Who is not a lawyer?

"When I first met Maria, she could only speak a few simple words."

"Eat, sister, hungry, play..."

"Can you believe it? A child who is almost four or five years old can only speak a few simple words and can't even speak a complete sentence."

Listening to Luo Mio's description, Tendo Mugen looked at Maria with a look of heartache.

"Kisara...you, Rentaro, the others, and me...we all know our own life stories and what our parents look like."

"But they... The Cursed Children are different."

"They were born after the defeat of the gastrula war. They were abandoned before they could even see what their parents looked like."

"As a "pure generation", these "cursed children" have yet to learn anything. They haven't done anything yet, but they are labeled as monsters and trampled on by others."

"Even the 'cursed children' who became 'Initiators' like Yanzhu and Xiaocui, who fought against the gastrula for the people living in the city, were still looked down upon, despised and hated by the people.

"For that group of people, the battle between Yanzhu and the protostomes was just a killing between protostomes. If both sides died together, they would definitely be very happy."

"Yanzhu, Xiaocui and other first-generation "cursed children" are about to enter puberty. By then, this pain will penetrate deeply into their hearts."

"Some children don't even have time to reach puberty."

"..." Tendo Mu remained silent. After hearing Luo Mio's words, he slowly said, "You mean... the erosion rate in the body?"

Luo Mio sighed softly and looked at the furry cat ears on Bushicui's head.

"Even if they don't fight, the rate of enterovirus erosion in these children will slowly increase."

"That's why you, Mioka, set the rules with Enju, Kozue and the others..."

"Ah."

Luo Mio looked at them tenderly.

"The world is much more vast than what they see in books. I hope that one day they can go see this world for themselves."

"Yeah..." Behind Luo Mio and Tendo Kisara, Rentaro came over and said with a chuckle, "But before that, we have to completely eliminate the protostomes in this world."

After hearing what Rentaro said, Luo Mio also smiled gently.

While the three were talking.

"Ding ding ding——!"

Tendo Kimura took out his cell phone and answered the call.

"Yes, I'm Tendou."

"Huh?! Really?"

"okay, I get it."

After hanging up the phone, Tendo Mugen said to the two of them.

"The location of the mission target has been locked!"

"where?"

Rentaro also asked hurriedly.

"...District 32!"

Chapter 17: Wuhu ~ Takeoff ~

"District 32..."

Rentaro looked at Tendo Kisara with a slightly incredulous look in his eyes.

"It's only been a few days since I appeared in Tokyo, but I actually ran to a place as far away as District 32..."

"Maybe that gastrula has special abilities."

Tendo Mu Geng also analyzed and spoke with a thoughtful look in his eyes.

Then he raised his head and looked at Rentaro and Luo Mio.

"Someone will be here to pick us up soon."

Perhaps because the three of them were talking a little loudly, people from the other side of the table looked over here.

"Do you have a job, Rentaro?"

Enju also put down her cutlery and came to Rentaro's side.

"Ah."

Luo Mio walked over to Maria and the others, touched her head and said softly to her: "I'm sorry, Maria, big brother will be leaving soon."

"Then... Big Brother, when will you come back?"

"It will probably take some time, so you have to listen carefully to Mr. Matsuzaki."

"Ah."

Then Luo Mio looked at Matsuzaki and nodded slightly at him.

"I understand." Matsuzaki also replied.

As soon as the words fell, a buzzing sound was heard above the sewer.

"It looks like they're here to pick us up."

After saying goodbye to the girls, Raku Mio, Rentaro, and Tendo Kimura walked out of the sewer.

Ahead of the road they came out of, there was a rescue helicopter and an...attack helicopter.

In front of the two planes stood a young man in military uniform.

The young man was none other than Hisami Hoshima.

After seeing him, Luo Mio also sighed slightly.

He said to Tendo Kisara, "Kisara, you don't have to go on this operation."

After hearing Luo Mio's words, Tendo Mu Geng was also stunned, and then reacted.

"I see."

Because of an attack by an archenteron when he was a child, Tendo Kimura's kidneys were damaged, so every once in a while, Tendo Kimura has to do hemodialysis, and his movements are also restricted.

Then Luo Mio looked at Bushi Cui and Yue.

Touching Bushicui’s little head.

"You guys should go back with Kisara."

Originally, Bushicui wanted to say something, but when she thought of the agreement with Luo Mio, she nodded silently.

Looking at the slightly depressed little face, Luo Mio reached out and gently pinched her little face.

