"Brother... Are we going to die? ”

In the dim and dark dungeon, the girl with black cloth in her eyes groped around, feeling the boundless cold and damp touch of her fingertips, and once again squatted down and hugged her knees.

Vivien, a girl from the West Yaman Free Federation in the Mid-East.

By accident, she and her brother Camilla, who had been reunited for a long time, were taken to the country of Wano in the East China Sea, thousands of miles away, and were imprisoned in this dark dungeon, waking up every day to smell a faint smell of blood on the tip of their nose.

"No, we're not going to die."

Brother Camilla's face was also tied with a black cloth, and he raised his hand to gently rub his sister Vivien's hair, and his tone was a little full of a kind of confidence in the capable person.

"Uh-huh."

Vivien, her sister, nodded vigorously.

Brother Camilla couldn't see his sister's expression, he had been locked up together for so many days, and his eyes had been in the dark, and he had even forgotten what his sister looked like now.

But he will always remember the appearance of the little girl when he left home to join the Chidi Revolutionary Army, and the picture of the girl nodding vigorously and the ponytail on the back of her head jumping in the air unconsciously appeared in his mind.

Camila's heart became even warmer, and she gently attached herself to her sister Vivian's ear, and said softly, "Don't worry, we won't die, they will definitely have their use in bringing us back, they won't do it until we finish playing their role, you don't have to worry so much during this time." ”

"Really?" Vivien said.

"Did my brother lie to you?" Camila asked.

Vivien hesitated, and her voice suddenly said in a muffled voice, "Yes, brother, when you left the house... Said you would come back. ”

Camila was slightly stunned, a little guilty in her heart, and said in a softer voice, "This time is different, this time my brother won't lie to you, you won't die, I promise!" ”

"Do you remember when you were a kid? After we made an appointment, when we had money, we would go to the resort islands south of the South China Sea to see if those places were really like pearls embedded in the blue sea like those on TV, and to see if there was really warm but not scorching sunshine in this world...

So you have to listen to your brother, whenever I say to go, you run! Run faster! Don't be fooled by anyone! Don't get caught by anyone either! Wait for me on the island to the south, and I'll pick you up, and we'll go home together after the holidays......"

Camila's voice grew softer.

In his soft voice, Vivien's nerves, which had been tense since she were imprisoned in this dark dungeon, finally relaxed.

Yu Shinan, thick and heavy tiredness hit, under the black blindfold, she gently closed her eyes and fell asleep, and the corners of her immature lips that no one could see slightly curled a sweet arc.

It seems that I have really come to the warm southern island in my dream, the sea breeze is soft, the tide is undulating, and the song of those unknown seabirds is in my ears...

Feeling the even breathing of her sister Vivien beside her, Camila gritted her teeth and clenched her fists tightly, secretly ruthless in her heart!

It was his choice to join the Chidi Revolutionary Army, but he couldn't let his sister be hurt again under any circumstances.

Moments later, the cell door was opened again, and Camilla was escorted by members of the black-robed enforcement team to an office in the Adjudication Division's residence above.

The moment the door was opened, the Sixth Ruling made Adeline sit behind the desk and smile at him.

Suddenly, Camilla's mind was filled with the lingering hellish image of this woman standing among the corpses all over the ground, covered with the blood of her comrades in the Red Revolutionary Army.... Breathing involuntarily became short.

"You're here. Our little warriors. ”

"Calm down, calm down..."

"I'm sure you'll choose to calm down, even for your sister's sake, right?"

The woman's frivolous and casual voice fell.

At the door of the office, Camila's breathing gradually stabilized.

......

At the same time, the brother and sister in the dungeon were eager to meet again on the resort island south of the South China Sea.

On that resort island in the South China Sea, a man from the Sakamoto Dragon Pirates quietly left the resort island... Well, in fact, it can't be considered a "quiet departure".

