Chapter 232-02: Kasahara Chiba

"Everyone, today I'd like to introduce a new person, Kasahara Chiba (Volume 95, Chapter , the holder of the Golden Mouth Jade Toad) from Miyagi Prefecture. He was a classmate of Seki Toshihiko in high school."

"Kasahara Chiba, nice to meet you seniors. It is my honor to join the Special Affairs Bureau and it is my blessing to work with you all. Please take care of me in the future."

A special training ground for the Special Affairs Bureau's Operations Division's Super Assault Unit.

Takeshi Noguchi introduced the newcomer next to him.

Guan Junyan below opened his mouth slightly and looked at Kasahara, who smiled calmly.

Looking at Kasahara's smile, Guan Junyan was a little dazed and sighed. He didn't expect that society would change people so much. He still remembered that Kasahara used to be not cold to people, but he didn't have much friendliness either.

However, why did she join the Special Affairs Bureau? Was it as the "Moon Initiator" or because she revealed the existence of the Golden Mouth Jade Toad?
"Hey, Guan Jun, I didn't know you had such a beautiful childhood sweetheart." Ozaki Hiro teased in a low voice on the side.

Guan Junyan's mouth twitched, and he explained: "Ozaki-senpai, we are just classmates."

"Oh, I understand. Is this a person who dropped from the sky? What a hateful guy. He has a sister, a person who dropped from the sky, and there must be a childhood sweetheart you forgot about who is hiding somewhere, and there is also..." Ozaki gritted his teeth.

Otakus are terrible!

What, me too? That's fine.

Hiro Ozaki was once the teacher of Toshihiko Seki. After a few years of getting along with him, he has become accustomed to the eccentricities of this senior.

Besides, there are certain commonalities between game geeks and anime geeks, so at least they have a lot of topics to talk about.

"There will be a lunch party at noon today. We will start training now. Kasahara will follow..." Noguchi Yuzhi's eyes moved around and stopped at Guan Junyan, who looked confused and felt uneasy. "You and Guan Junyan are classmates. Can you accept him to help you get familiar with the situation?"

"Sure, it's a pleasure to be with you, Seki-kun," Kasahara responded with a smile.

"Oh oh oh!"

Below, Toyokawa Kamikiyo was the first to start a commotion, followed by his apprentices. It was true that when the top beam is crooked, the bottom beams will also be crooked.

But the monkey has his Buddha, and Toyokawa has his Noguchi. With just a quick glance, Toyokawa immediately shut his mouth and kicked the disciple in front of him.

Guan Junyan suddenly had difficulty breathing and his palms were sweating.

Taking on an apprentice. Is he really qualified to do so?
"Senior, you must survive, get out of here, and help me take care of Kobayashi."

"Jingquan, if you can get out, the bureau will definitely rescue you. Just hold on, just hold on."

Guan Junyan came to his senses when he felt a touch on his shoulder. Beads of sweat had already appeared on his forehead. He turned his head and saw that it was Ozaki. He gave him a rather obscene smile and gave him a thumbs up.

"Thanks."

Guan Junyan knew that he saw his condition and was comforting himself.

After the pre-training meeting, people found their own closed training grounds in small teams and began their daily training.

Because everyone's abilities are different, and the Special Affairs Bureau does not force people to tell their abilities to people other than their teammates, even the training is designed by someone who is dedicated to testing abilities. In daily training, as long as you complete these, the watch will automatically record the data.

This is difficult to quantify until the team cooperates in training. The captain needs to formulate tactics based on the actual situation and train the team's tacit cooperation.

Guan Junyan led a small team. Except for him, all the others were Moon Initiators. Now with Kasahara, there were four people in total.

But the other two were not brought by Guan Junyan, but by other people. However, they were assigned to his team because the team was full.

Ever since the Iki Island incident, when the first junior he taught died there due to his misjudgment, he has never formally trained a disciple again. At most, he was invited to cooperate with other teams.

"Kan-kun, long time no see." Kasahara Chiba took the initiative to greet him.

Guan Junyan nodded, trying to look more natural: "Kasahara-san, it's been a long time."

"You don't seem to have changed at all?" Kasahara looked at him for a few seconds and said.

".Really? But you have changed a lot."

"No, actually I like my old self better."

The smile on Kasahara's face slowly faded, and he regained his peace and tranquility. In a trance, Guan Junyan seemed to see the girl who had saved him from the sea. She was squeezing the water from the corner of her skirt and looking back at him with the same calm expression.

"My smile becomes stiff if it lasts more than three minutes. I hope you don't mind."

"No, that's fine, let's just get along with each other as we used to, you." Guan Junyan hesitated and gently tapped the watch in his hand.

