While combing his hair which had become a little messy due to the turbulence of the airship, Allen reported the situation to his superior with a slightly apologetic tone.

"It's not your fault. The other party does have more cards up their sleeves than we thought."

Westcott didn't show any special expression. After all, Alan's mission was only to restrain Fraxinus and prevent them from interfering with Origami's work. As for whether to shoot down Fraxinus, it was not a hard requirement at all.

In terms of effect, Allen has achieved his goal perfectly.

"My dear Allen, have you ever thought that the magic analyzer cannot analyze the opponent's magic. It's not because of your ability, but because the opponent is not using magic at all?"

Allen's eyes widened when she heard Westcott's words. Now recalling it, Fraxinus's teleportation-like movement really reminded her of Kamen Rider 01's Shining Locust form.

"Alan, you know I've always been very interested in Ark, right?"

"Very clear." Alan nodded. Since the Dawn Sky Disaster two years ago, Westcott personally came to the ruins of Dawn City to investigate. After all, the scale of the Dawn Sky Disaster was second only to the Eurasian Sky Disaster. It was hard not to suspect that the Earth's spiritual veins were still remnants and were used by someone to activate the spirit ritual.

Then, Westcott met the elf named Ark. Although the other party was just a red energy group, Westcott felt something similar to himself from it, so he made an exception and let go of the spiritual power combination that was like a candle in the wind, and until now he still believes that Ark will bring him more interesting things.

"But compared to this, Ike, there are more important things."

"It's about Tobiichi Origami, right?" Vescott nodded. He had been watching the live broadcast of Mane vs. Origami. He saw everything, including Origami's appearance afterwards.

That gesture, that power, was undoubtedly an elf.

"This is beyond my expectation. I didn't expect that Tobiichi Origami could actually become an elf. It's such a pity that DEM has lost such an excellent talent. I am really heartbroken."

Seeing Westcott pretending to be sad, but the corners of his mouth couldn't stop rising, Allen pointed out his hypocritical appearance: "There is no one else here."

"Oh, what a bummer. Alan, can you find her?"

"I'm very sorry, but no. Apart from the spiritual wave reaction detected at the beginning, no more can be detected after that."

But this is not surprising. After all, Origami was a magician of DEM before he became an elf, so he naturally understood DEM's philosophy. Becoming an elf means becoming DEM's prey. Even if he has the power to fight them, it is better not to bother with such things.

--split line--

The unregistered elf that appeared during the Tiangong fire five years ago was Origami!

Seeing this shocking fact, Shin and Shiori showed shocked expressions.

"So, the one who killed Origami's parents back then..."

Zhenlian's face became darker and darker. She grabbed the clothes from the bedside table, put them on herself, and climbed over the wall to escape!

"Eh? This is the third floor! Wait for me! Manrei-kun!"

After landing in a superhero style, Zhenlian didn't care about her aching knee and was ready to immediately find out the source of all evil, Kurumi.

"Manrei-kun...jumping off a building is very dangerous..."

Just when Manren was about to shout out Kurumi's full name at a disturbing volume, Shiori and the elves ran out of the hospital gate. Manren's action of jumping out of the window from the third floor just now really shocked everyone.

Just when Zhenlian was about to be taught a child safety lesson by the elves again, something strange happened.

The full moon hanging in the night sky had black cracks like broken ceramics. The cracks continued to spread until they spread out of the edge of the moon. Only then did everyone realize that it was not the moon that was cracked, but space.

As the crack opened, darkness enveloped the moon.

An elf dressed in black, like mourning clothes, was floating in the air with his knees hugged like a fetus in his mother's womb.

"Elves?"

Looking at the girl in the sky who was beyond human comprehension, Shiori could only come to this answer.

"Ah, it's an elf."

Zhen Lian looked at the black elf in the sky, and the video of the fire in Tiangong seemed to be replaying in his mind again - when Origami's parents were swallowed by the beam of light, the little white dot in the sky turned into a little black dot. Combined with the previous speculation, it is not difficult to recognize that the black elf is Origami who came back from the past.

In less than a minute, the Dark Wings around Origami emitted countless black rays of light, which easily penetrated everything, turning everything into a sea of ​​fire.

In less than a minute, the Tiangong City in everyone's eyes turned into a large ruin.

After seeing clearly the appearance of the black elf in the sky, everyone was stunned and even forgot to run away.

