Shiori Ichinose tensed her waist and leaned forward to get closer to Minami Yuki.
The words the boy just said made her shudder even more than the previous ghost-like question.
"You became the prime minister in the future, not only serving for a long time, but also holding on to power after abdicating," Minami Yuki continued.
"Do you understand what it means for me to become a monk in Qingxian Temple?" Shiori Ichinose asked a seemingly irrelevant question.
Nan Youxi had thought about this question before, and he answered: "Because I don't see any hope."
"But now, Nan Jun tells me that I, who had no hope of taking power, actually became the prime minister?"
Shiori Ichinose pointed out the loopholes in Minami Yuuki's words. She did not ask questions like ordinary people, but used a questioning tone to force Minami Yuuki to explain. In this way, the initiative of the conversation was on her side.
Minami Yuki found it difficult to explain that Ichinose Shiori's becoming a nun and becoming prime minister were two different world lines, and he had no way to connect the two lines precisely.
He then said: "In the future, Ichinose and I only had a simple physical relationship, and I don't know what happened in between. It doesn't matter. The future is different from the past. People will be trapped by the past, but they will never obey the illusory future."
Ichinose Shiori smiled and said, "That's right, there is no point in exploring a future that has not happened. The present is the only reality."
She paused, suppressed her smile of approval, and her eyes showed a shrewd look.
The wind blew outside the window, and the gray curtains fluttered as if to cover the space inside the house. The air flow blew across the skin, taking away the heat and bringing coolness. The atmosphere suddenly changed from slightly hot peach to slightly cool gray.
Ichinose Shiori stared at Minami Yuki, asked the most essential questions, and spoke the most truthful words.
"What can you bring me?" There was ambition in her eyes.
"Intelligence, a large amount of intelligence in the future, enough for you to become prime minister and control the country. Of course, you can also fulfill your dreams."
Shiori Ichinose looked at the boy in front of her. His voice was gentle and low, as if it came from a deep well, and it was like the song of a siren, luring sailors. He had a smile on his face, like a Buddha or a saint giving alms.
What he said was exactly what Ichinose Shiori wanted.
But Shiori Ichinose knew clearly that there was no Buddha or Holy Mother in this world. This was not a porridge stall set up on the street in a year of disaster for anyone to take. Instead, it was corn and wheat placed near a noose or a pit in the mountains and forests. As long as you took a bite, you would fall into a trap.
“What will it cost me?” she asked.
Nan Youxi stretched out her hand and gestured a small section with her index finger and thumb: "Do me a small favor."
[You revealed the secret that you are from the future, and told Ichinose Shiori that you two are comrades who will fight day and night in the future.]
[Ichinotose Shiori neither believed nor doubted what you said.]
[She is an extremely smart girl. Ordinary people always like to distinguish true from false, right from wrong, but she doesn't have such bad habits. She just wrote down what you said and the information you revealed.]
[You told her some easily verifiable intelligence and put forward your two requests.]
[One is to prepare the operating room so that you can perform heart surgery on Nakajima Reina. The second is to investigate the villa near Asano's house, find and catch the woman who hid and stabbed you in a world line, and find out the situation.]
[Your request is too simple, Ichinose Shiori was surprised. She thought you would make a few people disappear, imprison a few girls, and overthrow a few wealthy families...]
[She didn't hide anything and told you her doubts directly. She wanted to know how much she would have to pay so that she could prepare in advance.]
[Tell her that after these two things, she may not have any other requests. Even if she does, it will be as easy as flipping her hand. After these two things, you will give her enough information to become prime minister.]
[She couldn't believe it and thought you were like an old-fashioned second-hand market seller who sold things based on his mood without considering the real value of the items.]
[She somewhat believed what you said, that you had gained a lot of experience from her. If it weren't for this, how could you have done such a loss-making business.]
[She asked about the details of your two requests again, trying to infer more information from these two things.]
[She failed to do so. She thought you were a time traveler who returned with a mission, and your every move had important implications for the future world situation, but you were just a playboy who wanted to have a little romance.]
[Ichinose Shiori quickly arranged the two things. ]
[A week after you performed surgery on Reina, you received news from Ichinose Shiori that the killer who stabbed you once was caught.]
[The killer was caught by five enthusiastic citizens who had been lying in ambush for a long time. These enthusiastic citizens were subordinates of the Ichinose family and their deputy positions were members of the Metropolitan Police Department. In order to capture the opponent alive, two of the five enthusiastic citizens were injured. ]
[The woman was locked up in a villa in the suburbs. ]
Is it so easy to catch? Nan Youxi looked at the simulated text and felt a little disappointed.
