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"Me? Negotiating with that 'young lady'?"
"Yes, we think there is no better candidate than you."
A person who can see the "future" always has an advantage in negotiations.
They even hoped that Oshima could use her super powers to see some clues by contacting the other party.
Even the information about alien beasts can be predicted so clearly, there is no reason why it would have no effect on the "association".
Find out the other party's origins and bases. Even if they have no ill will towards humans, you must know them thoroughly before you can feel at ease.
"Then... let's do it."
Before that, it will take some time to prepare.
In the following days, no large alien beasts appeared, but small alien beasts appeared one after another.
Those monsters are like cockroaches. Once you find one, there must be a large group of them.
"Gorumi, you should communicate with Miss Kaina during this period and take on more missions. Even if they are in areas outside of Kanto, it doesn't matter."
Due to the frequent occurrence of alien beasts, there are many subjugation missions in the association. Some are assigned, and there are also missions that can be taken up voluntarily if there are no association members nearby.
Mizoroki knew what Kazukura meant.
He accepted the mission himself, and then the entire night raid team went out together to complete it and help him gain merit.
This was not the first time, he had completed almost all the missions he had accepted before in this way. Therefore, it was much easier for Goromu to earn merits than for ordinary association members.
This is why he took the initiative to reveal his membership to the TLT's top management. Correspondingly, these merits were also exchanged for the resources that TLT needed.
"But the area outside of Kanto is not under the jurisdiction of our Free Fortress. Is it okay for the Night Raid Team to go there?"
"The top leaders have already communicated. Someone is willing to help eliminate the alien beasts, and the people in other branches will have no objection."
No one likes to fight with alien beasts. The Night Raid Team is willing to take on the responsibility, and the other branches are of course happy to do so.
What matters now is earning merit.
Because we have decided to test the association, no one knows what will happen after that. It may be possible that we will never be able to exchange resources from the association again.
Therefore, Governor Togo requested that as much supplies as possible be exchanged in the near future in preparation for the worst-case scenario in which they could no longer exchange supplies in the future.
Goroki didn't know whether this was the right thing to do, but since he chose to confess to TLT, he no longer had the right to autonomy.
"Captain, didn't you report Himeya's matter to your superiors?"
He was referring to the fact that Himeya Jun was also a member of the association.
He Cang did not say that.
"You are enough for now. If Himeya wants to, he will say it himself."
The association is not an enemy, and they are on the same front line fighting against the alien beasts, so there is no essential conflict. It is one thing for the top management to want to investigate, but if possible, He Cang does not want to intensify the conflict between the two sides.
"By the way, how's Himeya's training going?" Kazukura had been concerned with other things lately and found himself somewhat neglecting the new team member.
"He has excellent results in every event. Compared with Gu Men who joined the team last month, he is a completely qualified fighter."
"It's not surprising. After all, as a war correspondent, I've been on the battlefield for many years, so I might be more familiar with the smoke of war than you and I. Since you've done well, let's finish the training early. We'll be going on strikes all over the place recently, so we'll be short of manpower."
Let’s not talk about the fact that Jun Himeya ended his training early and officially joined the Night Raid Team.
After the meeting was over, Ling did not return to the combat command room. She returned to her dormitory.
"Miss, it looks like TLT wants to investigate us. Is that okay?"
Kainaer, who was in the association, suddenly appeared in the room of the Free Fortress. She was a mass projection, and as long as she was within the communication range of the warship, she could appear anywhere at any time.
"It's okay. I don't think it's a bad thing."
"Good thing?"
"That's just my general feeling. You see, if the 'association' is too mysterious, it will make people afraid. It's not a bad thing to talk openly and honestly from time to time."
This was just Ling's rough idea, and she hadn't thought about it in detail. What surprised her was that the top management gave her the task of talking to the association.
"Humans are so complicated." Kaina sighed. Suddenly, she looked dazed for a moment, as if she was reading information.
"Miss, a strange beast fluctuation was discovered in Shibaura-cho, Minato-ku, Tokyo, and the source was a school."
"School?" Ling also read the information, "Jindai High School? I remember there should be members of the association there."
"Yes, I will issue the task right away."
Tokyo Metropolitan Jindai High School
Noon and class break
"strangeness."
"What's wrong, Kaname?"
Kyoko was eating bread and saw that her good friend Chidori was a little distracted.
"No, it's just that Sosuke guy is nowhere to be seen in the middle of the day."
"Haha, Kaname really cares about Sagara-san."
"Huh? Care? I'm just worried that he'll get into trouble again, that war idiot!" Chidori's words were interrupted by a loud explosion before she could finish. She covered her face with one hand. She didn't need to think about it, she already knew what happened.
The smoke and dust had not yet dissipated from the shoe cabinet at the entrance to the teaching area of the school courtyard. The shoe cabinet had been blown through, and an unknown limb on the ground twisted a few times. Sosuke Sagara drew his gun and fired several shots in succession. The special energy bullets completely destroyed the body.
"The alien beast has been eliminated, mission accomplished!"
"What mission accomplished! You idiot!"
Snapped!
