My youth story cannot be a knight war

3. The beginning of a nightmare summer (8K)

"Jiang Gan!"

Originally, when Garima was about to show its mature body in human form on the light screen, many LSPs couldn't help but hold their breath, their eyes almost popping out of their sockets, and they couldn't wait to see the beautiful scenery that was about to follow.

As a result, the white holy light that everyone hated so much suddenly appeared out of nowhere again, completely covering the area below the neck and calves, leaving no light to be seen.

Suddenly, the sound of cursing rang out all over the world, and many people wanted to tear the adult-restricted holy light in the light curtain into pieces.

“Why? Why does this holy light always appear to cause trouble at times like this?!”

After locking the door and drawing the curtains, Sato Kazuma, who was sitting on the bed, had even taken off his pants. However, the sudden appearance of the holy light almost made him vomit blood, and his roar of collapse spread throughout the house.

"What the hell! Is this broken light curtain only for adults? Why was there no problem in so many bloody fights before, but something went wrong here!"

"Ah~"

Looking down at his big brother who had changed from being stronger than steel to being as soft as noodles, he put on his pants again in frustration.

"Ok?"

Just as he put on his pants, the scene on the screen changed again. Sato Kazuma looked at the several figures displayed on it, and his eyes gradually brightened.

"Ohhh! Aren't these the beautiful girls from the light music club?"

[It was summer in Japan at this time. The sun in the sky was as hot as a steamer, releasing ultraviolet rays that were hot enough to bake people to death to the earth below. The concrete ground had been exposed to the sun for a long time, and the temperature was so high that the scene on the road was slightly distorted. The straw ears on the roadside swayed weakly in the heat wave.]

[The cicadas beside my ears are screaming desperately. These insects that crawl from the ground to the trees in summer always do this. Their calls will accompany people throughout the summer, and when autumn comes, they will fall from the tall branches to the soil, announcing the end of summer with their death.]

[Although Akiyama Mio fears all insects equally, she has been accompanied by the chirping of cicadas every summer since she was a child. Over the years, she has become accustomed to their existence. In her memory, every summer is opened and ended by these little guys, so fast that it seems like a dream.]

[But this year alone, she felt that this summer was particularly long, and her sense of time was infinitely stretched and distorted by the familiar cicada sounds.]

[If every summer is a dream, then for her and everyone around her, this summer is definitely a... nightmare. ]

……

【Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture, Maibara Station. 】

【 0 Wei 9:24 AM 】

[In front of the waiting platform, many people waiting for the arrival of the Shinkansen were standing scattered not far away, including the five girls from the light music club. ]

[“It’s been a full hour…”]

[Looking at the time displayed on the watch on her slender wrist, Akiyama Mio, who was wearing a sun hat, twitched her eyes a few times and said in a slightly speechless manner.]

[“Mo~ What the hell is Saewa doing? The train is almost arriving at the station, okay!?”]

[Tai Naka Ritsu, who was standing next to Akiyama Mio, was squatting in front of the platform like a gangster, sticking out her tongue to cool down. After hearing this, she couldn't stand it anymore and put her hands in her hair, shouting madly.]

[“We agreed to meet at 8:10, why hasn’t she come yet? Did she really oversleep and stand us up? I really can’t stand this useless teacher anymore!”]

【“Xiao Lu.”】

[Qinfu, who was wearing a fitted white dress and holding a parasol next to her, raised her eyebrows when she saw her speech without any sense of femininity, and said seriously.]

[“Don’t be so vulgar, you’re a girl!”]

[“But? It’s Saeko who’s late this time! And I’ve been very restrained. Look at what’s become of Wei and Azi-nyan!”]

[Taizhong Ritsu pursed his lips, pointed at the pillar on the other side of the platform with grievance and said.]

[“Senior…I’m dying of the sun?▽?…”]

[“Azi, meow, I feel like I’m about to melt, just like the ice cream in the refrigerator that has no power, becoming soft (-@y@)…”]

[Hirazawa Yui and Nakano Azusa, who were holding an umbrella together, hugged each other behind a pillar. The scorching heat made them sweat all over and even pressed their faces together. They spoke weakly, and even the edges of their bodies were constantly fluctuating.]

