My youth story cannot be a knight war

[Therefore, the media and the public have always been skeptical about the establishment of the Unidentified Lifeform Search Headquarters, believing that the Unidentified Lifeforms were completely defeated by Number 4, and that these guys are useless. This specially established search department is probably just a gimmick for the Metropolitan Police Department to defraud funds. Therefore, the pressure on the top is extremely great, resulting in several bigwigs being hospitalized due to high blood pressure due to the overwhelming pressure.]

[This situation continued until the police defeated No. 12. It was believed that the Unidentified Lifeform Investigation Headquarters had finally played its role. The fact that No. 12 was actually defeated by Kousaka Kyousuke was known only to the people affiliated with the Investigation Headquarters, except for the people above.]

【Kousaka Kyousuke still remembers the situation that day. At that time, he had just applied for a powerful thermal weapon from the armory and drove away when he ran into No. 12 who was committing a crime. When the police and Zaimokuza's support did not arrive in time, he could only guide No. 12 to a nearby abandoned factory according to the map he had memorized before. He used a few grenades to make a simple trap to trap it. Then, on the second floor of the factory, he pulled the trigger of the shoulder-fired rocket launcher he had applied for and hit No. 12 with one shot, which also detonated the surrounding gasoline barrels, blowing it up along with the factory.】

【Thinking back to that time after so many days, Kousaka Kyosuke still felt a lingering fear. If he hadn't run away quickly enough, he would have been buried in there too.】

[Every time I think of this, I can't help but feel lucky that No. 12 doesn't have the same defense and recovery capabilities as No. 6, otherwise that factory would probably be the burial place of Kyosuke Kousaka.]

[Just then, another person opened the door of the conference room and walked in. The slender figure was wearing a police uniform. A pair of slender legs wrapped in black stockings and high heels raised his height from less than 1.7 meters to nearly 1.75 meters. His long black hair stretched out from under his police hat and swayed behind his back with his footsteps.]

[“Mr. Kosaka, you have a fax from Nagano Prefecture.”]

[The policewoman with a beautiful face and a teardrop mole on the corner of her left eye handed the fax to Kousaka Kyosuke.]

A bookstore in Chiba Prefecture.

Gogen Ruri's eyes gradually widened as she looked at the policewoman on the mobile phone who looked almost exactly like her except for her height.

"This is... me?"

And what Kyosuke Kousaka said in the following video also confirmed her guess.

"Thank you, Gogen." 1

[Kousaka Kyousuke took the fax from Gokou Ruri as he thanked her. Gokou Ruri looked at Kousaka Kyousuke, who was not taller than her even when he was sitting, and asked with some curiosity as her pink lips opened.]

[“Excuse me, Officer Kosaka, but what exactly are these faxes…?”]

[“It doesn’t matter if I tell you. After all, this information will be explained in the meeting later.”]

[Kousaka Kyosuke opened the first page of the fax and saw the words "Unconfirmed Lifeform No. 0" written on the first page.]

[“This is the investigation report on the unidentified life form No. 0, and… the matter of the Jiulangyue ruins.”]

【Thinking of the call he received from Inspector Kameyama an hour ago, in which he told him about his latest discovery, a gloom flashed across Kousaka Kyosuke's eyes.】

Bellissimo Ricordo Restaurant, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo.

[“Hey~ whoosh!”]

【Wearing a waiter's uniform, Zaimokuza put his tongue against the corner of his mouth and carefully used a needle and thread to thread the last stitch of a girl's school uniform in front of him. The golden thread outlined a tiny and delicate butterfly pattern at the collar of the school uniform.】

[“Done!”]

【Zaimokuza happily cut off his sight with scissors and handed the embroidered school uniform to a white-haired girl beside him who was leaning her hands and chin on the table and looking at him eagerly. After the girl got the school uniform, she looked at the embroidered pattern on it and her eyes narrowed into crescents with joy, revealing a big smile on her young face.】

[“Thank you! Brother Yihui!”]

[The little girl happily jumped up with her school uniform in her hand, hugged Zaimokuza's arm and rubbed her delicate face against it. Zaimokuza also smiled and patted her soft white long hair with his hand.]

