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The leaves squeezed in front of the window, scrambling to get inside, and the cloudy gray-black water droplets slid down the window.

Rentaro crossed the lush forest to the old hotel where he had stayed again, and carefully climbed the spiral iron staircase up the second floor through the entrance with a collapsed ceiling.

Arriving at the door of Room 201 from memory, the hand holding the doorknob suddenly stopped.

Rentaro noticed that his hands were shaking.

How many times?

I can't count them.

Since he left Tiantong's house and became a policeman, he has seen countless initiators die, and he has personally buried many initiators who are about to mutate.

But this time, Rentaro felt his heart ache and shouted, and the face of the girl who had left peacefully under the morning sun came to mind.

Finally...... Is it her turn? What kind of face should I put on to meet her?

There is nothing more useless than the captain of the auxiliary force who is absent at an important moment, and even if he is resented by the other party because of this, Rentaro has nothing to say.

“...... Excuse me, is anyone outside?" a small voice came through the door.

Rentaro shuddered, exhaled through his nose, turned the doorknob and quietly entered the room.

The rusty door hinges screamed, and the stagnant air inside moved.

In the orange glow of the lantern burning silently, Rentaro saw Bushitsui sleeping on the bed on his right.

There was a kettle and a cup on the side, she glanced at it, and quickly picked up the pointed hat on the table next to her to cover the cat's ears.

Rentaro's heart hurt even more, he wanted to tell the other party that her cat ears were cute and didn't need to be hidden, but something seemed to be stuck in his throat, and he could barely breathe, let alone speak.

He struggled to hide his unbearable performance.

Looking up, the girl's side face was sweating with only one side illuminated by the lamp, and because of the redness of her cheeks, at first glance you would think that she was lying down and resting with a cold.

If it really was a cold, how nice would it be......

However, the initiator uses the shackles of life of the erosion rate in the body in exchange for the effect of not being affected by any disease or injury.

Under this premise, of course, it is impossible to catch a cold.

Rentaro moved the bench in front of the dresser and sat next to Tsui.

"How does it feel?"

"It's okay, Captain. The girl faced it with her usual shyness, and she couldn't see anything out of the ordinary.

Although she was only ten years old, Bu Shitsui also knew that Rentaro's status was different now, so she propped up her body and bowed her head politely, and Rentaro hurriedly stopped her.

The shoulders he hugged shook slightly, his breathing was rapid, and his pulse was beating in his feverish body. For the current Bu Shi Cui, even making this action is very hard.

"You really ......"

After letting her lie down and rest again, Rentaro asked.

The girl smiled faintly, as if asked about today's weather, and replied, "Yes, I'm sorry, I was too careless." When attacked by protozoa, the body will not obey the call. ”

Rentaro was silent.

Listening to Shoma's words, the situation she faced in the battle made people have to feel sympathy.

Although they are isolated against enemies from all directions, if Shoma and Tsui work together to completely focus on defense, it is by no means impossible to survive this kind of battle.

Their strength is obvious to all, and with the combination, maybe Yu Feibai will not be able to take it down immediately.

However, during the battle, Emerald discovers a starter girl in crisis.

The two sides only met by chance in the camp and nodded to each other, and the two of them seemed to be afraid of life so they didn't talk.

The young girl was separated from the Facilitator during the battle, lost her legs and stayed on the battlefield, waiting to die.

After realizing this situation, Bu Shicui will rush to the rescue desperately, but in fact, she can't be blamed for being careless.

It's really the tactics of the aragus that are amazingly ingenious.

At the very least, the brains of proto-intestinal animals have evolved to make profit and loss judgments such as "don't kill the prey you get it right away, use it to attract other prey that comes to the rescue, and you can kill two birds with one stone."

As Bu Shicui rushed to the unknown girl's side to comfort her, the sand suddenly sank into the ground, trapping her like a cage.

The foothold soon turned into a funnel-shaped, and beneath the inverted cone, a terrifying aragated animal with a powerful jaw appeared.

Originally, I thought it should be an ant-like protosagular, but the appearance deformation was too exaggerated, and even Emerald was not sure.

After encountering danger, Bu Shicui took only one breath to completely deal with the original intestines, but at the same time, the arms, calves, and waist were stabbed at the same time, and the neurotoxin-carrying intestinal virus was instantly injected.

Animals of the original intestine have a well-developed viral sac somewhere in the body, which is an organ filled with the original intestinal virus, and will inject the virus into the prey by various means to increase the number of companions.

For ordinary people, if it doesn't last a few seconds, it will immediately turn into an intestinal animal, and if Shoma's rescue was a little later, Cui didn't know what would happen.

As for the initiator who originally tried to rescue, he was also casually overwhelmed by the swarming protogulars, which was more than lucky.

Later, Sumire Muroto examined and found that the erosion rate in Bushitsume's body had reached an unspeakable desperate number.

She didn't know about it herself, so she had other expectations, rubbed her sore neck and asked, "Captain Satomi, I should be able to recover immediately and continue fighting, right?" ”

Rentaro lowered his head, unable to look her face squarely.

