Knight Asylum

【Mirror World】

The Takamizawa Group was also researching the [Mirror World], and the Zerg learned of this and took action.

The idea of ​​being able to completely simulate the opponent's Zerg as long as they are face to face and obtain the technology of the mirror world that can travel to any place through the mirror is creepy just thinking about it.

U crossed his fingers in front of him and frowned.

The Mirror World is one of Servai Tullia's current top-secret research projects. Perhaps the Zerg lurking in Servai Tullia could learn of the existence of the Mirror World through previous invasions and obtain a list of researchers, but it is absolutely impossible for them to pass on the research data of the Mirror World.

Now the direction of the Zerg is very simple. Since they cannot obtain Servais Turiane's research data on the mirror world, they will start from the outside and obtain the research data on the mirror world in the hands of the Takamizawa Group. After that, they will most likely follow the clues to obtain the research in the hands of Kagawa Hideyuki.

This makes sense, but there is a problem.

Alien insects invaded the Serviteur command tower. Before they discovered that Hideyuki Kagawa was also conducting mirror world research and had caused an incident, in order to avoid the sponsors' attention to Hideyuki Kagawa, they did not register this matter in the Serviteur database. Only a few people knew that the Takamizawa Group was also conducting mirror world research, and they just found out about it.

So who told the Zerg that Hideyuki Kagawa was researching the Mirror World, and who made the Zerg discover that the Takamizawa Group, which was engaged in biochemical technology, had the Mirror World technology?

U closed his eyes.

"It just happened to be the Zerg—"

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"Zerg? You, what are you talking about... Hey!"

After a brief pause, Itsuki Takamizawa grabbed Reid's arm even more excitedly.

"How could she be a Zerg? You are lying!"

Reid, who had expected Takamizawa Itshiro to have such a reaction, felt helpless, but still took a deep breath and raised his hand to push Takamizawa Itshiro away. Aguru appeared on his waist, and the sound of U came from the earphones in his right ear.

"The Zerg already knew that the Takamizawa Group was researching the Mirror World, but they didn't get more detailed information, nor did they know the location of Professor Kagawa, so the Zerg copied Takamizawa Saori to get close to Takamizawa Itsuki... Sorry, this is a difficult choice."

"It's not that difficult. They are the Zerg, the existence that tramples on human feelings—"

Red's tightly clenched fingers slowly loosened, and Itsuki Takamizawa stepped forward and tried to hold Red, but the next second Red's body was transformed into Kuuga under the energy of Aguru. The body that seemed to come from fire and the silver fangs frightened Itsuki Takamizawa, but what Red didn't expect was that Itsuki Takamizawa took a step back in fear and rushed out, standing in front of Saori Takamizawa with his arms open.

"I, I won't let you hurt Saori!"

Reid paused, and his red eyes reflected Takamizawa Itsushi with trembling legs, and Takamizawa Saori behind Takamizawa Itsushi. After transforming into Kuuga, all his senses were greatly enhanced, so he could feel that Takamizawa Saori was not a human.

The Zerg can completely copy humans, including their unique scars and even their thoughts, but this does not mean that the Zerg will be replaced by human thinking and consciousness. On the contrary, they will use human emotions to disguise themselves.

"Takamizawa Saori, your wife is dead!"

Although it was cruel, Reid still told the truth. This was the consensus of everyone and common sense written in black and white. The Zerg could only copy each other face to face. In order to ensure that they would not be discovered, the Zerg would kill the copied object as soon as possible after copying.

Since the alien insect that copied Saori Takamizawa has appeared, it is very likely that Saori Takamizawa has been killed.

"I……"

After opening his mouth, Itsuki Takamizawa seemed to have made up his mind. He gritted his teeth and rushed directly towards Reid, hugging Reid's waist.

"Saori! Run! I'm here!"

"Snapped--"

A drop of rain fell on Saori Takamizawa's face and slowly flowed down. The heavy rain fell without warning and wet the clothes of everyone present.

"Go!"

Even the heavy rain could not drown out the resolute roar of Itsuki Takamizawa.

After all, Itshiro Takamizawa is just a human being. Red could throw Itshiro Takamizawa away by just raising his hand slightly, not to mention being blocked by Itshiro Takamizawa. However, Itshiro Takamizawa's feelings made Red not know how to deny it cruelly. He could only stare in the direction of Saori Takamizawa unwillingly.

Do you want to use it?

At this moment, Saori Takamizawa suddenly laughed, as if she had become a different person, covering her forehead and laughing out loud.

"What a pathetic man. If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have gone through so much trouble."

"Sa...ori?"

Takamizawa Itshiro was stunned and sat down on the ground with a plop, staring blankly at Takamizawa Saori who was standing in the rain. The familiar face and figure were covered by a hard shell. The blade-like arms fell down, and Takamizawa Itshiro's appearance was reflected in the compound eyes composed of countless hexagonal small eyes.

"Adult."

The moment Red finished speaking, time became extremely slow, and all the raindrops fell slowly like three-dimensional mirrors. The mantis insect rushed in front of Red at an extremely fast speed, swung its arm fiercely in front of Red's chest, grabbed the back of Takamizawa Itsushiro's collar with its right hand, and retreated.

