The shops downstairs are still the same as always; there aren't many people during the day, but they're incredibly busy at night.

When he arrived at Tendo Agency, Kisara, the president, was already sitting in her boss's chair.

"Yo, good morning, President Kisara."

"Ah... Masahiro, good morning."

Upon seeing the person who arrived, Mu Geng forced a smile. She looked exhausted, as if she hadn't slept for several days.

"What's wrong? You shouldn't have much work lately, right? Are you having trouble sleeping?"

Mahiro sat on the sofa and joked, "If it's insomnia, I have a good solution. Just find a boyfriend, and with President Kisara's physique, you'll never have insomnia again."

"What nonsense are you spouting, you idiot! You big moron!"

Kisara, blushing and angry at being teased, slammed his fist on the table.

Well, this is finally the Tendo Kisara who's back to his usual self.

"Mr. Masahiro, please have some water."

"Oh, thank you, little Tina."

Mahiro had just taken the water glass and taken a sip when he suddenly realized something was wrong and immediately spat out all the water.

With a scream of "Ah!", the girl raised her plate to block the spray of water aimed at her face.

She slowly took the plate off her plate and looked up in this direction.

"What happened to you?"

"No, what are you doing here?"

He remembered that Tina had been assigned by Xia Shi to be in charge of nighttime security in Arcadia, so how did she suddenly end up at the agency?

"Hehe, I've booked her out!"

It was Mokusei who spoke.

She smiled and walked around behind Tina, placing her hands on Tina's shoulders and looking in their direction.

"Bag?"

“Oh right, Rentaro is still hospitalized due to his injuries, and you won’t let Asaka work, while Enju has to go to school, so I hired Tina to work for the agency.” Kisara said smugly.

"Xia Shi agreed?"

"Yes, of course, that child is relatively easy to talk to."

Although he said that, Kisara recalled the scene of negotiating with Natsume earlier...

Xia Shi originally disagreed with Tina coming to the agency, citing Tina as a dangerous person and as a close friend of the cursed child.

But his expression clearly indicated that he wanted her to pay.

As a result, Kisara was extorted for a large sum of money by Natsume before he agreed to leave Tina here.

Well, a total of one billion yen, which is exactly the reward for Scorpio's performance.

"From today onwards, I am a member of the Tiandong Civil Security Company. Please take good care of me, Mr. Masahiro."

Tina even smiled and bowed deeply to him.

"...Miss Kisara, do you know Tina's identity?" Mahiro had already guessed the behind-the-scenes deal between Natsume and Kisara, so he asked this question.

"Yes, I know. They're just assassins who tried to kill His Majesty the Holy Emperor. What does it matter?"

"What does it matter... it's just..." His lips twitched involuntarily.

He had originally planned to take Tina to the Holy Palace to apologize to the Holy Emperor and ask for his forgiveness before taking her to work.

As a result, this stupid woman ruined everything!

"What, you don't want to? Little Tina is clearly very willing to come to the agency," Kisara said with a smile.

Tina nodded in agreement and said earnestly, "Yes, I really hope to work with Mr. Mahiro. After all, I am Mr. Mahiro's slave, and I have the responsibility and obligation to stay by his side and help him solve his problems."

Yotsuba Mahiro: "......"

Tendo Kisara: "...?"

Such a bold statement left Tendoki completely stunned.

Her face was ashen as she looked at Mahiro, and with trembling hands, she took her phone out of her pocket:

"Police... I need to call the police."

"Wait! Hold on a minute!" Mahiro quickly grabbed her hand and said seriously, "I can explain this. It's just a small punishment for her, not what you're thinking!"

Although it was just a bit of his quirky sense of humor, if he had known that Tina would say such things so often, he would never have said them to the child back then!

"Give me back my phone! What do you mean 'not what I imagined'? You pervert! You're so low! I can't believe it! Although Tina does look a bit mature, she's only ten years old!"

Kisara struggled, trying to snatch the phone back from his hand.

It was only after he asked Tina to explain herself that Kisara regained his composure.

However, Kisara warned him not to do anything strange to Tina or the other children.

Mahiro was also quite speechless about this.

If he really wanted to do something, Xiaochai would have been devoured by him a year ago, and she wouldn't have resisted; in fact, she would have unexpectedly yielded.

Unfortunately, he wasn't that kind of pervert.

However, after calming down, Kisara sat back down in his boss's chair and started talking about serious business.

"...Shinhime, I feel there's something I need to discuss with you."

The girl rested her chin on her hands and spoke seriously, making the air seem heavy.

"So serious?"

"Um...."

Kisara nodded, opened a drawer, took out a stack of documents, then got up from his desk and handed them to him.

"Because there's no one else I can consult, I wanted to talk to you about it."

As she handed over the document, her body was visibly trembling unnaturally, and she gripped the document with unusual force, her fingertips trembling and turning white from the pressure.

