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[She is really very curious now. It would be better to say that no one who saw that scene just now would not be curious.]

[Number 4 is actually a human being. This is definitely super news that is enough to shock everyone. It can be on the front page of the news for a month. ]

[“By the way! Who are you? Why can you transform into the same appearance as those unidentified life forms? Who are you——”]

[“Yes! I want to know too. I’m very curious!”]

【"Well……"】

[After she reminded them, the two people beside him also remembered this point. They all looked at Zaimokuza with surprise, whose smile began to stiffen because of this question. The shining stars in his eyes made him subconsciously want to avoid him, and he felt inexplicably guilty.]

[“Um? I’m actually a human. I only became like that because—wait!”]

【Zaimokuza was surprised by these three girls who were able to approach him without any sense of distance even after seeing his transformed appearance. He was a little hesitant about whether to answer their questions, and spoke with a stumbling voice.】

[But when he was halfway through his speech, Zaimokuza suddenly realized that something was wrong. ]

[——Wait, is there one person missing here? ]

【“Mr. Kosaka!”】

【Thinking of this, Zaimokuza suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart, and quickly turned his head to look at the place where Kousaka Kyousuke had just stood, which he had forgotten. Several girls also turned their heads to look over there as he spoke.】

[Seeing the familiar figure standing there, Zaimokuza breathed a sigh of relief and called out over there. ]

[“Mr. Kosaka, are you okay over there? No. 23 has been knocked down. The battle is over. You don’t have to stay there any longer!”]

【“…”】

[His right arm holding the shield guard fell to his side. Contrary to his usual behavior, Kousaka Kyousuke did not respond to Zaimokuza's words and just stood there in silence without moving.]

["Mr. Kosaka...?"]

【Zaimokuza also began to feel strange at this time, and he shouted again tentatively.】

【——Clang. 】

[In response, there was a sound of something heavy falling to the ground.]

[The white shield fell from Kousaka Kyosuke's right arm, white smoke emanating from the shield, and the sound of it hitting the ground echoed on the inexplicably silent riverbank.]

[…As if it were echoing in Zaimokuza’s heart.]

【“!?”】

【Seeing this scene, Zaimokuza's pupils shrank sharply, and just when he was about to shout out, a new situation occurred again.】

[Kousaka Kyosuke, this man who has always been tenacious and always stands tall like a pillar of support in his impression. ]

[Just like that, it fell down with a loud bang.]

【boom--】

[The sound of falling to the ground was not loud, but it was as if the whole world was collapsing at that moment, a loud sound without a sound. ]

["——Mr. Kosaka!!!"]

29. The Cross of Destiny

Chiba Prefecture, Takasaka family. 185txt.com

Regarding the "Kousuke Kousaka" on the light curtain who seemed to be seriously injured and unconscious again, Kousaka Daisuke's expression seemed calm.

If it were before, although Daisuke Kousaka would not show it on his face, he would always feel heavy inside and worried about the safety of his future son.

But after witnessing "Kousuke Kosaka" being hospitalized in so many different positions of injury, Kosaka Daisuke has long been accustomed to it. He can even calmly make tea and drink it while watching his son fall down. He looks like he just needs a bag of potato chips or popcorn to join the crowd.

"It's okay, Kanao, Kyousuke will be fine."

He comforted his wife while hugging her and drinking green tea.

[“Mr. Kosaka, are you okay? Wake up!”]

【Zaimokuza was supported by several girls from the light music club and ran to the side of the collapsed Kousaka Kyosuke. With an anxious expression, he hugged the unconscious Kousaka Kyosuke and turned his prone body over, shaking it and shouting loudly.】

[Lying in Zaimokuza's arms, Kousaka Kyousuke showed no response to his call. His red compound eyes that had lit up before were now dim. Now, wearing his go and motionless, he looked like a delicate 1:1 figurine that had run out of power and lost its power source.]

【"hateful!"】

【Zaimokuza realized that something must be wrong when he saw that Kousaka Kyosuke did not respond to his call. Anxiously, he reached out and groped behind the helmet. When his fingers felt an abnormal bulge on the back of his neck that was opposite to the smooth touch of the surrounding iron sheets, he immediately pressed it without hesitation.】

【Click.】

[The tiny gears at the lower jaw of the helmet made a mechanical sound, and the iron plate at the neck was retracted into the helmet's built-in cavity, revealing Kousaka Kyosuke's short black hair soaked with sweat.]

["Mr. Kousaka!?"]

【Zaimokuza immediately removed the unlocked helmet from Kousaka Kyousuke's head, and was horrified when he saw his face hidden under the helmet.】

[Kousaka Kyosuke's eyes were tightly closed, and his furrowed eyebrows showed his current state. His unconscious expression was also full of fatigue. Red blood flowed down from the wound on his forehead, staining half of Kousaka Kyosuke's face red.]

