The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

Therefore, upon hearing Jiang Hang's request, the Assassin System quickly made a decision.

Didn't you want to bring out both the Assassin Brotherhood and the Templars? Well, I'll just give you a new mission.

As a result, Jiang Hang soon saw a series of brand-new tasks issued to him by his own system.

"Special mission: The rebuilding of the Japanese Brotherhood has begun."

"Special mission: Deception and theft of reputation have begun."

"Rewards will be automatically issued for each certain amount of progress made in this task. Please check the task details yourself."

Just by looking at the names of these two tasks, Jiang Hang could pretty much guess what they entailed.

Upon closer inspection of the mission details, it was indeed much as he had imagined.

The first task is straightforward: as long as he establishes the Assassin Brotherhood, continuously improves the strength of its members, and sends them on missions, he can increase the progress bar's completion rate.

The second task is also easy to understand.

It's about making more people believe that the Assassin Brotherhood and the Templars really exist in this world; it's basically encouraging him not to back down and to keep spouting nonsense.

However, this task looks simple, but making progress is not an easy task.

After all, by design, the Assassin Brotherhood and the Templars are both hidden in the shadows, and only a very few people know of their existence. If the affairs of these two organizations were publicized everywhere, it would be more difficult to gain the trust of others.

Keep the current pace and slowly select suitable individuals within the case to let them know about the existence of these two organizations.

Although this task is difficult to progress, the system thoughtfully noted that with his current progress, he could directly claim two task rewards.

As expected, after he chose to claim the reward, in addition to the money, the system also gave him two copies of the assassin's memories that he needed most at the moment.

One is Altaïr's memories. As the protagonist of the first Assassin's Creed game, Altaïr's experience can be considered a very classic development.

Growing up in the Brotherhood and receiving the most orthodox assassin training, he became an assassin master at a young age. However, due to his youthful arrogance, he violated the creed during a mission and reverted to being a low-ranking assassin. During this low point in his life, he gradually shed his arrogance and eventually became an assassin master again, leading the Brotherhood to prosperity.

If the content related to the artifacts of Eden can be removed, this memory is indeed very suitable as training material for novice assassins.

The other memory marked "Eivor" made Jiang Hang recall that it was the protagonist of Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, which hadn't appeared before he transmigrated.

Unexpectedly, the system was quite accommodating. He hadn't had a chance to play the game in his original world, but now he could experience the life of this Viking assassin in a more direct way.

Moreover, as he increases his mission completion rate, he might actually be able to collect the entire set of Assassin's Creed memories.

With these things in hand, Jiang Hang felt even more confident.

I can even retrieve the memories of those legendary assassins now. Who would dare question whether these two organizations actually exist?

So much so that when he finished talking to Shiho Miyano and then went to confront Yusuke Sakata, he seemed much more imposing.

Of course, his confident demeanor does make it easier for people to believe what he says.

Sakata Yusuke was initially confused by the two organizations, but when he heard that Jiang Hang had a special device that could read the memories of his ancestors and that he could use that device to train him as an assassin, he became hesitant.

After all, he could find out the truth by trying it himself. Anyway, he was just a worthless man with nowhere to go. At that point, he could just have a fight to the death with Jiang Hang.

“Assassins… Japanese Brotherhood… Templars…” Sakata Yusuke listened to Jiang Hang’s explanation as if in a dream. “So your organization has been trying to recruit people like me all along?”

As a former police officer, Yusuke Sakata is still struggling to adapt to his identity as a murderer who has transformed into an assassin fighting to protect human freedom.

"Our organization has high requirements for its members. Abilities, talents, personality and even social skills are all things we need to consider."

Hearing Jiang Hang's words, Sakata Yusuke couldn't help but smile bitterly: "I am a murderer who has killed four people in a row, and we have only known each other for less than a day. Aren't you afraid that you have misjudged me?"

Jiang Hang spread his hands: "What you did could indeed be a capital offense under the law, but personally, I admire you for being able to give up everything and even risk your life to avenge your father, even though you have a better future."

