At the reopened fireworks festival at the new Tokyo Sky Tree, the citizens in the square are still immersed in the beautiful dream of fireworks taking off into the sky.

The Upper Kyo-Kowloon Family, the Ruling Division, the Wano Kingdom of Tagos, the San Maro Empire, and the pirates of the various seas... Countless different people around the world who watched the scene through the live broadcast or broadcast of TV New Tokyo with different purposes noticed the anomaly in the live broadcast footage for the first time, and waited for what they had been waiting for today....

However, these people looked at the smiling people in the fireworks under the live broadcast camera, and they couldn't help but have doubts in their hearts.

The appearance of the [Border Gate] in the Sky Tree may be a secret to ordinary people, but it is not a secret to many well-informed people, and it is impossible to be a secret to the government departments of Wano Country.

Now that you know this,

Why is Wano Country holding such a large gathering of people on this special day?

Was it kicked in the head by a donkey?

Or is there some deeper meaning behind it?

......

Different worlds, different dreams.

Just when the people of Wano Country were looking forward to the arrival of Wano Country.

For Higashinohara, who was on the other side of the [Boundary Gate], time finally quietly came to the seventh day after the [Border Gate] opened again after a long wait.

That is, on the afternoon of March 27th.

He looked at the pearl tower that slanted into the sky, and gently shook his palm, feeling a little nervous in his heart.

Higashinohara knew very well that the River Styx had appeared near Mingsha Island at the mouth of the sea, and I don't know how many pirates had sneaked there in the past few days.

But whether they achieve their goal or not, when the [Border Gate] opens again this afternoon, all the pirates and unknown forces of various countries, as well as the old man of the Nine Heavenly Families in Beijing...

When the Boundary Gate opens again, they will come to the anchor point under the Tower of the Pearl of this World, which is where the Boundary Gate is located in this Hell World.

It will be the life and death of many people.

......

"Huh? Shall we go back now? ”

Seeing that the time was approaching, on the way back to the temporary camp, Lucy said with some reluctance.

"Or else?"

Higashinohara smiled helplessly.

For Lucy and Daniel, their journey to hell was a failure, and they failed to find the River Styx they were looking for.

But from a certain point of view,

They are also lucky.

Saved Higashinohara by mistake, escaped the pursuit of the Shelby Pirates with the help of Higashinohara, and avoided the direction of the estuary under the leadership of Higashinohara, the "leader".

If the two siblings, Lucy and Danielle, spun around like headless flies, with a little luck, they might catch a glimpse of the River Styx.

But the bad luck is that this may also be their "last look" - after all, the old man of the Nine Heavenly and Human Families is not the one who can accommodate others to sleep soundly on the side of the couch.

Danielle looked happy, he had regretted accompanying his distant sister since the fourth day he came to this desolate, dead, and dangerous world, and he had completely given up thinking about the rumored "Styx" that could improve his strength.

Now he just wants to leave this hellish world as soon as possible, even if he sees the bright sky again, it can make him feel good, and he has almost suffocated this tall man to death in the past few days.

However, just when Higashinohara and the others returned to the temporary camp of "Happy Elementary School", they were ready to take the remaining supplies to the Pearl Tower and wait for the border gate to open to find a suitable time to return.

As soon as he walked to the dilapidated school gate of Xingfu Elementary School, Higashinohara suddenly paused.

Lucy, who was angry with her head behind her, suddenly hit Higashinohara's lower back with a head, and it felt like she had hit an iron pillar, which made her first reaction to anger suddenly stunned.

Isn't this man a speed department?

Why is the body so strong?

She wanted to say something, but at this time, she only heard Higashinohara's slightly cold voice in front of her.

"Somebody has been here."

What?

Lucy and Danielle on the side were suddenly startled, and subconsciously exclaimed, "There are pirates again?" ”

Higashinohara was a little lost temper by the shouting of the two, and said helplessly, "Aren't you also from the Black Pearl Pirates?" Why is the reaction so big? ”

Upon hearing this, Lucy and Danielle suddenly laughed and lowered their heads in shame.

Higashinohara didn't ask, at this time, his [Nine Eyes and Six Paths] were fully opened, and everything around him was suddenly seen from a god's perspective.

In the next second, his eyes suddenly shrank suddenly.

On the playground of Xingfu Elementary School, a man with half-long hair and a navy blue windbreaker turned his head to look in the direction of Higashinohara on the road outside the school, and showed a smile as soft as a spring breeze and drizzle.

