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"Are you sure you don't want to go directly with me? Go meet Rikka, Yuta and Utsumi."

"Now that I have done these things, how can I have the face to see them..."

"But running away won't solve the problem. Instead, it will bury the problem deeper in your heart."

"It's so annoying, who did you learn this overbearing look from..."

"Okay, okay, you don't need to tell me to know who it is. Anyway, I want to stay here first and then get a new computer. This is my way of atonement."

"Then I'll stay too."

"Get out of here! With that guy Kelif!"

"Hey~ But if you were to use the power He gave you like this, wouldn't it be possible for you to be dealt with and no one would know if you were discovered?"

"You——! I have An Qi watching!"

"Anqi... Although Anqi is indeed very powerful, the existence of the source of madness... Kalif, how about you stay?"

"No problem. As long as there aren't those chains, I'd actually enjoy staying here with Hei Qian."

"Why didn't I see that you still have masochistic tendencies?"

"Hahaha, maybe it's because they can't die, but speaking of Anqi-kun...it's time to restore their original consciousness."

"Well...it's raining outside too."

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"Shinjo Akane! Are you here!?"

Ten minutes later.

When Knight suddenly pushed open the door to the rooftop, what he saw was a crowd of people looking back.

From the full members of the Lost Horse Team to returning multiple princesses, to the eugenic ideas of monsters, to the Gulit Alliance, even Kaisaki Hikaru, who should be in the scrap shop, appeared here, making this small rooftop entrance transformed. Got to be more crowded.

And Omer Linton, who had always been disgusted by him, even pushed someone out of the queue with both hands: "Mr. Anqi, are you looking for this person?"

"Uh, um... um... long time no see. You have found your own way, An Qi."

On that face that turned from resistance to embarrassment, shame, then mixed feelings, and finally became as calm as possible, there were many changes that Knight had seen for the first time.

"..."

He had never thought that that face would show so many changes one day, and the complicated nostalgia that finally settled made him spend countless more time with An Qi who had already experienced other An Qi, and he thought it was too late. The fact that he no longer had any attachment to Akane Shinjo caused ripples in his heart that made him silent.

Never thought about it.

Even though Omer Linton mentioned it several times, and even said that she had come to this world not long ago, he never thought that compared to the other party, he was the first to not know what to say.

Originally, he came over aggressively to ask why the four Anqi regained consciousness, why the two Akane joined hands, and why no one responded when he contacted others——

He remained silent in front of everyone. Fortunately, there was someone behind him who broke the cloud of silence: "What's wrong, Nate? What's going on!"

The second generation, she burst into view with her usual liveliness, easily breaking the tense atmosphere, and was immediately startled: "Oh, it really happened, Akane Shinjou."

"I thought Nate was deceived by some fake news. He is usually quite persistent."

Since he didn't have many direct interactions with the other party, the 2nd generation behaved extremely calmly. He quickly walked to Akane Shinjou in a few steps, and then was stopped by his companion behind him:

"Second generation!"

"What's wrong? Nate, it's not okay for Hikari to be there without talking or doing anything," she said, turning to look at the others, "But why is everyone here? Well, it seems that the middle school students are not here at the beginning of the new century? "

"This time it's their turn to go shopping with the store manager," Omo replied, raising his hand to pick up a page of notes on the ground with a magic claw, "As for why everyone is here - look at this."

"Gulit?"

With Chise's professional-level painting, it was not difficult to identify the portrait on the note.

"That's right, it was originally a painting for reference for cardboard props, but it turned into a Gullit painting competition through constant comparison." Omer said, the claws constructed by magic grabbed the ground repeatedly, and then took it from his hand. There are several styles of paintings of varying quality.

Among them, the note signed "Light" even has a side drawing that looks like an exploded figure, as well as a mechanical structure perspective and a deformation structure schematic that are unique to mecha painting design.

In response, a certain brown-skinned girl with short cream-colored hair held her head high and crossed her arms, not hiding her pride.

"Oh~! So is this game still going on?!" The 2nd generation clasped his hands together, eyes flashing.

As the only technical staff member of the Gulit Alliance, she immediately became interested.

"I'm also very good at drawing designs!"

"Unfortunately, it is now the judging period," Omo shook his fingers nervously, "It is now the final stage of the showdown. Qianze, Miss Kaisaki Hikaru and the princess are competing fiercely. You can vote for your A valuable vote.”

"..."

Seeing that the atmosphere over there was completely gone, Knight was a little speechless, but he saw whether it was the hand of the 2nd generation behind his back, or the hand of Ormer Linton, which was folded and hanging down, hanging on Akane Shinjo's waist. The hands on both sides are making gestures below.

After frowning, he chose to do as he was told.

Ignoring the voting discussions those guys were still having, they arrived at the top floor corridor where there were not many people.

Looking back at this moment, you can see Shinjou Akane running down the stairs. When she looked at herself, she took two steps at a time and quickly ran closer to him.

