Hiss!

After taking a few sips of the soup base of tempura udon in the noodle cup, Higashinohara smashed his mouth twice, a little nostalgic for the sour taste of Laotan sauerkraut in his previous life.

He got up from the tatami mat and went to the balcony where he could only hang clothes, opened the trash can and threw the remaining scraps in, and pushed open the window to disperse the smell.

It has been raining for the past two days, and the light rain outside the window has stopped in the evening, and the sunset has cleared the haze of the sky and sprinkled the corridor outside.

There will be no pie in the sky,

If it really falls, it won't hit you.

This is the consciousness that Higashinohara has had since his previous life.

Faced with the waiter job that he had just seen with ten times the hourly wage, he couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart.

It can't be some new trick scam, right?

Higashinohara was suspicious, and then carefully looked at the sponsor behind the job posting, Sigmund International Trading Company, and didn't seem to have heard much about it.

He casually switched out of the browser and searched, the expression on his face gradually but gradually became a little surprised.

The so-called international trading company is generally engaged in the exchange of goods and services between different countries, and Sigmund is also like this, and the business scope is quite large, from mechanical and electrical equipment to communication equipment, medical equipment to chemical raw materials, and even clothing, shoes, hats and cosmetics...... Almost everything that can make money is involved, and it is like an international behemoth.

The app commonly used by Higashinohara has a strict review of the companies that publish job postings, and the fraud may not be said to be none, but it is minimal, and the cost is higher than cheating yourself a poor student.

It can't be done at all.

He is thoughtful, since the company is likely to be fine, and the salary is so high, he must be the only one who sees this recruitment information, so the employment threshold may not be simple.

Give it a try, shall we?

Towards the end of the month, Hokkaido's parents saved money and sent 100,000 yen for living expenses plus the savings they earned from their part-time jobs, and there were 50,000 yen left.

There's no way, the consumption in New Tokyo is too high, and it usually costs seven or eight thousand yen to go to a restaurant for a meal, and the price of buying a slightly decent dress in the mall also starts at 10,000 yen.

Higashinohara no longer hesitated, and chose to submit his "resume" with one click - in fact, it is what kind of work he has worked before, his physical condition, and his evaluation of personal conduct... and a real handsome photo with no beauty and no PS.

Considering that this kind of part-time job is mostly more wolf and less meat, he didn't have much hope, and swiped other part-time information, and he definitely couldn't be idle after the weekend workout.

Unexpectedly, he was still swiping for a few minutes, and the APP received a message, Higashinohara clicked on it, and suddenly his face was a little surprised in surprise.

I actually passed it so quickly?

After reading the information given by the other party, at 3 p.m. the day after tomorrow, at a villa near Odaiba Seaside Park in Minato Ward, a short "induction training" will be held, and after the dinner, you can receive ten times the salary of ordinary part-time jobs.

It turns out that there are times when I get hit by a pie...

Sigmund International Trading Company?

Higashinohara remembered this company with deep pockets in his mind, and just now he seemed to see that Wano Country also had a branch, but he didn't find a formal office building on the map of the city, otherwise he would have tried his luck if he wanted to stay in Tokyo and find a job after graduation.

......

Same time, different place.

Chiyoda-ku, Metropolitan Police Department main store, in the office of the 13th Division of the 3rd Investigation Group.

Half past five is already the time for civil servants to get off work, the office is brightly lit, everyone is busy with their feet on the ground, and they walk with the wind.

Next door to the office,

It is a sealed special training room.

In front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window, Sugida Tsukasa held a katana called [Song of Sin] in both hands with a muscle-like upper body like a dragon, and the blade faintly oozes a faint blue cold, and the sweat on his body rolls down the ravine like a full grain of beans.

He picked up the transparent water cup next to him and took a sip of water gently, and then raised the cup flat and slowly tilted the rim of the cup, and a normal person's vision could see the water falling like a waterfall.

Sugida, whose body was low, squinted slightly like a fierce beast, but the katana in his other hand slashed countless times in the lightning and stone fire, and the waterfall in front of him first seemed to be held up by an invisible force for a moment, and then condensed into blue ice crystals at an incredible speed visible to the naked eye.

