Tokyo Knights: The Odd Jobs X Files

Upon hearing Zhen Yuanzhai mention demonic and ferocious weapons, Li Xin immediately thought of "Tiger Soul".

Theoretically speaking, "Tiger Soul" is also a "catastrophe of destruction." Just look at the destruction caused by Li Xin's "Devouring Heaven" technique. If "Tiger Soul" falls into the hands of a powerful and treacherous person, its harm will be many times greater than that of "Demon God" and "Black Dragon."

"In short, you don't need to worry about things in the Central Plains, A-Xin. Instead, you should pay attention to the areas surrounding the Central Plains and prevent the 'catastrophe of destruction' in those places from affecting the Central Plains."

Zhen Yuanzhai said to Li Xin.

"Master, rest assured, I know what I'm doing. The enemy of the 'Cataclysm of Annihilation' is all of humanity. Just because it's not the 'Cataclysm of Annihilation' in the Central Plains doesn't mean it's none of my business."

Li Xin made a guarantee to Zhen Yuanzhai.

"I trust you to handle things, Ashin."

Zhen Yuanzhai stroked his beard and said, "Yesterday's 'Black Dragon' matter was handled quite well. I originally wanted to take action, but seeing that you were already fighting, I decided not to steal the limelight from you young people."

When the "Black Dragon" was resurrected yesterday, Zhen Yuanzhai naturally sensed it as well. However, after sensing that Li Xin had intervened to stop it, Zhen Yuanzhai stopped showing himself and instead became an observer, after all, he wanted to give the young man a chance to gain experience.

Four hundred years ago, our ancestors in the Central Plains swept away the "catastrophe of destruction". We, their descendants, should also remember the hardships of our ancestors and strive for self-improvement!

Chapter 685 This melon is awesome!

After leaving Athena Asamiya's house, Li Xin let out a long sigh of relief.

Receiving so much information at once, even Li Xin felt overwhelmed.

Those three peerless masters, Zhen Yuanzhai didn't say what their strength was, but they were definitely near-god level experts without a doubt. Otherwise, how could they have fought against the "Great Calamity of a Thousand Autumns" and the so-called "unprecedentedly powerful enemy"?

Even so, that battle was extremely fierce. Zhen Yuanzhai said that all the martial arts masters in the Central Plains were wiped out, almost to the point of extinction. It was because of this that the Manchu conquest of the Central Plains was so smooth. The damage to the people of the Central Plains was no less than that of the "catastrophe of destruction".

Although the Central Plains has now risen again, the world situation is currently turbulent. Although it seems peaceful, judging from America's various public and private actions that Li Xin has recently witnessed, the world is likely to face more trouble in the future, and the Central Plains will also face new challenges.

Thinking of this, Li Xin understood that he had to become stronger in order to protect his country, otherwise who knows how many filthy things would happen in the Central Plains.

Just as Li Xin was preparing to return to the agency to practice his skills, he suddenly received a phone call from Kagura Chizuru.

"Chizuru, is your injury healed? Do you need me to treat you?"

Li Xin asked Kagura Chizuru.

Yesterday, in order to deal with the "Black Dragon" with all kinds of resistances, Kagura Chizuru had no choice but to use the mirror technique of the Yata Mirror to create a mirror image of the "Black Dragon" to attack the "Black Dragon". Later, the spell was broken and Kagura Chizuru was injured as a result.

"Will you help me heal my wounds...?"

Kagura Chizuru thought for a moment, silently swallowed, but quickly remembered her purpose in finding Li Xin, and said to Li Xin: "Xin, Yagami seemed a little off yesterday. I hope you can go and visit him to see what happened to him."

"Yagami..."

Upon hearing Kagura Chizuru's words, Li Xin recalled that Iori Yagami had indeed acted rather strangely yesterday.

