Tokyo: The evil god doesn't want to be the top star

Chapter 295: The Poor Male Informant About to Be Punished by God

"Jinguji?! How did you…"

Just by hearing this refreshing voice, a certain ancient title, and those sharp autumn eyes, Xia Fan could tell who the person was without even looking at the face.

"The company has a special document that needs to be discussed with you in person."

Jinguji Aoi winked at him, emphasizing the words "special" and "alone".

"Okay, there's a separate meeting room over there."

Xia Fan nodded in understanding and took her to another area.

"Although I can't see her face, just looking at her eyes, I can guarantee that she is a great beauty!"

"That's great. Are all the female assistants at Company B of this standard?"

"A man and a woman alone in a room, is this the legendary 'special report from the female assistant'?"

"I wonder if it's too late to change my ticket to the Combustion Department now?"

The abandoned roommates and teammates watched the two leave with envy on their faces.

……

"This conference room is usually used by external vocal and dance teachers for meetings, so there is no audio or camera."

Xia Fan brought Jinguji Aoi into a narrow meeting room and turned on the lights.

"The camera is not a problem."

"Congratulations on winning the show, Mr. Xia Fan... Sorry, you must be surprised to see me in the studio suddenly, right?"

Aoi Jinguji took off her mask and bowed slightly to him.

"Yes, I am a little surprised..."

"You came all the way to see me in disguise. Is there something you need to tell me in person?"

Xia Fan poured her a cup of black tea and asked carefully.

According to past practice, during the recording of the program, Jinguji Aoi contacted him through text messages and phone calls...

If there were no special circumstances, there would be no need for her to come in person for the interview and risk exposing the relationship between Xia Fan and Lesson 9.

"There has been a major breakthrough in the Amabie case."

Aoi Jinguji looked out the corridor cautiously.

"A member of the Psychic Association looked up a legend in a book..."

"In the middle of April of the third year of the Koka era in the Edo period, a mermaid named Amabie appeared in the ancient Higo Province in Kumamoto Prefecture. She stopped the plague that was rampant at the time and predicted a good harvest in the coming year. Therefore, she was widely believed by local residents."

After making sure no one was eavesdropping, she closed the door and spoke in a low voice.

"According to the description in this legend, this Amabie seems to be a good god. But what these believers are doing now doesn't match up with him?"

Having witnessed the evil of "Amabie" with his own eyes, Xia Fan naturally smiled without comment.

"In order to take advantage of human greed to gain faith, these legends praising gods are mostly packaged and beautified by believers. The truth of history is often only more cruel and weird..."

"Based on the current intelligence, this 'Amabie' should be a monster that can control diseases. I don't know when it touched the threshold of 'faith' and began to secretly develop believers."

"I originally planned to inform you about these things after Mr. Xia Fan finished recording today..."

Jinguji Aoi took a sip of hot tea to moisten her hoarse throat from cheering for someone. "Lesson 9: This morning, in the woods along the coast of Tokyo Bay, several Amabie followers were arrested for committing prostitution and theft in the name of ritual."

"One of them is a high-ranking 'sacrificer'. We got a lot of useful information out of him..."

"These loose organizations that believe in Amabie, and call themselves 'homes', actually obey a woman named 'Jizi'. They believe she is the son of Amabie."

"According to this person, 'Ji Zi' has already identified the male informant who reported to the police and caused them to become 'homeless'. They have also sent out the strongest assassin in the organization to inflict divine punishment on him!"

Her face was tense and she continued to explain her purpose in a serious tone.

"The son of God of Amabie, that is, like Takenaka Masahiro, the 'agent' of the evil god? Wait..."

Xia Fan listened carefully, and suddenly realized something. He pointed at himself and said, "That poor male informant who was targeted by the 'strongest assassin' and was about to be 'punished by God', isn't he talking about me?"

"That's right. They must have used illegal means to obtain the public surveillance footage of that day and found out Mr. Xia Fan's identity. The police cannot escape blame for such a low-level 'intelligence leak'."

"After learning that you were in danger, Section 9 immediately took security measures for you and your family and friends."

"The situation at the program recording site is currently stable, please rest assured..."

Shrinking her neck, Aoi Jinguji lowered her head apologetically, and her voice became weaker.

It was indeed an oversight on Lesson 9’s part that it did not clean up the image data from public cameras around the scene of the incident after destroying the “House of the Soul”.

After prying out information from the "devotee" who was arrested naked, Section 9 skillfully activated the "Eleventh District's Strongest Security Team."

Because she couldn't contact Xia Fan who was recording a program, and didn't want to alert the enemy, Jinguji Aoi came to the "Idol Birth Festival" recording site by posing as Yayoi Tsuki's assistant.

From the moment she arrived, the entire studio building had been surrounded by a presidential-level security force. In addition to the on-site security being secretly replaced, there were even four snipers on standby on the rooftop of a nearby building.

The information group of Lesson 9 also hacked into all the networked cameras of the program team, and repeatedly dug into the identities of every staff member and audience member on the scene during the performance, analyzing their connection with the "Amabie" faith organization.

"I'm not afraid of the 'strongest assassin' coming to my door, I just hope it doesn't involve other people."

"Why not, during the two days between recordings of the show, I'll wander around outside and see if I can lure out the assassin..."

Xia Fan was considered an experienced person when it came to "supernatural assassinations", so he didn't react too much.

Right now, the second round of performances has come to an end, the trainees and the audience will leave one after another, and soon only a few post-production staff from the program team will be left in the photography building...

Even if the assassin suddenly jumped out, the risk of causing a "mass incident" would have been greatly reduced.

"Understood. We will maintain security and intensify the search for the Amabie followers and the 'taboo' to resolve potential threats as soon as possible..."

"That's roughly what happened. If I stayed too long it would arouse suspicion, so I left first."

Jinguji Aoi picked up the "document" that was used as a cover, put on her mask again, looked at Xia Fan reluctantly, and left the meeting room.

"Command, this is the 'Witch'. We have completed the 'connection' mission and are evacuating the security area..."

Walking along the corridor, Aoi Jinguji reported to the headset.

"Command received."

"Analysis of on-site personnel information shows no abnormalities. Camera surveillance shows that everything is normal in the studio. Please evacuate as planned."

On the other end of the line, Inspector Higurashi, who was waiting in the command vehicle outside, responded quickly.

"Miko received."

The moment the call ended, a blonde trainee, still wearing her performance costume, passed by Jinguji Aoi along the corridor...

(End of this chapter)