My youth story cannot be a knight war

Arima Kana's eyes narrowed into slits, and her eyeballs kept moving in the slits, making her look like a red-haired fox that had successfully stolen a chicken. The corner of her mouth, half covered by her palm, pierced into Akua's temple like an embroidery needle, causing his expressionless upper face to be gradually covered by a layer of black.

"Ah, ah, ah~ You clearly care about me, but you can say it so awkwardly. Seriously, it's like a little boy who's still in elementary school and doesn't know how to express his affection to the girl he likes~"

"But it doesn't matter! I've always been kind-hearted and never mind showing mercy to those who ask for my help~"

Arima supported her chin with the back of her right hand, looking down at the back of Aqua's head from top to bottom, with a very artistic smile. The arrogance of a gangster and the kindness of a saint were perfectly integrated in her face, showing her superb acting skills worthy of her child prodigy.

"Come on, say it as my sister taught you~"

She smiled and extended her hand to Aqua, who was silent and had his head down, with excitement glittering in the depths of her eyes.

"As long as you, little brother Aqua, say 'Kana-sister, I want to be your friend', I will show mercy and become the first friend in your life--woooooo!!!"

A ruthless iron hand grabbed Arima's slightly chubby cheek and pulled her face upwards with force. The rough action directly turned the smile on Arima's face into a funny expression. The intense pain made tears instantly secrete from the corners of her wide eyes.

"Tong! Tong! Chirmi!"

Under such brutality, she let out an incoherent scream and slapped her hand, which was covered with bruised veins, with both hands, in so much pain that she was almost crying.

Aqua slowly raised his head, his entire face now engulfed in darkness. Yet, within the darkness around his eyes, a pair of shimmering black hexagrams, far darker than the shadows, sent a chill down the spine of everyone who saw this strange pair, and they quickly stopped laughing.

After silently glancing at the silent crowd, Aqua still held onto Arima's cheek and turned his gaze back to the curtain in front of him.

"...I remember, Hayato Hayama."

"It hurts!"

Looking at the reflection in the motorcycle's rearview mirror, Hayato Hayama grimaced in pain as he touched his right eye, which had turned into a dark blue panda eye.

"That guy Aqua actually did it."

Recalling that Hoshino Aiku and Aikai had a face that could compete for the most charming smile on the screen of the year, but her right hand clenched into a fist and swung towards him mercilessly, Ye Shan couldn't help but wonder if the other party had symptoms of schizophrenia, otherwise she wouldn't be able to combine two completely opposite behaviors so harmoniously without giving people a sense of incongruity.

After secretly complaining in his heart, he took out his mobile phone and his eyes gradually became serious.

According to the time calculation, the Scissors should have arrived at the store soon, and the note with his phone number would probably be discovered.

It's not that I haven't thought about just waiting there, but judging from the fact that the other party used fuzzy voice changes when speaking before, when the other party realizes that Ye Shan and Hoshino are in the store, I'm afraid that even if the two of them stay there forever, they won't show up again.

Moreover, it would probably cause the other party to misunderstand that the two of them were going to join forces to eliminate him first. This was not what Ye Shan wanted to see. He still hoped to confirm each other's thoughts through conversation.

But when he thought of what Hoshino had said to him before, he couldn't help but feel confused and uneasy in his heart.

Knight, do you really have to fight?

Looking at himself in the rearview mirror silently, Ye Shan sighed silently, started the motorcycle and planned to leave.

No matter what, what should be done has been done, and the rest is up to fate to decide.

--bump!!!

The loud crash stopped Ye Shan who was about to put on his helmet. He looked at the silver car that rushed out from the street corner on the left and crashed straight into a hard concrete wall. His body, which was sitting astride the motorcycle, became completely stiff.

Because if he had pushed the front wheel of the motorcycle forward even half a meter, he would have been directly caught in the sudden car accident. He would have been squeezed into a ball of meat by the car and the wall without even having time to react.

This experience of clearly realizing that he had escaped from the hands of death at the critical moment made Ye Shan's brain go blank and he was unable to come back to his senses for a long time.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

It was not until he smelled the stench of burnt oil in his nose and heard a hard cough in his ears that Ye Shan came back to his senses from this blank state of near loss of soul, and his whole body shook violently.

"!!!"

As Ye Shan watched with wide eyes, pungent white smoke continued to emerge from the gaps in the car's hood, which had been twisted by the impact of the concrete wall. The burnt smoke enveloped the entire front half of the car, and a painful female cough was also heard from inside the car. It was obvious that the owner of the car was a woman.

"Hey! Are you okay!?"

