Dragon Raja: Dragon Slaying Begins with System Hosting

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The miniature alchemical matrix on his body still showed no visible damage, and at this rate, it should be able to keep him healthy for at least a year.

After the check was completed, I sat down on the sofa, and the system asked, "Have you been looking for a job lately?"

“Yes, I don’t want to trouble you too much, Lord Lu.” Sakurai Akira knew that Lord Lu had been paying attention to his actions, and nodded somewhat ashamedly, saying, “But I can’t find a job. They won’t hire me because I’m Japanese.”

He originally didn't want to trouble Lord Lu Mingfei.

But lacking professional skills, he tried to find ordinary jobs like cashier. However, his Chinese was somewhat broken, and coupled with his Japanese citizenship in his passport, he couldn't find even one job willing to let him try.

"I'll arrange your work. I'm here mainly to tell you something."

The system wasn't constantly monitoring his actions; it was mainly Su Enxi's people keeping an eye on him. After all, he was a dangerous mixed-race person who had been imprisoned for 15 years. Now he was free, but who knew if he had become a psychopath?

Fortunately, he doesn't seem to be heading in that direction. He has been behaving himself in China these past few days, without any outrageous behavior or tendency to stalk or molest pretty girls.

"The smuggler who helped you cross the sea on your previous smuggling route has been killed by someone else."

Looking at Sakurai Akira's astonished face, the system said, "The core members of the smuggling organization are not all dead. They just died on the ship the night you were smuggled in."

It didn't seem like a normal business dispute or a gang fight among Japanese yakuza; it looked more like revenge.

"Revenge...what?" he asked blankly.

“Retaliate by sending you out of Japan.” The system said calmly, “Japan is too far away from us, and we can’t interfere in the internal affairs of the Snake Clan. This is all we know for now, and we don’t know who did it.”

Akira Sakurai didn't say anything, but his heart was filled with complicated feelings.

Those smugglers were just doing their jobs for money; they never cheated him or threatened him along the way, so you could say they were incredibly trustworthy. Yet, because they were helping him leave Japan, a man who was alive and well just over ten days ago died...

Moreover, it's also a question of who is behind it all.

That thousand-year-old dragon bloodline family, the Snake Clan? Surely not...

"How well do you know your family, the Snake Clan?" the system asked him.

“Lord Lu, I don’t know much about my family.” Sakurai Akira shook his head and said, “My knowledge of my family comes from vague memories before I was five years old. I didn’t come into contact with any family information at the charity school.”

The only people I could contact were the family's law enforcement officers, but those officers were only responsible for monitoring my condition and reassuring me that I would be free when I turned 40; they didn't interact with me much beyond that.

“Law enforcement officer…” the system hesitated for a moment.

According to the information obtained from Su Enxi, the current situation in Japan is quite bewildering.

Among the mixed-race forces in Japan, the largest is the Snake-Headed Eight Families. Normal mixed-race individuals only belong to this one force, so the Snake-Headed Eight Families are responsible for overseeing all dragon blood incidents on Japanese soil.

The Snake-Headed Eight Family was absorbed by Kassel College during the chaos following the defeat in World War II, and Kassel College established the "Kassel College Japan Branch" in Japan.

In other words, theoretically, the Snake Clan has a five-star supreme ruler above them—the Japanese branch of Kassel College.

In terms of rank, the Snake Clan is under its jurisdiction.

However, Kassel College did not send a governor or, like the United States, send a large army to garrison its Japanese branch.

This led to the emergence of a powerful figure who changed the status quo after decades of internal strife within the Snake-Headed Eight Families—Tachibana Masamune.

He spent several years honing his skills at the Japanese branch of Kassel College, charging into the most dangerous front lines. With his outstanding achievements, he finally succeeded in becoming the head of the Snake-Headed Eight Families around 2000, reuniting the scattered Snake-Headed Eight Families into a cohesive force.

Under the leadership of Tachibana Masamune, the internally united Snake Clan successfully sidelined the retired emperor, the "Kassel College Japan Branch," effectively rendering him powerless and confining him to the position of retired emperor.

However, in Japan, the Snake Clan is not the only hybrid race power; in addition to normal hybrids, there are also dangerous hybrids.

