My youth story cannot be a knight war

[I'm afraid the word "horror" is not enough to describe it. The so-called uncanny valley effect is just like this. When something is quite similar to humans in appearance and action, humans will have positive emotions towards it. But once it exceeds a certain "degree" and reaches a certain limit, people's feelings will suddenly become extremely disgusted. Even if the thing is only slightly different from humans, it will appear very conspicuous and glaring, making the thing look very stiff and terrifying, making people feel like they are facing some kind of alien creature.]

[Kousaka Kyosuke now has this kind of "horrifying" feeling, but before this, the only emotion he had for these unidentified life forms that killed the citizens was hatred and disgust, nothing else.]

[“Indeed, and during the days of fighting these Gurongis, except for the exceptions of No. 6 and No. 14, I can feel that all the remaining Gurongis are gradually getting stronger. At the beginning, they could only rely on their physical bodies to fight, but since No. 14, all of them can use this special weapon.”]

【Zaimokuza covered his left chest. When he was fighting with No. 20 at the beginning, he was not paying attention and was hit hard by its wrist blade. The chest muscles of the almighty form were almost cut open. Although the wound disappeared after he turned into the blue dragon form, it was only on the surface. He still felt a dull pain in his chest.】

[“I’m going to take this thing left by No. 20 back to the research institute and have it analyzed by Ms. Ebina to see if we can find out something from the material composition of this weapon. By the way—”]

[Kousaka Kyosuke suddenly remembered what Ebina Hime had told him on the phone before, and turned to Zaimokuza and said.]

[“Zaimokuza, you should come as well. Ebina asked me to find time to take you for a thorough physical examination recently. It seems that he wants to use this opportunity to collect physical data after your transformation.”]

[“Uh——Are we going to Hime-Hina’s place?”]

[Zaimokuza's expression froze. Although he still kept smiling, his words and eyes were full of resistance.]

["What's wrong? Are you still afraid to meet Miss Ebina?"]

[Kousaka Kyosuke turned around and glanced at the cowering Zaimokuza, with a faint smile on his face and a look of anticipation.]

[“Hey, Mr. Kosaka! Please stop laughing so hard that it makes my scalp tingle, okay?”]

【Zaimokuza complained, and the corner of his eye twitched.】

[“It’s not that I’m afraid, it’s just…”]

[Zaimokuza couldn't help but think of his last visit to the Metropolitan Police Department's Scientific Research Institute. He had nightmares every time he thought about it!]

[At that time, just when my right foot had just stepped into the open door and I realized something was wrong, I was caught by Hime Ebina who appeared from nowhere and locked the entrance multi-layer alloy door with a remote control. I was dragged into the laboratory and not only was I forced to take off my clothes on the spot, but also scanned every corner of my body with a strange instrument, even ■■■ and ■■ were not spared.]

[She even took off her glasses and exclaimed in amazement when the instrument scanned the area three inches below her belly button, while Zaimokuza could only lie on the experimental table with a stiff expression, and all he could see were a bunch of researchers of varying numbers, male and female, holding a booklet and recording something as she spoke. He could feel their white-gloved hands caressing her body, and everyone was looking at her naked, pure body with an academic look, which made Zaimokuza, with a flushed face, feel like he was dying.]

[Whenever I think of the day when I was stripped down to my original state and devoted to science, and was publicly executed in front of everyone, every time I think of it, Zaimokuza wails in shame and wants to bang his head against the wall to save his innocence.]

[From that day on, the Metropolitan Police Department's Scientific Research Institute became a permanent forbidden place in his heart. ]

[“Ahem! Don’t worry, this time Ms. Ebina is only asking you to go for a routine checkup. It won’t be the same as last time.”]

Thinking back to the last time he watched the entire "large-scale human figure drawing event" through the glass of his laboratory from the VIP audience seat, Kousaka Kyosuke could barely contain his laughter. He coughed a few times to cover it up, but his tone was still full of laughter.

[“I hope so…”]

[Wandering down the memory lane, Zaimokuza's mouth twitched, and he said with a somewhat numb look in his eyes, "Every time I recall that day, it is a torture to my spirit."]

[He inserted the handlebar in his hand back into the right handlebar of the Triangle Tracker 2000, and just as he was about to pick up the helmet and put it on, he paused.]

