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But there is nothing wrong with what Shizuka Hiratsuka said.
What is important is "bottom-up".
Rather than "top-down".
If he insisted on rewriting the world according to his own intentions, no matter how historically significant the rewriting might be, he would actually be acting on his own selfish motives. So many times, he had deep doubts about his desire to overthrow the walls between the inner and outer worlds. He had no idea whether the secular side really needed such reform, how the mysterious side would resist, and whether this was what the people wanted or the voice of the masses.
"what are you thinking about?"
Shizuka Hiratsuka waved her hand in front of his eyes and said.
"Nothing," Ling Wuji said, "Let's put my question aside. Yukinoshita doesn't look like a qualified leader, right? Of course, if you insist, she can indeed take that position with the advantages of her family background and appearance, but..."
Ling Wu Ji thought that the essence of the matter actually lies in the confrontation between Yukinoshita Yukino and her family, and her competitive spirit.
According to Shizuka Hiratsuka, Yukinoshita Yukino has an older sister who was once the student union president.
If she can do better than her sister in office...
"So, teacher, are you actually planning to tell me about the glorious history of a senior today so that foreign students like me can look up to her and use her as a role model?"
Ling Wuji looked at her sideways.
"Doesn't your Chinese Sun Tzu's Art of War say 'Know yourself and know your enemy, and you can fight a hundred battles without danger'?"
"Don't decide my opponent for me without my permission!"
Volume 3: Between God and Man: Chapter 30: The Colorless King
Although Ling Wu Ji was not interested in the affairs of the Yukinoshita family, he could roughly outline the image of a typical well-mannered heir to a politician family from Hiratsuka Shizuka's description. After the violent female teacher finished speaking, Ling Wu Ji quickly realized that Hiratsuka Shizuka's desire to let Yukinoshita Yukino surpass her sister as the president of the student union was simply unrealistic.
"But don't you still have it?"
Ling Wuji raised his eyebrows and said, "If her family's expectation for her growth is for her to learn to rely on her companions, then there is nothing wrong with that. However, I don't think I have any reason to be her companion, right? Strictly speaking, she is a pure elitist and has never thought about coming from the masses and going back to the masses."
The topic was quickly dead.
Hiratsuka Shizuka looked at him, sighed, and said, "That doesn't show how deeply you have penetrated the masses!"
But Ling Wuji was really bored recently, so he reluctantly agreed to help persuade her.
Of course, Ling Wuji didn’t know how to persuade others at all.
He was very aware of his own gift of speech: he was particularly adept at turning others against himself.
He has always been good at physical persuasion and Taoist techniques related to "suggestion", but he would not be so despicable as to use such methods on an ordinary person on the secular side.
So he didn't take it too seriously.
However, he had never expected that Yukinoshita Haruno would soon appear in front of him, and it was due to a series of coincidences.
……
The story begins with the slate system that has faded from Ling Wuji's sight for a long time.
As everyone knows, there are seven kings chosen by the Dresden Slate. The Silver King is Adolf K. Weitzman, who usually lives on an airship and has a very low sense of existence. The Gold King is Kunijoji Daikaku, who was born in a family of Onmyoji. However, after being chosen by the Slate, he became the person in charge of the two top official organizations on the mysterious side of Japan. However, according to Ling Wuji's observation, his body and spirit have decayed and he will soon pass away. The Blue King Munakata Reisi and the Red King Suho Takashi are basically in love and hate with each other. As for the Gray King and the Green King, they seem to be dormant at present.
The only problem is the Colorless King.
Sakuraman Shu never thought that the joke that Ling Wuji once said to him would actually come true. After the death of the previous generation's "Colorless King" Miwa Ichigo, he was chosen by the Dresden Slate and became the new generation of Colorless King.
After losing his identity as "Adam" in the new world, he originally just wanted to live peacefully as an ordinary middle school student. He also gradually learned to bury his affection for his biological sister's clone, Yui Inori, and treated her as his own family. He also gradually distanced himself from the people he had met in the funeral home. He only vaguely heard that Tsumugami Gai almost fell to the point of being a gigolo.
