I, the Rock King Emperor with 21 billion in power, have joined the chat group.

In today's world, Gastrea roam freely, and people are often poorly clothed and starving.

The failure of the apocalyptic war. Clearly caused by a group of incompetent Showa-era advisors and the corrupt and decadent imperial warlords, these powerful figures and warlords, for their own power, placed all the blame on the cursed children born into this world, who knew nothing of the consequences.

[Through horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal cuts, the nobles of the Japanese archipelago divided ordinary people into opposing strata, further creating the "cursed children"—a group increasingly isolated, subjected to hostility and violence by everyone yet powerless to resist.]

When nothing else can change the living conditions of us cursed children, we have no choice but to resist violently.

Therefore, I, Zhongli, hereby declare.

【So, all you unarmed people! Fear us! Plead with us! Our name is the Knights of the Children!】

We stand to protect the weak, we stand to protect the helpless. Whether you are cursed children or not, as long as you are the weak, the sorrowful, and unable to change your tragic fate in this city, you can call upon our name.

We protect innocence, we protect beauty. We curb evil, we condemn violence.

We do not deny the importance of fighting, but the unilateral killing or abuse of the weak by the strong is absolutely unacceptable.

Those who possess power, fear us!

【Cursed children, and powerless ones, pursue us!】

This apocalyptic world will be completely changed by our children's knightly order!!

Chapter Twenty-One: The Offensive (2)

7:30 AM.

He casually handed the carefully prepared speech to the media who had just arrived.

Zhongli turned her head away, not wanting anyone to capture any of her image.

As mentioned before, Zhongli always values ​​democracy within the organization. This speech was the final version revised several times by all the children, and even he was not allowed to make any changes.

7:40 AM.

News spreads very quickly

Clearly, this suddenly appearing armed group that made a strange announcement immediately attracted the attention of all media and military forces in the entire Tokyo metropolitan area.

The Emperor's Assistant Minister, Kikunojo Tendou, ordered the Self-Defense Forces and the Imperial Guard to encircle and suppress the armed terrorists who had occupied the headquarters of the Metropolitan Armed Police Force. At the same time, he dispatched a significant force to guard the three major laboratories surrounding the Metropolitan Armed Police Force to prevent the terrorists from luring them out.

At the same time, the minister assisting the Holy Emperor, Tendou Kikunojo, made a satellite phone call to the ruler of the Osaka region, one of Japan's five major metropolitan areas—Emperor Saimu Genjong.

These two high-ranking politicians began a mutual political test.

At the same moment, Zhongli began leading the cursed children to attack the tenth floor.

This time, Yuko Kobayashi and many other cursed children with feline genes launched their attack from the windows of the side building. After using their superior weaponry to break through the black-clad defenses, the tenth floor was breached.

Then, until 8 a.m., the entire armed police building in the capital had been taken over by Zhongli and his cursed children.

In the battle, in addition to the armed police force members killed in the battle, more than 300 ordinary members of the armed police force and more than a dozen high-ranking officers were captured.

Without Zhongli's instructions, the cursed children began a simple interrogation.

Then, as expected, they obtained information about the underground research lab of the Metropolitan Armed Police Force.

As the media followed them to the underground research lab, a sudden explosion, like a clap of thunder, resounded around the building.

At the same time, all electronic devices became completely unusable and inoperable, and all signals were blocked.

Even all the reporters' electronic devices overloaded, crashed, and burned out.

This is an EMP bomb.

This means that the horrific things they saw in the underground warehouse were things that could never be made public and that the Holy Emperor's authorities had to cover up.

Some of the younger reporters, seeing the situation before them, felt increasingly indignant, and even the seasoned veterans were unusually angry this time.

After all, for ordinary people like them, what they were seeing was too stimulating, making them feel a deep sense of despair and the filth of power.

8:00 a.m.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Self-Defense Forces have completed their deployment and have begun taking over the perimeter of the city's armed police headquarters. All reporters have been cleared out and are only allowed to take photos from a distance.

then,

The Self-Defense Forces began a probing attack.

The first wave of attacks clearly failed.

The Self-Defense Force officers were not discouraged.

The second round of probing began promptly.

While the Self-Defense Forces were fighting the cursed child, Maria and her group had already taken their positions.

Maria, wearing a large bronze telescope, stared at the warehouse not far away, a slight ripple stirring in her heart.

However, a few seconds later, she cut off the turmoil in her heart.

Then, he began to compare his countenance with the many cursed children behind him.

The attack operation began at 8:00 AM.

Compared to the armed personnel in the city's armed police force, the ordinary guards in this civilian warehouse were much more lax.

