the living [comprehensive]

In the quiet evening, the sound of cicadas is loud and disturbing.

The kidnapping case planned by the girl ended without a problem.But the girl who conquered everyone with her gentle and lovely appearance in the past has lost the trust of most people.The teenage girl's friends tried to persuade the frightened children not to tell the adults in the family, but with little success.

"It's nothing, after all, everyone doesn't know the truth." Reina was a little sad, but tried to show a smile in her dim eyes, "As long as we can find a cure for everyone, wouldn't it be all right?"

The girls didn't respond, but Keiichi answered quickly: "Although I don't know what's going on, don't you, me, and Shiyin all heal themselves? So, it probably doesn't matter if you don't use medicine. "

"In this way," Meiyin, who was reminded, thought seriously, "you all had times when you were irritable before, when you wanted to kill others wholeheartedly, no matter what others said, you couldn't pull them back. Although Reina wanted to save everyone, that's right. , but the way of 'it's better to die together' is simply unreasonable. Without medicine, it will be troublesome for everyone to get sick together."

"That's right." Seeing that her friend had returned to her usual attitude, Reina didn't dislike Meiyin's straightforwardness, but instead smiled slightly.

"I also agree with the term 'Hinasawa Terminal Illness'." As the maiden of Hinaizawa, Rika is rarely serious. "Although I don't know if there is such a thing as a vaccine, why don't we go to the clinic? That's the only one here. A place where patients can be treated.”

The teenagers who seemed to be always motivated decided so and walked towards the clinic.When everyone gradually moved away from the school auditorium, Gui turned his head subconsciously, frowning deeply because of the absence of a certain figure.

Where did that anonymous man go?

He is clearly a guy of the same age as him, but he seems to be much more mature than him, and his gentle demeanor is hard to hate.No, because it's too gentle, everyone sometimes easily ignores each other's existence—even though that guy has been trying to save everyone.

etc!That guy did save himself directly or indirectly, Shion and Reina.

Could it be that that guy appeared for Hina Misawa?

There are more and more doubts in the boy's mind, but he has no time to think after arriving at the destination with his companions.

The only doctor in the clinic was not there, and the teenagers found a large number of injections labeled with "bacteriostatic agents" here.

"Although this considerable amount makes people unconcerned, it's still a bit suspicious..." Guiyi saw a white hand poking into his sight, and took away a needle in front of him, "Reina?"

"Wouldn't it be better for me to do the experiment?" Reina tore off the gauze on her neck, revealing the horrific wound with blood seeping out, "If this continues, I will scratch my throat and die. Let me take the risk. "

Where the teenagers could not see, someone watched all this with cold eyes.

The injection made with the blood of the dead can indeed suppress the outbreak of the virus.

However, in the doomed tragedy, this is just the struggle of the clowns on the eve of all destruction.

Outsiders have given up hope, and insiders act without knowing it.

After the severe pain and uncontrollable itching on the neck gradually subsided due to the injection, Rina Ryugu returned home happily.She injected antiseptics into her sleeping father and walked out of the house.

Meet at the Cotton Flow Festival - this is everyone's agreement.On this night when everyone is in the street, it's up to everyone to inject life-saving medicines into other people.If it causes a commotion, explain it out loud.Anyway, as good children, they must make the adults listen patiently, right?

With optimism in mind, Rena Ryugu walked down the main street of the village.Although it was much quieter than expected, the colorful light cast by the high-hanging colored lights still made the girl squint her eyes comfortably.She walked towards a middle-aged man she knew well: "Uncle—" She dragged her voice coquettishly, and raised the syringe sealed with red medicine high.

--Snapped!

The girl stared blankly at the glass syringe being knocked into the air by something, and the broken glass made a crisp sound when it hit the ground.The back of her hand was scratched by shards of glass.

Looking beyond the bleeding hand, the girl's eyes fell on the cold light in the hand of the man who was staring at him.

Is it... a knife?

***

The streets below gradually burned into a sea of ​​flames, with the cold light of sharp knives flashing from time to time.The heroic spirit standing at the top of the tower looked at all this with a cold face, but his forehead was deeply wrinkled.

Several energetic teenagers killed each other because of mutual suspicion. They didn't want to expose the truth and caused panic, which eventually caused the uncontrolled spread of terminal illness—this is the original development track that Heroic Spirit heard about when he received the task.He came here to prevent the virus carriers from running out of fear of Hinamizawa, and passing this deadly terminal illness to others.

But right now, I don't seem to have to worry about this.The young girl kidnapped all the children first, and then behaved strangely, which has aroused the fear of the villagers.The partner who tried to save the girl from other villagers may not be able to escape the fate of being misunderstood and hunted down.

