Underworld 03 Corpse Soldier and Death Flower

Seeing the wriggling fabric in front of him, Aska frowned strangely, wondering why such a mysterious creature appeared in the archive room, and finally walked over with full vigilance.

"Huh!" The fabric was pushed away, and soft human hands stretched out from the gap.Aska was startled, thinking how could a child be buried by the pile of clothes, and hurried forward to rescue the victim.

"Hey you……"

With a cute little face like an angel, soft purple curly hair, and bright green glasses that are too big and one side has slipped off the ear a long time ago, in front of Aska's eyes, a small toddler appeared.

And the fabrics that were originally covering him were actually adult clothes, and... Aska was also shocked to find that it was one of the few sets that Ajiujin would usually wear.

"Did you pick up APTX4869 and eat it on the road!" Aska called, shaking the young child.

"...Who is the big brother?" The young boy tilted his head, and now his glasses fell to the ground, and he looked at the young man in front of him suspiciously.

"Ju, you actually call me big brother... so cute... ah, no! Now is not the time for your heart to beat wildly!" Aska pulled away the hand that was pressing on his chest, and then asked, "What's wrong with you?" ? How did it become so small!"

The toddler looked at Aska for a while, then reached out to touch the back of his head, "It hurts."

"Where? Let me see, did you hit your head?" Aska hastily pulled the child's neck, looked at the back of the child's head, and found several wounds that were slightly bleeding—as if there was something there. , but now it's being ripped off like that——

"Where are the wires?" Aska asked anxiously.

He turned around and went to the table to take out a few pieces of toilet paper, folded them into cubes, and gently pressed them on the wound on the back of the child's head.What happened here during your absence?Also, what about Mauri?Did you go back to work in the security force?

"I didn't take the wire..." The young boy seemed to be enduring the pain, and clarified with red eyes, as if he was protesting why the other party said he had stolen something.

"But," Aska suddenly stopped.This kind of reaction, this kind of reaction is not so much "I don't know where the wires went"...it's more correct to say "I didn't know there was such a thing from the beginning".

"Big brother, where is this place?" the young boy asked.

"Uh--"

"What time is it now? Should I go back to class? If I'm late, I'll be angry." The little boy stretched out his hand, and the little hand holding the corner of Aska's clothes was trembling slightly, as if he was trying his best to suppress his fear.

Aska's mind is running at high speed with all its strength. There is nothing more important than letting the child in front of him get away from the anxiety. No matter what happened just now, let's find out the truth later!

"Do you like class?" Aska sat down on the ground, leaned forward, and moved his eyes to a place about the same height as the young child.

The toddler was silent, biting his lower lip.After a while, he said: "Mom said to go because I'm a genius, and everyone else said the same."

"Shall we go to the zoo to see the lions? Let him go to school or whatever." It's exactly the line of the bad boy next door.

"...You can't go with suspicious people. Uncle Baoquan said." The young boy seemed to have a light in his eyes when he heard the zoo, but he was quickly suppressed.

"Well, it's suspicious to say it's suspicious, but..." Aska smiled wryly, "You can only rely on me now, little friend Akutsu Jiazai."

The young boy was stunned for a moment, "Who was the big brother invited to kidnap me?"

As expected of a gifted child, it was an extremely realistic idea.

"If you let me go back, I will ask Dad to give you twice the money." The young boy spoke clearly.

"...I don't want money." Aska laughed.

"Then what do you want?" the young boy asked strangely.

"I'm very lonely, so I kidnapped you to play with me, and I will let you go back when I get tired of it." Aska said.

"Liar." The young boy immediately exposed the young man's lie.

"Really, so, until then, let's play together." Aska patted the other party's head, "What should I call you, Mr. Akutsu? Or Ajitsu-kun?"

"What's the name of the big brother?" The young boy didn't answer Aska's question, but asked directly.

"Flying bird."

"What do you usually do?"

"Hmm...ordinary civil servant?"

"Why is it an interrogative sentence?"

"Because there are various part-time jobs here, such as kidnapping children."

"...Just call me Jiazai." The young boy whispered.Then, he asked, "Why do you make me wear such big clothes?" With small hands, he pulled up the shirt hanging loosely on his body, the rumpled white robe, trousers and so on.

