My youth story cannot be a knight war

[“Yihui, it’s impossible for him to have the mind of falling in love right now… at least until his knot in his heart is untied.”]

[In response to Makishima Saori's question, the usually cheerful and eloquent Ebina Hina was unusually silent for a while, then spoke slowly. ]

[“Heart knot? Are you saying that Zaimokuza, who always looks so happy, has some psychological problems? Himena, you are not saying this just to get revenge on me, are you?]

[Makishima Saori was immediately filled with doubts. It wasn't that she didn't believe what her friend said, it was just that the information was a little untrue.]

[Heart knot? That smiling superman who has almost no expression on his face except for a smile, Zaimokuza Yoshiki would have a psychological problem? This doesn't sound credible. 】

[To put it bluntly, do single-celled organisms have the concept of "heart knots"? Just like a rabbit can survive as long as it eats grass, Zaimokuza Yoshiki can survive as long as he smiles, and by the way, he can also warm others like a central air conditioner. ]

[“Of course there is. In this era, everyone has some psychological problems, so Yoshiki is also a human being.”]

[“Saori, have you ever wondered why Yoshiteru is so desperate to protect everyone’s smiles?”]

[“Is it true that his help to Kousaka-kun was based solely on friendship? Was there nothing else involved? Have you ever doubted this even once?”]

【"……What's the meaning?"】

[“The answer is simple…very simple.”]

[Hearing Makishima Saori's voice finally become serious, Ebina Hina, who was leaning on the back of the chair, slowly sat up and glanced at a framed photo on the table. ]

[That was a group photo taken when she first enrolled at MIT, with students and mentors from the same department.]

[Looking at the photo, Ebina Hina's eyelids drooped slightly, and her voice became calm for the first time while talking to others. ]

[“Because people who have lost something always want to make up for it.”]

[“It’s just common psychological compensation, a basic knowledge of psychology.”]

……

【Chiba Prefecture, Chiba City, Prefectural and Municipal Hospital, Intensive Care Unit. 】

【08:34 PM】

[Next to the ward where Kousaka Yoshino is staying, there is a newly written house number on the door of another ward. ]

[The upper part is Kousaka Kyosuke, the lower part is Zaimokuza Yoshiteru. 】

[Kousaka Kyosuke, wearing a hospital gown, was lying on the bed outside the ward. The cuffs of his gown were wrapped in thick bandages, his right hand was tied to his chest, and his left leg was in a plaster cast and suspended with a brace.]

[Earlier, when Kousaka Kirino, who had sensed something was wrong, had forcibly dragged him to the infirmary for an X-ray, the doctor, after examining the X-ray, was so shocked that he nearly dropped his reading glasses. He stared at Kousaka Kyousuke as if he had seen a ghost.]

[According to the doctor, it is a miracle that he is still conscious and able to move freely. If he were an ordinary person, he would have already gone into shock and coma due to the severe pain all over his body.]

[After knowing this, Kosaka Kirino ignored his excuses and forced Kosaka Kyosuke to stay in the hospital here, and arranged a ward next to her mother. ]

The GO armor he had previously removed was piled in a corner of the room. After receiving a call from the Unidentified Lifeform Investigation Headquarters, the medical staff, having learned of Kousaka Kyosuke's true identity, were startled and handled these obviously confidential items with extreme caution, not daring to move them at all.

[Kousaka Kyosuke, who was now wrapped in white bandages like a dumpling, used his only eye that could move freely to look around this new ward, which was different from the previous one, with a curious look.]

[To be honest, after getting used to the previous ward, the current one makes Kousaka Kyousuke a little uncomfortable, just like when the family moved to a new house after their father passed away, they were a little uncomfortable living in the new house.]

[This time his injury was more serious than any other time before. The most skilled Mediterranean doctor in this hospital warned me and my sister in a very stern tone that even with Kousaka Kyousuke's physical fitness that completely exceeded that of a normal human, he would have to stay in the hospital for at least a week, and he must not do any strenuous activities during this period, otherwise he would definitely have sequelae in the future, and he would probably spend every day of his old age in unbearable pain in his bones.]