But almost a year after his last meeting with the boy, his peaceful and stable life was disrupted.
Although Sakuraman Shu originally thought that his life would not change just because he became the new king.
But he inadvertently witnessed the current living conditions of the funeral home.
The Undertaker was originally an organization founded by a group of people suffering from the Apocalypse virus.
Their agenda is to overthrow the chaebols that control vaccines and the Japanese government that allows them to do so.
But after Ling Wuji obtained the Origin Stone and used the Sky Curtain Barrier to suppress the Apocalypse Virus, the effect of the vaccine was quickly replaced. At least in Tokyo, although it could not be completely cured, even without the use of the vaccine, the Apocalypse Virus at least could not threaten people's survival. So the people in the funeral home were confused when they saw the current situation. Some people chose to leave, while others chose to continue to maintain the fragmented organization.
However, organizations like this are basically inseparable from donations from certain big capitalists with ulterior motives. When the funeral home is unable to carry out armed operations with sufficient manpower, the source of funds is quickly cut off.
So it is not without reason that Tsuchiya Gaya has fallen to the point where he is almost becoming a gigolo.
Sakuraman Shu saw the bleak situation of the funeral home.
He wanted to do something, but with his poor mind, he couldn't think of any way to improve the current situation of the funeral home.
He is now just an ordinary citizen who lives by the law.
Coincidentally, the funeral home had a minor accident during that period.
If an organization like a funeral home cannot carry out open armed resistance activities, it will quickly turn to covert armed activities, which are the so-called "vibrant social organizations". Japanese law even tolerates the existence of such organizations, and the cornerstone of their continued existence lies in competition with similar organizations.
That is to say, collecting protection fees for a certain area.
The so-called "protection" actually means protecting them from being harassed by another organization.
Most of the people left behind in the funeral home have truly seen blood, and are not at the same level as ordinary gangsters, so it is actually quite easy for them to do this. Tsuruga Yamaguchi doesn't care whether the organization he leads is corrupt or not, at least he can keep the people he leads alive.
This is the scene that Sakuraman Shu saw.
Strictly speaking, the funeral parlor that Sakuraman Shu first saw did something much more heinous than this. They openly armed themselves against official personnel, used large weapons wantonly, and robbed official escorted items and prisoners. This matter was obviously just a small matter at the moment, and in fact, this matter had already formed a kind of self-evident order -
Although this unwritten order can be easily broken.
After all, the main business of funeral homes is armed struggle, while the main business of vibrant social organizations is not armed struggle, but negotiation methods such as intimidation and threats. These organizations will not even use force unless it is absolutely necessary. They will just keep hanging around you and put pressure on you psychologically. Funeral homes are new entrants who don't know the rules, so it's easy for them to break the tacit understanding that has been formed over a long period of time. Fortunately, they can really fight, otherwise they would have been attacked by their peers long ago.
But even so, Tsuchiya Gaya had to negotiate for certain things.
When Tsurugi Ya heard from Sakuragi Shu, who happened to be visiting, that he had new abilities, he simply took him on as his bodyguard.
Although it should be the other way around from the outside.
Volume 3: Between God and Man: Chapter 31: Conspiracy
Then, Sakuragi Shu saw his best friend negotiating with those seemingly cold and cruel people for something that seemed unreasonable to him. The atmosphere was so tense that he even had to use his new ability to rescue Tsuchiya Gaya. However, it eventually eased, but it seemed to be just the calm before the storm because neither side made any concessions.
"What on earth are you doing for..."
"Why else? It's just that little money."
The series of changes encountered within a year made Tsumugami Ya a little confused. He originally forced himself to pretend to be a cold leader in order to save the world and hug a girl, but the former had already been accomplished by someone, and the latter was hopeless due to the desperate gap in strength between them, so he didn't actually care much about what the funeral home would become.
It's just that the mask he had worn on his face for so long had taken root and he couldn't take it off.
There was nothing Sakuragi could do about this kind of thing.
