There are many rumors about the "world of hell", but most people know very little about it.

The fundamental reason for this situation is not only that ordinary people are in an "information cocoon" that cannot be accessed at that level, but also that the monopoly of this information is mainly by those high-ranking celestial and human classes.

For example, the last time Higashinohara entered the team hired by the Adjudication Division, they entered that little-known world with the people of the Adjudication Division.

If they make it back alive, they will also become one of the very few "insiders" in the human world behind the border gates.

But the crux of the matter is that the last time I came back from behind the Boundary Gate, if it wasn't for Higashinohara entering the [World Saboteur] form, it shocked everyone's eyeballs and rammed the Sixth Judgment Adeline. Leon, the woman guarding the door, I'm afraid that none of their seven human exploration teams will be able to return, let alone survive as some "insider".

Even so, among the five people who survived at that time, Higashinohara and Hela are now hiding their heads and tails without a trace.

Higashinohara is even more incognito.

This makes ordinary people in the outside world want to understand the "hell world" behind the [Boundary Gate], and they can only rely on some channels to catch the wind and shadows.

However, the greatness of humanity lies in its insatiable thirst for knowledge.

There are no impermeable walls in the world, even if the celestials don't know why they are trying to stop the spread of the news about the hellish world.

But there are still more and more gangs and forces that have mastered these news through various secret channels, and even channels that themselves come from within the celestials

The East China Sea, the waters of Wano Country.

The sun rises in the east, the sparkling sea is endless golden, and a large black ship without any flag rises and falls on the sea.

At the bow of the boat, there stood a man with clogs on his feet, his long black hair tied in a bunch, and a painting of hellish mandala flowers on his body.

He held a metal pipe in his hand, and his eyes were half-open and half-closed under his pure black eyes, and his gaze was intently looking at the land coastline that loomed within the limits of his north-western vision.

Beside him, standing was a tall man with short chestnut hair under a brown fisherman's hat, carrying a small bottle of wine in his hand, lifting it to his lips and taking a sip.

"What are you doing in a daze? The people on your ship are still waiting for you, the Commander-in-Chief, to cheer them up, what? Is it suddenly a little homesick? ”

The man in the brown fisherman's hat glanced at Sakamotozun beside him, and suddenly joked with a smile.

Sakahonzun retracted his gaze into the distance, and gently knocked the ash on the deck, his long hair flowing in the sea breeze inexplicably had a strange temperament mixed with pirates and nobles, and he said with a slight sigh, "Yes. Before you know it, it's been so long. ”

From the end of last year, the execution ground of Rising Sun Island rescued Ryunosuke Kamiya and was jointly wanted by the Adjudication Division and Wano Country, to the first day of this year's New Year, in Hokkaido's Nemuro Strait, to take the Tokugawa Chestnut Tiger to the resort island in the South China Sea to recuperate, to today's return to the sea.

Before I knew it, almost half a year had passed.

However, hearing Sakahonzun's sigh, the man with chestnut short hair wearing a fisherman's hat on the side was silent for a moment, his face was a little complicated, he looked at Sakahonzun beside him, and said with a chuckle, "Yes. Before you know it, it's been so long. ”

Both of them lamented the fleeting nature of time, but the meaning was completely different.

Sakahonzun turned his head sideways and glanced at the man beside him who looked like a chestnut tiger.

If it weren't for seeing it with his own eyes, it would be hard to imagine that this tiger-like man was so badly injured that it took less than half a year to recover and break through the shackles on his head.

He went one step further, breaking through from a half-step eighth-order to a true eighth-order demigod-level ability.

He understood what Tokugawa Kuritoro meant by "so much time in the past", and he couldn't help but recall the time when he was studying at Takehara Minami Private School Park.

So many years have passed in a blink of an eye, but everything that once seemed to be still vivid.

"Is Kyogoku Principal okay?" Sakahonzun suddenly asked.

"The old guy has always been physically tough, but he is still so good as a teacher."

Tokugawa Kurita smiled, looked at the land coastline that was getting closer and closer to the northwest, and continued:

"Back then, he called you 'the only amazing talent in his life', and during that time I wanted to join the third investigation team I founded, but if you don't leave, look at the situation. I'm afraid that old guy is probably going to appoint you to become the next principal of Takehara South School Park and leave you behind. ”

Speaking of this, Tokugawa Chestnut Tora's voice paused, and Sakahonzun did not speak.

Both of them know very well that even if the old principal of Takehara Minami, Kyogoku Chuanshui, values Sakahonzun again, it is impossible for Sakahonzun to continue to stay in Takehara Minami Private School Park.

It is even more unlikely to join the Metropolitan Police Department.

Because his surname is "Sakamoto", a ninja than a ninja. An even more ancient thousand-year-old surname of the Wind Demon Party.