Although Iori Yagami has a bad temper and a twisted personality, he is rarely irritable except when facing Kyo Kusanagi. However, when he fought "Black Dragon" yesterday, he was completely insane, which made Li Xin quite strange.

However, the situation was urgent at the time, and Li Xin didn't have time to ask Iori Yagami what was going on. Now that Chizuru Kagura reminded him, Li Xin finally realized what was happening.

"I understand, I'll go check on Yagami right away."

Li Xin agreed.

Although Iori Yagami is an awkward person, he is very loyal as a friend. In some ways, he is even easier to get along with than Wuji and Xiang Ying.

Therefore, Li Xin would definitely want to know what happened to Iori Yagami.

Kagura Chizuru smiled slightly: "I'll trouble you, Shin. Yagami and I are both heirs of the Three Sacred Treasures families, and I don't want anything to happen to him. However, I don't have much of a relationship with him, and he... well, he's not easy to get along with, so I can only ask you to take a look."

"Why would you ask me to do something like this?"

Li Xin smiled and said.

After hanging up the phone, Li Xin immediately called Iori Yagami to ask where he was.

"Hey, Yagami, where are you? At the hospital?"

Li Xin was stunned for a moment.

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At the University of Tokyo Hospital, Iori Yagami leaned against the wall outside the ward with his head down and hands in his pockets, looking cold and aloof.

Li Xin rushed to the hospital and asked Yagami Iori, "Yagami, what's wrong?"

Iori Yagami raised his head slightly, saw that the person who came was Li Xin, and without saying a word, silently lowered his head again.

Although Iori Yagami was usually a man of few words, the current Iori Yagami was not only silent, but also had an eerie stillness that made Li Xin somewhat worried.

"Yagami..."

Just as Li Xin was about to ask Iori Yagami a question, a short-haired woman came out of the ward and said to Iori Yagami, "Iori, Kikuri is awake, you..."

The short-haired woman saw Li Xin and was curious about his identity, but Iori Yagami said indifferently, "Ignore him."

As he spoke, he walked into the ward and closed the door behind him.

The short-haired woman looked at Li Xin, bowed slightly to him, and said, "I'm sorry, An is not very good at interpersonal communication, but he is not a bad person. Please forgive him."

"It's okay, I'm used to it."

Li Xin smiled, then thought to himself: Take back what I just said, this guy is just as difficult to deal with as Wu Ji and Xiang Ying.

Looking at the short-haired woman, Li Xin asked, "Who is the person in the ward?"

"My younger sister, who is also An's girlfriend, Kikuri."

The short-haired woman replied, then gave a dry laugh: "Sorry, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Konoe Tanima, I'm the lead singer of the band that Iori plays for, and also a friend of his. And you? Are you a friend of Iori's?"

The short-haired woman noticed that Li Xin had just said he was used to Iori Yagami's attitude, which was definitely something only someone who knew Iori Yagami would do.

"That's right, I am indeed Xiao'an's friend."

Li Xin nodded.

"The little nunnery?"

The title made Konoe Tanima pause for a moment, and the corners of his mouth began to tremble—the kind of trembling that he couldn't help but try to suppress but desperately tried to bring up.

"Who are you calling Xiao'an!"

The ward door was pushed open, and Iori Yagami, burning with anger, said, while Li Xin calmly replied, "Hello, Iori."

Iori Yagami's lips twitched, but this was a hospital, and he couldn't just grab Li Xin and beat him up (mainly because he couldn't beat him anyway). He could only snort coldly and say to Li Xin and Taniguchi Konoe, "You two come in."

Li Xin gave Gu Jian Konoe a peace sign before walking into the ward.

The ward was a private room. A pale-faced, long-haired woman leaned against the bed. Seeing Li Xin and Gu Jian Konoe enter, she smiled and said to them, "I think I just heard someone call 'Xiao An'..."

"That's not true!"

Iori Yagami stared at Li Xin with a murderous look in his eyes.

