[Comprehensive] Demon Fox Hiding Horse

Returning to Central City again, the feeling here has completely changed.

Although the lives of ordinary citizens seem to be peaceful and peaceful as before, if it is replaced by people with sensitive senses like Kurama, it is easy to smell a storm full of wind and rain from this seemingly extremely peaceful air the smell of—

This city, like a beast waiting for an opportunity in the dark, opened its huge mouth full of sharp teeth, just waiting for its prey to walk into it without knowing it.

He rubbed Mokona's soft ears that trembled sensitively for a moment with his hands more vigorously, and Zangma picked up the little guy and rubbed his cheek comfortingly until Bai Tuanzi's face gradually began to float up again. With a familiar bright smile, Yaohu felt relieved, and walked towards Hughes' current working place with his own dumplings.

Along the way, whether it was soldiers performing normal patrol work or some "plainclothes" wandering around the street for other purposes, they all turned a blind eye to the Tibetan horses who seemed to have no intention of concealing their whereabouts-even though they were all there early. From above, he received an order to search for the former confidant and adjutant of Mr. Mustangu.

Yaohu didn't have any special reaction to this. After all, his family's phantom plant enchantment can be said to be open to the sky. Even Assassin, the heroic spirit who is best at hiding and detecting his own and others' aura in the Fate world, can't get close to him. Cang Ma in the enchantment at a distance of [-], let alone these ordinary people in the world of steel refining?

So Zang Ma didn't feel that he was so great at all, but just strolled to the temporary camp of the ancient Mustang army in the southeast of the city.

"Hidden horse!"

After knocking on the door with a specific signal, Hughes who was standing at the door was surprised when he saw Zangma, and then he opened his arms and hugged him involuntarily!

During this period, this rough-natured guy even punched him on the back several times as if unconsciously, with a smile that was so gentle that it made people feel chills on the back of the demon fox...

"I knew you must be fine! That guy Roy was still worrying, saying that you haven't contacted or anything..."

While dragging the Tibetan horse and walking quickly into the house, Hughes babbled without changing his father's nature.

However, Zangma seems to be quite used to being treated like a child by Hughes, and there is no trace of impatience between his brows. It was full of gentle smiles.

And after turning a few corners of the stairs to a room deep in the second floor of this small three-story building, Hughes pushed open the door, and showed great surprise to the few people in the room who turned their heads to look here. With a bright smile: "Qiang~Look who is back!"

After seeing the figure of the Tibetan horse clearly, several people in the room did not disappoint Hughes, and all showed expressions of surprise and joy: "Zangma!"

"Captain Kurama!"

"Kangma-kun?"

"Are you really all right? Great!" -Chorus.

Zangma blinked, and found that the room was really full of acquaintances——

In addition to Hughes, the handsome uncle Gossett is also here, and there are also Second Lieutenant Haberk who has been disqualified from active duty in the personnel files of the military department and has gone home to "open a grocery store", and several other landowners. Members of the ancient Mustang army who turned from Mingli to the underground for various reasons before Roy was monitored.

Most of these people have seen Zangma's ability around Roy and the super tacit understanding between him and Roy that can convey each other's thoughts just by looking at each other, so of course they also regard Zangma as their own. Everyone was also very happy to see this colleague who was declared "missing without reason" return safely.

"Finally... there is good news."

——It can be seen that the recent period seems to be extremely busy, and even the new stubble on his chin has not had time to shave off. The blond Second Lieutenant Haberk squeezed out the cigarette in his hand, and while talking, he gave a lot of attention to the direction of the Tibetan horse. Open your hands.

In the next second, Bai Tuanzi jumped off Zang Ma's shoulders, jumped into those arms—

"John~~"

"Oh! Mokona! Long time no see, how are you doing?"

Picking up the soft round dumplings, the smile on Lieutenant Haberk's face became brighter and brighter.

The two huddled together and talked happily. Seeing this, Kurama shrugged helplessly and lovingly, and turned to look at Hughes, who also had a helpless face: "Forget it, let them go. Lieutenant Colonel, you How often can I contact Da Zuo now? I want to convey some news to him as soon as possible."

Hughes quickly became serious when he heard Zangma talk about the business:

"If you want to talk, you can probably meet once or twice a week-you know that Roy visited my house with this frequency after I 'died'."

And Hughes's house has a fixed barrier set in advance by Zangma, and the artificial man Pride cannot monitor any real information from there, and the back and forth is just a variety of daily routines between Roy and Gracia.

"If I remember correctly, tonight happens to be the time of Roy's visit this week. How about it? Want to arrange for you to meet?"

"Okay. Sorry to trouble you."

Curving the corners of their lips, Kurama and Hughes looked at each other, for a moment...the expressions on the faces of the two were surprisingly similar——

Really looking forward to it.

Roy's expression when he saw the Tibetan horse.

Once again, they exchanged a tacit look, and Kurama and Hughes couldn't help but hope that time would pass sooner...

***

"Hide! Horse!"

——Sure enough, Kurama and Hughes expected.

Later that day, when Roy, who came to visit Hughes's house as usual, saw the red-haired boy sitting in the living room, drinking tea and eating snacks, and talking happily with Gracia by the way. , A certain Colonel immediately took out the gloves and put them on! (==)

"You bastard! How dare you come back!"

