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

"It is indeed very dangerous for you. After all, the other side is a specially trained armed force. If the infiltrator is armed, you will have no chance of winning a direct battle. Try to delay the battle plan until I deal with the situation over there and rush back." Taiyi warned, "But it doesn't matter to me."

"Or should I show you my fighting ability to reassure you?" Taichi looked at Sonozaki Mion, "You should have a shotgun here, right? Can I borrow it for a while?"

"Hunting rifle? What do you need to borrow that thing for?" Sonozaki Mion was startled and asked Taichi nervously.

"Let me show you the other side of the world." Taichi replied with a smile, "After all, even the reincarnation of Rika, you have only 'heard' about it. I will let you see the power beyond common sense in person."

In the end, Sonozaki Mion took the shotgun.

"Shoot me." After standing more than ten meters away, Taichi nodded to Sonozaki Mion and said.

"I, I..." Sonozaki Mion's hand holding the gun was shaking constantly.

Although as the second head of the Sonozaki family, she had received some firearms training, she had never tried shooting at a person.

"Let me do it." Oishi Zangto put his hand on the front of the gun and pressed it down. "After all, I am a former detective."

"Young man, are you sure you're okay?" Although he said that, when it really came to the point, even Oishi Zangren felt a little worried.

Tai nodded.

The next moment, gunfire rang out.

"Okay, come and take a look." Taichi looked at the crushed bullet shell that fell at his feet, waved and shouted to Keiichi Maehara and others.

"Are you sure you are aiming?" Sonozaki Mion looked at Taichi who was unharmed, then turned to Oishi Kuratō and asked.

"Although I have retired for many years, I still practice shooting... in the shooting club." Oishi Zangren replied, "Although I aimed at the boy's shoulder just in case, but it is possible that I missed it?"

This thought disappeared when they came to Taiyi and saw the bullet shell at his feet.

"Actually, it was really blocked?"

Taichi used X's telekinetic barrier to block the bullet.

After all, this thing is the safest.

"It just makes the opponent's weapons ineffective." Oishi Zangren looked up at Taichi and reminded him, "But since they have been trained, they should also be good at cold weapons such as fighting techniques and daggers."

Then he was easily pulled off the ground by Taiyi's hand.

“It’s power.”

After putting the frightened Oishi Zangren back to the ground, Taichi threw his arms around and ran at a speed beyond common sense.

"This is speed." Taiyi took less than ten seconds to go 300 meters round trip.

"Do you want to see my fighting skills again?" Taiyi asked Oishi Zangren.

"I learned mine from actual combat."

It’s just that the actual combat targets are somewhat abnormal.

"I suddenly feel that it would be best if Naruto-san were to act alone." Maehara Keiichi sighed blankly, "If we follow him, I'm afraid we will just be a drag."

"So, when do we start taking action?" Rena Ryuuguu looked at Taichi and asked.

"After the Cotton Festival," Taichi replied, "It's best to start in broad daylight."

"The enemy is well-equipped. If they act at night, they will be at an advantage with the night vision equipment in their hands."

"Wait, what about the supervisor? Should we include him too..." Sonozaki Mion asked, raising her hand.

"Kyosuke Irie... he's not here, so we have to eliminate him." Taichi touched his chin and answered, "If you want to bring him here, that's fine, but it's best to do it after the Cotton Festival. And after you bring him here, you have to keep an eye on him and don't let him have the chance to act alone. And before I take action, you must not tell anyone else a word."

"I understand!" Sonozaki Mion gave a thumbs up, "Uncle, I have the tightest mouth!"

"That's better." Sonozaki Shion joked, poking her sister in the ribs.

"Well... then, if we call Officer Oishi... Oh, I mean Officer Oishi at this time, and ask him for help, would that be okay?" Keiichi Maehara asked, raising his hand.

"You'd better not." Oishi Kurato himself stood up and shook his head to refuse. "No one knows better than me how suspicious I am."

Chapter 10: Oishi Zangren: This is what adults should do

"Mein, Shiin, what on earth are you doing?" Sonozaki Akane suddenly stopped her two daughters and asked, "I see you've been busy these past two days, I don't know what you've been doing, please help out a little bit for the cotton festival."

"Even if you say so, mom, we also have very important activities here." Sonozaki Mion's hands collapsed and she answered helplessly.

"We already have Satoko-chan and Rika-chan. Aren't you satisfied?" Sonozaki Shion asked with a smile.

"You actually asked the two youngest ones to help. Mom doesn't remember raising you to be such unruly children." Sonozaki Akane grabbed her two daughters' wrists. "So, tell me about your pranks... ahem, tell me about your activities."

