Travel through the daily life of the dragon clan

Chapter 556: Death is easy, keeping people alive is hard

Genji Heavy Industries, Xingmu Temple.

Minamoto no Chisei and Tachibana Masamune sat opposite each other drinking, while Yasha stood in the corner of the terrace acting as security guard.

Dark clouds hung low over the city of Tokyo. The rooftops of the skyscrapers seemed to be about to penetrate into the clouds. The commercial district below was still full of lights and colors, and cars were shuttling on the elevated road. It looked a bit magical.

Gen Chisei looked at the cumulonimbus clouds above his head:

"The current situation in Neon is just like this city. To use an ancient poem about planting flowers to describe it, dark clouds are pressing down on the city and it is about to be destroyed. The building is now full of people, all waiting to report to you, but you are still thinking of inviting me for a drink."

"When Mount Tai collapses in front of you, your expression does not change; when a deer walks to your left, your eyes do not blink. These are also the words of a flower grower."

Tachibana Masamune took a sip of the wine and said lightly.

"Don't be too busy just because you have too many things to do. If you feel you can't handle it, you should calm down, just like now. This is the old saying, you will understand it in the future."

Yuan Zhisheng shrugged:

"You won't understand. I'm going to be a sunscreen seller in the future."

"Sorry, sorry, I forgot again." Tachibana Masamune smiled, "The war between the family and the demons is coming to an end. The gangs in major cities have all been taken back to the main family. The overall situation has been decided. There are not many things that the people below want to report. There is only one really important thing, and I already know about it."

"whats the matter?"

"The head of the Inuyama family is dead." Tachibana Masamune lowered his head slightly. "The head of the Inuyama family died during the negotiation with Ange. Someone got the intelligence and ambushed the armed helicopter in advance. The helicopter equipped with four heavy machine guns poured out firepower for nearly half a minute. Even a real ancient dragon would be killed. It would be very troublesome if Ange died in our territory. The head of the Inuyama family used his life to save us a glimmer of hope. He used his bones to help Ange block most of the bullets. After that, Ange disappeared again, and we still can't find him."

"It's hard to track the Word Spirit who is Time Zero." Yuan Zhisheng's face was heavy, "Anger won't let us be independent easily. This is what you are worried about."

"You figured it out." Tachibana Masamune smiled, then his expression became serious: "Yes, compared to the fierce ghosts, Angers worries me more. Now our war against the fierce ghosts is coming to an end. If there are no chess pieces that come in randomly, we only need to clean up the last ghosts that hide step by step."

"Why doesn't Dad keep a chess piece of the principal's caliber?"

"What can I do to stop him? Since Ange wants to leave, I can only mobilize people to block the entire street, or send a strong general who is strong enough to defeat him, but we can't do these. Originally, I asked Inuyama-kun to come out just to delay him. After we deal with the fierce ghosts, we can go back to deal with the academy. I didn't expect this to happen."

"Dad, you are actually worried about Utsunomiya-kun, right?" Gen Chisei suddenly said.

"Why do you say that?"

"I don't quite understand your intention of placing Eri there, but there is news that three handsome new employees appeared in that coffee shop, and the family has published photos of the Caesar team in the newspaper. Although it is a bit surprising, it is still very suspicious. But Dad, you didn't even ask about it, even the routine inspection of the Metropolitan Police Department, you didn't ask."

Tachibana Masamune nodded, "This is true. Ange and the Caesar Group should have arrived in Tokyo on the same day. He did not tell us, nor did he choose to travel with the Caesar Group, which shows that his target was not us at all, or his main target was not us. Even when we announced our resignation, he only sent a text message to Inuyama-kun. I think in his eyes, the resignation of the Snake Eight Families is just a trivial matter like a child's rebellion, so he did not send it to me or you, but chose to send it to Inuyama-kun who no longer worked in the Japanese branch. This means that he wants to negotiate face to face. The Caesar Group is still alive, which is a good thing, so there is no blood feud between us and the secret party. All we want is independence, which is a reasonable request."

Yuan Zhisheng thought about it and said, "Is this what you older generation call politics? I seem to understand it, but I also seem not to understand it. I'm just curious why you indulge Utsunomiya-kun so much. You said that Ange's purpose is not with us, nor with the Caesar Group, so only Utsunomiya-kun is left. Ange can't just come here for tourism."

