Chapter 4 : Chapter 4

Chapter 4:

Kiyohara Jun was processing files.

To be precise, Kiyohara Jun was processing files while wearing headphones and listening to something.

“Have you heard? Lord Kiyohara will probably come to inspect our work in the next two days.” Several guards holding guns outside the armory spoke in low voices.

“Lord Kiyohara is coming?” Endou Ren, who was also serving as a guard, had a flicker in his eyes. He concealed the trace of unnaturalness that appeared on his face and pretended to ask curiously, “What is Lord Kiyohara coming here for? How long does he plan to stay?”

“He is probably coming to inspect our work. After all, we are Lord Kiyohara’s subordinates.” One guard did not seem to care much. “As for how long he will stay, Endou, is that not obvious if you think about it? How could an executive candidate like Lord Kiyohara remain at an armory for long?”

In a corner covered by shadows, something shaped like a button lay there quietly, as if someone had accidentally left it behind.

Kiyohara Jun listened expressionlessly to the conversation in his headphones. After the conversation ended, he took off the headphones and sank into thought.

Something seemed wrong, but as for what exactly was wrong, Kiyohara Jun thought and thought, yet still could not figure it out.

After racking his brains and still failing to determine exactly what was wrong, Kiyohara Jun’s brows furrowed slightly. The pressure surrounding him sank with it, and on his face, which usually already gave people a world-weary impression, there seemed to be a faint trace of killing intent.

【The pressure, the pressure is here.】

【I believe Kiyohara Jun is not a blockhead now. How could someone with this kind of pressure possibly be a blockhead?】

【Why did his aura and expression suddenly become so terrifying…】

【Because Jun discovered that Endou is the traitor.】

【? That Endou is the traitor? Since he is the only named person among a bunch of background characters, there must be something wrong with him, but how do you know he is the traitor?】

【From the fact that he has both a surname and a given name, you can tell he is definitely not an ordinary background character. Then, when he heard Kiyohara Jun would come, a solemn expression appeared on his face for an instant. Also, compared with his previous sentence, his question about “how long” was far too abrupt. Of course, the more important point is that I know the later plot, cough, cough.】

【So you deduced it based on the result? Then Kiyohara Jun may not have discovered that Endou is the traitor. He did not show it, after all.】

What do they mean, Endou is the traitor? Why do the bullet comments know that he deduced it when he himself does not?

Kiyohara Jun once again fell into confusion. Why did these bullet comments all act as though they understood Kiyohara Jun better than Kiyohara Jun himself did?

Confused, Kiyohara Jun looked at the bullet comments, his eyelashes trembling slightly. But if what the bullet comments said was true, then that guard called Endou was the traitor?

Kiyohara Jun, deep in thought, spoke that name aloud. “Endou?”

After saying the name, Kiyohara Jun came back to his senses. He looked at the bullet comments before him, which had become densely packed once again, and slowly formed a question mark in his mind.

【Slapped in the face, hahahahahahahahaha.】

【No way. Did he really deduce that Endou was the traitor just from that eavesdropped conversation?】

【My face, my face hurts.】

【Haa, haa, haa. The way Jun expressionlessly murmured that name just now was so handsome!】

【That is right. This humble one is Endou. Jun was saying my name just now!】

【No, I am Endou. You impostor!】

【Kiyohara Jun really is such a Scriptwriter Group member. He figured out who the traitor was from just that tiny bit of conversation.】

This was so absurd. Why would anyone fight to claim they were that traitor?

Kiyohara Jun, who completely failed to understand the essentially lecherous nature of contemporary real-world youths, was shocked by the ridiculous remarks of some of the bullet comments after they exposed their true colors.

After the shock passed, Kiyohara Jun once again fell into confusion.

He truly was only an ordinary person. He was not some “Scriptwriter Group” member the bullet comments spoke of, and he could not deduce who the traitor was just from a conversation.

Kiyohara Jun thought that the reason the bullet comments had become so excited was mainly because while he had been thinking about their contents, he had accidentally said what he was thinking out loud. As for why he had accidentally said it out loud, it was because ever since he was young, he had always had the bad habit of being unable to stop himself from voicing his thoughts after sinking into deep contemplation.

Kiyohara Jun, who had already caused other people to attempt physical attacks against him many times because of this bad habit, realized for the first time, under the influence of the bullet comments, just how hateful this habit truly was.

He must get rid of this bad habit. Kiyohara Jun, who would cause countless more scenes like this in the future because of this same bad habit, had a resolute look in his eyes.

After coming back to himself, Kiyohara Jun raised his eyes and looked at Kogu Takuto, who was processing files. “Takuto, find me the information on the person surnamed Endou who belongs to my unit and was sent to guard the No. 1 Armory.”

“Give it to me before this afternoon.” Kiyohara Jun’s face remained expressionless. “I am going to inspect the No. 1 Armory this afternoon.”

Kogu Takuto did not ask further. After agreeing, he got up to look for Endou’s information.

Kiyohara Jun looked at Endou Ren’s file, which had been taken out of the document envelope and had a photograph attached to it. The file showed that Endou Ren’s background was clean. His parents were ordinary people, and he could not possibly have ties to an enemy organization.

