In the Ordinary Streets of Tokyo, I Awakened as a Player

Chapter 299: The World’s Encirclement

Chapter 299: The World’s Encirclement

After killing the Black Watch Commander, Asagiri looked toward the young man fighting the martial artist enemy.

He had no intention of stepping forward to help. Instead, he chose to watch from the sidelines, planning to let the other party resolve the enemy himself.

"Shinichi, that side is finished."

"Is that so?"

Shinichi Izumi heard Migi’s words, but his gaze never left the enemy in front of him. He simply said in a flat voice,

"Use that move."

The next second, Migi detached from Shinichi Izumi’s arm.

At the same time, Shinichi himself moved at astonishing speed, tracing an arc around the blade Migi was swinging. His movement path resembled a curved saber as he charged toward the martial artist standing there.

"How could this be..."

The Black Watch martial artist Player had completely failed to anticipate that the young man, who had been locked in a stalemate with him until now, possessed the ability to temporarily separate from that soft monster and let it act independently.

Caught off guard, his left arm was struck by the blade.

Although the sharp edge failed to sever his arm completely, it still carved bloody wounds deep enough to expose bone across his arm, chest, and abdomen.

"Damn it, he’s using his main body to distract me!?"

The last remaining Black Watch member watched Shinichi Izumi charge toward him, his expression twisting into a ferocious grimace.

For a moment, he abandoned defense entirely.

The dark purple skin on his neck bulged with veins as he rushed forward at full speed.

"I’ll kill you!"

"Migi."

However, with Shinichi Izumi’s soft call, Migi quickly reconnected to his arm and transformed into pure crimson muscle tissue, resembling a monster’s arm.

Then he smashed a heavy punch into the martial artist’s face.

"Bang!"

Two muffled impacts rang out at almost the same time.

The moment Shinichi Izumi’s right fist shattered the opponent’s head, the Black Watch martial artist’s fist also struck his abdomen.

"Cough, cough."

Shinichi Izumi coughed a few times, blood foam spilling from the corner of his mouth. He raised his left hand to wipe it away, then turned to look at Asagiri, forcing out a slightly strained smile.

"Mr. Shadow, we..."

"Let’s talk."

Asagiri seemed to have anticipated what he wanted to say.

He directly pointed toward the area beside them, which had originally been a third floor shop but had been reduced to ruins by the recent battle, and smiled.

"Come. The underground private seating awaits."

...

Five minutes later, inside a room in the underground shelter.

"Um..."

Shinichi Izumi watched Asagiri, who sat there calmly, pull the arrow embedded in his neck free.

Seeing blood flow from the wound, he could not help but hesitate.

"Your injury..."

Before Shinichi Izumi could finish speaking, a tall, semi-transparent phantom appeared behind Asagiri.

Then, under Shinichi’s shocked and horrified gaze, the wounds on Asagiri’s body instantly healed.

No, rather than healing, they simply vanished.

After all, Shinichi Izumi did not see any recovery process. In a single instant, every injury on Asagiri’s body disappeared.

"What injury?"

Hearing Asagiri’s smiling counter-question, Shinichi Izumi shook his head with a speechless laugh.

"I was overthinking it. Alright, since your injuries have recovered, let’s get down to business. You probably have many questions you want to ask me, and I also have many questions I want to ask you."

"Izumi."

Hearing Asagiri call out his surname, Shinichi Izumi frowned slightly. Even Migi, on his right hand, made a thoughtful sound.

During the recent battle, Migi had called him "Shinichi," but had never used his surname.

So why would the other party know it?

After that, Asagiri raised his hand and removed his mask.

When Shinichi Izumi saw how young his face was, surprise flashed across his eyes.

"Let’s start talking."

Asagiri glanced at Shinichi Izumi’s face, noticing the clear scar between his eyebrows.

That proved the other party was the Shinichi Izumi who had already eliminated the strongest creature, Gotou, and cleared the protagonist storyline in his original world.

"As an otherworld Player participating in this Dungeon, your goal should be the same as those Black Watch guys. Yet you chose to help us. What’s the reason?"

Hearing Asagiri’s question, Migi spoke up on his own.

"Let me explain."

Over the next ten minutes or so, Migi recounted the course of events in the most concise language possible.

The world Shinichi Izumi lived in was similar to this one. The difference was that, during his third year of high school, a species called Parasites had descended.

The instinct of Parasites as living beings was to eliminate humans, and their method was to disguise themselves as humans by taking over human brains.

However, Migi and Shinichi Izumi were exceptions.

Migi encountered unexpected circumstances during the parasitization process and failed to take over Shinichi Izumi’s brain. With no other choice, he settled for the next best option and became his right hand.

The events that followed involved Shinichi Izumi confronting the Parasites, losing many things in the process, and eventually reaching understanding.

The Parasites in that world, in order to continue surviving, ultimately chose to abandon the instinct engraved in their DNA and integrate into human society by disguising themselves as humans.

