I wanted to be a bad actor in the anime, but I failed.

The residence of the fourth palace lord.

Hayasaka Ai is cleaning.

The moonlight coming through the window suddenly disappeared for a moment, causing her to frown.

She has been a follower of Kaguya Shinomiya since she was 7 years old and has undergone a lot of training. She is an all-round maid.

Being omnipotent naturally includes the responsibility of being a bodyguard.

As the offspring of one of the largest chaebols in Japan, Hayasaka Ai single-handedly prevented Shinomiya Kaguya from being assassinated, kidnapped, attacked, harassed, etc., which shows how outstanding she is.

She held the broom and slowly walked to the window to look at the situation in the outer courtyard of the mansion.

"Clap!"

A strange noise coming from the corridor not far away made her suddenly put her hands behind her back and touch the hilt of the knife at her waist.

"brush!"

A gust of wind made her face change, and she drew her sword and slashed behind her without even looking!

But unexpectedly, the attack missed, and was immediately followed by a huge force that left her with no power to struggle!

"Woo!!"

With her mouth covered, she had to use the escape techniques she learned from training to deal with it.

But who knew that the opponent was more professional and pinned her to the floor with no leverage to break free from the enemy's restraints.

A cold silver light flashed by.

She had the blade against her neck.

The other party ruthlessly used the sharp blade to cut a millimeter-deep wound to warn her.

The blood and pain made Hayasaka Ai frown.

"If you don't want to die, don't make any noise."

"Ok!"

Hayasaka Ai nodded, but the other party suddenly tightened her arms!

The severe pain made her scream, and the strange twisting of joints made her cry in fear!

She now felt that her arm was like a cold bone pressing against her vitals.

The strange, tingling feeling made her shudder.

"Believe it or not, if you shout out, all the living people here will be buried with you!"

The cold words made Hayasaka Ai stunned for a moment.

Why did he know she was lying?

The opponent's strength made her realize that she could not resist, and in desperation, she had to nod.

The other party confidently let her go.

Hayasaka Ai endured the pain all over her body, touched the blood on her neck, stood up and looked at the person hiding in the black robe whose gender could not even be seen.

"Where is the master of the house?"

"He's not in now."

"Who are his parents, wife, brothers, sisters, children, etc?"

"...They are not here."

A hand like a black snake grabbed her neck mercilessly and lifted her into the air.

Hayasaka Ai screamed and struggled because of the fear of suffocation.

"You think I can't tell you're lying?"

"Woo..."

With her mind in a turmoil, she was carried to a room not far away.

As Kaguya Shinomiya's personal maid, the place where she cleans is of course near her bedroom.

She watched helplessly as the enemy approached the target she was protecting.

After opening the door, I saw the innocent black-haired girl in her pajamas lazily drinking tea.

Without even turning her head, she said, "Hayasaka, have you finished cleaning?"

The expected immediate answer did not come, and Shinomiya Kaguya turned her head to look over.

I saw a tall black shadow in the darkness that made people feel scared at the sight of it, holding Hayasaka Ai's neck and walking quickly towards her.

The breath of death made her panic.

Even though he had received martial arts training, this was the first time he had encountered a situation of being assassinated.

However, as a proud daughter of a noble family, she did not scream, but prepared to use force to rescue her maid.

However, the naive girl was quickly defeated by the opponent with one hand, and her neck was strangled before she could even scream.

"Woo..."

Facing the pain of death for the first time, Kaguya Shinomiya shed tears of fear.

"Let her go!!"

Hayasaka Ai, who was thrown out, flipped in the air and landed nimbly and rushed over.

"How difficult do you think it would be to break a person's neck with my strength?"

The threatening words made Hayasaka Ai stop: "What do you want to do?"

"If you don't want her to die, be quiet!"

"..." Hayasaka Ai looked at the man in black robe with cold sweat on her face, as if he was looking at Shinomiya Kaguya as if he was looking at goods.

"who is she?"

"..."

"Don't test my patience."

"Shinomiya Kaguya, the eldest daughter of the family head."

"Still in school?"

"Yes."

"Hmph." The man in black robe snorted impatiently and was about to take action.

"stop!!"

Hayasaka Ai, who was watching his every move, rushed over, but was slapped away by the other party!

"boom!!"

She flew backwards and was knocked unconscious.

“Crack!”

With a frightening crisp sound, Kaguya Shinomiya in the black-robed man's hands became like a puppet with its strings cut off, her head tilted and she fell silent.

"don't want!!!"

Hayasaka Ai screamed with fear as if she was crying.

She curled up in the corner, her blue eyes dulled as she looked at Shinomiya Kaguya who was thrown onto the bed.

