Asuka Karazawa, who lost consciousness, seemed to have a very deep dream.

In the dream, the tip of her nose was filled with the scent of Buddha that she seemed to have been accustomed to for a long time, and she was wearing a black girls' high school uniform, and her eyes were a little dull and she knelt in an antique room.

"Winter! Winter! Winter! ”

In her ears, the sound of tapping wooden fish came from outside the room, accompanied by the calming burning Buddha incense, she seemed to finally come back to her senses, but she was still stunned, kneeling next to the sliding door of a wooden paper lake, and a small table was placed in front of her, and next to the table lay her open empty schoolbag.

On the wooden table, there is homework assigned by the teacher scattered on the floor, and if it is another high school girl, she will definitely go to the club together, walk outside and finish the homework by the way, but Asuka Karasawa did not join any clubs, and if there were no other accidents, she would return to her home as soon as school was out in the afternoon, in a temple called "Senjuji" on the outskirts of Kyoto.

"Winter! Winter! Winter! ”

Asuka Karasawa sat in place in a daze, and the sound of the wooden fish in her ears kept beating in a tone that seemed to be eternal and unchanging, all the time... Hammering all the time, not fast or slow.

Father... Are you doing things?

"As I heard: For a while, the Buddha was giving the Lonely Garden a tree to the Guardian Country..."

"At the time, Elder Subodhi, in the midst of the multitude..."

“......”

From outside the closed sliding door next to Asuka Karazawa, there was a Buddhist sutra chanted by a gentle male voice in the distance, since Asuka Karasawa returned to Kyoto from his mother in Tokyo for two years, she heard her father chanting Buddhist scriptures and beating wooden fish every day, which was indeed a trouble for Asuka Karasawa who had lived with her mother since she was a child.

Myself... It doesn't seem like I'm doing my homework...

What are you doing?

In the dream, she felt that her consciousness was extremely heavy, and even the movement of looking down at the wooden table was frighteningly slow, until a few seconds later, she saw the homework scattered on the wooden table, only to see that on the homework, there was also a Buddhist scripture spread out, and the words on it were all Japanese copied by her father's own hand, and Asuka Tang Ze had a headache when she saw it.

Her academic performance is very poor, and she has a very withdrawn personality, and basically has no friends...

What are you doing?

She doesn't seem to have... Reading Buddhist scriptures...

How can I read Buddhist scriptures?

It's these things that I hate the most.,Every time I hear it, I feel annoyed.,It's almost the twenty-first century.,But it's still like an old antique chanting and being a monk or something...

It's so weird.

So, what are you doing?

"Winter! Winter! Winter! ”

Outside the door, the sound of wooden fish was still ringing, and Asuka Karazawa's sluggish consciousness wanted to slowly raise her head here, and she saw that not far in front of her, there was a small TV on the tatami mat in front of her, and the TV was playing the anime "Neon Genesis Evangelion" produced by TV Tokyo...

"If your self-esteem is hurt, I will pay it back 10 times!"

Looking at the beautiful appearance of the heroine in the red tight-fitting combat uniform on TV, and her signature words in her ears, she also heard her words clearly, and Asuka Tang Ze unconsciously came back to her senses.

That heroine seems to be exactly the same as her name...

yes, I think I'm watching an anime.

I'm watching the anime myself...

"Winter! Winter! Winter! ”

The Buddha said, "Good, good! Subodhi! As you say, if you come to protect the Bodhisattvas and give them to the Bodhisattvas..."

The sound of wooden fish is still outside the hall, the sliding door of the room is still closed, and the small TV in front of her is still repeating the picture of the animated protagonist with the same name as her...

Tang Ze Asuka tilted her head in a daze, still kneeling in place like a statue, motionless.

......

......

"Hmm... My head hurts..."

Asuka Karasawa covered her head very uncomfortably, as if she had been hit hard, she rubbed her eyes, and then saw with difficulty a shadow of a lake in front of her,

"Are you awake, little girl?"

"Hook kiss... Mr? ”

"Well, it seems that you are almost awake, you were hit by the aftermath of the Angel Michael's forging of the Gospel Relic before, although it hit your head, but after all, you are just an ordinary human girl, and this is the only misfortune in all blessings. How do you feel now? ”

"Huh? I'm a little... Headache... And it seems that I had a dream just now. ”

"Dreams?"

