The tense standoff between the two sides suddenly eased amid Xu Yue's cheerful conversation with the two big shots.
Yonekura, the high school delinquent who had brought the others over, was utterly dumbfounded.
When he had discovered that the new boss had personally come to bring people over, he had been quite excited. He had never expected the new boss to value him so much.
But who could have imagined that the guy who had beaten the shit out of him was chatting and laughing with his two new bosses? They clearly had a pretty good relationship.
That left him in an extremely awkward position.
Even Kurono, who had come along with him, was quite surprised.
Originally, Xu Yue had seemed to him like the type of top student who excelled at studying and had outstanding grades.
Who would have thought that he also knew people from the gangs, and seemed to be some sort of leader himself?
Kurono had mentally prepared himself for a possible fight and had kept reassuring himself that he would have to get used to it sooner or later.
But now, it seemed that a fight was not going to happen after all.
"I find you rather familiar as well, sir. You surely aren't an unknown figure. May I ask how I should address you?"
Both Williams and Brown were typical representatives of the merchant corps, and they had always believed that harmony was most valuable.
Since the other party was being so respectful, they naturally responded with friendly attitudes.
Nor were they wrong. For someone to seem familiar to them, he had to at least be a distinctive Elite Reincarnator. There was an eighty-percent chance that he was an Intruder-level big shot.
"Not at all. I used to make my way around the Far