Chapter 235: Unable to Abandon Humanity
Although there is another possibility, that is, this Ant Queen was specially summoned by the Black God to deal with them.
But the behavior of those ant soldiers who indiscriminately attacked ordinary people did not seem like the angels under the Black God.
Although some angels will kill ordinary people when destroying the "power of light", it usually depends on whether those people hinder their actions.
As for these ant soldiers, they would attack directly when they saw people, and would become even more excited when they saw the power of light.
Unless the Black God has decided to completely destroy the world, it would be difficult for Kawahara to understand where the Ant Lord got the confidence to kill ordinary humans.
Not to mention executing him.
Many thoughts flashed through Kawahara's mind, and then he walked out and confronted the Ant Queen.
"Then come and try it." He said softly.
Let him try it.
Where did this special angel come from?
The Ant Queen directly attacked him with the Yellow Springs Spear, but Kawahara just stood there motionless without any resistance, his dim red compound eyes staring at it indifferently.
"Mr. Kawahara——"
This made the two people next to them worried.
The Yellow Springs Spear pierced straight into his chest.
But the next moment, a dark wave suddenly spread in front of Kawahara, just like what happened when he was attacked by Kamen Rider Geiz.
However, the energy that exploded this time was far more powerful than that time, and the Ant Queen was directly blown away!
boom!
It smashed through the entire wall and fell into the courtyard outside, and the Yellow Springs Halberd in its hand also fell to the side.
Kawahara tilted his head slightly as he looked at it.
The Ant Queen, who had fallen to the ground far away, looked at him with anger and fear.
As a high-ranking angel at the commander level who leads a clan, the Ant Queen's strength is unquestionable. She can basically suppress Gills and Agito in their normal state at the same time. To some extent, she is comparable to the seven archangels.
"Why are you here?"
Kawahara walked towards it and asked without any fluctuation in his tone.
The Ant Queen's voice was eerie and low: "Our mission is to destroy all the Ajitas. No matter where you are, we will not give up!"
"Why do you want to destroy Agito?"
Kawahara asked calmly again.
But the Ant Queen did not answer this question. When Kawahara approached, she suddenly rushed forward to attack, but the next moment, she was pierced through the chest by her own weapon, the Yellow Springs Halberd.
Kawahara held the Yellow Springs Halberd in his hand, and the sharp tip of the scepter at the end allowed the Ant Queen to crash into him.
"Bah—!"
The Yellow Springs Spear that had been thrust out at some point in time easily pierced through it.
The Ant Queen reached out her hand tremblingly and grabbed the scepter. An angel halo appeared above her head, and then her entire body, including the Yellow Springs Spear, turned into light particles and dissipated.
Kawahara withdrew his gesture, turned his head slightly to look outside, and saw that the summoned ant soldiers did not disappear with the queen ant.
It seems that they are not symbiotic.
Tsugami Shoichi looked at him in surprise: "This angel...was destroyed just like that?"
"How else do you want to destroy it?"
Kawahara glanced at him and said, "You might as well go help G3 and Okamura. Ryo should stop participating in the battle and search for survivors elsewhere."
After hearing this, Shoichi Tsugami did not hesitate any longer. He nodded, turned around and went outside to follow G3 and Kana Okamura to deal with the group of ant soldiers surrounding the cafeteria.
People who possess the power of light are more attractive to these ant soldiers. The densely packed black monsters have blocked the cafeteria.
Kawahara raised his hand towards that side, and the Yaguru rune on the back of his hand flashed with golden light, accompanied by a stream of energy waves released. The ant soldiers that were hit were directly turned into particles and disappeared into ashes.
This method of clearing the soldiers was very quick, but after trying it only once, Kawahara withdrew his hand thoughtfully.
He suddenly looked up at the sky.
Swah——
Kawahara's figure disappeared in an instant.
Awihara Ryo, who was standing next to him, had just reacted to his act of destroying the ant soldiers in one fell swoop, but when he turned around, he found that the person next to him was gone.
Ashihara Ryo paused for a moment, thought about it and decided to return to his human form first, then go to other places in the research institute to search for survivors.
……
Thousands of miles high in the sky.
Kawahara arrived at the place where he returned yesterday.
There was an invisible ripple spreading here, just like ripples on the lake forming a whirlpool. He reached out and touched the front, but did not feel any aggression or discomfort.
So Kawahara thought about it, took a tentative step forward and prepared to walk into the whirlpool.