[Thinking of his sister's horrified expression with her hands covering her mouth and tears in her eyes after she learned the news, Kousaka Kyosuke sighed silently and silently gave up the idea of ​​being discharged from the hospital early. ]

[Although the severity of the injury was unprecedented, Kousaka Kyosuke didn't think it was a big deal. Instead, he thought he had made a profit this time.]

At least the combat capabilities of the first set of G-series weapon armor have been verified. After viewing the recorded combat footage and witnessing the superior performance of the GO, the higher-ups will likely no longer block funding for this research within the institute, and may even receive strong support.

[And Ebina Hime will probably adjust GO based on this data. The next time it's used, there shouldn't be the same severe side effects as this time.]

If the GO's performance can be adjusted to a level that even ordinary police officers can use, and if its widespread use is achieved, frontline police officers facing unidentified life forms will no longer suffer the same disastrous casualties as before.

【Thinking of this, Kousaka Kyosuke's expression improved a little. 】

【Then--】

[But when he thought of another thing, the arc on Kousaka Kyosuke's mouth slowly disappeared, and his eyelids sank slightly, blocking the complicated thoughts in his eyes. ]

[…The person who was most seriously injured in this battle was not him, but another person.]

[“Huh————～]

[It makes you wonder if someone is pressing the toilet flush button. The sound is heard throughout the room.]

【“…”】

[Kousaka Kyosuke couldn't help but twitch his eyes when he heard this familiar voice again, and the thoughts in his eyes disappeared without a trace in an instant.]

[He turned his head speechlessly and looked at Zaimokuza who was sleeping on another bed next to him, his eyes filled with deep helplessness.]

【Zaimokuza, who was wrapped in bandages, kicked the quilt under the bed again, spread his hands and feet in a "big" shape, drooling at the corners of his mouth, and the bubbles on his nose expanded and shrank with every deafening snore - the cycle repeated endlessly.】

【Looking at him sleeping soundly, the helpless emotion in Kousaka Kyosuke's eyes gradually faded, and turned into something very complicated. 】

[In this battle, the one who was most seriously injured was actually this Bugs Bunny, and he deserved it. ]

[But seeing how soundly he was sleeping, Kousaka Kyosuke felt that he might need to question this... Of course, this was just a joke.]

[In fact, when Kousaka Kyosuke was supported by Kousaka Kirino to walk out of his mother's ward to find a doctor for a checkup, the scene he saw when he turned around inadvertently almost froze his heart. ]

【At that time, Zaimokuza was sitting quietly with his back against the wall of the ward, his head bowed, a hint of a smile on the corner of his mouth, looking peaceful as if he was taking a nap.】

[But the scene around him was not peaceful. Not only was the entire white shirt he was wearing stained with blood until it was almost black, but a small pool of blood had even accumulated under his body, and was slowly spreading as time passed.]

[Looking at Zaimokuza, who was covered in blood, Kousaka Kyosuke felt his brain go blank due to shock, and he couldn't even hear his sister's scream that echoed throughout the hospital corridor the next moment.]

【Afterwards, the medical staff attracted by the screams found Zaimokuza bleeding all over the corridor and immediately rushed him to the emergency room for first aid. Several blood bags for transfusion were emptied.】

[If the doctor felt like he had seen a ghost after seeing Kousaka Kyousuke's medical report, then his expression when he saw Zaimokuza's information was like he had seen a real ghost. His eyes almost popped out of their sockets, and he even exclaimed in front of Kousaka Kyousuke, "How is he still alive!?"]

【Kousaka Kyosuke, who had recovered from his shock, immediately followed after realizing something was wrong. Before Zaimokuza was pushed into the operating room, he showed the doctor his documents and proof. The doctor looked puzzled and asked him to keep all of Zaimokuza's physical information and the rescue process confidential, thus avoiding the disclosure of his identity.】

[Thinking of the confused faces of the surgeon and the nurse before the door of the operating room was closed, and the trembling legs and the look of them having to hold on to the wall when they walked out after the door was opened, and the fearful eyes when they looked up at him, Kousaka Kyousuke smiled bitterly.]

[I think he thinks that he is a monster even though his physique is much better than that of ordinary people. He probably has a rich imagination and thinks that he and Zaimokuza are the products of some secret experiment of the police, so he is worried that he will be silenced.]

