New Tokyo, Sky Tree.

This place has been locked down by the Adjuritation Division since the "Sky Tree Bloody Night" more than a month ago, and now that the Adjudicator has evacuated Wano Country, it is still a forbidden place for most people in New Tokyo for some unknown reasons.

Sky Tree East Plaza.

Experienced people know that the best way to see the towering Sky Tree up close is from the East Plaza and Oshiage Station, where the Sky Tree will look like it is ready to fly, and this kind of grandeur cannot be felt in the West Plaza.

The huge statue on the East Square is also a very good place to meet.

In the past, there were often many boys holding two sundaes in their hands, waiting for the girls to come to the agreed meeting place together, and then leave holding hands with a smile on their faces.

Of course, there are also some people who can't wait for someone to come, and in the end they can only leave here silently and alone with two cups of melted cold drinks.

But on March 20th, under the statue full of metallic luster in the sun, there stood silently two men wearing navy blue windbreakers, and the wind blowing from an unknown world in the empty square swayed their clothes and hunted.

The long golden wavy hair in front of the sixth team, Juro Miyano, was a little messy by the wind, and he lifted the long hair in front of his forehead, and asked in a somewhat hesitant tone:

"Although I don't know why... But as the leader of the sixth team of the third reconnaissance team, I think I still need to remind you that the [Boundary Gate] of the Sky Tree will become extremely unstable after opening it again today, and even then... Are you still determined to go in person? ”

Hearing Miyano Juro's words, Kimura Shirakuta, the leader of the third investigation team with a wide body and half-long hair, who was standing on the side, chuckled softly, "The so-called adventure is precisely because of this... It will make sense. ”

Hearing this, Miyano Juro no longer advised, but said noncommittally, "I didn't know that you were still an adventurer, team leader. ”

Kimura said softly, "But in fact, I've always been very adventurous. ”

Juro Miyano no longer delved into the question, but his gaze drifted to the front of the East Plaza under the Sky Tree, where people began to converge towards them one after another.

"Here they are." Juro Miyano said.

"It's good to be here." Kimura nodded with satisfaction.

Hearing this, Miyano Juro glanced at the man with a warm smile beside him, he had always been a calm man with a calm face, but at this moment he was rarely a little depressed in his heart.

Although Juro Miyano knew the times when he returned from the Nemuro Strait in Hokkaido, he chose to follow Kimura Shirataku in a handsome way, and watched the other party step by step from the acting leader of the third investigation team to the official team leader.

However, to this day, even if outsiders regard Miyano Juro as Kimura Hakutaku's confidant and right-hand man, some people secretly accuse him of betraying the Tokugawa team leader's lackey.

But even he found it funny,

He, a "lackey" in the eyes of outsiders, still doesn't know what the man next to him is thinking in his heart under the warm smile, let alone what is the purpose behind the other party's self-payment of the chaebol family's pocket to help the country this time.

It seems that the closer he gets to this man, the more Miyano Juro feels that this man is very incomprehensible, and he doesn't know what his psychology is thinking at all, and the only thing Miyano Juro knows more about Kimura Shirataka is that this man seems to be more familiar with [Boundary Gate] than many people, and he is more interested...

......

Revisiting the old place...

Arriving at the Sky Tree again, a slight smile appeared on the corner of Higashinohara's mouth under the white-faced fanged Yaksha mask, and such a feeling unconsciously surfaced in his heart.

I still remember the last time I was here, he and the Sixth Judge caused Adeline to fall from the height of the three-hundred-meter-high Sky Corridor to the West Square, completing a real falling blow, as if the entire earth under his feet was shattered and shattered under such an impact, and the terrifying impact even spread along the ground, causing the entire Sky Tree to shake slightly like an earthquake.

The Sky Tree has not yet opened, and it is estimated that the construction progress is quite slow, which just explains why the location of their meeting today is the East Plaza.

Thinking of this, Higashinohara, who was wearing a white yaksha mask, looked at the other [Scarlet of Dawn] Seven Star Hunters walking beside him, five men and three women, walking side by side with Higashinohara to the agreed place.