"Ahaha." Unable to answer the honesty of "you're getting smaller", Aska had to stand up perfunctorily: "I'll find a smaller one for you to change, just stay here and don't run around."

After a while, Aska brought Maoli's change of clothes, a black turtleneck, gray linen scout-style shorts with cotton lining, dark brown stockings, and a pair of lovely round-toed shoes.

Ah, little angel, really a little angel...

After seeing Jiazai put on more fitting clothes, for a few seconds, Aska was intoxicated in an atmosphere where the satisfaction of parents helping the young girl dress up could not help him.

"The sleeves are so long." Jiazai pulled the long sleeves up to her wrists, but it slipped down once in a while.

Good job Ascala, helping him roll up the sleeves of both hands twice, "How old are you?"

"Seven years old." Jiazai replied obediently.

"what do you like eating?"

"...Miss Sefina said, you have to eat everything, you can't have likes and dislikes."

"Who is that?"

"My full-time educational instructor."

"I didn't ask your nanny's opinion," Askar said.

"It's an educator." Jiazai pursed her lips slightly, looking a little embarrassed. "...two-color milkshake with lots of chocolate chips."

"Well, let's go eat together." Aska extended a kind hand to the little Jiazai, "I know there is a great restaurant."

"Miss Sefina said that you can't eat snacks before eating the main meal." Jiazai handed Aska his hand, still nagging.

"The dinner is a milkshake, and the snack is chicken nuggets and French fries, okay? Then we ask him to bring toys." Aska led Jiazai out of the file room, and couldn't help showing a doting look.

Not because he particularly liked children.It was because he knew the "past" and "future" of the child he was leading, as well as "the end of life", which reminded him of his childhood, which was not a very happy childhood.

It was the same time as Akutsu, different in nature, but equally unhappy.When he was practicing dismantling guns, Ajiujin might be learning his second foreign language. When he was disheveled lying in the grass and hitting a humanoid target 45 meters away, maybe Akujin was being forced to sit The classrooms are engraved with thick papers that only college students need to write.

Which kind of life is better, he doesn't know.

"Oh, toys." Jiazai squeezed Aska's palm, "Do you think there will be a car? A truck, the kind that holds a lot of dirt."

"I don't know, because I'm an adult, so the boss never gave me a toy, but we can ask later." Aska said seriously.

+ + + + +

"Where are you going? Captain." Mao Li's eyes were blank, looking at Shirakawa Kayoya who was leading him away.

"Ah, sure enough, you have grown to some extent. Although you have repeatedly killed those self-growing personalities, it still doesn't work, because this is the underworld, and everyone has the possibility of continuous evolution. If it is in other places Just evolve, and I won't be restless because of it, but the special ability given to you here is to "completion of personality", really, don't make things troublesome..." Although Bai Chuan was talking to Mauri They were talking, but their eyes never looked at each other for sure.

"Ajiujin, what will happen?" Mao Li didn't seem to listen to Bai Chuan's words.

"Nothing will happen." Bai Chuan said.

"Aska, what will happen?" Mauri asked again.

"Nothing will happen." Bai Chuan replied.

"What will happen to them if I disappear?" Mao Li continued to ask.

"That's right, it might be sad." Bai Chuan continued walking.

Gray carpet, white walls, empty aisles, only they walk slowly among them.Although holding hands, the atmosphere is like strangers who only met once.

"I don't want to break it. Will Aska save me? Will Akutsu save me?" Mao Li looked around and began to mutter to himself.

"Ajiujin is indeed trying to save you. If it was his hope, Asuka would not fail to do so. That's why I installed an insurance policy. You can answer my question without killing the growth points for the time being. No, it should be said, as long as you think about it carefully, although Asuka usually loves you very much, once faced with a "choice", will he choose "you" or "Akutsu" first?"

To the mind of a child, this sounds like a problem that can feel cruel even if it doesn't understand where the cruelty lies.

"I like Aska. I like Akutsu. If I didn't meet them, they would break or disappear like this. I wouldn't hold back against it."