Lee Shin looked back at Yagami with a mocking gaze, but instead of making a sound, he mouthed, "Little Hermitage, Little Hermitage, Little Hermitage..."

As Iori Yagami's eye twitched, almost causing purple flames to burst forth, Li Xin smiled and said to the long-haired woman, "Hello, my name is Xin, and I'm a friend of Yagami."

Hearing Li Xin call him "Yagami," Iori Yagami finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Although Li Xin didn't say anything, the long-haired woman saw all the subtle actions between him and Iori Yagami.

Even the long-haired woman, who was Iori Yagami's girlfriend, had never seen Yagami in such an embarrassed state. She couldn't help but laugh and said to Li Xin, "Hello, O-Shin, my name is Tanima Kikuri, and I am Iori's girlfriend. I'm sorry, I'm not feeling well and don't even have the strength to get out of bed. I can't properly entertain you, so please forgive me."

"It's alright, it's alright. Ms. Kikuri, please get some rest. I'm sorry for disturbing you by coming over without prior notice."

Li Xin shook his head repeatedly.

Iori Yagami rolled his eyes at Li Xin and said to him, "What do you want to talk to me about? Let's go outside."

Li Xin nodded and left the ward with Iori Yagami.

Outside the ward, Iori Yagami leaned against the window, looking out, and said to Li Xin, "What do you want from me?"

Li Xin said to Iori Yagami: "It's nothing, I just remembered that you seemed a bit off yesterday, and I wanted to find out what happened to you."

After a pause, Li Xin asked Iori Yagami, "Is it because of Miss Kikuri?"

Iori Yagami nodded silently, and then told Li Xin about what had happened yesterday.

Although Li Xin and others have done their best to minimize the impact of the "Black Dragon's" resurrection, they still cannot achieve zero casualties.

When the "Black Dragon" was resurrected, its powerful aura radiated throughout the 23 wards of Tokyo. For ordinary people, this aura might only cause palpitations, but for those who were physically weak and had underlying medical conditions, it was no less than a heavy blow.

Iori Yagami's girlfriend, Kikuri Tanima, has been frail and sickly since childhood. Her condition not only did not improve after she grew up, but it became more and more serious, requiring her to be hospitalized for treatment from time to time.

Yesterday, Kikuri Taniguchi was finally feeling a bit better and was talking to Iori Yagami in her hospital room when she was suddenly struck by the dragon's might and fainted. Her condition also worsened, which enraged Iori Yagami, who then recklessly rushed into the battlefield to kill the "Black Dragon."

After hearing Iori Yagami's words, Li Xin felt guilty and said, "Yagami, I'm sorry. It was our lack of consideration that caused Kikuri-san's distress..."

At that time, the "Black Dragon" was hovering high in the sky, and Li Xin and his companions did not have a suitable means to move it (the "Black Dragon" was immune to most spell effects). However, the miasma rain began to fall more and more heavily, and in order to reduce the impact, Li Xin and his companions had no choice but to revive the "Black Dragon" on the spot.

Although it was a last resort, it still caused Kikuri Tani's condition to worsen.

Iori Yagami shook his head slightly: "None of your business. In the end, it's my fault for not protecting my woman."

If he were stronger, he could have sensed the "Black Dragon's" pressure in advance, resisted the pressure to protect Kikumi Tani, and there wouldn't have been so many problems.

Li Xin thought for a moment and said to Iori Yagami, "Yagami, let me go see Miss Kikuri. Perhaps I can cure her."

Iori Yagami hesitated for a moment, but quickly replied, "Whatever you say."

His eyes seemed to convey a lack of expectation towards Li Xin.

Kikuri Tani has a congenital illness, and it's a miracle that she's still alive. She's also been through the impact of the "Black Dragon's" might. Even a professor at the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Medicine Hospital said that Kikuri Tani doesn't have many days left to live. How could Li Xin possibly cure Kikuri Tani?

