Knight Asylum

"You should be more firm in your stance," Red couldn't help but complain.

"However, it's a blessing in disguise that you woke up." U nodded, paused for a moment and then said, "This time, the time you spent as Kuuga in battle exceeded twelve hours, so..."

"This belt was created to protect someone," Red looked up at U and gave him a sunny smile.

U was silent for a while, then the corners of his mouth slightly raised up, and then he immediately returned to his previous serious expression. He raised his hand to adjust his glasses, "How do you feel now? Can we take the test?"

"Hey - Red just woke up!" Qiao immediately reached out and pressed Red's shoulder.

"It's just a simple test. There won't be any combat test. Rather..." U shrugged, "There's no place in Servier Turria that can withstand Kuuga's power in that form."

"Okay—I want to confirm it, too."

Red nodded, pouted in dissatisfaction, but still stood up and stopped pressing on Red's body.

“Hehehe——Kuga, Ultimate Kuuga——” Seryuu rubbed his hands, not trying to hide his expression.

"Just go to the research institute directly, there's no need to go to the negative fifteenth floor."

Led by U, Red and the others left District 13 and took the central elevator to the research institute of Servi Tulia. When they opened the door, it was still empty. Red looked at Embe in surprise, "U should still be the supreme commander of Servi Tulia."

"It's not very clean in there," Enbe said tactfully after thinking for a moment.

"There is a traitor. We need to re-screen," Seleu was much more direct. "Now no one can enter this institute without U's permission. Now every communicator in the command tower has a unique identification chip implanted in their body."

Reid let out a cry, consciously opened the isolation door, and walked to the center of the test site.

Seryu sat down excitedly and put on the headset, "Okay, Red, transform quickly!"

Reid let out a long breath and slowly made his moves. Now he was no longer afraid of the Yaguru on his body, so he could feel that he could directly enter the afterglow sublimation state.

"Henshin!"

……

Reid blinked and looked down at his waist. Not to mention transforming into Kuuga, even Aguru didn't come out.

Chapter 67: The Forgotten Backpack

Five hours after confirming that he could not transform, Reid, who was lying in the middle of the test field with his hands behind his head, suddenly opened his legs and stood up with a standard somersault. He clenched his left fist at his waist and stretched out his right hand in front of him.

"Henshin!"

A dazzling arc of electricity flashed with Reid's waist as the center. Yaguru, who had been silent for more than ten hours, emerged. The spirit stone turned black, and the black light rose up. The golden arc of electricity split it, and the golden horns forked up. The silver fangs bit together, and the red eyes lit up in the black light.

In an instant, alarm bells rang inside the laboratory and red alarm lights flashed wildly.

[Warning - Warning - High energy body reaction detected]

[Report - Z-01 - Red Leonardo's mental stress has reached the second level, stable]

"Coming, coming, coming!"

Seryu raised his hands above his head and cheered, while U held his chin and nodded slightly.

"Just like Riku said, accepting the power of the Ultimate Kuuga from the beginning will make it more stable."

"What kind of logic is this? Because you're afraid of the power after going berserk, so you just treat the state after going berserk as permanent? That's cheating," Qiao couldn't help but complain. Although he didn't want to admit it, Reid now gave people a feeling of being invincible just by looking at him.

And right now, Red hasn't even ascended to the form he had when he fought Gamego.

"Hey - didn't you say you were going to prepare FAIZ's upgrade equipment? Haven't you started yet?" Qiao shouted to Enbei unwillingly, "When will it be ready?"

"It's almost there," Enbe's mouth twitched.

If he could create equipment that would make FAIZ strong enough to rival the Ultimate Kuuga, then why would humans classify those who qualify as Ge-level as a disaster that cannot be contained or destroyed?

"For those who cannot control this power, the original Aguru will not give them the opportunity to learn to control this power, and those who can control this power just lack the opportunity to touch it," U leaned over and pressed the button, "Red, how do you feel?"