"You can't resist me now. Because you are made by me, just to store the container of the soul core replica. It is enough to give the minimum action and thinking, and the others are not needed. Before that, you also Very obediently delete/kill those learning abilities that don't need to grow by yourself, it's good... Originally, it would be good."

"Captain, I'm sorry," Mao Li pulled away his hand held by Bai Chuan, and jumped aside.

When Bai Chuan was finally willing to look straight at Maoli, the other party was already holding the huge sword with the golden butterfly-shaped gauntlet in his hand.

"Don't force me like this." Bai Chuan shook his head, his expression seemed a little sad.

"Me too." Mao Li held the hilt of the sword tightly with both hands. At this moment, bright white butterflies with metallic luster sprang out from the sword body and flew around.

As the number of butterflies increased, when the seemingly light and thin wings brushed against Bai Chuan, they were cut into deep scars.

"Ah, is this your "feeling"?" Bai Chuan didn't have a weapon, he just swung his fist, and a few butterflies were crushed, falling to the ground with a harsh sound of metal knocking.

"If you don't kill the growth value, probably, that's it. Just now, the captain said, it's okay not to kill now." Mao Li's cloudy white eyes showed a warm luster, and even his expression became mature many.

It takes only a few minutes for the soul cores to stop killing each other and let the main personality grow, so there can be such a change... Yes, this is something that Bai Chuan does not like to see.The "raw material" he used to make Maoli was originally something that had the ability to optimize parameters abnormally. If it were described in a slightly more popular term, it would probably be equivalent to "cheat" or "cheating skills".

That's why he gave orders to let those things kill non-stop.

Then, after the soul shell finally couldn't bear it, let the centuries of obsession be burned.Because, enough is enough.

"If you were a real soul, I could apologize to you frankly." Bai Chuan stood where he was, but lightly smashed the butterflies that flew close to him with an indifferent attitude as if he was trying to repel mosquitoes.

Mao Li carried the huge sword, rushed towards Bai Chuan, and slashed down the middle!However, in the eyes of people of Bai Chuan's level, Mao Li's movements can be seen clearly like a slow playback. He pressed his hand to the flat blade of the sword, and his body jumped up, turning gracefully in the air, falling Go behind Maoli.

With a punch, it hit Mao Li's vest.

Mao Li let out an unpleasant coughing sound, couldn't hold the sword anymore, and pressed his chest, as if he wanted to vomit, but he didn't spit out anything.

"But, if I apologize to you, what have I been doing all these years? These questions will chase after me desperately. In fact, this place is also very busy, especially recently, as a security guard As a member of the team, you should also know it? Those weird natural disasters that occur frequently, restraining groups of undead, have tended to deteriorate, but they still refuse to report here..."

Bai Chuan started talking about work.

His gaze was neither cold nor eager, but he was just talking about the official duties that he should be most worried about as the head of the current security department.This is the number one thing, and what he really cares about in his heart, he will try his best to suppress it to the extent of interest/a small part/occasionally remembered.

Because he is the captain.

If other people's personal affair makes Ming Dao's system go further and further away when they work, then even if it's only you, you have to work hard to guide it back.

"Come on, just stay here obediently. After tomorrow, I put the new soul core replica of "Yazaki Yumeka" into your body, and I will no longer have any relationship with you." Bai Chuan Relentlessly took Mao Li's hand again.

The bright white epee fell to the ground with a clang.For a moment, Bai Chuan almost thought it was Mao Li's cry.

I am resisting, struggling, and... hating myself.

But how easily he could grab the guy's hand, move his body, urge him forward.Bai Chuan pushed Maoli into a small, empty room, and locked him in.

After exiting the room, he turned his head and saw the huge sword lying alone on the ground.That is, when he "made" Maoli, he was driven by an almost uncontrollable excitement, so he allocated the weapon to the opponent.Just now when he said "Is this your feeling?", he was actually shirking responsibility a bit.

This sword is evidence, and this is "my" feelings.

Lifting his foot, Bai Chuan's clean short boots stepped onto the sword.Pacha, the sword broke into two pieces.

Sometimes, he felt that he should not even have the slightest interest.It is best not to have had it before, and then, it should not be conceived in the future.

"Hey, old buddy."

Hearing the greeting, Bai Chuan turned his head.A face so familiar that he couldn't be more familiar with it, his partner, Hei Wuchang Kurosaki Takamasa smiled at himself.

