I became a heart-stealing thief in Azure Files

Especially the changes in Izuna—

Mimori and Chise immediately understood...

Why was Izuna chosen as a special "event boss" challenge in "Hyakuyado Umi no Naka"? This even led to the development of a special hashtag #NinjaChallenge# on the internet.

Judging solely from the traces left by Izuna after the battle... it doesn't seem like much.

It only resulted in some strange-looking battle marks—nothing surprising.

It wasn't until he experienced it firsthand that Mimori understood...

Seeing the crater left by the BOSS's ultimate attack several hours later is quite different from standing next to the BOSS and personally experiencing the BOSS casting its ultimate attack right next to you.

'Wow, that's amazing... Is this the power of the "Persona"?'

Feeling the sharp and dangerous aura emanating from his surroundings, seemingly omnipresent and capable of shattering anything at any moment, Mimori found it hard to believe...

As enemies, just how desperate must the delinquent girls feel when facing Izuna's 'ultimate move'?

After about ten seconds, Izuna finally finished charging up.

Izuna waved his hand forward and shouted out the name of the skill.

"...'Soul Strike'!"

"ha……!"

The god described in the Kojiki came to life, his molten muscles bulging slightly, his unstoppable aura reaching its peak at this moment—then, following Izuna's command, he drew his sword.

The cloud streams swirling around it began to spread forward in a visible circular waveform.

"Soul Strike: Deals massive physical damage to all enemies with a guaranteed critical hit."

'Previously, special operations used firepower to clear the way... Now it's become the Persona's mass destruction capabilities to clear the way...'

From this perspective of 'paving the way before battle,' Izuna is indeed very suitable for activities in another world...

With these thoughts in mind, Amamiya pondered that she should probably avoid using "Dawn Star".

"Soul Strike" has left the street covered with a mess of deep slashes, directly cutting the countless PMC robots patrolling the street into metal blocks of almost equal size, even neater than tofu blocks.

At this point, if he were to unleash "Dawn Star," it wouldn't have a significant destructive effect, not to mention...

It could also potentially trigger natural disasters such as island earthquakes and massive damage to buildings.

On a larger scale, something like a 'continental shelf shift' could even happen.

"Let's go."

Amamiya waved his hand, activated the "Ariadne" Persona, and began 'navigation'.

After Izuna's efficient and thorough clearing of debris, Amamiya and his group didn't encounter any further effective obstacles.

Whether it's the PMC robots from the Black Tortoise Group, the PMC robots from the Kaiser Group, or any other mechanical equipment.

Anyone who was hit by "Soul Strike" suffered injuries all over the place.

Under Izuna's deliberate control, this circular slash, large enough to spread across most of the building complex, only caused effective damage to 'non-biological targets'.

With the girls who were parading through the night, Amamiya arrived at the core building of the "Black Turtle Group" without any obstacles.

Because Amamiya and his group kicked the door down so fast—even faster than players using cheats like full-map hacks and instant-kill hacks—the members of the "Black Turtle Group" didn't even have time to make any effective response.

When Amamiya and his group "kicked down the door" into the Black Turtle Group's core building on the island—a tower in the style of the Classic of Mountains and Seas—the Black Turtle Group members seemed to be smugly conducting a 'meeting summary'.

"After 'Miaotianwan' was brought to justice, the legacy he left behind is enough for us to live on for quite some time..."

"This time, we can make a fortune again by leveraging the resort business..."

"Partnering with the Caesars Group was indeed the best choice..."

The girls of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons stood in two small teams outside the 'office' door, their weapons ready, waiting to launch a surprise attack after hearing the news, and to bring the masterminds behind the 'resort hunt' to justice on the spot.

Inside the office, the sounds that resembled 'celebrating victory' continued.

The members of the "Black Turtle Group" are still dreaming.

"It seems we need to find a way to merge the Black Tortoises, which are showing signs of splitting up..."

"There has to be a leader; we can't afford to lose this benefit..."

"Speaking of that Sensei from Xia Lai, and the students he led, it seems they also participated in this resort hunt... Is that alright?"

"What does it have to do with anything? Isn't that Xia Lai's Sensei an adult?"

"Since they are adults... then none of them are immune to the temptation of profit."

"As long as we extend an olive branch and offer significant benefits in invitation to cooperation..."

Amamiya, standing at the door, listened with a cold expression.

If he were to actually agree to the demands of these petty scoundrels who only care about immediate gains… then he would be with Shido, no…

He's no different from Junya Kinjo.

As a "phantom thief," Amamiya has punished many palace masters whose inner worlds were twisted for various reasons.

Among them, only "the ambitious ruler, Shido Masayoshi" is a villain whose head-to-head battles are worth revisiting.

Meanwhile, Kaneshiro Junya, who considers himself a yakuza boss, is driven by greedy desires...

He's barely qualified as a villain.

From a villain's perspective, these members of the 'Black Turtle Group' are not even as good as Junya Kaneshiro.

If villains were to be categorized into different levels, the 'Black Turtle Group' would definitely be considered to be at the very bottom of the hierarchy.

'Prepare for a surprise attack'.

Amamiya made a tactical hand gesture to the girls standing on either side of the doorway.

Immediately, he himself prepared for battle, wielding both "God of Destruction" in one hand and "Paradise Lost" in the other.

'Quan Yiling 1T Weapon Master Jiusi K Ba Jun, Yang Nai.'

The fox-eared girl, who was also ready to go, took out a flashbang from her ninjutsu scroll.

