I don't want to be an elf!

Unlike Kurumi Tokisaki's standard red and black off-shoulder dress, this clone's spirit dress is a black and white gothic style. The left eye of the golden clock is covered by an eyepatch, and there are several bright red roses on the headband. A cascade of black hair falls down her back like a waterfall.

The person who appeared in front of Tokisaki Kurumi was none other than another of the Four Heavenly Kings of clones.

She also has the most screen time in the original work.

Eye mask three.

"It hurts, it hurts..."

Blindfold Three, who had bumped his butt, stood up while rubbing his bottom, muttering, "Was it really necessary to be so violent? I just needed a few minutes to prepare, after all, such an important mission as joining the Special Abilities Agency was assigned to me."

"You've been summoned for two whole days, and you're still not mentally prepared?" Kurumi Tokisaki rolled her eyes. "Shameful! Get out of the battlefield right now!"

"Really?"

"Of course it's fake! The average lifespan of Yokohama residents dropped by half a year just to summon you! How can you not perform your mission properly after all that time!"

About a week ago, Kurumi Tokisaki used up all her stored time when she summoned Bandage 3, leaving her with no extra time to summon more clones.

During this time, although she gave Mori Ougai the excuse that she needed a week to thoroughly investigate whether there were any other betraying clones, she was actually constantly traveling around various residential areas in Yokohama to collect time.

After accumulating a certain amount of time, she finally summoned the new Four Heavenly Kings, Eyepatch III.

This time, the time spent summoning the clones was at least as long as last time.

Thanks to this, she now has nearly five hundred clones in her shadow, ready to act at any time.

"On the bright side, at least I'm luckier than Bandage Three; I don't have to play the role of a severe chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) sufferer."

With a sigh, Eyepatch Three closed his eyes, patted his face, and tried to calm himself down.

So when she opened her eyes again, her entire demeanor had undergone a dramatic change.

She murmured to herself:

"Now it's my turn to perform."

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Ango Sakaguchi walked out of the library.

Having initially confirmed the reliability of the intelligence, he had no reason to stay in the library any longer.

Such a crowded and noisy place was not suitable for browsing this information. Although he did not think that others would peek, his cautious nature prevented him from exploring further. He decided to take the information back and study it in detail with the others.

With that thought in mind, he quickly walked towards his car.

I opened the car door and got into the driver's seat.

Just as Ango Sakaguchi was about to start the engine, an unfamiliar female voice came from the back seat, which should have been empty.

"Mr. Sakaguchi, it's really not easy to see you."

Ango Sakaguchi's pupils contracted instantly, and his hand instinctively reached for the pistol he had prepared under his seat for any unforeseen circumstances.

However, the cold touch on the back of his head forced him to stop.

"Please don't put up a pointless fight. If I accidentally kill you, I'll be very distressed."

Ango Sakaguchi took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down, and slowly raised his hands to place them on the steering wheel to show that he would not act rashly.

It was he who was careless.

His eagerness to get the intelligence and return to study it made him lower his guard. Also, because the car's windows were specially designed so that no one could see inside from the outside, he didn't realize that someone was already sitting in the back seat, waiting for him to return.

However, he can't be entirely blamed.

After all, who would expect someone to sneak into a locked car without anyone noticing?

Not to mention that this is a car modified by the government; even a petty thief couldn't unlock it in a whole night.

Ango Sakaguchi glanced discreetly at the rearview mirror, only to see a pale hand holding a flintlock pistol pressed against the back of his head.

The rearview mirror was also deliberately adjusted so that he couldn't see the other person's face.

It seems the other party wasn't some amateur petty thief, but rather came prepared.

“Judging from your attitude and actions, you don’t seem to be planning to kill me and plunge Yokohama into chaos,” Ango Sakaguchi calmly analyzed. “It seems this is indeed a trap to lure me out. You must be someone connected to the Port Mafia, otherwise they wouldn’t have set this up for you.”

“Yes, I have some connection with the Port Mafia,” the girl said again. “But that’s not important, Mr. Sakaguchi. What’s important is you.”

"Threatening government officials can land you in jail, you stranger, miss."

"If I am ever brought to justice, it certainly won't be for threatening government officials," the girl said casually. "So, enough of this small talk, let's get down to business, Mr. Sakaguchi."

"The main point? Whatever it is, I will not agree to any of your conditions. Give up." Ango Sakaguchi said calmly. "It is my duty to protect the peace of Yokohama, and I am willing to give my life for it."

"There's no need to show loyalty so early. Assuming someone's position before they even explain their intentions is not a smart thing to do."

"If you didn't want to stir up trouble in Yokohama, why would you have come looking for me?"

"Because you are the director of the Special Abilities Agency, there is something that only you can help me with."

The girl paused for a moment, then said something that completely surprised Ango Sakaguchi.

"Let me join the Special Abilities Agency."

Chapter Sixty: The Deal with the Special Abilities Agency

She wants to... join the Special Abilities Agency?

Although it was a sentence that couldn't be simpler, Ango Sakaguchi seemed to hear something contradictory and couldn't understand the girl's meaning for a moment.

He anticipated many possible demands from the other party, such as releasing a prisoner, providing a classified government document, or abusing his power to open doors for them.