Li Xin entered the ward and explained the situation to Gu Jianji.

Kikuri Tani knew that there were many extraordinary people in the world who could cure incurable diseases that even modern medicine could not cure, but Kikuri Tani's illness was congenital. Her older sister, Konoe Tani, had also sought out some extraordinary people through connections, spending a lot of money, but without any effect. However, Li Xin meant well, and Kikuri Tani couldn't refuse, so she smiled and said, "Then thank you very much."

Li Xin took the pulse of Tanima Kikuri, wanting to understand her condition. While taking her pulse, he said to Tanima Kikuri, "Miss Kikuri, if I may ask a few questions, how did you and Yagami meet, and how did you become lovers?"

It's not that Li Xin is a gossipy person, it's just... too damn intriguing!

Thank goodness, Li Xin had always thought that a "social terrorist" like Iori Yagami would remain a bachelor for life, but it turns out he actually has a girlfriend, and they seem to have a very deep relationship.

Faced with Li Xin's question, Kikuri Tanima paused for a moment, then smiled happily: "How did Ian and I meet...?"

Kikuri Tani didn't hide anything and recounted her past relationship with Iori Yagami.

It's quite simple. Iori Yagami and Kikuri Tanima's older sister were members of the same band. At that time, Kikuri Tanima wasn't so weak yet, and she often went to see her sister's performances and attended the band's after-show parties. Over time, she became acquainted with Iori Yagami.

"...Although An is not good with words, he is a very gentle person. Knowing that I am not in good health, he has always taken good care of me, and that's how I fell in love with him."

When Kikuri Taniguchi spoke, a deep sense of happiness appeared on her face.

Wait, who the hell are you talking about?!

Li Xin was stunned.

Wait, wait, wait, the Iori you're talking about, is it that Iori Yagami, whose surname is Yagami, given name Iori, nickname Iori, who laughs three times when he encounters an embarrassing situation, and gets angry when he sees a middle-parted haircut guy named Kyo Kusanagi?

So shocked was Li Xin that he forgot to check on Taniguchi Kikuri's condition.

Kikuri Taniguchi's older sister sat on the edge of the bed, listening silently to the love story between Kikuri Taniguchi and Iori Yagami, her eyes filled with complex emotions.

After recounting her past with Iori Yagami, Kiku thought of something and said to Konoe Tani, "Sister, could you please call Iori over for me? I have something to say to him."

Konoe Tanima nodded, then called Iori Yagami, who was outside the ward, in.

"Kikuri, is something the matter?"

Iori Yagami asked.

Just as Gu Jianju was about to say something, she suddenly coughed. She sighed softly, but still said firmly, "An, my time is running out. I had long anticipated my life. I have no regrets if you and my sister can accompany me in the end."

"Shut up, you won't die! I won't allow you to say that!"

Iori Yagami hissed in a low voice.

He could actually sense that Kikuri's life force was getting weaker and weaker. It was a pity that he was already an extraordinary powerhouse, but because of the "Orochi Power", his power was filled with the aura of destruction, devastation and evil, and he could not use it to heal others. Moreover, he was too proud to ask others for help, so he could only watch helplessly as Kikuri became more and more haggard.

Kikuri Tanima smiled, ignoring Iori Yagami's words, and continued, "Iori, can you promise me something?"

"Once you get better, as long as you get better, I'll agree to anything you want, but don't make demands of me in this tone that sounds like a deathbed plea!"

Iori Yagami was very perceptive at that moment and immediately recognized that it was Kikuri Tanima's dying wish.

Kikuri Tanima gave a wry smile, but continued, "Fine then, you don't want to hear what I have to say, sister!"

Konoe Tani, who was pretending not to exist, was startled when Kikuri Tani called her name. She immediately replied, "Kikuri, what is it?"

"After I'm gone, I'll leave An in your care. He's always bad at speaking and his interpersonal relationships are terrible. Please take good care of him."