My Avatar is Becoming the Ultimate BOSS-Chapter 48 - 39 Conflict

Japan time, 08:00 AM, Tokyo’s Harbor District, at an abandoned office building entrance.

Ke Qirui lowered the brim of her rustic hat, her sharp eyes slightly upturned.

From the shadows of the brim, she expressionlessly glanced at the fading embers of the Working Demon, then surveyed the backs of the four brigade members.

She then took a retro-style one-sided mirror from her pocket, wearing it above her left eye, the chain fastened to her coat collar. She said, "I just came to check after detecting demon waves, looks like someone finished the job for us."

Su Zimai also watched their backs, asking, "Had, are they exorcists too?"

"Probably not." Ke Qirui shook her head.

At this moment standing here was Ji Minghuan’s second game character—"Xia Pingzhou", not the first character "Gu Wenyu".

It’s natural they didn’t recognize him.

However, in the memory of the second character, Xia Pingzhou had a brief encounter with Ke Qirui two years ago.

Both belonged to the SS-ranked Celestial Driver holders, within China’s Exorcist Association, they were stars admired by many, hard not to know each other.

If Ke Qirui were to observe closely, she would recognize the person before her as Xia Pingzhou.

With a sidelong glance at the two figures, Ji Minghuan thought to himself:

"Things seem a little bad, if my little sister gets killed by the brigade, my ’Black Cocoon’ would directly lose a sustainable mainline mission."

Thinking this, he decided to try freeing Su Zimai as much as possible without raising suspicion from the members;

As for Ke Qirui, her life or death was none of his concern.

"Hungry." Ayase Origami said expressionlessly, "Kill them then quickly go eat."

With that, she turned half around.

At this moment, Ji Minghuan suddenly spoke: "I have an impression of the woman with the hat, she’s an Exorcist Association member, her Celestial Driver is a ’retro-style one-sided mirror’... Haven’t heard of the other, have you?"

Anluns seemed to recall something hearing Ji Minghuan.

"Old-style one-sided mirror?" He murmured, raising an eyebrow, "Oh... is it Ke Qirui from the Exorcist Association, she’s quite famous. The captain knew her, seemed to want to invite her to the brigade in the past."

"And what happened?" Ji Minghuan asked.

"The captain didn’t say, but judging by this, she was rejected." Anluns smiled, "She later formed an exorcist team, called ’Ghost Train Corps’, likely based on her Contracted ’Train Demon’."

Origami turned her head, looking at the two with an indifferent gaze.

She asked: "After all that talk, are we killing or not?"

Robert scratched his mechanical box-like head, calmly saying: "Forget it. The captain mentioned not causing a disturbance before the auction starts. Fighting these two exorcists here brings no benefit."

Hearing this, Ji Minghuan interjected: "If you agree, I’d like to try sparring with that woman."

He paused then added: "But her Celestial Driver will cause significant noise, if you think it might affect the auction’s secrecy... then forget it."

In his memory, Ke Qirui’s Celestial Driver ’retro-style one-sided mirror’ had the ability to directly summon Contracted demons.

This fundamentally differs from other Celestial Drivers — others have contracted demons as parts of the Celestial Driver, her Celestial Driver preserves the demon’s body, summoning them when needed.

Ji Minghuan had tested using "restraint detection" in the park last night, finding Ke Qirui’s "retro-style one-sided mirror" currently contracted two demons; the first being "Train Demon", the second "Movie Demon".

Judging by the name "Train Demon", this demon’s size is definitely large, meaning if fighting Ke Qirui here, she would surely summon Train Demon, engaging them for a while.

The noise caused then would surely be large, even akin to announcing all of Japan:

——"White Crow Travel Brigade has arrived in Tokyo."

Anluns shrugged: "That’s true... the captain warned us not to underestimate her abilities if encountered."

"Don’t waste time." Robert said, retracting his gaze from the two at the office entrance, "If killing them is to hide our tracks, fighting them here causes greater commotion, leading to a larger impact."

He paused: "Let’s go, don’t make the captain angry."

"Let’s go, then."

Saying so, Ayase Origami was the first to turn, heading towards the desolate corridor.

"Okay." Ji Minghuan said, a trace of barely noticeable disappointment in his voice.

Turning to leave with the pair, he exhaled, thinking: I can only help you this far, little sis. If they really won’t let you go, it’ll be time for eternal farewell. Losing a mainline mission is better than losing a game character.

"Right, number 12." Anluns caught up, patting his shoulder, "So you’ve been in the Exorcist Association before?"

"Everyone who awakens as a Celestial Driver gets invited by the local officials, they invited me too." Ji Minghuan explained without hesitation, "Later felt it was boring there and left."

"No wonder you came to us, find it more interesting than staying in the brigade?" Anluns chuckled.

Ji Minghuan couldn’t be bothered to answer, just said: "A week later, we’re going to raid Tokyo’s underground auction, right?"

"Yes, that’s when we’ll start." Anluns confirmed.

"No specific plan?"

"The captain usually informs us five minutes before the action starts."

"No need for preparation?"

"Anyone lacking even this bit of execution power would be dead a million times over in our group." Anluns smiled, "The captain is quite interested in your abilities, hope you keep up with us, die slower, not like the previous number 12."

Ji Minghuan nodded expressionlessly.

He turned his head, from the corner of his eye glancing at Ke Su, left at the office, thinking:

"So, what are Ke Qirui and Su Zimai doing in Tokyo? Are they also going to mess with the auction? With my little sis’s strength for such high-level gigs, even as a mole within the brigade, can’t possibly save her."

The four reached a corner, entering a dirt-path passage. Robert placed his right hand on the wall, opening a door frame. They twist the knob stepping in, disappearing without a trace.

Meanwhile, within the abandoned office.

"Their aura suddenly vanished?" Su Zimai frowned, already poised to draw her Celestial Driver upon sensing hostility, unexpectedly they just turned and left.

She turned to ask Ke Qirui: "Had, who were those people?"

"Seems they were from the White Crow Travel Brigade..." Ke Qirui said softly.

"Huh?"

"I’ve seen one of them in a photo. That little girl in a kimono, she’s Miss of Japan’s Ayase family. Later received an invitation from the White Crow brigade captain, left the family, joined the brigade."

"So earlier, were they planning to kill us?"

"Yes, not sure why they didn’t act." Ke Qirui said, "Each person in the brigade is strong, if unprepared our chances are low."

She pondered: "Seems Japan’s Exorcist Association concerns are true, White Crow brigade indeed came to Tokyo, targeting the association’s underground auction held with several mafia families."

Su Zimai asked: "Should we still take the ’protect auction normalcy’ commission?"

"Here already, leaving would be a waste." Ke Qirui put her hand on her chin, "Report what just happened to the association, Japan should beef up auction defenses."

"Who can they call?" Su Zimai sighed, "Japan’s either exorcists or superpower users are weak, barely any decent ones."

"True, but the Japan association can request aid from nearby countries, have them send some personnel over." Ke Qirui grinned.

Su Zimai frowned: "Like?"

"Blue Arc."

Ke Qirui softly uttered the name.