Danrito, become a consultant for the Millennium Game!

Although the final conclusion of this program does not explain any real problem, it can still give people a reference. It is possible to use a melee weapon to shoot down a high-speed bullet flying in the air - of course, it is only possible.

"But no matter what, this level of reaction ability is far beyond that of ordinary people..."

Hanako looked at Danrito in front of her in astonishment. The moment the other party raised the muzzle of the gun, she swung the chainsaw in her hand and easily cut off the muzzle of the gun of the Saint Justina. Then she kicked him again, kicking him more than ten meters away and embedding him in the wall.

On the other side, Saint Justina, who had no time to reach out to cut off the muzzle of the gun, raised the rifle in her hand. Continuous gunfire came from three directions at the same time, but Danrito in front of her did not panic at all. There was just a flash of red light in his eyes, and the chainsaw in his hand roared. With that lightning-fast swing, he intercepted all the bullets from the three directions!

"...Although it's easier to just jump and dodge, this is still cooler!"

Danrito satisfied his desire to show off a little, and then he kept moving his feet. He pushed the ground hard and flew forward like an F1 car. Even ghosts could not react to the speed, and he easily cut the three Justina Saints in front of him into two.

“Scared—!!”

Accompanied by the hissing sounds of the exploding spirits and the roars that seemed to be filled with resentment, the Justina saints disappeared on the spot like an extinguished bonfire.

The ghosts further away didn't bother approaching the purple knight in the center of the battlefield. Instead, they raised their multiple rocket launchers and grenade launchers. It seemed that even as ghosts, these saints hadn't forgotten the tactical principles they'd cultivated in life.

"Did you switch to high-powered weapons after realizing that rifles couldn't kill me?"

Danrito paused his movements and looked towards Saint Justina at the far end of the passage. "Actually, I'm quite curious. How do these ghosts maintain the same powerful weapons they used to in life? Or do their weapons, after becoming ghosts, also become weapons that can be used by ghosts?"

He touched the bullet marks on his breastplate. Those were the damage caused by the submachine guns of the saints who got too close and shot at him when Danrito lost his mind and Pochi was fighting alone.

Although this injury was not a big deal to Danrito, after all, the power of the cartridge was closely related to the improvement of the user's own quality, the guns in the hands of these saints could actually cause him a certain degree of damage, which aroused Danrito's interest in research.

"Although I would like to try to capture one of these ghost nuns and conduct a detailed study of them, now is obviously not the time to talk about this."

As they spoke, the Ghost Saints pulled the trigger, and rockets and grenades wrapped in blue will-o'-the-wisp flames bombarded the direction where Danrito was standing. These Justina Saints were well-trained and had not forgotten the tactical skills they had learned in their lifetime.

The range of their attack took into account the movement speed that Danrito had previously demonstrated, perfectly covering all around Danrito and not giving him any chance of escape.

"Lord, please give this man shelter!"

While Danrito was pondering whether he should activate the B collision talisman—oh no, activate the attack in front of Yamato, when Mary's devout prayer was heard from behind him.

The thin, transparent spherical shield flashed on Danrito's body for a moment, and then unfolded into a transparent protective shield. According to Mary's prayer just now, this seemed to be the support provided by Mary far behind to Danrito.

"Angle correction complete, within range!"

Hinata, who had changed into incendiary grenade launcher, aimed the muzzle of the launcher at Saint Justina in the distance. After a round of firepower was all dropped on Danrito, this group of ghost nuns was in a stage of lack of firepower.

It's not that they didn't notice Mari, Hanako and the others behind them, it's simply because the threat posed by Danrito was too great, so they had to focus all their energy on stopping Danrito, and Hinata caught the timing of this.

"If you want to hate me, go ahead and hate me! I'm sorry!"

Connect! Connect! Connect!

Hinata pulled the trigger, and the continuous firing of incendiary grenades turned the location of the Justina Saints into a sea of ​​fire. With the continuous impact of shock waves and flames, this group of ghost nuns turned into extinguished fire amidst the screams of unwillingness.

259. Nagisa: Thanks for the invitation, I won’t take the blame

The blue will-o'-the-wisp fire ignited and then went out in an instant. The Justina saints who appeared in the form of ghosts returned to the underworld under the large-scale grenade attack. Only the burning craters on the ground were still burning quietly, proving that a fierce battle had just taken place here.

