Please stop persecuting your students!

After all, you see, he is doing the same thing now, so it is natural to have such an association, right?

But then again, it was said that when spiritual energy accumulated to a certain amount, simply releasing it could lift up the entire city. As for how much exactly was needed... Saki felt that it was probably impossible in this lifetime. At least he could work towards the goal of 'becoming a spirit even after death'?

"Well?"

Suddenly, Saki's face changed, and he tilted his head. Nia, who was confused the whole time, looked over and asked curiously:

"what happened?"

"found it."

Kata~

After sliding down, there was a slight sound from behind the wall. The seemingly ordinary wooden wall slowly opened inward, revealing a space built on a huge root system - a wooden corridor that was barely wide enough for one person to walk through! On one side was a wall made of roots that were harder than rocks, and on the other side were a large number of green vines hanging from above, covering the entire corridor tightly. You could vaguely see a huge waterwheel in operation on the other side of the vines.

It looks like just an ordinary wall, but there is a whole new world behind it? !

Nia: "!!!∑(?Д?ノ)ノ"

How could Gula have such a mechanism? !

No, that's not important! What's important is——

"Why do you know this place!!!"

"Shh, keep your voice down, don't attract anyone here"

As he spoke, Saki pulled Nia sideways and slipped into the door, closing the wooden door from the inside, and put the bolt that he had just opened back into place. He ignored Nia's face full of question marks and did not explain. Instead, he looked at this strange space with interest, feeling a little emotional.

"I didn't expect it to be true..."

After all, even the infrastructure of Torig Town was somewhat different from that in the game, so he couldn't guarantee whether the "secret passage" in his memory really existed. Fortunately, he still found it!

Volume 40: Young Men and Girls and Their Precious First Time: Chapter Chapter : Raising the Flag Before the Battle

As for the owner of this place...it seems like he's not here, but it's better if he's not here.

"So..."

Saki's shoulders tilted, and the heavy backpack slid down and gently placed on the ground. He looked around the corridor, completely ignoring his companions who were already gathering strength, and muttered to himself:

"Let's get down to business!"

Without considering going deeper, Saki simply found a narrow and relatively hidden space made of vines and roots nearby, opened his backpack, and stuffed the weight that had nothing to do with the battle into the sleeping bag that looked extremely concealed. In the end, he left behind two days' worth of compressed biscuits and drinking water, as well as some necessities including medicines. When he put on his backpack again, the weight on his body suddenly dropped from more than 40 kilograms to...

Well, twenty kilograms.

After all, a multifunctional survival knife with the sheath weighs twelve kilograms. These combat weights are always the bulk of the burden. After his spiritual power is restored, this amount of weight will not affect his movements at all. As for how much use he can get from this trainee who has been training for three and a half days... it all depends on these twenty kilograms of equipment!

"Well?"

Nia, who was also imitating Saki and stuffing some non-essential items into her sleeping bag, glanced at Saki and paused. Her amber eyes stared at the long-sleeved arm of the young man beside her, with doubt in her heart.

"Arm armor?"

Although she only saw it once, it was undoubtedly some kind of metal arm armor. Saki definitely didn't wear this thing when he was in school before. Nia suddenly realized,

"Is this one of the 'six trump cards' that Saki mentioned?"

A knife that can discharge electricity, smoke bombs, flash bombs, strange arm armor, so the only thing left is the freezing grenade and the expensive bullet?

This is not important. The only thing she wants to know right now is——

"How on earth did you know this place?"

"Well...let's talk about it outside."

"Hey! Wait for me!"

After hiding the things, the two of them slightly opened the secret door, confirmed that there was no one outside, then slipped out and closed the secret door again. Saki used the same trick again to push the bolts back to their original positions, and left without alerting anyone.

About an hour later, when the sun was already high in the sky, the bolt was pulled from the outside, and the secret door opened again. A fat orange creature that looked like a large egg? Or a fat orange creature that looked like an egg? Anyway, a similar creature walked in with short legs. After a pair of huge ears that looked like the big-eared beast on the next set closed the secret door again, the egg-shaped creature sighed with a depressed look on its face.

"Today is still not enough... But, Tiger will not give up! Tiger must rely on his own strength--"

"Become a Blade Master!"

......

