Nowadays, she doesn't need to figure out how to get a gun anymore.

Minamoto Tamako found a black market factory, volunteered to work for free without a salary, and used the workshop equipment to craft a handmade pistol.

After that, she went to flea markets and craft fairs to buy some old shell casings, filled them with gunpowder herself, and made her own reloads.

Minamoto Tamako didn't get overconfident. She found a secluded place, practicing with her gun for indoor combat, outdoor combat, encounters... It wasn't enough to just draw and aim quickly; she needed tactical awareness and the ability to judge the situation.

Soon, she realized that practicing alone wasn't very effective. To solve this, Minamoto Tamako decided to go to an internet cafe and play shooting games.

Some games are quite realistic, like Tactical Squad, which requires strong command skills.

The twentieth century was great, ordinary people could learn such valuable knowledge...

Two weeks later, Minamoto Tamako felt she had honed her skills enough. Now she felt terrifyingly strong, not even in the same league as the old Minamoto Tamako.

Now, she only needed four teammates. Forming a squad would be enough to catch Fushimi Roku!

Maybe Minamoto Tamako was no longer a weakling in battle, but when it came to social skills, she was still a rookie. She ran around, recruiting the veteran BBQ shop owner, the VPN seller Piange, the local pickpocket leader, and the just-released Northeastern rocker uncle into her squad.

She lied, saying Lawyer Zhou had embezzled some dirty money: gold bars worth fifty million, encouraging the four to join her in a big heist so they could all betray each other.

To show sincerity, Minamoto Tamako crafted four more handguns, giving one to each. As long as they were willing to follow her, each would get ten million afterward!

The four were full of enthusiasm; once this heist was done, they could lay low for the rest of their lives.

They trained with Minamoto Tamako, spent some time getting acquainted in a warehouse on the outskirts, and then chose a dark and windy night to break into Lawyer Zhou's apartment, planning to kidnap him.

Then nothing went as planned.

The first to mess up was Piange. On entering the compound, he accidentally ran into a beautiful female resident, couldn't resist flirting and asking for her WeChat. After being rejected, he got angry, boasting about his millions in savings and bragging about being a big shot, scaring the BBQ shop owner and rocker uncle into dragging him away while covering his mouth.

After much effort, they managed to drag him away, but Piange was still stubborn, claiming he wasn't serious about the woman, just testing the waters for fun, though no one believed him.

The second to slip up was BBQ Bro. He always bragged about being a retired veteran but had never served in the army. He gave himself this identity when out and about. Now weighing over two hundred pounds at five foot seven, he claimed it was normal post-retirement weight gain, saying many veterans experience this.

The night before, BBQ Bro had eaten some unsanitary food from his own BBQ stall, and now, with the night wind blowing, his stomach rumbled like Alchemy Furnace, about to explode out the barrel. He needed to find a place to relieve himself quickly.

With no other choice, the other three had to find a security guard to ask where a public restroom was nearby.

The third to screw up was the pickpocket leader. Deeply entrenched in the theft industry for years with a good reputation, he was infamous enough that the security guard recognized him as soon as he saw him, knowing this guy was a notorious pickpocket.

This caused big trouble as the security guard refused to let them into the compound and even prepared to call for backup on his walkie-talkie.

The last to falter was the Northeastern rocker uncle. This guy had just gotten out of detention and, although usually soft-spoken, was quick to act when in a scuffle. Without waiting for Minamoto Tamako to give orders, he punched the security guard to the ground, covering the guard's mouth and dragging him into the bushes.

The others quickly came to help, tying up the security guard with rope from their bag, stuffing his mouth, and tossing him into a small grove in the compound... BBQ Bro even took a dump nearby.

After much chaos, under Minamoto Tamako's reprimand, they finally began their operation in earnest. Taking the elevator up, they pried open Lawyer Zhou's door, rushed in to search, but didn't see any sign of him.

The pickpocket leader regretfully said they should have scouted the place beforehand to avoid ending up like this with nothing to show for it...

"Oh no!"

Minamoto Tamako quickly led the team to retreat. While the others hadn't scouted, she had. At this time, Fushimi Roku was definitely at home sleeping; he religiously followed the 'eight hours of sleep a day' rule since his previous life.

