About becoming a magical girl

"It looks like it's the Xicheng district...is it true...it's probably the lair of those who were killed."

With the help of the white moonlight, Saori simply distinguishes the night scene here.

The outskirts of Xicheng District used to be a gray area. After being rectified by Concubine Masaki and Ayaka Undead, there are still some rotten roots that are difficult to eradicate. It can be regarded as the worst section of the city. They are all concentrated here, so this place has still become the biggest dark side of the city.

Simply put, most of the people living here are homeless.

After the abolition of the "Numbered Person" system, some of the original numbered persons, exiles, or refugees who were rescued from outside Sakai gathered here, and many of them were serious criminals such as felons.

The area where these people live will be rejected by most of the other people in Xijing City. The increase in the cost of public security is disturbing, so the land price here naturally becomes cheaper than other places, so some low-income groups or special groups also stay here. Over time, the economy of this area continues to be depressed, and it is gradually abandoned by most commercial enterprises, which breeds more serious poverty and downturn.

The lack of living resources and regional imbalances have caused anxiety and uneasiness. The rotten roots that have been eradicated grow again, and finally the expansion and growth of gray forces are born.

All in all, it's a downright vicious circle.

This is not a problem that can be easily solved by getting rid of those local snakes. Concubine Masaki will allocate a lot of funds here every quarter, but the final results are not very satisfactory.

After Saori joined the third group, she had come here to carry out several missions in cooperation with Immortal Ayahara, so she was relatively familiar with the situation here, and could roughly judge her current location.

"I roughly know where I am... Although I don't know if it will be useful, let's write it down first..."

Presumably the girl chose to stay here because this area can avoid the surveillance of the Special Disaster Division to the greatest extent.

She turned her head to look at the girl, who was still standing against the wall with her eyes closed.

Are you pretending to sleep?Or……

Saori pursed her lips, shook her head, and finally moved to the side of the bed.

She bit the blood-stained corner of her clothes, lowered her head and carefully inspected the wound with her hands on her abdomen.

"Bastard..." Saori frowned and looked at the wound on her abdomen that was twisted in a pile like a three-year-old child learning how her mother sewed clothes, and cursed secretly, "This technique is too bad..."

"It would be nice to sew for you."

When the girl's voice came, Saori raised her eyes and met the girl's gaze. When Saori was inspecting the wound, the girl opened her eyes at some point and put on an expression of interest, "I advise you to lie down. If the wound is opened, I don't want to sew it up for you a second time."

"Heh," Saori narrowed her eyes and snorted softly, "If I die, do you think you can still get your things?"

Not to be outdone, Saori fought back - she couldn't beat her, but she could still be tough.

There is no way, Saori is upset at seeing the girl's face that deserves to be beaten, even if she can't do it in action, she still has to disgust her in words.

"If you die, I'll go find the next one."

"I'm dead, the next one is you." Saori looked at the girl without giving an inch, and smiled ferociously, "I'm not afraid of death, how about you?"

The girl didn't answer.

Saori didn't continue to provoke her, and raised her hand with difficulty to reach the water bottle on the low table beside the bed—there was still some drinking water in the water bottle. Saori bit the cap and unscrewed it, and then used the water inside to pour it on the wound on her abdomen.

"hiss……"

The sudden surge of pain and the coolness of the night poured into the chest cavity in one breath, Saori gritted her teeth tightly, and stopped her movements.

She carefully cleaned the wound.

The girl glanced at Saori, and said casually: "You have great confidence in your friends? But unfortunately, they are not a threat to me at all."

Regarding what Saori said before, the girl was noncommittal.

"What big talk are you talking about?" With the hem of her clothes dangling from the corner of her mouth, Saori glanced at the girl and laughed, "If you're half as good as you say, why don't you just kill us and wipe out this city? It's so easy to get whatever you want, how simple is it?"

It was precisely because of concerns that he chose "exchange with hostages", didn't he?This is very simple logic of action.

"Humph……"

The girl didn't deny it, but just snorted softly, "You're half right, but even so, your friends can't help me."

"Then you can be code-named H?"

Throwing the empty water bottle on the ground, Saori lay back on her back again, breathing deeply, cold sweat covered her forehead, and continued after a while, "As far as I know, she is more difficult than you."

