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

The boundless flames destroyed everything.

Snow drifted over the fireworks of Lament.

The white light was burned out.

On the throne that was once revered by all beings.

The sword broke and the man died.

Is it boredom, or is it the inability to do anything that people are passing on by word of mouth?

Those who once had faith in their hearts now follow the so-called gods with the ridicule of traitors.

The final destination, like the dead king, was lost in regret.

......

"boom!"

A ball of fire suddenly appeared in the dark corner of the bedroom.

A terrifying smile seemed to appear as it swayed.

In a flash, it was once again returned to the cold darkness.

It makes people think it is an illusion.

The young man watched all this indifferently, leaning in a corner in endless silence.

That clean face was mixed with heartbreaking worry, and the powerlessness in his eyes made people want to hug him.

"Mulin-kun! The stove at home is broken! Come and see if you can fix it!"

The cute girl hurried in and shouted.

"Well, let me see." The sigh-like answer made the boy stand up.

"What's wrong with you?" Kato Megumi asked in confusion, noticing that something was wrong with his mood.

"Just some emotion. Come on, let me see if I can fix it."

After arriving in the kitchen, Mu Lin tried the stove and found nothing wrong with it.

"Strange, it suddenly caught fire just now, how come there is no problem now?" Kato Megumi frowned.

"Did you see it wrong?"

"How could it be wrong?"

"If you don't believe me, smell it and see if there is any gas."

Kato Megumi leaned her head over and sniffed: "Huh? Nothing."

"right."

"Did I really see it wrong?"

"if not."

"Oh, what are we having for lunch? I have learned how to make beef stew with potatoes. Do you want me to show you how I cook it?"

"Sorry, I'm busy."

"Really?! I finally got a few days off for Christmas, but you still went out. Have the honeymoon period passed and you dislike me?!" Kato Megumi pouted.

"Maybe."

"I'll kill you." Kato Megumi picked up the kitchen knife and warned.

"I will definitely stay home with you and Nitro on Christmas Day."

......

Before we knew it, it had started snowing heavily.

What depressing weather.

After the exchange student matters were concluded, there was a long month.

Mu Lin dealt with a lot of things during this month.

One is to settle Hayasaka Ai and Shinomiya Kaguya.

One is to work together with Iwanaga Kotoko to stop Hongzhen from continuing to kill.

Another one is to find a way to save Sadako.

Being busy was not his main concern right now.

When we arrived at the main residence of Yukinoshita, we saw that Yuki's mother was already waiting in the reception room.

The servants were nowhere to be seen, and she was the only one sitting there waiting with her eyes closed.

When he heard someone coming in, he opened his eyes, stood up when he saw the person, and said respectfully: "Mr. Mulin, long time no see."

"Well, do you need me for anything?"

"You have come from afar, so don't be anxious. Why don't you help me evaluate this tea?"

As she spoke, Xue's mother began to make tea. Her movements were graceful and her rhythm was slow, very much in the style of a Japanese master.

"Yeah, good tea."

Mu Lin took a sip of tea, then put the cup on the table and waited for Xue's mother's reply.

"It seems that my tea art has declined a lot." Xue's mother sighed.

"The art of tea is all about your state of mind. Your tea is slightly bitter but sweet. I can tell you are in a good mood."

"But it didn't affect you, did it? How are you doing?"

Xue's mother casually asked Mu Lin what happened and why he was in a bad mood.

"Nothing, tell me, what do you want from me?"

"This is the explanation I promised you a month ago."

Mu Lin took a photo handed to him by Xue's mother and found that it was a corpse.

"He is the one who assassinated the Takiya hero."

"That's it."

A month was a bit long, but Mu Lin was in no mood to blame others for their efficiency, so he simply stood up and prepared to leave.

"By the way, my daughter's birthday is coming up soon. We will hold a birthday party then. Would you be so kind as to attend?"

January 1rd is Yukinoshita Yukino’s birthday.

"No time."

After replying indifferently, Mu Lin left.

And Xue's mother sighed helplessly.

......

Old Mori Office.

When Mu Lin arrived here, he saw two familiar women and a man named Hojo Junichi who was tortured and huddled in a corner with his head in his hands.

One of the women is naturally the blonde maid Hayasaka Ai. After the Hayasaka family broke away from the control of the Shinomiya zaibatsu, she regained her freedom, but because of Mu Lin's order, she still stayed beside Shinomiya Kaguya as a personal maid and reported important information to him.

The other woman was identified by Hojo Junichi as another devil besides the boss - Yukinoshita Haruno!

