I'm having fun in Tokyo

Because Herzog is very cowardly and afraid of death, he often uses a double, a "shadow warrior" who looks like him, to impersonate him.

However, "malice" and "determination" are unique; a shadow warrior is merely a person controlled by hypnosis and cannot be faked.

Therefore, Herzog had no way to deceive him using the Shadow Warrior.

Morikawa Yu sneered.

He raised his hand.

In the rest area, Tsurumaru Kuninaga and Mikazuki Munechika suddenly moved, rising from the sword rack and transforming into two streaks of light that flew towards the main game area.

Tsurumaru, who was sleeping on the sofa next to Chizuru, was suddenly awakened.

She sat up, looked at the sword rack where she had placed Tsurumaru Kuninaga, and blinked: "Huh? Where's my place?"

Chizuru put down the game controller and pointed towards the console area.

"Gah~ I guess I was called away by my master?"

Tsurumaru paused for a moment, then looked towards the console area: "Then Master is probably about to fight someone. I'll go check it out!"

She too transformed into a streak of light and chased after it.

In the main game area, Morikawa Yusho, Tsurumaru Kuninaga, and Mikazuki Munechika were draped together at the waist.

He flexed his wrist.

Tsurumaru followed Tsurumaru Kuninaga to the console area, then landed from the air and grabbed Morikawa Yu's arm: "Master, are you going to fight?"

Morikawa Yu nodded.

EVA looked at Morikawa Yu and Tsurumaru, as well as Shinjuku who was listening nearby, and then at Herzog who had just entered the conference room. Her brows furrowed slightly: "You want to kill him right now?"

"To be honest, I don't recommend that you kill him now."

Morikawa Yu turned to look at her: "Why?"

"Because it's difficult for you to take action." EVA sighed. "This is the headquarters of the Snake Clan. It's heavily guarded and densely populated, making it easy to cause a large number of casualties."

"Besides, only you and I know Tachibana Masamune's true identity."

"In the eyes of the Snake-Headed Eight Families, he is the leader and patriarch of the Snake-Headed Eight Families, not Herzog."

“Once you make a move against him, whether or not you succeed in killing him, the Japanese half-bloods will think you are declaring war on them, and Princess Kaguya will sever her connection with me.”

"And most importantly, the girl you care about named Erii is in this conference room."

"She is also a member of the Snake Clan, and one of the heads of the eight clans."

"If you kill him, the 'leader of the Snake Clan,' in front of her, how will she view you?"

Morikawa Yu frowned and looked at Herzog in the conference room again.

He wasn't unaware of what EVA was saying, but he didn't want to let Herzog go.

Herzog is a very cowardly and afraid-of-death person. If he misses this opportunity to kill his real body, he may only see his double in the future.

"Then can you make him reveal his identity?" Morikawa Yu looked at EVA: "EVA, you can do it, right?"

EVA nodded, then shook her head.

“If there is sufficient evidence, I can certainly expose his identity.”

"Moreover, I can take over all the mainframes and computers of the Snake Clan and play this evidence 24 hours a day, exposing him completely."

"But the biggest problem now is that we don't have enough evidence to prove that he is Herzog."

Morikawa Yu: "You didn't find enough evidence just now?"

EVA shook her head: "No."

"Although I tried my best to find evidence to prove that Herzog and Tachibana Masamune are the same person, the chain of evidence that connects the two is not sufficient to prove that they are the same person."

"I believe you, and only because I believe you."

"The Snake Clan will not conclude that their leader was a German who served the former Soviet Union based on this evidence."

"Even if someone has doubts, they will give up their doubts due to his hypocrisy and pretense."

"Of course, much of this evidence may be fabricated by Herzog. As long as we find a breakthrough and investigate further, he will definitely slip up."

"Now... let's listen to what they have to say first, and I'll try my best to analyze his behavioral model for you."

She turned to look at the conference room, where the camera on the main unit was also pointed at the outside world.

......

In the conference room, Herzog walked steadily to the center of the seating area and sat in the very middle seat.

Unaware that someone was watching him and investigating his identity, he remained calm and composed.

The young man who had just followed him in sat to his right, opposite Erii, who was playing a handheld game on her left. The other old man sat in the last empty seat among the heads of the five outer clans.

Herzog began, "Everyone, you should have all received the message I sent you, and know why I'm holding this meeting, right?"

Several heads of families from other clans nodded in agreement.

Young Yuan Zhisheng nodded in agreement.

Erii looked up at him, then lowered her head and placed the handheld console on her lap. She nodded, then picked it up again, as if that was the most important thing.

Herzog frowned slightly, but immediately put on a friendly smile, seemingly unconcerned.

"So, what is everyone's attitude towards the research ship and special envoy sent by the Academy? Has the Academy said what they actually want to do?"

“No.” The middle-aged woman, Sakurai Nanami, shook her head.

"The academy headquarters only said that they were going to explore the dragon embryos in the trench, without saying what their real intentions were."

"Hmph, do we even need to guess what those people at the academy are thinking?" The last old man to enter spoke up: "With that old geezer around, they're definitely thinking about getting rid of the dragon embryos in the trench. There's absolutely no other possibility."

"That's going to be difficult." Ryoma Genichiro sighed.

"I don't know why there's a dragon embryo's heartbeat in Takamagahara, or who uploaded the recording online and had it found by the academy's temporary server. It's really a headache..."

Sen Chuanyu watched them having a private conversation in the conference room and roughly understood the current situation.

