The same people, in the eyes of different people, naturally have different perceptions.

Someone saw that Higashinohara was not happy,

Some people look at him but feel differently.

Almost at the same time,

Upper Kyoto City Center,

The building of the World Bank headquarters,

In an extremely spacious office with the door sign of the CEO of the Energy Trade Strategy Department.

Perhaps because the World Bank Tower, which is more than 99 stories high, is too high to be cold, it is obviously late spring, and the office in the middle of the 89th floor is extremely cold inside and out.

Looking out at the sky through the transparent glass curtain wall of the building, the sun hung in the sky like a peeled boiled egg yolk, and the light was refracted on people without the slightest warmth.

When the glass skylight is opened, the wind blows in the sky, and people can't help but shrink their necks, and even the cold-resistant potted plants such as "Hanmei", "Luoshi Vine" and "Winter Beauty" grow happily and wantonly in the empty and cold office.

......

Behind the black desk of Lion Rock in the southern suburbs, facing the glass curtain wall, the woman turned to the chair and held a photo pulled out of a brown calfskin envelope.

In the background of the photo, on the shore of a drizzly lake, a man and a woman sit at a white round table, the woman stares at the side face and eyebrows of the young man, and the corners of her lips unconsciously rise up a slight arc, making the photo look like a little affection between men and women out of thin air.

The woman who took the elevator to send this photo sealed in a calfskin envelope upstairs was named Mia, who was in her twenties but extremely talented, and graduated from a prestigious university in Beijing with a double degree in finance and energy trade, which was enough for her to be proud of.

However, in front of the middle-aged woman who looked soft and dignified sitting behind the desk in front of her, Mia, who bowed her head slightly, showed an extremely respectful posture.

Because this woman is the eldest daughter of the Tianhu Bart family, who controls the world's financial lifeline, among the nine families of Shangjing Tianren who live in seclusion in the clouds of this world, and can be called the "eldest princess" of the Bart family, a world-class financial empire.

Afra. Bart.

If she wants to destabilize a country's energy mining market, she just has to nod slightly.

So tomorrow,

The country's energy mining market will immediately begin to saturate and become trampling, and all those holding energy mining stock futures will be able to walk onto the rooftops in just one night.

Sitting at such a height, holding such five invisible giant hands that are enough to control the world from another angle, Afra who looks down on this world. Bart has long been accustomed to seeing the joys and sorrows of the bottom, love and hatred, and the various ways of the world.

It's hard to have anything to make any waves in her ancient heart.

But from walking into this office this morning until now, Afra. Bart didn't look at the world under his feet, nor did he look at the treacherous energy mine stock market in Beijing.

Just lowered her head and silently stared at the photo in her hand, staring at the girl with the corners of her mouth slightly upturned in the photo.

Yes, that's right, it's girls.

The photo shows Doroshi sitting across from Higashinohara. Alita may have a formidable identity in the eyes of others, such as "Third Adjudicator", "Empress", etc...

But in Afra. Bart eyes.

That's a girl,

Forever girl.

As far back as she can remember, it seems like the girl hasn't smiled for a long, long time since her father died.

"Is that the young man?" Afra. Bart asked suddenly.

"Yes." Mia nodded, "This is a photo from the manor. ”

As she spoke, Mia looked at the other party's face from the corner of her eyes, and she didn't see any gloom on the face of the woman in front of her, who thought the other party would be angry.

But as a conscientious helper, it has become instinctive to share the worries of her employer, and she couldn't help but subconsciously tentatively ask:

"Do you need me to investigate?"

Afra. Bart's gaze was still on the photo, and only then did he raise his head and look at the other party after hearing the female assistant's words, and smiled for no reason on his soft and dignified face.

"Investigation? What to investigate? ”

The female assistant Mia was stunned when she heard this, and couldn't help but say, "Aren't you most concerned about Miss's affairs every day, and that young man... It is said to be a human ......"

"What about humans?"

Afra. Bart suddenly interrupted expressionlessly, and his light blue slender eyes stared silently at the personal female assistant in front of him.

Suddenly, the temperature in the cold and quiet office seemed to drop a few degrees all of a sudden.

The female assistant Mia was suddenly shocked!

Thinking of a certain gossip rumor of the Tianhu Bart family, he looked at the woman's face, and the whole person was suddenly silent, and he didn't even dare to breathe.

After a while, Afra. Bart retracted his gaze, re-landed on the face of the young man in the photo in his hand, and said slowly:

"No need to investigate, no need to investigate, my daughter's eyes are not below me."