After the shift ended at 8 o'clock, the person who was changing shifts, who had a scratch on his arm, even sat down directly in front of the warehouse door and started yawning out of boredom.

There is no need to hesitate.

Adam, the Truth One, struck first, knocking down several security personnel outside the warehouse.

Then they occupied the entire warehouse without lifting a finger.

8:30 a.m.

Large loading and unloading vehicles carrying mahjong tiles and flower tiles arrived at the scene.

Therefore, apart from the necessary investigators, the cursed child entered the loading and unloading process.

They wanted to completely empty the warehouse before the upper echelons of Tokyo could react.

At the same time, after gaining control of the entire building, Zhong Li began probing and negotiating with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

The first round of negotiations ended with the Japanese Self-Defense Forces launching their third probing attack.

As a result, all but some of the more than 30 Self-Defense Force members were captured.

9 o'clock in the morning.

After the mahjong tiles and flower tiles were unloaded and all the metal tiles were removed, it was at this moment that their actions were finally noticed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Headquarters and the Self-Defense Forces Headquarters, which had raised their alert level.

As one of the most important strategic materials in modern society, ruthenium may not be of great significance to ordinary people, but it is indispensable to ambitious and powerful individuals.

Originally, this warehouse storing a large amount of metallic rubies should not have had such simple guards and such a simple warning response system, but due to various reasons—including but not limited to dereliction of duty, corruption, and the turning a blind eye of certain government officials who colluded with the Tendo family's capital—it was not properly guarded.

Thus, this warehouse, which lacked security levels for convenience, fell into the hands of the "Children's Knights".

Just as those corrupt figures finally spoke up, large trucks quietly drove onto the main road from the pre-planned, unmonitored road, heading towards the outer perimeter of the ruins.

9:30 AM.

Zhongli turned on the TV. According to the plan, if everything went smoothly, the agreed-upon code signal should be given at this time.

Then, as expected.

As agreed, a pale blue flash lit up on a building in Arakawa Ward.

Zhongli looked calmly at the screen and exchanged glances with the children beside her.

No one spoke, but they all knew it was time to leave.

10 o'clock in the morning.

After repelling the Self-Defense Forces' third probing attempt, Zhongli finally casually made three demands.

First, improve the civil rights of cursed children, promoting equality in social status between ordinary residents and cursed children.

[Second: Publicize the various inhumane experiments the government subjected to on the cursed children]

Third: Impose heavy taxes on the rich and subsidize the poor to promote wealth redistribution.

Thus, in this news that had already captured the attention of the entire Tokyo metropolitan area, the Holy Emperor responded directly to these three demands.

[Article 1, which elevates the civil rights of cursed children and promotes equality in social status between ordinary residents and cursed children—is being written into law and requires parliamentary approval.]

[Article Two: To disclose the various inhumane experiments the government subjected to the cursed children—this is a baseless and illogical responsibility, and is not acknowledged.]

[Article 3: Impose heavy taxes on the rich and subsidize the poor to promote wealth redistribution. — Necessary considerations are underway, but increasing taxes is the prerogative of Parliament; the Emperor has no authority to seize such revenues.]

Looking at the figure of the Holy Emperor, dressed in pure white and with an elegant demeanor, on the television screen, Zhongli blinked her eyes, a sight she hadn't done in a long time.

A moment later, a faint smile appeared on his lips as he said to the children beside him, including Kobayashi Yuko, "It is truly unexpected that the Holy Emperor before us has a soul that has not been tainted by filth."

"However, our plan will proceed as scheduled."

"Of course, such a holy emperor may be of help to us in the future."

With the three conditions put forward, the Self-Defense Forces ceased their offensive.

Zhongli then proposed that he needed an armed helicopter and precious metals worth one billion.

The first condition was quickly met, but the billion yuan in precious metals was said to be being raised.

Zhongli didn't wait long. After checking that there were no bombs on the armed helicopter, he immediately led the "children" into takeoff.

Just seconds after their armed helicopters took off, several flaming missiles struck the outer perimeter of the helicopters.

A massive explosion of flames engulfed the entire helicopter.

In less than 0.5 seconds, dozens of vibrant lives were extinguished.

Meanwhile, the Self-Defense Forces and the Armed Police began entering the building and began rescuing many people.

11 o'clock in the morning.

One ambulance after another drove out from next to the Metropolitan Armed Police Headquarters building.

In one of the ambulances, Zhong Li suddenly sat up and opened his eyes.

He glanced at the astonished paramedics beside him, then destroyed all their communication equipment before swaggering out of the ambulance.

12 am.

In Tokyo's outer suburbs, apart from Zhongli, all fifteen children survived and returned safely to their original underground parking garage.