Chapter 12: Preparing for Stillness

In the blink of an eye, a long time has passed since Christmas. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Rhodes' third year has also been promoted to high school, but since there is no change of uniform, and there are no worries such as going on to higher education, it is really meaningless.

"Are you alright?"

Leaning against the school gate of Reien, today is the day Fujino goes home.

Unlike boarding students in the general sense, because the family is an important investor, Asagami Fujino does not need to live on campus, but for some reason, he has to go home often.

However, there was nothing wrong with the original, but something has gone wrong recently, for example, she seems to be being targeted by the thugs around her.

has a good impression of this taciturn girl, so Rhodes is not ready to abandon it.

He hates the hooligans of this country... No, not so much the hooligans of this country, but the hatred of all bullies.

Those with power should take on more responsibilities, and while it is definitely not a good reason to elaborate, Rhodes is convinced of this.

It's like he hates the existence of immortals.

"Yes teacher, I'm sorry for your trouble" Fujino bowed as a sign of gratitude.

"That's not necessary, let's go, if you're lucky, you can probably teach them a lesson" Rod waved his hand, signaling not to care, then stood up straight, and walked out of the school gate first, "It's just right, I haven't come out for a long time, it's not bad to buy some books or something"

Fujino was stunned for a moment when he heard this. She didn't understand what the phrase 'hasn't come out for a long time' meant. Does that mean you haven't been out since you came to the Rite Garden? That's outrageous, isn't it?

"Teacher, haven't you been walking outside?" Fujino followed quickly, looking at the plain but gentle face as usual from the side, as if he saw a figure that was once extremely reverent.

That, it's also a person who is willing to help others, to help himself, the same reliability, the same gentleness... It's just that, unlike that person, the teacher's expression will never be as happy as his...

Rodritte, it's not like he hasn't laughed since he came to the Rite Garden, but he didn't laugh because he wanted to laugh...

"Ahh

"Well, is there any reason?" Fujino couldn't understand that Mr. Saltixiu was not the type of polite person in school, and he was a completely different type from Mr. Genki Satsuki. If Mr. Xuanwu is 'quiet', then although there is no obvious performance in movement, Mr. Saltixiu gives people the feeling of 'movement'.

In the ceremonial garden of scarce men, not to mention people like Mr. Xuanwu and Rhodes, who can be called beautiful men, even if they are ordinary, they will be quite popular, right?

・・・Huh?

Fujino realized what he was thinking just now, and a faint flush rose on his scarce color face.

"It's nothing, it's just that since there's no special need to go out, it's the same everywhere, right?" But, because he was facing back, Rod didn't see this rare expression.

"Is that so?" Fujino paused, looked up, and looked at the back.

"Well, that's it," Rhodes turned back, "aren't you leaving? I don't know where your house is."

"Yes," Fujino walked in front of Rhodes.

Two people walked one after the other, through the cold city.

It was a little late, and the winter could not be said to have completely passed, and it was still very dark before long, and it didn't take long for the sky to get dark, and the two of them walked silently.

Until passing by an alley, the people Fujino said appeared.

"Tsk, did the eldest lady call someone?"

Dressed in a heavy winter coat, with obedient eyes, standing diagonally, although he understood that this was a sign of their debauchery, no matter how many times he saw it, Rod still hated such undisciplined people.

I never think anyone is stupid, but there are always people who think they are smart. That's the sad thing about the world.

"You're the ones who threaten my students, aren't you?" Fujino's eyes were close to the air, and although she was the one facing danger, there was even a lack of fear in her eyes.

Why is that? It's because of the lack of pain...

Most of the human fears come from pain, from the reflex notices of the nerves, and it is precisely because they feel pain that they want to refuse, they don't want this, they hate this, and it is because of this that they have this sense of self-preservation.

Just like Totono came back to Rhodes and made a simple attempt, it was because she had been in pain.

Even if I can't really recall the feeling of that time from distant memories, I still know that there is pain in this world and things I don't want.

