Kyoto, the Momnomiya Dojo of Nuoda is overcrowded, but it seems unusually quiet, like countless turbulent undercurrents lurking under the treacherous surface of the water before the eruption of an undersea volcano.

For a moment, countless stunned eyes looked at the battle in the middle of the dojo that had ended, and a layer of moisturizing and silent red rain was sprinkled on the floor.

Bang!

Something hit the floor hard.

In the next second, the panicked shouts and angry scoldings were replaced by the sentence "Idealism is just like this, who else dares to come up and die?" "Pressed down instantly.

Momomiya Rin also stood in the corner, and through the gap in the shadows of the many senior brothers and sisters in front of him, who seemed to be frozen and stiffened in place, he saw that the figure of the mother, who was always straight face and full of seriousness, fell in a pool of blood after her death.

Momomiya Haruzo's neck was cut open with a huge bloody hole, and gurgling blood continued to flow out like a spring.

At the moment of death, he seemed to be tilting his head with difficulty, looking in the direction where Momomiya Riyashi was, and opened his lips that were constantly choking on blood as if he wanted to say something, but after all, he couldn't say anything.

Momomiya Lin also looked at this scene in a daze, this seems to be a familiar scene.

In this scene, I seem to be afraid...

Scared more than anyone else, he curled up in a corner, trying not to let anyone else find out... Discover your cowardly and incompetent son.

Inexplicably...

A wave of grief, indignation and shame suddenly welled up in my heart.

Momomiya Lin also rushed forward like crazy suddenly, and his heart seemed to be burning with a fire!

He wants to avenge his father, even if he dies under the other party's sword.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he took a step, he was dragged by the senior brothers and sisters rushing from all directions, struggling, resisting, and biting...

Like a young beast trapped in a cage,

Watching Gaius. The corners of Rhine's mouth were full of mocking smiles.

At this time, Momonomiya Lin also looked down, and was stunned to find that his arms were slender and weak, like his sixteen-year-old self at that time, and time seemed to have gone back to the past.

He was shocked in his heart, and when he looked up, Gaius, who had killed his father, Haruzo. Rhine somehow parted the crowd and stood in front of him.

He held the sword drenched in his father's blood aloft, and stared at him with a sneering smile on his lips.

"Since you want to die, then I will fulfill you."

The cold and terrifying wind pressure fell, and he was bound in place and couldn't move, and Momomiya closed his eyes in despair.

The next moment,

His face suddenly felt a little warm.

Slowly opening his eyes, a dark golden double-edged ancient knife came from Gaius in front of him. A hole pierced Rhine's neck, and a stream of bloody arrows spurted out, and the sword wielder at the end of the double-edged ancient knife was a figure wearing a red and blue patterned fox mask.

Gradually, Gaius. Rhine's facial features began to slowly erode at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a feeling of nausea welled up in his throat from the bottom of his heart.

Momomiya also subconsciously wanted to retreat.

At this moment, someone seemed to hold his hand, and a faint cry came from his ear.

"Momomiya-san!"

Momonomiya Rin also shook off the other party's hand suddenly, he wanted to retreat, but the performance that was reflected on his body was that he suddenly woke up from the bed and sat up at this moment.

The white curtains swayed gently in the window, and the light from the outside that looked a little dazzling after the rain and clear weather, and the sound of the nurse walking in the corridor could be heard in my ears.

Immediately afterward, the door to the ward was pushed open, and a doctor in a white coat walked in.

The other party walked to the hospital bed where Momonomiya Rinya was, inquired about the recovery of all aspects of his body, wrote something casually and pasted it on the head of the bed, leaving a sentence of "pay attention to rest" and left the ward.

Oh yes, it's the ward.

It took Momonomiya Lin more than three seconds to react, he was lying in the hospital room now, not in the blood-soaked dojo many years ago.