"Cuckoo..."

The girl suddenly laughed softly, she raised her hand, hooked Saori's beacon with her fingertips, and her eyes became playful, "I know what you said is just to trick me. What? In your eyes, do I look like the kind of idiot who likes to talk nonsense?"

"Tch." Saori was speechless and turned her head away unhappily.

But the girl smiled and said suddenly, "But I'm in a good mood, and I'd like to answer a question for you."

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167. The Flag Breaker

"But I can only answer one question for you. Do you want to spend some time thinking about what you want to ask?"

Saori stared at the girl who still had a smile on her face.

"A question? To you?"

"Ask whatever you want, your ignorance always makes me laugh, and I will look forward to what kind of questions you will ask."

Saori narrowed her eyes slightly, and countless thoughts flashed through her mind in an instant.

"what do you want to say?"

She spoke slowly, with a sarcastic tone.

"I said this to me as an enemy, because the time is too long and boring, so I am looking for fun? Or do you think this condescending attitude will bring you pleasure? Or, are you out of your mind?"

Saori chuckled, "You don't think I'll be grateful to you, do you?"

The girl maintained such a frivolous smile from the beginning to the end, with ease and carelessness - the attitude shown by the girl made Saori very angry.

Does this mean that the girl doesn't care about Saori and other people in Xijing City at all?Conversely, girls have absolute confidence in themselves, based on the power to avoid all accidents.

However, this does not mean that Saori was simply provoked.

Now she can't do anything except talk, since she has this opportunity to get close to the enemy without being killed, the only thing Saori can do is to collect information.From the beginning, Saori was talking to the girl for this purpose.

What Xijing City lacks most is intelligence, even if it is just a little gain, it may be huge.

The knife in the stomach can't be in vain—"Don't give up no matter what", it sounds a bit nostalgic to say, and Avenier always said such words when Saori was a newcomer.Saori has often thought of this ordinary sentence for a long time, but unknowingly, she has given up once, and that time she stood on the opposite side of her former companions.

That experience once is enough.

"Who knows? Maybe it's all, or maybe it's just a whim?"

The girl still smiled indifferently, "However, I have to correct one point - the time is neither long nor boring... Every second is precious, don't you think so?"

"Yeah," Saori sneered, "but I don't want to spend my precious time with you."

"It's up to you," the girl shrugged. "So, have you considered it? A question."

"Heh, the tone is quite loud..." Saori sneered, "Then tell me, where is the lair of the apostle organization?"

The girl paused and shook her head, "I don't know."

"do not know?"

Saori laughed out loud immediately, but the severe pain in her abdomen immediately cut off her laughter.

"Why are you pretending... I think you seem very confident, and you thought you really 'knew everything'," Saori panted, mocking the girl.

The girl showed helplessness—of course, she was pretending, "Our conversation is naturally based on the premise that I know the answer—you can change the question."

"That sounds nice," Saori snorted coldly, "Then you should know about 'Apostle', right?"

"I know. 'Broken Flag', they used to be called this. Of course, I don't have much contact with this organization, and I can only tell you what I know...The code name you mentioned is H, their real creator, this organization..."

"Stop," Saori said suddenly, interrupting the girl, "I didn't intend to ask you this."

"What's the matter? Don't you want to waste an opportunity to 'ask'?"

"Heh, you are the condescending giver. You shouldn't judge this kind of thing?"

Sha Zhi refused to budge an inch, but there was a turmoil in her heart.

Broken Flag?

The appearance of this term was somewhat beyond Saori's expectation.

Saori didn't know about the "Apostles", but she had heard about the "Flag Breakers", or most people living in this era have heard of their existence, and there are even many people who have left their The memory of the time - that was a tragedy of a resistance organization formed by the deported numberers and their supporters, which once ignited like a raging fire and then went out silently.

That was 19 years ago, before Saori was born, even a senior like Evenier had no memory of what happened at that time.

Saori did not personally experience that period of history, but only knew that several major events that determined the current situation of mankind occurred during that period. One of them was the biggest black spot left by the surviving human beings at the end of the old generation before the founding of the People's Federation: "Flag Breakers", which belonged to those numbered people who were expelled and threw themselves into the enemy-occupied area to wait for death.

