Knight Asylum

Red leaned over and put down Number One's arm, grabbing a petrified belt.

"Ah~ Are you still going to try it?" Enbe scratched the back of his head.

"Hey - can't you hope for something good?" Seleu couldn't help but complain.

"I've been looking forward to number one activating Yaguru," Enbe curled his lips, "even number one failed, how can an ordinary person with a mediocre resume activate Yaguru? Ah... Tell me, if I step down, will they transfer me to a sinecure because of my previous contributions?"

"I refuse—"

"Look, he even... huh?" Embe blinked and his eyes widened, "Refused?"

U's head slowly turned to one side.

"You want to die?"

"I don't want to die."

Red took off his travel bag and put the high school girl's backpack on the back of the travel bag. He grabbed the petrified belt with his right hand and walked around No. 1 from the right side to block No. 1, watching Gumum slowly raise the petrified belt in his hand.

"So what are you refusing?"

"What you're doing is, you can just wear this thing and take... Number One out, right?"

U put his legs down and sat up straight.

"Fifty percent. But that's only the chance that you can escape by yourself after putting on the belt. If you want to take No. 1 out with you, your chance of survival will only be one percent—"

"enough."

Before U could finish, Red swung the belt around his waist.

"Click——"

A crack appeared on the surface of the petrified belt, and orange light seeped out from the circular area in the center of the belt.

Gumum, who had been so leisurely, suddenly shuddered and jumped back, lowering his body.

“This is… Ugh—”

Before Red could be surprised by the change in the belt, he felt a sharp pain like a burning fire coming from his abdomen. The whole belt was like a red-hot iron, sticking tightly to Red's waist and seeping into it bit by bit.

"Don't even think about it—"

Gumum opened his arms and swung a spider web like a hard blade towards Red, who was holding his stomach and roaring in pain.

Number One gritted his teeth, raised his right hand which was sparking with electricity, pulled out the pistol hidden in his combat uniform, and fired several shots at the fire cabinet on the side.

The bullet pierced through the spider web and shot into the fire extinguisher. After a few crisp explosions, white dust rushed out and enveloped Red. All the spider silk fell and slid into the dust, becoming extremely heavy, losing their initial sharpness and hanging down limply.

The roar of pain stopped at some point, and a pair of red eyes lit up as he looked at the dust in front of him.

Gumumu subconsciously took several steps back, and his ancient memories began to revive. The nightmare-like figure emerged in the surging dust.

Inside the Servian Turia command platform, everyone except U opened their mouths wide.

"Successfully? Agul was activated? Why? Obviously, even Number One couldn't do it," Embe stuttered and turned to look at Seleu, "Is it because the Daughter of Origin touched him? It's because the Daughter of Origin touched him, right!"

"No - maybe, it's because he can activate Aguru, so... the Daughter of Origin will contact him," Seleu turned his head to look at the ancient characters that were constantly being filled in under the calculation of the highly intelligent computer, and spoke a little stutteringly.

The dust dissipated, but the white remained, and a warrior with three golden horns appeared on the main screen.

"That's it! The embodiment of power! Kuuga, the warrior who defeated and sealed all the Gurongi in the past!" Seleucus, who had deciphered a lot of ancient texts related to Gurongi, stood up excitedly, without noticing the few words translated under the slightly filled-in ancient texts on the screen.

【prototype】

[Incomplete]

[Uncontrollable]

[Ultimate Darkness]

With Seleu's excited shouts, the atmosphere in the command desk suddenly became a lot more relaxed, but the more relaxed laughter made their expressions gradually freeze. Gumumu on the main screen was laughing, and his laughter was very relaxed.

"What? Why are your horns so small? You look like you're begging for mercy. Do you want me to let you go?" Gummu raised her dark blue finger and pointed at the white Kuuga's horns. "Or do you think you can defeat me this way?"

Embe, who was about to cheer, swallowed hard and turned to look at Seleu, "Gurongi... shouldn't he be afraid? Why do I feel like he seems to be more confident?"

"He must be pretending!" Selyu's mouth twitched, "He, he's just a small-time soldier of the Shiga Group! Kuuga is the warrior who sealed all the Gurongi! Even if he has no combat experience, I can kill him with a reckless attitude!"

Reid looked down at his hands, turned his wrists, raised his hands and touched his face, then turned his head to look at the cracked glass on one side.