Of the eight people, except for two of the three women, the younger ones wore different masks of pink and sea blue, the others showed their true faces without any scruples, and everyone did not squint.

Come to think of it, although they belong to the same hunter organization, they are at most rivals competing for posts, and they are far from being familiar with colleagues.

.....

"You're just... Hakuyasha has been a lot of talk lately, right? ”

Suddenly, a soft female voice came from Higashinohara's ears, and when she looked closely, she found that it was a woman wearing a navy blue peacock feather mask, wearing a crop top with short sleeves and black leather pants on the lower body, and her demeanor was full of the charm of a mature woman.

Higashinohara subconsciously glanced at the other party, and his voice didn't look like someone he knew, but he didn't refuse to pretend to be cold from thousands of miles away, but said in a flat tone that he had practiced for a long time, "It's me, what's the matter?" ”

"Get to know, Teresa, I didn't expect to meet you here." The woman leaned over and said with a smirk, "It seems that you are also interested in those things of Team Leader Kimura, right?" ”

"Those things?"

Higashinohara under the mask frowned.

"Didn't anyone tell you the highlight of this operation?"

The woman was stunned when she heard this, lightly covered the corners of her mouth under the mask, and said with a trembling smile, "You won't be... Really, for the 10 million yen a day, you signed up for it, right? ”

"I've heard for a long time that White Yasha loves money, but now it seems... Sure enough, it lives up to its name... What a funny guy..."The woman covered her mouth and chuckled a few times, and walked straight across Higashinohara towards the statue where the Sky Tree East Square had gathered.

Highlight?

Behind him, Higashinohara was indeed a little stunned when he heard it.

Of course, he didn't get a hot head because of the high remuneration, and fell into such a whirlpool of life and death, and he still understood the truth that if he had money, he had to spend his life.

Higashinohara will resolutely return to that familiar and unfamiliar world again this time, and the most fundamental reason is naturally that there are dangerous elements wandering around New Tokyo under his high-intensity blows that last for a week, and even the speed of grabbing with source power points has slowed down correspondingly, so he will join this organization in the danger of wealth and danger to go to that dangerous place that is not so strange to him again.

Belch... By the way, make some money.

But now someone actually told him that in addition to those "things outside the body", there are also so-called "highlights", which makes Higashinohara even more confused about this operation.

Under the statue of Sky Tree East Plaza.

At this time, all the Seven Star Chasseurs of Daybreak were assembled and stood in a row, looking up at the gentle-smiling man in front of them without squinting like soldiers waiting to be reviewed.

However, when Higashinohara saw this man, his eyes behind the mask couldn't help but condense slightly.

Although he had never met this man, he had an inexplicable familiarity with him, and it seemed that the impression of this man had been crammed into his mind from sometime last year.

What's the situation?

Higashinohara frowned.

.....

At this time, Kimura Baituo bowed slightly to Higashinohara and the others, and his warm smile revealed a heartfelt gratitude, "This time, you can assist the Metropolitan Police Department in cracking down on those foreign criminals, which is really a great contribution to the harmony and security of New Tokyo, and I am here to express my sincere gratitude to you on behalf of every person in New Tokyo..."

When they heard this, they didn't move.

Obviously, as a hunter who takes money to do things, he is not too interested in this kind of opening, they are more concerned about the substance.

The smiling Kimura Hakutaka was also very aware of this, and after finishing speaking, he turned his head and continued with a smile, "In the same way, I thank you all for your trust in me and decided to explore a new and unknown world with me... I believe that everyone at the scene has already had a certain degree of understanding of the place we are going to through their own channels before coming, but I still want to repeat here..."

"If you want to come back alive, you'd better... It's not good to disobey my instructions. Kimura Hakutaka said this with a smile, but the moment he said it, it gave people a very cold feeling.

Under the mask of white fangs, Higashinohara still stared at Kimura Hakutaku's harmless gentle face, and finally confirmed that he had never seen such a face again.

Odd...

So where does this familiarity come from?

"But correspondingly, as long as everyone follows the instructions, then not only can you successfully complete the task and get paid, but also have unexpected surprises..."