【%￥*&#￥%%￥@#@#——】

[Suddenly, a strange noise sounded in my brain, and then a frame of picture flashed in my mind, and the edge of the picture was filled with mosaic-like noise and disorder on the TV. ]

[In this blurry image, there seemed to be a pair of large red eyes that looked like gemstones, as if they were looking at me through this frame of the picture. In addition to the noise in my brain, there was also a sound similar to language.]

【￥%%＃￥@good＃￥%miss%＃%＃%＃%￥miss＃@￥%——】

【Finally, a black and white image appeared in his mind. In it, a green stone was being stroked by a pair of hands wearing white gloves. Zaimokuza felt as if he had turned into that stone. A blurry face appeared in front of him. He could only vaguely tell that it was a man.】

[“Hmm——”]

【Click.】

[The helmet fell to the ground and rolled a few times on the asphalt road. Zaimokuza knelt beside the wheel with his hands covering his head, his face full of pain.]

[“Zaimokuza!? What’s wrong?”]

[Kousaka Kyosuke heard the voice and turned around to see Zaimokuza kneeling beside the motorcycle. He frowned and ran to him quickly, patted him on the shoulder and asked in a deep voice.]

[“I…I…?”]

【Feeling the pain in his mind gradually subside, and that scene gradually disappearing from his memory, Zaimokuza loosened his hands that were holding his head, his eyes full of doubt.】

[Just now...what was that? ]

42. Mysterious Plan

Chiba Prefecture, Sobu High School, Service Club.

"...Zaimokuza, I didn't expect you to have such a nice figure."

Everyone in the Service Club saw the "tragedy" that happened at the Scientific Research Institute that day through the perspective of Kyosuke Kousaka's memories on their cell phone videos. The naked Zaimokuza was lying on the laboratory table and was being pointed at by a bunch of people. Every muscle line on his body was clearly visible. If there had not been a few female researchers blocking the way in Kyosuke Kousaka's perspective, Zaimokuza, both inside and outside the video, would have truly experienced what it meant to sacrifice one's body to make it known to the world.

Although it’s almost the same now.

Apart from Shizuka Hiratsuka who was watching with great interest, almost all the girls in the club room turned their heads away with red faces, and all the boys were holding back their laughter. Some people also looked at his eight-pack abdominal muscles in the video, lowered their heads to touch their own flat or fat abdomens, and then looked up with envy and jealousy on their faces.

In addition, there were countless screams of girls and gasps of boys outside the Service Club. Such sounds could be heard throughout the Sobu High School. Considering that this video was broadcast worldwide, it can be said to be the world's first box-opening tragedy in history.

"I--"

Zaimokuza's face turned green. When he thought that countless people in the world would see his "original true body" through this video, which no one had ever seen since he was born except his parents and the nurse who delivered him, he felt a black screen in front of his eyes and wanted to faint immediately to escape reality.

Tokyo City, Shuchiyuan Academy, Student Room.

"……I lost."

Baiyin Yuxing stared at the eight abdominal muscles with clear mermaid lines and bulging curves in the video. He unconsciously reached out and touched his abdomen. After feeling his abdomen that could only be described as flat, he lowered his head in frustration.

"Don't, don't be like that! President, you are still young. You have a lot of time to train before you become as old as Zaimokuza-san in the video. I believe you will be able to have a better figure than him!"

Shinomiya Kaguya's face turned red as she watched Zaimokuza's muscles clearly visible on TV, but after hearing Shirogane Miyuki's frustrated words, she immediately turned around to cheer him up, trying not to let her attention be attracted by the human body display feast on the TV in the student council room.

As for Fujiwara Chika?

After seeing this scene, this silly girl was directly knocked over by the masculine Asian body in the video. She lay on the chair, and her broad chest was squeezed into two cushions on the soft sofa back so that her whole body was not completely stuck to the back of the chair. Two clearly visible streams of blood flowed down from her head. When the blood flowed to the side of Shinomiya Kaguya, she pinched the corner of her skirt with her fingers and sat away with disgust on her face. She looked at her as if she saw a large non-combustible garbage, and she didn't worry at all whether her only remaining friend might be hospitalized due to excessive blood loss.

【Metropolitan Police Department, Scientific Police Research Institute. 】

【"drink!"】

[Zaimokuza transformed into his almighty form and took a deep breath while looking at the 20-centimeter-thick steel plate in front of him. Then he took a lunge step forward with his left foot and fiercely punched forward with his right fist that was ready to strike! ]

【boom! 】

[The fist wrapped in the gauntlet hit the center of the steel plate squarely. The auxiliary equipment supported by the steel plate vibrated visibly because of the punch, and several pillars inserted into the ground swayed like cheering sticks.]