"Origami...paper...Manne, is that origami? That's not origami!" Tohka looked shocked and even grabbed Manne's sleeve and asked loudly. From her tone, it was not difficult to hear that she really hoped that Manne would give her a negative answer.

"That...that elf, no way..."

"Shocking. Could that elf be an origami master?"

Everyone was speechless and looked up at the sky.

"That... is Tobiichi... She has turned around now..." Although Manlian didn't want to admit it, she still told this bitter truth.

Looking at the origami in the sky, Shiori ran towards Origami without hesitation, but Shinichi grabbed her hand.

"I'm sorry, Rei. I just can't leave Origami alone."

"I understand how you feel. But it's too dangerous." Zhenlian's hand did not loosen, but became tighter and tighter.

Indeed. Origami can now turn an entire city into ashes in an instant. Even with Kotori's healing flame, Shiori would never be able to survive such a dense rain of black lasers.

But so what? Only Shiori, who has the power to seal spirits, can save Origami.

"I..." Shiori turned around and bowed deeply to Shinrei and the spirits, "Please Shinrei-kun and everyone else, lend me your strength! I really, really want to save Origami! Please!"

Chapter 13 The Night Lord

With the reasonable help of Shinren, the elves, and the people of Fraxinus, Shiori successfully came to Origami.

However, in just a moment, when he saw Origami's face, the word "impossible" appeared directly in Shiori's mind.

Her eyes had completely lost their luster, like two pools of stagnant, dirty water. The dried tear marks beside her eyes showed that her tears had long since dried up. Her lips were also dry and cracked, probably from having experienced heart-wrenching cries.

This miserable appearance is just like a corpse.

Impossible. Origami's heart was already dead, and Shiori couldn't possibly seal Origami like this.

Seeing Origami like this, Shiori emphasized this fact to her both emotionally and rationally.

“Fold… origami…”

The cold reality was laid out before Shiori. As the strong feeling of powerlessness enveloped Shiori's heart, Shiori's body was pulled down by gravity and he fell straight down. At the same time, Kuroba, who was beside Origami, aimed at the falling Shiori. If no one else helped, Shiori would definitely be shot through by the laser!

"Rising Dsytopia!"

Seeing this, 001 quickly pulled the lever of the forced sublimator, and black and red electricity burst out of his body again, and blood-red steam spewed out of his armor again. After accelerating, 001 used the building next to him as a springboard and rushed directly to Shiori, pulling the unconscious Shiori out of the danger zone, saving her from the fate of having a big hole in her body.

"Manre-kun! Wait, what should we do with Tohka and the others?" Shiori said anxiously while moving at high speed in 001's arms.

"Don't worry, I've already asked Tohka and the others to go to the underground shelter first."

After confirming that Origami would not catch up for the time being, 001 took out the key from the forced sublimator and turned back into Zhenlian.

"Mare-kun, I'm sorry... I couldn't save Origami..." Shiori looked at Origami who was still indiscriminately bombing the ground, and a look of pain appeared on his face.

Those pupils filled with nothingness seemed to have experienced all the great sorrows in the world. There was even a moment when Shiori himself almost believed that the Origami he knew would never come back.

"Origami...what on earth happened to her?"

Hearing this, Zhen Lian sighed and expressed her guess: "I think... Tobiichi herself is very likely the culprit who killed her parents."

"what!"

Before Shiori could recover from the shocking conjecture of Zhenlian, Origami's Kuroba had already rushed over unexpectedly, firing deadly black lasers again.

【! ! ! 】

Just as the laser was about to hit the two, a beam of magic power shattered Origami's black laser.

It's Fraxinus!

This time, Fraxinus directly removed the optical camouflage and flew low above the two people's heads. The huge airship did give people a lot of sense of security, but it was also enough to show from the side that the current Origami was a monster that Fraxinus needed to go all out.

[Sister, you are messing around again! And Zhenlian, why don’t you pay attention to your sister! ]

This time, the sound of Kotori amplified several times was transmitted from Fraxinus's loudspeaker instead of wireless headphones.

"Kotori, how confident are you in defeating the reversed Tobiichi?" Looking at Origami flying towards them, Shinrei was troubled - he had fought with the elf Origami before, so he knew how terrifying the elf Origami was. Coupled with the madness after the reversal, which was almost destroying everything without any consideration, Shinrei believed that everyone on Fraxinus should have planned to go without return.

[…About 40%.]

