Please stop persecuting your students!

Baihu opened his mouth and subconsciously wanted to get up, but saw Saki's backhand grab, skillfully put his hand on that familiar position - that is, on top of Nia's head, and then slowly lowered his arm. Nia, who showed no signs of waking up, looked at Baihu across from her inverted big letter shape, and both sighed.

As for Nia, she seemed to have found a very good sleeping position, with the corners of her mouth raised, and she grabbed Saki's arm, which was about to pull away, and arched her head, no longer tossing and turning. A faint snorting sound came from an arm's length away.

Saki: “…”

Oh, you're still relying on me!

Someone glared, but there was no extra reaction, his mentality was as steady as an old dog. When his eyes fell on Nia's chest, his face suddenly became solemn, and he released his spiritual power to wipe Nia's chest, then turned his head expressionlessly, looked at his nose, looked at his heart, closed his eyes and put his attention back on the spiritual power in his body.

...Well, what did you say he just did?

He didn't do much, just put some things back in place.

...If I have to explain it in detail, it's probably just to straighten the tarpaulin that was blown open by the wind and cover the deck again...That's about it, it's not a big deal, right?

On the other side of the fire, Yan returned to sit next to Lex and looked at the two men and the tiger opposite, whose kung fu postures became weird after just a few moves, and a smile appeared on his face.

Although she didn't know what these two people, especially Saki, were hiding, and what their purpose was in approaching Lex, she could sense that it wasn't out of malice, but rather, it was mostly out of intimacy and goodwill. In that case, there was no need to interfere. Lex wasn't mature enough, and his power wasn't particularly strong. With the intervention of Shin and Mie, such a reliable and powerful person could join the group, and Lex would be safer.

Yan, who had no idea that someone was trying to abduct the ignorant boy and girl Arus with good intentions, just quietly closed his eyes, waiting for time to pass with the occasional subtle explosion of firewood.

So, the next day...

"Well...well..."

Nia stretched and opened her eyes, looking at the upside-down scenery. Her mind, which had not yet been completely restarted, was in a mess, and it took a long while before the first thought came to her mind -

What's going on? Am I rebelling?

"Good morning."

"Well?"

The girl turned her head upon hearing the voice and looked at the young man who was also turning over nearby. She blinked and replied blankly:

"Good morning..."

"If you wake up, should I let you go?"

"okay."

Nia stared blankly as Saki pried her palms apart and quickly pulled out her arm that had been pressed down all night. After the support above her head disappeared, Nia's body slid down as expected.

Duang~!

“It hurts~~~~!”

......

On the other side, when Saki and the others were packing up and preparing to leave, a purple-white, six-winged medium-sized flying dragon Arus landed at the port of Torig Town. At the bow of the luxurious white-gold hull hanging below it, a black-haired girl wearing a Japanese miko costume stared at the city built on Gula's shoulders, and the Zen stick in her hand shook slightly, making a crisp sound.

Volume 109: Young Man, Young Girl and the Precious First Time: Chapter Chapter The Problem is a Bit Big

September 4058, 9 of the Divine Calendar - The above data comes from Yan, who can still accurately tell the current date even after sleeping for 3 years (the others can't even remember the year), which is the seventh day of someone's journey to the netherworld. At o'clock in the morning, in front of the gate of Torig Town, a group of people and non-humans dressed in different clothes stood in a row, attracting the attention of passers-by, and then quickly left.

For civilians, there are too many people in this world that they cannot afford to offend. Soldiers cannot be offended, famous people cannot be offended, people with fancy and weird clothes cannot be offended, and people with core crystals cannot be offended. The new faces in this row generally have two of these four categories.

There is a striped tiger wearing half armor, a catwoman wearing a bodysuit, a young man wearing cotton trousers on the lower body and leaves on the upper body, a boy wearing a salvage suit and a tall red-haired girl with a particularly flattering outfit... The former and the last have glowing crystals on their bodies!

Blades! And Blade Masters! There are two of them who can get the title of nobility just by joining the army! And they are completely different from those ordinary black uncle blades!

Originally, just because they can't be provoked doesn't mean that the civilians will stay away from them. After all, as a territory under the jurisdiction of the Spebia Empire, the town of Torig still has laws and order, and even a powerful Blade Master cannot do whatever he wants... However, the aura of this row of people is too strong, and it is obvious at first glance that they are not the kind of people from the Lawful Good camp.

