My youth story cannot be a knight war

[I can't say they are very similar, I can only say that their posture and voice are exactly the same. 】

[“No way…”]

[As Kousaka Kyosuke's eyes gradually widened and he murmured, the sunset, the color of residual blood, gradually sank into the end of the horizon. ]

The helicopter flew towards the fading sunset, disappearing into the distance along with it.

8. Original Beginning (two-in-one)

"So cool, Zaimokuza!"

Shizuka Hiratsuka patted Zaimokuza's shoulder happily, and her eyes were full of the satisfaction that a teacher hopes will lead to success as she looked at the student in front of her.

"I didn't expect you to be so manly at times. You are worthy of being my student!"

"...Teacher, Zaimokuza doesn't seem to be a student in your class, right? You're not his homeroom teacher either."

Hikigaya, who had been listening silently, couldn't help but complain at this time.

The next moment, a fierce punch flashed past his ear, and visible white air waves created a breeze, blowing up a few strands of hair on his forehead where cold sweat was flowing.

"What did you just say, Hikigaya-san?"

The beautiful teacher looked at him with a smile, a hint of cold ferocity flashing in her eyes.

In many cases in life, men will inevitably come into conflict with women and will always be forced to make choices. However, as a new-age three-good student who respects women, Hikigaya Hachiman's choice has never changed.

"...Nothing, Madom, and this is my fault."

"Very good boy! That's what a good man does. Don't interrupt a girl when she's talking. It's very rude."

Shizuka Hiratsuka patted Hikigaya's shoulder with satisfaction, her eyes full of recognition for the sensible man. She now understood why those girls who learned boxing didn't fight but instead liked to reason with boys.

"..."

Today's victory or defeat: Hikigaya Hachiman's defeat.

"wrong."

Not paying attention to the bullying scene of students in the classroom over there, Yukinoshita Yukino said with a frown, staring at the video in her hands with an indissoluble confusion in her eyes.

"What's wrong? Xiaoxue?"

Yuigahama Yui on the side looked at Yukinoshita Yukino strangely, not understanding why she said that.

"Although that spider monster looks scary, it shouldn't be the black shadow that appeared in the camera. It gives me the feeling... too weak."

"Too weak? But the weirdo with the spider head was shot countless times by the police without any damage! Is he really weak?"

Yuigahama Yui found it hard to imagine that if such a monster that was not afraid of guns and was bloodthirsty really appeared in reality, it would probably be everyone's nightmare. Could this be called weak?

"Yuigahama-san, strong and weak are not fixed concepts, but a standard of comparison. For example, if we compare humans to ants, then even if we are a newborn baby, we are still the strongest of all ants, and we will never be able to defeat them. Similarly, even if we are a newborn blue whale, the strongest of us humans will never be able to defeat it without the help of weapons such as guns and swords."

"If I compare the feeling that the shadow in the video gave me to that spider monster, the difference is... even greater than the difference between a human baby and the oldest blue whale."

"If my guess is correct, the shadow that appears at the beginning is the enemy that Zaimokuza-san must ultimately defeat in the video, just like the final boss that appears in the prologue CG of the game."

Glancing at Zaimokuza Yoshiteru who had been silently looking at his phone, Yukinoshita Yukino expressed her speculation in a calm tone.

"I didn't expect that you, Yukinoshita, also knew about the cliché that many games have of having the final boss appear in the prologue CG? This doesn't quite fit with your character."

Shizuka Hiratsuka raised her eyebrows and looked at Yukinoshita Yukino with some surprise.

"...Hiratsuka-sensei, please don't treat me like a nerd who knows nothing but studying."

【Nagano Prefecture, Minami-Nagano. 】

【0.8 AM】

[There are many people sitting in a restaurant at this moment. On the table in front of them are the coffee and food they ordered, but no one picks up the tableware or coffee cup. ]

[Because they were all staring in amazement at a corner of the restaurant, staring at the plates piled almost to the ceiling on the dining table there.]

[“Kapukapukapu!!!”]

