Conan: I'm Really Not the Manipulator

The middle-aged woman was very moved by this motherly love. She lowered her head to look at Baijiu and said earnestly, "Your mother works so hard. You must study hard and be filial to her in the future."

Baijiu hummed softly again.

His throat hurt more and he started to think of other things to comfort himself, and then he thought of the scene he saw in the teacher's office a few weeks ago.

That day he went to get homework for the teacher, and happened to see a girl from the next class whose parents were called to the class being scolded by her parents.

Her father slapped her in front of all the teachers in the office, and her mother kept pointing at her and scolding her. She also pulled all the beautiful hair accessories off her head, leaving her standing there with her hair disheveled.

She did not resist, but lowered her head very low and said nothing the whole time. The teacher could not stand it and advised them not to go too far, but they still kept accusing her.

Baijiu silently put the completed paper aside, took out a new paper and spread it out again.

He tried his best to hunch his back, only in this way could he see the homework spread on his legs. His head was still dizzy, but he forced himself to focus on the test paper.

He has to finish his homework.

He has to get up early to go to school tomorrow.

Compared to that girl, he should be content.

At least his mother never hit him, let alone scold him loudly, using humiliating punishment to prove her own dignity as a parent.

She just kept urging him to work hard and study well. She always said that she worked so hard and lived such a tiring life all for him.

It seemed as if all those sufferings were caused by him, and he couldn't let her down.

Baijiu's eyes seemed to be moist for a moment.

But he blinked a few times, and the wetness quickly disappeared.

……

Baijiu knew that his mother loved him.

After his father died, she raised him alone. Worried that her stepfather would treat him badly, she did not remarry and supported two people with a monthly salary of just over 3,000 yuan.

She bought him good things, saved money to enroll him in cram schools, and wore a piece of clothing for several years without throwing it away. She dedicated everything to him.

But her love also suffocated him.

That's why he likes his current parents so much, especially his mother.

She is richer, he has more options, he no longer needs to overdraw his health to work hard, and his family always has a safety net for him.

With her, he could relax, feel wronged, and talk freely. When he told her about his pain, he was no longer criticized or cried out, "I am suffering more than you."

"Tick."

"Tick."

——The voice coming from beside brought Baijiu back to consciousness.

He seemed to fall into the dizzy state caused by the high fever that year again. It took him a long time to see clearly what was happening in front of him.

The afternoon sun shone through the living room window onto the floor, and the breeze lifted the curtains. In that small patch of sunlight, a blood-red hue spread rapidly, soon swallowing up all the light that came in.

He saw his parents lying on the ground covered in blood.

Baijiu's mind went blank.

Closer to him was his father, who was whimpering faintly. He was still alive and begging for mercy.

And his mother lay at the kitchen door.

The red color slowly spread on her clothes, and she fell there motionless. There were more than a dozen bloody holes on her arms and legs caused by knife wounds, but all of them avoided the vital parts.

He took a step back in disbelief, his body beginning to twitch in extreme fear.

At this moment, his fingers loosened, and something that he had been holding tightly in his hand fell down.

He looked down.

It was a fruit knife with a bloody blade.

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Protective aura.

This is one of the player's plug-ins, which provides a defense against physical damage to yourself and your immediate family. It is currently known that only plot characters and players (on themselves) can break it. Players cannot destroy the auras of other players and their relatives.

So, can players break the protective aura of their loved ones?

Aoyagi Akimitsu has always been curious about this.

He wanted to test this on other players.

Most people can't bring themselves to harm blood relatives, even those in the game, so he needs a little bit of push and utilization, such as... the skill of arrogance.

She is extremely vengeful and supports revenge.

In the sulfuric acid incident, she changed the daughter's will and made her throw sulfuric acid in her father's face; in her brother's car accident, she changed the will of the perpetrator and made him drive and drag his parents.

As long as she thinks that other players killed her parents - it doesn't necessarily mean that it was the players who did it, just let her think so - she might change the other person's will and make him or her kill her family.

Hakuba, who was familiar with Hojo Touka, was chosen.

Aoyagi Akimichi knew that Hakujiu was not a fool and would not take the initiative to rush into the Hojo family to hurt the Hojo couple. He could only let him do this unintentionally.

So Aoyagi Binkou set up a bomb trap.

First, he placed bombs at the shrine where an important event would be held today and in several nearby locations, and transferred the police officers from the explosive ordnance disposal team there so that they could not leave in a short period of time;

Secondly, he drove his car and hit the gangster that Section 4 was investigating, leaving him alone to go to the hospital, and notified Teraoka to take Hakuba to deal with it. Hakuba, who has a very high self-esteem, would definitely fall for that reason;

Finally, there is the two-choice trap.

Because time is urgent and the police from the explosive ordnance disposal team cannot arrive in time, the public security officers who are monitoring Teraoka will ask Bai Jiu, who had been there before, to defuse the bomb.

