Humanoid self-propelled wishing machine

Shuji Tsushima couldn't make it to the end of the fireworks display.

The high fever caused by the wound infection and the lack of drinking water for several days have exhausted all of Shuji Tsushima's physical strength. His head was in dull pain like being knocked up and down, and his consciousness was already like a lump. It was blurred like a paste.

In a trance, he seemed to have returned to that fire once again, his body was burning like being placed on a blazing bonfire, and every cell was being evaporated little by little, becoming brittle It was scorched and withered, and it would turn into dry powder when touched lightly, and was blown away by the wind without a sound.

The fire is burning.

Something rises from the ashes.

Under the gorgeous and decadent fireworks that Lianyang agreed to watch together, Shuji Tsushima's will was infinitely weakened.

In the midst of the bustling summer festival where everyone was laughing and laughing, in the cold alley where no one knew, after a long silence, there were intermittent, struggling and whimpering sounds of thin and suppressed weeping.

"Ugh..."

Shuji Tsushima tightly clenched the prison gate in his hand, curled up his trembling body, bit his lower lip tightly, his hard teeth tore the soft lips, mixed the painful wailing with the light red The blood and water were swallowed together, and there were mourning and fragile tears in the empty iris-colored pupils, until the body was exhausted to the extreme, until the world was dark, completely lost consciousness, until fainted.

He had just escaped from that boundless nightmare more terrifying than hell.

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Shuji Tsushima woke up in the hospital.

Snow-white wards, light-colored window screens, gentle and bright sunlight coming in from the windows, doctors and nurses busy doing the work at hand, everything in the world is ordinary and beautiful.

And the dirty wound on his body seemed to have been carefully cleaned, ointment was applied, and clean gauze was wrapped, except for the sticky and cold ointment on the surface of the skin and the slightly tight sense of restraint, There is no more discomfort and pain.

Shuji Tsushima pulled out his arm from under the slightly old thin quilt, and raised it up against the sun. The wide sleeves with blue and white stripes slid down in response to gravity, revealing a slender body tightly wrapped in snow-white bandages. arm.

It seems that he was found and sent to the hospital.

Shuji Tsushima's mood was unexpectedly calm.

He turned his head to one side, and the strange and disgusting-looking Prison Gate was not left behind, and it happened to be placed on the bedside table. Shuji Tsushima reached out to take the Prison Gate and hugged him tightly again.

"are you awake?"

Someone walked around the light blue curtain used to partition it.

Shuji Tsushima propped himself up and looked up.

It was a young man with half-length black hair in a military uniform. His eyes were raised and he was handsome, but his expression made people feel a little uncomfortable. he.

"My name is Mori Ogai, and I'm a small chief of the health department in the army." He said this very self-effacingly, then walked to Shuji Tsushima's bed, pulled out the chair and sat down, "After going back Tokyo found you by accident while dealing with some affairs, and sent you to the hospital."

Shuji Tsushima was very familiar with Mori Ogai's eyes.

That is the color of greed that often appears in the eyes of politicians when they smell the stink of profit.

He turned his eyes away, stared at the prison gate that he held in the palm of his hand, and said coldly, "There is nothing worth coveting about me."

And Mori Ogai just smiled meaningfully, "This little gentleman, forgive me." He said, "Do you know that I have supernatural powers?"

Mori Ogai did not tell the truth to Shuji Tsushima, but it was not a complete lie, he just modified his words a little, trying to make Shuji Tsushima closer to him with some innocuous words.

When Mori Ogai passed that alley in the early morning when there were few people in Tokyo, he did smell a bit of rancid blood, but he was not a nosy person. Thousands of people die in corners every day in this world , is not a rare thing, what does it have to do with him?

So he just ignored those slight abnormalities indifferently, and planned to continue running towards his destination as if nothing had happened.

It was actually the 11-year-old girl who was brought by Mori Ogai's side at that time—Yoshino Akiko who really noticed Shuji Tsushima who was unconscious in the alley, and stubbornly insisted on saving him.

In the long and protracted supernatural war, Yosano Akiko lost her parents because of the bombing of Japanese land by supernatural powers from other countries, but accidentally awakened supernatural powers when she was on the verge of death [please don’t die] , narrowly survived the terrorist attack.

In the disaster that unfortunately killed tens of thousands of people, only this one person survived. Such an extremely conspicuous fact was naturally noticed by the government officials in charge of investigating the incident at that time.

After investigating and testing Yosano Akiko's supernatural ability, a detailed report was submitted to the superior, which was intercepted sharply by Mori Ogai.

Almost after he learned about Yosano Akiko's supernatural power, a rudimentary form of a terrible plan appeared in his mind.

