Brave World, I report to the police station in red at the beginning

With trembling hands he picked up the fallen wrench.

"Like you, Chikage, Wakaba, Hinata..."

"You don't want to mention the names of everyone you know?"

"…Tsk, I've been discovered."

Li Mengyu scratched her hair helplessly.

"I don't know! How could I know? Whether it's love or any other experience, I have zero experience at the beginning!"

Once again, I am in a state of self-abandonment.

"Then let me ask you this question in a different way. Among all the people you know, who is your favorite?"

Taking advantage of Li Mengyu's confusion, Xiaojun approached him... very close, almost in front of him.

"When I asked this question, who was the first person's face that flashed through your mind?"

The little figure that flashed by was a brief but extremely deep memory.

Li Mengyu took several steps back, her eyes fixed on Xiaojun's face. She only looked away for a moment, but did not reply.

"Tsk, is that so?"

Xiaojun probably knew that the image that just flashed through that guy's mind was somehow projected into his own mind.

"...As expected, he's a pervert."

Chapter 173: Peaceful Christmas Eve

The howling cold wind mixed with ice and snow seemed to freeze everything.

What meets the eye is the white snow. After several nights of baptism, the snow on the ground is now almost enough to completely cover half of an adult's calf.

Snowflakes were still floating in the sky, just like in the previous few months. Even today the snow was thicker, and even things 5 ​​meters away would be a little hazy.

Even if you stand at a very high place and look down, you can't find any trace of human beings...you can't even find any trace of other birds or animals.

This is a world that belongs to snow and only to snow.

This is the winter in Hokkaido now.

Unlike the residents of Suwa and Shikoku who can still live in buildings, the only places they can stay in are so-called shelters, which are actually simple caves dug by humans.

That place has completely lost all the support of modern society. In such cold weather, let alone heating, sometimes even a fire cannot be lit.

In such a biting cold wind, even the girl with glasses wearing a purple hero's costume couldn't help but hug her arms tightly.

"It's getting colder and colder..."

She mumbled something and rubbed her palms.

"How long are you going to hold on...Akihara..."

Akihara Hanako, that is the girl's name, and also the name of a brave man from Hokkaido.

She was now standing outside the cave. If she entered the cave, the meaning of her life might be slightly alleviated, but there was a reason why she did not enter the cave.

Even if she stood at the entrance of the cave, she could hear the trembling voices of the survivors in the cave, as well as several people shouting "Brave Man", eager to find her help.

She ignored it... because she really had no other choice.

The supplies from the four countries arrived a few days ago, but even the thickened fleece clothes and bedding that almost everyone in the group wore were beginning to be unable to keep out the cold from outside.

There were little lights in the cave... Akihara Xuehua knew that if this trend continued... all these things would be consumed before the end of winter, and the survivors in Hokkaido might not survive this winter.

But if we didn't add more firewood to the fire... two children died yesterday because they couldn't stand the cold.

There were clearly thousands of survivors here at the beginning, but now... there are probably only a hundred or so left.

She has obviously tried very hard...

"It's coming! Akihara! Stop being in a daze!"

A soft and sticky voice sounded in her ears, and the girl instantly clenched the spear in her hand.

Aiming at the deadly white monsters that showed their heads out from the wind and snow, the girl's body wrapped around the tip of the gun turned into a streak of electric purple light.

With just one encounter, the first stardust that appeared was crushed into powder.

"Very good, number one! Next is..."

In the snow, the girl was fighting with a hideous monster.

She actually hated fighting because it was very dangerous...even a brave man could fall on the spot in a moment.

You know, her life motto is to hide if she can. If possible, she would like to live alone in that tunnel until the day the world is destroyed!

But now I have to take up arms.

"Why must it be me? Why must I..."

The girl muttered to herself, and at that moment when her attention was distracted, she didn't realize that a stardust was about to attack her from behind under the cover of the wind and snow.

"Don't be distracted when fighting."

A cold and lonely girl's voice sounded in Akihara Xuehua's ears, and the crimson sickle blade almost brushed past her ear.

At the same time, the stardust that wanted to launch a sneak attack turned into dust. Under that slash, it was as if the snowflakes in the sky stopped for a moment.

Akihara Xuehua couldn't help but look twice more at the black-haired girl who offered her a helping hand.

Wow~ You are really cool.

This person is the brave warrior from Shikoku who came here to escort supplies from Shikoku.

She is calm and graceful during battles, and can defeat all monsters leisurely like strolling in the garden.

There's really a huge difference in power. If Hokkaido is handed over to her, she will definitely be able to do better than me.

She couldn't help but have such thoughts in her mind.

Do all the heroes of the four countries look like this?

