I, holding a long sword in my hand, only know one move

If such thoughts were known to Xue, who has been following Lina all this time, I'm afraid she would just give Cheng Rang a big roll of her eyes and say, "No, it's just because the usual Lina is an idiot! Idiots don't know how to do it." Those who care about these details.”

Therefore, I am afraid that Lina mastered the method of hiding the Cursed Child's eyes faster than Yuki, and she may have been hit hard.

After telling Lina to pay attention to her emotions and not expose her red eyes, Cheng Rang followed the route Matsuzaki told him and prepared to go to Miss Shinoda's home.

When he entered the city, he met the patrolman at the sentry post. Cheng Ranggang, who thought he would be interrogated, racked his brains to think of words to explain, but he walked over without being blocked at all.

If there was anything suspicious, it was just that the policeman who was sprawled on the chair stared at Lina's eyes carefully for a long time.

Chapter Thirteen Collapse

After crossing the empty isolation zone, Cheng Rang, who personally stepped into the gathering place of human civilization for the first time in the world, even wanted to cry when he looked at the scene in front of him.

All of this is so familiar, almost unfamiliar.

Asphalt roads, simple high-rise buildings, residences, light box billboards of roadside shops...even street lights, vehicles driving on the road.

Everything is so ordinary

It is also completely different from Hersalemzlot, and has a rather Asian atmosphere.

There were no sudden explosions, and the pedestrians on the road were not strange. Most of them were figures with black hair and black eyes like himself.

"This is the real modern society... Ordinary! So ordinary!"

Cheng Rang couldn't help but ask himself, how long has it been since he saw such a scene?

With the sound of the air brake squeaking, the bus parked in front of Cheng Rang opened its door.

Route signs are just route signs, nothing superfluous, and the survival rate is non-existent.

"Ah...so amazing..."

Leading Lina onto a crowded bus, the breath of life came along with the pavement, wrapping herself tightly and shaking with the bumps on the road.

This is where humans live today - the time is 2029 AD

, Tokyo Ward.

Lina stared at Cheng Rang's expression with wide eyes curiously. In the end, she couldn't bear it any longer. She gently pulled his hand and asked in a low voice: "Brother, is this your first time here?"

Therefore, Cheng Rang, who realized that his reaction was indeed a bit rude, quickly put away his excited expression, coughed twice and said, "How could that be? I am quite familiar with this place."

"...But it doesn't look like it at all."

Many people's eyes in the car were also attracted by Lina.

They should probably recognize the two as real siblings. After all, Lina and Cheng Rang both have black hair and black eyes, and Lina, as the younger sister, looks very cute. She looks unisex in her well-dressed black and white sailor uniform. kill.

Cheng Rang smiled slightly at this, bent down and said, "I can't help it, did you see it?"

"To tell you the truth, brother, I actually traveled from another world. I am super powerful and a hero who saves the world!"

"Eh~~!" Lina's eyes suddenly widened and she let out a cute exclamation.

"Really? It's amazing!"

"Yeah, really, so worship me~"

"Okay, brother is really awesome!"

There was a burst of chuckles in the car. People understood the conversation between Cheng Rang and Lina as a joke between the brother and sister.

But what only Cheng Rang knew clearly was that he was not lying at all, and this sentence was not a joke at all.

"Your sister is really cute." Cheng asked a mature woman next to him to cover her mouth and chuckle, and spoke to the two of them.

"Huh? Well...yeah, haha..."

Cheng Rang was a little caught off guard, but he was still polite, but Lina seemed a little scared after being spoken to by the woman. The originally relaxed smile suddenly solidified and hid behind Cheng Rang.

"Ah, are you a little scared of strangers?" the woman asked, "Do you still want to sit for a while?"

"Well, to the terminal."

"I'm getting off at the next stop, so I'll give my seat to my cute little sister."

As the woman spoke, she stood up from her seat, gave a friendly smile to Lina who was hiding behind Cheng Rang and showed her head timidly, and then walked towards the back door of the vehicle.

"Uh...thank you."

Cheng Rang was a little stunned at first, then came to his senses and said to Lina behind him: "Lina, someone gave you a seat, please say thank you."

But Lina didn't say anything. She just held her hands tighter and pressed her whole body tightly against Cheng Rang.

Cheng Rang found that because there was an empty seat in the crowded car, almost everyone nearby focused their attention on Lina, who gave up her seat.

Although no one robbed her, and there was no hostile gaze, it seemed that being watched like this put great pressure on Lina.

"Lena...are you okay?"

...

"Don't look at me...don't look at me..."

In Lina's eyes, this used to be a land that rejected her, and everyone looked at her with hatred and disdain.

What's more, some will come forward to spurn, curse, and beat themselves.

"You monster! Get out of here!"

Those eyes seemed to carry substantial heat, turning into hot steel nails, piercing Lina's young heart fiercely.

"Get out, monster, get out!"

The roar of the bus engine and the sight cast on her back made Lina's whole body begin to tremble slightly. She closed her eyes with all her strength, but the hallucinatory words kept lingering in her mind, nearly a hundred or thousands of times. The resonance, the resonance that never stops...

We are hated -

Why are we hated?

Because you are murderous monsters!