Danrito took a moment to glance at the Knight Gauge on his chest. It showed no sign of decreasing. The shield Mary had used a special method to add to herself had shattered after withstanding the intense barrage of fire, having reached its limit.

"Is this shield technology..." This was the first time Danrito had encountered something so unexplainable by science among the students of Kivotos. "A shield appeared out of thin air on me... Mari doesn't have anything resembling a shield generator on her, so does that mean this is her own ability?"

"Mr. Danrito, are you okay?"

Mary, who came hurriedly from behind, looked at Danrito worriedly. Although his appearance had changed, he changed in front of them after all, so he didn't suffer from selective amnesia all of a sudden.

"What could happen? Don't underestimate me, Danrito." Danrito hadn't yet untransformed. In his search radar, there were still some light spots representing enemies flashing in the distance, which meant that there were ghost nuns wandering around underground that they hadn't dealt with yet.

"Mr. Danrito, I'm even more curious about you now." Hanako walked around Danrito twice with great interest, observing him from front to back. "I see, this is the hard thing Hifumi mentioned back then. I finally see it now~"

"It's certainly tough, but where does that come from?" Danrito switched the gashacon's defect shield from chainsaw mode to beam gun mode. "That kid, Hifumi, wouldn't say something like that. Hanako, you must be exaggerating, right?"

"Eh~ Mr. Danrito, do you understand us so well now?" Hanako said with a smile. "After getting to know you over the past few days, it seems you're not as unkind as you appear."

"I'm unsympathetic simply because social conventions are too troublesome. I don't need others to solve my problems, and I don't bother to care about what ordinary people think." Danrito snorted contemptuously. "However, if achieving my goals requires these means, I don't mind doing so."

"Um... should we continue moving forward?" Hinata, standing by, put away her grenade launcher and folded it back into her box. "Mary, are these all the ghost nuns?"

"Hmm... I'm not sure either..." Mary shook her head. "When I came down to investigate myself, I didn't go very deep, so I'm not sure how these ghosts appeared here, so I can't be sure."

"According to my radar, there are more Eustina Saints in the depths. But whether you clear them out or not is entirely up to you. It doesn't matter to me."

Danrito tapped his goggles with his index finger. "This thing has a search function built into it. Once activated, it can scan all nearby hostile units onto the radar."

"In other words, these ghost saints still exist somewhere else underground?"

Mary's expression turned serious. "If we didn't know, that would be fine. But since you, Mr. Danrito, have already told us, we can't just ignore it."

With a click, Mary loaded the pistol in her hand and said seriously, "Classmates, Mr. Dan Lidou, can you accompany me to walk a little further?"

The underground area of ​​the Holy Trinity Cathedral is actually more than just the space beneath the cathedral. Due to its long history, the underground area of ​​the Holy Trinity Cathedral has been expanded several times. Perhaps even the administrators of the Holy Trinity Cathedral themselves are not aware of how many connected areas there are underground.

Even though the students of the convent had carried out a certain degree of transformation and sealing of the cathedral's basement in an attempt to turn it into a safe storage vault, there were probably still some unblocked holes, allowing these Justina saints to appear here.

"Rider kick! - So, this is how many batches of ghosts have we eliminated?"

Danrito leaped down from the air with a knight's flying kick, blasting the ghost saints who had no time to dodge into dust.

"This is the fourth group of Eustina Saints I've encountered."

Mary answered seriously, and her face became a little worried: "But why did so many ghosts suddenly appear from the basement of Trinity Cathedral?

"So now I always feel that I shouldn't be carrying my defect shield, but should replace it with something like a large backpack and a vacuum cleaner..."

"Mr. Danrito, this isn't the set of Ghostbusters, okay?"

"...Could it be that the former Saint Eustina has returned to the world with resentment due to some unfulfilled wish?"

Hinata asked nervously while carrying a large box. Although they were all targets that could be eliminated with guns and cannons, it was natural to feel creepy after seeing them too many times.

"There must be a reason." Danrito raised the Defect Shield in his hand and pressed the button. A powerful destructive beam annihilated the remaining ghost nuns in front of him. "But I don't think it's just a simple reason like resentment, right?"

