Upper Kyoto City Circle, Headquarters of the Adjudication Division.

In the black square building, an old man dressed in a custom-made black suit with silver hair but looked very energetic, and his face without much emotion was full of the kindness and gentleness of an elderly person, standing in front of the conference room window facing the bright sun and the outdoor garden.

In this boxy, coffin-like black building, this room is perhaps one of the few rooms where you can enjoy this kind of light.

Gru. Wiseman.

The first ruling envoy of the Beijing Adjudication Division.

He has never done it in person for decades, but he is known to be the real ruler of the Adjudication Division, and even the mere mention of his name is enough to make the hearts of the illustrious elites of countless countries tremble.

At this moment, the old man stood in front of the shutters of the conference room and raised his hand to pull the rope, and as the angle of the blades changed, a large area of sunlight was isolated from the window, leaving only a wisp of light refracted through the gaps.

There was a soft squeak.

The office door was pushed open from the outside.

There was no knocking on the door.

Because in the black building of the Adjudication Division, those who can enter this office do not need to knock on the door, and those who do not have the right to enter this office naturally have no chance to knock on the door.

Click!

The sound of high heels hitting the floor came slowly, and a tall and slender figure walked in, the woman's long dark hair bulged back, and there was a kind of alienated coldness in the dark blue and slender almond eyes.

"I heard you were looking for me." The third ruling made the 'Empress' Doroshi. Alita looked at the old man's back.

"That's right." The old man turned around, a kind smile on his face, "If I remember correctly, our meeting time in the afternoon should be an hour later, hehe, the lady should have more privileges, you don't have to be so early or on time next time." ”

"It was my mistake, if it disturbs your thoughts, I can go out and wait another hour."

Dolohi. Alita didn't have any emotional ups and downs because of the kindness of the old man's attitude, but lowered her eyelids slightly, and bent down to step back.

"Not necessarily."

The old man smiled and waved his hand, turned around and walked back to the sofa to sit down, reached out and picked up the tea set on the table in front of him and said, "What do you want to drink?" ”

"Clear water is fine."

"Taste the tea you brought back from the lady in Lion Rock last time."

"Thank you."

The old man picked up the delicate silver tea set, first made a cup for the cold woman sitting in front of him in the steam, and then poured another cup for himself.

The light refracted through the cracks in the blinds fell on the tea like a small white snake swimming in its wambles.

The two of them picked up their teacups almost at the same time, took a sip, and then put them down, and fell into a brief silence in the dimly lit conference room.

"There are still two months to go until the World Conference."

The old man broke the short silence and said softly with a smile, "At this time, there are always some interesting undercurrents surging under the calm water, but this year, perhaps there have been too many changes in our adjudication department, and the undercurrents seem to have become extraordinarily turbulent. ”

In the dark conference room, opposite the small square table, the Empress Doroshi. Alita gently put down the tea set in her hand, lowered her gaze slightly, and said:

"The 'rebel' forces in the Grand Duchy of Tagos, which have been active in Shangjing and the north of the Bama River, are indeed a little restless, and I heard that there are some politicians and businessmen involved, do they worry you?"

Hear the Empress Doroshi. Alita's words, the smile on the corner of the old man's mouth couldn't help but become more and more intense, "I have never despised any human being, but whether it is the 'revolutionary army' among the human race, or the powerful people of the country... No matter how far they've gotten over the years, they've never really worried me about it... You know why? ”

Dolohi. Alita pondered for a moment, her eyelashes fluttering slightly, and her voice said unhurriedly, "Probably because no matter how they play... Or what kind of hole cards are in your hand... When everyone has to put all their bets on the table, you always have the ability to take all your chips. ”

Hearing the woman's words, the old man smiled noncommittally, "Hehe... But I haven't touched anyone in years. ”

"Lions don't lose their deterrence by napping." Dolohi. Alita said calmly.

The smile on the old man's face slowly bloomed, and he suddenly shook his head and said, "It's a smart child, the old fox of the Tianhu Bart family chose to give up on you at the beginning, which should be the most regrettable choice in his investment career." ”

Speaking of this, the old man paused and continued, "But there is another reason that you have overlooked, whether it is the revolutionary army in the human race, or the person in control of the power of the country... They all have a very good 'vision', and when these people come together, their first thing on their minds is never how to overthrow us and overthrow the world government......"