The rocker uncle didn't want to leave, feeling unsatisfied without finding the gold. He thought he might find a hidden compartment in the house and avoid the need for a kidnapping.

Minamoto Tamako insisted on leaving, but the other three didn't quite agree. Just as they were on the verge of argument and about to start an internal conflict, 'Lawyer Zhou' suddenly dashed in from outside holding a high-pressure water gun from a fire hydrant, spraying the five of them.

The scene became chaotic, and all their prior training was of no use. Everyone was doing their own thing: the rocker uncle was firing his gun, intending to kill Lawyer Zhou first and then find the gold; the BBQ owner was rolling on the ground, unable to keep his balance due to his weight after being knocked down; the pickpocket leader headed straight to the bedroom, hoping to take the loot for himself; the VPN seller covered his ears, screaming from the gunshots fired by the rocker uncle.

As for Minamoto Tamako, she was on the side urging everyone to calm down and find cover, but unfortunately, no one listened to her.

The result was predictable. Fushimi Roku managed to take out these four small fries but paid a hefty price. After all, Minamoto Tamako wasn't a pushover. With the others serving as cannon fodder, she hid in a blind spot and shot from a distance, successfully breaking Fushimi Roku's legs.

Unfortunately, before she could take her spoils, police sirens sounded downstairs, signaling their arrival at the scene.

Minamoto Tamako clearly had the chance to wipe off her fingerprints, discard the gun, and escape, but she didn't. Instead, she waited in place for the police to arrive.

Since she committed a crime, she had to accept the punishment. She wouldn't run away like Fushimi Roku did.

If she ran, what right would she have to catch Fujimura-kun?

Unsurprisingly, Minamoto Tamako was jailed once again; unsurprisingly, her defense lawyer this time was again Fushimi Roku; unsurprisingly, Minamoto Tamako was released due to being a minor, but this time the court convicted her, and even if Lawyer Zhou was the king of heaven, it wouldn't work.

Afterward, Minamoto Tamako conducted a review.

There was clearly a mole among the five of them, alerting Fushimi Roku. Otherwise, he wouldn't have left early to open the fire box in the corridor.

Minamoto Tamako spent considerable effort, carefully investigating before ultimately learning the truth from Fushimi Roku:

The mole was a dog.

That night, after BBQ Bro finished pooping, the smell wafted into the night. Coincidentally, a resident was walking their dog late at night—many office workers walk their dogs late after coming home from overtime. The dog's nose was extremely sharp, catching the scent of food from afar and pulling its owner all the way to the small grove, where they found the bound security guard.

The resident untied the security guard, removed the tape from his mouth, and learned from the guard that a gang of robbers had broken into the compound (after the rocker uncle's actions, they had upgraded from pickpockets to robbers). Quickly, they posted a warning in the resident group chat to be on the lookout.

Fushimi Roku was actually asleep but had light sleep and had set notifications on his phone. The dog-walking resident tagged everyone, waking him up.

Upon checking his phone, Fushimi Roku had a vague sense of something amiss and asked the resident what the robbers looked like.

The other person relayed the guard's words: "A fat guy, a skinny guy, a pickpocket, a Northeastern gangster, and an eight or nine-year-old little girl."

Upon hearing this, Fushimi Roku knew what was happening, thus getting up early to prepare.

This encounter ended again in defeat for Minamoto Tamako, but this time Fushimi Roku felt the pressure. If the police hadn't arrived, he might have been doomed there. When thinking further, if Minamoto Tamako had been a cop, he would have been arrested already.

Just a little bit more.

Minamoto Tamako also felt it was a shame. It was all the team's fault for holding them back. If not for that dump, she would have already caught Fujimura-kun by now.

This failure taught Minamoto Tamako a lesson: finding teammates is not a one-time effort. In reality, she had Director Moriki helping her, Senior Kazama guiding her, and Senior Watanabe charging into battle alongside her... But in her dreams, she was all alone.

Therefore, Minamoto Tamako decided to reconsider, opting for a more extreme method to capture Fushimi Roku.

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know < report chapter > so we can fix it as soon as possible.