Aggrieved and Frustrated, Uraraka Shige Probed for Answers and Got the Information He Wanted
The sky began to darken once again.
In a soon-to-be-abandoned orphanage, a group of children who looked quite young stood in a row, bowing earnestly to a boy who appeared to be about the same age as them.
I'm so sorry!
I'm so sorry!
These guys apologizing were the Kaito mistook Uraraka Shige for Minato, ambushed him, and tied him up.
And the guy accepting their apologies was none other than Uraraka Shige.
"Never mind... since it was all a misunderstanding..."
Uraraka Shige accepted the apologies from these guys.
Actually, Uraraka Shige was quite unwilling, after all, he was tackled and knocked unconscious for no reason, his hands and feet were tied to a chair, and he was even doused with a bucket of cold water.
He was naturally filled with resentment and simmering anger.
However, these guys looked quite young, were very sincere, and had the advantage in numbers.
Therefore, it's really not appropriate for Uraraka Shige to directly refuse these guys' apologies or do something like returning a bucket of cold water to each of them.
Even though he had accepted their apologies, Uraraka Shige sense of grievance and pent-up anger, which he had nowhere to vent and could only bottle up inside. Of course, he was unwilling to accept this.
However, given the current situation, he couldn't very well retaliate by doing something to these guys who had sincerely apologized to him in order to vent his anger.
After much thought, Uraraka Shige suddenly wanted to know why she had been inexplicably attacked by these people.
He suddenly spoke up, directly questioning these guys.
"But why exactly did you arrest me?"
The group of men stood up, then looked at each other, their expressions somewhat bewildered. Finally, it was the Kaito looked almost exactly like Uraraka Shige, the 'Minato,' who asked Uraraka Shige a question in return.
"Speaking of which... you actually came from that office building, right?"
Uraraka Shige slightly taken aback. He hadn't expected this guy who looked just like him to ask him a question, especially about the office building. This made him subconsciously start to let his thoughts wander and try to make connections and think.
Why would he ask, "What's wrong with which office building I came from?" Could it be that the reason I was ambushed by these guys was because I came from that office building?
Thinking of this, Uraraka Shige suddenly had a new question.
My joining that office building was related to the Zōti Doctor, and also to my own goals. Moreover, based on the Zōti Doctor's words, I had deduced that the criminal gang in that office building was hiding something unspeakable.
So, when this guy named Kaito asked himself this question, was his ultimate intention related to that Zōti Doctor, or to that office building?
Uraraka Shige was only thinking silently in his heart. But his outward demeanor was as if he had suddenly become absent-minded and lost in thought after hearing the question from the guy named Kaito, who looked exactly like him.
It was precisely based on this that the guy named Kaito was able to roughly guess what thoughts or doubts Uraraka Shige was having at this moment.
So this guy named Kaito, who looked almost exactly like Uraraka Shige, quickly spoke up to dispel Uraraka Shige 'Uraraka Shige doubts and resolve his confusion.
"Don't worry, we don't intend to do anything to you, nor do we necessarily want to get any information from you... it's just..."
It seemed that there was something else hidden in what Kaito wanted to say, so they hesitated for a moment before speaking out completely.
However, perhaps because he saw that Uraraka Shige was not very old and looked very similar to himself, he eventually told Uraraka Shige.
"That office building definitely has problems... the guys there are all bad people!"
Although what he said wasn't very clear, all he told Uraraka Shige was, "They are all bad people."
However, one thing is very obvious.
This guy named Kaito didn't lie at all.
His statement that "the guys in that office building are all bad people" is an undeniable fact, whether from the perspective of this Kaito named Kaito or from the other guys who mistook Uraraka Shige for Kaito and tied him up, or even poured cold water on him.
You could tell from the fact that those guys who mistook Uraraka Shige for someone else Kaito finished speaking...
However, their words did not quell Uraraka Shige's anger. But Uraraka Shige did not show it. Instead, he changed his focus and suddenly had the thought, 'These guys seem to know something about that office building. I wonder if I can find out some information from them.'
So Uraraka Shige probed the matter with his words.
"A bad guy? But that person covered in green scales, who looked like a Gecko man, was actually quite nice to me. He looked scary, but he didn't yell at me."
"And then there's that big cricket with the black-rimmed glasses. He's a bit aloof, but the work he assigned me was just things like serving tea and water—very easy jobs... It's just that to avoid being seen as child labor, he doesn't pay me wages or provide lunch..."
Uraraka Shige tried to conceal his true self, creating a persona of "just a silly kid" in the eyes of these guys, so that even if he directly probed them with words, he wouldn't arouse suspicion.
"I see. You just joined there?"
However, Uraraka Shige's actions did not bring him the information he wanted. Instead, it allowed this guy named Kaito to deduce that Uraraka Shige had only recently joined that office building.
The reason why Kaito made this judgment...
"You have absolutely no idea what's going on there behind the scenes."
This was because of Uraraka Shige's description of those two guys, and what Uraraka Shige said about the 'job' those two guys assigned him...
"You might even be their new target!"
And Kaito is based on what people think about the criminal gangs that have taken over the office building.
Immediately, the Kaito who looked exactly like Uraraka Shige focused his gaze on Uraraka Shige's face, which was identical to his own, and slowly revealed the information that Uraraka Shige wanted to find out.
"After all... that's the hideout of an organization that specializes in trafficking children's organs!"