"Ah, but it's fine now, thank you. What about Mr. Fisher? ”

Tang Ze Asuka's consciousness became clearer and clearer, she rubbed her head and sat up, and found herself lying on the floor of a spacious room, squatting next to her whale species hook kiss, after hearing her question, hook kiss smiled helplessly, snuggled in one direction, and said,

"He's stinking there..."

Asuka Karasawa looked in the direction indicated by Hook Kiss, and saw Fisher sitting by the window in the room with a cold face and hands crossed, his handsome face was blue and purple, and it seemed that he had also been hurt by the aftermath of the previous scene.

But strangely, Hook Kiss doesn't seem to be anything at all.

Asuka Karasawa expressed her doubts to Hookkiss, but Hookkiss just shook her head and explained,

"He didn't have anything to do, but who told him to be nosy and pull that angel of Helaire... Okay, I've treated your wounds briefly, it shouldn't be a big deal, we're all waiting for you to wake up. ”

"Huh? Wait for me? ”

"Yes, you're a transferee, and you're from the same world as that gentleman. We wanted to talk to him just now, but he didn't seem to believe us at all, saying that he wouldn't talk until you woke up. ”

"So... yes, it looks like we just saw a Russian coming. ”

Asuka Karasawa immediately sat up, and Fisher also rubbed the wound on his face and walked over from the window, and said to Asuka Karasawa,

"Angel Michael is still forging things, and it's hard for us to get close, and the guy is staring down there, waiting for when Michael finishes forging things and calls him... The person who transferred was not simple, this room was given to him by Michael, he seems to be helping Michael forge something, but unfortunately, he doesn't want to talk to us at all, so he can only ask you. ”

Yes, since she was plotted by Heriel just now, Fisher's name for her has changed from the original "Angel Heriel" to "that guy", of course, this is in private, after all, they are still on the territory of the Sanctuary, not to mention that Helaire is a mythical species that is much higher than them.

"Okay, no problem!"

Tang Ze Asuka nodded immediately when she heard this, for some reason she was still a little excited in her heart, she hadn't helped at all since she crossed into this world, fortunately, Fisher and Hookkiss have been helping her, maybe she is just an ordinary high school girl, but she still knows the most basic truth of knowing how to repay her kindness, and helping them communicate with the transferred person is probably one of the few things she can help.

Moreover, she also wanted to talk to each other, although maybe they were just two people who didn't know each other in different countries a few days ago, but when they got here, they might be able to call them "compatriots on earth".

She took a deep breath and turned her head to look around, only to be surprised to find that there were many very complicated angel tools in this room, and there were many scattered parts and devices on the tables, and this was the second-floor room where the Russian had just stood.

Hook Kiss pointed to the depths of the room at Asuka Karasawa, who walked a long distance in that direction, and then saw another smaller room in the corner of the spacious room, which was furnished with a sleeping bed, which seemed to be the Russian's private resting place.

At this time, he was squatting next to the bed, fiddling with a pile of strange parts scattered on the ground with one hand, and heard the footsteps from Asuka Karasawa behind him, and he didn't look back, but just said to Asuka Karasawa in Russian,

"Are you okay, the strength of many creatures here is beyond human imagination, you are still a [body], and it is already very good that you are not dead. Mihayel, this is my name, what about you? Whether it's Mitsui or Konoe's daughter, your body is too obvious. ”

Fisher and Hookkiss didn't understand what the other party was talking about at all, so they both looked at Asuka Karasawa, but found that the doubts on the little girl's face were even thicker than theirs, and they didn't seem to understand what the other party was talking about.

"No... No, that... Mr. Mihayel, my name is Asuka Karasawa, and I'm just an ordinary Japanese high school student from Kyoto, and you... I don't understand what you're at all... Guards... Body, something..."

Mihayir's action of fiddling with the parts stiffened slightly, and he put down the dark strange parts in his hand only with his right hand, and then turned his head a little, and glanced up and down at Asuka Karasawa in front of him with one eye, and then suddenly asked,

"You... How many years is this year? ”

"Huh? This year, the world? I don't know, I was just now..."

"I'm asking about the time of your world."

"Oh, 1996..."

Mikhayl's expression finally showed a little obvious bewilderment, and then, the corners of his mouth curled up a little mockingly, and he turned to fiddle with the parts under his feet,

"I see, then you are lucky to live in a good age. So, these two are also your friends? ”

"It's not a good time..."