Just because the resources and food were almost completely cut off at that time, and all human beings were standing at the end of extinction, so the "numberers" were abandoned. "The Broken Flag" appeared at that time.

It can be said that the existence of the "Broken Flag" is the most shameful tragedy at the end of the old generation.

However, it was precisely because of that cruel past that human beings finally had their last breathing time. Since then, the application of relic technology, the establishment of the People's Federation, and the establishment of the "urban system" have followed.

Ever since Saori began to remember things, the "Flag Breakers" have long been wiped out - most of them are numbered people whose erosion rate is already at risk, and they may be human one minute, and become human in the next minute It is absolutely impossible for such an organization to exist for a long time.

If...the Apostolic Organization is the "Breaker of the Flag", then everything that the Apostle Organization has shown so far can be explained, but Saori still feels that something is missing-the appearance of the Apostle Organization, the angel, the code name H, and the girl in front of him. What is the relationship between them? Is it really possible for the "Breaker of the Flag" that should not have existed long ago?Even if it does appear, do they still have a reason to be hostile to Renlian?

"Then pretend I didn't say it, your one chance is still valid."

The girl still smiled lightly, looking out of the window.The girl's ambiguous attitude made Saori feel strange——Compared with the girl in the daytime, the girl now seems to be a different person.

Saori didn't think too much about it, and secretly remembered the previous conversation in her heart, and continued, "You know 'Angel', right?"

The movement of the girl playing with the beacon in her hands paused for a moment.

"of course I know."

"Then, tell me the way to save the person who turned into an angel."

The girl shook her head again, "I can't help it, but the guy who created 'Angel' knows."

"Code H?"

"Well, or you can call her... Forget it, you don't need to know her name."

"Tsk, why are you talking nonsense all the time?" Saori laughed, "Why do I want to know her name? This is what I'm asking? Do I know her very well?"

Although Saori didn't have high expectations for the two questions she asked, she still needs to look good.

——Undoubtedly, these two problems can be said to be the two most urgent problems plaguing Xijing City and even the People's Federation at the moment, or to put it another way, if this kind of problem can be solved so easily from an unknown enemy, it would be as naive and ridiculous as walking on the street and picking up the remote control of "all eroded bodies are wiped out".

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168, the thing in the box

"It seems that our cognition has gone wrong," the girl shook her head. "If this is the case, the conversation between us is meaningless. I'm very surprised. Regarding the code name H, don't you wonder why she appeared in your city? I thought you all cared about your own homeland."

"Of course I'm curious, but I'm more concerned about why the apostles are following us," Saori said with a half-smile, "Code-named H, she is no longer here, so it has nothing to do with this city. Besides, how do I know if your answer is true or false?"

"I think we can trust each other, at least for now."

Saori took advantage of the situation and asked: "Then what is her purpose?"

"'What's in the box'."

the girl replied.

"What's in the box??"

Something never heard of.

But obviously, this is just a proxy, and the really valuable clues should be hidden in the so-called "box".

"Your expression seems to be full of doubts?" The girl showed a clear look, put on a slightly more serious attitude, and explained: "You can treat it as a 'token', or a 'key' or something like that."

"What are you talking about?"

"You can think...it's similar to this thing," the girl paused, playing with the bracelet in her hand. "It's a wonderful fake. Since its birth, some things have become out of control, so she started to look for it. I believe that Xijing City is the city where the 'thing in the box' once stayed. Then there must be some clues left. She should have found something, so she left, and the place where she finally stayed will definitely open the 'door' again—that is, what you call the 'white hole'."

"'White Hole'!?"

Saori didn't quite understand, she quickly recalled the information she knew, but obviously, her understanding of the white hole full of mystery and unknown was extremely limited.

——White holes are considered to be the source of erosive energy. Any place where white holes exist is full of a lot of strange and mysterious phenomena, which also have a great impact on the human body. Therefore, no city will be built near the white hole. In the area, the investigation and research on the white hole has always been the top secret of the People's Federation.

If the purpose of the code name H is to open a new white hole again, then Saori must tell other people about this, and the code name H must be organized.

She lowered her voice, "Since there is a key, there must be a corresponding lock, right?"