Kivatos, Monday, June 6, at 19:23.

On the fourth day after the conclusion of the signing of the Treaty of Eden, a heavy rain fell from the sky without warning, accompanied by lightning and thunder that seemed to wash everything away, and together with the dark cloud, it pressed down on the city, roaring. Constantly surging.

It was almost midnight, but even in such bad weather, in an unknown corner of the Holy Trinity Autonomous Region, there were still a few figures running forward desperately.

"Hiyori, turn left ahead."

"I know, I know, princess...!"

Hiyori panted violently, feeling the rusty taste that had been lingering in his mouth for an unknown amount of time, swallowed extremely hard, controlled the sore and whining muscles and continued to exert strength, dragging the limping yarn beside him. Weaving, the footsteps staggered to the left without hesitation at the corner in front of him.

"Bang bang bang bang bang-"

Behind her, several brilliant flames bloomed in an instant, and a series of bullets passed by her, but a few of them happened to hit the girl's shoulder, causing her face to be bitter for a moment, and she showed an uncontrollable expression. Grinning in pain.

"Over there, chase after me!"

"We can't let them run away anymore!"

Hearing the roar from behind and the sound of footsteps stepping into the puddle, Hiyori's expression immediately became a little more timid. He turned the corner without stopping, and subconsciously raised his head to look at the road ahead with an expression on his face. All of a sudden it turned into bewildered panic.

"Death, dead end...?!"

"Tsk, go to the other side!"

Misaki, who fell behind and supported each other with Yajinko, gritted her teeth, turned around without any hesitation, and walked directly in the direction where they had just run.

However, before she could really move, her calf suddenly softened without any warning, and she fell forward involuntarily, almost kneeling on the ground with Yajinzi.

"Well……!"

"Wow?! Misaki?!"

Rihe Xiaoxiao exclaimed, and put down the raised steps instinctively, and seemed to be froze in place as if he had been frightened.

Her light gray pupils lifted up, looking towards the direction of the intersection, her lips moved, but she couldn't utter a word.

"Ha... ha... ha... isn't this completely surrounded?"

Misaki raised her head, gasping for breath, feeling as if countless razor blades had been stuffed into her lungs out of thin air, and every time she exhaled and inhaled, there would be a burning pain of cutting.

She clutched her chest, stood up with the support of Yajinzi beside her, leaned half against the wall of the alley, let the cold rainstorm wash over her body, and could not see even a gleam of light in her dark red eyes.

"I'm glad you finally have this realization."

Soft sighs rippling in the not-so-spacious alley, completely overwhelmed by the violent patter of raindrops hitting the ground, dozens of figures wearing Arius-style white trench coats stepped from the shadows in the distance. Come out, step on the bricks and stones overflowing with puddles, splashing a small splash of water.

The Arius student who was walking in the front shook his head, lifted the hood on his head to protect him from the rain, and didn't care whether he would get wet. The rifle in his hand was raised neatly, reflecting the cold light in the dark night. The muzzle of the gun was aimed straight at Hiyori's direction.

"Give up, special team, you can't escape anymore."

"..."

Hiyori shrugged his shoulders, his body visibly trembled, and there was a little real fear in his brows, but he didn't say anything, he just bit his lips and said nothing.

"The ammunition is almost used up, and the physical strength is also at the limit."

Misaki glanced at Arius' pursuers who were still slowly approaching her side, raised her hand to wipe the rain off her face, moved her head to Yazuko's side, and communicated in a low voice as much as possible:

"The captain's injuries during the pursuit of the past few days are also very serious. Let alone escape, even whether he can survive is a question that needs to be carefully considered."

"Ah."

Yajinzi let out a shallow nasal sound, and there was a little uncontrollable tiredness in her wine-red eyes. She shook her head, but before she could say anything, she heard Saori's weak voice suddenly. into the ears.

"We still have...the last resort..."

"Last, last?"

Hiyori was stunned for a moment, but then subconsciously let out a short "ah" as if thinking of something.

"...It's the bomb that destroys the halo."

Misaki looked at Saori's pale side face, watching the raindrops sliding down the edge of her cheeks, but what was reflected in her pupils was not a trace of water, but a smear of bright red bloodstains.