[“It’s quite troublesome to clean up after you, but…”]

[“Since I owe you a big favor this time, I won’t hold it against you.”]

【"whee--"】

[As if he had heard Kousaka Kyousuke's mumbling in his sleep, Zaimokuza smiled foolishly, scratched his belly with his hand, turned over and continued to snore.]

【"……snort."】

[A smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and Kousaka Kyosuke slowly closed his eyes, his breathing gradually becoming steady.]

[For the first time, Kousaka Kyosuke felt that he slept so peacefully and at ease in the hospital ward.]

34. Snow will cover everything, including the story (two in one)

[In Tokyo, an abandoned factory.]

[While Kousaka Kyosuke and Zaimokuza Yoshiki were falling asleep, a certain house in this factory was bustling with activity, completely opposite to the quiet atmosphere there.]

[“It’s different. Everything is different…!”]

[Dozens of different newspapers were scattered on the ground, each with a different date. The only thing in common was that the headlines of all the newspapers began with "Unconfirmed Lifeform No. 4", followed by all the Gurongi code names that had appeared so far except him.]

[These newspapers record Zaimokuza's battles with the Gurongis so far, but below the title, where there should be screenshots of him fighting his enemies, there is now only an empty square. Apparently, the pictures have been cut off by someone using a tool.]

[Putting the last cut picture on the table, with the dim light from the old lamp that was found from the garbage dump and repaired, the girl looked at the stacked pictures in front of her from top to bottom, her brows furrowed more and more.]

[She looked up at the projection of the device that had been removed from her arm and placed on the table in front of her. The projected image was also a screenshot of Kuuga's battle with the unidentified life form.]

[“Including No. 1 who was defeated after his first appearance in Nagano Prefecture, No. 3 who escaped, and No. 5 who came to Tokyo and was defeated before the official start of the ‘Kikiru’, whose ultimate goal was unclear even in my time. Although the development of all this is slightly different from the information I have in terms of details, the general trend has not changed.”]

[The girl compares the newspaper screenshots she placed at the top one by one, and then compares them with the pictures at the top of the projection, and her expression becomes slightly relieved.]

[“…But, since the appearance of No. 6, why has the subsequent development trend deviated so greatly from the history I know?”]

[When she looked down and saw the newspaper screenshot of Zaimokuza's battle with the unidentified life form No. 6, the girl's face suddenly fell, and her eyes were filled with deep despair.]

[She first looked up at the colorful projection in the air of Number Six being stabbed in the chest by Kuuga in his blue form, then lowered her head to look at the black and white screenshot of Number Six on the table, who was holding a double-headed halberd and piercing Zaimokuza's abdomen and stepping him into a deep pit in the square. The image was very different from the projection, and she weakly reached out to cover her face.]

[“…From that time on, what kind of monsters are the Gurongis that appeared afterwards?!”]

[The girl, who was almost mentally broken by this series of outrageous situations, could no longer endure it, and cried out to the heavens with the most sincere accusation in her life.]

[Even though she had already cried once before because of an emotional breakdown on the battlefield, she still felt a sore nose when she thought about it again, and couldn't help wanting to cry again.]

[Is it easy for her? I was very nervous about this first official mission before the trip. If it weren’t for my superiors’ constant consolation and psychological counseling, I would have given up long ago. ]

[According to the boss, although the organization's first official mission has risks, it will not be fatal. He said that the organization will never assign difficult missions to novices, which is no different from murder.]

[“So I believe in you. Don’t believe in yourself. Believe in me who believes in you!╭(●`?′●)╯”]

[“When you complete your mission and come back, I will recommend you to your superiors and recommend you to become an outstanding operator of the organization. Then, after you continue to complete a few new missions, I will help you submit a talent recommendation form to the top level of the organization and ensure that you get a place in the next round of executive rating. (o???)”]

[“Become an executive! A wonderful life is right in front of you! And now that the opportunity is right in front of you, what are you waiting for!? o(′益`)o”]

"So work hard, and I promise your days in the organization will only get sweeter!"

It was with these repeated assurances that I finally mustered up the courage and, with a trepidation in my heart, embarked on the mission. Even if I couldn't achieve anything, I at least couldn't disappoint my superiors who trusted me, and I entered the time-traveling machine.