[The sound of chewing food can be heard, and a white-haired young man pours plates of food into his mouth with a smile on his face.]

[The problem is that the word "倒" is not an adjective, but a declarative word. ]

[He lifted a plate of fried noodles, which was more than enough for an average person to have for breakfast, and poured it into his open mouth. The noodles were like falling into the famous Mel Cave in America, the gateway to hell. The mouth, which was less than one-third the size of the plate, swallowed it completely. It was extremely smooth, without any blockage.]

He devoured a plate of 800 yen fried noodles in about three seconds, without even opening the cutlery that was served.

[Opposite the young man who was piled with plates, a woman with long black hair sat with a cup of coffee and an expressionless face.]

[Yukinoshita Yukino holds the coffee in her hand and stares through the gaps between the stacked plates at Zaimokuza, who is eating without slowing down at all. The radiation-proof glasses without prescription on her face reflect the strong sunlight outside the window, making it difficult to see her eyes behind the glasses.]

[Only she herself knew that this cup of coffee was still steaming when she picked it up, but now there is no steam coming out of the surface of the coffee, only a little bit of residual temperature remains, and she didn't even drink a sip.]

[During this time, the originally wide dining table was filled with empty plates at a very fast speed. Except for the space where her breakfast plate was placed, the surrounding area was filled with tall plates. Plates of this height, which were high enough to block her vision, appeared three times in a row.]

[He signaled with his eyes again to the waiter who was standing by and watching this scene in a daze. The waiter finally reacted and hurriedly emptied the plates that were about to fall like building blocks and put them into the food cart next to him. When he pushed the cart full of empty plates to the back kitchen, another food cart full of food was pushed around the corner.]

[“…Zaimokuza-san, are you okay?”]

[“Mmmmm, hate it! Bummmm, press my heart!”] 1

[Zaimokuza, whose mouth was stuffed into a ball with food, narrowed his eyes and responded to Yukinoshita Yukino's concerns with a strange language comparable to that of the spider monster yesterday. ]

[“…Are you sure you’re okay?”]

[The corners of Yukinoshita Yukino's eyes twitched slightly, and when the waiter brought the dishes up, she handed over her portion. Just watching the way the other person was eating had already made her lose her appetite.]

Her worries are not without reason.

[It is now the second day since the "Nagano Prefectural Police Department's police car crashed into the main hall gate due to negligence of duty and drinking during working hours" incident yesterday, and it is also the third day since the incident at the Jiulangyue ruins in Nagano Prefecture. 】

【Thinking of what happened yesterday, she is now somewhat unable to come back to her senses. 】

[A videotape that records a mysterious shadow, an archaeological investigation team whose members all died tragically, a stone belt ornament, a hideous monster that broke into the police station, and...]

[She cast a veiled glance at Zaimokuza, who was still eating and drinking with his heart wide open.]

[…Yoshiki Zaimokuza transformed into a mysterious warrior after putting on the belt. ]

[Yesterday, when I was driven away by the police and was anxiously looking for him, he suddenly appeared from some corner with a smile on his face. Just when I drove him to this restaurant to ask him what happened, he fell asleep as soon as he sat on the chair.]

[He slept for twelve hours, from dusk until the sun was high in the sky.]

[As soon as he woke up, the waiter brought him the menu. What happened next was even more shocking. This guy was like a refugee who had not eaten for three days and three nights. He gobbled up all the dishes on the table like a whirlwind. Every plate looked like it had been licked, not even a grain of rice was left.]

[All my questions were suppressed in my stomach because of his horrible eating manner and appetite, and I finally found a chance to ask them during the gap between the dishes.]

[“Don’t believe it, it’s not long! Wow!”]

【Zaimokuza patted his chest vigorously, which caused him to choke. His face immediately turned red and he patted his chest to force himself to swallow the food. He then took the kettle beside him and drank water frantically.】

【“…”】

Yukinoshita Yukino held her forehead in her hand silently. She felt like a single mother who got pregnant before marriage, eating out with a 1-meter-tall, -pound baby.

