The car had already entered the highway, due to excitement, Cai Ming's green pupils grew even brighter.
From childhood to adulthood, among the various assassinations and accidents targeting Kobe Suzuo, there was one that occurred with such high frequency that it stood far ahead of the rest.
It could be called a CEO-level curse.
Screech—
The sound of screeching brakes roared piercingly, followed by a violent crash.
In his blurred vision, Cai Ming's golden hair was stained with blood, rapidly turning dull.
A roar followed, Kobe Suzuo panted, something like sweat or blood slowly soaking through her shirt from her forehead, feeling sticky and uncomfortable.
He struggled to discern Merlin's reports, waiting for it to call the hospital, waiting for it to investigate the identity of the other party in the car accident, waiting for it to report the movements of the Director's Department.
His legs ached excessively, but it wasn't a major problem; everything was within the expected range.
Kobe Suzuo carefully calculated what this "accident" could bring him, his tense nerves finally relaxed.
His consciousness gradually grew hazy, Kobe Suzuo waited silently for Merlin's electronic voice to finish its last sentence.
Young Master, congratulations, your [Injured in Car Accident but Not Fatal] trait remains.
[Data Settlement in Progress for This Date]?
It's haunted. Why is this plugin still here?
Kobe Suzuo struggled to open her eyes, but she only saw a flash of light.
Like the shimmering light flowing upon the sea, like a lake under the moonlight.
[Little White Flower rescues the Overbearing CEO injured in a car accident CG get]
Chapter 16: That Favorability
Your name is Kobe Suzuo. You are wealthy, you were once nothing more than a domineering CEO.
That electronic synthesized voice had been fine-tuned to possess a hint of "humanity"; only upon closer listening could one discern the slight mechanical graininess at the end of its tone.
This is the optimal effect currently achievable through a collaboration between the Kobe Family's Technical Department and the world's top speech synthesis software developers.
The speaker was placed at the foot of the hospital bed, Merlin's voice was clear.
You are different from before. You are a CEO by day and a laborer by night, holding the position of Jujutsu Director in a field that is completely foreign to you, doing tedious and neurotic work for a group of selfish lunatics.
This is a matter of necessity. You are enduring humiliation and biding your time, attempting to revolt; your current situation is merely a part of the plan.
Of course, setting those troubles aside, you are still wealthy.
An unfamiliar ceiling, but it should still be property of the Kobe Family.
Kobe Suzuo opened his eyes, his consciousness gradually returning, while the stiffness and stinging pain in his muscles reminded him of what had happened.
But none of this is important, Young Master.
Before the plan was implemented, Kobe Suzuo arranged a recording program for Merlin to prevent him from unfortunately forgetting certain things and causing trouble.
After all, in the data simulations, the probability of losing one's memory in a car accident is as high as fifty percent.
Among all the "Passive" buffs, amnesia is the most difficult to deal with, Kobe Suzuo had to be on her guard.
He lay on the hospital bed, quietly listening to Merlin's storytelling filled with dry humor, letting his mind go blank.
Merlin said, "The point is, Young Master, you're still a single dog."
Kobe Suzuo..
Is there a record of this?
Merlin, stop, I didn't..
“Young Master, your luck with women is abysmal. Your future romantic history will be a blank expanse that stretches beyond sight; you are destined to be a golden bachelor coveted by many.”
I am twenty-four years old and in my prime, not forty-two and about to head to the grave.
Calling me a golden bachelor is a bit much, isn't it?
Kobe Suzuo reached out to touch her glasses but grasped only air. Her eyes stared blankly at the ceiling for a moment before she finally realized that Merlin was likely having another one of his episodes.
While a gentle, mature man has his own unique charm, please take advantage of your physical vigor while you still have it and experience the passion of youth.
The impatient and slightly lewd attitude was all too familiar, making Kobe Suzuo inevitably hallucinate about why she had come to this world and how she had been "pressured into marriage."
When this idiot AI was collecting data on the internet, did it happen to stumble upon the World's Consciousness's reading list?
A CEO can have claustrophobia, stomach problems, migraines, insomnia, neurasthenia, or childhood trauma, but he cannot be impotent just because of his age!
Do you even know what it means to be a CEO?!
Even if Kobe Suzuo walked with gentleness, she was still a domineering CEO.
Kobe Suzuo struggled to lift her upper body from the hospital bed, but in her haste, she tugged at the injury on her right leg, causing her to stiffen and slump back onto the bed.
And as if possessed, Merlin continued to mutter incessantly.
Whether it's being looked down upon by a chosen partner for being too old, or being mocked by a love rival for being half-way in the grave, both are disgraces to a CEO. To avoid such unwanted endings, you simply rejected them, which is why you set the search for the Fated Person as the most grand objective of your current life stage.
Finding the Fated Person is indeed very important, but is it because of this?
Where did that conclusion come from?
Kobe Suzuo gritted her teeth, pulled out the pillow from under her right leg, accurately hurled it at the small speaker placed at the foot of the bed.
Merlin, your emotional simulation program is far too excellent. If you keep talking in such a sarcastic tone, I'm going to cut off the electricity to your server room.
Ha, ha.
The speaker on the floor emitted two standard, indifferent laughs from the speaker. "It seems you're in quite good shape, Young Master."
Merlin's original code was born from Kobe Suzuo's course assignments and was perfected by the Kobe Group's artificial intelligence R&D team. With over five years of operational experience, it is, overall, a very mature system.
