"A safe place?" Riho Aragaki muttered.

In the current world, is there still a place for the cursed son?

Next, Chu Xin learned that she and Scar Man both belong to a civilian security company in Osaka and have been working for a year and a half.

All along, she has not gotten along well with the mercenary and selfish Scar Man.

On the outside, he is the starter of combat tools, and he does all the dirty work, tiring work, and dangerous work.

At home, she is a hard-working little nanny, and she doesn't even have a dedicated bedroom, so she can only sleep on an old mattress in the utility room.

But Aragaki Riho has long been accustomed to this kind of setting that everyone hates, and has no complaints about the status quo, because it is better than being frightened in the outer districts and eating this meal without a meal.

If he dies in battle, in the words of the instructor back then, it is a predestined fate.

Cuckoo~

Chu Xin took out a pack of energy bars stored in the spaceship and handed it to Aragaki Riho.

Aragaki Riho obediently took it, opened the box and nibbled on it.

This thing is the Predator's emergency ration, edible to humans, but the taste is not guaranteed.

However, she did not show the slightest discomfort and rejection, in her early years, she was used to eating expired food, roasting mice, and roasting insects, and she had already raised the upper limit of acceptance.

"Thank you."

She looked at the tall back wrapped in silver and black armor, and the defense line in her heart weakened a little.

The iron-blooded ship traveled all the way, whether it was a thunderstorm or a storm or a single figure.

The two no longer talked, Chu Xin remained silent, exuding indifference and evil aura all over his body, and he knew at a glance that he was not a good person.

But Aragaki Riho has an intuition, whether it is suspected of being a level 5 protogular, or at this moment, this mysterious man does not seem to be a villain in the absolute sense.

And there is an aura lingering around him, and he is inexplicably very relieved to stay with him, as if he is supporting him when the sky falls.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but look forward to the safe place mentioned by Chu Xin.

Warm lights, kind and friendly friends, nicely fitting clothes, hot toast and milk...... All the good things that have been peeked at on TV and in the shop windows come to mind.

Gradually, Aragaki Riho's numb eyes glowed with a faint light.

It's like a devastated depressed patient who suddenly has hope for tomorrow.

In fact, Chu Xin, who was silent, was also thinking about this question, pondering how to properly deploy Mission 1.

He can be a bad guy with impunity, but once he decides to do a good deed, he must follow through to the end, which is the weight that must be borne in the name of a good person.

"We're almost there."

Chu Xin woke up the sleeping Aragaki Riho.

Sou!

The ship skimmed over a stone monument at high speed.

The soldiers stationed on the stele were unaware and were still chatting.

"Where is this?" Riho Aragaki asked.

"The Tokyo area." Chu Xin replied flatly.

Continue past a forest and you'll come to the sky above an abandoned city.

This is the outer area of Tokyo.

The spaceship descends, manifests.

The two walked out, and the ship was retracted.

Riho Aragaki is curious, but she has always been taciturn and chooses to keep her mouth shut.

The principle of "don't ask, don't speak, just obey orders, just fight" was deeply rooted in her instincts, and most of the initiators were in the same situation as hers, and eventually died in silence.

"It's an advanced space technology, have you ever seen Doraemon?" Chu Xin said coldly.

"If you look at it, it can hold a lot of things in its belly." While Aragaki Riho secretly said in his heart that this was the case, he felt a little throbbing.

Because no one ever took the initiative to explain anything to her, just like a soldier who doesn't grieve the sacrifice of a bullet before he shoots.

She doesn't care about the things themselves, but is happy because of "sharing" and "recognition".

In short, Aragaki Riho realizes that Chu Xin is treating her as a human being, not a consumable humanoid weapon that can be mass-produced.

"Thank you." She whispered.

Chu Xin didn't seem to hear it, and took her into the deserted city.

The sky was getting dark, and the bright stars were twinkling in the night.

The two stopped on a half-collapsed high-rise building and looked across the river.

The bridge connecting the two sides was blasted, and a dog-gnawed fence was built on this side.

It was a dead place under the same night sky, but on the other side of the river were high-rise buildings and bright lights, and the sky was illuminated with dazzling spotlights.

The strong contrast instantly silenced Aragaki Riho.

"There are voices." She suddenly stretched out her hand and pointed to the riverbank.

Chu Xin naturally heard it.

"Eliminate harm for the people~"

……

Rushing~

The sparkling river flows slowly, reflecting several elongated figures.

An old speedboat was docked on the rocky beach, and the wall not far away had collapsed to create a gap in access.

