Mr. Shaler, I like students' money the most.

Saori helped Mr. Shaler to summarize.

"Even for us, without the explanation of the scriptures, we cannot safely cross the catacombs. Teacher, your attempt to remember the way is completely in vain."

Saori patiently explained to Teacher Shaler, don't do useless work,

But in the face of Saori's explanation, Mr. Sharer did not pay any attention or listen to it. He directly ignored Saori's advice and took out hazelnut chocolate from his backpack and began to distribute chocolate to Misaki, Hiyori and others.

"This is a welcome gift for you, Misaki. This chocolate is for you, Hiyori."

When Mr. Shaler handed over the chocolate, Hiyori's eyes sparkled with joy.

"It's chocolate. It's real chocolate. It's not the cheap cocoa butter substitute sold at Arius. This is high-end stuff that you can't buy at Arius. Thank you so much, teacher."

Although Misaki still had a blank expression on her face, she still thanked Mr. Shaler in her own unique and insincere way.

"Although chocolate will disappear after eating, just like life is empty and miserable, but I am very grateful for your gift, teacher. I haven't tasted chocolate for a long time."

Seeing how easily Misaki and Hiyori were bought off by Mr. Shaler's capitalist sugar-coated bullets,

Saori felt her fist harden instantly, and like a big sister, she immediately began to scold her disobedient sister.

"You two guys, Arius's doctrine is that everything is empty, it is nihilism, and life is meaningless. But you are so happy to get a piece of chocolate. This is a blasphemy against the doctrine. You are professionally trained warriors!"

Saori scolded loudly,

The next second, Saori saw Atsuko secretly lift the mask on her face and put the small piece of chocolate given by Mr. Shaler into her mouth.

Saori immediately changed her expression, showed her flexible moral bottom line, and answered Atsuko,

"Of course, it is natural for the princess to enjoy chocolate, because your lady princess is different from ordinary people like us. Your lady princess has royal blood flowing in her body..."

This made Misaki and Hiyori look at Saori with disdain.

Sister Saori, is it that serious?

We have all seen your two-faced face. Isn't it just because the teacher didn't give you chocolate? Why are you so angry and taking it out on us?

Fortunately, Mr. Shaler understands Saori and sees Saori's contradictory psychology.

Teacher Shaler immediately stuffed a bag of chocolate into Saori's hand, which made Saori blush suddenly and she refused.

"Teacher, you actually want to bribe me, but I tell you, it's impossible. Compared with those weak-willed guys like Misaki and Hiyori, I will never accept your kindness!"

But just because Saori is stubborn doesn't mean that Mr. Shaler can't pry open Saori's stubbornness.

Seeing that Saori refused to give in, Mr. Shaler nodded to Atsuko in a friendly manner. Atsuko immediately gestured with both hands towards Saori and started to sign.

And Saori's psychological defenses were instantly breached.

"Princess, what? You said that we all accepted the teacher's gift, so I should accept it too?... No, no, how can this be?... Well, it's you who said that, Princess. Fine, I'll accept it."

After a series of orders from Atsuko, Saori reluctantly accepted Teacher Shaler's gift, a bag of chocolates.

After the chocolate incident, Arius's team walked out of the catacombs.

After leaving the catacombs, Mr. Shaler's vision suddenly became clear.

A group of Victorian Gothic-style buildings appeared in front of Mr. Schaller.

Most of the buildings have been destroyed, leaving only broken walls and ruins.

The entire Arius campus looked like a huge ruin, as if this was not the territory of Kivotos, but a German industrial center bombed by the Allies in some parallel universe.

"What a dilapidated academy. The city planning is also a mess. It's not as good as the city planning when I played Cities: Skylines 2."

Looking at the ruins of the building in front of him, Teacher Shaler expressed his sincere feelings.

Among the ruined buildings, only the southwest direction of the buildings had scattered dots of starlight. These lights were the only remaining population gathering area of ​​the Ariane Campus. Most of the students of the Ariane Campus lived and gathered in this area that had not yet been affected by the war.

They may rely on stealing, highway robbery, or become scrap recycling masters and treasure hunters, making a living by scavenging in the ruins of the city.

Facing Mr. Shaler's sigh, Misaki answered on her own.

"After all, we went through the civil war. It was a painful past. We were suddenly divided into two groups, hating each other."

"Civil war? Misaki, what exactly is going on?"

After hearing Misaki's answer, Mr. Shaler was very curious about the Arian Civil War.

As for the situation at Arius, Professor Schaller only knew that a civil war had broken out at the former Arius branch, which destroyed the entire industrial system of the Arius branch and more than 90% of the residential buildings.

The overall national strength of Ariana Grande regressed by nearly 50 years. After the civil war, the lady of the Mathematical Secret Society seized the power of Ariana Grande, became the actual ruler of Ariana Grande, and began her brutal and tyrannical rule.

Facing Shaler's question, before Misaki could speak, Saori at the side spoke up to stop her.

"Misaki, the past is the past. There's no need to talk about those sad things again."

I ended the conversation unilaterally and explained to Mr. Shaler,

"Teacher, you don't need to know this unnecessary knowledge. You just need to know that after the civil war, our Arius branch finally united under the same banner and shared a common belief."

After bringing Mr. Schaller to the Arius branch, Saori wanted to abandon Mr. Schaller, the follower who had followed her here without permission, and let him fend for himself in the academy.