However, Endou Ren had a gambling habit. Kiyohara Jun tapped this section of the file with his finger. If Endou Ren truly was a traitor, then the only thing that could have turned him into one was his gambling habit.

If Endou Ren had come to owe a large amount of money because of gambling, then it was not impossible for him to collude with others from inside and outside to steal from the armory. The only unknown was whether the others working with Endou Ren belonged to an enemy organization of the Port Mafia, or were merely people who wanted to exchange weapons for money.

Thinking this, Kiyohara Jun put Endou Ren’s file away and sealed it once more inside the document envelope.

It was time to go on a mission.

Kiyohara Jun picked up the coat he had placed to the side. After draping it over his shoulders, he pushed open the office door and walked out, heading straight for the elevator downstairs.

When the elevator doors opened, Kiyohara Jun encountered Mori Ougai, who had just happened to be preparing to go upstairs.

“Executive Candidate Kiyohara,” Mori Ougai spoke first. The corners of his mouth curved slightly, and he looked extremely gentle.

Kiyohara Jun nodded as a response to Mori Ougai. He did not choose to exchange many words with the Boss’s personal physician, and walked straight out of the elevator.

【Mr. Mori’s smile is so beautiful!】

【Looking at Mori Ougai’s smile, who could know the mad plan in his heart?】

【Exactly. Who would know that this ordinary doctor wants to usurp the position of the Port Mafia’s Boss?】

【? This doctor called Mori Ougai wants to usurp power?】

【I knew there was something wrong with him. How could an ordinary doctor test an executive candidate?】

Kiyohara Jun’s footsteps paused slightly. Doctor Mori wants to usurp power?

Impossible. Kiyohara Jun was certain of this in his heart. Doctor Mori was only an ordinary doctor, and he was not exactly a member of the Port Mafia. At most, he could be called the Boss’s personal physician. How could someone like Doctor Mori possibly usurp power? Just thinking about his plan to seize power made it clear that it could never succeed.

The bullet comments’ claim that Mori Ougai wanted to usurp power deepened Kiyohara Jun’s distrust toward them.

Yet this distrust was gradually broken down during the following mission, and even during the missions over the next few days.

Kiyohara Jun stood among his subordinates and watched expressionlessly as they exchanged fire with the opposing side.

A battle of this level was not worth Kiyohara Jun, an ability user and executive candidate, making a move himself. The only reason he was here was to command this battle.

The enemy’s firepower had gradually weakened. It seemed this battle would end soon.

Suddenly, Kiyohara Jun’s gaze sharpened.

【Kiyohara Jun’s cool and handsome moment is about to arrive.】

【I am ready to take screenshots!】

【Predicting that the enemy will circle around from behind and then dealing with the enemy single-handedly—he really is both handsome and incredible.】

【After all, our Jun is a hexagonal warrior, fully developed in morals, intelligence, physique, aesthetics, and labor.】

According to the bullet comments, the enemy might circle around from behind. Kiyohara Jun had not originally planned to pay attention to what the bullet comments said, but it was better to be safe than sorry. He still chose to quietly leave the frontal battlefield and move to the rear of the Port Mafia unit, just in case.

Kiyohara Jun had only come here with the intention of guarding against a possibility. When he saw a group of armed enemy organization members, his pupils constricted slightly.

What the bullet comments said is true…?

Before Kiyohara Jun could think further, the enemy organization members who had noticed him chose to open fire without hesitation. Bullets swept toward Kiyohara Jun and the weak point in the Port Mafia unit’s defenses.

However, not a single bullet struck any member on the Port Mafia’s side. The enemy organization members no longer had time to be astonished.

Earthen walls and earth spikes burst up from the ground, respectively serving as defense and offense. Because the earthen wall blocked his vision, Kiyohara Jun lightly leapt onto it and looked down from above at the enemy organization members, who had been unable to resist in time before being pierced through by the earth spikes.

In the eyes of the Port Mafia members who circled around the earthen wall to check whether anyone had slipped through the net, Kiyohara Jun stood high above them against the light. His eyes were filled with cold indifference, and his face showed a complete disregard for life, as though killing so many people was no different to him from crushing a few ants.

Executive Candidate Kiyohara is terrifying. A Port Mafia member who noticed Kiyohara Jun’s expression and gaze trembled inwardly.

In reality, however, Kiyohara Jun was merely looking at those bullet comments that had gone mad with the expression and gaze of an old man on the subway staring at a phone.

【Ahhhhhhhhh, husband, you are so handsome!】

【Haa, haa, haa. A cold, powerful beauty. This hits all my tastes so hard.】

【Take off my pants.】

【So handsome, so handsome, so handsome.】

【prprprprprprprprpr】

【I am going wild for my wife.】

【Do none of you have your own wives? Why are you calling my wife your wife?】

Kiyohara Jun, who had originally begun to believe these bullet comments a little, quickly erased the tiny bit of trust he had just developed.

Whoever believes bullet comments that look as if they have some serious illness must be a fool, thought Executive Candidate Kiyohara, who had just raised a flag.