The few teenagers who successfully fight the terminal illness are outnumbered, and others will kill each other out of control-Hina Misawa will probably end in this way.

Although the process is different, the result is the same.Humans are, indeed, selfish, suspicious and cruel creatures.

Under the dark red night sky reflected by the flames, Heroic Spirit sighed.From the corner of the eye, he caught a glimpse of the boy's closed eyelids moving, and Ying Ling turned towards him.

In order to let the tired little ghost get a full rest, he even used magic power as a barrier to isolate all restlessness from the outside world.It's just that there is always a moment when the dream wakes up, and the other party should also return to the real world like hell.

"Archer?" Shirou sat up sleepily, his amber pupils filled with water, "Has the festival started yet? It sounds very lively."

Heroic Spirit didn't answer.In the silence of the other party, the young man who was gradually waking up suddenly jumped up.

No, that's not making noise, but...

Shirou walked quickly to the side of Heroic Spirit, his pure eyes widened because of what he saw.

The street that came into view was like an abyss of death, and it was the boys and girls he was familiar with who were seized by the crisis of death.Rina Ryūmiya wielded the hatchet fiercely, but carefully knocked people unconscious with the back of the knife.However, someone has raised the shotgun high and aimed at the center of the girl's back——

--Be careful!

Shirou's scream caught in his throat.

The surrounding world became silent, only the gunshot was extraordinarily loud like an explosion.

Reina, who was safe and sound, turned around during the slashing gap, just in time to see the boy holding the metal bat fall down behind him.

Keiichi Maehara, who promised not to give up the girl, finally fulfilled his promise at the cost of his life.

The heart seemed to fall from the sky, Shirou closed his eyes: "What the hell?" Turning to the heroic spirit, his voice raised a little, "What the hell happened!"

"Your friends have discovered the injection that can save Hinamizawa, and want to give it to others." Heroic Spirit's low voice seemed to be mixed with a trace of fatigue, "Therefore, it caused panic."

"panic?"

"Well. The bad nature of human beings burst out of panic and destroyed themselves. This is the destined end. Of course, because of you, the form of panic has changed."

"You...you already knew!" Hearing a hint of sarcasm in Heroic Spirit's calm tone, the young man couldn't help but get angry, "Are you just watching with cold eyes like that, secretly laughing at my efforts!"

Heroic Spirit turned his head abruptly.Looking down at that ice-like gaze, Shirou's heart skipped a beat, and he took a step back involuntarily.

"Human beings are like this. Only a hypocritical and stupid brat like you can hope for it. I originally came here to destroy this evil place, and I didn't intend to save these people who were destined to go crazy. And, do you really think they Can you be saved by outsiders?" Heroic Spirit's voice was like ice, piercing the young man's heart word by word, "From the beginning, it was your wishful thinking and stupidity. There is no point in making yourself bruised and bruised."

After saying this, Heroic Spirit held his forehead helplessly.

It seems, a little out of control.I'm afraid the words I just said will hurt the kid's heart, right?

However, what does this kid think, and what does it have to do with me?

After calming down the chaotic mood, Heroic Spirit raised his eyes again.To his surprise, the boy who was furious a few seconds ago had calmed down.

Biting his lip, the boy actually apologized to Yingling: "I'm sorry, Archer, I shouldn't have lost my temper with you."

Receiving an unexpected reaction, Heroic Spirit's cold eyes widened.

"I'm just angry at my negligence. I wanted you to see hope, but I made a mess because of my own inadequacy. But I won't give up until the last moment. Moreover, I, who became their partner, is no longer An outsider." After saying that, the boy jumped straight down from the tall building.

Seeing the youth landed lightly and ran towards his partner, Heroic Spirit shook his head again.

— doomed to futility.

The boy named Keiichi Maehara fell on the ground, as if he really died.Rina Ryugu still brandished the hatchet tenaciously to protect the other girls. However, through the hair hanging down on her forehead, Heroic Spirit could clearly see her clear eyes that were stained with darkness.

Because the only person in her life who would never let her go, the girl defeated her crazy fate; but without that light of life, she probably wanted to die.

These teenagers did let themselves see "hope".However, this beautiful and fragile existence will soon be annihilated here.

The heroic spirit who thought this way never took any action.

——The task of "Destroying Hina Misawa" does not need to be done by yourself, it will be completed automatically.

Heroic Ling persuaded himself with such a reason, but he knew in his heart that this was not the reason why he had been on the sidelines until now.

——I want to see how far that brat can go——

The heroic spirit who recovered from deep thought opened his eyes wide.

The strong magic light spread out in the air, forming a huge cold blue shield.

The boy who had been avoiding the use of magic power, in order to protect his so-called companions, finally used magic to cover the exhausted girls under a shield.

What the boy used was his own projection magic——

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