"Akasi, are you chatting?"

Breathing and heartbeat became weaker and weaker, and Akasi was in a near-death state, frequently seeing the girl who had been dead for a long time.

Time seems to be very short, and yet it seems to be a long time.

Obviously, in a few moments, he will die because of the methods of the Sludge Man.

But when memories come out, it's as if the time dimension of the whole world has changed.

His consciousness was so involuntary.

All the cells that were hungry for survival, in the moment of death, pushed Akasi's consciousness to the man who had nearly killed him.

So in the sea of knowledge, those conversations are like an uninvited guest.

"Ah, what's the interesting story this time? Please, tell me. ”

"Poof, no wonder you survived the third cage fight, you are so good at learning, you will draw inferences." The girl's smile was not as hearty as last time.

Akath suffered some minor injuries.

In this cage fight, many strong opponents have emerged.

He had to run faster.

But No. 7 didn't, No. 7 didn't have any injuries on his body, although his face was a little bloody, and his hair became a little wet and sticky because of the blood.

However, judging from the state, Akasi knew that the blood on No. 7 was the blood of the enemy.

"Your weapon is this greatsword?"

"Yes. It has a name, but it's not like mine. ”

"My dagger has no name."

"It's strange that you didn't ask me the name of this great sword."

"Weapons are just weapons."

"It's boring. You care so much about names that you thought you'd give everything a name. ”

After Seven, he was bored for a while. Akasi didn't speak either.

He just looked out the window, and he didn't deliberately pretend to be lonely, many times Akasi looked out the window, just thinking about things.

Even though the view from the window is still the Evolution Zone.

"If you want to get out, you may be able to run away when you are on some mission in the future. Escape from the mines. Don't come back, then at least you have seven days, be free. ”

Suddenly Seven spoke again, and Akath said:

"What about the story?"

"There's no story, I'm just going to tell you a little secret."

"What?"

"My weakness, when I wield my greatsword, I am invincible. But it only takes one blow for me to kill the enemy.

When I use the strongest sword, the power is so great that I can't turn it. ”

"What are you telling me this for?"

"You can choose to protect me from behind while you fight with me." Seven looked at Akath.

"Okay, I'll remember." Akasi smiled and agreed.

The two of them obviously don't have a deep friendship, but it's like friends who have known each other a long time ago.

Seven was still very free when he left.

Akasi didn't keep it either.

Later, he also figured out the pattern of Seven's appearance.

After every cage fight, as long as he is here, Seven will come over to see him.

In the fourth cage fight, Akasi encounters a terrifying monster.

It's like having some kind of mind-reading ability.,Always able to anticipate your own offense.。

Of course he won, but it wasn't easy.

When I saw Seven again, Seven was still unharmed.

She gave a mocking look:

"You're so weak. Aren't you all a bunch of B-class test subjects over there? ”

"Occasionally, I'll get into some trouble, restrain me."

"Don't make excuses!"

Inexplicably, the seventh became stern.

Akath shrugged, nodded, and acknowledged.

"You're just too slow. Akasi, you've got to run faster. ”

"I remembered. Is there no story this time? ”

"Yes, but we'll talk about it when you jump into the final fish tank."

"The Last Fish Tank?"

"If you win the cage fight, you will change the battlefield, you have already jumped out of the four fish tanks, that is to say, the people who died in your hands in front of you are all catfish. They are just foils.

But in the most gorgeous tank, are you still the most valuable fish? Or are you just a catfish to foil someone else? ”

Seven patted Akasi on the shoulder and said:

"Next time we get a little less injured, we can fight."

"Okay, I remember."

Again, at the end of this sentence.

Number Seven still left freely.

Akasi began to work harder on himself. Although there is no evidence that people with better physical fitness are able to add more strength when they get the serum, the idea of Akasi is simple -

If you run a little faster, faster than the steps of death, you will be able to survive.

He has a strong desire to live, and although he finds Seven's story interesting, in his heart, Akasi does not agree with Catfish's statement.

At least he believed he could get out of here one day.

In the fifth cage fight, Akasi's ascension speed was very fast, and those who originally bet that Akasi would die also fell through their glasses.

Human life is not worth much in the test area.

But it has good entertainment value.

The re-encounter between Akasi and Seven is not accompanied by any dialogue.

A terrifying sword aura rushed towards him, which was the opening dialogue of No. 7.

Akath dodged very reluctantly.

Holding such a huge sword, the speed of swinging the sword is amazing, he can't imagine what kind of serum this girl has been injected?

How terrifying is her power?

The duel between Akasi and No. 7 was very monotonous.

The silver-haired Reaper was so fast that at least in the previous cage fight, the subjects were desperate for that speed.

But in the battle with Seven, Akath felt fear for the first time.

This huge gap in combat effectiveness is like coming from what I thought was a wide lake to a sea with no edge in sight in the blink of an eye.

Akasi has the qualifications of ordinary A-class test subjects or above, and with his own efforts, he has no speed to solve among those B-class test subjects.

It's just that he didn't know that Seven wasn't from the branch in the first place, she was an SS-class test subject from headquarters.

The speed that Akasi is proud of, in the eyes of Number Seven, is only out of the category of not slow.

If you want to suppress it with speed alone, it's a fantasy at all.

As for other abilities, the gap between Akasi and Seven is even greater.

The results of the battle are obvious.

In the previous meetings, they were young boys and girls together, time flowed quietly, chatting about some and some not.

Although it is in such a place where there is no style to speak of.

But it's always a good memory that people recall.

This time is different.

This time, the picture is of a girl with a giant sword on her back, carrying a boy's neck.

