The bell continued to ring loudly and continuously, the person who rang it seemed to deliberately torture the bell and the poor neighbors around. If you think that the person causing public disorder out there is the venerable Lord Godaime, you are mistaken.
The door opened.
"Natsu? What are you doing here?" Minato raised his eyebrows in surprise when he saw the person in front of him, a presence that shouldn't have appeared in front of Akazaka's apartment.
His name is Natsu, Yamamoto Natsu. He has a slim figure, wearing that sepia-brown Master uniform is the perfect cover to cover his six-pack that makes many girls fall. Also, his neatly combed banana green hair stood out from the crowd completely contrary to his name - Summer.
Master Yamamoto Natsu, Akazaka Minato's close comrade, the two can be counted as childhood friends, despite their opposite personalities, quarreling over and over a thousand times, but have remained good friends for more than twenty years.
Nastu's dark brown eyes curiously looked at his teammates from top to bottom, then from bottom to top, finally bouncing back and forth, peering into the house.
When Natsu was about to enter, Minato's arm suddenly blocked the door. He didn't want his goddamn friend to walk into his house without taking off his dusty shoes, for another reason.
"What are you doing here?"
"Ehehe, I have a new mission, so come here and tell me." Natsu grinned, "I never thought I'd see it on the way..."
"See what?"
"Oh my god, my friend is finally a real man" Natsu exclaims, clapping his hands on Minato's shoulder enthusiastically with a smile that can't see the country: "How did the first night feel? ?"
"What are you babbling about, Natsu?"
"Even now pretending to be innocent in my pants. I've seen that girl, the little blonde beauty at daddy—"
"One more word and I'll feed you with your eyes," Minato interrupted, raising two fingers ready to poke Natsu in the eye.
Knowing his friend's temper, Natsu quickly waved his hand and laughed, but still tried to find out more information:
"Hey, I was joking. Where did you get that blonde, Minato?"
It seemed impossible to conceal it any longer, for paper could never cover fire. Especially when Natsu accidentally saw Rino on the balcony.
"Come on, are you going to let me stand here and breathe in the air?" Natsu grumbled. Came here to visit my best friend, but he left him standing outside the door to chat while it was so cold.
Minato stood aside for an answer. Natsu took off his shoes and put them neatly in place or he'd be scolded and slapped by the black-haired man with the cleanliness problem. He sat on the long sofa, eyes still wandering around looking for something, to be more precise, someone.
No tea, no cake, Minato's treatment for Natsu was deliberately banished. He also doesn't expect anything from his single friend, no junk food is obvious.
Minato's elbows rested on the table, chin resting on their clasped hands.
"What's the mission?"
"The East Gate of Kojimatsuri is about to fall, we are arranged to go there to prevent that from happening. And also to protect the inhabitants there"
Kojimatsuri East Gate?
"I heard that there is an underground organization operating there, it is highly likely that they are the culprits that caused the Kojimatsuri gate to crack. If the gate collapses completely, the area within a radius of 70km will suffer heavy damage, even death. cannot restore the original state"
Minato nodded in confirmation.
"Okay. Who's the mission this time?"
"Me, you, Kodama and" Natsu hesitated, eyes looking up the stairs leading to the second floor. "And that blonde girl"
Minato replied with an unhappy face:
"Is there something wrong? She's not a person of Reality, it's impossible for her to participate in this quest"
"Why don't you call her name?"
"Oh well"
When Natsu mentioned it, Minato remembered, he hasn't called Rino's name since they met. Not because he couldn't remember her name, but because he didn't know how to call her properly.
Rinoirena Carsein Hepburn.
The name is quite wordy. And most of Utherword's people have such long names. When he was in Nahema, he suddenly blurted out calling her [Rena] for some reason. Maybe it's because of the unconditional response that's why it's called that.
Seeing the confusion on his friend's face, Natsu returned to the main topic:
"Godaime wants her to join the operation as a Master. Because the east gate of Kojimatsuri collapsed, part of it is also related to her, no, being from her world"
"Involve?"
"Yes. Some evidence found near the Kojimatsuri gate suggests." With that said, Natsu took out from his pocket a sharp piece of golden metal, like part of a blade. "It belongs to Utherworld, a parallel world to ours"
"Starkdatium, the wrought metal forged of a C-rank knight's sword, cannot be destroyed by ordinary power"
The explanation came softly, not Minato's. The blonde girl seemed to be surrounded by aura, lifting the metal piece, her eyes were blue like a data analysis machine. First of all, Minato was grateful that she was wearing a proper knight uniform instead of just a T-shirt.
Big
Natsu's eyes were slightly stinging and annoyed by the passing yellow dust. The metal piece that seemed to be sturdy and indestructible was crushed to dust by the insignificant force of the woman.
"Lord Amaterasu!" Natsu let out a surprised voice, as if seeing a superior.
"Huh?" She rolled her eyes at the man who was kneeling on the ground.
"Is it you? Lord Amaterasu!?"
"Hey...hey, I'm not Amaterasu or something..." Rino was flustered when he saw this weird banana green haired guy kneeling down and bowing to her. She wondered if she resembled Amaterasu or something, and two of Reality's three people mistook her for Amaterasu.
Actually all three.
And so Minato had to put Natsu in a proper chair and slowly explain everything. Natsu did go to Utherworld once on a mission to save Kodama. It was just that he had never met Rino, and if he did, the possibility that he was lying in a chest buried in the ground was very high. Remember Minato - who was almost stabbed through the skull by a Photon Bullet without the White Seal to protect him.
"That, that's it. She's from the Utherworld and helped us save Kodama." Minato closed the story, with a faint smile: "Me and her are nothing like you think."
"What is happening?" Rino wondered. When she changed, what did these two men say at the door?
"It's nothing," Minato replied with a smile.
"Hello, Rinoirena. I'm Yamamoto Natsu, Master number 1121." Natsu politely introduced himself.
All Masters have their own number, the number they join will have the same number. As Natsu joined the 1121st, he will carry the number 1121.
"It's too long, Rino is fine." Rino sighed in annoyance. Because sometimes she herself felt that her name was unnecessarily lengthy. Well, the name given to you by your parents, you can't refuse or criticize it. She asked: "Want me to join your mission?"
"Yes, will you come with us?" His eyes lit up even more than the flashlight had inserted. Even though Godaime did mention to him to invite Rino to come along, whether she agrees or not depends on many factors. In addition, he was also threatened by Lord Godaime: [If he can't invite her, this month, half his salary will be deducted.]
My great-aunt, please agree, for my sake this month too.
"Um." Rino rubbed his chin thoughtfully. Just trivial quests like tests like when you were a knight-in-training, right? Right now, she's also quite free, consider it a cultural exchange?
"Okay"