[Death] Acacia inkstone

"Captain, at least the companions who have been taken away are safe now, Kaoru Wakaba dare not act rashly for now." Kaoru Sakurai stood in front of the table, looking at Toshiro who was frowning at the other end, and said warmly: " Although we can't perceive where they are now, but..."

Kaoru Sakurai lowered her head and sighed, she really wasn't suitable for comforting people, no matter how much she said, it would be useless.Even she can't justify herself, so how can she convince the captain.

At that time, in the west training ground, Kaori Wakaba activated the illusion to take away all the players, only Kaoru Sakurai who was still in a coma was not under her control.But even so, Wakaba Kaori has already held the life and death of dozens of innocent team members. She threatened Dongshiro that if he dared to follow up, she would kill one of them for him to see.Therefore, Toshiro couldn't fight her head-on, and had no choice but to take Kaoru Sakurai away first.And in this way, he lost the trace of Kaori Wakaba.

Half an hour passed, and there was no movement outside, but Shiro Dong just kept his brows tightly furrowed and said nothing.Sakurai Kaoru knew that he was worried about his team members, so he didn't dare to act rashly, and waited until he thought of a countermeasure before taking action.

"Captain, there is no way for us... to wait like this." Kaoru Sakurai paused, as if he had finally made up his mind: "Why don't we deal with this matter from beginning to end."

Since the captain can't come up with a solution for both, it's better to let her help too.

Dong Shilang behind the wooden table finally nodded, he pushed away the pile of documents piled up like a hill in front of him, his green eyes were like a winter lake, with a layer of ice that could not be melted.

Sakurai Kaoru moved a stool and sat down opposite him, and she couldn't care about those etiquette at this time.She was still a little weak after waking up. One of the reasons Dongshiro didn't act until now was that she felt that she had no ability to protect herself, and the other reason was that the central government hadn't sent back the news.

"Captain, there's one thing I've always wondered about." Kaoru Sakurai's eyes darkened, and she fell into thought: "Although Kaori Wakaba is powerful, with her strength, it shouldn't be enough for the captain to perform illusions, right?"

"It's not enough for her alone, it's just that she borrowed the power of the phantom beast." Dong Shilang frowned, and his face turned cold again: "Do you still remember what happened in the graduation assessment. What Fake Hayami used to escape was a very powerful illusion spell, even among the captains, very few people could make it. But something strange happened, and we had no clues to find for a while."

"Since then, Captain Kuchiki has given me a spell that can break the illusion to carry with me just in case." He folded his hands and propped his chin, seeing Kaoru Sakurai's puzzled look, he added He said: "This spell is extremely difficult to make, so I only have one. Now there are no more."

"That phantom beast...is it a mythical beast in ancient legends?" Kaoru Sakurai continued to ask. She thought of the two women she met last night, and her heart moved, as if she had grasped something.

"That's right." Dongshiro replied: "Phantom beasts have powerful spiritual pressure. I thought they were extinct, but I didn't expect..."

"I didn't expect not only that, but Wakaba Kaori could control it." Sakurai Kaoru murmured, feeling very incredible: "I heard that when a phantom beast casts an illusion, it can make people see the most painful moment in their lives. , thereby destroying the human mind.”

She recalled the sound of the flute and the emotions that stirred up in her heart when the illusion occurred, and continued as if talking to herself: "That feeling...is really uncomfortable. No wonder Wakaba Kaori can do it on her own. After taking away the rest of the people and enduring the phantom beast's illusion, I'm afraid there won't be much strength left."

"That illusion is indeed very strong." Dongshiro said in a deep voice, "Although I used a spell to resist it, I still felt some illusion."

"Captain, did you hear the sound of the flute?" Kaoru Sakurai recalled that in an ancient book he had read, several methods of manipulating Eudemons had been recorded, and the music sound was one of them.Moreover, hundreds of years ago, a family famous for illusions used this method to domesticate phantom beasts, but later the family fell into ruin, and now no one knows about it.

"You're right." Dong Shilang nodded: "Luo Ye should be manipulating the Eudemons through the sound of the flute."

"Maybe we can take the flute back..." Sakurai Kaoru rubbed her hair unconsciously with one hand, with a slightly annoyed expression: "But who knows where she hid the flute?"

Seeing her dejected appearance, Dong Shilang felt a little funny.He stood up, walked over to pat her on the shoulder, and said reassuringly, "There will be a way."

As soon as the words came out, not only Kaoru Sakurai who listened widened his eyes, but Toshiro himself was also stunned.When would he say something like that?When would he comfort someone like this?

But he did.At that moment just now, it seemed that he was very familiar with the girl in front of him, so he could speak so naturally.