But this time, Mori Ogai specially retreated from the front line of the war and hurried back to Tokyo, just to get the [right to use] Yosano Akiko before everyone else, and in this country where Japan has fallen into decline in the supernatural war. This is an excellent opportunity to propose the [Undead Legion] plan that he intends to implement.

With his almost eloquent eloquence, it is not difficult to persuade Yosano Akiko to participate in the [Undead Legion] plan, not to mention that the girl who lost everything she originally had in the war is already sympathetic to the alien who planned this attack. With deep hatred in his heart, Ogai Mori won for himself the firm approval of this core supernatural power user who played an important role in the plan without spending much time.

The day I met Shuji Tsushima was actually supposed to be the last day Mori Ogai stayed in Tokyo.

Mori Ogai persuaded the politicians who only had interests in their hearts to set aside an elite force as a surprise guerrilla, which was handed over to the command of Mori Ogai, and flexibly supported outside of the formal military confrontation, with Yosano Akiko as the core figure , using her special ability to heal wounded soldiers, so that soldiers with outstanding personal abilities can use their advantages to the extreme in the war, and at the same time deliberately create an indestructible and invincible undead army, psychologically Attacking the enemy's army, gradually disintegrating the soldiers' will to fight.

From Lu Dou of the Zen Academy, who even planned to make a wish to Erina despite the heavy price, we can get a glimpse of the current difficult situation in Japan. The group of politicians desperately pinned their hopes on this absurd and unimaginable [Undead Legion] In terms of planning, it is not something incomprehensible.

And after obtaining the permission of government officials and the right to appoint the commanding troops, Ogai Mori took Yosano Akiko back to the battlefield he was thinking of without any delay, planning to fight for the sake of the country and the cause of justice. How could he be in the mood to stop for a dying child in an alley whose wounds were infected, inflamed and festered, and which had a high probability of not being rescued?

In the beginning, he didn't even agree with Yosano Akiko to use his supernatural ability to heal the nameless child.

In the eyes of Mori Ogai, the supernatural ability with Akiko Yosano is national property, and it is the key to Japan's victory in this war. If you use it rashly in an outside world that is not safe and closed, you will be attacked by the enemy country. The risk of spies obtaining intelligence, in this critical moment of tension, is the most dangerous thing to do.

But Yosano Akiko, who is still young and still has a pure nature, obviously has a different opinion from him.

She firmly believes that if she was lucky enough to survive that disaster and possesses such abilities, she should lend a helping hand to all those who are in suffering.

There may be a little atonement psychology of post-traumatic stress disorder in this, but it is more related to Yosano Akiko's kindness in nature that makes her unable to turn a blind eye to the injured.

And Mori Ogai didn't want to have a dispute with Yosano Akiko before he could fully gain her trust. After weighing the pros and cons, he compromised with Yosano Akiko.

"There's no way, since it's what Akiko wants to do, let's do it." He used such a helpless and gentle, father-like tone to cover up all the cold calculations.

And the way Yosano Akiko looked at him, who got his wish, got a little closer as expected.

"Thank you." She thanked in a low voice, and then, driven by the doctor's instinct, she ran to the side of the child who was lying in a dirty alley, breathing weakly and in a dire condition.

Yosano Akiko, who had never received formal training before that disaster, could only judge based on her superficial medical knowledge. The most serious injury on the unconscious child was undoubtedly a large area of ​​burns. There were only slight scratches and impact injuries, not serious, but probably because the body was too weak and healed slowly, and the large bruises lingered for a long time, so it looked a little scary.

But for Yosano Akiko, these are not difficult to deal with. As long as the physical function damage is caused by external injuries, it is just a simple matter in front of her, and the wound infection makes this age look younger than her. The child who was a few years old was in a dying state with weak vital signs, but it happened to meet the conditions for her supernatural ability to activate.

From now on, she only needs to put her hand on the wounded person in front of her, and follow the natural instinct in her body to activate the supernatural power——

[please don't die]

With a gentle and compassionate heart, she silently read the name of her supernatural power, but she did not see the miracle happening as usual.

Like the collision of magnets with the same poles, and like ice cubes sublimated in the flames, her supernatural ability melted silently into his domain after touching the seriously injured child.

She froze in place.

Mori Ogai saw that she was putting her hand on the insignificant child for a long time, so he asked, "What's the matter, Akiko, why don't you make a move?"

"...It doesn't work."

Yosano Akiko's voice was so weak that Mori Ogai couldn't hear clearly, "What?"

The girl who had never missed a hand after gaining the power raised her head, her expression was a little flustered, "My power doesn't work on this child... What should I do, Mr. Mori?"

Unknowingly, Yosano Akiko has become dependent on this man whom he has only met a few times.

And Mori Ogai narrowed his eyes slightly, and captured some key information that was not yet certain from the short sentence with Yosano Akiko.

"Really?" he said, "then let me see."