[Ya Ji] Babel

On the eve of dawn, the screams of the bluebirds mixed with the roar of the mechs hovered over the ruined land of Tianwang State.The once verdant and lush urban green belt lay alone in the ashes after the fire. A few hawks covered with blood stains and crystal fragments of the Apocalypse virus jumped over the overturned truck in the middle of the road, their dark red pupils staring at Not far away.

The Tokyo Tower collapsed to the ground decadently, and above the collapsed foundation, the strong smell of blood made people sick.

Chou Shenya waved his hand, and sent Wu Hua's long sword back to Fu Qi's body, his blue-gold eyes covered with ice, silently staring at the curled up youth at his feet.

The apocalypse virus will not leave traces of human existence, and it permeates the air and even attracts the bloody smell of eagles and vultures, almost all of which come from the boy's severed right arm.

Ying Manji bit his lip, squeezed his severed arm in pain, and moaned and choked in his throat. He wanted to cry out, but halfway through the heart, which was more painful than the wound, robbed him of the strength to breathe.The brain was overwhelmed, and the pain nerves clamored to bury the reason.

All the words and wailing were stuck in his chest, sore and painful.

"Ya..."

With blood on his face, he looked up at the young man against the light. He was dressed in white and had white hair. His blue-gold eyes were strange and terrifying.

That was a hundred times more desperate and unbelievable than when the girl from her childhood turned into a purple crystal in her arms.All the tenderness, all the connivance, all the attachments were accompanied by the cold and indifferent expression of the white-haired boy. They were crushed and thrown away, and trampled into mud without mercy.

Ying Manji was unable to say the phrase "Long time no see" in his mouth.

The darkness quickly overwhelmed him with an irresistible force.

"Are you... Ya? Are you alright?!"

Shinomiya Ayase pushed the wheelchair out of the car, and immediately saw the striking and familiar figure standing there.Thrush followed behind her, but his footsteps were a bit hesitant compared to the girl in front of him.Tsugumi had always been more sensitive than Ayase, and she could feel that the one standing there was no longer the cold-looking young man from the funeral home who had a warm and soft heart.

Chou Shenya didn't answer, his gaze was still fixed on the unconscious Ying Manji, his eyes were dark, empty and desolate, as if he had lost all support, only a walking corpse remained.

The right eye covered under the hair continued to give sharp stings to the body, but Kushenya didn't feel it.

A few trail clouds left by fighter planes passed overhead, and the pale sky was gradually dyed red by the warm red-orange sun, as if splashed with wet blood.

Even the clear sky seemed to have a pungent fishy smell.

"Set...set..."

Feng Qi finally reached Ying Manji's side with his weak body after forcibly extracting the void. The pink-haired girl's clothes were messy, and the gravel embedded in the surface on the ground cut her skin. The blood on the bed was mixed with a dazzling red.

Shinomiya Ayase and Tsugumi realized this, and they turned their heads to look at Sakura Manji at the same time. After the power of the king was forcibly taken out, the severed arm was turned into ashes. Chou Shenya's funeral coat, the right arm was empty and soaked in blood.

"Ji?! What's going on here?! Ya?!!"

Angry Shinomiya Ayase turned her head violently and roared, but what Chou Shenya left her was a calm turn around, her lonely back in the early dawn sunlight, blurred and stern like a god.

"Choose to obey me, or die."

The voice was cold and mechanical, not like a human tone at all.

Shinomiya Ayase and Tsugumi opened their eyes wide in shock.

"Ya! What are you talking about?!! What the hell is going on!!"

The girl questioned stubbornly with trembling lips, and the hands that clenched the hem of her clothes were drenched in cold sweat.

Chiu Shenya took a few steps forward, and GHQ's mecha troop pointed their guns at the Tianwangzhou students who had just escaped from death. The cold metal and even the warm sunlight reflected it into a pale whiteness full of chills.

"Choose. Obey me, or die."

Shinomiya Ayase opened her mouth, but couldn't utter a word. Tsugumi's eyes sank, and she suddenly stretched out her hand to grab Shinomiya Ayase, and quickly pushed the confused girl into the van driven by Alma. GHQ's on-call troops immediately turned their guns on the disobedient former members of the funeral home.

Before Thrush could get into the car, the fierce gunfire started. She bent down nimbly and jumped to avoid the shooting, and leaned against the inside of the car with cold sweat on her face.

The continuous firing of bullets made the truck unable to move, but fortunately, the body of the truck was still solid, even though sparks splashed all over the body and covered it with dents, it held on firmly and did not fall apart.

Chou Shenya frowned slightly, and glanced sideways.

Fuqi is holding Sakura Manji and hiding behind the collapsed iron frame of Tokyo Tower, which is still safe.

He raised his hand, and before he could say the order to stop shooting, a strange creature suddenly broke out from the mech unit, blocking the van where Tsugumi and the others were sitting.