He even ignored the ever-growing black shadow.

As if Kaguya Shinomiya's life was more important than hers.

"She's not dead."

This sentence brought Hayasaka Ai back to reality. She gritted her teeth and said, "What do you want to do?!"

"What's your name?"

"Hayasaka Ai."

"Very good, I like you."

Upon hearing this, Hayasaka Ai was horrified and covered her chest with her hands, looking timid.

"Take me to the master bedroom."

"..."

"hurry up!"

The two were walking in the spacious Shinomiya house, and Hayasaka Ai didn't dare to try any tricks.

She could only watch as the man in black robe searched the master bedroom of the house, then the office, and then the bedrooms of other family members.

"What are you looking for?"

The man in black robe did not answer, but put some information into the inner pocket of his black robe and walked towards Kaguya Shinomiya's bedroom.

Then, he left the mansion holding Kaguya Shinomiya.

"Where are you taking her?!"

Hayasaka Ai shouted as she chased after him.

"If you don't want her to die, then follow me closely."

......

"Fuck! Boss! Why did you bring them here?!"

Hojo Junichi said in a panic.

But compared to his panic, Hayasaka Ai felt desperate when she heard these words.

Now that she knew where the enemy's base was, she was afraid her life would be in danger.

"These things may be useful. Take a look and then interrogate her." Mu Lin handed over a stack of information and pointed at the blonde maid.

"Hmm? You should also torture this Shinomiya Kaguya, right?"

"She knows nothing and is just a vase. This maid is much more useful than her."

"walk slowly."

Hayasaka Ai looked at the two people anxiously.

Soon, the person sitting at the desk checked the information and began to interrogate.

"Ahem." He put on a funny serious expression, "What is the relationship between your Shinomiya family and Zora Shinrikyo?"

"I have no idea!"

"Torture! Boss! Come on!"

Hayasaka Ai was horrified.

"She didn't lie."

Hayasaka Ai breathed a sigh of relief.

"Uh...wait. How much do you know about what happened ten years ago?"

"Ten years? I wasn't even in the Shinomiya family at that time!"

"Humph! You, who have been trained since birth to be a maid of the Shinomiya family, are lying again?! Torture! You must torture!"

"She didn't lie." Mu Lin said lightly, leaning against the wall.

Hayasaka Ai glanced at him, then looked at the embarrassed Hojo Junichi with a strange look.

"Damn! Boss, can you tell if someone is lying? I don't believe it!"

"Ask quickly!"

"Well, what can you get out of this maid who knows nothing? Don't ask, just kill her."

Hojo Junichi looked at Hayasaka Ai with disdain.

Just from the way she looked at him just now, he felt that this woman deserved to die.

"Ugh......"

Mu Lin sighed, sat down opposite Hayasaka Ai and asked, "Has anything strange happened in the Shinomiya family recently?"

"How should I know about this?"

"If you don't want to die, tell me now!"

"I have no idea!"

"So you don't mind letting your eldest daughter die?"

Mu Lin saw that the maid in front of him seemed to attach great importance to Shinomiya Kaguya, so he used this to threaten her.

As expected, the other party simply replied: "Mr. Huang Guang and his men haven't been in public much recently, and they haven't even attended some very important banquets."

"anything else?"

"...some little girls came to the mansion not long ago."

"Where are they now?"

"They were sent to Lord Huang Guang's residence. I don't know where they are now."

"Do you know their names?"

"Aizawa Nana, Hiraoka Mina, Shibata Reina, Tabuchi Yuukan... I don't know about some others."

"check."

"Baduk?" Hojo Junichi frowned.

Looking at this person who was torturing others but making things more complicated, Mu Lin really wanted to punch him if it wasn't inconvenient.

"Oh, it's Cha, I was wondering why I didn't have a fork, right away!"

Hojo Junichi quickly found the information of these girls by typing on the keyboard.

"They are all children from the Beidou Orphanage. Are they being trained to be family maids?"

Mu Lin narrowed his eyes, looked at Hayasaka Ai and asked, "So why do you feel so strange?"

"The Shinomiya family would not accept such an unclear orphan as a maid candidate."

"You know it very well. Tell me who you are and why you are so loyal."

"Why are you asking this?" Hayasaka Ai said coldly.

"I told you that I like you very much and I plan to let you work for me in the future."

"There is no way I would do anything for you!!"

"Say or not?"

"......" Hayasaka Ai was silent for a while before slowly telling her life story.

She was born into the Hayasaka family, which was also a famous family. After the Hayasaka family lost the competition with the Shinomiya family, she was noticed by the Shinomiya family and was recruited. At the age of 7, she became Shinomiya Kaguya's follower.

