Lu Mingfei doesn't want to be a superhero

Chapter 369: The “Real” Tachibana Masamune, Black Swan Harbor and the Will of the God King
Genji Heavy Industries, inside the interrogation room.

Seeing Lu Mingfei draw out the long sword that was glowing with a faint yellow light, Tachibana Masamune forced himself to hold back his facial features.

He really couldn't understand the point of Lu Mingfei drawing his sword now. Whether he wanted to kill him or to intimidate him again, he didn't need a sword.

And why is this sword...glowing? Is it some kind of alchemical weapon?

Just as a few thoughts quickly flashed through Tachibana Masamune's mind, a yellow light flashed before his eyes, and he saw that the sword in Lu Mingfei's hand had pierced straight into his heart.

But Tachibana Masamune did not feel any pain at all. He just felt a black screen in front of his eyes and then lost consciousness.

Looking at the empty eyes of Tachibana Masamune, Lu Mingfei held the Silver Oak Sword and narrowed his eyes slightly.

He is using the power of the Silver Oak Sword to probe into Tachibana Masamune's mind.

He had previously noticed that there were three personalities in Tachibana Masamune's body, one bright and two dark. However, because he had not specifically learned spiritual magic, it was difficult for him to detect it directly. Now, using the power of the Mind Stone in the Silver Oak Sword, it was basically equivalent to giving Tachibana Masamune a spiritual X-ray scan.

"Let me see how many faces you have!" Lu Mingfei held the Silver Oak Sword and closed his eyes slightly.

Immediately he showed a surprised expression.

Although it is not very common for people or intelligent life to have a hidden personality, it is by no means a rare event. Just as everyone has some unhealthy areas in psychology, this kind of hidden personality is nothing more than a subconscious struggle for some reason that leads to the splitting of a certain personality prototype.

To put it more bluntly, this is a precursor to schizophrenia, but it is still a long way from true schizophrenia. If schizophrenia is likened to "being seriously ill", then Tachibana Masamune's condition is at most "a little malnourished".

This level of personality prototype will hardly affect the main personality - for example, Lu Mingfei had long suspected that someone like the principal, who had the flame of hatred burning in his heart, actually had two personalities, one bright and one dark. The bright personality was an iron-blooded dragon slayer, and the secondary personality was a vengeful evil spirit. The former could give everything he had to slay the dragon but would never do something that was completely beyond the moral bottom line, while the latter would not mind any price as long as it could destroy the dragon clan, and would not hesitate even if it meant letting all mankind and the dragon clan perish together.

There is no doubt that the principal's dark personality is completely overwhelmed by the bright personality, and it is not even the prototype of the personality. Although the hatred is still there, it will not really affect the main personality.

A similar situation happened to Tachibana Masamune. The dark personality could not affect the bright personality, but what Lu Mingfei never expected was that this personality of Tachibana Masamune was the one hidden in the dark!
Or to put it another way, "Masamune Tachibana" is actually played out by the main personality of this body. Because he played the role for such a long time and so vividly, the prototype of the personality of "Masamune Tachibana" gradually split out in the depths of his heart.

In other words, the old man in front of him first fabricated a false identity of "Masamune Tachibana", and then played the role for decades. In the end, because he was too immersed in the role, he created a prototype of the personality of "Masamune Tachibana".

However, it is not quite accurate to say that he was immersed in the role. If a person can play a certain role for decades and be affected only to this extent, it would be an understatement to say that he is determined.

A person with this level of willpower is either an outstanding leader or warrior, or a peerless conspirator.

"Tachibana Masamune" is undoubtedly the latter.

Lu Mingfei frowned slightly.

Although he knew that Tachibana Masamune was a disguised identity, he was confused about the origin of this main personality, or his true identity.

Although the power of the soul gem in the Silver Oak Sword is strong, it is not strong enough to read minds directly. Otherwise, there would be no need for him to conduct a lie detector test on Xia Mi before. He could have directly struck her with the sword and then read her mind, and naturally he would know everything.

Previously, he had been able to infiltrate Norton's memory due to the combination of multiple factors. The most important part was the seal using the power borrowed from the Ancient One, and the fact that Norton himself was in a state of amnesia.

However, the power of the "Tachibana Masamune" in front of him was far inferior to that of Norton. Even if he had not lost his memory, as long as he could seal his memory like Master Ancient One, he could also search in there like he did with Norton's memory fragments.

However... he may have to wait until he goes back and ask Master Ancient One to borrow a little bit of power.

There was nothing he could do about it. After learning the knowledge of the Sorcerer Supreme, he could easily perform the magic of sealing memories. However, the usury magic of Kamar-Taj all required borrowing power, so knowledge alone was useless.

Fortunately, Master Ancient One is a generous senior, and she would definitely not mind if he asked her to borrow a little bit of power.

And the next time he goes to Tony's world, in addition to asking the Ancient One to borrow power, he has a more important thing to do - to find Tony to learn the formula of the bloodline locking agent.