The old man's words were still meaningful.

Empress Doroshi. Alita's face showed a thoughtful look when she heard this, and she slowly spoke:

"The first thing they think about is the 'benefit cake' when it's all over, and how delicious the part of the benefit cake will already be able to get from it."

"That's right."

The old man nodded approvingly:

"The history of mankind is a constant repetition of infighting, and if the post-war piece of the profit cake is not as delicious as imagined, then I think... A lot of powerful people don't mind continuing to be dogs. ”

The old man smiled gently, and said in a relaxed tone, "So, even if the situation at the World Conference has been turbulent for so many years, I have never worried that there will be any big problems, hehe, the 'foresight' possessed by the powerful of mankind... They are destined not to go far. ”

"That's a pretty good joke, isn't it?"

Empress Doroshi. Alita didn't smile, just lowered her eyebrows and fell into deep thought, and then raised her head for the first time, and said with a little doubt in her slender dark blue eyes, "If those surging undercurrents are not worth your concern, then you asked me to meet today for ....."

Suddenly, the smile on the old man's face disappeared slightly, and after taking a sip of the teacup, he put down the teacup and said softly, "I can not care about their faults, but there is always a price to pay for mistakes, don't you?" ”

"Some people in Tagos on the northern border of the Bama Canal have been preparing to meet with the leader of the 'revolutionary army' in private, and I need you to go to the northern border of the Bama Canal." The old man said.

"Do you think those humans in Tagos will take the opportunity to unite with the revolutionary army active in Shangjing and start a rebellion at the World Conference?" Empress Doroshi. Alita asked, frowning.

The old man was silent for a moment, then shook his head with a chuckle and said, "No... I'm not worried, they don't have that guts. ”

"And the purpose of my trip?" Dolohi. Alita wondered.

The old man's gaze was fixed on Doroshi. Alita, in a leisurely tone, said, "Humans are very strange creatures, when they get together, they start to fight endlessly, but if there is a sudden external pressure that threatens their lives, they will surprisingly unite. ”

"Like it was a thousand years ago?"

"It's like a thousand years ago."

The old man bowed slightly, and continued, "I need you to go there and act as the kind of 'external pressure' for those who are about to move, so that they have the courage to unite and surface the fish to close the net better, don't you think?" ”

Dolohi. Alita was silent.

She didn't ask "who is responsible for collecting the nets".

Needless to say, in the current situation of the Adjudication Division, the only person responsible for putting away that bloody net is probably the man who is ranked above her in the Adjudication Order, whose mouth is forever mixed with madness and murderousness...

Second Ruling Envoy.

Demon Knife, Pso. Wiseman.

Oh, do I just deserve to be a fuse?

"You don't have to be disappointed."

The old man seemed to have guessed what the other party was thinking, chuckled and shook his head, and said:

"I've always had the same expectations from you, it's just that Pusso's kid style is better suited to this matter."

"The Wano Country affair has made some people's ambitions swell, and the Adjurition Division needs an iron-fisted 'bloody net' to reassert our voice to the world, so as to shock those who are ready to move. ”

Bloody netting?

Thinking of the man's past, those "prey" were all played with by him to despair, and even death was a luxury... Dolohi. Alita couldn't help but feel a hint of instinctive disgust in her heart.

However, at this end of this afternoon's conversation, she knew that it was time to end, stood up and bowed slightly, and said:

"I see."

But when she was about to reach the door of the conference room, the old man behind her suddenly spoke, "Child, I appreciate your kindness in the past, but this time, please remember not to walk too gently into the darkness. ”

"As an aid, Mitheus, the Inquisitor under the command of the Second Ruling Envoy Puso, will travel with you to Tagos, on the northern border of the Bama Canal."

Empress Doroshi. Alita's body couldn't help but stiffen slightly when she heard this, her body paused, and she wanted to say something, but she still didn't say anything after all.

Lowered his eyebrows and walked out of the conference room.

......

The northern border of the Bama Canal.

United States of Tagos, Mayje Province Dia International Airport.

An hour passed in a blink of an eye, and as night fell, the lights of the city in the distance could be faintly seen through the glass curtain wall of the airport.

Outside the International Arrivals Hall.