If the other party was just like this, he wouldn't need to simulate it at all. He could just ask Ichinose Shiori for help in reality.
He continued to look down.
[You got the woman's information, and the moment you saw her photo, you panicked.]
Panic? Why panic? What happened to the photo? Nan Youxi was confused.
[The woman's name is Guan Yuejing, 25 years old, a college student, with long hair and a figure slightly inferior to Yimei, but her appearance is much better than Yimei.]
[There are two photos, one is the ID photo, and the other is the photo taken after the arrest. In both photos, Guan Yuejing's eyes are fierce, like a cat with its fur standing on end, or a tiger or leopard hiding in the dark.]
[The fierce eyes not only did not reduce Guan Yuejing's beauty, but added some wild temptation to her. ]
[Her beauty is not inferior to Nao, Yuko, Reina, Mitsuki and Mayu. ]
"… "
Nan Youxi pinched the bridge of his nose. Combining the description in the simulated text and the nature of the simulator, as well as the other party's own weirdness, he could be sure that this Guan Yuejing was one of the objects that could be simulated.
Opening the main interface of the simulator, he took a quick glance to make sure that Shizuka Mitsuki's name had not appeared in the simulated object column. He was relieved to be sure that he was now starting the simulation of Nao.
No matter how beautiful this Guanyue Jing is, or how bad the simulator is, can she still replace Nao
Nan Youxi continued to look down. He was curious about what Guan Yuejing had done wrong, why she was hiding in the villa, and why she was so aggressive.
[You also noticed that in the photo, Shizuki Kanzuki looked good. Apparently, this was because Shiori Ichinose gave her special care. You suspected that the Prime Minister had misunderstood.]
[The following part of the information provides detailed information about Guan Yuejing's family, school, and workplace.]
[The woman's father died before she entered middle school. Her mother was a manager at a medium-sized company, but was transferred out when she was in fifth grade and became an unemployed vagrant.]
[The mother suffered a severe mental blow due to unemployment. She became addicted to gambling. The family, which was once quite wealthy, fell into poverty and all the family property was taken away by debt collectors.]
[Fortunately, the Guanyue family has no debts. ]
[After her grandparents supported her to go to high school, they passed away one after another. The inheritance left to her was squandered by her mother. She had to work part-time to earn a living during high school.]
[After graduating from an ordinary university, the woman worked in a clothing company and worked hard to develop side businesses, including but not limited to: international purchasing, second-hand dealer, scalper, YouTube video blogger, idol, virtual anchor... ]
[These side jobs didn’t make her rich, but they didn’t make her lose money either. She always made a small profit...if it weren’t for that mother.]
[The mother visited her daughter's home once a month and took away the money she had worked so hard to save, leaving her in a state of extreme poverty.]
[Last week, she killed her mother.]
[The body was lying in her rental house. She did nothing to deal with it. She quit her job and returned to her childhood home, which was the villa where you were killed in the previous world line. She has lived in a daze until now.]
[After being arrested, she remained silent.]
[Ichinose Shiori asks you if you want to meet her. You hesitate for a moment and then decide...]
[1. "Use your body to make it up to me!"]
[2. “He who kills others will be killed.”]
[3. "I hope you can reform yourself in prison."]
[4. Free simulation]
The options appeared. Nan Youxi looked at the interface and analyzed the meaning of the options as usual.
Option one should mean to let Guanyue rest quietly in the suburbs, imprisoned in a villa, for one's own amusement.
Option two, fight back and let Guan Yuejing experience the feeling of being killed.
Option three, hand Guan Yuejing over to the police and let the law punish her, educate her, and reform her.
Nan Youxi clicked option three.
There is no need to hesitate. He has Reimi Nayuki, and in the future there will be Kazumi and Ichinose Shiori. He doesn't need Shizue Kanzuki.
If he wanted to play the confinement game, he just had to tell the girls. Reina, Kazumi and Shiori might not be willing, but Yuko, Nao and Mitsuki would definitely agree.
Option one lacked temptation for him, and option two, tit-for-tat, was too bloody for him to like.
The only option left is option three.
Guan Yuejing killed her mother. Even though that mother could no longer be considered a mother, she still committed a serious crime and what awaits her is at least several decades in prison.
[You told Ichinose Shiori to follow the normal procedures to deal with Kanzuki Shizuku. Ichinose Shiori was a little confused. She thought Kanzuki Shizuku was an important person, but she didn't expect you were just playing a hero's house game.]
[Five enthusiastic citizens brought Guan Yuejing to the police station.]
[You never cared about Shizuka Mizuki again, and later learned from Shiori Ichinose that Shizuka Mizuki was sentenced to 20 years in prison.]
(End of this chapter)