Without Alona, ​​I can only use the airdrop system.

"Ok?"

The teacher was somewhat surprised that Hoshino would ask such a question.

Clearly, this was a simple and direct test of the teacher.

But for teachers, such answers don't require much thought; they can simply answer from the heart.

"Your smiles, reflecting your happy and joyful lives, are all that matters."

"Huh, really?" Hoshino's eyes widened in surprise. "You don't have any other thoughts?"

"No."

The teacher's expression and tone were unexpectedly sincere.

"My strongest desire since coming to Kivotos is to enable students to have a simple and happy school life."

".......teacher."

Touched by the teacher's sincerity, Hoshino was suddenly overwhelmed with mixed feelings from past and present scenes, which were difficult to articulate in detail.

"If I could have met you sooner...maybe..."

"No, it's nothing." Hoshino still didn't finish her sentence, and shook her head. "Thank you, teacher."

"This is what I should do."

After that, the two chatted as they patrolled until their patrol ended and they arrived at Hoshino's house.

The teacher decided to strike while the iron was hot and to warn the student not to believe what the black-clad man said.

"By the way, Hoshino."

"What's the matter, teacher?"

"If you have any very important decisions to make or any difficulties you can't handle, please be sure to talk to me." The teacher's expression was extremely serious. "No matter how you see me, I will do my best to help you."

Hoshino stared at the teacher, who was so serious, for a moment, then smiled.

"Yes, if I have the chance, I will look for you. See you tomorrow, teacher."

"See you tomorrow."

Phew, hopefully it will work.

The teacher did not expect any significant results.

After all, they had only known each other for a day. In fact, he was already very gratified that Hoshino was willing to listen to him.

At that moment, Hoshino, who was turning to open the door, suddenly changed his expression.

"Teacher, watch out!!!"

"?!"

The moment the teacher heard Hoshino's words, he was punched solidly in the stomach!

"Pfft—!?"

As a sharp pain shot through her abdomen, the teacher's mind went blank, and she collapsed to her knees, nearly vomiting up the coffee she had just drunk.

Immediately afterwards, the teacher's head was stomped hard on the ground by a foot!

The teacher immediately lost the ability to move and collapsed to the ground.

"teacher?!"

Hoshino immediately drew his weapon to help his teacher, but his pupils constricted when he discovered who was attacking the teacher.

"Mr. Ji?! What are you doing here?!"

Mr. Ji?

The teacher recognized the attacker's name from the muffled voice.

Because of the heavy blows to his head and abdomen, his vision and hearing became quite blurred. He could even feel the bruising from his head and the mechanical foot that Mr. Ji had not released from his head.

Through the teacher's blurry vision, he saw that quite a few mechanical soldiers from the Caesar Group had arrived.

"This is an order from the directors of Caesar PMC and the Black Suit; you need to come with me." Mr. Ji's voice was very serious. "You can choose to resist, but..."

The teacher sensed that Mr. Ji was pressing down harder with his foot.

But he has difficulty speaking now and can only watch helplessly as everything unfolds.

It's unclear whether Terran weapons will be usable.

With this in mind, the teacher began to sense the Terra Armor.

"Or rather, have you thought through the choices you're faced with?"

"........"

Faced with Mr. Ji's question, Hoshino remained silent and clenched his teeth.

He was clearly implying something in his words.

The choices Hoshino faces include not only choosing to follow Mr. Ji or rebel, but also joining the organization behind Mr. Ji.

Hoshino believed that as long as he chose to join the mysterious organization behind Mr. Ji, he could deal with these Caesar soldiers on the spot and break with the Caesar Group. As for his teacher's life or death, he could not be sure.

Adding the teacher, and comparing that to the two adults I met earlier:

Mr. Ji is an adult who treats helping others as a bargaining chip with a price tag.

The person in black is an adult who forces himself to make choices within the range of what he demands.

I had little contact with the teachers, but from his appearance, he seemed like an adult who considered taking care of and helping students his fundamental responsibility. Although he had only been there for less than two days, he was indeed putting his words into practice.

If I had to choose one from Mr. Ji, the man in black, and the teacher...

After thinking it through, Hoshino made a decision.

“Alright, I’ll go with you.” Hoshino’s eyes were sharp as he made his choice. “But you have to let the teacher go!”

"Sigh... Is this your choice? Fine then."

Mr. Ji was quite helpless and could only slowly lift his foot off the teacher's head.

Then he stomped down hard again!

"Teacher?!" Hoshino was dumbfounded.

She never expected that Mr. Ji would not keep his promise at all!

This also made her instinctively dislike Mr. Ji.

"boom--!"

The teacher's entire head was embedded in the ground, while smoke and dust from the destruction of the cement bricks and stones filled the air, forming a small mist.