Whether Baijiu dismantled the bomb or not, and whether he could tell it was a fake bomb, the final result would be the same: the apartment building would definitely explode, and the scene would be filmed and circulated.

When Aoyagi Binkou hit someone, he chose the place and took the person to the vicinity of Beido University Hospital to ensure that the injured person could be sent to this designated hospital - it is very close to Beido Central Hospital. People involved in the accident will be diverted here, and there will definitely be a large number of reporters who want to interview them.

The media has a far greater influence on promoting news than individuals. Only when a large number of reporters are present and notice Baijiu defusing the bomb can Hojo Toika know about this matter as soon as possible.

As for whether Hojo Toika will realize that the person who planted the bomb is the culprit and the bomb disposal police is just an unlucky guy who doesn't want to see the bomb explode more than anyone else, and will not vent her anger on Hakuba...

This possibility is relatively low.

At least in the few cases of will modification that Aoyagi Akimichi knew about, she did not show any signs of having such rationality.

Even if there was, it wouldn't be much. After Baijiu's incident, he still wanted her, the victim, to help him get out of the public opinion dilemma, just like the previous incident with Kotomine China... Her anger at that time would shatter that bit of rationality.

Aoyagi Binkou, who was sitting in the bar, put down his glass.

The chessboard in front of him was filled with white pieces, and he was playing chess against himself.

A small snake crawled in Baijiu's house, avoiding the pool of blood and disappearing into a dark corner. The shifted vision allowed him to see everything that happened there clearly, confirming that "players can break the halo of their loved ones."

At the same time, the ring on his finger suddenly and automatically changed into the shape of a snake-shaped angel, and a sign was erected in front of him.

[Player 'jealous' has quit the game. 】

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Chapter 156 Target (Part )

This was within Aoyagi Binkou's expectations.

He gently placed his thumb on a joint of his index finger, and the serpentine angel quickly turned back into a ring and put it back in place. He then took out his cell phone to check it.

As an undercover agent, Aoyagi Hikari also has multiple mobile phones. The game system is on the phone that he used to communicate with his former classmates, professors, and FBI colleagues, and was taken to Moscow by the main body. The phone in his hand is for the organization.

It was an email from Gin, saying he would be here soon.

Aoyagi Akimichi thought of the small note sent back by his original body, which told him that he would arrive in Tokyo at around 6 o'clock tomorrow morning. He felt relieved for the time being and raised his glass again.

……

In this operation, Aoyagi Akimichi's real body and clone stayed in two different countries. The real body took Rabbit to Moscow, while the clone stayed in Tokyo.

In addition to determining whether players can break the protective aura around their family members, he has two other goals.

His second goal: to determine how to change the fate of the characters in the plot.

Or rather - how to turn on [Plot Modification Restrictions].

In addition to time travelers, Aoyagi Akimitsu is also very curious about the plot characters that are said to be created by cartoonists.

Aoyagi Akimichi himself once wanted to send the undercover list to Gin, but the system stopped him at that time because "the 'plot modification restrictions' have not been lifted yet, and the fate of the characters cannot be directly changed."

Other players, however, have made some slight changes.

Rabbit's skills could not kill Tequila, but they put him on the organization's purge list; Hojo Toika had never met the pseudo-doctor, but the information revealed in her novel allowed the organization to kill him.

At that time, Aoyagi Binguang guessed that players could indirectly promote changes in their destiny. He wanted to test this.

So in the following time, he selected several test subjects: Scotland and Bourbon as undercovers (red side), Tequila, bomber and Binga as criminals (black side).

He was responsible for Binga's disappearance.

However, this was an accident.

Because he mistakenly caught the police bait Kotomine China, which triggered a large-scale police search, Binga was severely criticized by Rum afterwards. In addition, Bourbon helped him to clean up the mess in the past, so he held a grudge against him.

Binga is an impulsive person. He dare not resist Rum and only hates Bourbon who is of the same level. The way of revenge he thinks of is to find Bourbon's target, Aoyagi Akiko, and try to complete his task first.

That day, Qing Liu Bingguang left school in the afternoon and found that someone was following him. He did not rush, but returned to the tower as usual, leaving his clone with a changed appearance to block the person and take him to a remote place for questioning.

At the beginning, Aoyagi Akiko didn't know that Binga was a character in the plot.

Rabbit had mentioned some members of the organization, but he hadn't mentioned Binga, and there was no such person in Hojo Toika's novels. He realized this when he found that he couldn't kill him.

In order to kill this plot character, Aoyagi Akimichi made various attempts with the same mentality as when he participated in the snowman-making competition as a child and did all kinds of tricks.

Shooting and stabbing can only injure non-vital parts, and the amount of bleeding is very small;

Electric shock can only cause fainting;

Drunk potassium cyanide, still fainting;

Pushed from a tall building, suffered multiple fractures and still fainted;