighten the strings in the brain".

But we all know that if the strings are stretched too tight, they will break easily...

This is really the case with Niijima now.

At least she started to feel nervous since the principal asked her to take care of Jiang Tianwei.

Then came the Kamoshida incident, which caused her to constantly blame herself.

Also, my sister has been becoming more and more demanding recently because of her work.

The principal keeps putting pressure on himself...

Students constantly ask for help...

As an excellent student, I have to study hard under this pressure to prevent my grades from falling...

"Just be obedient..." "You are a good student! The principal can only rely on you now!" "President... another student asks us for help..."...

Everyone requires himself to be an excellent student who is well-behaved, gentle, perfect and omnipotent.

With the psychological pressure increasing, she had a tendency to lose control, especially when she rushed directly to the Jincheng Bar, which could be called a suicidal act.

Now, under Jiang Tianwei's deliberate leading questioning, as expected, the insulting future plan successfully became the last straw that broke the camel's back for Shinjima.

Jiang Tianwei, who had witnessed the awakening of several people, was very clear about the conditions for awakening. He wanted them to make up their minds and rebel against the unfair reality. Many people just lacked a small pusher...

"Patience? Obedience? Good girl? I won't refute you, so stop talking nonsense, you upstart!"

Shinjima slammed her fist on the table, and there was a cracking sound. The wooden table was left with a fist mark! Not only was Jincheng startled, but the Phantom Thieves were also startled. Takamaki An shrank cutely, looking at Shinjima in shock, and only one sentence came to her mind: the outbursts of honest people are often the most terrifying!

Blue flames wrapped around Shinjima's face. Jiang Tianwei had seen this omen several times.

(As expected, with just a little guidance, I can channel Shinjima's spiritual power. Then, will it also work for other people who are in trouble? ...)

As soon as Jiang Tianwei had this idea, he rejected it immediately: (That won’t work. If people’s hearts are not united, it is likely to lead to the split of the Phantom Thieves. Moreover, people’s hearts are hidden in their stomachs. How do you know that the person who awakens the persona is definitely a good person? What if he is a bad guy, wouldn’t you be causing trouble for yourself in vain?).

And during this period of time when he was thinking, Shinjima Makoto had already recognized his own inner voice.

"Are you finally ready to fight? Then, let's sign the contract... Don't lose the justice you finally found..."

"Oh, I know... You are me! I am you! Blow away all these unpleasant voices! - Joan!"

As Niijima really roared, one could feel a sudden storm in the narrow space that made it impossible for people to open their eyes. In the dazzling blue flames, one could see a handsome motorcycle making a handsome turn, breaking through the blue wind pressure.

Shin Niijima, who was riding on a motorcycle, was wearing a dark blue tight leather jacket, his shoulder pads were covered with spikes, he had a half metal mask on his face, and his short brown hair fluttered in the wind, looking very heroic.

It is worth mentioning that although they are both motorcycles, Jiang Tianwei's motorcycle is not as handsome as Niijima's. His motorcycle is based on the classic Harley motorcycle of that year, but Niijima's motorcycle is completely a fantasy motorcycle of the future, with a streamlined metal shell and a smooth luster. Under the light blue glass on the front of the car is a female face. It is really handsome.

It really proves the saying that if you compare yourself to others, you will die; if you compare goods to others, you will throw them away.

"Huo?! Century-end senior?!"