Chapter 6 : Chapter 6

Chapter 6:

Kiyohara Jun once again walked along the path to the Boss’s office. This time, however, the Port Mafia members who encountered him already understood that they should address him as “Executive Candidate Kiyohara.”

To some extent, the eyes of the Port Mafia members who happened to run into Kiyohara Jun all carried a hint of awe.

Although Kiyohara Jun had shown in his previous missions that he could predict the enemy’s actions, none of those had been as shocking as the incident at the No. 1 Armory.

“It was practically as if he could see the future,” one Port Mafia member said privately. “He clearly only met the man once and read a little bit of information, yet he predicted what would happen.”

Kiyohara Jun, who had no idea what kind of image he had in the hearts of the other Port Mafia members, knocked on the doors to the Boss’s office.

This time, it was not a guard who opened the door, but the Boss’s personal physician, Mori Ougai. Mori Ougai wore a gentle smile as he said to Kiyohara Jun, “Please come in.”

Kiyohara Jun nodded to Mori Ougai, then walked directly into the Boss’s office. The instant he brushed past Mori Ougai, he suddenly frowned.

Had he forgotten something about Doctor Mori?

Probably not. Kiyohara Jun smoothed out his brow. Doctor Mori and he were only colleagues who occasionally ran into each other. How could he possibly know anything about Doctor Mori?

“Cough, cough, cough. It is Kiyohara.” The Boss, lying on the bed, coughed several times.

“Furukawa, you may go out first. Do not forget the mission I assigned you.”

“Yes, Boss.” Furukawa Masato bowed with a smile, then directly ignored Kiyohara Jun and left the Boss’s office.

Kiyohara Jun watched Furukawa Masato leave expressionlessly, then turned his gaze to the Boss lying on the bed.

Only a few days had passed, yet the Boss already looked much weaker than the last time Kiyohara Jun had come. His entire person gave off a sense of approaching decay. Although Kiyohara Jun felt that something seemed off about the Boss’s appearance, he had always been slow in these matters and only thought this was probably an illusion caused by the Boss’s serious illness.

He did not know that the Boss of the Port Mafia had already been driven completely mad by sickness and pain.

“Boss.” Kiyohara Jun bowed.

“Now, report on the attack on the No. 1 Armory,” the Boss said in a hoarse voice after taking several rough breaths.

“Yes.” Kiyohara Jun began expressionlessly recounting the process of the No. 1 Armory being attacked. He spoke from the moment he arrived at the No. 1 Armory that night, to how he subdued the enemy, and finally to how he handled the mole.

Listening to Kiyohara Jun’s account, Mori Ougai almost failed to hide the smile on his face.

This Executive Candidate Kiyohara had not explained even the slightest bit about how he had discovered that the No. 1 Armory would be attacked, or that there was a mole.

【Kiyohara Jun—master of the art of evasion, skilled in fobbing off his own Boss.】

【Hahahahahahahahahahaha.】

【I am dying of laughter. The way Jun speaks so seriously without mentioning the important point is really cute.】

【Cute? I only find it terrifying. He calculated that the Boss did not have the energy to properly listen to what he was saying, which is why he spoke like this.】

【I found the key point. Does Mori Ougai want to laugh here?】

【He really does. He was probably amused by Kiyohara Jun’s art of evasion too.】

What do they mean, he calculated that the Boss did not have the energy to listen properly, which was why he said it this way? Kiyohara Jun’s eyes showed confusion. Was it not the Boss who wanted to hear about the attack on the No. 1 Armory? He was properly explaining the process of the attack.

However, Doctor Mori wants to laugh?

When he saw the bullet comments mention Mori Ougai, a flash of inspiration crossed Kiyohara Jun’s mind. He had been in the middle of explaining how he dealt with the mole, but he suddenly got stuck.

The bullet comments mentioned Doctor Mori. The bullet comments mentioned Doctor Mori. The bullet comments mentioned Doctor Mori

When the bullet comments mentioned Mori Ougai, Kiyohara Jun finally remembered what he had forgotten about Mori Ougai.

Doctor Mori wanted to usurp power!!!

Kiyohara Jun’s eyes widened slightly when he remembered what the bullet comments had said before. He could not help looking toward where Mori Ougai stood. However, Mori Ougai, whom the bullet comments said had wanted to laugh, now looked puzzled and somewhat innocent as his gaze met Kiyohara Jun’s.

He is so, so good at pretending! Kiyohara Jun, who now completely believed what the bullet comments said, was shocked.

Although Kiyohara Jun’s narration had stalled, the terminally ill Boss clearly no longer had the energy to listen carefully to what Kiyohara Jun was saying. After Kiyohara Jun stopped, he assumed Kiyohara Jun had already finished, so he said with satisfaction, “Kiyohara, you did well this time.”

Kiyohara Jun, who was still in shock, did not respond.

The satisfied Boss did not care that Kiyohara Jun had not responded and directly told him to leave.

Kiyohara Jun left the Boss’s office in a daze. On his way back to his own office, his mind was filled entirely with the thought that Doctor Mori wanted to usurp power.

Thus, over the next few days, after thoroughly realizing through the bullet comments that Mori Ougai was not as he appeared, Kiyohara Jun could not control his desire to stay away from Mori Ougai and began consciously avoiding him.

At first, Mori Ougai did not notice anything. After all, his relationship with Kiyohara Jun was only one where they occasionally encountered each other. But after several consecutive days of not seeing Kiyohara Jun, and after the intelligence reports also made no mention of Kiyohara Jun being away on any important mission, Mori Ougai realized something.

