Knight Asylum

"Professor Kagawa - why are you doing this?"

"The question now is not why, but what to do?" Kagawa Hideyuki raised his hand to adjust his glasses. "Red Leonardo, I need your help. S.L. is facing great danger now."

"Huge danger? Professor Kagawa, if you mean the mirror world, I'm on my way to solve it," Reid stared at Hideyuki Kagawa without any movement.

"Red, the real danger is not the mirror world, but the people who are expanding the problems of the mirror world. Now you have to go somewhere with me. I didn't intend to ask you for help, but my research institute was attacked by the Intelligent Brain Group, and my students are fighting with Orphino of the Intelligent Brain Group. Maybe, in ten minutes, they will all be dead," Hideyuki Kagawa said a cruel fact very calmly.

"What did you say!? We must rescue them immediately!"

Reid, who didn't expect such an unexpected thing to happen, immediately pulled down his goggles and started the engine, but Hideyuki Kagawa was still blocking the middle of the road to Spica.

"There are bigger crises that we need to solve."

"Professor Kagawa! They are your students!"

"Yes, they are my students," Hideyuki Kagawa threw a mobile phone in Reid's direction.

Red raised his hand to take it, turned on the phone, and displayed in front of him was a communication record of more than a few minutes.

Red noticed something, but still reached out and opened the communication.

"Teacher! Ophino is here! Their target is the teacher's research!"

"Give it to us, teacher! You're the only one who can save the world now!"

"Teacher, don't worry! Even if we die, we will not let your achievements fall into the hands of these weirdos!"

There were voices of men and women, wailing and roaring in the communication.

"You got one thing wrong," Kagawa Hideyuki raised his hand to adjust his glasses, "It's not a choice between saving a hundred people or ten people. It's about those ten people working with us to save the hundred people."

Hideyuki Kagawa still had no expression on his face, but the hand holding his glasses was shaking.

The man was not as calm as he appeared, but his rationality suppressed his emotions.

"I understand." Red took a deep breath and took out his cell phone. "I want to contact Selvi Turia. Maybe I can save a few people."

But what Reid didn't expect was that after hearing that he wanted to contact Selvi Turia, Hideyuki Kagawa immediately reached out to organize his actions.

"Do not contact Servier Turia—"

"Why?" Red was puzzled.

"The culprit of all this is Serviane. If you contact Serviane now, he will notice it," Hideyuki Kagawa took out the black box and aimed it at the rearview mirror of the motorcycle. A belt flipped out and buckled around his waist.

"Who?"

Reid believed in U and the others, but he didn't particularly believe in Serviera, over whom U didn't have complete control, so when Hideyuki Kagawa said this, he immediately thought of those sponsors.

"Before you see what's happened, you won't believe me even if I tell you his name, so follow me—"

Kagawa Hideyuki embedded the black box into the belt around his waist, the afterimages overlapped, and the black armor wrapped around his body.

"Where are we going?"

After transforming into Mirror Knight, Hideyuki Kagawa tilted his head slightly towards Red.

"Takamizawa Group——"

"Takamizawa Group?!"

Reid exclaimed. He couldn't understand why the name Takamizawa Group came out of Kagawa Hideyuki's mouth at this time, but before he could ask, Kagawa Hideyuki had started the engine and flew past the highway heading to Spica.

With no other choice, Red had to start the engine at full power and chase after Hideyuki Kagawa.

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In front of an old mobile ramen shop, Shinji Shirodo and Takeshi Asakura sat side by side, slurping up the hot ramen at an extremely fast pace as if they were competing to see who could eat faster.

Of course, with Asakura Takeshi's personality, he would not participate in such a boring competition. Asakura Takeshi was just eating because he was hungry. However, Shinji Kido stared at Asakura Takeshi with his eyes slanted as if competing with him the whole time.

"I'm stuffed--"

Shinji Shirodo put down the empty bowl heavily and raised his hands high, then put his hands on his hips and raised his chin proudly towards Asakura.

"You guy... are you an idiot?" Even Asakura Takeshi couldn't help but complain, and stood up to leave. However, because his right hand was handcuffed together with Shiroto Shinji's left hand, he took Shiroto Shinji up with him when he stood up.

"Wait a minute, I haven't paid yet—"

In a panic, Shinji Shiroto accidentally threw out a banknote with the largest denomination.

"Change! No change yet!"

"Uh..." The ramen shop owner picked up the bill with a subtle expression and waved it towards Shiroto Shinji who was being dragged further and further away by Asakura Takeru, "Thank you for your patronage. Remember to come back... to get the change."

