「…… Sister Floti?"

When Kasumi heard the voice of the delphinch, her eyes lit up. Her ears stood up at once, like a pet who was still napping in the nest but suddenly heard her owner open the door. There was an irrepressible joy on his face for a moment.

"Brother, he's—are you okay?"

"It's okay, I'm fine, I'm okay... It's just that he has some trouble a little, and he can't come back, and he can't care about the affairs on the island of happiness. Or rather, he's fighting a more difficult enemy—so he's going to let me come back first."

The delphinium smiled softly.

She has a certain temperament that Kasumi has never seen before..... which makes Kasumi feel a little intoxicated for a while. I want to rely on her, and I want to be spoiled by her.

But Kasumi soon realized that something was wrong again: "But, I remember Sister Floti, aren't you ..... okay with your current body?"

She wasn't used to calling Delphinium "sister-in-law" or "ma'am", so she just called her "sister".

"One of the reasons I came back was actually to take care of my children."

The delphinium lowered her eyes quietly and gently hugged Kasumi, "Now the Sogo Island side has also fallen into chaos—even more intense than the side of the Happiness Island.

"There are rebels against artificial intelligence, under the banner of 'giving human jobs back to humans', leading a group of people around smashing cameras, smashing driverless vehicles, self-driving machines, assassinating engineers who maintain artificial intelligence, and highly intelligent people who have jobs. There are a large number of pilots and psionic hackers among them, and they are even trying to attack the Three Sages......

"They were going to collapse at the touch of a button. But with the support of a certain force, the three sages kept dropping for some reason. In the case that the Three Sages could not control the whole island normally, the Sogo Group, which had become accustomed to artificial intelligence taking over everything, was extremely uncomfortable with those thugs.

"The Son of God collapsed, and the Buddha was beheaded. The rituals of the past were interrupted, and the prayer devices in the church were imported with a virus. All part-time nuns who pray will have all their personal information exposed, be kidnapped from their homes or killed; The priests did not dare to enter the church, which was occupied by mobs. Neither the angels nor the executive department can directly attack and bomb the church.

"And at night, thugs with bombs strapped to them patrol the streets. Not only are they attacking artificial intelligence, but even girls who don't have time to return home will be taken away by them and even brutalized in the streets."

"..... sounds ridiculous."

Xia frowned: "Why do you feel more troublesome than here on Happiness Island?" "Sogo Island is the most troublesome place - that is the main battlefield, because our main force is also on Sogo Island."

Delphinium nodded, acknowledging Kasumi's speculation, "The crisis on this side of Happiness Island is probably similar to Tongshen Island and Yongquan Island."

"That's it...... I remember if Yongquan Island is not the freest and most comfortable empty island?"

"Yes. But Yongquan Island also has its own contradictions and hatreds - there is a rebel army on their side, under the banner of 'spiritual equality', but they are indiscriminately attacking all aquatic souls and robbing the shops opened by aquatic citizens. Although there are also calm people who can realize that there must be something strange behind this...... But hatred was still directed to those terrestrial souls.

"And on the island of Tongshen, it's a fairly regular rebellion. There was always a rebellion on their side, and they could suppress one or two a week, three or four a week. Anyway, the buildings on their side are not afraid of bombing, and the repressive methods of Shensane Heavy Industries are heavier. So the movement of the fight will be greater.

"Recently, they've gotten to the point where heavy fighters are in direct confrontation in the city, with a large number of armed drones dispatched by the company and high-intensity street battles in which the rebels wear military exoskeletons. Every day, innocent citizens who are affected and killed start in the triple digits, not counting the injured.

"Many companies have shut down, people are reluctant to go to work under fire, and the internet has been heavily disrupted by the rebels, and people at home are terrified by the rebels, cranky because of boredom, and even more terrified by cranky thinking.

"The market activity on the island of Tongjin is almost completely halted right now...... The lower town was occupied by the rebels.

Stores in Uptown are running out, and people are anxious about running out of food. And the executives, who were already few, were sent to protect the top ...... Now it's a struggle between man and machine on Tongshen Island."

「…… It sounds like the island of happiness is really good."

Kasumi frowned and corrected her previous words, "What about the other Sky Islands?" "The other Sky Islands haven't seen this level of chaos yet, only with some signs of it...... In other words, they dealt with it in a timely manner. It's also possible that the enemy's attention isn't focused on them."

Delphinium said, turning her gaze to the brushing teeth and showing a dignified and generous smile, "This time it's thanks to Mr. Brushing Teeth. Otherwise, the situation on the island side of Happiness will become tense. Thank you for your hard work."

「… No, nothing."

Comb shook his head.

Lying on the bed with her teeth combing, she clearly saw the change in Kasumi's expression: she looked like she had become a "big man" before—her brows were always furrowed, and her eyes flashed with reason. I have an awareness of what I want to give up in order to achieve something, and I realize how many people's fates I hold on to and what kind of pressure I bear.

The only thing that made him feel relieved was that when the delphinium pushed the door in, Kasumi turned back into the girl in an instant. This means that she always has someone to rely on, and it also means that the world is not rotten to that extent.

Half a year ago, when Comb Teeth first saw Xia, she could only be regarded as a child who barely took off a little childishness.

It's like a student who doesn't know the sorrow of the world, leaving the campus full of laughter. For the first time, I began to try to support myself, realizing that life is not easy to earn money, and I looked up as if I could see through my future at a glance; It's like guarding the ancient port lighthouse alone, and deeply aware that as long as there is something wrong with one's work, there will be innocent people who will pay a terrible price for it.

The color of dreams fades to reveal the essence of reality – and the essence of reality is pain.

A thousand pains and thousands of difficulties. Everyone has their own misfortunes, and every family has a difficult scripture to read..... but some are exceptionally difficult to read.

Even if it took several generations, I tried my best to climb up and become a "big man". All it takes is a small mistake, an unsolvable problem, and an unsuccessful offspring to fall from a height again.

Combing has experienced this kind of life shock first-hand - his life has been full of ups and downs, falling from a high place and rising from the abyss. It is precisely because he understands the impermanence of the world that he decided not to fight or fight in this life.

Man is not an elf. Mortals live for only a few decades, and they are long after death. No matter what level they reach or who they become, there will always be calamities that belong to them.

So-called, it's rare to be confused. That's why brushing your teeth is always easy to live.

He is only forty years old now, but he had the idea of sixty years old when he was twenty. Because of this, he can clearly realize that Kasumi, who always has clear and pure eyes like glass, is now also under the spell of "reality".

She is no longer a floating dreaming girl, not a brave person who saves the world in her dreams. It's a "big man" who really holds power and wants to do something real - there is a burning fire in her eyes.

Objectively speaking, this is good.

But brushing your teeth doesn't like that feeling.

Let the children who should dream be forced to take on the heavy responsibility that can crush their meager lives and become the big people who decide the fate of the world - it is the irresponsibility of those "adults".

No matter how nice the words "give them possibilities" and "let them fulfill their dreams", they cannot excuse the incompetence of adults. It was the incompetence of the board of directors, the corpses of those who held power in the company, and the confusion of her father, Dodkison, that would give this power to Miss Xia.

Kasumi did grow and wake up from her dreams.

And other empty islands also have their "Kasumi".

These teenagers and girls who dreamed of heroes grew up in a hurry, faced with an increasingly severe situation, and dealt with problems that even adults find difficult......

"I'm not hard, these kids are hard."

Combing his teeth sighed.