At the same time, the electrode-like objects attached to various parts of Zaimokuza's body began to flash green light, immediately transmitting the power of the punch and the data on his physical changes to the computer outside the laboratory.

"OK! Thank you for your hard work, Yoshiteru-kun~"

Outside the laboratory, Ebina Hime looked at the data that instantly refreshed on the computer screen in front of her and nodded with satisfaction. She reached out with a smile and made an OK sign to Zaimokuza inside through the tempered glass of the laboratory. Zaimokuza finally breathed a sigh of relief. His armor flickered as he transformed back into his normal human form under the astonished gazes of everyone outside the laboratory.

[“Hmm~ This data is really astonishing.”]

[Hina Ebina's glasses reflected the data displayed on the computer in front of her, and she pushed the frame of her glasses in amazement. 】

[“The peak power of the right fist at the moment of explosion actually reached 6.0t. According to the physical signs and the force of the right arm muscle model, this is not the full power. If it is swung with full strength, I am afraid that this punch can exceed 10.0t.”]

[“No wonder those unidentified life forms possess such terrifying strength. They can easily destroy things made of steel and cement with just their hands and feet. Their body structures are similar to those of humans, but the power hidden in their muscles is even stronger than that of ants of the same size.”]

[“Sure enough, the real source of this power is not the muscles, but the strengthened nerves throughout the body?”]

[“…Ms. Ebina, why did you make Zaimokuza do this test so many times?”]

[Kousaka Kyosuke, who was standing nearby, looked at the experiments that Ebina Hina had Zaimokuza repeat for the tenth time, and was a little puzzled. In his opinion, the data obtained in the fourth test was basically the same as the previous values. If he just wanted to understand Zaimokuza's most basic physical data, there was no need to repeat it so many times.]

[“Of course I have my reasons for doing this, Takasaka-kun.”]

[Hina Ebina smiled and shook her delicate fingers, her eyes narrowed behind her glasses, full of meaningful expression.]

[“If I were to say, a lady would become more charming because of her secrets – but of course that’s a lie~”]

[After looking at Kousaka Kyosuke's speechless expression that said "You can make it up, I'll see if I believe it or not", Ebina Hime laughed and finally told the real reason. ]

[“Okay, okay, actually there is a reason for this. This is related to a plan of our government. However, I cannot tell you what the plan is because the higher-ups have asked for this plan to be kept confidential. The confidentiality level is very high. Right now, only people at the level of the Superintendent General in the entire Metropolitan Police Department know the full picture of this plan.”]

【“…”】

[Kousaka Kyosuke said nothing, but stared at Ebina Hime with a suspicious look. This sentence made him feel that this so-called plan was even more suspicious.]

[It’s not that Kyosuke Kosaka didn’t deal with politicians and officials when he was in office in Nagano Prefecture. On the contrary, because he knew the nature of politicians in the political arena very well, he didn’t distrust the character of those senior officials, but he simply didn’t believe that those old foxes had such things. ]

[For example, ordinary people believe that if they make a mistake, they must be punished, but those politicians believe that if the benefits of making a mistake outweigh the price they have to pay, then they will make any mistake without hesitation, and call it "necessary sacrifices and mistakes on the road to progress." In the minds of those guys, there is only the level of interests, and there is no so-called good or evil morality. The bottom line is as flexible as skipping rope. ]

[What would happen if this was discovered and known? As we all know, all Japanese bureaucrats are masters of the seventh dan or higher level of Gongdō, and those who can climb to the top of the political arena are all masters who have reached the tenth dan level.]

[When things suddenly change, they bow and apologize, refuse to repent, and never take responsibility. This one-stop public relations sequence is their specialty and it works every time.]

[“Ms. Ebina, I don’t ask you to tell me what the plan is. I just want to confirm one thing with you.”]

[“——Is this plan harmful to Zaimokuza, or is it harmless? I will decide whether or not to have Zaimokuza stop these experiments based on whether what you say next is a lie.”]

[“Ah, ah, Kousaka-kun, you seem to be treating me as someone with bad intentions—”]

[Hina Ebina originally wanted to laugh it off, but after seeing Kousaka Kyousuke's expressionless face and serious eyes, she knew it was useless and finally sighed helplessly. ]

[“…Really? Looking at you like this, I don’t know who Yoshiki’s ex-girlfriend is.”]