Mu Lin motioned for Hojo Jun to check and confirm, then asked, "If that's the case, why are you so loyal to your enemy?"

"It was the Shinomiya family who saved me, so I swear allegiance!"

"You know I can tell you're lying, right?"

"..."

"A secret? Have you been caught with something? As a condition for you to join our Jiusen Office, I can remove this handle."

"You must be kidding! You can't do that! This is the Shinomiya Zaibatsu! The family at the center of power!!"

Hayasaka Ai shouted as if she was stimulated.

"It won't hurt to talk about it."

"If Lord Huang Guang finds out, we..."

"Just kill him."

"But it will anger the entire Shinomiya family!"

"It would be better to destroy this family."

"What are you talking about? How is this possible?! Destroying the Shinomiya family is equivalent to destroying half of Japan's economic system!"

"Tell me, what's going on?"

"..."

"Hmph... Even if you don't tell me, I can probably guess it."

Mu Lin glanced at Hojo Junichi who nodded not far away, and then said:

"Given the power division in your Shinomiya family, threatening Shinomiya Kaguya to make them compromise will probably be useless, but you care about your eldest daughter. So, if you don't want her to die, you have to do something for us."

"what's up?"

"Investigate where those little girls went, and what Sigong Huangguang is doing recently."

"The young lady's disappearance will soon be discovered!"

"That depends on your ability to carry out the mission."

"..."

Hayasaka Ai stood up and walked out, but when she reached the door, the other party said something that forced her to choose this side.

"Zoroastrianism is a cult. You can find out their information by just searching, and it seems that some of them perform this ritual."

"The Shinomiya family seems to have some connection with this cult."

"I suspect these little girls were sacrificed."

"After this matter is thoroughly investigated, the Shinomiya Zaibatsu will not only be sanctioned by Japan but also by the United States. By then, your Hayasaka family may be able to escape from their control."

After Hayasaka Ai left.

Mu Lin went to the computer and looked at the information on it.

The more I watch, the more interesting it becomes.

It is actually very simple to destroy a big tree. You don’t need to uproot it. You just need to let the surrounding trees compete with it for water.

As the largest chaebol, of course he has countless enemies.

"Boss! How can you be so sure that the Four Palaces are related to Zora Shinrikyo? We haven't even proven anything yet!"

"How can I be so sure?"

"Is it to force her to stand on the outside side?"

"No."

"what is that?"

"Do you believe my intuition?"

Mu Lin smiled, but his heart was cold.

Just kidding, in the past he would have sent people to raid Shigong’s house.

Even though the evidence is insufficient, based on his many years of unprecedented experience, he believes that the Four Palaces are definitely related to Zoroastrianism.

Of course, he was questioned by many people because he did not act according to the evidence.

Hojo Junichi was speechless, then asked worriedly: "So is she trustworthy?"

"worth."

"why?"

"Based on the power of Sigong's extremely powerful family, the three brothers who are fighting for power openly and secretly are not easy to deal with, especially Sigong Huangguang. With her limited ability, she will soon be discovered by them and will have to stand on our side."

"Fuck, you're so cruel! What about her?"

Hojo Junichi pointed at Shinomiya Kaguya who had fainted on the sofa.

"She will be our puppet from now on. Tie her up and put a hood on her. For the time being, she cannot see our true faces."

"hiss......"

Hojo Junichi took a deep breath.

He suddenly discovered that the boss seemed very suitable for living at the pinnacle of power.

So why the hell did you bring me to live this poor life!

Damn!

"The Son of God is not here, so please be safe on your own."

"it is good!"

After the chat, Mu Lin left and followed Hayasaka Ai secretly.

......

Hayasaka Ai was walking dejectedly on the road at night.

She was extremely desperate at this moment.

In order to save Kaguya Shinomiya's life, she has to betray the Shinomiya Zaimiya family.

If she betrays the Shinomiya Zaibatsu, she and the Hayasaka family will be destroyed by the Shinomiya Zaibatsu.

Is the life of your parents more important, or the life of your friends whom you have lived with since childhood?

Your own conscience is more important.

Hayasaka Ai looked at the information about Zoroastrianism displayed on her cell phone.

"How could this evil cult that was destroyed ten years ago still be related to the Shinomiya family!"

"Although it is indeed suspicious to suddenly bring those children to the house."

"But how could people today be so evil as to sacrifice such young lives!"

"So even if you let me investigate, there's no way I could possibly find out about this twisted thing that doesn't exist!"

Hayasaka Ai murmured as she stood at the door of Shinomiya Huang Guang's residence.

She was naive and believed that the world was kind, but she didn't know that she would face the horrifying scene in person in a moment.