The shining Shoko Toyokawa

The blonde girl hid herself in the shelter again, her eyes lowered slightly, and her finger touched the button that meant 'help'.

In her buzzing ears, the sound of gunfire became more intense...

'wrong! ’

Xia Ya's eyes widened.

'Are they retreating?!'

Although the gunshots were much more frequent than before, they did not send debris flying around Xia Ya like before. They were just firing in the general direction.

"Why retreat?"

Xia Ya didn't think that the other party was frightened by her.

Then, there was only one reason left for them to retreat—

The supporting MS was about to arrive, and the enemy judged that it was meaningless to capture the MS driver now.

“How strange…”

When the gunfire stopped, Xia Ya cautiously stuck her head out and saw a devastated park.

And the red and white liquid on the floor tiles.

That group of armed men had time to snatch away their companion’s body, but they didn’t try to capture Aine, who was less than ten meters away from the body?

No matter how you think about it, there is only one possibility, that is, for them, it is more important not to expose themselves.

The gun slipped from Xia Ya's hand.

She stood up unsteadily and walked towards her friend.

It seems like a long time, but from the time the militants broke into the park till now, it was only thirty seconds.

Every second during this time,

she,

Her friends could die at any moment.

In such a time, every second is extremely long.

And every second that follows is equally long.

Xia Ya wanted to shout out loudly, "Hey! Su Shi, are you still alive?!"

But she couldn't,

Because Xia Isabella and Nagasaki Suyo are strangers,

"Xia Ya, I'm so glad you're okay!"

"Xia Ya..."

Aiyin stared blankly at the back of the blonde girl and subconsciously stretched out her hand towards her back. This silly girl didn't even know,

That friend whose embrace was as warm as a mother's, raised his gun and shot without hesitation for her, even though he himself was in danger.

Xia should have stayed by the side of the anxious Aine,

But... when Chihaya Aine, Char Isabella's friend, called out to her,

Why didn't she stop? She clearly heard Aine's voice.

Because of temporary deafness, I didn't hear it.

Because it has been confirmed that Aine is safe, but the life and death of the flaxen-haired girl is unknown,

You can tell others as many reasons as you want.

But the real reason is always only one...

"Aine, Suyo! Are you both still alive?!"

Odysseus Gundam No. 2 fell from the sky, and Riki's anxious voice came from above.

Although she closed the nozzle in time and landed on the ground quite far away from Xia Ya,

But the scorching hot and strong airflow still made it difficult for Xia Ya to maintain her balance. She could only rush forward subconsciously.

In a few breaths, the place where Su Shi "fell" was already within reach.

'Am I still alive?!'

"Lixi!"

Nagasaki Suyo slowly opened her eyes, supported her body which seemed to be falling apart, and stood up, weakly responding to her friend's call.

The sun shines through the gaps in the clouds, casting a brilliant Tyndall cloud in the atmosphere.

At the end of this 'ladder of light' that leads the dead, stands

It was the girl with flaxen hair lifted by the air current, squinting her eyes in the light, and that dreamlike figure that should only exist in dreams at midnight.

"Xiang...Xiangzi?"

Perhaps it was a dream, but the wandering people were chasing after illusions...

Before Su Shi had time to think, his body started to move on its own.

Use all your strength, forward, forward! Forward again!!!

He desperately hugged the girl whose hair spread out in the light.

At this moment, she seemed to want to squeeze the girl into her body, and seemed to have obtained the whole world.

"Thank you! Thank you for picking me up!"

Nagasaki Suyo firmly believed that he was dead.

This scene has already been played out in countless dreams.

There is no doubt that the flaxen-haired girl is the happiest girl in the world at this moment.

"Su Shi, Xia Ya..."

The pink-haired girl's eyes reflected the two girls hugging each other tightly, 'sparkling'...

Chapter 57: Blessing

"Aine, go to Suyo!"

"Huh?" The pink-haired girl was stunned for a moment.

"Okay, hurry up!"

Under Riki's urging, Aiyin could only move her feet.

'I don't want to disturb you, but Lixi asked me to... No!

Su Shishi must have recognized the wrong person, right? Absolutely!

Aine frowned, her stomach already starting to ache. 'She definitely thinks Xia-san is her dead friend...'

"Xiangzi?" Xia Ya looked stunned. "Are you and my sister friends?"

"younger sister?"

Su Shi's happy smile gradually froze,

“Is that so…”

Then it breaks, evaporates,

"My name is Xia, Xia Isabella, and I am my mother's illegitimate daughter."

The iron giant carefully stretched out his hands and enveloped the three people.

Xia Ya paused, as if startled by the noise. "Because of my status, I can't attend Xiangzi's funeral. Thank you for your concern, my sister."

The warm and dazzling light disappeared from the world of Su Shi, blocked by the Gundam's hands, and also because it was cloudy...

"sorry…

sorry!

sorry! ! !

I didn't do anything. I failed to be Xiangzi's support at the most critical moment! "

Tears gradually blurred Su Shi's vision. Somehow, those words that he had never said to anyone else, when in front of this blonde girl, were like a dam bursting, and sadness and depression gushed out, unable to be suppressed.

"She clearly wanted to ask me for help, but I didn't notice! I..."

"I love you,"

Xia Ya's words stunned the other three girls, including the sad Su Shi.

"If it were her, if it were my sister Xiangzi, she would definitely say that,"

She gently wiped away Su Shi's tears, "Although I only saw her a few times from a distance, isn't that what the child is like?

Flawless, dazzling, like a sun,

The reason she made that choice was simply because...she was probably too tired."

"But…"

However, tears still blurred Su Shi's vision.

"When you cry because you missed the sun," Xia Ya smiled gently, "be careful not to miss the stars."

Su Shi's eyes followed the blonde girl's.

What finally caught her eye was the pink-haired girl's smiling face.

"...Is this really okay?"

"I'm so happy like this..."

"I think she (I) must want you to be happy."

'I wish you happiness, Sushi'

…………

……

"Is there something strange on my face?"

In the reception room of the station, Xia Ya smiled and looked at the black-haired girl opposite.

Li Xi was stunned for a moment, subconsciously looked away, then looked back, "You and her are really alike."

"We are sisters after all, even though I have never fulfilled my responsibilities as an older sister."

"Why don't you meet her?" Li Xi didn't look Xia Ya in the eye. "If it's her, she will definitely be happy to know that she has a sister."

"Probably because of fear," Xia Ya smiled bitterly. "As for me, ever since I was old enough to understand, people have been telling me from time to time that I'm just a low-level accident and shouldn't even think about getting close to the Toyokawa family..."

"I should have ignored that..."

"well,"

Li Xi was stunned. "So, that's how it is..."

"So you're the same as me."

Lixi's sister is a very outstanding person. When she was the director of the brass band, she also participated in the local orchestra and won first place in a competition.

From childhood to adulthood, when others mentioned her,

Everyone would say something; She is the younger sister of Shiina Maki,

Her older sister is Shiina Maki, and you are Shiina Maki's younger sister? Or something like that...

Sometimes, Lixi even feels that compared to the name Lixi,

Maybe it would be better if she changed her name to Shiina sister,

It seemed like she was born to be Shiina Maki's younger sister, rather than an independent person.

"My name is Xia, Xia Isabella, and I'm British. What's your name?"

Not as Xiangzi's sister, asking for the name of her sister's friend,

I didn't ask her name because she was Shiina Maki's sister.