There was a commotion in the army, and the attack subconsciously stopped.Taking advantage of this opportunity, Alma immediately started the truck, turned into a nearby path and sped away.

Thrush lay on the door of the car and glanced at the mecha protecting them from the evacuation with a complicated expression.

"Second Lieutenant Dalilu!! Do you know what you are doing?!"

There were several angry roars from the internal circuit, and it was obvious that the person who helped cover the escape of the former members of the funeral home was none other than Dalilu Yang.

Dalilu didn't appreciate it at all, the corners of his eyes were red and his pupils shrank, and he stared hatefully at Chou Shenya who was standing not far away from dealing with his affairs.

"You guys are the ones!! Are you out of your mind?!! Why do you want to protect this kind of guy!!"

"Second lieutenant! This is an order!!"

"Fucking orders!!"

Dalilu sneered, raised his gun and pointed it at Chou Shenya.

"It's all your fault, it's all because of you!!!"

The muscles on the boy's face were twisted, his teeth were clenched tightly, and his father's face of tragic death kept flashing in his mind, and his reason completely disappeared from his eyes.

"go to hell!!"

In an instant, gunshots burst out, screaming and rushing towards the white-haired boy's position.

"Quickly break away——!!!!"

The voice from the inside was almost roaring, but it still couldn't stop Dalilu from pressing the launch button.

Smoke and dust flew, screaming bullets burst into mud all over the floor, and the situation could not be seen clearly in the gray field of vision.

"madness."

The bright white light broke through the cover of dust and mist and directly inserted into Dalilu's mecha that hadn't been completely disconnected, and the huge metal was disintegrated into a pile of scrap iron in an instant.At the same time, a girl who was standing there beside her was completely swallowed by the Apocalypse virus in just a few seconds.

There was silence.It seemed that even the gray birds and eagles were holding their breath in the cold atmosphere, not daring to sing.

Chiu Shenya waved his hands, as if shaking off some filth, and looked expressionlessly at the place where Feng Qi and Ying Manji were lying, but now there was only a pool of blood stains left, and after a few seconds, he turned around silently .

The students who escaped from Tianwangzhou looked at the back of Chou Shenya in dismay, their eyes filled with undisguised fear and disgust.

monster--

The heart shouts instead of words, which is the instinctive fear and rejection of power that does not belong to humans.

Sakura Manji had a lengthy dream.

What emerged in the dream was his favorite and happiest summer ten years ago.

At that time, there was no power of the king, there was no Yang Shenya, and there was no funeral home.

My sister's real name would smile gently and smooth the messy hair on top of his head, and Triedon would helplessly clean up the mess behind him who liked to run around and love to make trouble.

When he was a child, he was most afraid of pain. Triedon knew that he was afraid of pain, so he always wore various wound medicines and band-aids on his body. Whenever he accidentally hurt himself, that person was always the first to notice and scolded himself. Carefully put a Band-Aid on yourself.

Ying Manji likes the feeling of Triden applying warm palms to the wound, so sometimes he intentionally hurts himself, and then runs to Triden with tears in his eyes, showing the injured part, waiting pitifully Treatment for the blond teenager.The wounds were small, and Triiden had no suspicions.

Later, when Triden realized that he was causing trouble on purpose, he kept a straight face for several days. Even though he was crying so hard that he couldn't breathe, Triden didn't do what he wanted as usual.

After this incident was known by his real name, Triden scolded him severely, but the blond boy remained stubbornly indifferent.Feeling guilty, he talked back to his sister and sneaked out of the house with Triden.

Perhaps it was because of being by the sea, the sun was warm and the wind gradually calmed Triden's anger.After he cautiously apologized, Triiden finally calmed down and stroked his head, his blue eyes were more gentle and intoxicating than the turbulent sea water on one side.

He always remembered what Triden had said to him.So since then, he never intentionally hurt himself again.

"Ji, when you are in pain. There will be someone who hurts more than you."

The sharp pain in the right arm strongly stimulated Shen Mian's nerves, Ying Manji suddenly sat up, panted and hugged the empty right sleeve tightly, curled up in cold sweat.His brown eyes stared forward unfocused, his cheeks were pale, and there was an abnormal blush under his skin.

"set?"

Xie Qi worriedly approached the boy who had just woken up from his sleep.He stretched out his hand to rest on Ying Manji's forehead, his brows furrowed tightly.

"Ji, you have a fever."

The girl became more and more uneasy. She didn't understand medical theory, so she could only hug Ying Manji's trembling body in vain.

"……pray?"

After a while, Ying Manji's hoarse voice finally sounded.He raised his head in a daze, and in his sight was the face that was about to cry.

"Ji, what's wrong with you?"

"Pray... pray..."

Ying Manji was sweating coldly, his white lips were chapped and blue, his eyes were empty, and he kept calling the girl's name, as if he could give himself courage through this.The severe pain from the wound on his right arm never subsided, torturing his nerves and making his brain unable to stay awake, sinking into a daze.

The rest of the body was numb with constant pain, except for the heart.

