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"Maggis Wings and the purpose of Maxxis, I really don't understand very well, but they probably sincerely hope to liberate magical girls." Xiaotiaoyou calmly drank the green tea provided by the magical girls in the Great East District , while saying to Izumi Shibaya: "However, what kind of magical girl is liberated, and how many people will be sacrificed is another matter."

"Hmm." Izumi Shibaiya looked at Xiaotiaoyu and said, "It seems that your Wings of Magis is really not a good organization. The magical girls who joined your organization were deceived quite miserably..."

"Indeed." The bird said to Izumi Shibayo with a smile, "But, what about this society? Izumi Shibayo?"

"Do you really think that Japan is a good society now? Do you really think that Japan has not deceived people into misery?"

"...Hmm." After listening to Xiaoniaoyou's words, Izumi Shishiba was silent for a while, and then she said to Xiaoniaoyou: "It seems that Xiaoniaoyou is very dissatisfied with the current society."

"Hehe." Xiaoniaoyou asked Izumi Shibayo: "So, Izumi-san, what about your personal experience?"

"At the same time, as a senior high school student, how many jobs do you have to work a day to support your family?"

"!" Heizumi Shiqiye was slightly startled when he heard the question asked by Xiaoniaoyou, but she quickly calmed down and asked Xiaoniaoyou, "Have you sent someone to investigate my family? "

"No, I didn't do anything." Feeling the magic power emanating from the front, back, left, and right, and even Izumi Shibayo himself suddenly strengthened, Xiaotiaoyou stretched out his hand unhurriedly, and looked innocently at Izumi Seventeen Nights said: "It was Izumi-san, the smell on your body told me."

"odor?"

"Hey." Xiao Niaoyou nodded, then sniffed his nose twice on purpose, and said, "I can smell many kinds of smells from you, the first one is the smell of pesticide residues on vegetables and the smell of vegetables. The taste itself, the second is dessert, ice cream and ketchup, boiled eggs and rice, with a little bit of perfume."

"One of your jobs should be a supermarket salesperson or something, near the vegetable section, and the other job is a maid cafe?" Xiaoniaoyou said calmly to Izumi Seventeen Nights: "It seems that there is still a smell of fried food? Although It’s a bit faded, but it feels like I’ve been in touch for a long time, was your last job in a deli or a fast food restaurant?”

"...You, the wish you made back then was for a dog's nose?"

"Yeah, woof." Izumi Shibayo's way of speaking, which almost made people unable to talk, did not arouse Xiaotiaoyou's anger. Instead, she smiled and imitated dog barking, and asked Izumi Shibayo : "So, would you like to go for a walk with me?"

"Dog Shukinsama (Master)?"

"...Hmm." Seeing Xiaoniaoyou so smoothly accepting that weird identity, Iquan Shiqiye couldn't help saying, "You really give people a shameless feeling..."

"Thank you for the compliment." Xiaoniao smiled and said to Izumi Seventeen Nights: "Shameless, willing to bear the burden of hard work, not to fight back, but every modern human being, collectively known as cattle and horses, must have the skills to exercise. .”

"Hum..." Hequan Shiqiye heard Xiaoniaoyou's words, and his face was stained with a trace of displeasure, "I, these words you said..."

"Hey, I'm sorry." There was a trace of helplessness in Xiaotiaoyou's smile, and she said to Izumi Shibaiya: "I didn't intend to make you angry, Izumi-san, I was just stating the facts."

"So, for the sake of acquaintance, can you trust me again?" Xiaoniaoyou stretched out his hand to Izumi Shibayo, and asked Izumi Shibayo with a good-natured smile: "I want Together with you, let’s go to the Sanjing District for a stroll, the Rong District is also very good, and any place in the Dadong District is also very good.”

"..."

Hequan Shiqiye didn't speak, she didn't nod, she didn't shake her head, she just kept staring at Xiaoniaoyou, as if she wanted to use the eye on the right that wasn't covered by the jewel to stare at Xiaoniaoyou's body. big hole.

After a long time, Izumi-san still did not hold the hand that Xiaotiaoyu handed over.

"Hmm, you are such a magical magical girl." Izumi Shibaiya said to Xiaotiaoyou: "This is the first time I have seen someone who I can't read minds."

"From now until now, I have used various questions to test whether you are lying, and various topics to test whether you are hiding something, but nothing can be seen."