On the overgrown embankment, five young men of seventeen or eighteen years old gathered together, letting out disgusting laughter.

They have dyed their hair in colorful colors and wear fancy shirts and coats.

A style of old-school gangsters in Shinjuku, self-proclaimed Yakuza in the new era.

What can be done is completely incompatible with the underworld.

In the midst of them, a little girl of five or six years old fell.

Dirty face, torn hair, tattered white dress, and a pair of dark red pupils.

There were a few overlapping sole prints on her white arms, and even then, she only lowered her voice and sobbed.

She fears that her friends will be bullied if they are brought in, and she knows that these people will leave when they find it boring.

In fact, this isn't the first time they've been here for fun.

Many of these people will come to the outskirts to search for valuable items that may be present in abandoned houses, while looking for the cursed son to play with the bullying.

Of course, this kind of thing will be done by young and vigorous spiritual guys, and it is too late for ordinary people to dislike it, and they will not take the initiative to contact it at all.

"These guys, even if they are killed, it is not a crime."

"Although they are not human, no one seems to have said that, right?"

"Don't worry, I heard a few police officers chatting before, guess what they said."

"Don't sell it, you kid!" The boss red-haired scolded.

"Yes, yes, they say, when will they secretly kill a few more cursed sons to eliminate harm for the people!"

As soon as these words came out, several people were stunned, and then the corners of their mouths rose.

To the little girl on the ground, this was no different from the devil's grin.

Hongmao touched his chin, "So, what we are doing now is actually to eliminate harm for the people." ”

When a wrong thing is justified, it will kill itself.

The five of them brushed their eyes to their feet.

"Woo~"

Feeling a different atmosphere from the previous beatings, the little girl's tears couldn't stop rolling down.

The red fur licked the corners of his mouth and pulled out a folding knife from his bag.

"Don't do that, their blood is poisonous, I don't want to be infected." Someone reminded.

"Yes," the redfur said, looking at the river, "I heard that the cursed child can be reborn, and you say, how long will it take to throw her into the water and die?" ”

"I'm coming!"

At this time, the young man who had not spoken all this time snatched the folding knife and plunged it straight into the little girl's shoulder.

As a cursed son, the blade is like a piercing rubber, and it breaks directly when it is not halfway in.

The little girl did not learn how to use her own strength, so she could not fully defend herself against ordinary weapons, and for a moment blood flowed and dyed her white dress red.

"If it weren't for these protozoa, my parents wouldn't have died, and I would still be living the life of a rich man!"

The shadowy boy grabbed the little girl by the hair and pulled her to the river as he spoke.

"Stop!"

The immature voice came, and a thin figure jumped out, knocking the shadowy boy several meters away.

"Sister!"

The little girl burst into tears and threw herself into her arms.

The wound in her shoulder had healed, and the blade stuck in her flesh had been squeezed out.

"You've gone too far! Why won't you let us go! ”

The visitor was a ten-year-old girl with a ponytail.

The immature voice, the immature appearance, but the screaming of despair and helplessness.

Don't look at her aggressiveness, she is actually trembling all over.

She was scared and helpless.

Despite the fact that there is not a weak force in the body, and it can be used barely a little, it is not learned to fight at all.

The point is that they don't dare to really resist.

Because once you anger the people on the other side, you will be wiped out.

So I have been forbearing, and I have been living like a year without hope.

"Brute, how dare you hit me?"

Enraged, the young man picked up an iron rod and staggered towards the two girls.

The two tried to escape, but the back road was blocked by four others.

They all showed fierce faces, and tonight they were determined to "eliminate harm for the people" to satisfy the dark side of their hearts.

"Die!"

The shadowy boy held an iron rod aloft.

As he was about to swing down, a hand reached out from behind and clutched the stick tightly.

Sou!

At the same time, Riho Aragaki jumped out, picked up the two girls one by one, one left and one right, and jumped onto the roof across the street.

"Huh?!"

The five thugs all took two steps back, startled by the elusive black-armored man, especially the hideous ghost-like mask.

"When did this guy get close?"

"What are you wearing, it feels hard to deal with."

"That one seems to be the cursed son too."

"Then he can't be a policeman, right?"

The four of them muttered quietly, looking vigilant.

However, the young man was angry, stubborn, and threatened with a scolding, "Don't think that Lao Tzu in armor is afraid of you, get away, don't meddle in your business!" ”

He tugged at the iron rod as hard as he could, but he didn't move.

The suppression of momentum instantly cleared his brain.

It's too late.

Because Chu Xin had already stabbed the iron rod backhand, piercing the chest of the young man.

