The shining Shoko Toyokawa

"Should I tell Deng about her?"

Li Xi thought back to her deliberately distant attitude and became furious.

Finally she decided not to tell Deng, because,

"If that guy sees Deng, he will definitely hurt Deng again, and... he will also hurt herself..."

Chapter 7: I'm going to kill you

"Xiang...Xiangzi...I'm sorry!"

Counting the whorls in Gao Songdeng's hair, Xiangzi frowned unhappily, "Why are you apologizing?"

"Because... because of me, because I..."

"There's a limit to self-talk," Xiangzi interrupted Deng. "Haven't I made it clear already? The reason I left the band was entirely due to my own personal reasons. It has nothing to do with Takamatsu-san."

Seeing Deng about to cry, Xiangzi felt annoyed and...painful.

They met in spring,

The gray-haired girl said that the falling petals probably had no life, but she still stretched out her hand to the flowers in the wind on the bridge.

At that time, I was so naive that I even mistakenly thought that Deng was going to commit suicide...

She treated the words written by Deng in the notebook as lyrics and shouted desperately -

"I really want to! Become a human!"

Ah, if only I hadn't encountered the lamp...

It would be better if there was no CRYCHIC group, then... it wouldn't be painful, right?

'CRYCHIC is over and I can't be associated with anyone else anymore!'

"Well, goodbye, Takamatsu-san,"

Xiangzi chose to move forward.

"Wait, Xiangzi, I have something important to tell you!"

Deng ran in front of Xiangzi. Although he didn't dare to look at her face, he opened his arms and blocked her way. "That thing is very dangerous. You can't ride it anymore!"

Xiangzi: “!!!”

'Why would the lamp know?!'

She let out a breath in annoyance, took a step forward and grabbed Deng's hand, "Come with me!"

Xiangzi pulled the lantern and walked towards a tram that was coming into the station.

Deng stared blankly at her back. At this moment, in Gao Song Deng's vision, the falling snowflakes seemed to turn into petals dancing in the spring wind.

However, the cold air and the noisy voices brought her back to reality.

Spring has long passed, and now it is cold winter.

In the corner of the tram, Xiangzi and Deng were so close that it seemed as if he wanted to hold her in his arms.

But something cold and hard pressed against the back of the lamp.

That's an electric shock device that can knock down a strong man.

"Xiang...Xiangzi?"

The sound of the lamp trembled a little.

"Tell me, how did you know that?"

Her voice was icy, as if the lamp was just a troublesome stranger.

"The night before last, I was looking at the stars and saw it setting, so I went to the park... and saw Xiangzi ascending..."

Deng hesitated and said, "Um, Xiangzi, can you please stop flying the Gundam?

My dad said that if something like Gundam suddenly appeared in reality, it might cause a war.

Everyone will fight for it at all costs, which is very dangerous!"

"Oh, I see."

Xiangzi did not comment on this.

Her mind was now occupied with only one thing: 'Light, what shall I do with you?'

The sudden appearance of the light caught Xiangzi off guard, and she even had a very scary idea.

For example, turn off the lights.

In her next plan, once her identity was exposed, everything would be over.

It is impossible for one person to fight against a huge violent organization.

Gundam is not a god, and neither is Xiangzi.

"In the novel, Cosey's driver, Hathaway, was finally caught... and shot. I don't want Xiangzi to encounter such a terrible thing..."

"Then tell me," Xiangzi interrupted Deng with a sharp voice, "How can we change this rotten world?!"

"Xiang...Xiangzi..."

The lamp was speechless. Her world was very small and she couldn't see as far away as Xiangzi.

Because the world of lights is very small, she only felt tenderness.

"If you tell this to others,"

Xiangzi leaned close to Deng's ear and whispered, "I will kill you!"

Deng was frightened by these cold words and his body trembled as if he had been shocked by a stun gun. He stood there in a daze.

At this time, the tram stopped at another platform, and people rushed onto the tram.

Xiangzi got off the train, but by the time Deng realized what was happening, it was already impossible for her to squeeze off before the train doors closed. She was caught in the crowd and could only go to the next station.

On December 27, the Spring Festival holiday had not yet begun, and Takamatsu Deng's vision was filled with listless office workers in suits, looking like the walking dead.

And she, like a watermelon worm under a stone...

