During the ti spent waiting at the Lungman Guard Departnt, Shirou did not remain idle either. After all, when everyone around him was busy, it felt a little awkward for him alone to have nothing to do.
If it were the Penguin Logistics crew here instead, they would probably be casually eating apple pie while hanging around.
Speaking of Penguin Logistics, after dealing with the people earlier, the group had dumped everything onto the office and the Lungman Guard Departnt to handle afterward, claiming that they only provided manpower and were not responsible for cleanup.
Originally, they had planned to visit Shirou before returning to the dorms and lecture him a bit about how wonderful Penguin Logistics was. But when they turned around, they discovered he had already returned to the Lungman Guard Departnt.
Fine then. Judging from the situation, things seed pretty serious this ti, so they would temporarily let the Lungman Guard Departnt off the hook.
Exusiai silently put away her specially-made explosives, along with the urge to blow up the Lungman Guard Departnt restroom pipes.
Through the text ssages alone, Shirou could feel exactly what everyone was worried about. Still, all he could say was that they were overthinking things.
It was not as if he had never tried explaining it before. However, everyone was still self-aware enough to know that Shirou had good compatibility with Lungman Guard Departnt.
After all, although Shirou could be sowhat sly underneath, overall he was far too upright.
Besides, the four of them already matched the colors red, blue, yellow, and green closely enough to form a colorful sentai team… and that happened to be one of the few television programs Shirou would actually watch together with everyone.
On top of that, they had also heard that Officer Chen's previous partner in the Lungman Guard Departnt had red hair…
Overall, danger!
Once they returned, they absolutely had to properly persuade their boss not to let Shirou deepen his relationship with the Lungman Guard Departnt any further! At this rate, they were going to lose Mama Shirou!
After all, the last ti he went away for a week, the entire dorm had nearly turned into a garbage dump!
They did not want to experience those days of worrying about what to eat for all three als again!
With thoughts like that in mind, the group continuously tagged Shirou in the group chat while sending all sorts of incomprehensible ssages.
Unfortunately, Shirou never saw the later ssages they sent. Chen had dragged him away, saying they needed to conduct a tactical discussion before the operation. At a ti like this, anyone caught using a phone would receive Chen's death glare.
Not only Shirou, even Swire was treated the sa way. As for Hoshiguma, she was already very self-aware in this regard, so there were no problems there.
"Just find a seat and sit down. It is only the few of us here."
Inside the small eting room, Chen pointed at an empty seat as soon as she saw Shirou walk in.
After hearing her words, Shirou briefly scanned the room. Aside from Officer Chen, Hoshiguma and Swire were also present. They really were all familiar faces.
"Have you found anything already?"
Pulling over a chair and sitting down, Shirou asked about the situation.
While using his phone earlier, he had not seen any ssages from Yith. However, he could not rule out the possibility that Yith had contacted Officer Chen directly.
"We have not found evidence of their cris yet. However, Swire has already used her connections to confirm that they really were transporting Infected out of the city. That matches the information provided by your informant."
Chen first shook her head before explaining why they were organizing this tactical discussion.
"It is all here."
The mont Chen finished speaking, Swire operated her phone and connected it to the eting room screen.
This was mainly for Shirou and Hoshiguma to see. She and Chen had already briefly reviewed everything beforehand.
As for the source of the information, she was very confident in it.
"This is…"
Looking at the photos and videos displayed on the screen, Shirou frowned.
There was nothing wrong with the photos themselves. The main issue was that he recognized the person in the video files.
It was soone from the Lungman Guard Departnt. If Shirou rembered correctly, the man should have been responsible for Lungn's import and export checkpoints.
"So he took bribes, huh? I did not expect you to find him and get him to talk so quickly, Missy."
After briefly scanning the contents on the screen, Hoshiguma quickly figured out where the evidence had co from.
"It was suggested by Yith from Penguin Logistics. He said that if prohibited goods were being transported in and out, then there had to be an agreent with the people managing the checkpoints."
Swire did not take all the credit for herself. Rather, she seed to be in a bad mood because soone on their own side had turned out to be compromised.
At this mont, Shirou no longer saw the confident look she had earlier.
"The man cooperated very willingly. He might genuinely not have known what those people were doing… but negligence of duty is still negligence of duty, so he has already been detained."