However, the emotion simulation program was newly developed by Kobe Suzuo to find the Fated Person, so occasional glitches were considered normal.
.. Everything was normal until the error prompt appeared.
Young Master, before the report, I have one more thing I would like to say.
Kobe Suzuo really couldn't hold on any longer; she slumped onto the bed in an awkward position, letting out a soft "ungh."
This is another world, Suzuo.
He said, "In this place, you are no longer the Child of the World. The course of destiny is strange and unpredictable. If possible, I hope you can be a little more cautious."
The raspy noise mixed into the synthetic voice grew louder, emitting a harsh, crackling sound like an old-fashioned radio. Kobe Suzuo’s eardrums felt heavy as the words of blessing echoed in her mind:
“Suzuo, may you walk toward a happy future.”
The speaker lying on the floor let out a short, sharp screech.
While Kobe Suzuo was still slightly dazed, Merlin's electronic synthesized voice rang out in the ward once again, beginning to report the current status according to the predetermined priority.
In this car accident, the most serious injury Kobe Suzuo sustained was a slight fracture in his right lower leg. He was only unconscious for a total of three hours, which just happened to make up for the sleep he missed during his all-nighter last night.
This minor injury didn't even require Nobara Iori's Reverse Cursed Technique.
Kobe Suzuo specifically brought Nobara Iori out of Jujutsu High just to be on the safe side, so that if his attempt at seeking death failed and an accident occurred, she could still perform emergency treatment. However, the CEO's passive buff was simply too powerful; the methods used to attack him were, as always, devoid of imagination.
Tanikawa Shinji's unlucky bald head was under a restriction, making him unable to reveal the person behind the one who had instigated him to provoke Kobe Suzuo.
The direct cause of the car accident was a single Grade 1 Cursed Spirit, which seemed to have merely passed by accident and was immediately exorcised on the spot by Satoru Gojo, who had arrived first.
The former incident seemed to be Kobe Suzuo hiring a curse user to conspire with a tiger, he deserved the backlash he received. The latter incident seemed to be pure bad luck; he had no reason to complain about encountering a Cursed Spirit when his luck was simply poor.
One could only say that the other party's intelligence system was quite impressive.
They knew that Kobe Suzuo had connections with Cursed Sorcerers and could find opportunities to incite dissidents.
It was known that Kobe Suzuo's personal combat strength was average, her personal safety relied on bodyguards; she had the fewest people around her while "on the road," making an assassination most convenient.
Cai Ming has, according to the plan, identified this assassination as an act committed by the Chiba Family in collusion with Curse Users in the capacity of an eyewitness, and, on behalf of the Kobe Family's retainers, requests the judgment of the Chiba Family.
Chiba, a first-rate Jujutsu Sorcerer family and a loyal supporter of the Kammo Clan, one of the Three Great Families.
Their industrial structure was simple, using a shell company as a cover. In the shadows, they primarily engaged in illicit activities, including predatory black-market deals. They had once placed a high-priced bounty on Kobe Suzuo's head on the Dark Web, it was Fushiguro Toji who had come looking for him after accepting that bounty.
This was the only time Merlin had managed to catch those old bastards in the digital world.
The most confidential information of Jujutsu Sorcerer families remains in the stage of written materials that self-destruct after being read; most core members possess the lineage of the Main Family, personnel turnover is practically zero.
It takes many years to cultivate an undercover agent who can actually be of use, requiring a massive investment of resources and time.
The Kobe Main Family is another marginal family in the Jujutsu World, a wealthy clan that truly lacks ambition.
Status is something carved out with money; the fact that no other family has managed to plant a mole within them is a testament to their sheer, business-minded talent.
There was no such thing as an "Intelligence" department; the "purity" of it was enough to bring Kobe Suzuo to tears.
Kobe Suzuo, being a newcomer, truly could not identify all those who harbored murderous intent toward him in a short period of time.
Therefore, from the very beginning, his target was the Chiba Family.
Tengen's evolution, the disappearance of the Star Plasma Vessel, the rising bounty on the Six Eyes—with such a coincidental convergence of events, even if the mastermind had no intention of acting, Kobe Suzuo would create opportunities to induce them to act.
Whether it is an individual or a family, whether the target is Director Kobe or the Six Eyes Child of the Gojo Clan, the blame will ultimately be pinned on the Chiba Family.
And Kobe Suzuo would use this opportunity to conduct a thorough investigation into the Chiba Family.
The Jujutsu World is such a small circle, yet it is rotten to the core, inside and out.
Whether it was rooting out a bunch of ill-intentioned small and medium-sized families or directly targeting the Kammo Clan, one of the Three Great Families, Kobe Suzuo would come out on top either way.
Merlin: "Under pressure, the Elders Council will hold an inquiry meeting at seven o'clock this evening."
The car accident occurred around eleven in the morning.
Kobe Suzuo moved her stiff neck and glanced at the wall clock; the time was now five in the afternoon.
Ha. Now they finally know the meaning of efficiency; usually, when it comes to signing off on meetings, they are all incredibly slow.
Are you afraid that once Kobe Suzuo wakes up and attends the trial meeting, he will use it as an excuse to cause trouble and disrupt their peaceful lives?
That was indeed a correct guess; he was indeed looking for any excuse to cause trouble.
Kobe Suzuo propped herself up with her arms against the bed, attempting to sit upright, but unfortunately, she tugged at her wound again. Her expression stiffened before she finally gave an order.