- [Kill her.] 】

The masked man's baritone voice suddenly rang in his head.

This was Ying Yin's speech after hearing about Bu Shi Cui's condition.

That girl is no longer good, and even if she stays, it will only get in the way. No, it's obviously a baggage. Sending her back to the West before she becomes an animal is your first task as the new leader. ’

Shadow Yin said.

At that time, Mu vigorously objected, and Ying Yin shook his head with an unbearable look when he heard this: "It's really stupid. Are you going to lead these dream-talking, playful-playing guys against the army of Aldebaran?"

Kigen suddenly glared at Rentaro fiercely: "Satomi-san, you must not listen to what this kind of person says. If you really kill Tsui, I will look down on you for the rest of my life. ’

Satomi-san, you must not listen to what this kind of person says. If you really kill Tsui, I will look down on you for the rest of my life. ’

Satomi-san, kill her. Just as I want to plunge the world into chaos, you also have to fight to maintain order in the world. You've won, it's the world you want, it's up to you to clean up the aftermath. ’

Under the gaze of the two, Rentaro struggled fiercely in his heart and took several steps back.

-- Me, I......

"What's wrong, Captain?"

Emeral's voice brought Rentaro back to his senses, and he shook his head weakly.

"No............ It's nothing. ”

Rentaro reached down and touched his waist to confirm the position of the XD pistol.

Unable to see what he was thinking, Emerald poured the water from the kettle into the cup and stroked the smooth rim of the cup with water beads.

"Captain, I want to ask you something. That one...... Mr. Nagato, is he hurt?"

Rentaro forced a smile: "He's fine." ”

The girl put her mind at ease: "That's good, can you take me to see ...... No, forget it. Captain, I have one more thing I want to ask you. ”

"Please?"

"Yes, I feel a little paralyzed at the tips of my limbs...... Can I please do me a favor?"

After speaking, Fushitsui didn't wait for Rentaro's answer and lay down and stretched out his arms horizontally.

Then slowly close your eyes.

"Captain, please hold your favorite finger. ”

Rentaro stared suspiciously at the other's outstretched hand, and finally gently grasped her middle finger.

Bu Shicui hesitated for a moment and asked, "Now the captain is holding ...... Thumb?"

Rentaro was taken aback.

Symptoms are not consistent in patients who begin with the arrival of the protozoan virus at the critical point of erosion rate in vivo.

Some people will turn into gastruses in a deep state of stupor, while others will go crazy in intense pain, lose their normal emotions, and then lose their human form and turn into gastrators.

Xia Shi ......

Rentaro knew that at the beginning, Senju Natsuyo was in a state of clear consciousness, helplessly watching himself become an aragut. There is no more unfortunate case than that.

And now, Bu Shi Cui belongs to the most tragic pattern of peripheral nerve erosion.

I am afraid that she will be like Xia Shi, in a state of clear consciousness, after the whole body falls into paralysis, only the brain function is still normal, and she sits back and watches her body weaken due to erosion.

Once that's the case, there's no way to save her. In addition, even if the ability is not used, the erosion of the protozoan virus will still proceed slowly, and if you accept care with no hope of recovery, you will still become a protosatu.

At this point, the end is an inescapable death.

There was no way to save it, and Rentaro could guess even with his eyes closed that the erosion rate of Bu Shitsui at the moment should roughly be about to exceed 50%.

In order not to be noticed by her, Rentaro took her thumb and gave her trademark bitter smile: "You guessed it. ”

Cui opened her eyelids slightly, tilted her head and smiled and asked:

"Really?"

"Really. ”

"Didn't the captain change just now?"

Rentaro's nails sank into the flesh, and he desperately stopped his gaze from wandering, and barely squeezed out a sentence: "How is it possible, I didn't-"

A look of pain appeared on Cui's face, and her eyes quietly lowered.

Then she slowly removed the hat from her head, revealing feline ears caused by the intestinal virus.

It is very clean with snow-white fluff as the base with some yellow fluff.

"Because of my ears, I have never been accepted by everyone. Even the mother who gave birth to me was the same. Bu Shicui muttered.

"Is it [Arazophobia]?"

"Yes. ”

This was to be expected, so Rentaro wasn't particularly surprised.

It is said that the formation of a child's personality is greatly influenced by the environment around them.

Children who grow up under repression can lead to strong defiant behavior.

Cui's timid and shy personality that lacks self-confidence is probably because he was completely denied by his surroundings during his growth.

"However, I am fortunate to have met everyone, and I am grateful to Mr. Shoma, Mr. Nagato, and you ......"

Bu Shi Cui looked up at Rentaro awe: "Captain, I still want to continue fighting!"

Rentaro just shook his head: "You better sleep well now and recover as soon as possible, that's the happiest thing for all of us." ”

"Ah, yes. ”

For some reason, Emerald showed the saddest expression so far, and quickly hid it, and asked, "Captain Satomi, have you heard of scent divination?"

"Smell divination?" Rentaro wondered.

