From the moment he killed Representative Hope, Higashinohara realized the break between him and the Celestial Government, who had been wearing a mask. The World Government, which had ruled the world for nearly a hundred years, would not allow anyone to challenge their majesty.
But he still stabbed out those two knives cleanly.
Afterwards, he thought about various possible situations and felt a sense of urgency in his heart, urging himself to be more diligent and consistent in exercising for more than half a month to continuously improve his attributes.
It has to be said that this sense of urgency is even more urgent than when I was facing expulsion from the academy.
Being kicked out of the academy means at most that he may have to return to his hometown, a small fishing village in Hokkaido, and live a life of "snowflakes falling and the north wind blowing" from now on. But if he really faces the world government, then things may not be that simple.
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After getting off the train and walking on the path back to the apartment, he recalled in his mind the horrific incident in Shibuya Mall he had just seen and the people wearing dark gold dragonfly masks like him.
He didn't think the world government could be so crazy.
Although the Celestial Nobles in Beijing have always had a bad attitude towards humans, some big countries in this world, such as the Saint Malo Empire and the United States of Tagos in the Western Hemisphere...the powerful countries in the Alliance have human demigod-level abilities.
, as well as the checks and balances of pirates and revolutionary forces around the world, plus some unknown "historical reasons"...
This makes the Celestial World Government, at least on the surface, always advocate that "human beings and celestial beings are equally important to this world". In history, the upper house of the Celestial Being Government even passed the "abolition of apartheid and the implementation of intermarriage between celestial beings and humans".
"Proposal, that's why there are so many hybrids today.
In this general environment, even if the World Government is very eager to "bring Higashinohara to justice" to show the inviolable majesty of the World Government, it will not adopt such a crazy method.
So who will it be?
Who else is looking for him besides the World Government?
...
In the evening, Kabukicho 1st Street.
At the bar counter of a bar, Thiago Murphy gently shook the blue flame in his hand, listening to soft and comfortable music in his ears. He supported his head with one hand and tilted his head slightly, looking through the pattern of the transparent glass of the cocktail glass.
In this bar, young men and women are chatting and laughing in a relaxed manner.
Occasionally, a single woman would cast a meaningful look at him.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk... I didn't expect that Wano, a small country on the edge of the East China Sea, actually knows how to enjoy life. It feels like time has slowed down all of a sudden..."
Next to him, Vice Captain Lunn smiled and approached, "Captain Murphy, when did you become so sentimental?"
"Sentimental? No, no, no... I'm just feeling..."
Thiago Murphy chuckled and said, "I don't have a good life like Corleone. I was born in a cloud like the Nine Families and looked down on all living beings. So when he jumped down from the cloud on his own initiative, even if he made a little achievement, he would
Received the attention and praise of countless people around the world.”
"Haha... I am just an abandoned son of a down-and-out heavenly noble family. I have been experiencing war and death since I was young. I have never had such a comfortable and idle time in my memory of wandering at sea. The same goes for the people around me, because many people
I don’t even know if I will be able to see the sun tomorrow, so I work hard to become stronger every day. Only in this way can I sleep peacefully at night.”
Vice Captain Lun listened to Thiago's emotion and said with a smile, "Captain, if you like it, then our annual vacation to the Sinful Island in the South China Sea will be changed to Wano Country."
"No, no, no...I'm just curious."
"Captain, what are you curious about?"
Thiago took another sip of the blue flame in the cup, and looked at the strange woman with exquisite makeup in the booth not far away. She held a lady's cigarette between her long white fingers, took a deep breath and blew out the smoke at him.
lock up.
He couldn't help but chuckle and said:
"What I'm curious about is... when these leisurely human beings suddenly lose their previous comfortable and comfortable life one day, what will they choose next? Will she accept her fate? Will she commit suicide? Or will she embark on another path that she has never imagined?
...Don’t you find it interesting?”
"Well...it's quite interesting."
Vice Captain Lunn laughed dryly.
After finishing speaking, Lunn hesitated for a moment and then said, "There was a call from Shangjing this afternoon... Let's not go too far. In addition, Judge Mick Gioia also arrived in New Tokyo today. He is here
The leader of the Beijing-based special operations investigation team on the murder of Representative Hope, asked us to try our best to cooperate with his work."
"Is that half-breed Mick?"
Thiago pondered for a moment, with a smile on his face, "He should be at the seventh level bottleneck now, tsk tsk... I really want to fight him, I think it will be very enjoyable."
"Captain, let's go next..." Lunn asked for instructions.
"Of course... Let's continue this investigation. We must be worthy of the Bart family's reward." Tiago put down his wine glass with a smile, "If a wolf wants to find the sheep in the flock, the last resort is of course to eat them first.