[She glanced at Zaimokuza's flat stomach and wondered which stomach on his body the food he ate ended up in.]

[He overate right after waking up, and judging by his astonishing appetite, this is obviously not normal, but I guess I can't ask him anything until he's full.]

[Yukinoshita Yukino sighed and lay down on the sofa, turning her head to look out the window, her eyes full of fatigue after not closing all night. ]

[Today's weather is very good, with dark clouds in the sky. The morning sun is gentle and strong, as if it is going to illuminate the haze left over from yesterday's events. However, the sight of the mummy outside the window makes people feel a little uncomfortable.]

[…Wait, where did the mummies on the streets of Japan come from? ]

[Yukinoshita Yukino was stunned, thinking she was hallucinating. ]

【Thump, thump——】

[The mummy outside the window knocked on the glass window with his knuckles expressionlessly, and his eyes with dark circles under his eyes stared at Zaimokuza who was eating and drinking lavishly.]

【"Um?"】

[Zaimokuza, who was trying to stuff an octopus dumpling into his mouth that had become a ball, blinked and looked out the window at the mummy wearing a windbreaker like him with a confused look like a Husky.]

[The mummy said nothing, but pointed his thumb to the right with the hand that was knocking on the window, meaning to ask him to come out and talk.]

[“Mmmmm!”]

【Zaimokuza recognized who this mummy belonged to, his eyes curved into crescents, and he waved the fork in his hand happily at him.】

["...Officer Kosaka?"]

[Yukinoshita Yukino stared at the haggard mummy outside the window in astonishment and revealed his true identity.]

……

【Today is a nice day with a nice breeze and a clear sky. 】

[The ikuns are still being pressed to the ground by the black fans, playing Mission Impossible in a group with countless traitors, looking for their few remaining true comrades. The lurking black fans are holding the freshly baked oil cakes from the frying pan and sitting on the roof with the group owner and administrators to enjoy the delicious oil cakes with relish, watching the ikuns at the bottom passing each other but being wary of each other with a joking look. The director of "Let the Bullets Fly" is still running at the speed of life and death with his work to whether it can be applied for World Heritage. The nameless driver is devoting everything to stage his own "My Presidential Life" large-scale tragic and joyful magical realism scenario super-long annual drama with the motherland. Experts and professors are forced by capitalists to advocate at the top of their lungs that the people should take out one-third of their savings to buy houses to solve the country's economic problems and support themselves... It is really a variety of human conditions, hundreds of ghosts walking at night, and demons dancing wildly. ]

[But all this beauty has nothing to do with Kousaka Kyosuke. He does not relate to people's sorrow, hatred and anger. He only thinks that the outside world is very noisy.]

[He drove the car with dark circles under his eyes, enduring the endless chatter of his little fanboy, Inspector Guishan, and stared at the road ahead with bloodshot eyes. ]

[Strange things happen every year, but there are more this year, especially after the incident at the damn Jiulangyue ruins the day before yesterday. The frequency of strange things in the past few days is just like the rise and fall of the US stock market in the past few years. ]

[Children mysteriously disappeared in the city, cows on the ranch were drained of blood, and strange groans were heard in the middle of the night. If these things were normal despite being disturbing, then what happened next was even more bizarre.]

[First, someone called the police to report that a huge carnivorous fish appeared in the park's pool and was catching the fish there. When the police arrived with fishing gear, they found that the pool was empty and many of the precious koi fish were missing. Another person called the police to report that he heard the cry of a rhino coming from the direction of the parking lot in his neighborhood. When he followed the sound, he only found a large number of cars with punctured rear tires and trunks. A wealthy man even called the police to report that a huge hermit crab appeared in the swimming pool of his villa and pierced his dog's doghouse... There are countless strange things.]

[The most outrageous thing is that someone called the police and said that he had lost a valuable fox fur scarf and a silk gauze skirt that were drying on the balcony, as well as a set of black lace underwear worth several million yen. It turned out that the person who called the police was not a woman but a transvestite, and that the clothes were stolen by him. The case was filed and the reporter was arrested. The person investigating this case was Kyosuke Kosaka.]

