I became a heart-stealing thief in Azure Files

Based on his assessment of combat strength, Amamiya felt that even without his command, Hoshino could easily defeat more than a dozen members of the Helmet Squad.

—Although, without my almost precognitive command, I would probably only suffer a minor injury.

After calming Hoshino down a bit, Amamiya straightened her appearance and then deliberately made some noise.

The helmeted team members, including Wakazama, who had caught the distinct sound, immediately looked toward the source of the sound.

Taking this opportunity, Amamiya gracefully and elegantly stepped out from the bushes.

He held the Shiting Box tablet in one hand, while the other hand was empty, showing no sign of holding a weapon.

“I am Sensei of Charlemagne, and I am speaking to the members of the Helmet Corps.”

Despite being pointed at with guns by a group of delinquent girls (including Wakazama), he stepped forward without changing his expression and looked sincerely at the members of the Helmet Gang, as well as Wakazama, who was standing there in a daze, seemingly at a loss.

"Communication can resolve most pointless disputes... and is also an effective means of preventing hatred from escalating further."

Amamiya glanced at the red-haired girl who was slightly frowning, hesitating whether to issue the attack command.

"You're the captain of this helmet squad, right?"

"can we talk?"

Chapter Sixty-Four: One Sentence Breaks Through the Fox's Defenses, Because I am Xia Lai Sensei

"You're the captain of this helmet squad, right?"

"can we talk?"

Amamiya's unguarded approach successfully caused the Helmeted Squad members, who were originally planning to open fire or do something, to be momentarily confused.

The group of delinquent girls, who were in such a rush that they hadn't even had time to put on their helmets, looked strange.

While keeping their weapons pointed at Amamiya, they looked at each other, each catching a hint of bewilderment in the other's expression.

'...What's going on here?'

'This... is Xia Lai's Sensei, right?'

'Well, even though that short, pink-haired guy he was commanding injured us…'

'Damn... looking at him now, he's so handsome...'

"Speaking of which... we were the ones who first received the order to attack from the boss, and only then did they retaliate, right?"

The helmeted group members, somewhat confused about the situation, all looked at their leader—a red-haired girl whose expression seemed unpredictable.

At this moment, the members of the Helmet Squad were completely unaware that their leader was gritting her teeth and having a brainstorming session.

Why does Sensei want to "negotiate"?

'Also, how did he pinpoint the location of the helmet-wielding group so precisely?'

'Could there be a mole within the Helmet Regiment?'

No... that's unlikely.

Her sharp gaze swept over the bewildered members of the helmeted group, and after a moment's thought, the red-haired girl rejected the idea.

That means…

'Is Sensei finding the fighting power of the "outside help" I brought in troublesome, and intends to resolve this issue as peacefully as possible?'

'It's possible...'

Thinking of this, she looked at the imposing "Crimson Calamity Fox" beside her.

She then noticed that the other person remained in the position of raising and aiming the gun, frozen in place like a malfunctioning machine, without making any other changes.

Hmm, truly worthy of being called the Fox of Calamity... such professionalism and the sheer oppressive aura...

Wakazao's 'performance' put her at ease.

"Hmph... Peace talks? Sensei, aren't you being a bit too simplistic?"

"From the very beginning, there was no possibility of negotiation regarding this matter (the resort hunter)..."

"This time, we won't lose again... After all, we've called in reinforcements!"

As she spoke, she looked confidently at Wakazama, who was still standing there: "Hey, Wakazama, isn't it time to make a move?"

However, Wakamo did not react.

"Ruo Zao?"

Amamiya sighed softly, "...Why do you keep pointing a gun at me? Is it because Wakazama hates me?"

Wakazama, who had remained unmoved by the calls, was suddenly struck as if by thunder.

Her fox ears on the top of her head trembled first, then drooped limply to the sides.

Immediately afterwards, the two fluffy fox tails also drooped down quickly.

Ruozao, seemingly only just realizing what had happened, dropped her hands dejectedly and threw away her rifle with a 'thud'.

"No, no... Wakazama... Wakazama just..."

Ruozao squatted down on the spot, subconsciously curling up and making a gesture of cupping her face with her hands—although she was wearing a fox mask, the obvious sobbing under the mask proved her current state.

“Wakazama doesn’t hate you…Wakazama, Wakazama didn’t…it ​​wasn’t intentional…”

Sobbing, the girl continued her broken 'monologue' under the strange gazes of the helmeted group: "Wakazama never intended to point a weapon at you... Please forgive me... Waaah..."

"Do not despise Wakazama, do not discard Wakazama..."

Once Amamiya's words broke her defenses, she was no longer the "Fox of Calamity" she had been before.

Overwhelmed by immense guilt and a host of other emotions, she appeared utterly weak, pitiful, and helpless.

Amamiya: "..."

He never expected that his seemingly casual remark would actually break through Ruozao's defenses.

He originally just wanted to make Wakazama betray him with a single sentence...

