Chapter 173 – Awareness (8)

Clap your hands and make a loud sound to focus the opponent’s consciousness on your hand.
It is a miscellaneous technique that temporarily draws the opponent’s consciousness, which was vague in their memory when they were a salesperson.
In a very short time, it changes the opponent’s emotions from excitement to confusion and focus.

I try to talk again, aiming for the moment when the nerves that were blocked to not listen to me are forcibly opened.
The important thing is to never let your opponent settle down.
With a greater confusion, it covers the previous thoughts.

“Okay, let’s end the test here.”
“What… ?”

Mix lies and truth to deceive others.
The other party is under the person of the highest authority, who is said to be him, so to speak, he is in a position to receive orders.
Since he doesn’t seem to know that I’m not a rookie, I don’t have any contact information to receive information directly from him.

“Could you please be quiet for a moment? That’s what stimulates the people around you more.”
“Yes… ?”
“It took about two minutes to notice that it was suspicious… However, it is a bit serious that I approached it first just because it was focused.”

I deliberately took out the vision phone in front of my eyes so that I could look more suspicious to the fry shop man, and then tapped the typewriter meaninglessly.
Pretending to send a message somewhere, pretending to write a memo, and then turning around with a long sigh, imitating the attitude of people who used to be abusive when selling goods as a salesperson.

“Whoa… It’s like this from the first target… How disappointed he would be if he knew this…”
“For a moment… What are you talking about? Where are you contacting now?”
“You don’t notice… Should I explain?”

I didn’t look like this, but to pretend I was in disguise, I rubbed my finger over my nose as if I was lifting glasses I wasn’t wearing.

“So, this is just a little bit of a test. I was deliberately pretending to be suspicious.”
“What… ?”
“Recently, he’s worried about whether the entire shopping mall might go wrong because he hasn’t managed it himself.”
“… What are you talking about?”

He raises his vision phone while looking at the man at the fry shop who can’t understand the situation with a pitiful look.
Then, turn on the hypnosis application to track the location of Rapid without being seen by the uncle.
I brought out information that an ordinary person would not know.

“The lady’s current location is a bookstore… Now that we are passing the cosmetics store, the place we are heading to is probably the cake shop. Is that correct?”
“Yes?”
“Check it out for yourself, don’t divulge details.”

If the entire shopping district belongs to one group, the location of Rapid can be identified at any time.
Hearing my story, the man immediately opened a group chat room with people in the shopping district and asked for Rapid’s location.
Of course, the reply would have come back that they were moving to the exact same place as I said.

“I know where your ex is. Is this enough proof?”
“Now, wait… I understand, I don’t understand…”
“Tsk… Ha…”

I sighed after seeing the guy at the tempura shop who didn’t understand the situation, kicking his tongue and intentionally checking the time.
The man’s face hardens when he sees his attitude, which clearly reveals that he’s wasting time and that he’s bothered.

“Don’t you understand what I mean by knowing the lady’s location?”
“Yeah…”
“What was this mall built for?”
“Ah, for the lady… ?”
“Then you mean that I am the person right under him?”

The moment I said this, the tempura shop owner was startled and straightened up.
No matter how ignorant I was, I would have figured out where I was.
A direct contact with him, a watchman who monitors the people in the mall.
Mixing a relaxed attitude with an annoyed gesture, I gestured to the tempura man to come closer.

“What is your name? Can I call the store number 58, 58?”
“Ah, yes!”
“Speak quietly, what are you going to do if you irritate the people around you?”
“Sorry, sorry… !”
“As naturally as possible… Do you understand? Yes, please fry me some fries.”

I put my arm around the shoulder of the trembling shop owner and walk to the store.
All doubts about me have already disappeared.
Returning to the store, the tempura man started frying the tempura without a word.

“I… Stand, teacher… What can I call you?”
“It’s fine as it is called. You say you are a teacher.”
“Yes…”

I quickly responded to the uncle who tried to break the silence, and I continued to convey the pressure by looking at the uncle without a word.
The tempura is quickly put into the tempura bag and falls off.
As if it was broken, hands trembled and carefully grabbed the tempura again and arranged it.

“There is nothing to be so nervous about, you and I are colleagues who work for the same purpose, right?”
“Yes… !”

I tried to maintain the high-handed attitude of the superiors as much as possible, and after receiving the bag of tempura, I took out the tempura with a smile and started eating it.
Of course no money is paid.
When I naturally put my hand forward in the shape of a cup, the fry shop man hurriedly poured water and took out a can of Coke and opened it.
I nodded in satisfaction and enjoyed my Coke and fries.

“Number 58, to be honest, your actions and comments are very disappointing. It’s fortunate that this time I’m the one who came on his orders… If each and every one of these slips of the tongue was a nuisance to him and the young lady, what would he do?”
“Sin, sin, sorry, sorry… !”
“If I were a bad person, what would you do with the information you learned?”
“I do not know…”
“Wouldn’t you have tried to hurt the lady?”

When I said it with a smile on my face, the old man froze and stopped.
My arms trembled with just a little pressure, and my breathing became rough.
I indirectly feel the fear that the man is feeling in a much more sensitive reaction than I thought.