Incredibly, he seemed to be wearing armor, but what was even more incredible was that he did not feel like he was wearing armor, it seemed that this was his body.

His facial features became extremely sharp, and strength continued to surge.

"Come on, Kuuga, let's fight. As long as I defeat you, I can be promoted—"

Gumum raised his hand and pulled off the translation device around his neck, then walked towards Red with his arms open.

"Wait a minute! What did that guy just say!" Seleu widened his eyes.

And Enbei also noticed the abnormality, and waved his hand anxiously, "Rewind the picture! Zoom in on Gumum's waist!"

As the communicator frantically operated, the picture froze on a full-body picture of Gumum. The picture kept refreshing and zooming in, and finally froze on Gumum's waist. The dark silver belt made Embe gasp.

The Gurongi Group has a very strict hierarchy, and its symbol is the belt that Gurongi wears around his waist. The red copper one is the Zi Group, the dark silver one is the Mei Group, and now Gumumu, who is wearing the Mei Group logo, has said that he has been promoted. In other words, this Gumumu has the qualifications to become a member of the Ge Group, which is above the Mei Group and exists only among the Gurongi elites.

Gumumu spit out spider silk and rolled up a steel bar. He clenched it with both hands, and the steel bar was transformed into a blade like a spider's forelimb as the spider silk wrapped around it.

"Converting objects into your own weapons! Interfering with the form of objects, damn it! This guy already has the strength of the Ge Group! He is actually pretending to be a pig!" Enbe shouted while holding his head.

"Red Leonardo, the situation has changed! You can't win! Take the belt and run away now!" U also stood up suddenly and shouted.

But the white sky in the main screen rushed straight towards Gumumu and punched him in the face.

“Hmm? What is this? A fist?” Gummu turned his face towards Kuuga with the white fist in his hand. “You are weaker than before, but we—”

Gummum raised his left hand and swung it hard. Red wanted to dodge, but his feet were stuck in the spider web that was set up at some point. He could only hastily raise his arms to block in front of him and take Gummum's attack.

"boom--"

Reid flew backwards and hit the wall hard.

The pain like burning fire spread from Reid's back to his whole body in an instant. Although he was wearing armor, he was experiencing pain he had never felt before.

Just as Red was about to stand up, an even more terrifying force pressed down on him, making him unable to even lift his fingers. Spider-web-like cracks opened instantly and spread toward the ceiling. Countless pieces of rubble fell and buried Red.

"It has become stronger than before."

Gummu glanced at his fist, turned his head with satisfaction, and did not rush to chase. Instead, he turned around and opened his arms towards the screen hanging in the subway station, "How is it! I defeated Kuuga! I can become a member of the Kuzu Group!"

"—"

"Isn't that enough? Yes... I can't prove my strength to such a weak Sora."

Gumum scratched the back of his head in pretended distress, grabbed the bullet shot at him by Number One and threw it back, without caring about Number One, he stepped over him and walked towards Red who was struggling to stand up from the rubble.

"That's right—"

Gumum waved the knife in his hand, with no intention of attacking with the knife, as if it was just a decoration to show off that he was qualified to become a member of the Ge Group.

Reid shook his head vigorously, and hit Gumum's abdomen with a shaky fist. His fist turned slightly, and a red mark emerged little by little. Gumum looked down.

He remembered this mark, the abominable power that sealed them. In the past, he was killed instantly in this way, but he is no longer the same as before.

"How ridiculous - do you think such a fixed force can defeat me?" Gumum kicked Reid back, and the seal on his abdomen disappeared completely after a few breaths.

"Is this... the power of the Ge Group?" Enbei muttered to himself, "How did that guy manage to kill more than two hundred Gurongis in one go..."

Embe shook his head, holding his head in his hands and whining.

"Ah - that's not the question now! Isn't this the end? Although I never thought that an ordinary person could beat Gurongi from the beginning!"

U narrowed his eyes and said nothing.

"Snapped--"

A stone hit Gumum's head as he was laughing triumphantly.

Gummu's smile froze in an instant, and his eyes reflected Reid who was struggling to get up from the pit and looked like he was going to continue fighting. The posture of the white Kuuga deeply hurt Gummu's self-esteem as a former member of the Zi Group.

"Do you think you can beat me?"

