Knight Asylum

Hiromi Kadada put his hands on his knees and bowed solemnly towards Reid.

"I have lost the power to protect others."

"There's nothing to apologize for. Just like you said, I just used those things where they should be used." Red smiled and scratched his face helplessly. "By the way, how do you know everything? Am I a big star?"

012 on the side hesitated for a moment and then added, "In a sense, you are indeed a big star of [S·L]."

"It's really not easy to be popular, um - then, without further ado, let's go -"

Reid folded his arms across his chest, nodded, stood up, walked around behind Hiromi Kadokawa and gripped the handle of the wheelchair.

"Set off?"

"Of course I'm going to meet the Igarashi family. Let's go!"

Red grinned and pushed Hiromi Kadada out.

012 opened his mouth, paused for a long time, lowered his head, and followed reluctantly.

After a sprint with sparks and lightning, Reed and Hiromi Kado came to Igarashi Kazuki. Of course, because of the distance, Reed was out of breath halfway through the sprint, and had no choice but to exchange players and let 012 take the lead.

"Anyway, it's like this, like this, like this--"

Facing the stunned Igarashi couple, Red, who was held by the Mobile Pegasus Princess, raised his hand to smooth his sweat-soaked hair.

"Is it still open?"

"...Please come in."

Igarashi Genta nodded helplessly and moved away.

Hiromi Kadada, whose hair was blown in a shady style, held his forehead and sighed.

"excuse me--"

This was too stimulating for him, whose body was already as weak as that of an eighty-year-old man.

"Haha - alive -"

The long-lost hot water in the big bathhouse made Red couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief. Even though the bathhouse was temporarily closed, the Igarashi family did not leave it idle and were still maintaining it.

"It seems that I was worrying too much. Aren't you going to come down and take a bath?"

"I'm a machine," 012 held his forehead with his hand, "What on earth are you thinking of letting a machine soak in hot water?"

"Really? You are both machines and living things, right?" Red raised his hand and waved.

"...Let's not talk about that for now. You should be able to see Kadota's physical condition," 012 avoided the topic, "Let him contact the Igarashi family..."

"In your eyes, Kadota is a real hero, right?"

"...Yes," 012 turned his face away, "I will never be a hero."

"Then do you know when the hero will die?"

012 was stunned and didn't say anything.

"Everyone told him that he was no longer capable and should just give up and retire. Then... he was persuaded and strangled himself to death in bed, the passionate self who still wanted to do something."

Chapter 964: Family in the Eyes of the Devil

"..."

"Don't look so sad. Hiromi Kadada is a man who will strangle himself to death in his wheelchair. Can't you see that?"

Red stood up and pointed at his eyes.

"His eyes that refused to give up and wanted to do everything they could."

“…Are you also talking about yourself?” 012 let out a breath.

"I'm just doing what I'm supposed to do, and I'm also talking to you—"

012 opened his eyes wide in surprise.

"Don't let some setbacks and failures——"

Reid raised his hand and patted 012's shoulder, his fingers tightening slightly.

"Strangle the pure self."

After saying that, Red patted 012 heavily, picked up the bathrobe and put it on. In the locker room, the mobile Pegasus had already washed and dried his sweat-soaked clothes.

In order to avoid crushing the floor due to excessive weight, the Mobile Pegasus very considerately floats in mid-air.

"..."

Red suddenly felt that he was quite amazing for being able to accept such a scene for granted.

After getting dressed, Red returned to the lobby, pulled up a chair and sat down, "Are Daiji and Sakura not here?"

"They're... uh-"

Genta Igarashi wanted to explain directly, but his eyes couldn't help but follow the Mobile Pegasus that floated past behind Red. It was not until the Mobile Pegasus went out and turned back into a motorcycle that Genta Igarashi came back to his senses.

"Ahem - they -"

Just as Igarashi Genta was regrouping and preparing to explain the situation once again, Igarashi Daiji and Igarashi Sakura walked in from the back door.

Seeing Reid and Hiromi Kadota sitting there, they were both stunned and exclaimed.

"Well, they're back."

Igarashi Genta smiled awkwardly and lowered his head.

"Captain Kadota, what's going on... I'm sorry, I betrayed your trust—"

Igarashi Daiji reacted and bowed to Hiromi Kadada with an apologetic look on his face to apologize.

"I won't tell you about your sophomore year. This is not your responsibility, so sit down first. There are still many things waiting for you to do," Hiromi Kadada sat up straight and nodded very seriously.

"Yes!"

As Igarashi Sakura and Igarashi Daiji took their seats, the entire hall fell into awkward silence once again.

Reid felt that he should do something, so he raised his hand, slammed the table hard and glared at Genta Igarashi.

"Leniency for confession!"

"sorry--"

Igarashi Genta shook his hands and put them on the table, then bent down and rested his head on it.

"...the child's father," Igarashi Yukimi held his forehead with his hand, unable to bear to look straight at it.

"Ah - no, I just wanted to lighten the atmosphere, sorry sorry -"

Red also stood up awkwardly and tried to lift Igarashi Genta up, but Igarashi Genta immediately yelled and stopped Red's action.

"No - I'm serious! Everything started because I was cowardly and I ran away -"

"If I hadn't chosen to escape, Ikki... Ikki wouldn't have chosen to bear the crime that should have been borne by me."