According to Gen Chisei, Eri's bloodline locking agent will only last for two months, and she will be in danger after two months.

Tony has been researching a bloodline locking agent that can completely offset the side effects of dragon blood. Although it is still a little far from his goal of "perfectly eliminating all side effects of dragon blood on humans without affecting the power of dragon blood", a locking agent that only "prevents half-bloods from being affected by bloodline defects" can be completed in a day or two by Tony and he working together to modify it.

The reason why Lu Mingfei had not used the locking agent on Brother Chu, whose bloodline was on the verge of losing control due to a bloodbath, was to wait for the most perfect version and get it done in one go.

But in Eri's case, it is obviously more important to first resolve the life-threatening situation brought about by her bloodline defect.

However, there is no rush to go to Tony's world. He is more curious about the problem in front of him - there are three personalities in Tachibana Masamune's body, one bright and two dark. The bright personality is his main personality, and the dark personality was born out of his decades of playing a fake identity. What about the other dark personality?
In the end, this dark personality was quite strange under the investigation of the Silver Oak Sword. After repeated observations, Lu Mingfei made a bold guess.

This dark personality may not have split spontaneously like the dark personality of Tachibana Masamune, but was born under the influence of some external force.

Because its existence reveals a kind of disharmony everywhere, and there is always a tendency to influence or even "attack" the main personality at any time - although the main personality certainly does not feel it.

Moreover, this dark personality influenced by external forces was born earlier than Tachibana Masamune's dark personality, at least ten years earlier, or even longer. In other words, before the person in front of him disguised himself as Tachibana Masamune, he had already been planted with this influence.

These characteristics forced Lu Mingfei to guess that the unknown conspirator in front of him was just a mantis catching a cicada, and behind the mantis there might be a oriole hidden even deeper.

Touching his chin and thinking for a moment, Lu Mingfei's eyes lit up.

He thought of a way - although it is difficult to directly control other people's minds, if there is an "insider" deep in someone's personality who cooperates directly on the subjective level, the difficulty will be greatly reduced.

Of course, he didn't expect the main personality of this conspirator to cooperate with him. But... Tachibana Masamune's dark personality might be able to be used.

After all, this person disguised himself as a member of the three inner families and ruled the eight Snake families for decades. He definitely did not have any good intentions towards the eight Snake families - at least if there really was a patriarch named Tachibana Masamune in the world, he would definitely not like this main personality.

In this situation, it is not difficult to make the dark personality of Tachibana Masamune cooperate with him.

What Lu Mingfei has to do is to use the power of the soul gem in the Silver Oak Sword to influence the "fake Masamune Tachibana" in front of him, so that the dark personality of the "real Masamune Tachibana" in his body will gradually grow stronger and become independent.

This process won't take a few days, and you don't have to insert the sword every time. Just chatting face to face is enough.

Thinking of this, Lu Mingfei drew out the Silver Oak Sword.

Tachibana Masamune's empty eyes refocused and he jumped up in fear: "Ah!"

"What's your name?" Lu Mingfei held the Silver Oak Sword upside down, looking puzzled.

"Your sword, I..." Tachibana Masamune touched his chest, there was no wound there.

He took a deep breath, slowly calmed down, and breathed a sigh of relief - perhaps the momentum and mental pressure from Lu Mingfei just now were too strong, which made him feel as if a sharp sword had pierced his chest, and even made him lose consciousness. This case is not uncommon, but it only occurs in one situation - when a hybrid with a poor bloodline faces the golden eyes of a very high-level dragon in battle, he often falls into the illusion of being killed.

But it is unheard of for one hybrid to have a similar effect on another.

"I'm sorry, Lu-kun." Tachibana Masamune bowed and sat down again, "Please continue. My family and I will do our best to cooperate with you."

First stabilize this guy, and we can deal with the rest later. It doesn't matter even if it means selling out the interests of the entire Sheqi Eight Clan. Anyway, whether it is the Sheqi Eight Clan or the Fierce Ghost Clan, they are just tools.

But to Masamune Tachibana's surprise, Lu Mingfei was quite kind throughout the interrogation process. It was even more like a chat than an interrogation. Apart from asking the Eight Snake Families to give up some of their independence and obey the academy's command, he did not put forward any other conditions.

Even as to the culprit who raised Deadpool, Lu Mingfei said that he could "slowly investigate".

This made Tachibana Masamune a little confused.

But after thinking about it, he understood that Lu Mingfei used the issue of raising Deadpool to make trouble just to make the Eight Snake Families a subordinate department of the academy again. As long as this goal can be achieved, nothing else should matter.

The only thing that Tachibana Masamune couldn't understand was that Lu Mingfei asked him if he could talk to him about Japanese hybrids every day these days. The content was not limited, just a casual chat. Through this method of chatting between the acting principal of the academy and the heads of the eight Sheqi families, the relationship between the academy and the eight Sheqi families could be brought closer.

