This is not the date I wanted.

"nothing……"

Hit by an unexpected straight ball. Shidou felt his face turn red like a boiled lobster, and when he felt Meng Yue's gaze, he turned his head away in a hurry.

Soooooooooooooooooooooo——!

Suddenly, a sharp alarm sounded from the loudspeaker installed in the shopping street. Shidao and Mengyue's faces changed instantly.

After a month, new elves appeared.

"Well, Mr. Baldwin. It's very dangerous here. Go to shelter quickly."

Baldwin nodded in understanding.

"Okay, I'll do that. But what about you?"

“Eh? I, well, there’s still things I need to do…”

Seeing Shidou suddenly faltering, Baldwin shrugged and laughed.

"Haha, I'm sorry for putting you in a difficult position. I still have many questions to ask, but let me just say this first - please do your best, elves. I'm counting on you."

"Eh……?"

Hearing Baldwin's words, Shidao was stunned. Mengyue sighed helplessly and said.

"Shidou, go ahead and do your work. I will take Mr. Baldwin with me to the evacuation area."

"Oh……"

Although he was somewhat puzzled by Mengyue's unsurprised attitude, considering that the issue of the elves was a priority, Shidao put the earphones he carried in his pocket on his right ear in order to get in touch with Mengyue after she took Baldwin and Kallen to the air-raid shelter.

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Among the known Pokémon that have not been sealed, there is no need for Kurumi to trigger a spacequake, and the other Pokémon is being imprisoned by DEM and its location is unknown. If we don’t consider the appearance of any new unregistered Pokémon, we can guess who the Pokémon that appeared this time is by the method of elimination.

"A witch? In a sense, she's a very suitable spirit for Halloween."

Meng Yue sighed a little, revealing a somewhat relieved expression. After all, like Meng Yue, the witch is also very low in aggression towards humans. Apart from her love of using the ability to change the physical form to temporarily turn the magician who attacks her into a puppet or an animal, there is nothing particularly dangerous about her.

"It's definitely not as simple as it seems... well, with Kotori here, I'm sure Shidou's life won't be lost."

She was a little curious about the situation at the scene, but Mengyue had already made her position clear to Kotori. Before confirming whether the elves really needed to be sealed, Mengyue did not intend to help Shidou conquer the elves.

In fact, I only worked there once and then quit.

Mengyue shrugged and thought to herself with self-mockery.

"Ms. Mengyue, when did you get acquainted with the boy named Shidao?"

Halfway, as if to kill time, Baldwin asked Mengyue.

"Well... about two months ago, around the time of summer vacation in August."

"This is really unexpected. Judging from your attitude, I thought you had known each other for a long time."

His eyes widened in surprise, and Baldwin looked emotional.

"It must be a very wonderful encounter of fate."

"Sigh—I think it's more like a bad fate."

Thinking back to her first and second meeting with Shidou, Mengyue's mouth twitched slightly.

The first time was when Shidao saw her playing gal to kill time during the spacequake, and the second time was when she was caught red-handed by Shidao in the air amidst the banknotes while hacking into an ATM. To say that it was a wonderful encounter, Meng Yue herself felt it was funny.

"Oh... this is a really curious statement."

Seeing that Baldwin had no intention of stopping asking questions at this time, Meng Yue sighed helplessly.

"Really? If the leader of Ratatoskr were to wander the streets defenselessly like this, Kotori would probably be going crazy right now."

When Baldwin heard Mengyue point out his identity, he was stunned at first, then he scratched his head with a wry smile.

"Uh... this is really a failure. I thought I had a pretty popular face."

"Even if it's true, it has to be Western standards. Besides, I have all the personnel information in Ratatoskr."

Meng Yue said unhappily.

"I see. Hacker really lives up to his reputation."

Baldwin nodded in sudden realization, an expression of admiration on his face.

Meng Yue quietly observed the other founder of the manifestation device in front of her. When her family's information was thoroughly checked, people would instinctively feel hostile to Meng Yue, but the other party chatted with her without caring.

Although they are completely different in nature, this uncle in the wheelchair is just like that Westcott, both of them are quite extraordinary guys, Meng Yue couldn't help but think in her heart.

"Well, even though my identity has been exposed, I can only consider myself unlucky. But I still want to ask Miss Mengyue a question, okay?

"casual."

Baldwin asked, exhaling slowly.

"Ms. Mengyue, are you happy now?"

Hmm——Meng Yue, who was a little nervous for a moment, thought she would be asked some other serious questions, suddenly had an awkward expression.

However, looking at the other person's serious expression, Meng Yue was silent for a moment and then shook her head calmly.

"Happiness... I can't really say it. After all, I don't think that this kind of daily life where you don't know when you might get into danger can be considered true happiness."

"Yeah……"

Baldwin said with some regret. Although Karen didn't say anything, she looked at Mengyue with some dissatisfaction.

However, Meng Yue continued.

"But I have never regretted my life now."

Suddenly, under the two people's unexpected gaze, he bowed slightly to the man in the wheelchair.

"Thank you for giving me the opportunity to meet Shidou and have my own place to stay."

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"May I?"

Kallen asked calmly, looking at the girl who had already left after taking her to the air-raid shelter.

"Well...an answer without any lies. That's enough."

Baldwin nodded slightly, a cheerful smile on his face.

"So - is there anything unusual about Tohka and Shidou?"

"I went to Gokawa Shidao's house to check before, and there is no problem now. He is in a very stable state."

Before she even knocked on the door, she could hear a girl happily singing a pumpkin cooking song that she had learned from somewhere. The girl looked so energetic that Karen felt there was no need to worry.

"That's it, that's great."

Baldwin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief after hearing what Karen said.

