pandora box

Whether as the Green King or Ryoko Amano herself, she hated the Scepter4 organization to the core.

But as a person, she couldn't hate Munakata Reiji himself.In Ryoko's eyes, a guy who is too self-controlled and self-disciplined to focus on all human beings is a dude, but he is by no means an object that can be ridiculed casually.

Because the number of people like this in this world can definitely be counted with fingers.

To sum up, Ryoko Amano does not hope that one day she will be together with Scepter4's room chief, Blue King Munakata as she is now.

...Where did it come from? !

But now that they are already together, Ryoko decides to give full play to her own advantages and attack the opponent under all possible circumstances, so as to let herself take a good breath of the bad breath towards Scepter4 that she has been holding back for a long time.

Carrying a small decorative bag in her hand, Ryoko, who maintained a perfect Yamato Nadeko-like smile, tried her best to attack with her mouth: "But speaking of it, Scepter4 is really free. Are you all running out to participate in the festival? We hand over Your tax money won’t be used by you in this kind of place.”

Walking ahead without looking sideways, Munakata Reishi, who took off his mask under Ryoko's forced request, responded without changing his face: "People need to combine work and rest. What's more, an organization like your HOMRA, which is completely maintained by underground income, really Is there such a thing as paying taxes? Before worrying about the whereabouts of the tax money, think about how many things you should not use for free, tax thief."

"I'm a first-class good citizen. I used HOMRA's money for nothing except this clothes. But you still have to wear a uniform when you come to the festival. Is it because the tax money is used up and you can't afford private clothes?"

"Do you have anything else on your body besides this clothes? Our Scepter4 uniform is easy to move around without any shortcomings. Do you have any dissatisfaction with our uniform?"

The two of them bickered with each other, but on the surface they both maintained a serious look and didn't even look at each other.Zun put his hands on his head with some headaches: "Are you two children..." Then he glanced at Ryoko and changed his words again, "Munakata, don't care about little girls."

... Why does Ciao want to look at me!

Ryoko, who was defined as a little girl, felt extremely upset for some reason.Without hesitation, she pointed the finger at the innocent Zun, the honorific mode was ON, and the cannonball skill was activated again: "It's better than Mr. Munakata who can't even talk to a little girl. What do you think, Lianjiao. Mr. Zun who can’t even get into the topic.”

"..." What an unlovable brat.

No further attempts were made to refute.Zun sighed helplessly, lit a cigarette casually, and decided to ignore the childish conversation between the two.

Fortunately, being interrupted by him like this, Ryoko didn't have the desire to continue complaining about Munakata.She looked around and saw an air gun stand not far away, so she left the two people behind her and ran towards the stand without hesitation.

Since she was very young, she has especially liked this kind of air gun game. Even if she can't hit it no matter what, just raising the air gun and shooting these few actions can make her inexplicably happy.

Asking the boss for a plate of bullets, Ryoko stared at the things on it for a long time, and finally settled on a half-human-high rabbit doll.

He is not interested in the small prizes around him. Although his shooting skills are terrible, he still only wants the biggest prize.Ryoko tried her best to aim at the iron box on the lower right, and shot after shot but still missed every time.

Until there were only the last two bullets left in the plate, the longing for the doll surpassed everything else. After weighing it in her heart, Ryoko made the decision not too difficult to ask Ayako to help her shoot the doll.

Just as she was about to wake up Ayako who was sleeping because she had no interest in the festival, Munakata's voice came from the side: "Really, don't you know that you need to aim before hitting?"

... Ciao, which eye of yours saw that I didn't aim!

Silently watching Zongxiang take the gun in his hand casually, Ryoko just felt that a mouthful of old blood was choking in his mouth and couldn't spit it out.Seeing that the other party directly squatted down to aim and pull the trigger, and the metal box fell to the ground, she felt even more aggrieved.Gritting her teeth and casting her condemning eyes on Zun behind her, Ryoko's eyes were full of "You see, I've been bullied by outsiders to such an extent, as a boss, are you embarrassed not to help?"

Zun couldn't help but feel a little headache when he was stared at by her condemning eyes.He walked over helplessly, took the air gun from Zongxiang, and looked at Ryoko: "Which one do you want?"

Looking around the prizes again, seeing the boss seeming to be wiping off his sweat, Ryoko hesitated for a moment, and pointed to a small rabbit accessory that had been kept in the corner.

Looking at the huge rabbit doll that Ryoko was holding in his arms, and then at the cute little bunny, Zun's eyes shifted subtly: "It's not suitable for you at all."

"What did you say?!" Although Ayako had complained about it several times, Ryoko still couldn't help but have a faint tendency to run away.Although she is only 14 years old, she has always acted maturely like an adult, and she is not interested in jewelry, cosmetics, etc., but has a very special obsession with rabbits.As long as she sees something related to rabbits, she wants to get it, especially when the items are beautifully made and cute. Even if she has no money, she will try her best (even if she has to rob a bank) to get money to buy it.

Silently looking back, without explaining, Zun aimed the rifle at the box next to the accessories.Instead of posing for a perfect shot like Munakata did, he just casually took aim and pulled the trigger.

"Clap."

The sound of the rubber stopper hitting the box sounded, and the box swayed and then fell downwards.

"Congratulations." The boss took out a bunch of pendants from a box on the side and handed them to Ryoko, "The little girl likes rabbits very much, take it. It's very suitable for you."