The one who answered Gummu was White Kuuga, and Red's punch was of no use to him.

Gummu roared angrily, grabbed the horns on the white Kuuga's head, turned around, and swung the white Kuuga hard to break a pillar. However, Gummu was not satisfied. She turned around, picked up a stone pillar, and swung it heavily on the back of the white Kuuga who was trying to get up with his hands on the ground.

Inside the Selvi Turia command desk, some female communicators couldn't bear it anymore and took off their headsets and turned away.

Only U held his chin up, picked up the communication device, and started asking questions without understanding the atmosphere at all.

"Why don't you run away?"

"Even if you are not a match for Gumum, you have now gained strength beyond that of a normal person. It will be easy for you to break open the isolation wall and escape."

"Snapped--"

The red eyes hidden in the dust slowly lit up, and the weak right hand suddenly raised up to catch Gummum's right foot, but was kicked out by Gummum the next second.

Gumum waved the weapon in his hand angrily, wanting to give the white Kuuga a fatal blow, but he saw a young man appear in the center of the screen, staring at the white Kuuga struggling on the ground with an innocent smile.

Gumumu felt a chill in his heart.

The coolness faded away, and a fierce flame ignited. Gumum threw away the weapon in his hand, looked around, and swung his fist into the wall. With a few explosions, the cable with arcs on it was pulled out.

Gummu smiled sinisterly as he looked at the white Kuuga who had stood up again against the wall.

He wanted to torture Red severely.

"Or do you want to save Number One? He is just a modified person. He disappeared from society the moment he joined Servier Turia. Even if it is his self, there is a backup here."

Number One, lying on the ground, clenched his fists but did not complain at all.

"He... Number One, let me escape..." Reid said with difficulty.

"That's his job."

"Then... it's my duty to take him out."

Red staggered and assumed a fighting stance towards Gummum who was walking towards him with a weapon emitting terrifying electric arcs. Although it was not professional at all and even full of loopholes, it made Gummum's heart tighten.

"Why? You are just an ordinary person. Since when did you have this responsibility?"

In the white Kuga, Red's eyes reflected the cables with terrifying electric arcs coming straight at him. Life passed by Red's eyes like a revolving lantern. There were no deeply remembered tragedies, nor any soul-enlightening experiences. It was just an ordinary life.

The end of the revolving lantern is the backpack that keeps jumping in the waves of people, and his outstretched hands that miss the backpack again and again.

Standing in front of the injured, putting on the belt in front of the monster, such a thing seemed extremely out of place in his life.

"No way!"

Red clenched his fist, and White Kuuga suddenly raised his body and threw a punch.

The electric arc fell and hit the white Kuuga's body. Because of the problem with the power supply, the lights in the entire subway station began to flicker.

Looking at the white Kuuga howling in pain in the electric arc in front of him, Gumum laughed with satisfaction.

"boom--"

Fierce flames exploded with the white Kuuga as the center, and the entire subway station fell into darkness. Only the screen hanging in the subway station was not affected. The young man's innocent smile did not change at all, but became more and more weird.

With a crisp sound, the emergency power supply in the subway station was connected, and the fire-fighting equipment was activated at the same time. Red light and cold water droplets fell together.

Gumumu's laughter stopped abruptly and he staggered back a few steps.

Number One rubbed his eyes vigorously and widened his eyes.

The black smoke from the explosion was dispersed by the water droplets, but it could not take away the black body that was lifted up in it. The electric arc from the cable exploded in the water droplets, but it seemed as if it was pulled by something and carved a mark of power on the black body.

The red alarm light silently enveloped his body, and his eyes were sometimes bright red as fire, and sometimes deep as darkness itself.

"Black...Kuga?"

Chapter 4 is Contained as a Monster

The continuous abnormal changes set off the Servian Turia command tower.

Those who had participated in the research on Kuuga and Gurongi began to run frantically, trying to grab the control console to retrieve all the existing information about Kuuga and Gurongi.

"Black! Why is it black? What does it mean?"

"Is it because of the electric current? Could it be that Agul has some power that requires electric current to activate?!"

"Yes! Because ancient people did not have the ability to control lightning, so there is no information about this!"

Seleu's attention also returned to the computer that was filling in the translation of ancient texts collected from the ruins. Although it has not been completed yet, a lot of words have been translated.

"This is-U have to see these!"