Red opened his hands, feeling the silent yet extremely violent power filling his body, relaxed his body and raised his thumb in the direction of the monitor, "No problem."

"Good - Red further increases his strength!"

White air flowed out from between the silver-white fangs, and with the upright Ultimate Kuuga as the center, huge cracks as fine as spider webs spread out crisscrossing. The black spirit stone burned with the light of a fire cloud, and the sharp barbs shrank and transformed into armor, wrapping the silent body like a fire cloud covering the night, and the crimson hem slowly rose.

Seryuu's breathing stagnated as he stared at the Ultimate Kuuga in his afterglow sublimation form on the screen.

Just by observing from this distance she could clearly feel the huge gap in life levels. Her excitement was immediately overwhelmed by the cold reality. She still remembered that Ge Gamego Le and Sora had been fighting from sunset to sunrise, a full twelve hours. Except for the last blow, Sora did not break Gamego's defense.

And Gamego is not the most powerful Gurongi among the qualifiers.

"Are all the qualified members of the Ge Group at this level?"

"You should ask, can all Gurongi members reach this level?" U adjusted his glasses. "Although they are not uniformly defective, the Gurongi as a whole have been evolving. If they continue to exist and keep cycling through the Gikilu, maybe one day, all of them will reach this level."

U narrowed his eyes slightly.

"The magic stone in his body is the source of Gurongi's power. It is a substance similar to the Agul Spiritual Stone. Therefore, the only one who can truly defeat Gurongi is Kuuga, who has similar or even greater potential."

"But it's twelve years late..." Seleu pinched the bridge of his nose, feeling a little frustrated, but he quickly cheered up and nodded vigorously with his hands across his chest, "Fortunately, it's only twelve years late!"

After saying that, Seryu raised his hand and tapped the headset, "Okay, Red, cancel the Kuuga state. There is no way for you to move around freely here."

Red, who was worried that he would break through the test site if he moved a little, breathed a sigh of relief. The forked golden horns retracted. After his body recovered, Red glanced at the cracks around him, raised his hand to scratch the back of his head, and left the test site somewhat awkwardly.

He could swear that he did nothing but stand there.

"How do you feel?" Qiao came in front of Red, crossed his arms and looked awkward, "Do you feel particularly tired and want to sleep?"

"Uh—no feeling," Red waved his arms up and down.

"Eh……"

"You seem disappointed?"

"No—"

"Ahem - sorry to interrupt," Selyu coughed heavily, then turned to face Red and raised his finger. His serious expression made Red think for a moment that Selyu had a second personality, and what Selyu said afterwards made Red even more convinced that Selyu had a second personality.

"Red, don't use the power of sublimation if you can avoid it from now on."

"Eh……"

"Hey - what's with that look in your eyes? Are you questioning the judgment of the experts who studied Gurongi and Kuga?" Seleu raised his finger and poked Reid's nose with an unhappy look on his face.

"Uh—I thought you were going to let me fight with as much sublimated power as possible so I could collect combat data," Reid spat.

"Huh? Am I such a science nut?!"

Enbei and Qiao nodded quickly with their arms folded across their chests. U raised his hand to adjust his glasses without saying anything.

"Tsk - never mind. My moral level is below average anyway." Seleucus clicked his tongue and raised his hand to knock on the screen. "It's not that I don't want you to use the sublimated power as much as possible in battle, but you can't. The sublimated power will consume a lot of energy from the spirit stone. So after you defeated Gamego, you fell asleep for more than twelve hours. It took seventeen hours before you could transform again."

"This seventeen-hour blank period is too fatal, and the power of sublimation... is too strong," Seleu raised his hand and pointed to the test site. The cracks caused by Reid's sublimation alone were extremely glaring.

"Can you imagine yourself throwing a punch in this form on the street?"