As a result, Mr. Shaler calmly said,

I am now the largest arms smuggling client of your Arius campus. I came to your Arius campus for a field trip. Shouldn't you protect my personal safety?

If I fail, then tens of millions of orders for smuggling guns and weapons will be wiped out.

Chapter 166: Destruction (Part 1)

Sometimes threats are so naked.

After Mr. Shaler's explanation, Saori could only continue to lead the Arius Special Team and follow Mr. Shaler to escort Mr. Shaler's inspection.

I saw Mr. Schaller walking on the dilapidated streets of the Arian Academy.

The sky was covered with dark clouds, and the land on both sides of the road looked like it had been scorched by a raging fire. Not only was there no grass growing, but there was also an unpleasant burnt smell.

As he walked, Mr. Shaler raised his phone to the sky, touched the back of his head awkwardly, and muttered to himself,

"Why is the network signal of your Arius campus so bad? Since entering the territory of Arius campus, my phone has not been able to receive service signals. It's okay that there is no network, but even the phone can't be connected. What kind of magical place is this? The weather is overcast and the network signal is also overcast. Is the actual location of your Arius campus really in Kivotos?"

Facing Mr. Shaler's distress, Misaki said indifferently,

"There's no signal in this damn place..."

And Hiyori also explained,

"As for the weather, since I can remember, the weather at Arius has never been sunny. Without the sun, the laundry never dries out after washing. If you're not careful, poisonous red mushrooms will grow in your closet..."

But before Misaki and Hiyori could go any further, Saori spoke up.

"Okay, I've said enough. There's no need to explain these unimportant things to the teacher."

Saori is also a little touched now. Misaki and Hiyori's complaints also bring back many unpleasant memories for Saori.

Saori wants to forget those memories as much as possible, so she strictly forbids Misaki and Hiyori to complain about any pain in life at Arius.

We at Arius are born to suffer, we exist to be tortured by pain, why should we expect a better life?

Saori was exploring herself, and Mr. Shaler, who was wandering on the street, suddenly stopped.

I heard a quarrel right in front of Mr. Shaler.

"Back off, I say back off, little brat. You can't touch the bread in the window without money. Take your dirty hands away. You have to spend money to buy food. Do you students from the slums understand? You have to pay for food!!"

"We don't understand. You're selling it too expensively. A piece of bread costs one thousand federal coins, which is five times the normal price! How can we possibly afford such expensive bread? Even if we work for a week straight, we still can't afford a piece of bread!!"

I saw a bakery surrounded by a large number of young students. The average age of these young students was twelve or thirteen years old. The tallest one was only 1.3 meters tall. They were all loli.

As children, twelve or thirteen years old, they should be innocent, but the faces of these little girls are full of suffering, or the pain of being bent by the burden of life.

Every little girl has a pale face and thin body. Some of them even have waxy hair due to long-term malnutrition.

Hunger and the desire for food in their eyes are the biggest characteristics of this group of young girls.

Outside the bakery, two bakery employees, wearing Arius uniforms, masks and carrying assault rifles, confronted the little girls.

The two Arius students, who were employees of the bakery, threw the little girl who tried to break into the bakery out of the door like they were picking up a bag of flour. Then, the students watched as the little girl's companions helped the little girl, who was covered in dust, up and said indifferently,

"You have no money and can't afford bread. It's because you don't work hard and are poor. Look for the reasons in yourselves. Why don't the scavengers want you? Why don't the weapons and ammunition factories hire you? It's because you are too inefficient and always fall asleep because you are hungry while working."

These two students of Arius directly put a cap on these hungry little lolita.

Poverty is caused by laziness, it’s because you don’t work hard.

Seeing the little girls being turned away from the bakery, Teacher Shaler was furious, but before he could take action,

Saori walked directly to the front of the bakery, blocking the group of bullied little girls behind her, and said coldly to the Arius student employee who was responsible for armed guarding the bakery's property,

"You two have gone too far in treating the students of Trinity College. They are our enemies and we should hate them, but..."

Saori pointed behind her, at the little lolita who were sobbing because they were going to be hungry again today and the money they had was not enough to have a full meal, and she roared indignantly,

"You guys are being too harsh in treating Arius's companions like this. Have you forgotten how we all went hungry during the civil war when we were little? Now that you're full, you're bullying your younger selves without fear!"

Saori was very angry.

But in the face of Saori's anger, one of the two Arian students who worked at the bakery mocked Saori,

"Look, who is this? Isn't this the lady's dog? How dare a pug that just wags its tail run wild here!"

The words of this Arius student hit Saori's sore spot directly.

Hound is what others call Saori, because as long as it is a task assigned by a lady, Saori dares to take any task.

Beating dissidents, intimidating dissatisfied people, shooting at protesting students,

She is worse than a bully and worse than a rogue, so Saori has the nickname of a hound. Of course, more Arius students prefer to call Saori the lady's pug.

To show contempt for Saori.

Hearing the Arius student opposite her calling her a dog, Saori was obviously angry. She clenched her fist, pointed it at the other person's cheek, and raised it high, wanting to punch the other person's nose to bleed.

But the next second, one of the two Arius students standing opposite Saori took out a warrant.

Read to Saori,

"Madam's message, in order to win the upcoming war against Holy Trinity, we are raising military funds now. The prices of food products in the entire Arian branch will increase by 500%. The extra premium will be used for military expenses."