"Team, captain, did you recognize the wrong person just now?" Kaoru Sakurai came back to his senses, still feeling unbelievable in his heart, so he quickly reached out and waved his hand in front of his eyes, with a worried look on his face: "Could it be possessed by some ghost?"

Dong Shilang grabbed her hand and put it down, rather dumbfounded: "It's nothing."

"Maybe I really admitted my mistake." He turned his head and said softly, as if talking to himself.

His voice was always cold, Kaoru Sakurai looked at his chiseled side face, and felt somewhat familiar in his heart.Counting carefully, she and Dongshiro have actually spent a lot of time together, from the years of Zhenyang Ling, to the graduation assessment, and now to the current co-studio... She suddenly had a thought, and the memory of the ancient book appeared in her mind. A sentence I read.

"I didn't expect Captain Hitsugaya, who is known as the ten-thousand-year iceberg, to be so gentle." Kaoru Sakurai smiled, and stretched out his hand to re-tie the long hair that was messed up by himself just now: "Captain, I still have I want to tell you one thing, after you listen, we can probably act."

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"Captain, I really didn't expect that you could remember the names of every new team member." Kaoru Sakurai sat cross-legged behind a small bush, and even reached out and grabbed a dog's tail grass and dangled it in front of her eyes.

"As the captain, this is the most basic duty." Dongshiro squatted on the ground, stretched out his hand to push the grass in front of him, and checked the surrounding situation: "However, I didn't expect you to recognize Wakaba Kaori. identity of."

"The Ruoye family was famous for a while 500 years ago, but they fell into ruin not long after, and now no one knows them at all." Dong Shilang added.To be honest, if Sakurai Kaoru hadn't told him, he wouldn't have known.

"I just read it in an ancient book not long ago." Sakurai Kaoru scanned around boredly, but couldn't find anything to play with, so he picked up a piece of gravel and drew on the ground. At the same time, he said softly: "It is said in the book that 'the Ruoye family is good at illusion, skilled in chess, and tamed ancient fantasy beasts with the sound of flute. After that, it declined and its reputation gradually faded, so no one will know about it.'"

"If I hadn't overheard their conversation by accident last night, I wouldn't have guessed it either." Kaoru Sakurai sighed looking at the pattern of people and dogs on the ground, threw away the stones, and rested one elbow on the ground. On her knees, with her right hand resting her head, she played with the dogtail grass with her left hand: "I didn't expect that Wakaba Kaori would be so smart and capable, but she would have such a useless younger sister. She laid out such a sophisticated plan to revive the family, but she wanted to destroy it." In the hands of my sister."

After confirming that there were no changes in the surrounding area, Dongshiro also sat down, looking at Kaoru Sakurai beside him with a leisurely look, he was really speechless: "I set up a barrier to block the sound to ensure that we don't To be discovered, not to whine about you."

"Yes, yes, the captain is right." Kaoru Sakurai raised his eyebrows, and answered a few words perfunctorily.

Dong Shilang frowned, her sloppy attitude is really... Forget it, he doesn't want to fuss with her.

The ground beneath him was hard and cold, and the dark night enveloped everything in it, and the moon was blocked by layers of dark clouds, so there was no light shining through.It was less than half an hour before midnight when what Sakurai Kaoru said—the time of the day when the Eudemons had the strongest spiritual power—was less than half an hour left at midnight, Dong Shirou frowned, and re-deduced their "battle plan" in his mind.

In the afternoon, Sakurai Kaoru told him everything she knew in the team building, and they also deduced the whole picture of the whole incident from this:

In the beginning, Qingliu Wakaba, who was at the same level as Kaoru Sakurai and had a personal grievance with her—that is, Kaori Wakaba’s younger sister—could not help being instigated by others because of her impatience, and used illusion to pretend to be Kaoru Sakurai to attack Megumi Hayami , and then pretending to be Megumi Hayami, ran to the arena and staged a lame farce.Ruo Ye Qingliu has always been arrogant and willful, often acting on impulse without using his brain, which caused many contradictions in this case.But in the real investigation, there was no clue for a while, which shows that the people behind her are very precise.It's just that Dongshiro and Sakurai Kaoru couldn't figure it out, why did the people behind the scenes do this?What is the purpose of using Ruoye Qingliu as a pawn to trick her into causing this mess full of loopholes?

