The so-called Special Security Cooperation is a new development outside the US-Japan Security Treaty, aimed at jointly responding to new domestic and foreign threats.
That’s the official explanation.
In reality, it’s just a pretext set up to provide additional security for Jiang Jian Yue—The Japanese Government said this is great, let’s have more such profitable deals in the future!
As for the impact if ordinary citizens saw it?
Please, these days there’s a new explosive news story every day. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday are bioterrorism crises; Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday are dimensional invasions.
Who even cares whether you’re carrying a gun or not?
A Gatling is just a faster-firing gun, and an RPG is just a more powerful one.
Long Yin nodded, as if accepting Jiang Jian Yue’s explanation, and exchanged a glance with Beiye.
Beiye understood, and tapped on the car window with his knuckle.
The passenger door opened in response, and a young boy with long gray-white hair crawled out. Jiang Jian Yue raised an eyebrow slightly—wasn’t this the fireproof guy?
The one who made the audience think he had a giant cucumber in his pants!
Wasn’t he a GPRI member?
666, peach blossom.
“This is Ayaka. She’ll be sent abroad with the ‘goods’.”
Jiang Jian Yue nodded and gestured for Ayaka to head to the rear compartment—two muscle-bound bodyguards and a little trap in the dim car, and some untimely images flickered through her mind.
Sigh… Xingyu has been strong lately.
The convoy set out.
After about ten minutes of driving, they still hadn’t left Saitama Prefecture.
Jiang Jian Yue, who was resting with her eyes closed, suddenly felt the vehicle brake hard. She opened her eyes and asked, “What happened?”
“The county road ahead is under construction and closed. We’re detouring.” Koji Hattori clipped the walkie-talkie back onto its holder as he answered.
The leading Lexus turned onto a side road, with the rest of the vehicles following suit.
Jiang Jian Yue nodded, pulled out her phone, and saw a new LINE message displayed on the screen.
Alright, so ‘resting with eyes closed’ was just sleeping.
The message was actually from Yuki Asahi, but it wasn’t idle chat: “I think I’m being monitored.”
Huh?
“What’s going on?”
The reply came back almost instantly: “My sister saw someone lying on a tree looking at our house window.”
“Huh? You have a sister?”
“…Senpai, is that the point?”
Followed by an angry emoji.
Of course that’s the point!
In the anime, your family background is a blank slate.
I thought you were an orphan, fighting to fill the void of family.
“Then why didn’t you use your invincible Emotional Perception Ability?”
On the other end, Yuki Asahi fell silent for a while.
How did Senpai know about his Ability?
He’d never told anyone.
And he’d only used it frequently during the Hunter incident…
Could it be?
Yuki Asahi vaguely felt that his Emotional Perception Ability was somewhat linked to Jiang Jian Senpai’s indifferent attitude.
“After my sister discovered it, the person ran away. There wasn’t time to lock on.”
“The answer is your sister was talking nonsense.”
Jiang Jian Yue didn’t know anything about Yuki Asahi’s family situation.
Nor did she know about the relationship between Funae Amuro and Yuki Asahi.
If she wasn’t terrified, she would never seek out Yuki Asahi.
“Impossible…”
“Let’s stop here, I have things to do.”
Jiang Jian Yue put down the phone, her gaze sweeping past the car window.
At this moment, the convoy was driving along a winding country road.
The windows of the stand-alone houses by the road were mostly dark.
As the vehicles entered a forested stretch, their speed gradually slowed, and the lead car seemed to encounter another problem.
Koji Hattori smoothly drew a SIG Sauer P320, loading a magazine with a click: “Someone is blocking the road ahead.”
Jiang Jian Yue glanced at her stealth wristwatch—only a sliver of energy left.
If there was a fight, it probably wouldn’t last long.
Not long after, a message came from the car in front—it was just a civilian car that had broken down.
They’d helped push it to the roadside and could move on.
Jiang Jian Yue felt a little disappointed and shoved the wristwatch back into her pocket.
Damn it! Where’s my intense battle?
Who’s going to make up for my missing corpses?!
The convoy moved forward.
As the Mercedes S-Class passed the stalled car, Jiang Jian Yue’s gaze swept over the man inside, whose face was tense with anxiety.
Only after the convoy passed did the man wipe sweat from his face, the faint pink glow around his eyes fading.
A woman’s irritated voice came through his earpiece: “Jiang Jian Yue? Dawn Resources Group… They’re actually tangled with the Light Extinguishers?”
“Abort the mission and have the followers behind stop as well.”
Dream Serpent yanked off her earpiece, the glow in her eyes dimming as she cradled her face in her hands, her pale purple hair shrouding her gloomy expression.
The mission had failed.
Dream Serpent resented that the people assigned to her were all newbies from the parasitic phase born during the ‘Superpower Awakening’ era.
She didn’t trust these people.
“Dawn Resources Group… Jiang Jian Yue…”
Originally, she had only temporarily suspended the operation upon seeing the armed person get out of the lead car.
But she hadn’t expected to see the last person she wanted to encounter.
Longshan’s corpse had already been found by the police, so the kill list was definitely wrong—Jiang Jian Yue was no ordinary person.
After investigating Dawn Resources Group’s influence in Central Africa, Dream Serpent also understood why the Archbishop had warned her to be wary of Jiang Jian Yue.
Dawn Resources Group had deep ties with the Light Extinguishers.
This kind of matter should be reported to the Archbishop as soon as possible.
Suddenly, another thought flashed through her mind.
She suspected that the Curtain Cluster now focused mainly on helping the Tokushu Jishou Taiou Honbu wrap up ‘Superpower Awakening’ incidents.
Now, it’s clear the Curtain Cluster’s attention has shifted to Northeast Asia, and after GPRI’s shadow faded, they chose to cooperate directly with the Japanese Government.
I am the imperial army, the enemy are rebels—heaven and earth cannot tolerate traitors.
Once transformed into the imperial army, the Curtain Cluster was bound to start clearing out other organizations within Japan.
Now Dawn Resources Group and the Light Extinguishers have made peace…
While their footing isn’t yet secure, if the Curtain Cluster wants to sabotage the cooperation between the Japanese Government and Dawn Resources Group, they’d first have to ask whether the ‘Million Canal Workers’ agree.
How much of the domestic manufacturing industry’s exports did Central Africa swallow up?
How many companies depend on Dawn Resources Group for their livelihoods?
Just look at how, in recent years, French and Portuguese language training classes have sprung up like mushrooms in Japanese society.
The long-shrinking Japanese manufacturing sector can’t withstand any more turbulence.
If this information is leaked to the Curtain Cluster, how would those people obsessed with national control react?
Dream Serpent couldn’t help but curl her lips into a cruel smile—it was interesting just to imagine.
***
The rest of the journey passed without incident. Jiang Jian Yue opened her phone and found Yuki Asahi hadn’t replied—’Let’s stop here’ really meant not a single word more!
If you won’t reply, I won’t message either. Hmph.
Jiang Jian Yue curled up in the back seat and lay down, her eyelids drooping as she scrolled through her phone.
Closing her eyes for a bit, she definitely wouldn’t fall… asleep… Zzzzzz
She slept all the way, only waking when they entered Kawasaki Port and Koji Hattori called her.
Looking outside, she saw Ayaka, carrying a suitcase, being escorted away by the contact person.
Then Long Yin came to the car window.
“The items you requested will be ready tomorrow. You can set a time.”
He spoke in Chinese.
Jiang Jian Yue nodded and waved.
“Bro, see you later.”
“……”