When I looked up, the expression on the pretty face that came into view had subtly changed.

A smile that seemed to mock.

He had seen that smile before; it was the expression of a vengeful demon when the vengeful spirit within Kisara was burning fiercely.

Then, she spoke again.

"Hey, Shinhime, thanks to you, I've finally found something on the Tendo family!"

The girl's shoulders were trembling, and a sickly smile appeared on her face.

She tried to suppress her laughter, but she couldn't.

The document she handed over clearly contained a string of text—

'Inspection Report on Metropolitan Stone No. 32'

In terms of content, it mainly describes the problem of the megalithic monument being poorly constructed and substandard.

But the most crucial sentence is at the end—

"—As mentioned above, the No. 32 megalith was a new megalith built at the end of the Gastrea Wars. Furthermore, the contractor who commissioned the construction of this megalith was the current Vice Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Kazumitsu Tendo—"

The rest is unimportant.

For Tendo Kisara, cutting corners and adding the name Tendo Kazuhiro was enough.

"Hey, Shinhiro, now I can finally take down one of the Tendou family's members, right? I can start my revenge now, can't I?!"

However, the moment he uttered those words, Kisara suddenly let out a low moan, and the expression on his face became extremely painful.

His face turned deathly pale, he bit his lip, pressed his lower abdomen, and then swayed and collapsed.

"Hey!"

These were the last words Kisara heard before he fell into a coma.

Chapter 85: A Catgirl Arrives?

Kisara lay on the hospital bed, a needle inserted into her rolled-up wrist, connected to the hemodialysis device placed beside her.

A regular, intermittent mechanical sound echoed softly in the white ward.

"I'm sorry, I got a little carried away... and you saw my most unbearable and ugly side."

Mu murmured softly, revealing a weak smile.

Lately, she's been constantly on the go, gathering evidence to bring down the Tiantong family. She even missed her regular hemodialysis sessions, thinking her body could handle it, but little did she expect...

In the end, she exposed her most vulnerable side.

"nothing."

Mahiro sat on a chair to the side, quietly peeling an apple with a knife, then cut off a small piece and put it into his mouth under Kisara's watchful gaze.

"This is much better than when I first met you, when you were starving and collapsed on the street. That was the first time I had ever seen someone so hungry that they fainted."

"..."

Kisara turned his head away somewhat embarrassedly, a sickly blush spreading across his pale face.

"That hurts, doesn't it?"

"I'm used to it..."

"I remember your kidney function declined due to diabetes, right? Haven't you thought about getting a kidney transplant?"

Makoto chewed on the apple, enjoying its juicy flavor.

Although this world is apocalyptic, due to the gastroenteritis virus, the level of medical care has developed to an extraordinary level, completely surpassing the level of technology.

Neither a kidney transplant nor repairing kidney function should be difficult.

At the very least, Sumire Muroto has this ability.

"Forget it."

Kisara shook his head in refusal, slowly sat up from the hospital bed, and gently leaned his thin body against the headboard.

His eyes were fixed on a point in the air, then he slowly reached out and made a grasping motion, as if he were trying to hold something in his hand.

That was her obsession with revenge.

“This pain belongs only to me. I have decided to dedicate my life to eliminating all celestial children from this world. If I forget this pain, I will surely forget revenge as well. So no.”

It's not that I can't understand it.

Tendo Kisara's parents were murdered because they wanted to expose the Tendo family's corruption.

Kisara, who witnessed all of this, was also filled with hatred and planned to use the physical pain to make his mind remember this hatred.

It has a bit of the meaning of King Goujian of Yue enduring hardship and biding his time.

But the problem is——

"Of course you want to endure hardship and bide your time, that's fine, but how could you possibly stand against the Tiantong family with your current physical condition? With just this little bit of evidence at your disposal?"

With a flick of his wrist, he tossed back the stack of documents that Kisara had shown him at the agency back into the girl's sight.

"These things, even if they bear the names of Tendo and Hikaru, don't seem to be of any use to me, given the Tendo family's power in the Tokyo area. They can easily push out a scapegoat, just like in the Hiruko Kagetane incident last time."

At the very least, it's not impossible to sever ties with the Tendo family by abandoning Tendo and Hikaru as pawns.

Kiki lowered his head and stared silently at the file folder in front of him, while Mahiro cut off another piece of apple, put it in his mouth, and said calmly:

"I think you should take better care of your health, President Kisara, and use your years of honed swordsmanship to raise the sword of rebellion against the Tendou family. After all, it's much easier to take over Chang'an than to pass the imperial examination."

"I know."

Just then, Kisara suddenly raised his head, a poignant smile playing on his lips.

“Thank you, Shinhime. But I’m not as foolish as you think. Originally, I only intended to use these incriminating evidence against Tendo and Hikaru. I never thought I could use it to bring down the Tendo family. I just need to exchange it for a chance to kill him.”

"And then what? Is killing Tendo and Hikaru enough?"

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