In the next moment, his speed increased again, and the sound of breaking the air like a tidal wave was stacked on top of each other!

The ice crystals that had not yet fallen were shattered like powder by the particles of invisible power, and then turned into a white mist that rose strangely under the blood-soaked sunset outside the floor-to-ceiling window.

Whew!

Tsukasa Sugida opened his mouth and spewed out a white mist snake, whirling into a sharp gasp like a bellows.

At this time, the wet beads of sweat on his original body had condensed into ice crystals and fell to the ground at some point, making a crisp sound like large beads and small beads falling on a jade plate.

[Devil May Cry]!

The blue ice ability with talent serial number 51.

But there is a kind of breathtaking shock that Sugita Tsukasa, a fifth-order 2nd stage superpower, exerts on him.

Knock knock!

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door outside the training room.

"Captain, my colleagues from the Communications Department have found out!"

At this time, Mai Aragaki was shouting excitedly outside the door as the intern liaison officer walked briskly.

After a brief silence, the door was opened, and Tsukasa Sugitada, who had been dressed again, appeared in front of Mai Aragaki with a cold and calm face.

Mai Aragaki was stunned, her eyes subconsciously glanced at Tsukasa Sugita's hair, the corners of her mouth grinned, she wanted to laugh, and quickly glanced back.

Sugita Tsukasa had just finished training, although all the sweat beads on his body were condensed into ice particles when he urged his ability, but his hair was wet and frozen, and at this time there was a kind of Super Saiyan momentum, but with that expressionless cold face, it looked a little disagreeable.

"What's the situation?" Tsukasa Sugita asked.

Mai Aragaki quickly retracted her gaze, handed over a document, and quickly reported in her mouth, "We screened the teenagers who disappeared recently, and the place and time of their disappearance have nothing in common, and it seems that they are unrelated. ”

Speaking of this, Mai Aragaki glanced at Tsukasa Sugita who was looking down at the materials, and continued to report, "But after conducting a large-scale communication investigation, my friends in the communications department found that in the week before the disappearance of these missing persons, the word [Sigmund International Trading Company] appeared once or twice in phone calls, text messages, and online chat messages. ”

"Sigmund International Trading Company?" Tsukasa Sugita chewed on the name.

"That's right." Aragaki Yui nodded, handed over another material in her hand, and continued quickly as she entered the state:

"This is an international trading company, many countries on the mainland have their branches, and the legal representative of the head office on the surface is a celestial and aristocratic woman, but in fact, when some disputes arise in other countries, it is the people from the interest group of the Hope parliamentarian of the world government who come forward to solve them."

"Councilor Hope? It's him? ”

Sugita Tsukasa's eyes narrowed slightly, and his mind subconsciously remembered Catwoman, a thief who was arrested the day before yesterday after being arrested by a high school student and handed over to the World Government Adjudication Division.

At that time, the upper echelons of the Metropolitan Police Department were pressurized... It seems that he is also the captain of a ruling division that Congressman Hope once promoted, and anyone who knows a little bit about the inside of the world government knows this relationship.

And thinking of this Hope member of the House of Lords, Sugita Tsukasa's brows couldn't help frowning slightly.

The parliament of the world government is a "product of political integrity" that compromised after the invasion of heaven and man by flying machine thousands of years ago (later some historians believed that it was a fugitive) and the great war that almost destroyed the world that broke out among mankind.

The parliament is divided into the [Celestial House] and the [Commoners' House], and over the years it has gradually been abbreviated as the "Upper House" and the "Lower House".

The Upper House is held by 500 nobles among the celestials, and there is no term limit;

The lower house is held by the powerful and social elites from more than 300 countries on the two continents of the world in order to seek the right to speak for mankind, with the same 500 seats, which are elected every three years, and have positions such as the speaker, deputy speaker and councillor.

