"Junior Zhu Yuan, isn't your behavior a little bit too familiar? Even though you're the Captain of the Criminal Investigation Department, you should've turned yourself in sooner to receive the w's lenient punishment"

  "After all, breaking into the room of the 'Proxy of Light' is no joke"

  An old dy-liked little girl speaks.

  "Qingyi senpai, don't tease and joke like I'm a super criminal. You should know about my retionship with her"

  The ponytail-haired tall girl inserts a key and opens it with ease.

  "Uh~"

  "Junior Zhu Yuan, is this a pce for humans to live?"

  "*sigh*, I'm speechless"

  Qingyi looks around the room and gives her opinion. The room is a mess. Many pstic bags and lunch boxes lie around the room. Even, the garbage from living activity hasn't been disposed of...The clothes and underwear are like vegetables in the market...

  "I knew it"

  Zhu Yuan compins but her body is quite honest. She proactively rolls up her sleeve and does the housework for the owner of this room.

  After 15 minutes passed...The room gradually returns to its former tidiness due to the cooperation of the PubSec officers.

  "Phew~, young people nowadays let themselves be on the loose"

  "I must charge her the electric bill for helping to clean her room"

  Qingyi does her usual poster of the older generation.

  "So now, it's time to wake up our comrade behind the bnket"

  Qingyi adds.

  "Wait a minute, senpai"

  At this time, Zhu Yuan speaks.

  "Huh? What's wrong, Junior Zhu Yuan?"

  "I mean, let me check first"

  Zhu Yuan hesitates while her face is turning redder.

  "Hmm...You sound suspicious. Can you share with me?"

  Qingyi asks curiously.

  "Ah, it's nothing much. It's just Yuri preferring to sleep naked"

  Zhu Yuan confesses...

  "Woa~, you two are quite close, aren't you?"

  Qingyi excims, making Zhu Yuan no different from a tomato.

  "But she is the same gender as you. What's there to be shy?"

  When Zhu Yuan heard that, her alreay red face turns paler. Her expression is hard to describe by words.

  "You're right but her defense is a bit fragile"

  "Don't look at the cold look she giving in the magazine. Once you know her, she will completely your view upside down"

  "All right, all right, stop, stop bragging your friend"

  Qingyi can't stand seeing Zhu Yuan showing off her retionship.

  Zhu Yuan also sighs a relief...

  "Ah, I forgot..."

  "Strange, where is Himawari?"

  Zhu Yuan suddenly remembers something.

  "Who?"

  Qingyi asks.

  "Yuri's Bangboo..."

  "It wears a sunflower outfit, and is quite cute"

  "Oh oh, understood"

  "Speaking of which, we've made a mess there for almost half of an hour,but Yuri didn't even wake up"

  Qingyi reminds...

  "Ah, you said that, making me remember...."

  Zhu Yuan approaches Yuri sleeping comfortably in the bed.

  *sniff sniff*

  "She drank alcohol st night. No wonder..."

  Zhu Yuan finally sighs.

  "Is Yuri weak against Alcohol?"

  Qingyi asks.

  "Yeah. Extremely weak..."

  Zhu Yuan emphasizes.

  "Um ne Um na ne (Good morning, Sheriff Zhu Yuan and Qingyi)"

  A small figure opens the door with the scan and steps inside with a pack of food.

  "Good morning, Himawari"

  Zhu Yuan bends down to greet a little Bangboo.

  "Good morning, little comrade"

  "You pity one, your owner has become an alcoholic and forced you to serve her"

  Qingyi pats its head.

  "Senpai, don't inject wrong information into Himawari's Chip"

  Zhu Yuan retorts.

  "Um na ne (It's Okay. I knew she was kidding. My master just saved a lot of people yesterday)"

  "Na ne um um ne (It's the side effect making her into a deep sleep)"

  Little Himawari hums.

  "Oi, Junior Zhu Yuan, can you give me a time machine? I want to take back what I said. You know, my first impression of Yuri is quite bad when seeing her messy room"

  Qingyi lowers her head in disappointment with herself.

  "Don't worry, senpai. You didn't know about it...Alcohol helps her ease the side effects..."

  Zhu Yuan comforts Qingyi. Of course, Zhu Yuan knew Yuri very well. The higher the ability you gain, the higher the cost you have to pay.

  "Ah, my head..."

  Yuri opens her eyes. What welcomes her is a huge headache banging inside her head. What a golden finger! What a cheating ability! Yuri almost curses the mother of this ability. The price for synchronizing with the Hollow is expensive...Ah, she doesn't want to be a person kicking a bowl of rice of the siblings' protagonist in the Proxy area. Let them be the best Proxy. She doesn't need to be their rival.

  In fact, she can do the same as them in creating 'Carrot' and calcuting the path inside the Hollow like the siblings because of her natural affinity with the Hollow. However, when it comes to rescuing people, her conscience forces her to activate this cheating ability to save others.

  "Eh~ Where am I?"

  Yuri feels puzzled as she looks around. No trash existence can be found. The moldy smell of garbage is repced by some fragrances of food.

  "Himawari?"

  "Oh, you're awake..."

  Zhu Yuan brings a cup of cold water and gives it to Yuri.

  "Turning out to be Zhu Yuan, no wonder my room is so clean"

  Yuri takes a sip of water to moisten her throat.

  "Oh"

  Suddenly, Yuri smirks strangely.

