Chapter 4 - On the Journey

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Dior's childhood was spent in suspicion and stealing. It is impossible for the bastard father to care for her too much, but rather that his father did not sell her to the custom shop, and was already very worthy of the character of the bastard father, who spent his days drinking, smoking, and gambling, taught her nothing but how to cheat, steal, and threaten those who seemed weaker than himself. Fortunately, Dio didn't need these things, and she learned the 'virtues' of the bastard's father very well, and survived by stealing.

She understands very well that in this era, women have a much lower status in society than men, and as a 'soft persimmon', they are more vulnerable to attacks by others, Dio, who stopped by the lake to trim, took the saber given to her by John, cut off the braid left in her ear, and tied her slightly long hair with a red thread behind her head as when she participated in rugby, and the reflection in the lake looked much more neutral. She stood up in satisfaction and stretched.

The woods were very dangerous at night, so I didn't make a fire, so I parked my motorcycle under the tree and climbed up the tall trees on the side, leaning on the sturdy branches.

Dio hadn't planned to sleep yet, when the wolves attacked her. She found that after a day of traveling, her spirits were much better at night than during the day, and perhaps thanks to the power of a certain "DIO" vampire, she now didn't have to worry about having her throat slit while she was asleep.

When she was 12 years old, her next-door neighbor was killed by thieves, and she had her throat cut and didn't scream, and she struggled to hold her throat and knock on her family for help, and finally died of blood loss.

Neither Dio nor her biological father could have opened the door, let alone saved the hapless man.

Finally, when the police came, her biological father pretended to be out, leaving Dio alone at home to testify. She pretended to be afraid, covered herself with a quilt and pretended to be trembling, and sent the policemen away.

It was a nice experience, she pouted.

In the more than ten years she has lived in that town, similar things have happened all the time.

It's so pleasant.

The moonlight shone on her body, and she took the map from her belt and unfolded it. She was going to take a circle, from the vicinity of her former town to the seaside, and then take a boat to London, a pleasant trip she had never had in her life.

Of course, if only there were no emergencies.

The next day, it was raining, and Dior had to slow down the locomotive, halfway to the town where she was born, with enough fuel left for her to go around again.

If you pass through the canyon in front of you, you will almost be able to see the farmland.

As she thought so, she noticed a truck lying at the end of the low canyon. The truck seemed to be overturned from the rain, and some strange cargo rolled to the ground. Without completely blocking the road, Dior's locomotive was able to drive smoothly, and she frowned and stopped the locomotive before entering the canyon.

It is also not uncommon for the road to be blocked with something, and then when the vehicles driving into the canyon do not have time to escape, the robbers rush up. Dio thought so and put his hand on the gun, but... The appearance of the truck does not look like it is intentional, and you can see potholes in the front of the truck due to the rocks that have slid down.

Dio did not say anything, she walked to the compartment of the van with her gun in hand, and with her left hand pulled the curtain covering the compartment.

“... It doesn't seem like a good situation. ”

The carriage was a mess, the naked eye could see all kinds of cans and sealed jerky, the pungent smell of alcohol rushed into the tip of her nose, at that time the broken wine bottles on the ground, on the ground were the bodies of two men, a cursory observation, two people dressed in clothes with "SRT" subtitles written on them, there were many fine gunshot wounds on their bodies, and the blood had coagulated. It was indeed like the scene of a catastrophe -- there was no one but there was no living person, so did you go to ask for help? After all, it would be very troublesome to rely on people to carry so many supplies?

Dior, who didn't plan to be nosy, shook his head, put away his gun and prepared to leave.

Just as she put the gun back into its holster, a dagger silently slammed across her neck.

She said "carelessly", but immediately she felt the weakness of the man behind her, the shallow smell of blood, and she didn't realize the root of the man's existence, 'he' should be shorter than herself. She felt that the best way to deal with it was to pause time, but if this person was not a general citizen, then doing so would be a waste of exposing her presence.

“... I'm just a passing traveler. ”

Calmly explain who you are.

“... Ordinary people? Do ordinary people carry guns with them? What did the Yankees let you come for?"

There was a weak questioning voice, about fourteen years old, female, thin body... She judged it this way, she was calm and calm, and she could still fight back against herself when she was injured and at the disadvantage of weapons, and it seemed that she was indeed not an ordinary person.

"Ahh Well, when I was at home the other day, I was attacked by wolves, and I wanted to take this with me when I went on a trip. ”

No, my attitude is too calm, maybe the other party will be confused. She made a gesture of feigned composure and swallowed.

