She withdrew her gaze, turned around and walked out of the school gate. Bidding farewell to the old and nostalgic wall, the girl walked along the main road leading into the city. As the distance from the city center increases, the bumpy roads will be smoothed out. The city center of Abydos is not very prosperous, but it is warm enough. The carefully trimmed red willows are close to the neatly arranged houses. In the gaps between the lavender flowers and leaves, carved exterior walls, painted glass, simple hotels, and various shops are looming and eye-catching. She kept going. Between the houses, the tilted gray electric poles are like frames that divide the street scene into beautiful paintings. On both sides of the road paved with flat stones, neatly trimmed flower beds are planted with emerald green Selaginella and aloe vera, adding a touch of vibrant color to the withered Abydos. She kept going. Above the streets is the clear blue sky like the sea. Alleys, some wide and some narrow, are interspersed on both sides of the streets. Looking down from above, one can see hemp ropes as thick as fingers tied from one balcony to another. Colorful clothes are hung on the clotheslines, basking in the sun. With the occasional strong breeze, they are like flags hoisted high by someone, creating ripples like waves. In order to avoid accidentally meeting the juniors who were on their way to school, and also to avoid the sensitive teacher who might have noticed something was wrong with him, Hoshino Takanashi randomly chose an alley and went into it. Although not as busy as the street outside, there were still quite a few people in this not-too-small alley. An old man from an unknown family was lying on a bench, making tea. The ceramic teapot had a faint vapor floating from its spout, making a dull gurgling sound. Children with gray faces squatted together, their small heads gathered in a circle, noisily playing a game that outsiders could not understand at all. A wild cat was holding a strip of meat that had just come from the butcher shop outside. It looked at the noisy crowd below with contempt, and took an elegant step to jump over the eaves above their heads.
Xiao Niaoyou Xingye walked silently through the crowd, savoring the hard-earned warmth among them. Three years of perseverance and three days of tremendous change. Caesars, Steel Helmets, Convenience House 68, the black market, banks, and... teacher. A lazy middle-aged man was dozing off on the back of a chair, his upper and lower eyelids bumping against each other from time to time, with a neatly arranged stall in front of him. Only when the laughing and playing children passed by him and cast their eager eyes on his stall full of snacks and toys, could he barely perk up a little, handing out the small toys on the stall to the cash-strapped children for free, and watching the children's backs cheering and thanking him as they walked away with a satisfied look on his face. Hoshino Takanari withdrew his gaze and unconsciously quickened his pace. Not long after, she walked out of the alley, passed through the crowd, and stopped in front of the main entrance of a modern building. The girl looked up, and the silver-white LOGO reflected a cold metallic luster under the sunlight, shining on her eyes. She couldn't help but narrow her eyes. 【Caesar PMC】 The triangular black and white blocks form a giant that seems to be trying to break free from the constraints of the world. Without much hesitation, the girl stepped directly into the revolving door of the building. As the elevator went up floor by floor, when it could no longer go up, there was a ding-dong sound and the metal doors of the elevator opened to both sides. At the same time, a man's voice was heard. "I've been waiting for you for a long time, Akatsuki Horus... No, I should call you Hoshino-san now, I'm so sorry." A man whose skin was as black as glass was standing in the middle of the room. He was wearing a black suit, had no facial features and no hair. Cracks like glass cracks spread out from under his collar, emitting a cold white light, climbing up the corners of his mouth and face, crossing and merging where the facial features should have been, forming a strange expression that seemed to be smiling. "Alas, even though it's been a long time, I'm still not used to the etiquette of Kivotos." The monster temporarily named [Black Suit] bowed slightly and turned his body to the side. Black mist like flaming flames spread from his exposed skin. "Please sit over here, Hoshino-san." Hoshino Kotori ignored the pretentious look on the other side and said bluntly, "What do you want from me this time, man in black?" Heifu was not angry at Hoshino Kotori's targeting. He calmly retracted his outstretched right hand and said with a smile, "Haha... because the situation has changed unexpectedly, I would like to make a proposal to Hoshino-san who has mastered the highest [Mystery] of Kivotos."