Seeing Swire's depressed mood, Chen surprisingly offered so comforting words.
The sight left both Hoshiguma and Shirou staring at her in shock.
"Next, let us go over the operation plan. Once Penguin Logistics obtains the key evidence, we will move out imdiately."
Seemingly noticing the strange looks from the three of them, Chen slapped the table in front of her and forcefully changed the topic.
Sure, she might usually seem cold and unapproachable, but she still occasionally cared about the people around her, alright? Why were they looking at her like she was so kind of rare animal?
Keeping a stiff expression on her face, Chen switched the photos and videos on the screen to a map of Lungn's city district and enlarged one particular area.
At the center of it stood the Iron Bull Logistics building.
"Is it just us?"
After noticing that there really seed to be only four people present, Shirou asked.
Under normal circumstances, the captains of the various squads should have been here too. So why were there only the four of them this ti?
Earlier, Shirou had thought he simply arrived early and the others had not yet shown up.
But judging from the fact that Chen was already about to begin the tactical discussion, it really did seem like there were only four people.
"Everyone else is outside! This is just a simple preliminary discussion first."
Hearing Shirou's question, Hoshiguma explained.
"Hoshiguma is right. Right now, we only need to discuss the rough outline first. Char Siu Cat and Hoshiguma both have their own squads. As for you, Shirou… can you lead the sniper squad?"
After nodding in agreent with Hoshiguma's words, Chen turned to Shirou and asked.
The main reason she asked was because, among the people here, Shirou seed to be the only one who could spare the attention necessary to lead the sniper squad.
She and Char Siu Cat probably could do it as well, but having Shirou take charge would make things much more convenient.
After all, in the hearts of anyone who used bows, crossbows, or guns, Shirou already occupied an unshakable position.
Shirou: "?"
A giant question mark practically appeared above Shirou's head after hearing Chen's words.
"Officer Chen, calm down. leading a squad is impossible, alright? I do not have any related experience."
At this mont, Shirou believed that Chen's ntal condition might have suffered due to several days of intense overti work combined with the onset of Oripathy, which was why she proposed such an outrageous suggestion.
He genuinely had no experience!
And ordinary people obviously could not keep up with his movents. In the end, it would probably turn into the sa situation as the operations over the past two days, where he fought alone at the front while everyone else cleaned up behind him.
If that happened, it would honestly be better for him to operate independently. At least then he could guarantee his own support speed.
"I was only making a suggestion. Since it will not work, then Swire will continue commanding them instead. As for you, Shirou… standby on top of this building and provide sniper support."
Seeing how firmly Shirou rejected the idea, Chen had no intention of trying to persuade him further.
There would be plenty of ti in the future. She could let Shirou slowly get used to these things.
"Not joining the assault team?"
After successfully convincing Chen, Shirou let out a slight sigh of relief. After all, leading a squad ant taking responsibility for the lives and safety of those people, which was quite stressful.
However, when he heard that Chen intended to station him alone atop a building five hundred ters away as sniper support, he still felt sowhat puzzled.
If he joined the assault team directly, operations would obviously beco much more flexible. That much had already been proven through the operations he had participated in recently.
By now, he had fully accepted his role in combat.
He was basically an all-purpose solution. Whenever an ergency situation occurred, people could simply throw him at the problem and he would solve most of it.
Yet now, Chen only intended for him to serve as ranged support. In that case, the help he could provide would be reduced significantly.
"I am worried that the enemy might have backup plans in place. If you stay outside, it will also be easier for you to deal with those situations."
Chen also knew that having Shirou join the assault directly would be more convenient. However, she had to consider the possibility that these people had already planted additional contingencies throughout Lungn's city district, suburbs, and slums.
After all, there had already been previous incidents involving large numbers of drones and buried Originium explosives.
So she had no choice but to take those factors into consideration first.
If Shirou remained outside, then with his abilities he would be able to handle those troubleso situations effectively as well.
"And for the assault itself, having us there is enough. We are still professionals when it cos to this kind of work."
Worried that Shirou might overthink things, Swire added that sentence.
"I understand."
After hearing everyone's reasoning, Shirou found it very reasonable.
If problems arose elsewhere, he really could provide support very quickly. It had to be said that they had thought this through quite thoroughly.