The raindrops shattered, and Red flew backwards in the exploding sparks and fell heavily to the ground.

So fast!

Red had heard that the Zerg had the dangerous ability to accelerate after molting into adults, but even though he was prepared, he was still caught off guard by the Zerg's acceleration without any starting action.

However, it's not that he was unaware of the alien insects' movements, he just needed to concentrate more. But the problem now was that Takami Sawa Itsuro had fallen into the hands of the alien insects.

The mantis grabbed Takamizawa Itsuro's neck with one hand, and spoke in a very gentle tone, just like Takamizawa Saori before, "Dear, where did you hide the research report of the mirror world?"

"Saori, Saori, Saori, you are still here, right?"

Takamizawa Itshiro stretched out his hands towards the mantis's face in a daze, calling out Takamizawa Saori's name.

Before Takamizawa Itsushi's hand touched his face, the mantis tightened its fingers and lifted Takamizawa Itsushi up.

"That's enough—you're of no use anymore."

The mantis swung its body with force, throwing Takamizawa Itsuki out directly, then turned to look at Reid.

"Forget it, if I just kill both of you, no one will know."

Metzl, holding his helmet, slowly tilted his head to the right, glanced at Itsuro Takamizawa who was lying on the ground crying closer to Reid, then turned his head and stared straight at the Mantis.

Chapter 132: Human or Insect?

Is it because he is extremely confident in his acceleration? Or is there some other reason?

In such an emergency situation, Red had no spare energy to think about why the Mantis would take the initiative to abandon Takami Sawa Itsuki, the hostage that tied his hands. However, the accelerated Mantis could change its mind at any time and kidnap Takami Sawa Itsuki again, so the moment the Mantis issued its killing declaration, Red's feet sank heavily into the ground.

The raindrops were blown away by the white sound barrier, and the burning body pressed down heavily. The mantis insect immediately accelerated, but it could only see Reid's movements clearly. It had no time to dodge and could only raise its arms to block.

Acceleration is a very powerful skill. The Zerg do not get a high speed from a straight-line sprint, but a high speed that can go from zero to full speed without any starting action. They can even wax a train that is moving at full speed, trim the eyebrows of opponents they are fighting, and other exaggerated things.

But it's not that there isn't a way to defeat such an opponent.

Enter the accelerated world of the alien insects and narrow the essential gap between the two sides.

Predict the Zerg's movements and use extremely difficult micro-operations to make the Zerg run into the attack themselves.

Or launch a high-speed attack that the Zerg cannot dodge immediately.

And Red used the third method, a full-speed charge. At the beginning, Red had some difficulties. After all, he didn't know how fast the Zerg's acceleration was, and if such an attack failed, it would be difficult to work a second time. But fortunately, it succeeded.

But this kind of luck has a slight flaw.

The attack hit, but the mantis reacted quickly, and immediately turned sideways and relaxed its arms to absorb Reid's force, so it was not killed instantly. However, the hard shells on its arms were still shattered by this punch.

Can't let it escape!

Reid, who failed to kill the Mantis Zerg with one punch, immediately turned around and kicked the ground, not giving the Mantis Zerg a chance to gain distance and get close to end the fight quickly. However, the Mantis Zerg seemed to have no sense of pain, and its movements were not slowed down at all by the injury on its arm, and it dodged Reid's attacks extremely flexibly.

Metzl held the helmet. From her perspective, the Kuuga transformed by Red was attacking at an extremely fast speed, but she could not see the movements of the Mantis at all. She could only barely see a blurry shadow swaying between Red's fists. Not only was it not affected by the heavy rain, it didn't even affect the rain.

Red felt like he was fighting an intangible ghost.

But for Red, getting rid of the alien insects was a very easy task.

Metzl glanced at Itsuro Takamizawa, who was kneeling in the mud and crying with his face covered.

He didn't even need to raise his power. All he had to do was enter the Ultimate Kuga state and punch the ground. No matter how fast the Zerg were, they would be annihilated in the face of indiscriminate range destruction. However, that one punch would sweep in everything around them, including them, who would have no chance of escaping.

No matter how strong Reid is, he can't go on like this forever.

Want to give it a try?

Metzl looked down at Takamizawa Itsushiro, raised his fingers holding the helmet slightly, but immediately put them down again, and slowly stepped back, his figure gradually covered by the rain and disappeared.

The blade fell and slid along Red's neck to his lower waist. The collision between the creatures made a crisp sound of metal armor and sparks flew in the meantime.

Reid staggered back a few steps, then raised his right hand to block the pursuing blade, stepped sideways, and with a loud bang, raindrops splashed out.

His kick missed, but he was not disappointed at all. Although he could not accelerate like the Zerg, he had adapted to the speed of the Mantis Zerg, and the Mantis Zerg showed no signs of further speeding up. However, perhaps because it was afraid of his strength, the Mantis Zerg kept roaming around and attacking, causing him minor damage and never being greedy.