Back to normal time, after Saki and his companion left the residential area of ​​Torig Town and returned to the deserted path again, a catwoman with a nagging heart kept wandering around Saki.

"So, how do you know where it is?"

"The map."

Saki said it as a matter of course, so much so that Nia didn't have time to refute it for a moment. She stared at Saki with a confused look on her face and tilted her head.

"map?"

"Yes."

"...There's even something like this?"

"Of course."

Well, but that's the map in the game. I don't know whether Saki is in the map of the underworld in the library.

At least from this perspective, he didn't lie, right? So Saki has a clear conscience, and Nia started to think about whether she should spend more time in the library after returning...

Bullshit! How could it be possible! The books that Saki read in those three days were all words, how could he know something like a private secret passage!

But... seeing the man in front of her with a look of "it's no big deal" and speaking with certainty that he had no intention of lying, Nia didn't know what to say for a moment. She swallowed back the words that were originally brewing in her mind and even began to doubt her previous judgment.

Everyone has their own secrets that they don't want others to know, and she is no exception. Originally, she would not ask about Saki's secrets, but...

If it involves your own secrets, that's another matter.

She really had a feeling just now that this person already knew everything through some channel, even the things she wanted to hide.

There is fear, but for some reason, there is more inexplicable feeling...Is this not bad? Or is it self-destruction?

She didn't understand, but she did have a feeling that 'at least I don't need to hide this anymore in front of this person.'

But now, after realizing that it seemed to be just her illusion, Nia did not relax and did not continue to ask about this issue. Her sight seemed to penetrate the wall in front of her and go straight to the transport ship belonging to Arcadia anchored in the port.

"I guess that's the limit, right?"

She couldn't help but think so.

Regardless of whether Saki knew her identity through some method or channel that she said she didn't know, it ended there.

Arcadia... the transport ship of the Church, the place they will attack next, where there are a group of Arcadian soldiers and priests who know her true identity. After this simple disguise is exposed, the other party will most likely reveal her identity intentionally or unintentionally, right?

For example, after the mask is taken off, there will be a round of questions like "It's you, the cannibal!", or "You are going to fight the Church for this cannibal?!"... Very standard, isn't it? It also seems like something those people would say. In fact, when I was being hunted down, I encountered many "kind-hearted people" who wanted to rescue me for some unknown reason, but they were all driven away by the second question above.

She wasn't really worried that Saki would give up after a few words, but... by then, whether Saki really didn't know or was just cooperating with her in an act, hiding her identity would be meaningless, right? Or... she wouldn't have to hide it anymore, right?

Nia was thinking about her life and future, and even began to imagine the next ten or twenty days of her life, but Saki...

Looking through my equipment.

To be precise, it is based on the thought loop of starting to think about whether the lights at home are turned off and the doors are locked as soon as you go out, and repeatedly confirming the equipment left in the backpack and carried on your body.

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Volume 41: Young Man, Young Girl and Precious First Time: Chapter Chapter : Infiltrating (Face)

He thought he had been fully trained in the simulated space of the stadium, and the several "encounters" along the way proved to him that his tactics and equipment selection could achieve the expected or even far exceeded the expected results... But that was against the beast. In terms of size, it was enough to be called a "monster", and the same was true of its intelligence.

But what he will face next is human...

Of course I felt uneasy, because swords have no eyes, not to mention that the opponent also had ether attacks, which were almost magical, and firearms. If I wasn't careful, I would be hit on the head and it would be gone instantly.

Of course, the same is true for the opponent. The magazine in the backpack is not just for decoration. Even if Saki only intends to use it for suppression, who knows? Although it is a small-caliber bullet, it is easy to penetrate one or two layers of wood? Then it is just as easy to penetrate the head of the person hiding behind the wood? In a real fight, who knows what will happen if a volley of bullets hits the target. It is not impossible that the person who originally intended to hit the thigh accidentally penetrates the head.

Just thinking about that scene made Saki feel disgusted from the bottom of his heart.

It was not only about the possibility of being killed, but also about the possibility of killing. Just like students before the big exam or writers before the deadline would use tidying up the room and making a particularly complicated lunch to adjust their mood, checking the equipment at hand over and over again was a way for Saki to relieve his anxiety. Not to mention savoring Nia's little thoughts.

