Chapter 71 The strength of that man is nothing more than that (8K ask for a monthly pass)
The search continues.
A yellow cordon has been put up on the ruins of the shopping mall. Under such circumstances, it is impossible for Higashinohara and the others to enter the ruins to confirm the victims' information.
So the three of them could only continue searching in the surrounding pedestrian streets with the idea that the worst was not yet true. At the same time, they kept in touch with the families of the missing persons to obtain the latest progress.
Night came unknowingly.
The high-rise buildings surrounding this pedestrian street in Shibuya are strung with bright lights, hanging like curtains in the night on both sides of the street.
"It seems I can't find it tonight."
Aragaki Satoru sighed, shook his head and said, "It's no wonder that not many colleagues are willing to accept this kind of commission. There are too many places for people to move in this society."
He sighed like this, deliberately avoiding the possibility that the two girls might have been in the mall when the terrorist incident occurred, and were now lying in the ashes of a dead ruin.
Not only Higashinohara knows this.
Even Charlie knows it.
After hearing Aragaki Satoru's words, both of them remained silent.
Aragaki Satoru was stunned for a moment, then suddenly said with a smile, "Hahaha, don't make a sad face, just smile. If you think about the bright side of everything, life will have less worries and more fun."
After finishing speaking, he clapped his hands and said with a smile, "Okay, the afternoon's work is over here. Now I'm off work. I will contact the families of the missing people tomorrow. Maybe the little girl suddenly missed home after being away from home for a few days.
He just ran back secretly."
Higashinohara nodded. Although he felt a little depressed at the moment, he had no other choice and followed Aragaki Satoru and Charlie to the parking lot of the pedestrian street.
However, he didn't go far. When he passed by the ruins of the shopping mall again, Higashinohara stopped and looked blankly across the road to the ruins of the shopping mall.
Aragaki Satoru and Xia Li, who were walking in front, noticed and turned their heads at the same time. Xia Li scratched her short silver ears and urged, "Hurry up Higashino! The intersection ahead is about to turn red."
Aragaki Satoru followed Higashinohara's gaze and saw only two weirdly dressed people standing on the opposite side of the road. However, it was not surprising that Shibuya was the most fashionable area in Tokyo. He asked with some confusion,
"Has Higashinohara seen the missing girl?"
Before coming, he showed the two of them face to face in the car.
Higashinohara came to his senses after hearing this, smiled and shook his head, "No, I just remembered that I found a part-time job at a convenience store here before leaving. You guys go back first."
"Wow! Dongye, are you going to work?"
When Charlie heard this, she felt envious. She came up and asked, "Dongye, can you help me find a part-time job when you have time? What kind of job do you think I am suitable for?"
Higashinohara glanced at the two fluffy ears on Charlie's head and said, "Hmm... Cat Cafe, if you have time to go for an interview, you should have a good chance."
"Hey, hey, hey! Don't poach people in front of me!" Aragaki Satoru was dissatisfied.
Only then did Charlie realize that her boss was right next to her, and she quickly patted her chest and said, "Don't worry, boss! You have been so kind to me, and I will never betray you."
"This is the right thing. Work hard and you will be the elder of the firm from now on." Aragaki Satoru promised without blinking and gave him a blank check.
In fact, at first he was a little resistant to the 'Catwoman' recruited by Mai Aragaki for him, but after getting along with him for a while, he found that there was someone he could control in the office, which made it much more convenient in all aspects.
Even when he goes to put up small advertisements on the street, the one he posted in front of him is torn off or covered by others, and the one behind him is "seamlessly connected" when he puts it up here.
Charlie was very happy after hearing this, and her eyes narrowed with laughter.
The word "senior" sounded very valuable, so she asked excitedly, "Boss...can I become a full-time employee this month? How much is my monthly salary?"
"Ahem... Hahaha, don't be so anxious... You have also seen the situation in our office... That..."
Speaking of this, Aragaki Satoru suddenly turned his head and waved to Higashinohara, "Higashino, we are going back first. You can take the train home later. Charlie-chan, hurry up! The red light is about to come!"
Higashinohara also smiled and waved his hand.
When Aragaki Satoru and Xia Li disappeared at the intersection, the smile on his face gradually faded away, and he looked across the ruins of the shopping mall again, but his consciousness sank into the sin manual in his mind.
[Warning: Target found]
【Sin Manual 006】
[Name: Gloria Cook]
[Race: Human]
[Ability: Talent Sequence 48 Time Hourglass - You can release the ability as the center, which can slow down the flow of time around you to a certain extent, which is equivalent to an increase in your own speed in the eyes of outsiders]
[Ability level: Level 6, Stage 3]
[Sin value: 4 stars]
[Character image cross-section (can be clicked to open)]
[You can choose the mission when it is being generated: capture or eliminate the pirate Gloria Cook. After the capture is successful, you can immediately obtain a prisoner's ability]
Pirates of the Western Sea?
Why did it appear on the streets of New Tokyo?