[“It’s nothing, it’s just a small matter. If you want any patterns embroidered on clothes in the future, you can bring the clothes to me. Even if you want to wear a wedding dress right now, I can also - poof!”]

[A spinning menu fell into his smiling face, which was distorted by the impact of the corner of the book. Zaimokuza screamed and was hit to the ground by the menu, which was thick enough to replace a brick. The chair he was sitting on also fell down with him.]

"Stay away from this person, Jinghua!"

[A slender hand embraced Kawasaki Kyoka, who was holding the school uniform in front of her chest and staring blankly. Kawasaki Saki, who was wearing a windbreaker and holding a bag of vegetables and fruits in one hand, was obviously just shopping. She glared at Zaimokuza who had fallen to the ground and asked in a cold voice.]

["What do you want to do to my sister? Zai·Mu·Za·kun!"]

[“I…I was just…playing with her and embroidering clothes for her…that’s all.”]

[Zaimokuza said with difficulty, his mouth pouting because the menu was stuck in his cheek, and his big eyes that glanced over were full of innocence and grievance.]

"Huh? Embroidering clothes and playing around with things like wedding dresses? You're basically plotting something bad against my sister, aren't you? Jinghua's still an elementary school student! You beast! Lolita control! Copper sorcerer!"

[Unfortunately, Kawasaki Saki didn't believe Zaimokuza's explanation at all. She cautiously pulled Kawasaki Kyoka away from him who fell to the ground, and held her sister's shoulders with both hands and spoke seriously. ]

[“Kyoka, remember, if you come to the store alone with Zaimokuza and no one else, go home immediately. Also, if you see a boy who looks as handsome as him on the street or in school, you must stay away from him. Those guys are very dangerous to a girl like you! Do you understand!?”]

【"oh……"】

[Kousaka Kyoka, a sixth-grader about to start middle school, looked at her serious-looking sister and nodded with a confused expression.]

"I... I just like... playing with children. I'm not... a sorcerer."

【Zaimokuza painfully proved his innocence to the two sisters, but Kawasaki Saki glanced at him contemptuously after hearing this, and continued to speak to the sister in his arms.】

[“Jinghua, there is one more thing you must remember. Don’t trust men’s words easily in the future. Don’t believe a single word of them asking you to hold an umbrella for them. Especially those men who look handsome and harmless like Zaimokuza. Not a single word they say is true. They are all lies!”]

[“Okay, I understand, sister!”]

[Kawasaki Kyoka nodded seriously, and Kawasaki Saki touched her head with a look of satisfaction, and told her to go home quickly.]

【“…”】

【Zaimokuza watched silently as the white-haired girl in his perspective opened the door of the restaurant and walked out. The figure with a single ponytail jumped lively and gradually moved away from his vision. Two lines of tears flowed from the corners of his eyes, making him look like Zhao Min, who was defiled by Chang Wei and no one believed her innocence.】

[A pair of beautiful legs in black silk stockings wearing high heels walked into his fallen field of vision. Kawasaki Saki looked at Zaimokuza, who was silently shedding tears, with disdain, and kicked the armrest of the fallen chair with the tip of her sharp high heels. ]

[“Hurry up! Don’t think you can rest today because the store is being repaired. Nail the bookshelves in the store quickly. If you don’t nail them up today, you won’t have dinner, and your salary will also be deducted!”]

[“I don’t think… I’ve ever had a salary… right?”]

[“Then you won’t have dinner tomorrow! If you don’t want to go hungry, get up and work quickly.”]

[The heartless capitalist lady put one foot on the handrail, staring at the distressed General Ashikaga Yoshiteru with cold and ruthless eyes, and her voice was like a cold long knife stabbing into his heart. ]

[“…Ms. Saki.”]

【Listening to the speech of the capitalist lady Grandet, the disheartened Zaimokuza glanced at her condescending gaze, and suddenly felt a surge of fear in his heart, and he spoke softly. 】

【"ah?"】

【Because Zaimokuza's voice was too soft, Kawasaki Saki impatiently put her ear close to him, wanting to hear what he had to say.】

[“Your dressing taste is really good. It makes people feel like the blue sky reflecting the sea.”]