"Proposal? Stop kidding me!!!" As if recalling a very infuriating memory, Hoshino Takanashi suppressed his inner anger and refused without hesitation, "I already have that kind of thing..." "Ah, please calm down first." Heifu stretched out his hand to interrupt Hoshino Kotori's anger and said with a smile, "This time is different from the past. Please allow me to explain it with a line from a movie I like very much." Under the frowning gaze of Kotori Shinhoshino, the man in black slowly sat back down on the huge office in front of the floor-to-ceiling window. "I'm going to make you an offer you can't refuse." The black monster crossed his hands and leaned his elbows on the large desk. Thick black smoke rose from the corners of his grinning white mouth and his single eye, rolling endlessly. “I think this is a very interesting suggestion,” he said with a smile. “Please do give it a listen.” Hoshino Takanashi remained silent. ------------------------------------- "Wow, Alu-chan, you've been sitting here for half an hour without saying a word, are you really okay?" Asahi Mutsuki waved his hand in front of Lu Bamo Alu, "Do you need me to call an ambulance?" And Lu Bamo Alu seemed to be unable to sense the presence of his companion in front of him, and his brown eyes continued to stare blankly at the void in front of him. "President, didn't we discuss everything last night? What's there to worry about?" Kayoko Onikata looked at her president in surprise. "Hire three times as many mercenaries to lead Abydos to a terrain that is advantageous to us, and then use the bombs that Haruka planted there this morning to blow up all of Abydos." Chapter 86: Wait for death! "I, I'm back." Just when Kayoko Onikata started to mention Haruka Igusa, the sound of the door lock turning was heard at the right moment. The purple-haired girl with dust on her cuffs and hair ends stood at the door and pushed it open carefully. "Welcome back, Haruka." Kayoko Onikata picked up the towel hanging on the wall and handed it to the girl, "Thank you for your hard work~" "No, it's not hard!" Igusa Haruka wiped her face with a towel twice and shook her head repeatedly, "The bombs in the main areas have been buried, and all that's left is to press the button..." "Good boy, good boy, Haruka-chan is really great. She didn't forget any of the places and kept them in mind." Asagi Mutsuki picked up a new towel and gently wiped the dust off the girl's face, hair, and clothes, while smiling and saying, "You really worked very hard~" “Hehehe, please let me know whenever you need anything.” Igusa Haruka first shrank her neck because of her companion’s intimate actions, and then, as if she was drunk, a strange blush appeared on her cheeks, “I will blow everything away... with just these two hands!” "Eh……" The noise of her companions finally interrupted Lu Bamo Alu's meditation... or rather her daze. The girl stared at her empty hands and couldn't help but sigh. "Alu-chan, why do you still look so hopeless?" Asagi Mutsuki took a step back, looked at Igusa Haruka who had been wiped clean by him, and smiled with satisfaction. Then he turned around and attacked his president mercilessly, "If you are embarrassed to use the money that teacher-chan gave us to attack Abydos, then why don't you get a deposit from the customer at the beginning and use that deposit to hire mercenaries?" "No!" Although hesitant about many things, Lu Bamo Alu refused decisively on this matter, "Not accepting deposits is my iron rule." "Once we receive the deposit, we have to obey the customer's orders..." Kayoko Onikata looked at her president, whose common sense was completely different from that of the outside world, speechlessly, "Is it still this weird reason?" "That's right!" Lu Bamo Alu nodded confidently. She crossed her arms and puffed out her chest with pride. "We will collect the commission fee after completing the work magnificently. If this order is broken, then the vision we have been pursuing will never be achieved!" Asahi Mutsuki tilted his head in confusion, "Vision? Do we have such a thing as vision?" "Of course there is! Absolutely! Lawless criminals who are not bound by laws and disciplines! Isn't that the ultimate vision of our Convenience House 68?!" Lu Bamo Alu slammed the table and looked at his companion in dissatisfaction, "Director Mutsuki, how could you forget such an important thing?!" "Really?" Asagi Mutsuki looked up at the ceiling, the index finger of her right hand unconsciously poking the corner of her lips, as if she was recalling something, "But Alu-chan..." The girl suddenly laughed without warning, "Are you sure this is not an idea that suddenly came to you when you encountered the teacher-chan robbing the bank yesterday afternoon?"