"Hey, that's normal." Xiaotiaoyou said to Izumi Shibayo: "After all, I'm a magical girl who has survived for 29 years, so it's reasonable to know a few mind defense magic. "

"If Izumi-san feels unhappy and uneasy because of my precautions..." Xiaotiaoyou flipped the outstretched hand, showing the soul gem in the palm of his hand, and said to Izumi Shibayo: "Then, how about taking my soul gem away, please?"

"?!"

Even Izumi Seventeen Nights was frightened by this operation when he saw Xiaotiaoyou, and the surrounding magical girls who were staring at Xiaotiaoyou from a little distance away kept blinking their eyes, for fear that they would be hit by it. Illusion magic.

"You know what that means?"

"I am very clear and understand what it means to hand over the soul gem." Xiaoniaoyou said to Izumi Seventeen Nights: "However, I don't think Izumi-san is that kind. He promised to meet and talk with me, but in my Without doing anything, you want to kill my existence."

"After all, I can feel a very strict sense of justice from you."

Hequan Shiqiye heard Xiaoniaoyou's words, looked at the soul gem in Xiaoniaoyou's palm, and then looked at Xiaoniaoyou's sincere smile.

In the end, Izumi Shibaya revoked his transformation and stood up from the chair.

"I understand." Izumi Shibaya held Xiao Niaoyou's arm and said, "I'll walk with you."

Chapter 46: Come with me and meet someone.

"Hey, Izumi-san." Xiaotiaoyu asked Izumi Shibayo who was walking beside her, "Why do you think people in the western part of Kamihama City hate people in the eastern part?"

"To tell you the truth, before I became a magical girl, I was looking for the answer to this question." Izumi Shizayoya stroked the soul gem worn on his middle finger in the form of a silver ring, and said to Xiaotiaoyu said:

"Also, after I became a magical girl and gained the ability to read minds, I was still looking for the answer to this question."

"However, I am still at a loss as to the answer to this question."

"Really?" Xiaoniaoyou looked at Izumi Seventeen Nights who was thinking, and asked her: "So, how about your own family?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, Izumi-san, aren't you born in Dadong District?" Xiaoniaoyou said to Izumi Seventeen Nights: "You were born here, grew up here, and know how people in the West District discriminate and hate you. Also know what's going on in the Big East."

"Perhaps, you can answer this question just by asking yourself?"

Back in time three hours ago, Xiaoniaoyou asked Quan Shiqiye to go for a walk together.

After Kotoriyu negotiated with Izumi Shibayo, Izumi Shibaya agreed, and the two set off from the amusement park on the easternmost side of Kamihama City, all the way west.

Along the way, the two slowly watched the "scenery" together.

It is a scenery, but in the eastern part of Kamihama City, which has a population of more than 330 million, especially in the Daito District of Kamihama City, there are only various scenes of miserable decline.

In stark contrast to the trolleybuses passing among the high-rise buildings, the eastern part of Kamihama City seems to have been pressed on the pause button.

The kind of tube buildings that were popular in the last century can be seen everywhere here. When passing through these tube buildings, there are also dilapidated concrete roads and buses running on such concrete roads emitting black exhaust.

Aging buildings, decaying streets, homeless people who can occasionally be seen in the corners, the further east, the more these things.

"Ask us?" Izumi Seventeen Nights looked at such a street and the situation, and Xiaotiaoyou said to her: "I think it really is a historical factor..."

"In the past, this place used to be very popular."

Izumi Shibaya looked at the surrounding streets. While walking side by side with Xiaotiaoyu, she recalled the past Daito District of Kamihama City: "Although the development is somewhat inferior to the west side, you can see all kinds of things on the street. All kinds of people, peddlers, noisy parents leading their children, workers who just got off work..."

In the middle of the conversation, Izumi Shibaiya couldn't go on anymore.

Because what Izumi Seventeen Nights said now no longer exists.

The eastern part of Kamihama City now exists, and there are only deserted streets. The shops on both sides of these streets have open doors, like hungry mouths, waiting for customers to appear.

"My father was also a worker." Izumi Shibayo looked up at the sky, with a sincere nostalgic expression on his face, "I can still think of the back of my father when he worked in a steel factory. He was really handsome..."

"Was...now? Your father, has he been laid off?" Xiaotiaoyou asked Izumi Shishinight: "Because the steel factory laid off employees or even went bankrupt?"

