I don't want to be a heroic spirit

"Eh? Can Souji make desserts?"

"Stupid Stella, please understand the point. The point is that the desserts made by Miss Souji are very delicious, even better than the restaurant recommended by Alice."

"Souji-chan is really hiding something." Arisuin Nagi pretended to be depressed and held her face, "Really, why didn't you tell me earlier? Doesn't it make me look like a clown for recommending this place? "

"No...it's not as exaggerated as the senior said."

Okita Souji, who suddenly became the center of the conversation, scratched the back of his head in embarrassment, "I just have a little experience in making desserts, and...my sister taught me how to make desserts, and she does a great job. It’s far more delicious than what I made.”

"You have a sister?"

Hearing what Souji Okita said, everyone showed surprise and interest.

"So, I haven't heard anything from you about your family's situation, Souji." Ayatsuji Ayase, who is Souji Okita's roommate, said thoughtfully, "What kind of person is your sister?"

"What kind of person is he..."

Being stared at by several people with curious and fiery eyes, Souji Okita looked embarrassed.

"If it's a hard question to answer then forget it."

"It's not... it's difficult to answer."

Okita Souji lowered his head and looked at the half-eaten crepe in his hand, seemingly lost in memories.

"...A little girl who is afraid of being alone?"

"...Are you sure you are describing your sister and not your younger sister?"

After finishing the crepe, the waiter served some more desserts.

"Actually, I should be considered as sneaking out."

He poked a small piece of cake with a silver fork. Okita Souji held his cheek and said: "My sister always said that it is very dangerous outside, and only her side is the safest, so she has never let me leave these years. , I came back to Pojun Academy to go to school without telling her."

"My father is like this too." Stella chatted with Okita Souji as if she had found a companion, "My father always told me that there are so many perverts in Japan, and all men only use obscene words. He looks at girls and even follows them and smells their breath.”

Stella and Okita Souji are very similar in this respect, both have family members who love them too deeply.

It's very annoying and also very enviable.

Listening to the conversation between the two people, Kurogane Ikki was a little dazed.

It's like seeing the aurora flowing in the night, a beautiful dream, but you can deeply understand the distance from yourself.

At this moment, Kuroyuki Ikki felt his hand being held.

"Brother, there is no need to be envious."

Kurogane Jushizuku took Kurogane Ikki's hand in both hands and placed it on her forehead, her words filled with tenderness like autumn water.

"The love that Onii-sama lacks will be given by Shu Shizuku. As long as Onii-sama can be happy, whether it is father's love, mother's love, brother's love, sister's love or lover's love, I can do it all."

"No...that would be too much."

Kurogane Ikki smiled awkwardly but politely, but then, his eyes looked at Kurogane Zhu Shizuku with tenderness.

"But thank you anyway, Shizuku."

That's right, even though everyone in the Kurogane family looked down on him, they never gave him any love, and they all regarded him as a waste and a disgrace to the family.

However, his sister always loved him deeply, always trusted him, and never gave up on him.

There is no need for him to envy those who are loved by their families, because he also has a family who loves him and silently supports him.

After leaving the dessert shop, Kurotetsu Ikki and Arisuin Nagi went to the bathroom on the way.

Okita Souji was originally a little curious about whether Arisuin Nagi would go to the women's restroom, but he still went to the men's restroom with Kurotetsu Ikki.

"Really, those two people are so slow to go to the toilet."

Stella, who could no longer wait after waiting for a while, said impatiently: "I made four girls wait."

For such words, Okita Souji didn't know how to answer, so he might as well remain silent.

Suddenly, Okita Souji's eyes narrowed.

"Don't even move!"

Accompanied by a rough shout, firelight burst out, and the sound of gunshots and the sound of breaking glass mixed together, leading to chaos in the mall.

Even in this world where swordsmen are the protagonists, hot weapons such as firearms still have a terrifying deterrent effect, and everyone immediately fell to their knees and even fell to the ground with their heads in their hands.

"What's going on?!"

Before Stella could react to what was happening, Souji Okita scanned the surrounding environment carefully as quickly as possible.

