I don't want to be a heroic spirit

"Huh? Can Souji make desserts?"

"Stupid Stella, get the point. The point is that the desserts made by Miss Souji are delicious. Even better than the one Alice recommended."

"Souji-chan's been hiding things for a long time." Arisuin Nagi pretended to be frustrated, holding her face. "Really, why didn't you say it earlier? Doesn't it make me look like a clown for recommending this place?"

"No...it's not as exaggerated as Senior Sister said."

Okita Souji, who had suddenly become the center of conversation, scratched the back of his head sheepishly. "I just have a little experience in making desserts, that's all. Besides...my sister taught me how to make desserts, and hers are much more delicious than mine."

"You have a sister?"

After hearing what Okita Souji said, everyone showed surprise and interest.

"Come to think of it, Souji, I haven't heard anything about your family situation." Ayase Ayatsuji, Souji's roommate, said thoughtfully, "What kind of person is your sister?"

"What kind of person is he..."

Being stared at by several people with curious and somewhat scorching eyes, Okita Souji looked embarrassed.

"If it's a difficult question, forget it."

"Not really...it's hard to answer."

Souji Okita lowered his head, looking at the half-eaten crepe in his hand, as if lost in memories.

"...a little girl who's afraid of being alone?"

"…Are you sure you're describing your older sister and not your younger sister?"

After we finished the crepes, the waiter brought us a few desserts.

"Actually, I should be considered to have sneaked out."

The silver fork poked a small piece of cake, and Okita Souji supported his cheek and said, "My sister always said that it was dangerous outside and that only by her side was the safest. That's why she never let me leave all these years. I came to Pojun Academy to study this time because I ran away without telling her."

"My dad is the same." Stella chatted with Okita Souji as if she had found a companion. "My dad always warned me that there are so many perverts in Japan. All the men only look at girls with lewd eyes, and even follow them around to smell their breath."

Stella and Souji Okita are very similar in this respect, both have a family that they love too deeply.

It's very annoying, but also very enviable.

Listening to the conversation between the two people, Ikki Kurogane was a little dazed.

It was as if I saw the aurora flowing in the night sky, beautiful and dreamy, but I could deeply understand how far away it was from me.

At this moment, Kurogane Ikki felt his hand being held.

"There's no need to be envious, brother."

Kurogane Jushizuku held Kurogane Ikki's hands in both hands and placed them on her forehead, her words overflowing with tenderness like autumn water.

"I will give you all the love that you lack. As long as you can be happy, I will give you all the love you need, whether it's from a father, a mother, a brother, a sister, or a lover."

"No...that's really too much."

Kurogane Ikki smiled awkwardly but politely, but then his eyes were full of tenderness as he looked at Kurogane Shushizuku.

"Thank you anyway, Shizuku."

That's right, even though everyone in the Kurogane family looked down on him, never gave him any love, and regarded him as trash and a disgrace to the family.

However, his sister always loved him deeply, always trusted him, and never gave up on him.

He doesn't need to envy those who are loved by their families, because he also has a family who loves him and silently supports him.

After leaving the dessert shop, Ikki Kurogane and Nagi Arisuin went to the bathroom.

Okita Souji was originally a little curious whether Arisuin Nagi would go to the women's restroom, but he went to the men's restroom with Kurogane Ikki.

"Really, those two are so slow going to the bathroom."

Stella, who couldn't wait any longer, said impatiently, "They actually let four girls wait."

Okita Souji didn't know how to respond to such words, so he decided to remain silent.

Suddenly, Okita Souji's eyes fixed.

"Don't even move!"

Accompanied by a loud shout, flames burst out, and the sound of gunfire and breaking glass mixed together, leading the mall into chaos.

Even in this world where sword cutters are the protagonists, firearms and other firearms still have a terrible deterrent power. Everyone immediately knelt down with their heads in their hands or even lay flat on the ground.

"what happened?!"

Before Stella could react to what was happening, Okita Souji scanned the surrounding environment carefully and at the fastest speed.

A group of well-armed masked thugs had surrounded the entire shopping mall without anyone noticing.

