Zongman, working as a teaching assistant in Trasen

Chapter 379 Wishes

Generally speaking, young experimental subjects who have been trained since childhood will be instilled with certain learning knowledge and social common sense as needed, so that they will not appear too abrupt when they are sent out on missions in the future.

After all, if a group of agents carrying out an infiltration mission kill and burn people over a disagreement, and attack and injure anyone they dislike, then it can no longer be considered an infiltration...

However, each organization's methods and tendencies in teaching social knowledge vary due to its own interests and styles: for example, in a region where all women are required to wear veils when going out, young members are often brainwashed and indoctrinated with hatred, while maintaining only the minimum needs for social interaction.

For example, Uozuka Saburo and Gin either train experimental subjects that will never appear in the outside world, or train cutting-edge talents who can perfectly handle all occasions and all tasks. The former basically does not learn social common sense, while the latter has an aristocratic education comparable to the world's top.

In Uozuka Saburo's opinion, the young man before him embodied something of the all-rounded education they had organized—he would proactively respond to inquiries from others and wasn't shy about engaging with others. Furthermore, his behavior was very consistent with that of someone his age.

You have to know that as a large economy ranked among the top in the world, a modern international city like Tokyo is not like some small African countries where you can just spend a little money to get an illegal ID and go wherever you want. The police will approach and question any suspicious person they see on the road, especially minors.

But a teenager like him who was obviously not a native Japanese, did not even cause any disturbance on the way from Tokyo to here. He arrived at the destination by means of transportation very "normally" and even stayed in an inconspicuous hotel... This at least shows that he fully understands the social rules of normal people and is good at disguising and using the rules.

The most important thing is: he has a very popular view of good and evil, and seems to be very willing to abide by it from the bottom of his heart?

This is a very rare situation.

You know...there are quite a few crazy antisocial people in Uozuka Saburo's organization. They usually act like grumpy adults with an unfortunate childhood on the streets, not to mention how they would react when they meet strangers who obviously have ulterior motives - he was able to hold back by not shooting on the spot!

But from the moment he started talking to the other party to the moment he brought her to this small hall for a big meal, Uozuka Saburo didn't notice any action from him other than being on guard?

Instead, he always seemed very polite, and the occasional flicker of emotion on his expressionless face was no different from that of a young man who was truly feeling guilty...

This is very wrong. Saburo Uozuka has never seen such a "normal" experimental boy since he was born - unless this is still his disguise.

He now wants to continue to exert pressure to see where the bottom line of this disguise is, and then implement corresponding countermeasures accordingly.

Facing Uozuka Saburo's threat which was not a threat, the young man who called himself Rikka Yuta shuddered at first, as if he was trying hard to suppress some emotion, then he lowered his head with a somewhat deflated look and stayed in his seat silently.

"...Please, please...don't tell anyone about my being here..."

"Why? You have to give a reasonable reason, right?"

Uozuka Saburo continued to pressure her verbally, but he didn't increase the physical pressure. Instead, he said casually, "Domestic violence, your guardian committing a crime and you saw them, they're hiding because they committed a crime, or they stole something valuable and are wanted. Any of these can be true. Just give me an explanation."

"...No, I just...can't say."

...Huh? It's not a lie, but a direct answer. Can't I just say it?

Normally, wouldn't a casual lie, to reassure a kind stranger, or even try to gain my sympathy, be a good strategy to get me to stay? By not revealing anything and simply saying "I can't say," wouldn't that only arouse suspicion?

"...Well, since you don't want to tell me your origins, you can at least tell me why you're here, right?"

He lifted his other leg, placed both arms on the table, and stared directly into his eyes. "Convince me," he said. "Give us a promise that you won't do anything bad here that would harm us, or even if you do, you won't implicate us. What's your purpose, please?"

"...I, I'm here to fulfill people's wishes."

"..."

"..."

"......desire?"

"Yes."

Suddenly, the boy in the baseball cap looked up, his gray eyes meeting Uozuka Saburo's menacing gaze. He said firmly, "Lie on the roof all day and watch the clouds; wipe my butt once with a soft napkin; make a purchase at a convenience store with a ten-thousand-yuan bill; listen to the latest album at a music store... There are 379 wishes in total. I've already fulfilled 188 of them, and there are still... 191 more that I want to fulfill here."

"...Are those wishes all your own?"

"Um...about 10 or so, yes."

"..."

“““““…???””””””

What the hell is going on? Can wishes belong to other people?

And... wiping your butt with toilet paper, can this be called a wish?

The horse girls hiding outside the small restaurant looked at each other, feeling confused for a moment. However, they didn't notice that the two men beside them suddenly became serious. Their eyes subconsciously met, and they saw the same thoughts in each other's eyes:

This boy...is of the same kind as them...

Wishes are usually a person's fantasy and longing for something that is out of reach, which creates expectations in one's heart and gives rise to the motivation to keep moving forward in order to achieve those expectations.