The smile on Kimura Baitaku's face softened even more, and the cold feeling dissipated, "Finally, I hope that our 'Hell Exploration Plan' will go smoothly this time, and I look forward to this mission... We can work together again. ”

After saying that, Kimura Hakuto turned away with a smile.

The people lined up behind him, you look at me, I look at you, looked up at the towering new Tokyo Sky Tree above their heads, and followed without saying a word.

......

The time was three o'clock in the afternoon.

I don't know if it's because of the [Boundary Gate], every time the [Boundary Gate] is opened or closed, the sky around the Sky Tree will always become a haze, the dark clouds are like the black waves on the sea in the dark night, and the Sky Tree that goes straight into the sky is like the last lighthouse in the black waves.

The Sky Tree, the Tianwang Corridor 300 meters above the ground, is still near the broken hole.

A pool of pure "power bodies" rolled like boiling magma, forming a huge molten vortex in the [Boundary], making everyone standing on the Tianwang Corridor breathless.

"Those two old guys... Is it going to appear? ”

Higashinohara stared at this familiar scene, still remembering the last time he saw a whirlpool like a blue tide, but he didn't know why this time it turned red

However, the next moment, the whirlpool of the deep sea lasted for about ten minutes.

Until it was calm as water again, whether it was the two old men from Shangjing, or the leaders of the major power organizations that had surged in through various means, they thought that at least some of them would come back when the gate of the Sky Tree boundary opened again this time, but they didn't expect that even one of them suddenly appeared.

No one?

Looking at the border gate that was as calm as water, everyone's hearts couldn't help but be puzzled.

However, at this time,

Without warning,

The pale face of a thin young man who looked young appeared in the gate of the border that was as calm as water, wearing a loose school uniform that looked extremely shabby, and he was standing on the observation deck of a tall tower like them, his eyes empty and lonely, as if he had traveled through tens of thousands of years of time and space and glanced at them.

Just this glance...

Everyone's hearts couldn't help but palpitate.

"Who's that boy?"

"Was the Boundary Gate opened last time?"

"That armband on his shoulder... Three bars... Which organization's logo is it? ”

"The red three bars? I've only heard of a pirate group in the West Sea with a black five-way bar. ”

“......”

Before entering, they saw this unbelievable scene, and everyone suddenly whispered.

Behind the white-faced and fanged Yaksha mask, Higashinohara looked at the boy who had met with him when he came back from crossing the border gate last time, and his face became a little weird.

Although he didn't know what the young man standing on the observation deck of the Pearl Tower was looking at them through the border gate, he knew what the armbands of the three bars meant.

That's right, that's the Young Pioneer Captain, Higashinohara's memory of his previous life, and he admired it very much when he was a teenager.

Higashinohara, who had a strange face, glanced at Kimura Hakutaku, who was the initiator of this exploration on the side, and although the latter's face was calm, there was also a flash of confusion in his eyes.

It's just that Higashinohara has a vague feeling that what this man is confused about may not be the same thing as what they are confused about.

Just when everyone lost their minds for a while, the figure on the water-like boundary gate in front of them suddenly disappeared, and everything just now seemed to be just a mirage-like illusion.

What's going on?

Although when they signed up for this horrific exploration of the so-called hell, many of the hunters of Daybreak were already mentally prepared for this or that... But this strange picture before departure still made everyone's hearts palpitate.

Kimura Baituo, who had a gentle face, chuckled, shook his head, and said, "It seems that there were some unexpected episodes before the departure this time, since no one has come back... Then we must be all ready to go. ”

The crowd was silent for a while.

Kimura didn't say much, his navy blue windbreaker fluttered in the mighty wind, and he raised his legs and was about to step towards the sky outside the glass cloister like a flood of mighty winds.

At this time, Juro Miyano, the captain of the sixth team, couldn't help but ask, "This time the border gate opens... There must be people who want to go in, if you're not there... I'm afraid we alone won't be able to stop those people. ”

Kimura Baituo pondered for two seconds, then suddenly chuckled and shook his head, "Then don't stop it, it's already so lively inside, it's more lively... Isn't it also good? ”

The words fell, the man took a step forward and disappeared, and the whole person seemed to merge into the heavens.

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