Tokyo, but I'm a deceitful fox

It's fine if you come up and give me some orders, but why do you sit down and eat the lunch box I bought for you like a master? Are you the legendary sly ghost?

Because I saw this shameless person, the feeling of shame I had just now disappeared!

Did she make a mistake by letting this guy in?

Ichichi Kikuri's mouth twitched, and her throat was no longer blocked:

"Um, please..."

"Oh, sorry, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Ijichi Naruto." Hoshino Hideyuki swallowed the chicken in his mouth and handed over a business card.

"Hey, your last name is also Ichichi..."

Ijichi Kikuri took the business card, but immediately noticed that the words on it were crooked - it was clearly written by hand.

“…Is this fake?”

"Ahahaha, I've been discovered. What can I do? Exchanging real names on our first meeting is going too fast. I can't do that because I'm an introvert and quiet person."

"?"

Do you have anything to do with the word "social phobia"?

Besides, normal people would use their real names, right?

"You were thinking, 'Any normal person would use their real name, right?'"

Hoshino Hideyuki narrowed his eyes and smiled: "Then you guessed right, I am indeed not a normal person."

Strictly speaking, they are not human.

Ijichi Kikuri's head was already buzzing: "Then may I ask who you are..."

"Like Kayaba Nobuyuki, I am also a fraudster."

Hoshino Hideyuki's expression was calm, as if he was saying that it was normal for him to have facehugger sashimi for breakfast:

"However, my target is not your money, but that Kayaba Nobuyuki's, so I want to cooperate with you and take him down together! Afterwards, I will take the lion's share, and you can get back the 1505 million yen, and we will have a fairy-tale happy ending~"

well.

Now Ichichi Kiuri's head stopped buzzing.

It fried up nice and crispy.

Is this behavior also a crime?

What do you mean by cooperation? It's clearly making me an accomplice!

Damn it, I shouldn’t have let this person in!

When I contacted the police before, although they didn't help much, they also warned me that the information might be leaked, which would lead to more fraudsters targeting me. This guy is a typical example, right?

Otherwise, just use this bat to hit a full-on skull home run and drive him out!

"I feel much more energetic all of a sudden."

Looking at the beauty raising the baseball bat, Hoshino Hideyuki slowly picked up another bite of chicken.

"But Miss Ijichi, please think about it before you act. In addition to cooperating with me, do you have any other way to get through this difficult situation?"

"Besides, if you really hit me, I would immediately roll over on the ground and scream, attracting all the neighbors to watch, and then extort a lot of money from you for medical expenses."

Ijichi Kikuri froze in her tracks.

After a moment, she put down her bat and sat down dejectedly across from the dining table.

"No matter what you want to cheat me of, I have nothing left. Please leave now."

"Having nothing is just your illusion. The loan sharks don't think so. They have plenty of ways to squeeze value out of you, and it will undoubtedly implicate your relatives and friends. As an adult, you have heard of this kind of thing, right?"

"..."

"So, Ms. Ijichi, you don't want those bad things to become reality, right?"

"...How can you, a fraudster, be any better than them?"

"How do you know if you don't try? My cooperation is actually very simple, and you can terminate it at any time."

Hoshino Hideyuki finally finished his lunch box.

He put away his lunch box and chopsticks and gave a kind smile to Ijichi Kikuri who was sitting opposite him.

"First, tell me how Kayaba Nobuyuki lied to you~"

Looking at the smile on the handsome young man's face, Ijichi Kikuri's heartbeat suddenly quickened for some reason.

Ah, this world is so absurd, so stupid...

do my best!

She turned around and took out another can of wine from the refrigerator, drinking it in one gulp. Then with a snap, she sat down across the dining table with great effort, like a Space Marine airdrop chamber.

"I'll tell you everything I know!"

Thanks for your cooperation.

But do you need to drink alcohol to give yourself courage?

But anyway, the cooperation has finally begun.

Kikuri Ijichi told Hideyuki Hoshino the whole process of how she was deceived.

At first, I just saw an advertisement online and went to a free lecture.

I somehow felt that the quality was good, so I spent a little money to order a short course.

After class, she had a meal with several young people who came with her. They had taken more classes and gave her their evaluation of different courses, telling her which ones to choose and which ones to avoid.

Following these people's advice, I spent more money to sign up for more courses and bought more textbooks.

The course came with group activities, and I went to some very high-end parties with Kayaba Nobuyuki, where I met many people who were said to be elites in the industry.

