Chapter 252: Pay the Price

Anson Lu walked out of the classroom, and the chess field was also put away.

Urushihara overturned the freshly piled up pyramid of cards, and a phantom crow burst out of his fingertips, blocking the exit of the classroom.

He crossed his fingers on his chin and smiled, "Did you hear that? President hopes you won't take a step out of here, and I hope you don't bother me."

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School, another empty school building, Asuka Uesugi walked into one of the classrooms, sat down against the classroom door, the afterglow of the setting sun shone in, and a faint dim yellow light enveloped her cheeks.

She curled up in a ball, her arms around her knees, strands of hair falling down, gently scratching her knees.

"Isn't you, crying Baolong?" Suddenly, a familiar voice came from the other side of the door.

「…… You're coming to me again."

"Yes, I'm looking for you." Anson Lu paused and said slowly, "I know you're in a bad mood, but let's go back first, Naxiu is going to divide the mythical sequence, and it won't work until the people are gathered."

"I'm a little, I can't walk anymore."

"Then I'll carry you."

"What are you still looking for me for?" Asuka lowered her eyes, "It's all because of me, they will die, are you here to blame me?"

"What else can I do with you? Do you commit suicide to apologize?" Anson Lu whispered, "Idiot, but you should give me some reflection, I know that Kamidai Ruri is dead, and you are very sad, but every battle now will affect the life and death of many people, you must adjust back immediately, and you can't act with emotions."

"I'm just useless, I can't do anything......

"Tell me, how many more people will die...... Can you wake up?"

"Wake up to what?"

"Your life is not your own, they gambled their lives to save you because they believed that you could be of greater use, and you are here to ...... yourself."

"I'm tired...... Asuka covered her ears, "Let me be quiet, okay?"

Anson Deer's face twitched slightly, he exhaled deeply, and stood down against the door, and Asuka on the other side of the door did not make any sound.

Silence hung between the two.

"Liuli said, I rely on you a lot, she said that I didn't rely on others before, but obviously I have been very dependent on her since a long time ago, and I have always wanted to leave her and prove something." Asuka whispered, "But at the end of the day, am I just a different person to rely on?"

"You can rely on me, otherwise what is the purpose of my existence?"

"I thought I wouldn't want to rely on you anymore, but when you're not around, I really can't do anything." Asuka whispered, "Just like before, I didn't want to rely on Ruri Kori anymore, so I ran to the United States alone, and I was really lonely at first, but I really, I don't want to rely on anyone anymore."

"I said, you can rely on me."

"Why, can't I do anything alone?"

"It's not that you can't do anything, you really like to be strong, and it's not a bad thing to rely on someone else once in a while."

"Then what do I have to do, it's all my fault, and they will die."

"Adel is still alive, and it's good for him to be a citizen in the future. Minoru Iwata and Xiong Haodong are dead, and so are those two sequence players, but you still have a chance to atone for your sins."

"Atonement?"

"Take their share and kill that white dragon together." Anson Lu scratched the bridge of his nose, "Anyway, I'll wait for you in the classroom before, come over when you're in a better mood."

"Hmm." Asuka responded softly.

Anson Lu's voice disappeared, and his footsteps gradually faded away, and in the silent classroom, Asuka Uesugi hugged her knees, and her eyes gradually turned red: "You do this every time, come to me, and then leave me alone and leave me alone."

With a "bang", another door to the classroom suddenly opened, and Anson Lu walked in and said, "Look, I don't care about you, you will only cry secretly."

"Aren't you leaving?" Asuka froze.

"Of course it was a lie." Anson Deer walked slowly towards Asuka, "Let's go back together, Asuka."

"Let me be quiet for a moment, okay?"

「…… Well, I'll wait for you."

Anson Deer sat down beside her, silently looking out the window, the sun wheel at dusk was slowly hanging below the horizon, the seagulls were swimming in the trance, and the world was gradually darkening.

"Kamiyo Ruri, when I was very young, has always been by my side."

"Hmm."

