Advent Chapter 31: Rivals

"Borrow Kuink?" Arima was holding a book in his hand, his expression was a little strange, maybe he hadn't been so troubled by his subordinates for a long time. "I remember Mato was an expert at Kuink, so she should be able to help you make it."

Long Hao told Arima about the fact that Mato Xiao was going to transform his Rui, Arima nodded, put the book in his hand on the table, Long Hao glanced at the book slightly, it was a novel by Takatsuki Quan, the name is "The Egg of the Black Goat".

"So that's the case, I really envy you, when I was young, I didn't have such a good Kuinke maker, and I still used the Kuinke issued by CCG at that time," Arima began to rummage through the items, although his house is not big, but there are still more books, and there are some commonly used items and some miscellaneous items that I don't know what the use is, although there are many items, but the house is very tidy. "Here, this is the Kuinkke I used when I was younger, Yukimura."

Long Hao opened Kuinke, only to see a knife handle pop out on it, and after pulling it out, a long knife was formed, although it was Jiahe, the weight was not very heavy, and it was very handy.

"Originally, I had three, but when I was younger, those two were broken by a meow."

"What kind of thing can break Arima-sama's weapon?" Long Hao looked down at Yukimura, but his hand trembled slightly.

"His name is Black Dragon, you.... Ever heard of the name? Although Long Hao was looking down to check on Yukimura at this time, he could still clearly feel Arima's gaze looking directly at him.

"I've seen it, in the file bag, the SS-class black dragon appeared twelve years ago, was demoted to the S class ten years ago, and recently the file bag showed that it was demoted to the A level again, the reason seems to be that it has not appeared for twelve years, and it is suspected that it has been expelled." Long Hao raised his head and looked at Arima indifferently. "If he breaks Mr. Arima's weapon, then his assessment of the SS class can be said to be very accurate."

"I forgot that you have a talent for memorization," Arima opened his eyes slightly, he didn't find what he was looking for, Long Hao's eyes can be said to be very similar to Arima, so deep that people can't see the bottom at a glance. "It's a good talent, but it's a shame that you can't touch too many files."

"I don't think it's a pity, but it's a lot less to deal with documents." Long Hao shrugged, not caring about this. "I'm not interested in those things, I just like to drink coffee."

"That's enviable." Arima smiled slightly, "I want to live like this too, but work is always busy. ”

"Indeed.." The two fell silent.

"Then I'll take my leave, Mr. Arima, and thank you Kuink." Long Hao bowed slightly, turned around and planned to leave.

"Long Hao," Arima said suddenly. "If you see the black dragon, don't believe him for anything, I can't understand him, but he gives me the feeling that he is very dangerous, everything he does is unreasonable, and it may lead you into the abyss."

"Mr. Arima," Long Hao turned around. "I won't care about him, he doesn't know me, after all."

"Really?" Arima sat back in his seat. "Maybe I'm worried."

"But why can the black dragon be remembered by Mr. Arima for so long, you must know that he hasn't shown up for twelve years." Long Hao showed a curious look.

"I don't know."

Seeing Long Hao's obviously unbelieving expression, Arima sighed slightly.

"The first time I met him was when I was a student, and he suddenly appeared while completing a mission at the time, even though he saved one of the mews at the time."

"Pumpkin head?" Arima nodded, as if caught in some kind of memory.

"Yes, I don't understand why he appeared, although I barely won the fight with him, I don't know why the other party appeared a second kind of Kazuko, my other two knives were destroyed, I might have been killed if I continued to fight, but he let him go, I tasted defeat once, even if I haven't met a meow I really don't understand in the past twelve years, and I haven't lost another battle."

"Even if it's a one-eyed owl?"

"The one-eyed owl is far inferior to him." Arima laughed. "Long Hao, I didn't expect you to investigate my resume in such detail, and sure enough, it was right for you not to touch too many documents,"

"Of course I'll remember, you're a CCG legend." Long Hao looked at the novel on the desk. "If you happen to have a good eye on it, you must take a good look at it."

"Your attitude doesn't feel like you're facing a legend." Arima stood up and patted Long Hao's shoulder affectionately, as if the other party was his friend, because he felt an inexplicable equality from Long Hao. "Suzuya is very good, but your achievements will definitely surpass him."

"You're ridiculous." Long Hao smiled, not feeling the slightest mistake with Arima's action.

"My instincts are a little dull," Arima nodded. "You can't be anyone's pawn, I was wrong."

"Huh?"

"No, nothing." Arima patted Long Hao's shoulder again and picked up the book on the table. "Want to see it? I see you've always been interested in this, and I can lend it to you if you like. “

"No, I've read it, it's a very interesting book, but I didn't expect Mr. Arima to read it too."

"Well, that's a coincidence," Arima said, sitting back in his seat. "The ability to remember is sometimes a pain."

Long Hao nodded and held the doorknob.

"Long Hao," Arima spoke again, Long Hao turned his head, the other party had no intention of retaining, maybe just to remind him, Long Hao, who turned his head, reflected the appearance of Arima, under the limited light, Arima's face still looked as young as twelve years ago, but the silver-white hair was flickering slightly, but Long Hao inexplicably felt a breath of death, as if it came from Arima itself.

"You'll be able to surpass me."

Long Hao closed the door, as if he had passed through the ghost door, Arima really noticed something, although he understood that he was his biggest opponent now, but Arima's last trusting eyes made his heart ache slightly, even if it was a strong opponent, he was also a respectable friend, if they could really abandon everything, then Long Hao would definitely drink coffee with him and look at the scenery, talking about good books, just....

"Yi Bingjin, it's been a long time," Long Hao didn't look back, but a cute girl with pink hair walked out in embarrassment.

"Oh, why am I here, maybe I came to take a look after seeing Brother Long Hao and Mato Xiao get too close, ah, no..."

"That's enough," Long Hao didn't bother with his crazy words, but just handed her the coat. "It's the same as before, please."

"Yes!" Iri's eyes flashed with admiration that only when he saw Mr. Arima, but Long Hao didn't care, just changed into a black dragon-patterned coat and put on a dragon-shaped mask.

"No one can stop the rise of the black dragon."

in the house

The ringing of the phone brought Arima, who had fallen into a memory, back to his senses, and he picked up the phone with the same expression as usual.

"Marute, what's wrong?"

"Arima," the other said with a silence that was not usually present. "The black dragon has reappeared."

"Oh," Arima's expression still didn't change. "It's finally there, I've been waiting for a long time, my old enemy!"