Salvation equals death

Nathaniel Hawthorne almost thought he saw the real God.

The Son of God, dressed in glory, came with the dawn in his hand, breaking through the endless clouds and haze, just like an eternal carol that has lasted since ancient times.

The girl was wearing a feather weave as thin as morning mist, and was carrying a pure white cross representing sin and redemption. When the pale golden wings drooped down, they looked like a pure white cloak, but Hawthorne couldn't help thinking about her own It looks like it's coming from the sky.

——Like an angel proclaiming the will of God.

Kajii Keijiro held the lemon bomb in his hand, and couldn't help but shiver when he saw Vera. Since the attack on the Armed Detective Agency, he had a psychological shadow on all the people in the world who have the ability to heal.

Especially the kind of female doctors who are obviously harmless to humans and animals, and even intellectually beautiful, but are more cruel than each other.

Hawthorne and Kajii Keijiro, two fanatics, are fighting while discussing which of theology and science is the truth that can explain the nature of the universe and even the world, but suddenly glimpsed a scene called a miracle, the dense chains and huge gears all over the sky The composed keys clicked like a clock in order as they worked, and they lost their powers at the same time.

For Nathaniel Hawthorne, this was a huge and cruel blow, because he regarded his supernatural power "Scarlet Letter" as the word of the gods and the ability to convict sins, but now his supernatural power has been easily dismissed. of eliminated.

This apprehension and hesitation instantly transformed into a perfect and self-contained logic when facing the girl who came like a child of light.

"The messenger who came with glory, believer Nathaniel Hawthorne, is here to obey God's will." He put his hands on his chest and knelt down on one knee towards the girl.

In just a few seconds, Nathaniel’s state of mind is like this: My ability is the ability to convict—my ability is gone—God won’t let me hurt her—miracles—yes Angel is right!

The girl with silver hair and blond eyes blinked at the cat. She was carrying a cross and was about to smash through the luxury cruise ship that was the frontline base of the combination, but suddenly she saw the enemy kneeling down by herself.

After much deliberation, she couldn't figure out what it was called, so Vera could only ask friendlyly, "What were you doing just now?"

"I am eliminating heresy. This person rejects the glory of God and does not want to repent. Therefore, believers want to punish heresy."

"Science is the only language for interpreting the universe. Are people like you heretics?"

Seeing the two arguing, Vera, who possessed high technology and divine power at the same time, fell silent for a while.

"Well, stop arguing and listen to me. I think both are fine."

The monster nun with the cat on her head just carried a heavy cross and sank the cruise ship directly.

The huge explosion sounded when the cruise ship sank attracted everyone's attention, and Shuang Hei, who was arguing endlessly while rescuing Q on the other side, also saw the huge fire and the sword array floating above the sky from a distance.

"Sure enough, it's my sister." Zhong Ye pressed his hat, a little helpless and excited, "It's been a long time since I saw my sister make a move, and she's still so powerful!"

"Does Chuya really think this is a good thing?" Dazai touched his chin, his eyes filled with unexplained thoughts, "Isn't this completely beyond the scope of what humans can do?"

"So what?" Chuya turned his head, his expression was very calm, "My sister and I...are not human in the first place."

——As the carriers of the Rage God and the Great Primordial God, each bears the secret that no outsider can come.

"I'm not talking about your inhuman strength, but—" Dazai pulled a long tail, shrugged his shoulders and sighed, "Forget it, it's too strong to expect slugs to have the IQ to understand this. gone."

"...Bastard mackerel, if you want to die here, just say so."

The two walked towards the base of the group cursing, and even Zhong, who had always been straightforward, also vaguely realized that besides the arrogant foreigner who tried to use money to solve everything on the bright side, there were also mice hiding in the dark and watching everything. Just around the corner, but did not reveal his whereabouts.

At the moment when the three supernatural organizations were fighting, there was a person driving a car at an extremely fast speed against the panic-stricken crowd, heading towards the key formed by the cross.

"Dazai..." Fearing that he would not be able to make it in time, the driver stepped on the gas pedal to death, and the car that was sticking to the ground almost flew up due to the excessive speed, "What the hell are you thinking? Sigh..."

"...I really want to eat curry rice..."

Vera, who was cleaning up the members of the group, suddenly heard the scream of the system, and she screamed like a shrew: [What's going on with these people, are they crazy? ! 】

【Vera!Vera, quickly take back the cross! 】

"What do you get?" Vera waved the cross calmly, using the heavy cross as a mallet, "I haven't finished clearing the monsters yet, wait until I finish clearing them."

The system screamed for a long time, but it didn't know what it saw. It clicked slightly, and the sound stopped suddenly.

"System?" Vera raised her head in confusion, but the system's voice was lost in her mind.

This feeling of being disconnected is not unfamiliar to Vera. She vaguely remembers that when she first came to this world, the system was completely disconnected.

Will the bound system also lose connection?Vera thought about it for a while, but finally decided not to delve into the matter. She just left it behind and concentrated on solving the enemy in front of her.

