pandora box

There are all kinds of supernatural beings in this country.

There are free people who do not belong to any agency like Liangzi and those who hunted her down just now, there are people who are under surveillance by the government, and there are also people like Zhou Fangzun and his companions, [Wang] and their dependents.

However, for Ryoko Amano, the most troublesome thing is the organization called "Scepter4".

"Obviously there's no king left, let's disband early and go to sleep..." Ryoko squatted in front of a bar with no image, and muttered, "Still helping the golden king to monitor the supernatural beings and so on... Do those people have any brains? Now that I have a home and can’t go back... Oh, Xiaoling, I shouldn’t have taken you away in the first place!”

[It's all been integrated with what nonsense you said. ] Responding to the girl's voice with a leisurely tone that obviously shouldn't be possessed, 【Well, there is no way around this.If you want to continue to operate without the "king", it is normal to have to bow to other kings for help.What's more, Ryoko, your ability is indeed too dangerous. 】

"I'm a first class good citizen..."

Rejected in a low voice, Amano Ryoko scratched a green hair a little irritably: "Besides, who is the one who caused this situation. I really just opened the box out of pure curiosity, not what is in the box A powerful force that no one can control, why did you become Xiaoling, I thought I would die if I couldn't control it, but if I didn't die, I had to take you to hide..."

【I will be troubled if you die. 】The invisible female voice with no 'trouble' in her tone said nonchalantly, 【Anyway, Ryoko, you should think of something first... At least don't worry about S4 and have to be hunted down by supernatural beings at the same time. 】

"That's why I came here..." Responding with some dissatisfaction, Ryoko Amano looked back at the bar behind her again.This place that is said to be able to help him turned out to be such a bar built in a dangerous area, and Ryoko had doubted this for a long time.However, the "supposedly" object had died a few years ago, and she didn't even have a way to confirm it.

In short, it can only be a dead horse as a living horse doctor.

Obviously at the time she was so hard-spoken that she refused the person's help unceremoniously and said that she would never need the other person to worry, but now she had to come to ask for help... Ryoko Amano felt a little hurt in her self-esteem.

But compared to the self-esteem that can't be eaten, the most important thing is to solve the current situation quickly.Even if the antagonistic relationship with Scepter4 will not be eased, at least those supernatural beings who chased and killed her in order to gain the power of the so-called [Pandora's Box] can be solved. Ryoko Amano had to choose this way.

So who the hell demonized that broken box!Even though there is only a poisonous tongue in it, it is useless and needs to be borrowed from an unknown creature living in his body... What is even more frightening is that this unknown creature has the same name as himself! -Note

It's just... Ryoko stared at the bar in front of her, and the more she looked at it, the more she felt something was wrong.The big English letters HOMRA on the signboard of the bar made her look more and more familiar, and finally asked in a low voice: "No, Xiaoling, why is the name of this bar related to that organization of the Red King..."

"Ah!! You woman!!" Before she could finish speaking, she heard a loud cry from one side, Ryoko looked up at the place where the sound came from, and saw a few people dressed in gangsters standing there. A young man, and the one who pointed at her and yelled was a young man who didn't even look like a young man.

"...do I look like a woman?" He consumed so much energy that his brain was a little dull, and he spit out completely meaningless words.It wasn't until she was ridiculed by Ayako again that she finally realized what was going on. She stood up quickly, pretending that she hadn't said anything just now, and bowed to the people in front of her, "Hi, may I ask HOMRA's Boss, is Kusanagi-san there?"

"It's me, are you?..." The only young man who didn't look like a gangster but looked more like a gangster looked at Ryoko with some doubts, and there was interest in his eyes besides doubts.

The girl who used Zun as a shield against those supernatural beings just now appeared at the door of HOMRA and seemed to want to find someone, showing a completely different expression from before.Kusanagi Izumo almost couldn't help suspecting that this girl was multi-faceted.

After hearing Kusanagi's answer, Ryoko showed a surprised expression on his face: "Huh?... Are you... Mr. Kusanagi? Mr. Masato Kusanagi?"

Suddenly hearing his uncle's name from the girl in front of him, Kusanagi was stunned for a moment: "No...that's my uncle, he..."

died.

Four years ago, shortly after Kusanagi Izumo officially took over the bar, his uncle Masato died in an inexplicable accident.Although I felt incredible about the cause of my uncle’s death, I even investigated with Zun and the others for a while, but nothing happened—all my uncle’s files including the cause of death were destroyed overnight, as if this world had never existed before. generally.

Kusanagi Izumo couldn't say it, but Ryoko understood what he hadn't said, and her eyes dimmed instantly.She lowered her head and spoke softly, her voice trembling: "Is it... I'm sorry... to bother you."

Bowing deeply again, Ryoko intends to leave.This is really the worst case scenario.If there is no one to turn to, there is only one way for her to get rid of the entanglement of those supernatural beings, especially S4.