"In the end, the owner of the factory committed suicide - he tried to use this method to defraud insurance, but he failed, and his father's medical expenses had to be given up..."

"Although my father tried to find a job that doesn't require heavy physical strength, it either requires a certain professional skill or a certain level of education. The father who has been a worker for decades does not have these things..."

"Sure enough..." Xiaoniaoyou sighed helplessly when he heard the situation of Izumi Seventeen Nights, "Then, where is your mother?"

"Mother, it may be because her father was hurt too much, and her spirit is always not very good..." Hequan Shiqiye stroked his chest, and said to Xiaotiaoyou: "She always forgets things, if you ask her to go out to buy vegetables , Not only will I forget what food to buy, but people may get lost.”

"... No wonder you have to work two jobs..." After listening to what Izumi Shibayo said, Xiao Niaoyou's eyes showed a little sadness, "You still have a younger brother to raise, plus a couple like this Parents, it's really difficult."

"That's not the kind of parents." Izumi Shibayo looked at Xiaotiaoyou with unhappy eyes, and said to Xiaotiaoyou: "Although the family situation is not good, I think I am very happy."

"Although I'm a little poorer, my family is still very harmonious." When Izumi Shibaiya talked about this, a little smile appeared on his face, and he said: "Father did not give up on himself because of the injury, and my mother's amnesia It's not so bad that I can't take care of myself, my younger brother is also studying hard, and our family is working hard to live."

"Poor is poor, but I think they are my best family."

"Really? But family love can't be eaten, isn't it?" Xiaoniaoyou looked at Izumi Seventeen Nights with a sad face, and said, "In the end, you still need to work to earn money to subsidize the family, don't you?" ?”

"Hmm, isn't this a matter of course?" Izumi Shibaya looked at Xiaoniaoyou in confusion, and said, "I'm old anyway, I can go to work, if mom and dad can't go to work, it's just me and me The younger brother supports the family."

"As for my younger brother, who is only 15 years old and still in junior high school, it is a bit outrageous to ask him to work."

"But, what will happen after that?" Xiaoniaoyou said to Izumi Shibaya with a worried expression on his face: "Leaving aside other accidents and misfortunes, Izumi-san, your father's legs may deteriorate, right? Your mother Amnesia, too, can get so bad that it needs to be attended to."

"Maybe your younger brother can find some good jobs when he grows up, but who will take care of them when his father has bad legs and his mother has severe amnesia?"

"Hmm." Hequan Shiqiye frowned when she heard Xiaoniaoyou's words, and she said: "I have naturally considered these things, if the matter is really serious, then I will stay at home and take care of it." The father and mother will be fine, and the younger brother will go out to work."

"If the family is together, there will always be a way."

"So, what if the whole family doesn't want to be together anymore?" What Xiaoniaoyou said made Izumi Shishibaya stunned for a moment, and then there was an unpleasant emotion in his eyes, but Xiaoniaoyou continued: "Your My younger brother is still young, he may have encountered difficulties from bad teachers and bullying from classmates, but he has not really experienced the hardships of life."

"He has not encountered the pain of the boss who controls his economic lifeline and decides whether his next meal will be rice bowl or swill, and he has not encountered the pain of deciding whether he can continue to work. The guests made trouble for him unreasonably, beat him and he couldn't fight back, and scolded him when he couldn't fight back when he was wronged."

"He hasn't really experienced the bitterness and sweetness of his own independent life, let alone the extra extra than others, which requires him to worry about his parents' physical and mental problems."

"Children will always grow up." Xiaoniaoyou said to Izumi Shibaiya in a sad tone: "Maybe you can accept this, working two jobs a day and going to school, taking care of parents' lives, But your brother might not."

"Sooner or later, he will want to leave the family, because when the child grows up, he will always want to have his own life, fall in love and get married, and have his own children, instead of spending most of his life on his parents at home."

"It's the same with the parents at home..." Izumi Shibakyo, who was facing displeasure on the other side of Xiaoniaoyou, continued: "How long can your father accept his incompetence? Where is your mother?"

"...No, it won't." Izumi Shibayo said firmly or stubbornly to Xiaotiaoyou: "That's my younger brother, he can definitely..."