[“Mr. Kosaka, can you hear me? Hello!?”]

【Zaimokuza stuffed the removed helmet into the arms of Hirasawa Yui, who was looking at this place with a mixture of curiosity and worry on her face, and gently laid the unconscious Kousaka Kyosuke on the ground, then lay on his chest through the armor of Go and listened attentively.】

[Plop——]

[“Huh… Not bad.”]

[When he heard the heartbeat that was as strong as ever than his own, Zaimokuza couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. This at least meant that Kousaka Kyousuke was fine.]

【“Xiao Li, Xiao Mio, Wei, everyone!”】

[“Seniors!”]

[Just then, the girls in the light music club turned around after hearing a shout from behind, and saw Kotobuki with tears on her face and Nakano Azusa who had woken up running towards them from the river bank.]

【“?…”】

[“You big fools!”]

[Before the surprised Akiyama Mio could say anything, Kotobuki, who jumped into her arms, knocked her back several steps, and she was so flustered that she didn't know where to put her hands.]

[“Senior Wei! Senior Lu! Are you all right!?”]

[“Ah? Azi-nyan——Ugh!”]

[“Ouch! I can’t breathe!”]

[On the other side, Tian Zhongli and Hirasawa Yui, who was playing with a GO helmet, were also hugged by Nakano Azusa, who was in tears. The pair of slender white arms burst out with great strength when hugging their shoulders, making their faces flushed red. ]

[“You big idiots! This is too much! You threw Xiao Zi to someone else and said, “We are going to help number four” and then ran here. My heart almost stopped beating, you know!”]

[Kotobuki, who was hugging Akiyama Mio, also reached out and hugged her slender waist. The huge force made Akiyama Mio feel that what was hugging her was not a pair of slender jade arms, but a pair of iron clamps made of fine steel, which made it difficult for her to even breathe.]

【"……sorry."】

[But when she saw Kotobuki's face, which was covered with tears and her makeup was washed off, Mio Akiyama's inner tenderness and guilt overwhelmed her physical discomfort. She gently reached out and stroked her long yellow hair, holding her whole face in her arms.]

[“Hey? Senior Wei, what is that in your hand, a helmet?”]

[On the other side, Nakano Azusa let go of the two people who were almost suffocated after being comforted, sniffed her red nose from crying, and looked at the helmet in Hirasawa Yui's hand and asked in a somewhat strange manner. ]

[“This? This is something that belongs to the armored hero who looks like No. 4. It was given to me by No. 4, big brother!”]

[Hirasawa Yui hugged the helmet to his waist and proudly raised his barren chest and said.]

【"……ha?"】

【"Well……"】

【Faced with Nakano Azusa who asked him three hellos because of Hirasawa Yui's explanation, Tianzhong Ritsu helplessly covered her face with her hands. 】

[“Who are these two people…!?”]

[After letting go of Akiyama Mio and calming down her excitement, Kotobuki also noticed Zaimokuza and Kousaka Kyosuke behind them and observed them carefully.]

[When she saw Kousaka Kyosuke lying on the ground in his armor and with blood all over his face, her two thick eyebrows suddenly wrinkled, and then Kotobuki remembered something and opened her eyes wide in surprise. ]

[“This person! Isn’t the person lying on the ground the policeman who protected us from the battle between No. 6 and No. 4? I remember his name was Officer Kosaka.”]

[She was the best in the entire light music club in terms of academic performance and memory, and she immediately recognized the true identity of Kousaka Kyousuke. He was the cold-faced police officer who drove them away from the riot.]

[“Huh? Is it really him! Officer Kosaka!?”]

[Listen to the sound of the zither? After hearing this, Tianzhong Ritsuya slapped his head and suddenly realized it, and then looked at the unconscious Kousaka Kyosuke nervously. 】

[“Um, ah, please tell me, is Officer Kosaka okay? Uh-! Can Nini cheer too?!”]

[“Uh, don’t worry, I’m still… fine, it’s Officer Kosaka—”]

【Zaimokuza looked at the girl dressed in a very boyish way, her eyes filled with tears after she bit her tongue and spoke incoherently, and smiled helplessly, but when he turned his head to look at the sleeping Kousaka Kyousuke, he could not hide the worry between his brows.】

[“Senior Wei, what are you doing with this helmet?”]

[“I’m just curious. Officer, is this the helmet you wear to fight? But it’s pitch black inside, I can’t see clearly at all—Ahh! Why can’t I pull my head out? Hey? Suddenly, it lights up in front of me? Wow! I can see so clearly!”]