【Listening to the praise, Kawasaki Saki looked a little confused, wondering what Zaimokuza was up to. 】

[“Also…please change some of your habitual movements when you wear a skirt in the future, such as raising your legs high, otherwise people will always see something strange.”]

[Kawasaki Saki's eyes froze for a moment, and then a crimson crept up her slender neck from under her collar, like a whole lamb roasted red. Faint white steam rose from her head. The beeping of a kettle cooking on the table next to her happened, and she finally understood Zaimokuza's "praise."]

[A pair of slender hands covered the black hip-wrapped long skirt, and a long and curvy beautiful leg was raised high, stepping on Zaimokuza's face! ]

[“You pervert!!!”]

[While shouting in shame and indignation, Zaimokuza's vision fell into darkness as he felt the severe pain on his face.]

[Today, the oppressed General Ashikaga Yoshiteru, the fourth unconfirmed life form, Kuuga, Zaimokuza Yoshiteru, won a long-awaited victory in the battle with his bloodless and tearless capitalist boss, Zetsu.]

【Today's victory is won by Zaimokuza Yoshiki.】

Shuchiin Academy, Student Council Room.

"I don't know why, but this scene between Mr. Zaimokuza and Ms. Kawasaki feels like déjà vu..."

"President, you are right. This scene between Ms. Kawasaki and Mr. Zaimokuza is indeed very familiar..."

"..."

Shirogane Miyuki and Shinomiya Kaguya looked at each other with deep sympathy, while Hayasaka Ai, who was perched on a tree outside the student union, was observing the situation inside with a telescope. She rolled her eyes at their mouth movements and thought to herself, isn't this the same routine you guys have to perform every day?

[An abandoned building in a park in Tokyo.]

【"Why!?"】

A fist the size of a sandbag smashed a solid wooden table into pieces. Zu-Zain-Da, the leader of the "ZU" group, looked at Baruba with red eyes. Baruba remained calm despite Zain's blazing rage and produced a parchment with numerous totems printed on it.

"This is reality. So far, only one of you has passed the game. The rest have been defeated by either Kuuga or Rindo's warriors. There's no need to continue."

[On the parchment in her hand, many totems on the left side have been scratched with bright red lightning-like hooks, and there are thirteen of them, which is exactly the number of Gurongi that the police have counted, accounting for nearly half of the totems on the parchment.]

"Your fate is clear, so according to the rules of the game, I, as the judge, will disqualify you, 'ZU,' from the game and transfer it to 'ME,' pushing Kikiru into the next stage."

[“Now, who is in favor and who is against?”]

Although Baruba said the words "Who objects?" calmly, an overwhelming cold aura enveloped the group of Gurongi from the "ZU" Group standing across from him. Under the oppression of this aura, although many Gurongi looked unwilling, they dared not say anything. Only Zain, the leader, continued to glare at Baruba, panting. However, the record of failure on the parchment made it impossible for him to utter any rebuttal. He could only remain silent. Only his still shaking fists could make people feel the anger in his opponent.

[“Then let me be the first one.”]

A man in a yellow racing suit, his face covered in various colors of paint, approached from behind her. He glanced disdainfully at the group of "ZU" on the opposite side, then pushed past them and walked through the middle. All the Gurongi who were pushed aside showed anger, but seeing Baruba in front of them, who remained expressionless, they forced themselves to hold back.

The man took a stone-edged writing board from the table behind him and drew lines on it with a black oil-based marker. The lines were eerie and rhythmic, like piano tabs or some mysterious language. When he was finished, he raised the board towards Baruba.

"One hundred people, use the new second rule."

Baruba's eyes flickered upon hearing the man's words. Without a word, he pulled out a black magatama bracelet and tossed it over. The man took it, smiling as he walked towards Baruba. His figure twisted and distorted in the darkness, four thin, patterned wings spreading behind him. A dark silver belt gleamed around his waist, its demonic markings even more ferocious and terrifying than those worn by the red copper-belted Gurongi.

[Baruba raised the hand with the ring on it. The green corners on it, unlike the previous golden ones, were shining with an even more strange light.]

"It's up to you to start a new phase for Kikiru, Me-Badjisu-Ba."

"Me? Unlike the "zu" prefix in the names of the previous Gurongis... the "ME" group, they should be the higher-level Gurongis in this "Kikiru"."