The folding fan hit his head hard and Sagara stumbled. He was already used to this kind of force.
"Chidori? Why are you angry again?"
There was no doubt that the person who whipped him was Chidori Kaname, his classmate, and the target of his mission to protect. He transferred to Japan for this reason.
"Angry? I don't think a normal high school student would randomly blow up the school's shoe cabinet!"
"Don't get excited, Chidori, I can explain." Sagara said seriously.
But this seriousness made Chidori even angrier. She knew that Sagara grew up in a war zone, so he was suspicious of everything, but Chidori still couldn't accept his lack of common sense.
"What do you want to explain? So this time it was your hair that fell off the shoe cabinet again. Do you think it was opened? Or maybe someone stuffed a love letter in it. Do you think it was a letter virus attack?"
This is not Chidori's conjecture. She suspected someone was invading and exploded because the hair that was deliberately hung on the doors and windows fell off. Sagara had done such a thing.
"Chidori, the email virus attack is real. I witnessed it in the United States in 01..."
"Ah!!! Enough, I don't know what you've experienced in the United States, Afghanistan or Iraq, but Sousuke, it's very peaceful here. No one will be attacked suddenly, except you, no one on the road will suddenly pull out a gun or a bomb."
Peaceful?
The alien beast that was hiding in the shoe cabinet and waiting for an opportunity to attack humans has been destroyed. Sagara retracted his gaze.
It's good that Chidori can feel this way and enjoy peace with peace of mind.
Chapter 519 Mithril
"Three rows of shoe cabinets were damaged, 3 pairs of indoor shoes and 40 pairs of outdoor shoes were all damaged. In addition, the floor was cracked, the damaged area was 29 square meters, and the walls and ceiling were damaged to varying degrees. The above is a record of all the damage this time. The estimated loss and repair costs are 15 yuan."
The student council secretary, Mikihara Ren, was a slender girl. She was very calm and whispered in a voice as soft as the falling of a wood lotus that this was equivalent to a terrorist attack.
"Thank you for your hard work, Miki-kun. Then, Sagara-kun, can you explain your behavior?" Student Union President Lin Shui closed his folding fan.
"Yes, Mr. President, please allow me to report! At 12:05 today, when I was passing by the atrium, I found something wrong with the shoe cabinet in the atrium. The hair that I had caught in the door of the shoe cabinet fell off, and there was an unknown noise inside the cabinet."
"Unknown noise, it must be a stray cat!" Chidori, who was standing next to Sagara, shouted. Doesn't this guy have common sense? There are often stray cats in the courtyard, so he wouldn't consider it a terrorist attack, right?
But no one in the room cared about Chidori, including the student council president and the secretary.
"So how did you do it?"
"I have experienced similar cases and have special experience in this regard. So I chose high-energy directional blasting."
President Lin Shui closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then nodded when he opened his eyes, "Well, it is indeed the most suitable choice."
"what?"
Chidori didn't understand whether there was something wrong with her or with everyone around her. Why could everyone in this room, except herself, easily understand such a ridiculous thing?
"It seems that you don't understand the situation, Chidori." President Lin Shui adjusted his glasses. "Imagine that during lunch break, in an empty atrium, you suddenly hear strange noises in a corner, octopus tentacles, or slugs taller than humans hiding in the darkness waiting for an opportunity to attack. It is only natural to strike first. Sagara-kun is indeed a qualified warrior!"
Why octopus tentacles and slugs taller than humans? What kind of a fucking metaphor is this?
"Yes! Thank you for your affirmation, Mr. President!"
Chidori looked at the president, then turned to look at Sagara, and finally cast an almost pleading gaze at the student council secretary Miki, please, invite a normal human being into this room to tell her that it is not her who has the problem.
But Miki just opened her mouth slightly in surprise. After noticing Chidori's gaze, she nodded to her, indicating that she agreed with the president's words.
"Are you from Resident Evil, or Alien?" Chidori let out a whine that was almost like begging for mercy.
The student union of this school is like this. One Sosuke Sagara is already unbearable. Is there any hope for her high school life?
"I'll explain to the school, but Sagara-kun, what about compensation for these losses?"
"Yes, I will take responsibility!"
"That's no problem."
Sosuke Sagara is an orphan who was adopted by a mercenary organization and grew up in a war zone. He spent almost all of his childhood on the battlefield.
Chidori already knew all this. Now that she lives in Tokyo, she tries every means to tell him the common sense of living in a peaceful society, but now she finds that she can't change Sagara at all, and he changes her instead.
Sometimes on the way home from school, Chidori herself would become suspicious, as if there really were some terrorists or scary monsters.
After school, go home.
The apartment that Sagara rented was in the building opposite Chidori, one floor higher, so he could observe Chidori's residence at any time.
"This is Uruz-7, Sosuke Sagara."
"Sergeant Sagara, please conduct a regular report. I noticed that you just applied for 22 yen in combat supplies?"
The voice on the other end of the communicator was that of a serious middle-aged man, Major Kalinin, Sosuke's direct superior.
"Yes."
Sosuke Sagara's room is a rental apartment, but it is more like a combat command room.