【"this……"】

[Looking at the two people who were almost melting together, Akiyama Mio and Kotobuki were speechless and could only hold their foreheads helplessly. ]

[“She was obviously embarrassed when we first asked her to go to the training camp, but after we told her that we could go swimming and have a barbecue, she followed us shamelessly. Now she even dares to stand us up? I swear on the photos of Mio’s limited performance at the academy festival that I collected last year that Saeko definitely overslept!”]

[“This is too much! No, I’m going to call that useless female teacher right now and wake her up. I’m going to let her know that the price of standing up a beautiful girl is—Puwaaa!”]

【boom! 】

[“I think you’re going too far, Lu! You actually still have my photos from last year!? After we come back from this training camp, you must hand over all the negatives to me!”]

[A punishment fist hits the top of the head and knocks Tianzhong Ritsu to the ground as he takes out his cell phone. Akiyama Mio puffs up her cheeks and speaks, then sighs with deep fatigue.]

[——In short, as mentioned above, the current light music club members plan to go for training and strengthening. ]

[The accommodation this time is still provided by Kotobuki. According to her, her family also has a villa on the beach in Niigata City, the destination of this training camp.]

[Akiyama Mio suspected that her words were probably very implicit, because many people in the club had previously proposed to go to different places for training, ranging from Kyoto to Hokkaido, but Kotobuki's statement was that her family "happened" to have a villa there.]

[Perhaps the subtext of this sentence is: I have provided food and accommodation, you can go wherever you want. ]

【Then Tianzhong Ritsu said with a serious expression, "How about Dubai?" This sentence was just a joke to liven up the atmosphere, and no one would take it seriously.】

[——But who would have thought that after thinking for a while, Qinfuki smiled and said:]

[“It’s not impossible, but I haven’t been to the villa there for many years. I need to hire someone to clean it before I move in.”]

[After she finished speaking, she actually took out her cell phone and started making a call, which frightened everyone and they rushed over to stop her.]

[The members of the light music club have known each other for more than a year. Although they know that the other party has no intention of showing off, every time Kotobuki accidentally reveals the tip of the iceberg of her family background, the girls are deeply shocked, and at the same time, they are more determined to hold the white thighs of the rich lady tightly. 】

[Endless high-quality black tea, top-quality desserts to eat at will, and a high-quality villa that can be provided for group sleepover at any time. Who wouldn't love such a young lady! ]

[But in fact, there is another purpose for this training camp, which is to relax their nerves by having fun and let everyone get out of the shadow caused by the recent incident as soon as possible. ]

[It has been almost a month since they came back from Tokyo, and everyone has been feeling bad during this period because of a series of events they encountered in Tokyo.]

[No one expected that they would be so unlucky. They had originally planned to go to Tokyo to provide psychological treatment to Akiyama Mio, who was suffering from the trauma at the time, when the unconfirmed life form disappeared, and then return immediately.]

[As a result, on the first day they arrived in Tokyo, the unidentified life form that had disappeared reappeared. Unfortunately, this time not only Akiyama Mio, but the entire light music club was involved in this incident, and all of them walked on the edge of death. ]

[Fortunately, in the end, they were rescued by the unidentified life form No. 4 and Officer Kosaka, who they had met once before. Otherwise, they would have almost stayed there forever. ]

[However, good fortune never comes alone, and misfortune never comes alone. Even worse things are yet to come. ]

[After this incident, the frightened light music club decided to go home immediately after resting in Tokyo for one night, but on the way back, they were coincidentally attacked by the unidentified life form No. 24 driving a large truck. ]

[The driver of the Kotobuki family who was driving for the group was hit and seriously injured. Before he passed out, he told the girls to run for their lives. Then they started to flee on the road in a panic, and played a life-and-death chase with No. 24 for nearly ten minutes. The other party seemed to enjoy the process. He laughed wildly the whole time when he chased the group of girls in the light music club in a truck.]

[At the end of the chase, they were stuck in an alley with no way to escape. They could only watch in despair as the back seat of the truck crashed into them. They could almost foresee that they would be crushed into pulp by the steel-forged industrial machinery.]