“He will be angry, and the lady will also be harmed… That shouldn’t happen because of #58, right?”
“Yes, yes!”
“Didn’t you say that when a new recruit arrives or something happens, the news goes first to the chat room where the people in the shopping district are?”
“Sometimes it doesn’t come through…”
“Still, we should be able to communicate with each other… If you see a suspicious person, why don’t you tell the people around you first instead of talking to them like that?”

It’s obvious, but it gives me advice that I couldn’t give if I were an enemy, and I definitely erased my doubts.
He now completely believes that I am on his side, a superior he has never seen before.

“Of course I understand the interest in the newcomer… Since it is only in District 4, how important each of these stimuli must be.”
“Yes…”

Even while continuing the conversation, he does not stop proving the information he has inferred.
This made it clear that the people of the shopping district only stayed in District 4.

“But that doesn’t mean you should forget your role. Aren’t you working for the lady?”
“You’re right…”
“Personal pleasure comes first with number 58? Is the lady first?”
“Ah, the lady comes first!”
“Is that kind of person endangering the young lady by giving inside information to someone she doesn’t know so easily out of the pleasure of wanting to talk to a newcomer?”
“That…”
“Please pay more attention in the future. It’s fortunate that I was a colleague with the same purpose, don’t you know what I would have done if I had been a bad person?”

Once again, it emphasizes the fact that I am a colleague and reminds me of a scary situation.
The shocked old man’s eyes trembled slightly.
The pressure is enough.

“I’ll do this as a reminder, please be careful next time.”
“Yes…”
“… You don’t seem to understand what I’m saying.”
“Yes?”
“Ha… I mean, I didn’t send him that bad word this time.”
“Yes? Uh, why…”

The man at the fry shop, who has been constantly feeling pressured and fearful, is in confusion again.
After putting down the fries I was eating, I changed my attitude and spoke in a kind voice.

“Aren’t you and I the same fellows working for the young lady? I’m here to alleviate his concerns, not to harm Number 58.”
“That means…”
“I’m not here to bully the people I work with, I’m just here to warn them.”
“Go, thank you! Sorry!”
“Such a situation could happen, so I’m telling you to be careful in the future. Rather, it worked out, because Number 58 seems like a person who would be more careful if she had this kind of experience… Well, I can change my words even now, but… Okay, let’s just say I changed my mind because the tempura was delicious.”

Remind them once again that you can contact them at any time and reassure them with praise.
As a result, I became a difficult but not cold person to the fry shop man.
After sighing at the improved situation, I said the most important thing as I left the store.

“I don’t have time, so stop… Oh, just in case, you wouldn’t tell anyone about me, would you?”
“Yes? Ah yes! I won’t tell you!”
“Okay, because we need to make sure we know the condition of the mall… I hope you know well that it can harm him and the young lady if you tell me something about me so that the people in the shopping district are prepared in advance and hinder the proper grasp of the situation.”
“Well sir.”
“About the test, and about me… If you say anything, I think I will be very disappointed with number 58 personally.”
“Believe me!”

Emphasize it three times to keep others from talking about me.
This seems to have settled the situation enough.
As I left the store, I said hello to the tempura man.

“Fries were delicious.”
“Ah, yes… !”

I walked outside maintaining a relaxed posture and pace for a while.
It was astonishingly perfect even to me.
In order to reduce suspicion by acting as a senior belonging to the same place, I unfortunately could not ask more questions, but I have already learned a lot of things to my satisfaction.

“After…”

As soon as I got far enough away from the tempura shop, my tension eased and I felt a sudden rush of blood.
My heart starts beating fast and my weak arms tremble slightly.
It was hasty, spontaneous and risky, but I learned a lot.
I leaned my back against the wall for a while to catch my breath and sorted out the events and thoughts that had just happened.

It’s not just me, there are people among other people who can sense that people are weird.
And those people have in common that they were rescued by Rapid, and they have been dragged into the District 4 mall by someone.
The man called him brought people for Rapid.
The reason these people were brought to the mall was for Rapid.

District 4, where people who were rescued after being attacked by Negative gathered.
The commonality among the people belonging to them is that they were rescued by Rapid.
The person called him is intentionally creating a shopping mall that gathers people who have been rescued by Rapid.

… Why?
Rapid is… Are you aware of this?
It’s for Rapid, what on earth is it for Rapid?

What are you doing?
Who is he?
Why didn’t I take… ?

It is full of unknowns.
There is something strange about this mall.
As soon as I became aware of the abnormality around me, I fell into the illusion that a surveillance camera was looking at me.

“Whoa…”

I let out a long sigh and slowly fell off the mall wall.
The sanitation worker is watching.
The focus is… Does not fit.

I’ve come to realize that there are many other people I can focus on, but that doesn’t give me a good feeling or a sense of belonging.
Rather, it feels like there are a lot of things hidden that I don’t know about, so I’m anxious and feel bad.
Both normal people and abnormal people are caught up in something unknown.

And it has to do with Rapid.
Hypnosis application is also rapid… People who are out of focus are also rapid…
What the hell is going on around me?

I took my vision phone out of my pocket and checked Rapid’s location.
First of all, I think I need to meet Rapid.
You have to ask if they know about these things, and you have to collect hair to earn points to use at Majin Temple.

Rapid is eating cake at Cake Party.
Being conscious of my surroundings, I deliberately looked into the distance and pretended to be out of focus and moved on.
Before reaching the store, a raid alert went off in the mall.