Are you worthy enough to listen to what I, Shura Armor, have to say?

Not right either! ! !

Next!

Please, please don't do anything stupid. I'm willing to do whatever I can! If it weren't for Mr. Obik, Watasi!

【Can you make soba noodles with me for the rest of my life? 】

【ha!?】

At this moment, Xiangzi's mind suddenly emerged with what her friends with special skills might say, and then she sadly discovered that if she spoke in the same tone as those guys, it would only make the other party even more upset.

...Suddenly I feel like it was a miracle that crychic managed to hold on until their first live performance.

Xiangzi lowered her head and covered her face with her hands. Now she had to face a very embarrassing thing, that is, she, who was not very good at comforting others, seemed to have become the best comforter among all her friends.

Just have to give it a try.

"Um, Mr. Obike..." Xiangzi tried to communicate with Obike, but when he looked up, he found that Obike and the ramen stall had disappeared without a trace.

"Ugh?"

Xiangzi tilted her head in some confusion. At this moment, the Victory Team's sirens sounded from behind her.

"Excuse me, have you seen anything that looks like a monster?"

Lina's voice suddenly came from behind Xiangzi. Xiangzi turned around and looked at her, slightly stunned.

Although he has fought alongside the Victory Team so many times, this is the first time that Xiangzi faces the Victory Team members other than Daigu in his human form.

The female team member with short hair...I remember her name should be Team Member Lina, right?

There are only so many people in the Victory Team. Except for Ye Rui, everyone else often appears in the public eye, so the general public basically knows their names and appearances. It’s just that Xiangzi knows more inside information.

I remembered now, she is the ace pilot who has rarely crashed and is now Mr. Daigu’s girlfriend!

Xiangzi's impression of Lina was that, apart from the fact that Dagu would sometimes be a little shy when talking about her, the only thing he had was that the plane Lina flew was different from that of the ace duo of Dagu and Shinjo, and it basically never fell.

Although most of the time they were flying the plane to attract fire or scrape the enemy, it was not easy for an ordinary person to fly a plane from beginning to end without crashing and fight alongside them.

Thinking of this, Xiangzi subconsciously stood at attention, and then responded with some respect: "Well... there was indeed someone here just now, but he disappeared in an instant. I think he might be the person you are looking for."

"Really?" Lina was delighted when she heard this and asked hurriedly, "Could you please describe what that person looks like?"

"As for his appearance... he's a bald man wearing white clothes and running a soba stall."

"Thank you, that's a great help!"

Lina couldn't wait to open the communicator and enter the public signal: "Obi Ke is the bald man selling soba noodles!"

…………

"The bald guy selling noodles?"

Horii received the message, then subconsciously sniffed around and noticed the aroma of noodles coming from a certain direction. He turned around and saw Obike running briskly in the shaded alley with a noodle stall.

"Stop, don't run!"

Horii quickly chased after him, and with a gun in hand, he pushed Obik into a corner step by step, but saw Obik leaning against the wall and making a face at him.

"Slightly~"

With a bang, Obik disappeared immediately.

Such scenes happened one after another in various dark corners of the town. Obik probably had the full map + teleportation function turned on. Every time, he would suddenly appear behind the Victory team members, scare them, and then disappear immediately.

Although he probably had no intention of hurting anyone, his behavior was still spread by various witnesses and scared everyone.

This is a very small village. Unlike the K area, there are not all kinds of monsters or aliens invading here all the time. Everyone is still quite afraid of such surreal things.

Therefore, as word of mouth spread, before nightfall, most people in the village quickly hid in their houses and closed the doors and windows.

At this moment, Xiangzi, who was sitting in Lina's car and was being sent back home by Lina, saw the mess on the street and asked anxiously, "Sister Lina...what will the Victory Team do if Mr. Obike is caught?"

"Well... I think we should focus on comforting him," Lina responded without hesitation: "After all, he didn't do anything bad. On the contrary, maybe it's us humans who did something wrong that caused him to be like this."

