"I don't want to repeat myself too much, sir. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 On the other side of the communication system, the normally smooth man's voice made Higgs feel like his heart was trembling, "Your mission must be completed, and now is the best time." You shouldn't get too much tangled in that magician's body. The point is all of them, with the Hakuree shrine maiden being the most threatening, you see?"

"I know......" Gritting his teeth at the pain of the wound, Higgs nodded reluctantly, "I'll try." However, if I were alone now, I am afraid that it will be difficult to kill all of them. If you can get the young lady who came here with me ......"

"It can't be. You should know that the cooperation between that young lady and us is based on a more complex relationship. Now, we've lost touch with her – and that's your mission. Frowning, the man's expression looked a little embarrassed, "Now you can only atone for your sins." If you can't do these things well...... You also know that there may be some minor issues with the safety of your father and daughter. ”

“…… Yes, I understand. The expression on his face changed slightly, and Higgs made a gesture of obedience, "Can I speak to my father now?" The family collection has lost a lot of books since his generation......"

"I don't advise you to think about it unnecessarily. His brow furrowed even deeper, and the man across from him shook his head, "Now it may be necessary for you to understand that the initiative is always on our side. Your request has been denied, please complete the task as soon as possible. ”

After saying this, the holographic window in front of Higgs flickered twice, and then disappeared completely. Sitting on the floor in some frustration, the tired magician leaned against the wall, pulled a small bottle of Callus from his pocket, and then tore the bandages off his arm and injected the pale blue gadgets into it. The wound was created by the shrine maiden with a pistol a few days ago, and the callus gel was what he was trying to use at the crucial moment - it now seems that if he didn't use it at this time, he might not have time to use it again. Feeling the wound fill with these cold, soft things, he began to think quickly.

The attitude of the underworld has always been strange. At first, they drove Higgs with the reason that "I have a clue about your father, but you have to do something for us if you want to get it", and Higgs, who was anxious to find his missing father, naturally had no reason not to accede to their request, which was not too troublesome at the time. However, things start to get weird as the demands from the other side mount, until they finally show their true colors and reveal the card that says "Your father is under our control." When the young, immature and panicked Higgs saw the evidence they presented, the trepidation in his heart was unprecedented. In order to save the back that he has always respected and followed, he has done a lot of things, really a lot...... A lot of things. So many sins that he might not be able to bear them at all.

Then, after the baptism of these "rich experiences", Higgs came to maturity. Yes, mature, mature enough to be able to skillfully discern that the "evidence" provided by the underworld can be falsified by abundant means. He now began to believe that the Underworld had actually wanted to make a deal with him in the first place, and that they had clues to Higgs's poor missing father, but then they might find that the heir to such a broken magical family was useful, so they decided to continue using it. At this point, Higgs was too late to repent.

They had their eyes on her daughter.

But Higgs has had enough of these things. Polite threats, killings for unknown purposes, these are enough. He's not a dog of the underworld!

These may have reached a tipping point, especially when the father's relics appeared in the hands of a girl who looked so close to her own daughter. If the girl wasn't the target of the Underworld, he believed he should have plenty of time to investigate her relationship with his family, and even find her father......

He believed that the girl was definitely in a relationship with her father. The relics, the looks, and even the last news of his father in this world came from Asia. But he doesn't have the ability to evade tracking while trying to make contact with the other party: the stench of the field grim reaper, who is a lackey, has already appeared, and it must be the man he has just talked to. By now, the mission had become a test of Higgs' loyalty, rather than something he had to accomplish.

"God, what the hell am I going to do?" clutching his head in pain, tears oozing from the corners of Higgs's eyes, "it's useless...... We even speak different languages, we can't communicate at all, and the other side has completely regarded me as an enemy, and even wants to use trust traps against me......"