But for some, the purpose of fulfilling a wish isn't just to please themselves...it might also be to honor the deceased.

Kaku Yagami, Kazuma Kiryu, and Saburo Uozuka are all "survivors" who crawled out of the pile of dead bodies. In their lives over the years, they have witnessed too many lives passed away, and the living who carry the visions of the dead for their lives.

Chapter 247: Same Kind (Part 1)

It was an obsession that went beyond ordinary friendship, enough to transcend life and death and overshadow all important things in the world of the living.

379 wishes...all so nonsensical, so "humble" in the eyes of ordinary people, it is impossible to imagine what kind of environment their owners must have lived in to make such wishes.

Among the people present, perhaps only Kaku Yagami, who returned alive from the battlefield, could understand this feeling. Even Saburo Uozuka, who was sitting directly opposite him, could not truly experience it, but could only "imagine" it.

"Of these 379 wishes, how many are your own?"

Seeing that Rikka Yuuta was still counting his wishes on his fingers, Uozuka Saburo finally stopped being silent and asked, "How many of your wishes have been fulfilled? Can you tell me?"

"Hmm... maybe 10 or 11 of them are mine?" Rikka Yuta thought for a moment and said, "Because Anan, Shuta and the others always like to snatch my wishes, and I'm older than them, I should give them more, so I don't have many left."

"...So the remaining three hundred or so wishes are all the wishes of the two people you mentioned?"

"No? There are also Kiki, Yamagami, Tomikane, Araki..."

Rika Yuta called out more than 20 names in one breath, forcing Uozuka Saburo to raise his hand and call for a stop.

As to why so many other people's wishes were asked to be fulfilled by Rikka Yuta, Uozuka Saburo thought it unnecessary to ask the question - after all, he had once been one of those who entrusted their wishes to others in that laboratory.

The funny thing is, the guy who thought he was doomed to die several times survived, while the people he entrusted his wishes to died one after another...

They had never even told him their wishes, but simply listened politely or impatiently when he entrusted them, and promised to do so.

As a result, he still feels like he owes those bastards something, and he feels unhappy every time he thinks about it.

"Okay, you don't need to say any more."

"...Can I continue to live here?"

Rika Yuta asked with his big black eyes.

"...Yes, I can, but I have a condition."

Standing up, he walked away from the table and came to the other party. Regardless of his fragile body that had turned back into a mortal body, Uozuka Saburo raised his hand and pressed it on Rikka Yuta's shoulder: "Write down your wishes one by one for me, and give them to me when you come here for dinner tomorrow morning. We will make your wishes come true as soon as possible. Understand?"

This was actually the last test, because up to now, Uozuka Saburo still couldn't fully believe that what he had just revealed was not the other party's acting.

No one understands the nine-truth-and-one-false lie better than him. Who knows, maybe this seemingly harmless kid is really a Crybaby who likes to massacre people?

Putting his hand on his shoulder, if he showed any expression of being exposed as a lie or overreacting on his face, Uozuka Saburo would run out of the annex without hesitation, and let Yagami Kaku, who had been ordered to wear Metal Gear, come in and give him an "Eighteen Equal Bride" with a high-frequency vibration knife.

————Fortunately, the young man did not show any impatience. Instead, he opened his eyes wide after hearing his words, revealing a sense of surprise from the inside out.

"Thank you, I..."

Standing up, Rika Yuta acted like a typical dogeza to Uozuka Saburo, and said to him sincerely: "I used to suspect that you and your companions wanted to harm me, but now I know that you are such a good person... I, Rika Yuta, swear here: As long as you help me realize my wish, you can tell me anything you want, and I will never hesitate!"

"...Oh, oh."

...Could it be that this thing is really a pure, kind, and harmless boy?

......

......

"How do you feel?"

"...weird, abnormal."

"But it doesn't look like he's lying."

"......snort----"

Uozuka Saburo sat on the edge of the bed, crossed his arms, and did not comment on the words of his two good brothers.

At this time, they were holding a combat meeting in the room of Uozuka Saburo and Kiryu Kazuma. The horse girls were all sent to sleep, so Yagami took this opportunity to "ask for leave" from Mejiro Alisa and ran here, saying that he wanted to sleep on the floor here.

In response, Uozuka Saburo and Kiryu Kazuma ridiculed each other a few times, but did not persuade him to go back like before. The young man not only thanked Uozuka Saburo with all his heart, but also told them his apartment number and phone number truthfully. He was now lying in their room on the third floor below!

What if the other party really has the fighting power like that in the video I saw before, and suddenly goes crazy and comes to our door at night, Uozuka Saburo and Kiryu Kazuma alone will not be able to defeat him... We must have an absolute force left here to maintain order.

"While it's not a lie, it's possible they're avoiding the important issues and concealing the most important things."