If you lose a few, maybe...the sheep will help you find that sheep to eat, and there might be a wolf hidden in the heart of the sheep..."
A moment later, a shocking explosion came from Kabukicho Ichiban Street in the evening!
The glass windows of the bar and the surrounding streets, as well as the windows of illegally parked cars on the roadside, at the moment when the fire surged, a terrifying shock wave swept out countless glass fragments and rushed out like a frenzy!
Passers-by on the street screamed and squatted down with their heads in their hands. A part-time girl who was picking up and handing out flyers at a nearby maid shop squatted on the ground shivering. Her arm was scratched by the glass and was bleeding. She looked at the plane pouring out across the street with fear in her eyes.
The bar with billowing black smoke.
Boom!
The collapsed front door of the bar was kicked open.
Several relaxed figures walked out of the strong flames and black smoke, all wearing dark golden dragonfly masks on their faces, like demons from hell.
The girl suddenly covered her mouth and widened her eyes.
Without warning, she saw a woman rushing out from behind those people, howling like a headless fly, stumbling out of the bar.
The woman's makeup was exquisite, but the left half of her face was severely burned. The half-refined, half-ugly appearance was full of a strong sense of dissonance.
The leader of those in the dragonfly mask glanced at the howling woman with interest, but did not do anything to stop her. He just led a few people to easily pass through the frightened crowd on the road and disappeared at the corner of the street.
Ten minutes later, amidst the rapid sound of sirens, red and blue police cars with flashing lights appeared one after another from behind the street corner.
...
"Boss...three bowls...oh no, five bowls of ramen."
"Is that much? Which of the three of you can eat two more bowls?"
"Uh...the five bowls are all hers."
In the evening, at the entrance of a ramen shop in the commercial pedestrian street of Shibuya District, Charlie rubbed her belly and smiled harmlessly at the owner of the ramen shop, saying, "How much can a kitten eat?"
"Eat, eat... when you're full, run around a few more times to find someone." Aragaki Satoru dug out his wallet to pay as if resigned to his fate, then turned to look at Higashinohara, "Would you like a bowl, Higashino-kun?"
"No, thank you." Higashinohara said.
He bought Kodachi last month and eats ramen every day. Now he feels like vomiting when he smells ramen.
Aragaki Satoru also breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this.
Unexpectedly, the next second, Higashinohara suddenly added, "Please convert it into meal supplements for me."
"..." Aragaki Satoru.
The three of them entered the store and found a table to sit down. Charlie occasionally glanced at the steaming pot in the back kitchen through the curtain, rubbing her chopsticks and spoon while waiting for her ramen to be served.
Aragaki rubbed his chin, "It's strange. According to the missing girl, she went to her best friend's house. But according to her best friend's mother, the two girls came to Shibuya for shopping today, but why haven't they gone home at this time? Is there anyone there?
Do you want to go shopping all day?”
"Yes, don't women in New Tokyo always live on the streets during holidays?" Charlie said.
Aragaki Satoru's mouth twitched.
The silent Higashinohara suddenly suggested, "Why don't we go to a nearby shopping mall to look for it later? There are quite a lot of people in the shopping mall at night."
"This is the only way. Girls nowadays really don't let their families worry." Aragaki Satoru shook his head.
After finishing their meal, the three of them walked out of the ramen shop.
Charlie wiped her mouth. After eating half full, she was not lazy either. She ran as fast as she could on the pedestrian street and would report the situation to Aragaki Satoru from time to time.
"Eh? Did there be an explosion in a shopping mall here?"
Hearing the words "mall explosion", Higashinohara immediately remembered the news he saw on the subway when he returned home. He and Satoru Aragaki looked at each other and quickly accelerated their pace in the direction of Charlie.
Far away, I could see the police cordon in front of my eyes.
After getting closer, Higashinohara discovered that this was the Shibuya District Lechao Commercial Shopping Center in Shibuya District. However, the bustling square in the past was extremely deserted. The colorful lanterns and ribbons arranged to welcome the Ice and Snow Festival had all changed in the explosion.
Became ashes.
The thick smoke on the ruins has dispersed, and the lights of police lights and ambulances are flashing in the dusk. Occasionally, there is blood leaching out from under the dusty ruins and staining it red. The reporters outside the cordon have hesitant and sad expressions when reporting to the camera.
His tone was extremely pale at this moment.
When Higashinohara saw the news on his mobile phone on the subway in the afternoon, he was not too touched by the blurry pictures of the scene.
At this moment, by chance, I walked to the ruins and stared at the scene in front of me.
He gradually stopped, his hands hanging quietly by his sides, and his face became silent and focused.