[She muttered a few words under her breath, then raised her head and looked at Kousaka Kyosuke and said seriously.]

[“Don’t worry, Kosaka-kun. I assure you that this plan is to save more citizens and will not have any negative impact on Yoshiki.”]

[“After all, he is my dear first love, so how could I possibly hurt him?”]

Chiba Prefecture, Sobu High School, Service Club.

Tobe Sho felt that what Ebina Hime said in the video was like a sharp arrow piercing his chest. He was in so much pain that he couldn't breathe for a moment. Hayama Hayato beside him patted his shoulder with a look of pity.

Although as a bystander he had long seen that Ebina Hime didn't like Tobe Sho at all, he could probably understand the blow that Tobe Sho, as a person involved in the situation, would feel when he heard this answer from "the person himself".

He could only be thankful that his friend hadn't confessed yet, otherwise the blow he would have suffered would probably be more than just this.

[“——Also, this plan actually has something to do with you, Kousaka-kun.”]

【“With me?”】

[Kousaka Kyosuke frowned even deeper. How did this have anything to do with him again? ]

[“Well~ You’ll know when the time comes. After all, I might have to rely on your performance at that time—By the way! Remember to keep what I told you today a secret. After all, I don’t want to be fired yet.”]

[Hina Ebina playfully blinked her left eyelid, and under the gaze of the confused Kousaka Kyosuke, she smiled and greeted Zaimokuza who was walking out of the laboratory door. ]

43. Shaped like a flame

【In Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo City.】

【03:45 AM】

【boom--】

[A deafening sound rang out from the densely packed warehouse area. The sound that spread throughout the warehouse area lit up a light in a small house. Soon after, an old man wearing a coat over his pajamas opened the door of the house with a dark face and walked out.]

[“Really? Where on earth is this sound coming from!?”]

[A warehouse manager in his 50s or 60s walked between warehouses, cursing and holding an open flashlight. He walked towards the direction where the noise came from and soon arrived there.]

【“!?”】

[Looking at the iron chain that looked like it had been sawed off and thrown on the ground, and the small door on the side of the warehouse that had been violently torn open, the warehouse manager was immediately shocked. This looked like a thief had robbed him! ]

[He immediately turned off the flashlight, glanced around, and when he saw a pile of steel pipes covered with a long cloth next to him, his eyes lit up. He quickly went up to lift the cloth and picked up the longest steel pipe, then carefully walked around the small door that was opened and thrown on the ground and walked in.]

[“What’s going on here?”]

[When the warehouse manager first walked into the warehouse, he suddenly felt a palpitation in his heart, and an inexplicable sense of oppression descended on his heart. The feeling was the same as when he accidentally strayed into the territory of a black bear when he went hunting in the mountains when he was young. If he had not run fast that time, he would have been buried in the bear's belly. ]

[This warehouse gave me the same feeling as I did back then, or even more so. My instinct as a hunter when I was young was constantly warning me to escape quickly.]

[But the old man had no choice. If he ran away like this, he would lose his hard-earned job as a warehouse manager.]

[In Japan, it is not easy to find a job with a decent salary, various allowances, and not too much work, especially at this age. If he didn't rely on connections, he wouldn't be able to get this job from so many jealous people.]

[So even though he felt fearful, the importance of the job overwhelmed his desire to retreat, and he decided in his heart that once he confirmed that there was indeed a thief in the warehouse, he would immediately flee quietly and call the police.]

[He walked into the warehouse carefully step by step, approaching the location of the light in the warehouse without making any sound. When he reached a corner, he cautiously turned his head and looked around.]

[The warehouse manager's eyes widened at the number of people he saw. There were more thieves than he expected! ]

[There were about a dozen people sitting or standing in the warehouse, all dressed very avant-garde. In this cold season, the men were either wearing short sleeves or shorts, with strange oil paint and lip gloss painted all over their faces. There was only one woman, wearing a high-end black tight gauze dress and white lace gloves that she would wear to a social dance. She sat on the only chair in the warehouse, shaking the glass of red wine in her hand, and looked at the others doing their own things with indifferent eyes.]

【"snort!"】

[A man in a short coat holds a dagger and stabs a puppet with its limbs removed and tied to a chair with wires with a ferocious smile on his face. The puppet is covered with various scars, and it is obviously not the first time it has been used like this.]

[“Eh!!!”]