The Crucifixion Cross

Su Fang's fingertips evoked the black-haired girl's exquisite white chin, but her eyes of different colors revealing endless chill still stared at Xiao firmly.

"Her name will not be revealed for the time being. You just need to know that this child has been monitoring and protecting you since a long time ago." Su Fang's fingers brushed the girl's fluffy white cheeks in a frivolous gesture. And ambiguous, it is completely different from her usual gentleness and elegance, but it fits perfectly with her lofty 'Queen' status, "In the days to come, she will continue to observe secretly until you make a choice. a moment."

"...what if, I say 'no'?"

After a moment of silence, Akatsuki forced herself not to look at those sharp eyes, and asked in a low voice.

"Did I say it? You don't have the right to choose. I put it in front of you and said that the only way to join my organization is... I don't think it's too extravagant to give up the way to the future to the dead. ?"

die? !

Akatsuki's pupils constricted.

"Why do you think I've been watching you but not attacking you?" Su Fang smiled softly, "Because of your sense of justice? Because you are doing good deeds? No, I just need you to be an independent and just individual in the eyes of the world. ——The key words are 'independence' and 'justice'."

Seeing Xiao who seemed to understand something, Su Fang continued:

"I can have as much pure violence as I want, but the violence with the nature of 'justice' is different—no matter how fearful or dissatisfied the people are with your 'changing their hearts', no one can deny that you are 'justice' Yes, similarly, because the targets you have chosen span too far, and you can’t even find anything in common except for the ‘villain’, so your identities are only independent groups, not pawns manipulated by others.”

Su Fang pointed to the silent Xiao, and said slowly:

"For me, you who have both 'sense of justice' and 'independence' are really very handy tools. That's why I brought you here specially to persuade you to join my organization."

"What if... I say 'no'?"

Difficult, Akatsuki asked this non-questionable question again.

"Then I can only ask this child to solve the problem~" Su Fang smiled, "You also know that the most dangerous power is the power that is beyond your control. For example, because family members are taken hostage and cast under other people’s command, they become troublesome props, or is it better to nip the danger in the cradle before the worst happens? Ah, by the way, you don’t have to worry I attacked your family and used it as an excuse to coerce you to obey my orders or something, because it didn't fit my 'aesthetics' - my aesthetics would not allow me to do something like this."

"I think you're very 'low' now...!" Akatsuki gritted her teeth.

"You can say whatever you want," Su Fang shrugged nonchalantly, "you just need to know that this is the only way in front of you-the dead don't need a way, right? Of course, even though you say that , but I think, you also need a little time to digest this information and make your own judgment, so, kindly, I can give you two days to think, To be or not to be - the power to choose You, the fate of the phantom thieves is up to the phantom thieves themselves, and I won't intervene much... How about it, is it fair?"

Su Fang smiled:

"—After all, I'm not a devil~"

Chapter 65. Death of the Demon King (laughs)

Sadness, despair, anger, unwillingness, resentment...

Countless depressed or passionate emotions emerged in Xiao's heart, like a volcano about to erupt, brewing with unstoppable power.

However, in the face of the cold that seems to be able to freeze even time, these intense emotions were finally frozen into an ugly lump of ice, which sank down with Xiao's heart until it touched a dark abyss...

Akatsuki was speechless.

Regardless of intelligence or force, she is at an overwhelming disadvantage.

At this time, Akatsuki even began to regret her overly rational thinking—if she, like the protagonists in those passionate novels or animations, can always say some famous quotes that make people's blood boil without going through the brain, then at least in In terms of momentum, she still won't lose.

However, Akatsuki couldn't say it...

She is a rational person, and her rational thinking tempered by setbacks tells her that the Phantom Thieves... have no chance of winning.

Xiao was very sure that she was absolutely not in a trance, she didn't even blink her eyes more, all her attention was focused on Su Fang, but at that moment - the world changed.