"Dudu--" Sonozaki Mion and Sonozaki Shion simultaneously contributed their free hands, and the two of them worked together to form an 'X', "Da-me! Keep it a secret!"

"If it wasn't for Satoko's need to better integrate into the village, we wouldn't even want to hand her over." Sonozaki Mion followed her mother's words and said, "After all, when it comes to making traps, no one in the village is better than her."

"Sorry, we still have things to do. Can you let us go for now?" Sonozaki Shion looked at Sonozaki Akane with an expression that said 'Mom, please'.

"...Don't do anything too dangerous." Sonozaki Akane warned her daughters with some concern, then let go of her two daughters' wrists and watched them leave.

"Kasai, have you found out anything?" Sonozaki Akane turned around and looked at the trees beside her and asked.

A man in a black suit and sunglasses walked out from behind the tree.

Kasai of the Sonozaki Group is currently in charge of monitoring and protecting Sonozaki Shion.

"The earliest trace of the origin can only be traced back to the encounter with the ladies in front of the Hojo family." Kasai replied expressionlessly, "One of them looked similar to the detective Oishi Kuratō of the Ogimiya Police Station, but he looked about ten years older than Oishi Kuratō."

"As for the other three, there are no clues."

"Oishi...that man hasn't given up yet." Akane Sonozaki imagined a big drama in her mind.

"Is there anything I can do for you?" Kasai asked.

"Well, forget it. It's okay to leave them alone." Sonozaki Akane shook her head and replied, "Just keep an eye on them. Don't worry about anything else. The Cotton Festival will be here soon."

"Yes……"

……

"Everyone has successfully obtained permission to stay overnight. This is also the first time for our "After-school Club" to have an off-campus camp!" Sonozaki Mion raised the glass filled with juice in her hand, "Cheers!"

"Cheers!"×N.

"Tomorrow is the Cotton Festival. Although I know that everyone must be very excited at the moment, in order to smoothly implement the battle plan, you must calm down." Sonozaki Mion said after drinking the juice in the cup.

"Not at all excited." Hojo Satoko complained, "Seeing your shabby traps, I'm starting to think about whether I should tell the village chief and the others and come back to help you set up new traps."

"Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!" Sonozaki Mion shook her finger. "You really misunderstood us, Satoko-chan."

"We deliberately set those traps too simply," Sonozaki Shion explained. "After all, if we don't show our weakness to the enemy first, how can we lower the enemy's alert level against us?"

"Once the enemy shows a careless attitude towards us, it's time for more sophisticated traps to come into play!" Ryuuguu Rena added, "However, we are not very good at setting up sophisticated traps, so we can only wait for you, Satoko, to help set them up."

"It would be best if the trap wasn't that powerful, but could just stop the enemy!" Maehara Keiichi gave a thumbs up. "If it was Satoko-chan, this kind of trap should be easy to set up!"

"...To be honest, it's a bit outrageous." Yukino Yukinoshita said softly as she sat next to Taichi, "The crude trap they mentioned could have caused me to fall into it if I was careless for a moment."

"But even so, Hojo still looked down on her... Is the trap she set so powerful?"

Taiyi recalled the original plot and then curled the corners of his mouth.

"Anyway, in Rika Furude's past reincarnations, there were many cases where the Yamanouchi troops were tripped by Hojo Satoko's traps, or even wiped out directly."

"Suddenly I feel that the so-called Mountain Dog Corps is nothing more than this." Xin Tiao Qian complained.

"I can only say that although the scumbags in the Mountain Dog Unit are useless, they are indeed careless when facing Furuto Rika and her group, and they look down on these kids."

Of course, part of the reason was that the situation at the time did not allow them to use high-powered firearms.

What they have in their hands is either an electric shock device or a dagger.

After all, there are only a few people in the Mountain Dog Unit and they don’t have many guns.

If biological weapons had not been used in a closed secret room, catching the villagers off guard, the Hinamizawa disaster would never have happened.

This is a village with nearly two thousand people.

If we really alert the enemy, the Mountain Dog Unit won’t be able to defeat us even if they have a few more arms.

Oishi Kuratomi was also not idle. He took advantage of the opportunity that he was on a united front with the two sisters of the Sonozaki family and found Sonozaki Mion and Sonozaki Shion to learn in detail about the inside story of the murder of the dam supervisor a few years ago, which led him to paranoidly believe that the murderer was the Sonozaki family.

Whether it was a misunderstanding or a communication problem that caused the balance in his heart to deviate, Oishi Zangto felt relieved after learning the truth.

