The Crucifixion Cross

Although Ethan explained, Akatsuki was not so stupid as to believe what others said, and being handsome and doing whatever she wanted didn't work for her.

However, Ethan also seemed to see Akatsuki's distrust.

He smiled, took out a mobile phone from his pocket, unlocked it and pressed it a few times, then threw it towards the girl at the door.

Akatsuki's right hand still kept the posture of raising the gun, and her left hand caught the phone call from Ethan, and put it directly to her ear—from the beginning to the end, her eyes were firmly locked on Ethan who was not far away, not because of him The seemingly sincere action was a little shaken.

At this moment, the voice of 'beep~beep~' also came to an end, and then Sakura Sojiro's familiar voice came from the receiver:

"็ Hello Who are you?"

Obviously not long ago, I heard it from Ethan's pretended 'Sakura Sojiro', but at this moment, the assassin, Akatsuki's tense heartstrings were slightly relaxed because of the somewhat confused and bewildered voice.

She sighed softly, and said in an inaudible tone:

"It's me, boss."

"Huh? It's a girl, what's the matter?" After the boss finished speaking, there was a soft 'rustle' sound from the other end of the phone—it was probably the boss who was habitually scratching that messy hair, right? "It's so late and you call me from an unfamiliar number... Could it be that something bad happened? Tsk... But don't call me to tell me to go to the police station to take you away at night. Bring it back, otherwise, I will definitely be angry? Very angry? Don’t talk about you, a guy who doesn’t have a long memory, I will punish even Morgana together... Well, no, let’s forget about Morgana, that guy It's very pitiful, because I accidentally followed your unreliable master!"

As always nagging, as always arrogant, whether it is the impatient attitude on the surface or the hidden care in the inside, they are all exactly the same as what Ethan showed before, but...

Fakes are, after all, just fakes.

Ethan's acting skills will only make Akatsuki's eyes colder, but the care from the real Sojiro Sakura makes the corners of Akatsuki's mouth curl up uncontrollably.

"I'm sorry, Boss, I've let you down. I haven't been arrested yet. I'm calling you this time..." As she spoke, Akatsuki turned her eyes to the radio that heard the frivolous voice, "— —It’s because the radio in the store is broken, boss, remember to buy a new one when you come over tomorrow, okay?”

"What, it's just such a small matter..."

Sakura Sojiro said in a bad mood, but Akatsuki, who had lived with him for a while, would not let go of the imperceptible trace of happiness in his words.

"Yeah, it's just a little thing - then, I'll hang up first, and the boss should go to bed earlier, bye~"

After the brief conversation ended, Akatsuki finally put down the pistol.

Sen Leng's murderous intent permeated in the air also dissipated a little.

Looking at the man standing in front of the stage, Xiao pursed her lips and said in a low voice:

"Ethan... Hunter, who are you?"

"A person who can help you is also a person who needs your help," Ethan smiled. "As for more specific...it depends on whether we can successfully enter the next stage of cooperation."

"Help me?" Akatsuki frowned.

"Baiyu Sufang——" With the appearance of this name, the expression on Ethan's face gradually became serious, and a few unnatural dry coughs came from the old-fashioned radio that had been secretly replaced as a communication tool, "I I'm here to help you deal with her, Miss Joker...Of course, you can also understand that I'm asking you to help me deal with her, but I don't think there's any difference."

Does everyone now know that Joker's real body is Lai Qixiao?

——Hearing Ethan's words, Akatsuki couldn't help but have this ridiculous thought in his heart.

Of course, the truth of the matter is definitely not like this. After all, Su Fang's identity is there. If she can't even find out the real identity of the Phantom Thieves, then she will be hell. As for Ethan...

Seemingly sensing the embarrassment in Xiao's heart, Ethan couldn't help but smile.

He touched his nose, suppressed a smile and said:

"Although this is not suitable for me, but...Miss Joker, reality is not a game, and there are not so many 'plot needs' that are taken for granted. It is really difficult for professional hackers to break through your shoddy website. It couldn't be easier, but as for finding out your true identities later on...hehe."

……

I'll replace that kid's website when I go back!

Akatsuki, who was once again devastated by the existence of the 'pig teammate', thought so.

Hua Ling’s words: P5 has never been a branch line, they are just an introduction... I didn’t intend to talk about the plot of P5, because the animation is so bad, and the original plot of P5 is basically not seen in the novel, I have always been Take it with me.

To put it bluntly, they are just an 'introduction', and what is shown to everyone through P5 is the whole picture of Cocolia's plan and Su Fang's 'truth'.

In fact, JoJo can also take on this responsibility, because what I need is an interdependent relationship between mortals and supernatural beings, doubles and double messengers, Persona and phantom thieves, they all meet my needs, but the problem is I don't have the confidence to write JoJo well, so I can only choose P5 as the next best thing.

Chapter 71. Enemies of the World

It can only be said that Akatsuki is still a soft-hearted girl. Even though the performance of the support staff has been so "pig" that the "enemy" can't help but sigh, she still didn't directly kick this unreliable guy Drop, just say 'change a website', not 'change a logistics'——

How much effect can this kind of method that treats the symptoms but not the root cause play a role?