"Oh, it's a soda pop look today. Your fan base will be screaming "Captain is so cool!" "Right." Kurosaki clapped his hands.

"What kind of look is that?" Bai Chuan sighed.

Unlike Kurosaki, who wants to maintain absolute stability, what the other party likes is the extreme balance of standing on the edge of a cliff and swaying.Obviously doing the same job, obviously, the closest to "human beings", obviously staying in a position that is easily shaken, why does it seem so happy?

Bai Chuan didn't quite understand this.Perhaps there are obvious differences in personality.

"Cold and sweet, with bitter eyes, as if in love... Aha, it's a fake love, because I think I should stop when I reach this point, so it's a fake love." Kurosaki Zhang With a smile, Bai Chuan, who was as short as a head, approached the other party, his exaggerated expression actually looked a little ferocious. "The eyes are soda popsicles, the heart is crushed sandwich crisps, piece by piece, you can only eat them with your fingers, the sticky sandwich is broken meat paste, with a stench, you keep blaming yourself, do you want to eat it? ? Are you going to eat it?"

"What are you talking about?" Bai Chuan mercilessly stretched out his hand and slapped Heisaki's forehead hard.

"Wow, it hurts! Oppose the bullying in the company and protest the abuse of power by the judicial system!" Kurosaki shouted, holding his head.

"Really? Then go to the Wheel Hall and complain to me." Bai Chuan turned around and left.

Kurosaki followed quickly from behind, "Hey, what have you been doing recently?"

"Doing a job similar to yours." Bai Chuan replied.

"Then what do you do in private?"

"When did you get bought by the journalists who became the office? By snacks? By grape-flavored soda?"

"...This conjecture is really concrete." Kurosaki scratched his face, took out a mini can of soda from his pocket and handed it to Bai Chuan.

Grape flavored.

"Bring me? Now you want to buy me?" Bai Chuan pulled the ring and made a "boo" sound.

"Can't you see it? I'm pitying you, because Hibiki's stubborn military character probably can't be changed, but if it goes against my own feelings, it's really pitiful." Kurosaki Putting his hands on his cheeks, he sighed.

"Has my intention to do something positive to end this turned out to be that pathetic and depraved virtue in your eyes?" To me, that's the champagne of celebration. "Bai Chuan shook the can of grape soda in front of Heisaki.

"If it's wine, it's dull wine. If it's grape soda, it should taste like tears. Oh, first love doesn't taste like lemon." Kurosaki ran a few steps to Bai Chuan, ""You don't always Tell me where to go and disappear without a trace, why? ""

"...What?" Bai Chuan frowned, looking at Heisaki in puzzlement.What poem is it?

"Huhu, this is for that gray child." Kurosaki said with a smile.

Bai Chuan's brows furrowed even deeper, "Have you had direct contact with Mao Li? What did he say?"

""Only thinking about it at this time, is it a bad habit to let me see your real smile once in a while?What do you want from me? "" Looking at Bai Chuan's increasingly serious face, Kurosaki was almost so happy that he hugged his belly and laughed out loud. "Trouble, start worrying now! Mr. Captain, who is admired by thousands of people!"

+ + + + +

Sitting by the window, Jiazai and Asuka piled up a mountain of junk food, drinks, and two packages of unopened toys on the table.

Jiazai ate the chicken nuggets with a fork, but seeing Aska holding it with his hands, he thought that the other party was really a sloppy guy, but he also felt that it was a bit cool because he did something he couldn't do.

"Is it delicious?" Aska asked.

Kaya nods.

"How about another apple pie?"

Kaya shook her head.

"Never mind?" Aska licked his fingers.

"Miss Sefina said, try not to talk when eating, this is not the time to talk." Jiazai said.

" "... Did your parents ever make any comments about such instruction? "" Aska pulled the corners of his lower lip and leaned his face. Although he behaved casually, what he uttered was very standard British English.

He knew that Ajiujin's father was British, and he didn't move back to Japan with his mother until the other party divorced Ajiujin's mother.But this is not what happened to Xiao Jiazai at this age.

Jiazai froze for a moment.