Councilor Hope is a representative of a group of interests among the members of the Celestial Nobles of the House of Lords, although it is not as good as the "Nine Families" of the top nobles of the Celestials, but the huge influence is also distributed in two continents, and Hope itself is said to be a seventh-order absolute ability powerhouse with talent serial number 22 [Canglei], but he lives in a simple place and has people around him to handle things, and few people have seen him make a move.

......

"An international trading company?"

Tsukasa Sugita chewed on the name again.

With his sensitive professional sense, the disappearance case corresponded to these events, and a word quickly came to mind that made countless people hate it.

Human traffickers!

But then came confusion.

......

You must know that most of the celestial nobles are born with various abilities, and their physical fitness is no less than that of low-level physical abilities, so they also think very highly of themselves, and ordinary humans are no different from livestock in the eyes of humans in their eyes.

The reason why the old fox Masato Ishikawa found Councilor Hope in the previous search lesson stopped the momentum was that on the one hand, it was forced by the pressure of the world government, which controlled most of the discourse by the celestials, and on the other hand, it was also the obvious identity of Councilor Hope in the world government, even if the joint arbitration of the upper and lower houses was opened, it would be difficult for people to link it with the disappearance of ordinary humans in Wano Country.

But that's exactly what happened.

Sugida felt that there must be something wrong with it.

Mai Aragaki looked at Tsukasa Sugida's contemplative appearance, paused and reported again, "In addition, there is news from the Immigration Bureau that a large number of unidentified entrants have appeared in major cities in Wano Country in the past week, and according to the information and portraits captured by the cameras at the scene, a certain revolutionary army force suspected of the activities of the Grand Duchy of Shayash in the north, and..."

"What else?" Sugita asked with a frown.

Mai Aragaki remembered a rumor within the 13th detachment, glanced at Tsukasa Sugita curiously, retracted her gaze and hurriedly reported:

"There is also a suspicion that the captain of the second detachment under the [Sakamoto Dragon] Pirate Regiment is wanted in the East China Sea - the fifth-order three-sword swordsman Ryunosuke Kamiki who has the [Enma] talent sequence 49."

Hearing the name 'Ryunosuke Kamiki', Sugita Tsukasa's expression was obviously stunned, and he seemed to be in a trance for a moment, and then quickly returned to normal and asked:

"Have you found out what their purpose is?"

"It's not possible to investigate their movements yet."

Mai Aragaki shook her head, looked at Tsukasa Sugita and asked, "Captain, could this be related to this disappearance?" ”

Sugita didn't answer the question, and was silent for a while before saying, "It's hard to say now, notify the people of the Ministry of Public Security's mobile search team to quickly check the movements of these unknown entrants, and I will get the preliminary results by tomorrow night at the latest." ”

"Yes!"

Mai Aragaki hurriedly trotted out.

After Mai Aragaki left, Tsukasa Sugida, who returned to the training room, looked at the bustling and crowded streets outside the floor-to-ceiling windows of the high-rise building. The haze overhead blocked the light of the setting sun again, and the sky was dark and gloomy, which made people feel a little depressed unconsciously.

Thinking of the name mentioned by Mai Aragaki just now, Sugita Tsukasa unconsciously appeared in his mind with a tall and generous back, full of inexhaustible strength and enthusiasm for everything.

You guys...

What does it have to do with all this?!

Sugida exhaled slowly, clenching the long knife in his hand hard.

......

Hokkaido, New Chitose Airport.

In the pouring rain, a civil airplane flying like a falcon swept off the runway and disappeared into the black clouds overhead, and the flashing signal lights stained the tumbling clouds a bright red.

In the first class, the tall man sitting near the aisle yawned, twisted his sturdy body very comfortably on the soft seat of Zhihuashi under his buttocks, squinted at the pretty stewardess who had just walked by not far away, and couldn't help but let out a happy sigh in his mouth.

"Whoa! Sure enough, it's still comfortable to fly... I'm going to throw up every day on the boat, or... Kojima, you go and propose to Boss Sakamoto, we won't be pirates in the future, let's be snitches, right? ”

Listening to the words in her ear, sitting near the porthole was a woman dressed fashionably with sunglasses covering most of her face.