That has transcended the category of simple 'fast', and can't even be described by 'speed', but as if... as if even time has been frozen!

At that moment, Akatsuki's time was 'stopped'——

If you want to kill a person whose time has stopped, let alone a professional killer, even a powerless ordinary person can easily do it with a kitchen knife, not to mention the girl with different eyes ?

Akatsuki's intuition told her that the mechanical long sword in the girl's hand was by no means a decoration, but a peerless weapon that drank countless blood...

If such a person really wanted to kill Akatsuki, she would of course be killed without any resistance—even, even the fact that she had been 'killed', Akatsuki would not be able to detect...

Such a quiet and gentle death...

Full of despair and melancholy, Xiao supported his exhausted body and staggered out of Su Fang's bedroom. Without even saying hello, he walked out of Baiyu's house in a daze.

However, what she didn't know was that not long after she left Baiyu's house, the image of the big devil, who made her feel sad and desperate, and almost oppressed, collapsed suddenly...

As soon as the sound of the door closing reached Su Fang's ears, she shivered violently like an electric shock, hid her not so petite body in her coat at once, and instantly fell down on the ground. He got out of bed, rolled up the quilt that was still covered with hoarfrost, and wrapped himself up like a caterpillar.

The warmth from the electric blanket—the electric blanket was turned on by Su Fang when the girl with different pupils froze Akatsuki—made Su Fang breathe a sigh of relief, but the lingering cold in the room still chilled her terribly.

Frozen blue and white fingers tremblingly tugged at the sleeves of the girl beside her, Su Fang's voice trembled as if ice shards would fall at any moment:

"Quickly, quickly dissolve the ice, ice, ice, Bai! I'm about to freeze, freeze, freeze... I'm freezing to death! I'm about to be frozen into a Blizzard robot!"

Immediately after the big devil turned into a caterpillar who is afraid of the cold, the image of the cold killer with different pupils also collapsed into a fledgling cutie:

"Oh oh oh! Okay, Master, I'm doing this for you... ah?" The girl with different pupils got stuck while talking. The dazed feeling of something bad.

Sure enough, only listening to the girl with different pupils, she paused, she was cute, cute, silly and naive and frowned:

"Ability... how do I stop it?"

"How could I know! Don't ask me! Isn't that your ability?" Su Fang's voice was already faintly crying - no way, who would drive the car at minus ten in March and April? The high-speed air conditioner even pretends to be a big devil, and he will be frozen into this virtue—don’t forget, Su Fang is a serious ordinary person!

It was not easy for Su Fang to insist on dressing up in the indoor temperature of minus ten degrees.

Her coat was purely for the purpose of highlighting her domineering image, and she put it on to tell Xiao that her abilities were superior to 13. It didn't have any cold-proof effect at all.

To be honest, if Xiao kept insisting on her talking back, Su Fang would probably be really frozen into a fool13...

Fortunately, Xiao succumbed in time, and Su Fang was finally able to get into the bed that was actually not that warm—it would be even better if the girl with different pupils could be so tricky.

"This is not my ability, Master?" The girl with different pupils—Bai Winchester raised a finger and explained solemnly: "My ability is time manipulation, and the ability of ice is lent by Master's younger brother." The power of my sword..."

If she hadn't been explaining seriously while the nosebleeds kept flowing, then Bai at this time seemed to have the aura of the mentor she longed for, but it's a pity, just like her collapsed The image of a ruthless killer who is not even scumbag left, Bai Meng's coveted mentor status is still quite a distance away from the unreliable her now...

"Don't worry about what ability or incompetence, quickly stop the ice!"

"Oh oh oh..."

After a while of panic, Bai finally stopped the ability of the magic sword in his hand before Su Fang's IQ was frozen.

Under the effect of the air conditioner, the temperature in the room gradually became normal, and Su Fang's complexion also looked much better.

She slowly moved her frozen body, and bit by bit she straightened up from the bed.