The ancestor of the Sakamoto clan, the "Dragon of Sakamoto", was once called "the most radical and dangerous man" among the countless "warriors" of Wano Country in the war to resist the invasion of the Celestials.

Even if the times change later, and the human race finally coexists with the Celestial Beings in a truce, the descendants of the Sakamoto clan who were expelled to the sea will still be the lifelong goal of exterminating the Celestial Man.

He often instigates, plots, and creates all kinds of turmoil in various countries around Wano Country.,Burdened with a family mission to subvert the rule of heaven and man in this world.。

If it weren't for the fact that the ancestors of the Sakamoto clan felt that they had been living at sea and were too cruel to their descendants, they made the adaptation that the children of the Sakamoto clan could live and study on land incognito until they were eighteen years old and became adults.

I'm afraid that Sakahonzun didn't have the opportunity to go to Takehara Minami Private School Park to study and live for so many years.

Although Kyogoku Kawasui often told him that the so-called mission and hatred have always been a heavy shackle for young people with great promises.

But Tokugawa Kuritora also clearly knows that the mission of this thousand-year-old family is not something that can be decided by individuals.

If Sakamoto, who was the general of the Sakamoto Dragon Pirates, chose to give up and return to the sea, then it would mean that the old and weak women and children of the Sakamoto clan who had lived at sea for generations would lose their leader, and the final fate would probably be inescapable of being invaded by other pirates and finally completely annihilated in the vast sea.

Sighing, Tokugawa Kurita no longer delved into this topic, but Sakamotozun said, "Actually, I'm curious, Wano Country once assisted the Adjudicator to want you, I mean why this Wano Country is in turmoil. You'll also choose to come back. ”

"Why did you come back?"

Sakamotozun's eyes were still half-open and half-closed under his messy and flowing long hair, but his tone was a little stunned, "The former Wano Country once betrayed the Sakamoto family, and the current Wano Country is still wearing heavy shackles, resources are controlled by chaebol families, and the people are fooled by politicians, and there are such and such bad things."

Sakamotozun paused, and gently stroked the big fast knife on his waist with a blade covered with Moriken's dense patterns, and the "Yami Cutting Pill", one of the supreme big fast knives in Kyoto.

He continued softly, "It's just that this is our country after all, and even if we sometimes resort to violent means to do something radical, it is not the turn of those foreign forces and gangs to spread wild. ”

Speaking of this, Sakahonzun turned his head to look at the Tokugawa Kuritoro who was standing aside, and a chuckle appeared on his handsome face!

He picked up the pipe in his hand again and lit it, taking a soft sip and exhaling the smoke.

"What about you, Tokugawa Chief. The doctor suggested that you recuperate in the South China Sea for a while, why did you choose to return to Wano Country with us at this time, is it also because of the recent turmoil? Those guys in the Wano Country Parliament building betrayed you before. ”

Hearing Sakahonson's words in the sea breeze, Tokugawa Chesturi was silent for a moment.

He looked at the coastline that was becoming clearer and clearer in the northwest, but his dark brows were not angry, "It was those parliamentarians and politicians who betrayed me before, but now it is the ordinary people of Wano Country who are suffering. ”

"I'm not coming back to prove anything, I just want to see with my own eyes this country without me, to see what those parliamentarians and politicians who get rid of me will become of this country, and if it disappoints me, then I will use these hands to correct something that shouldn't be like that and wrong."

When Tokugawa Kurita said these words, he stood on the deck with his hands behind his back, and his whole body stood still, full of a sense of abyss, like an active volcano that could erupt at any time.

"Sure enough, it's still the tiger I know."

Hearing this, Sakahonzun chuckled and shook his head, "But. . . I heard that there was a person in Wano Province who thought that you had been framed and died, and after you died, not only slashed the leader of the Northern Army of the Dawn Revolutionary Army in the North Sea, but also washed the parliamentarians and cabinet ministers of Wano Country from top to bottom on the Emperor's birthday in a thunderous way that no one could have imagined, and the entire white jade square in front of the Imperial Palace was reduced to ruins. ”

"What he's doing now seems to be what you wanted to do but didn't dare to do."

When Tokugawa Chesturi Tiger heard this, he couldn't help but think of the figure wearing a dark golden dragonfly mask

And later, after he was rescued by Sakamoto on a ship and arrived on the South China Sea Resort Island, he saw and heard some things from the TV network news, which often made him sit there alone and fall into deep incomprehensible contemplation.

At this time, hearing Sakahonzun's words, Tokugawa Chestnut Tiger's face became a little complicated, and he said with sincere emotion, "That's indeed a great guy." ”

"Oh?" Sakahonzun raised his eyebrows, glanced at the Tokugawa Kuritoro with a complicated face, and asked with a chuckle, "Does the Tokugawa team leader know the man I am talking about?" ”

"I don't know."

