"Ding dong———"
"I’m here, who is it?"
Hearing the doorbell, the middle-aged woman hurried to the entrance, responding while opening the door. Then, she saw a young man standing outside, dressed in a suit, exceptionally handso. Beside him was a little girl, around five or six years old, with long, smooth blue hair.
"May I ask who you are...?"
"Are you Madam Honzu? I’m very sorry to bother you."
The young man smiled slightly and then handed over the gift box he held in his hands.
"I just moved in today, my na is Fang Zheng. It’s nice to et you, please take care of . This is my sister iyin."
"Ah, you’re the new neighbor."
Upon hearing this, Madam Honzu realized and glanced across the street, noticing that there was indeed a moving company’s truck there, still unloading furniture. So Madam Honzu also smiled and quickly bowed in return.
"Nice to et you, hello, I’m Rie Honzu, please take care of ."
"Co on, iyin, say hello too."
On hearing Fang Zheng speak, the blue-haired girl seed to co to her senses, she stared at Madam Honzu, then opened her mouth and shouted...
"Mom!"
"Huh?"
Hearing this call, Madam Honzu was stunned for a mont, while Fang Zheng reached out, gently patted iyin’s little head, and once again smiled at Madam Honzu.
"I’m really sorry, Madam Honzu. This child left her parents and now lives with , she’s not quite used to it yet. If there’s any offense, please forgive us."
"No, no, not at all! This child is very cute, I like her very much!"
Upon hearing Fang Zheng’s words, Madam Honzu waved her hand quickly. For so reason, she found herself feeling especially close to the blue-haired girl at first glance, as if she was her own daughter. Especially when the girl called her mom just now, for a mont, Madam Honzu even really thought she was her daughter...
Thinking of her deceased daughter, Madam Honzu’s eyes reddened slightly. Then she took the opportunity of placing the gifts to turn around and discreetly wiped her tears.
"Really very sorry... May I invite you in?"
"No, thank you... I have so things to do, and if it’s not too much trouble, I have an unreasonable request."
"Please go ahead."
"As you can see, I’m just an ordinary office worker, moving here for work. Due to work, I might co ho late every day, so if possible, could you help take care of iyin? Just until I get back from work..."
"Of course, that’s no problem."
In principle, a neighbor making such a request upon first eting should have Madam Honzu hesitate a bit. But for so reason, she found the handso young man’s words very pleasing and quite convincing, and she liked the girl a lot too, so she quickly agreed without hesitation.
"Thanks for your understanding, now we have to tidy up our place so we won’t disturb you anymore."
After saying this, Fang Zheng smiled and nodded to Madam Honzu, then turned to leave with the reluctantly following iyin.
"How was it?"
l, waiting outside, ca over to ask, and Fang Zheng nodded.
"Everything went smoothly, but iyin... rember to control your emotions next ti."
"I’m sorry, Mr. Fang Zheng..."
At this mont, iyin was also lowering her head and wiping her tears. Hearing Fang Zheng speak, she nodded in response. To be honest, although she had imagined countless reunions with her parents before, when she truly saw her mother again, she almost burst into tears.
"Alright, in any case, that’s how it is for now. Now you can go ho and visit every day. Then l, you’re next, get ready... don’t cry like iyin again, it’s hard for to handle, let’s get in the car."
"Ah, mm..."
With lingering fear, l glanced at iyin, and then nodded and got into the car.
Although l and iyin had been considering how to et their families since arriving in this world, they hadn’t anticipated that Fang Zheng had already co up with a plan.
It’s quite simple, really. Fang Zheng first bought the houses next to the families of the two girls and then took l and iyin to visit them. In Japan, there’s a tradition of new neighbors visiting the surrounding area, so suddenly showing up and saying they’re new neighbors here to pay a visit wouldn’t raise any suspicions.
Next, Fang Zheng just had to say he’s a businessman who doesn’t have the ti or energy to look after l and iyin and ask the neighbors to keep an eye on them, and that’s it.