She was wearing a long black trench coat with a fur collar on her upper body, a crimson Chinese cardigan and a miniskirt underneath, and black knee-length high-heeled leather boots.

Kojima Yuko looked at the lazy man beside him with a comfortable and enjoyable face, couldn't help frowning, ignored the man's ridicule, and asked coldly:

"Do you think you're here for a vacation in the safe zone? Don't forget what this is, bring your sunglasses, this mission has revealed that we won't be able to go back so easily. ”

And the tall and strong man next to him, obviously with a big heart that matches, smiled and put on sunglasses and said confidently:

"Failure? Don't worry, my Shenmu has never failed in his life! Otherwise, how could Boss Sakamoto send me on this mission? ”

Isn't it because you're a violent saboteur? Practicing swords every day, three knives can cut something off the ship.

Boss Sakamoto is afraid that one day you will cut the ship to only one mast and stick left, and everyone will fall into the sea to feed the sharks, so you will come out quickly?

Yuko Kojima endured it and didn't complain.

She took a deep breath and turned her head to look at the two vice-captains on the other side of the first-class cabin who were happily playing cards, and the five noisy team members sitting in the economy class behind her—it was really close to Zhu and red and black to ink, and she was really dizzy to squeeze into this guy's team back then.

However, remembering the purpose of this trip to go deep into the country of Wano, Yuko Kojima immediately stabilized her aura.

This mission is inevitable!

Be sure to make achievements and let the other teams of the Sakamoto Dragon Pirates see that the second team is not a group of bastards who eat and die on the sea every day and rely on others to feed themselves.

......

The pirates got on the plane.

Others prefer to go the safer way.

Half past six in the evening,

New Tokyo Shibuya Coach Station.

A group full of exotic customs jumped off the bus, and the team leader in front of him waved a tour guide flag in his hand, and he could vaguely see the company logo of [Dawn Tour] on it.

The leader of the team is a man with a beard and a vicissitudes of life, he looked at this group of people looking around, looking like people who have never seen the world, and couldn't help but scold, "Keep up!" Go check in first, don't blame me for not reminding you of the consequences of falling behind. ”

Everyone quickly shrank their heads and lined up in silence to keep up.

Passengers passing by the station couldn't help but look sideways in surprise when they saw this, are foreign tour groups so disciplined? How can you come to travel as if you were marching and fighting?

Isn't that spending money to buy sin?

I don't understand...

I really don't understand.

......

On this night, the new Tokyo welcomed many new and unfamiliar faces.

However, as the most prosperous commercial city in Wano Country, countless people come every year with great expectations or leave gloomily, without attracting much attention.

However, under the calm water, the invisible undercurrent has slowly surged.

......

Of course, none of this has anything to do with Higashinohara.

Since formulating a set of "civilian training methods" for himself, he now "does 60 push-ups, 60 sit-ups, 60 squats a day, and runs 6 kilometers a day" before going to bed every day.

After the incident, the whole person seemed to be fished out of the water, and every muscle in his body seemed to be moaning in rejection.

At half past ten in the evening, exhausted, he dragged his aching body home, took a shower in the cramped bathroom, and then sat on the tatami mat and drank a new brand of coffee, and entered the Guilty Handbook looking at the slowly improving basic panel attributes tiredly and contentedly.

Dexterity +0.1↑

Strength +0.1 ↑

Constitution +0.1↑

Will +0.1 ↑

Go to bed at eleven o'clock on time.

Filling and sweet.

......

The next day, at half past five in the morning.

Higashinohara on a tatami mat opens his eyes.

Outside, the sky was dark, and the hazy air was dragging the new Tokyo into a damp breath, and there was an occasional cool breeze that swept down his cheeks through the cracks in the windows that had not been closed tightly last night.

Icy cold.

People can't help but want to wrap the small quilt tightly and seek the most reassuring warmth in the quilt.

In a past life,

Higashinohara might do just that.

But now,

He had already folded the quilt.

What to sleep on?

Is it fun to sleep and exercise?

......