When Ryunosuke Kamiya packed his luggage and prepared to leave, a man wearing a painted hell mandala and a dark golden butterfly purple yukata appeared at the door of his room, holding a metal pipe to block his way, and his long eyes were still half-open and half-closed.

"You got that message?"

"Yes."

"You're just going to die now."

"Their target is the man in Wano Country who hides behind a dark golden dragonfly mask, don't worry, I'm just going to take a look... The gap between me and the 'Sword Emperor'. ”

"Is it okay not to go?"

"No, I'm not reconciled."

“.....”

After a simple conversation, Sakahonzun put away the metal pipe and moved out of the way.

The captain of the second detachment of the Sakamoto no Dragon, the three-sword-ryu swordsman Ryunosuke Kamiya, left the St. Bama Islands in the South China Sea alone and boarded an ocean ferry bound for Wano Country in the East China Sea.

......

In this world, there are only 28 days in February, and it has been almost two weeks since the incident at the Aragaki apartment.

Today, February 27th, tomorrow is the day of the final academic proficiency test of the third semester of the new Tokyo Takehara Minami Private School Park.

Cultural assessment in the morning, aptitude test in the afternoon.

In one day, it was decided whether the students in the three grades of Takehara Minami Private School would be upgraded to graduate or repeat a grade when the new school year arrived in April after the spring break...

As early as about half a month ago, Higashinohara submitted an application to skip the third grade, and the school school also agreed to his application in view of his outstanding performance at the exchange meeting.

In the past ten days, Higashinohara has worked hard to seize all the training time.

Because he has also submitted an application to the Adjudication Division to conduct a follow-up investigation into the completely blocked Sky Tree, but it is still in the review stage.

Although Higashinohara's most prominent agility in his current normal state has made him almost have the strength of the fifth order, he knows that he is about to face not only the exam of the school park, but also some of the actions that the adjudication division has carried out against him this time.

Can't pass the school park's exam, at most repeat the grade.,But if you can't cross the hurdle of the adjudication division.,Then you'll have to leave your life...

In addition, the serial murder case in Edogawa Ward, which has been the focus of the media in recent days, was followed up by information soon after that day almost half a month ago.

Higashinohara learned about the follow-up investigation of the case from Mai Aragaki from her sister, and it was completely in line with his guess that day - the baby-faced girl who worked at a convenience store did indeed appear under the sky tree on that bloody night.

After the bloody night of the Sky Tree, the girl was escorted to the hospital along with the surviving ordinary people under the Sky Tree, and was later quietly taken back to her home by her family.

It is said that when the family came to the hospital to pick up people, the baby-faced girl was the only one among so many people who strongly resisted being discharged from the hospital and returning home with her family, so it also left a deep impression on the people in the hospital.

When Mai Aragaki dictated this, her expression was a little indignant.

Although the girl who worked at the convenience store was a brutal murderer, the girl's stepfather, who was abusive to her, and her brother, who often harassed her, were equally unforgivable.

Anyway, when she notified her family to claim the body, Mai Aragaki didn't have a good face for the family of three, and it is estimated that if it weren't for the Metropolitan Police Department, with her character, she would definitely beat the father and son.

Higashinohara also felt some emotion in his heart when he heard it.

Murderers are always killed.

He didn't regret the decisiveness of that night, but he felt that the baby-faced girl who died under his hands shouldn't have been like that...

The beginning of her life may not be perfect, she may have a poor life, and she may need to use her vacation time to work at a convenience store like Higashinohara.

But she is still in the best years of her life, she can smile brightly and unbridled in the sun, and she still has a lot of youth waiting to be squandered, she shouldn't die in her own hands in such a hurry...

Higashinohara and Mai Aragaki are not the same.

He knew that the cause of all this tragedy might be caused by the baby-faced girl's family environment, but the direct cause of the tragedy that finally came to this point was those so-called "alien demons".

Or more precisely, the 10,000 people who invaded the Sky Tree Radio Tower made a seemingly righteous speech to liberate all mankind against the Celestials, and finally opened the "Pandora's Box".