"Thank you!" Shinji Shirodo was delighted and immediately bent down to thank his boss, then was dragged by Asakura Takeshi and staggered.

"You guy...are you an idiot?" Asakura Takeshi said again.

"What are you doing? I've been paying for the past few days," Shiroto Shinji, who refused to admit that he was an idiot, complained unhappily, "Can't you be a little grateful?"

Asakura Takeshi paused and stopped where he was. Shirodo Shinji, who was counting his increasingly empty wallet, bumped into Asakura Takeshi on the back. Shirodo Shinji was about to complain when he saw Asakura Takeshi staring straight ahead. He also looked over and saw that not far away, a man who looked very similar to Asakura Takeshi was staggering towards them.

Violent and manic, he is just like another Asakura Takeshi.

"Asakura...Akatsuki?" Shinji Kido was a little unsure.

Because in his impression, although Asakura Akatsuki looks very similar to Asakura Takeshi, their temperaments are very different. Even the doctors at the Abnormal Human Research Center commented that Asakura Akatsuki is a rare good person. Although Shinji Kido no longer thinks Asakura Akatsuki is a good guy after seeing Asakura Akatsuki throw the black box to Asakura Takeshi, the Asakura Akatsuki who appears in front of them now is simply a replica of Asakura Takeshi.

"Asakura Wei--" Asakura Akatsuki raised his bloodshot eyes and glared at Asakura Wei, growling in a hoarse voice.

"Wow - it really has become much pleasing to the eye," Asakura Takeshi twisted his neck with interest.

"Shut up! It's all my fault that it turned out like this! If it weren't for you, a born lunatic! If it weren't for you burning down the house, my life... would have been... much better—"

Asakura Xiao grabbed his head angrily and began to whisper crazily.

"I'm not your second self... How can we be the same? Why are you looking at me like that? What do you mean by face to face is like looking in the mirror? I am always willing to help others and I am strict with myself... How am I like Asakura Takeshi—"

"He is a bloodthirsty madman, a monster!"

Even though he was called a bloodthirsty madman and a monster, Asakura Takeshi did not get angry, and even yawned, but Shirodo Shinji couldn't bear to watch it.

"I'm telling you! Although Asakura isn't a good guy, you're not much better! You're like a paranoid lunatic, secretly doing illegal things!"

Asakura Akatsuki's expression froze instantly.

"What did you say……"

"Asakura is not a good person, and neither are you!" Shinji Kido repeated righteously with his hands on his hips.

"Click——"

Asakura Akatsuki felt as if a string in his head that had long reached its limit had finally broken. His brain went blank in an instant and he took out the card box from his pocket.

"I kill you……"

"I am going to kill you!!!"

Chapter 195: Rampage and Proliferation

On the way, Hideyuki Kagawa didn't say anything more, which made Red a little confused.

It is true that Itshiro Takamizawa has stated that he has the technology of the mirror world, but that was the research done by Hideyuki Kagawa before. It was the research and utilization of an unknown world. Without Hideyuki Kagawa, who knows how much resources and time would be needed with the scientific research capabilities of the Takamizawa Group.

Did he still remember that there was a huge flaw in the financial operation of Takamizawa Group? Even the employees' salaries had not been paid. Where would the money come from to continue research?

But there was no reason for Kagawa Hideyuki to appear in front of him on purpose to deceive him. If Kagawa Hideyuki, who possessed the mirror world technology, wanted to hide from him, he could not find him at all.

At the end of the silent and dim highway, a strange light flickered, and Red's brows jumped.

That was the direction of the Takamizawa Group, and this abnormal phenomenon was abnormal no matter how you looked at it. Without Hideyuki Kagawa urging him, Reid immediately increased his speed.

The distance to Takamizawa Group was getting shorter and shorter, and the abnormality became more and more obvious. It was no longer a strange light, but crystals flashing with strange light spread on the surrounding plants. Even the road itself began to become wrong, becoming transparent, reflecting their figures like a mirror.

It was as if they had strayed into a natural mirror maze.

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Selvi Turiane, U leaned back in his chair, tapping his crossed legs, crossing his fingers on his knees, staring deeply at the screen in front of him that was flashing different images.

In just a short period of time, more than thirty robberies, more than five terrorist attacks, eighty-nine civil disputes, and eight human trafficking cases occurred in [S·L]. But judging from the archives, all the imaginable and unimaginable evil deeds in the world have gathered here.

Humans fight against humans, humans fight against monsters, and monsters fight against monsters.

[S·L] is a huge Pandora's box, which contains disasters that can destroy mankind more than seven or eight times. The best solution is to take out all the weapons of mankind and throw them into [S·L], but hope is at the bottom of the disaster.

