Ichijō Mirai had a bit of a headache, his brain practically throbbing, unable to think: "Wait,"
"Why would I want to be a boss?"
It's fine to scare people with a little lip-synching, but to become a boss...
What does the word 'boss' mean? Power.
This power means that Ichijō Mirai is the highest-ranking person in the organization, and that he can manipulate some of the members of the organization like puppets, and without a second thought, he can decide whether they will live or die.
He can even manipulate their joys and sorrows. If he wants to make an organization member happy, even if he is crying, the organization member will become an attentive tail-wagging Inuo and smile happily, and if he wants to make an organization member sad, even if he is in a state of ecstasy, the organization member will cry bitterly without any hesitation.
...But Ichijō Mirai, who is not the boss, can still achieve such an effect.
Not only the members of the organization, but also the police and the general public can become his ever-loyal friends, and become Inuo at his mercy.
That's how it is when you're a boss, and that's how it is when you're not.
And when you become a Boss, you have not only power, but also responsibility, more or less, for the whole organization, which is the same as bringing up a child.
So why become a boss?
Ichijō Mirai had grown tired of raising children after spending so much time in prison.
Ichijō Mirai was aware of this, so when he finished speaking, he was silent for a few seconds, "...The disadvantages outweigh the advantages."
"For you, the disadvantages outweigh the advantages."
"But you're going to have to kill the boss."
Not wanting to bring up a child is not wanting to bring up a child, but killing the boss is killing the boss.
Ichijō Mirai agreed.
He nodded deeply, and added one more person, "And Rum."
"Don't kill Rum," The researcher predicted, "he can take the fall."
"The members of the organization that were taken..."
"Never mind, for you, that's the equivalent of naming names."
It does: Gin, Calvados.
These two guys are the ones that Ichijō Mirai had contacted and considered to be relatively capable.
"Your 'batch' is two," He spat absently, checking off the codenames in the book of life and death, "Well, Gin, Calvados, is mine,"
"I'll take it."
And add, "When you're free."
If you don't have time, then there's nothing you can do, you can only wave goodbye.
And again, "The Calvados I'm talking about is the lovely face-blind lady in the villa."
No matter what her previous codename was, since she had given herself the code name Calvados the first time we met, she would be called Calvados.
The researcher added: "And..."
In the video, he often paused and pondered, and this time the pause was particularly long, almost ten seconds before he said, "Forget it."
"I'm tempted to say, as I did just now, something cryptic like 'there are more than just enemies in the organization, you can properly make some of them your own instead of retaliating against all of them,' something about the exact time, place, and thing you're being asked to do,"
Without batting an eye, the researcher corrected, "No, it's 'request'."
"I care, you don't care, I'm asking, it's a request."
"But," He said, "you won't listen."
"I don't suppose you're thinking, 'No, I have to find a way to mess with the minds of the people on this list'?"
Ichijō Mirai: "..."
That's not true.
Do you need to think about it? No, it's just a matter of getting the job done, isn't it?
"Before I recorded the video, I simulated what my past self was thinking and made a draft," the researcher said, "but about ten seconds into the video, I abandoned the draft."
"The original draft had tons of precise times, places, people, events, lots of things I wanted you to help with, to stop something that was yet to come, to facilitate something that was yet to come,"
"It's all given up now."
He said, "Live well."
"Even though you accidentally gave away some 'you can change the past, present and Mirai' or something like that when you were talking about the Boss's information, you should be pretty much down right now, only able to muster up the energy to spit on your own amusement and forget most of the content when you turn off the video, but..."
"Stay alive."
"You don't have a memory," The researcher used the tone of a joke, "everything about this world has been eliminated from common sense, there won't be a situation like playing tentacle play because you know too much but are contaminated and the san value is forgotten,"
"You can live well."
"As long as you live well, there are some things that will definitely change,"
"For example."
He was thinking about spinning the ring, as if he was trying to think of a suitable example, and then paused, looking at the ring on his hand as an afterthought, "..."
"Completely oblivious to the fact that you forgot to take off the ring," Ichijō Mirai really wasn't thinking about the amount of information most of the words revealed, and pretty much went down, but the super-skillful trash-talking was still running on its own, "Seems like it's a good relationship, so good that you've grown accustomed to the ring and don't think of it as an external object."
"If you're not going to give a rational explanation."
He raised his hand and pressed his brow, which was still throbbing with pain, and smiled politely.
'Ichijō Mirai': "..."
"It's not a business marriage for profit, it's not animal instincts," He didn't take off the ring, "it's a childhood friend."
A childhood friend?
Brain still aching from one moment to the next, Ichijō Mirai frowned and thought quickly, finding no trace of a childhood friend in the game's setting.
"I didn't really want to give that example, because you wouldn't be able to understand the digestion, and it would only increase the level of downtime,"
The researcher blandly said, "Like lovers."
"I'm not sure she'd still be in love with you, after changing some of the settings and going in a very different direction."
"And I'm also not sure if you'll develop a crush on her, and develop a crush on some of the other guys that I agree with more, or can't mess with, and choose not to appear in their field of vision as a member of the organization as a result."
"That's uncertain."
He said, "Because of the extreme instability of uncertainty, there are certain things that are bound to change,"
"It may well be that some people will no longer be dead, some people will no longer be alive, and it may well be that the relationship with a lover will no longer be that of a lover, but that of an ordinary friend,"
Here, the researcher paused, speaking in a voice that sounded a bit distant and close to Ichijō Mirai, with a sort of sharp metallic sound, "But I accept all of it."
"I can accept whatever happens as long as I live."
Ichijō Mirai pressed his finger to his brow, and in the midst of the pain that was becoming more and more pronounced, as if the gears of his brain were rusting and jamming, yet still violently colliding, he heard the researcher's clearly emphasized words, "I'm going to ask for only one thing, to live by whatever means necessary as a person who can walk in the sunlight."
"-Even if it means a few proper deaths."
"There are times when death is for the sake of living better," 'Ichijō Mirai' lowered his voice, "Got a bad headache?"
"Go into the game."
"One successful ending, and you're my Messiah."
Ichijō Mirai's bracelet blinked a few times.
He logged into the game.