A Scientific Urban Detective

The "Underground Arena" is a no-rules, bloody deathmatch competition where only one ultimate champion emerges each season, and usually, that's the only survivor… The others all meet a gruesome end in the arena, making for an extremely high elimination rate.

Normally, it would be impossible to get so many desperados to willingly participate in such a competition. Therefore, the organizers offer a staggering bounty of hundreds of millions to attract competitors.

And people who owe huge amounts of usurious loans are natural potential competitors.

As a studio specializing in lending, it's not difficult to gather a group of "competitors" who owe huge debts and are also relatively good fighters.

Kurotsuma Wataru found just such a character.

Of course, it's conceivable that their negotiations weren't pleasant, especially since even the president had fled in the night, whereabouts unknown.

Kurotsuma Wataru appeared calm and collected on the surface, but the thought of that missing president filled him with anger—according to the investigation, his missing companion also showed signs of borrowing from this studio.

Therefore, when "consulting" for information yesterday, he was a little rough… but there was no need to mention such things in front of the two Disciplinary Committee members.

Rin Mumyou said, "In that case, let's exchange the information we each have."

If it was indeed as Kurotsuma Wataru said, it meant that the information they had was still lacking, and rash action might really stir up a hornet's nest, leading to failure.

"Then, follow me," Kurotsuma Wataru said, pointing behind him.

"Where to?"

"Of course, to pay a visit to that financial studio," Kurotsuma Wataru said with a smile, "and have their second-in-command personally take us to the Underground Arena."

"You're going to break into the arena yourself?" Rin Mumyou guessed his intention.

"Yes, my companion is in danger, so of course, I, as the leader, have to personally go and rescue him," Kurotsuma Wataru said, clenching his fist and smiling, "Besides, it seems like you, Rin Mumyou, are also planning to break into that Underground Arena?"

"That's right, that's exactly what I intend to do," Rin Mumyou nodded.

"But you…" Kurotsuma Wataru's gaze swept over Rin Mumyou's legs, then he laughed, "Never mind, you should be very familiar with this state anyway."

Anyone who had heard of Rin Mumyou's exploits wouldn't think that sitting in a wheelchair would bring him any inconvenience.

Kurotsuma Wataru explained his plan.

Due to the lack of volunteers this season, even with the addition of competitors who were kidnapped or lured in, the number was still somewhat tight.

So, at this time, the role of the "agent" was highlighted. Even without prior registration, as long as they could get the "competitor" into the Underground Arena in the right way, the organizers would accept them without question.

Kurotsuma Wataru intended to use this method to disguise himself as a competitor and infiltrate the arena.

Moreover, in his plan, he had originally intended to bring Rin Mumyou in as well, with the two of them "competing" together.

But now it seemed that although Rin Mumyou was a good fighter even in a wheelchair, it would be impossible to blend in and participate in the competition—his appearance was too conspicuous and would easily arouse the enemy's suspicion.

"If it's about that, then there's no need to worry," Rin Mumyou patted the wheelchair, then stood up directly, "Although it's a bit troublesome, it's not an insurmountable difficulty."

As he spoke, he took two steps with a normal posture, showing no signs of anything strange.

Kurotsuma Wataru also guessed that it was the effect of Nen ability and couldn't help but admire, "Perfect, that solves the problem! How long can you maintain this state?"

Rin Mumyou said, "If it's just walking, I can walk for a whole day."

Kurotsuma Wataru insisted on fulfilling his promise and treated them to breakfast before taking Rin Mumyou and Kohari Tomitsu to the so-called private financial studio.

Because he learned from Rin Mumyou that the competition time was tonight, they now had plenty of time and didn't need to rush.

According to the original plan, the private financial studio had prepared several "competitors" who would be taken along by their president when he went to watch the competition tonight. If there weren't enough participants, they could be used as substitutes at any time.

But since the president had suddenly run away, the matter of the contestants was also dropped…

"But don't worry," Kurotsuma Wataru patted the second-in-command of the studio on his broad shoulders, "Look, aren't there already two backup competitors here?"

The second-in-command, who was forced to stay, was sweating profusely, squeezing out a smile that was uglier than crying: "I, I understand, I will cooperate."

"Very good," Kurotsuma Wataru patted him on the shoulder again, "Don't be afraid, I haven't laid a hand on you. In short, give me the information of the people who were originally going to participate, we also need to disguise ourselves a little."

Because he didn't know if the escaped president had reported to the organizers, Kurotsuma Wataru decided to disguise himself as the players who were originally going to participate as much as possible, in order to sneak into the Underground Arena.

However, due to his burly figure, Kurotsuma Wataru couldn't find a suitable replacement identity for himself, so he simply picked the tallest man, stuck on a mustache, put on sunglasses, and considered the disguise complete.

Then he picked someone whose height and build were similar to Rin Mumyou: "Rin, you play this person."

"This…" the second-in-command hesitated.

"What's wrong?"

"This identity can't be used," the second-in-command replied, "This… there's already someone."

"Huh? Is this guy so short on money?" Kurotsuma Wataru asked in surprise.

Originally, these selected "competitors" were forced to participate. The original president had coerced and lured them, threatening them with debt, so they had no choice but to choose to participate in the competition and sell their lives.

Now that the president had run away, and no one continued to urge and force them, of course, they wouldn't be foolish enough to run over and throw themselves into the net.

Unless they really wanted to get that billions of prize money, they would take the risk.

Although there weren't many such people, there were occasionally some.

Kurotsuma Wataru didn't have much to say about this, he only hoped that person wouldn't interfere with their plan. If the action went smoothly tonight, it would be considered saving that guy's life.

Rin Mumyou chose another person with a fatter build as his disguise target.

"Then what about me?" Seeing that the two boys had finished disguising themselves, Kohari Tomitsu couldn't help but ask.

"There don't seem to be any female competitors this time," Kurotsuma Wataru said.

It was already rare for women to participate in such deathmatch competitions; moreover, Kurotsuma Wataru didn't want to involve girls in such a dangerous operation.

Even if she actually started fighting, Kohari Tomitsu, the youngest girl, was likely to be the most capable fighter among the three of them…

Although he didn't say it explicitly, Kurotsuma Wataru was actually a rather conservative male chauvinist at heart. Regardless of strength, he instinctively opposed letting girls do dangerous things.

The conflict and argument between him and Uiharu Kazari in this incident was mainly because of this.

By the way, Rin Mumyou also had the same attitude—not letting Kohari Tomitsu enter the "Underground Arena".

However, Rin Mumyou's reason wasn't entirely because he cared about girls. He was afraid that Kohari Tomitsu would go on a killing spree after entering.

It should be known that among the competitors, not all of them were unforgivable, and most of them didn't even have any guilt—except for debt and greed.

Among them, there were even companions that Kurotsuma Wataru needed to rescue.

Kohari Tomitsu always acted faster than her brain could think, and it would be bad if she accidentally injured innocent people…

"Also," Rin Mumyou also knew that the above reason could not convince Kohari Tomitsu at all—not even he himself could convince himself, "The difficulty of this mission is not too high, I want to try to see how far I can go without relying on you, Kohari."

"Huh?" Kohari Tomitsu was very surprised by this answer.

"Come to think of it, in the various incidents and adventures in the past, you, Kohari, have always been by my side. Although we occasionally act separately, we are ultimately in the same area, in the same incident," Rin Mumyou said, "Undoubtedly, you have become my most trusted partner. So…"

"So you want to ditch me and go on an adventure yourself?" Kohari Tomitsu asked back.

"I have to try to see if I can still cope with all kinds of difficulties if I'm only myself…" Rin Mumyou said, "I also said that this case is not too difficult, so it's a good opportunity to try."

"This… is a reason I've never heard of before," Kohari Tomitsu said, "Since Rin Mumyou has said so…"

Rin Mumyou added, "Actually, there is something I want to ask you—field support, and the job of guiding the Disciplinary Committee's reinforcements, I'm counting on you."

In other words, influenced by Kurotsuma Wataru's "bewitchment", Rin Mumyou also decided to be "generous".

From the symbolic "making a scene" in the original plan, it became a genuine dojo storming challenge.

Rin Mumyou wanted to rely on his own strength—at most with the addition of Kurotsuma Wataru's strength—to turn the "Underground Arena" upside down!

The reason he said just now was not entirely to fool Kohari Tomitsu, but he really thought so.