Speaking of which, Afra. Bart sighed softly, "If she hadn't left her family to join the Heavenly Killing Inquisition, a few years later... She should be sitting in the office on the top floor of the World Bank building, not the people who are short-sighted. ”

"Mademoiselle is indeed very talented in finance." The female assistant Mia praised from the bottom of her heart.

Of course, what made her envious in her heart but could only look up to was the other party's talent in the cultivation of natural ability.

A ninth-order god-level powerhouse under thirty,

Any country on the Cross Continent is an amazing talent that can go down in history.

However, she seemed to think of something again, and couldn't help but say cautiously, "But if it's a human, the head of the family will ...... in the future."

Hearing Mia's words, Afra. Bart's face was also slightly stunned.

The soft and dignified face rarely showed a hint of hatred, and it quickly returned to normal.

She stared at Higashinohara in the photo, and suddenly said softly and slowly, "I said that my daughter's vision is much better than mine." ”

"If there really is that day in the future, then the person who can be favored by my daughter should not need me to worry about it."

Hear Afra. Bart's words, Mia forcibly resisted the urge to look at the young man's face in the photo, but her heart was full of confusion and incomprehension.

Just a human being.

Why does it make Madame think so highly?

However, although she was conscientious in her duties, she also knew what it meant to be too late, and when she heard this, she bowed her head slightly, took a few steps back, and sat back in the assistant seat near the door.

Afra. Bart turned around, and the warm yellow sunlight fell on her through the glass curtain wall in front of her, but she didn't feel any warmth.

Sixteen years ago,

It is on the World Bank Building, a landmark building in the center of the Upper Kyoto City area.

A human man leaped from the window of his office on the top floor of the building, turning into a puddle of scarlet flesh on the ground in front of the building.

At that time, the suicide in front of the World Bank building was a sensation, after all, the celestial nobles in Beijing knew whose property it was.

But in the end, it didn't make any waves.

No one knows why the dead man is on the top floor of the World Bank building.

No one knew why the dead man jumped from the wind-filled window on the top floor, or even the name of the dead man.....

But Afra. Bart knows it all.

At this moment, bathed in this temperatureless light, silently looking at the glass curtain wall in front of him, Afra. Bart suddenly thought a little cold in his mind:

Perhaps, at a certain moment when the man fell from a height of several hundred meters, he also passed by her in this office at that time.

It's just that she didn't notice it at the time.

Later, she chose to accept the old man of the World Bank building - the man could not withstand the pressure and had a nervous breakdown and committed suicide by jumping off the building.

But Doroshi, who was only ten years old at the time. Alita does not accept it.

So she stayed in the building.

The little girl, who was only ten years old, left the building.

I went to a colder place than here, that is, the black building of the Judicial Division in Beijing.

Afra. Bart will always remember the cold, lonely look in the girl's eyes when she left the building, and there was no longer any trace of her daughter's dependence on her mother.

She said that she was going to a place where "dead people could talk" and that day would not come too late...

At this thought, Afra. Bart couldn't help but close his eyes slightly, and quietly calmed his thoughts.

When you reopen your eyes,

She suddenly understood the meaning of her daughter's initiative to forward this photo to her today.

On the one hand, it is natural to prevent her from investigating her condition too much through the maid of the manor, and on the other hand, it seems to show some things in the past that have long passed.

For a moment, his eyes fell on the young man with the photo in his hand again.

Looking at the other party's young but calm face, he suddenly sighed faintly in his heart.

If there is a day,

I hope you won't let my daughter down again.

......

After a night of deliberation at Councilor Kenneth's mansion last night,

Due to the large number of high-level politicians and parliamentarians involved, even the adjudication department cannot completely shut up.

The news spread from ten to hundred, and after all, it brewed into a storm that swept the whole city.

When Higashinohara got out of the car that the maid gave him, just taking the subway back to the Stafford's private Dajian Academy on the shores of Lake Micheli in the southern suburbs of Meiji Province,

Almost every time the platform stops,

There will be a flood of powerful agents of the Condor Bureau, all of whom have tense nerves on their faces, like hunting dogs, who are even more desperate than the black-robed enforcement team to search.

No way, no one knows the guy who attacked and killed the Inquisitor Mitheus in the mask of a miserable white clown,

Did you get mixed up with the dinner party in the first place?

Or was it an uninvited guest who later entered the mansion halfway like the Dawn rebels?

After all, for the kind of person with great ability who can kill the Inquisitor Mitheus.

The security at Congressman Kenneth's mansion was almost non-existent, and people simply came and went as soon as they were told.

In addition, after the death of the "fog ghost" Charles, the fierce battle between the remaining Dawn rebels and the black-robed execution of the ruling division made the scene chaotic, and most of the parliamentarians and politicians who spared their lives secretly left the scene under the protection of security.

