Sincerity Is the Ultimate Weapon!

As Shirou Emiya listened to Wa Lord introduce Su Enxi, he instantly sensed something absurd about the situation—

A Black Gold Swan of the financial world who had made a name for herself on Wall Street at such a young age was willing to lower herself and travel to a third-tier Chinese city to provide dating services for a man and woman. It was like someone who had already climbed to the top of their industry insisting on going back to relive low-end work.

So it was impossible. She definitely had some other motive...!

Shirou Emiya was no fool. He himself had only become Wa Lord's trusted little steward a short while ago, and before that, he had been an utterly ordinary nobody with neither power nor influence. Either she had her eye on some talent of his... or she wanted to use him to approach the Zhou Family, rather than sincerely doing any dating business!

After thinking it over, Emiya decided that since he had agreed to that Black Gold Swan's pitch, he ought to take responsibility for it himself...

"Shirou, I already sent people over. She probably still doesn't realize she's about to be surrounded, does she?" Wa Lord's little lips moved, breathing out warm air. "No matter who it is, if they want to do anything in Xiangyang, hmph hmph, they can't hide it from the Zhou Family's eyes."

Wow, you're so forceful and domineering. Emiya scratched his head as he listened.

His original plan had been to act alone. Apparently, he had been too conservative.

He could have brought Old Tang along, of course, but Emiya could already picture that blabbermouth chattering away as they walked:

"Holy crap, someone actually wants to make a move on my brother and my sister-in-law? Do they know I'm a pure-love warrior who can burn a whole herd of NTR cattle to death with one blast of fire, all the way from the Southern Heavenly Gate to Penglai East Road?"

...According to Old Tang, he had once again experienced a "strange dream encounter." Some inexplicable voice had still called him stupid, and when he woke up, he had automatically awakened Flame Magic.

From what Emiya had seen, its power far surpassed Tokiomi Tohsaka's little fire stick from back then. He could practically be called a battlefield barbecue master. Emiya was willing to call it a bootleg miniature sun.

...But why did Old Tang keep having these strange encounters? From the way he described his symptoms, it sounded as though another person were hidden inside him. Could it be split personality?

Split personalities, or even multiple personalities, were not uncommon in the Moon World. Henry Jekyll and the Ryougi Family both possessed techniques for creating split personalities.

The legendary Atlas Institute used ancient alchemy different from modern methods and possessed the technique known as "Thought Partition." At minimum, it could create three personalities, while geniuses could create eight.

Old Tang... perhaps he had an astonishing background that even he himself did not know about?

He could talk to him about it when he had time.

When she left with the "long-legged girl" Jiu De Mayi and the "Three-No Girl" Zero, the "Chip Girl" Su Enxi had already prepared herself for the worst.

The Zhou Family was, after all, an ancient household that had been entrenched here for over a thousand years. Su Enxi figured that if they truly put their minds to finding a dropped needle in Xiangyang, they could directly or indirectly mobilize nearly everyone in the city to conduct a carpet search.

Not to mention three outsiders with such distinctive appearances.

So Su Enxi took a deep breath and decided to just do it. Whether she stuck out her head or pulled it back, the blade would still fall. The boss would not even let his own people resist, so she might as well lie flat.

If this had been Tokyo and the local Hybrid Families, the Yaqi Eight Families, had come knocking, she would have had ways to negotiate with them from a position of strength, since she held shares in most of the Yaqi Eight Families' industries—but with the Zhou Family, she had basically no dealings, and thus no leverage she could directly use against them.

"Chips, what do we do, what do we do?" Jiu De Mayi looked toward the faint sounds in the distance. "Looks like the convoy coming to surround us is almost here. Are we just waiting here?"

"Yes. I've already thought of a plan. Follow my lead—when the time comes, spread your hands and raise your arms over your heads—"

"Hey, why are we surrendering right away?!"

Jiu De Mayi felt her blood pressure rising. She then looked at the Three-No Girl beside her... Zero had already raised her hands without much concern. She could not think of any solution herself aside from breaking through head-on, but she could not disobey the boss's orders.

"What good does taking it out on me do? The one who told you not to resist was the boss," Su Enxi said with a yawn. She had worked herself half to death with overtime for several days just to arrange a date for that dog of a couple, and she was severely sleep-deprived. Her brain was practically starting to refuse to think.

Well, even if she ended up in jail, she would accept it... At least she could catch up on some sleep. "Zzzzz..."

The next second, Jiu De Mayi patted her hand.

"Ow, what are you doing?!"

"Since when the hell could you sleep standing up...? Open your eyes already, the cops are here! Don't tell me the Zhou Family called the police?"

"Huh?"

Still a little muddled, Su Enxi rubbed her eyes and looked carefully. A line of police cars had actually arrived in the distance, their distinctive alternating red and blue roof lights silently reflecting across the street—there was clearly no need to turn on disruptive sirens in the middle of the night.

Wow, no, you really came just like that?

Su Enxi instead calmed down. She stepped forward, straightened her clothes, and prepared to surrender to these cops with a flawless expression and impeccable appearance.

"Chips, are you crazy? We can't let the cops know about our existence."

"Relax, those aren't cops. I'm telling you, they're one thousand percent Zhou Family people. Stay calm, stay calm. Once we get to the station, we'll be questioned separately. Let me give you a tip in advance: sincerity is the ultimate weapon! If you don't know, then you don't know!"

As she spoke, the Chip Girl leaned forward and waved her hand, as though she were facing not police cars but a taxi. The hem and belt of her long women's trench coat fluttered in the cold wind, making her look like a composed and dashing Big Sister heading home with everything under control.

Several dozen minutes later, inside the police station.

Su Enxi sat upright and properly behaved as she faced the questions of a Big Sister in a police uniform.

"Name?"

"Su Enxi."

"Gender?"

"...Female!"

"Identity?"

"Chairwoman of the Education Promotion Fund of the United States-Europe Association."

"?"

"Founder of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Jadeite and Gemstone Member Trading Organization," Su Enxi said matter-of-factly.

The policewoman across from her seemed to be communicating with someone through an earpiece. Only after two seconds did she look up and say, "That isn't what we need to know."

"Oh, then—special consultant to the East Asia Children's Living Conditions Research Center under the United Nations Committee for the Eradication of Poverty."

Su Enxi calmly raised her eyes toward the one-way glass on the other side of the room. "Those are all real identities. There are business cards and documents in the bag I brought. You can count them. I probably have more than two hundred identities."

As Su Enxi watched the policewoman receive more instructions from someone, she raised an eyebrow. "If you want me to provide specific information, the two of you should come out from behind the glass. Or do you really want me to explain the inside story to this officer?"

Thus, the interrogator was decisively replaced. When the door opened, the first person Su Enxi saw entering was Shirou Emiya... with Wa Lord on his back, glaring with hostility like a venomous snake ready to strike.

Oh no, she doesn't think the three of us came to seduce her man, does she?!