"She lived like a tool at that time, and she was always called by my family's people, and even though she was only nine years old, she had already eradicated many enemies in the underworld for her family." Asuka said, "Soon after that, my father took over the family, and the first order he gave her was to keep her with me and protect me, and she followed me every day like a doll, and she was always alone at the school gate when I was in school. When I went out to play, she stayed on the side of the road. When I had dinner with my family, she sat alone in a corner of the room, and she had to wait until we were done before she could take a sip of water."

"Every time I'm isolated at school, called me a freak or something, I like to hide in the corner of the room with a pillow, every time, every time she is the first to find me, she always asks me angrily: Miss, who bullied you?"

Anson Lu listened quietly and did not make a sound.

"At that time, I wished she could sit in the classroom like a normal person, that she could hang out with her friends every day, that she could have dinner with her family." Asuka lowered her eyelids, "So, I went to the United States alone...... Well, just because my father said that if I leave Japan sometime, then Ruri Kamiyo won't have to follow me anymore."

"But actually...... I really miss her." She said, "It's so lonely in the United States, I don't even have a friend, obviously when I was in Japan, she would accompany me to fold paper cranes and make rice cakes together, and the two of us would sneak out of the mansion in the middle of the night to watch the fireworks display together, although she was always scolded alone when she came back, but she just smiled every time and said to me: I am very satisfied to be able to stay with the eldest lady."

"You know, I promised to travel the world with her." Asuka squeezed out a smile and pretended to be optimistic, "Hmph...... I can't travel with her anymore, but I can go alone in the future, and maybe she'll still be watching me from heaven, so that I can take her share to see the world."

"I've been thinking about it for the past two days, why did I want to go to the United States at that time, obviously Xiao Liuli wanted me to stay by her side, but I thought self-righteously that this would give her freedom, but she changed a lot after she came back, she wasn't like this before, she used to be super well-behaved, she did whatever I said, always followed me in a kimono, sometimes held her hand, she could be in a daze for a long time, and then smiled at me stupidly."

"I'm wondering what kind of treatment she suffered when she stayed in the family, whether I wasn't by her side, she lived more painfully, and whether she became a prop in the eyes of those adults like before, and then she was forced to change herself until she became what she is today......

"Asuka, it's not your fault."

"I really ......" Asuka sobbed, her voice getting softer and softer, "I miss her so much......

"She must miss you, too." Anson Lu whispered, "Gu Qiu told me that Kamidai Ruri has always been thinking about traveling to the world with you, and when she was in the law enforcement team building, she has been showing off to Cosimo, and she said that you promised her, and it is absolutely impossible to break your oath and say that you are waiting for you to find her."

Asuka's eyes turned redder, and she buried her face in her arms and wept.

Anson Deer sat beside her, but couldn't do anything.

He looked up and looked out the window.

He was already a little tired, and for this nonsensical game, there were still four rounds of copies left, and as long as he survived these four rounds of copies, everything would come to an end.

The sunset completely fell below the horizon, the classroom was so dim that there was no light left, and the night shrouded the two of them like a curtain, Asuka slowly raised her head, the corners of her eyes were still a little red, and her expression seemed to be disgusted and sad.

Anson Deer looked away, "Are you alright?"

"Hug me......" she asked softly, "Is that okay?"

"As friends." As soon as Anson Lu finished speaking, he decisively approached her and hugged her body tightly, "Asuka, let's go back together."

Asuka Uesugi buried her face in Anson Ka's shoulder, and she snuggled up to him like a kitten, and after a long silence, she whispered, "Okay, let's go back."

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Soon after, the classrooms of the main school building.

Seeing that all the players in the dungeon had gathered in the classroom, the Naxiu robot slowly spoke, "All the players have arrived, so let's start distributing the last two mythic sequences."

No one spoke in the classroom, and the atmosphere was slightly solemn, and even Juliu began to realize how important Xiong Haodong, the character used to adjust the atmosphere, was.

"So let's introduce the first mythological sequence of today, the corresponding mythological character is from Greek mythology, and her name is Tika." Nasius said, "Tika, the goddess of fate in Greek religion, also known as the goddess of luck, tends to distribute good and bad luck to humans at will. The Greek poet Hesiod claimed that Tika was the daughter of the Titanian god Okeanos and his wife Thetis."