Reid reached out his hand, but ultimately did not stop Genta Igarashi and sat back.

"These words... let's wait until Ikki is rescued before we speak to him in person."

"I will!"

"I don't think that black Revice is Ikki. There is definitely something wrong with that roller seal."

Reid looked at Igarashi Daiji.

"Sophomore, what's the matter with that roller seal reaching the bottom?"

"That seal... was developed by Professor Karisaki's father, Masumi Karisaki, to hack into the Revic system to reverse the process of separating demons and completely combine humans and demons," Igarashi Daiji said slowly after a moment's hesitation, "but even if my brother changes back to his previous appearance, he won't attack us, so..."

Igarashi Daiji and Igarashi Sakura looked at each other and spoke at the same time.

"The one who is controlling Ikki-san's body right now is most likely Keef."

"Kif? Impossible. I kicked Keif to pieces."

"Well, Reid, actually that coffin is not Kiff's body, but... a seal," Igarashi Genta scratched his face and reminded awkwardly.

"Huh?! So I let Keef out by accident!" Red's face was full of horror.

"No, that's not the case. Red, you made the right choice at that time. To be honest, I never thought that someone could actually break Keef's coffin."

Seeing that Red misunderstood what he meant, Igarashi Genta quickly waved his hands, then crossed his fingers in front of him. The middle-aged man who looked out of touch in the past at this moment showed the seriousness that a father should have.

"The coffin sealed Kifu, not Kifu inside it. When you smashed the coffin, it was equivalent to smashing Kifu together. But at that time, most of the fragments were mixed into Ikki's body."

"I see - so this is still my fault, right? I'm really sorry -"

This time it was Red who bent down.

"No... So, if you hadn't smashed the Kiff coffin at that time, Kiff would have been completely resurrected with Ikki's body!"

Igarashi Genta was startled and quickly put his forehead on the table, while Igarashi Daiji had already silently bent down and sat down.

Anyway, he must be the lowest one.

Hiromi Kadada pinched the bridge of his nose, "That is to say - it is impossible for Keefe to be resurrected now, right?"

"This... I hope so," Igarashi Genta's face sank, "Demons are very tenacious beings. As long as a little bit of them remains, there will be a way to revive them using Ikki's body."

"That is to say, Keefe is now trying to find a way to completely revive himself with Ikki's body," Reid understood the seriousness of the problem, "but I'm afraid it won't be that easy, otherwise..."

"There was absolutely no need for the [Angel] to seal him in the coffin on purpose."

"Yes, Keefe is the ancestor of demons. All demons on Earth originate from him, so if you want to fully revive him, you must repair his huge genes."

Reid's heart skipped a beat. He remembered that Igarashi Kazuki's body seemed to have adapted to the genes of ten kinds of demons.

"So Sakura and I have been looking for demons created by the Outlaws for a while. The Outlaws need a large number of demon genes, and cultivating powerful demons is the most direct method," Igarashi Daiji sighed, "but..."

"You met Ikki, but he didn't react to you at all, right?"

Igarashi Daiji and Igarashi Sakura lowered their heads, and just when Red was about to speak to comfort them, the Igarashi siblings cheered up again.

"But we won't give up!"

"Oh - it's time for Ikki to see how his brothers and sisters have grown!"

Red smiled and reached out to pat Igarashi Daiji and Igarashi Sakura on the head.

"I have another question, what is the devil's purpose...?" Hiromi Kadada frowned.

"This……"

It seemed that because the answer was too outrageous, Igarashi Genta hesitated, and this time it was Igarashi Yukimi who spoke.

"family."

"Kiff wants his family, but..."

Igarashi Koumi gave a wry smile.

"Family in the eyes of demons and family in the eyes of humans are two completely different things."

Chapter 965 How to avoid deduction of driving license points

When intelligent life forms are able to leave the planet and go into the universe on their own, they will lose concepts such as family and tribe and become unique individuals in the universe.

For them, even if their home planet exploded and all the members of their tribe died, they wouldn't feel a thing.

The best example is Ishido Soichi.

Fun people are the final form of life in the universe. Only by maintaining a mentality of having fun can one live normally in a universe without the concept of time.

Once the thought of wanting a family arises, that cosmic life form is not far from breaking down.

Igarashi Kazuki stood on the rooftop, looking down at the busy street with an expressionless look, and his fingers hanging on both sides of his body would tremble from time to time.

"Um... Master Ikki—"

Behind Igarashi Kazuki, Akilela clasped her fingers in front of her and tested cautiously.

Igarashi Ikki raised his head and turned his head. Aguilera opened her eyes wide in surprise and just opened her mouth, but before she could make a sound, Igarashi Ikki's terrifying eyes covered her mouth.

There was no hatred, no anger, just calm as a lake. That inexplicable sense of horror was as if some other creature was looking at her in the skin of Igarashi Kazuki.

Aguilera stayed where she was, and Igarashi Ikki also withdrew his gaze and continued to look at [S·L].

At this time, Ortega walked out shaking his head and cast a contemptuous and amusing look at Aguilera.

"Akirela-sama, how can you look at Ikki-sama like this? Isn't this the true look of Ikki-sama that you have always expected?"