Abnormal Moon

"Don't call me the magician, my name is Roy."

Roy glanced at the black-haired girl, his brows furrowed, looking as if he wasn't very happy.

“I understand, Lord Roy.”

The girl's pupils contracted slightly.

The white-haired, red-eyed boy didn't show any signs of dissatisfaction, but it sounded an alarm in her mind, and she immediately nodded and changed her mind.

"Lord Roy, you can just call me Inoue."

"Inoue, is it?"

Roy nodded, seemingly unconcerned.

"Are you out searching for refugees?"

"Searching for refugees?"

The girl, Inoue, paused for a moment before realizing what was happening.

"No, unfortunately, Tokyo does not have a policy of searching for refugees. If refugees cannot appear in Tokyo, they will only face death. After all, we have limited manpower. We are already doing our best just to maintain the safety of the city and prevent it from being destroyed by cursed spirits."

Inoue looked at Roy, the light in his eyes gradually dimming.

"Lord Roy must be from Fuyuki City, right? I've heard there are many magicians there, and only there do they have the resources to search for refugees. We can't do that here..."

Roy paused slightly.

I see, that makes sense.

Of the four major base cities in Japan, the safest is Misaki City, which is under the jurisdiction of Kuonji Yuusu, followed by Fuyuki City, which has two hundred magicians.

Kanbuko City is teeming with evil spirits, Tokyo City is haunted by countless cursed spirits, and the number of magicians is overwhelmingly small. These two base cities are equally dangerous, and their populations are much smaller than those of Misaki City and Fuyuki City.

In such a place, it's already difficult enough to protect oneself amidst a horde of demons; there simply isn't enough manpower to search for refugees.

If the refugees appear in Tokyo, they can only be said to have hit the jackpot, but if they appear outside the city... then they can only wait to die.

"We did encounter a few refugees on this trip, but unfortunately they were all eaten by that cursed spirit. Even our team's magician perished in its mouth."

Inoue's expression was very complicated when he said this.

There was both intense resentment and a sense of powerlessness.

"The refugees were eaten?"

Roy's hand trembled.

He quickly took out his phone, opened the social media window, picked out a photo, and asked Inoue with a serious expression.

"Among the refugees you just saw, were there any girls who looked exactly like them?"

The photo he showed depicted Ichika and Miku.

Inoue was taken aback when she saw him pull up a space window from his phone, but she just thought it was some kind of magic trick. She leaned closer to examine it for a while, and then shook her head.

"No one looks exactly like them."

"you sure?"

"Yes, I'm sure, my memory is very good."

"That's good!"

Roy breathed a sigh of relief.

That's right. After he divined that Ichika and Miku's family would appear, he went to Rin Tohsaka to receive the rescue mission and then immediately rushed to Tokyo. He didn't waste much time in between.

He set off in the morning, and it's not even noon yet. Even if his sisters appeared outside the city, they shouldn't have perished in the monster's mouth so quickly.

Although there are many monsters in the wild, that's only relative. The wilderness is so vast that no matter how many monsters there are, they can't possibly occupy every piece of land. As long as you don't accidentally fall near a monster, you won't die on the spot.

Furthermore, Ichika and Miku's families should also be major figures in their world, and the Root, whose actions are based on rationality, shouldn't be wasted like this... I guess so. Roy wasn't entirely sure either; it's hard to say whether characters from the everyday world are useful to the Root.

“I think I’ve seen this face before in the refugee camp…”

Suddenly, one of the team members looked at the photo Roy was showing and murmured to himself.

"Really?"

Roy's spirits lifted, and he looked at the man.

"Huh? Ah, I'm not entirely sure either, I just have a vague recollection of it..."

When the man was looked at like that, and recalling his strength in instantly killing a large cursed spirit, the pressure suddenly surged in his heart, and his tone became less certain.

"But I remember they were twins... wait, how many were they?"

"Go into the city."