"Officer, you're so handsome! I really like you! Please wait for me!"

[Thinking of the flirtatious and affectionate look that the heavily made-up and bearded shemale had given him before getting into the police car two hours ago, Kousaka Kyosuke, who was already a little mentally exhausted from staying up all night investigating the case, felt a chill all over his body, and goose bumps appeared all over his skin.]

[I originally thought that I would be able to have some peace while driving to the new crime scene, but in the end I had to endure the devilish voice of the Guishan patrol who insisted on following me. He felt that his head was like Sun Wukong who was being constantly chanted the tight hoop curse by Tang Monk. His temples were aching and the blood pressure in his blood vessels was almost off the charts.]

【And at this moment, he met his savior. In an inadvertent glance, Kousaka Kyosuke saw a white-haired man eating voraciously through the glass window of the restaurant. 】

[This glance seemed to last forever, and it almost made him burst into tears.]

……

[“Yes, the mysterious man who fought that spider monster yesterday was me! It’s Zaimokuza Yoshiki!”]

【Looking at Zaimokuza's teeth shining in the sun and the thumb with clear fingerprints, Kousaka Kyousuke had a blank expression on his face. He just felt that getting off the car might be a mistake - this guy is more talkative than Kameyama, and he can't stop talking at all. 】

[“…I didn’t expect you to be the unconfirmed life form number two.”]

[“Eh? I was given a code name like this? It sounds so ugly!”]

[Looking at this guy who seemed to be lacking in brains and hadn't realized the seriousness of the problem, the corners of Kousaka Kyosuke's mouth twitched. ]

[“Do you know what you did yesterday? Now the entire Nagano Prefecture police station is looking for you and No. 1!”]

[“But at that time, I only wore the belt according to my own feelings. I didn’t expect that I could really transform. It was just like that. “Swoosh”! No, it should be “clang”! Still not right, it should be——”]

[“Stop! Why are you doing such a rash thing? You might end up becoming the same kind as that monster!”]

[Kousaka Kyosuke put his fingers on his temples and asked Zaimokuza with a speechless expression. He really couldn't figure out what was going on in this guy's mind.]

[“Well… I felt like it needed me. It needed me to fight that spider-like guy, so I put it on.”]

【Zaimokuza pondered for a while, then knocked his left hand with his fist and gave his answer with a smile.】

[“I tried it and found that I was right. Wearing the belt can really change my appearance when I fight!”]

[“Are you sure you’re okay? You didn’t look like a human at all yesterday.”]

【Kousaka Kyousuke said as he pulled out one of the two photos he had sent out today from his pocket and put it directly in front of Zaimokuza. That photo was exactly what Zaimokuza looked like after using the belt to transform.】

[“Is this what I look like after I transform? So handsome!”]

[“That’s enough! Anyway, you have to come with me. I’m going to take you to the hospital for a checkup. It’s impossible that your body would not have any changes or effects after absorbing that unknown substance.”]

【Looking at Zaimokuza holding the photo with twinkling eyes, Kousaka Kyousuke slapped himself in the face, completely giving up the idea of ​​talking to him, and directly grabbed Zaimokuza's hand and wanted to force him to go to the hospital for examination.】

[“Wait, wait! Mr. Policeman, I haven’t taken a shower today!”]

[“Mr. Kosaka! Officer Ebina will be angry if you don’t go now.”]

[At this time, Guishan, who was checking the time on his phone, couldn't help but interrupt the conversation between the two. Otherwise, God knows how long they would drag it out. He couldn't bring another person to the crime scene now.]

【“…”】

【Thinking of his boss's angry look, Kousaka Kyosuke sighed helplessly, took out the notebook and pen for recording the confession from his pocket, wrote a few words in a few strokes, and then tore off a piece of paper and handed it to Zaimokuza.】

[“When you return to Tokyo, find some time to go to the hospital listed above and ask the doctor to check you out. Just tell her that it was Kousaka Kyousuke who asked you to come. She will know what to do.”]