"Zhisheng, you studied at Kassel College and attended Angers' class, right? How much do you know about Angers?"

Yuan Zhisheng thought for a moment and said, "He is a gentleman who considers himself an educator, but he likes to play a lot and sometimes does not do his job properly."

"This is just a mask he uses to disguise himself. He is very good at using flashy appearances to cover up his inner thoughts. Very few people know about his past. It took me years of investigation to piece together some clues."

Tachibana Masamune said slowly: "He is an extremely ruthless person. Everything he had died last century. Now, only Ange is left with a shell driven by hatred. He was once lonely and poor, but his life changed because of his encounter with Menech Cassel. He gained honor, dreams, friends and even family overnight, but lost all of them overnight and was once again trapped in the abyss of loneliness. The dragon clan took away everything from him, and he lives for revenge. The doctor who saved him said that Ange's awakening was simply a medical miracle. That miracle was hatred. The dragon taught him the cruelty of the world. At that moment, he was just the most terrifying dragon slayer in the world."

After listening in silence, Yuan Zhisheng sighed softly: "Although I don't understand it, Ange is the kind of man who has a coal mine in his heart and will either burn the enemy or burn himself."

"What he is showing now is just the foundation of happiness after meeting Menek Cassel in Cambridge. Angers at that time was the same as he is now. Now the person who accompanies romance and talks is gone, and he has lived for more than a hundred years, but he still looks as gentlemanly as he did back then. He has no relatives or friends. He is good to his students because he needs these people to fight for him. Everyone is a tool in his eyes, a tool for him to take revenge on the dragon clan. Angers does not love power, but he has always firmly controlled everything in Cassel College because it is also his tool for revenge. Last year, the Gattuso family was so serious about pulling him down from the position of principal, but in the end it ended like a joke. This is of course, Angers is a dragon slayer, the college and students are his weapons, how could the Gattuso family take away the dragon slayer's weapon."

"Utsunomiya-kun should be a sharper weapon. If Ange's charm impresses him, will Utsunomiya join the secret party?"

Tachibana Masamune shook his head: "Yes and no."

"What do you mean dad?"

Tachibana Masamune said dimly, "Ange will not go to see Utsunomiya-kun. He has lived for more than a century but still charges like a young man. He has survived until now only because of the fire burning in his chest. The fire in his chest will not be extinguished, and it cannot be extinguished until the day he completely buries the dragon clan. These things seem extremely difficult and even hopeless to us, but Ange must firmly believe that he can do them. If even he doesn't believe it, who else can we expect to believe it?"

"what do you mean……"

Yuan Zhisheng opened his mouth with emotion.

Tachibana Masamune sighed: "If he goes to meet Utsunomiya-kun, he will find that he is not omnipotent. He has limits, and Time Zero also has limits. But how can people with limits defeat the omnipotent and omniscient Black Emperor? Maybe he also knows that Utsunomiya-kun is a peerless sword, but he can't admit that he is not a swordsman who can control everything, so Angers can only grit his teeth and move on."

“……” Yuan Zhisheng was silent.

He had never known Ange's life. In his eyes, Ange was just an English gentleman with unparalleled charm and courage. With him around, everyone in Kassel Academy dared to face death and draw the sword at the dragon clan.

But no one has ever thought about the old man's own feelings. In everyone's mind, he will always stand on the charge line. He will never retreat a single step, and everyone will follow him to fight. All this is taken for granted.

This has been going on for over a hundred years.

Yuan Zhisheng didn't want to think about these heavy things. Compared with the old man, he was indeed a selfish and cowardly child, a coward who wanted to escape responsibility and hide in France. "So you think Eri is safest with him, right? In this way, even if we go to war with the secret party, she will not be exposed, and Eri can live well."

"I did think so. I even thought about letting Eri become Utsunomiya-kun's concubine."

"Dad!"

"Don't be so excited, Chisheng, but I have given up these ideas." Tachibana Masamune smiled, "In fact, we are not the only ones who have such thoughts. Utsunomiya-kun does not have the blood of the dragon clan, but he has such abilities. Does this mean that human evolution has also begun? The dragon clan is no longer the only ruler of the food chain? Although we benefit from the blood of dragons, we are suffering from it, and Eri is a victim of it. She hasn't asked me for anything for a long time, and I can't refuse her."