As a result, he missed the step the next moment!
Wow——!
Kawahara was caught off guard and stepped on empty air, falling freely again. While he was falling rapidly, he looked with a little surprise at the whirlpool above him that suddenly closed.
The symbol of "Dark Power" flashed by at that position just now. There is no doubt that it was the work of the Black God.
A space-time vortex connecting to other worlds appeared out of nowhere on Earth. Even he noticed it. The dark power as the creator god would undoubtedly know about it, but he let things develop and only took action to stop it when he was about to investigate.
If you have the guts, throw me to death!
Kawahara couldn't help but curse.
When he was about to land, he slowed down, touched the ground lightly, and then lowered his head to think.
When using the power of creation, Kawahara could feel that the whole world seemed to fluctuate slightly, as if something was knocking on the door outside.
This is like the development of a horror movie.
He thought about it carefully. Could it be that because this "power of creation" was brought back from another world, the world "created" by him also began to have a connection with this world?
So where did the Ant Queen come from?
Could it be that it is an angel from a parallel universe that was born from his power?
It can't be possible that he came from the Decade dimension?
Kawahara thought this was still a horror movie after all.
He looked at the research institute in front of him. The Black God led him here so that he could see with his own eyes the impact that Agito's power would have on humans.
But he had already told Sawaki Tetsuya all his thoughts before, and what happened here would not affect his affirmation of the power of light.
So what Black God did just now...
Is this another new bargaining chip for him?
Kawahara wasn't sure, but after finishing things here, he was going to go look for Kurokami.
After temporarily suppressing the thoughts in his mind, Kawahara walked back into the Hachioji base.
The only area that was wreaked havoc after the arrival of the Ant Lord was this research institute. Now that the queen ant has been destroyed, the remaining ant soldiers have not had time to wander to other places.
While the two Agitos were working with the G3 armor to clean up the scene, Kawahara was checking for gaps in other places. He eliminated some ant soldiers that had dug holes in the corners, and then he saw the G4 armor that was blocked by several ant soldiers.
Kawahara had only controlled the outer guards before, but there were still many guards scattered throughout the Hachioji base, and at this time, some of them gathered in groups of three or four to resist the ant soldiers.
After Shiro Mizuki came out of the underground laboratory, he saw this situation and joined the battle again.
But he had already reached his limit due to the overload of the G4 armor. Even if Kawahara restored him once, as long as he did not take off the armor for a while, it would eventually be exhausted again no matter how many times he restored it.
Kawahara walked in from outside, and the guards trapped in the corner immediately raised their guns and walked over to him, but they were all stunned when they saw his posture.
Although the Ant Soldier and Black No. 2 were both strange guys covered in black, they were still recognizable.
This made the group hesitate whether to attack or not.
Kawahara didn't care about their attitude, he just dealt with the ants that surrounded him. The guards didn't dare to stop him from approaching.
The G4 Armor, who had just thrown a punch at the ant soldier, saw the enemy in front of him turn into ashes and dissipated. Only then did he notice the situation behind him and turned around with a slight stagger to look at him.
Unlike the G3 armor, the compound eyes of the G4 armor are azure blue, exuding a cold texture.
As Kawahara approached, he suddenly lost strength and half-knelt on the ground, with a puff of steam-like smoke gushing out from the gap in the armor on his shoulders.
"How about it?"
Kawahara looked down at him and asked, "What are you fighting for? Do you have a reason?"
Shiro Mizuki supported his shaky body and gasped for breath. His pair of azure compound eyes flickered in and out, and the G4 armor on his body made a faint sound of mechanical operation.
After a while.
He raised his head and looked towards the dark warrior in front of him. His sight passed over the hideous figure of the monster and met the other's dark red compound eyes.
"To die..."
"..."
“It’s my reason to fight.”
"..."
Kawahara looked at him calmly without any emotion.
The Hachioji base may have suffered the heaviest casualties in the crisis of Unknown, and this was also the first time since Kawahara became a "Kuga" that he turned a blind eye to the lives lost in the act of "monsters killing humans".
Since he was able to distract himself and save the children in the classroom after the appearance of Ant Venerable, he could naturally also sense the dangers encountered by others.
But Kawahara pretended not to hear it and let it go.
Just like right now.
Another burst of steam and smoke erupted from the G4's mechanical armor, and the sound of mechanical operation creaked, meaning that the operator inside had reached the limit of overload.