"Just a few days ago, I awakened a kind of ability and became a superhuman, but according to the Special Affairs Bureau, it seems to be called a Moon Awakener." Kasahara explained why she joined the Special Affairs Bureau. She knew that the other party suspected that she had handed over the Jade Toad.

Guan Junyan subconsciously did not want the existence of the Golden Mouth Jade Toad to be exposed. During the past few years in the Special Affairs Bureau, he had inquired intentionally or unintentionally and had confirmed that the thing was exactly the treasure that the legendary Holy Infant had lost.

He was really afraid that once it was exposed, it would directly attract the attention of the world's extraordinary people. Not to mention the world, he was afraid that the pressure from the Holy Infant Society alone would not be able to withstand it.

Although the Holy Infant Society has not given any instructions to the Special Affairs Bureau over the years, everyone knows that if the Holy Infant wants the Special Affairs Bureau to obey, it only takes a word, or even no words at all.

"In fact, it is very easy to distinguish the Moon Initiators from other awakeners. When they use their abilities, a glowing moon mark will appear on their bodies. The position of the moon mark is different for each person, and even the appearance of the moon is a little different. Some look more like a crescent, and some look more like a full moon," explained Guan Junyan.

"Although I know someone should have reminded you, I still want to say that the Moon Mark can be concealed. It is best not to let others know where your Moon Mark is located. The Mother Goddess has unified an organization that has expanded the Moon Polluters. They seem to have a way to temporarily restrict the abilities of Moon Marks. There may also be some Moon Initiators in the wild who may have the ability to target Moon Marks."

"Thank you, I understand."

Guan Junyan brought her to a dedicated training ground, where two team members were already waiting.

"Ning Jinhu, likes to use a knife, and his ability is a protective stance." The girl with a world-weary and indifferent face said lightly, with a butterfly knife twirling in her hand.

"Hello! I'm Sawada Rikiya! I can fight, really well!" A sturdy man who looks to be about twenty years old introduced himself loudly.

Jinhu Ning snorted: "She's also a big eater."

"A man who can eat is a hero!" Sawada patted his chest.

"Tsk." Jin Hu Ning turned his head away, playing with the butterfly knife in his hand, and ignored him.

After they introduced themselves, Guan Junyan coughed and said, "Okay, let's start with daily training. Kasahara-san, come on, let me see what your abilities are."

According to the configuration of a team, the best choices are generally defense, combat, support/medical, and control/mage.

In his team, Nishikido Ning is responsible for defense, Sawada has good combat ability but is not as good as Seki Toshihiko and is usually used as a supplementary output. Seki Toshihiko is the main output force and also works part-time as a mage and controller. After all, his [Great Adventure Journey] has been upgraded to level thirteen, and he has two more practical abilities.

He believed that Section Chief Noguchi would not blindly place Kasahara into his team just because they knew each other. If he did so, it meant that Kasahara's abilities were well compatible with this team.

"My ability may be a little weird." Kasahara sighed.

"Don't worry, I have seen all kinds of strange abilities." Guan Junyan was somewhat confident.

Kasahara didn't say much, and directly activated his ability. After all, it's better to do it than to say it out loud. A puff of white mist dissipated, and a cat that looked like a ragdoll cat appeared in the same place, casually jumped onto the table next to it, and quietly looked at Guan Junyan.

".Kasahara-san?"

"Meow (Can you understand me?)"

"I seem to understand." Guan Junyan was not sure.

Kasahara's eyes lit up.

One of the biggest problems with her ability is that she can't communicate.

"So, your ability is to turn into a cat and then have the ability to fight? Or is your ability to lurk very strong?" Guan Junyan asked, putting his hands behind his back, resisting the urge to pet the cat.

"Meow (I'll give you a test)"

After saying that, Kasahara's cat eyes glowed, and then a faint golden line seemed to connect Kasahara and Sawada, who was training on a special sandbag not far away.

Suddenly, Sawada's body shook, and the sandbag flew back and hit his body, but he did not react at all. Instead, after a few seconds, he suddenly looked up to the sky and shouted: "Oh oh oh! I feel full of strength! I broke through!!"

"OOLA OOLA OOLA!!!"

The punch was as fast as a dragon, leaving a fleeting afterimage. The sandbag was under pressure that it shouldn't have been under.

"Break it for me——"

Sawada gathered all his strength and threw a punch.

Boom!

The specially made sandbag suddenly exploded, and the filling inside splashed all over the ground.

Kasahara glanced at Guan Junyan, then moved the gold thread to him.

"Ah! My power! It's gone!" Sawada screamed, which made Nishikido Ning, who already hated noise and was annoyed to death, challenge him to a samurai duel, and the two of them fought each other.

