He became a god in Japan starting with the bear disaster.

Chapter 17 Rain for Three People

When the two walked out of the teaching building, the sky outside was already gray and misty, and rain was falling drop by drop from the clouds.

—The rain won't get heavier; I can easily walk home with an umbrella.

Lin Xiuyi looked up at the sky for a moment and came to a conclusion.

"This is bad, I didn't bring an umbrella."

Iroha Kin also looked at the sky for a while, then stared straight at Lin Xiuyi, pretending to be talking to herself.

"How about we borrow one from the umbrella stand and return it tomorrow?"

Lin Xiu pointed to the shelf behind her, which contained quite a few umbrellas.

"But if the owners of these umbrellas are still at school, it wouldn't be good if they couldn't see their umbrellas when they came out."

Without even turning around, Isshiki Kin declined his suggestion with a smile, "How about you trouble Xiu-ichi to take me home?"

Lin Xiu's eyelids twitched.

He remained silent for a moment, then looked towards the school gate, hoping to see the burly man in a suit holding an umbrella and waiting for the young lady to leave school. However, he only saw the backs of a few students leaving the school.

The bodyguards were seriously negligent today.

"Is that not allowed, Shuichi?"

Isshiki Jin stood a little closer to him, tilting her head up to ask from the side. The overcast sky and rain had made the outdoor temperature much cooler, so the girl's breath, unhindered by the summer heat, gently touched Lin Xiu's cheek and neck.

He pulled his collar tighter and looked at Isshiki Kin, who looked rather pitiful and pleading.

"Alright," Lin Xiuyi had no choice but to agree.

Isshiki Kin truly lives up to her name, Asahi Ryuri.

"But let's make this clear first," Lin Xiuyi decided to lay down some ground rules to avoid any mishaps, "I'll only drop you off at your doorstep, I won't go up for tea."

He was somewhat afraid that Isshiki Jin was planning to play some kind of joke again.

"Let's go then."

Ishiki Jin laughed and pushed him directly into the rain.

"Hey, you—"

Lin Xiuyi was caught off guard.

"But if you get wet in the rain, you should definitely take a hot shower first, right? Otherwise you might catch a cold."

Iseki Jin grabbed his arm and said with a grin.

Lin Xiuyi immediately took out an umbrella from the side of her bag, opened it, and used it to block the rain from hitting the two of them.

Fortunately, he reacted quickly and his clothes didn't get too wet. He turned his head and looked at Isshiki's face, which was right in front of him and showed no remorse whatsoever.

"I just can't do anything with you, you master of jokes..."

Lin Xiuyi said helplessly, which earned him a bright smile from Isejin.

The two of them shared an umbrella and left the school gate.

Although the rain wasn't heavy, Lin Xiuyi's small umbrella, meant for one person, was still barely enough to cover two people, so the left side of Lin Xiuyi's school uniform inevitably got wet. When Yishi Jin saw this, she smiled, pulled his arm, and held the umbrella that was leaning against her head over his head, generously exposing her right hand to the rain.

The two people under the umbrella didn't actually care about the rain.

Iseki Kin pointed out the way, and Lin Xiuyi led the way, walking across the main street in front of the school, across the zebra crossing, and across the blurred neon lights in the rain in the city center. The two of them had long since become one with each step they took.

"Shuichi, it suddenly occurred to me that we've only known each other for two days, but how did we develop such a strong rapport in such a short time?"

Looking at the watermarks left by their shoes on the ground, Isshiki Kin asked, "At first, I only thought about making it up to you, but after getting to know you, I realized that I always seem to understand some of Shuichi's thoughts, and I don't know why, but I really want to be involved in Shuichi's thoughts. But Shuichi is clearly not someone you can get along with normally, right? Like yesterday, he didn't talk to me at all. It wasn't that you didn't want to, but because of some other strange, uncontrollable factor. Not just last night, but this morning, noon, afternoon, and even now... Right now you're probably thinking, 'What is this woman saying out of the blue? I didn't think that,' right?"

You might say, "No, I'm actually a normal person."

Yise Jin raised her head and met Lin Xiuyi's gaze, interrupting him to answer.

Lin Xiuyi closed her open mouth.

Isshiki Kin lowered her head again and continued, "But these are just my own little thoughts, perhaps that's the incredible thing about women. And to suddenly tell you these things, I guess I'm a strange person too?"

"...You really are a strange person."

Lin Xiuyi thought for a moment and could only answer her with this one sentence.

It seems that rainy days always make people more emotional.

During the long silence, the rising and falling breaths of the young man and woman created a strange atmosphere in the space between them under the umbrella.

"I originally thought you lived in Tokyo, which isn't far from Yokohama. Why did you move here alone?"

Lin Xiuyi tried to start a conversation to prevent the atmosphere from continuing.

"Well... I can only tell you about this after we become good friends."

Isshiki Jin raised her head, her usual relaxed smile returning, but she gripped Lin Xiuyi's arm even tighter, extending her other hand beyond the umbrella. "It's over there, that's where my apartment is."

Lin Xiuyi looked in the direction she was pointing and, unsurprisingly, saw a luxury apartment building in the rain.

They had reached an affluent residential area near downtown Yokohama.

However, until now, there is no sign of Isshiki Kin's bodyguards showing up.

When Lin Xiuyi bumped into Ise Jin on her way to school this morning, she could still feel the wary gazes from Ise Jin's plainclothes bodyguards, but she didn't feel them at all after leaving the campus in the afternoon.

Is it because of the rain blocking it?

Lin Xiu suddenly felt a little uneasy and asked, "Miss is almost soaked to the bone, aren't your bodyguards coming out yet?"

"Yes, because I already told them beforehand not to bother us."

Yi Sejin remained calm and composed, smiling as she spoke.

Lin Xiuyi was speechless.

He was slightly relieved when his cell phone in his pocket suddenly started vibrating, emitting a soft yet piercing ringtone, almost like an alarm.

"Shuichi, did someone call you?"

But that's impossible. His phone only has Yi Se Jin's number saved, and she's the only one who knows his number.

Who could it be?

A sense of crisis surged up from the bottom of his heart.

Lin Xiuyi took out her phone, and a black and red interface immediately appeared.

[Urgent Request]

A single 7.62x25mm pistol bullet can reach a muzzle velocity of 420 m/s, enough to penetrate a 3mm steel plate, a 10cm thick wooden board, or a 6cm brick wall within 25 meters, or easily kill two unprotected targets. If a pistol is concealed in newspaper, using the newspaper as cover, it would be even easier for criminals infiltrating the city to assassinate their targets. Such evil is about to occur, therefore, live on.

[Reward: 500 points]

[Objective: To prevent yourself and those around you from dying in the impending murder.]

Status: Incomplete

Lin Xiuyi quickly read the key information, then suddenly looked up and saw a dark figure at the bottom of the apartment building.

The man wasn't carrying an umbrella; he was soaked by the rain and looked as if he had been tainted with the aura of death. Yet, he was holding a wet newspaper in his hand, the outline of a gun faintly visible.

He raised his hand.