Faced with the two people's inquiries, Saori neither admitted nor denied, but let go of the hand on Hiyori's shoulder, leaning half of her shoulder on the wall, rubbing her body and standing up slightly, looking to the other side Arius pursued his troops, keeping a subtle distance and advancing towards him very cautiously.

"Misaki, Hiyori."

The dark blue-haired girl opened her mouth, and the unconcealable sense of weakness in her words suddenly disappeared. Since she was hunted down by Arius, this seemed to be the first time she had shown such a spirited look.

But for some reason, Misaki and Hiyori couldn't be happy at all when she looked like she had returned to the heyday she remembered.

"While I'm buying time, take the princess... away from here."

"Boom--!"

The dull thunder suddenly exploded, tearing a sharp gap in the dark night sky, and the bright electric light traversed the sky, piercing through the black clouds, and at the same time, it also illuminated the yarn that was covered with dirty muddy water.

She was arched, with her arms behind her back, and in her gray-blue eyes——

It is printed like the wailing of a trapped animal.

……

Tuesday, July 6.

With the ending of the bombing attack and the rescue work within the scope of the ancient temple, the signing of the Treaty of Eden can basically be regarded as an end in the eyes of the students of Holy Trinity.

Although there were some twists and turns in the process, the main body of the incident was finally ended in a stable manner, which still greatly promoted the calming down of the turbulent atmosphere that was faintly overflowing in the autonomous region.

But even so, it doesn't mean that the impression of this incident engraved in the hearts of the students will be so easily and completely erased, without leaving a trace. The real situation is even the opposite.

Compared with the huge explosion that happened under the eyes of the public, which was too exciting, the quick end of the joint efforts of the Justice Realization Committee and the Disciplinary Committee made the whole sudden development look extremely dull and fell into the eyes of those who wanted to watch the excitement. , It's quite a bit of "drive high and go low".

Frankly speaking, the age group of fifteen or sixteen is the age group that likes to join in the fun the most, not to mention that compared with ordinary people, the students of Kivatos are generally more free-wheeling, and have a lot of time to pay attention to the recent events. The trend of the hottest events in Kivatos.

Therefore, after seeing that the tea party's follow-up method for the attack on the ancient temple is to downplay the impact of the incident as much as possible, and strive to calm down all the fluctuations in the shortest possible time, it is expected to use this as a part of the after-dinner conversation People couldn't help shouting in disappointment.

But in the face of the attitude already stated at the tea party and the reality that the successful signing of the Treaty of Eden is a certainty, they have no way to make things unfold according to their own minds, so they simply divert the excess energy from their daily lives and let go. to other related aspects.

Such a small change of heart seems insignificant, but in various senses, it has directly led to the emergence of various conspiracy theories and rumors about the truth behind the attack in the Holy Trinity Autonomous Region in recent days. There were many demonstrations and unwarranted riots.

If you are a little bit lucky, you don’t need to spend time to pay attention to it. You only need to go out to the convenience store to buy a bottle of water and walk around the street. Maybe you can hear it from the girls walking by the roadside. There are four or five versions of the so-called "truth on the spot" that are completely different.

This number is really not an exaggeration, because for Luo Lin, this was a common occurrence during the few days he stayed in Holy Trinity.

Some people say that the ancient temple was bombed by missiles and then there was a violent explosion. Some people said that they saw countless ghosts wandering around the ruins of the ancient temple. Some people said that they saw someone commanding hundreds of robots to rush into the ancient temple. In the church, he blew himself up desperately...

No matter how unreliable these various statements sound, but in terms of the mastermind behind the scenes, they all point to the only two things in common——

Betrayer Holy Garden did not spend, and Arius branch.

It's a bit ironic to say that, as a person who experienced the explosion of the ancient temple, Luo Lin almost witnessed the whole process of the Holy Trinity from peace to rumors.

Perhaps at the beginning, it was just a few words of ridicule like a joke, and both the speaker and the listener laughed it off, but later, the original joke became a gossip secretly passed on by "a friend".