The latter also had his own entanglements, and they had agreed at the beginning to wait for Saki's mana to be fully restored before setting off, so for a while, the two of them did their own things. After eating some reserve food on the way, the two of them waited quietly at the foot of Torig Town.

So, three hours passed.

The morning sun, which had not yet emerged from the sea of ​​clouds when he got up, was now hanging overhead. Saki stood up first, stretched his body, and opened his backpack again for a final check.

Four spare magazines have been filled, three flash bombs are left, five ice mines, five smoke bombs, the multi-functional survival knife is 25% charged, and the spiritual power is full...

"Then, let's go."

"Are we finally leaving?"

Nia stretched, picked up a pair of ring blades placed aside, looked towards the busy airport not far away, and the two looked at each other.

"Any plans?"

"Go A in front, find the white tiger, A out, and escape."

“Super sloppy!”

"I also want to get some optical camouflage or something in there, but the optical camouflage for two people would cost at least 100,000 yuan. The lack of money limits my imagination."

"..."

"Of course, I'm not completely unprepared."

At noon, the sun is shining brightly, and the human body needs to relax after a morning of hard work. Not to mention that the blood supply to the brain will decrease after a meal, and mental strength will also decline. But for Nia and Saki, who are not night owls and have specially staggered their meal times, this is a better time to raid than in the early morning.

The transport ships of Arcadia were no exception to this rule. Perhaps because they were officials of Arcadia, the thieves dared not offend them easily, and the security was extremely lax. From a distance, there was no one in front of the gangway connecting the transport ship to the land. The door was wide open, as if inviting people to go in.

Perhaps, it is most likely an "invitation". After all, the other party's fundamental purpose is to capture Nia. The fact that they have not killed the white tiger for such a long time after catching it and turning it back into a core crystal can explain some problems.

In other words, the current scene clearly had "there is a trap" written all over it, but they had no choice.

Just charge!

"Well, it's time to reveal my fourth trump card."

Saki took a step sideways and stood in front of Nia, pulling up his sleeves and exposing his arms to the slightly damp and cool air of Gula compared to Tenjin Elementary School.

It was a silver arm armor that started at the wrist and ended at the elbow, covering the forearm. It was about one centimeter thick, with patterns engraved on the surface for unknown purposes. It looked like it had little offensive or defensive capabilities. There was one such arm armor on each hand.

Then, Sakichi reached into his backpack and found two pieces of metal plates with silver base and gold edges, about the size of four adult palms, with a convex diamond-shaped metal plate in the middle. He put them on his arms skillfully. The grooves inside the metal plates matched the patterns on the arm armor perfectly. With two clicks, the two pieces of metal plates with strange shapes were firmly put on Sakichi's arms.

Shield!

"It's so small! Why is your (shield) so small?! Can it really be used?!"

Saki: Why did I turn yellow?!

"I think the first subjects to consider after school officially starts are health and physical education and Chinese."

Nia: “???”

Did I say something wrong?

Of course... That's right! According to common sense, this diamond-shaped metal shield, which is similar to the Greek round shield but not even one-third the size of the round shield that can protect the upper body, is naturally useless... But what is the reality?

Could it be that ordinary, something that's of the same price as the machete hanging on his waist and that Saki specially prepared two of, be so ordinary?

"So, can you determine the location?"

"Probably...there!"

Nia pointed towards the stern of the transport ship. The connection between the Blade and the Blade Master could still give her directions even across a plain, let alone when they were so close?

In fact, at this distance, the Blades and Blade Masters were able to transfer aether to each other, but for some reason, Nia still hadn't received the aether transmitted from the White Tiger, and the aether she sent was like a drop in the ocean, with not even a sound heard.

Something doesn't feel right.

"The signal is not good."

"Signal?"

"Hmm... Anyway, I can roughly guess what it is."

Before using the boundary-piercing rope, he dug deep into his memory and screened out a lot of things that might have an impact on this operation. He also had an idea as to why Nia's White Tiger Blade did not react.

Normally, if Nia was the only one encountering this situation, she would surely die. After all, that thing was like a demon kneeling down to face a dragon to her. Their compatibility was extremely poor... So how did the original Nia survive such a situation?

Well, that's not important.

The important thing is, unlike the light cannon like the Demon's Kneeling which is extremely destructive even if it ignores special attacks, the thing they are about to face now is most likely... ineffective against him.

"Then... move out!"