Unlike him, whose mind only focused on charging straight in and overturning the enemy's entire operation through brute force.
"Good. I will also give you the authority to mobilize personnel. If sothing really happens, you can command those people to help handle it."
After seeing Shirou agree to it, Chen continued speaking.
"Mm, as for the slums, I will leave them to Rhodes Island and Miss Lin Yuhsia?"
Shirou did not refuse. He simply added another sentence after thinking about the relationship between the Lungman Guard Departnt and the slums.
"That is fine. I already inford them beforehand."
Naturally, Chen had already considered this as well. If sothing really happened in the slums, it would indeed be difficult for the Lungman Guard Departnt to intervene directly, so she had already sent ssages and inford the relevant people earlier.
After that, the discussion among the three beca extrely lively, leaving Shirou with no room to participate.
Which was perfectly normal. He had never studied these kinds of things in the first place. Almost all of his combat thods relied on overwhelming force.
If it were a simplified operation plan, perhaps he could still understand it. But all these coordinates, positions, ambush points, and attack thods… he genuinely could not follow any of it.
The others also seed to realize this problem, so they let Shirou leave first. They said he should go check on Yith's progress instead. It would apparently be sowhat inappropriate for them to personally pressure him for updates.
"Mm… then I will head over there first and check the situation? Penguin Logistics is currently returning from the slums anyway, so I can ask them to give a ride."
After being kicked out of the eting room, Shirou took out his phone and suddenly thought of sothing. He stuck his head back into the eting room and asked.
Having soone else specifically drive him there seed like too much trouble for others. Since Penguin Logistics was already on their way back, he could just trouble them instead.
"Handle it however you see fit," Chen said.
"You can bring them along too. This operation was commissioned to Penguin Logistics anyway. Having more people helping is not a bad thing."
Swire added from the side. She could be said to welco outside assistance wholeheartedly. And after hearing Swire's words, Chen did not say anything, clearly indicating her tacit approval.
After all, their suggestion of assigning personnel to Shirou had already been rejected. Under these circumstances, it was better for him to have at least so support.
Besides, Shirou was originally part of Penguin Logistics anyway, so there should not be any issues with him operating together with them.
"Understood."
After understanding Swire's intentions, Shirou made a gesture indicating there was no problem and left, conveniently closing the eting room door behind him.
While walking down the hallway, Shirou took out his phone and called Sora.
Explaining things to the other two would have been more troubleso, and Texas was driving right now, so Sora was the most suitable person to contact.
"Shirou?"
The call was quickly answered, and Sora's voice ca through the phone.
"It is . Where are you guys right now?"
"We just entered the city district. What is wrong?"
"It is just…"
After confirming their location, Shirou roughly explained the situation on his side and asked them to take him along for the trip.
"The others said there is no problem. We are heading over right now. We should arrive in a few minutes."
After hearing Shirou's explanation, Sora imdiately asked her teammates for their opinions and received unanimous agreent.
A rare chance to act together with Shirou! A request personally made by Shirou! And it was also an Lungman Guard Departnt commission! Most importantly of all, the there were competitors!
With all those buffs stacked together, the group's fighting spirit instantly reached its peak.
Especially for a certain soone who had been thinking earlier about using explosives to blow up the Lungman Guard Departnt. She was even more enthusiastic than the others.
After all, cooperating with the Lungman Guard Departnt ant ammunition expenses could be reimbursed! How could she possibly miss an opportunity like that?
"Alright. I am already waiting at the entrance."
After hearing Sora's response, Shirou inford them of his current location. Not long afterward, he saw a vehicle bearing the Penguin Logistics logo charging toward him at extrely high speed.
This ti, they were operating as official partners of the Lungman Guard Departnt, so their driving speed was slightly faster than usual.
"Let's go, let's go! I did not expect this year's Rembrance day to be this lively!"
The mont the vehicle stopped, Shirou saw Croissant stick her head out and wave toward him enthusiastically, clearly full of anticipation for the operation.
"…"
How should he put it?
It really did fit Penguin Logistics' love for excitent and causing trouble.
Although maintaining this kind of mindset under circumstances like these…
Well, he probably needed to get used to Penguin Logistics' style of doing things already.
After all, when things truly beca serious, the group would still face them properly. So he was not particularly worried.
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