"Momomiya-san, you passed out last night after seeing the body of the Seventh Judge, and the people from the Judgment Division later took over the scene, and they thought you were suspected of collaborating with the fox-faced man, so they were sent to this hospital along with the people who survived on the pedestrian street last night."

Speaking of this, Kyogoku Chuanshui's face was a little angry, but more helpless.

"Thank you."

Unexpectedly, Momomiya Lin didn't ask when he could go out, but just thanked him lightly, and slowly leaned back on the hospital bed again.

He stared back at the snow-white ceiling with his head tilted and stared at the snow-white ceiling with some distraction, remembering many things, and the thirty years of father-killing feud completely melted away from the ice and snow.

But why isn't there that thrill of revenge? I guess I didn't be able to kill the enemy myself...

But remembering Gaius on the ground in the darkness last night. Half of the Rhine's miserable corpse,

I remembered that the enemy who made him save himself every day had left this world completely and forever...

That's enough.

The silver-haired old man Kyogoku Kawasui who was sitting next to the hospital bed looked at Momomiya Rinya's reaction, he knew what kind of shadow this old friend's son had lived in for the past thirty years.

At this moment, seeing that the other party finally relieved himself of the shackles that had been growing day by day for thirty years, he was also a little relieved for a while.

But thinking of the tricky things that happened last night, Kyogoku Chuanshui's brows couldn't help frowning slightly, and he glanced at Momomiya and said:

"The [Lion King] inherited from the Peach Palace Dojo... I was taken away by the people of the adjudication department last night, before, there were some things you didn't want to talk about, and I didn't want to ask too much, but the matter has come to this, I have a few questions, can you answer me? ”

Hearing the words of the Kyogoku River, Momomiya Rin also lowered his eyes slightly, and after a while he slowly raised his head, looked directly at the Kyogoku River and said:

"What do you want to know?"

"I want to know what's going on with that knife of yours, and what the hell is that weird canopy released by the Sky Tree Tower last night?" Kyogoku Kawasui raised his doubts straight to the point, "Why do I feel a breath very similar to your knife on those innocent people who are out of control?" ”

Faced with such a blunt question, Momomiya was silent for longer than just now.

After a long while, he took a deep breath and spoke slowly:

"Have you ever heard of a demon?"

"Hmm." Kyogoku Kawasui nodded.

"I've read sporadic rumors about strange demons in some wild history that records strange stories, but none of them are substantiated... What do you mean? ”

"Demons are real.

My great-grandfather is the one you read about in the wild history, the human who possessed the 'Demon Sword' and finally died at the hands of the Nine Great Powers of Heaven and Man a hundred years ago. ”

Momomiya Lin also took a deep breath when he said this, and said softly, "Otherwise, you won't be able to explain why so many people suddenly gain abilities and lose control like crazy." ”

"It's all caused by aliens?"

"I guess so."

"And that sword of yours..."

"Alien demons will descend not only into humans, but also in some kind of device that can attract them."

Momonomiya explained in a slow voice, "These utensils... I call it the [Magic Equipment], and it not only has strange abilities that are not in the talent sequence, but also has its own sense of battle and thirst for blood, which will affect the owner of the [Magic Equipment] and make it bloodthirsty and belligerent. ”

Hearing Momomiya Rinya's words, the well-read Kyogoku River Shui once again remembered in his mind the record of the "Demon Sword" that he had read in that wild history.

Could it be that what Momonomiya Lin said is true?

Those accounts are not groundless, but real events that happened to his great-grandfather?

Thinking of this, Kyogoku Kawasui suddenly understood a little why the Celestial World Government and the Adjudication Division would attach so much importance to the matter of the Sky Tree this time.

In the past, the death of a seventh ruling envoy, the world government and the adjudication division must have been furious overnight to question the top of the country.

Wano Kuni's higher-ups will also quickly put pressure on the Metropolitan Police Department to launch a doomed futile net-wide search in the city to find the man behind the mask.