But the result turned out to be 'one sentence that broke Wakazao's defenses'?

This big fox has such low defense...

Facing the strange gazes of the Helmet Group members, Amamiya took another step forward, bent down, and gently touched the fox mask that Wakasa wore on her face.

This single action seemed to greatly encourage Wakazama.

Her emotions came and went quickly. After being stopped crying by Amamiya's 'behavioral suggestion', Amamiya picked up the rifle that Wakasa had unconsciously discarded and which had fallen next to her, and carefully wiped away the remaining sand particles.

"We should take good care of everything we have."

As Amamiya spoke, she placed Wakasa's "Crimson Calamity" rifle back into her hand.

He then stood up and looked at the red-haired girl, who still wore an incredulous expression, and calmly asked, "Can we talk now?"

"..."

The red-haired girl didn't seem to understand the situation immediately.

After a silence of more than ten seconds, and after much deliberation, she finally reluctantly ordered the helmeted squad members to put down their weapons for the time being.

After the green and blue light seen through the "Third Eye" gradually subsided, Amamiya was able to see some basic information about the captain of the Helmet Crew.

Surprisingly... she was also a facilitator for developing a relationship.

【Kawakoma Kazeranma / The Delinquent Girl Who Makes a Scene】

【Arcana: V.The Chariot】

[Assistance Relationship: Not Unlocked]

"Alright... since that's the case, let's talk..."

Seemingly utterly helpless, Lan Wu rubbed her forehead with a pained expression: "Let me make this clear... this is only a 'temporary reconciliation.' Next time we meet, we might be enemies again."

Their attitude is quite interesting... Could this be considered a form of tsundere?

Amamiya nodded with a gentle smile: "I understand. Thank you for your willingness to negotiate."

Amamiya's gentle, smiling expression successfully elicited a slight reaction from Ranma.

The girl immediately turned her head slightly with a look of disgust, as if she were utterly disgusted.

"..."

"Tch! What kind of expression is that...?"

"I never expected that Xia Lai Sensei, who had such a good reputation, would have such a disgusting smile..."

【~???~】(from Lanwu)

Even so, I still honestly increased my favorability.

'Waaaah... What's wrong with the boss?'

Are you shy?

'It seems like the boss has never shown such an expression before...'

'Could this be love...?'

Lan Wu, having caught the whispers of the helmeted group members, immediately glared back fiercely.

Maintaining that subtle expression of 'fierce' yet slightly flushed cheeks, Lan Wu raised her voice indignantly and asked, "...So, what do you want to ask?"

With a genuine smile, Amamiya asked the question that was currently on her mind most: "What is a resort hunter?"

"..."

Lanwu was stunned, then gave Amamiya a strange look.

"...You really don't know?"

Amamiya nodded.

Lan Wu remained silent: "..."

Not knowing what to say, she sighed softly after a moment of silence: "...So it seems there was a huge misunderstanding..."

“Sensei, you probably don’t know this yet, but a resort hunting event is taking place on these ‘Archipelago’…”

"You must have won some kind of prize and received a lottery ticket before coming here, right?"

As Lan Wu spoke, she reached into her shirt pocket and pulled out a resort ticket that looked very familiar to Amamiya. She waved it at Amamiya and said, "We're the same."

"Including us... everyone currently in these archipelago obtained these 'resort access tickets' through various inexplicable means and then came here."

"let me see……"

She counted on her fingers roughly: "Besides our Helmet Group, as far as I know, there's also the Hot Spring Development Department, that Odyssey Bunny Girl group, and I think there's also the Xuanwu Merchant Guild from the Classic of Mountains and Seas? Anyway... this area isn't just a simple resort area, you know?"

"Because everyone wants to expand their territory and fight over the island as their own property... that's roughly the idea."

Lanwu's words immediately reminded Amamiya of a well-known massively multiplayer online game outside of Kiwatos—

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG)

So it seems... one faction has gathered students from many academies here and, through underhanded means, staged a territorial battle similar to "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds"?

"So..." Amamiya carefully asked her second question, "Your Helmet Crew also wanted to secure a place for yourselves in these archipelago, to establish a base... which is why you participated in the 'Resort Hunt'?"

Lan Wu shrugged, not answering, but revealing a calm acceptance of the situation.

"Well then... members of the Helmet Crew, would you please hear me out?"

Amamiya paused for a moment, then sincerely extended an invitation under the slightly puzzled gazes of the helmeted group members.

"If the Helmet Crew is considering expanding their influence, should they try collaborating with Xia Lai?"

Chapter Sixty-Five: The 'Truth' of the Resort

In the end, Lanwu still did not give a definite answer.

After abandoning the 'completely unreliable' Wakazama, the Helmet Squad members seemed to hesitate for a long time before finally choosing to temporarily evacuate by boat.

The girls of Abydos no longer hid. One by one, with 'worried faces' or 'deep in thought', they emerged from behind the bushes where they were hiding and immediately surrounded Amamiya on the beach and Wakasa.