Like the Academy, the Snake Clan did not know who released the audio recording of the dragon embryo's heartbeat, and they were worried about the Academy's arrival.

This intuition tells you they aren't lying.

"Morikawa, I've discovered a problem."

Suddenly, EVA spoke up: "I just reviewed the traffic surveillance footage in Tokyo and found that Herzog frequently goes to a certain place, and he always takes a detour to get there, never repeating the same route."

"If I hadn't used big data analysis to find the intersection of these routes, I wouldn't have been able to discover this place."

"It's not within the overt sphere of influence of the Snake Clan. Would you be interested in taking a look?"

Morikawa Yu paused for a moment, then suddenly realized that what EVA had found was very likely Herzog's secret base, containing Herzog's collection and research materials on dragons.

Having these collections and documents would essentially prove Herzog's identity.

"I knew you were reliable, EVA." Morikawa Yu nodded: "Take me there."

EVA: "The address has been sent to your phone."

Morikawa Yu picked up her phone and glanced at it.

He patted Tsurumaru on the shoulder: "Tsurumaru, take Shinkaku back."

Tsurumaru pouted: "Okay."

She turned around and walked to Xinjue's side, took Xinjue's hand, and headed towards the living area.

Morikawa Yu used Swift Step, blending into the wind to enter stealth mode, leaving the Goshuin-cho space and appearing in the conference room. He quickly walked to the door, activated [Flash], and arrived outside the conference room.

But what he didn't notice was that the moment he appeared, Erii looked up at the spot where he had left the Goshuincho space, her eyes filled with confusion.

"What's wrong, Erii?" Herzog looked at her.

Yuan Zhisheng was also looking at her.

Erii shook her head, but did not speak.

She felt a slight ripple in the air, but she didn't see anything and didn't know if it was just her imagination.

Sakurai Nanami said, "Eri might not be feeling well. I just heard her cough once, and her complexion looked a little off, so I called the nurse who was taking care of her."

"Now these nurses should be here too."

Young man Genji suddenly spoke up: "Then let these nurses take Erii back."

He looked at Erii with concern.

Erii hesitated for a moment, then obediently nodded.

......

In the high-rise corridor, at the elevator entrance, Morikawa Yu stopped.

EVA: "What's wrong?"

Morikawa Yu hesitated for a moment, then asked in a low voice, "Eri...where does she live? Before we go looking for clues, I want to go and see where she lives."

EVA sighed: "Fine, I knew you'd make this request sooner or later."

"I've also sent the address of where she lives to your phone, take a look."

"Yes." Morikawa Yu nodded.

He took out his phone, glanced at the route, and turned back the way he came.

A little over a minute later, Morikawa Yu arrived at the floor marked by EVA, bypassed one passage after another, and finally came to a long corridor.

The corridor has many thick doors.

Each door was cast from hard black metal, and the walls were covered with signs for "dangerous areas" and "no entry"; even the passageways were made of thick alloy.

Every time he walked forward a certain distance, EVA would open a door for him.

The further he walked, the more spacious the corridor became, until finally, there was a white metal door, the kind with rounded corners and an airtight door, with a faint white light shining through the glass window on the door.

The door wasn't closed, and there were people inside—several doctors in white coats, sitting at a table, talking in hushed tones.

Morikawa Yu walked past them and looked at the walls around him. The walls were all white, with various pipes and large pieces of machinery running along them.

From the simplest oxygen tanks and electrocardiographs to blood filtration carts, cardiopulmonary resuscitation machines, high-pressure embolization pumps, and cardiac shock carts—things most people would never even imagine…

The intensive care unit is fully equipped with all the necessary equipment, including large medical equipment worth millions of dollars such as MRI machines, angiography X-ray machines, and linear accelerators.

At the very end of the room was a door even thicker than the white metal door.

It looks like a vault door used in a bank vault, with indicator lights to show the access control status and twelve safety bolts.

EVA couldn't open the door for him.

If this door were opened, it would certainly alert the doctor and nurses in this room.

But his Flash ability was already off cooldown.

Although he didn't know how thick the door was, he could try using [Flash]. If he could get through, he would; if not, he would figure out another way.

He used Blink again, and the vault door in front of him vanished instantly, changing the surrounding scenery.

We succeeded; we made it through.

He turned his head and looked around, and found that he was walking on a wooden walkway with sliding doors on both sides. Candles were lit behind the sliding doors, and the scent of sandalwood wafted from somewhere.

He walked along the path, came to the end of the path, and pushed open the door of the path.

Behind the door is a Japanese-style room with tatami mats on the floor and plain white walls with few decorations, except for three statues hanging on the walls: Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, and Susanoo.

Amaterasu stands amidst countless rays of sunlight, holding the Yasakani no Magatama; Tsukuyomi stands beneath a dark, full moon, holding the Yata no Kagami; Susanoo is a male god, appearing as a youth, holding the ultimate divine sword in Japanese mythology, "Ama-no-Kumara".

Apart from these three statues, there were no other decorations or furniture in the living room, only a closet with shrine maiden costumes neatly hanging inside.

Morikawa Yu: "Is this where Erii lives?"

EVA: "Yes."

Morikawa Yu sighed.

He recalled what he had seen along the way and realized that the "living area" that EVA had mentioned was actually more like a hospital.

At the far end of the hospital was a desolate room.

Thinking of Erii's appearance just over ten minutes ago, wanting to run away from home but not knowing where to go, walking alone in the building's corridor, he couldn't help but sigh.