Hawks from the Land of Light are calling me a dove and an undercover agent in the chat group.

Takeshi Yagami's cough, caused by his injury, jolted Naoki Higashi awake, leaving him flustered and disoriented.

Seemingly realizing that he had worried the students, Yato Takeshi repeatedly said, "It's okay, nothing's wrong, everything will be alright, don't be afraid, don't be afraid!"

The violent earthquake lasted for nearly two minutes. During this time, everyone, adults and children alike, was stunned with fear. Only Yadaka's fierce figure darted back and forth around, saving countless people.

When the massive earthquake, which lasted for just over a minute, stopped, the previously cheerful atmosphere in the school was replaced by cries of agony from all directions. No, it wasn't just in the school; the streets outside, the small county, and even the larger cities further away all presented the same scene of devastation.

"Everyone, listen to me, let's get moving!"

Yagami, making his presence known, stood atop a massive boulder, gazing into the distance, and amplified his voice to draw the attention of all the survivors: "Another earthquake may strike, perhaps in ten minutes, perhaps in three, but someone is definitely injured!"

"Those who are still safe, hurry up and check on the people around you. Take them with you and get outside, away from the school. It's safer in an open area! Nobody knows how much time we have left. There's no time to cry now. Let's all get moving, quick!"

When no one knew what to do, someone stepped forward to take charge, and everyone instinctively obeyed. They immediately turned to look around and checked on the other injured people, while those who were already injured actively sought help.

The scene immediately descended into chaos, but fortunately, the chaos was organized and not meaningless.

Those who were injured but could still move with difficulty limped to the open space outside. Those who were injured and had difficulty moving on their own were helped out, while those who were more seriously injured were carried out or simply carried out on a stretcher.

Thanks to the fact that the cultural festival has all kinds of props, there were also several practical stretchers.

Those who weren't injured were all helping out. Some were calling hospitals, trying to request that they send an ambulance, but there were casualties everywhere, and every hospital was busy with their lines occupied. People trying to call from here couldn't even get through.

"boom!"

Just as people were speeding up their actions, about five or six minutes later, a huge shockwave came from afar.

Everyone's first reaction was that another earthquake was coming, but they quickly realized that it wasn't. Although the ground was shaking, it didn't feel like an earthquake at all.

"boom!"

The second and third sounds, the regular vibrations continued uninterrupted.

It sounded more like footsteps than an earthquake, but is that even possible?

"Tian Tai, run!"

Jingle Bell!

The reporter, Tian Tai, who was holding a camera, had his phone ring. As soon as he came out to answer it, he heard the station director's heart-wrenching screams coming from the other end of the line, as if he had seen a ghost.

"What?" reporter Tian Tai murmured. "What exactly happened, Director!"

"A monster! It's a monster!"

The station director was yelling the whole time, "Monster, the monster's route, Sakura Elementary School is on that road, run!"

Monster?!

When a familiar but unspoken phrase was mentioned at this moment, a teacher seemed to realize something and hurriedly took out his phone and opened an app that allowed him to watch live broadcasts of TV Tokyo.

As soon as I clicked in, I turned the phone volume up to the maximum, and immediately I was bombarded with Tokyo TV's heart-wrenching, world-shattering live broadcast screams:

"Look, everyone, our helicopter is now three thousand meters behind that monster! That monster! That monster! There's no mistake, it's the kind of monster we know. Its appearance keeps changing, and it crawled out from underground during the earthquake!"

"The United Nations has issued an urgent report: monsters have appeared in other countries as well! They all appeared after the earthquakes, and these monsters, whose appearances are still undefined, are ravaging our world. Armies from various countries have been urgently deployed, and our Self-Defense Forces are on their way immediately. Oh no, that's—!"

Even if the reporter was so afraid of dying that he tried to take pictures from a distance of 3,000 meters, for the 50-meter-long monster, it only needed to spew out flames at tens of thousands of degrees Celsius to destroy the helicopter carrying the reporter in an instant, even from a distance that would be considered very safe for humans, even if they were being pointed at with guns.

The entire Sakura Elementary School was deathly silent.

Everyone felt parched and their legs were trembling uncontrollably.

