Whose personality mask's power comes from the heroic spirit?

In the end, she concluded that it was probably her previous fear of the Fujiwara family, a Japanese political family, that caused her to unconsciously retreat when facing the three Fujiwara sisters.

Well, in short, you still have to practice.

Unconsciously swinging the sleeves of her bathrobe, Yukinoshita Haruno narrowed her eyes slightly.

The two people who just passed by behind him appeared in his sight too often.

Because she has been trained by her family since she was young, Yukinoshita Haruno is very confident in her memory.

The two guys dressed as guests behind her have appeared beside her a total of seven times since they entered the hot spring hotel.

On several occasions, he even changed his attire.

As the face of the Yukinoshita family, Yukinoshita Haruno had experienced similar incidents in the past.

Tracking, kidnapping, extortion.

All the possibilities went through my mind.

Finally, they were eliminated one by one.

Because these two people arrived at this hot spring hotel earlier than him.

"Are they not targeting us, but the Niijima sisters?" Yukinoshita Haruno has successfully ruled out other possibilities.

Ding Dong!

The sound of a text message on her cell phone brought Yukinoshita Haruno back to her senses.

It was sent by Niijima Sae.

Yukinoshita Yukino has already given her contact information to the Niijima sisters.

As for the specific content of the text message, it was just asking for the meeting place.

Yukinoshita Haruno looked around and then chose a pavilion not far from the hotel's atrium.

The view is quite wide.

This can prevent others from overhearing your conversation.

Not long after sitting down in the pavilion, Niijima Sae's figure appeared in Yukinoshita Haruno's sight.

"Ms. Yukinoshita, I'm so sorry for calling you out and disrupting the sisterly time you and your sister have together." Niijima Sae came up and apologized in a stiff manner.

"Ms. Niijima, please don't be so polite with me." Yukinoshita Haruno responded with a friendly smile that she had long mastered to the point of instinct. "Our sisters are friends, and you and I may even become 'fellow villagers' in the future, so it's natural for us to have a closer relationship. Just call me Haruno, and I'll call you Sister Ichisae."

Niijima Sae's brows slightly raised, but the distant look on his face gradually disappeared.

"So, Haruno...chan, could you clear up my confusion and introduce me to that new country?"

"Happy to oblige."

The two smiled at each other.

……

"Did Niijima Sae meet a group of unexpected people?" Furuya Rei received a report call from his subordinates.

"Investigate the identities of those people immediately." Furuya Rei ordered with a stern face, "Find out their intentions and the purpose of their contact with Niijima Sae."

If possible, Fūya Rei hopes to be able to do it himself.

But unfortunately, his job is not easy either.

Really exhausted.

After all, Vermouth is back and has taken over the job of continuing to contact Shido Masayoshi.

Moreover, Shido Zhengyi also showed a willingness to further engage with the organization.

He has to keep an eye on it here.

Avoid being further infiltrated and corroded by the hateful Thousand-Faced Witch from the country's political lifeline.

……

"Hu——" Vermouth let out a light breath, and the smoke rings from the lady's cigarette slowly dissipated between heaven and earth along with a faint fragrance.

Her cold eyes were fixed on the bald man sitting opposite the coffee table, and Vermouth's fingers, which were clasped under her armpits, were pinched until they turned white.

She didn't know what cards the guy in front of her named Shitong Zhengyi was holding.

But just now, she handed him the tool to contact 'that gentleman' and left the room, leaving 'that gentleman' to have a secret conversation with him.

As a result, only a few minutes had passed and when I came back, the offense and defense had switched positions.

'That gentleman' actually won over Shido Zhengyi and made him the 'third in command' of the organization.

He also set up a mysterious and powerful "Cognitive Science" department specifically for him, and temporarily assigned himself and Bourbon to serve as his subordinates.

He has now become his de facto boss.

"I hope we can work together in the days ahead to take the organization one step further." Shido Zhengyi licked his lips with his tongue, staring at Vermouth with a snake-like cold gaze and reminded him, "This is also what the boss hopes for."

Although no one knew where that dead kid Goro Akechi had died, making it impossible for him to produce any practical results, the academic achievements and theoretical reports he had snatched from Isshiki Wakaba were enough to intimidate those outsiders who didn't know much about cognitive science.

Not to mention that he had led so many "disabled" incidents before.

But even so, the 'BOSS' still looked down on him.

Otherwise, how could he be the third in command?

Is it that he is not qualified to be the second-in-command?

Or maybe my knowledge of He Xue is not up to the standard of this organization!

Even the subordinates he currently has at his disposal are only Vermouth and Bourbon.

Although he was very satisfied with these two talented and handsome subordinates, there were too few people!

Not to mention that the old guy never mentioned anything related to funding.

It's obvious that you won't release the eagle until you see the rabbit!

"Are you dissatisfied with the boss's orders, Vermouth?" Seeing that Vermouth was so tactless, Shido Zhengyi reminded her with a gloomy face.

