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Author: Captain of the Youth First Crazy Squad
Glancing at the girl who was resisted on his shoulder and robbed of the glove by himself... Or the girl who basically had no fighting power after the gauntlet, he couldn't help but sigh a little, but he didn't stop at all.
Once again, we walked through the deserted city and arrived at Osaka, not far from Nara, at about noon.
Although he can run faster than a car, physical strength is not his forte; in order to ensure sufficient physical strength, he chose a modest building that is neither high nor low as a temporary shelter.
Putting the girl on the ground on the middle floor of the building, he looked towards the outside world from the window sill, looking at this city with a thousand-year history.
As one of the most prosperous cities in the world, it used to be home to more than 18 million people, but now there is not a single ghost to be seen, only abandoned vehicles and bones everywhere.
The former style has disappeared, and the industrial area has been damaged so much that it is impossible to see the original. There may be an explosion or something like that, and many buildings were blown up from the inside.
Other ordinary buildings seem to have been baptized by the demolition team, more or less there are traces of being knocked into a big hole, and occasionally a few star dust can be seen wandering in the middle of the street.
The rubble of collapsed buildings and overturned cars have blocked many roads in the city. Normal people are afraid that even crossing the city is like climbing a mountain.
The ground is dominated by the icy air and silence, and the winter sky is equally cold and gloomy. Not even a trace of sunlight can be seen, and people's moods will become heavy unconsciously.
But.... he was indifferent to this, and squatted beside the girl on the ground, patted her ass casually:
"Don't pretend to be asleep, I know you're awake."
Yuna, who wanted to grab the gauntlet while she was unprepared, knew that she couldn't hide it, and a carp jumped up from the ground, rubbing her buttocks in pain and staring at him reconciled:
"rat!"
"Thank you for the compliment."
"I'm not complimenting you!"
"Know."
"Um~~~"
The girl who was helpless to him bit her lip and let out a cute, threatening low moan.
Luo Mo disapproved of this glaring, and sat down on the sofa in the apartment that had been empty, and said lazily:
"You have protected them long enough, and now you are no longer a hero. Simply put, you have no responsibility. Just go with me honestly, so that at least I won't knock you out again, and you can survive."
"That was just stolen by you! Please return it to me!"
"If you have the ability, grab it back yourself."
"..."
His rogue's words made Yuna clench her fists, because the hand armor was very difficult at first, and now it is impossible to obtain the support of the sacred tree after being captured, so it is obvious that it is impossible.
But...she doesn't intend to give up, she still wants to try it.
And Luo Mo just finished speaking, and he felt that it was quite meaningless.
After all, staying here is too idle, and I was on the road all day yesterday, and there is no Qianjing to tease, so he can't help but say casually for fun:
"Well, now you are just an ordinary girl who has been practicing martial arts since childhood. No matter how you think about it, you can't take away a lot of things from me, so I can give you another chance, right?"
"....what?"
"Please~ If you can impress me, I'll give you the hand armor back, and it's not impossible even to accompany you back?"
"Really? You're not lying again, are you?"
"Even if it was me, I wouldn't lie to a person twice at the same time."
"Really?" Youna didn't believe it, she was afraid of the rope after being bitten by a snake for ten years, but Luo Mo didn't care:
"If you don't believe me, forget it. Anyway, my mission is to send you back."
"Mr. Mo, do you listen to the Taisha then?... Obviously an angel?"
"It's just that the purpose is the same, and the choice of the big club is beneficial to me; you should think about it more carefully than this kind of thing, what conditions can make my heart move."
"...The condition of the heart..." Yuna showed a distressed expression.
Because she doesn't like arguing, she is not good at negotiating, so...
"My whole—how about this?"
"Aha?"
"If you're willing to help me, I'll do anything! Any conditions!"
The girl directly gave him the initiative.
This made Luo Mo dumbfounded, and only felt a little caught off guard.