Then the problem is simple.

Reid clenched his fists and took a step back. Several flashes of light appeared on the restraint belt around his waist, and black sticks stretched out.

Predict the moves and kill with a single strike that's more powerful than before!

Concentrate

The noisy and unnecessary sound of rain overlapped with the calm surface of the lake in Red's ears. He could hear the sound of the lake being cut open.

it's here!!!

Red suddenly raised his head, raised his fist which had been gathering strength, and was about to swing it when he heard a heart-wrenching cry from behind.

"Stop fighting! Stop fighting!"

Takamizawa Itshiro, who was kneeling in the mud and crying, stood up directly, holding the crystal clear ring in the rain in his hand and walking towards them again.

"Watch out!!! Behind you!"

Reid's pupils shrank sharply, and he gave up the rare opportunity to kill the mantis insect and ran towards Takami Sawa Itsuki. In the mirror-like rain curtain, a black figure emerged silently, and a huge dagger like a bone spur stabbed towards Takami Sawa Itsuki.

Although it was raining heavily, Reid still recognized the opponent's posture at a glance. Although there were some slight differences, it was definitely Kagawa Hideyuki who had previously killed the mirror beast Jun Shibaura.

but why?

Why did Hideyuki Kagawa come to kill Itsuro Takamizawa?

"Damn it—I can't catch up!"

Hideyuki Kagawa's attack was too sudden. Even if Reid noticed it at the first time, he could not catch up. But just when the bone dagger was about to pierce Takamizawa Itshiro, all the raindrops were waved away and a figure stood in front of Takamizawa Itshiro.

It was the mantis that had fought with Reid before.

The bone dagger pierced through the chest of the mantis insect, and the sharp dagger stopped in front of the nose of Itsuro Takamizawa, who was paralyzed on the ground by the sudden attack.

It seemed that he had never expected such a situation to happen. Hideyuki Kagawa was stunned for a moment, but he quickly reacted and stabbed the dagger out with force, wanting to kill Takamizawa Itshiro directly, but the mantis insect held on to the bone dagger that pierced its chest.

Red reacted, roared, jumped up and pounced on Hideyuki Kagawa.

"Hideyuki Kagawa!!!"

But Reid's attack was in vain. Kagawa Hideyuki was like a mirage, sometimes real and sometimes unreal among the raindrops. Every raindrop became a mirror for him to move through. But before he could take any further action, the heavy rain began to show signs of abating.

Hideyuki Kagawa hesitated for a while unwillingly, but his attack path was always blocked by Reid. A ray of sunlight fell, announcing the end of the heavy rain. Unable to find an opportunity to attack, Hideyuki Kagawa could only slowly fade away and disappeared.

After confirming that Hideyuki Kagawa had really left, Red put down his hand. After taking a deep breath, he made up his mind and turned to look in the direction of the Mantis and Itsuki Takamizawa.

At that moment, he realized a problem. The speed of the mantis was faster than he expected, so the mantis was able to block the knife for Takamizawa Itsuro, but...

why?

Reid knew that he had actually thought of the answer, but he just couldn't accept it for the time being. Takami Sawa Itsuki had thought of the answer and took action. He stood up and knelt on one knee covered in mud, firmly holding up the ring in his hand.

Red turned his face away silently.

The mantis's compound eyes, which are composed of countless hexagonal small eyes, reflect its raised left hand and the ring finger that is hooked upward.

"Saori? Please, I will treat you well."

There was a hint of pleading in the man's voice.

The mantis opened its left hand and clenched it tightly, and the crystal ring fell into the mud. Takami Sawa Ichiro was also thrown heavily. Reid was shocked. As soon as he stepped forward, the mantis staggered and turned around and took a few steps. Before it left their sight, it fell to the ground and was swallowed up by the violent explosion.

"Saori? Saori! Saori where have you been! Please! I can't live without you!"

Takamizawa Itshiro opened his mouth and stood up suddenly, but due to exhaustion he fell to the ground in a mess. He kept digging out the ring from the mud and water, shouting miserably everywhere.

Chapter 133: Can You Give Me All?

Who am I?

The heavy rain knocked down the cherry blossoms that were about to wither. Takamizawa Saori staggered in the cherry blossom alley, holding her chest, sometimes turning back into a mantis insect, and sometimes turning back into Takamizawa Saori.

"My mission is to copy Takamizawa Saori, get close to Takamizawa Itsushi and steal the Mirror World technology from the Takamizawa Group, so that the Zerg can possess the power of the Mirror World."

In order to confirm her identity and self, Takamizawa Saori kept murmuring her mission, but what came to her mind were the memories with Takamizawa Itshiro. What filled her heart was not the regret of the failure of a plan that should have been successful, but reluctance and attachment.

"No, it's not me—I've never lived with him!"

"So insects can also feel distressed? I always thought that insects only had simple and sensitive conditioned reflexes, and did not have such advanced emotions."

Saori Takamizawa paused and looked up. Metzler, who seemed the most harmless, was standing not far away, smiling gently.

"Is it because of copying humans?"