"Today's dinner is up to you, Xiao Cui."

"Yue has to help Xiao Cui too."

"Ok!"

Looking at the two women, Luo Mio slowly stood up and spoke to Rentaro and Enju.

"let's go."

-

"Why are you here? Shouldn't you be with her now?"

Luo Mio sat in the co-pilot seat in the cockpit and asked Hoshima Hisaomi who was sitting next to her in the main driver's seat.

Xingjian Jiuchen smiled at Luo Mio and said, "His Royal Highness the Holy Emperor is accompanied by the Tiantong Assistant Officer and the younger generation of the Guards."

"That old man."

The Tendo assistant that Hoshima Hisaomi mentioned is naturally Rentaro's adoptive father and Tendo Kikusara's grandfather, Tendo Kikunosho.

Luo Mio turned her head slightly and glanced at Rentaro and Enju at the back of the cabin.

Then he asked Hoshima Hisamichi.

"How's the situation over there?"

Of course, Hoshima Hisami knew what Luo Mio said, and he spoke to Luo Mio with a serious expression.

"The culprit who stole the "Solomon Ring" from the Russian Regional Research Institute has been identified."

Hoshima Hisamichi took out a small machine and handed it to Luo Mio.

Turn on the machine and a space window pops up.

A white male appeared in the space window.

"Mark Meyerhold, a Belarusian who served in the Russian special forces "Spetsnaz" for seven years."

"The identities of the other two have also been confirmed. They are Belarusians who have committed crimes in the Belarus region and served several sentences."

"Belarus..." Luo Mio raised his eyebrows. "I remember that the Greater Minsk region in Belarus was destroyed by Libra."

"Correct."

Libra

In the past, during the Gastrula War, terrifying gastrulae exceeding Tier IV appeared. At that time, countries around the world called them the Twelve Zodiac Signs, also known as the "Zodiac"!

There are currently eleven Zodiac sightings around the world.

They have bodies far larger than those of Stage IV protostomes, skins that are tough enough to withstand ordinary human weapons, and unimaginable molecular-level regeneration capabilities. They are also unaffected by the magnetic field of the Monolith.

In the past, several "Zodiac" protostomes have destroyed the monoliths in several urban areas. The protostomes poured into the cities like an avalanche, destroying all the urban areas they passed through.

This phenomenon caused by the "Zodiac" is called the "Mass Extinction"!

The former Belarusian capital of Minsk was destroyed by one of them, Libra.

"According to the news, Mark Meyerhold and the other two have already smuggled to the Far East."

“Roar, roar, roar…”

Luo Mio raised an eyebrow.

"It's really interesting that the 'Ring of Solomon' was stolen in Russia, and the thief happened to sneak into the Far East when the 'Legacy of the Seven Stars' disappeared."

Luo Mio rubbed his chin.

"Is there any extra news from her?"

Xingjian Jiuchen also continued to say to Luo Mio: "According to the results of the investigation sent by His Royal Highness the Holy Son of Heaven, Mark Meyerhold was once a subordinate of Andrei Ridovidev."

"Andre..."

"Your Highness, we have found the target!" Just as Luo Mio was thinking, Hoshima Hisaomi's urgent voice sounded.

Hisaomi Hoshima's hurried and slightly loud voice also attracted the attention of Rentaro and Enju in the cabin behind.

Through the window, everyone's eyes were looking down.

I saw an object that looked like an arrow-shaped kite flying in the sky above the forest.

Looking closely, this arrow-shaped kite has eight thin black legs.

It was the target of the commission, a spider-type protogastrula that turned Okajima Junmei into a protogastrula and ate the "Seven Stars' Legacy"!

"Is that a parachute...?"

I saw that the eight thin legs of the spider-like protostomes were covered with strands of spider silk. The reason why it could fly in the sky was probably because of the spider silk.

"Do not."

Luo Mio and Rentaro rejected Hoshima Hisami's words in unison.

"That's not a parachute, Hoshima."

"It's a hang glider! If it was a parachute, this gastrula wouldn't have been able to reach Area 32 in such a short time. Look at its sharp horns. It uses those horns to cut through the air and generate upward force. It then uses its claws to climb up the wall of the tall building and then uses the wind from the tall building to fly."

"I'm afraid that's why the surveillance cameras on the street didn't capture it."

"In other areas outside the outer area, the cameras are all shooting downwards, and the lenses are always facing downwards, so when facing this type of protogastric animal, the cameras are completely useless."

"I'm afraid this is its special ability."