The ambitions and ambitions of the man behind the scenes may really be for all mankind, as he says.

But he did not ask the thoughts of ordinary people who fulfilled these ambitions and ambitions for him, and imposed his will on everyone's head like a Creator in the heavens.

So sacrificing a large part of the people, fulfilling a small group of people, and arbitrarily manipulating the life and death of others... What is the difference between this act itself and the Celestial World Government?

At that time, Higashinohara didn't have time to think about it.

But during this time, he connected the last time the Sky Tree appeared with the strange demon that happened last year at the Sakura Crossroads in Twilight Town, and he was reminded of the "Doctor" who was still ethereal after he single-handedly created the "Funeral Society".

At that time, from the [Character Image Anatomy Drawing] of the snake Guiwu, although the mysterious doctor never showed his face even to his own people, from the scene of the dialogue, the other party seemed to be related to the Metropolitan Police Department, and may even be an internal ghost from the Metropolitan Police Department.

So could the man who invaded the broadcast speech under the Sky Tree be the so-called "doctor"?

Higashinohara felt that this possibility could not be ruled out.

And the possibilities are enormous.

But regardless of whether the other party is the mysterious "doctor" or not, what these two people do makes him feel extremely disgusted and disgusted from the bottom of his heart.

One day, when he encounters the other party's crime manual, if he tries to use some so-called "lofty ideals" to morally kidnap him, then he will only return the quick knife in his hand.

In Higashinohara's view, anyone who regards sacrificing others as a means and a way to achieve his ideals... That can't be called sublime.

This sacrifice was tantamount to "murder" in his eyes.

History has proven it countless times.

Talking about ideals with murderers,

I don't know how I'll die one day.

......

In the afternoon, the last practical class of the first year ended, and many students of Class F of the year bowed and said goodbye to Ken Nakasaki, the teacher who taught them for a year.

As he was leaving, Mr. Nakazaki shook his fist hard at Higashinohara, cheering for him to skip the third grade in tomorrow's academic test.

Higashinohara bowed and smiled politely back.

Out of the door of the training room,He met Nishimaru Weili who ran with a small schoolbag on his back、Shallow dimples on his small face,The two walked out of the school park as if they were on weekdays。

Across the road from the main entrance of the school park,A bus drove past,A poster on the car,It's a photo of the most popular "grassroots councilor" Dongsen River Valley recently。

Oh yes, tomorrow the title of "parliamentarian" will be changed.

At the end of last night's general election, the "grassroots parliamentarian" Higashimori Valley defeated the parliamentarians below him with a lead of nearly 20% of the votes, and successfully won the Wano Country election in 1122 of the Tengen calendar, becoming the 77th prime minister.

Higashinohara noticed that Nishimaru Miri next to him seemed to have his eyes on the photo of the "grassroots councilor" Higashimori River Valley on the bus, but he just lowered his head slightly and didn't know what he was thinking.

He couldn't help but smile and looked down and asked, "What are you thinking?" You like that uncle... Want him to be the next Prime Minister? ”

He originally wanted to come to a random "poll" from his side, but he didn't expect Nishimaru Miri to suddenly raise his head when he heard Higashinohara's words, his eyes with long eyelashes were slightly red, he twitched his little nose and asked seriously with his little face:

"Big brother, I'm thinking... If our Prime Minister had been replaced by this 'good uncle' earlier, wouldn't my father have died? ”

Higashinohara couldn't help but be slightly stunned when he heard this.

He didn't expect that this would be what Nishimaru Miri's little head was thinking.

But think about it.

Two months have passed since the accident of the Tokugawa Kurita in the Nemuro Strait in the Hokkai, the official search and rescue ships have been returning one after another, and the remaining private search and rescue ships in Hokkaido have gradually begun to give up.

By now, the death of the Tokugawa Chestnut Tiger has almost universally been tacitly accepted.

