Belmode: "What do you know about the organization?"
Ichijō Mirai thinks hard and slowly states what he knows about the organization, "Kind."
He sincerely praised his future colleague, "How kind to invite me to show up in order to protect the FBI, isn't it?"
"I've never seen such kindness in an illegal organization."
I've never met such a brazen man.
Belmode was tempted to return the favor, but in the end, he only laughed: "You're so funny and elegant."
"Whatever you found out during your absence," she said quickly, "I'll assume you know nothing about the organization."
How else could you say 'the Organization is kind'!
Even if it's a mockery, most people can't mock it with a clear conscience!
"Since joining the Organization, you should have had a preliminary understanding of the Organization's strength from the Councilman's mission," Belmode said, 'and since you threatened the Organization with 'killing the FBI' and 'leaving Tokyo in chaos', it means you now have a deep understanding of the Organization's position and strength."
It showed that Ichijō Mirai knew very well that the Organization was not just any terrorist organization, but one that was responsible for 'maintaining law and order in the city'.
It sounds ridiculous that the Yakuza is responsible for protecting the people and maintaining law and order in the city, but unfortunately, many local lawless forces have the sense and responsibility to do so, and even the basic order in some places is maintained by the Yakuza.
Because chaos, the same will compromise their interests.
Organizations that have reached this point are no longer limited to black or white, illegal or not, but are unimpeded by the grey.
"Many forces want something, some for power, some for money, and the purpose of an organization is..."
Belmode whispered, "Eternal life."
Ichijō Mirai raises his eyes to the ghostly light at his desk and repeats, "Eternal, life?"
This is a topic that has been around for a long time.
Many ordinary people spend their lives chasing money, while rich ordinary people spend their lives chasing power.
When one has money and power, one chases the illusory 'eternal life'.
"It's a distant term that sounds like it's always associated with old people who are dying, and it's easy to imagine the leader of an organization being an old man in his seventies, dying of old age, who won't give up the power in his hands," Belmode laughed, 'and it's easy to give it labels, like it has to be a 'person of power'."
"But does the common man not qualify for eternal life?"
"Messiah, do you realize how fragile the common man is? Until the nineteenth century, the average life expectancy of the European population was over forty years."
She repeated: "Forty years."
"And now, only a hundred years later, the average life expectancy is seventy."
"For those who died at forty in the nineteenth century, how is seventy not the 'eternal life' to be pursued?"
"For mankind now, how is 100, 200, 300 years old not 'eternal life' to be chased after?"
Seems reasonable.
If one were a bit of a man of few words, and had a soft spot for Belmode, one would probably be a bit shaken up: does the organization seem to be pursuing immortality not for its own sake, but for the sake of mankind?
But Ichijō Mirai is an expert at talking nonsense...
He's a regular guy who's good at making people think, and enjoys working on their tempers.
He could only smile and politely comment that it seemed reasonable.
But the guy who pursued immortality in 1984, even if he lived in 1884, would never die at 40.
It's none of the ordinary people's business to be involved in the frenzied pursuit of the high and mighty. Can we get some money for this?
How about a raise?
No need to raise more, just a little bit from the afternoon tea expenses of your superiors, the ordinary people of the world will be a little bit happier, maybe the average life expectancy will be increased by a few years.
Belmode: "You seem to be smiling?"
"As I said, the Organization is too kind," Ichijō Mirai smiled again, like a troubadour praising a god he believes in, "to pursue immortality for the sake of all mankind."
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Belmode heard the sarcasm and laughed out loud, "Sounds ridiculous at first, doesn't it?"
"It's as if the basic order of individual cities is maintained by the yakuza, as if the organization would not want the FBI to have too many casualties, or Tokyo to be in a state of perpetual turmoil."
"All of these are profitable, and the organization is certainly profitable."
She smiled, "There's a difference between someone who lives about forty years, someone who lives about seventy years, and someone who lives about two hundred years."
It's better to squeeze.
"Take away the first ten years of infancy, and the time spent eating and sleeping, which takes up a third of the length of life, and what's left of forty years?"
"And after seventy years, and the last ten or twenty, after fifty, it is difficult for an average old man to bring positive benefits, but on the contrary, negative benefits."
Belmode calculated, "If the average life expectancy is two hundred years, the prime of life will be extended accordingly, and the old age will come at most at one hundred and fifty years old, so the time available will be greatly increased."
"Isn't that a benefit worth pursuing?"
Ichijō Mirai: "Perhaps."
He commented sincerely, "That sounds like something for someone in the government or someone on the streetlight to consider."
Not a black, illegal organization.
"When an outlaw organization is invariably tasked with 'keeping order'," Belmode inquires with a smile, "I'm afraid that's about as different from government as you can get, isn't it?"
It was impossible to convince an intelligent person in a very short time, and she only stopped at the point of these words that she didn't believe in herself, stating her point and then closing her hand, adding, "Guess whether the organization has any results?"
The meaning of this sentence was...
Ichijō Mirai smiled, "Since you ask, there must be."
Belmode smiled back, "That's very clever."
"To be honest, before, the organization didn't know you well enough to know how much they wanted you, but they didn't think about how much they wanted to use you, so they were hesitant to do anything about it."
"Now, the organization has thought it over."
"To welcome you in," her voice was soft, "the organization can show you 'immortality'."
But with a deeper meaning, "So that you can experience it for yourself."
"Alright?"