The gentle Triden in the dream, the gentle Chishinya in the dream, and the strange and cold eyes of the white-haired boy in reality are intertwined and overlapped, weaving into vines covered with thorns, wrapped around the fragile heart, slowly tightening the friction , the oozing sticky blood became lubrication, aggravating this invisible punishment.

It was more painful than a broken right arm, so painful that it almost made him suffocate.

"Pray... Ya... Ya..." The chaotic mind couldn't distinguish between reality and dream, and the brown-haired boy trembled with his eyes half closed.

Feng Qi's eyes were gloomy, but he still tried his best to put his hands on Ying Manji's face and hugged his body tightly.

"Ji, it's okay. It's okay."

Over and over again, softly soothing.

A moment later, Ying Manji clasped Fu Qi's hand tremblingly.The lips parted and closed, as if saying something.

The pink-haired girl could not help but lower her head and moved closer to his lips.

The voice suddenly became clearer.

He said, "Ya, I'm in pain. It's cold."

The night fell, and the starless night was like a dark abyss, silently burying all the warmth and light.Only the coldness of Sen Leng is left.

"...Ji, I'm here."

Feng Qi gently caressed the pale face of Ying Manji who had passed out again, his eyelashes trembled, and his deep red eyes were drawn under the eyelashes.The slightly cool palm covered the boy's hot forehead, slightly reducing the fever caused by the wound.

"I will always be by your side."

Ying Manji's rapid breathing gradually calmed down.

Japan - should now be called Area 24.

After the announcement of the declaration that announced the world, the United Nations and all countries around the world fell into a strange silence at the same time, as if the world suddenly forgot Japan in the Pacific Ocean, they built barriers one after another, separated by layers of insurance, and watched silently This tiny island nation.

The world is quiet, but GHQ is still busy, and busier than usual.

Hunt down the fugitive members of the funeral club, Qi Qi, rectify Tenno Prefecture, suppress Japan, and deter the United Nations.

Although the first one seems to be easy to handle, in fact, it has been a day and a half since Arisa volunteered to join the mission of chasing Fu Qi. In the small Tianwang State, there is still no pink hair The figure of a girl.

At the GHQ headquarters, Tsukushinya is listening to the report from Arisa's team.

"Lord Ya, I'm sorry...the target hasn't been found yet." The team leader who made the report lowered his head in shame, thinking that they have a large number of people and are equipped with mecha troops, and they haven't made any progress in hunting for more than a day. It's really hard to say.

Chou Shenya leaned back in his chair, stared at a certain point on the screen, and nodded indifferently. "Oh, keep looking."

"As ordered!"

The team leader immediately stood at attention and saluted, cut off the communication and resumed the search in a hurry.

There was only a white-haired boy in the command room that had returned to silence. He lowered his head, his pale hair fell on his cheek that was a little colder than him, and his slanted long hair exposed the other side that was usually covered on the right. only eye.

The remaining crystals of the Apocalypse virus were embedded around the eye sockets, and the pupil was a scarlet color different from the left eye, which looked hideous and terrifying that did not match his own appearance.

A constant dull pain is spreading from the right eye to the whole body.After waking up again, the pain has not subsided.

Chou Shenya raised his hand to cover his right eye, the tight lip line was slightly opened, and a very light sigh flowed out.

"Is it Ya...?"

The sound of the automatic door sliding open mixed with the woman's hesitant inquiry reached Chou Shenya's ears at the same time. The white-haired boy put down his right hand extremely quickly, stood up and turned to face the door, looking at Yingman who walked in with a dull expression. spring and summer.

"what's up."

The brown-haired woman like Ying Manji was holding the folder, her red lips were pursed tightly, her brows were furrowed, and she had a guilty look on her face.She looked complicatedly at Chiu Shenya's eyes that were completely different from the past, icy like inorganic glass beads, and bit her lower lip.

"I'm sorry... let you replace Ji..."

She couldn't say the following words, and the extreme sadness was brewing in her chest, choking her unspoken voice.She covered her mouth and moistened her eyes.

The white-haired boy's face remained unchanged, but his eyebrows were lowered, and his long hair covered half of his face.

"That's my own choice and has nothing to do with the episode."

"..."

"Also, I'm no longer human."

Yingman Chunxia instantly frowned in pain.

—Monsters have no heart.

It was like a silent addition, even if Qiu Shenya didn't finish speaking, Yingman Chunxia knew the meaning of his words.

The white-haired boy turned sideways indifferently, quietly continued to pay attention to the information floating on the screen, and ignored the sad woman behind him.

"...I'm sorry, Ya."

Yingman Chunxia walked out of the command room, closed the door, leaned against the wall of the corridor, covered her eyes and smiled wryly.

"If you really don't care, why do you still call him Ji? You probably don't know that when you call his name, from the expression to the voice, you have completely exposed your heart."

The author has something to say:

Ya's childhood name ended up being Triedon. .Triton's translation doesn't feel very smooth