To be honest, this is the first time he has encountered such a negotiating opponent.... In a way, this is not an opponent at all.
"...Do you really know what you mean by that?"
"I know, that's why I say that."
"The future battles will be handed over to you, and you have to take care of me, is that okay?"
"Yes! Leave it all to me!" Yuna patted her chest and agreed without hesitation.
"Hmm~ can you get married?"
"Okay!" She nodded subconsciously, but she seemed to understand what she was saying. She raised her head suddenly and said with a blushing face:
"Wait, wait? Marriage? Marriage means...that marriage?"
"Yes, that's the one who got married~" He nodded with a smile, looked at the girl in front of him with great interest, and asked, "Is this okay?"
Of course... marrying a child or something is just a joke, he just thought it was boring for the other party to give him the initiative, so he said that on purpose.
Yuna, on the other hand, was seriously troubled and asked after a while:
"...In this way, will everyone be saved?"
"No~ I said just now, there are too many people.... Would you agree with that? By the way, that weak barrier might also be attacked while you're thinking, and we're not there , they are probably being slaughtered right now."
"Ugh.... Knot, get married - I will marry you! Make an appointment! So, so! Hurry up and go back!"
Under the pressure he deliberately gave, Yuna nodded vigorously after a brief moan and agreed, and hurriedly urged him.
"I always feel that the attitude is not sincere enough. What if you go back and regret it?"
"No! I'm not that kind of person! I will definitely marry you.... Marry! Absolutely!"
"is that so?"
Although she stumbled a bit, Luo Mo could also feel that there was a firm will in the words of the red-faced girl.
The goal seems to have been achieved...but he has some headaches.
Because he really just wanted to experience what it was like to force Luo to be his wife. He didn't really want to go back and save people.
So Yuna responded to his joke in such a serious way, but he, who just wanted to see the other party's distressed expression, didn't know how to deal with it.
He obviously has complete initiative, but he feels as if he has become a little passive?
Chapter 8 For, a "person" died
Takashima Yuna's unexpected decision made Luo Mo hold his head with a headache, and couldn't help shaking his head and sighed:
"I said, are you stupid? Is it really worth it to sacrifice for a group of people who are not relatives?"
"...Even if the world is in chaos and the world is full of despair, everyone is trying their best to live, even if they are not all good people, but everyone is working hard! So I can't give them up easily."
"What if I'm the bad guy? If all the conditions are up to me, not just marriage, but you..."
"I believe you are not a bad person."
"No, no, I'm a bad person." Luo Mo admitted for the first time that he was a bad person.
But this makes others believe that he is not a good person is strange and candid, but it makes him feel strange to himself who always says he is a good person.
However, Yuna also had her own understanding and shook her head:
"Bad people don't say they're bad people, and you're weird, but you're also an angel, right? The previous decision just wanted more people to be rescued, so I believe in you."
"Wow.... What's the matter with this trust? My eyes are going to be blinded by the dazzling eyes?"
The girl's trusting eyes made Luo Mo, who was so trusted by others for the first time, always feel that the only remaining conscience was aching.
This made him have to pat his head, sort out his mood and emotions, and then look at the girl opposite:
"Let's have a good talk? How about you sort out your emotions as well?"
"There's no time, please! Everyone may be in danger right now! I have to go back!"
"I was just talking nonsense just now." Facing the anxious girl, Luo Mo could only wave his hand to expose his previous lies: "Stardust has only attacked once, so it shouldn't be so fast to regroup."
"That's just what it should be? Please return the hand armor to me! I won't force you to go back, I can go back myself!" Yuna grabbed his hand and almost cried out in prayer.
"Ah... The person who is more troublesome than I imagined..." He pressed on his painful temple, always feeling that even if he was forcibly brought back now, unless he was tied up, he would still run out to save people.
But the problem is that she is a brave man, she really can't be tied up all the time, she has to train and become stronger to play a role, otherwise the big society will not ask him to save people, and who knows how long it will take for her to give up and go back?