Tokugawa Kurita shook his head and said in a somewhat deep tone, "But if I have the chance, I'd like to get to know him for real." ”

"Having said that, today is the day when the Sky Tree [Boundary Gate] will open again, and the scene may be chaotic at that time, have you really decided to go to that lost hell world?"

"Hell World?"

A smile appeared on Sakamoto's face, and he shook his head and said, "There was an ancestor in the history of the Sakamoto clan who once set foot in that world, and the ancestral precepts left behind after death before the eighth order should not be easily stepped into, and now that I have entered the eighth order, and the gate of the border has appeared in New Tokyo, it is reasonable that I should go and see the so-called hell world." ”

Tokugawa Kurita knows that although he is an elder and Sakahonzun respects him very much, this child is still the same as many years ago at the Takehara Minami Private School Park, and once many things are decided, no one can pull him back.

Kyogoku River felt that this was the ruthlessness and tenacity of the "Sakamoto no Dragon" clan flowing in the bloodline inheritance.

So he didn't say more, but looked in silence to the northwest.

At this time, the sun gradually rose high in the sky on the horizon of the sea and sky in the east, and the warm golden sunlight of the rising sun shone on the two of them, pulling out two long shadows on the deck.

North-northwest, the familiar coastline has become clearer in the field of vision.

Wano Country, New Tokyo.

Edogawa Ward.

Today is March 20th, and it's been a week since the Sky Tree [Boundary Gate] opened for the second time.

If nothing else, the Sky Tree [Boundary Gate] opened again this afternoon.

And according to the secret file within the Adjudication Division, if the [Boundary Gate] is not stable enough, this will be the last time it will be opened.

Since then, just like the [Boundary Gate] that was immediately blocked by the Adjudication Division after a flash of waves in the torrent of history, it has disappeared in the surging tide of history.

Aragaki apartment for rent.

Standing in front of the mirror, Higashinohara sorted out his clothes.

When he went out, he put on the white-faced, fanged Yaksha mask, pressed a note on the square table in the tatami mat of the room, opened the door and left the room.

That's right, although last night dusk seriously admonished and warned him.

But after thinking very seriously, Higashinohara decided to join the newly released limited mission [Lost Hell] released by the Scarlet Hunter Network of Dawn, and return to the world that was familiar and strange to him.

Because after looking at Old Man Walker's "Character Image Profile", Higashinohara clearly knew that he only killed one of the three old men of the Nine Heavens and Men from Shangjing, and the remaining two entered that world in a vain attempt to find the "Styx" that allowed them to break through the early stage of the Ninth Order and extend their lifespan.

Higashinohara doesn't know what the so-called "Styx" is, in short, it can't be the Pujiang River next to the Pearl Tower, which has long been dried up and corrupted.

But he knows that the biggest attraction of "Styx" to these high-level abilities who are stuck in the bottleneck is that it can guide them to break through the existing stage, and even awaken new abilities that do not exist in the talent sequence to fuse and break through - that is what all high-level abilities dream of but cannot meet.

Now that we know this,

Then it is bound to be impossible for Higashinohara to sit still at home and wait for those two old guys who were already terrifying to become even more terrifying before coming to him to settle accounts.

And if you want to take the initiative, the Seven Star Chasseur team that has blended into [Crimson of Daybreak] has returned to the lost hell world again, which is tantamount to a good time to return.

You know, the security in New Tokyo is much better now than it was a week ago, and even the task screening efficiency at dusk has slowed down, and the corresponding Higashinohara's "brush point plan" has also greatly decreased its efficiency.

But behind the border gate is different.

Those demons don't need to trigger the [Guilty Handbook] quest at all, as long as they kill, they can collect unknown particles and condense them into "Ability Fragments" to decompose into source power points.

And there are also many leaders of those minions left behind in New Tokyo who have recently been cleaned up by Higashinohara, and they have all blended into that world by various means after the [Border Gate] opened a week ago.

In Higashinohara's eyes, if the leaders of those factions that create terror and chaos in New Tokyo can trigger a mission at the right time, it will be an additional attribute point gain.

With these reasons for having to go, even if Dusk repeatedly warned him last night not to be carried away by the "immediate interests", Higashinohara would not give up this rare opportunity.

Money is not money

Well, actually, it kind of makes him feel excited.

However, there is another unspoken reason in Higashinohara's heart, that is, when he came back from the [Boundary Gate] about half a month ago, his eyes swept over the shocking glimpse of the Pearl Tower by the riverside.

Today

He still remembers it vividly.

Under the gloomy sun, on the Pearl Tower, which was listed as a forbidden area by Higashinohara and others, had not set foot on.

The boy who stood alone in the mighty wind on the Pearl Tower at a height of hundreds of meters into the sky, wearing a loose high school uniform, stared at him intently, his eyes were full of loneliness across ten thousand years of time and space

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