Chapter 211: A Shocking Fact (4)

“Is that so? Then, Mr. Amagi, please get started.”

As she spoke, Crepes Clair handed the USB drive in her hand to Ryuto.

“...Just to ask, is there Wi-Fi here?”

“Of course. The Flosius Detached Palace has Wi-Fi throughout.”

“Heh, I see...”

Why did they have to have internet? He’d thought he could use the lack of a connection as an excuse for not being able to do it, but now he was out of options. Ryuto could only accept his fate.

He plugged in the USB drive and pressed the power button.

Before he knew it, the system had booted.

Damn, instant boot. My own junk PC takes over two minutes to start up—it’s on its knees in shame.

As Ryuto marveled at this, Katsuragi Reimi watched his every move intently.

A password like this would be no problem at all for Dark Men, who could easily crack the password to a police station vault and create composite images in real time. And if you, Amagi Ryuto, can crack it just as easily, then you won’t have much room to deny it later. It’s not conclusive proof, but if you put it together with everything else, there shouldn’t be any other possibility.

Besides, there’s no point in pretending. If you’re Dark Men, then whether something looks incredibly simple or incredibly difficult to an ordinary person makes no difference to you. It’s all just basic arithmetic—or so simple you don’t even have to think about it.

And since you have no concept of difficulty and everything is easy for you, you can’t tell the difference between what ordinary people consider difficult and what they consider simple. So if you deliberately pretend you can’t handle a particular part, you might get away with it if you’re lucky, but... if you fail at something simple and then breeze through something difficult, you’ll only expose yourself. You know that better than anyone, don’t you? So what are you going to do now, Dark Men?!

Watching Ryuto turn on the computer, Katsuragi Reimi worked all this out in her mind.

But the next moment...

“Huh?”

She couldn’t help letting out a startled cry, then stepped forward and asked,

“What’s this...?”

“This is a personal page.”

“I know that. I’m asking why you opened your personal page. Weren’t you supposed to crack the password?”

“Well... I can’t crack the password, so I have to ask someone for help.”

“Someone?”

What was going on? He had no reason to ask anyone for help, but this...

...here...

What exactly was he after? What trick was he pulling?

So Katsuragi Reimi could only stand by and quietly watch Ryuto work.

Meanwhile, Ryuto calmly opened someone’s personal page, and then...

“This is...”

Seeing who owned the page, Katsuragi Reimi couldn’t help letting out a startled cry.

“Yeah. That’s the username of the person who owns this page.”

“God of ACG. He’s...”

“Just an ordinary friend.”

Ryuto replied with an awkward smile.

Still, visiting your own personal page while pretending to be a stranger was...

...pretty awkward. But he had no choice but to keep making things up.

“Well, to be precise, we met while playing a game. Man, that guy’s gaming skills are incredible.”

“That’s beside the point. Why are you visiting his personal site? Weren’t you supposed to crack the password? Can he help you?”

“Actually, he’s not just great at games. He’s also really good with computers.”

“So that’s why you want to ask him for help?”

“Yeah, exactly.”

“But it looks like he’s not here. Gray means he’s offline, right?”

Katsuragi Reimi said, looking at the page owner’s gray icon.