stand-in creed

Based on the characteristics revealed by the boy whose left eye was gouged out, Nero quickly positioned Toshika Mata——

Thin physique.

Shoulder-length hair.

A gloomy temperament that is incompatible with the surroundings.

Even when it was time for get out of class to end, such a young man didn't joke around with others, but sat alone at the foot of the classroom, reading his own comic book.

Nero quietly floated past the girls laughing and discussing their favorite types of boys at the door, drifted silently to the corner of the classroom, and came behind Toshika Mata.

As if he felt the wind blowing around him, and as if he felt someone watching him, Toshikazu Mata raised his eyes from the comic book and looked around.

Then--

Straight up to the helmet of the Stairway to Heaven, and the darkness under the eye hole of the helmet.

"...?!"

Ma Tian Minhe was taken aback.

It was as if a person who was concentrating on his work was suddenly startled when he suddenly found that there was an extra class teacher beside him, Min Tian and the whole person trembled in their seats, and the comic book in his hand fell with a "snap". on the ground.

Take a closer look——

"Red and Black Boy" Kishibe Rohan.

"Can you see my "Stairway to Heaven", Toshikazu Mata?

"If that's the case, I should be looking for the right person—you are the one who dug out my friend's left eye."

"...!"

Mata Minhe looked tremblingly at the source of the sound, the distorted air behind him.

And the next moment, Ma Tian Minhe scanned the classroom nervously.

"Ah, I understand. Even if others can't hear what we are saying at this distance, you don't want to be regarded as a "maverick" guy who can talk to himself because of his "mouth moving" right?I have heard a little bit about the campus atmosphere in Japan.

"In that case, take out your notebook and write."

Ma Tian Minhe nodded quickly.

Carefully took out the notebook, and began to write with some trembling.

--Yes.

"Oh? You poked your "friend" in the eye because you had a different opinion of your idol?

"It's really dangerous to be your guy's friend."

Hearing what Nero said, Toshika Mata's hands shook, as if a little angry.

Although he didn't speak, let alone write in his notebook, at this moment Tian Minhe had made up his mind to use his double "surface" to teach this guy a profound lesson!

The problem is, it takes a moment.

The bell for class rang at this moment, Nero lowered his voice and asked.

"What time do you leave school?"

—Three forty.Toshikazu Mata wrote so.

"Then you go to class first, listen carefully, don't look around, and don't peek at comic books—students should behave like students. I'm very free today, so I don't need you to skip class and go to the bathroom to talk about things with me, just let me Take the opportunity to reminisce about what life in high school was like.

"As for whether you want to answer my question honestly, or want to have a hearty stand-in battle with me, it's not too late to say after school."

This sentence was left behind.

Stairway to Heaven rolled up the comic books on the ground and threw them into the distorted air mass, disappearing like Nero's body.

As for Nero, he carefully tasted the masterpiece of the famous Japanese manga artist Kishibe Rohan——

——Have you heard the story of "Red and Black Boy"?

Chapter 16

Three forty.

With the jingling bell, the last class is over.

In order to be admitted to the university of their choice, senior high school students either go straight to the liberal arts department or the science department to brush up questions, or pack their schoolbags in a hurry and prepare to make up lessons.Men and women who are not very interested in going to school or have already arranged their way out go to various club classrooms and enjoy the last youthful life on the high school campus.

As for Toshikazu Mata, he was a member of the Returning Home Club.

Deliberately procrastinating, he slowly packed his schoolbags and arrived at a room that was probably a locker room—many Japanese campus-themed manga will appear in such a place, like a swimming pool locker room, where rows of iron cabinets are pasted with students' personal information. name.

Generally speaking, this is probably the place to change into the room shoes. Nero is not Japanese so I don't understand it very well.However, Nero knows that life winners in Japanese campuses will occasionally find things like love letters in such a cabinet, while those who are bullied on campus will find a shoe missing when they open the cabinet, or it will be piled up. Disgusting garbage.

In addition to various comic books in Toshika Mata's cabinet, there is another huge thing that almost occupies the entire cabinet space——

Puppets for painting.

It's not a small puppet figure that can be placed next to the monitor as a decoration, but a puppet figure that is one-to-one in size.

"...do you sketch?" Nero asked.

"Ah, um, I'm a little interested." Ma Tian Minhe said nervously, holding a stack of books at the same time, "Well... if possible, can you help me move this puppet? Need to bring it home."

"No."

"Hey?"

"Don't you have hands?"

"I……"

"Are you trying to say that you're full of so many comics, and there's no room to put them in your schoolbag, so you need my help?

"But it's very strange. The corners of the comic books you hold in your hands have traces of "rolling up". I think they are all comic books you have read, right?Since I have seen it, why did I suddenly want to take it home when I played it well in school?Could it be that you want to review it on a whim?Can you see it! "

Nero actually rejected Mata Toshikazu's proposal in the beginning because he didn't want to help him move things at all.These reasons are just what I thought after I refused, but the more I think about it, the more I think it makes sense.