Mizuki Shilang, who was trying hard to hold up his body, suddenly lost all his strength and fell to the ground, his azure blue compound eyes dimming.
The dark sky standing in front of him remained motionless, standing there like a frozen sculpture, and his deep red compound eyes reflected another human being who was gradually dying in front of him.
Kawahara couldn't tell what was going on in his heart.
But he was sure that in his consciousness he could never give up the life and form of "human beings", just like the heart-wrenching feeling he had when he saw Ashikawa Shoichi completely transformed into "Agito".
This made him feel that he was also a program set by "God".
Because God loves mankind.
——So he is also partial to humans.
Because God hates humans to become anything else.
——So he doesn’t like it either.
But Kawahara would not go against his feelings just to prove that "I am not a program".
Because from the moment he went against "God", he already had his own will, so there was no need to do anything that would make him entangled.
Could he allow humans to die before his eyes?
Does not.
Just like he couldn't kill any human being.
……
The surroundings fell into dead silence at this time.
The remaining guards dared not move or say a word, they just stared at the dark figure closely.
After I don't know how long it was quiet.
Suddenly, there was a burst of concentrated alarm bells outside.
The sound came from far away and gradually approached. The G4 armor that had been lying motionless on the ground seemed to be reactivated and mechanically stood up.
Looking at the G4 armor standing up again, Kawahara, who was staring at it, seemed to come back to his senses and immediately raised his left hand slightly.
“Ka-ka-ka!”
The G4 armor floated up out of thin air, and then broke into pieces under Kawahara's control, revealing the wearer inside.
But Shiro Mizuki had already died.
It was only the G4 system program that made the armor move again. As Kana Okamura said, it was just a demon that devoured life.
When humans are alive, it is human life that controls the armor.
After a human dies, the armor controls the human. It was never created for the purpose of "protection".
Kawahara stared at the silent human in front of him. The golden light of the Aguru rune on the back of his left hand flashed, and an identical rune was outlined on the back of Mizuki Shiro's left hand.
He immediately withdrew his hand, and the person floating in the air fell directly to the ground, landing in a pile of scattered fragments of the G4 armor.
After doing all this, Kawahara turned around and left, without paying any attention to the humans next to him.
But after he turned the corner, he saw Kana Okamura in human form next to him.
Kawahara paused for a moment, then immediately cancelled his transformation, his dark and ferocious figure replaced by his usual gentle and calm expression.
He looked at the girl who had gone through many changes and seemed to have calmed down a bit.
From the incident at Sumida Park to the current actions at the Hachioji base, Kana Okamura can be said to have experienced all of humanity's malice firsthand.
"Will you hate him and this place?" Kawahara suddenly spoke.
"will not."
Okamura Kana shook her head and said, "I won't hate him, just like I don't want humans to hate Agito. Mr. Sawaki told me that there is nothing wrong with strength. So he is just a 'power' driven by others."
Kawahara smiled and said, "That's good. After all, you may stay here for a long time. If you don't like it, I will have to find another place."
Okamura Kana: “…”
This sentence almost made Kana Okamura forget the purpose of coming to see him.
But Kawahara spoke for her: "Have the Metropolitan Police Department come? Have they dealt with the situation outside?"
Kana Okamura came back to her senses and nodded: "The remaining angels have been destroyed. The Metropolitan Police Department just arrived, and I met an officer. ...Mr. Kawahara, are all those children in the cafeteria psychics?"
It was this question that she hesitated about.
Kawahara smiled and said, "Yes, they are all 'Light Powers' who have awakened their superpowers, so from now on, you have to use what you have learned before and start negotiating with the police for those children!"
Upon hearing this, Kana Okamura suddenly tensed up, her facial expression stiffened, and she looked very serious.
Although everything that had been done before was in preparation for this moment, and Tetsuya Sawaki would occasionally personally teach her how to talk, Kana Okamura still couldn't help but panic.
Why did she have to bear this kind of thing?
She was really worried that she wouldn't be able to do well.
Okamura Kana looked over eagerly: "Mr. Kawahara... can you go with me then?"
"Don't worry, Ichijo will help you."
Kawahara comforted her, pretending not to hear.
He would not contact politicians. It would be better for Black No. 2 to exist as a cold-blooded killing weapon, and he did not want to represent the "Agito" group.
The Ajitas must always learn to stand on their own.
...(End of chapter)