Tang Ze Asuka's face darkened slightly after hearing this, and he muttered in a low voice, but Mihayin smiled and said,

"It was a good time, at least you hadn't experienced nuclear war, how the big corporations had taken everything away and used humanity as screws and scrap, and most of the time the hope was greater than despair... Didn't you just ask me what a body is, it's a pure human being who hasn't been implanted with any mechanical prosthesis, a complete human like you. ”

"Huh?"

Mihayel's one-eyed glanced at the wall next to him, and Asuka Karasawa and Fisher all followed his gaze, only to find that there was a small workbench on the floor at the edge of his bed, on which were placed several strangely shaped mechanical arms, mechanical vertebrae, and eyeballs...

It seems to correspond to the missing part of the eccentric man in front of him who calls himself "Mihayel".

Hook Kiss squinted his eyes and swept around the various prosthetics on the wall, then turned his head and looked carefully as if he was seeing the person in front of him for the first time, and then said to Fisher beside him in surprise,

"Shhhh Mr. Fisher, this guy is missing more than just hands, eyes, and so on. His respiratory rate and metabolic rate are not right, and there are other organs in his body that have been replaced, most likely lungs. Not only that, but the proportions of the bones are not right, unless he was born with a deformity..."

Mihayer turned his head to look at Asuka Karasawa, and a little blue light flashed in his eyes,

"I come from New Russia, which was completely controlled in 2156 by an arms company called Novosibirsk, at a time when people had to implant all sorts of cheap illegal prosthetics in exchange for valuable job opportunities, including even minors who were not yet fully developed. You should be able to imagine the twisted and painful appearance of flesh and prosthetic bodies entangled and repelled each other as their ontology began to develop. ”

"And even if we ignore the rejection reaction between the human body and the prosthesis, the implanted prosthesis will penetrate deep into the bone marrow like a virus to corrode the human nerves, and in the process of activation and use, its coldness will eventually soak a person's mind until it completely drives them crazy..."

"But even then, most people are only paid enough for their hard work. Organ trafficking, drugs, and fires are staged every day in a world that is completely valued by companies, taking away stubble after stubble of life, as easily as mowing the grass and pulling screws. In contrast, does Japanese society, which has just suffered the bursting of the economic bubble, look like paradise? ”

Tang Ze Asuka opened her mouth, as if she had encountered something beyond the limit of her life experience again, so that she couldn't speak, she just pursed her lips and said "I'm sorry" very sincerely, but Mihayel shook her head, and then said,

"I don't mean to blame you, and you don't need to apologize for it, anyway, it's basically pointless to talk about our original world now, I just didn't expect to meet humans from the same Earth here... Although you are a little too old. ”

Asuka Karasawa would never have thought that the word "ancient" could be used on her, but the gentleman in front of her was from the world more than a hundred years later... Hey, wait.

"Wait, Mr. Mikhail... Is it possible that we are not from the same world, or that we are in a parallel world or something. ”

"It's possible, but there's no need to explore this, I can understand what you said, and you know the economic bubble I just said, even if there may be other differences, I don't bother to explore... Also, these two..."

Mihayin raised his eyebrows and looked at Fisher and Hook Kiss behind Asuka Tang Ze, almost about to write distrust on his face, Seeing this, Asuka Tang Ze immediately spoke,

"These two are Mr. Fisher and Mr. Hookkiss, although they are from this world, but they are also caught by angels, and they are standing with us. Mr. Fisher, in particular, knows a certain amount about our world, and they are all good people. ”

“... Hope. ”

Mihagul retracted his gaze at Fisher and the two, and began to bow his head and tinker with the parts in his hand, Tang Ze Asuka was out of words, pinched his fingers and thought for a long time without a word, fortunately, Fisher next to him took a step forward and glanced at the strange equipment outside, and asked Mihayer,

"Mr. Mikhail, those things out there shouldn't be the work of angels, right?"

"Well, those are the technologies of our world, I don't have the exaggerated strength of the angels, and I can use the sun to craft items... But the angel named Michael was fascinated by technology, any technology, so he left me to make some copies of them for him, and then he would let me go. It's just that the things you see outside are not finished products, but simple machine tools, and I have been making these things for half a year, and Michael has not urged me, only occasionally come to have a look. ”

Asuka Karasawa glanced at Fisher in surprise after hearing this, and said,

"So... That Michael angel doesn't seem to be as bad as the other angels say? ”

Hook Kiss shook his head with a smile, but did not speak, or Fisher looked at Asuka Karasawa and explained,

"Bad and good do not apply to angels, even if they hate Michael Shaliyeh, they do not do so on the grounds of 'bad'. As for why he is so tolerant of Mikhail and us, it is entirely because he has no one in mind. He didn't care about us at all, and our life and death itself meant nothing to them. ”

Hook Kiss picked up Fisher's words and said,

"Unlike the elves, who believe in the 'Thousand Destinies' and the World Tree, the angels believe in the creation of the Tao and the locks of the heavens, which makes them largely indifferent to other beings."