"Nah... nah!" Lu Bamo Alu's face flushed red, and he banged the table even louder. "Just like Kayoko said, the client's deposit can become a constraint on our hands and feet at any time, forcing us to do things we don't want to do, so the commission fee can only be charged as a reward for success!" "President..." Looking at Lu Bamo Alu, who was waving his arms vigorously and trying to explain with blood on his face, Guifang Kayoko rubbed her aching temples, "You don't want to collect a deposit, but you want to complete the commission in a gorgeous way... I can't find any other way to describe you except for forcing others to do things against their will... Kayoko Onikata looked at her president and suggested seriously, "If you are under such great pressure, why not take advantage of the little change you have left and abandon everything to go back to Gehenna to farm. At least it will be easier that way. “Eh? Eh?! Farming?!” Seeing his exhausted companions about to part ways and go their separate ways, Lu Bamo Alu’s face changed drastically, and then he quickly explained, “This, this is a small stumbling block on the path to success! As long as we cross it, we will be able to… be able to…” "Hehehe, I'm afraid that even if Alu-chan really wants to go back to her hometown to farm, she can't go back now." Asagi Mutsuki interrupted with a smile, "The Gehenna Discipline Committee will not let her go so easily." Disciplinary Committee...meeting? Thinking of this terrifying name and the terrifying figure at the top of Gehenna who was fighting against a hundred enemies alone, Lu Bamo Alu shuddered subconsciously. Even if I starve to death or die outside, I will never go back to Gehenna! The girl shrank her neck and silently made up her mind in her heart. Jingle Bell!Jingle Bell! A rapid phone call interrupted the sudden silence in the room. In order to dispel the chill in her heart, Lu Bamo Alu quickly picked up the phone. "Hello, this is Convenience House 6..." "Convenience! House! 6! 8!" A low roar of suppressed rage came through the other end of the phone, "What! Are! You! Doing!?" "Eh? What are you doing?" Lu Bamo Alu was confused by this sudden accusation, but she felt that the voice on the phone sounded somewhat familiar? "Not only did you fail to complete the commission I gave you, you even teamed up with the Steel Helmets to rob the black market bank I set up!" Lu Bamo Alu's doubts instantly stimulated the anger on the other end of the phone, and a deafening roar exploded in the microphone, "You are a bunch of ungrateful bastards who forget their principles for the sake of profit! I trusted you so much!!" "Ah!? So you're my employer?! That black bank is yours too?!" Lu Bamo Alu's eyes widened. She finally remembered where she had heard this voice before, and explained in a panic, "Please listen to me, this matter..." "I don't want to hear any explanation from you! Get ready to die!" Caesar's roar shook the chandelier on the ceiling, "The commission is cancelled! From now on, don't even think about getting any commissions worth even a dime on the black market! I will multiply your original commission tenfold and put your heads up on the black market as a bounty!" "Hey, wait a minute..." Snapped! beep - beep - beep - A busy tone came from the microphone. The other party did not give Lu Bamo Alu any chance to explain. It seemed that the purpose of calling was to vent his surging anger. Now that he had vented his anger, he hung up the phone without hesitation. The girl stared at the microphone with dull eyes, as motionless as a stone statue that had been weathered by wind and rain for years, without a single color in her eyes but only paleness. Chapter 87: We are not friends! "Ah, it looks like this is the last finishing blow from Sensei-chan. I can finally sleep peacefully tonight without having to worry about a poisonous snake suddenly popping out of the bag of money and biting me." While everyone was still thinking about what that phone call meant, Asahikawa Mutsuki couldn't help but laugh. She stretched herself and patted her president's stiff shoulder. "Okay, okay, don't be sad, Alu-chan. Pies that fall from the sky are always mixed with iron. I'm hungry. Isn't there still some of the 30 million left? Let's go eat together~" Kayoko Onikata couldn't help but frowned, "Let's go eat? Or Shibaseki Ramen?"