Shido Zhengyi, who had just entered the organization and was not very clear about the internal structure of the organization, and even less aware of the special relationship between Vermouth and the boss... was tempted by her beauty.

But rather than forcing something, he would rather be passive.

Otherwise... he didn't want to have to spend more effort to create a second "falsely accused" hero.

"Since it is the boss's order, I naturally have no objection." Vermouth replied while suppressing her anger, "But I remind you that it is best not to help me become one of your subordinates who know nothing."

"Also, I suggest you not let your lower body dominate you to the point of losing your mind."

"Unless I volunteer, otherwise..." Vermouth, who had already investigated Shitong Zhengyi thoroughly, naturally understood his implicit hint.

But even if she, Vermouth, was willing to degenerate, she was unwilling to let the bald man in front of her get away with it.

There is no other reason, just that they are incompatible.

After saying that, Vermouth stood up from the sofa with a gloomy face and walked out the door.

Shitong Zhengyi glanced at her back and said nothing.

Although Shido Zhengyi does like women, he is not so foolish as to become so hostile to a seemingly privileged cadre within a dangerous organization just after joining the organization.

This was just his test.

He was testing the power of himself, the third-in-command who had just been appointed by the boss himself.

Well, that didn’t turn out well.

Chapter 94: Furuya Rei: What the hell is despair?

"Huh? Belmore and I were temporarily assigned to serve as subordinates of Shido Masayoshi? And it was an order given by that gentleman himself?" Furukaya Rei's face was full of confusion at this moment.

what happened?

He came out to answer the call, but when he turned around he found that his house had been robbed?

How could a cabinet aide, who, if nothing unexpected happens, might even become the next prime minister, be so desperate as to join an international criminal organization?

Oh, no, to be precise, it is joining an international terrorist organization.

The people above have finished the meeting.

Just before, there was a street gunfight around Haido Town Hospital, a high-speed chase involving fast driving, etc.

The National Police Agency has officially unilaterally blacklisted the organization in Japan and labeled it a terrorist organization.

As a result, Shido Zhengyi had already joined the organization, and even inexplicably became the third in command on the first day of his employment.

It makes the people below seem incompetent.

After so many years, I have only become a code name member.

After shaking his head to get rid of the bad thoughts, Furuya Rei...Bourbon began to get information from his old boss.

After hanging up the phone, Fūya Rei's expression was quite complicated.

"Department of Cognition..."

When he first got involved in the Phantom Thieves incident, Furuya Rei had seen the term "cognitive psychology".

That was when the background check was being conducted, and Rei Furuya had investigated Amamiya Ren's current guardian.

As a result, the investigation ended up on Sakura Futaba's mother, Isshiki Wakaba.

This was also the time when the word "cognitive learning" first appeared in front of Fūya Rei.

With just this kind of pulling and connecting of the past and the present, there is nothing that Furuya Rei, who is considered a famous detective himself, could not understand.

Shido Masayoshi, the old man who had a dirty deal with Isshiki Wakaba and later stole all of Isshiki Wakaba's research results, is the murderer of the disability incident.

Although one mystery has been solved, more mysteries arise.

For example, why do the members of the Phantom Thieves reform the criminals instead of using violence to disable them?

Could it be that they are actually the side of justice?

But there is one thing that Furuya Rei has already realized.

He was so righteous towards the lion boy that he wanted to kill him.

Gathering all his thoughts, Rei Furuya put on a mask called "Bourbon" and planned to meet his future real boss.

……

"...Let me kill the person in the photo?" Looking at the photo of Sae Niijima wearing a prosecutor's uniform with a proud expression on her face, Furuya Rei felt that the world was absurd.

So, the Phantom Thieves of Heart who changed their minds and the murderer behind the transformation into a cripple are really on opposing sides?

The opposite side is justice!

"Minister, you may have some misunderstanding about me." Thinking about how he had just sent his cronies from the National Police Agency to protect her, and right after that he received orders from the 'cabinet staff' and 'organizational superiors' to kill her, Furuya Rei angrily wanted to put the gun to Shido Masayoshi's head and pull the trigger.

"I used to be in the intelligence team, but my skills are not as fast as those in the action team."

This matter, whether it is handled well or badly, will be a complete failure.

It seems that Niijima Sae has already defected to the Phantom Thieves.

If he sent Niijima Sae to death with the thought that 'no one can be sacrificed at this critical moment', the Phantom Thieves would have to send him to death soon after, and the good situation that he and his companions had fought for at the risk of their lives would be ruined in one day.

It was a bad thing.

It is understandable that Shi Tong righteously despised and doubted him.

I'm afraid that Gin will come with vodka to kill me.

So all he can do now is...

Show your reluctance and repay your resistance to the new department with your background in the 'Intelligence Group'.

But don't overdo it.

By the way... drag a certain woman into this.

"Why not let Vermouth, who is known as the Thousand-Faced Witch in the organization, take action?"

Furiya Rei pretended to be confused.

"As a woman with a changeable personality and superb acting skills, Vermouth took action. Isn't this woman's life in danger?"