Why play in a band if you don't form one for life?

Everyone bowed their heads to see them off.

"Thank you very much," they finally heard Kezusu's message, "I'm home."

In an instant, a ray of light appeared.

The earth was shaking. Shizi looked up and saw the long sword in the cherubim's hand was burning. Blackness surged from the sky, from the ground, from the air, from near and from far, like a sea, like a tide, and the long sword met it with a holy and glorious flame, igniting it, purifying it, and suppressing it all into the ground.

She felt the wind begin to become sweeter and the sunlight begin to become brighter.

After an unknown amount of time, she no longer saw the black air.

She saw the blue sky again. It was reflected in her eyes through the branches.

Kita stood up on her own. Shiko opened her eyes, walked forward, and looked at the cherubim. There were several new features on the other person's body, but unfortunately she still couldn't recognize who they belonged to, and which one corresponded to Kezusu.

"Should I call you... the Twenty-Seventh Elder?" she asked tentatively.

There was a long silence. "Just a cherubim." The other person's voice also changed slightly. She waved her free arm, and the spirit sword and spear returned to their current owners, while the other objects flew to her side and were placed around her.

Shizi got the answer, but couldn't think of what to say next. They were half-forced by Kezusu to come here, and they had experienced a long journey, but they didn't know what to do now.

However, to her surprise, the other party's body, which had not moved for hundreds of years, slowly stood up. Her body made a violent creaking sound, as if it would fall apart in the next moment, but in the end it stood upright steadily. She pulled the fire sword out of the ground, held it in her hand, walked around Shiko, and handed it to Kita.

"Eh?" Xi Duo was puzzled. "Give it to me?"

What's even more confusing is the Shizi. Logically speaking, shouldn't this thing be the center of a large formation, something that can't be easily moved? And why give it to Xiduo? Please, the protagonist is here!

"We have completely suppressed all the filth, so we don't need so much strength anymore." The cherubim explained, "It's like putting a beast in a cage. It takes a lot of strength to close the door, but once it's closed, you just need to pull the bolt. And this sword is attached with holy fire, so of course it's the most suitable for this child."

"Then..." CHU? heard the hidden meaning.

Xiduo silently took the sword. Shizi came over, gave her a scabbard, and asked her to put the sword on. The cherubim touched Xiduo's head again, and a ray of light flashed. Xiduo was stunned again: "This is..."

"Stop time. But Zusu left it to you." The cherubim turned to the others, "Come on, you will challenge Satan in the future, right? We leave the power to you."

"Is it really okay?" Hong Xia was a little worried, "It's better for you to keep it for yourself, just in case?" She glanced at the still grayish-white land. It had just absorbed such a huge amount of filthy air, what kind of terrifying power was buried in it?

The cherub shook his head. "We have already merged with the entire Garden of Eden. Even if we lose most of our power, management is still not a problem. As for the risk, this is all we have to lose. But you still have hope."

"Aren't you going to fight again? With us." Yukina said.

"Fight?" the cherubim asked back, "We gave up hundreds of years ago. The only one who didn't give up just returned in defeat."

So, everyone accepted the kindness from their ancestors with gratitude.

What Shizi got was a record. The skills inherited from Shizi were recognized by the cherubim at a glance. According to her, that senior was also their companion thousands of years ago, and they had a good relationship, but they escaped in a hurry and did not go in the same direction. She asked carefully about [Xingtian], and after listening, she was silent for a long time, raised her hand and gave Shizi this record. This was the experience of that senior exploring his own abilities, and he gave it all to Shizi. Although it did not involve shining, Shizi was overjoyed: as long as she could digest this record, she could really make a jade slip like making a small cake!

MASKING's broken hand was healed by the Cherubim using the remaining power of the Tree of Life. Just a few days of rest will restore it to normal. Moreover, she did not have a child. Her [Shine] value was greatly enhanced, which was directly reflected in the various abilities of the Stand. By the way, she also gained a little weak time power - the Stand can pause time for five seconds. And Kita can pause for five minutes.

Phosphorus was taught all the hymns known to the cherubim.

In addition to this, everyone was directly infused with brilliance, greatly increasing this value.

Finally, the cherubim came toward the crowd, holding an apple-like fruit.

"There is only one fruit left from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Choose a suitable person and let her eat it," she said.

Chapter 65: The Path of Fire

Several people gathered and looked at the fruit in the cherubim's hand. It looked like an ordinary apple, but it was quite juicy.

"Excuse me, what is its function..." Youkina looked up and asked.

"Eat it, and you will see the filth and sparkle floating in the air," the cherub replied. "But before that, I want to tell you something."

"?" Everyone waited.

"Zusu didn't elaborate on this matter because he was afraid you wouldn't be able to accept it," Cherubim said, "about the composition of the evil spirits and the roles of filth and glitter in it."

