I was the fourth disaster in Yokohama and was loved by everyone.

B. Not joining

Hey ho, the "faction" module is finally activated! This update has quite a lot of content.

Zhu Yu was somewhat tempted, but...

Chuuya hates the mafia so much, how could the player betray their good friend Chuuya (very loudly)? Of course, they should stand with him through thick and thin.

Besides... since Zhongye has already refused their recruitment, wouldn't it make the players seem like they're just giving away their positions for free if they still try to recruit them?

Zhu Yu, brimming with anger, pressed down on B forcefully.

"No, I won't go either." That's right, her reason was perfectly valid.

Seeing her refuse, Chuuya finally felt relieved, and even his breathing became much smoother. Hearing her specifically mention that it was because of him, his chest felt warm as if it had been warmed by the sun, but a thin blush appeared on his face because of her straightforward words.

Wh...what is this? You always say things like that. For a moment, he didn't dare to meet her eyes.

"Ms. Kawakami, although you have refused now, the Port Mafia will always have a place for you." Mori Ougai smiled, showing no annoyance whatsoever.

Mori Ougai had anticipated this, and his rejection was handled with great grace. If Zhu Yu had readily agreed, he would have suspected her motives.

This mysterious girl, known as "Kawakami Socks," has risen to fame in recent days. While sweeping through various organizations in Yokohama alongside Chuuya Nakahara, she displayed powerful supernatural abilities. These abilities not only intimidated the organizations but also prompted them to try to uncover her identity.

The sudden appearance of a powerful ability user who is not yet affiliated with any organization is like a hot commodity, making all the major organizations extremely envious and eager to recruit him immediately.

Of course, if we can't recruit them, we must never let hostile organizations get them!

However, this girl was inseparable from the "King of Sheep," and the people they sent out never had a chance to speak to her alone.

They wanted to use her "weakness" to threaten others, but because they couldn't find out her identity, they had no way of knowing what her "weakness" actually was.

Mori Ōgai was one of those who wanted to recruit her.

His calculations were meticulous: Kawakami Socks' social connections were unknown, and the only connection he could find was with Nakahara Chuuya. Currently, the only way to recruit her openly was through Nakahara Chuuya.

Although Chuuya Nakahara refuses to join the Port Mafia at this moment, he will definitely join obediently in his future plans. At the same time, another "diamond" will be added to his collection as a bonus.

Thinking about such a good thing happening, Mori Ougai's lips unconsciously curled up, and he lightly tapped his chin with his fingertips, as if counting down to the upcoming future.

The future "sheep into the tiger's den" himself—Nakahara Chuuya—suddenly shivered for some reason.

Upon seeing Mori Ougai's expression, Dazai Osamu knew: Ah~ Dr. Mori is scheming against someone again. This time, it's probably this little dwarf, and of course, that Miss Kawakami Socks too. Poor thing, to have Dr. Mori set his sights on her.

He was relaxed and appreciated their "naive" appearance, as if they knew nothing about him.

Soon, Mori Ōgai continued his conversation with Nakahara Chūya.

The game's perspective cuts the two characters into the same frame, creating a perfect composition. Coupled with the dim indoor lighting, the atmosphere is incredibly immersive. If you ignore the speech bubbles constantly popping up above their heads, it's practically a movie set.

This is clearly a key plot point.

To avoid missing important plot points, Zhu Yu patiently listened to the NPC dialogues, which was quite unusual for her.

Mori Ougai stated that both sides needed to cooperate to investigate the resurrection of the "former leader." During this time, when faced with Chuuya's questioning, he even went so far as to reveal that he was the one who killed the former leader.

Zhu Yu, munching on potato chips off-screen: (chewing) Is this something I can say? (continues chewing)

Upon suddenly hearing the Port Mafia's secrets, Chuuya Nakahara was clearly not as composed as Zhu Yu, and stood there stunned.

"Chuuya, you still need to practice more." Zhu Yu ruthlessly mocked Chuuya when she noticed the mood bubble above his head starting to sweat.