"So high?" Zhenlian showed a surprised look. After all, considering Origami's current momentum that could turn Tiangong City into the sister city of Liming City overnight, 20% was already very good.

[You misunderstood. I meant that the probability of not being completely wiped out is only about 40%.]

Even with a slight audio distortion due to amplification, it was not difficult to hear the endless helplessness in Kotori's words.

"It's too dangerous, Kotori!"

Just when Shiori was trying to get Kotori to escape, Origami's laser had already sprayed towards Fraxinus.

Although there are magic cannons and key power to deal with it, no matter how perfect the artificial magic cannon is, it still needs to be recharged. It is impossible to bombard with almost zero gaps like the origami demon king.

The confrontation ended in just half a minute. Taking advantage of the gap in charging, the black feather flew in the air along a complex trajectory.

Some rushed towards the protective circle of the World Tree Leaf in a suicidal manner, causing the manifestation device to explode into a mine. Unlike the Goetia that Allen only had one ship, the countless black feathers attacked the Fraxinus's protective layer as if it was free, and forcibly carved out a gap in the most straightforward way.

The fact still proves that the reason why Reckless Kid can't beat Krypton Guy is simply because Reckless Kid's stats are not enough.

Through the gaps in the protective circle, countless black feathers broke through the protective layer of the World Tree's leaves, surrounded the Fraxinus's hull from all directions, and then fired deadly lasers!

Suddenly, the beautiful airship was shattered and exploded like a Lego model in front of the laser, and became a dilapidated state.

In the confinement room of the airship, Mie felt a very violent shock, countless explosions entered his ears, and he even smelled the special smell of burning fuel.

"There's a change of plan. Looks like we can't stay here much longer."

Mie used his arms to exert force, and the belts tied to his body broke one by one, and the white restraints were torn apart like paper.

Even though Mie felt a sense of weightlessness due to the crash of the airship, she still twisted her arms, which were a little sore from being restrained for a long time, as if nothing had happened.

--split line--

“Kotori——!”

Even though Shiori shouted loudly, no one responded.

A huge explosion occurred the moment Fraxinus landed, with flames and black smoke erupting from all parts of the ship, without any trace of life at all.

The two ran to the scrapped Fraxinus and searched everywhere, looking for even one survivor.

"Don't worry, they are fine..."

An AI-like voice without any emotion came from behind the two of them.

"Zeya?"

Zhen Lian, who had been dealing with Zeya, quickly recognized the other party. Looking back, he saw a light blue humanoid Marseille, very similar to Phantom, appearing on the burning hull of Fraxinus. Then, like a new bud pushing away a stone, a blue spherical light film flew out from the wreckage.

Kotori, Reion, Kannazuki and all other members were in the light film. None of them had any external injuries and they looked like they had just fainted at most.

But one of them was standing.

"It's really surprising that you would save my life. Zea."

The girl had long hair that looked like a chocolate waterfall and a pair of golden eyes.

"Destroy..."

Seeing the person coming, Zhenlian instinctively protected the soldiers behind him.

"Zeya, answer me. Why did you save me, a quasi-elf from the Ark camp?"

Without showing any hostility towards Zhenlian, Mie looked at Zeya with some suspicion.

"Because... you... are not Zhenlian's... enemy..."

Zeya's voice became intermittent, like a broadcast whose signal was interfered with, and his figure began to flicker like an old TV screen.

"Rene... I'll leave these to you... You know how to use them... I'll go back to Ratatosk underground first..."

After Zea threw all the keys on Fraxinus to Zhenlian, he turned into a small blue ball of light and fell to the ground, then sank into the ground like a stone sinking from the water.

Only Shiori, Shinrei and Mie were left at the scene. Shinrei warily pointed the muzzle of the Authorized Destroyer at Mie, although he knew that the key to the Stinging Scorpion was in his hand and Mie could not transform for the time being. But past experience told Shinrei that Miejue should not be underestimated.

"Hello, everyone."

Just when the atmosphere was extremely tense, a girl wearing a black and red Gothic dress, two ponytails of varying lengths, and a golden watch on her left eye emerged from the shadows.

Chapter 14: Present and Past (I)

Half of Tiangong City had turned into scorched earth and a sea of ​​fire. In the night sky, black elves were floating in the air, and countless black feathers were firing deadly black lasers at the ground like bombers.

A delicate standoff between the three parties took place on the scorched earth ruins where the heat could be felt through the shoes.

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