The system is not there, but Vera can still use the armory, because everything in the armory comes from Vera's ability to "swallow" and "construct". The system can provide data and materials, but it is actually Viola who actually builds these things. pull yourself.Vera could only really use various pre-civilization armors after she experienced her second death. If it weren't for her special powers, constructing these armors might consume a lot of energy.

Unlike now, she can use all kinds of armor as she likes, except that it requires a lot of investment to condense the holy key of the Philosopher's Stone, while other weapons and armor can be constructed through authority.

Unbeknownst to Vera, when she walked across the street with the cross on her shoulders, her image had passed through the surveillance on the side of the road and fell into the eyes of another person.

The man's hands in black leather gloves tapped lightly on the table. He looked at the image of the girl on the screen, with a thoughtful look on his pale and sickly face.

The man squatting on the chair and biting his thumb like a mouse is like a vampire with a gorgeous skin but no soul.

"How could it be?" The man's hand brushed the girl's golden eyes on the screen, "If everyone is a book, why are there such people in this world?"

"I don't understand—hiss, it's so cold."

The man who sneezed pulled the white fur around his body to wrap himself up, and stopped talking.

The sky suddenly darkened.

Vera, who was escorting the pedestrians all the way to evacuate, raised her head, and she caught a glimpse of a spectacle—a huge whale sank in the sea of ​​clouds, covering the sky of Yokohama. Although it was very slow, it was gradually approaching the ground.

The buckwheat noodles hanging on the head have stopped the stupid behavior of looking for the little white cat in Vera's white fur. At this time, like Vera, he silently raised his head and looked at the huge blue whale above the sky.

"No wonder I felt that something was wrong in the sky before. The light seemed to shine through a layer of water and then shine down. It turns out that there is a mobile fortress that can distort the light parked above Yokohama." Vera squatted in a daze. The fluffy soba noodles on her shoulders, "Does this era have such technology?"

Soba turned its head, it stood upright, its pupils of different colors looked extraordinarily crystal clear in the evening sun, like two agates of different colors.

Vera didn't know that the huge beluga whale in the sky was originally a living thing, but she knew that the beluga whale was gradually approaching the ground, and she also knew that if the beluga whale fell into Yokohama, the effect would be comparable to a ton of gunpowder exploding at the same time .

"Are you planning to wipe out the whole of Yokohama just because of a book?" Vera hugged the buckwheat noodle in her arms, slightly lowering her eyes, "It's quite cruel."

Vera put the buckwheat noodles on the ground, touched its head, and said in a low voice under the constant gaze of the buckwheat noodles: "Let's go, you are a free cat, aren't you?"

Different from fake cats like Vera and Natsume Soseki, Soba is a real cat. It can't understand Vera's words, but it knows that the person in front of it is leaving.

Soba thought for three seconds with its cat brain that Vera commented was "only the size of a walnut". The silver-gray stripes looked like Soba's tail suddenly stood up, and it suddenly bowed and made an offensive low There was a snoring sound, and in the next second, like a carnivore finding an opportunity to attack, it jumped onto the top of Vera's hair, and its tail was tied around the girl's neck like a whip.

The silver-white cat was pawing at the girl's head tenaciously, with an expressionless face, it looked like a rabbit fur hat with silver and white patterns from a distance.

Vera: "Then don't regret it, you will be dizzy."

Soba: "...?"

Soba pressed the corners of the girl's eyes with his own meat pads. He was really a cold and reserved cat, even though he was stingy at acting like a baby to her.

Vera saw that the air fortress had started to smoke everywhere, and it seemed that someone was fighting in the fortress, but the white whale seemed to be out of control and rushed towards the ground.

"Qianchan——" Vera heard someone calling her, she turned her head, and saw Dazai in a camel trench coat waving at her from a distance, and shouted, "Q has been rescued! Put away the barrier!" Get up!"

"Otherwise the slug - will - be killed -"

Chuya's nickname stunned Vera, she ran towards Dazai with the cross on her back without hesitation, raised her head and asked, "What's wrong with Chuya?"

"There is a person in the group whose ability is 'Old Dominator', which can transform the body into an octopus-like monster, and has a very strong combat power." Dazai also knew the seriousness of the matter, and spoke quickly and authentically, "I tried If you touch him, but there is no change, that is not a power. There is no power in the middle and you can’t beat him, so he stays behind, and I will come to you as soon as possible.”

"Although Mengye was brought out, Chuya said that if the situation is really bad, he can only be killed."

"How far is the distance?" Vera put down the cross without saying a word, there was no time to hunt down the other group members, and now the rescue is even more important.

"It's not too far, about 1.3 kilometers to the east." Dazai obviously snatched a vehicle and rushed all the way here, and it's hard for him to judge Vera's coordinates from the billowing smoke and dust of the battle.

"Are you motion sick?" Vera found out a mechanical ball, and suddenly asked without thinking.

"Ah?" Dazai replied in confusion, but the next second, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.