A group of well-armed masked thugs had unknowingly surrounded the entire shopping mall.

And Souji Okita can confirm that not all of them are present, there must be many in other areas.

This shopping mall has a total of five floors. Masked thugs can be seen on each floor, and the distance between them is also very far.

all in all……

"Is there no way to solve it once and for all?"

Firearms have limited power against powerful swordsmen, but for ordinary people present, they are powerful weapons that can easily take away their lives.

Without the ability to guarantee their safety, even Souji Okita did not dare to take action.

"From now on, don't act rashly! You are now our hostages, please obey me until we get the ransom! Women and children gather in the middle of the mall!"

Not only Okita Souji, but also Stella, Ayase Ayatsuji, and Kurogane Jushizuku, they all tacitly chose to swallow their anger at this time.

Without knowing the number of enemies, they were also worried that rash actions would cause harm to ordinary people around them.

Chapter 62 The Ability of the Sword Slayer

The bustle turned into silence, the brightness turned into dimness, and the fun turned into fear.

These changes happened in the blink of an eye.

In the central square of the mall, with all the light bulbs turned off, only the weak sunlight from the skylight above became the only light.

Under the orders of the thugs and the pressure of guns, women and children were gathered together, and well-armed thugs with guns were guarding around them, with a thug every distance.

There were also several thugs guarding both sides of the exit, standing straight and carefully positioned, obviously they had received special training.

It seemed that all the customers who were still in the mall had been captured. The thugs gradually gathered in the square on the first floor. Except for the people who were still watching on the second and third floors, the thugs on the fourth and fifth floors had already come down to the first floor.

Okita Souji hid in the crowd and scanned the thugs. He found that from their angle and position, they could monitor the entire first floor hall almost without blind spots.

"They don't look like ordinary thugs..."

The reason why Okita Souji felt this way was that on the one hand, these people were too well-equipped and their actions were too efficient, and on the other hand...

"They held people in the mall hostage and then asked for a ransom... Why were they so roundabout?"

In Okita Souji's opinion, the enemy's goals and actions were completely inconsistent, and there must be some hidden secrets that she didn't know about.

As long as the sword cutter didn't show his magic power and spiritual clothes, it wouldn't be very obvious if he mixed in the crowd.

If it was a famous swordsman, people would remember his appearance, so Stella lowered her hat as much as possible. After all, although Stella was a student knight, she often appeared on TV screens as the princess of the Kingdom of Familian and the world's number one in magic power, and was easily recognized.

Compared to Stella, whether it was Okita Souji, Kurogane Jushizuku, or Ayatsuji Ayase, they were much better.

"I don't know how Ikki and the others are doing..."

Ayatsuji Ayase couldn't help but start to worry about Kurogane Ikki and the others. After all, unlike Kurogane Jushizuku and Stella, Ayatsuji Ayase had never seen Kurogane Ikki in battle. The only thing she knew about Kurogane Ikki was that he was an F-class knight and his title "Failed Knight".

Although Okita Souji explained to her that although Kurogane Ikki's magic power was not high, he could surpass most people in this academy in terms of combat, and Ayatsuji Ayase also believed in Okita Souji.

However, although she believed in Okita Souji, it was not so easy to change the "common sense" of the world with just a verbal explanation, and Okita Souji was not annoyed, because as long as the senior saw Kurogane Ikki's battle once, she would definitely change her opinion of this "failed knight".

Ayase Ayatsuji's worry about Kurogane Ikki was out of kindness, not the kind of contempt with pure malice.

Compared to Ayatsuji Ayase, Stella and the others only had trust in Kurogane Ikki.

"Ikki will be fine."

Stella believed in Kurogane Ikki, more than she believed in herself.

"Brother will definitely be fine. Compared to them, we should think about what we can do first."

Kurogane Jushizuku was much calmer than Stella. The two of them were like their own abilities, one representing water and the other representing fire, one as calm as water and the other as passionate as fire.

Stella gritted her teeth in hatred: "They only take women and children as hostages. What a despicable bunch of guys."

If it weren't for the fact that those people held hostages, Stella would have summoned her spirit suit to chop them all down long ago. With the world's strongest magic power as a support, Stella was confident that those bullets would completely melt and lose their attack power before hitting her.

