Chapter 795: Hunter-chan's Kindred Spirit
“Just made it, what good luck,” Hojo Ayasuzu murmured to herself, then looked down at the girl in her arms and asked, “Are you alright? Do you want to go to the Hospital?”
“Huh? Again…?” Ali’s cheek twitched, her mood extremely complex. “No, I’m fine, because you saved me.”
Struggling free from her savior’s embrace, Ali’s legs gave out and she fell to the ground.
“Don’t push yourself, you must be scared stiff…” Hojo Ayasuzu quickly squatted down to help her up, but then frowned. “What… what does this mean?”
Through her ‘Emotional Tuning Fork,’ Hojo Ayasuzu could roughly gauge others’ emotions and thoughts.
This girl in front of her… there was no fear in her heart, nor gratitude, only annoyance and displeasure.
“Tsk, well, it seems I was meddling,” Hojo Ayasuzu straightened up again and shrugged helplessly.
But it was obvious, this girl had specifically come to this place to jump off a building; she must have been resolved to die.
And then she was saved by herself… it probably wasn’t the outcome this girl wanted.
“No,” Ali seemed intimidated by the strong girl’s aura and quickly said, “I’m very grateful for your help!”
— Hmm, that seems to be a genuine emotion too.
Hojo Ayasuzu nodded silently in her heart.
“It’s just…” Ali gave a bitter smile. “Perhaps my luck is just bad, even something like suicide I can’t do properly.”
“Well, I’m not good at this kind of thing,” Hojo Ayasuzu scratched her hair. “But I suggest you see a psychologist.”
“No, no need.” Ali stood up and bowed deeply. “Thank you very much! I will pay… Ah, my wallet!”
Ali suddenly remembered that her wallet had also been taken away.
“No need,” Hojo Ayasuzu said. “I also acted for my own sake. By the way, do you need Our help finding your wallet?”
Saying that, Hojo Ayasuzu pointed behind her.
Mi Yi Aiyu had also arrived downstairs at this time and was running towards them.
“No, no need.” Ali quickly shook her head. “My wallet isn’t lost, so…”
She bowed again, then ran away in a hurry.
“Strange girl.” Mi Yi Aiyu ran over, panting. “Honestly, you made me run all this way for nothing…”
“She seems to have her own difficulties,” Hojo Ayasuzu said. “She doesn’t want others to interfere.”
“You don’t care that she just left like that?” Mi Yi Aiyu asked.
“Of course.” Hojo Ayasuzu stretched her body. “I also acted to test my ninjutsu.”
“You should rein it in a bit,” Mi Yi Aiyu advised. “Lin Wuming said it, didn’t he, the side effects of the Spring Bandage…”
“Don’t worry, I can control it,” Hojo Ayasuzu said confidently. “And I’m using an optimized, improved version, so there’s no problem.”
As she spoke, Hojo Ayasuzu retrieved her grappling hook and then looked around.
“By the way, where’s Yumizuru Hyouka? Didn’t she come down with you?” Hojo Ayasuzu asked.
She was looking for Yumizuru Hyouka; today, the three of them had come to this district together.
Although they had all nominally joined the Shokuhou Faction, in reality, there were different small circles within the Sadan Faction.
Hojo Ayasuzu, Mi Yi Aiyu, and the two Yumizuru sisters were a relatively close small circle and often acted together.
However, due to her personality, Yumizuru Hyouka only truly recognized Mi Yi Aiyu as a “friend,” so she always acted with Mi Yi Aiyu, serving as her bodyguard.
“Hunter-chan said she was a bit concerned about that girl just now,” Mi Yi Aiyu said. “She’s probably tracking her now, right?”
“Concerned about that girl?” Hojo Ayasuzu pondered, but didn’t delve deeper. “Yumizuru Hyouka is a professional, she must have her reasons.”
“Don’t you think that girl is very similar to Hunter-chan?” Mi Yi Aiyu said. “She probably felt a connection because she met a kindred spirit?”
…
That night, Mi Yi Aiyu returned to the Family Side girls’ dormitory after a long time.
As expected, Yumizuru Hyouka was there.
Seeing Mi Yi Aiyu waiting by the elevator, Yumizuru Hyouka was also startled.
“Well, did you find anything?” Mi Yi Aiyu asked. “Is that girl problematic, and is it related to Lin Wuming?”
“How did Mi Yi Aiyu know…?”
“Intuition, deductions, and so on,” Mi Yi Aiyu said with a smile. “Also, if it wasn’t related to Lin Wuming, you wouldn’t have specifically come here, would you?”
“That girl’s name is Ali, she’s a third-year student at Shinshikimi Middle School in the 20th School District,” Yumizuru Hyouka said.
“Eh? So she’s an upperclassman?” Mi Yi Aiyu said in surprise. “I thought she’d be younger.”
— She really is more like Yumizuru Hyouka.
“She seems to be suffering from bullying,” Yumizuru Hyouka continued. “However, she has also killed people.”
“Killed people?”
“Yes.” Yumizuru Hyouka nodded. “From her, I can smell the scent of a fellow professional—that Ali is a killer.”
This was Yumizuru Hyouka’s intuition, combined with the Anbu School’s intelligence network—specifically, the results of Yu Wang Wanhua’s investigation.
“What a strange character setting,” Mi Yi Aiyu complained. “Being bullied, but also a killer… is it for disguise?”
“Probably… not.” Yumizuru Hyouka shook her head.
She increasingly felt that she and Ali were kindred spirits.
Although Yumizuru Hyouka had not experienced bullying, their personalities were very similar. So Yumizuru Hyouka didn’t think the other party would use such a method to disguise herself.
Mi Yi Aiyu waved her hand, no longer dwelling on these irrelevant details: “So, that killer’s target is Lin Wuming?”
“Mm,” Yumizuru Hyouka nodded. “Because she was tracking and investigating Lin Wuming.”
“The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind,” Mi Yi Aiyu smiled. “I never thought we’d be the ones to discover it. Good, now Shokuhou owes us a favor.”
Unlike Yumizuru Hyouka and the others, Mi Yi Aiyu, though always low-key, had always been paying attention to the matters of Lin Wuming and Shokuhou Misaki.
And because an outsider sees more clearly, she even had some information that they themselves didn’t know as well.
For example, right now, Mi Yi Aiyu knew that Shokuhou Misaki was preparing to counterattack Kihara Gensei.
At the same time, Kihara Gensei, that old fox, had also taken countermeasures—and now it seemed, this very unique young female assassin was one of them, right?
“However,” Mi Yi Aiyu asked again, “that Ali doesn’t seem very strong, can she really harm Lin Wuming?”