The mechanical ball spread out in an instant, and a huge mechanical arm was extended. The self-discipline weapon with thick arms was continuously disassembled, arranged and reorganized, and finally formed a cyber-like...motorcycle.

"Let's go, Dazai!" Vera grabbed Dazai's hand and jumped, directly landed on the motorcycle from the high platform, and stepped on the accelerator to death.

The motorcycle made a roaring sound, and the exhaust pipes on both sides shot out flames. Before Dazai had time to regain his senses, the motorcycle exploded like an arrow off the string.

[Dididi, the overload mode is on, the power is increasing, please pay attention, please pay attention——]

"Hurry up!" Dazai subconsciously hugged the girl's slender waist as the silver-white armor got on his body instantly. In the next second, a track made of magic energy was formed under the motorcycle, and the high-speed vehicle rushed into the sky.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm~!"

During the high-speed movement that almost rubbed the sleeves of his clothes on fire, the scenery on both sides had already been pulled into a linear shape, and the gust of wind poured into his throat, and Dazai could still open his mouth and let out an excited and vaguely distorted cry.

Vera was worried that if any sparrows passed by, they might be killed.

Riding a motorcycle, carrying Dazai, stuffing buckwheat noodles into the cat bag on his back, Zhong also saw his sister falling from the sky so coolly, smashing a mosaic of the enemy's incarnation with a "pound".

Flesh and blood splattered, and Vera looked at the tentacles wriggling like mud, and felt that the san value had dropped a little bit.

"Sister." Chuya, who was a little embarrassed but not injured, looked at Vera with bright eyes, "What is this? It's so handsome!"

Knowing brother Mo Rujie, Vera knew what Zhongye was thinking when she saw Zhongye's expression, and said calmly: "I'll see you off later, you take a rest, I'll take care of that thing in the sky first."

Chuya heard the words and tried to drag Dazai off and replace him, but Dazai, whose brain was congested after the speed of life and death, let out a high-pitched laugh after eating poisonous mushrooms: "Come again, come again! It's so much fun, Chi-chan!"

Time waited for no one, Vera stepped on the gas pedal, ran over the mosaics on the ground and rushed towards the sky again, this time the target was the white whale that had already started to fall.

"Akutagawa and Atsushi are up there." Dazai said, "Wait for the white whale to approach the sea before moving."

"It's too late. It is estimated that someone else is controlling the beluga whale. It will fall to the ground in a few minutes." The device on Vera's ear scanned the data of the beluga whale. It was a 70% white whale. A mechanized real whale.

"Tsk, the rats in the gutter are really annoying." Dazai pressed the communication device and said in a playful tone, "Moshi, Moshi, Don, have you defeated Francis? Huh? Defeated, great, jump Airplane. That’s right, we’re going to blow up the white whale right here, you and Akutagawa jump quickly, be careful not to die~”

Atsushi screamed in a panic from the communicator, apparently the two children didn't expect Dazai's operation to be so messy.

Seeing the three figures of one black, one white and one gold falling from the white whale at the same time, and the black and white jumping so desperately, Vera was silent for a while: "...there is no such thing as a parachute on the airship?" ?”

"...My fault, I didn't expect these two children to be so stupid, and they really danced if I asked them to dance." Dazai raised his forehead, and said in a low voice, "It seems that we still need to cultivate independence in the future." Thinking ability, otherwise it would be too bad for a hard-headed person to believe what others say."

The people had already evacuated, and Vera completely let go of her last worry. She stepped on the accelerator again and swooped towards the white whale.

[89%, 90%, 92%—warning, warning, energy overload, energy overload. 】

The strong wind blew the young man's curly black hair, and he smiled softly in the girl's ear: "Will you die in love with me again, Qianjiang?"

With a loud "boom", the self-discipline weapon covered by the energy shield directly pierced through the entire white whale, causing a deafening explosion.

Amid the mechanically stiff siren, Vera jumped up, the silver-blue armor reorganized in the air, and the self-discipline weapon turned into a huge mechanical arm again. Vera grabbed Dazai's hand and spun several times in the air to relieve the momentum , flung him towards the mechanical arm, and Dazai, who was holding the cat bag, landed on the mechanical arm in a daze like a ballet dancer with a female step.

Amid the dizzying situation, Dazai could only see the girl looking back and smiling slightly, the sunlight blurred her face, as if the girl was just a scattered light and shadow sealed in the depths of time.

"I told you it would be dizzy."

[Armed deployment, global bombing—owo, three——]

Hundreds of floating cannons completed their structure instantly in the air, and the girl who seemed to be above the scorching sun waved her hand fiercely, and all of a sudden the cannons fired in unison, and the flames radiated everywhere, like the world's tribute to God.

Amidst the explosion that almost shook the entire world, only that slender and thin back was imprinted in Dazai's heart like a picture scroll, becoming a scene that would not fade after many years.

The girl in the painting has bright golden eyes, like a golden lotus blooming, but the smile on her lips is so faint that it hardly looks like a smile.

The name of that painting is called - God's Birthday.