It's him?!

Higashinohara couldn't help but be surprised.

It was none other than Kimura Baituo, who left the chasseur team five days ago without a sound and broke through the blockade in the direction of Mingsha Island alone.

On Mingsha Island, there is also an old man named Abraham.

He got out of the other person's hands?

Why did he come back to this elementary school?

Just when Higashinohara was surprised, he found that the people of the hunter team were also with Kimura Shiratum, and at this time, they were carrying black rectangular cargo boxes from nowhere and piling them up on the school playground.

At this time, Kimura Baituo, who was standing on the playground, turned his head.

But instead of looking in the direction where Higashinohara was, he swept towards the gap in the torn down school wall on the other side.

Two figures slowly walked out of it.

One is majestic and majestic, the other is long, these two are not others, they are Tokugawa Kurita and Sakahonzun who are walking together.

"Has it been discovered?"

Kimura Shirato chuckled and shook his head.

I don't know if it was said to Tokugawa Kurita and Sakamotozun, or to Higashinohara on the other side.

"Are those the 'fruits' you claim to be able to save this country?"

Tokugawa Chestnut Tiger's gaze fell on the layers of boxes stacked on the playground, and his gaze suddenly became sharper than ever, and his two thick black eyebrows were raised in anger.

"I can't guarantee that." Kimura Hakutaku replied.

"No guarantees? You're gambling on the lives of so many ordinary people? Tokugawa Kurita's tone suddenly became stern, and his eyes pressed into Kimura Hakutaku's gentle smiling face.

Yoshizu Ichiro, the deputy captain who was organizing the transportation around, heard the "inexplicable" conversation between the two, and couldn't help but glance at Teresa, Ellenda and others, and stopped and looked at Kimura Shirato at a little bewilderment.

Kimura Shiraku shook his head at them with a chuckle, motioned to continue, and then turned his head to look at Tokugawa Kurita and said, "When the Tokugawa team leader was in the third reconnaissance team of Caochuang back then, how sure was he there?" ”

The original civilian competence of Wano Country was scattered, some worked for the chaebol, some worked for politicians, and of course, some entered the Metropolitan Police Department.

Human beings are social animals, and the capable are "outliers" who are different from ordinary people, and those who strive to integrate into society normally often suffer from unfair treatment, especially when there are some black sheep among the capable people.

Every time there is a news report that the capable person endangers social security, the other capable people will be cast strange and vigilant eyes by their colleagues around them, no matter what department they are in.

Over time, people who hold positions in major sectors of society are often treated differently by people with colored eyes, and many people have developed from initial complaints and protests to numbness and lying down later.

When Tokugawa Chestnuta was young, he was determined to change the status quo of the capable and set up an official organization composed purely of the capable to better restrain and regulate the capable and change the image of the capable in people's minds, so the prototype of the "Third Investigation Group" was born.

At this time, hearing Kimura Hakutaku rehashing the old matter, Tokugawa Kuritaka glanced at him scrutinically, and said in an indifferent tone, "I wasn't very sure back then, but at least I didn't gamble on other people's lives. ”

"Is that so?"

Kimura Hakutaku was noncommittal, "But those who are determined to follow you, they are all ready to give up their future and their lives." ”

Speaking of this, Kimura Hakutaku looked up in the direction of the Pearl Tower, and said to Tokugawa Kurita slightly apologetically, "I'm sorry, the border gate will be reopened soon, we talked about this point ourselves last time, and I'm afraid I don't have much time to discuss it with you today." ”

"Do you think I'm going to sit idly by?" Tokugawa Kurita said lightly.

"Of course not."

Halfway through speaking, the corners of Kimura Hakutaku's lips suddenly curled slightly, and he said in the direction where Higashinohara was, "So... Friends over there, please come out, too. ”

Friends over there?

Everyone present couldn't help but be stunned.

Immediately afterward, I saw the familiar figure wearing the white-faced fanged Yaksha mask slowly walking out, followed by two somewhat unfamiliar faces.

"Huh? It's the White Yaksha-kun! ”

"Hayasha-kun is still alive!"

"This kid, where has he been these days?"

“......”

The moment everyone in the huntsman squad who was carrying the cargo box under the instruction of Kimura Hakutaku saw the mask on Higashinohara's face, their expressions immediately perked up and they began to talk about it.