Seeing that the situation had developed to such a serious level in an instant, Ye Shan no longer cared about the fact that he had just escaped death. He quickly kicked off the motorcycle's stand and ran over, reaching out to grab the door handle on the side of the car without thinking twice.

He immediately pulled back with force, but the door didn't move at all after shaking a few times. The violent impact just now had directly deformed the front half of the car, and the backward pressure of the car frame squeezed the door opening mechanism tightly.

"Damn it! Hey!"

After pulling hard several times, there was still no effect. Looking at the increasingly thick white smoke coming from the hood of the car, Ye Shan nervously reached out and slapped the glass on the car door.

"Can you hear me? Open the car window quickly and I'll get you out!"

"Cough cough..."

The coughing sound still came from inside the car, and after Ye Shan finished saying this, the car window glass slowly rolled down, and a white and slender hand stretched out tremblingly from the thick fog inside the car.

Bear~!

"!?"

Just as the hand stretched out, a spark suddenly appeared from the hood of the car, which was constantly emitting thick white smoke. Seeing this scene, Ye Shan's expression changed drastically.

"Hold on! Relax your body and don't resist!"

Holding this hand with one hand, Ye Shan gritted his teeth and leaned his upper body into the car filled with smoke. With his other hand, he grabbed some clothes of the person in the car by feeling, then used his upper body to pull the other person out of the car window!

A strand of silver hair broke through the thick smoke first. Ye Shan hugged the woman, pulled her out with force, and leaned her back.

The fierce flames engulfed the front half of the car in the next moment, and the fierce flames narrowly missed the black high heels that jumped out of the window. Ye Shan felt the heat wave passing over his head, and a drop of cold sweat ran down his frightened face.

"Ahem...thank you..."

A faint cough came from the side. Ye Shan looked down and a soft and sweet face appeared in his sight.

Although her face was covered with dust at this time, she was undoubtedly a real beauty. Even without makeup, she was still very pretty and charming. Although her figure was a little petite, her face was enough to make her a natural beauty who could score 90 points.

The other person looked at Ye Shan, coughed, and smiled, but the dust on his face made the smile lose its beauty, making it look as funny as a circus clown.

"—"

In the luxurious dormitory that was different from that of ordinary students, Arisu Sakayanagi's nonchalant expression suddenly froze. She slowly straightened her upper body lying on the soft pillows, her eyes fixed on the curtain floating in front of her.

Looking at the face that appeared on the curtain in front of her, she felt for a moment that she was looking at a mirror, and there was no difference between them.

But outside the curtain is the past, and inside the curtain is the future, but the same face exists in the two periods of time, without any change, as if time has completely stopped flowing for her.

“…This is, me?”

"Tsk~! I can't believe even Sakayanagi is..."

Ryuen Sho leaned against the wall of the C class corridor, looking at the face in the curtain that disgusted him. His eyes were full of disgust, but there was also undisguised surprise in the disgust.

"First it was Asahina from Class 2A, and now it's Sakayanagi from Class 1A... and judging by the current trend, I'm afraid it won't end yet."

"This future story is getting more and more interesting."

"Thank you for saving me..."

Arisu Sakayanagi covered his mouth and coughed a few times. He turned his head to look at Hayama who was also lying on the ground beside him, and struggled to force a decent smile on his face.

"Um, may I ask your name?"

"Don't ask any more questions, just get up! The car is about to explode!"

Ye Shan interrupted Sakayanagi and helped her run quickly towards his motorcycle. Since the latter was only about 1.5 meters tall, she was too petite compared to him who was 1.8 meters tall. It could be said that she was basically held by Ye Shan's waist and ran away.

Less than three seconds later, the burning car suddenly turned into a burning fireball, and Yeshan fell to the ground again while protecting Sakayanagi.

Sakayanagi stretched out her hands to pull away Ye Shan's arms that were protecting her. She turned her head and looked back. Instead of being relieved that she had escaped death, her face was filled with unspeakable heartache.

"My car... woooo..."

Seeing her Porsche, a limited edition worth tens of millions of yen, being engulfed in blazing flames, Sakayanagi's expression gradually became dull. She felt that the wind was mixed with an extremely expensive smell.

That's the smell of burning money.

"...Hey! Is this what you're concerned about right now!?"

Hearing her words and expression, even someone as calm as Ye Shan found it difficult to suppress his desire to complain. With a twitching mouth, he looked at Sakayanagi, who looked like she wanted to cry but had no tears, and felt that this woman really had a big heart.

"You almost died, okay? What happened? Why was your car going so fast? You almost killed me—"

The extremely harsh sound of brakes interrupted Ye Shan's words. Several vehicles of different brands drove in from the intersection ahead, crossing each other and completely blocking the road ahead, leaving only the road behind Ye Shan and his party for them to pass.

