My Hero Academia: The Age of Ultimate Darkness
Chapter 41

Yang Xiao's Work Begins

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"Xiao Yang, you came at just the right time."

The moment Yang Xiao arrived at the entrance of the Problem Solver, Wu Shiyin's voice reached him. Yang Xiao looked at Wu Shiyin in confusion. "Is something special going on?"

"The mission has begun. You need to assist everyone in real time. Toga Himiko is already busy inside, but her abilities are a little lacking compared to yours. Come quickly." Wu Shiyin walked up to Yang Xiao and patted his shoulder.

Yang Xiao nodded and entered the inner room. After passing through the underground passage, he finally arrived at the core hub of the Problem Solver.

"Yang Xiao, hurry over here. I can barely keep up." Toga Himiko's hands were full of documents, and everything looked like a complete mess.

Yang Xiao scratched the back of his head, then hurried over to his station and looked at Toga Himiko. "What's going on?"

"I'll explain the specifics to you. For now, don't get in Toga's way." Wu Shiyin came over and began explaining the day's mission and the assistance Yang Xiao would need to provide.

It turned out that Tae Shimura, Shinpachi Shimura, and Kagura were currently carrying out a mission. Toga Himiko was responsible for keeping in contact with Kagura, while Tae Shimura and Shinpachi Shimura were on standby, waiting for Yang Xiao to arrive and take over operations.

Before they had liaison officers, the three of them acted according to their own judgment. Now that they had Yang Xiao and Toga Himiko as liaisons, the success rate of any mission would rise dramatically.

Because Yang Xiao was more capable at this sort of work, he was assigned to handle the two-person team. Wu Shiyin was now telling him how to proceed.

After five minutes, Yang Xiao had understood Tae Shimura and Shinpachi Shimura's mission. Seeing that Yang Xiao learned quickly and had grasped everything, Wu Shiyin greeted him and left the core hub.

After all, the Problem Solver still needed someone to watch over it. Although they were somewhat short-handed now, as the boss, he still needed to go out and keep things under control. However, Wu Shiyin had already begun recruiting college students.

Of course, the college students they recruited would only be ordinary Problem Solver members, responsible for those trivial little jobs.

"Xiao Yang, tell me the target's detailed information again first." Tae Shimura's voice came through the headset. Yang Xiao immediately took out the documents and began reading, clearly explaining every piece of information about the target to her.

The target was the person about to be killed, or the person about to be judged. They might also be left with a way out.

After all, the Problem Solver was not a law enforcement agency. It operated in the shadows and could not be exposed to the light. If they encountered Pro Heroes or people from the Police Department, the members of the Problem Solver would still be considered criminals.

No matter how righteous an organization was, it was illegal without the country's approval. So even when the Problem Solver needed to kill someone, it had to do so without a sound. After all, this world was full of Pro Heroes and Quirk Users.

After Tae Shimura and Shinpachi Shimura heard Yang Xiao's report, they understood the mission even more thoroughly. Yang Xiao had made the target's usual haunts and habits crystal clear, leaving no privacy whatsoever.

Next, Tae Shimura and Shinpachi Shimura would split up. They would not kill openly; they had many methods available, such as poison, seduction, enticement, torture devices, and all kinds of other means.

"Sis, the target is male. You should meet him first. I'll wait for news." Tae Shimura and Shinpachi Shimura sat in the lounge on the first floor of a certain office building. To outsiders, they truly looked like siblings.

"Don't let your guard down." Tae Shimura stood up and gave Shinpachi Shimura a smile before leaving the building. After stepping outside, she turned and entered the building next door. The target was inside that building.

Shinpachi Shimura understood perfectly what Tae Shimura's smile meant. Though her smile looked cute and gentle, it concealed danger. Perhaps only Wu Shiyin and he could understand that.

The target was the Vice President of this company, an entertainment media company. On the surface, it had been established to promote celebrities, but in reality, it had long since changed under the Vice President's control.

A few years ago, the company might have been thriving, with everything in perfect order. Back then, it had genuinely been focused on making female stars famous. But in recent years, Vice President Tanigawa Rō had gradually sidelined the President and filled the company with his own people, creating the current situation.

Those female artists were subjected to the casting couch, and that alone was not even the worst part. The worst part was that after taking advantage of them, he would not even help them advance their careers. In other words, they had been used for nothing.

Such things happened often enough, but as time passed, more and more people came to hate Vice President Tanigawa Rō.

By chance, someone knew how to contact the Problem Solver's core hub, so they asked the Problem Solver to deal with Tanigawa Rō. A black-hearted bastard like him naturally had to be put to death.

Most importantly, Tanigawa Rō also had the lives of several female artists on his hands. Although those incidents had happened long ago and no one could do anything to him, they could only turn to the Problem Solver's core hub for help.

The Problem Solver's core hub was not an assassin organization, but it was far easier to contact than one. It also would not embezzle anything from its clients, making it much better than assassin organizations.

Because of that, the Problem Solver was currently in deep trouble. Several assassin organizations had set their sights on its core hub because the Problem Solver had stolen their livelihood.

But so far, none of those assassin organizations had made a move. They seemed to be considering something, or perhaps fearing something.

At this moment, Tae Shimura had disguised herself as a beautiful young woman just starting out. Her apparent purpose was naturally to become a female artist. Otherwise, why would she come to this company?

"Hello, I'd like to see your Vice President, Tanigawa Rō. Is he in the company right now?" Tae Shimura asked the receptionist with a bright smile. Sure enough, all the receptionists at this company were women, and every one of them was quite attractive.

That alone showed what kind of person Tanigawa Rō was. People like him were among the ones Tae Shimura hated most.

Seeing how beautiful Tae Shimura was, the receptionist did not doubt her words. After all, beautiful women came here because they wanted to become artists.

Moreover, the company had some reputation in this field. Though plenty of negative news about it had surfaced lately, what did that have to do with a receptionist like her?

"Hello, please register your information first. I'll report it to the Vice President." The receptionist spoke politely, but her eyes held pity as she looked at Tae Shimura.

She knew that if a woman as beautiful as Tae Shimura caught Tanigawa Rō's eye, she would definitely come to no good end. She might lose her innocence and gain no future in return. But that was none of her business. These days, as long as she could make money, she did not want to concern herself with anything else.

Naturally, Tae Shimura filled in false information. After all, she would only be here once. The receptionist never expected her to use false information, so she paid no attention to it.

A few minutes later, just as Tae Shimura finished the coffee the receptionist had given her, the receptionist told her to report to the fifteenth floor. It seemed Tanigawa Rō had agreed to see her.

"Shinpachi, I'm going up now. Fifteenth floor, Building B, Office 01." Tae Shimura spoke into the communicator, then entered the elevator and headed for the fifteenth floor.

Just then, Yang Xiao's voice rang out. "Sister Shimura, just in case, leave some sort of mark on the ground before you enter an office."

Tae Shimura was somewhat puzzled by Yang Xiao's suggestion, but she still nodded in agreement.

After all, Yang Xiao was now the liaison officer. Sometimes, it was safer to follow the liaison officer's instructions.

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