"Although this is the first day I've met you, Hattori Heiji has known you for so many years. Tonight, he accepted the fact that you committed a series of murders for revenge, but he still doesn't want to accept that you fled after killing Goji Sotaro."

“If I hadn’t appeared and disrupted your plans, you would either have turned yourself in or shot yourself by now.”

Upon hearing Heiji Hattori's name, Yusuke Sakata's expression turned somewhat bitter, revealing that he himself also valued his friendship with Heiji Hattori.

Besides Hattori Heiji, the days he spent working at the Higashijiri Precinct also kept flashing before his eyes.

But from the moment he discovered Numabuchi Kiichiro and chose to take revenge instead of reporting the matter, he could never go back to the way things were before.

After a long silence, Yusuke Sakata looked at Jiang Hang and said, "If what you said about your organization's past and ideals is true, then I am willing to join your organization, but there is one thing I need to make clear to you first."

“When I decided to start my revenge, I didn’t think about turning myself in. My initial idea was to make Kiichiro Numabuchi take all the blame and to end the case by shooting him dead.”

"If that really happened, would you still consider bringing me into your organization?"

Chapter 394: Chapter 390: Welcome to the Assassin Brotherhood

In fact, if Jiang Hang's appearance hadn't completely disrupted his original plans and forced him to make this choice, he really wouldn't know what kind of ending he would have faced.

Did they successfully carry out the plan and then escape punishment?

Or was it discovered and stopped by Heiji Hattori during the crime?

Or perhaps he simply couldn't bear the inner torment after committing the crime and shot himself?

Since nothing has happened yet, even Yusuke Sakata doesn't know what choice he will ultimately make.

But he wanted to know how Jiang Hang and that so-called brotherhood would view his decision to make other choices.

Listening to Sakata Yusuke's question, who was currently in a period of confusion after his revenge, Jiang Hang pondered for a moment but did not give a direct answer.

To be honest, he could actually tell Sakata Yusuke a lot of things.

We can use all sorts of plausible platitudes, like "a gentleman judges by his actions, not his intentions," or "all things are illusory, all things are permissible," and even a bit of seemingly reasonable platitudes, to help Sakata Yusuke out of his period of confusion, and then let him figure things out on his own later.

But this approach sounds too mild. Jiang Hang doesn't want to become Sakata Yusuke's spiritual mentor, and he certainly doesn't want to make it a tradition to give a pep talk to new members of the fraternity.

Besides, what could be more effective in helping Yusuke Sakata out of his confusion than letting him choose again?

Of course, Jiang Hang can't turn back time now, but he can use a special potion to make the person who takes it confront their past and the fears in their heart in a hallucination.

This drug is a test given by the French Brotherhood to aspiring assassins who wish to join the Brotherhood.

Arno, the protagonist of Assassin's Creed Unity, joined the French Brotherhood in this way.

Although this drug does not pose a life-threatening danger, it is still a hallucinogenic drug. People who take the drug will not realize that they are in a hallucination. If they are unable to make a choice in the hallucination, they will only sink deeper and deeper into the hallucination until the drug's effects completely wear off.

Such a situation can put immense pressure on the user's mental health, and this hallucination may even become the biggest nightmare of their life.

But this is exactly what Sakata Yusuke needs right now.

When a person is fully conscious, it is difficult for them to figure out what they really want to do, and sometimes they may even deceive themselves in order to achieve certain goals.

But the subconscious doesn't lie.

Only choices made in a dreamlike state based on one's subconscious can truly reflect a person's deepest, most authentic thoughts.

Fortunately, after mastering the preparation of the poison, Jiang Hang would take the time to make things that might be useful in his spare time.

He made quite a few of these sleeping pills back then, since they sounded pretty mysterious. They could make people see their past and their deepest fears, and as long as they made a decision in the illusion, they could wake up early; otherwise, they could only wait for the effects of the drug to wear off before leaving the illusion.

It's made to sound as fantastical as Uchiha genjutsu.

For this reason, back in the system's learning space, in order to test the potion's medicinal properties and to study the role of each ingredient in the formula, he used the potion on himself more than once.