"Of course~" Asagi Mutsuki shrugged, "After all, after hiring mercenaries and buying explosives, there are only a few lonely coins left in the big bag of money that the teacher gave us. I'm afraid that except for the kind-hearted Shiba-chan Ramen Shop, there is no other place to fill the stomachs of the four of us at the same time." "That's not what I'm worried about." Kayoko Onikata shook her head. "It seems that Kuromi Serika from Abydos... is working part-time in that store for a long time." "It's okay, it's okay~ I've already investigated this matter clearly." Asagi Mutsuki waved her hand casually, not taking it to heart at all, "The lovely waiter will only go to Shibaseki Ramen to work in the afternoon. As long as we finish eating and leave early, we don't have to worry about running into people from Abidos~" "Okay, then let's go to Shibaseki Ramen." Kayoko Onikata nodded. Her companions had already done the investigation to this extent, and she had no reason to object. After thinking for a while, Kayoko Onikata turned around and looked at her dumbfounded president, "Eat something good, maybe it can help our president regain some spirits..." Igusa Haruka looked left and right, and finally her eyes returned to the bomb remote control in her hands, "Then these explosives buried in Abydos..." She hesitated for a moment, and said hesitantly, "What should we do with it?" "Just leave it there, maybe one day you'll need it suddenly~" Asagi Mutsuki waved her hand nonchalantly, "Let's go, don't worry about such trivial matters, let's go eat ramen~" After saying that, the girl tiptoed, hummed a little tune, and skipped out of the office. The single ponytail dancing back and forth behind her shows that the girl is in a very good mood. Kayoko Onikata and Haruka Igusa looked at each other and nodded in tacit agreement. They took one arm of Lu Bamo Alu, lifted up the president who was trapped in a situation where he could not extricate himself because of the shattered dream of the lawless maniac, and followed Asagi Mutsuki out. ------------------------------------- "Ah, this soup, these noodles, and this familiar aroma~" Looking at the full bowl of ramen in front of her, which was even bulging with side dishes, Asahi Mutsuki sighed sincerely, and then she couldn't wait to break open the bamboo chopsticks and showed a happy smile, "I'm going to eat!" "It's actually... one, one bowl per person?" Igusa Haruka was flattered as she looked at the steaming ramen that belonged to her alone. Her fingers hovered in the air, and she was hesitant to pick up her chopsticks. "For someone like me... is it really okay to be so extravagant?" At this time, General Chai just came over with a bowl of freshly cooked ramen. After hearing this, he couldn't help but laugh, "Of course." The cute Shiba Inu-looking store manager put the ramen in his hand on the table in front of Kayoko Onikata and waved his hand nonchalantly as the girl thanked him. "You must be friends of Abydos, right?" He smiled and said, "Those kids helped me a lot in the past, so if you want more noodles or extra ingredients, please feel free to ask!" "..." The corner of Kayoko Onikata's mouth twitched, and then she changed the subject calmly, "This restaurant is so delicious..." She looked around. It was already lunchtime, but in the spacious noodle shop, there was only their lonely group sitting in the corner. The girl said with half emotion and half confusion, "But why are there so few customers in the restaurant?" "Is it because of the earth?" Light yellow Mutsuki picked up a piece of barbecued pork and threw it into her mouth. The rich aroma that exploded on the tip of her tongue made the girl squint her eyes involuntarily. "After all, it's so close to the Abydos that is about to be abolished." "Forget it. We are just guests passing by here occasionally. As long as the food is delicious, it's fine." Kayoko Onikata shook her head and pulled out a pair of bamboo chopsticks from the chopstick holder. "Then I'll start eating too..." "certainly not……" A suppressed and low voice came from the side, mixed with a faintly visible tremor. "President..." Kayoko Onikata rubbed her brows and looked helplessly at Lu Bamo Alu who was leaning his head against her chest and acting weird again, "What's wrong with you again..." Lu Bamo Alu slammed his fist on the table and shouted at the top of his lungs, "We are not friends--!!!" "Wow?!" Asahi Mutsuki was startled. Her hand slipped and the half egg that she had just picked up fell back into the bowl. The flying oil stains splashed onto her white collar. The girl wiped it and complained, "Alu-chan, what are you doing..." "I understand!! I finally understand what is holding me back! It has prevented me from making up my mind and embarking on the cruel path of the lawless maniacs!" Lu Bamo Alu pounded the table so hard that it made a loud bang. "What's the meaning???" A big question mark popped up in Asahi Mutsuki's head. This time, even she couldn't understand what her childhood sweetheart wanted to express.
"We were commissioned to come here to attack Abydos! We should have swept through everything like a blizzard!" "But what's going on with this store?! What the hell is going on!" Lu Bamo Alu looked at the bowl of ramen in front of him with the eyes as if he was looking at his sworn enemy. The bowl not only had more noodles than other restaurants, but also had more toppings. "Not only is it warm and friendly, but it also keeps us fed! Even when talking to bad guys like us, they are friendly! It gives people the feeling that as long as you enter here, everyone will become good friends!" "Huh?" Asahi Mutsuki still didn't understand what her childhood sweetheart wanted to say, "Is there anything wrong with that?" "Don't you understand yet?! This warm feeling like home is the problem!" Lu Bamo Alu swallowed the saliva that unconsciously rose at the root of his tongue, and forced himself to look away from the bowl of ramen full of humanistic care. "It is this atmosphere that has prevented me from completing the commission and even put me on the client's blacklist!!!" Chapter 88: Leading the Evil