After the camp began, Wakaba Kaori quickly started the first step of the plan-opening the west training ground.Although it is unclear exactly when she activated the illusion, Dongshiro and Sakurai Kaoru are basically sure that she must have used the hell butterfly to fake the command from the central government.Phantom beasts have the strongest spiritual power at midnight. However, there is a powerful barrier near the team building, which will be continuously strengthened by the captain during the years. If she wants to attract phantom beasts, she will take too much risk.The west training ground is relatively remote and has been abandoned for many years. Even if the barrier there is strengthened by Dong Shilang, it is still weak in comparison.It's a pity that no matter how thoughtful Wakaba Kaori thinks, it's still unavoidable. For example, she failed to control Toshiro with illusion, for example, she let go of Kaoru Sakurai who knew the secret history of her family... And it was this hundred The "one sparse" in the secret made the next few steps of her plan more and more difficult to implement.

"Even if Kaori Wakaba controls Jinglingting, so what? If she wants to revive the family, there is no need to choose this path. Captain, I think Kaori Wakaba should be near the Eudemons. She has already consumed She has a lot of physical strength. Without the help of the phantom beast, it would be difficult for her to control the rest of the people. I have heard the phantom beast cry twice, and I still remember the direction. We just need to go west from the west training ground. It's possible to find them."

Toshiro recalled the way Sakurai Kaoru was serious about making a strategy with him: focused eyes, slightly frowning eyebrows, and the faint blush floating on his cheeks...

A lingering sense of familiarity lingers in my heart.

"By the way, Captain, since you can memorize the list of new students by heart," Sakurai Kaoru suddenly thought of something in her mind, and she suddenly became interested. She pulled Dongshiro back from her contemplation, and asked him enthusiastically: "Then what do you want to do?" You should remember the name Shiina Junhui?"

"I do remember." Dong Shilang turned his head, wondering why she would ask such a question, but his face was unmoved, without any unnecessary emotion: "It's just the name, I don't remember the appearance .”

"Well...it's okay, although I only remember the name, Jun Hui will definitely be very happy." Sakurai Kaoru continued to wave her dog's tail grass, a pair of bright eyes reflected the stars in the sky, twinkling: "It seems Well, her plan is off to a good start, I should be really happy for her..."

"No, no, it's not enough to be happy. I should help her." Sakurai Kaoru muttered to himself, raising her head slightly, and looking at the night sky: "After the captain and I rescue her, she will definitely would be very happy..."

Dong Shilang looked at the girl next to him who was nervous, who didn't know what to think about himself and who was talking about some crooked ideas, and he was a little lost.Her body carried a faint fragrance of cherry blossoms, and the night wind blew through her fluttering sleeves, engulfed in the fresh breath of the forest, and passed over the tip of his nose together.Only then did he notice that she also had silky waist-length hair, but it was usually tied behind her head in a ponytail.

Suddenly, she let down her long soft hair, wearing a black dress, talking to him with a smile in her mind.

Winter Shiro was stunned.Is this all his hallucination?

"Captain?" Sakurai Kaoru waved the dogtail grass in front of his eyes: "What are you thinking? I have something to tell you. It's very important, really."

"Huh?" Toshiro came back to his senses, seeing Kaoru Sakurai sitting up straight with a serious face, the smile on his face had faded, it seemed that he really had something important to tell him.But... he glanced at her still shaking hand...

"Put down your dog's tail grass." He said coldly.

"Of order, Captain." Kaoru Sakurai immediately threw the green grass out of his hand, only to bounce back when he hit the barrier set by Toshiro: "Ouch..."

She gave a dry laugh, took off the bristlegrass that hit her head, and said, "It's just a beautiful accident."

"Get down to business." Dong Shilang felt the veins on his forehead twitch twice.

"Okay Captain." Sakurai Kaoru sat up straight again, with a serious expression again: "I have a very, very, very important thing to ask you."

"Hmm." Dong Shilang crossed his hands in front of his chest, beckoning her to speak quickly.

"This matter is..." Sakurai Kaoru took a deep breath: "Captain, do you lack a girlfriend? Can I recommend one to you? It's the one named Junhui Shiina! She has liked you for a long time, and she wants you all the time. How about marrying you! I have a good relationship with her. I think she is gentle, kind, and cute. She can cook, make tea, and do housework. Although she is not very smart, she is generally a great captain. How do you like it?"

Dare she lay the groundwork so much, in fact, she wants to be a matchmaker to hold the red thread?

Still want to find him a girlfriend?

Dong Shilang only felt the veins on his forehead twitch three, four, five, six, seven or eight times.

"Captain, what do you think?" Sakurai Kaoru stared at him with wide eyes expectantly, completely unaware of the change in the captain's mood, anyway, he always had an iceberg face, the devil knew what he was thinking.

"Sakurai, the time is coming, you should be ready." Toshiro squeezed out these words from between his teeth, and then turned his face away, not wanting to talk to her.

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