But that was something she had always refused to accept.

While leaving, he was thinking about his own countermeasures, but suddenly heard a "goo--".She was dazed for a moment, and after realizing what the sound was, Ryoko's face slowly turned red.

Since she planned to go to eat at noon, she found out that she was being followed by a supernatural person, and immediately started to run away. Ryoko has not eaten until now. In addition, she consumed a lot of energy in the process of running away. If she is not hungry, it is a ghost.

——That's too embarrassing!I lost face and lost my hair and threw it to the Red King!Why does this happen? It's unscientific! ...No, since she fused with Ayako, nothing scientific has happened to her!Although her previous life was unscientific enough, she really didn't want to turn herself into a really weird person!

"That..." Resisting the urge to laugh, Kusanagi Izumo called Ryoko back, "If possible, come in and sit down? If you want to ask uncle for help, I can help you too."

Taking a deep breath, and weighing the pros and cons in her brain for two seconds, Ryoko turned around again and bowed again: "Then I'd rather be respectful than obedient."

***

After trying to get a glass of wine and lying about her age was found out, Ryoko reluctantly took the non-alcoholic drink that Kusanagi made for her, and ate up the desserts on the table by the way.

"Speaking of which, a 14-year-old girl actually wants to drink..." Kusanagi shook his head and sighed, "Even Hatta-chan is not old enough to drink."

Ryoko glanced at the boy called "Hatada-chan", who was rude enough to point at her at the door of the bar just now, took a sip of her drink, and said vaguely: "I think I should be older than him... Is he fourteen?"

"What did you say?! Hit you, woman!"

As expected, Hatta blew up his hair as expected, and then he was punched down by Kusanagi before finally shutting up unwillingly, but the eyes he looked at Ryoko clearly showed: You have the guts to stay alone outside, or I will definitely I will teach you a good lesson.

Habitually ignoring his murderous gaze, Ryoko sucked the drink down to the bottom, and then said, "I came here to ask Mr. Kusanagi to help me deal with those supernatural beings chasing and killing me... I didn't expect he already……"

At the end, her eyes dimmed again, and her voice lowered.Kusanagi paid attention to her expression, and found that she was obviously different from the previous time when she grabbed the Zun and asked for help on the street, and she looked really depressed.

But it was Ryoko's words that caught his attention.In Kusanagi's cognition, his uncle has nothing to do with the world of this supernatural being. That person is an irresponsible guy who likes to wander around.But he should really know nothing about the world of supernatural beings.However, the girl hoped that his uncle could help her deal with the supernatural beings chasing and killing her—this kind of thing, even a person who has been in this world for a long time, would not dare to guarantee it easily.

Kusanagi retained his skepticism about this, and calmly asked Ryoko: "What's going on with you and those supernatural beings?"

Asked about this, Ryoko suddenly raised her head to look at him, with undisguised guard in her eyes: "A little dispute... They want something from me, but I don't want to give it to them."

Small dispute...?Kusanagi couldn't help but laugh.He didn't think that a small dispute would cause so many supernatural beings to hunt down and kill a person with such fanfare.There were some well-known fugitives there.Although it is necessary to say that the girl's wariness is necessary, the obvious lie makes this wariness so ridiculous.What's more, these four weeks are surrounded by HOMRA people, if she really plans to do something, she probably won't be able to escape even if she wants to.

But he didn't intend to expose the girl, Kusanagi followed her words: "Then you want those supernatural beings to give up that thing and leave obediently? I don't think those guys would be so easy to talk to. Even if Uncle is still here... he Can't help you either."

Hearing this, Ryoko shook her head, and replied very seriously: "No, Kusanagi...ah, Mr. Zhenren is fine. You don't know him."

In order to distinguish Kusanagi Izumo from his uncle, Ryoko changed his name to Kusanagi Masato as "Mr. Makoto".Her gaze was so firm, it made Kusanagi Izumo feel unbelievable.What's even more incredible is that he actually felt that the girl wasn't lying.

"Ah, that's troublesome." Scratching his head, he smiled at Ryoko, "I'm not as powerful as my uncle, who can drive away so many supernatural beings... Eh? Are you listening? "

Kusanagi Izumo felt a little frustrated when he found that Ryoko lowered his head and didn't seem to be listening to him.But in the next second, the girl raised her head and looked at him with burning eyes: "No, you can do it. Even if you can't do it as [Kusanagi Izumo], you can do it as the second head of [HOMRA]. Please ... Please help me. I don't want to be taken away by people in green clothes."

"Huh... Huh?!" Surprised by the girl's speech, Kusanagi Izumo subconsciously asked a question.And the next second, a familiar voice came from the door.

"What's wrong, Kusanagi, eh, that girl was from just now...?"