"It's better to be quiet here. I'm sorry that I may have troubled you by appearing too suddenly," she said softly, then lowered her eyes to look at the wet umbrella in his hand, "Is that useful? That umbrella."

"I asked every Anqijun to prepare umbrellas. I really don't know if they are using them."

After a brief hesitation, he told the truth:

"...They are of no use." "Oh, sure enough," Akane Shinjo sighed as she raised her hands to cover her eyes helplessly, "After being transformed by Akane Kuroi, they all got lost on the road, even if they were dealt with hastily. Even after I regained my will, my consciousness still subconsciously stayed at that time."

"Just let Gullit use the recovery beam."

"Maybe, that's why I came to see Yuta, but even if she is cured, she probably won't want to show up."

"Black Akane?"

"Well, she once hurt them, hated them very much, and did many bad things."

"So she didn't dare to face everyone. She just wanted to hide in her original corner and do what she could to make amends."

"But it's time to pull her out and not let her run away like that," Knight said.

"Yeah," facing Knight's gaze, Akane Shinjo moved away slightly, but looked back again, "Actually, just now, I was the one who should have been so silent that I couldn't speak."

"Yeah…"

"But the little snake kept pressing my shoulder."

"I noticed it. I should have given him a knife."

"Eh?" Akane, who didn't expect Knight to answer like this, was stunned for a moment, then smiled helplessly, "No, I'm very grateful to him."

"If he hadn't supported me like that, I wouldn't have had the courage to say hello to you."

"Even when I came down just now...he told me that you were waiting below."

"That rascal……"

"He is always very concerned about the affairs of the people around him. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have come back here so quickly. Even just now, I completely avoided your eyes."

"You don't need to escape, and you don't need to blame yourself." After saying this, Knight had calmed down the complexity in his heart and returned to his normal state, acting extremely calm.

"To me, you didn't do anything bad. You gave me life. I'm very grateful to you."

"Thank you..."

"Yes, thank you." As he said this, he lifted up the left side of his forehead, revealing the red eyes that were different from the blue eyes and belonged to a monster. "It is because of this life that I can see more beautiful things." Views, through these eyes.”

"so……"

He took two steps back and bowed to her formally: "Shinjo Akane, thank you."

"..."

silence.

Both sides were silent, and then in that silence, the bowed silver hair received a pair of gentle hands.

At the corner of the corridor not far from the two of them, the black-haired Crescent Moon stood with the purely black-haired young man, and there was a brown-skinned young man beside him.

"Obviously they are so 'unfree', why is the atmosphere between them so good?"

Perhaps he didn't notice that there was a person who looked exactly like Omer Linton standing beside him, so the young man just murmured.

And Omer did not go to talk to the stingy caterpillar on the side, but responded Shen: "Still don't understand? The so-called hatred, longing and persistence."

"You have already met Peng in the world of the Electro-Optical Machine King, and you have also seen Yuta and Rikka, Shima and the princess."

"Gakula eats so happily, but you still can't understand the turbulent emotions in that synchronization?"

"Can you understand? Homare."

"I think you should ask the princess for three important points. In addition, how about not just watching, but getting involved yourself?"

He turned his head and looked in Shen's direction, also looking at the observer sandwiched between the two.

"Actually, even Chise is freer than you."

"Because she knew everything and chose freedom, and you chose freedom just because you didn't know the meaning of the irreplaceable lack of freedom."

"...Is that so?" Shen asked, turning around to look at the 'mother and son' who had finished their hair.

"That's it." Omo replied leisurely.

Three-headed monster standing on the steps

tips2:

In fact, before the official departure, Omer tried to deduce several situations for Shinjou Akane to see Anchi, but Shinjou Akane was never confident enough.

So when Shinjou Akane heard An Qi's thanks, she didn't remain silent. Instead, she had a serious tone, and - unlike the original work, she didn't say any embarrassing lines like "Don't look at me."

Gulit’s IP tips: About Anqi’s eyes.

Gulit’s animation IP has an underlying setting, that is, the red eye color is all related to monsters.

For example, the red-eye special effects of Akane, Nidaime and Anchi who create monsters, and the monster eugenicists.

In contrast, the only ones with the same yellow eye color as Gulit's possessed version of Yuta are Konkawa, the first victim in Gulit TV, and Ori Takarata/Rikka Mama.

However, Anqi's right eye was damaged by Alexis. After being rescued by the second generation and cured in the final episode, the right eye turned blue (which can be regarded as a direct performance of winning the heart of mankind).

Tips from the King of Electro-optical Machines:

Shen's problem is related to his character song "Un-Understand".

In the lyrics of the song, he has been expressing doubts and asking why he should choose not to be free, but the final lyrics are 'I want you to tell me, what is it that makes your hearts throb? Because I still can't understand, in this unfree world, I want to understand you who are free.' It can be seen that this real monster user is also a humanoid monster, and he is still relatively ignorant of the world.