Fantasy has become reality. No matter how absurd and unbelievable it may be, the reporter's live broadcast is undeniably real. The commotion coming from the scene is so real it couldn't be more real, and it's just as terrifying as it can be.

Although Sakura Elementary School is not in Tokyo, and that monster may have come all the way from Tokyo, that doesn't prevent the fact that such a monster would definitely arrive here soon.

One student, pale-faced, looked at Mr. Yagi and cried out, "Teacher!"

"Let's retreat!" Yagami said quickly, "Everyone, retreat immediately, get away from here, and seek refuge!"

He was near the teacher who had taken out his phone, which is why he saw the monster that kept changing its appearance.

Without a doubt, it was definitely one of the negative energy monsters he had studied in depth in the Land of Light.

Everything has come to light.

The aftershocks of the great battle with Papetua and the Omnipotent Hand swept across the Cloudy Universe, taking away a negative energy monster that may have already taken shape or was about to take shape.

The monster of negative energy transformed into a meteorite and crashed onto this Earth. It disappeared in its negative energy form and hid underground for more than two months, absorbing all the negative energy from all over the world, deliberately trying to re-form itself.

This world is very ordinary and commonplace, so there is no real negative energy, and therefore no other negative energy monsters would compete for it. As a result, all the negative energy is absorbed by this monster and combined into one place.

This abundant negative energy has enabled the foreign negative energy monster to not only materialize but also gain the power to create clones, appearing in more than a dozen forms around the world to wreak havoc.

Even in its most damaged and depleted state, the negative energy monster is something that human technology in this world could never contend with; now, it will only crush it completely.

No one in this world has an obligation to confront this kind of enemy.

Upon receiving the order from Yagi, adults and children alike immediately turned and fled outside. It was quite brave of them not to flinch at the mention of a monster approaching.

"What are you doing, teacher!"

Kuze Shizuka grabbed Yagami Takeshi's hand and tried to pull them away, but she couldn't budge him at all. "Hurry up and go!"

“No,” Ya shook his head violently, his face calm, “I won’t leave. I’ll stay, and I’ll take the others who are still buried with me!”

The earthquake just now caused some buildings in the school to collapse, and some people are trapped under the rubble and have not yet been dug out or rescued. If we leave now, it would be tantamount to abandoning these people.

"How could this be..."

Kuze Shizuka was in disbelief and seemed to want to say something, but before she could speak, Yato Takeshi had already instructed Higashi Naoki: "It is your mission to lead the students away. Make sure everyone makes a safe retreat. Can you do it, Naoki?"

When given an order, one wants to do everything in one's power to complete it and gain approval and recognition.

Upon being given such an order, regardless of his inner thoughts, Higashi Naoki acted instantly, forcefully dragging Kuze Shizuka and the other stunned classmates out of the room.

Although Ishida and many other classmates were unwilling, they were swept along as everyone else was being evacuated.

Only Yi De Meng didn't waste a second. He ran around the school, digging through the ruins at full speed, and unearthed those who were terrified when they saw everyone else running away.

"Glass!"

After digging out four or five people, Takeshi Yato saw Nishimiya Shoko, whose lower body was trapped by several large rocks that had fallen from the cracked wall, and who looked as uneasy as a deer.

"Teacher, quick, run!" Nishimiya Shoko was so anxious that she used both words and sign language.

Although she didn't know what had happened, seeing everyone who had been working together to rescue others running away frantically, Nishimiya Shoko knew at least that a new danger was coming, perhaps a second earthquake was about to occur.

If she stayed at school, the teacher would definitely die too, and she didn't want the teacher to die!

Moreover, she could feel that although there were no fatal injuries, both of her legs were crushed and were definitely ruined, and were bleeding continuously.

Yagami used his tools to pry open the ruins. The heavy stones pressing down on Shoko were too much for a human body to bear. "Don't talk nonsense! Hang in there! Your teacher won't abandon you!"

"Teacher!" Nishimiya Shoko pursed her lips, crying and laughing at the same time. "I am already satisfied. I have been so happy to meet you, Teacher. These past two months have been so wonderful. Teacher, it must be because I shouldn't be so happy that I am like this now."