Kiyohara Jun might be deliberately avoiding him.

Why would Kiyohara Jun deliberately avoid him? Mori Ougai, who had just completed one session of treatment for the boy he had picked up from the river a few days ago, toyed with a scalpel. His eyes flickered faintly. Based on his understanding of Kiyohara Jun, Kiyohara Jun was not a simple person.

“Dazai-kun, what do you think a person is trying to do when he deliberately avoids another person?” When Mori Ougai asked this question, he already had an answer in his heart.

Dazai Osamu, who had just finished treatment, lay weakly on the hospital bed and said, “Mr. Mori clearly already has an answer, yet you still ask me, even though I do not understand that person at all.”

“Oh my.” Mori Ougai smiled and tacitly accepted Dazai Osamu’s statement.

If someone else deliberately avoided him, there might be other reasons. But when someone like Kiyohara Jun deliberately avoided him, Mori Ougai could only think of one answer.

So, on a certain day afterward, Mori Ougai chose a moment when no one was around and blocked Kiyohara Jun in a blind spot outside the coverage of the Port Mafia’s surveillance.

“Doctor Mori?” The blocked Kiyohara Jun said expressionlessly, “Do you need something from me?”

This was the first time Kiyohara Jun felt grateful for his expressionless face. It was precisely this expressionless face that prevented him from revealing his panic when facing a colleague who wanted to usurp power.

“It is Executive Candidate Kiyohara who has business with me, is it not?” Mori Ougai spread his hands somewhat helplessly. “You have been avoiding me these past few days just to attract my attention, right?”

Kiyohara Jun: ?

He was indeed avoiding Doctor Mori, but what did Mori mean by saying that he was avoiding him to attract his attention?

Doctor Mori, what are you thinking, Doctor Mori?

Although he thought this in his heart, Kiyohara Jun did not reveal it on the surface. He only shook his head and said, “Doctor Mori, you are overthinking it.”

【More Scriptwriter Group confrontations, more, more!】

【So Kiyohara Jun deliberately attracted Mori Ougai’s attention by avoiding him?】

【Why would he do that?】

【Hmm, I have a guess. I do not know whether it is right, but if it is, then Kiyohara Jun is way too bugged, right?】

【What guess?】

【Did Kiyohara Jun not stop reporting about the armory earlier to look at Mori Ougai? Did he see something back then, and is he now testing Mori Ougai by deliberately avoiding him?】

【No way… Even if he saw something, at most, he could only tell that Mori Ougai was not as he appeared, right?】

【What if he saw that Mori Ougai wanted to usurp power? And what if he also predicted that Mori Ougai would successfully usurp power?】

【Hiss.】

【Hiss.】

【Hiss.】

【I do not think this is reasonable. Mori Ougai never showed in front of Kiyohara Jun that he wanted to usurp power.】

【As someone who came back after watching the later plot, I can tell you that Kiyohara Jun really did know.】

【Holy crap. This is a bug, right? This has to be a bug! Kiyohara Jun is way too bugged.】

【How exactly did he know? I do not understand.】

【Through clues, probably. Just like how Ranpo can figure someone out with a single glance.】

【Who is Ranpo?】

【A character who appears later. He is also one of the Scriptwriter Group.】

Kiyohara Jun:

Thank you, bullet comments. Thank you for telling me that Doctor Mori would successfully usurp power in the future, even though you told me in a way that assumed I had predicted it myself, and even though you had once again misunderstood my behavior.

Under the impact of learning that Mori Ougai would successfully usurp power, Kiyohara Jun once again fell into a daze.

“So I was overthinking it?” Mori Ougai smiled meaningfully. Suddenly, something stirred in his heart. This seemed like a very good opportunity to test Kiyohara Jun.

Unless necessary, Mori Ougai did not want to become enemies with Kiyohara Jun, who was powerful in both ability and intelligence.

“Executive Candidate Kiyohara is highly valued by the Boss.” Many thoughts crossed Mori Ougai’s mind, and he chose to probe indirectly.

Kiyohara Jun, who was still in a daze, answered casually, “I cannot compare to you, Mr. Mori. After all, you are the person closest to the Boss.”

The hand Mori Ougai concealed beneath his sleeve tightened slightly. What did Kiyohara Jun mean by saying he was the person closest to the Boss? Had Kiyohara Jun realized something, and was that why he said this?

“I am only an ordinary doctor. I cannot compare to Executive Candidate Kiyohara.” Mori Ougai hid the thoughts in his heart and smiled.

“An ordinary doctor?” Kiyohara Jun, who was still dazed by the fact that Mori Ougai would successfully usurp power, subconsciously replied in a low voice according to what he was thinking. “That is not necessarily true.”

A trace of killing intent suddenly arose in Mori Ougai’s heart. It seemed Kiyohara Jun really did know something. He only did not know exactly how much Kiyohara Jun knew.

【Holy crap. Kiyohara Jun really realized it?】

【Mori Ougai is smiling so gently. Who would know that he has already developed killing intent toward Jun?】

【After all, his cards were exposed all at once. If I were Mori Ougai, I would also want to kill Kiyohara Jun, whose stance is uncertain.】

????? Kiyohara Jun formed a whole string of question marks in his mind.

Doctor Mori wants to kill him?

Kiyohara Jun looked at the gentle smile on Mori Ougai’s face. No matter how he looked at it, this did not resemble killing intent at all