From last night to now, the murderer of the assassin of the Seventh Judge has only been a repeated rotation of major television news channels, as useless as in the past, wanted and rewarded.

Whether it is the Judicial Division or the Metropolitan Police Department in Wano Country, they have always been working around the closed Sky Tree to erase the traces of last night, escorting all the ordinary people from the square to the hospital for detention and observation, and reporting on the physical condition of those people three times a day, which is full of a very abnormal atmosphere.

Kyogoku Riverwater reacted a little and said incredulously, "What do you mean... Those ethereal demons are of high value in the eyes of celestials? Even higher than the death of the Seventh Judge? ”

Momonomiya Rin also shook his head, "It's not enough to make the celestials pay so much attention to the alien demons that have descended into human beings and turned into natural abilities, what they really value is the [boundary] in the Sky Tree Radio Tower, that door can be opened for the first time, it can be opened for the second time, and more alien demons that can descend into ordinary people will be released, most of them will die, but if they can survive it, it will be a new life... No, symbiosis. ”

"The door...."

Kyogoku River muttered to himself.

Momomiya Lin also continued, "You should know that the improvement of the level of the ability is extremely difficult, and when it reaches a certain bottleneck, it is even more than ten years like standing still, even if it is a strong celestial and human being, it cannot be avoided.

However, some people with dual natural abilities often bypass the same and even integrate new abilities to improve themselves. ”

"But..."

Kyogoku Kawasui wondered, "We were all under the tower last night, if the ethereal things that fell from that canopy were alien demons, their choice... It seems to exclude those who have the ability to do so, and so far, none of the people who have been able to do so last night have been affected. ”

"Ethereal?"

Momomiya Lin also paused, and his eyes suddenly said in a trance, "Those things... It's not like it's been ethereal all the time..."

"What do you mean?"

Kyogoku Kawasui was stunned for a moment, suddenly realized something, and asked with an incredulous face, "You mean... Those demons... Also use to have your own entity? ”

From the time Momomiya Rin Ye no longer hid anything from him to the present, Kyogoku Kawasui has always understood the "alien demon" in Momomiya Linya's mouth as another "form" of innate ability, and there may be some secrets hidden behind it that have been unknown for thousands of years.

But it was hard for him to imagine that the alien demon, or the ability, such as the [Red Flame] of his talent sequence 31, could actually have its own physical form, and even intelligence and thought...

What would that look like?

A talking red flame?

Noticing that Kyogoku Kawasui was staring at him with a shocked face, Momonomiya Rin who was leaning back against the hospital bed nodded slightly, and said softly, "That's right, when the time comes, it will not be them who choose you, but you who choose them, as long as you dare... Walk through that door. ”

"What door?"

"Border Gate."

“......”

There was a sudden silence in the hospital room.

......

"Amazing! Higashino... I heard that you won the 'Fighting Five Consecutive Slashes' last night, and the first-year students who beat Kyoto were full of urine and collapsed. ”

"Tut-tut! That's amazing! You kid should be almost the third order by now, right? ”

"By the way, why didn't you come back with the school bus last night, I was waiting for you at school to celebrate."

"Shhhhh Last night, I read the news that there was a big commotion under the Sky Tree, and Captain Dragonfly killed another adjudicator, tsk! This time, I'm afraid I'm going to offend the adjudication department to death. ”

"By the way, I heard that many people were distracted by unknown 'mental abilities' last night to attack the black-robed execution team, I looked at some photos circulating on the Internet, and the black-robed execution team of the Adjudication Division really killed them? How can it be repaired.... These bastards! ”

"But I heard that it seems that the ability has not been affected too much, so I don't worry too much about you hehe..."

“......”

No matter how terrible the disaster...

No matter how brutal and bloody the slaughter.

It's hard to empathize with the terrifying horror without being there... This is also the reason why there are a lot of online keyboard warriors out there.