"Cut." Juliu held his chin and snorted coldly for some reason.

Almost everyone present, after hearing the relevant narration of this mythological sequence, directly turned their eyes to Uruhara Ritsu.

Qi Yuanlu was still playing with cards, looking careless, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

"It's not running, it's a mythical sequence of crows." Anson deer shrugged.

"I didn't run away." Yuri looked at the book and spoke in his tone.

"Are you a robot?" Anson Deer gave her an angry look.

"I'm Anson Deer robots." The Icelandic girl's tone was flat.

After this, as expected, the crow was appreciated by the "goddess of luck Tika" and got his hands on this mythical sequence.

"Next is the second mythological sequence," Nasius introduced, "this sequence is from the ancient Egyptian mythology of the god of death and death, Anubis."

Because the support students will not be assigned to the mythic sequence, among the remaining students who do not have the mythic sequence, excluding Blue Owl, Lorenzo, and William, only Anson Deer and Jun Maruyama are left.

Jun Maruyama lowered his head and didn't say a word, he had been like this since the afternoon, even the link of assigning the mythological sequence, he couldn't arouse the slightest interest.

What's more, now there are only two people left, him and Anson Deer.

Thinking on his toes, he knew who the person who would be assigned to the last mythical sequence would be, and that was the cruelty of the world.

"The owner of the last mythological sequence," Naxiu said, "is our student, Anson Deer."

"Look...... Sure enough." Jun Maruyama smiled, he knew it wouldn't be his turn.

Anson Deer stood up and took the last card of the mythical sequence from the podium, and he glanced at the card, which was engraved with a male with the head of a jackal and a scepter, and its background was a huge door with an ancient mystery.

"And ......," Nash said from the podium, "the final round of the Mythic Carrier Raid will begin tomorrow, so you must get the Mythic Remnant Key tonight, and you must allocate personnel before that."

The words fell, and the two panels gradually appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

[The third round of the Mythic Carrier Raid will start soon, please choose one of the two Mythic Carriers below to challenge.] 】

[The name of the first mythical carrier.]

Scale: Yaki Orochi (prototype from Japanese mythology)]

[The challenge difficulty star of the first mythic carrier: 4.5 stars.] 】

[Location of the first mythical carrier: Tokyo, Japan.] 】

[The first support student of the mythical carrier: Cosimo (Cyber Attack), Mo Xiaoyuan (Soul Burning Spear).] 】

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[The name of the second mythological vehicle: the god of love and beauty - Aphrodite (the prototype is from Greek mythology)]

[The challenge difficulty star of the second mythic carrier: 4.5 stars.] 】

[Location of the second mythological vehicle: Greece.] 】

[The second support trainee of the mythical carrier: Tong Muli (Bamboo Shadow Therapist), Kang Wolf (Greedy Traveler). 】

"Since it's dinner time, please make a decision within an hour." Naxiu reminded.

"President, how do you choose?" Lan Xiao asked.

"Well, you've just joined the union, and you've already started to compete with me for the position of military advisor?" Urushi Haru flipped the pages of the book and teased.

"I don't have that in mind." Blue Owl lowered his cap.

"Chu Qimo, William, and Uliwu, come to my group, let's go to Tokyo, Japan, and crusade against the Yaqi Orochi." Anson Deer decided quickly, "Lorenzo, Raven, Yuri, Jun Maruyama, Blue Owl, and Asuka are the other team to crusade against Aphrodite."

He looked around, his gaze resting on Lorenzo's body, and said in a calm voice, "If no one disagrees, then it is decided."

"I'm just an outsider, and you're in charge here." Lorenzo hugged his shoulders and spoke in a calm tone.

"Lu-kun, wouldn't it be inappropriate to deliberately put these two people in this group?" Qi Yuanlu reminded in a low voice that Chu Qimo and Yu Liwu had just had a conflict.

"Just two of them." Anson Lu raised his eyebrows, and his fingers tapped lightly on the tabletop: "Hehe, that's right."

(End of chapter)