[“Senior, what’s wrong!?”]

[Click——]

[The noise of fighting from the other side made Zaimokuza subconsciously turn his gaze over, and he saw Hirasawa Yui, who was wearing a GO helmet out of curiosity, waving her hands and feet in panic, and the pair of red compound eyes on the mask face also lit up again with the sound of the twisting mechanism. ]

[“Moshimoshi, Yoshiki, can you hear me? Hello?”]

[After the compound eyes lit up, another female voice with a sense of cynicism suddenly sounded through the built-in loudspeaker of the helmet, startling everyone present.]

[“Wow! Yui-senpai’s voice has changed!”]

[“Hey, hey, hey! Why has my voice changed? But it’s become so mature?”]

[Hirasawa Yui and Nakano Azusa, who was closest to her, were both frightened by the sudden strange voice, and the worried Zaimokuza looked over in doubt when he heard someone calling his name.]

[“That voice…!”]

[When he heard this familiar voice, his eyes widened immediately, and he dragged his tired body over. As the girls around him covered their mouths in surprise, he stretched out his hands to hold Hirasawa Yui's helmeted head and pulled her over.]

[“Wow!? Onii-sama, what are you going to do to me?”]

[“Just bear with it, it will be fine soon!”]

[Ignoring the panicked struggle of the girl in front of him, Zaimokuza, who was stunned by this funny guy, stared at the pair of lit mechanical compound eyes and asked hurriedly.]

[“Hina? Is it you, Himena!?”]

[“It’s me, Yoshiki. The concubine who is talking to you is Himena Ebina, your ex-girlfriend?”]

[Hina Ebina, who was far away in the research institute, looked at the high-definition handsome face of Zai Mokuza in full screen mode on the screen in front of her, her eyes narrowed into crescents and she smiled and said. ]

[“Hina, what the hell is going on! Why did Mr. Kousaka suddenly fall into a coma? Is it because of this armor called Gulkiller?”]

[But Zaimokuza didn't care about her jokes, nor did he have the energy to deny the title of ex-girlfriend, which he usually felt ashamed of when others mentioned it. His mind was completely occupied by the worry about the safety of Kousaka Kyousuke, and he immediately spoke directly. ]

[“Okay, okay, don’t be so anxious. Aren’t we explaining it through remote control now?”]

[“Little sister, please bear with it for a while. Don’t be afraid. Yihui is very gentle. He will pull it out for you when he is done.”]

【"Oh well?"】

[With her head stuffed into the helmet, Hirasawa Yui looked at Zaimokuza's face, and then listened to Ebina Hime's voice. She instinctively felt that these two people would not hurt her, so she blinked her big eyes and agreed in a daze.]

[But she suddenly noticed that the handsome white-haired man on the screen, who was the most handsome man she had ever seen, had a small line of text in the lower left corner of her vision, and she couldn't help but remember it carefully.]

[“It feels a bit weird, this scene…”]

[The girls in the light music club looked at Hirasawa Yui who had stopped struggling and Zaimokuza who was holding her head and looking at her seriously. But the voice that sounded in the helmet was a strange woman's voice with helplessness and doting. They all felt that this scene was a bit indescribably strange and weird, like the plot in zombie movies where the living and the dead use magic to ignore the dialogue between yin and yang.]

[And when they heard what Ebina Hime said, several girls' fair cheeks suddenly turned red and they turned around, which made Kotobuki standing next to them look confused, wondering what happened to her friends? ]

[“The reason why Kosaka-kun fell into a coma was just because of the side effects of this go. After all, it was an experimental product that had not been tested for safety, so there must be some problems.”]

【"side effect?"】

[This sentence made Zaimokuza's heart tighten. After all, putting the words "experimental product" and "side effects" together always makes people think of nothing good. ]

[“Yes, that’s right.”]

[Hina Ebina called up the status monitoring diagram of the dresser on the screen and frowned as she looked at the various physical values ​​of Kousaka Kyousuke displayed on it.]

[“Three ribs on the left side are fractured, the sternum is dislocated, and the muscles all over the body are strained, especially the right hand that uses the shield guardian. The entire arm bone is cracked, the arm muscles are strained, and the fist bones are cracked... Tsk, isn’t this a bit too desperate, Kosaka-kun?”]

[“This… Is Mr. Kosaka okay?”]

[After hearing this series of injury reports, even though Zaimokuza didn't know much about medicine, he still felt a little terrified.]

[“Don’t worry, considering Kosaka-kun’s physical condition and condition, he only needs to be sent to the hospital for recuperation for a while. But it’s you, Yoshiteru.”]