Moreover, Souji Okita could confirm that not all of them were present, and there must be many more in other areas.

The mall has a total of five floors, and masked thugs can be seen on every floor, and the distance between them is very far.

all in all……

"Is there no way to solve it all at once?"

Firearms have limited power against powerful swordsmen, but for ordinary people present, they are powerful weapons that can easily take their lives.

Without being able to guarantee their safety, even Okita Souji would not dare to rebel.

"From now on, don't make any rash moves! You are our hostages now, so obey me until we get the ransom! Women and children, gather in the middle of the mall!"

Not only Souji Okita, but also Stella, Ayase Ayatsuji, and Kurogane Shushizuku, they all tacitly chose to swallow their anger at this time.

Not knowing the number of enemies, they were also worried that acting rashly would cause harm to ordinary people around them.

Chapter 62 The Bladebreaker's Abilities

The bustle turned into quietness, the brightness turned into darkness, and the fun turned into fear.

These changes happen in the blink of an eye.

In the central square of the shopping mall, with all the light bulbs turned off, the only light was the faint sunlight coming from the skylight above.

Under the orders of the thugs and at gunpoint, the women and children were gathered together, and well-armed thugs with guns were guarding around them, with a thug at every distance.

There were also several thugs guarding both sides of the exit, standing straight and in a careful position, obviously having received special training.

It seemed that all the customers still in the mall had been arrested. The thugs gradually gathered in the square on the first floor. Except for the stalkers on the second and third floors, the thugs on the fourth and fifth floors had already come down to the first floor.

Souji Okita hid in the crowd and glanced at the thugs. He found that with their angle and position, they could monitor the entire first floor hall with almost no blind spots.

"They don't look like ordinary thugs..."

The reason why Okita Souji felt this way was, on the one hand, that these people were too well-equipped and their actions were too efficient, and on the other hand...

"Taking people from the mall hostage and then demanding a ransom...why are you beating around the bush?"

In Okita Souji's opinion, the enemy's goals and actions are completely inconsistent, and there must be some hidden secrets that she doesn't know about.

As long as the swordsman does not display his magic power and spiritual equipment, he will not be very noticeable in the crowd.

If she were a famous swordsman, her appearance would be remembered by others, so Stella lowered her hat as much as possible. After all, although Stella was a student knight, she often appeared on TV screens as the princess of the Kingdom of Famillion and the world's number one in magic power, so she was easily recognized.

Compared to Stella, both Okita Souji, Kurogane Suzuku, and Ayatsuji Ayase are much better.

"I don't know what's happening with Ikki and the others..."

Ayase Ayatsuji couldn't help but start to worry about Ikki Kurogane and the others. After all, unlike Shushizuku Kurogane and Stella, Ayase Ayatsuji had never seen Ikki Kurogane fight. All he knew about Ikki Kurogane was that he was an F-class knight and his title "Failed Knight".

Although Souji Okita explained to her that although Ikki Kurogane's magic power was not high, he was able to surpass most people in this academy in combat, and Ayase Ayatsuji also believed in Souji Okita.

However, although she believed in Okita Souji, mere verbal explanations could not easily change the "common sense" of this world. Okita Souji was not annoyed, because as long as the senior had seen Kurogane Ikki fight once, she would definitely change her opinion of this "failed knight".

Ayase Ayatsuji's concern for Ikki Kurogane comes from kindness, not from any contempt that is purely malicious.

Compared to Ayase Ayase Tsuji, Stella and the others only have trust in Ikki Kurogane.

"Ikki will be fine."

Stella believed in Kurogane Ikki, more than she believed in herself.

"There will definitely be nothing wrong with my brother. We should think about what we can do first before worrying about them."

Kurogane Shizuku is much calmer than Stella. The two of them are like their respective abilities, one represents water and the other represents fire. One is as calm as water and the other is as passionate as fire.

Stella gritted her teeth in hatred: "They only took women and children as hostages. What a despicable bunch of people."

If it weren't for the fact that those people were holding hostages, Stella would have summoned her spirit suit and chopped them all down. With the strongest magic power in the world to rely on, Stella was confident that she could make those bullets melt completely and lose their attack power before they hit her.