"Mr. Ji, you actually...?!" Hoshino was furious for the first time.

“I never promised you I would let the teacher go.” Mr. Ji’s voice was very serious. “Since you made the wrong choice, don’t blame me for taking my anger out on him.”

"This naive guy who claims to bring smiles to others deserves to be trampled on and made to feel the cruelty of reality!!"

After saying that, Mr. Ji kicked the teacher away again!

"enough!"

"Bang bang bang-!"

Seeing that his teacher's fate was uncertain, Hoshino angrily fired several shots at Mr. Ji.

Damn, almost there!

Suppressing his displeasure, he ordered the other PMC soldiers:

"Leave Hoshino to me, you guys go finish off the teacher!"

"Yes!"

The Caesar PMC soldiers immediately headed towards the spot where the teacher had fallen.

Mr. Ji, on the other hand, started to fight against Hoshino.

Hoshino was furious, completely losing his previous lazy demeanor, and raised his shotgun to fire a burst of shots at Mr. Ji!

"Bang bang bang bang bang bang-!"

However, Hoshino's shot only left a wisp of smoke on Mr. Ji's blue mechanical exterior, without even leaving a bullet mark.

"It's not working?!"

Upon seeing this, Hoshino immediately retreated, quickly reloaded, and prepared for the next wave of attacks.

But the next moment, Mr. Ji, who was originally in front of Hoshino, suddenly teleported to behind Hoshino!

"!?"

Hoshino turned around and raised the still-folded shield.

But before the shield could be deployed, Mr. Ji had already kicked out numerous afterimages from it!

"Well!"

Despite Hoshino's tenacious resistance, Mr. Ki's direct attack did not achieve any favorable results.

"Tsk."

Mr. Ji immediately changed his attack method, moving around Hoshino at an extremely fast speed, and occasionally flashing out blade-like kicks at Hoshino!

"Six-Style Ultimate Technique - Blade Tornado!"

Having never witnessed such fighting techniques before, Hoshino's ability to block and counterattack was limited, and he was quickly covered in injuries from being kicked.

Hoshino ignored the new wounds on his body and was gradually adapting to Mr. Ji's attack rhythm, and began to look for an opportunity to counterattack.

Then, just as Mr. Ji's kick was about to land on Hoshino, Hoshino seized the opportunity and aimed at Mr. Ji's blue robot head with incredible speed!

"!"

Immediately afterwards, another burst of shotgun fire rang out.

Mr. Ji therefore stopped his attacks on Hoshino.

After the brief gunfire subsided, Hoshino noticed that Mr. Ki's head was covered in bullet dust.

However, some bullets remained in Mr. Ji's palm.

"Such speed!" Hoshino exclaimed in shock. "He clearly doesn't have any special aura, yet he possesses such formidable strength?"

Just as Hoshino was about to retreat and reload, Mr. Ji had already seized Hoshino's shotgun.

"?!"

Just when Hoshino thought that Mr. Ji's purpose was to destroy the shotgun, Mr. Ji pulled Hoshino in front of him with great force!

Hoshino was completely bewildered by Mr. Ji's tactics. She immediately raised the shield she had already deployed to defend against the punch that Mr. Ji's other hand was about to deliver.

But when Mr. Ji stretched out his other hand, he didn't make a fist, but instead grabbed Hoshino's shotgun barrel!

"drink--!"

Using the force, the petite Hoshino was lifted up by Mr. Ji and then slammed hard to the ground on the other side!

"boom--!"

A large crater was created by Mr. Ji using the Starry Sky.

Because Hoshino used his sturdy shield as a buffer in the heat of the moment, he is not injured yet, but the hand holding the shield is numb from the impact.

However, the next moment, before Hoshino could adjust his posture, Mr. Ji kicked Hoshino hard in the back of the head!

"Well--!"

The halo above Hoshino's head slowly disappeared, and he fainted.

"Phew... As expected of one of Kiwatos's top combat forces."

Mr. Ji looked at Hoshino lying on the ground and breathed a sigh of relief.

Even though "Iron Block" was enhanced into a permanent talent after becoming a robot in Kiwatos, he still had some difficulty carrying two waves of her shotgun.

He began to understand why the game described every student as possessing "nobility."

This kind of "sublimity" may be the manifestation of idealistic fighting power.

This may be the real reason why she was able to withstand his six ultimate techniques.

The idealistic halo surrounding students can, at crucial moments, trigger miracles that disregard all real-world rules and limitations.

Therefore, Mr. Ji doesn't have the guts to truly defeat Hoshino in a head-on confrontation. He can only use the "first encounter kill" method to knock Hoshino unconscious and then take him back.

“Then…” Mr. Ji looked at the spot where the teacher had fallen.

