Mei, the Herrscher of Thunder

However, besides Mei and Tina, there are Lei Yi and Xia Shi, and the four of them also have a few more bags in their hands.

"After shopping around, why did you only eat a few skewers of takoyaki, Tina? You also packed a few boxes... don't you like eating takoyaki very much?" Looking at the bag in Tina's hand, Mei asked with some doubts.

Hearing her question, Tina nodded her cheeks and tilted her head as if thinking.

"Hmm... I don't know. I think it looks very special and cute... Well, it's also delicious."

Seeing this, Mei smiled, pointed to a gazebo in the park and said: "Then let's sit there and continue eating. There were too many people in the snack street just now, and it was very noisy. Next, we can be quiet and not be disturbed." excuse me."

Hearing this, Tina seemed a little hesitant.

"Well... aren't we going to the outskirts? I want to see the cursed children in the Tokyo area."

"Yeah." Mei nodded, but didn't stop, "Don't you know? Tina, the outer area is on the other side of us, you can go there anytime."

"The other side?" Tina seemed a little surprised by this.

"Well, come and take a look and you'll know."

As the four continued to move forward, going deep into the park, an inland river with a width of several hundred meters appeared in their sight.

The most important thing is that on the other side of the river, there is a completely different scenery from the river side:

There are ruins, overgrown trees, jagged rocks, and even the bridge leading to the opposite bank is broken.

Even though they are separated by a river, it seems like two worlds on both sides of the river bank.

"That's Tokyo's No.30 Ninth Ward, the place where the children mainly live." Mei explained slowly, the smile on her face had disappeared at some point.

"So that's the outlying area..." Looking at the buildings on the other side of the river that had collapsed, faded and even called "ruins" due to years of disrepair, Tina opened her eyes wide, as if she couldn't believe it.

Seeing her like this, Mei didn't know what to say. She even felt ashamed and angry because she belonged to the "looted generation" in the inner city.

In order to break this awkward atmosphere, Mei could only suppress her inner emotions, and asked the maid Lei Yi nonchalantly: "Lei Yi, how will we get there later?"

"Miss, although this bridge has been abandoned, there is a newly built bridge a few kilometers away. We only need to drive around there, and it will take about half an hour." Lei Yi replied slowly.

"Really? Did you hear Ti..."

Before she finished speaking, Mei closed her mouth because of what she saw in front of her eyes.

In sight, the sluggish expression on Tina's face had disappeared, replaced by an almost ruthless indifference, and her eyes dimmed as if she had lost hope.

"Why...why is it like this everywhere in this world?" She kept muttering to herself, and the bag containing two boxes of takoyaki fell to the ground at some point in her hand. Big hit.

In contrast, Xia Shi, who was standing next to Lei Yi, looked calm, as if he had already seen this reality clearly.

"Tina..." Seeing the girl like this, Mei felt an unspeakable distress for some reason.

"Om—" Suddenly, she heard a shock.

The voice came from Tina!

And at the moment when the shock appeared, the girl's complexion also changed obviously, and there was a rare panic in her eyes.

"Sorry, I'm leaving!" Before Mei could ask, Tina bowed to the three of them, "Thank you very much today, Miss Mei, and it's also a pleasure to meet Miss Lei Yi and Xia Shichan, let us See you later."

As soon as the words fell, she picked up the bag that fell on the ground, ignored the surprised eyes of the three, and ran out of the park quickly.

Seeing the gradually disappearing figure, Mei and Lei looked at each other, and saw the solemnity in each other's eyes.

"Miss, Tina sauce, she..."

"Well, Xia Shi's guess last time should be right, her identity is by no means simple." Mei nodded and pondered.

"Then...Miss, do you need me to start the investigation?" Hearing this, Lei Yi continued to ask.

Looking at the place where the girl disappeared, Mei nodded slightly.

"Let's do it secretly, if possible, I really don't want to hurt her..."

Is that girl an enemy or a friend...

As things stand now, they can only resign themselves to fate.

Chapter 68 Chapter 66 Second Coming to the Outer Area

No.30 District Nine.