Without any warmth to speak of, Seven looked at Akath coldly, as if the previous conversations had been just hypocritical temptations.

After a few minutes of fighting, Akasi was already powerless.

"You're too slow, Akasi. You can go a little faster. Otherwise, who can you protect from the world outside the fish tank? ”

"You really want to get out, don't you? Every time the battle is over, come here and watch, just like those catfish, you think you can jump out of the fish tank, right? ”

Seven's tone was mocking and contemptuous.

"It's so weak, you know, soon you'll be with me, 'put in a fish tank', do you think, your strength, compared to me, who of us is the pathetic catfish? Hahahaha......"

Seven taunts Akasi, who is covered in blood and unable to move.

I can only feel this absolute power gap.

"It's boring, you keep saying that you want to leave here, but you don't deserve to leave at all, your will to live is as weak as everyone else."

With a flick, Akasi's body was thrown onto the tempered glass, and the blood stained the world outside the glass.

Akasi's consciousness was blurred and he passed out.

The medical technology of the Evolution Zone is advanced, especially with this kind of pure flesh wounds.

Before the six cage fights, Akasi had recovered.

He became somewhat reticent.

The man he thought was his friend would probably be his strongest enemy in the cage fight in the near future.

It turns out that everything is just Seven's bad taste.

Akath became more and more upset.

Because there is an existence in this world that cannot be defeated no matter how hard you try.

The gap between him and the number seven is like this.

He suddenly understood why Seven was reluctant to give him his name.

It turns out that the person who has no future is not No. 7, but himself.

Akasi was not depressed. He became more diligent in his workout of speed.

Although there is no way to make up for the huge gap between him and Seven, there is one thing that Seven says is very true.

Maybe my will to live is not as strong as I thought.

Maybe it's because the enemies in the cage are too weak and they lack some sense of crisis?

Akasi began to work himself.

In the sixth cage fight, he was already able to feel his limits.

Who can survive the first few battles, which one is not a monster who has experienced a hundred battles and has experienced life and death several times?

Akasi was the only one who survived.

Dragging his tired and broken body, Akath came to the place where he would go in the past.

It's already a habit, and looking out the window at the world, Akath feels the point of slaughtering those test subjects.

In order to live.

Seven also came this time, and she was still like that, uninjured, and covered in a lot of enemy blood.

She looked at Akasi with a leisurely look on her face and said:

"Healed quickly, right? Listen to the story? ”

Akasi didn't know what to say, so he looked at Seven and didn't speak.

"Don't look at me like that, knowing the difference in our strength in advance can at least cushion your despair. It would be terrible to be filled with hope and then be beaten to death by me. Seven said.

Akasi thought for a moment, shook his head and said:

"I'm hopeful now, too."

"Huh? Did I break my brain? Or did you keep your hand at the time? ”

"No, I'm not your match, but I can't convince myself to die just because there are people here who are stronger than me."

"It's optimistic, it's funny, it's funnier than my story, so I won't beat you up. But I've got to tell you one interesting thing, you and I will fight in the next time, in the seventh cage fight.

While I'm optimistic about you and want you to be different from the rest of you and have some fun, I have to tell you that you're only in the middle of the pack in the seventh cage fight.

Akasi, you'll have to hurry up, or you'll never be able to see me. ”

Seven is gone again, presumably because Akasi didn't ask her to tell her the story, and she found it boring.

The seventh cage fight was separated by a long time, and it took half a year to come.

In the past six months, Akasi has also been to the place where he used to chat with Seven a few times.

Interestingly, the number seven is always present as well. Obviously, Akasi is not the strongest test subject, but she is the only one who has a very strong interest in Akasi.

It's just that the relationship between the two has become very strange.

Knowing that there was a 99 percent chance that this woman would kill herself in a cage fight, Akasi still felt ...... as soon as she put on a friendly gesture I can't hate it.

It's not close, it's just a sense of déjà vu.

Maybe it was a long time ago, they met. If you talk about the so-called past life, reincarnation or something.

On the afternoon of the last day before the cage fight, Akath arrived here as usual.

七号 says:

"Listen to the story?"

"You say that every time, but you don't say it every time."

"There's a pond outside the fish tank, and when you think you can swim in the vast world, you'll find that you're just getting a bigger fish tank. Whether it's catfish or sardines, it's just the owner's food in the future. ”

"Can't we be in charge of our own destiny?"

"If the bomb in the spine explodes, no matter how good a person is, he will die. So there's no need to think about it. You just have to play the most vicious fish. ”

"Does that mean from the beginning, this story is about us?"

"You're not stupid."

"That's right, Akath. If you survive, I'll tell you my name. ”

Akath smiled wryly.

Since he was beaten up by Seven before the fight, he didn't laugh much at Seven.

Now that they're about to go to war, it's as if they've become nodding acquaintances who exchanged stories in the past.

"I'll do whatever it takes to survive."

"Life and death can not be up to you, and finally I will tell you a story - the life of a fish can be choreographed. Each of us has our own playbook. ”

"So where is my script? Is it tomorrow? ”

"I can't tell you just yet. I'm gone, see you tomorrow. ”

Seven still left freely, and sometimes Akasi recalled Seven and wondered, did this girl really exist?

……

……

It was already difficult for the monsters of the seventh trial to gather as many people as in the previous trial, and even several test subjects from other test areas had arrived.

But it was also only formed for the battle of more than twenty people.

Akasi's strength is indeed only average among these people.

It was also the first time that Akasi experienced a real adversity to the death.

It was in this battle that Akath finally understood the meaning of that story.

(In the evening, I'll rest first, and I'll start the shift at five o'clock, and I should be able to finish writing at about eight o'clock.) ）

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