The devil who plays with people's hearts is so disgusting. If she hadn't expanded the firm's business scope and made huge profits, providing him and his boss with a rich source of income, he would have asked her to get out long ago!

This has resulted in a sea change in the firm's current division of power.

Yukinoshita Haruno, who has a business mind and makes friends with many important people for the firm, completely sidelines the director Hojo Junichi!

She has become a person who is only one level lower than Mu Lin and does not need to obey his orders.

Hayasaka Ai, a member of the agency, would not listen to Hojo Junichi's orders, and would sometimes even resist Mu Lin's orders.

"It's better not to have this firm!" Hojo Junichi shouted!

"If you want to be so poor that you can only eat Kangshoufu instant noodles, I can stop paying you." Yukinoshita Haruno said with ill intention.

"Where are the things?" Mu Lin was too lazy to help Hojo Junichi, so he asked as soon as he came up.

"It's there." Hayasaka Ai pointed to the suitcase in the cupboard.

As a member of lower status, she should have personally taken the suitcase and handed it to Mu Lin, but now she just pointed at it.

Mu Lin didn't care. He checked the suitcase and prepared to leave.

He moved in such a hurry, as if he disliked this place.

"Boss!" A playful voice called him, and this title was made by Yukinoshita Haruno.

"what's up?"

"I heard that you refused to attend my sister's birthday party."

"Do not have time."

"Oh! I didn't see any plans on January 1rd in your calendar."

The sudden huge benefits made Hojo Junichi agree to let Yukinoshita Haruno join the agency without Kirin's knowledge.

Then he regarded himself as Mu Lin's secretary and took charge of all his affairs.

Before Mu Lin found out, she had used the records on the firm's computer to figure out almost everything Mu Lin did through the firm.

This also made her understand that Mu Lin was the knight who saved her on that rainy night, and he was also the culprit who killed most of the members of the Nanyun Group.

"Private matter."

"What's the private matter? I always feel that you are in a bad mood. As your secretary, in order not to affect the smooth progress of the firm's commission, I need to know what is affecting you."

"I told you, right?"

"Ok?"

"If you don't want to die, leave now."

The cold words startled the other three people in the office.

"You know too much. If you want to save your life, you'd better play dumb and hide it, instead of being like a curious cat looking for death!"

"...Are those people here to take revenge?"

those people.

The one that Yukinoshita Haruno was referring to was naturally the magician hired by the Shinomiya Zaibatsu a month ago.

"more or less."

"I don't have the confidence to hide from these people with magical powers! It would be safer under your protection!"

"Why should I protect you?"

After saying this, Mu Lin left with his suitcase.

The office fell into a long silence.

"The boss will protect you, don't worry!" Hojo Junichi suddenly said, "The fact that he didn't force you to leave means that he has accepted you as one of us. The firm is his second home, and you are his family."

"Of course I know that."

Yukinoshita Haruno said this, but she still felt a little unhappy.

This annoying cold tone and style of behavior made it difficult for her to be grateful to him even though he was her savior.

She always felt that Mu Lin was heading towards an extreme, an extremely lonely path that alienated everyone.

"Am I his family member too?" Hayasaka Ai suddenly asked from the side.

"Of course, otherwise he would have chased you away long ago, as you are such a rude maid who sits on the sofa and doesn't even know to stand up and greet the master when he comes."

"Humph, you kidnapped me and saved my family. I am just helping you with something. I am not a maid. Besides, I have done a lot of things for the office with Sister Yang Nai these days."

"Forget it, you guys chat, I have nothing to do with this firm anymore, it's your world now, bye!"

Hojo Junichi was about to leave in grief.

"By the way, have you finished investigating the thing I asked you to investigate?" Yukinoshita Haruno suddenly called him.

“Just create a new folder on your computer desktop!”

Apart from being a hacker and secretly investigating things, the useless Hojo Jun just waved his hand and left.

Yukinoshita Haruno was sitting at her desk, browsing through the contents of a folder.

"The Tokyo Swastika Society, a chaotic group of hooligans, fighting everywhere, but the group's philosophy seems to be pretty good?"

"Based on these alone, I don't think there is any need to excuse their crimes of fighting! Why is it that our Hayasaka family has to clean up their messes every time they commit a crime?"

"If the Tokyo Swastika Society really has the potential that Mu Lin said, and your Hayasaka family is willing to invest in them early on, they might become a big family on par with the Shinomiya Zaibatsu in the future."

