After Minami Uruka left, Fura Taishi still had not recovered.
Clang.
The iron pipe in his hand fell to the ground. Even now, he still found it hard to accept the fact that Minami-san was a ghoul.
"Fura-san, are you alright?"
Ihei Byakuya slowly walked over.
"..."
Fura Taishi did not respond. Instead, he sat down on the ground with his back against the wall.
"So... that is what you meant by what you said that day..."
Fura Taishi looked dejected.
He recalled the words Ihei Byakuya had said that day, "Minami-san is my target." Originally, he thought it meant a romantic target, but now it seemed that was not the case at all.
"Will you arrest Minami-san? Or... kill her...?"
Fura Taishi raised his head and asked Ihei Byakuya.
"At least for now, she is not the one that needs to be dealt with first. There are ghouls more dangerous than her."
Ihei Byakuya replied.
This "dangerous" did not refer to strength.
At present, Minami Uruka could be considered an ally, and her level of danger had become very low. In that case, [Jason] was naturally more dangerous than her.
"There are actually more..."
Fura Taishi was even more shaken.
He had not expected that so many dangers were hidden around him, and yet he had been completely unaware of them before.
"Go back and get some rest. Your friends are probably still waiting for you. Leave the rest to us Ghoul Investigators."
Ihei Byakuya said.
"I understand..."
Fura Taishi stood up and walked unsteadily in the direction Ryou and Aki had fled.
...
In the following days, Fura Taishi did not come to school even once.
Meanwhile, Ihei Byakuya and Minami Uruka continued attending classes as usual.
"Ihei-kun, do you think what we did last time was too much of a blow to Fura-san?"
During the break between classes, Minami Uruka brought up what had happened last time with Byakuya.
"...It should be fine."
Ihei Byakuya thought to himself that she was the one who proposed doing it that way in the first place.
"I feel that Fura-san probably will not be completely crushed. He might just need a few days to calm down."
Ihei Byakuya said.
He believed that Fura Taishi's willpower was not bad. Otherwise, it would have been difficult for him to become the person in charge of the CCG 7th Ward Branch in the future.
"By the way, regarding [Jason], I should be able to get in touch with him in the next couple of days. When that time comes..."
Minami Uruka whispered in Byakuya's ear, since it was a very important matter.
Ihei Byakuya nodded slightly.
...
Originally, he thought Fura Taishi would need another two or three days to calm down, but he showed up at school at noon that very day.
However, he was clearly not there to attend class, but to find Ihei Byakuya about something.
"Ihei, can you come out for a moment?"
Fura Taishi spoke directly to Byakuya at the classroom door.
After that, Ihei Byakuya walked out of the classroom and had a private conversation with Fura Taishi.
"I want to protect Ryou and Aki. What should I do?"
Fura Taishi asked straight to the point.
The biggest impact of the last incident on him was that what he feared most now was suddenly losing Ryou and Aki.
"You should already have the answer in your heart."
Ihei Byakuya said.
"..."
Fura Taishi was silent for a moment.
"You mean I should also become a Ghoul Investigator? But someone like me... am I really qualified?"
"There is nothing about being qualified or not. As long as you want to, you can try. If you truly have that resolve, I believe you can definitely succeed."
Ihei Byakuya encouraged Fura Taishi.
"Alright... I understand!"
Fura Taishi nodded forcefully.
"Also, how are your friends?"
Ihei Byakuya asked.
"After what happened last time, Ryou and Aki do not dare to race motorcycles outside anymore. But they still like to mess around."
Fura Taishi looked somewhat troubled.
"Then I will teach you a very simple method."
Ihei Byakuya said.
"What?"
Fura Taishi immediately became curious.
Even he could not think of any good solution. No matter how many times he tried to persuade Ryou and Aki, they would not listen.
"If you think that girl named Sasada Aki is not bad, then confess to her directly."
Ihei Byakuya suggested. "As for Ryou, you can only show him your change through your actual actions."
"Confess to Aki?!"
Fura Taishi's face immediately turned red. He was clearly still too innocent.
"Yes. I think she definitely will not reject you, and she will also be willing to change for you."
Ihei Byakuya said with confidence.
His confidence came from his identity as a transmigrator. In the future, Sasada Aki would become Fura Taishi's wife. There was nothing more to say.
"But as for Ryou, I cannot guarantee whether you can successfully change him. That depends on your own efforts."
Ihei Byakuya added.
Because in the original work, Ryou was killed by [Pumpkin Head] while protecting Fura Taishi, making him an uncertain variable.
"I... I understand..."
Fura Taishi nodded. "I will try it the way you said."
...
Fura Taishi acted as soon as he decided. That very night, he went directly to Sasada Aki's house.
Because Sasada Aki usually spent her days out playing everywhere, it was not easy to find her.
After a straightforward and direct approach, Sasada Aki was successfully won over.
After all, Sasada Aki originally liked Taishi. Her feelings for Taishi were even stronger than Taishi's feelings for her.
Afterward, Fura Taishi once again sought advice from Ihei Byakuya on how to become a Ghoul Investigator.
With Byakuya's help, Fura Taishi would soon enter the Ghoul Investigator Training Academy.
As for his studies at Seishin High School, he had basically given up.
At most, he would just make it to graduation. He did not plan to advance to university, because he did not believe he had the ability to get into any good university, and neither Ryou nor Aki had any intention of pursuing further education.
The current Fura Taishi only wanted to have the ability to protect his girlfriend and his best friend.
Ding. The host has successfully guided Fura Taishi and obtained reward: System Points x3.
As for Fura Taishi's matter, in Ihei Byakuya's eyes it was just something done conveniently, and he even obtained System Points from it.
After the system notification sound ended, Byakuya's thoughts returned to the main matter.
He dialed Mado Akira's phone number.
"Hello, Associate Special Class Investigator Mado. Regarding the subjugation operation against [Jason], we are ready..."