We didn't kill anyone....What did we do wrong?

"No, don't look at me...don't look over..."

"Lina!?"

The friendly smiling faces of the surrounding people seemed to begin to become distorted and terrifying.

They showed their ferocious fangs and uttered obscene words that stung their hearts.

What a lovely kid—what a nasty guy!

"Why don't you die?" "Those who will turn into monsters..." "Just get out of here."

"Ah...ah...!" The memory that stayed in this city was suddenly awakened after Lina returned here again.

The memories that he didn't want to recall, the memories that he should have forgotten, kept seeping out from the wounds in his heart.

"Lina...."

"No, don't look over here!!!"

Lina suddenly screamed as if she had collapsed, threw away Cheng Rang's hand, hugged her head tightly and huddled on the ground. And her trembling pupils were instantly dyed with scarlet light.

The car suddenly exploded——

"Red eyes!?"

"The Cursed Child! It's the Cursed Child!"

"She's crazy! She's going to turn into a monster, stop the car! Let me get off!"

For a moment, chaos, screaming, crying, and cursing mixed together in the small and crowded carriage, making Cheng Rang's head spin.

He was surprised by such drastic and rapid changes....

The people who had been gentle and kind to her a second ago were now showing their ugly expressions. They crowded back together and formed a ball around the carriage. A vacuum suddenly appeared around Lina and herself.

But not everyone is like this...

Some people still looked calmly, pushing the guys who crowded over with some disgust, and cast a look of pity on Lina who was curled up on the ground.

Although he couldn't bear it, he just maintained a completely neutral attitude and watched with cold eyes.

The sudden incident completely shattered Cheng Rang's last illusion about the city.

Cheng Rang, who had never experienced such a scene before, could not understand the children's mood by relying only on imagination and description.

It wasn't until it happened in front of him, behind bars, surrounded by the most naked disgusting emotions and ugly faces of human beings, that he realized firsthand what a terrifying emotion it was.

Those children, everything they suffered in this city...

Is that what it’s like?

"They often have nightmares..."

"This is the first time I've seen them sleeping peacefully with a smile. Thank you, Mr. Cheng."

"This is a twisted generation..."

Old Matsuzaki's powerless tone of feeling helpless but unable to change anything could only make Cheng Rang feel chilled in his heart.

Cheng Rang slowly opened his hand, and when he clenched it again, the white sword appeared in a flash.

It was clearer and more penetrating than the chaotic screams all around, as if it penetrated directly into the mind, strangling all the sounds into the fragile throat——

"It's so noisy, shut up."

The temperature inside the car seemed to drop suddenly, from boiling point to freezing point, and the surroundings were suddenly so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

Accompanied by the slow sound of metal friction, the blade flashing with a terrifying cold light was unsheathed inch by inch like a lingering touch on everyone's nerves.

"Mr. Driver, someone is shouting to stop the car. Didn't you hear it?"

boom!

Amidst the loud noise, the long knife in Cheng Rang's hand pierced the vehicle's chassis, then penetrated into the ground, pinning the moving bus to the ground.

Except for Lina, who was pulled into Cheng Rang's arms, everyone else crashed against the wall of the carriage with inertia, but no one even dared to scream in pain or wail.

They just pressed their mouths tightly and watched in horror as the man nailed the two buses to the concrete pavement with only a long, thin knife.

Then in the next moment, silvery-white sword light and bursts of air swept across the carriage, and with an ear-piercing loud noise, the roofs of the two cars disappeared out of thin air. When the people who regained consciousness looked again, they saw the two figures in the center of the carriage. ....

Already gone.

Chapter 14 Are you really going to be caught by the police?

In a remote alley, Cheng Rang, hidden in the darkness, sat against the wall and looked towards the bright street.

Taking Lina away from the rioting bus, she came to a place where no one could see her. She fled everywhere in the complicated streets, and finally got completely lost in this seemingly prosperous city.

"I'm sorry..." Lina knelt on the ground, lowered her head, and her eyes had returned to normal black.

"It's not you who needs to apologize. You didn't do anything wrong."

Lina's apology at this time can only make Cheng Rang more uncomfortable.

"I'm the only one who can't control his emotions..." Cheng Rang tried to figure out the long knife in his hand, but this time the familiar weapon couldn't bring him any warmth at this moment.

Kill everyone in the car, leaving no one alive, and then blame the gasterozoans...

No, you don’t even need to blame!

In this world, no one can stop me from doing anything——

He was even frightened by the thoughts that popped into his head for a moment.

You have the power to do this, it is easy, no one will notice, and it only takes a moment.

But the plundered generations... all of them are also victims. As humans, they only have the blood in their hands after their relatives were brutally killed by gastrea animals.

The woman who wanted to give up her seat to Lina was also one of the few people who didn't follow the crowd and started to curse.

Cheng Rang also saw struggle and pain in her eyes, the pain as if the deepest wound in her heart was being torn apart, but the hatred that came with it was not directed at Lina, who was the child of the curse.

In her eyes, there was only apology and pity that she could not do anything about.

Sorry - the woman who gave up her seat mouthed an apology to herself.

This is also the reason why Cheng Rang curbed his inner murderous impulse and finally escaped with Lina.