"A brand new enemy... and a new stage. As expected, this 'Kikiru' is divided into different stages, each one belonging to a different Gurongi. Each stage is likely to be more powerful. Will this new enemy be as strong as the previous number six? According to the information that the rose woman revealed after Zaimokuza was defeated, there should be a 'GO' group above this 'ME' group."

"That Zero that appeared once during the video and then disappeared... is that the Gurongi from the GO Group?"

"I'm afraid it's more than that..."

Hikigaya Hachiman analyzed the information revealed in the video thoughtfully. When he thought of the visual effect when No. 0 just appeared at the beginning of the video and the atmosphere that made him feel depressed outside the video, his brows jumped. He intuitively felt that the Gurongi called No. 0 might be more terrifying than he thought.

Will Zaimokuza have to face this kind of monster in the future? Thinking of this, he glanced at Zaimokuza who was concentrating on watching the video, with an indelible worry in his eyes.

While Hikigaya Hachiman was looking at Zaimokuza, someone was also looking at him.

Hayato Hayama looked at Hikigaya's thin and thin profile, his brows tightly furrowed, with a kind of bewildered confusion in his eyes.

What's going on? This feeling of déjà vu...12

Bellissimo Ricordo Restaurant, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo.

【ding ding ding——】

[The lumberjack with dark circles under his eyes had a pair of dead fish eyes and five nails in his mouth. He was standing on a ladder and nailing a piece of wood with a mason's hammer.

[While nailing the bookshelf, he felt the cold gaze coming from the counter behind him from time to time. Mr. Zaimokuza had an expressionless face and there was no ripple in his heart. The villain in his heart was laughing wildly. I won! I won! I finally beat that bloodless and tearless Kawasaki Saki once! Wakakakaka! ]

[As for dinner today and tomorrow? At worst, I can go to Mr. Kosaka for dinner! I've already found a new customer, so I don't need you as my new customer anymore! Hehehehe!]

[Click——]

[The doorbell rang, and then the door was pushed open, and a foot wearing white canvas sneakers stepped in. ]

[“Saki-san, are you there…?”]

[A female voice came from behind. Zaimokuza, who seemed to be concentrating on his work but was laughing wildly inside, did not notice the person coming, but the other party's voice was getting smaller and smaller. ]

【“…Yihui?”】

【"Um?"】

【Zaimokuza blinked when he heard someone calling his first name after his last name for the first time in a long time, and turned to look at the door with five nails in his mouth, and saw the surprised look of the newcomer.】

[Ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong——]

【Looking at the newcomer's somewhat strange yet familiar appearance, Zaimokuza's eyes gradually widened, and the five nails in his mouth fell from his open mouth, making a crisp sound when they fell to the floor.】

【"Who are you--"】

【Seeing the surprise on his old friend's face gradually creeping up on Zaimokuza's face, he jumped down from the nearly two-meter-high ladder, happily opened his arms and threw himself towards the newcomer, saying happily.】

"Long time no see! Rumi-chan!" 8

32. Killing Thousands of Miles Away (Two-in-One)

The person who came was a girl with long black hair, headphones around her neck, a red scarf tied around her chest, and a black coat. Through the coat, you could see her white shirt and black skirt underneath. Her legs were wrapped in black tights, and she was wearing a pair of trendy white canvas sneakers. She was a beautiful Japanese girl with youthful energy.

[She opened her pair of distinct black and white eyes, and her delicate features could not hide her surprise as she looked at Zaimokuza, who was throwing himself at her with his arms open.]

A line of white text was typed in the lower left corner of the girl in the video, revealing her identity.

【Tsurumi Rumi, a third-year student at Shuchiin Academy.】1

Shuchiin Academy, Student Council Room.

"Oh my? The one who showed up this time is actually someone from our Shuchiin Academy. I didn't expect that she's a pretty girl. This is really surprising."

Shinomiya Kaguya raised her eyebrows and looked at Tsurumi Rumi in the video with some surprise. She obviously didn't expect to see an alumnus of her school, and one from the future, in this mysterious video.

"Well, maybe you and I can also appear, provided that we are still in Tokyo at that time."