Tachibana Masamune didn't want to face Lu Mingfei every day, and initially suggested that Sakurai Nanami chat with Lu Mingfei on his behalf - chatting with a beautiful young woman is better than drinking tea with an old man like him, right?

But Lu Mingfei flatly refused, so Tachibana Masamune had no choice but to agree to chat with Lu Mingfei about the history of Japanese mixed-race people every day.

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Anyway, as long as we don't mention the ancient history of the White King, there won't be any problem, Tachibana Masamune thought.

……

A week later, outside the Awakening Temple.

When Yuan Zhisheng passed by the Keishinji Temple, he took a look at the red mottled torii gate, shook his head and left.

This week, Lu Mingfei spent a lot of time drinking tea with his father every day. He could even often hear the two of them talking and laughing, as if they were good friends regardless of age. It made people wonder if the fight in the Iron Dome Temple a week ago was just a dream.

Chu Zihang and Xia Mi walked over. Yuan Zhisheng looked at the sweet and lovely girl beside Chu Zihang and subconsciously took a half step back.

"Hi, Brother Yuan." Xia Mi smiled heartlessly and waved to Yuan Zhisheng. "My brother and I are going to the archives to check something. Can you help lead the way?"

After the battle at the Iron Dome Temple, the Eight Clans of Sheqi were no longer able to stand up to Lu Mingfei and his three companions. Even the precious archives were completely open to them, and Xia Mi... seemed to have treated those top-secret materials as some kind of recreational reading material like an adventure novel. She would take them in every day and read them with great gusto, and even bring Chu Zihang with her.

Yuan Zhisheng sighed: "Come on, you two, I'll lead the way."

……

Inside the Xingshen Temple.

Lu Mingfei sat casually on the tatami, while Tachibana Masamune knelt in front of Lu Mingfei with empty eyes.

After a week of subtle influence and interference, he finally made the dark personality "Masamune Tachibana" stronger. At least when he suppressed the main personality, the dark personality Masamune Tachibana could finally control this body.

This means that this "Tachibana Masamune" has completely grown into a complete personality. This conspirator of unknown origin has successfully become a severe schizophrenia patient under the guidance of Lu Mingfei.

Tachibana Masamune's empty eyes slowly closed, and when he opened them again, he was filled with many complicated thoughts.

He is a new personality, but at the same time he is also the old man with decades of experience, who has led the Eight Clans of Sheqi and gone through many ups and downs.

He stared at Lu Mingfei: "I...you...who are you?"

Lu Mingfei shrugged.

Seeing that Lu Mingfei didn't answer, "Tachibana Masamune" didn't ask any more questions and asked a new question: "Then who am I?"

"You can be the owner of this body, or you can be the patriarch of the Eight Sheqi Families." Lu Mingfei said with a smile.

"I'm just a fake..." "Tachibana Masamune" shook his head.

"There is only one patriarch among the eight Sheqi families, and that is Tachibana Masamune." Lu Mingfei said meaningfully.

Tachibana Masamune was silent for a moment, then nodded: "I was created by you?"

“It can only be considered as guided.” Lu Mingfei said.

"I can roughly guess what you want. I was separated from the owner of this body and have a limited understanding of him," said Tachibana Masamune. "The owner of this body, his real name is Herzog, and he is a former Soviet who had plastic surgery to look like a Japanese."

"Do you know his purpose?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"He hid this part very deeply. Only what he thought about with the identity and thinking of 'Tachibana Masamune' can I know," said Tachibana Masamune, "so I can only be sure that his purpose is related to the White King, and he is also the leader of the Eight Snake Families and the Demon Clan."

Lu Mingfei nodded. It was not surprising to him that Herzog's target was the White King. He was also a little surprised that he also controlled the Ghost Clan, but the Ghost Clan itself was actually not something worthy of attention.

"Also, he seems to have some very important memories when he was still Herzog, but because they were 'Herzog''s' memories, I could only get some very fragmentary information. I could only sort out three words from them," said Tachibana Masamune, "Northern Siberia, Black Swan Port, and Zero."

Black Swan Harbor… Zero…

Lu Mingfei reached out and rubbed his temples.

He didn't know why, but the moment he heard these two words, he felt something suddenly skipped a beat in the depths of his mind.

"Then what do you feel about the other dark personality in this body?" Lu Mingfei suppressed the strange feeling in his heart and continued to ask.

As part of the personality in this body, Tachibana Masamune must have more detailed feelings about the other dark personality than he does, because when guiding Tachibana Masamune's dark personality to grow, the other dark personality touched Tachibana Masamune's dark personality and tried to attack - but it was immediately suppressed by the power of the Mind Gem.

"I... I seemed to have 'touched' it during my growth... But I have almost no impression of it. I only remember seeing a golden eye and a magnificent and irresistible will in that blurry moment..."

Tachibana Masamune frowned.

(End of this chapter)