Last month, the spirit Tohka who performed a "reversal", and the boy who used multiple angels. Although the inspection report has been received a long time ago, it is true that I can't rest assured unless I come to see it in person.

"But I have to admit that it is just as what Miss Mengyue said. If that is the case, the so-called happiness is so fragile."

Baldwin laughed at himself and shook his head.

"So, what is Meng Yue's proposal for Gokawa Shidao's training?"

Kallen asked.

"Accept it! The other old guys have always been afraid that Shidou will become uncontrollable after mastering the power of the spirits. Tell Commander Gokawa that I will take all the responsibility."

With that girl around, Baldwin believed that Gokawa Shido would not lose his way because of power.

After taking a deep breath, he - Elliot Baldwin Woodman smiled.

02 Meeting, Reasoning

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At night, at 00:40, 15,000 meters above Tiangong City, inside the Fraxinus airship.

In the large conference room, the staff of Ratatoskr, led by Kotori Gokawa, and Shido Gokawa, were watching the images playing on the main screen with serious faces.

The screen shows a city in ruins that has been cut into a bowl shape, and a variety of magical Gothic fairy tale buildings that are completely incompatible with it. There are also AST personnel who have been transformed into cute cartoon characters such as rabbits and pandas.

The wide hat and orange-black robe are like the magical attire of a witch in a fairy tale. The long, shiny green hair, the slim waist and plump breasts that make magazine models feel ashamed make her look like a super beauty who embodies the most ideal aspects of all women in the world.

This is exactly the elf that appeared in the world this time - the witch Seven Sins.

[Since you've seen me, I will definitely not let you go! Remember this, I will completely destroy your life! ]

In the video, Nanashi had a look of anger on her face. After threatening Shidou fiercely, she rode a broom into the air and flew into the sky at an astonishing speed.

Seeing this, Qinli frowned with the Kabejia in her mouth.

"It's really strange. The favorability was still at a good level just a moment ago, but it suddenly dropped to the lowest point at the end."

From the beginning, Nanashi's attitude towards Shidao was not repulsive, and even different from her previous experience, she showed a very close attitude towards Itsuka Shidao. However, after AST's attack - a missile that was transformed into a carrot raised a cloud of smoke that blocked Kotori and others' vision, Nanashi's attitude towards Shidao suddenly changed 180 degrees.

Since she had no idea of ​​the intentions and abilities of the Seven Sins, and even said that they would harm Shido before leaving, Kotori held this meeting to clarify these doubts.

"From the perspective of ability, it should be the ability to change the form of matter... Although there may be other hidden abilities, from the point of view that it does not kill Shin directly... but declares to destroy life... it should not have direct attack ability. Even if there is, it should have a considerable limitation..."

Lingyin said slowly.

"That's true. Otherwise, Shidou should have been resurrected right where he was." Kotori nodded slightly, agreeing with Reine's opinion, and then scratched her head in distress, "Then, after all, the problem is the sudden drop in favorability."

During the whole process, only the time when the smoke was raised did Kotori and the others have no idea what happened. The favorability of Nanashi dropped at that time, so it was natural that something went wrong here.

However, this gap of less than five seconds allowed Kotori and the others to ponder and discuss until now.

"Could it be that you are secretly attracted by my suggestion to kneel down and lick her thighs while no one is looking...ah~ I'm so envious."

The handsome man named Kannozuki suddenly had an idea and said, hugging his shoulders with both hands and twisting his body in a disgusting way.

Kotori calmly took two lollipops and poked the base of the lollipops towards the eyes of the aroused Kanbutsuki. Then, after snapping her fingers, two philosophical strong men suddenly appeared and skillfully pulled Kanbutsuki, who was lying on the ground and was not sure whether he was screaming or moaning in pleasure, out of the room.

"Let me ask you something, Shidou, you didn't do anything weird, did you?"

Kotori cast a dangerous look towards Shidou.

"No, no! Absolutely not. I didn't see anything because of the smoke at the time."

Shidou quickly shook his head to deny it.

"Hmph... I'll trust you just this once."

Of course, Kotori didn't think that Shidou could play any tricks in those few seconds. Rather, Kotori was the one who knew best how useless herbivorous her brother was.

After sending away the troublemaker Kannazuki, everyone began to discuss again their views on the sudden change in attitude towards Nanashi. However, for this elf who they knew too little about, everyone could not come up with a reasonable guess.

"Ha... It's really that late, are you guys planning to drive like crazy together?"

Just as everyone was putting forward their own guesses, the sensor at the door of the conference room suddenly responded and automatically moved to both sides. Wearing simple pajamas, Meng Yue walked in with a kettle and yawning.

"Mengyue, why haven't you slept yet?"

Shidou asked with a puzzled look on his face.

"No... I just woke up suddenly and was about to go to your house to get something to eat, but I noticed that your and Kotori's outdoor shoes were missing. I thought that you probably came to the skyship for a meeting."

As she spoke, Meng Yue shook the heavy kettle in her hand and asked everyone.

"Since it's inconvenient to teleport with food, I just made some refreshing tea - do you want some?"

"Still as considerate as ever."

Looking at the kettle in Mengyue's hand, which was obviously specially prepared to handle multiple people, Shidao couldn't help but chuckle.

"Kotori, take a break."

With a soft sigh, Kotori's expression relaxed a little, rubbed her eyes and said, "I am indeed feeling a little tired after discussing this. Let's take a break."

Lingyin took out the disposable cups and distributed the tea prepared by Mengyue to everyone.

"Give it to Shidou, your share."

"Thank you Mengyue."

After taking the hot tea handed to him by Mengyue, Shidao took a sip and a relaxed expression appeared on his face.

"Then, what's the problem with this elf strategy?"