There was no doubt that it was Saki and his group.

After losing Azure Dragon, the 'vehicle' that could move long distances on the sea of ​​clouds, although they decided to 'go to paradise', they didn't know how to get there for the time being, so they decided to go to Torig Town first, and then make plans - for example, rent a boat to go to the World Tree, and then find a way to climb up to Flame's Mouth, which is also the 'paradise' at the top of the World Tree in the legend of the Netherworld since ancient times, to fulfill Flame's wish.

...Of course, this is impossible both morally and logically. In a normal story, the hero and heroine have just met and determined the direction of the story. How can they jump from the starting point to the end point in an instant? There must be a lot of processes in between.

What Saki has to do is to wait for an opportunity and make Rex and others, whose feet were supposed to be nailed to the big ship of the Netherworld, move one foot slightly to plug the leaking hole in his small broken boat called Tenjin Elementary School.

There is no such thing as confidence. The human heart is the most unpredictable. It may be a word, an action, or even an unintentional remark from someone else that can cause a huge change in the target's mind, thus deviating from the track designed for it in the beginning.

In comparison, the two in Torig Town were easier to deal with, but I didn't know how to meet them. After all, the line seemed to be broken.

Instead of rushing into the town, they walked to the bulletin board not far away and looked at the two freshly-issued wanted posters on it. Saki's mouth curled up slightly, and Nia also came over with her mouth twitching.

One portrait was of a strange 'Blade' wearing a Hannya mask and a cloak, while the other was of a man who was wrapped up tightly with a large bag and goggles on his back, and the crime was...

"Attack and steal Arcadia's transport ship... humph!"

Following Saki's suggestion, Nia transformed back into human form, glanced at the soldier who was leaning against the wall and slacking off, snorted lightly, and swallowed her words of complaint.

If it was true, it would be fine, but she would not admit to this kind of crime that was forced upon her like a slander! As a man of action, Nia turned her dissatisfaction into action on the spot, raising her hands to tear up the two wanted warrants -

Then, Saki put his big hand on Nia's head, and suppressed Nia who was about to explode, and he used the head-patting technique which was close to perfection with extremely skillful movements.

"Calm down, they are just two thugs."

"...Hmph~"

“These goggles…”

Yan and others who also came over first took a look at the portrait of Prajna that was obviously not a human, and then looked at another one. Compared with Nia's full armor, Saki's equipment was obviously much more recognizable. The two people and one dragon looked at Saki one after another.

This new teammate seems to have some story?

"I'll tell you guys when I get a chance."

Saki blinked at the two of them, then looked at the two portraits of notorious criminals side by side with Ira, the Core Crystal Hunter, and others, with a thoughtful look on his face.

The plot... is totally messed up.

The young salvage worker Lex, the cannibal girl Nia, the young tiger of the Nopon tribe, the chief governor of the Spebia Empire, Meleph, and the prince of Losuria - that is, the thundering Sieg who was once pulled by Saki. The above five people and their blades form the protagonist group throughout the story and overthrow the netherworld.

If it was the identity of the Blade Master of the Holy Grail of Heaven, the character shown by Rex, and the legend of the "Paradise" endorsed by the Holy Grail of Heaven that prevented this patchwork team from falling apart in the middle of the journey, and if the flame of the Holy Grail of Heaven was the starting point of everything, then the person who provided a point of intersection for these five people who should have no connection was... Nia. Because she caused a conflict between Rex and the soldiers of Spebbia, she met Tiger, who admired the Blade Master and was keen on making trouble, and also got in touch with Melev.

Of course, even if Nia was not there, as the Blade Master of the Holy Grail of Heaven, he would still be approached by Melev and Sieg, but the Tiger line would be completely cut off. The reason for all this was simply because Nia was intercepted by the principal of Tenshin Elementary School in advance and did not join Ira.

The so-called butterfly effect is what this is about... It's sad. If I had known this would happen, it might have been better if I hadn't covered my face. What a pity.

It's impossible for him to run to the garrison in Gula and say, "It was me who killed Arcadia's buddy. If you don't agree, come and chase me, Lululu" - right?