Lina has always been a moderate in the Victory Team. Her father is an officer of TPC and graduated from TPC's non-commissioned officer school. The idea that has been instilled in her since she was a child is to strive for peace as much as possible.

Of course, she has never been soft-hearted towards those hopeless aliens or ferocious monsters, but if it is Obik who has lived on this earth since ancient times, Lina feels that there should be room for turnaround.

"In fact, many monsters in the past were caused to run wild and harm humans because of our human activities."

For some reason, when Lina looked at Xiangzi, she always felt that he looked familiar, so she spoke more unconsciously.

"For example, the Gakuma that appeared a long time ago were originally sleeping peacefully in their own territory, but human engineering development encroached on their food supply, causing them to emerge from underground and eventually be eliminated by us."

"Even Gazot... Although it's a very ferocious monster, it's actually the electromagnetic waves generated by our human lives that caused them to mutate and become monsters. Maybe they originally wanted to get along well with us humans."

"I think Obik is the same. He used to live peacefully in this village without causing any disturbance for hundreds of years, but recently he suddenly came out to scare people. I think it must be because of something we humans did."

"I always wonder, if I had the same power as Tiga and the others, could I do better? But I am not them after all, and even if I were, I probably wouldn't be able to do better, because they have already exhausted all their strength in every battle."

At this point, Lina laughed and opened the door on Xiangzi's side. "We're here, Fengchuan, get off. After all, we don't have such great power. We just need to do what we can."

"Uh-huh..."

Listening to Lina's words, Xiangzi showed a thoughtful expression. She stood at the door of Bad Brain's house, watching Lina driving away in the distance, and said to herself: "Do better...?"

The afterglow of the setting sun shone on her, illuminating her slightly confused expression: "What exactly does it mean to do better?"

………………

As night fell, out of fear of Obik's presence, no household in Yanye Village turned on the lights. The originally quiet village became utterly silent.

In such tranquility and darkness, the stars in the sky became so dazzling, illuminating every corner of the town.

Obik held the Shadow Mage in his arms and just looked at the village in the distance quietly.

The Victory Team, who had been searching for him all day, finally surrounded him from all directions, pointing their pistols at him and the Shadow Mage.

However, in such a situation, Obike did not panic. He just stared at the village in the distance and whispered softly as if he was telling a bedtime story to a child: "Haha... the old village is back."

"What?" everyone asked in confusion.

"The old village is back again," Obik repeated patiently.

"Look, that's the village's watchtower"

It was the children’s favorite before, and they always liked to climb up and act as the boss’s watchtower.

"Where is a clear stream..."

It is a very important river. People in the village used to rely on it for drinking water and irrigation of crops.

"Across the river is the lotus pond!"

How many lovers have tied the knot in front of that beautiful lotus root pond, and how many people have been rejected by the ones they love there?

Maybe it was an illusion, or maybe it was something else. Even the members of the Victory Team saw the picture described by Obik. They all stood there in a daze, staring at the scene before them.

So, Obik did it for this reason...

Lina finally understood why the monster in front of her suddenly caused chaos. It was because construction was about to begin here, and it would soon no longer be the village that Obik knew.

Thinking of this, Lina's nose felt sore, and then she shouted to the other party: "Obik, stop! The old village will never come back, but we can help you find another place. The earth is so big, there must be a place that can accommodate you, definitely!"

"..."

Hearing this, Obike just gave a wry smile.

Of course he knew about this kind of thing, he had known it a long time ago.

But he couldn't accept it!

It is no longer the village it once was, no longer the village that held my memories...

He does not need it!

Obik suddenly merged with the shadow mage in his hand and turned into a huge monster. He was going to make a final big fuss.

The members of the Victory team were heartbroken, but they could not let such a huge monster destroy people's lives, so they dispersed into the dark forest and fought on their own.