"I think... this matter should perhaps be linked to something else." Hanako had been silent before, as if she was thinking about something, and now she finally spoke.

"I've seen the name Eustina Saints in a book before. I've been wondering why these ghost nuns appear. Now I think I can figure it out."

"Hey? Hanako-san, have you figured out the answer yet?" Mary looked at Hanako curiously. "Hanako-san, do you know what's going on?"

Hanako nodded and replied, "The Justina Saints, to put it simply, were the executive body that ensured the implementation of treaties a long time ago, and were the predecessor of the Sisters' Order."

"Ah, now that you mention it, I seem to remember..." At Hanako's reminder, Mari and Hinata, who are also members of the nun order, also remembered something.

"Others may not know, but you should know about it, Mr. Danrito." Hanako cast a glance at Danrito, "It's about something that Ms. Nagisa is currently promoting."

"The Treaty of Eden," Danrito said, understandingly. "So you're saying that these ghosts of the Eustina Saints were ultimately summoned by Nagisa?"

Hanako put her hands behind her back and said, "Unfortunately, no."

260. The conscientious villain

Hanako shook her head. "These Saints' ghosts seem to be under the wrong orders. They're pointing their guns at everyone, rather than simply upholding the treaty."

"Because until now, the treaty has not been officially signed. But this group of ghost saints appeared."

"There are no other ghost saints around."

Danrito glanced around. He could no longer see any other hostile creatures within the range of his enemy-detection radar. "Have we cleared out the enemies in this underground area?"

"Hasn't it appeared again?" Hanako frowned. "Is it over so easily? Didn't they even leave any tricks up their sleeve?"

"If these ghost saints are not naturally occurring, then there is only one explanation."

gashu～

Danrito reached out and pulled out the cassette, canceling his transformation. "The ghosts that appeared here might not be the centerpiece of any plan, nor are they an ambush. Perhaps someone is simply using this place as a testing ground, trying to make the ghosts of these saints appear."

Mary looked at the place where the saints had disappeared with some emotion. "The saints who appeared to protect the implementation of the treaty have now become wandering ghosts... Were the saints of the past the type to protect the rules with force?"

Danrito thought for a moment. "Well, I have a question. Do all the nuns of the Order of Saints wear the same tights and restraints?"

Hanako nodded. "Yes, it's exactly the same as what was previously recorded about the Sisters of the Order of Saints. Ghosts are beings that reflect the appearance of their original owners before they died."

"Hmm..." Tan Lidou pondered, "Are your sisters also so open?"

Hinata was stunned at first when she felt Danrito's eyes scanning her body. Then her face flushed red. "No way! We nuns don't wear things like that!"

"Besides, even if our seniors in the past wore such clothes, it has nothing to do with us now." Hinata's little face turned red, and it seemed that water was about to drip out.

Hinata seemed to have gone over in her mind what she would look like in that dress before her whole body suddenly changed into this: "Seriously! Doesn't this dress cover everything? It doesn't reveal anything! Isn't this a very disciplined dress?"

Danri propped his chin up on his fingers, pretending to think seriously. "Hmm, is there any difference between wearing this kind of clothes and not wearing them? I remember a certain green-haired woman who seemed to like wearing this style of clothes, but that woman didn't seem to be a nun..."

"Don't think about this kind of thing anymore!"

After making a loud noise, Hinata shifted the topic. Danrito and his three companions patrolled the underground area again, confirming that Danrito's claim of "the enemy has disappeared" was true, and then returned to the cathedral's surface.

"...Thank you so much for your help, Mr. Danrito." Mary sighed and bowed with a smile, expressing her gratitude. "Without your help, we might have had to spend even more time and energy to resolve this matter. Thank you for your hard work."

"It's a piece of cake."

Dan Lidou waved his hand indifferently. This was an easy task for him, so he naturally didn't care about the reward.

However, in the underground passage, Danrito discovered some very interesting phenomena, and among these phenomena, the easiest to study was the prayer for protection of others shown by Mary, the classmate in front of him.

"Mary, may I ask you something?" Dan Lidou asked Mary, who was also surprised. "Of course, is there anything you would like to ask?"