However, Jiang Hang was a homebody before he transmigrated and had never experienced anything special from childhood to adulthood. Therefore, the biggest effect of this potion on him was that it made him uncontrollably replay all his dark history in front of his eyes.

His research quickly stalled, and in the end, apart from concluding that "don't pay too much attention to the details in Assassin's Creed stuff," his progress in analyzing the drug's formula was probably not even as good as APTX4869's current progress.

Although the efficacy of the drug has not been fully understood, it is fine as long as it does not hinder its use.

Therefore, he brought several of the medicines he had made with him on this trip, just in case. He originally thought he could test them on Sōtarō Goji, but unexpectedly, he ended up using them directly on Yūsuke Sakata.

Upon hearing that Jiang Hang possessed such a drug, Sakata Yusuke couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

It's no wonder this is an ancient organization with a history spanning thousands of years; even the things they casually use to test newcomers sound mysterious.

Although Sakata Yusuke didn't completely believe Jiang Hang's words at this point, he didn't think that Jiang Hang would go to such great lengths to help him escape and then poison him in this way.

As for whether he could pass the test of this medicine, Yusuke Sakata didn't really care that much.

Since he has nowhere else to go, if he can't pass the Brotherhood's test, he'll probably only have one option left: to end his own life.

With that in mind, he directly drank the tasteless potion in front of Jiang Hang.

The drug took effect very quickly. Not long after Sakata Yusuke swallowed it, Jiang Hang saw his eyes gradually become glazed over, and within half a minute he collapsed to the side, powerless.

Jiang Hang patiently sat to the side, waiting for Sakata Yusuke to wake up.

Because he had taken the drug himself more than once, he was quite familiar with the whole process.

Under the influence of this drug, he usually needs about five to ten minutes to regain his self-awareness. At the same time, under his deliberate control, he can stay in the illusion for a maximum of thirty to forty minutes. Any longer and it will affect his mental state.

Sakata Yusuke's situation is rather complicated. His greatest fear is probably the death of his father when he was young, and the revenge he recently carried out is a major event that has completely changed his life, which will likely also appear in the illusion.

While taking the drug, he was still struggling with his true feelings. Even Jiang Hang couldn't say whether Sakata Yusuke could pass the drug's trial.

Even if he passes the test, it will probably take him twenty or thirty minutes.

That's what Jiang Hang thought.

To his surprise, only ten minutes later, Sakata Yusuke's eyelids began to twitch slightly, as if he was starting to regain consciousness.

Immediately afterwards, as Yusuke Sakata's body shuddered, he instantly opened his eyes and then flipped himself up from the ground.

At this moment, Yusuke Sakata had just woken up from the illusion. No one knew what choice he had made in the illusion, which was why his eyes now looked relieved, completely unlike the confused look he had just had.

As he gradually realized that everything that had just happened was just a dream, he slowly rubbed his head and returned to his normal appearance.

Jiang Hang pulled him up from the ground and handed him a bottle of water to let him catch his breath.

"So, if you were to experience the illusion again, what choice would you make?"

“In the illusion, I saw Sōtarō Goji and Kiichirō Numabuchi kill my father in front of me, and then I shot and killed them in the illusion,” Sakata Yusuke answered decisively this time.

He had already mentioned this to Jiang Hang once in the study of Goji Sōtarō.

He would not regret killing Goji Sotaro and the others. Even if he had to do it all over again, he would not hesitate to do it again.

It seems he did indeed do this within the illusion.

"Then in the dream, after the revenge was over, I talked to my father about many things until I heard the sound of police sirens and knew that Heiji and the others were coming to arrest me. Before they could arrest me, I took my own life with a pistol."

Yusuke Sakata recalled the scene he saw in the hallucination: "The feeling was very strange. Even though I ended my life with a pistol, it was as if my soul left my body. I could still see my own corpse lying on the ground with my own eyes. At that time, I really felt that I was about to leave this world."

After that, he completely said goodbye to the past and came to a full awakening.

After listening to Sakata Yusuke's description, Jiang Hang nodded slightly and then extended his hand to welcome Sakata Yusuke.

"The Sakata Yusuke of the past is dead, and your past has turned to dust at this moment."