Academy City's Puppet Master

Today's breakfast is ramen——Kazezhan Hikaru has mastered a new dish.

"What's wrong? Is there something on my face?"

While Ling Xingye was feasting, he noticed that the girl on the opposite side was staring straight at him without hiding her gaze.

"How many days has it been?" Feng Zhan Binghua seemed to be talking to himself, "This summer vacation is really long."

"Wouldn't it be nice to have a longer vacation?" Ling Xingye responded with a smile.

"That's true." The girl nodded in agreement, and then said, "... But as far as I know, there is no superpower that can directly manipulate time."

Ling Xingye closed his eyes and fell silent.

"Although I'm very happy that Xingye can accompany me in this world, but..." Feng Zhan Binghua said softly, "Xingye, you don't belong here..."

Ling Xingye's whole body shook, and at the same time, the entire city shook as well, as if an earthquake had occurred.

"You actually realized it a long time ago, right?" Feng Zhan Binghua asked.

"That is to say..." Ling Xingye looked bitter, "The 'dream' back then was really real? Instead, this is the dream?"

"It's time to wake up." Feng Zhan Binghua stood up with a smile, "Thank you for being with me these days, but from now on, I have to pay back to Shiranui."

"Hitomi..." The name was like a key, unlocking the dusty memory in Ling Xingye's mind.

Boom, boom, boom...

The door was knocked.

"Xingye, I'm here to find you." Outside the door, Shiranui Hitomi's familiar voice came.

===Chapter 26 Double Spring===

Hitomi Shiranui followed Kihara Chime into the elevator, and the humanoid robot followed behind her, seemingly not worried about Kihara Chime's sudden attack.

"Good confidence." Kihara Chime praised this calmness.

"If you don't play tricks, it's easy to beat you!" Hitomi Shiranui snorted coldly, "It should be because of your courage to get so close to this distance—the only thing that can protect you now is the iron law of silver."

Kihara Chime chuckled, neither angry nor defensive, calmly passed the triple protection of ID card, fingerprint and password, and opened the control panel of the elevator.

"You should be thankful that you made the right choice, otherwise you wouldn't be able to start this elevator at all."

Shiranui Hitomi ignored him, just sneered in her heart - she had already obtained the emergency maintenance code of the elevator from Yuan Shanyao's memory.

The elevator descended at a high speed and stopped only when it reached a deep place underground.Then, the two walked out one after another.

Like a teacher leading a student to visit the research institute, Kihara Chime walked in front with her hands behind her back, as if she was not worried about the attack of the girl behind her.

Although she already knew the next route, Shiranuo Tong did not act rashly, but followed him five meters behind him - she also wanted to take this opportunity to see if the other party was still lying to her.

But Kihara Chime did not play any tricks this time, and walked directly to the room where Ling Xingye was held.

Arriving at the door, before opening the door, Kihara Chime finally looked back at Hitomi Shiranui: "Okay, the old man let you in, you come to wake up Ling Xingye's consciousness."

"Open the door."

Kihara Chime obeyed and opened the door to let Hitomi Shiranui enter.

Then he followed in and closed the door behind him.

After a few clicks, the door was locked.Only relying on intuition, Shiranuotong knew that they had been completely locked in this secret room.

But she didn't care about those things.

Because Ling Xingye, who had been missing for a long time, was right in front of her.

This is a square room of fifty meters by fifty meters, with a high ceiling, and there is an observation window about ten meters from the bottom—it is a standard indoor experimental site.

The experimental field was empty, and Ling Xingye was lying in the center of the field, still asleep.

And his puppet, Yaoyao, sat directly on Ling Xingye's body, clasped his fingers together, lowered his head and remained motionless.

Hitomi Shiranui looked at the sprite in front of her in surprise, and then looked back at Chime Kihara.

The latter shrugged at her, indicating that he did not do it himself.

Hitomi Shiranui also knew that no one would be so boring as to put sprites in such a pose.

——In this way, as Kihara Chime said, the sprite can move on its own, because it sits on Ling Xingye's body.

Also according to Kihara Chime, it is Ling Xingye's "Second Personality" who is manipulating the monsters at this time.

If this is the case, then the sprite's movements, as well as the composition of the painting, have a strong symbolic meaning.

——The puppet suppresses the master?The second personality turned against the guest?

But no matter what, the sprites controlled by the second personality did protect Ling Xingye's body!

Seeing that Ling Xingye was intact, Shiranuo Tong finally breathed a sigh of relief.

She walked forward quickly, but Kihara Chime did not continue to approach, but walked aside along the wall.

Sensing someone approaching, the ghost suddenly raised his head, and a little light shone in his eyes.

Although it is the body of a puppet, its eyes are like Ling Xingye himself.