In the not-too-distant future, will the Phantom Thieves be in deep trouble again due to the negligence of the logistics staff?

These questions, Akatsuki himself is actually not clear, because...

She no longer knows whether the Phantom Thieves still have a "future"...

If the phantom thieves in the past wandered in the dark towards the light, then the phantom thieves now seem to have fallen into a bottomless abyss, not to mention the ray of light shining in the direction of progress , they are not even sure where they are...

An unprecedented sense of emptiness filled Akatsuki's heart. Even she, who had always been the de facto leader of the phantom thieves with her composure, felt a heavy sense of powerlessness...

However, before she was overwhelmed by that sense of powerlessness, her backbone, her sense of responsibility as a team leader, and the humiliation, anger, and unwillingness to be played with... These complicated emotions finally supported this body that seemed to be there anytime, anywhere. The fragile body that may collapse allows her to continue to protect the members from the wind and rain.

However, the girl named Lai Qixiao is only a 16-year-old girl after all. Even though she has experienced many unbelievable things in the eyes of ordinary people, she is different from Su Fei who was destined to be the protagonist of this world. Su Fang is different from Kazumi Mishima, the de facto ruler of the Far East, and even the most "ordinary" formation around Su Fei... Excluding the Persona ability that has only been awakened for more than a month, Lai Qixiao is only born Just like underage girls in ordinary families.

The sufferings and tortures in the past have tempered her mind, making her bear much stronger than her peers, but...she still has limits.

If it weren't for Su Fang's oppression, maybe Xiao would not have noticed that he was approaching his limit a little bit, but now, Su Fang's understatement has pushed Xiao to the brink of collapse, and Ethan , Will it be the straw to save her life, or the last straw to completely crush her?

Akatsuki don't know...

She could only pray silently in her heart, praying that everything would gradually get better, and praying that in the fog that could not be seen at a glance, there was still the "future" of the Phantom Thieves...

"I'm here to help you deal with Bai Yu Su Fang, but at the same time, I'm also asking you to help me deal with Bai Yu Su Fang." Ethan didn't seem to notice the depression in Xiao's heart, and said to himself: "However, Before establishing a reliable relationship of trust and starting a real cooperation, I still want to know, how much do you know about Bai Yu Su Fang?"

"...almost nothing," Xiao replied slowly after a moment of silence, "Before I received the entrustment, I only thought of her as Asuna's childhood sweetheart, and only then did I know that Shengxiang under her control might exist on campus." The bullying incident, as for more..."

Although Xiao became depressed, she was a normal person with an online IQ after all, and she knew what to say and what not to say.

Ethan, who was mysterious and mysterious, obviously couldn't gain her trust, so she didn't directly tell Ethan what she knew—that is, the content of the conversation just now, but just pointed it out.

Ethan, who also has an online IQ, naturally doesn't know what Akatsuki means, so he quickly picked up the words:

"By 'more', do you mean the same 'supernatural power' as your phantom thieves?"

"..."

Silence, it can only be silence, Akatsuki can't answer Ethan's question directly, because it has already involved her biggest secret.

It's just... the phrase 'silence is golden' doesn't work in this situation.

Xiao's silence was no different from acquiescence in Ethan's eyes.

"Nothing surprising, right? If I didn't know that you possess power beyond common sense, I wouldn't have come to the extreme east on purpose, and followed you secretly for about half a month."

"...how much do you know about us?"

"Actually, there are not many," Ethan shrugged. "Probably similar to those folk rumors? The difference is that most folks think that those who have been 'changed' are tortured into tricks, but we don't think so—— The power of 'changing your mind' that you possess is what attracts me the most about the Phantom Thieves."

Saying that, Ethan took a deep breath and looked at Akatsuki seriously.

"My companions and I believe that only the strength of the Phantom Thieves can defeat the Queen—the victory over Baiyu Sufang!"

"Our strength...?" Xiao blinked blankly, then smiled wryly, and said in a self-deprecating way: "Hehe...you think highly of me. With our ability, we can defeat Baiyu Sufang? Hehe..."

"It seems that our understanding of 'conquer' is different?" Ethan raised his eyebrows, "I know better than you how powerful Baiyu Sufang's hands are, and of course I won't do things like hitting a stone with an egg .”

"Then what do you mean?"

"'Change Heart'——" Ethan smiled, "What I need is the power of 'Change Heart', in other words, to change Bai Yu Su Fang's 'heart' and make her admit the 'crime' she committed."

"Wait, you said 'crime'?" Akatsuki frowned.

As I said before, Xiao knew nothing about Su Fang.

Even in the conversation just now, Su Fang did not reveal any valuable information——

She invites the Phantom Thieves to join her organization, but what about the organization's name?

do not know!

What about the names of the members of the organization?

do not know!

What about the specific structure of the organization?

Still don't know!

Not only that, Su Fang didn't even tell Xiao the purpose and action goal of this organization!

She only used some information that was not difficult to obtain, plus two times of force deterrence and the bleak feeling created by the ice flower, and played with Xiao in the palm of her hand, engraving the imprint of fear in the deepest part of her heart...