I don't know whether it was intentional or accidental, but the iron rod did not hurt the internal organs or important blood vessels, but only penetrated the skin, flesh and bones, causing the blood to flow incessantly.

But the distance is completely out of breath, and there will be a long countdown to death.

"Woo~Save me, save me~"

The shadowy boy collapsed to the ground, looking at his four companions with difficulty breathing.

And the four of them ran away and ran towards the speedboat for their lives.

They are all tacit fox friends and dog friends, and if they don't fly separately in times of crisis, will they help each other?

Boom!

But how can they outrun Chu Xin's plasma shoulder cannon.

One shot blew the speedboat to pieces.

Four infrared rays shoot out, and the end rests on the center of their eyebrows.

For a moment, they did not dare to move.

One of them couldn't stand the tension and jumped into the water screaming.

Burst!

Shoulder cannon flying.

It was still intact before falling into the water.

When it falls into the water, it falls apart.

The blood flowed with the waves, and his life was in place in one step.

In the other three, two were scared to urinate on the spot, and one fainted instantly.

"What the hell are you going to do?"

The red-haired boss cried.

Chu Xin didn't answer, he swept out quickly, and kindly wiped the necks of the three of them with a wrist knife.

In the end, in order not to affect the appearance of the city, he threw all the corpses into the river, including the shadowy boy who was not blind.

Eliminate harm for the people~

……

Ten minutes later.

Chu Xin led the three little girls and knocked on an unremarkable manhole cover.

In a few moments, the manhole cover was lifted from the inside.

A cute little head melon seed pops up, and it is a soft and cute little girl with long hair.

"Who? What's up? ”

It was too dark, and the first thing she saw was Chu Xin's mask.

"Ahh Hell! ”

She was so frightened that she slid the lid shut.

"Little Asuka, it's us." The ponytail girl hurriedly shouted.

"Huh? Mirami? Little Asuka asked softly through the manhole cover, "Have you been kidnapped by him?" ”

"Oh no, let's go inside." The ponytail girl's name is Minami Saito.

Chu Xin seriously doubted that Xiao Feiniao's surname was Hamabian, and dared to ask who was so good at choosing the name.

"Okay." The little flying bird opened the manhole cover again.

She ran in first, and shouted, "Elder, there are guests! ”

Chu Xin and his entourage drilled down.

This is not a sewer, it should be an underground plumbing.

Turning a corner, the warm light illuminates the small space.

There were about a dozen girls of all ages inside, and the clothes they wore were decent, and although they were cheap, they were clean and intact.

Between them, there was an elderly man.

He is the elder in the mouth of the little bird, and he is also the opposite citizen who takes care of these children.

"What's wrong!"

When he saw the blood stains on the little girl in the white dress, he immediately looked worried.

The girls also gathered around.

Afraid of causing a misunderstanding, the cheerful Minami Saito hurriedly opened his mouth to explain and told the ins and outs.

It's just that the ending of the five gangsters is euphemistically replaced with "defeated".

"So that's the case, it's those guys who don't learn and don't know how to do it, alas," the old man looked at Chu Xin, and the initial fear gradually faded, "Thank you Mr. for your help, I'm really grateful, just call me Matsuzaki." ”

"Hmm."

Chu Xin responded lightly and looked around.

Most of them are seven or eight years old, and there are many ten-year-olds, and the rest are five or six years old.

It may be because of the intestinal virus, their hair is colorful, and their appearance is extremely high, and there is no mediocre one in the eye.

In a way, the enterovirus is a forced biological evolution, but the human body cannot afford to adapt to it.

The little girls all looked at him curiously, as well as Riho Aragaki standing behind him.

In order not to scare them, Chu Xin restrained his fierce aura at this time.

Matsuzaki continued, "I'm taking care of these poor children, in order to teach them how to control their emotions, so that they can hide their red pupils and better integrate into human society, but unfortunately, this society does not accept them, and there are too few people like me." ”

He looked at Riho Aragaki, "Is Mr. a police officer?" ”

"No, can this kid live here?" Chu Xin said.

Matsuzaki nodded without hesitation, "Yes, but this little girl should be the initiator, right?" She has a very steady control over her emotions. ”

"Yes." Chu Xin did not hide it.

Matsuzaki didn't ask much, it didn't matter if it was a starter, weren't they all poor outcasts.

If he could, he would be willing to take in the world's cursed children so that they would not be bullied.

Chu Xin touched Aragaki Riho's head.

She looked up at him.

"You may feel that this place is not what you expected," Chu Xin paused, "but from today on, this is the safest place for you. ”

(End of chapter)