Da Gu looked at Obik in the distance in silence for a long time, but finally took out the magic wand.

A flash of light passed by, and Tiga's figure appeared in front of Obik.

Obik rammed his head into it like a child, whimpering and waving his fists around. Despite having such a huge body, he didn't hurt anything.

He destroyed nothing, whether it was Tiga who appeared as his enemy, the modern buildings he hated, or anything on the earth.

Obik understood that although he didn't like these things, there were people in this world who loved them as much as he loved the village. For them, Obik would not destroy anything today.

Those who are going to disappear today will be fine without this old monster.

He has lived long enough and should have passed away with the changes in the village long ago.

It was delayed until today just for the sake of those children who were still looking forward to his craftsmanship.

So, knowing that the mountain would disappear tomorrow and Bad Brain's grandfather would die, Obike finally made a decision.

Obik spit out a fireball with his claws and fangs bared. Tiga dodged it by slightly turning his head, and then fired a light bomb with his backhand.

Tiga had no intention of killing Obik. Even now, Tiga only wanted to stop him, but Obik did something that no one expected. He suddenly opened his chest and let the light bullet hit his most vulnerable part.

That is his core part. If he is hit, he will definitely die.

That's fine...

Obik closed his eyes with a smile, but just before the light bullet was about to hit, two figures that were extremely small compared to Tiga and Obik suddenly jumped out.

It was a mummy wrapped in bandages, rubbing his wheelchair with his hands at an extremely fast speed, sending the wheelchair soaring into the sky with sparks and lightning, and a big burly man riding on his neck.

Under the dim moonlight, only Tiga and Obik could clearly see the figures of the two of them.

It’s Haotian and Bad Brain.

Haotian thought about it over and over again but still couldn't understand what Obik was thinking, so he simply found Bad Brain, who had known Obik for the longest time. After finally explaining the situation to him, he discovered that this kind of thing had happened here.

Bad Brain was unwilling to listen to this and said, "No, boss, what are you doing?"

I ask you, what do you want to do?!

Are you thinking that after you die, you might as well make noodles for me? Let me tell you, there’s no such thing as that!

"Boss, you bastard, don't die! If you die, where will I eat noodles in the future?"

Under the surprised gazes of Obik and Tiga, Bad Brain roared and rushed towards the light bullet with Haotian, blocking it.

"boom--!"

The light bullet caused a violent explosion, a strong light flashed, and then both Tiga and Obik disappeared together.

………………

"Is this the story from yesterday?"

"Ah, that sounds stupid, right?"

"Yeah, that's incredibly stupid."

In front of Obike's soba noodle stall, a caterpillar that had transformed into the look of Iida Iriyuu was sitting and eating noodles. Beside him lay two sleeping mummies in wheelchairs because they had made too much noise yesterday.

In the distance, the mountains have been flattened and the next step is being carried out in an orderly manner.

But Obike still smiled.

"Jinglong, I suddenly realized that I seem to have been doing something wrong for so many years," he said.

"I have always missed the village of the past, and my own place of residence, but I didn't realize that over the years, I seemed to have become someone else's village, someone else's place of residence."

"As long as I exist, as long as I am still alive in this world, there will be people willing to smile for me, and I will make certain people who I consider important feel at ease..."

"If I die without permission, they'll be troubled, right?"

"So?" Jingtian Jinglong asked with a smile, "Do you want to live? Until when?"

"Well... we'll talk about it later." Obik shrugged and said with a smile: "But at least wait until I finish dealing with the guests in front of me."

"Then I'll eat two more bowls. I can't let you die in front of me."

"Hahaha, it's really strange to hear a dead person say that. But why did you, a soul, stay in someone else's body for so long? You old immortal!"

"What do you care about me? I don't have any problem with what you're saying, you old fool!"

"Who is the immortal who is talking about?"

"Oh? Do you want to clash with me, Jingtian Jinglong?"