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But if Kirarazawa believes from the bottom of his heart that destruction is a good thing for mankind, then it is not surprising that he made such a choice.
It was the Dark Giant who made him have such an idea.
Faust is Mephistopheles' puppet, but Mephistopheles is also someone else's puppet.
"So, the three commanders hope that I can also serve as a bridge to communicate with the association? And supervise Vice Captain Goroki?"
"Yes." Matsunaga would not lie to his assistant. After all, there was no need to lie to a 'predictor' who could see through the future.
"Our investigation into the association is still ongoing. During this period of time, we still have no clue about the identities of the association's owners, Ms. Misaka and Ms. Kaynar, but we have more or less mastered the identities of some members. Although these people can communicate with the association, to be honest, the superiors cannot trust them even more."
Although most people are not opposed to contact with the authorities, the intelligence level of these people determines that they are not enough to serve as a bridge of communication.
"Goroki has reported that members of the association can be 'recommended'. By spending a certain amount of merit, you can recommend new people to the association. After an assessment that the association master doesn't know how to conduct, they may be accepted as new members."
TLT hopes to cultivate some members who know the association well. After discussion, the three Dongxiang people believe that the assistant who has communicated with the association master before is the best candidate.
Ling also understood the superiors' thoughts and felt that it was a logical thing to do from their perspective.
But she still felt that the fact that she was recommended to join the association itself was a bit strange. This recommendation was a waste of Goroki's merits.
Of course, merit was something Lingye had originally set up as an equivalent, and the value was also determined by her.
The paper money itself has no value to the printing press that issues it. It's really just a bunch of paper.
The Night Raid Team gave Ikki Komon a week off.
This is not common. After joining the Night Raid Team, there are no weekends or national holidays.
The entire team adopts the form of rotating duty, and even when not on duty, they are on standby. They can go to the dormitory to rest, but they cannot leave the Free Fortress at will.
There is only about one day in a month when you can really rest completely.
Even on this day of rest, if you encounter a monster, you must end your vacation and return to the team.
So a one-week vacation is more like an examination of Gu Men’s mental state than a vacation.
This was indeed the case. After Komon left the Free Fortress, Captain Hekura assigned the Night Raid Team to follow him.
"Captain, do you think the Dark Giant will come looking for Komon again?" Saijo asked Goroki during the shift change.
If the word "stalking" doesn't sound good, it's completely fine to replace it with "protection".
Yesterday, Mizoroki and Hiraki kept watch all day, and today it is Saijo and Himeya Jun's turn.
Actually, it was not difficult to follow Gu Men. He stayed in the zoo for the whole day. He didn't go anywhere and was in a daze.
"That's probably the case. I think that's very likely. Dark Giants all have evil tastes. Since they turned Koto's girlfriend into Faust, they may be entangled with Koto. Be careful, Nagi, don't be too brave when you encounter danger. You can try to rely on your teammates."
"Teammate? You mean Himeya?"
Nishijo didn't have any problem with Himeya, but she was still a little worried about this new rookie who was once a war correspondent active on the battlefield.
What does a newcomer like Himeya know about fighting? If he really encounters danger, he should rely on mature night raiders like himself.
Chapter 548: Tailing
Himeya Jun was the last person to join the entire Night Raid Team. He directly joined Group A because of the recommendation of the assistant officer.
After passing the training assessment, it has been more than a month since I officially joined the team.
If someone asked him what kind of person this new member was, Nishijo couldn't really explain it. He seemed to be a taciturn person who rarely communicated with others, as if he lived in his own world.
Bitter and full of hatred.
In the past, Goroki had always used the phrase "bitter and vengeful" to describe her. Her parents died at the hands of alien beasts when she was young, and Nishijo Nagi had lived these years to eliminate the alien beasts for revenge. She hated the alien beasts immensely.
But Himeya Jun is different. Nishijo Nagi is full of hatred and resentment. She hates others and has no good face to anyone around her. She always feels that everyone owes her 8 million. But Himeya Jun, Nishijo doesn't know how to describe it, he seems to hate himself.
Therefore, Himeya always maintained the necessary courtesy towards others, and he tortured himself. This was also the case during his daily training and fighting with alien beasts, as if he would not complete the mission if he did not injure himself.
He never knew what rest was. Even during his rest time, he would go to the training ground and push himself to exhaustion.
Nishijo didn't want to comment on anything, because after putting on the Ultra Armor, Himeya Jun was a reliable comrade-in-arms. At least Nishijo agreed with his idea of wanting to destroy the alien beasts.
A person who is not very good at communication and expression, but is still reliable in doing things.
This was the first time that Saijo and Himeya Jun went on a mission together. The target of the surveillance mission was also their teammates.
Yesterday, Goromu and his friends didn't notice anything unusual about Komon. He just stayed in the zoo, looking at the elephants and giraffes stupidly, and even helped tourists take photos when asked. People even thought he was a staff member.
Today was the same. He came early in the morning, just after the zoo opened, and sat at the entrance of the elephant house, sitting there like a wooden man for two hours.
Saijo and Himeya were sitting behind a big tree not far away, and they could see him from the side.
It was not very professional for tracking work. That was because they had not been hiding in the first place, but so far, Gumen had not discovered them at all.
"Hot dog, want some?"
Looking at the hot dog that Nishijo handed to him, Himeya Jun was a little surprised.
"You've been watching for two hours. Take a break. I'll take over next."
"It's okay, I'm not tired."
"So, are all war correspondents like this? They stay in one place for days and nights, not even afraid of shells falling next to them?"
War correspondent? Come to think of it, that was exactly half a year ago, but now thinking back it seems like it happened in a lifetime ago.
It has nothing to do with the war correspondents, Himeya just wanted to do this.