The sudden sound of footsteps alerted Higgs for a moment. It was a PLA patrol, and the sound of small footsteps indicated that the other party must have locked on to its position, perhaps advancing towards this side with an encirclement posture. Thinking of this, he carefully hid the pain in his heart, and he cheered up his spirit and prepared for the next battle.

"But maybe you have to find a way to communicate. Unconsciously, when he went to the position that had been surveyed in advance, he muttered quietly, "The clue that I finally discovered......

Wang Zhang...... Where the hell are you hiding and watching me now?

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The "Battle Squad", which had been working together for quite some time, was left with one of them still active - even in the days of Gensokyo, she was basically alone, and this sudden gap made Marisa a little unbearable for a while. However, it only took a few seconds for the uncomfortable feeling to happen, and when she realized that the city was still in such a dangerous state that she couldn't cheer up, she forced herself to become positive: if even the only one who was left couldn't pull herself together, how could she keep working with the other three?

"It's my responsibility. It was a task assigned to me by Xiaowei. Looking at the shadows of the trees swaying in the wind outside the window, Marisa whispered to herself. Fortunately, now, the people's hospital has lifted its lockdown, so that it will not even be able to see the other three people. Sitting up from the bench where she had spent the night, she patted her cheek vigorously to clear her mind. At any time, the root source of fatigue is the heart, and as long as the fatigue in the heart is successfully dispelled, no matter what kind of thing can always be done. As soon as she finished these tasks and was about to take a walk around the hospital, two strange figures in a hurry caught her attention, "Mianyue Yiji?...... Why do you have blood on your body!?"

“…… Don't say hello with such rude words, magician. Don't you know how to write the word dignity?" The brows that were almost squeezed together fully explained Mianyue Yiji's dissatisfaction. Turning the scalpel in her hand sideways, she tried to make an aggressive move, but this was quickly stopped by the movement of the PLA soldier behind her raising the muzzle of the gun. Smacking her mouth impatiently, she put the scalpel back into the knife holster, "I don't know when I'll get my knife back...... There was a new situation inside the hospital, where the leader of the team had been assassinated. ”

"That's why you're being escorted?" Surprised, Marisa quickly took two steps back, "but why would they let you carry a scalpel if you're going to be shot?"

“…… You have to understand that there is a limit to the patience of the people of the moon capital. Just as a "well" word burst out at the temple position, Mianyue Yiji once again put her hand on the handle of the scalpel, "The attacker is not me, and I don't have the need to attack him." Now my priority is to rescue that materialist, you understand?...... Even if I'm going to kill him eventually. ”

"I really don't understand what you mean......" Lowering her head, she muttered as if she had been wronged, and Marisa immediately looked up again, "So, is there anything I can do to help?"

"I'm sorry Miss Mo, this is our task. Immediately squeezed from behind, the PLA soldier shook his head, "We don't want to...... The battalion commander's wife was no longer stimulated. The battalion commander's family has paid enough. ”

"No, that's not right. Suddenly thinking of the time machine, and the smooth and pleasant life that Ge Yiwei might have lived at this point in the city before activating this thing, Marisa felt a pang of cramping inside, "This is our mission. You've already paid for it......"

"We are soldiers, and this is the vocation of soldiers. Even though there was some unusual demeanor due to the sacrifice of the two comrades mentioned by Marisa, the soldier moved his Adam's apple and said, "Battalion Commander Kutsu is a respectable ......"

"I'm also a soldier, and that's my calling. Suddenly, as if thinking of something, Marisa picked up her big hat with her fingers, and a bright smile bloomed on her face, "Xiaowei is a soldier, and I am his comrade-in-arms, so naturally I am also a soldier." It's my responsibility...... That's really my responsibility. ”

"Can you stop talking about these empty words? It's disgusting. Especially the three of you who seem to have to talk about that materialist in every word. Turning around and wanting to leave here, Mianyue Yiji suddenly gasped, "Tsk...... Looks like we're going to have to deal with the two of us this time, magician. These people can't deal with it. ”

"What do you see?" Fighting consciousness quickly changed his state, and Marisa reached for the gossip furnace in his pocket. Among them, the thing that worried her the most was the magician who had fought many times before, "Suspicious person?"