Saki sighed again and turned his gaze to the soldier who was dozing against the wall, his eyes gradually becoming dangerous.

If...if he beat up this soldier here and in this way attracted the pursuit of the imperial soldiers, would it be possible to lure the tiger out?

After thinking for a while, seeing that the soldier had been awakened by the mysterious power in front of him, Saki shook his head and gave up this rather tempting idea. Under the other party's puzzled gaze, he left the bulletin board at the main entrance with a group of people and entered the town of Torig.

No matter what, the important thing to do first is to recycle his things.

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"Who are those people...Blade Masters?"

Watching this group of people who were obviously from an important background leave, the soldier guarding the gate scratched his iron helmet and lingered on Saki - or to be exact, on the big sword hanging on Saki's back for a while. He thought that this man seemed familiar, but he didn't think much about it. He continued to lean against the wall with his arms folded, smelling the rich aroma of bread wafting in the air. He subconsciously touched his slightly bulging belly and thought about his lunch today. Freshly baked bread, sandwiches, grilled fish... Each of these nouns tugged at his heartstrings, making it difficult to choose.

Just as this young soldier was enjoying the delicious food sold in the shopping street just a dozen steps away, another soldier wearing a tall metal hat that seemed to reach the sky, dressed like a Jedi Knight, walked up to him. Looking at this soldier who kept shedding sad tears while on duty, a few black lines appeared on his face, and he didn't tolerate it, but slapped him with his backhand -

Snapped!

“Fuck! Who hit me? Do you know that even my dad didn’t—”

The young soldier, who was suddenly slapped to the ground, looked up and saw the metal pointed hat. He stood up immediately with his back straight, feeling a chill in his heart.

"Report to the captain, there is nothing unusual at the town gate!"

"Okay, stop pretending."

The soldier who was called the captain laughed and cursed. Didn't he know what kind of character his soldiers were? He didn't ask any more questions and stuffed the two rolled-up straw papers into the other party's hands.

"Go put these up, and take down the two portraits with masks."

"Eh? Then what are these..."

The soldier was startled when he heard this, and subconsciously unfolded one of the wanted posters, revealing a handsome male face. His chin was very similar to the portrait of the man wearing goggles on the wanted poster. Then he took a look at the charge - oh, attacking and stealing a Vatican transport ship.

"Did you find this out? Didn't you say that no one saw his face?"

"Now there is one more, go quickly... Oh, and keep an eye out for a blade with an emerald-colored core crystal."

"Yes!"

The soldier saluted, then quickly removed the original portrait and replaced it with a new one, muttering in his heart:

"What color is this emerald green?"

Just like the ignorant peasants who think that the emperor is just using a better hoe to plant the land, and the king is using a golden whip to herd sheep, in this world without the Internet, it is difficult for people living at the bottom to understand the flowery words used by the big guys above. After pasting the two portraits of a man and a woman, I put my hands on my hips and admired the results of my work. As I watched...

Um...

Hey, why does it look so familiar?

The smile on the gatekeeper's face gradually disappeared, beads of sweat kept dripping from his chin. He pulled up his trousers and ran towards the captain who had just walked out of the fish shop carrying a skewer of grilled fish.

......

On the other side, at the top of the largest windmill in Torig Town, which was in some sense the tallest, a black-haired young man pushed up his red-framed glasses and looked at the Spebia soldiers below who were gradually becoming more active and gathering towards a certain place, his eyes filled with indelible gloom and murderous intent.

Every blade has their own 'true name'... Of course, it is different from the true names of the old gods. It does not have such exaggerated effects and constraints. It is just a simple, eternal code name, a title, a character that will always accompany them even after countless 'restarts' and even changes in appearance.

The origin is unknown. It may be the name of Arus, who nurtured the core crystal, or it may be a character randomly selected from the sea of ​​words... In short, I don't know if it is a coincidence or someone's bad taste, this handsome boy wearing blue light armor has a name like "Yoshitsune".

He didn't have a tragic life story, but rather he wasn't dissatisfied with his life so far. He was reborn as a rough-looking Blade Master in Losulia. He wanted to cherish this encounter and didn't want to forget it, so he became a Cannibal after his Blade Master died. He then entered a period of confusion that most Cannibals who took this path would have.