"Are you saying that was Eri's own request?"

"Yes, this is the first time I've seen her with such a stubborn expression. It makes me feel like a little girl in a store who is trying to persuade her parents to buy her toys. How can you refuse her, Zhisheng?"

"..."

Yuan Zhisheng didn't say anything, but in fact he felt that maybe he could.

In the past, Eri had never made any demands on him as her brother. Even though he would often be beaten up in the middle of playing with her, Eri would always write a note saying "Don't worry, brother, Eri will be obedient" after he apologized. It was hard for him to imagine a scene where Eri insisted on asking him to stay.

If this really happened, Yuan Zhisheng felt that he would pat his head to apologize, but would still choose to leave.

Yuan Zhisheng chose to change the topic again:

"This is the first time that Eri has been away from home for such a long time. The longest time in the past was no more than twelve hours. Since you choose to believe Utsunomiya-kun, then I believe him too. But even if Utsunomiya-kun can control the out-of-control Eri, won't Eri's body be in trouble?"

Tachibana Masamune pondered for a long time, his face changed slightly:

"Chisheng, you are right. Eri must receive regular treatment and come back at least once every two weeks. I will rush over to meet with Utsunomiya-kun to prevent any accidents."

"I'll go with you."

Tachibana Masamune stood up and walked behind Minamoto Chisei, patting his shoulder and saying, "You are our general now. You must not move lightly. I, the samurai, will lead the charge."

Tachibana Masamune put on a black haori (which can be understood as a half-short kimono) and walked quickly towards the elevator.

He had just stood up when the parking lot downstairs became agitated. Mercedes-Benz cars started and braked at high speeds to form a convoy. Bodyguards rushed out of the building and waited, like a well-organized army.

Tachibana Masamune stopped in front of the elevator, turned around and seemed to have something to explain, and Minamoto Chisei also stood up and looked at him.

Then, Tachibana Masamune saw the golden pupils in Minamoto Chisei's eyes light up, and the golden vertical pupils shrank into needle-like sharpness. He opened his mouth and wanted to shout something. From the shape of his lips, it seemed that he wanted to shout his name, which was the "old" in "dad".

boom--

boom--

The red symbol in front of the elevator shaft lit up the Arabic numerals of the floor. Because Xingmu Temple was on the top floor of Genji Heavy Industries, it would take some time for the elevator to arrive. The steel box in the elevator shaft was still rising slowly, and the elevator door had not yet opened.

But behind the elevator doors,
The four-story reinforced tempered glass of the elevator exploded with a bang, splashing everywhere like scattered streams of light under the light and falling on the top of the elevator below.

Two loud noises occurred almost simultaneously. The tempered protective glass on the outside of the elevator shattered, and the unopened elevator door was quickly torn apart, as if someone had attacked it with a high-powered drill. The steel twisted outward into a spiral shape, and then quickly expanded to the size of an adult's chest.

The howling wind rushed in from the broken elevator glass and squeezed into the hundred-meter-high floor through the washbasin-sized hole.

Yuan Zhisheng still maintained the posture he had just stood up and only had time to turn his face to the side.

Following this direction, he could already see a round, dark night sky outside.

Snap, snap, snap…poof.

"Daddy!!!"

Yuan Zhisheng's cry was only then heard. The old man, who seemed to want to say something to him or comfort him, had fallen face down to the ground. There was a hole on his chest that was even more exaggerated than the elevator door.

Drop drop drop-

Red warning lights flashed instantly in the building, and the shrill alarm reminded everyone in the building that it was under enemy attack.

"Master! Master! Calm down! The assassin can see us! Crow, where the fuck are you? Come in quickly!!"

"Young Master!" +2
Crow and Sakura rushed out of the door, and their faces changed drastically after seeing the tragic scene. They ran towards Minamoto Chisei who was about to hug Tachibana Masamune.

But after Crow and Yasha circled around Gen Chisei on both sides, they found that Sakura had passed them and came to the gap in the elevator door.

"Bring the young master in!"

Crow immediately understood Sakura's intention. She used her body to block the hole in the elevator door, which also blocked the sniper rifle's view. If the assassin wanted to continue sniping the current head of the Snake Eight Families, he would have to shoot again to pierce her chest to open up the field of vision.

(End of this chapter)