This makes the investigation that starts from this part of the list of people invited to the dinner be tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, and can only be forced to carry out this large-scale sweep and search that is almost a lockdown now.

And the reason why the people of the Condor Secret Service of the United States of Tagos are running so hard,

Naturally, it's because of that guy last night.... Wearing a black uniform that is impressively the Condor Bureau.

To be reasonable, such an obvious planting of blame, anyone who sees it will probably be clear at a glance.

The problem is...

The adjudication division is never a place to reason.

In case they searched without any clues, it was difficult to guarantee that the Adjudication Division, who had nowhere to vent their anger, would not charge them with being a prisoner and shouting to catch a thief.

Therefore, the hardest search in the city of Meje Province now is not the police station, not the black-robed enforcement team of the Adjudication Division, but the agents of the Condor Bureau.

But to say the most unlucky.

Naturally, it's the outlaws in this "vice city" who are ready to move.

Before the blood was ignited, it was cool in the middle of the Divine Eagle Bureau's breaking door, and the atmosphere of the city was clear, and the daily crime rate was reduced to the lowest level in history.

Of course, Higashinohara was also quite unlucky.

Obviously, the drive of more than 40 minutes was dragged on for more than two hours, and it is estimated that the urban transportation system of Mae Ji Province today has been completely paralyzed.

When he finally got off the subway and returned to the Stafford Private School Park, he was just in time for the school lunch when he left the manor in the morning.

That'll do the trick.

Higashinohara is a character who is at ease with what he encounters.,Straight into the school restaurant.。

Last night's physical exertion was huge, and it was not easy to eat this morning in the open-air garden restaurant of Doroshi's house.

As soon as he entered the restaurant, Higashinohara made a fragrant pork knuckle rice and went to the corner to feast.

Comfortable!

Today is still a weekend off, and there are not many people around Higashinohara when he eats.

But most of the students sitting near him were discussing martial law in the city, gossiping about gossip from their own sources.

"Have you heard? The judge who came to our school two nights ago was killed.。 ”

"Shhh That's a guy who can wrestle with the principal, and he's also a member of the special search team of the Shangjing Adjudication Division's space, who is so bold? ”

"I have a friend of mine who was at the scene, and I heard that it was from the Dawn Revolutionary Army."

"Tsk, the Dawn Revolutionary Army is making such a big fuss, it seems that the next World Conference in Beijing is going to make a big move."

"Fart, the Dawn Revolutionary Army, my friend has a relative who was also at the scene, and it is said that it was the infighting of the Adjudication Division, the Judge of Mitheus fornicating with the Revolutionary Army, and the Empress's own hand."

"The Empress? Is it Alita-sama? She's coming too? ”

"Wow kill! That Inquisitor is not a good thing. ”

“......”

As soon as the "empress" was mentioned, the students in the cafeteria suddenly became excited.

The United States of Tagagos is adjacent to the city of Kyoto, and most of the students from all over the world are no strangers to the eerie executive body of the world government, and most of them have no good impression of it.

But only the empress...

The one who joined the adjudication division more than ten years ago,

The level of ability has advanced by leaps and bounds under the noses of countless people, and the realm of strength has soared steadily.

There are hardly any bottlenecks,

Before the age of thirty, he shocked everyone's eyeballs,

A genius woman who stepped into the ninth-order god-level ability that countless people could not hope for and could not reach.

It can be called looking down on the world's eyebrows.

People are always strong.

Especially when this strong man is still growing up under your nose.

Despite never showing his true face in public,

Dolohi. Alita has suddenly become the top of the mountain where countless young girls around the world are able to worship, and the empress who is out of reach of boys.

Of course, there are more or less some of the propaganda of the ruling division to push the boat down, deliberately saving some of the image and face projects that have fallen to the bottom of ordinary human beings in the past hundred years.

However, Higashinohara, who was sitting next to him with pork knuckle rice, listened to the speech of the people around him about "I have a relative and friend" at Congressman Kenneth's mansion last night, and for the "empress" Doroshi. The adoration of Alita's words.

As a party,

Even the "culprit" of him, for a while, his face suddenly became a little strange.

But just when he was holding back his old groove and not vomiting unpleasantly, the mobile phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated twice.

Higashinohara took out the rice while picking it up,

Glancing at the screen,

The eyes suddenly condensed slightly.

The news was sent by Dusk, a partner of the [Crimson of Daybreak] Chasseur Organization,

The content is only two simple lines of text.

"The descendants of Kyoto's famous craftsman Kamato handy,

I helped you find it. ”

Below the text is a map positioning,

The location is "Baton County" adjacent to the Bama Canal in the "One Capital and Six Counties" of the Upper Kyoto City Circle.

.....。