When she saw these cars appear, Sakayanagi's tearful expression immediately froze.

The car doors opened one after another, and nearly ten men in black suits, whose faces showed that they were not normal people, got out of the car with ferocious expressions. They stared fiercely at Sakayanagi who was sitting next to Hayama, and each of them held a gleaming titanium alloy baseball bat in his hand.

"Run? Still running? Now let's see where you can escape to! You damn foxy girl!"

"Be prepared! We won't let this go today!"

Seeing these burly men in suits who looked fierce and ferocious, and the thick baseball bats in their hands that could be considered weapons, Ye Shan understood everything instantly and turned to look at Sakayanagi beside him without saying a word.

Your enemy?

He spoke these words with a scrutinizing gaze.

Sakayanagi didn't answer, but her next move caused Yeshan's brain to go into a state of shutdown.

She suddenly reached out and hugged Ye Shan's right hand that was supporting the ground. The stiff expression on her face changed instantly. A tear squeezed out of the corner of her eye within half a second, and her expression became weak and firm.

"You villains are only receiving the punishment you deserve, but you're blaming me? How shameful!"

The slender arms tightened their grip around Hayama's arms once again. Sakayanagi's expression at this moment was melancholy with a hint of sadness, yet within that sadness was a sense of desolation, perfectly matching the emotional distribution values ​​of the pie chart.

"I will never give in to evil people like you! My boyfriend won't allow it either!"

She turned her head and looked at Ye Shan, whose expression was frozen beside her, with tearful eyes, and said sadly.

"I'm sorry, Yamashita-kun. I'm the one who's burdened you, but you're still willing to protect me. I'm really, really grateful!"

"I'm sorry, I won't lose my temper with you anymore! I won't quarrel with you anymore, I'm so sorry! Woo woo..."

In just a few sentences, Sakayanagi used her own words to construct in the minds of those who saw this scene a woman with a strong heart, who advocates justice and morality and refuses to succumb to evil, and a girl who feels guilty and happy because her boyfriend is still willing to protect her after a quarrel with her.

In the end, she rested her head on Ye Shan's shoulder, and the sobbing sound from the shaking of her thin shoulders was truly touching. Combined with the tear sliding down from her pointed chin, her crying at this moment was so real that even a professional acting worker could not find any fault with it.

As her "boyfriend" and "Yamashita-kun", Ye Shan did not have any lustful thoughts or feelings when he saw the beauty crying on his shoulder... because he was completely stunned.

But it was not for the "virtue" and "guilt" shown by Sakayanagi, but for her immorality and shamelessness, as well as her unhesitating and frankness in using herself as her savior as a shield.

Who am I? Where am I? Who is Yamashita-kun?

In Ye Shan's confused mind, these three thoughts kept flashing through his mind.

"!"

A black shadow covered the figures of Ye Shan and Sakayanagi. A chill pierced the former's back like embroidery needles. He raised his head stiffly and looked at the group of ferocious monsters with sticks coming towards him.

A big man in the middle took off his sunglasses, looked at Ye Shan with a dark gaze, and said in a sarcastic tone:

"Oh? You're this woman's lover, right? Very good! Very courageous! Standing up to protect a woman, you're truly a man of action and responsibility! I approve of you!"

Dare to act and take responsibility? What have I dared to act and take responsibility for? What have you recognized about me?

Brother, you have been deceived by this vicious woman!

Ye Shan's already stiff expression became even stiffer, because he saw several of the big men were grinning and rubbing the shiny silver baseball bats in their hands, like a butcher washing his knife with water before slaughtering a pig.

"But today I want to tell you something: sometimes courage isn't enough in this world."

The big man stuffed his sunglasses into the breast pocket of his suit and raised the baseball bat in his hand with the same ferocious look.

"Brothers! Come on! Teach this pretty boy some lessons!"

“Wait a minute!?”

With his hair standing on end, Hayama finally reacted. He shook off Sakayanagi's arms, stretched out his palms, and spoke with a twitching expression:

"She and I actually—"

The baseball bat swung out, creating a dull, drum-like sound as it broke through the wind, completely shutting out Ye Shan's words.

17. Past, Encounter, Negotiation (**)

It opened the bottomless pit, and smoke ascended from the pit like the smoke from a huge furnace; and the sun and the sky were darkened by its smoke.

And out of the smoke came locusts upon the earth, and they were given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

Their king was the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek is Apollyon.

The first disaster has passed, but there are two more disasters to come.

The rest of the people who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands, but worshiped demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, wood, and stone, which cannot see or hear or walk;