"From the time Reika Konoe slipped out of the door until I sent her back," I said, "I haven't seen anyone else move, has Ryutaro Noma given up paying attention to the Konoe family?" ”

"I'm waiting to figure this out," she said, turning around, "Speaking of which, it's time to end tonight's meeting, I shouldn't have missed much to tell you, this second chance is to make you think about whether you should stay in Tokyo, and the third time is the last chance, and after the third meeting, if you still choose to stay in Tokyo, it will be in the way......"

"Although I just said that I can't leave now...... Anyway, I'll think about it more. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"Haha stay or not, I don't really care about your choice when the catastrophe comes, no matter how others choose me, I have nowhere to escape," she turned around, and she finally dropped a sentence, "That's right, someone may go to the Daigo Dojo to find you later." ”

Just like the mysterious master style last time, she has disappeared without a trace between two steps of turning around, and in addition, considering the handsomeness of the turn, the succubus god may not be better than her.

Someone looking for me? In a flash, I thought of the possibilities.

Putting aside my doubts for a while, thinking about Ryutaro Noma's previous question, I hung up the phone with apologies for disturbing Miss Maruko late at night, and asked her about the deputy chief of the National Police Agency, and she also hung up the phone with the same apologies to her colleague of Miko Chaono to ask the same question, and called back a few minutes later to report the situation to me.

As I expected, Ryutaro Noma did hold the position of deputy chief of the National Police Agency, officially as deputy chief, but this is in the past, and according to a colleague of Miss Maruko Aosaki, Ryutaro Noma had been transferred from the post of deputy chief a few months ago, and there was another mysterious appointment that was not announced to the public, and the National Police Agency has not yet determined who will succeed the deputy director.

It is no wonder that a colleague who seems to know everything does not mention the deputy chief of the National Police Agency when he introduces the personnel and relationship between the National Police Agency and the Metropolitan Police Department to Miss Maruko.

So the question arises again, is the outdated news that Reimu told me about Ryutaro Noma because she hasn't paid attention to official information in months, or is it deliberately misleading me? If it is the latter, she should know that I have the means to verify the authenticity of the information, so why use such an unreliable way to mislead?

Is the key to the mysterious appointment that is not open to the public? Reimu's purpose in trying to threaten Noma with exposure or something else has something to do with that mysterious appointment? Then again, what was the purpose of her waiting near the Konoe Mansion really threatening? Or is it just one of the purposes?

With the doubt that it did not decrease but worsened after Reimu broke the news, I returned to the Daigo Dojo with a heavy heart.

"You seem a little uneasy," said Masako-san, who quietly got up while the family had fallen asleep and waited for me to return, "Are you in any other trouble?" ”

"It can be said that it is trouble, or it may be a big crisis," I suddenly realized that I had fallen into a bad mental dead end when I saw the ordinary female high school student who seemed to have crossed a difficult stage of cultivation and was no longer full of worries, "Ah, it doesn't matter at all, I have to face that I am no one else, and I think that my careful thinking is meaningless in my practice, so let's talk about tomorrow night's activity policy." ”

"Uh......"

People have to face in confusion and hardship, often themselves, the obstacles created by reality after crossing the past often find that it is not so high - such as the manufacturing process of Shanghai sauce - and for people in the cultivation of the pass, the so-called practice test almost eighty or ninety percent comes from themselves, if the destruction of the tribulation also follows a similar mechanism or fate, then the source of the destruction of the tribulation is basically still mostly the tribulator itself, "Lingmeng" so-called Alice is her destruction of the tribulation, Maybe it's her wishful thinking - or some excuse for not wanting to face herself.

If it's the latter...... Perhaps the body of the Annihilation Tribulation is the outside world "Hakurei Reimu" herself, and the Reimu I am familiar with is the real Tribulator, and her mysterious and abnormal external incarnation is the Heavenly Tribulation she seeks for herself, this speculation was actually reminded by Miss Tshuasen as early as the day when Miss Aozaki Maruko got lost to Gensokyo.

It doesn't matter if it's because the dreams of the outside world are too complicated or if I'm too simple, the important thing is that I have to face a powerful opponent like Reimu Incarnation, whose cultivation is so wonderful that it is almost impossible to find a trace, and the opponent she chooses is just a naïve witch who has been dead for decades, and if I have to get through this time, maybe I should find a breakthrough in myself rather than thinking about the problem more complicated or pushing it onto someone else, even if that person is a direct threat to me.

"Alice, Alice Sand?"

"Huh? Ah, sorry for the distraction again, what did you just say? ”

She blinked her eyelids in confusion, and then said, "Speaking of having me sneak into the banquet hall from the main entrance with an invitation, Alice found the other entrance to the hotel beforehand to blend in with the waiter's line. ”

"That's a great idea." I nodded in satisfaction.

"Where's it? And isn't it all your idea," she said, looking down and twisting, "let me go through the main entrance alone, this is too much to look up to me!" ”

"Isn't it good?"

"Of course not! I'm worried, worried, and messed up the business, wouldn't it be too conspicuous for an ordinary girl like me to go into that kind of place without any experience in high society? For example, the posture of holding the wine glass is wrong, the plate of pasta is too big, the knife and fork are poked in the neck of others, and the poor sour face that can't be covered by diamonds...... Something like that. ”

"Probably...... No way? "Is that really going to be a serious problem?

"If the waiter is found out by the guards and interrogated about the origin...... I don't know anyone who gave me the invitation. ”

"Well, yes, you shouldn't have to worry about it, it's just a very casual business exchange dinner, I think everyone is free to move, as long as you don't carry dangerous items, no one will pay special attention to you."

"Well, to put that another question, does Alice have experience as a waitress?"

"Not a single bit."

“…… Let's just get in with it, what's the next step? What the hell are we going to do? ”

"Find Hojohiko、If he didn't attend, find other senior officials who might know all the business of the National Police Agency,And ask some questions in a friendly manner."

"Other officials?"

"This kind of business exchange banquet should have the organizer come forward to speak, the plot is like this, I think as long as you find the person who speaks on stage, it is probably right."

"Don't you think it's too casual......

"There are alternatives," I said nonchalantly, "and if you don't get anything out of the banquet, it's a big deal to visit the home of the National Police Agency Chief, Hojo Hiko." ”

"That's a good idea, why don't you just execute it?"

"I used to think that there might be very powerful people who would obstruct in secret, and there was a danger of conflict when they came directly to the door, but now...... It's almost certain that there must be someone powerful protecting the entire National Police Agency in the shadows," I mean, of course, Ryutaro Noma, "but this person may be busy with something else right now, and there is a good chance that I will get close to a senior National Police Agency official." ”