"This is impossible no matter how you think about it, right? What is surprising is that it was so easy for them to deal with the aftermath of the fight. It seems that even the officials were covering for them."

"So they will definitely reach a very high position in the future, right? There are so many gangs and underworld groups, and as long as one of them dominates and intimidates the other factions, the whole society will be much more harmonious. Besides, Tokyo Mang is more humane than other companies."

"Maybe, this is what he planned?"

"Of course, if the Shinomiya Zaibatsu wants to retaliate against your Hayasaka family one day, you don't need to worry too much with Tokyo Mang for protection, and you need to do things for him, or in other words, protect the people he cares about."

"Can't he protect himself?"

"Maybe... Never mind. Just continue to observe them. By the way, how is the training of Shinomiya Kaguya to be the next head of the Shinomiya Zaimiya family going?"

"The young lady has this talent, so there is no need to worry, but Master Huang Guang and Master Yun Ying are difficult to deal with."

"Don't worry, my mother will take care of this matter. Just let your eldest daughter prepare in peace."

"The young lady..."

"how?"

"I haven't recovered since I was kidnapped by him last time."

"Huo? It doesn't matter. There's still a lot of time. Just let her do something she likes to slow down."

"Ok."

After finishing what they wanted to talk about, Hayasaka Ai got up and left, but before closing the door, she suddenly said to Yukinoshita Haruno, "Thank you."

"Humph, if you want to thank someone, you should thank him. He's such a weird person!"

Yukinoshita Haruno was speechless.

She thought that Hayasaka Ai had kept this thank you in her heart for a long time.

This was naturally a thank you to Mu Lin for saving their family and planning for their family's future.

But Yukinoshita Haruno missed another level of gratitude.

This thanks also implies thanks to her.

If she hadn't explained Mu Lin's annoying behavior.

For example, in order to expose the crimes of the Shinomiya Zaibatsu, Hayasaka Ai had to be kidnapped.

Then he used hateful means to force Hayasaka Ai to join the agency, and forced Hayasaka Ai to continue to be a monitor beside the eldest lady, etc. These actions would be of great benefit to her and the eldest lady in the future, but now it seems that everything was forced by him.

If it weren't for Yukinoshita Haruno's enlightenment, Hayasaka Ai might have secretly hated Mu Lin.

Hating someone who is actually helping you - what a funny thing.

Of course, this is also a question of the style of the person who provides the helping hand.

In the silent office.

Yukinoshita Haruno rested her chin on her hand and stared at the computer screen in a daze.

"Yukino must be very desperate, right? Maybe she hid at home and cried silently for several times."

"I really don't understand why, how did Kato Megumi and Nishimiya Glass succeed in getting him to be their boyfriends."

"......Although I am a little desperate. In ancient times, staying by the emperor's side wouldn't be so uncomfortable!"

"I really don't understand what he is worried about!"

"It's so upsetting!"

"never mind!"

"It's such a great Christmas holiday, I shouldn't be sad, I should go see my little Yukino."

After saying that, Yukinoshita Haruno clapped her hands, packed up her things and left the office.

......

And on the other side.

After asking some exorcists other than Iwanaga Kotoko some questions about ghosts, Mu Lin came up with a way to save Sadako.

In fact, the ghosts constructed from imaginary energy that Kotoko Iwanaga mentioned before are just one category.

There are other categories of ghosts in this world.

For example, ghosts made up of resentment, the unwillingness of the dead, etc.

Ghosts constructed from imaginary energy are mostly harmless, while ghosts created in other ways are basically called evil spirits.

Hong Zhen is not composed of imaginary energy alone.

It is a complex body of resentment.

A poor creature who was parasitized by the real Sadako. Because he killed too many people and swallowed too much resentment, he became a vicious spirit of his current level.

The more people you kill, the greater your reputation, the stronger your energy, and the more resentment you have.

I can’t even imagine what I will become one day.

Mu Lin originally planned to wait for those magicians to come out and resolve the situation, but up until now, he had not seen any action from them, so he had to take action on his own.

Not long ago, he and Kotoko Iwanaga used online public opinion to distort the fact that Sadako was an evil spirit.

Then, appropriate explanations were given to the various murders caused by Hong Zhen to weaken the energy of imagination and temporarily suppress Hong Zhen's murderous nature.

But by doing this, the resentment cannot be released, and the hidden danger of Hongzhen will still exist.

So we have to find where the real body that she is parasitizing is.

Mu Lin judged that the real body was most likely in the pub.

So, he came to the door of the deserted pub again, still late at night.