Sitting beside his bed, Kiryu Kazuma frowned and said, "For example, he didn't mention whether there were any dangerous items in his luggage... or whether his so-called 'wishes' posed a threat to society."

"...We'll be able to find out tomorrow morning when he gives the wish list to Uozuka-san. But I'm more concerned about the two names he mentioned just now."

Yagami Kaku raised his chin, turned his head and looked at Kiryu Kazuma and said, "Anan, Shuta, we seem to have seen these two names in their battle map. Are they Kiryu brother?"

"...Nan Yuyi, Asami Shuta, these are the disguised names of the two monsters you killed."

Without wasting any time, Kiryu Kazuma took out his cell phone and pulled up pictures. He enlarged one of the photos he had taken at the scene and showed it. The name on the two fake passports happened to match the name that Rikka Yuta said.

"The incident happened suddenly last night. We immediately started investigating after killing those two monsters. We only obtained this information this morning and haven't had time to organize it yet."

Kiryu Kazuma placed his phone in the middle, letting Uozuka Saburo flip through it. "I think the fact he could mention those two names demonstrates how dangerous he is. If those two monsters hadn't been spotted and killed by Brother Yagami while they were committing their crimes, even if the entire Tojo Clan mobilized all their forces, they probably wouldn't have been able to find those two murderers in Tokyo. They're truly skilled in disguise."

Chapter 248 I Love Horse Girls! (Second Update)

Yes, it is true according to common sense: their plan was discovered at the scene, two of the three executors have been confirmed to turn into monsters and secretly attack humans, and the last remaining one has suspended his schedule because he has to carry out the poisoning task, so he pretends to be a good man to gain the trust of others. It is very likely that he will complete his plan quietly at the critical moment and turn Chiba into a living hell.

This logical deduction is very reasonable. Even if the famous detective Kudo Shinichi, who has "disappeared", were to come in, he would not be able to find the problem. However, Uozuka Saburo still feels that something is not right...

He is indeed an expert at gathering, organizing and analyzing intelligence. Most of the time, when he follows Brother Gin on missions, he only relies on the intelligence at hand to make basic inferences. However, if he really believed in intelligence completely, he would not have survived until now.

His intuition, the intuition that had saved him countless times on countless occasions, told him that this kid was harmless... or at least not as directly harmful as the inhuman monster in the video they showed him.

Unlike those crazy people in the organization, Rikka Yuta has no ill will towards the world. On the contrary, he has a lot of goodwill towards the world.

It is impossible for such a person to deliberately carry a backpack full of weapons of mass destruction and travel thousands of miles to a strange place to carry out massacres. That is completely inconsistent with his nature... unless he himself is completely unaware that his actions are poisoning.

"Brother Yagami, please show me the photos of the scene you took on your phone."

"Hmm? Okay, here you go."

Compared to Kiryu Kazuma, who is older and rarely uses his mobile phone to take photos in his daily work, Yagami Kaku, the son of the CEO of a "high-tech development" company, is obviously better at taking photos. Not only did he take bright and clear photos of the dark temporary rental house, he also consciously took close-ups of several key places so that people can grasp the key points at once.

After a long time, Uozuka Saburo raised his head and let out a long sigh.

“…Huh~ Found it.”

"Why, have you figured out something, Yuzhong?"

"Yeah... I'm just lucky we're not detectives. Otherwise, with our eyesight and speed, we'd be out of a job before we could even solve a case."

Uozuka Saburo said this lightly and jokingly.

This contentment made Yagami and Kiryu Kazuma look at each other in bewilderment, wondering what kind of discovery made him so relaxed.

Enjoying the detective-style IQ crush he learned from Conan, Uozuka Saburo didn't hold back. He happily spread out two phones and pointed at the two identical pictures. He said, "Here, this is their plan. It's really very detailed. No matter what time and place, who will bring what, even the separate walking routes are all written clearly - but don't you think there's something wrong with this plan?"

"No? No?"

"I've never made an action plan like this before, so I'm not sure what's wrong with being so detailed..."

"This is it."

Spreading out his hand, Uozuka Saburo pointed to the clearer view of Kaku Yagami's phone, zoomed in on a spot, and said, "It's incredibly detailed, practically like a travel guide, with the itinerary calculated down to the tenth minute. It clearly states 'we'll act accordingly' in the second half, and there's no clear objective, yet the itinerary is listed in such detail. Isn't that strange?"

“…Now that you put it that way, it’s true.” Kiryu Kazuma nodded.

"Perhaps... the person who wrote the plan is just trying to cover up his tracks? Trying to confuse people?"

Yagami Jue suggested a possibility, but quickly shook his head and denied it, saying, "No, they didn't intend to show this plan to anyone except themselves, and they wouldn't even think of showing it to anyone... Then why?"

"Well, I think the truth is now before us."

Uozuka Saburo said, looking up and smiling, "This thing is just a self-made travel itinerary specifically for someone to see."

"..."