Ryoko, who was praised, showed a rare smile that was no different from that of ordinary girls. She happily took the accessories and smiled at the boss: "Thank you." Then she took out her terminal and hung the accessories on.

Seeing her smile like this for the first time, Zun couldn't help being taken aback.Then, he heard Munakata chuckling lightly: "Heh, your subordinates are really interesting."

Seeing Ryoko asking for a plate of bullets for playing again, Zun who didn't intend to help anymore looked back at him: "Subordinate?...That guy is different. You should have seen it too."

Ryoko Amano is different from other people in HOMRA... The abilities she possesses are too powerful for an ordinary person.Even though she hasn't used that power since joining HOMRA, Zun can feel that the red flames he assigned to the girl are being eaten away by her energy bit by bit.

It is absolutely impossible for an ordinary supernatural being to have the power to absorb the king's flame.

Ryoko Amano didn't seem to be aware of this, Zun didn't tell her directly, but calmly distributed his energy to her again when he was in contact with her, otherwise, after such a month, he would The energy originally given to Ryoko may have been absorbed.

"Ah." Looking at the girl who was having fun in front of him, Munakata pushed his eyes on the bridge of his nose, and said seriously, "That girl is a rare supernatural being. Although her ability is lower than that of a king, I am afraid it is better than that of a king." The Alpha group is even higher... This kind of dangerous abilities should have been managed by Scepter4, but we have never discovered her existence before... Now that she is yours, we are not good at her Take the shot. Zhou Fang, look at that girl a little bit, I think that girl's collapse will be earlier than when your power goes berserk."

You can't tell it just by looking at the appearance, but both of them, who are kings, can feel the instability of energy in Ryoko Amano.Originally, when an ordinary supernatural being received the power of the king, even if the energy went berserk, it would be a rejection reaction at most, and once the input of power was stopped, nothing would happen again.But that day Ryoko started to go berserk only after fully accepting Zun's power-this also shows that her energy is in an extremely dangerous state.

Green King's sword of Damocles is still intact, but Ryoko Amano's power has reached the brink of collapse.

If one day, that girl really reaches the point of no return...

Zun closed his eyes.

He thought he would kill her—few people with supernatural powers could end up well after their energy ran amok, and killing her would relieve her pain.

"Mr. Zun."

Ryoko's cry came from next to his ear, he opened his eyes, and the girl looked at him with a pair of clear light blue eyes, "I've almost finished playing, go back to the goldfish stand and find Anna and the others."

"Then, it's time for me to go." Already seeing his subordinates on one side, Munakata turned his head to look at Xiang Zun, "Zhou Fang, you understand."

"Ah." He responded casually, not knowing whether to respond to Ryoko or Munakata, Zun habitually wanted to put his hands in his trouser pockets, only to find that he was wearing ten bunches of clothes that were forced on him when he hung down. kimono.Somewhat helplessly, he gave up the action, but the next second, Ryoko grabbed his hand.

Ryoko took his hand from behind and approached him, her body reflexively became alert, but she didn't throw her away immediately.Sensing that her hands seemed to be trembling, she wanted to turn around, but felt the girl who was half leaning on his shoulder shake her head slightly.

"I understand..." Her voice trembled a little, as if she was about to cry in a second, but she was stubborn, "My energy is slowly approaching the limit...but I don't want to destroy...the only thing that can last Everyday, I really..."

The body felt a little stiff, and Zun didn't dare to move.He forgot that the five senses of a supernatural being are very keen, not to mention that Munakata didn't deliberately lower his voice just now.With what kind of expression did she stay at the stall until the end of their conversation?The runaway and collapse of power is a topic that even she is afraid of, how strong can Ryoko be?

He didn't say anything, just maintained this posture.It was not until a few minutes later that Ryoko finally let go of his hand, and his body moved away immediately.The warm and soft touch seemed to be still in the palm, Zun felt a little confused for the first time.The next second, Ryoko's voice sounded the same as usual: "Go back, Mr. Zun."

***

In the end, Anna and Kamamoto were not found in front of the goldfish stall, and the two walked all the way back to HOMRA without meeting anyone.It wasn't until they returned to HOMRA that the two discovered that everyone else had returned.

"Zun, you are really slow, and I was thinking about whether to go to you."

Kusanagi's leisurely voice came from behind the bar, and there was no sign of "going to find them" at all.And Shi Shu smiled heartily: "Well, I saw that Liang Zi and Wang were together in the end, so it must be fine."

Casually casting his eyes on the clock on the side, he realized that the hour hand was already pointing to the number 11.Liangzi was surprised that he had stayed with Zun for such a long time, and then heard Shishu's words: "Speaking of which, it's rare for everyone to get together, and it happens to be the Obon Festival. Before the time has passed, let's take a picture Happy family."

The proposal received a unanimous response from everyone, and Shi Shu arranged a group of people to line up their positions, and finally pulled out Liang Zi who was hiding in the corner, and arranged them next to Zun: "Is this like a family portrait!"

Not having any objection to her position, Ryoko stood quietly beside Zun.She didn't deliberately approach, but she could still feel the smell of tobacco coming from the man beside her.

Ten beams set the time for the camera, and then ran all the way in, only to bump into Hatta's body.

Hearing the alarm sound of the approaching time from the terminal, Shi Shu hurriedly supported Ryoko on the other side to stand upright. Just as he turned around, he heard a crisp "click——".

Time freezes here.