Chapter 89: Do You Use Your Right Hand for That?
The next day,
Jake and Murano Satomi emerged from her bedroom.
Throughout the night, Jake hadn't just been intimate with her; he'd given a comprehensive overview of the parasites, and Murano Satomi had finally grasped the terror they posed.
Despite being born in the world's largest manga empire, Murano Satomi wasn't a big fan of anime or manga, so when this absurd scenario unfolded in her world, she felt incredibly frustrated and afraid.
The parasites were disguised so perfectly; one wrong move and she'd be dead.
If it weren't for Jake's appearance, she might have been in despair.
"Don't worry, I'll protect you, and then wipe them all out."
This wasn't boasting. After the last battle, Jake had a general understanding of the parasites' fighting style.
Next time, he was confident he could take down an ordinary parasite in one move.
Even the final boss—he was confident in his ability to fight him, relying on his combat suit and fighting techniques.
After leaving the room, Murano Satomi's family had already gone to work.
The two ate something on their way to school, and accompanied by Jake, Murano Satomi arrived at her school.
Jake had told her that her best friend, Izumi Shinichi, had also been parasitized, but not in the brain; his right hand was the parasite.
Therefore, she asked Jake to help her friend.
Come to think of it, it was Jake who ended up with Izumi Shinichi's would-be girlfriend.
At the school gate, Jake and Murano Satomi parted ways. This school was quite strict, and it was difficult for outsiders to enter, but this didn't stop him. He walked to a secluded corner.
Under the wall, after making sure no one was around, he pushed off with both feet and ran up the wall!
Thud
His feet landed lightly.
Easily vaulting over the wall, Jake straightened his clothes and continued walking into the school.
At the agreed-upon place, in front of the large stone statue in the center of the school courtyard, Jake and Murano Satomi met.
Standing next to Murano Satomi was a very innocent-looking girl with a short ponytail. In the original story, this girl was cut in half at the waist by a parasite.
"Satomi, is this your boyfriend?" The girl, clinging to Murano Satomi's arm, glanced at Jake and asked in a mock whisper, but her voice was loud enough for someone five or six meters away to hear. "I didn't expect him to be so handsome—willing to climb over the wall for you!"
"Yuko!" Murano Satomi slapped away her best friend's hand, walked over to Jake, and said, "Let's go to the library. Many classmates say he spends all his time there."
"Okay," Jake nodded, then, in front of a group of students, he put his arm around Murano Satomi's waist. "Let's go."
"Don't do this… it's very embarrassing if our classmates see us," Murano Satomi protested weakly, but her strength was no match for Jake's, and she could only let him guide her along.
"Wow~, I won't bother you anymore!" The girl with the short ponytail squealed, cupped her face in her hands, winked at Murano Satomi, and ran away giggling.
It wasn't that Jake had suddenly become domineering; it was just that the short-ponytail girl was clearly unsuitable for this conversation, and getting rid of her in the simplest way was the best course of action.
In the school library, Jake saw Izumi Shinichi with dozens of books in front of him. His right index finger was pointing at the pages, a strange gesture, as if he wasn't reading the contents himself, but rather showing them to his right index finger.
Other students passing by gave him an odd look before walking away with mild disdain.
Jake, seeing this, knew that this was the parasite that had successfully taken over Izumi Shinichi's right hand, frantically absorbing knowledge.
From being unable to speak to quickly mastering multiple languages, parasites were truly remarkable creatures.
"Don't keep studying like that, it'll be trouble if someone sees you," Izumi Shinichi said in a low voice to his right hand.
And then a voice replied from his right hand, "Who told you to never study anything and have nothing useful in your head?"
Izumi Shinichi blushed. He was usually a lazy, academically mediocre person, and being called out like that made him feel embarrassed. "Stop nagging!"
"I'm doing this to better understand your society. Gathering information is necessary."
"Why does it feel like my right hand is smarter than my brain?" Izumi Shinichi complained unhappily.
"But you should also be glad, shouldn't you?"
Izumi Shinichi nodded in deep agreement. "That's true."
Suddenly, he froze. The voice didn't seem to be coming from his right hand, but from right in front of him...
He looked up and saw a familiar figure standing before him—the man in the black suit from before.
"We meet again, Izumi Shinichi."
Shinichi didn't respond, but nervously raised his right hand, cautiously saying, "Quick, check if he's a parasite!"
"I'm a perfectly normal human," Jake sighed helplessly. Without experiencing his mother being parasitized and the subsequent events, Shinichi at this moment was more like an inexperienced newcomer to this supernatural world, far from the level he would later reach.
Sure enough, his right hand immediately provided the answer: "I don't sense anything unusual about him. He's human."
"A human," Shinichi breathed a sigh of relief.
Before Migi fully woke up, Jake had appeared and accurately told him that there was something wrong with his right hand. After Migi woke up, he also told him that parasites could sense each other.
That's why Shinichi suspected Jake was also a parasite.
"But if you're not a parasite, then who are you?!"
Then Jake repeated what he had told Murano Satomi to Migi and Shinichi, focusing particularly on Migi.
"This feels like something out of a manga," Shinichi couldn't help but retort.
Jake countered with, "Does what's happening to you right now feel like something out of a manga?"
This question immediately stumped him.
"Migi, what do you think?" Now, Izumi Shinichi's support had shifted to Migi.
The eye on his right index finger rolled around before saying, "We can agree to their proposal. Parasites don't normally fight each other, but it will be difficult for this special entity formed by you and me to survive."
"Only by eliminating all those hostile parasites can we survive."
"That's right." Seeing Migi agree to his proposal, Jake continued, "And all you have to do is act as my radar, helping me find targets. There's absolutely no danger."
"So you agreed?" Izumi Shinichi looked at his right hand suspiciously. "His words seem very suspicious."
"No, according to my calculations, this method has a greater chance of survival."
"You're my right hand, you should follow my thoughts,"
Migi retorted. "I'm just trying to survive, not serve your brain."
Then Migi turned to Jake and said, "You should show me your strength, otherwise I can't believe what you're saying."
"You'll see."
"By the way," Jake asked Izumi Shinichi, "Have you done anything... interesting with your right hand?"
Parasites can transform into almost anything, so even imitating certain objects to help Izumi Shinichi with his 'personal activities' wouldn't be impossible.
"How could that be!" Izumi Shinichi retorted, his face flushed red.
"I'm quite interested in that kind of thing," Migi said bluntly. As a new life form, he wanted to understand this world and human society. "And, speaking of those things, Shinichi, your blood flow is getting a little faster. Do you really want to try it?"
"N-No way!!"
Faced with a completely honest right hand, even a hormonal teenager had no defense.
...
Clearly, it was impossible for Izumi Shinichi to continue attending classes.
The two of them and Migi escaped from the school.
Guided by Migi, Jake quickly found a parasite. To the stunned disbelief of Shinichi and his right hand, Jake demonstrated his superb gun-fu techniques, showing them how wise it was to cooperate with him.
With a series of skillful movements, bullets spun and struck the parasite in the heart.
His movements were as graceful as a dance, so much so that Migi was full of praise for Jake's gun-fu.
After dealing with the parasite, Jake used the excuse of cleaning up the scene to send Shinichi and Migi away before taking the corpse and beginning his journey through dimensions.
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