"Do you really know? Even if you go back, the number of people you can save is quite limited."
"I know." Facing his feeling of wanting to sigh, Yuna replied without hesitation: "But if I don't go back, I won't be able to save anyone, but now I'm hurt, and it's just your burden, so... ."
"Choose my plan?"
"No, save them all!"
"It's stubborn."
"No! It's just...that..." Yuna thought for a while before saying slowly:
"If, if anyone dies on the road, that's my responsibility."
"What's the benefit to yourself by taking the responsibility on yourself?"
"This is not a matter of benefits, I just don't want to give up, and I don't want everyone to feel that they have been completely abandoned; so I won't force you to accompany me on adventures, all I want is fairness! If Mr. Mo is weak, he certainly doesn't want to. Have you just been abandoned? And if I leave the shrine, it will definitely be in chaos, then——hell will appear."
"hell?"
"Not all people are good people, everyone has a dark side in their hearts, but the presence of order and hope can inspire the good side, but the hope disappears and the dark side will prevail and chaos will come! When they are forced into a desperate situation, people will fight and hurt each other, lose the basic dignity and pride of human beings, and usher in a tragic end? I am a brave man, even if I cannot protect everyone, I have an obligation to maintain order until the last moment! At least... . Let them not harbor hatred for each other, not die in each other's hands, and die like an upright person."
The girl's face was full of helpless sadness. She clearly understood her limit, but with an extremely heavy heart, she said what she had never said.
Perhaps the reason why she didn't say it before was because she believed in the goodwill between people more than malice, and she also didn't want to expose the ugliness of human nature...even though she actually understood this clearly.
And these words also changed Luo Mo's view of her.
At first, I thought she was just a child who was carried away by ideals and heroic dreams, but now it seems....it seems to be more than that.
"...Do you care more about other people's mood than death rate and profit? Are you being kind or what?"
How can a twelve-year-old child think so deeply? Luo Mo felt a little weird.
But probably because she went out to the shelter to save people, she had seen the ugliness of human beings in a state of despair, so she didn't want such a thing to happen again.
Even more unwilling than death, a disorderly hell will come, and the survivors will die at the hands of their own people in disgust.
Because to a certain extent, people who are out of order are more terrifying than monsters. In the face of monsters, they may just die, but in the face of people, they may become worse than death.
"But if you're so concerned about what you do, you're going to die anyway, and you care so much. You know everything is stupid and meaningless... You are still a child."
"It may be true for you, but it's not meaningless to me... The reason people are people is because they have a heart." Yuna put her hand on her chest and stared at him with a tone in her voice. Unbearable feelings and anger towards yourself:
"I'm powerless.... I know, so I can only hold the bottom line. Even if I die tomorrow, I hope to die while sticking to 'myself', rather than becoming an existence that is more like a demon than a beast !"
"...It always feels like you are targeting me...is it my illusion?"
Facing the girl who asked earnestly, Luo Mo, who was lying innocently with a gun, just rubbed his temples with a headache.
In this way, the two talked for a while, and finally...
After thinking about various things, he still overturned the previous decision....returned the gauntlet.
.................
.................
Although there are a large number of star dust, it is not a big problem if it is just escaping, especially in the case of crowds as bait, there is basically no risk... as long as you can abandon other people ruthlessly.
And Takashima Yuna is the most favored hero of the god tree. It is only a matter of time that he can borrow the most power from the god tree and become the strongest hero.
So now promise her to do something in the future, it will naturally become a very simple thing, such as helping to take care of Qianjing when he leaves, there should be no problem with the strongest hero like Yuna.
Compared with the risk, the benefits that can be obtained are obviously more. In other words, when there are a lot of people, he basically has no risk personally, but it takes a lot of time.... There is also a critical moment to save the dying Touna. .
After thinking about his own interests for a while, he still chose to take the idea of outing, and after saying in advance that he would not protect anyone, he returned to the previous unstable enchantment.