As a minor leader with a decent position in the official supernatural ability organization, Ango Sakaguchi was well aware of how attractive his identity was to some illegal individuals.

Therefore, he had long been mentally prepared to firmly refuse any threats he might face.

However, he never dreamed that one day the reason he was being threatened would be because a criminal wanted to reform...

It took him several breaths to understand the girl's request, and the expression on his face, which had been ready to bravely sacrifice himself at any moment, became somewhat subtle.

"You mean, you want to work for the government?"

"To be more precise, it's the Special Abilities Agency."

“Of course, the Special Ability Agency welcomes any talented person.” Ango Sakaguchi said without hesitation, “You just need to submit documents to the government, go through a three-month review, a one-year internship, pass the assessment with excellent results, and spend another six or seven years enhancing your resume, and you can become a member of the Special Ability Agency.”

"Unfortunately, I don't have that much time, which is why I came to you to ask you to open a back door for me."

"I'm sorry, this is the only way to join the Special Abilities Agency. Even I started from the bottom. No one is an exception."

"As the head of the Yokohama branch, adding one more person to the member list shouldn't be too difficult for you, right?"

“That’s true. It’s an easy thing for me to adjust personnel transfers under my authority,” Ango Sakaguchi countered. “But for people with clean backgrounds, joining the Special Ability Agency through legitimate means is the best approach. If you’re unwilling, it just means your background isn’t so clean. In that case, why should I risk letting dangerous individuals infiltrate the organization and let someone like you, who doesn’t want to be vetted by the government, join?”

"Because your life is in my hands?"

“If I valued my life, I could easily find a sinecure in another government department instead of cleaning up the messes of those superhumans in a godforsaken place like Yokohama.”

In the back seat of the car, a girl dressed in gothic costume looked somewhat helpless.

The girl who sneaked into Sakaguchi Ango's car and threatened him to accept his demands was none other than Eyepatch Three.

Joining the Special Ability Agency was her mission, and the method for joining had already been discussed by hundreds of Tokisaki Kurumi's.

Using information about Tokisaki Kurumi as bait, the Port Mafia set a trap to lure Sakaguchi Ango out.

They then used forceful methods to threaten him, forcing him to include Eyepatch Three among the members of the Special Abilities Agency.

This method definitely has its drawbacks. Even if Sakaguchi Ango agrees to let Eyepatch San join, he will definitely kick her out of the organization as soon as his personal safety is guaranteed.

However, Eyepatch Three can't be like Bandage Three, pretending to let the real body chase her down, and then having the Special Abilities Agency rescue her.

After all, the Special Abilities Agency doesn't have the same sense of justice as the Armed Detective Agency.

Their mission is to maintain the safety of the entire Yokohama, and the sacrifice of a few is acceptable in order to ensure that this goal can be achieved.

For the sake of the safety and secrecy of the Special Abilities Agency, they wouldn't step in to rescue the clone from the main body like the Armed Detective Agency did.

The plan of the eyepatch-wearing man from the beginning was to threaten Sakaguchi Ango with his life and coerce him into agreeing to his demands.

Unfortunately, just as she had thought, Ango Sakaguchi was not afraid of death.

If he was afraid of death, how could he have risked execution years ago to join the Port Mafia as a government spy?

"Miss, if there's nothing else, may you please get out of my car?"

Seeing that the blindfolded man remained motionless, Ango Sakaguchi tapped his fingers lightly on the steering wheel and said calmly, "I didn't see your face. If I leave now, I can pretend that none of this happened. After all, even if I wanted to investigate later, I wouldn't know where to start."

This is a lie.

As the government's official supernatural ability organization, the Yokohama branch, led by Ango Sakaguchi, is inferior to the Port Mafia and the Armed Detective Agency in both the number and strength of its supernatural abilities, but it has one absolute advantage.

That means the entire city's surveillance system is always under the watchful eyes of the Special Abilities Agency.

This allows them to detect the battles between superhumans as quickly as possible, evacuate the area in a timely manner, and mobilize armed forces for suppression and cleanup.

Although Ango Sakaguchi did not see the true face of Eyepatch Three, as long as the surveillance footage from this area is retrieved afterward, Eyepatch Three's whereabouts will definitely be found.

At least, that's what he thinks.

The man with the eye patch smiled, neither confirming nor denying.

If it were any other superhuman, they might be wavering at this point, trying to decide between going all the way to the end or stopping halfway.

But even if they were to stop halfway through, they would definitely be found by the special agents with superpowers and then dealt with.

However, the surveillance system in this area had long been hacked by the Port Mafia, so even if Ango Sakaguchi wanted to access the surveillance footage, he would have no way to do so.

Even if he retrieves surveillance footage from other areas in an attempt to find the route taken by Eyepatch Three during his retreat, he will find nothing.

Although Eyepatch 3 cannot use Zafkiel, she can use shadows. With the ability to move freely using shadows, there is no surveillance system that can capture her.

Moreover, Eyepatch Three has no intention of stopping.

Her sole mission was to join the Special Abilities Agency, which is why her true form was summoned.

If we let Sakaguchi Ango go this time, who knows when we'll be able to see him again?

Once this guy realizes he's being watched, he'll definitely hide even deeper.

Perhaps, even with the help of the Port Mafia, they will be unable to lure him out.