Although they have retained their memories with the Blade Master, they have no idea what to do next. Their only destination is to keep these memories until they enter a long sleep where they will never wake up again...

Then, in confusion, he was persecuted and captured by Arcadia, and learned that there were many evil people besides his Blade Master. But this was not a bad memory, after all, he was fortunate to meet Shin, a cannibal who had a dream and took action for it, and his dream was surprisingly consistent with the anger that Yoshitsune felt at that moment. The two confused souls had a direction to move forward and work hard in the remaining confused years when they would die suddenly at an unknown time.

It's not that his anger had really reached that level, he just simply wanted to do something for this lifesaver and person who could understand him ideologically...in other words, a soulmate to some extent.

However, all this changed more than ten hours ago.

The invincible one...fell down!

Although the strength Nia could mobilize was limited without releasing his own blade form, after accelerating for half a day, his body was really exhausted. The original time limit for movement was not only shortened, but also began to be overdrawn. The moment he returned to the Narwhal, he coughed up blood and fell down.

As Ira's personal aether regulator - or in other words, the core crystal doctor, Yoshitsune knew how bad Shin's condition was, but since he met this man, it was the first time he saw him fall down in battle. Afterwards, he knew that the man named Saki had the ability to threaten their leader, and even threaten all of them.

Regardless of whether he really pinched the heart or not, this power that could rapidly deteriorate the body of a cannibal was too terrifying. It had to be dealt with, otherwise the dream would never come true. The people in the small organization with strong cohesion reached a consensus on this point and took action. Even though he had told them not to act rashly before falling asleep, he still used his own means - a super-large compass that could sense all the etheric creatures in the Netherworld to confirm that Saki and his party had indeed landed in the Netherworld, and then...

He immediately sent a letter of complaint to the Spebia officials!

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Of course, Ira himself was on wanted warrants in several countries, so it was impossible for him to submit the letter of denunciation himself, and an anonymous letter lacked credibility, so Yoshitsune took a roundabout way.

He first found Mov, the president of the Avalitia Chamber of Commerce, who had an incredibly close cooperative relationship with Ira, and then Barn used his channels to pass the report letter with a high-definition portrait to Mov, the Consul of Gula, who had a certain cooperation with him, and also gave him a little extra information - after all, he also knew that Yoshitsune's little information alone might not be enough to make the Consul, who knew the existence of the Holy Grail of Heaven and gradually had some small ideas, go all out to hunt down the person Ira wanted to kill.

The real thief cries thief

After doing all this, Yoshitsune came to Gura and Torig Town. While helping Shin to recuperate, he found some strange things and needed to confirm them himself. If the situation was true, then the situation would not be too bad...

"Yoshitsune~Want to eat meow?"

The boy's memories were interrupted, and he glanced sideways, only to see a strange blade with six strange wings on its back flying up, shaking two freshly baked sandwiches in its hand towards Yoshitsune, and said excitedly, which made Yoshitsune subconsciously adjust his glasses and then raise his hand.

"I don't need it for now."

"Tsk...oh? The saint is coming out~"

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Yoshitsune's eyes lit up and he looked towards the magnificent ship, only to see the black-haired girl holding a Zen staff slowly walking down the steps, and right in front of her was a beautiful woman with blue flames burning on her limbs and hair.

Spebia's most powerful fire-attributed blade - Kagutsuchi! She is also the secretary of the special governor Melev, a person with real power. In her presence, even Gula's de facto consul Mofu can only stand aside obediently.

This is nothing. After all, in order to investigate the disappearance of the transport ship, Arcadia sent the Holy Maiden of the Church, whose status is second only to the Pope. She is also the Pope's Blade. It is normal for Kagutsuchi to come up and contact them while Melever is out.

Even though this saint didn't know the real purpose of the transport ship, or didn't know many things about her own camp, putting aside her strength, she was a well-deserved vase saint.

...However, strength is enough, and being a little stupid is more in line with Yoshitsune's wishes.

The Holy Grail of Heaven awakening after sleeping for five hundred years, the Saint of the Vatican, the Pearl of the Empire, the cannibals... so many big figures and special beings gathered in such a small town.

Seeing that more than 30% of the situation was caused by himself, Yoshitsune pushed his glasses again and his mood gradually became more cheerful.

"The stage has been set!"

......