"Although you were able to control the damage during the battle with Gamego, the area where you fought has become a wasteland without any trace of civilization. Even missiles can't wipe it out thoroughly. But think on the bright side—"

Seleu paused and shrugged.

"The land where Ge Gamego Le died has appreciated in value, and many engineering teams have applied for reconstruction work."

Reid laughed awkwardly twice and nodded, "I'll pay attention."

"And you have to be careful with the power of the Ultimate Kuuga."

After that, Seleu continued to mutter a bunch of precautions for a full hour, without repeating a single word. At first, Red was still taking notes seriously, but later he became dizzy and could hardly remember who he was. In the end, it was Qiao who showed up to interrupt his endless mumbling and pulled Red back to the dormitory.

After returning to the dormitory, Qiao pushed Red towards the toilet with a stern face, "It's so dirty, go take a shower quickly!"

"I know, I know, let me get some clothes."

Seeing that Qiao was just a little depressed and unwilling to admit defeat and didn't have much ill will, Red shook his head helplessly, bent down and slipped through Qiao's arms. As soon as he opened the wardrobe, Red was stunned.

In the corner of the closet, an old backpack was facing him pitifully, as if complaining that it had been left here for several days and no one cared about it. Seeing Reid standing there motionless, Qiao rubbed his wrist and looked up.

"Come to think of it, why did you buy this style of backpack? Even though it's a little old, it looks like something a high school girl would use."

"Ah? Ah...ah!!!"

Chapter 68 This is a public car!

Friday is a day when both students and office workers will cheer and be full of energy, because tomorrow is the weekend.

What? Overtime? Make-up lessons?

That’s okay, life is really hopeless. Weekend tutoring is for the purpose of working overtime on weekends, but [S·L] is different. It is better to say that the society of [S·L] must be different from others!

Weirdos coexist with humans, unscientific and scientific coexist, the dreamlike archipelago city welcomes you!

That's what the promotion said, but it has nothing to do with Red for the time being. The moment he saw that old backpack, Red finally remembered something crucial. That's right, whether he missed the rescue subway and got involved in the Gurongi killing game, or put on the Aguru Belt and became Kuga, everything was caused by this backpack, or to be more precise, the high school girl who left this backpack behind.

But because so many things happened afterwards, and the backpack was placed in the closet by the luggage delivery person, Red never remembered it. After he remembered it, Red immediately contacted Embe and asked him to retrieve the video footage of the Xingxiu Station subway. Of course, Red also knew that Servais Turia was now running at full speed, and there were a lot of things inside and outside waiting for those people who had not slept for forty-eight hours to do.

Red was also embarrassed to ask Selvi Tulia to spare resources to help him find the owner of a lost backpack under such circumstances, so after retrieving the video, Red took pictures of the high school girl waiting for the subway and found out the high school was called Amanokawa based on the school uniform she was wearing.

After making a report to U, Red began to prepare to go to Amanokawa High School. Originally, Red thought that Qiao would go with him, but Qiao said that he was not in the mood now and ran to the research institute with FAIZ's belt. It was obvious that he was very concerned about the power gap between the two sides that widened in an instant. Red had no choice but to send a few text messages to encourage Qiao and not to let her get too carried away.

Take the photo, find Amanokawa High School, enter Amanokawa through Selvi Turia's employee ID, get the person who has the student list such as the dean or student council president, then find the female high school student, done, simple process.

Red originally thought so, and everything went smoothly until he found Tianzhichuan High School.

"Wait a moment--"

Wearing a sports shirt and holding a bamboo sword, a physical education teacher who looked like he came out of an anime stood in front of Red who was holding Mobile Pegasus. He raised his eyebrows as thick as a finger, glanced up and down at Red, then raised his voice while leaning on the bamboo sword.

"Tianzhichuan High School prohibits outsiders from entering. What can I do for you?"

"Ahem - actually, I have something to discuss with a student from Amanokawa High School," Reid coughed lightly, trying his best not to look like a bad guy.