Although Tina left halfway, which caught Mei and the others by surprise, they still came here in the end, just for the children.

According to Mei's words: "We have already reached the other side. If we don't go, it will seem that the things we have done in the past are too hypocritical, right? Those children will be very disappointed if they know?"

In this way, after a week, Mei once again came to the outer area in this way.It was the same car, she and Lei were still in the driver's seat, but this time there was a cute little Natsuki Qianju sitting in the back seat.

Of course, for Lei Yi, the most important thing is that he finally doesn't have to experience the "speed and passion" of his young lady like last time, which is really gratifying.

……

"Rumble--"

Compared with the "wildness" when Mei stepped on the accelerator to the bottom last time, Lei Yi's car drove very steadily, even in the rocky field, the people in the car did not feel too much shaking.

The reason does not rule out that this pick-up car from Leiden is originally a comfortable and stable off-road model.

Seeing that there is still a long way to go to the destination, Mei began to chat with Xia Shi intentionally or unintentionally:

"Xia Shi, were you born in the outlying area?"

"No, master."

"Eh?"

"Master, I was born in the Osaka area, and I was assigned to the Tokyo area by the International Initiator Supervisory Agency, and when I was an Initiator, I had never been to the outlying area, and the general supervisor did not allow it."

"Is that so? Did you live in the Osaka area before becoming a policeman?"

"No, I haven't seen my parents. Since I had a personal consciousness, I grew up under the supervision of a supervisory agency."

"...how is life in the watchdog?"

"It depends on how you understand, master. In my opinion, that kind of life is nothing, because I have long been used to it. But for a good person like you and those cursed children who were forcibly captured and domesticated and trained, there is nothing there. It's a dark hell."

"How to say?"

"I live in a closed room like a prison cell every day, and I am bound by heavy chains to prevent escape. Although three meals a day and even corrosion inhibitors will be automatically rationed, but there is no freedom at all, like being held in captivity. Domestic animals, waiting to be assigned a fate assigned to strangers."

Hearing this, Mei was silent.

"...So Xia Shi, your character was developed in such a depressing environment?"

In response, Xia Shi slowly raised the corners of his mouth, showing an unskilled smile.

"Before I came to Tokyo, I always thought that my world was the size of that room, and many times I would even be thankful that I had the dolphin factor, because it gave me the wisdom and thinking ability to make me see better than my peers." I understand, I have to recognize myself..."

"Did you know? Master, in the supervisory institution, those cursed sons who disobey discipline and like to cause trouble are punished mercilessly. I even saw with my own eyes that the same kind with good self-healing ability were tortured by them forcibly. until death..."

"From then on, I understood that the place I live in is not the whole world, but a dark corner abandoned by the world. But I didn't resist, I just obeyed, and I will do my best to fulfill their requirements, so as to fulfill their demands." Don't let yourself get hurt."

The naked darkness was presented to Mei and the others through Xia Shi's narration.

Regarding this, both Mei and Lei Yi could only keep silent.

They are not cursed children, and they cannot truly understand the situation of cursed children.

"The world has never been bright. The fairy tale books they brought us are just a kind of anesthesia, like drugs... No, it is more terrible than drugs in the eyes of normal people. It can make us mentally retarded children have no idea about the future. Fantasies, in order to generate hope and cut off the idea of ​​suicide..."

"It's ridiculous, right? Because we are cursed children, our physique is different from that of ordinary people. Ordinary drugs can't make us have such illusory dreams, but a few books have done it..."

"I understand, so I want to live even more, in order to see what the world is like with my own eyes, not listening to others, not reading from books, but observing with my own eyes and heart."

Speaking of this, Xia Shi smiled from the bottom of his heart, and his black and white eyes were extremely bright at this moment.

"Fortunately, I have finally waited for the legendary light. The present life is undoubtedly the happiest ending for the protagonist in the story. All this is thanks to you, my master."

"That's right! Missy is Lei Yi's light!" Lei nodded his head in agreement.

Sensing the grateful and adoring gazes of the two maids, Mei shook her head, her expression as usual.