Guan Junyan carefully felt the added strength in his body.

"The increase for Sawada should be 50%, and for me, it will be about 20%."

"Meow (I can also switch amplification abilities, such as amplifying the ability you are currently performing, or speeding up the healing of the body)."

"Oh my god, magic cat!" Guan Junyan remembered a game.

Guan Junyan couldn't wait to try it out, but found that in order to use this ability well, a relatively high level of tacit understanding was required, because Kasahara's bonus switching required a little advance time.

After the experiment, Kasahara turned back into human form, but still stood on the table like a cat.

She was not embarrassed and got down from the table by herself.

"Is your consumption calculated based on time or the frequency of use of the bonus object?"

“Frequency of use.”

"Well, that's pretty good. No matter who the bonus is given to, it will have a strong boost to our team." Guan Junyan was a little excited, and several sets of playing methods had already appeared in his mind.

Because Kasahara's ability requires cooperation, even her daily training tasks are cooperative training. Guan Junyan ended the regular training early, separated the two people who had been fighting for a long time and could not determine the winner, and started cooperative training.

"What! It turns out that the power just now was not due to my breakthrough!" Sawada was struck by lightning, looking at his own palms in a daze.

Nishikido Ning glanced at Kasahara unexpectedly, and the indifference on his face faded a lot. What a snobbish guy.

"Sawada, you don't have to" Guan Junyan thought about it and casually comforted Sawada.

"Hahahaha! Even so, I have already glimpsed the ability of the next level, which means that there is no bottleneck in my breakthrough. Next, I just need to keep adding water to the bottle! Hahaha!" Sawada laughed towards the sky.

Guan Junyan took back his words. He was actually still thinking about comforting the other person. How stupid.

They trained until almost noon, and when it was time for lunch, they walked out of the training room, went to the locker area to take a shower, change clothes, and have lunch together.

"I have a case on hand, and I heard that your team has nothing to do recently. Do you want to join us?" During the dinner, Ozaki took the initiative to find Guan Junyan.

In addition to training and temporary emergencies, those who have not graduated from college in the super team need to undergo in-depth training at a special super academy. Those like him who are even able to teach practical courses at the super academy need to take on cases, and they also have KPIs every month, which require them to complete a certain number of super cases.

These so-called supernatural cases are actually just suspicions, just like drawing magic rewards (blind boxes). Few people can win. Most of them have the same ending as "Approaching Science". Either they scare themselves or others scare others. If they can dig out one that is truly related to the supernatural, it will be enough to keep the Special Affairs Bureau busy for a few days.

Therefore, for this kind of thing, let alone a team, even if a team sends one person to do it, it is a routine operation. Unless real extraordinary traces are discovered or new people are brought in, there is no need for a team to go together, and it is even rarer for two teams to go together.

Basically, such arrangements are necessary when an extraordinary disaster breaks out somewhere.

"What did you discover?" Although Ozaki is sometimes unreliable, he is an "old man" after all, and he still has some ability and experience. To be able to say this, he must have discovered some extraordinary traces.

"Well, I'm not completely sure yet, but it's highly likely that it's related to a hidden Moon Initiator. She's missing, and maybe it's related to the [Mother Goddess Unity] or [Moon Shadow]. You know, the former has always been extremely hostile to the Moon Initiators, and the latter wants to absorb the wild Moon Initiators to strengthen their own power."

With the idea of ​​improving the team's tacit understanding, Guan Junyan did not refuse.

Ozaki showed his signature lewd smile: "I'll send you the information later, and spend the dinner time with your Tianlang."

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Guan Junyan knew that the more he paid attention to people like Ozaki, the more arrogant he would become, so he simply kept silent, took some food and brought it to the long table for the dinner.

Sawada was eating with his friends. Next to Nishikigo Ning was Toyokawa Kamikiyo, who was saying something cautiously. Nishikigo Ning gave a perfunctory reply, but his attitude was better than when facing most people.

Kasahara was holding his cell phone, looking at some unknown message, but he certainly wouldn't peek.

But when Kasahara saw him, he took the initiative to turn the phone in front of him and asked, "Is this what you meant by the sky drop just now?"

Ozaki Hiro! You bastard!

Guan Junyan's face twitched a few times, and he tapped his toes in embarrassment: "He is a guy obsessed with anime, don't pay any attention to him."

Kasahara didn't know whether he understood or not. He nodded thoughtfully, put his phone away, turned off the screen, smiled, and started talking to his colleagues around him.

Guan Junyan breathed a sigh of relief and decided to stay away from the two-dimensional world.

Except for the notebook.

After all, MAG only occupies a Game.

(End of this chapter)