“…… Phantom. ”

Staring deadly ahead, slowly placing the scalpel across the front of her body and letting it glow faintly, Mizuki replied.

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"Mr. Ge...... Mr. Ge!"

Suddenly waking up from this nightmare, Sanae found herself reaching out towards the unfamiliar ceiling, the clear touch of the nightmare still in her mind. And the reason why she woke up from that nightmare must be because this violent movement successfully touched the wound and made the pain come up all at once. Hurriedly lowering her arm with a pained expression, she licked her chapped lips and tried to sit up, but found that she had no strength at all.

Am I asleep? But when did the injury occur?

Feeling a little pain in her head, Sanae tried to recall something, but suddenly what came to her mind was the content of the nightmare she had just experienced. She and Ge Yiwei became enemies—enemies who had to take each other's lives because of the conflict they didn't know. Ge Yiwei's decision was not affected in any way, but she felt her heart dripping blood, especially when the former, who could not win a one-on-one battle, was beaten all over his body and spat on his face with disdain. Reality is already a nightmare, so why should something worse happen in a dream?

Maybe Mr. Ge is right, I am really selfish. True love seems to be the kind of situation where you can feel at ease as long as your lover is well, right......? How can I have such a strong desire for exclusivity?

"Who's over there?"

Suddenly alert, the originally lost physical strength seemed to return to the body in an instant, Sanae suddenly turned over and got out of bed, but her legs immediately lost the strength to support her body, and she knelt on the ground with a "poof". Forced to support herself with her arms, she raised her head and stared at the intruder: "Are you...... What do you want to do?"

"Make the results a little bit cleaner. Saying this lightly, the man in front of him, who seemed to be wearing some kind of tattered military uniform, replied, "It's like my death." I'll greet you in the underworld afterwards, miss. ”

"By the way, bring greetings to Shikihime for me!"

Flying in through the doorway was a scalpel. This kind of thing has never been able to actually do any harm to the ghost - due to this stereotype, the intruder also has no intention of dodging, but when the knife flies through his "body", his facial expression changes significantly: "It's ......"

The ghost is not afraid of the physical attacks of the flying scalpel. However, a magnetized scalpel is capable of posing enough threat and damage to this lifeform when it is in the right place—if it may not be lethal enough, but it gives Sanae plenty of time to react.

"The secret method of "Nine Character Cut"!"

For a long time, Ge Yiwei had been interested in the relationship between electromagnetic fields, spell card skills, and ghosts. Some of the characteristics of Spell Card Abilities, such as the so-called Rune Bullets, which are dimly lit irregular forms used to attack enemies, exhibit some eerie properties in the visible and high bands, and Ghosts will have similar characteristics. The characteristics of the electromagnetic spectrum of both are one thing, and the other is the rapid attenuation of the intensity of the electromagnetic wave at the boundary: a steep attenuation that makes the image look like a vertical barrier.

Sanae didn't know any of this, and she didn't care about the intrinsic connection between them. What she could clearly understand was that spell skills were fully lethal to ghosts. It's a pity that she lost her physical strength, and she no longer has the ability to carry out continuous blows, so she can only lie on the ground and gasp for breath, watching the other party dodge.

"Life always surprises me. I will convey your greetings. Quickly "floating" to a location where he could escape, the ghost hid his expression, "There will be a time later." We all have our own things to do, don't we?"

The ghost's ability to escape has always been top-notch, perhaps second only to the elusive Yakumo Murasaki. In the blink of an eye, the people present were no longer able to see the uninvited guest in their own field of vision. Because of this "strenuous activity" just after waking up, Sanae's consciousness gradually fell into a coma.

Please...... At least, let me have a good dream of living peacefully with Mr. Ge this time. Please......