Shizi suddenly had some premonitions.

"First of all, the evil spirits are formed by the aggregation of filth and shining breath floating in the air." The cherubim held the fruit of good and evil and began to introduce in detail.

Filth comes from the lone wolf on the tower, a force that is hostile to humans. The only thing that can fight it is the brilliance in their own hearts. The brilliance and filth are mutually reinforcing and mutually exclusive, but they are also interdependent. Deep in everyone's soul is a trace of filth that cannot be eradicated, while the evil demons in the outside world are the opposite - their bodies are composed of a large amount of filth and a very small amount of brilliance.

"You just said that the brilliance only comes from our hearts..." Shizi frowned.

"Yes."

The cherubim calmly concluded: "The glow in the bodies of those demons now comes from the souls of all the sacrifices made here since the creation of the world."

After thinking about it for a while, everyone understood this conclusion.

"So, only by killing monsters can you become stronger..." Ako said, "I thought it was just a setting like experience points..."

"Our enemies and I have the same origin. This is a very common setting." Liang was very calm.

"Ms. Marina... and Ms. Araki... where is her brilliance now?" Kita lowered his head, playing with the flame in his hand, and muttered to himself. Hearing this, the band and Roselia all lowered their heads.

The cherubim gave them ample time to recover their composure.

"That's right!" Shizi suddenly felt a glimmer of hope. "Speaking of this, since the dead in the outside world will be resurrected in the Garden of Eden, then Ms. Marina and Ms. Araki..."

She stared at the cherubim's eyes, but could not see any clues. The pupils that had experienced thousands of years only reflected the outside world indifferently, without revealing a single bit of their inner thoughts.

"Except for you and that lady, there have been no other visitors to Eden during this period." She looked at LAYER, "The Path of Fire also has limitations. If the shining ones burn themselves out before death, Eden cannot save them."

“…Is that so?”

Finally, after a round of voting, the Fruit of Good and Evil was given to Yukina, after all, she had the highest reputation among the three bands. Shiko felt a little regretful, but she didn't get hung up on it, after all, she had voted for Yukina herself.

In the next few days, everyone rested under the protection of the twin trees. They needed treatment, rest, and preparation for the next journey.

With the efforts of Hongxia and Lisa, Ayako's injuries recovered quickly. After her sense of taste was restored, Shizi gave her a week's supply of potato chips and lollipops to celebrate.

After that, they spent almost a week rebuilding the airship. Compared with the original one, there was an improvement: the whole airship was equipped with lights, so they finally didn't have to use lanterns during the day. Now making a jade slip is as easy as breathing for Shizi. Now she is the strongest among everyone. After installing light bulbs on the whole airship, she still has the ambition to make a ten thousand sword formation.

There was also a small library in the airship. It was called a library, but in addition to the scattered books brought out from CiRCLE, it also contained archaeological materials and a general chronicle of the Garden of Eden compiled by Shizi, and even fragments of ancient buildings that were picked up at who knows when. In the past few days, she had been pestering the cherubim whenever she had free time, and basically drained all the memories in her brain. To be honest, she was still not satisfied, and often talked about going to the ruins to dig up first-hand information, but of course no one took it seriously.

At least, she felt that this time she had made up for a regret from her previous life.

The Kyushu was about to be completed. Regardless of whether others agreed or not, Shizi called it that, and did not add the word "new" in front. The only thing left was the interior. Although several people strongly opposed this part, it was still handed over to Ako out of Shizi's personal nostalgia. Looking at Ako's shining eyes, she only hoped that the interior would not look so terrible under the bright lights this time.

The others were almost done resting. The band practiced again for a while, and except for MASKING who couldn't play the drums, everyone else started to get back into shape, and they even wrote the song they had discussed a few days ago: "The Foggy Night City".

Unfortunately, Cherubim lived thousands of years ago and could not understand modern music. She would hide away whenever people played music. According to her, she could play the violin or guqin, but unfortunately there was none here.

They were expected to leave tomorrow. Shizi stood between the two trees, looking at the same airship in the distance.

It was streamlined, like a flying whale, pure white, with the striking logos of the band, Roselia, and RAS printed on it, and also left space for the future Poppin'Party and Shengxiang school logo. Every time she looked at it, she was filled with pride: this was made by only three people, her, Yazi, and Hongxia, and the main force was even only two people.

She sat on the ground, not minding the dirt. The cherubim also stood beside her, admiring the airship in the distance with her.

“We didn’t have this stuff back then,” she sighed, “Your generation is better than ours.”

Shizi shook his head. "We are far from being able to make such sophisticated use of your abilities as enchantments. We are just making some rough modifications based on real-life transportation."

"You will naturally understand those methods after a long time."