"I don't have any impression of eating with them. Most of the family is just me and Miss Sefina." After finishing speaking, he said in surprise: "You can speak English, although you have an ordinary American accent, but your grammar is very good. Right."

"I learned it because of the need for work, but I am more specialized in Asian languages." Aska laughed.

"Do civil servants need to learn this?" Jiazai asked.

"No, it's part of the side job." In fact, it's the "main job", and it's just what I did during my lifetime.

"...Kidnapping?" Jiazai looked at Aska suspiciously.

"Not all of them." Aska smiled mysteriously.

"I don't think I've been kidnapped now, and you don't look like an accomplice. What's the purpose? Where are you going to sell me?"

"Where's Miss Sefina's educational guidance? Is it in the trash can?" Aska's words made Jiazai who was chattering blushed.

"She didn't see it now." Jiazai lowered his head and whispered.

"If you want you to stay with me forever like this, never to see your parents or Miss Sefina again, what would you do?" Aska asked the question lightly.

Jiazai opened her mouth, and finally turned her head away, "Maybe, it's no different from now."

"Do you have any other classmates and friends you miss? If you never see them again, you will be so sad that you want to cry."

"I don't need to go to school. Miss Sefina said that I don't need to waste time making friends. I just need to finish the homework she gave me. She said that in this way, I will become a better person than anyone else. "

"... No wonder you will become that kind of virtue when you grow up..." Aska couldn't help muttering.

"What did you just say?"

"No, it's okay." Aska coughed. "You really hate that Miss Sefina, don't you?"

"I didn't..." Jiazai retorted halfway, but stopped, because he saw Aska's knowing expression.

"But because you are afraid of her, you dare not resist?"

Jiazai stuffed the whole chicken nugget into his mouth, deliberately not speaking.

"It may be a little different from your situation. I am also very afraid of my daddy. Ah, although he is called Daddy, but he is the education officer who is in charge of taking care of me in a private military training center. If he finds me fishing , he will kick it mercilessly, but because he knows the severity of the attack, his internal organs have never been broken once, but he can only vomit." After Aska finished speaking, he grabbed Coke and sucked it vigorously.

"...Does it hurt?" Jiazai asked cautiously.

"It hurts to death. But if I have a chance, I will still fish as usual, and then I will be kicked if I am found out. I may hope that Daddy will pay more attention to me than others, because it is very lonely. What father and mother, since the beginning I haven't seen anything like that since I can remember."

"Once, I had a TV show I wanted to watch." Jiazai started.

"What program?" Aska interrupted.

"...Reality show...Dessert King Contest..." As if shy to speak, Jiazai whispered more and more.

"...Uh, um, you continue..." Aska decided not to express any opinion on this.

Akutsu has two interests, one is desserts, and the other seems to be painting models of various vehicles.Although he only listened to the other party casually mentioning the second item, he didn't actually watch the other party play with it.

"But it's time for the show to air, and the homework hasn't been finished yet, so it's not that important... But that day is the Season Championship, so I just..."

"It's okay to do it occasionally, it's just a matter of this level." Aska said casually.

"When the show was over, it was already very late, so I went to bed first. When Miss Sefina came the next day, she felt strange and asked me why I didn't finish my homework. I honestly said it was because I watched TV first...the result... "

"Did she hit you?" asked Askar.

Kaya shook her head.

"She tied me to a chair with a rope, gave me more homework, and was not allowed to go anywhere until I finished."

"Not allowed to go to the toilet?" Aska raised his eyebrows.

"No." Jiazai whispered, "She said it was for my own good."

"Do you believe in that?"

"I do not know."

"Do you want to punch that woman in the nose?" Aska took a breath and asked with a smile.

"...If even Miss Sefina doesn't come, wouldn't I be the only one left at home? Even if homework is boring, we can have afternoon tea and cake together after finishing."

"Don't be easily bought by this kind of thing..." Aska smiled wryly.

"If I can't be a pastry chef, I can only like cakes in general. Everyday afternoon tea time is my only pleasure." Jiazai pouted.

Aska looked at Jiazai strangely, "Do you want to be a pastry chef?"

"Thinking about it before, but after talking to Miss Sefina, she screamed horribly. I think it means "no way."