Roy immediately put away his phone and took the lead towards the Tokyo city wall.

Several guards looked at each other.

Is this person really trustworthy?

Is he really human?

"Let's follow suit."

In the end, Inoue sighed and followed Roy's lead, with the rest of the guards quickly following.

I've made up for the missed leave, and I'll make up for the remaining 600 monthly passes tomorrow.

Chapter 293 Mayor of Tokyo

When Roy saw the refugee camp in Tokyo, he fell silent.

Refugee camp, literally.

Instead of finding an empty hall inside the city hall to house them, they found a street next to the city hall and set up some tents on red bricks to house these homeless refugees.

It was clear to the naked eye that many people here were suffering from hunger and cold. Many people wearing only summer clothes had faces that were ashen from the cold and could only hide in tents to avoid the cold wind. Because of the lack of food, almost everyone sat at the entrance of the tent. Everyone tried to keep their movements as small as possible and even spoke very softly. It was hard to tell whether they were too weak to speak, or wanted to conserve energy by not speaking, or both.

"Tokyo has no extra supplies to distribute to them."

Inoue led Roy to this red brick road. She had a round, oval face and should have been a beautiful girl, but her face was covered in dust and her expression was always tense, making people think of a soldier who had suffered a lot.

"We can only distribute one meal a day, and keeping them from starving is already the best we can do."

"No magician took them home?"

Roy vaguely remembered that when the refugees appeared, the four base cities should have adopted the same strategy: either take them home to serve as servants, or send them to farm or mine.

But with so many refugees gathered here, conservatively estimated to be over a hundred, it's hard to believe they all came in the same batch. It's very likely that many of them have been here for a long time.

"There are too few magicians. Bringing one or two home won't do any good."

The wellhead shook its head bitterly.

It's the same old problem: there are only about a dozen magicians in Tokyo. Even if each magician takes three to five people with them, it's just a drop in the ocean for the refugees as a whole, and it can't be considered a solution at all.

Moreover, magicians also need to make a living. The resources they have may not be enough to support such a large family. They cannot take away too many refugees at once. Not everyone is a top-level magician like Roy or Aozaki Touko, who can sell a single rune or a puppet for a high price.

“Even members of our guard team can take refugees home, but not many people are willing to do so.”

Even magicians have to struggle to make a living, not to mention the guards. Every extra mouth to feed means an extra expense. Who would want to support a bunch of idle people unconditionally?

If even the guards live such a life, the lives of ordinary people are even more difficult.

In Tokyo, where magicians capable of exorcising curses are extremely rare, even arable land is scarce, and the residents are lucky if they can even get enough to eat.

In comparison, Fuyuki City is like a paradise on earth.

"However, it seems the person you're looking for isn't here."

Inoue raised his goggles, his tired but still sharp eyes sweeping over the refugees, but he did not find the twins that the team member had mentioned.

"She's very pretty, she might have already been taken away... I'll go and call the person in charge."

In this world that is no different from the apocalypse, the most sought-after professions among refugees are various skilled workers, such as plumbers, doctors, etc.

The next most popular groups are probably all kinds of beautiful young women and young and strong laborers.

If the twins this person was looking for had really been taken away, then things would be troublesome. Inoue quickly realized this problem and strode towards the nearby city hall.

Roy's gaze fell on the more than one hundred refugees, and his expression gradually became serious.

If the twins the guard mentioned earlier were indeed two of the five sisters, and they weren't here, then they might have really been taken away.

The person who took the two sisters away, even if Roy himself was involved, knew what might happen.

Hopefully, they weren't taken away for too long.

Within two minutes, Inoue returned with a middle-aged man.

"Those twins? They really do look exactly like the two people in the photo!"

The middle-aged man glanced at the photo Roy showed him and nodded with a confident expression.

Where are they now?

Roy immediately realized that the twins were the people he was looking for, and immediately pressed for details.