At the same time, Sakamotozun, who had been standing behind the Tokugawa Kurita and watching the changes, looked at Higashinohara who suddenly appeared, and unconsciously remembered the earth-shattering battle by the seawall that day.

He couldn't help but smile and whispered to Tokugawa Kurita, "If he is the same as us, then I am somewhat sure of stopping you crazy Captain Kimura today, but I don't know how much better he is now from being so badly injured that day." ”

Tokugawa Kurita didn't speak, just stared quietly at the mask on Higashinohara's face, and then he withdrew his gaze and said nothing.

"Long time no see, Hakuyasha-kun."

Kimura Hakuto smiled and said, "It just so happens that there is still a shortage of people here, do you want to help together?" ”

Higashinohara looked at the black cargo boxes, no wonder the laboratory he saw in his dream that night was somewhat familiar to Kimura Hakutaku - it turned out to be a reconstruction of the classroom of this elementary school, and these "ability fruits" that were created have been hidden in this elementary school all along.

He had just listened to the blessing of the [Nine Eyes and Six Paths] outside, plus he had entered the dream realm of the Alien Demon Jianghuai, and he knew more clearly than Tokugawa Kurita what Kimura Hakuto had done in this hell world.

Higashinohara shook his head lightly and said without thinking, "I'm sorry, if these boxes are all so-called 'Ability Fruits', I'm afraid I'll be forgiven." ”

"What a pity."

Kimura Hakutaku glanced at Higashinohara with deep meaning, lowered his voice and said as if talking to himself, "I thought we were the same kind of people. ”

After saying that, he raised his head again and said to Higashinohara with a gentle smile on his face, "So... Are you here to stop me, too? ”

Lucy next to her was tempted to say that they had just chosen to camp here last night, and now they were just passing by to get their luggage.

But sensing the motionless Higashinohara and the increasingly solemn and oppressive atmosphere in the air, she opened her mouth and swallowed the words that came to her throat.

Kimura Hakutaka now understood Higashinohara's silence, and said with some regret, "Speaking of which, if I change the time, I would like to have a good conversation with someone as talented as you to make tea, but it's a pity that there is no time today." ”

Speaking of this, he said to Yoshitsu Ichiro, the deputy leader of the huntsman team behind him, "You guys move your things to the Sky Tree first, and I'll take care of the matter here for the time being." ”

Yoshitsu Ichiro was slightly stunned, but he sensed the indispermissible meaning under the man's gentle tone, so he nodded and distributed the things that were moved out and carried them on their backs.

From the moment Teresa and Ellenda and the others discovered Higashinohara's true strength, they had a hunch that such a person would not live under the crowd for a long time, and the purpose of coming here would not be for the "Angel Fruit" like them, but they didn't expect to go to their opposite side so quickly.

For a while, she and Alenda's faces were a little complicated, but under the command of Yoshitsu Ichiro, they still carried the cargo box on their backs and didn't say anything.

Seeing this, Tokugawa Chestnut Tiger couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and he stood in place like a mountain and said to Kimura Hakutaku, "Do you think I'm going to let you do whatever you want?" Or do you think that with the so-called 'seed' you fused in the River Styx, you can ignore me completely? ”

Seed?

This guy has already been developed?

Higashinohara remembers that when Kimura Hakutaka introduced him as a "doctor" in the dream world, he said that it was the product of the third stage of the fruit of the alien ability after repeated repetition.

I didn't expect the results to come so quickly, no wonder he was so obsessed with going to the tide.

I'm afraid that only some kind of unelemental matter particles in the tides can nourish and nurture this [seed] condensed and refined from an unknown number of alien demons.

"Of course I won't ignore you, the team leader." Kimura Hakutaka had a smile on his face and said, "That's why I decided to go all out." ”

In the next second, there was a whispering murmur in the air.

"The breeze is chaotic, and the flowers are dancing wildly;

Mirrors and flowers, heaven and earth. ”

Accompanied by Kimura Hakutaku's voice, the brows under Higashinohara's mask couldn't help frowning slightly.

I only felt that the picture in front of me was like a pool of spring water wrinkled by the wind, and the vision in front of me appeared in the withered crimson cherry blossoms and butterflies dancing lightly.

Suddenly, not to mention the chasseur team and others carrying the cargo box in front of them, even the figures of Lucy and Danielle who were following on both sides gradually distorted and blurred with the ripples, and the whole person felt as empty as a world from the inside out.