…………

Xiangzi watched the tram go away with an expressionless face, then turned and walked towards the forest of steel and concrete.

"Deng, don't come near me again, or... you'll get hurt again..."

…………

……

"Xiao Deng, you met Xiao Xiang yesterday, right? How was it? Did she say anything?"

The next day, in the cafe, as soon as the lights went down, Nagasaki Suyo eagerly grabbed her hand.

"I saw you guys riding the tram together yesterday, but you couldn't get on. Xiaodeng, Xiaoxiang, is she coming back? So I came to ask you if everyone is angry?

Xiaoxiang is really something, why would anyone be angry? We've all been waiting for her."

Tears welled up in the corners of Soyo's eyes, like a gentle mother who had seen her lost child return.

“…Sorry, I didn’t check my phone yesterday,”

Actually, it was Deng's phone, which broke down when he saw Gundam.

The hand that was not caught clenched the hem of her skirt, "Xiangzi said that she...will not be back in the short term..."

She didn't dare look into Su Shi's eyes. The expression on her little face looked like she would cry at any moment.

“…I see…”

For a moment, a gloomy expression appeared on Su Shi's face.

But that gloom was quickly hidden by her smiling mask.

"Don't worry, Xiao Deng, I will find a way to get Xiao Xiang back, even if it means I have to kneel down, I will do it.

So did Xiaoxiang tell you what she is doing now?

I sent her many messages, but she didn't reply. She must have misunderstood me and thought I was a troublesome woman. I need to explain everything to her face to face!

Deng no longer paid attention to what Su Shi was saying. Her mind was now filled with the scene of Xiangzi being caught.

Xiao Deng could sense that Xiangzi was about to do something very dangerous.

"Xiangzi..."

"Hey? What happened to Xiangzi?!"

Su Shi mistakenly thought that Deng's soliloquy was about Xiangzi, so she looked at her anxiously.

But what can the lamp say?

Is Xiangzi going to drive Cosi to do something dangerous?

How can I tell Su Shi about this kind of thing?

Su Shima, who was eager to find her "child", interpreted Xiao Deng's hesitation as a sign that Xiangzi had encountered some major misfortune, and her expression became even more anxious.

"Xiao Deng, please! Please..."

"What are you doing to Xiao Deng?!" Li Xi pulled Deng's hand out of Su Shi's. "Xiao Deng is about to cry!"

After lending all his pocket money to Xiangzi, Li Xi was out of money, so he came here to ask if they would hire workers next year, but he happened to encounter Su Shi "interrogating" Deng.

"Sorry, Xiao Deng..."

Su Shi lowered her head in shame, "But this is really important, please tell me!"

"you……"

“Tattatt…”

The Canon playing in the coffee shop suddenly stopped, replaced by the sound of boots stepping on stones and the faint sound of wind, which interrupted Li Xi's words.

"What the hell?!"

Li Xi wanted to continue to blame Su Shi, but found that she and Xiao Deng were looking in the same direction——

There is a huge advertising screen in the square opposite the coffee shop.

A blonde girl, wearing a red and black driving suit that looked like a military uniform, walked into the picture.

The black mask made of steel covered most of her face, making it difficult to see her appearance.

She didn't have any country or organization logo on her body.

Although she is petite, she carries a murderous HKMP5 submachine gun.

"What is this, an advertisement for an animation or a movie?"

Just when Li Xi was thinking this, the girl spoke...

Chapter 8: Declaration of War

"To the 80 billion people in the world,

Homo sapiens, the only extant species of human, has lived on this planet for 20 years.

From the Stone Age to the Bronze Age,

From the Iron Age to the Industrial Revolution,

Homo sapiens continued to advance, from East Africa to Asia, Europe, America, and then to the moon 38 kilometers away.

Today, the Voyager probe launched by Homo sapiens has bid farewell to Earth at the edge of the solar system and is heading to Proxima Centauri, 4 light years away.

It should have been a rather boring statement, but the girl's passionate voice gave it power and a strange attraction.

"32 years ago, the red giant collapsed, and the whole world stood on her corpse and cheered; peace has finally come!"

Picture after picture flashed across the screen, lingering for a few seconds on the image of the red flag falling.

Then it cuts back to the mountaintop where the girl is. She opens her arms as if embracing the whole world.

But the next second, she clenched her fists and roared, "But peace has not come. The military-industrial complex and the vested interests...