Shiranui Huotong stopped immediately, and for a while, his feet were as heavy as a thousand weights, and he couldn't take another step.

That was not Ling Xingye, but it was only one step away from waking Ling Xingye.

Having exposed her identity as "Silver", she didn't know how to face Ling Xingye.

——Could it be possible to tell Xingye directly that I am the puppet master and you are my puppet?

——Are you going to confess that your previous suspicions were correct, that I was lying to you, from the very beginning?

——But I obviously don't want to deceive you!You are Starry Night, not some puppet!

"You're here." It was the sprite who spoke first, seeing the girl in front of him, it tilted its head stiffly, and sighed again, "Changed image?"

The built-in sound generating device of the sprite is very simple, and it can only produce a strange sound of metal reed friction.

Hitomi Shiranui was awakened by this severely distorted voice.

Like being manipulated by a poor puppeteer, the sprite raised his hand and knocked on his head stiffly and bluntly: "The structure of this body is really simple and outrageous, did he expect it long ago, so he chose this way?" Primitive puppet."

Ignoring Chihara Chime who was on the side, the ghost looked at Hitomi Shiranui: "Since you are here, what is your choice? Shiranui."

"Choose me, or him?" Yao Yao pointed to Ling Xingye who was under him.

"You suppressed me for ten years, created a second personality, and sealed me instead." Momo turned his head slightly and looked in the direction of Kihara Chime, "Now, what should you choose when you are in urgent need of real combat power?"

"This guy can only continue to manipulate this crude and primitive puppet." The ghost sneered, "Choose me, and I will let you have the strength worthy of the name of 'Silver'!"

It paused, and pointed to Kihara Chime: "There is no need to be threatened by this old guy again."

Kihara Chime still looked at it with a smile, but didn't stop: "Now this room is completely isolated from the outside, and no one can get out without the old man's instructions. So it's better to save yourself from dangerous thoughts."

Yaoyao yelled sharply: "If it is not limited by this body, I will kill you!"

Kihara Chime shrugged, although he didn't care, but really stopped talking.

They had fought against each other before, but judging from the current situation, Kihara Chime obviously didn't take advantage.

Kihara Chime took a deep look at the sprite, as if his gaze could penetrate everything, and saw the gear embedded in the sprite's chest under the sprite's clothes.

Although it was extremely slow, the gear was indeed rotating a little bit—this is why the completely solid puppet, the puppet, can "operate automatically" at this time.

"...Baibian Baoliang." Kihara Chime narrowed his eyes slightly, and said to himself in a voice that only he could hear, "What are your plans?"

The existence of sprites made Kihara Chime unable to get close to Ling Xingye, so he let Hitomi Shiranui come in, hoping to use her hand to suppress this "second personality".

Sprites, Shiranui Hitomi, and Kihara Chime face each other in a triangle.

then.

"Have you decided?" Sprite asked.

Hitomi Shiranui took a deep breath and started walking again with a firm expression.

"Thank you for your protection." Hitomi Shiranui said, "But Starry Night is Starry Night, never a puppet!"

"Is that so..." Monster spread out his hands, showing no emotion, "It's impossible for me or him to hurt you."

Sprite stood up and stepped forward to hug Hitomi Shiranui.

Hitomi Shiranui hesitated, but finally responded to the hug.

"Nice job." In her ear, the voice of sprites came directly, "You are more daring than I imagined - the new hairstyle is very good."

Pushing him away, Hitomi Shiranui saw that the look in the eyes of the puppet disappeared, and the body of the puppet lost its support and fell down.

Kihara Chime, who had been paying attention to them, suddenly jumped up: "Disappeared? If that's the case, it's better not to wake up Ling Xingye!"

The humanoid robot immediately stepped forward to block it.

Kihara Chime drew out his cane again, and after fighting, he found that the robot was completely fake, and could only follow a fixed program of actions, and it was easily solved.

No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like it should be under the control of the "Silver Puppet Master"!

Looking over there again, I didn't know Huotong had already taken the opportunity to bend down and pressed against Ling Xingye's forehead.

Although he hadn't fully figured out the situation for a while, Kihara Chime had already reacted.

"How dare you lie to me!"

A blade popped out from the cane, and slashed fiercely at Hitomi Shiranui!

===Six hundred and 27 Confused, the truth===

"I'm here to find you, Xingye." A familiar voice came from outside the door.

Whoa!

Ling Xingye stood up abruptly, the chair behind him was bounced off and hit the wall.

"Shiranui... Hitomi?" He murmured subconsciously, skipping the stage of thinking, like instinct, Ling Xingye said the name of the person outside the door.

The next moment, as if a certain shackle was broken, the name "Shiranui Hitomi" was like a key, unlocking the long-sealed memory in the back of my mind.