Chapter 26: Full Foot Bath Service

“Is something wrong?”

Long Yin paused for a moment, then smiled softly.

“Exposed, huh.”

Jiang Jian Yue glanced at the retreating back of Yuki Asahi, then asked quietly.

“Weren’t you looking for him?”

The “Light Extinguishers” organization seemed to be a counterpart to GPRI.

GPRI wanted to shroud the world under a veil of the unknown to protect ordinary humans.

But the Light Extinguishers leaned more toward revealing anomalies, and seemed to harbor a bias against ordinary people.

If things were as she thought, and anomalies had already been exposed, then activating the shock core would serve more to “disrupt.”

But disrupt who?

A mere Tokushu Jishou Taiou Honbu wasn’t worth such elaborate effort.

The image of Kuninori Tsuruoka flashed through Jiang Jian Yue’s mind.

Every base retained GPRI members to maintain minimum operational functions.

The remnants of GPRI were scattered across the world—their numbers couldn’t be ignored.

Did the Light Extinguishers suspect that other remnants were already cooperating with the Japanese Government?

Jiang Jian Yue, use your brain and think—what other possibilities are there?

“Miss Jiang Jian.”

Long Yin’s voice pulled her out of her thoughts.

“We came to find you.”

The demands in the mission briefing gave him a faint headache.

News of the attack had been sealed off with unprecedented force; the outside world still didn’t know about the Light Extinguishers’ declaration.

If she knew nothing about the Light Extinguishers, she was probably someone who awakened after the Destruction of GPRI.

But if she did know…

There had never been room for lone wolves in the old world.

If she awakened before GPRI’s fall, she must have belonged to some faction. How to test her response?

Long Yin, who had not invested any talent points in persuasion, felt another headache.

“Me?”

Jiang Jian Yue lowered her head.

Being shorter than Long Yin, her face was hidden, her voice light as air.

“I’m just an ordinary person.”

“What use is there in finding me?”

You all?

Long Yin caught the wording.

Was she hinting at the companions lurking in the shadows?

Or did she already know their identities?

Thoughts spun.

He decided to be blunt, his smile unchanged.

“We’ve investigated you.”

Investigate a JK?

There’s nothing about me worth investigating.

“Your financial accounts seem to have connections with the Dawn Resources Group in Africa.”

Jiang Jian Yue’s eyes lifted slightly.

Dawn Resources Group?

What’s that?

As everyone knows, beautiful girls don’t care about international news.

“So?”

Jiang Jian Yue pressed her watch in her pocket, ready to run at a moment’s notice.

“Are the Light Extinguishers trying to threaten a little girl?”

Long Yin’s expression darkened.

This was the worst case.

If the other side knew about the Light Extinguishers, it meant she was part of an organization.

“The Dawn Resources Group… never made clear which faction it belonged to in the past.”

Yes, which one, it’s hard to guess.

Since he brought up this company, even though Jiang Jian Yue didn’t read the news, she quickly caught on.

The Jiang family must have some connection with this Dawn Resources Group.

She didn’t realize that when Long Yin mentioned “which one,” he meant which “supernatural organization.”

“Heh, I have no ill intent. Now that the world is growing ever more chaotic, ‘we’ should join hands to overcome the crisis, shouldn’t we?”

Chaotic?

Isn’t the chaos caused by people like you?!

Thinking of the developments in episode four, the Light Extinguishers were acting like total villains!

Tch…

Though GPRI couldn’t be called purely righteous either, especially with trash like Kuninori Tsuruoka.

Jiang Jian Yue had always doubted Kuninori Tsuruoka’s so-called theory of “sacrificing some people to save the majority.”

He sounded like a reluctant villain.

But after thinking carefully, Jiang Jian Yue realized his true purpose.

Why not contact the government?

That was the biggest flaw in his plan, and also Jiang Jian Yue’s point of breakthrough.

Kuninori Tsuruoka’s plan was to force Yuki Asahi into metamorphosis through attacks, then appear as a “mentor” and trick him into joining GPRI.

Then, by contacting other remnants, rebuild GPRI.

There were probably already people doing just that.

If he contacted the government, Yuki Asahi would fall into someone else’s hands.

Given Yuki Asahi’s overwhelming potential, Kuninori Tsuruoka would never give up on him.

Therefore, the logic of sacrificing a few for the sake of the majority was only valid within Kuninori Tsuruoka’s initial plan.

So, he wasn’t a reluctant villain—he simply chose this path to secure Yuki Asahi as a key to GPRI’s revival!

Just as Jiang Jian Yue thought at the start—if Kuninori Tsuruoka were truly noble, he should have contacted the Japanese Government immediately.

Devourer G could withstand the M230 Autocannon, but that didn’t mean it could survive a Sea Serpent Monster’s 70mm rocket.

If an F-15J dropped iron bombs, it could probably kill Devourer G.

No matter how useless the Self-Defense Forces were, they were still a modern military organization.

“Miss Jiang Jian? What do you think?”

Long Yin’s words pulled her back to reality.

He claimed to have no ill will and even hinted at cooperation.

She didn’t see any reason to antagonize them, since there hadn’t been any conflict yet.

Better to watch and see.

Tch…

Wait, if she established ties with the Light Extinguishers, wouldn’t that make her a villain again?

Well… whatever, after all, bullet comments can’t hurt her through the screen.

Now, GPRI was a corpse, Tokushu Jishou Taiou Honbu was crippled, and the Light Extinguishers held the advantage.

Forming good relations and avoiding making enemies was the best plan.

“LINE.”

Jiang Jian Yue took out her phone and shook it.

“Eh?”

What? Why does this feel like picking someone up?

Doesn’t this kid know the internet is dangerous? Especially with commercial apps like LINE.

But Long Yin soon realized—Jiang Jian Yue wasn’t unaware of network monitoring; she was disguising herself through reverse psychology!

Actually, Jiang Jian Yue hadn’t thought that far.

“Oh, I’ll add you then.”

“Your username is longyin?”

Jiang Jian Yue looked at the pinyin on her phone screen and spoke in Chinese.

“Which long and which yin?”

“Ahem! You can speak Chinese?”

Long Yin spoke with a heavy Freljord accent.

“The ‘long’ from ‘full-service foot bath,’ and the ‘yin’… I’ll type it.”

Anyway, it’s just a codename, like Beiye. Even if it’s exposed, it’s fine.

As the two exchanged LINE info, Beiye frowned in the distance.

“What’s with this guy? Why does it feel like he’s flirting?”

“Damn, if I’d known she was so easy to talk to, I would’ve gone myself.”

Beiye bared his teeth in envy, jealousy, and resentment.

Jiang Jian Yue was a true beauty—even dressed casually today, her alluring face exuded an irresistible charm.

Hmm?

Beiye turned his head and saw Yuki Asahi, now wearing pants, walk over and stop beside him.

The boy’s gaze was fixed on the two chatting, his lips pressed tight, a cloud of gloom almost tangible on his face.

Beiye pressed his earpiece and whispered,

“You’re dead.”

In the distance, Long Yin hurriedly withdrew from the scene, quickly walking away in another direction.

Yuki Asahi, head down, walked over to Jiang Jian Yue and took her hand.

Jiang Jian Yue was a little flustered by the sudden gesture, but quickly calmed down.

“Jealous?”

“Yuki, your possessiveness is really strong.”

Jiang Jian Yue let him hold her hand, a faint, hard-to-detect smile at the corner of her lips.