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"Haha, that's good. After all, your body is your capital."

"That's it. You have to take good care of your body."

"Haha...I'll pay attention. Are you two going out to buy something?"

"That's right. Normally you can't go out freely on <Flaxinas>, but here you can easily go out on the ground."

"Ah, indeed."

After Chen Ling finished speaking, he nodded in agreement.The entrance and exit of this facility is located in a mixed residential and commercial building built in a corner of Tiangong City, so it is easier to go out at will.

Of course, since the existence of <Ratatosk> cannot be discovered by ordinary citizens, appropriate companies are stationed in this building.Nakatsugawa and Nakatsukawa are not wearing the "Ratatosk" uniforms now, but look like office workers, wearing a suit and a coat, with employee ID cards hanging around their necks.Seeing them dressed like this, no one would think that they were members of a secret organization.

"That's what I say, but I'm still a little lonely. After all, what I'm most proud of as a man is to perform missions on a mobile battleship flying in the sky! I really hope that <Fraxinas> can return to the front line as soon as possible!"

Nakatsugawa held the fingerless hand tightly, his glasses shining brightly.Chen Ling twitched slightly when she saw his hot-blooded look. The middle-aged man should stop looking so hot-blooded. You are no longer the middle child, you are the second child.

However, as the saying goes, men will remain young until they die. For this guy to be so passionate, doesn’t it mean that he has a good mentality?Chen Ling understands this quite well.

"By the way, what did you two buy back?"

After Chen Ling asked, the two of them nodded slightly, and then showed the plastic bags in their hands.

"I'm buying snacks and the things the commander asked me to buy."

"Doubly good lollipops?"

"Ah, you know?"

After Chen Ling finished speaking, Shiizaki answered with a smile.

"As expected of you."

"I also bought some snacks to eat on the spot──and this one."

Nakatsugawa then took out a book from the plastic bag.

It was a B5-sized boy's comic magazine.The cover shows a boy holding a sword, with the words "Weekly Shōnen BLAST" printed on it.

"Huh? Is this...BLAST?"

"Yes. It's the latest issue released today. Have you read this magazine too?"

"Well, I'll take a look when I'm bored."

Chen Ling tilted his head, as if to express, "So what?", so Nakatsugawa raised the corner of his mouth and pointed to the lower left corner of the cover.

"What's going on? Is this...eh?"

Chen Ling looked where Nakatsukawa pointed, and then——his eyes widened.

Seeing this, Nakatsugawa nodded with satisfaction.

"That's right. "SILVERBULLET" drawn by Honjo Souji, which has been serialized for a long time, has finally started to be serialized again!"

"A comic that was discontinued five years ago? I've read a little bit of it before, and it was quite interesting. However, coming back now after being discontinued for five years, I'm afraid it's not the legendary 'come back to draw comics when you're short of money' kind of part-time comic Home."

Chen Ling laughed and complained.

"Haha! There is also this saying. The blame is more due to rumors that the author had a falling out with the editorial department, the author suddenly fell ill, and he stopped serializing on the excuse of back pain. In fact, he was just addicted to playing video games. I work hard, this article! And so on... I still can’t believe that I’m actually getting to see the follow-up to “SILVERBULLET”!”

When Chen Ling and Nakatsugawa were discussing comics animatedly, Shiizaki suddenly raised his eyebrows, took out his cell phone from his pocket, and put it to his ear.

"──I'm Shiizaki...Ah, yes, I understand. I'll be there immediately."

It seems that there is something urgent that needs to be dealt with.After Shiizaki cut off the call, he said to Chen Ling with an apologetic look:

"Sorry, I have to go. Could you please bring this to the Commander?"

After Shiizaki finished speaking, he handed one of the shopping bags in his hand to Chen Ling.Chen Ling nodded in agreement.

"Of course, keep working hard."

"Thank you, you helped me a lot. Then I'll take my leave..."

Shiizaki bowed his head and thanked her, then disappeared at the end of the corridor with broken steps.Chen Ling watched her back, and then Nakatsukawa suddenly raised his hand and said:

"Then I'll take my leave. I have to finish SILVERBULLET before the break ends!"

"Haha... Then, see you next time."

After Chen Ling finished speaking, Nakatsugawa also left in the opposite direction of Shiizaki.