Originally, Shinichi Izumi’s story should have ended there.

But at that moment, he was chosen by the system and became a Player.

"Wait a moment."

Hearing this, Asagiri interrupted Migi’s narration. His brows furrowed slightly.

"An eye icon APP suddenly appeared on both of your phone screens, and then you entered a beginner Dungeon? There were no prerequisite quests, and you didn’t register by taking a dead Player’s phone?"

"That’s right. Is something wrong?"

"This is new information."

Asagiri did not hide anything and explained directly.

"I’ve been to other worlds in previous Dungeons, whether it was the Black Watch world or the Abyss Man world. I’ve never encountered anyone who was directly chosen by the system to become a Player. Before hearing your experience, I always thought only people from this world would be directly chosen by the game to become Players. Now it seems that isn’t the case."

After saying this, Asagiri raised his head and looked directly into Shinichi Izumi’s eyes.

"So, why are you hostile toward Black Watch?"

"Because those guys are evil."

"Because they’re enemies."

The first answer came from Shinichi Izumi.

The second came from Migi.

They spoke at the same time, but the reasons they gave were completely different.

"You also know that Shinichi’s physique is different from ordinary people."

Migi glanced at Shinichi Izumi, then turned his large eyeball toward Asagiri and spoke in a rational, emotionless tone.

"Because fragments of my tissue are spread throughout his blood vessels, he possesses physical abilities far beyond ordinary humans. This is different from rewards obtained through the game. Although difficult, it is theoretically reproducible. If the organization called Black Watch learned about this, they would definitely capture Shinichi and me at all costs. I don’t want to become an experimental subject dissected on an operating table, so it would be better to destroy them completely."

Shinichi Izumi’s explanation was much simpler.

He clenched his fist, determination appearing in his eyes as he slowly said,

"Since a power like the Parasites exists in our world, Black Watch, an organization that seeks power, will invade my world sooner or later. To protect the people around me, I have to step forward and confront them."

"Hmm, I see..."

Asagiri nodded noncommittally, then asked in a flat tone.

"So, what kind of help are you hoping to get from me?"

"Nothing."

Migi swayed his body and replied calmly.

"After all, we are not people from the same world. However, you are an enemy of Black Watch. Judging from the fact that they specifically prepared a detailed combat plan to restrain you, you are their most threatening enemy. In other words, you are an ally standing on the same front as us. Helping an ally requires no reward. Besides..."

At this point, Migi paused slightly and said something meaningful.

"Even without Shinichi’s help at that time, you could have eliminated those enemies, correct?"

...

A little later, in an alley behind Private Shuchiin Academy in Tokyo.

"Shinichi."

"What’s wrong?"

Migi turned his body, his large eyeball looking directly at Shinichi Izumi’s face, then spoke softly.

"That Shadow is a very terrifying guy. Since my birth, I have never felt such intense trembling and fear."

"Really?"

Shinichi Izumi showed a faint smile and replied in a gentle tone.

"I actually think Mr. Shadow is a very kind person."

"That is because your human perception is not as sharp as mine."

Migi said this first, then continued in a flat tone.

"For example, Gotou was the strongest enemy we encountered. But if Gotou had faced Shadow at that time, the other Parasites inside him would have definitely resisted Gotou’s commands out of biological instinct due to sensing extreme danger, and attempted to escape from his body. That is the extent of that man’s power. Just standing there makes me, a Parasite, feel fear. And..."

At this point, Migi paused for a moment, then slowly spoke in a tone Shinichi Izumi had never heard before, one that seemed faintly uncertain.

"After the battle ended, when he should have been weaker, I felt as though he had become stronger than when we first met him... Could it be..."

"Did Shadow gain some new power during that battle?"

...

On the other side, in the underground shelter.

"Ding."

Hearing the notification sound from her phone, Ashikaga Miwa took it out and glanced at the screen.

A notification had appeared in the eye icon APP, and the content exceeded her expectations.

[Special Notification: Some otherworld Players participating in Dungeons in this world have failed to complete the clearance objective. The real-time locations of these otherworld Players have now been sent to the Players of this world through the APP.]

Ashikaga Miwa tapped on the eye icon APP and found, as expected, that dozens of light spots were displayed.

There were no light spots within Tokyo.

All the light spots were located in Saitama, Kanagawa, Chiba, and Yamanashi.

"So this is the punishment for failing to clear the Dungeon."

Asagiri also saw the notification in the eye icon APP and felt that the system’s punishment measures were truly unique.

Leaving aside otherworld Players who did not understand this world, even Players who originally lived in this world would likely die within a few hours if their real-time location was continuously exposed by the system.

After all, even the most useless Player possessed something extremely valuable.

The right to register as a Player.

These otherworld Players, who had not even reached the evacuation point, or even entered Tokyo, were undoubtedly doomed.

.....

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