Shizi was speechless. She stretched her hand back, but it touched something. Turning back, she saw a young grass sprout, stubbornly growing out of the dead soil.

"There's grass growing here?" She was a little surprised, turned around, and looked closely at the grass sprouts with both hands.

"It was there yesterday," the cherub replied. "Once the filth has been completely suppressed, life will slowly return here."

"These two trees too?" Shizi looked up.

The cherub seemed to shake his head, but after a slight hesitation, he nodded gently: "Maybe."

Shizi lowered his head and looked down at the tender green miracle with his eyes wide open.

Suddenly, she felt something in her heart. It seemed like something had happened.

The last time she had this feeling was on that plateau, in the valley. She immediately looked up and found that the cherubim also looked serious.

"Someone passed the Fire Road," she said.

Shizi quickly sank into the depths of his consciousness and tremblingly checked the light spots on the map.

One, two, three, four, five. Popipa is fine. Move your eyes to the top of the map again -

Shi Zi almost fainted.

On Shengxiang's side, there are only eight spots of light left.

"I'll bring her right here." She heard the cherubim's voice. She woke up immediately, stood up, and followed the cherubim's signal to the other side.

A girl with brown hair, brown eyes and two ponytails stood in front of her. She had a blank look on her face, and wore a crown-shaped hair accessory. Her school uniform was neatly arranged and seemed to have been worn for a short time.

"Where is this place?" Aicheng Hualian asked the gray-haired girl in front of her.

The light of dusk hurts the sight.

Hina Hikawa was standing in front of the gate of Haneda School at dusk, carrying a guitar on her back.

Chapter 66 Paspale

The afterglow of the setting sun distorted the school gate, casting elongated shadows on the ground, all blending together.

The main gate of Yuqiu is not high. In front of the gate is a pale yellow brick wall with neatly planted shrubs beside the wall. On the wall are printed gray characters "Yuqiu Girls' School". In the middle of the two low walls is a white ivy frame, which frames the school gate for students to enter and exit.

As soon as you enter the door, the floor tiles are different from those outside, with evergreen trees planted on both sides. A few steps away, there are three steps, and then there is a five-story modern teaching building.

Hinata was now standing in front of the building.

A person.

In the sunset, her lonely shadow merged with the building and twisted into a strange shape.

It's been a long time since school was over. Club activities have also long passed. The school should be empty now, Hina thought.

Afterglow They often watch the sunset on the rooftop, but I just saw the five of them leaving the school together.

So, there should really be no one left.

"Hina-chan." However, the voice was still heard. And it didn't belong to the student from Yugaoka.

Hinata turned around and looked at the person behind her who had just walked out from the shade of the tree next to her: "Xiao Cai."

Several other people also came out from their hiding places. Xiao Qiansheng was next to Xiao Cai. Xiao Eve poked her head out from the bushes on the other side. Xiao Maya... Hina turned around and saw a brown-haired figure standing at the entrance of the teaching building. Everyone looked at her with melancholy eyes.

They were all still in their school uniforms. It looked like they came right after school.

"Xiao Qiansheng, don't you have a job?" She looked at the elegant blonde girl.

"Not yet." Qiansheng walked forward and reached a place where he could catch Rinna at any time, "What are you doing here, little Rinna?"

Hinata gave her usual incomprehensible smile: "What do you think, Xiao Qiansheng?"

"Are you going to...be like Ruiyi?" Xiaocai asked. As she spoke, she stepped forward and surrounded the left side of Hina.

Hinata just smiled and said nothing.

"Hina-san, have you really thought it through?" Maya walked out from the shadow of the teaching building and came behind Hina.

Eve still had grass leaves hanging on her body, and she held the wooden sword in a serious manner, blocking Hina's right side.

"Hmm?" Hinata tilted her head, "Are you guys going to stop me?"

"No." Eve shook her head.

Xiao Cai continued: "I just want to confirm, has Xiao Hina really made up her mind?"

Hinata didn't hesitate: "Yeah, I've thought about it."

All four of them looked away.

"Well... well." Qiansheng said, "It seems that Sayo-chan is really important to Hina-chan."

"Of course, I like my sister the most." Hina's expression was as matter-of-fact.

"We are not here to stop you." Xiao Cai repeated, "We are... here to say goodbye."

Hearing this, Hina's face showed a little shock for the first time.

Something that was hidden was revealed by this slight vibration.

"I... I also miss leaving Paspale, my parents, and my fans... but... I'm sorry." She whispered.

"I know that the reason I can stay in Paspale is because of everyone's hard work with the agency. I'm sorry for letting you down." For the first time, she lowered her head to her teammates, looking guilty.

"Because Hina-san is here, Paspale is Paspale." Maya patted Hina's shoulder. She tried her best to hold back her sobs and not let her voice sound abnormal.

However, Hina turned around and asked, "Crying?"