The group of Takehara Minami exchange students carried large bags of luggage, like aimless goose looking around for the pick-up staff of the Stafford Private Great Sword Academy, and the expression on their faces gradually became a little sluggish.

"Kikuchi-sensei... We're not going to be pigeons, are we? In the exchange student team, one of the students couldn't help but ask.

Natsuichi Kikuchi wiped the sweat from his forehead, and his scanner-like gaze swept back and forth among the crowd holding signs outside the pick-up hall, revealing a longing in his eyes, but this desire never found a home.

He didn't turn his head, he seemed to be answering and seemed to be saying to himself, "Don't worry, don't worry, I contacted that side before leaving, and the time is almost up, so let's look for it again to prevent it from being missed." ”

It would be strange if it could be missed.

Higashino said secretly in his heart.

He has the blessing of [Nine Eyes and Six Paths], and he has already swept the signs held outside the reception hall, some picking up people, some soliciting customers, and some selling things (hints)....

The only one who didn't pick up Minami Takehara and his party.

But at this moment, Higashinohara suddenly noticed a girl in a bright yellow suit school uniform striding over in the crowd with long legs!

The girl's burgundy hair was like a flowing fire, and she was chewing hard with a large hot dog in her mouth and "twisting" in the wind.

But what is surprising is that the girl with a hot dog in her mouth has time to run and find a whiteboard from her handbag that is shaking back and forth, bowing her head and writing something, and then lifting it above her head in one go.

Higashinohara glanced at it, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching slightly, because the whiteboard read, "Welcome to Wano Country Takehara Minami Private School Park Exchange Students".

"Uh... I thought, I should have seen it. ”

"Where, where?"

Natsuichi Kikuchi suddenly perked up.

Higashinohara raised his hand and pointed, and everyone's eyes looked over, looking at the girl who was swallowing a hot dog with a "hideous face", and suddenly his face became complicated.

The next moment, the girl tilted her head and swallowed the rest of the hot dog, chewed it vigorously and then touched her smooth belly contentedly, and then noticed the group of Higashinohara who had walked in front of her at some point.

Both sides look at each other.

The air was quiet for two seconds.

Higashinohara looked at this burgundy haired girl, and looked at the appearance characteristics of people from the west of the Cross Continent, and he couldn't say which country it was.

Objectively speaking, although the girl in front of her has a somewhat "rough" style, her figure and appearance are actually very good.

Long legs, blue eyes, three-dimensional and delicate facial features, a bright yellow suit school uniform with a white shirt and a loose tie look intellectual and sexy.

He thought the scene was going to be embarrassing for a while.

Unexpectedly, after the girl who had just swallowed the hot dog came back to her senses, she immediately threw away the whiteboard and enthusiastically bent down to hold Higashinohara's hand, rubbing it back and forth a few times like a salty and wet uncle, and could even vaguely hear the laughter of "hehe", and bent down enthusiastically and said:

"Hello, hello! My name is Fanny. Nancy, a third-year student at Stafford's Private Greatsword High School, you can just call me Fanny, it's been hard all the way, I'm really embarrassed today! I took a nap in the afternoon... I've slept a little bit, hehe. ”

In just one sentence, Higashino Harade was almost rubbed out of the spark, and turned his head to look at the sky outside the airport and the city's street lights.

You call this a nap?

Higashinohara quietly withdrew his hand and said politely, "Hello, this is our leading teacher. ”

Fanny only felt that the comfortable slippery feeling in her hand disappeared as soon as she saw a flower in front of her, and as soon as she turned her head, the leading teacher Kikuchi Natsuichi stretched out her hand with a smile on her face.

Ahem...

Fanny coughed dryly and politely reached out and shook it with Natsuichi Kikuchi.

One-touch to part.

It's the same as fear of contagion during flu season.

The corners of Kikuchi Natsuichi's mouth twitched, and he looked at Higashinohara's angular and sculptural side face, and said in his heart that I am a teacher, I am literate and can't be angry, and said with a smile on his face again:

"Thank you Miss Fanny for coming so far to pick us up, so can we go to school now, it's not too early."

"Of course."

Fanny immediately nodded and said very enthusiastically, "My car is outside, everyone come with me, let's go to the school first to report and arrange accommodation as soon as possible to prevent those guys from the admissions department from getting off work." ”

After finishing speaking, she looked directly at Higashinohara, "Do any classmates need help with their luggage?" ”

Higashinohara glanced at her gearing up, but politely declined.

