The shining Shoko Toyokawa

Xiaozhi looked at her angrily, took a deep breath, and stammered, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have treated you like a fool."

"Yeah,"

Rencai straightened her back proudly.

"Wait, what did you say? You took me for an idiot?!"

However, she immediately noticed something was wrong.

"Apologize now for looking down on me and treating me like a fool!"

"Clam?"

Xiaozhi raised a brow, "Are you kidding me? Isn't this the same thing?!"

"Saying I'm a junior high student and calling me an idiot are two different things!"

"One is one, two is two, apologize to me now!"

“Stop, stop!”

Maya came and intervened, stopping the two children from quarreling.

"Player Xiaozhi, I'm afraid we can't help you,"

Before Xiaozhi could lose his temper, Maya quickly said, "My name is Maya Hilbert, and you'd better not get involved with us."

Maya's golden eyes behind her sunglasses glanced at the camera that was filming.

"Caius won't listen to your explanation."

"..."

"Are you coming to the competition to recruit people?"

Xiaozhi calmed down and told his previous guess.

Maya did not hide herself deliberately, and many people recognized her, but except for a few fearless paparazzi, no one bothered her.

Because dealing with Thornless is too risky for ordinary people.

Caius couldn't control East Asia Heavy Industry and bigwigs, but it was easy for him to sanction ordinary people.

"Yes," Niina answered quickly, "We need more companions."

"If you help me find Lupa..."

Xiaozhi knew that this was not a good deal at all and that only a fool would make this deal.

But sometimes, people are always willing to be fools.

The girl already knew that the universe was not as good as the Federation advertised.

But after arriving in the universe, she discovered that she had overestimated the universe, or rather the 'world'...

She was afraid.

I’m afraid that my helpless and lonely friends will encounter bad things.

"How about I join you if you can help me find Lupa?!"

"As you can see, my skills in piloting a mobile suit are probably not inferior to most rookie pilots in the Federation!"

The girl worked hard to "sell" herself, which was an extraordinary performance considering her poor communication skills.

"Another idiot..."

Maya sighed in her heart. She didn't want to involve this kind of young people.

So, I had to reject her in public...

"Don't be ridiculous, we don't accept..."

Before Maya started to show her power, Rencai grabbed the soft flesh on her waist.

As the saying goes, one step back opens up a new world.

But as the saying goes, the more you take a step back, the angrier you get.

Maya can follow Rencai's temperament in other matters.

But this one thing is absolutely not allowed.

She grabbed Renai's mischievous little hand and said to the camera more than to Xiaozhi: "We don't accept children, and we don't have time to help you find someone."

After saying that, without even looking at the expression on Xiaozhi's face, she pulled Rencai to the bathroom.

"What are you doing, Niina?! That girl is only about sixteen or seventeen. Don't you know what it's like on a battlefield?"

"Can you carry her life on your shoulders?!"

Originally, Rencai also felt that what she did was not very good.

But after being yelled at by Maya, her temper suddenly flared up.

"Carrying life on your back, carrying life on your back! Maya-san, you always say these incomprehensible things!"

"In this world, who can bear whose life?!"

"Can the President of the Federation bear the lives of 80 billion people?!"

"Can that girl who calls herself Xia Ya bear the lives of all her followers?!"

"How could a human being possibly do such a thing as shouldering the responsibility of another person's life?!"

"It's because everyone acts recklessly that the world is in such chaos, Niina, you have to understand!"

"So everyone just needs to listen to authority, right?" the girl said, unyielding. "Hey, Maya-san, is that all?"

"Everyone obeyed Caius and did not resist him,"

"I just listened to the adults' authority, apologized to the guy who bullied me, and then took the admission quota that the school traded with me and went to college, right?"

When she said this, the girl's eyes were already filled with tears, as if they would burst out at any moment.

"Rencai..."

Maya couldn't say, "That's all right."

"Since Maya-san, you don't want to do it, then I'll do it..."

"Whether it's recruiting people to the battlefield or dealing with their families, I'll do it all. Even if I don't do it well, it's better than just sitting there and waiting to die!"

"Nina, what are you talking about..."

"Let this competition decide it!" The girl interrupted Maya, "If you feel the burden on your shoulders is too heavy, Maya-san,"

"Then just be despicable and let me win. Leave everything to me. I'll be the champion and bear all the responsibilities. But if you do that, I'll be very disappointed in Maya-san. Maybe I'll never talk to you again in my life. Who knows..."

Maya looked at the girl who was using a clumsy provocation, feeling mixed emotions.

"Even if it's me, saying nice things and tricking others into death...it doesn't matter, does it?"

"What do you mean by nice words? Maya-san, don't you want the world to be a better place?!"

The girl took a step closer to Maya.

"I hope so... Of course I hope so! But..."

Maya didn't dare to look at her, but subconsciously took a step back.

"Maya-san, you're always the one rushing to the front. Who would rush to the front when tricking others into committing suicide?!"

"but…"

"But what but? But the world might not get better, right?!"

The girl pressed forward step by step, and soon she pushed the blonde sister, who was half a head taller than her, into the corner.

"How can you know if you don't try?!"

"I won't die!"

The girl hugged her tightly, as if she wanted to pass on her courage to her.

"I am strong and will become stronger in the future,"

"So... whether it's carrying someone else's life or moving forward together, I'll be with you!"

"So please, don't take it all on yourself!"

"Whether it's rebelling against Caius or making the world a better place, it's not just your business, Maya-san."

"So, please... don't lose to me."

"Rencai..."

Maya, I don't know what to do.

She was still not ready, just like she was seven years ago...

Chapter 37: Two People Trapped in the Mirror (Past)

"So, please don't lose to me..."

The restroom in the venue was of course not soundproof, and Chu Hua didn't deliberately eavesdrop, but he still heard the conversation between the two.

She just listened and when they came out after calming down, she was still standing by the sink.

"Chuhua..."

Seeing her, Maya was obviously a little overwhelmed and ashamed.

It was really embarrassing that she was "taught a lesson" by a child the whole time.

"Nina, your game is about to begin,"

The blond CEO still had a smile on his face. "Can you still hold on?"

"Yeah, no problem..."

The girl looked back at Maya, then ran to her own battlefield.

"Come on, Niina..."

Just before the girl's back disappeared from sight, Maya said some words of encouragement.

This time the girl didn't respond, and Maya wasn't sure if she heard what she said.

There are so many uncertainties in life that this little thing doesn't seem to matter.

"Nina is a good kid,"

Chu Hua's words sounded incoherent at first.

But she said this to tell Maya that she had heard their conversation.

As an entrepreneur, she can hardly be considered an honest person.

But when facing some people, people always want to be honest with him (her).

For Chuhua, Maya is probably such a person.

"Don't lose, Maya-san,"

Chu Hua turned her head and glanced at the mirror on the sink. She and Maya were both trapped in it.

"Don't lose to that kid, and don't lose to me..."

They...are probably all people trapped in the past.

She still couldn't accept that her comrades kept dying in battle.

And she... was still thinking about the girl with aqua blue hair.

The truth is always cruel. Chu Hua suddenly didn't want to know the truth anymore.

Even if the girl in front of me has only a one in a billion chance of being Xiangzi,

But there is a probability, isn't there?

If she said in person that she was not 'Xia Ya', Chu Hua would be so sad.

and so…

"Come on, Maya-san."

Maya-san is the name that girl gave to Maya.