Fang Zheng even used his thod to transfer l to her sister’s school and class...l and iyin never imagined such tricks, since they were only students and had never conceived of such social strategies.
As for the money used to buy the house...it’s surely going through FBI channels.
And Fang Zheng himself went to a place he never anticipated.
Ard Detective Academy.
This surprised Fang Zheng, as he initially thought the next Order Core data would surely be in Academy City. He had watched a season of Forbidden Magic, and based on what Red Ponytail gained in Zero’s World, the data should definitely be with those LV5s.
However, what Fang Zheng didn’t foresee was that when he sought guidance using Prophecy Technique, he was led to Ard Detective Academy...
The so-called Martial Investigator is a unique profession in this world, known as Ard Detective, operating within legal limits to solve personal or organizational commissions, making up for police shortcomings and maintaining social peace... Of course, if you must know, these people are sowhat like adventurers in fantasy worlds. l initially beca an adventurer because she admired the poise of Martial Investigators.
Yet, just as adventurers in fantasy worlds are seen as troublemakers, Martial Investigators are not very popular or respected in modern society—which makes sense.
Typically, modern society wouldn’t allow such organizations to erge, but upon reflection, this is a superpower world with superpower entities like Academy City, which requires special handling, unlike ordinary modern worlds.
Ard Detective Academy is the institution that trains Martial Investigators.
To put it bluntly, it’s similar to Shandong’s Blue... cough cough, that’s off topic.
Basically, it’s kind of similar.
On the other hand, the young girl Riko Mine, whom Fang Zheng rescued, posed so difficulty. Riko had confided to Fang Zheng that she was a descendant of Lupin but had been looked down upon by her family due to lacking strength. She eagerly sought strong enough power to make her ancestors proud. Therefore, Riko hoped to enroll in Academy City, but Fang Zheng didn’t imdiately agree. Having watched both Forbidden Magic Index and Railgun, he knew that place wasn’t as simple as l and iyin imagined, a re superpower developnt academy.
Actually speaking, Fang Zheng was unclear on what Academy City’s brain domain developnt was, as the ani glossed over it while portrayals were extre—one part seed to enable clarity through study, the other involved crazy, inhumane extre biological experints...
Fang Zheng wasn’t worried about conflict with Academy City; from his ani perspective, neither entity in Academy City could withstand him.
After all, no power surpasses ti.
Sa goes for that upside-down boy soaking in bathwater.
However, Fang Zheng was sowhat curious about Academy City’s technology; the ani focused on plot rather than theory, but now he was more interested in the theoretical knowledge than plots.
Putting the scenario in Harry Potter’s world, Fang Zheng wouldn’t bother about the reckless antics of those buffoons, he’d delve directly into magecraft research.
As for Harry Potter and Voldemort, Fang Zheng would just pretend not to see them.
He’s past the plot advancent and instance stage, now beginning to explore the theoretical foundations that build worlds. In "The Familiar of Zero," Red Ponytail spent more ti reading Magic Books at the academy than going out to battle bosses.
Not to ntion, Red Ponytail only knew the beginning of Zero’s plot.
During the first few days in this world, Fang Zheng took so ti to look after l and iyin, discovering their return to family significantly impacted them.
iyin had grown very close to her parents; now both sides started seeing each other as true family (since they were originally), but l’s situation was hilarious. Fang Zheng, with good intentions, transferred l to her rebirth sister’s school, but l’s constant concern led her to tail her sister every day, only to be mistaken as a suspicious person... Fang Zheng could only shrug at this.
He provided such a good start, yet you ss it up like this, proving to be the proverbial pig teammate!
No hope, no hope.
After much consideration, Fang Zheng decided to focus on Academy City, familiar enough with the protagonists there to closely observe and determine if they held Order Core data fragnts. As for Ard Detective Academy, Fang Zheng casually deployed a satellite for surveillance, having recorded coordinate core data fluctuations—if such a person appeared, he’d promptly be inford, right?
Thus, after setting everything up, Fang Zheng took Riko Mine and, seizing the open visitation opportunity, entered Academy City.
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