Higashinohara looked at the name and the opponent's ability in the crime manual, and couldn't help but think of the news he saw in the afternoon. The news seemed to mention that the criminals in the shopping mall terror incident might come from abroad.
Two guys across the street,
Could it be related to the explosion in the afternoon?
Higashino moved his gaze downwards and looked at the cross-section of the opponent's character.
...
"Boss Murphy left us here while they went to Kabukicho to enjoy themselves...tsk, tsk, tsk."
Across the road, a woman in a light blue coat put out a woman's cigarette, threw it into the green belt on the roadside, and smiled charmingly at a passing office worker.
The latter's heart suddenly trembled, and he quickly lowered his head to avoid looking at her. This woman is so beautiful.
When the companion next to him heard the complaint, he couldn't help but said with a smile, "Don't think so much. There will be plenty of time for us to relax after this mission is over. Boss Murphy has never treated us badly."
"That's true..."
The woman in the light blue coat nodded, "But we've been waiting here all afternoon, and we haven't seen anyone except the people from the Metropolitan Police Department. I guess that 'Captain Dragonfly' isn't coming either. How about that?"
Want to have some fun?"
"Hey...don't cause trouble."
"What's causing trouble? Let's put on the masks. The whole thing was done by 'Captain Dragonfly'... What does it have to do with us? Isn't this the mission now?"
"Eh? That's true. Well, what do you think of the two people opposite?"
"Does it look like a high school couple who have just finished school and are shopping... Wow, what a warm and leisurely youth. I heard that people in love are willing to give up their lives for each other. Do you believe it?"
"I don't believe it, what about you?"
"I don't believe it either, but I want to try."
...
On the opposite side of the road, at the entrance of an alley behind a tall building, two figures, a man and a woman, appeared. The girl walking in front seemed a little angry, and the boy behind him caught up and took her hand.
"Go this way, the alley behind is a shortcut."
"It's all my fault that you came to this mall for a date to watch a movie. Now it's better. After taking the tram for a long time, the trip was still in vain."
"Okay, okay! It's all my fault, come in quickly."
"Hey...what are you doing."
"Kiss! Just kiss!"
"Hate! Don't be here, wait! You can't do it there..."
Two young lovers were making out in a dark alley.
"Cough cough cough!"
At this time, a dry cough appeared in the alley without warning.
The boy paused for a moment and turned around in surprise. The girl quickly arranged her clothes and raised her hand to wipe her face. She was a little angry and found that a piece of her makeup had been chewed off.
She was about to question the boy when she noticed the two figures in front of her, and she was suddenly startled.
The two people who jumped in front of me had their backs to the street lights behind them. They wore dark golden dragonfly masks on their faces and walked in casually and naturally, without any consciousness of disturbing others.
...
"who are you?"
The boy asked a little unhappily.
The man among the two smiled and said, "Sorry for disturbing you... Since you asked the question sincerely, I will tell you straight away - let's play a game. Only one of you two will survive tonight."
One comes down, and the decision is in your hands."
A game where you can only live one?
The young couple was stunned for a moment. The girl seemed a little scared. Although the boy didn't want to lose face in front of his girlfriend, he was pulled back by the girl behind him. In addition, the masks on the faces of the two people in front of him...
He suddenly felt a little timid.
"are you crazy..."
The boy cursed softly, pulled the girl and turned around to leave.
Unexpectedly, the man behind him chuckled.
He snapped his fingers, and without any warning, a circle of extremely hot flames suddenly surrounded the young couple.
Explosion. Garland of flames!
"Now...the game begins."
As the words fell, the extremely hot fire ring suddenly and slowly shrank towards the group of frightened young lovers in the middle, and the rolling heat wave could be felt on the surface of the skin.
A clear idea emerged in their minds.
People will die!
It's really going to kill people!
Gloria, who was wearing a light blue coat, raised her hand and threw a sailor's scimitar into the garland of flames. Her charming eyes were filled with a sparkling smile, "Whenever there is only one person left, the flames will
Stop, of course you can die together."
"You, you, you... who are you? Why do you do this?" The girl looked at the two of them in horror.
"Us?"
Gloria pointed to the mask on her face and said with a joking smile, "We are Captain Dragonfly. It seems that this mask is not well-known enough. I thought you would have recognized it a long time ago."
The man next to him, whose fingertips were burning with flames, gently rubbed his fingers, and the garland of flames suddenly shrank bit by bit towards the middle. He looked at the panicked young couple and gave a weird laugh:
"Hurry up, time is running out."
Just at this moment, a very sudden and weird voice came from behind the two of them without warning, "What a coincidence, I don't have much time."
The young man wearing a mask and a black hoodie quietly emerged from the shadows in the corner behind the two of them without any warning.
Without thinking too much at all, the pirates in the West Sea lived a life of licking blood with the tip of their swords every day. The terrifying sense of crisis behind them made them turn around in an instant, swing their swords, and activate their abilities.
Pyroblast. Flame slash!
Hourglass of time!
However, before the two people who turned around could clearly see the figure walking out of the shadows behind them, the man who slashed out the Flame Slash instantly lost his balance, leaned forward and fell down.