Her gaze quietly turned to Bai who was guarding the bed, and after seeing that the assassin girl with different pupils didn't feel any discomfort on her face, Su Fang couldn't help complaining in her heart: Is she really worthy of being a person from the extreme north?This cold resistance is really not covered...

After complaining, Su Fang looked at the bedroom where there was no snow left after the ice edge disappeared, and she sighed in her heart again—so, is this the so-called 'super power'...

Su Fang didn't lie to Xiao just now, she really believed in the existence of supernatural powers, and she had indeed seen them with her own eyes, but her so-called 'supernatural powers' actually referred to the 'qi' practiced by the Mishima family, like Bai's ability to control ice and snow Su Fang didn't really come into contact with the ability of time and time until half a month ago, when Su Fei introduced the girl named Bai Winchester to herself through a phone call.

"Super power..." Looking at Bai who was bleeding from the nose, Su Fang took a tissue from the bedside table and subconsciously sighed: "I'm really envious..."

"? If the Master wants it, can't it be good to ask the Master's younger brother to do it again?" Bai obediently leaned down, allowing Su Fang to wipe her nosebleeds from excessive use of abilities—this scene Although it was quite warm, it also made Bai's voice sound very strange, "The one in my hand was given to me by Master's younger brother!"

Bai shook the long sword in his hand, and said it as a matter of course.

Hua Ling's words: I saw some people say that Su Fang's character design collapsed, but it's not true, because Su Fang was a character who didn't officially debut until Chang Kongjuan. Before that, she had been living in Su Fei's memories and phone calls. The image of the little white flower is only "Su Fang in Su Fei's eyes" instead of the real Su Fang—the real Su Fang has been such a good child from the beginning who treats enemies like a severe winter and treats her friends like a warm spring.

Chapter 66. Assassins and Syndicates

It has been mentioned before (this "before" can be traced back to almost half a year before the real world, that is, before Su Fei and Qiyana met in the story), as mentioned before, under the guidance of Su Fei and Kazama Jin, the old and old Mishima has been rejuvenated, abandoning the closed-door policy of the past, and turned to reform and opening up... No, it is the road of external expansion.

The so-called "expansion" is actually cleansing + wooing to put it bluntly—cleaning out those who choose to fight against Mishima on a fancy territory, and wooing those who choose to surrender on their own initiative.

This mode of action is similar to Su Fang's judgment on Akatsuki. In short, it is "surrender or die". However, Mishima is a big organization after all, and it cares about "reputation". The local forces were also given a third option - to leave this land forever, spend the rest of their lives as a 'man of the mountains', and not to have any contact with any organization other than Mishima, otherwise, the result would be the same as the first Two options.

Renault and Ruud, who have not appeared for a long time but have played an important role, are one of the above-mentioned "local forces" - an insignificant one.

The girl with different pupils—the assassin family that Bai Winchester belongs to is a huge and important force among them.

This family and Mishima are exhausted, they both value the inheritance of knowledge and skills above everything else, and they don't pay much attention to the continuation of blood. Want to go and see the outside world.

More importantly, this family, like Mishima, has its own belief-justice!

That's right, this family of super assassins whose fundamental purpose is to cultivate assassins, and who regard the assassination sword dance inherited by the family as more important than their blood, is actually a superman of justice...

There are so many similarities between the two families, and the bad things that Destiny did before and after Otto came to power can undoubtedly be classified as 'evil', and although Mishima can't say how 'just' , but at least Mishima's belief in fighting against Honkai is absolutely "justice".

After the young patriarch Hitoshi Kazama explained the matter clearly, the heart of justice in the heart of the boss of the Assassin's family was burning, and he decided to join Mishima on the spot, and made the most "potential" assassin in the family— — That is, the girl with different pupils, Bai Winchester, personally sent to the far east.