But that's not all, and the more detailed details, such as the fear that comes from pain, are gone.

"Hey, who are you, Hero Saving Beauty, Weigh and weigh, Beware of Injury, Hey!" there were about seven of them, with a lewd and disgusting smile. But there was vigilance in his eyes.

They wanted to scare Rhodes away, because the height made them a little creppy.

Foreigner?

Let's not mention whether there will be any variables, and they don't want to casually provoke such a troublesome character.

They're not stupid, they're not stupid, they thought Asagami Fujino was a good bully and could be easily coerced, but now it seems that something is wrong...

She's actually called someone... What's going on?

But now he is a little unwilling to let go, so Minato Keita still took out his own knife, wanting to try to scare away this foreigner who is more than two heads taller than him.

"Hmph..."

But in front of him, the man's figure had disappeared.

"Scared?!" and before he could make the next reaction, a pain in his wrist seemed to be clamped by iron tongs, and the irresistible pain and great force made the knife out of his hand.

Then, as the arms were pouted back, Minato's top and bottom were reversed.

Everything in front of me flickered, and then the sky became the earth, and the ground became a canopy.

'Bang!', and the leader of the delinquent teenagers was knocked to the ground with a blow, and fell to the ground with one head, directly losing consciousness.

"Okay, what a great guy!!"

Only the bad boys and Fujino, who hadn't had time to move, saw what was happening, and at that moment, the moment Keita Minato just took out the knife, the blonde man wearing a long black trench coat and a white scarf stepped over, and his feet flashed behind Keita in just a turn, and then, with a hand and grabbing it, he pinched Keita's wrist joint, and with a force, he removed the shabby dagger.

And then, with just a wave of his hand, the bad boy who tried to challenge the high-level boss in vain was put down on the mud floor. Sticking to the sludge on his face, he was embarrassed.

"So, it's you guys next... Fujino, you go back first, and take over the rest of the matter, it's good that the girls don't see it."

Clapping his hands, standing up, and tugging at his neck slightly, Rod cast his cold gaze on the remaining scum.

The gloomy and cold atmosphere immediately spread, and even the bad people who didn't have any special characteristics felt it, and the killing intent was as cold as the polar wind.

Will die!

Absolutely going to die!

Without being reminded by anyone, I immediately understood this, but I couldn't escape it, my body was like being targeted by a huge predator, and my body couldn't move because of fear, so I could only freeze in place, and my pupils dilated with extreme fear, but I couldn't even say a word.

"Yes, Sensei"

Asakami Fujino hesitated, but finally turned around and walked away.

I don't know exactly what's going to happen next, but since I've already said 'don't look,' it's good to listen."

I don't have a sense of reality, so I don't care about anything, and I don't expect it, so I don't have superfluous thoughts because of this.

She turned and walked away, a little further away, there was another way home. Fujino vaguely guessed that she didn't have to wait for Rod anymore.

Even if you have to ask something, you should wait until tomorrow.

So, in the almost pleading gaze of the bad guys, Fujino left calmly.

It wasn't that she didn't see the bad guys' eyes, but she couldn't understand what that meant.

And, as far as common sense is concerned, the victim of the possibility is also the victim. And the perpetrator is already evil if the intention is merely to inflict harm.

She's gone.

Then, the end of the bad guys will come.

As Fujino's black robe swung around the corner, Rod burst into laughter.

"Okay, okay, it's our turn..." After waiting for thirty seconds, not worried that Fujino would come back, Rod raised a hand.

With this action, it was as if the confinement on their bodies had been half untied, and the boys who had been frozen in their bodies regained their ability to move, and with such a mourning dog-like wail of "Run, Run!", they ran desperately, almost in the opposite direction of rolling and climbing.

Almost the moment they saw that action, they understood this without any reason, it was okay if their clothes were soiled or something, it didn't matter if they got up desperately after falling to the ground and their hands were cut, the rampant expressions of the past never appeared again, they had never had dignity or anything since the beginning, and if they didn't die, they couldn't do anything... The farther away from this foreigner, the better!