This is... Mare's nest?

Higashinohara frowned, feeling a little wrong.

He'd seen two versions of Snake Guigo and Kimura Hakutaku, but neither of them was as weird and realistic as it was in front of him.

That's right, realism.

It's like being caught in a small world of its own, and no one who enters it will want to go out again.

Unless you get the permission of the ruler of this world, there is only one way to die here or kill the other party.

At this time, Kimura Hakutaku's ethereal voice slowly came from out of reach.

"Order. Small world. Heaven and earth! ”

Order!

Tokugawa Chestnut Tiger couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this, and his face became a little complicated.

A few days later, when he first met in the River Styx, he was lucky enough to go one step further, and the man in front of him who had been included in the third investigation team by him had just advanced to the unsatisfactory ninth order.

Of course, Tokugawa Kurita knew why the other party was not perfect, that is, the order above the eighth-order rules.

If he couldn't control the order, even if Kimura Baituo fused the [Seed] that had been experimenting for many years and ascended to the ninth order in one step, it would be just a "pseudo-ninth order" after all.

Tokugawa Kurita originally thought that although Kimura Hakutaku was extremely talented and could be called the captain of the thirteenth team of the third reconnaissance team he had personally selected, it would take at least a year and a half to comprehend the power of this level of "order".

Who would have thought that in just a few days, this man would have an epiphany of his own order.

For a while, Tokugawa Chestnut Tiger was only left with a sigh in his heart in addition to shock.

But in fact, he underestimated one point, that is, Kimura Hakutaka has been preparing for this day for I don't know how many years he has been preparing for this day with the [seed] in his hands...

For a time, the Tokugawa Kurita and Sakamotozun, as well as Higashinohara, were all trapped in the "heaven and earth".

Although Yoshitsu Ichiro, who was carrying the cargo box, felt strange in his heart, he just wanted to complete the task quickly and leave this hell world, he had no intention of meddling, and hurriedly urged everyone to leave quickly, and went to the anchor point of the boundary gate under the Pearl Tower first.

But just as they walked in the direction of the main gate, passing by Higashinohara's side.

I don't know if it's an illusion.

Yoshizu Ichiro clearly felt,

The mask-masked one with his face on his face stood still, staring at the White Yaksha in front of him with a vacant gaze, glancing in his direction as if he were notched.

Shh

It's a delusion, right?

Yoshizu Ichiro's heart suddenly felt a hair.

He didn't dare to think about it, and took advantage of the fact that the other party did not move, and quickly accelerated his pace.

......

At the same time, another world.

New Tokyo, under the fireworks at Sky Tree Plaza.

"What's that?"

Finally, the captain of the field leader of the SAT (Special Assault Team) of the Metropolitan Police Department, who was on duty at the edge of the square, also realized that something was wrong, and stared at the strange and bizarre oval blue band of light in the Tianwang corridor on the Sky Tree with wide eyes full of astonishment.

Jingle bells—!

At this time, the SAT captain suddenly received a phone call.

As soon as he saw that the call was from the Prime Minister's office, he quickly pressed the switch and put it in his ear, but there was an angry roar over there!

Nobuo Kobayashi, the new foreign minister and acting prime minister, roared almost like a roar:

"What's going on with your Metropolitan Police Department?!! Didn't I veto the proposal to reopen the fireworks festival at Sky Tree Square today a few days ago? Who told you to let people into the square? What the hell are you eating?! ”

"Now! Right away! Organize the evacuation of the on-site personnel for me immediately! ”

The SAT captain on the other end of the phone was also a little dizzy by the roar, and he felt a little aggrieved, he was just acting on the instructions of his superiors to maintain law and order on the spot.

Just when he was about to say something, he raised his head, but his mouth opened slightly irrepressibly.

I don't know when,

Large expanses of blue floating unidentified matter appeared in the sky, frantically converging towards the blue band of light.

It seems that an unknown door is slowly opening to the world, which makes people feel a kind of trepidation and uneasiness in their hearts.

March 27, 1122 in the Celestial Yuan calendar.

6:55 p.m.

Under the watchful eye.

Border Gate!

Reopen.

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------Off topic------

The last two days of the end of the month are spicy, and the monthly passes that are about to expire in the ticket warehouse are still here.

Take a shower and continue to code words~