Gloria, who unfolded the hourglass of time to slow down the flow of time around her, suddenly shrank her pupils at this shocking moment. It was incredible to see a figure that was almost parallel to the ground, standing vertically on the back of her companion!
Before she could even blink!
The next moment, her companion was kicked off balance and fell forward, but the figure still disappeared from her retina.
A person with time hourglass ability does not need to be faster than others. She only needs to slow down the flow of time around her and let others slow down, and then she will naturally be faster.
But at this moment,
But it seems to have no effect at all.
Before Gloria could react, a strange voice came from behind her ear, "What are the pirates from the West Sea doing in New Tokyo? Are they on vacation?"
How did she know we were from the West Sea?
Gloria was shocked.
The Senhan folding knife tempered by the Tianren meteorite in his hand was about to be slashed out, but he found that his hand was empty and the folding knife had already appeared in the opponent's hand!
The other person lowered his head and glanced at her knife.
"It's an expensive knife."
Gloria jumped back instantly and put her fists in a defensive stance. People who master the [Time Hourglass] ability generally have excellent physical fitness and fighting skills.
The next moment, when the black shadow rushed towards her, she was hit with another sharp knee as soon as she punched out her fist. The unexpected feedback was a hollow feeling that made people vomit blood!
The figure went from in front of her to to her side in just an instant, as if a dream had evaporated. The right arm from her punch had separated and landed on the ground. The cut was neat and smooth, and the severed arm fell to the dark ground with a snap.
In the alley.
But the blood spurted out and the broken arm was instantly frightened, causing the young couple to lose consciousness and scream.
"It's a sharp knife."
The figure wearing a mask said the third sentence.
The tone is still so weird and strange.
"Aren't you leaving yet?"
This sentence was said to those two high school students.
The next moment, the young couple trapped by the garland of flames realized that the surrounding flames had disappeared. Seeing the bloody and horrifying scene in front of them, the two people quickly turned around and crawled, supporting each other and ran towards
The other end of the alley.
Higashinohara turned his head and looked behind him. The man controlling the flames seemed to have run away when he saw something was wrong, so the flame garland disappeared.
Fortunately, the target in the crime manual has not been lost.
He lowered his head and glanced at Gloria Cook, who had suffered a severe broken arm. He pulled the folding knife in his hand as fast as lightning, and the mask on the other person's face instantly collapsed - revealing a woman's face and platinum fluffy hair.
Her appearance looks very charming.
"It seems that the game is over, your companions have abandoned you." Higashinohara turned around and said calmly.
"Who are you? Are you the one wearing the dragonfly mask?" Gloria endured the severe pain, remembering the other party's shadow-like ability, and stared at the eyes on Higashinohara's mask and said bitterly.
Higashinohara said softly, "Yes, I answered your question. Now can you answer a few questions for me?"
"A few questions...hehe...you want me to answer the questions, unless..." Gloria heard that she was still valuable, her eyes flashed, and she suddenly had the idea of procrastinating.
However, Higashinohara didn't want to listen to what she said next.
"Unless? Sorry...I'm in a hurry."
He explained as if talking to himself.
What?
Gloria looked stunned!
The next moment, after the knife cut off the wrist, another cold light passed through the dark alley, and a head with platinum-blond hair rolled to the ground, with a look of confusion on its beautiful and charming face.
Blood spurted out like a fountain instantly!
...
at the same time,
In an alley a few streets away.
A man took out his mobile phone and dialed a certain number while running. Thiago Murphy's voice soon came from the other end of the phone, asking calmly:
"What's wrong? What happened?"
"Boss! We met that man! He is our target this time!"
"oh?!"
On the other end of the phone, Thiago's face suddenly showed a look of interest, "Why are you calling, where is Gloria?"
"Gloria is at the rear." The man sounded a little embarrassed.
"It seems you have lost?"
Thiago Murphy narrowed his eyes slightly and asked, "How is the opponent's strength?"
The man did not dare to lie in front of Thiago and recalled the scene just now.
"The opponent is very fast! But his strength does not seem to be as strong as expected. It feels a little inconsistent with the rumors. He is at the beginning of the seventh stage at most."
He told the truth and didn't hide anything. This was not a mistake in judgment.
The main thing is that Higashinohara just got a four-star sin value from Gloria, and all the temporary attribute points were added to agility, which was only over 70 points. In terms of speed alone, it was not even as good as the night he faced the Snake Ghoulguigo, let alone the agility on the day of Asahi Island.
It broke through the panic state of breaking through 90 for the first time.
Thiago also fell into deep thought after hearing this. It seems that the information the family received from the Bart family was wrong...
But in this case...
This mission seems to be much easier.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, a strange man's voice suddenly broke into the other end of the phone, and his accent sounded extremely weird.
"Sorry, did I interrupt your call?"
A few seconds later...
An explosion and screams came from the other end of the phone at the same time. The phone seemed to be destroyed by the explosion, and there was a blind tone of "didi, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep."