Thinking of how much trouble this person's disappearance had brought to him back then, and even now that the President was always trying to find out about the whereabouts of the Tibetan horse intentionally or unintentionally, Roy couldn't help but look more and more unkindly at the demon fox.

"Why can't you wait for my plan to come down before leaving! Do you know how long you gave me a headache?!"

Someone's reaction to this was to smile——

"Wait until your plan is finalized? Colonel, maybe you should ask Second Lieutenant Breda, Warrant Officer Farman and Sergeant Felix. They suddenly received inexplicable transfer letters without any warning and were transferred in pieces. How does it feel to be stationed on the border in different directions."

Seeing the black-haired Colonel opposite him being blocked for a moment and speechless, Cangma spread his hands innocently: "So you see, I just acted in advance in order not to fall into the situation where I can't resist. "

"In terms of results..."

"It seems that it didn't cause you any big losses. On the contrary, let the President be wary of you, Chief, for fear that I'm planning something in the dark, so I haven't dared to really embarrass you, have I?"

——Speaking, he also raised a bright smile full of complacency.

"..."

Roy was so depressed that he was almost internally injured.

Although it is true... more than [-]% of what the other party said is true.

But why did he feel so unhappy?

Staring angrily at this young man who had brought countless troubles, but also cleverly left himself a back road that even the president would be afraid of, Roy was silent for a while, and finally sighed helplessly.

"You make sense."

Sitting down next to Hughes, he smiled at Gracia and Alicia, and watched the two mothers and daughters leave the living room considerately. The Colonel turned his head and looked at the red-haired demon fox who still had a calm expression on his face: "So, this time What news did you bring back? Are you in such a hurry to bring it to me?"

Seeing that Roy had completely entered the business mode, Zangma also changed into a relatively serious posture.

"Speaking of which, you may already know one of them. Major General Armstrong, who guards the northern border fortress, is about to return to the center at the call of the President."

"Ah. I do have news about this. I should see that major general at the Central Military Headquarters in about a day or two."

Roy nodded seriously.

"So, what else?"

He said, looking closely into Kurama's eyes:

"You got news from Major General Armstrong...you went north?"

Kurama nodded without hesitation, "Yes, with Mei."

"Mei... wait! You mean, the girl from Xinguo who was with Scar?!"

"Ah."

"..."

— Roy stopped talking.

He bowed his head in silence, as if he was thinking about something.

Zangma guessed that he should be quickly analyzing the reason why Scar ran to the north.

"Ska is in the north, and Brother Elric is also in the north..." Mumbling to himself, Roy suddenly raised his head and looked at Zangma again: "This is not a coincidence, is it?"

—something in the north was drawing them.

It might not be the same thing, but...

Roy had an intuition that there must be some reason for this.

Of course, it was impossible for Zangma to tell him that all of this was guided by fate (drama) luck (situation), so he just looked at Roy with a smile and did not answer.

But this was enough for Roy to make a judgment.

"So, what are the other news?"

Frowns had begun to appear between the brows. Roy sat up straight and asked in a deep voice.

The smile on Kurama's lips widened a bit.

"One," he held up a finger, "President Kim Bradley's adopted son, Selim Bradley is an artificial human, code-named 'Pride'."

Seeing that Roy didn't show any unexpected expression, Kurama knew that Lieutenant Lisa Hawkeye had passed the news to the Colonel through code means.

So he didn't hold back, and continued:

"Secondly, another man-made man, code-named 'Slos', was discovered in the northern fortress. He is the key figure who dug out the entire country underground to form a formation."

"Third, don't ask about the source, but you can be sure that it is absolutely correct - Pride's range of activities is the center of the central city and the entire passage underground that forms the formation of the country. In other words, in fact, his monitoring of you is far worse than It is as strict as originally thought, and there are many loopholes that can be exploited."

"Fourth..."

After a pause, Zangma changed to a more solemn sitting posture, and looked up at the black-haired colonel with a serious face: "The artificial man and their 'father' are waiting for a day."

"A special day."

"They are going to launch the national formation formation on that day, and that day is called by them-"

"...'The Promised Day'."

Roy's pupils shrank instantly.

"'Promised day'." He murmured a few times, and suddenly sneered again: "I don't know... Who and what is this agreement with."

It seemed that he didn't intend to get an answer from Zangma, so he stood up abruptly: "Captain, I have received all your reports. The 'appointed date'...I hope that the battle at that time can get your cooperation-you are still Ma Part of the Stancourt squad, right?"

Zangma was taken aback when he heard this.

But he quickly reacted——

"of course."

Standing up, Yaohu met the black-haired young man's black eyes that were once again full of fighting spirit: "I am at your service anytime, my chief."

The corner of the black-haired officer's mouth twitched quickly.

"Then, please rest assured and wait until then, Captain."

Turning his head and striding away, although his tone was calm as usual, Roy's pace was as fast as if there was some ferocious monster chasing him behind him.

Seeing this, Zangma couldn't help but chuckled.

——Don't worry, Colonel.

Now... he doesn't have time to catch up and fight with you.

Looking through the window at the position of the Central Military Headquarters, the smile on Kurama's face gradually fell silent——

His plan is just beginning.