Although her performances are unreliable and her sword dance skills are only average, Bai's power should not be underestimated, because her awakening ability is really incomparable to Bug - who would have thought that this girl who is as rustic as a village girl, How could it have such a forceful flying ability to freeze time?

Even though he was still not proficient in controlling his abilities, in battle, even if he only paused his opponent for a second, it was enough to make an 'unavoidable' attack in vain.

Su Fei was naturally excited after knowing this. Although this ability to stop the opponent's time is not quite like Platinum Star and World, it is more like a brother control, but this does not prevent him from preparing a dozen souls for Bai. Throwing knife made of steel.

However, Su Fei's attempt was still in vain, because Bai said that she used a sword, and she would not even take a second look at "unjust" props such as flying knives...

As a result, the original flying knife plan fell through, and it was replaced by a pseudo God's Key based on the Houkai weapons of the Mandate of Gods series, and the core drive was made by the two Herrschers of Mishima.

Relying on the same frost drive as Hrungnir, this evil sword also has the ability to manipulate ice and snow, plus Bai's own power to stop time...

Assassin of Frozen Time - this is Shiro's title.

Regrettably, compared to the ability brought to her by the evil sword and the power of time awakened by herself, Bai pays more attention to the assassination sword dance inherited from the family - although compared with her shamelessly strong ability, Bai's sword dance level It's a third-rate level at all-that's why she didn't know how to stop the embarrassing situation of Xiejian's ability.

By the way, the reason why Su Fang was frozen so badly was also related to Bai’s strangeness—Su Fang originally planned to make Bai’s freeze effective for about 1 minute so that she could pretend to be 13, but Xiaoyi accidentally It was frozen for 5 minutes, not only made Su Fang almost stupefied, but she also suffered from nosebleeds due to excessive use of power...

Well, generally speaking, outside of assassination occasions, Bai is basically a country girl who is full of cuteness and cuteness. That's why Su Fang asked Bai to hide her body behind ice cubes, and ordered her not to speak. You are allowed to make extra moves, as long as you cooperate with her to put on a cool pose.

Fortunately in misfortune, although Bai is unreliable in all kinds of things except ability bugs, the organization she joined after entering Mishima is composed of other "superpowers" (Su Fang's perspective) who chose to surrender to Mishima The other members of the special operations team Syndicat are still very good, and they usually take special care of this junior who always likes to lose the chain but has a strong sense of justice.

Of course, although Su Fang's Syndicat has the same name as various villain organizations, it's all because of the bad taste of the siblings. In fact, this organization has never done anything "injustice"— - Or, as far as Bai knows, this organization is 'just' - at least, it is 'just' in terms of 'righteousness'.

Su Fang never stopped talking about Bai's chronic brainwashing, and Syndicat's righteousness, and the fact that the world is indeed getting better because of her every assassination, also made Bai willingly surrender to this younger than her. Please be a little smaller, Your Lady Queen.

When usually on missions, Bai also admires Su Fang who has a good brain - because she herself has the attributes of a fool.

However, just because Su Fang's brain is better than Bai's, when Bai thought the mission was over for now, Su Fang, who wrapped herself like a caterpillar, still frowned.

What she told Akatsuki was basically the truth, and there was no deliberate deception—because it was not in line with her "aesthetics"—the Phantom Thieves had always existed in her field of vision, and it was indeed she who photographed them for Syndicat As a reserve member, contact with the leader of the Phantom Thieves, Joker, is also planned, but... the time, isn't it too early?

In Su Fang's plan, the contact with Joker should be done after her Phantom Thieves suffered the first major setback, because desperate people are always easier to control than optimistic, confident and positive people, but now...

Could it be that Louise and the others acted ahead of time?

Su Fang, who was thinking so, took out her mobile phone from under the quilt, and quickly chose a contact.

After a few 'beep~beep' sounds, a voice that sounded similar to Qiyana but was a little more delicate sounded:

"Good evening, Su Fang, what's the matter?"