The physical education teacher's eyes suddenly became sharp, "Are you looking for a boy or a girl?"

"Uh-Wait a minute!"

Before Red could finish his words, the PE teacher glared at him, swung his bamboo sword and chopped down at Red's arm, "Damn it - you bikers dared to come directly to the gate of Amanokawa High School to provoke us!"

Startled, Red immediately caught the bamboo sword with his bare hands, "Wait a minute! I'm not a biker gang!"

"Stop lying! Who else but a biker would drive such a conspicuous motorcycle?"

Reid subconsciously looked down at the Pegasus, feeling a little guilty. "This, this is a government car—"

"How can a government car look like this?"

"That's right!"

Red also complained loudly and then held the bamboo sword in his left hand, and reached into his pocket with his right hand to look for the photo. During this time, the physical education teacher tried to pull the bamboo sword back, but the bamboo sword seemed to be welded to Red. No matter how hard he tried, it didn't move at all. He couldn't even make Red's arm move.

"Actually, this is the one I'm looking for," Red pulled out a photo and handed it to the PE teacher.

The physical education teacher glanced at the photo, frowned slightly, let go of the bamboo sword, took the photo and looked at it carefully for a while, frowning. The photo was a little blurry, but he still recognized the identity of the female high school student. However, he did not tell Red immediately, but asked cautiously, "Who are you?"

"I work here," Reid raised his hand and threw out the ID card hidden in his sleeve.

"Selvi Turia? Haha - is this true? I knew they would cause trouble sooner or later. I should have expelled them earlier." The physical education teacher held his forehead and sighed before handing the photo back. "I'm sorry, Takashi Mai didn't come to school today. Did they cause any trouble again?"

"Mai Takatera? Them?" Red stuffed the photo back into his pocket, a little surprised. "Do they usually cause a lot of trouble?"

"They skipped school, brought contraband, and went to places that students are not allowed to go. They should have been expelled five or six times ago," the PE teacher scratched the back of his head helplessly, "but I didn't expect that this time the incident would be so serious that Selvi Turia would have to step in. Even the principal would have no choice but to expel them."

Reid reacted after a sound of "Oh" and waved his hand quickly, "Wait a minute! They didn't do anything wrong! Do you know about the incident at Xingxiu Station?"

"The Gurongi killing game? What's going on?" The PE teacher crossed his arms. "You don't need to go through Xingxiu Station to come to our school. Xingxiu Station is crowded with people and there are many weirdos. I heard that there are also some drugs that are harmful to the human body. Our school prohibits students from going to the area where Xingxiu Station is located. If they are found, they will basically be punished."

……

"Well - classmate Mai Takadera, I don't know if she has some urgent matter, or maybe she was just passing by, but classmate Mai Takadera appeared at, uh - Xingxiu Station," Reid was a little embarrassed. He seemed to have accidentally caused Mai Takadera to bear a punishment.

But good children shouldn’t go to the Xingxiu area.

"Her bag was dropped and I'm here to return it to her. Please give it to her when she goes to school."

As he spoke, Red pulled off the old backpack on his back and handed it to the physical education teacher, but the physical education teacher had no intention of taking the backpack and still had a frown on his face.

"Any questions?"

"No - it's just that if I hand this backpack to Takadera Mai, then I will have to report her for violating school rules, and she will definitely be expelled," the physical education teacher sighed, "and today she and her two friends skipped school. If it was just skipping school, it would be fine, but if they go to some place prohibited by school rules...if they are caught, they will have to be expelled."

"Ah this——"

Red pulled back the hand that was holding the backpack.

"Ahem - so that what -" the PE teacher coughed heavily, his eyes flickered, and he put his hands together, "Could you please bring them back? If I go to look for them, they will run faster than rabbits."

"This... is okay too."

Red thought for a moment and nodded before putting his backpack back on.