This scheming...

No wonder it's called the 'Queen'!

While feeling admiration for Su Fang's methods, Akatsuki also noticed what Ethan said:

"White Feather Su Fang... is the criminal?"

"The perpetrator (Perpetrator)? No, no, no, she's not such a 'cute' guy as the perpetrator," Ethan gritted his teeth. This super agent who has always been very calm can't maintain his mask at this moment. "She is... the most terrifying terrorist (Terrorist) in the world! No one!"

Ethan, whose complexion gradually became solemn, took out a small virtual projector from his coat pocket, and threw it towards Akatsuki.

"This is……?"

"This is what you don't know, the 'real' White Feather Su Fang—"

Chapter 72. Enemies of the World

The content of the video is very short, less than ten minutes in total, but the content...

Are you showing me the news broadcast? If Akatsuki was from China, she would definitely complain like this.

The reason is simple: Isn't the main purpose of the news broadcast is 'the foreign people are in dire straits, and the domestic people are happy and healthy' (laughs)

cough cough...

All in all, the content of the video is basically such a tone, all of which have been badly broadcast in the past few years about the painful lives of foreign people. The anti-government armed forces officially declared war on the government organization, the anti-government armed forces in country C successfully overthrew their own regime, the anti-government armed forces in country D...etc? !

Xiao Xiao, who was wondering what is the use of Ethan showing her these old news, was suddenly startled, and finally noticed the inner connection in these news——

"These news... are all about the overthrow of the former regime by the anti-government armed forces?"

As Xiao said, her mind entered a high-speed operation mode, and quickly pieced together these incomplete information fragments into the answer she needed—that was what Ethan called the 'truth'.

"What you want to say is that these anti-government armed forces that overthrew countless countries' regimes are actually Su Fang's subordinates!?"

"That's right—" Ethan snapped his fingers, "The world's largest anti-government armed organization, the culprit of the displacement of countless people, the destroyer of the existing order, and the root of all disasters——Syndicat, we That's how 'she' is called."

Ethan exhaled, his eyes gradually became heavy:

"And the Queen... is the 'Bai Yu Su Fang' you know, the current head of this organization, the actual organizer of all the violent incidents in the previous video, and the one who manipulated the local anti-government armed forces to overthrow the original regime. The black hand behind the scenes... It can be said that all the terrorist actions against the former government organization that broke out in the past four years are all related to her! Either she planned it herself, or she provided strong armed support, or she sent people Intervention... For this world that has finally achieved peace after the war, she who wants to destroy the original order is undoubtedly an 'enemy of the world'!"

"The enemy of the world..."

Repeating this unfamiliar word softly, Xiao felt a huge sense of absurdity from it—Bai Yu Su Fang?Enemy of the world?

This……

Xiao knew that Bai Yu Su Fang was definitely not an ordinary person. The appearance of Kallen Kaslana and the assassin with different eyes frozen in time can prove it, but the enemy of the world...

A girl who is only sixteen or seventeen years old, how can He De be called the 'enemy of the world'?

Although he didn't speak, there was no doubt that such a message was revealed in Akatsuki's eyes full of confusion.

It was really hard for her to convince herself to accept this exaggerated 'personality', and... the news in the video can be traced back to four years ago, in other words...

Bai Yu Su Fang, as early as four years ago, started to engage in various activities as a terrorist?

"You must be joking, right?" Xiao pushed her glasses, "Indeed, Bai Yu Sufang is definitely not an ordinary person, but the 'enemy of the world'...with all due respect, if a girl of thirteen or fourteen can If I become an 'enemy of the world', then I really have to question the world I live in - am I actually living in a world of third-rate urban novels?"

"Thirteen or fourteen-year-old Bai Yu Su Fang is indeed not qualified to be called an 'enemy of the world', but Syndicat is not the case - this organization has existed for a much longer time than you imagined, but in Bai Yu Su After Fang officially took over, Syndicat really began to operate as an anti-government organization," Ethan explained, "In other words, the purpose of Syndicat's previous existence may not have been to overthrow the old order, but the appearance of Bai Yu Su Fang changed everything."

After a pause, Ethan continued:

"Also, Bai Yu Su Fang is not the only one in Syndicat—"

After Ethan finished speaking, the 'unreliable' voice came from the radio that was transformed into a communicator:

"We... um, our team has been chasing Syndicat for more than three years. It can be said that Bai Yu Su Fang started to use Syndicat to disrupt the world order, and we have been eyeing her. A lot of information about Syndicat and Baiyu Sufang."

After talking about the key topic, 'unreliable' deliberately cleared his throat, and then continued:

"She has a lot of companions, and each of them has 'supernatural powers' just like you - that being said, we didn't really confirm that these guys are all superpowers until two months ago... Tsk, No wonder they can even do such a completely nonsense thing as breaking through a national defense force alone..."

"Breaking through the National Defense Forces alone..." Akatsuki showed an expression as if she was listening to a story, "Are you telling a story? Or is it a crudely crafted plot that even resists an army of [-] with one person? A third-rate novel that came out? Even if country B is not a big country, it is backed by other big countries!"