Even in the end, even the camouflage cloth such as "I have a friend" was completely thrown away, and he directly swore and patted his chest to promise that he told everyone around him that what he knew must be a unique and true inside story.

In addition to Luo Lin, Toto Nagisa, who returned to the position of host of the tea party, was not unaware of the threat posed by the bad public opinion situation, and immediately took countermeasures, but the actual effect was minimal.

After all, seriously, the Trinity students were just chatting casually in their spare time, and they didn't get it like Ghena could hear a few loud explosions from time to time, at most they shouted during the parade. His voice is a little higher, so most people actually don't have any aversion to it.

But for the tea party, the things that need to be dealt with recently are not things that can be solved by sitting down and drinking afternoon tea, eating dessert and talking happily.

Stuck at this juncture, large and small factions in the college became active one after another, and all kinds of letters with reasonable and unreasonable demands were sent to Nagisa's desk one after another like snowflakes in winter.

If it's just like this, it's fine, but just as Mimi mentioned to Luo Lin vaguely before, the Rescue Knights and the Sisters went against the previous conservative attitude of indifference to political activities, and "should provide assistance in special times" In name, quite forcefully intervened in the tea party.

Although such a change was within Zhu's expectation, it inevitably made her, who was already so busy with various problems, need to spend more energy to face the daily working hours, even the black tea that she used to hardly leave her hand for several days. Haven't tasted it yet.

Even if there is Shengya, who has joined the work before her body has fully recovered, to help negotiate together, the two of them can barely deal with the daily affairs in a timely manner. In this case, they are required to divide a part of their fixed attention. , which is specially used to continuously follow up and solve the problem of rumor spreading in time, its possibility is no less than a fantasy.

Luo Lin has a clear view of the current predicament that Tong Tengzhu and Shengya are facing, but he is not in a hurry to find a way to help, but stays in the hospital step by step every day, waiting for his physical condition that no longer affects normal actions further recovery.

In fact, in the final analysis, the most fundamental reason why the tea party will be at a disadvantage in terms of public opinion is because they failed to disclose the ins and outs that can convince everyone.

Maybe it's not that they don't want to, but that they themselves still have some problems that they haven't figured out so far and can't deal with it at all.

For example... What is the nature of the Saints Projection, which is powerful and extremely difficult to defeat?

Is it the realization of powerful rules that can only be controlled by the Treaty of Eden, or is it a power that is deliberately hidden from the public by the Sisters who have a lot of connections with the Saints?

Apart from the projections of the saints' congregation that the Treaty of Eden could order, does the current congregation of nuns have the power to control other projections?Are there any records about projections in the secrets that they only circulate in their own homes?Did they already know that such a force exists?

There are still too many issues like this, and before Zhu and the others have negotiated everything, these contents are destined not to be made public to the outside world.

So Luo Lin is not in a hurry, or it's useless to be anxious, he just calms down and heals from Gu Zi's safety. Anyway, when Zhu and the others are in need, they will definitely contact him.

And counting the days carefully, it has been quite a while since Arius' special team escaped from the catacombs of the ancient temple. If there is no accident, the opportunity he has been waiting for is almost at his door.

"Dong dong dong."

The standard two-light and one-heavy knock on the door echoed in the ward, reaching the ears of Luo Lin standing in front of the window. He shook his head, moved his eyes away from the damp-stained ground outside, and looked away from the room. After recovering from the thoughts surging in my mind, I turned around and answered:

"Please come in."

"Excuse me, teacher."

The door was quietly pushed open, and a slightly unfamiliar girl's voice rang out from the door, with a bit of restraint and respect in her tone, her little hand was on her tea party uniform on her chest, and the expression between her brows was a little nervous .

"Today at three o'clock in the afternoon, Master Zhu wants to hold a meeting in the communication area of ​​the tea party, and invites you to attend. He said that he wants to talk to you face to face. Look...?"

Look, isn't it here?

Luo Lin sighed secretly in his heart, but there was not much fluctuation in the expression on his face, he still maintained a smile as much as possible, and nodded slightly to the girl who came to deliver the news.

"Understood, I will arrive on time, thank you."

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