Hearing the words of the hook kiss, it suddenly occurred to Fisher that the Heavenly Lock, the World Tree, and Femabaha should all be the children of the little water snake of Ramastia, so why did they each have characteristics that tended to be like other gods?

The ability of the phoenixes to foresee the future was originally obtained from gazing at the World Tree, and the fact that her roots also have the ability to warp space, has proved that the World Tree is closely related to the god of fate, Anebatos; And the angels are so fond of forging that it seems to have something to do with the legendary creator of matter, Oyun.

Fisher touched his chin and was still thinking, while Asuka Karasawa looked at Mihayer bowing his head and fiddling with the back of the parts with one hand, and suddenly asked uncontrollably,

"That, Mr. Mikhail. If then, you are free and can leave the angels, what will you do next? ”

Maybe this is the question she wants to ask herself, even if she is now forced to be caught in the whirlpool of life, but she is actually confused no matter what.

All of a sudden, from a familiar world to a dangerous, completely unfamiliar world, she didn't think about it, but once she thought about it, she thought of the world where she disappeared, where there was her father, if she wasn't there, he would definitely be worried...

Mihayin was slightly stunned when he heard this, smiled mockingly at Tang Ze Asuka, and said,

"The things in front of me haven't been solved yet, and my life can't be 100% guaranteed to continue, so I've already started to think about the future after that?"

“... I'm sorry. ”

Asuka Karasawa immediately apologized again, and shrank back like a child who had been trained by her elders.

Mihail was still fiddling with the parts on the ground, but if you looked closely, you could see that he was repeating the same meaningless action all along.

After being silent for a long time, he didn't turn his head, but just lowered his head and said,

"I'll try to find my way back..."

“... Ay? ”

Tang Ze Asuka didn't expect the other party to answer him suddenly, and immediately raised his head in surprise when he heard the words, and then said with a smile,

"I thought... After all, Mr. Mikhail said that 2156 was very bad and bad, and I thought you didn't want to go back. ”

"Oh, I don't really want to... But you know, there are people out there who are worried about me, and there are promises I haven't kept, so I'll probably go back if I get the chance. ”

Fisher looked at Mihayel's back and suddenly felt a little familiar.

He seemed to have seen similar words in Caleb Uzi's Soul Completion Manual.

It's not ironic, because if Fisher suddenly appeared in another world, he would probably want to come back here at the thought of someone waiting for him and thinking about himself.

"Bang bang bang!"

In this extremely quiet aftertaste atmosphere, a crisp applause suddenly sounded behind them, so frightened that Tang Ze Asuka almost didn't jump up, hooked kissed and raised his eyebrows and Mikhail looked back, and Fisher just turned around with black lines on his face.

I saw that behind them, the beautiful angel with short golden curly hair who was shining with a glimmer of light all over his body was very moved to wipe the moisture from the corners of his eyes, and applauded while wiping it, and said in a choked voice,

"Well said, I was so moved... The warmth of a stranger's prayer for returning home, this kind of warmth of everyone thinking together is really unbearable... I've touched you so much, don't worry, I'm going to help you to the end. ”

“... When did you come? ”

Everyone looked at Helaire, who was weeping and crying in front of them, and was speechless, but Fisher was the first to open his mouth and asked Heliel.

As soon as she heard Fisher's question, Heriel's crying disappeared immediately, and her beautiful face was instantly covered by that familiar smile, she nodded her chin and said with a smile,

"Oh, it's time when you first started talking... It's okay, it's not something to be seen, and I won't tell anyone else, maybe I can give you a nice suggestion for your goals, if you don't mind. Isn't it a win-win that you get to know each other and I witness such interesting things as well? ”

Fisher sighed and looked at Heriel,

"So, you came up for?"

"Ah, this..."

Heriel's smile changed slightly, she pointed outside, downstairs, looked at Fisher and said,

"Mistress Michael is finally idle now, and now he's going to activate the Sun Ring, and you won't be able to stay for the whole fifth day at that time, so he's going to see you now, Fisher."