Because the White King of the Snake Clan's bloodline is unstable, they have produced many demons with unstable bloodlines.

These demons spontaneously banded together for warmth, becoming a dangerous hybrid force against the hostile Snake-Headed Eight Families—the Fierce Demon Clan.

Chapter 89 Brother, let me see where your limits are.

"The Ghost Gang has made their move and killed some members of a human smuggling organization."

"What connection does this have with our family?"

"If I had to say, there is one. About ten days ago, a ghost named Sakurai Akira escaped from the Aoyama Charity School, which is used by the family to manage ghosts."

After escaping from the Qingshan Love School, he took a boat from this smuggling organization to China.

“Sakurai Akira?” Tachibana Masamune pondered for a moment. “You were investigating him before, weren’t you?”

Genjiro, who was standing in front of Tachibana Masamune's desk, nodded and said, "Yes, at first I also thought that he had been bewitched by the Oni Clan and escaped to join them. I investigated for a few days, but found that he had directly taken a boat and smuggled himself to China."

"Yes, I remember that."

Tachibana Masamune nodded and said, "There are quite a few ghosts who have defected from their families, but there are not many ghosts who immediately smuggled themselves out of Japan by ship after defecting from their families."

The method of managing dangerous mixed-race individuals through the Love School was not implemented after Tachibana Masamune became the patriarch, but was established by Inuyama He, the former most powerful person in the Snake Clan and head of the Japanese branch of Kassel College.

Before Tachibana Masamune took over the highest position in the Hebi family, the Hebi family was not without management, although it was a disorganized group. Once a member of the family was found to have a dangerous bloodline and was confirmed to be a demon, he would immediately send him to the charity school established by the family for examination.

Ghosts are often detected when they are only a few years old. Without external help, these ghosts who enter charity schools from a young age have almost no chance of smuggling themselves out of Japan.

Because they spend most of their time at the charity school, they have no way of contacting human smuggling organizations.

Japan is not a country where everyone illegally immigrates; ordinary people have no idea about the illegal immigration channels.

So even if some ghosts escape from the Love School and choose to leave Japan illegally, it's only after they've lived in society for a while and successfully accessed illegal immigration channels that they were able to leave Japan.

It is extremely rare for someone like Akira Sakurai to escape from a charity school and head straight for a smuggling port.

Even in the more than ten years since he returned to his family, there has never been such a special case.

Tachibana Masamune frowned: "I initially thought it was the work of the Oni Clan, or someone within the family..."

The demons are always around the Hebi-hisa family, an inescapable shadow. Demons are all related by blood to some extent, so it's not impossible that someone who knows Sakurai Akira might give him a way out.

Within the family, it's not impossible to give Sakurai Akira some conveniences and send him out.

But now the Demon Clan has turned around and killed the smugglers who helped Sakurai Akira leave Japan, which makes Sakurai Akira's situation very puzzling.

Who helped him successfully smuggle himself across the border is one question, and why the Demon Clan chased after Sakurai Akira's smuggling route is another...

"By the way, has Sakurai Akira's whereabouts in China been found?" he asked Genji.

Ke Yuanzhi gently shook his head and said, "I asked the people in the smuggling organization before, but Sakurai Akira didn't tell them his destination."

After the smuggling boat docked, he left alone, and no one paid attention to where he went.

Therefore, after Sakurai Akira landed in China, his family cut off all news about his whereabouts.

"It sounds like there might be some trouble and hidden dangers behind this?" Tachibana Masamune rubbed his temples with some annoyance.

If it were just one ghost escaping, that would be a minor matter; the Enforcement Bureau could simply hunt it down. But this ghost's relentless smuggling out of Japan clearly indicates that it received special treatment from someone...

Unable to figure out who was interfering in Japan's affairs, or what the mastermind's intentions were, he was somewhat troubled and confused, unable to think clearly.

After a moment of confusion, he asked Yuan Zhisheng, who had recently returned from the United States, "How are things going with the Enforcement Bureau?"

After awakening his bloodline, Genjiro underwent some training and was sent to Kassel College in the United States for further studies. He just finished his studies last year and returned home.

"It's alright, it's busy but I can still manage."

"It's good if you can adapt."