Kurogane Jushizuku glanced at Stella, then whispered as if to calm her anxious mood, "I have a way, but it will take a little time. Before that, don't let them find out."

Kurogane Jushizuku's reminder was not without reason. After all, the person most likely to be exposed was Stella.

Perhaps even Stella herself knew how hot-tempered she was, so this time she bowed her head in front of Kurogane Jushizuku, which was rare, and said, "I'll try my best..."

Afterwards, Kurogane Jushizuku also reminded Ayatsuji Ayase just in case. Before she arranged everything, the three of them must not act rashly and attract attention...

Wait? Three people?

Stella and the other two, realizing something was amiss, looked around in panic.

"Where did Souji go?"

No one could answer them, and Okita Souji disappeared mysteriously.

No one, whether it was the hostages around him, Stella and the other two who were closest to him, or the armed thugs guarding the surroundings, noticed that Souji Okita had left.

It was impossible to say that they were not panicked at all. After all, a living person disappeared so strangely. Even if her disappearance was most likely initiated by Okita Souji, Stella and the others could only pretend to be calm, because every second of delay would increase the possibility of the failure of Kurogane Shizuku's plan.

The most important thing now is how to rescue those ordinary people from the guns of the mob.

So, Kurogane Jushizuku calmed down as quickly as possible, because the ability she was about to use required extremely precise control.

The Swordsman has possessed magical powers since birth and has his own special abilities.

Everyone's abilities are different, but they can be roughly divided into four types:

[Physical Enhancement System] can only enhance physical abilities, but the same effect can be achieved by using magic power to strengthen the body, so it is the weakest and most useless ability.

[Natural Interference System] can manipulate various elements of nature. It usually has a wide attack range and is also the most common superpower.

[Concept Interference System] is able to manipulate or change the ideas or rules that have been stabilized by humans after the cleansing of civilization and the survival of the fittest, and possesses all kinds of incredible powers.

[Causal Interference System] is recognized as the most powerful ability of all systems. It has the power to change cause and effect. The effect of its actual use is incredible, but there are very few swordsmen who possess this ability.

In addition to these, there are some very strange abilities that cannot even be classified into the above four categories. These abilities are classified into the fifth category, defined as "unclassified system".

Kurogane Shizuku's ability belongs to the nature interference system, which allows her to control water. With her A-level magic control, she can even precisely control the movement of each water droplet and even water molecules. It can be said that she is completely opposite to Stella, who relies entirely on firepower to crush others.

What she had to do now was to control the water to protect all the hostages without anyone noticing. Fortunately, the surrounding lights were broken, and the dim environment made it easier for her to use her abilities.

However, plans often cannot keep up with changes, and many things in this world are beyond our control.

"Please! At least let my child go!"

Chapter 63 Killing in the Shadows

Then, Stella and the others witnessed an unbearable scene.

"Please! At least let my child go!"

"Shut up! Get out of here!"

A mother knelt in front of a thug, trying to ask him to let her child go, but was hit in the face by an elbow and flew several meters away.

Stella was already starting to get angry, but because of what Kurogane Jushizuku said, she had to hold it in.

"Don't bully my mother!"

A little boy, who seemed to be the child of the mother just now, threw the ice cream in his hand directly at the thug's head, and then rushed towards him angrily.

It was this action that completely angered the thug, and he kicked the boy hard in the stomach without mercy.

It was a heavy military boot, and the kick was from a sturdy adult. Even an adult would not be able to withstand it, let alone a child.

But the thug seemed to think that it was far from enough, and pointed the black muzzle of the gun at the little boy's head with a grin.

Kurogane Jushizuku sighed, because she knew that after witnessing this scene, the people around her would no longer be able to sit still.

If student knights want to use their spirit equipment, they must obtain permission. The academy had already learned about the situation inside through the escaped tourists, so Stella and Kurogane Shizuku have all obtained permission to use their spirit equipment.

By the way, Okita Souji's sword is also regarded as a spiritual outfit. After all, Okita Souji's sword can be transformed into a spirit particle, which is perfect for pretending to be a spiritual outfit made of magic power.