"I'm not as great as you say, I'm just doing what I think is right to the best of my ability. But hearing what Xia Shi said, I have strengthened my inner thoughts."

"What do you think?" Hearing this, the two maids immediately pricked up their ears.

Mei raised her head, looking at the sky that stretched infinitely into the distance.

"Break the monopoly with monopoly, disintegrate the international initiator supervisory organization, and based on the "New Gastrum Law" of His Highness the Holy Son of Heaven, include the true wishes of the cursed sons in it, and improve the current deformed police system!"

"This...Master, are you planning to develop a more effective erosion inhibitor?" Xia Shi instantly grasped the central point of this passage - breaking the monopoly with monopoly, with a surprised expression on his face.

"But miss, we don't even know the formula and production method of the inhibitor." Lei Yi was also stunned, and asked while driving.

Seeing this, Mei smiled, her eyes filled with a kind of confidence that ordinary people could not understand.

"Yeah, if you can't do it now, it doesn't mean you can't do it in the future. Believe me! Lei Yi, Natsu Shi, since I, Raiden Mei, will accomplish what I promised! Within ten years, I guarantee that you will see a brand new world !"

"Well! I believe in Missy!"

"I also believe that the master is fine."

Hearing their words, Mei felt that her shoulders seemed to be a little heavier, but her heart was full of emotion and hope.

This is a responsibility.

The unsolvable protovirus in this world does not mean that there is no solution in other worlds, right?Once a stronger and more effective erosion inhibitor is developed, then she, Leiden Mei, can be regarded as holding the key to open the door to the new world.

Ideal, can be pictured!

……

A while later, when Mei and the others came to the entrance of the sewer, they met the "cover girl" named Maria again.

Originally they wanted to see the children, but they got the answer from the other party:

"Everyone has gone to class~ The new teacher said that it is not good for your health to stay down all the time."

Attend class?New teacher?

Hearing this, Mei and Lei looked at each other, and they both saw doubts in each other's eyes.

Especially Mei, ever since she entered the peripheral area, she always felt a vague sense of uneasiness, as if something bad was about to happen.

Driven by this premonition, Mei appeared a little impatient.

"Where do they have classes?!"

"..."

After asking from Maria where the children were attending classes, Mei and the others hurriedly got into the car and rushed to the target location.

"Miss, you..." Glancing at Mei's gloomy profile, Lei opened his mouth, as if he wanted to ask something.

But before she finished speaking, Mei took a step ahead.

"Lei Yi, when was the last time you came here?"

"Huh? Five, five days ago, I brought a week's worth of food for the children, and I planned to come back in two days..."

"Did you hear about the new teacher from Matsuzaki-senpai and the children at that time?"

"No, miss."

After getting the answer, Mei's complexion became obviously worse.

"That is to say, the so-called new teacher took office within these five days. Who do you think will teach those children? This is obviously a thankless job, and they don't get paid. It's equivalent to a white job. "

"Master, do you mean that the so-called new teacher is aimed at those cursed sons?" At this time, Xia Shiyu was surprised.

"This—!? No way?" Hearing this, Lei Yi's face turned pale.

"I don't know." Mei took a deep breath, trying to calm down the growing anxiety in her heart, "The new teacher must have the permission of Senior Matsuzaki to take office, and the latter's dedication to the children should not let those who harbor evil intentions It is right to succeed..."

Having said that, Mei made a conclusion indifferently:

"In general, let's go and see! Lei Yi, speed up!"

"Oh, okay!" At this point, Lei Yi couldn't care about his comfort, so he could only step on the accelerator.

As a result, the price was that the paintwork of their car was scratched by various bushes and branches, and the black body was also stained by dust, mud and stains. I am afraid that they will have to do a car maintenance after returning home.

However, the effect of the acceleration is also obvious, and within a few minutes, Mei and the others arrived at their destination.

It was an open-air classroom built on ruins, and all the teaching facilities only include:

A desk made up of a dozen wooden boards, stools of different colors and even different models, a pair of low desks that are old enough to be scrapped, and a newer-looking blackboard that seems to have been there before.