[But now recalling it, the girl wanted to strangle herself for holding this idea at the time! If she wanted to accuse the deceived her, she should not have believed the lies of the unscrupulous boss! ]

[How can there be such a high-level thing as "trust" between two people who have never even met each other? I was completely fooled by the other party's high-level language skills! ]

[Sure enough, I am still too young. It is precisely because I have not been beaten by society that I have been foolishly deceived into this desperate situation.]

[“You must treat this mission well. After all, it is your first time. I believe you will definitely meet people in this mission that you will never forget, and leave precious memories worth savoring for a lifetime, okay?ヾ(≧▽≦*)o”]

[Thinking of the teasing letter she received from her boss before she left, the girl lowered her head in a gloomy mood and pursed her lips in grievance.]

[She really wanted to cry loudly, but she found that she couldn't even cry anymore. The expression on her face perfectly explained what it meant to want to cry but have no tears.]

[…Unknown boss, you are right. I did meet people I will never forget, and I also left memories that I will remember for the rest of my life—but that was completely the opposite! ]

[Isn't the first mission not risky? Isn't there any fatal danger? Then can you explain to me what is going on now? ]

[After struggling desperately, I finally managed to escape at the last moment before death came. I escaped to this strange era just when the energy of the time machine was about to run out. As a result, I can't go back home now. 】

[But when I thought there was always a way out and I found a savior who could help me get home, I found out that he was not the one I was looking for! ]

[What’s even more amazing is that even the information we have now doesn’t match the development status of this era! ]

[The pile of precious information thus turned directly into waste paper, and this caused the girl to be like a blind person. Now all the information about this era must be collected and explored by herself, which is no different from starting from scratch. ]

[“Why? Why do almost all of them have the same weapon transformation ability as Kuuga? They can even change their own form!?”]

[“Except Kuuga, among the records of unconfirmed life forms, the first Gurongi with the ability to change weapon forms should be the 38th one that has not appeared yet! But…but why does the 6th have this ability now? And according to the records, there should only be those five Gurongis who can change their own forms? Why has it become a standard feature of almost all Gurongis now?”]

[“Even the person who transformed into Kuuga was replaced by another person! As the original transformer, Kousaka Kyousuke actually drove a mecha that no one had ever heard of to fight those unconfirmed life forms? It’s not even mentioned in the information!”]

[“Why is this happening? Why is the history of this era so different from what I knew in my time? What on earth happened in between?”]

[“Can I really… go home? Or will I just have to live my whole life in this era that I learned about through textbooks? Ugh?”]

[The girl, who was almost autistic after being hit by a series of bad news, sat on the ground in a duck-like posture, looking at the scattered newspapers on the ground in front of her, feeling hopeless.]

[She pondered over these puzzles one after another until she felt a splitting headache. In the end, she simply gave up thinking and hung her head in a gray state.]

Chiba Prefecture, Sobu High School, health room.

"Uh……"

Zaimokuza, who had watched the entire process of the girl being PUA'd by her boss from a God's perspective, was completely speechless, his mouth twitching slightly.

"...This kid, doesn't he know that when women work in the workplace, the person they need to be most wary of is their boss?"

Hikigaya speechlessly put his hand to his forehead and said with a look of dismay.

"Moreover, with her looks, her outstanding figure, her pitiful temperament, and her limited experience... she is definitely the top prey in the eyes of those lustful demons."

"It's a pity that this child is still alive and well... To be honest, if it were me, I could have used different excuses ten times in a row to trick this child into warming my bed."

Hiratsuka Shizuka took a puff of her cigarette and spoke in the same silent voice.

"Teacher, it is illegal for adults to lure minors into having sex. As a teacher, please don't set a bad example for your students."

Yukinoshita Yukino glanced at the unethical female teacher who talked nonsense all the time as if she were looking at non-burnable garbage, and said lightly.

"Huh? Only when men cheat on women is it considered a crime, right? Women cheating on women is at most considered a slut."

"...You know boxing."

[After a long while, the girl, who had barely pulled herself together from her frustration, raised her hand, took the projecting device from the table and started fiddling with it. The light reflected from the device screen illuminated her slightly red eyes.]