Now that the political scene of Wano Country has changed, the head of the Third Investigation Group, which is directly under the parliament and is responsible to the Prime Minister, will undoubtedly be replaced soon...

Although Nishimaru Miri doesn't say it these days, it definitely doesn't taste in his heart.

If you think about it carefully, if it weren't for Higashinohara's hard definite decision on the Emperor's birthday in the Imperial Palace, he forcibly beheaded Foreign Minister Taku Amuro.

At this time, Taku Amuro, who was far ahead in the support rate of playing the sad card at that time, may be pressing down on the "grassroots parliamentarian" Higashi Mori Valley to become the new prime minister today.

"No matter what, everything is always getting better." Higashinohara said suddenly.

"Is everything always getting better?" Nishimaru muttered.

"Hmm."

Higashinohara smiled and nodded, "You just said that 'Uncle Good Man' became the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, and he is 'our Prime Minister'!" Fighting for the people a lot of things that they didn't have before, although the country of Wano still lives under the haze of heaven and man, I believe... It's always going to get better, isn't it? ”

After listening to Higashinohara's words, Nishimaru Miri suddenly remembered the arm waving and tenacious face of the figure carrying a briefcase on TV not long ago on the square, waving his arms and giving a sincere speech - it was indeed a prime minister who threw himself all his heart on the people.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but nod her little head vigorously, looked at the bus that disappeared to the western horizon, and looked at Higashinohara with a crescent-like smile, "Well, the good uncle is 'our prime minister', and we will all get better and better!" ”

The two smiled and looked at each other.

Under the afterglow of the sunset on the horizon of the city, the figures of the two people who were gradually moving away gradually dissolved into the sunset.

......

In the year 1121 of the Tianyuan calendar, February 28.

Today is a special day for Higashino, it is the first time he has participated in the formal academic level test of ability level since he came to this world.

Today is a special day for many people in Wano Province because today is the first day of the four-year term as prime minister of Wano Province, the new prime minister of Wano Province, Higashi Kawaya, a "grassroots member of parliament", at the inauguration ceremony of the Imperial Palace and his inaugural speech.

Early in the morning, the six major television stations in Wano Country announced that the inauguration ceremony had been arranged in the square in front of the Imperial Palace, with golden sunflowers arranged in bunches and the reconstructed viewing platform decorated with a new look.

Higashinohara looked twice while eating breakfast, turned off the TV, changed into clothes, picked up his bag and went out.

After saying hello to Kolotia, the aunt next door who gradually adapted to life in Wano Country and became more and more comfortable as a housewife, Higashinohara called Nishimaru Miri to go to school together.

Even though Nishimaru was only recruited in her third semester, she was also required to take an academic proficiency test today.

It's hard to say whether you can pass it, but if you have a good enough aptitude test score based on the flexible system of Takehara Minami Private School... Maybe she can ignore her cultural class grades.

As soon as the two of them got on the train, Higashinohara's mobile phone vibrated slightly.

Taking advantage of the fact that he had not entered the tunnel, he took out his mobile phone and glanced at it, but his eyes couldn't help but condense slightly, and there was a text message notification on the bright mobile phone screen.

[Congratulations on passing the first round of our audit, please arrive at the official residence of the Adjudication Division at 2-26-5 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, tomorrow on March 1 for the second round of interviews, and after passing the interview, you will be informed of the specific matters to be investigated next, and we look forward to cooperating with you.]

Wano Country Ruling Division in Shintokyo

February 28, 1122]

"Big brother, what's wrong?"

In the train, Nishimaru Miri, who was standing beside him with Higashinohara's clothes, noticed the sudden change in Higashinohara's expression, and couldn't help but poke his little head curiously and asked.

Higashinohara didn't plan to let Nishimaru Miri know about this for the time being, he didn't want the little guy to worry uselessly for him, his face quickly returned to normal and shook his head and smiled:

"Nothing,

Spam text messages. ”

......