[Fortunately, at the last moment, No. 4, who had saved their lives twice before, arrived again in time and rescued them from the clutches of these monsters for the third time.]

[This was a truly unfortunate experience. The two times she encountered that city caused Akiyama Mio, who had never been to Tokyo before, to change her impression of the capital of her country from admiration at first to fear of it later, leaving her with almost no good memories.]

[Because of these experiences of being on the verge of death several times in a row, after returning from that time, Akiyama Mio, who originally only needed to take medicine for treatment, had four more companions who also suffered from PTSD of unconfirmed life forms... The reason why I say four is that among them, only Hirasawa Yui did not have any abnormalities, and was still as carefree and off-line as usual. ]

[It must be said that idiots also have their advantages. The few people who had nightmares lately and whose sleep quality had dropped rapidly saw her sleeping soundly in the club room during lunch break, and all of them were very envious.]

【That’s why we have this training camp. We hope that through this trip, which is called training but is actually for fun, everyone can vent the depression that has accumulated in their hearts over the past few days, so that the light music club can return to its previous state. After learning about this, their instructor, Yamanaka Sawako, took the responsibility and said that she would also go with them to supervise their psychological treatment.】

[But the group of girls suspected that she just wanted to run along to eat, drink and enjoy the sea bath. ]

[If I were to say what I gained from these two trips to Tokyo, it would probably be just one thing. ]

[That is how they got to know the real identity of the GO dresser and No. 4 who often appeared on TV. Their real names were Kyosuke Kosaka and Yoshiki Zaimokuza.]

[Especially Zaimokuza Yoshiki. No one had expected that the true identity of the unconfirmed life form No. 4 was actually an ordinary human being. Therefore, the scene when they first saw the other party transform back into a human in front of them was simply shocking. ]

[After saving their lives several times in a row, the members of the light music club quickly established a good relationship with him and got to know this man who looked much older than them, but behaved like a big boy in his inner self and behavior.]

[It is really hard to imagine that such a person is the same person as the unconfirmed life form No. 4 described on TV news, who keeps hunting his own kind like a hound and will not stop until he dies.]

【and--】

[After I woke up from my coma, I saw that face right in front of me, so close that I could even see every eyelash. That scene came to my mind.]

[Thinking of the scene she saw when she was rescued from drowning last time, Akiyama Mio's fair face suddenly turned red. Under Kotobuki's strange gaze, she squatted on the ground, holding down her sun hat, and uttered a soundless cry. ]

[Recently, Akiyama Mio always thinks about what happened on that day unconsciously. Every time she thinks about it, she feels her heart beating faster and faster, and she is so upset that she can't even read. ]

[After all, as someone who has never been in a relationship since birth, the shock of having her first kiss taken away from her was too great. Even though she knew that the other person had his reasons for doing so, Akiyama Mio still couldn't explain herself and let it go. This made her still not know how to face Zaimokuza.]

[So even though she has the other person's phone number, except for the last time she went to return the clothes, Akiyama Mio didn't dare to contact Zaimokuza even once. This is completely different from Tianzhong Ritsu, who has become so close to him that he calls him every night to play Apex together. ]

[How should I greet him next time I see him? She thought to herself in distress.]

[“Hey!? Everyone!”]

[While Akiyama Mio was thinking hard, Tianzhong Ritsu, who was lying on the ground with wide noodles in her eyes, just opened her mobile phone. When she saw the message pop up on the screen, she snorted in surprise and her eyes widened immediately.]

【"What's wrong again? Lu?"】

[Her surprised cry attracted everyone's attention. Akiyama Mio, who was startled out of her memory, turned around and looked at her unhappily, obviously still resenting her for secretly collecting her photos.]

[“This is terrible. A new unconfirmed life form has appeared in Tokyo!”]

[The next moment, what Tianzhong Ritsu said made Akiyama Mio no longer have the energy to argue with her, and she snatched the phone from her hand. ]

【"Really!?"】

[Akiyama Mio stared closely at the online news that popped up on the phone screen, and her pupils shrank slightly as she read the content written on it.]