"Okay──I'll send the things over quickly."

Chen Ling gently shook the shopping bag in his hand, returned to the way he came, and then opened the door.

"Hey─Kotori, Miss Shiizaki asked me to bring this to you..."

At this point, Chen Ling froze.

There was no other reason than that, in addition to Kotori and Reine, there was a petite girl in the room...and Kotori was panting, pressing the girl down on the bed, and roughly pulling off her clothes. hospital gown.

"Yeah! Yeahhhhhhhhhhh!"

"You guy! Stay calm! It's hard to take off your clothes like this!"

"...Kotori?"

Seeing the dizzying secret garden unfolding before his eyes, Chen Ling made a stunned sound.Qin Li finally noticed Chen Ling's presence and shook her shoulders in surprise.

"Chen...Chen Ling! Aren't you going back?"

"Well, just now someone asked me to bring something to you..."

Chen Ling looked away awkwardly.

"How should I put it... I'm sorry. However, I don't think it's good to force it..."

"You must have misunderstood something!"

After Kotori spoke in a high-octave voice, she straightened the clothes of the girl lying on the bed and stretched out her hand to pull her up.

The girl was about the same height as Kotori.She has her hair tied into a bun and has a crybaby mole under her left eye.She was wearing the same hospital gown that Chen Ling had worn just now, but her face looked very healthy and she didn't need to wear a hospital gown at all.

Seeing her appearance, Chen Ling couldn't help but blinked and said in surprise.

"Really!"

"Huh? Ah, brother Chen Ling!"

After Chen Ling called her name, the girl realized that it was Chen Ling.

Yes, this is Mana who has been following Kuang San out before.

However, after the last incident, Kurumi left quietly.

Chen Ling didn't care about this. After all, Kuangsan had a mission, but he didn't expect Mana to come back.

Speaking of which, Chen Ling was still surprised that Mana didn't come back after Kuang San came back last time. He didn't expect Mana to be here.

As if seeing Chen Ling's doubts, Mana opened his mouth to explain.

"That guy Kuang San said before that he was in a hurry, so he left me and came back directly. But when I came back, she only sent a clone to tell me that she had found something nearby and that she would investigate nearby soon. She said that I would also investigate nearby. So. So I was investigating near Tiangong City recently, and I thought I would come back during the weekend. But I didn’t expect to be caught by Kotori like this."

After saying that, Mana reported to Kotori very unhappy.

To this, Kotori retorted.

"What do you mean I caught her? She has obviously been too desperate in her recent investigations and has damaged her body too much, so this time I plan to help her do a detailed physical examination. But this kid refuses to do it."

Well, Kotori saw that Mana's body seemed to be unable to hold on, so she forced Mana to undergo examination and treatment.

"I won't do it. I'm in good health! It's no problem!"

"Oh, do you dare to let me check it? If there is nothing wrong with the examination, I will apologize to you now."

"..."

As soon as these words came out, Mana suddenly fell silent, with sweat streaming down his cheeks and a wry smile.

After hearing this, Chen Ling probably understood what was going on.

Although he has a way to deal with Mana's problem, that method is difficult to use now, and if he knew that method, Mana would probably not be willing to use that method.So Chen Ling planned to use that method to treat Mana when the time was right.

However, before that, Mana's physical condition will remain the same as before.And in this case, Mana really needs treatment from <Ratatosk>.

"Mana, please cooperate with the treatment."

"What? Brother Chen Ling, why do you even say that? How can I have time to treat him? I have to monitor Kuang San."

Zhen Na said with an aggrieved face, and even walked towards Chen Ling silently, as if he wanted to plead for mercy.

However, just when Mana walked towards Chen Ling, Kotori said "Uh! Ha! Ha..." like a smile, and hugged Mana's shoulders.

"Really~~~then~~~? Why are you talking to Chen Ling while slowly distancing yourself?"

"Hey! Ah, uh, I didn't want to escape..."

After Kotori spoke in an extremely friendly yet inexplicably cold tone, Mana turned pale.Chen Ling couldn't see clearly from his position, but he could vaguely feel that Qin Li's expression must be scary.

However, Kotori let out a deep breath and continued:

"──Don't get me wrong, I'm not angry. After all, you have helped us a lot before."