Nogi Wakaba who came to deliver supplies last time and the black-haired girl this time are both heroes, so why are they so different?

She couldn't help but mutter in her heart, but the spear in her hand was not idle either, dealing with the stardust in front of her.

Because this attack only involved stardust and no vertex, the whole process was not very difficult for Akihara Xuehua, not to mention that there was someone to help her this time.

When the last stardust turned into powder and disappeared, it survived again this time.

After wiping the non-existent beads of sweat from her forehead, Akihara Xuehua sat down on the snow without caring about her image at all.

"Ah~ I'm so tired, so tired, when will this kind of life end... Master Fox Fairy?"

Akihara Snow Flower does not have her own shrine maiden, but she has a guardian who is different from everyone else.

"I don't know either."

The little fox-eared Loli, wagging her tail and ears, who had hardly changed from five years ago, exhaled lightly and spread out her hands.

"Don't say such completely discouraging words, Master Fox Fairy."

"I really don't know... Come to think of it, you've become quite strong, Chikage."

The fox-eared loli set her sights on Jun Qianjing, sighed, and pounced directly towards the girl.

The girl with a cold expression did not dodge and caught the fox-eared loli steadily.

"You... haven't changed at all."

Jun Qianjing touched her furry ears and said so.

"Eh? Are the brave hero of Shikoku and the fox fairy old acquaintances?"

Looking at this scene that was beyond her expectations, Akihara Xuehua scratched her head in distress.

"It's happened before...all kinds of things."

Such words made Akihara Xuehua even more curious about what had happened between the fox fairy and the brave man from Shikoku.

"Why are you here again?"

Kochi Prefecture is very far away from Asahikawa in Hokkaido, so why would the God Inari appear here?

"Ah~ Didn't Shikoku have you guys at that time? I wasn't of any use to you guys, and it just so happened that the shrine here in Asahikawa was triggered by that kid."

The fox-eared loli pointed at Akihara Xuehua.

"I can't just do nothing. After all, your partner and I have agreed to contribute some of our strength..."

When a certain guy was mentioned, the atmosphere seemed to freeze a little.

"Let's stop here for the chat,"

The fox-eared loli's face suddenly became a little stern.

"They are coming again... three times as many enemies as before."

"Eh?! Why is it so frequent? I, I haven't rested enough!"

Akihara Xuehua had a bitter face, but still stood up with the support of the spear.

"After this wave of fighting, I'm going to go back and rest and sleep! Even if there are more, I won't care!"

The girl muttered and sprinted into the snowstorm.

Under Jun Qianjing's gaze, the fox-eared loli looked away.

"Don't be fooled by her appearance, Xuehua is still a very reliable child..."

"I can feel that... although she sometimes says some discouraging words, she will not back down when the critical moment comes. I know that."

Jun Qianjing carried the sickle on his shoulder.

"I just want to ask, he..."

"I really want to give you a clue...but...I'm sorry, I don't have any."

"Is that so?"

There was no change in emotion on Jun Qianjing's face, and even his tone of voice hardly changed.

"Gradually... I seem to have gotten used to this kind of conversation."

She asked others about him again and again, and got useless answers again and again. However, she still would not give up. If even she gave up, who else would remember him?

The emblem on the back of the hand lit up, and aqua blue ripples covered the scarlet sickle blade.

"I'm going to deal with those enemies first."

It was obviously Akihara Xuehua who left first, but when she just met Xingxue, she found that Jun Qianjing had come in front of her at some point.

He was one step ahead of her and was already fighting with those stardust.

Even if one person attracted the siege of hundreds of stardusts, he still looked able to handle it with ease.

It seemed like there was absolutely no room for her to intervene.

"Isn't this too strong?!"

"Huh? That's nothing. You don't know how outrageous she was at the beginning... But our Xuehua isn't bad either. Don't underestimate yourself."

"ah!"

Qiu Yuan Xuehua dodged the Stardust shell that fell from the sky by leaning sideways. The Stardust shell fell into the snow. If she hadn't dodged quickly... she would have been buried by the thick layer of snow.

Her name is just Snowflake, not a real snowflake.

But the fox-eared loli was not so lucky. She was a little slow and successfully transformed from a brown and yellow fox into a snow-white fox.

"It's so... so cold!"

But this is not the end, because of Jun Qianjing's attack, stardust in the sky fell one after another like dumplings.

"How can you say this isn't bad? It's far from it!"

It just so happens that those stardust will only dissipate after falling on the snow. Qiu Yuan Xuehua can barely dodge it, but Fox Ear Loli has no such mobility at all.

"Wait... Qian..."

The howling wind and snow covered up her wailing. When Jun Qianjing dealt with the enemy, the entire snowfield was a mess.