"You, how can you be so calm!" Zhong was also provoked by Zhu Yu's "indifferent face". This was a secret of the Hong Kong Triads. It was very dangerous for them, as non-members of the Hong Kong Triads, to know this. Of course, he actually felt that what was more dangerous was that the leader of the Hong Kong Triads had just said it so bluntly.

Isn't he afraid of someone telling the truth?

"It's not a big deal. If the previous generation couldn't do it, it's not a problem to replace them." Zhu Yu, who had just listened carefully, didn't think there was anything wrong with it. "The capable should be in charge, and the incompetent should be removed."

Mori Ougai paused slightly, a barely perceptible glint flashing in his eyes, like a ripple on a deep pool, gone in an instant.

"I never expected to gain Miss Kawakami's approval. It is truly my honor." The corners of his mouth turned up slightly, revealing a meaningful smile that was neither overly enthusiastic nor cold and distant, exuding the ease and composure of an adult.

“We want to investigate the resurrection of the previous leader, and you want to investigate Arahabaki. These two incidents are actually related. Chuuya-kun, Kawakami-san, since we have the same goal, we should cooperate even more.”

Without a second thought, Chuuya replied, "What if we refuse?"

Mori Ougai calmly released a distress call from a member of the "Sheep" group.

In the recording, they cried out for Chuuya to come and save them.

Chuuya's face immediately darkened. With the "Sheep" members in the other party's hands, it seemed that he had no choice but to cooperate with them.

Although reluctant, Chuuya still agreed with a sour face.

After reaching a cooperation agreement, the two sides exchanged information, with bubbles constantly rising above their heads.

[Beep! Main Quest: Resurrection of the Former Boss and Wild Tyrant's Spit (In Progress)]

[Attention players: NPC Osamu Dazai has joined your party.]

Oh ho, so the next part is the three of us going through the main story together, right?

Yay! Let's go!

Zhu Yu immediately manipulated the little man to run towards the door.

"Hey...where are you going?" Chuuya quickly grabbed the person.

How could he disappear without a trace in the blink of an eye!

Chuuya Nakahara had a sudden, sharp headache.

"Didn't you say you were going to investigate? Why aren't you leaving yet?" Zhu Yu circled around him a few times, urging him to hurry up with her actions.

Belatedly realizing that Dazai Osamu was now her teammate, she ran over to Dazai Osamu and circled around him a few times, saying, "Let's go, let's go!"

She dragged them away like ducks being herded...

Dazai Osamu: ...That's a familiar gorilla-like strength.

Mori Ougai originally wanted to say a few more words to explain things to the two of them, but Zhu Yu's sudden action shattered the atmosphere of the conversation he had carefully created.

"What an impatient young lady..." He watched the three people disappear from sight, feeling quite pleased. "Ah, three dazzling diamonds indeed."

*

Zhu Yu regrets it, she really regrets it.

Chapter 29 I really want to physically mute it.

Is it too late to kick them both out of the team now?

Nobody said that Chuuya and Dazai, these two NPCs, would be so noisy when they are put together!

"You should at least tell us where you're going!" Chuuya snapped.

Dazai replied irritably, "Hey~ no, please don't talk to me, I'm busy breathing."

"You despicable suicide bomber, I'm going to break your neck!"

............

Similar conversations have happened many times. Even if Zhu Yu doesn't want to listen and turns off the sound, bubbles will still keep rising above their heads.

Noise pollution has turned into visual pollution.

Thank goodness, just as Zhu Yu was about to physically silence his two companions, an enemy appeared menacingly, pointing a gun at them.

The newcomer was well-equipped and began to mock the three of them.

Hey, red name!

Zhu Yu's eyes lit up.

Not liking this nagging NPC, she activated her special ability and lashed him against the wall with a vine before he could react.

After the dust settled, all that could be seen was his entire body embedded deep in the wall, with bloodstains at the corner of his mouth.

The entire process took no more than ten seconds; the person went from "entering" to "exiting."