He also didn't want to see his best friend, a young man with great ambitions, sinking into such a thing.
So he stumbled over the idea of making the undertakers his clan.
"clan?"
The Dresden Slate will bestow all the knowledge and abilities related to the king on the chosen person when it is chosen. So even though Sakuman Shu has not used his abilities much, he is still very clear about what he can do, so he made it clear that his current identity is the new "Colorless King", and as a king, he can share his power with others.
"I am willing to become your clan, Shu," Tsugami said calmly, "but then what?"
Sakuraman Shu couldn't explain it either.
If Sakuman Shu himself was the kind of person who didn't care much about morals and laws, he could have let Tsumugami Gai use the abilities he shared to cheat and get money from ordinary people, but what would be the difference between that and what they are doing now?
But he is the kind of person who doesn't want to hurt anyone.
"Ji, do you still remember that Lord Ling?"
"How could I forget?"
Sakuraman Ji shook his head, sighed and said.
Even though almost a year has passed, he still finds it difficult to erase the memories of that man from his mind. No matter how you look at it, that man is a very impressive character, not to mention that man actually did everything he said and saved Japan in disguise. Until now, Sakuraman Shu still feels honored to be able to participate in that event.
"I heard that he has been trying to stop the mysterious side from committing crimes against the secular side recently." After all, Tsurugi Ya once wanted to take back the Origin Stone from Ling Wuji so that he could embrace the girl hidden in the Origin Stone, so he deliberately inquired about his news, but in the end he gave up the idea. Although he felt a glimmer of hope after hearing Sakuman Shu say that he had become the king, it was obvious that Sakuman Shu did not seem to support him, so he could only analyze the current situation. "You want us to become your clan and use your abilities to continue doing what you are doing now. Do you want to fight against him?"
When Sakuraman Shu heard this, he was shocked.
But he quickly shook his head.
What a joke!
Even if the power of the stone slab is completely released and the Sword of Damocles is smashed down, it may not be able to hurt that person!
"So, if you don't want to be against him, then you have no choice but to join them."
"Join them?"
Ying Manshu asked.
"Yes," Tsumugami nods, "Since you have become the king, it means that you have now completely stepped into the mysterious side. There are three forces above the head of the Japanese mysterious side that cannot be circumvented. One is the Hisokiin of Kunitsuji Daikaku, the other is the official history compilation committee, and the last one is naturally the Lord. If you just want to be like the previous generation of the Colorless King, with only one or two clan members, then it doesn't matter if you do nothing, but since you want the entire funeral home to become your clan and enter the mysterious side, you must choose to either oppose them or join them."
Sakuraman Ji still looked confused.
Seeing this, Tsurugi Ya shook his head and said, "Do you know the origins of those who came to negotiate with us?"
Sakuraman Shu also shook his head.
"They are actually dogs of the Yukinoshita family's construction company." Tsuchigami Ya said with a sneer.
No matter how naive Sakuman Shu is, he has worked as a terrorist for a period of time after all, and he knows a lot about the dark side of society. For example, Japanese construction companies generally have some yakuza background, and the urban legend that yakuza will turn people who cannot repay loan sharks into human piles and build them in Tokyo Bay is not completely nonsense.
"But……"
Sakuraman Shu wanted to say, so what.
But Tsugami Ya quickly said: "If you want to lead the funeral company to survive in the mysterious side, I'm afraid what you have to do is actually the same as them."
"You mean, to be someone else... as..."
"Being a dog may not be a bad thing." Tsumugami Ya just analyzed the current situation calmly, "Look, Scepter 4 is also a clan of a king, and the Blue King Munakata Reisi is sandwiched between Lingjun and Kunijoji Daijuku. If you really join them, even if you can't do what the Blue King does now, they will most likely not refuse your surrender."
"But the funeral home has always been yours..."
Sakuraman Ji suddenly expressed his dissatisfaction strongly.
Tsugami Ya just shook his head: "Funeral homes are not that important to me at all."
"But you have been insisting..."
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"Insist on what?"