The murder of the dam supervisor had nothing to do with the Sonozaki family.

In fact, in recent years, someone from the Sonozaki family would go to sweep the grave of that supervisor every year.

"Why don't you ask Chief Irie?" Taichi came over and sat next to Oishi Kuratō and said, "After all, such a tragic case is most likely caused by someone's sudden attack of Hinamizawa Syndrome. If the murderer is missing, he should have been captured by the Yamaguchi Unit sent by Takano Sanshi."

"After all, without live experiments, even if Director Irie is a genius, he would not be able to independently develop an inhibitor for Hinamizawa syndrome."

"That makes sense." Oishi Zangren grinned, "Don't worry, when Director Irie arrives, I will definitely not let him get away."

Although Keiichi Maehara and others are decisive in their actions, they are sometimes too naive.

If Kyosuke Irie is willing to put in some effort, it is not impossible for him to escape from their surveillance.

Therefore, the role of arranging the old detective Kurato Oishi to stay behind was reflected at this time.

"Then, a new question arises... Why is there no news about the contact person Tomitake?" Taiyi muttered with his eyes narrowed.

Chapter 11 Everyone is on the move, only Tomitake is missing

Jiro Tomitake, as the liaison between Tokyo and Irie Agency, basically comes to Hinamizawa for a few days during the annual Cotton Festival.

Moreover, he would be used as a sacrifice in every reincarnation cotton festival, and his body would be found on the side of the road the next day.

The members of the protagonist group may die in various ways, but only Tomitake Jiro's death always follows a fixed pattern.

He was induced to L5 by the drug injected by Takano Sanshi, and eventually died by scratching his throat.

According to the rules of each reincarnation, Jiro Tomitake should have arrived at Hinamizawa within two weeks before the Cotton Festival.

However, according to Rika Furute.

In this reincarnation, apart from Yuiri who had always been with her, even Tomitake Jiro did not appear.

Before Taichi appeared, she even asked Takano Sanshi in a roundabout way.

But the answer I get is always 'He has already arrived in Hinamizawa, but he's just running around all day and I can't see him anywhere'.

But until today, Rika Furude and others have never met him once.

For Rika Furude, this reincarnation was simply a series of outrageous things happening.

It seems a little unusual that Jiro Totake hasn't seen anyone yet.

Of course, the most important reason is that everyone was so busy that they didn’t even have time to take a breath, and had no free time to think about this problem.

Now that everyone has some free time, this issue has finally received everyone's attention after Taiyi raised it.

"Come to think of it, I always feel like I've forgotten something." Keiichi Maehara murmured as he stood in front of the stage waiting for the final dance of the Cotton Festival.

"What did you forget?" Sonozaki Mion turned her head and looked at Maehara Keiichi, "Whatever you forgot, it doesn't matter for now."

"Let's get ready quickly. As soon as Rika-chan's dance is over, we'll take her back to the Sonozaki family." Sonozaki Shion said, "Rena is already prepared. The trap can be activated at any time."

"Separate bags of water and food are also ready, as well as a backup generator." Hojo Sadoko also spoke.

"As long as we bring Rika-chan back to the Sonozaki family, Mr. Naruto, who is waiting near the Irie Clinic, will immediately take action."

"hope everything is fine."

……

"Feng Yi calling Huang Ying, can the presence of the "Queen Infected" be detected visually?" In the underground secret base of Irie Clinic, Kokonoki Tetsuro solemnly called out to the on-site surveillance personnel of the Cotton Festival through the communication device.

"Received by 'Yellow Oriole'. The target can be seen through the equipment. The equipment has been changed and we are heading to the stage."

"That's it." Kokonogi Tetsurou shrugged and turned to look at Takano Sansi. "Any other orders, Colonel?"

"Send out the rest of the 'Mountain Dog' unit to block all of Hinamizawa's external passages." After biting his fingernails for a while, Takano Sanshi gave the order with a grim look on his face, "Once the Cotton Festival is over, take away the 'Queen Infected' immediately and implement the final battle plan!"

"This is a bit too hasty." Although Ogiki Tetsuji complained again and again, after seeing the ferocious face of Takano Sanshi, he could only helplessly give the latest instructions to his subordinates.

"Also, isn't there any accurate news from Xinggong yet?" Takano Sanshi asked, glaring at the messenger beside him.

"No! We still cannot determine the whereabouts of Jiro Totake." The messenger answered without looking away.

"Oh my, that guy Tomitake." Ogiki Tetsuro gave a helpless smile.

In Tetsuro Ogiki's opinion, Takano Sanyo's past behavior was always crazy, but today was the most crazy moment.