Higashinohara arrived at school today, and as soon as the morning meeting ended, he was noisy in the back of his head by the muscular man Yoshito Tian at the back table, and many of his classmates who couldn't go to the scene last night were also discussing with great interest.

Grabbing only a few words from the news, they obviously could not comprehend the horror of the bloody suppression that the rain under the sky tree last night could not wash away the bloodstains.

However, Higashinohara will not say anything from some moral high ground.

If the trajectory of his life hadn't changed since he came to this world, maybe he would be like the people around him right now, talking about what happened last night with great interest.

"Huh? Why haven't you seen each other for a day, your shoulders are getting more and more solid to the touch, and this muscle..."

"Take your hands away." Higashinohara was slightly stunned, and slapped it expressionlessly.

Smack!

"Shhh Aida Yuto was suddenly slapped and shrank his hand, and looked at Higashino Haramichi with some surprise in his eyes, "Higashino... You're so strong... How did it get so big? ”

"What bigger of me? Do you want to try it? ”

"Uh... No, no, no. ”

After raising the [physique] to 30.5 last night, he is now about the equivalent of a third-order flesh system ability, his figure belongs to the thin body of clothing, if it is not too slim clothes, there are no muscle lines, but compared to the past, the whole person is full of a hidden sense of strength.

After getting rid of the harassment of Isato Aida, while he was still in class, Higashinohara's consciousness sank into the [Crime Manual] again, and relied on the real-life battle of [Character Image Anatomy] to practice the sword in the skull to improve the [Selfless One Sword Stream] that he had just obtained last night.

Although Aida Yuto did not speak in tune, at least he was right about one thing, that is, after beheading the two referees of the Adjudication Division in a row, he completely offended the former of the "Sword and Sword" directly under the command of the World Government, the highest authority in the world.

Even though there hadn't been any large-scale sweep and arrest operations in New Tokyo since last night, Higashinohara knew very well that it was only a brief lull before the storm.

As the direct adjudication and execution organ of the world government that directly deters more than 300 allied countries in addition to the means of war, if the adjudication division does not handle the matter of Wano Country beautifully, the consequences are undoubtedly undesirable for them.

It is precisely because of this that Higashinohara's heart is filled with a strong sense of crisis.

Even though Higashinohara's physical and mental state had not fully recovered until this morning, on the way to school by train and during the morning meeting, he continued to train in "intracranial sword training".

It's just the result... It's not very pleasant.

In the end, it is a more exquisite and profound ancient flow swordsmanship than the small Taidao and two sword streams obtained from the Kusao Masendo.

Among the seven-style sword types, he only brushed up the proficiency of the two sword types of [Dragon Scroll] and [Ghost Cut], and he only had (1/10) beginner, so it seems that it is a bit difficult to improve to 2/10 today.

As for the secret technique of selfless one-knife flow [Selfless Mirror Heart] and the secret mystery [One-Sword Shura], the proficiency has moved, but compared to the denominator of 1/100, it is still equivalent to not moving.

At this rate, it will take more than three months to brush a day, and this does not take into account the bottleneck of the stage after the proficiency of the second knife flow of Xiaotai Dao was increased to 50/100.

If Higashinohara was in a peaceful and prosperous era in his previous life, he would not be in a hurry if he squatted in school and slowly brushed down, and he would just brush slowly for more than ten or twenty years.

But now after the incident under the sky tree in Tokyo broke out, he felt that the country of Wano was coming, and it was not necessarily safe to stay at school, so he couldn't help but be anxious.

You have to find a way to improve your strength as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, Higashinohara's gaze suddenly fell on the source power point at the bottom of the personal panel at the bottom of the personal panel on the title page of the [Sin Handbook] with a value of 0.

When he obtained the skill [Disintegration] that unlocked the title of [Follower of Justice], he seemed to vaguely remember... Skill proficiency can also be increased through Source Power Points.

The question is... Where to engage in source power points?

.......