"Koto..."

Perhaps sensing the idea of ​​forgiveness from Kotori's words, Mana relaxed her slightly stiff expression.

Then, Kotori put her hands on Mana's shoulders and put strength at the same time.

"So, you don't need to be so afraid. You have been working too hard recently and it has affected your health. Now you come back secretly without coming to my place to say hello. You even secretly exchange contact information with Lingyin and so on. I will ~~~I don’t care at all.”

"Ah...ah~~~~~~!"

Chapter 511 Meeting love at the corner? No, meeting a 'hungry guy'

At this time, Kotori's fingers dug into Mana's shoulders.Mana's eyes filled with tears and she shook her head vigorously.

"Well, Mana, just treat me obediently. But why are you so exhausted when you are just investigating things with Kurumi?"

After Chen Ling finished speaking, Mana lowered his head slightly and did not dare to look at Chen Ling at all.

In response, Kotori snorted and explained.

"DEM Club's transformation of Mana was too rough, which would have caused her to get tired easily. Moreover, even if this guy is just investigating things with Kurumi, he is too serious and hard-working. That's why he behaves like this."

"I told her about this and asked her not to be too desperate, but the result was still the same. She even ignored my order to check herself every week and send me a test report."

Yes, it was precisely because of this that Kotori caught Mana at this time. After all, the reason why the other party did not send the test report clearly showed that there was something wrong with her health.

In this regard, Mana had nothing to say, while Chen Ling shook his head and laughed. He no longer interceded for Mana, and even wanted Kotori to increase efforts to treat Mana.

Seeing Mana with her head lowered and smiling awkwardly, unable to refute, and Chen Ling, who shook his head and smiled bitterly, not intending to plead for Mana, Kotori shrugged his shoulders, and then turned his attention back to Mana.

"In short, I won't let you escape this time. I will thoroughly examine your body and give you appropriate treatment. Come to your senses, I will even check how many hairs you have on your butt."

"Yeah! Yeahhhhh!"

After Kotori said this, she grabbed Mana's shoulders.Mana moved her legs randomly and screamed.

"Brother Chen Ling! Save~~~Save~~~me~~~!"

"No, you have to get tested... Goodbye."

Chen Ling turned around, put the shopping bag next to her, and walked out of the examination room listening to Zhen Na's sad cry.

Then walk forward for a while, take the elevator, pass through three electronic doors with tight security, and arrive at the mixed residential and commercial building.The interior decoration here was completely different from the secret base decoration just now. It was very ordinary, which made Chen Ling feel like he couldn't get used to it for a while.

Even Chen Ling is like this, so it must be harder for others to recognize that this place is the secret base of Ratatosk.

The map of this area appeared in Chen Ling's mind and he moved forward.

The mixed residential and commercial building is not far from the shopping street.After walking for 10 minutes, a familiar street scene came into view.

No—to be precise, the shopping street scenery that appeared in front of me was subtly different from a few days ago.

Just one day after Christmas, the street style suddenly changed from Western style to Japanese style.The Christmas trees that used to be placed in front of each store are now decorated with kadomatsu, and the Christmas garlands have been replaced with straw knotted ornaments.The Santa Claus and reindeer that were once so rampant have almost disappeared, only existing on the packaging of cakes that were suspected to be leftovers from the day before, looking inexplicably embarrassing.

This pace of change and lack of integrity is what happens every year.But if you think about it carefully, this may be an interesting phenomenon.Because people who until yesterday were playing Christmas songs such as "Joy to the World" and "Silent Night" are now playing the New Year's song "New Year's Eve."Although the islanders do not care about issues of religion or nationality when it comes to celebrations, it is really a rush to hold such a large-scale event only about a week apart.

By the way, there was almost a /// riot at the Itsuka family on Christmas yesterday.

Well, over the riots over the right to have a Christmas date.After all, Christmas has developed into a situation similar to Valentine's Day, so all the elf girls and even Shizhi are fighting for the right to date yesterday.

In the end, Chen Ling, who was afraid that they would actually fight, forced them to go on a date together.The girls were a little dissatisfied, but Chen Ling's proposal was mandatory and no objection was allowed. If you objected, don't go out with him. Under such circumstances, they could only compromise.