[《Unconfirmed life form No. 26 appears, kills 300 Tokyo citizens on the Sobu Line in one day and then disappears! 》]

[Below this news headline are several mosaic photos of bodies and a series of victim information. Akiyama Mio looks at this information and can't hide her nervous expression.]

[“Those monsters have appeared again. Then they…”]

[Zaimokuza's smiling face appeared in his mind, and Akiyama Mio remembered the mobile phone number stored in his mobile phone, and hesitated whether to call to ask about the other party's safety. ]

[“Those bad guys showed up again!? Then Yoshiki-nii and Kyousuke-nii, aren’t they——uuuuuuuu!!!”]

[“Senior! This is a public place. You can’t call people by their names directly. You might expose their identities!”]

[When Hirasawa Yui came over and subconsciously wanted to say Zaimokuza's name, Nakano Azusa, who was standing next to her, quickly covered her mouth with her hand and whispered, while nervously looking around, worried that someone might have heard their conversation.]

[“Mio, are you worried about the safety of Zaimokuza-senpai and the others?”]

[Kotobuki walked up to Akiyama Mio, looked at the hesitant expression on her face, and immediately guessed what she was thinking, and spoke softly.]

【"Um……"】

[Kotobuki has always been a careful girl. Knowing her well, Akiyama Mio also knew that she couldn't hide it from her. After hesitating for a few seconds, she bit her lip and nodded.]

[“Since you are so worried about Yoshiki and the others, Mio, why don’t you call them now to check on their safety? I think you should have added his and Officer Kosaka’s phone numbers to your phone.”]

[Taizhong Ritsu took his phone from her hand, stared into his friend's eyes which were avoiding his gaze and asked.]

[“But, they should be very busy right now. If I call at this time, it might disturb them, so…”]

[After a moment of silence, Akiyama Mio lowered her eyes to look at her feet in white sandals and spoke in a low voice.]

[“Ah, ah, ah~ I don’t know what’s wrong with you, Mio. You become like this whenever you talk about Yoshiki-nii. He’s actually quite easy to get along with, and his gaming skills are also superb.”]

[Looking at her best friend like this, Tianzhong Ritsu shrugged helplessly, then suddenly an idea came to her, her eyes lit up, she smiled and raised a finger in front of Akiyama Mio, and said mischievously. ]

[“I understand! Mio, the main reason you didn’t dare to call wasn’t because of this, but because of the last time when Yoshiki-nii saved you——Hmm!?”]

[A pair of white hands grabbed Tian Zhongli's neck, and before she could say the next word, she was lifted up in the horrified eyes of the people around her.]

[“If you dare to mention that again, I’ll kill you…”]

[Akiyama Mio raised her eyes, which were covered by the shadow of her sun hat. Her face was flushed as she spoke horrifying words that were totally inconsistent with her appearance. The coldness in her voice left no doubt about the truth of her words.]

[“I… I was wrong… Put me down! Cough cough cough…”]

【"snort!"】

[After landing on the ground with his swinging feet, Tianzhong Ritsu coughed violently, looking at Akiyama Mio who turned away in a vindictive manner with lingering fear, rubbing his neck and mumbling. ]

[“And those monsters have appeared in Tokyo again. That city is really plagued by disasters… I wonder if Yoshiki-nii and Officer Kosaka can hold out this time.”]

【Thinking of the fear and despair he felt when facing those monsters, Tianzhong Ritsu couldn't help but tighten his grip on the phone. A genuine fear flashed in the eyes of the tomboy who was always fearless in front of her friends.】

[Those monsters left a deep impression on her. After facing No. 23 up close, Tianzhong Ritsu finally understood why her friend had been unable to get out of the shadow left by No. 6 for several months.]

[The aura of being watched by the top creatures of the food chain and the sense of danger of the blade hanging between their necks had an indelible impact on them who were living in ordinary daily life. After returning, they inevitably suffered from PTSD similar to Akiyama Mio.]

[“Be a real man! Trust Brother Yihui and the others!”]

【"only?"】

【Hirasawa Yui's words made several people turn their heads and look over. They saw a thumbs-up in front of them, and behind it was a smile that was too bright.】