Without hope, mankind will never be able to make progress and can only continue to linger on that point.

If it can be proven that the benefits of this hope far outweigh the sacrifices of releasing those disasters, then from a macro perspective, it is indeed correct to keep this Pandora's box.

But the problem is, for the past twelve years, humans have only been repeatedly verifying one thing, that is, the monsters in [S·L] are not something humans can contend with. From a factual point of view, it is like a pool of stagnant water, and the Knight Plan is a huge rock thrown into it.

"Embe, what do you think humans will get: a demigod hero who stole the power of disaster from the gods, or a god who brings disaster to humans anew?"

Enbei, who was dispatching troops to deal with problems in various regions of [S·L], looked up in surprise, "Don't tell me you're beginning to doubt Red at this moment."

"I'm not talking about him—"

U raised his hand and pressed on the armrest, and a communication screen popped up. In the screen, two researchers in white coats had not noticed that the communication channel was turned on and were arguing fiercely with sweat on their foreheads about whether they were responsible or not.

Enbei's heart skipped a beat. This is a research institute that studies the mirror world. Why did it suddenly become a question of who is in charge, you or I?

"Hey - what happened!?"

Embe immediately spoke up to interrupt the researchers from blaming each other.

The two researchers were startled, and when they saw the communication channel was turned on, they immediately started stammering and gesticulating, unable to utter a complete sentence for a long time.

"Where is Kanzaki Shirou?" U asked calmly with his arms folded across his chest.

The two researchers froze in place, their eyes flickering and they said nothing.

"Hey...hey hey hey! What's your reaction?" Enbe's mouth twitched fiercely.

Shirou Kanzaki is the discoverer of the Mirror World and the chief of their Silvi Tulia Mirror World development project. Although his progress is much slower than that of Kagawa Hideyuki at present, his progress has always been catching up with Kagawa Hideyuki. Now that he has intercepted the black box that has been flowing secretly, it is only a matter of time before he catches up with Kagawa Hideyuki.

It can be said that no one in Servai Touriane understands the mirror world better than Shirou Kanzaki. If anything unexpected happens to Shirou Kanzaki, their project will be no different from being blown.

"Kanzaki Shirou, he's gone, right?" U narrowed his eyes and lifted his chin. "It seems that the actual progress is faster than he expected, or that time is running out."

Enbei's expression changed, and he turned stiffly to look at U. Those deep eyes made Enbei's scalp tingle, as if U knew everything and even calculated the time, but... was it possible?

"U...what's going to happen next?"

U glanced at Ember.

"who knows……"

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"what is this?"

Red couldn't believe his eyes.

They are now in front of the Takamizawa Group building, but the current Takamizawa Group is completely different from the Takamizawa Group he has in mind.

Huge crystals kept breaking out from the Takamizawa Group's building like bamboo shoots after rain. With those crystals as the center, the building began to be eroded by the crystals.

"That is, these are all the core of the mirror world—"

Hideyuki Kagawa clenched his fists tightly and rushed straight towards the gate of Takamizawa Group.

The situation was much worse than he had imagined, which also meant that the Takamizawa Group's behavior was more extreme than he expected.

"Core?" Reid was stunned for a moment and immediately transformed into Kuga and followed behind Kagawa Hideyuki.

He didn't even need intuition. He thought these cores that were constantly multiplying were very dangerous and should be exploded immediately, but he didn't understand these crystals very well. No matter what he did, what would he do if the explosion directly accelerated their proliferation?

"If you want to freely use the power of the mirror world, you must have a core that can support the mirror world—"

Hideyuki Kagawa kicked open the door of Takamizawa Group.

The building emits crystals of the surrounding environment, crisscrossing and completely changing the internal structure of the building.

"The core of the mirror world is very unstable. We need to be very careful to maintain its basic values. If we are not careful, it will self-destruct."

"Professor Kagawa, I can see that these cores are unstable, but they seem to be just a little bit away from self-destruction..." Reid pinched his fingers, "There's a little bit of distance between them and self-destruction."

"I also want to know how this happened—"

Hideyuki Kagawa was very upset at the moment. He painstakingly adjusted the numbers, and he didn't know how many times he had broken the cores of the mirror world and failed. For a while, he once suspected that the core was broken because he always entered the laboratory with his left foot first, or because he spoke in too harsh a tone.

They finally managed to stabilize the current one, but the core of the mirror world of Takamizawa Group went out of control and proliferated.

Chapter 196 Arrival of the Argumentative

Just as Reid and Kagawa Hideyuki were talking, two proliferation crystals from the core of the mirror world shot straight towards Reid and Kagawa Hideyuki.