However, this is all extravagant hope.

"Leave me—"

Raise his arm high, and then, Rod snapped his fingers.

'Smack!'

The crunch was accompanied by an echo, followed by a black wave that bloomed behind him.

It swells like a black curtain, but more like a silhouette, and only when it hits the wall, then changes position, and swells forward, does it splash like a wave.

At a speed of more than ten meters per second, it only took a second for the black tide to catch up with the few people who were desperately running, and then suddenly merged in front of them, enveloping the entire alley into the black shadow world.

Swing down, then violently puncture a dense mass of black thorns from the ground. And their legs, their abdomen, and one of the seven deadly sins, were all scarred, their bones were shattered, their muscles were torn apart, their blood was stagnant but could not flow out because the thorns were stuck in the flesh, they wailed in agony, they wailed, they cried for mercy, but they could not be saved, and they did not even have the right to die.

-- That's how it should be.

"Sue!"

An angry shout rang out unexpectedly, and then the black world was crushed into pieces, and from there walked in a man with a sad face standing with a triple golden ring at his feet.

From there, the tall, sturdy, solemnly dressed black gown like a priest's suit, with a solemn ascetic atmosphere, stepped into the place of execution.

"Who are you?" The other party's strength level even surpassed that of some of the weaker heroes.

Although it is quite surprising that this kind of thing happens to humans, Rhodes believes that his vision is not wrong.

Although it is a level that can be easily eliminated by himself, Rhodes himself is already the highest level of the Heroic Spirit.

Moreover, in his body, Rhodes could feel something that flowed out of somewhere, just like his own body, and was definitely found and preserved.

He's a 'victory', a false and meaningless victory, and what is this man's...

"Araya Zonglian" his face was tense, his eyes were as sharp as a blade, and his lips were pursed, so that people could clearly make up his mind that "this is a pragmatist".

"I don't know, but what you just did, can I see it as a provocation?"

I didn't notice that the other party had a bad smell on their body, so of course they wouldn't hit it without saying a word. But of course, it's not because I'm nervous about the strength of the other party.

He clenched his fist, and the thorn opened its inverted teeth and stretched back, and the sound of madness echoed.

It's okay, because of the silent enchantment, of course, the sound can't wear out, and it can't attract troublesome people.

Do you want to save them?

Rhodes provoked with actual movements, but the man opposite did not. He watched silently as the men wailed and said nothing.

So, Rod nodded, and understood that this person did not appear to save those bad teenagers.

But in this case, there is something interesting.

"I can't beat you" Ayaya Zonglian didn't hide anything, but just said in a general statement, "You are not human, outside the specifications, it is not a wise choice to fight you"

It's not fear, it's not a retreat, it's just a statement.

If the man in front of him wants to block in front of him, then he will definitely fight, but if it is the other way around, then it doesn't matter what.

That's why he's here to ask for the first answer.

He doesn't know how to intrigue and doesn't like to lie, but no one has ever prescribed that everyone should tell the whole story.

"Heroic Spirit, Rodritte, why are you here?" affirmed, he had already confirmed the identity of this person. I don't really understand why the other party has become an image that does not match history, but after investigation, there is no other possibility.

He has his own channels.

"Hah, do you know all this... So wait a minute, I'll take care of the matter at hand, right?" Frowning, no longer in the mood to inflict pain, Rhodes raised his hand and snapped his fingers a second time, and the black thorn spear pierced the heads of all the bound men, and then, the black mud ate the rest.

Efficient and enveloping, and leaving no traces, although disgusting, is already a means of mastery.

There was a faint sound of grinding in the mud, but the two people who were still standing did not change their expressions.

"Tell me, since you know my name and came here to find me, what's the matter?" Standing there, Rod looked at Huangye Zonglian. He always had a special feeling for this man.

It's not trust, it's not disgust, if you have to say it, it should be admiration.

It's really inexplicable...