Subordinates and Subordinates

The assignment the organization had given to "Uzo," which Uzo had then passed on to Jiang Xia, was to help the organization's Goods Collector recover the batch of Illegal Goods purchased from the Ghost Tiger Society.

The goods were currently stored in a bank Safe.

Jiang Xia felt that, aside from the "rob the bank" approach favored by Peripheral Members, there was another option: "Retrieve the Seal kept by Tora-mura Yuji and race against time to collect the goods before news of his arrested status was announced."

Now that they had obtained the Seal, naturally, it had to be delivered to the Goods Collector as soon as possible. Mailing it was risky; losing it would be troublesome. According to regulations, it was best to deliver it in person.

However, Jiang Xia's real body definitely had to go to the Police Station first. Besides, since this was an "assassination" with plenty of news value, reporters who knew him might come over and drag him into conversation, making it difficult for him to leave anytime soon.

If he sent a puppet... the z-shaped ones were too conspicuous, or otherwise inconvenient to have out in broad daylight.

Matsuda Jinpei's Persona was more discreet, but Uzo was an executive. Of course he should not be running errands for a Peripheral Member...

Originally, Jiang Xia had planned to ignore the organization's rules, put the Seal in a box, pretend it was a delivery, and have a puppet place it directly on the Trader's desk while no one was looking.

But now that Okiya Subaru was here...

Jiang Xia randomly selected one lucky underling to run the errand.

...Anyway, aside from him, the "superior" responsible for assigning tasks, no one would know that part of Jiang Xia's assignment had been shifted to Okiya Subaru—being a Peripheral