Sure enough, he is actually very suitable to be a detective?

After traveling around the world, I will go back to Italy and open an office.

However, Jiantian Minhe, who was already cautious, became even more panicked: "This, this, this is because, because I was scolded by the head teacher for reading comics this morning! The head teacher said that if he finds out that I bring comic books to school again, all of them will be confiscated. so……"

"So you want to take them all home?"

"Correct!"

"……are you kidding me?"

"Huh?" Jian Tian Minhe was dumbfounded.

However, at the next moment, Tian Minhe was grabbed by the neckline by Nero: "Obviously because of different views on idols—maybe he had reservations when he said it to me, probably belittled your idol? But just because of this You, who dug out your friend's eyes out of boredom, would obediently listen to the head teacher?

"With your personality, if this kind of thing really happened, wouldn't it be right to use your double to make the class teacher unable to go to work or even go to the hospital?

"There is a serious "contradiction" in your words and deeds, Toshikazu Mata. "

"I-I-I-I-"

"Also, the day before yesterday I met a substitute who had to "trigger conditions" to activate the substitute ability.What is the reason why you guys haven't shown me your double to fight me until now?

"Because you dare not fight? I'm afraid not.

"Is it because long-distance manipulative stand-ins are not suitable for close-range combat? Very likely.

"Or is it because you haven't fulfilled the "trigger condition" for activating the substitute ability?It also seems possible. "

"...?!"

"But no matter what the possibility is, Toshikazu Mata, no matter what type of double your double is, you are undoubtedly in a state of "unable to fight".So I give you two choices, first, answer my question honestly; second, get beaten up by me and then answer the question honestly. "

"!"

at this time.

Gritting his teeth, Jiantian Minhe actually picked up his puppet directly, and threw it towards Nero.

wrong.

Not just thrown over.

But at the same time that Matian Toshikazu made the action of "throwing", the puppet suddenly turned into the appearance of Matian Toshikazu, and punched Nero's body.

However, Nero was already prepared.

Not only had he been prepared, but Nero had also made such a judgment while throwing punches on the surface—Kong had good strength and speed, but his base was unstable, his defense was not good, and he didn't have the slightest skill or method at all. It's an "outsider" way of fighting.

"It seems that you chose "Option [-]"——

"- Euler!"

Nero's body instantly pulled back a distance of about one meter, and the Stairway to Heaven on the side took the opportunity to punch the puppet who had become Mata Toshikazu on the chin, knocking him flying to the ground.

It's just that although the puppet was hit, Toshikazu Mata's body showed no signs of injury.

——The main body will not inherit the injuries of the substitute.Nero made an instant judgment.

"After you touched the puppet, the puppet turned into your appearance, is this your substitute ability?

"It should be more than that, I'm afraid there are other back-ups. If it's just to change into someone else's appearance, you don't need me to help you carry the double just now for the sake of fighting. I'm afraid your double will become someone else's after touching it." There are other things that can be done after the appearance.

"Since it's a puppet, it's natural to think of it—to turn people into puppets in your hands?"

"...?!"

Mata Minhe looked at Nero who was floating towards the ceiling with the Stairway to Heaven in disbelief.

Nero asked with a smile.

"Would you mind telling me its name?"

"……surface."

"On the surface... I know."

The voice fell.

Nero and the Stairway to Heaven swooping down.

On the surface, he punched again, this punch was stronger than the Stairway to Heaven, but the speed was weaker than the Stairway to Heaven.

Dio once said that there is no point in hitting, so this punch——

- Useless!

Stairway to Heaven dodged sideways in an instant.

After dodging, he grasped the skirt of the clothes on the surface with his right hand and right foot in front, turned around 180 degrees on the spot, tripped his right foot to the calf on the surface, and then slammed forward.

Surface's eyes widened as he fell to the ground.

"This is Saigo Shiro's..."

boom!

Before the surface could finish saying this, it was smashed into pieces with a bang.

At the same time, Nero also came in front of Toshika Mata, and under Toshika Mata's terrified eyes, he made the same movements as he did on the surface of the Stairway to Heaven just now.

"I……"

"For the sake of asking you something later, I will be gentle and not make you faint."

Jian Tian Minhe was grabbed by the collar and tripped up his calf amidst the terrified eyes and screams, and threw him fiercely forward.

boom!

Ma Tian Minhe was thrown to the ground severely.

Immediately afterwards, Toshika Mata, who was lying on the ground, saw Nero's face come into his sight.

Nero patted Mata Toshika's face lightly, trying to recall the memory of the battle with Dio, his expression turned cold, scaring this incompetent stand-in messenger.

"Now I will ask you to answer.

"I'll kill you if you don't know, kill you if you answer indiscriminately, kill you if you resist to the end, kill you if you squeak, dare to say more with your mouth like a 〇 eye facing the toilet. A word of "nonsense" will kill you, and keeping silent will kill you!so tell me-

"—Where is the Xingzhao of Hongcun Village?"

look at nero