"I didn't expect Ms. Kawakami to act so decisively. I thought only a shorty like Chuuya would rush in without thinking." Dazai Osamu lightly jumped over the pebbles on the ground, approached the man, and found a walkie-talkie on him. "Luckily, the walkie-talkie wasn't broken."

He looked down and operated the walkie-talkie for a moment: "Done!"

"Huh? What are you saying?!" Chuuya was indignant at being caught in the crossfire for no reason.

"The intelligence has been delivered to our door." He gripped the walkie-talkie. "This guy is from the GSS. A squad will be coming to rescue him in a bit."

"He should still be breathing. You can ask him anything as soon as possible." Dazai reached out and checked his breath, finding that the man was quite resilient, still alive after being hit like that.

Dazai lowered his eyes, recalling the battle between Hirotsu Ryūrō and Zhu Yu: If old man Hirotsu had been hit by this Kawakami-san's supernatural ability back then, the outcome would probably be hard to say...

With such offensive power, it's no wonder Dr. Mori wanted to recruit him.

He glanced at Zhu Yu discreetly a few times.

Dazai touched her hair when she wasn't looking, but the invisible "blurriness" on her face was still there.

He initially speculated that this was a "blurred face" type of ability she had other ability users apply, but "No Longer Human" was not eliminated, so was that not the effect of an ability?

Another enigmatic figure, with the same perplexing thought process and an unknown origin. What kind of connection exists between [Umekawa Kuko] and [Kawakami Socks]?

Dazai wanted to think about it more carefully, but found that his thinking was blocked.

Wow~ Her "consciousness blurring" technique, which even works on an "anti-superpowered" person like him, must have quite an impressive background.

But this is precisely what led him to believe that there was a connection between them.

Of course, we still need to observe more closely.

Dazai smiled and said to Zhu Yu, "I'll have to trouble Miss Kawakami to help later."

Zhu Yu blinked and nodded.

Don't worry, the players will protect this fragile NPC.

The moment she nodded, a large group of armed, red-named NPCs surrounded them.

One of them aimed at them and shouted nervously, "Quick, that shorty is Nakahara Chuuya, who can manipulate gravity; the other kid is Kawakami Socks, who can manipulate plants."

Chuuya: Huh? Shorty?

Zhu Yu: Kid?!

The two were unusually angry.

Zhongye's body glowed red, his face as gloomy as the sky before a storm. He turned to Zhu Yu and said, "The usual rule." Half for each of them.

Zhu Yu understood.

They used to divide the spoils this way when they teamed up to take down various organizations; it was incredibly efficient.

Coincidentally, the area where they were located had a large amount of greenery.

[Special Ability - The Lost Garden]

The once quiet plants, like ancient beasts awakened, proclaimed their existence with astonishing growth, their slender branches rapidly expanding into thick trunks.

The blades have transformed into sharp razor blades, slicing the incoming bullets in half and continuing to fire at the surrounding enemies.

"Ah!" Screams of agony rang out as blood splattered and the enemy fell heavily to the ground.

Of course, Zhu Yu also manipulated the trees, using their thick trunks to block Dazai Osamu.

Bullets are flying everywhere now, it's very dangerous.

It was a one-sided battle; within a few breaths, the enemy was completely rendered incapable of fighting.

Chuuya's situation was completely resolved, and he walked over with his hands in his pockets.

Ever since he witnessed Zhu Yu's skills, he had been quite impressed with her abilities. They were just a bunch of small fry; she could wipe them out with a wave of her hand.

"Did you leave them with a breath this time?" Chuuya asked.

"Hmm." Anyway, if no one comes to save them, leaving them barely alive is no different from killing them outright.

"Why didn't Ms. Kawakami just kill them? It's cruel to let them slowly die in the pain of blood loss." Dazai's gaze swept over the group of enemies on the ground who were groaning in pain from time to time.

I want to be free, but I can't...

She was asked this question as well, but her answer remained the same: "No."

"You don't want to kill?"

"More or less," Zhu Yu replied vaguely, after all, there were many factors involved.