"That kind of thing doesn't exist, Shoko. Kind people are born to be happy. You've had far too few happy days. How could such a thing happen!"

Ya took a deep breath and put down the shovel in his hand.

The booming footsteps were getting closer and closer. Although there was still a long way to go, he could already see, looking up, the Moon Wheel Monster Claysant, which had already taken shape, ten thousand meters away, as the first negative energy monster.

Wherever the monster went, it left behind a sea of ​​fire.

Theoretically, my power isn't yet strong enough to unseal the ability to transform, but...

Nishimiya Shoko looked up blankly at Yato Takeshi-sensei, who seemed to have made a decision: "Teacher?"

Then she saw it.

Worried that she was afraid, worried that she was uneasy, worried that she might mistakenly think she had been abandoned, after much hesitation, he finally stopped avoiding her and stood in front of her, his hands clenched, and something suddenly materialized from his palms.

"--teacher?!"

What I saw was Nishimiya Shoko, and even more so, Shizuka Kuze, Shoya Ishida, Naoki Higashi, Marina Kirasaka, and dozens of other students who had turned back from behind.

Even though he was terrified of death, Mr. Takeuchi had already decided to be a good teacher. He also had students from other classes who were buried under the rubble here.

Even more so, seeing them run back, Tian Tai, the reporter, who, in a burst of enthusiasm, hadn't even figured out what he was going to do before carrying the camera back.

Ya was taken aback: "Why are you back?"

Naoki Higashi strained his voice: "Because I don't live to feel inferior, or to gain others' approval and praise. That's what you told me, teacher!"

He broke through his own limits for the first time.

Even though he was given orders, he eventually overcame his physical limitations. Rather than completing the orders and no longer feeling inferior, what he wanted now was to return to the teacher who had saved him and work together to uncover the others!

"If I don't come back now, I'll never be able to be a good teacher again!"

No one would believe that Takeuchi-sensei, who was trembling and shouting in fear of death, was actually a scoundrel just two months ago.

"If my teacher dies, then there's no point in me living!" Shizuka Kuze didn't have many lofty ideas because she had already found it too difficult just to stay alive.

That's why, rather than living a life that doesn't feel like living again, she would rather die with her teacher!

Marina Kirisaka shouted, "I...I have to do this! I want to do this!"

To this day, Shizuka Kuze has neither accepted her nor forgiven her. If she abandons Takeshi Yagami this time to live a life of ignominy and run away, she will never be forgiven by Shizuka and will never be able to become friends with Shizuka.

She absolutely does not want that kind of future!

This was not due to coercion or pressure from Shizuka Kuze, but rather out of her own will; Marina Kirisaka made her firm decision.

Ishida Shouya stared wide-eyed, his fists clenched as big as sandbags. He had come back to commit violence: "If no teacher continues to be my teacher, I will not go to school anymore. Even if I break your legs, I will take you away!"

He wanted to save people, but more than saving others trapped under the rubble, he wanted his teacher to survive.

Without his teacher, he might have become a scoundrel like Marina Kirisaka. His teacher showed him what a real person is.

He loved his teacher the most, so he couldn't allow, absolutely couldn't allow, his teacher to die. He had to take his teacher with him and keep him alive!

It wasn't just those four, or just Takeuchi-sensei; all the other children who turned back had their own reasons and their own reasons for persisting.

Two months of education, two months of acquaintance, two months of teacher-student relationship, two months of redemption.

The world's best teacher—no student could bear to part with him, to distance themselves from him, or to stand by and watch him die.

However, compared to the original reasons and insistence, now that they had returned, what everyone saw at this moment, what the teacher was holding, made them even more astonished than Teacher Yagami: "Teacher, what is that...?"

Yes, what is it?

Seeing these children who had returned, and witnessing the unexpected growth of each of them who had overcome their challenges, Yato Takeshi was no longer astonished, but instead filled with satisfaction and admiration for these students.

In that case, wouldn't I no longer be able to continue teaching and educating people on this earth by simply having Shoko pretend that she knows nothing?

Right now, at this moment, in this place.