"It's because of that attitude and thinking that it's dangerous, isn't it?" Xiaoniaoyou said to Izumi Shibaiya who was biting his lip lightly: "He is him, you are you, although you are siblings, but You don’t necessarily think the same way.”

"If it is really possible to communicate with each other so easily, how can brothers turn against each other and family members kill each other?"

"..." Hequan Shiqiye heard Xiaoniaoyou's words, she closed her eyes for a while, then opened her eyes, and said dissatisfiedly to Xiaoniaoyou: "There is a saying that is good, don't talk to Xiaoniaoyou. Other people's lives are dictated by."

"Maybe, and you're right, I'm really talking too much." Xiao Niaoyou smiled apologetically, and they had already walked out of the Great East District while talking, and now they walked to the Artisan District, "If we have lunch now, The time is just right, do you want to have lunch together?"

"As an apology for the bastard words I said before, how about I treat you?" Xiaoniao said to Izumi-san with a playful smile, "If you don't mind, please order some to bring to your family."

"...Hmm." After Hequan Shiqiye heard these words, her face was slightly relieved, and she said to Xiaoniaoyou: "It's more or less the same."

Izumi Shibayo, who grew up in a difficult environment, can understand the hardships of life in Daito Ward, Kamihama City better than people who pass by here. If someone invites you to dinner, she has no reason to refuse.

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"Hey, Izumi-san." Xiaoniaoyou asked Izumi Seventeen Nights: "Back to our original question, how about it?"

"Why do you think people in the West End hate people in the East End?"

The current Izumi Seventeen Nights and Xiaoniaoyou walked into a restaurant in the artisan district.

This is already the edge of the territory controlled by the magical girls of the Dadong District represented by Izumi Shibaya. Going forward, it is a neutral zone where nothing should be offended, and other magical girls are managing it.

So, they ate here.

"...is it coming again?" Izumi Shiqiye put down the spoon of the beef brisket rice that he was just serving his family for dinner, with a little dissatisfaction in his tone, she asked Xiaoniaoyou: " Didn’t I just say it? Because of history.”

"In the past, the confrontation between the artisan district in the east and the water name district in the west was very serious, and this hatred has always existed and has not been resolved, and it continues to exist until modern times." Speaking of this, Izumi Shiqi Ye showed a sad expression, "In the past, I also confronted Qihai for this reason."

"From the past to the present, we have been bound by the history of Kamihama."

"So that's how it is." Xiao Niaoyou smiled, looked at Izumi Seventeen Nights, and asked her: "Izumi-san, do you think the hatred between the west and the east is due to historical reasons?"

"Hmm..." He Quan looked at Xiao Niaoyou's smile, and said unhappily, "I always feel that you are teasing me."

"Could it be, Xiaotiaoyou, do you think you will understand the situation of Kamihama better than me, a native of Kamihama City East Ward?"

"No." Xiaoniao shook his hand and said to Izumi Shishibaya: "I was just thinking about how to persuade you to come with me."

"!" Hequan Shiqiye frowned after hearing Xiaoniaoyou's words, she suppressed her anger, and asked Xiaoniaoyou: "Didn't you just come to see me and chat with me? "

"It's a pity, Izumi-san, you guessed wrong again." Xiaoniaoyou waved his hand, and then asked Izumi, "I just want to ask, would you like to meet someone with me?"

"Meet someone?" Hequan Shiqiye asked Xiaoniaoyou, "Who is it?"

"Well." Xiaotiaoyou stood up, and then put the silver ring-shaped soul gem on the middle finger on the table in front of Izumi Shibayo, and said to her: "Let's go, go a little further, go A trip to the capital area."

"You take my soul gem and put it in the palm of your hand." Xiao Niaoyou pushed the soul gem on the table forward, and smiled at Izumi Shibayo who was sitting on the seat, saying: "If If you think I'm tricking you into a trap, you can crush my soul gem with your hands."

"As a response..." Xiaotiaoyou conjured a cloak from his hand, and said to Izumi Shizayoi: "I hope you can wear this invisibility cloak."

"The people we are going to meet may be a little sensitive."

Chapter 47: We cannot answer any of your ethical questions

The Sankyo District of Kamihama City at night is quite lively.

Sanjing District has always had a vibrant commercial street, the most famous of which is the restaurant street.

And on such a street, there is a homeless man, lying next to a shop that closes early, watching the crowd coming and going, out of place.