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Chapter 11 - Chapter 11 - Determination

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 "A-Are you sure about that?" Atsushi asked back shakingly.

Arturo then nodded. "Yes, I'll do my best to counteract these guys."

Seeing that, Atsushi and Dazai now knew Arturo's determination.

 By lunchtime, Arturo went to buy some lunch for himself at a local convenience store nearby. There he started to choose a meal set of ready-to-eat food that only needed a microwave to heat and cook them in just a few minutes. And then, a young man with orange hair and a black hat came in to purchase a quick lunch. He went to the same aisle as Arturo while he was still considering what to have for lunch. Arturo chose a ready-to-eat meal that only needed to be heated in a microwave to be eaten. It was a rice meal with pork tonkatsu that were fresh, cooked, and ready to be reheated and eaten. Seeing what the foreign student just took from the shelf, the young man with orange hair, Chuuya Nakahara, commented, "You're eating that?"

Arturo heard that and looked at Chuuya. "Yes, I liked eating that. Why?"

 "That was an odd food as a choice," Chuuya responded while scouting for some wine advisor surroundings.

At this point, Arturo had no idea who he was or whom he was working for and just grabbed his purchase.

He was about to leave the scene when Chuuya busted out a question. "Hey, youngster, do you know about the Armed Detectives Agency?"

This startled Arturo, and he stopped on his tracks and turned around. "What?"

 "Do you know about the Armed Detectives Agency?" Chuuya repeated.

Now suspicious of his motive and affiliation, Arturo eventually lied that he did not.

 Luckily for him, Chuuya buys it and lets it slide without more questions on him. As Chuuya continued on his search for wines, Arturo went to the counter to pay for his meal and drink (a bottle of Iced tea) and had his meal reheated in a microwave. Once these were done, Arturo left off and hurriedly went back to the Agency to eat his lunch there.

 Meanwhile, back at the Agency, Atsushi was worried for Arturo's safety despite Arturo saying that he will be back in less than an hour. Dazai tries to convince him to worry about his work rather than someone who claimed to be his long-lost relative.

 "Dazai-san!" Atsushi turned to Dazai. "Akutagawa-san abducted and attacked him once! What if he does that again outside?"

 And then, much to Atsushi's relief, Arturo returned with his bought lunch and settled in the Agency's breakroom to eat his meal. After he did a prayer and a prayerful "Itadakimasu", he ate up, tasting the microwave-heated food and drinking his drink with goodness in his heart. Atsushi and others in the Agency are now in a lunch time. Kunikida walked up to Arturo and stated his concerns that his defense for Atsushi and the Agency might interrupt his study time. But Arturo said to him, "It's fine, Kunikida-san, I'll rather do something noble even if it means I have to do my studies on the go with my phone and laptop."

Dazai, ever the idiot, applauded his counterstatement. "Oh! Such a noble man, Byeon-san. Bravo! Bravo!"

While Kunikida struck Dazai's head with his "Ideals" notebook, Arturo was quite confused by Dazai's behavior, yet he, on the inside, remained determined to counteract the Port Mafia from and for attacking the Agency.

 

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