Security in the United States of Tagos is well known.

In case this unreliable girl carries his luggage and runs away.

Well, I can't outrun him, but there's no need to think about it.

Fortunately, Fanny was not so unreliable, and led everyone to a small school bus that probably carried fifteen or sixteen people.

She opened the door from the left-hand side, and sat directly in the driver's seat, like an old driver, directly inserted the key, and started the accelerator with a bang.

Everyone in the Takehara South Private School Park has turned their eyes sideways,Some people say that Stafford is Stafford.,Any student who picks up the airport even drives the car so slippery...

After getting into the car, Higashinohara sat in the back seat near the driver's seat, next to the leading teacher Natsuichi Kikuchi.

I saw this girl named Fanny slipping into gear and pulling the handbrake, leaning back with one foot on the accelerator, and the small school bus jumped out "lively".

Natsuichi Kikuchi looked at the roaring traffic in front of him, and suddenly chuckled in his heart, and couldn't help but knock on the side and say, "Miss Fanny is so skilled in driving, she must have obtained her driver's license very early, right?" ”

"Driver's license? What is that? ”

"Huh?"

The air in the car suddenly froze!

"Hahaha, just kidding to liven up the atmosphere."

Fanny laughed from the driver's seat, "Don't worry, everyone, I got my driver's license when I first entered school, and it's been three years now." ”

"Is there no age limit for the United States of Tagos to get a driver's license?"

"Yes, you can be fourteen years old."

"Miss Nephany... I took the exam quite early, so I must have liked driving a lot, right? ”

"Hey... It's just a breadwinner. ”

"Huh?"

"Oh... I mean to help the school drive to earn money, today I can pull you 500 ta, like this I can pull seven times a week, calculate 5,000 a week, a month is 50,000, a year..."

“......”

Natsuichi Kikuchi was shocked by the girl's words, and for a while she didn't know whether to admire her arithmetic or her optimism...

But with Fanny's gag, the atmosphere was inexplicably relaxed, and everyone looked curiously out of the window when the lights first appeared, feeling the atmosphere of this seaside city.

About half an hour's drive,The small school bus carrying the people of Zhuyuan Minami Private School Park drove into the main entrance of the Lakeside Stafford Private Dajian School Park。

There were many students coming and going at this point, and the tires pressed against the side of the road, and the ginkgo leaves were squeaked by the wind blowing off.

When he entered the door, Higashinohara saw the huge sword slashing stone statue that he had seen in the slideshow next to the fountain at the school gate, and he could feel the indestructible sharpness and iron-blooded aura even more up close.

Soon

The school bus stopped in front of a building in the school park.

"When you arrive, you go to the admissions department to report first, someone over there will arrange a place for you to live tonight, the class schedule of the teaching department should be sent to your mobile phone soon in the past two days, everyone pay attention to check, you can find me at any time if you have anything in the school, but it will be charged later..."

Everyone in the car got up one after another to pick up their luggage, and looked at the school park under their feet with some curiosity that they were about to study for an academic year.

When he got off the bus, Higashinohara noticed that although the small school bus that Fanny was driving was dilapidated, the security facilities were quite complete, there were even spare weapons in the shelves above the bus, and the windows were all bulletproof custom-made.

Thinking of this, Higashinohara couldn't help but ask casually, "Will the school bus of Stafford's private Dajian Academy also be attacked in this city?" ”

Fanny, who was fiddling with her mobile phone in the cab, was stunned for a moment, turned her head and saw that it was Higashinohara who asked, and couldn't help but smile and said, "What are you kidding, junior brother, Meiji Mansion is famous for its simple folk customs, how can a school bus be attacked on the road?" ”

Higashinohara nodded when he heard this, and was about to get out of the car, when he suddenly frowned.

There was a very subtle sound of breaking the air in his ears.,Immediately, I saw a huge slashing sword boom from the back of the school bus that had just passed by the fountain at the main entrance of the school park!

Countless pieces of rubble splattered, some of which crackled and screeched on the back window of the school bus.

The next second,A terrible alarm echoed over the entire school park。

Higashinohara couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and turned his head to look at Fanny who was dumbfounded in the driver's seat.

This is what you call the simplicity of the people?!

......

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