Kurotetsu Shizuku glanced at Stella, and then whispered as if to appease Stella's anxious mood: "I have a way, but it will take a little time. Before that, don't let them notice."

Kurotetsu Shizuku's reminder was not unreasonable. After all, the person most likely to be exposed was Stella.

Maybe even Stella herself knew how hot-tempered she was, so this time she bowed her head in front of Kurogane Shizuku and said, "I'll try my best..."

Afterwards, Kurogane Shizuku also reminded Ayase Ayase to be on the safe side. Before she arranged everything, the three of them must not act rashly to attract attention...

Wait a minute? Three people?

Stella and the other two, who just realized something was wrong, looked around in a hurry.

"Where did Souji go?"

No one could answer them, Okita Souji disappeared strangely.

Whether it was the hostages around, or the three Stellas who were closest, or the gunmen guarding the surroundings, no one noticed that Okita Souji had left.

It's impossible to say that there was no panic in their hearts. After all, a living person disappeared so strangely. Even if her disappearance was likely to be done by Okita Souji, Stella and the others could only pretend to be calm, because the more they delayed for a second, the greater the possibility of the failure of Kurogane Shizuku's plan.

The most important thing now is how to rescue those ordinary people from the guns of the mob.

So, Kurogane Jushizuku calmed down as quickly as possible, because the ability she was going to use required extremely precise control.

The swordsman had magic power since birth, and had his own special ability.

Everyone's special abilities are different, but they can be roughly divided into four types:

[Physical Enhancement System], which can only enhance physical abilities, but as long as magic power is used to enhance the body, the same effect can be achieved, so it is the weakest and most useless special ability.

[Natural Interference System], which can manipulate various elements of nature, usually has a wide attack range, and is also the most common special ability.

[Concept Interference System], which can manipulate or change the ideas or rules that humans have stabilized after civilization cleansing and survival of the fittest, and has various incredible powers.

[Cause and Effect Interference System], which is recognized as the most powerful ability in all systems, has the power to change cause and effect, and the effect of real use is incredible, but there are very few swordsmen who have this ability.

In addition to these, there are some very strange abilities that cannot even be classified into the above four types, and these abilities are classified as the fifth type, defined as "unclassified system".

Kurogane Jushizuku's ability belongs to the natural interference system, which can control water. With the A-level magic control, she can even accurately control the movement of every water droplet and even water molecules. It can be said that she is completely opposite to Stella who relies entirely on firepower to crush.

And now what she has to do is to control the water to protect all the hostages without anyone noticing. Fortunately, the lights around are broken, and the dim environment is convenient for her to use her abilities.

However, plans often cannot keep up with changes, and many things in this world are beyond one's control.

"Please! At least let my child go!"

Chapter 63 Killing in the Shadows

Then, Stella and the others saw an unbearable scene.

"Please! At least let my child go!"

"Stop making so much noise! ​​Get out of here!"

A mother knelt in front of a thug, wanting him to let her child go, but was hit in the face by his elbow, flying several meters away.

Stella was already angry, but she had to endure it because of what Kurogane Shizuku said.

"Don't bully my mother!"

A little boy, who seemed to be the child of the mother just now, threw the ice cream in his hand directly on the thug's head, and then rushed towards him angrily.

It was this action that completely annoyed the thug, and he kicked the boy's stomach hard without mercy.

The heavy military boots, or the kick from a sturdy adult, even an adult could not bear it, let alone a child.

But the thug seemed to think it was far from enough, and pointed the black muzzle of the gun at the boy's head with a grin.

Kurogane Shizuku sighed, because she knew that after seeing this scene, the people around her could no longer sit still.

If a student knight wants to use a spirit suit, he must get permission. The academy had already learned about the situation inside through the escaped tourists, so Stella and Kurogane Jushizuku had all obtained permission to use spirit suits.

By the way, Okita Souji's sword was also considered a spirit suit. After all, Okita Souji's sword can be transformed into a spirit, which is perfect for pretending to be a spirit suit made of magic power.