In Arakawa, Koto Ward, a Metropolitan Police Department speedboat is docked at the dock, and Kaoru is carrying a rifle equipped with a special gas bomb on board, waiting for artificial blood to be placed behind the speedboat and connected to a pipe that can be sprayed into the water.

Xia Long and Goyo stood on the shore together, watching Kaoru Ichijo prepare.

"You said there were some visions in your mind during the battle?"

"Well," Goshiro gestured, "I was fighting 23 when I suddenly received some kind of command in my head, a bit like the first time I saw the belt, but this time the illusion I saw seemed to be that of a beetle. ”

"Beetles?" Xia Long frowned and thought for a while, "Don't worry too much, I think it may have something to do with the belt in your body, it shouldn't be harmful to you." ”

"I think so."

The five generations put their minds at ease, nodded, and when they saw the busy one on the dock, they hesitated and asked, "Mr. Aaron, there is one thing I have always wanted to ask you." ”

"Huh?" Xia Long looked at the five generations suspiciously.

"It's what you said last time, let me not tell an officer about you," Goshiro continued, "I don't think you seem to want anyone else to know who you are, why?" ”

Xia Long didn't answer immediately, smiled, and explained: "You may not have experienced it, but sometimes it's for everyone's good to conceal it, isn't it good now?" ”

Seeing that the five generations were silent and thoughtful, Xia Long reminded again: "I'm bothering you here, I'll go to the front and wait for you first." ”

"Ah, yes," Goyo came back to his senses and rode onto the locomotive lane, "Mr. Aaron, aren't you going to join the action?" ”

Xia Long waved his hand: "If needed, I will help." ”

……

On the shore of the Arakawa, after Xia Long and Goyo separated, they took a ride to the middle of the Arakawa River, and after a while, they saw a speeding boat coming rapidly from a distance.

Putting down his backpack and taking out his mask and putting it on, Xia Long quietly watched the speedboat approach, and glanced at the water.

Still couldn't sense No. 23's breath, but he instinctively felt that No. 23 was already eyeing one.

"There."

"That's?" On the speedboat, a Kaoru vaguely saw Xia Long's figure on the shore in the distance, but before he had time to think about it, the speedboat suddenly shook a little.

"Ugh!"

After steadying the speedboat with difficulty, he turned around and found that No. 23 had climbed onto the speedboat from behind, and hurriedly picked up the rifle and wanted to shoot, but No. 23 took it away at once.

"Humph!" No. 23 threw away the rifle and grabbed one by the neck, "Die!" ”

"An officer!"

Xia Long began to rush in the direction of the speedboat as soon as he noticed the 23rd, but the distance was too far.

Stopping and looking at the speedboat in a life-and-death crisis, Xia Long picked up a branch on the ground, and when the arm mark appeared, the branch quickly turned into a javelin with the winding current.

"Drink!"

"Huh?" The body of No. 23 on the speedboat suddenly tightened, and the sharp thorn of the raised wrist had not yet fallen, and the back was violently hit by a huge force, accompanied by unbearable severe pain, No. 23 screamed and pierced the body directly, and the whole person was taken to the Arakawa embankment.

"Wow!"

The javelin was inserted from the side of the shoulder, piercing through the chest cavity of 23 and sinking into the embankment, and before 23 could break free, a flaming mark of the wings emerged and exploded.

"Bang ——!"

"Whew!" Kaoru Ichijo was carried into the water by the impact, and after floating to the surface with a wheez, he looked at the violent explosion on the shore, and hurriedly looked towards Xia Long, just in time to see Xia Long's back.

"Is that you......"

……

At about eight o'clock in the evening, after returning to the Metropolitan Police Department to change his clothes, he was hesitating whether to call Xia Long, and when he entered the search class, he learned that an emergency meeting was about to be held.

During this time, a large number of fragments were unearthed at the Kurogatake North Ruins in Nagano Prefecture, and on the way to Tokyo today, all the fragments suddenly merged into one and flew away from the transport truck.

"Mysterious flying creature." One looked through the relevant information.

"What's wrong?" Sugida touched one, "Are you tired?" Also, the matter on the 23rd is over, and it will be busy again. ”

"Nothing."

One put aside Xia Long's matter for the time being, and walked into the audio-visual room for a meeting with Officer Sugita and others.

Borepore Restaurant in Bunkyo District, Nana Asahi went to the acting school to take classes, and Goyo only came back for a while and went to Seongnam University to find Sakurako Sakurako, leaving only Xia Long in the restaurant to listen to the boss say something without score.

However, Xia Long didn't listen carefully, just took the newspaper clippings collected by the boss and looked through them repeatedly.

It may be because the nests where those Gurunji gathered were discovered by the police, and the scope of the recent incidents is much larger, and it is difficult to guess the approximate location of those guys' gathering points, and there are few reports of sightings.

The only thing that can be confirmed is that the location where the other party gathered was always in Tokyo, and the stay in the same place was so short that even the police could not find those guys.

"Aaron," the boss asked, clearing up the table, "how have you been doing lately?" ”

"Work? It's okay. Xia Long made a movement in his hand, and suddenly remembered that he had promised the star clusters that he would write a manuscript about the research of Sakurako Zedo.

"I think you'd better change jobs," the boss advised, "I've heard that people who want you to report on unidentified life events like this often have accidents, and it's not safe to run outside all the time." ”

Xia Long returned the newspaper clippings to the boss and said with a smile: "I still have a job, let's talk next time." ”

In the early hours of the morning, Xia Long was thinking about writing a suitable manuscript when Kaoru suddenly called.

After a pause, Xia Long answered the phone and said, "A police officer, is there something wrong?" ”

Kaoru Ichijo on the other side of the phone hesitated for a while, but still spoke: "Someone found the 24th just now, and it's over there in Mitaka City." ”

"Mitaka City? Okay, I see, have you contacted the fifth generation? ”

After speaking, Xia Long silently put down his phone.

Kaoru Ichijo had apparently guessed his identity, but he hadn't confirmed it.

After being silent for a while, Xia Long packed up the manuscript and hurriedly picked up his backpack and went out.

It was still dark outside, and there was not even a car, so Xia Long could only go to the station with his bag on his back.

In the silent night, there was only the sound of Xia Long's footsteps, and just as he was thinking about whether to borrow money to buy a locomotive, a strange word suddenly came from the darkness.

Gulangi ......

Xia Long's ears moved, and when he turned around, a rose petal flew in front of him in the cold wind.

Stretching out his fingers to clamp the petals, Xia Long walked through an alley, but he didn't find the expected rose girl, only the rose petals on the ground that were blown away by the wind.

"She's right, she should have left."

Xia Long picked up a petal and sniffed it, looked around intently, and found a dark shadow flashing around the corner on the other side.

It's the breath of Gulangi......

Xia Long stood up, put on his mask and walked in the direction where the black shadow appeared, and a few leaps and turns, fell straight into the street, stopping in front of an old man wearing sunglasses who was hurrying away.

The old man stopped, saw Xia Long's figure, and laughed hoarsely.

"You're what they call a Lindo warrior, you'll be killed soon, haha."