'Ninja Art, the Technique of Passing Through Walls.'

Wearing non-slip ninja gloves, she extended her index finger and drew a circle on the wall with her fingertip, creating a small hole that allowed one to see out from one direction.

Izuna pulled the tab and safety, threw the flashbang grenade in, and then closed the hole she had created, like zipping up a zipper.

'Click, click.'

Upon hearing the faint metallic clanging and the sound of an irregular metal column rolling on the ground, the girls instinctively put on their earplugs, ready to launch an attack.

'boom.'

A faint explosion was heard.

Then came a chorus of heart-wrenching screams like "Flashbang!!" and "Can't see anything?!"

After exchanging glances with the group of girls in the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, Amamiya nodded and kicked open the door.

"SCHALE...Open The Door!"

Chapter 103 Jingzi's Dependence

When Amamiya and his group finished their raid on the resort islands controlled by the "Black Turtle Group" and the subsequent cleanup work, they returned to the resort islands belonging to Hyakuyado aboard Lanwu's armed hovercraft—it was already evening.

"So... with this in mind, the conquest of all the 'islands' in the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons can be considered complete, right?"

Facing the sun, painted with the rosy hues of the setting sun, as it gradually sinks into the sea, Shizuko let out a long sigh after recounting all her experiences throughout the day.

I got up really early this morning, and then we all made plans together...

Next, the two sides split up with the members of Abydos's group...

In the morning, I went to the resort island owned by Gehenna, helped persuade the hot spring development department that controlled the island, and participated in finalizing the subsequent "franchise plan".

Around noon, I went to the "Golden Fleece" ship at Odyssey and chatted with the students from the Odyssey Marine Academy, witnessing firsthand the daily life of a "card dealer"...

In the afternoon, we'll be heading non-stop to the area controlled by the so-called "Xuanwu Chamber of Commerce"... and then we'll have to outwit and outmaneuver the Black Turtle Group members...

After bringing these perpetrators to justice, we also need to consider how to send them back so they can receive the punishment they deserve...

And so, without even having lunch, they were busy until evening.

After pausing, the fatigue that had been building up inside my body finally burst forth like a flood, transforming into a surge of exhaustion and drowsiness.

The sunset was warm, and the sea breeze was salty.

Despite the refreshing sea breeze, the brown-haired girl, who had been busy all day with her feet barely touching the ground, felt no sense of refreshment.

As she watched the sun slowly sink into the sea, and the last rays of the sunset fade away before her eyes, Shizuko felt sleepy and wanted to close her eyes.

Even I, as one of the entourage, am exhausted...

'Sensei, who plays as the main player most of the time, must be working much harder...'

The girl, exhausted and sleepy to the point of being somewhat dazed, had dim eyes.

Perhaps it was the overwhelming fatigue that kept eroding her conscious mind that made it difficult for her to concentrate, and all sorts of 'bizarre' thoughts began to pop into her head.

At noon, in the VIP lounge, the warmth from those 'adult's broad, kind hands' and the comforting feeling that spread throughout my body seemed to still linger in my palms.

'The feeling of being held by those hands...I want to experience it again...'

'The sense of reassurance and ease that Sensei conveys, and the reliability of "I can entrust everything to you"...'

'Without Sensei's advance intervention... what would Hyakya-do have encountered this time?'

'I'm afraid they'll just be doing a lot of thankless work... and end up with nothing, with unpredictable losses, and it might even lead to the dissolution of the entire "Celebration Operations Committee"...'

"What's wrong, Shizuko?"

The familiar voice that rang in her ears caused a brief blank in the mind of the confused girl, who was bound by complicated thoughts.

"Just wondering..."

Without thinking, Shizuko instinctively replied, "I feel like I need to be comforted by Sensei, and then thank Sensei properly...?"

She suddenly snapped out of her reverie, startled, and looked up in a flustered panic, meeting the gaze that was smiling at her—

"Sen, Sensei?!"

"Hmm." After giving a casual "hmm," Amamiya then said with a hint of teasing interest, "So Shizuko wants me to comfort her? So, is it a pat on the head or a hug?"

Before Shizuko could even panic, her thoughts, already dulled by drowsiness, were once again disrupted by Amamiya's question.

She lowered her eyes and actually gave Amamiya's question a serious thought.

"Pat your head...no, hug you...that's not right either. I want both..."

"?!"

A thunderbolt exploded in her mind, and Shizuko was suddenly jolted awake.

Once she came to her senses and realized what she had said, Shizuko froze on the spot.

After her gaze darted around for a moment, Shizuko finally decided to 'play dumb'.

"Haha... I was probably too sleepy just now and didn't hear what you were saying, Sensei..."

"What exactly are they talking about?"

Amamiya: "..."

Will you shatter the beautiful atmosphere with your own awkwardness...?

Amamiya knew very well that she could play dumb for a bit here, repeating Shizuko's words while hugging her under the pretext of comforting her.

Amamiya estimated that if he really did that... Shizuko would most likely not refuse.

However, considering Shizuko's last remaining vestige of "marketplace girl" self-preservation, he did not do so.

"It's almost time. The operation on Abydos' side should be coming to an end."

"I have full rights to use the island, and there won't be any problems."

Amamiya took off his coat and draped it over the girl's shoulders from behind, gently comforting her, "Shizuko, don't think so much or feel so emotional... If you feel tired, just stop and rest for now."

【~???~】(from Jingzi)

The thick men's summer clothes could not ward off the coolness of the sea breeze at dusk, which was already carrying the chill of night.