Chapter 67. An annoying and admirable guy

Louise Frances Lou Brown du la Vallière - this one is not only long, but also makes people think 'is this some high-ranking noble lady? 'The name unfortunately belongs to the girl who was talking to Su Fang on the phone at this time.

What's more unfortunate is that, just like the first impression given by this X and long name, Louise is really a veritable noble lady-her father not only holds the title of duke in an ancient western country , who also serves as the Minister of Military Supplies, specializing in the development and manufacture of various inflammable and explosive dangerous goods, can be described as a true 'noble family'.

Generally speaking, a girl like Louise who comes from an orthodox 'secularized' aristocratic family will not have anything to do with Mishima who 'knows the truth of the world', but this young lady seems to have encountered What happened so that she not only fell in love with a seemingly ordinary boy from the Far East, but also came into contact with the existence of "Honkai", and thus got involved with Mishima... …

Su Fang didn't know much about the more specific things, but she didn't care too much, because after Su Fei knew about these two people, she immediately told her with a smile that there was nothing wrong with them, although it was like an adventure novel His experience sounds quite bizarre, but for these two, this level of 'adventure' is completely within the acceptable range, as long as the minimum surveillance is maintained, there is no need to be too vigilant.

Although I don't know why Su Fei is full of confidence in them, but since Su Fei said they can be trusted, Su Fang will certainly not be suspicious, and quickly responded to the expectations of Louise, a boy from the extreme east, with "Mishima family" Acting Heads' identities appeared in front of them and absorbed them into their organizations.

After really getting in touch with the "inside of the world", the sense of superiority and arrogance brought about by the little family background and extraordinary power in Louise's heart quickly disappeared without even dregs left - when a person because she can overcome An arrogant guy with a hundred enemies suddenly finds out that the other people around him are all full-level graduated military generals who have traveled from the Wushuang world. If he can still be proud, he will be damned.

Well, having said that, although the superiority and arrogance in Louise's heart have disappeared, maybe it's because of the temper of the young lady who was spoiled since she was a child, maybe it's because of the bad taste of some unspeakable big man, maybe it's Because of the CV... No matter what, Louise is doomed to be unable to escape the attribute of 'tsundere'.

When we first met, to be honest, Su Fang was still very uncomfortable, because the people around her were either docile and amiable or respectful to her, arrogant or something... I really haven't met her before!

But after a long time, Su Fang got used to it, and sighed the same as Su Fei and the boy from the far east: Louise, so cute...

Cough cough! Closer to home——

Louise is a tsundere, a utterly hopeless tsundere, so Su Fang has long been accustomed to Louise's usual unruliness and self-willedness—that is to say, but after getting along for a long time, Su Fang I think this little waywardness is quite cute——Hearing Louise's humble and polite voice on the phone at this time, Su Fang is still a little uncomfortable...

A strange sense of disobedience made Su Fang even have a thought that made her laugh and cry—could Louise have been 'changed' by the Phantom Thieves?Otherwise, why doesn't she look like her with a good attitude?

After a moment of surprise, the delicate Su Fang quickly let go of this nonsense, and discovered the truth of the matter, so she said in a firm tone:

"Louise, you are at Hiraga's house now, right?"

Just as Su Fang made the point, Louise's lovely mournful voice came from the other side of the phone:

"Whoa--!"

"Sure enough..." Su Fang sighed, "Louis, you really understand..."

"How did Su Fang know?!" Louise's voice was full of shyness and embarrassment, but she was in Hiraga's house—her first reaction was enough to prove that Su Fang's guess was correct But she has to maintain a 'proper' demeanor, so at this time Louise's voice sounds very happy, and Su Fang can even imagine Louise's shy and flushed cuteness through this voice appearance……

This brain supplement made Su Fang feel emotional again: Louise, so cute...

After a moment of trance, Su Fang coughed a few times—it meant that she was about to talk about business: