Chapter 958: Armed Unskilled Group

"Don't complain, and don't have too high expectations for those guys guarding the city walls," Ryoko said. "Aren't we clear about what kind of monsters the enemy is?"

The Anti-Academy City Forces Alliance is also full of talented individuals, and as one of the most active and determined groups opposing Academy City—many mages have joined them.

Not to mention, the enemy also has a high-level internal accomplice in Academy City, the Dark Side Organization Block...

If a mere border management bureau could stop so many monsters, that would be truly strange.

"Actually, I don't care about any of this," Sakura said. "In fact... for me, the more enemies, the better, as long as I get a chance to beat them up!"

Ryoko couldn't help but retort, "You really don't learn, Sakura. Have you forgotten why we were assigned to do such odd jobs?"

"Isn't it because you always like to vivisect enemies, Ryoko?" Sakura immediately said. "In comparison, I'm quite gentle, just beating enemies with my fists and feet."

"Heh, you really have the nerve to say that..." Ryoko rolled her eyes. "Firstly, that's my combat style; my weapon is a short knife. Secondly, I do it to leave them alive for subsequent interrogation, so I deliberately avoid vital points and don't kill them—that's a combat technique, not vivisection at all!"

"Besides," Ryoko continued to retort, "you always shatter all the bones in an enemy's body... Is that really gentle?"

Just as the two were idly bickering, it was already time for Kamijou Touma to leave school.

"Quick, quick, don't just sit there!" Sakura suddenly noticed the movement in the classroom in the distance, quickly grabbed her binoculars, and kicked her partner beside her. "The target is about to leave the classroom!"

"Great!" Ryoko lazily leaned over. "Finally, this boring class is over... Hurry up and go home!"

According to their orders, once Kamijou Touma returned home, they no longer needed to continue tracking and protecting him; what Kamijou Touma did after that was none of their business.

"I hope the doctor's actions are a bit slower," Sakura licked her lips, "maybe they'll leave us some scraps..."

...

"Speaking of which, Academy City is quite chaotic today," Lin Wuming remarked on his way to the Anti-Skill headquarters.

He had just communicated with the Chairman of Judgment and shared information. In addition to Judgment's own intelligence channels, the Chairman also obtained internal intelligence from Anti-Skill. After comparing the two, they made more discoveries.

From after school until now, there have been widespread "sudden incidents" in Academy City.

However, most of them were "small cases" of stealing commercial secrets or scientific research achievements, which seemed insignificant compared to an assassination attempt on a Toku Ko Ri Shi.

But accumulated, various small cases have placed a considerable burden on Anti-Skill and the Judgment system.

Moreover, those so-called "small cases" weren't really that "small"—Academy City strictly restricts the outflow of technology and information, and Academy City's most valuable assets are precisely its technology and research information.

Therefore, Academy City never lacks technology spies and tech thieves from all over the world.

Coupled with the approaching Great Ba Xing Festival, this time of year is always a high-incidence area for such cases.

It is also customary for Anti-Skill and Judgment to focus on combating such cases, and no one can say it's wrong.

However, the direct consequence of doing so is that when encountering real assassins and terrorists, it is easy to fall into a predicament of insufficient Personnel.

This is also why Lin Wuming has always suspected that behind this series of cases today, there must be a mastermind coordinating and directing everything.

At this time, Shokuhou Misaki's Mental Out was needed.

Therefore, Lin Wuming and Shokuhou Misaki agreed to meet at the Anti-Skill headquarters.

The Anti-Skill headquarters has its own prison, so all suspects arrested today would be escorted there for centralized custody. With enough "samples," it would be easier for Shokuhou Misaki to find the truth.

Just as they were about to reach their destination, Kogawa Meiwei suddenly received a call.

"It's Kurozuma..." Kogawa Meiwei was a little surprised, then immediately thought of Hamazura Shiage's words just now, and instantly became worried. "Could it be that Da Spiders was also..."

She answered the call and chatted for a while, then Kogawa Meiwei handed the phone to Lin Wuming: "Lin Wuming is right next to me, you can talk to him directly."

It turned out that Komaba Ritoku and Hattori Hanzo of SKILL OUT had fled to Da Spiders' territory. Unexpectedly, they also implicated Da Spiders, causing them to be attacked by "unidentified individuals" as well.

Fortunately, Heiqi Mianliu's own combat strength was not weak; he bravely stayed behind to cover their retreat. Coupled with the fact that "Da Spiders" is an organization mostly composed of motorcycle enthusiasts, seeing the unfavorable situation, the members scattered and fled on their bikes.

Therefore, the Personnel damage was not too severe.

But even so, a few members were still injured, some even to the extent of needing to be sent to the Hospital for emergency treatment.

As the leader of the organization, Heiqi Mianliu certainly wouldn't give up—he wanted to retaliate.

Komaba Ritoku and Hattori Hanzo are also existences with extraordinary combat power. With the three of them teaming up, and having the advantage of planning against unpreparedness, the possibility of successful revenge was quite high.

However, there was one more thing that needed to be confirmed before that.

That is, did the Dark Side Organization that initially ordered SKILL OUT to cooperate truly betray Academy City?

This largely determined whether their "revenge" was legitimate; or rather, whether their actions would provoke further retaliation from the enemy.

After all, the status of the Armed Unskilled Group is inherently ambiguous; in Academy City, they are usually implicitly recognized as a subordinate affiliated organization of the Dark Side Organization.

The Armed Unskilled Group resisting the Dark Side Organization is a form of "gekokujo" (subordinate overthrowing superior), which is inherently a very taboo thing.

Whether it's SKILL OUT or Da Spiders, they still want to continue operating in Academy City in the future, so of course, they can't go too far.

Therefore, they decided to consult Kogawa Meiwei, who is a Judgment, for information before taking action...

At this point, the phone was handed to Lin Wuming, and Lin Wuming had fewer concerns. Combining the information he had already gathered—

"That's right, I can confirm that the Dark Side Organization 'Block' has betrayed and they intend to assassinate Chairman Aleister," Lin Wuming reminded. "If you decide to take action against them, you will not only not be held accountable, but you might even receive a medal. However, I still advise you to be careful—'Block' is not weak."

"You don't need to worry about that," Heiqi Mianliu said confidently over the phone. "We also have helpers; consulting Kogami and you just gives us more confidence."