Looking at his handsome, somewhat effeminate face, Tachibana Masamune said, "You are Amaterasu no Mikoto of the Hebi-Hachi family. It is already the limit for me to revive the Hebi-Hachi family in this lifetime."

The heavy responsibility of making the Snake Clan great again rests on your shoulders.

Genji heard his words but did not respond, maintaining his usual silence outside of work.

……

Sze Lan Secondary School is not the kind of school that cuts back on students' holidays or has a high-pressure learning environment, so the winter break is given on time.

Lu Mingfei's company, which only has five people including child laborer Panpan and new employee Sakurai Akira, put on a very impressive year-end team building event—a trip to Japan.

Of course, they certainly wouldn't land at the airport through the proper channels. Passing through customs would leave traces of their personal information. The Snake Clan is a powerful force in Japan, and if their identities were discovered, it would be quite easy to extract their information from customs.

In the 20 days before the holiday, they did more than just do nothing. Chu Zihang, whose swordsmanship was nearing completion, took charge of teaching Sakurai Akira and Xia Mi swordsmanship.

However, Xia Mi was clever and eager to learn. In just two days, she figured out Chu Zihang's sword techniques and successfully graduated from her apprenticeship.

All that was left was Sakurai Akira, who toiled away practicing his sword every day.

Panpan used Samadhi Fire to forge several alchemical weapons to equip them.

Lu Mingfei was responsible for overseeing the overall situation.

"Boss, why don't you learn a few tricks from Senior Chu Zihang?" Xia Mi glanced at Lu Mingfei.

Upon hearing her words, Sakurai Akira immediately stepped forward to defend Lu Mingfei, who had seemed to be slacking off, saying, "There's an old Chinese saying that goes, 'Planning strategies within the tent leads to victory a thousand miles away.' Lord Lu doesn't need to learn these things; I will protect you by your side!"

When faced with this question, Lu Mingfei didn't act aloof. After four months of getting to know Xia Mi, he and Xia Mi had become quite close, and there was no awkwardness at all when Xia Mi suddenly appeared in his life.

The main thing is that Xia Mi really does suddenly appear in his daily life, just like on New Year's Eve.

If it weren't for the other girls holding them back, and the system being afraid of being welded to Xia Mi's car, they might all be sleeping in the same house.

"I am not a combat-type hybrid. I have no problem dealing with ordinary people, but I have no chance of survival against hybrids. Using their weaknesses to attack their strengths is a waste of time."

This was the excuse the system used to cover things up. Fortunately, bloodlines don't enhance every hybrid, which gave it the opportunity to find this excuse.

The system looked at the eager Panpan and said, "Panpan, you'll be living with someone else for a while from now on."

"what?"

Preparing to go to Japan, Panpan's originally cute and excited face immediately fell.

After spending these past few days with her, she has also put away her caution and wariness towards her beloved brother Lu Mingfei, and her face now shows the same happiness and joy as that of her peers.

In order to go to Japan with them, she tried her best to create exquisite alchemical weapons. Unfortunately, none of them could surpass the counterfeit Murasame she had tried to create under the guidance of her brother Lu Mingfei.

Lu Mingfei ruffled her little head, turning her neatly combed hair into a messy bird's nest: "You're still too young and don't have the ability to deal with danger. Staying with us will only be a burden."

"Once we've subjugated the Snake Clan and can ensure your safety there, I promise I'll take you there to play."

"But I just wanted to help you brothers!" Panpan's little mouth was very good at speaking.

"Sweetie, when we get back, you can stay with Sister Su Enxi and the others for a while. Don't be afraid while you're staying with them. Just make yourself at home and don't be shy," Lu Mingfei comforted the little girl.

Panpan's little mouth pursed, and she didn't say anything more.

"Oh dear!" Xia Mi picked her up and ruffled her already messy hair, saying, "It's not like we're not coming back. When you're a little older and have the ability to handle unexpected risks on your own, we'll definitely take you with us."

"Let's pinky swear." Panpan stretched out her little hand.

"Hang yourself on a hook and you won't be able to change it for a hundred years."

After Xia Mi made a pinky promise with her, she looked at Lu Mingfei, who had been silent and trying to hide.