"Come to think of it, when I was chatting with the assistant officer before, she said she also knew a war correspondent. He didn't want to report on human wars, saying that it was too dark and he didn't want to publicize it. He wanted to report on the battles between humans and alien beasts. When facing alien beasts, they would give up all their gains and losses, forget each other's nationality, and even forget their own lives. Such humans are like being able to transform into light."
Lingye was talking about "monster" at that time. In Nishijo Nagi's understanding, monster is also an alien beast.
“Why haven’t I heard of such a reporter?”
Himeya has quite a wide network of contacts in the journalist world, and he confirmed that he had never heard of such a person.
"There's no way the report on the alien beasts will actually appear in the newspapers."
That makes sense, so that person is just filming alone in the dark, writing news that will never be published?
"The heart of enthusiasm cannot be extinguished. Compassion for the weak, helping each other, people from all countries can become friends. Even those aliens, not all have ill will towards us... This is what the assistant officer once said. So, even if she looks like an adult, she is just a child. There is no such thing as a gentle world, and only children can believe in fairy tales."
It was easy to trust others, but they couldn't even trust their own comrades. They even betrayed Jiraizawa, and the price was the paralysis of the defense system of the Freedom Fortress. Now even the Chrome Chester fighter plane can't be used.
In a world like this, who can we trust?
They are not qualified to believe, because if they believe in the wrong thing, all of humanity will pay the price.
"But, only when you give trust first, others will dare to trust you in return. It's like a bond, trust, kindness, light, these beautiful things."
Nishijo pulled out his gun and pointed it at someone who had appeared beside them out of nowhere. They hadn't noticed anyone nearby before, and they just appeared so suddenly.
After seeing it clearly, Nishijo realized that it was a girl wearing the uniform of an unknown school. A junior high school or high school student.
Nishijo didn't know her, but Himeya knew that the person who was speaking was Miss Misaka, the founder of the association.
Because of the large amount of equipment exchanged by the association, the existence of the association has been lowered in the Night Raid Team. Saijo, Hiraki and others have also heard about it. But they only thought that it was a department of TLT different from the Night Raid Team, which would provide them with some weapons and equipment, and they were not clear about the specific details.
So Nishijo doesn't recognize the image of Misaka Mikoto.
But the other party didn't seem to be hostile, so Saijo lowered the gun slightly.
"No one can believe this. This is too sad. Only those who have felt love can understand how to love others, and then this love will be passed on. Love will breed courage, and trust will become a bond. If everyone can believe in beauty a little more, then neither the alien beasts nor the dark giants will be scary anymore."
People will not lose to the source of destruction, they will only lose to themselves.
Because the root of destruction is that kind of thing, which makes people no longer trust each other and no longer believe that there is beauty in the world. Fear breeds alien beasts, and human hatred and despair become dark giants.
In the final analysis, the so-called source of destruction is not alien visitors, but comes from human beings themselves. The instinct to fall into darkness, the instinct to pursue destruction.
Xijo doesn't believe in such big principles. She only knows that as soon as the alien beasts appear, they should be destroyed, without any other unnecessary nonsense.
"Don't fight with hatred, Nagi. Your fight is to protect humanity. It's not about revenge for the past, but about creating a future for more children. So that children can believe in fairy tales again."
"Who are you?" She could say my name, but I knew nothing about her.
"Misaka Mikoto, that's my current name." The girl didn't look at Saijo when she spoke, "Is she the one you're waiting for?"
Looking in the direction of the girl who called herself Misaka, Nishijo saw Riko!
She was right. They were following Komon just to wait for 'Saitian Riko' to appear. Komon was lingering in the zoo, also waiting for Riko to appear. This was where he met Riko every time, and if Riko could appear again, it would be here.
The Lonely Gate and the Night Raid Team, both sides have the same goal for different reasons.
Now Lizi really appears!
Gu Men, who had been sitting like a log, stood up hurriedly.
“Whether it’s a lion, an elephant or a giraffe, Lizi, you’re always drawing a family.”
"Well, this is the title of my university graduation work, "Family Portrait"."
This is what Lizi answered him at that time, but Lizi who said this had been killed earlier, including her family. From the beginning to the end, Lizi in Gumen's memory was Faust. So what was she thinking when she said this?
Was it really all just to deceive him?
"Lizi, tell me, Lizi! Are these all fake?"
Lizi really appeared, just as he had always believed in his heart, he could see Lizi as long as he was here.
"Real or fake. Is that what you care about, Koto. All my family members died because of you, even myself."
The one being watched by the darkness is Ikki Komon, and Riko is just a puppet created by the Dark Giant to get close to Komon. If they hadn't met Komon, Riko and her family would have been fine.
Gu Men felt suffocated. The empty zoo on a weekday made him feel so depressed that he felt as if there was no oxygen at all.
He had indeed thought about this. When he learned about the accident of Lizi's family, he realized that everything might be caused by him.
But now, coming from Lizi's own mouth, with a sense of judgment, Komon could no longer find any corner to escape this fact.
It was he who killed Lizi's relatives, and it was also he who killed Lizi.
Ping——
A bullet was fired, but before it could hit Lizi's body, it was blocked by an invisible "wall of air". Lizi turned her head and looked at Nishijo Nagi who was shooting.
The next second, the bullet reflected back along the same path.
"careful!"
Jun Himeya swung the Evolution Truster, and the bullet was offset by the light energy, blocking the attack for Nishijo.
Xijo had discovered this special weapon of Himeya before, and heard that it was granted to him by the association. What Xijo wanted to say was that she also wanted a weapon like this.
"Calm down, Saijo. Our current equipment is not enough to fight Faust. Contact headquarters first."