  "You're going to helpme put on the clothes, aren't you?"

  "I remember you're always blushing or acting shyly"

  "You're bolder, aren't you?"

  "Ugh"

  Yuri is thrown at by a set of clothes from Zhu Yuan.

  "You idiot, wear some clothes first, please"

  When Zhu Yuan says it, Yuri finally is obedient and wears her underwear. She just simply puts on a camisole with short pants.

  Yuri goes and prepares herself after the headache has already subsided.

  "Ah Himawari, thank you for your breakfast!"

  "Eh na (You're welcome, my master)"

  Little Himawari jumps up and down in excitement.

  "Can you pull off your fake smile, Yuri-chan?"

  At this time, Zhu Yuan chimes in.

  "..."

  Yuri lowers her head...

  "How is your headache? You were too reckless yesterday. Couldn't you be more patient? Your ability has a price..."

  Zhu Yuan angrily scolds.

  "At least, no one received bad news, right?"

  Yuri asks back in a joking tone.

  "No one? But I did"

  Zhu Yuan retorts. She uses her strong hands to squeeze Yuri's soft cheeks.

  "Ah, ah. Don't. I know I'm wrong...Zhu Yuan, aren't you too scary? At least, Miya-chan didn't get violent like this..."

  Yuri rubs her cheek in grievance.

  "She is she, I'm me..."

  *sigh*

  Zhu Yuan sighs...

  "Ugh...I mean...You didn't come here just to check my health, right?"

  Yuri catches sight of Qingyi 'eating' her electric bill...Her heart bleeds painfully...

  "You're right, Proxy of Light"

  "After all, the H.I.A and the H.A.N.D have been monopolizing you for too long. Our PubSec can't have a chance to get your help"

  "My name is Qingyi, by the way. I don't have a deep retionship with you like my Captain. Please, take care of me"

  Qingyi unplugs her charging and sits down next to Zhu Yuan.

  "Ah, Yuri-chan, let me introduce"

  "Although I am a captain, Qingyi is still my senior at work. Just like her narration, the PubSec department needs your help"

  "..."

  Zhu Yuan expins.

  "Umm...Like the old rule, deal?"

  Yuri ponders for a moment and finally decides.

  "Deal"

  Zhu Yuan nods and shakes Yuri's hand.

  Qingyi shows her confused emoji.

  "Wait a minute, you two. Don't let me on the side. I know Zhu Yuan is in the opposite position to bance Yuri in political terms and rights..."

  "What's the old rule?"

  Qingyi asks.

  "Ah, senpai. Let me expin...Whenever Yuri accepts the quest as a Proxy, she has the right to investigate whether there is something hidden or illegal before officially executing the tasks"

  "New Eridu's government has granted her the right to ssh those in power if she finds out anything that is not right in the commission"

  "Just like you said, I'm in the position to keep her in check for not abusing her power"

  "The old rule is...I will become her private agent acting inside the Hollow"

  "Wait, isn't it different from those Hollow Raiders? And you, a serious sheriff always abiding by the w break the w"

  "No wonder...Now I understand...Why you did ask me to use our vacation day to visit Proxy of Light"

  "I thought you were going to rest...mhmm..."

  Qingyi's mouth is covered hurriedly by Zhu Yuan.

  "Zhu Yuan...You scolded me for being reckless but you didn't even look at yourself"

  Yuri deadpans her face.

  "Sorry..."

  Zhu Yuan bows her head.

  "Is the Vision Company's stuff?"

  Yuri helplessly shakes her head, then she asks.

  "Wow, you guess straight to the point. I need to reevaluate your talent, Yuri-san"

  Qingyi shows her admiration.

  "Zhu Yuan perhaps guessed there was something wrong with this company, so she hesitated to carry out the order from her boss to mobilize PubSec's human force to protect this company's operation"

  "I didn't expect the serious Zhu Yuan would bend the rule like this"

  Qingyi sighs.

  "Senpai...Everything we do requires evidence but the police can't arrest without the evidence"

  Zhu Yuan sighs.

  "My intuition never goes wrong"

  "But you're right. There is a loophole in the retionship and position between Yuri and me"

  Zhu Yuan nods.

  "So you mean the rule that she can ssh illegal powerful higher-ups..."

  "It's illegal for PubSec to act without evidence but legal for investigating before accepting the commission as a Proxy of Light's agent"

  "No matter how I look at it, it's a win-win cooperation"

  Listening to Zhu Yuan, Qingyi understands the loophole immediately.

  "Haha, after all, I and Zhu Yuan are in a retionship called 'Friends with Benefit'"

  Yuri ughs out loud.

  "???"

  "???"

  Tomato Zhu Yuan is summoned again. Even though from what perspective Yuri speaks in fact, it does sound wrong. It's logical and reasonable but you can't know what goes wrong in the sentence.

  "Do you know the meaning behind the term Friend with Benefits?"

  Blushing Zhu Yuan points at Yuri.

  "Isn't it a win-win retionship?"

  Yuri titles her head in innocence.

  "That's right, but it's not the point!..."

  Zhu Yuan can't load her brain to find a single word. How can she describe it? From what she knows, those vocaburies are all dirty...

  "Oh, then, can I be your Friend with benefits too? After all, Having a retionship is also a weapon to survive in this society"

  Qingyi points her finger to the sky while winking her eyes.

  "Senpai, even you!"

  Zhu Yuan asks in disbelief. She wants to cry but no tears...