"During the battle just now, I felt something like a shield appear on my body, blocking the Saints' long-range artillery attacks."

Danrito looked at the harmless Miss Mary in front of him and said, "This shield appeared out of nowhere. It must be you who created it, right?"

"Um...you mean asylum?"

After two seconds of thought, Mary knew what Danrito was asking and answered without reservation: "As long as they pray sincerely to protect them from harm, I can use this kind of protection on others... Although it sounds incredible, it seems that only I can do this now."

"This is really strange."

Danrito walked around Mari with interest, hoping to find something like a shield generator on her body. A similar device had once been demonstrated to Danrito by Adoori, a member of the Millennium Academy's engineering department.

What was taken out of the opened box was something like the bulletproof plates of the Rainbow Six operators. As long as it was inserted into the body, the corresponding impact shield could be activated.

Danrito originally thought that what Mary mastered was similar to what Aduli had demonstrated, until the next second, when Mary clasped her hands together, closed her eyes and prayed, and put a shield on Danrito.

"...It's truly an incredible ability."

Danrito was surprised by Mary's move. It didn't seem to be achieved by relying on technology, but more on the mysterious side.

However, despite being surprised, Danrito can actually make something similar. For example, the Gashacon Aegis can use a protective stance, and the Kamen Rider system he developed also has a corresponding impact-resistant coating on the armor.

However, Danrito was curious about Mary's protection, which did not rely on any equipment at all, and he had to find out what was going on.

"Obey, let me be healthy!"

In addition, Danrito was also quite interested in the ghost nuns who had just been knocked down. These were completely different from the technological attributes of Kivotos on the surface, and were products involving mysticism.

Even though Danrito himself had little exposure to mysticism, by analyzing the information he had just heard from Hanako, he could still see some clues.

"Those ghosts were summoned through some means... and they were summoned to achieve a certain purpose. Does the summoning method utilize some kind of derivative rules?"

Dan Lidou pondered this carefully, feeling that he had seen this method used by someone before. Then, he clapped his hands, remembering who he had seen this method used by.

"It's definitely the guys from the Mathematical Society. They just love exploring these kinds of rules. Why are they getting involved in the signing of the Treaty of Eden again this time?"

Countless fragmented clues were connected in Danrito's mind. He had already learned that the one who was going to attack the signing site was Arius's student, and Arius had a leader whom the students called "Madam".

So, if the Shumikai is also involved, based on their personalities and Danrito's previous interactions with them, they would probably be the manipulators behind Arius.

"That makes things clearer now." Danrito tapped his head. "You guys are always there when something big happens. You're really good villains."

261. The Peace Before the Storm

The incident in the basement of the Holy Trinity Cathedral was just a small episode. After dealing with the ghost of the saint that suddenly appeared underground, there were a few days of peace.

"Let's go! Let's go eat this limited edition dessert together!"

Hao Mei and her friends from the After School Dessert Club are relatively familiar with Danrito, and they are considered ordinary students. After meeting Danrito during the previous Dessert War incident, they often invite Danrito to try their limited-edition desserts with them.

Actually, Haomi and the others are drawn to Danrito's ability to teleport everywhere. If they could reach their destination in an instant, they wouldn't have to wait in line for limited-edition desserts! Just ask Danrito, and none of the dessert shops in Kivotos will be able to escape!

"Good guy, you want me to line up for you again, right?" Tan Li's ability to appear everywhere instantly is not a secret that needs to be hidden. After all, when he was doing business everywhere, Tan Li had used this ability to go to different school districts several times. In addition, he was a rare adult in Kivotos, and the students knew most of this ability, so it was not new to him.

"Such a convenient ability, why not use it?"

However, Haomei and the others' attitude towards Dan Lidou was indeed that of a friend who treated him as an equal. This attitude made Dan Lidou very comfortable, so he just let them do whatever they wanted and occasionally helped them queue up.

"Mr. Danrito, thank you very much for your help last time. I will pray for your safety every day in the cathedral. If you are willing to come and pray, the nuns will be happy to receive you, right?"

Thanks to Danreto's help, Mari and Hinata officially met Danreto, the elder from Charais. For the nuns, prayer was the only thing they could do for Danreto. Danreto readily accepted their invitation.