The result surprised him.

The Caesar PMC soldiers who went to surround and kill the teacher were all knocked to the ground.

The teacher, holding a pistol, glared angrily at Mr. Ji.

Although there was still blood on his head, he seemed to have recovered completely.

"Wasn't he already on the verge of death?!"

Mr. Ji's expression was very serious.

What he didn't know was that the teacher's head had already used the hardening skill of Terra Armed Serpent Slaughter Box after receiving Mr. Ji's second kick.

Moreover, this defensive skill is amazing; it can detach from the body to form a luminous blue shield, and it can also greatly increase the hardness of a certain part of the body.

It can even slowly heal injuries.

Of course, that place is also an option, but that's not the focus of our discussion right now.

After the teacher used the hardening technique to significantly enhance the head's defenses, he actually didn't get injured much.

However, the impact of being stepped on head still causes dizziness.

After being kicked to the ground by Mr. Ji, the teacher did not get up immediately. Instead, he waited for the PMC soldiers to come over and realize that he was incapacitated and lowered his guard before launching a surprise counterattack.

Even so, despite the surprise attack and the fact that he had taken out a pistol from the Time Pavilion Box, his lack of combat experience and his reluctance to continue with the daily combat mode meant it took him some time to defeat them all.

All of this was because Mr. Ji focused his attention on Hoshino, which caused him to neglect the teacher's situation.

Hoshino was the same during that battle.

At the same time, Mr. Ji also received a mission message from the space system, informing him that the rest of the countermeasures committee would be arriving soon!

"whispering sound!"

Mr. Ji picked up Hoshino and turned back to say disdainfully, "Xia Lai's teacher, if you want to save Hoshino, come find me in the desert!"

After saying that, he and Hoshino quickly disappeared from the teacher's sight.

"Don't go! You..."

The teacher tried to stop him, but the fight had already exhausted him, and he could not continue to move, eventually collapsing to the ground.

At the same time, the system also issued a task:

Special mission 1 detected:

Kill Mr. Ji, a level 3 reincarnator.

Reward: Daily use of Battle Mode +1.

Special Mission 2:

Rescue Kotori Hoshino.

Reward: The selection range for Normal Mode has been expanded to include 6-star operators.

Please note, host, that the Reincarnators are also among your enemies. Due to their special status, it is not recommended to reveal their existence to the students.

"This system is incredibly slow..."

The teacher's inner monologue.

However, the teacher also noticed Mr. Ji's identity as a reincarnator.

After all, it's hard to believe that a robot the size of a human could knock out Hoshino. It's something that the beings in Giwatos could do.

Subsequently, the teacher gradually lost consciousness and fell into a coma.

"Teacher!" x4

At this moment, Shirako, Serika, Nomiya, and Ayane arrived at the scene of chaos.

Just as they were about to go to sleep at home, they received an urgent message from their teacher via Momotalk, saying that Hoshino-senpai was about to be arrested.

So everyone gathered together and headed to the location the teacher had indicated.

"...It seems we're too late."

Looking at the several large craters and the numerous spent shell casings on the ground, Bai Zi could already foresee the fierce battle that had just taken place.

"These PMC mechanical soldiers are all unconscious near the teacher... Could it be that the teacher dealt with these soldiers under the circumstances of being ambushed?!"

Celery's reaction to the teacher's performance exceeded her previous expectations.

“It’s also possible that Hoshino-senpai helped the teacher handle it,” Bai Zi analyzed. “But the Caesar Group’s target is Hoshino-senpai, so the teacher is not within their target range and was not taken away.”

Because in previous battles, the teachers had only directed and assisted them, and had never shown any fighting stance.

While Shirako and Serika were talking, Nomiya took the initiative to help the teacher who had fainted up, and Ayane also stepped forward to check on the teacher's injuries with Nomiya.

"Fortunately, there are no fatal injuries."

Ayane breathed a sigh of relief.

"Let's take the teacher away from here first."

Ayane looked at everyone seriously.

Everyone else nodded in agreement.

Some time later, in the countermeasures committee's activity room.

The teacher gradually regained consciousness.

"Hoshino!?"

He excitedly stood up and found himself surrounded by the other four members of the countermeasures committee.

"teacher."

While the teacher was unconscious, Shiroko, who was giving her a lap pillow, looked at her with concern: "Was Hoshino-senpai taken away by the Caesar Group?"

The others also looked at the teacher with serious expressions.

"Yes, it was Caesar PMC that took her away. In order to protect me, she volunteered to leave with the Caesar Group."

Following the system's advice, the teacher did not tell them the whole truth in order not to reveal Mr. Ji's identity.

"I'm sorry, everyone, I failed to protect Hoshino... It's my fault." The teacher's voice was full of remorse.