"yes, because I'm a cat. The sense of smell is slightly stronger than others. ”

Emeri closed her eyes and twitched her nose to show Rentaro:

"I've smelled a lot of people and can tell from the unique taste. So I started doing something like divination, and I didn't expect it to be quite popular with the people around me. For example, I actually knew that Mr. Nagato was okay just now. ”

"Yes. So how does I smell?"

For some reason, Emerald seemed to be embarrassed and raised her gaze to look at Rentaro: "Won't you be angry when you hear it?"

"Angry? ”

"Then I'll get straight to the point. Captain Satomi has the smell of perdition. ”

Plop! Rentaro's heart beat hard.

"The ...... of Perdition Does perdishing smell like this?"

Cui also shook her head in confusion: "I don't understand either." It's more like intuition, and it's not a divination that comes after thinking. ”

Silence hung between the two. Emerald drank the water from the glass. I heard a click of ice cubes sliding in the cup.

"There's one more thing, it's about Miss Tendo Kigen......"

"Miss Kigen?"

Cui looked at Rentaro with a determined expression, "That person also has a strong smell of destruction. That person must be easily attracted to the darkness, if you can, ask the captain to be careful with this person. ”

Rentaro was speechless.

"That's, why...... Attracted to the darkness?"

"But Captain Yuzato can be relieved to be the head of the regiment. I think you can do a good job. This makes me feel much more at ease. ”

In a bit of a chicken-and-duck state, Emerald barely braces up, puts her hat back on and puts her feet in her shoes.

"Hey, hey?" Rentaro nervously tried to stop her, "what are you doing?"

"Well, I'd like to get out a bit. Go to the bathroom. The captain doesn't want to come along, does he?"

"Ugh. ”

Emeri smiled shyly and grabbed the door with her back to Rentaro.

But her hand suddenly stopped, and she turned back with an eager expression:

"Captain, I think...... Can you tell me, Nagato......"

Rentaro stared at her blankly, he could guess what the other party was trying to say.

I guess I want to meet Nagato. But at this time, where to find him?

Rentaro's heart suddenly felt bitter and happy. Nagato, Nagato, it turns out that you are even more irresponsible than me......

However, after a long time, Bu Shicui did not continue.

As if she was enduring pain, she tried her best to swallow her emotions back, and then pretended to be as calm as usual, her side face exuding a calm air of resignation.

"I'll go to the bathroom, maybe a little longer. ”

After finishing speaking, she walked out of the room.

Rentaro sighed and began to be in a daze.

- Then, the girl never returned.

In the woods at night.

"Hey-Emily-!"

"Emerald!"

The call came and went, and the glow of the flashlight swept through the darkness with a faint glow, illuminating the undulating terrain in front of him.

Yanzhu and Mu shouted louder, but received no response.

The damp soil is muddy, and the soles of his feet feel a little sunken, and Rentaro is calling for Emeral, who doesn't know where he is.

He blamed himself incomparably, he blamed himself, if only he could have reacted earlier.

"Is she really in this kind of place?"

Kigen asked Rentaro with an anxious expression.

"It should be nearby, she can't walk more. Rentaro spoke after confirming his watch.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, an hour had passed since Bu Shicui had secretly left.

Shouts and lights were heard everywhere, almost searching the mountains.

agreed with Kigen and the others to act separately, and Rentaro was attacked by indescribable anxiety and fear, almost advancing and shouting in the darkness in a trot, but the sound was quickly sucked into the dark night.

It only increases fatigue.

There was a dull pain in the flank, and there was an ominous premonition.

Traveling through the deep woods, Rentaro's shoes accidentally slip on the way up the wet hillside.

When I exclaimed in my heart, my vision was already spinning, and I had to stretch out my hand and struggle to avoid slipping.

As a result, he stopped rolling after falling down with the clods, spit out the dirt that had run into his mouth, and at the same time got up and looked around, as if he had fallen into a hollow in the shape of a bowl, and there was still a mist in it.

So he found it.

It's like in the script, those protagonists who fall off the cliff must have adventures, and Rentaro also sees things that others can't find.

"Brother Nagato?"

Rentaro spoke in a daze, but he didn't have time to be surprised why Yu Feibai suddenly appeared here, and he immediately set his eyes on what the other party was holding in his arms.

"That's the emerald ...... Is it?"

Yu Feibai nodded.

Rentaro was incredulous.

The girl in the other party's arms is basically the same as before, the only difference is.

An extra fluffy tail.

Rentaro's eyes widened hard, and he was even ready to face the Burshitsui who had turned into an aragut, but.

What's going on now? It doesn't seem like it's the same as saying it's good, right?

Embraced by the princess, she looked very haggard, but with a happy expression on her face, she shyly buried her head in Yu Feibai's chest to cover the pair of cat ears that had become significantly larger.

A furry tail about a meter long drags behind it, and it looks extremely cute when it is cocked.

"Liar, isn't it? Brother Nagato, what the hell is going on? Cui's erosion rate has indeed exceeded the critical point!"

Rentaro was completely stunned.

Seeing this, Yu Feibai just smiled faintly, reached out and threw a strange-shaped pill into his mouth, and said, "Hehe, Satomi, have you heard of it...... God's will?"