"Wolves...?, you're from Connor's, aren't you... I seem to have an impression, called Dior?"

"Yes, Dior Connor Brando. ”

The dagger was withdrawn.

"That's... Thankfully. ”

With a plop, Dior froze for a moment, and then turned around, and saw the man lying on the ground, and the girl suddenly had a headache. The other party should know Ian and know her identity, although he doesn't know who she is, but just leave it alone, if she survives, her evaluation of herself will drop by a level, and even the Connor family will be disappointed in themselves. Of course, the easiest way is to kill her, but the identity of the other party is not simple, maybe there will be some way after being saved...

Thinking so, Dio sighed, picked the girl up from the ground, and put her in the carriage, at least better than the rainy day outside.

As Dior imagined, it was a little girl of thirteen or fourteen, wearing a navy blue dress and small red leather shoes, a peaked cap on her head, rare dark blue hair, and a penetrating gunshot wound on her left shoulder. The conditions were limited, so Dio took out some emergency medicine from the salute tied to the motorcycle, treated the girl's wounds briefly, and then set up a tent and placed the girl inside.

Remove the corpses from the carriages, draw shovels from the carriages, and casually cover the entities with medical soil, the reason for this is that the smell of the corpses attracts predatory animals.

What a hassle.

Complaining about all this, Dio still had to start a fire, and if the blood loss girl's body temperature continued to drop, her life might be in danger, but this weather made it an extremely difficult job to make a fire.

“... Don't bother, I can't die yet..."

It seems that the girl just now was only in temporary shock, and she was lying weakly in the tent at this time, panting.

"I'm a member of London's Gear Street Tech Department, Yuru Čapek, and if you can send me back, the Queen will reward you with a lot. ”

The girl knew that justice and favor alone could not be a guarantee of her safety, so she said with a blink of azure eyes, barely squeezing out a smile on her face.

"Ah, that couldn't be better. ”

The girl scoured the overturned carriage with little interest, dug out some cans, returned to the tent, and then took out the oil lamp, dismantled the lampshade outside, and set up an iron frame on it. The smell of the kerosene lamp was not good, but the conditions were limited, so she opened the can and placed it on the shelf above the kerosene lamp.

“... How long have you been traveling?"

Looking at the girl's skillful things, Yuru couldn't help asking.

"It's just the beginning, and that's how I used to eat at home," Dior said, staring at the light, recalling a not-so-pleasant past, "but you, why are you here?"

“... I'm going to a neighboring country for a technical discussion, Ministry of Science and Technology, you know?"

The Ministry of Science and Technology is the department responsible for technology research and development, and the "Gear Street", which now occupies a large area of London, is the seat of the Ministry of Science and Technology. Dior has a very deep impression of Gear Street, in her short life, when she went to the London of this world, it was full of engine oil and strange smells, and in her impression, it was really no different from a madman shouting to conquer the world.

The girl in front of her didn't look like someone from that kind of place.

Dio thought for a moment, then nodded.

"Then, it's that kind of drama," Yuru said with a cold face, "those two people who died may have been bought, they were originally my bodyguards, but unfortunately they didn't know that I was still a member of the Hunter Department." ”

As she spoke, she raised her left hand, and Dio was also attracted to the strange hand. Not incomprehensible, the girl's left hand, a glove-like piece of metal wrapped around her entire left hand and forearm.

"I invented this thing myself, and it is theoretically possible to destroy most of the material found today by touching it, and if you are going to take me to Italy to receive a prize, then sorry, this thing will crush everything within five meters of it when it explodes. ”

The loud threat, and the temptation of wealth, Dio appreciated Yuru's actions very much, and did everything to ensure her survival, but she still had a little anger at the girl's attitude, perhaps just because of her so-called self-esteem.

"I'll give you a chance. ”

With a cold snort, she stirred the fish in the can with a spoon and looked down at the girl.

"Now, apologize for your condescending attitude. ”

"Ahh I'm sorry, but if you don't pay attention..."

To her surprise, Yuru suddenly seemed to react to something, and went down in an instant, as if she had suddenly changed into a different person, crying and apologizing while keeping apologizing.

"It's... I've been on the run for too long, and I'm too tense, I'm sorry... I didn't mean to, I just faced those idiots in the hunter department, and they wouldn't be obedient if I didn't talk like that..."

It's like a soldier who has been on the battlefield all along, and finally the war is over and then reunited with his family. Dio looked like a changed girl, and was stunned for a long time and couldn't say a word.

What a marvelous guy... Dio shook his head.

Maybe even this kind of performance is just acting, Dior looked outside the tent, it was still raining.