Although his initial intention was just to open a small exhibition hall, his ambitions gradually expanded and he wanted to start a record company.

Therefore, I signed up for more courses, bought more expensive textbooks, and paid for participation in various activities...

"That's about it... I just don't understand..."

"It's not inexplicable, but I fell into a carefully designed trap."

Hoshino Hideyuki crossed his hands and held them horizontally in front of his eyes, posing the classic Commander Ikari pose:

"Those young people who took the course with you were probably agents. They said both good and bad things about you when they were evaluating the course for you, which would make you let down your guard."

"The high-end group activities are also fake. Photography companies are generally struggling to operate now, and renting venues and luxury cars doesn't cost much."

"People in the industry are most likely actors. Third-rate agencies have cheap manpower that is not famous. If you go to the agency's website and look at the employee introductions, you will definitely find someone familiar."

Actually, is this actually the case?

I was so stupid not to notice this...

Ijichi Kikuri once again lowered her head in regret and shame.

Hoshino Hideyuki picked up the pile of textbooks next to the table.

After turning a few pages, the fox couldn't help but show his teeth.

I saw the words above began to move one by one!

The flat katakana is like a wild animal, swinging its body made of strokes and running around on the paper...

The complex Chinese characters began to hunt them down, and the radicals and dot, stroke, horizontal stroke and hook became weapons to knock down and tear the kana into pieces...

The fox blinked to make sure he was seeing correctly.

really.

There is something weird!

Chapter 7 The fox has good eyesight

Hoshino Hideyuki felt like he was watching a text version of Animal World.

The large characters prey on the small kana, and then continue to incorporate their strokes into their bodies. If they cannot find a small kana, they will hug together with an equal number of characters next to them and do what everyone likes to do in spring, until the ink blends and the two characters become one.

Gradually, the words on the paper became fewer and fewer, and more and more bloated, from the original complex traditional Chinese characters to a black mass, with dots, horizontal strokes, and hooks stacked up densely like tentacles.

When there were only a few words left on the page, they struggled, broke through the two-dimensional limitations, twisted their bodies and pounced towards Hoshino Hideyuki's face.

At the same time, strange words echoed in his ears:

"These courses are great, I'm buying more!"

“It doesn’t matter if you spend a little money, as long as you succeed in the end, it’s worth it even if you lose everything!”

collapse!

In a flash, Hoshino Hideyuki used his right index finger and thumb to give the words a friendly head-bang.

Pia made a chirping sound and flicked them back onto the paper.

It's so funny, what's your level? You want to use illusion to brainwash a fox?

Tentacles, right? Twisted, right? COS Cthulhu, right? Go back to the second dimension.

But there is one thing to say.

This hypnosis method is quite ingenious, and it is something that this fox doesn't know - the level 2 flower viewing in the mirror must be used face to face, and it cannot be operated remotely.

If that guy did this to every textbook he sold, it would be really impressive.

Hoshino Hideyuki buried his head in the pages and sniffed them carefully.

With the help of the fox's canine nose, he could just about smell a faint scent of blood.

So that's how it is. The printing ink is mixed with blood, so it can draw spiritual energy...

Let me look at the details...

“Is there something wrong with this book?”

Next to her, Kikuri Ijichi watched Hoshino Hideyuki busying around and finally couldn't help asking.

"Um...you can't see it can you?"

"What did you see?" Ijichi Kikuri tilted her head in confusion, but then narrowed her eyes and said:

“I did tend to get a headache while reading this book, though.”

"It's great that you have this kind of sensitivity. You are worthy of being the only one who chose to call the police."

"What's the meaning……"

"nothing."

Hoshino Hideyuki closed the book:

"Thank you for your cooperation. That's pretty much all I want to know. If possible, I'll take these textbooks back and study them."

"Whatever you say, I never want to see this stuff again."

Ichichi Kiuri paused, then asked, "Are you...sure of success?"

"more or less."

Hoshino Hideyuki answered casually.

Ijichi Kikuri breathed a sigh of relief.

Although she felt that trusting another fraudster was a stupid thing to do.

but……

It's better than having no hope at all.

Thinking of this, she laughed at herself.

“…You don’t need to be too hard on yourself.”

"what?"

Ijichi Kikuri looked up and found that Hoshino Hideyuki was looking at her with a very serious look.

The frivolous banter that had characterized their meeting was completely gone.