【zi-o line】

Dragons roar, bats roar, and gunfire dazzles.

The original rooftop battlefield had completely collapsed during the battle between Swaruz and Haidong Dashu, and the surrounding buildings were turned into the dust of history.

The flames of the explosion soared into the sky, and the thunder continued.

With this as a background, Whiteworth, who should have been on the edge of the battlefield, unknowingly left the battlefield completely and came to the door of the nine-to-five shop.

He stood at the signboard, stared at it silently for a long time, and continued to move forward.

Ding bell~

Pushing open the store door, he dragged Ur and Ola, who were leaning at the entrance, into the store and threw them aside. Whiteworth turned around and looked at the round table with empty eyes, as if his soul had been left behind.

The vague hourglass vision of the clock swallowed up the ordinary Gates, and his hands suddenly clenched tightly due to nervousness.

"Please...my savior..."

In the midst of the murmur, as the images of past memories continued to float in his mind, the expression on Whiteworth's face also kept changing.

Resentment, anger, regret, self-blame...

once,

When Gates and the Devil sit there, all the quarrels and differences between them will eventually turn into tacit understanding and cooperation.

However,

When it was just him and Gates sitting there, apart from quarrels and differences, what remained between them was only irreconcilable incomprehension and disagreement.

…

…

"It's been five days. Apart from exercising every day, you have nothing else to do? Gates!"

"The world is peaceful, and if you don't exercise to prepare for possible crises, are you like you, staying at home all day without going anywhere, just holding that shabby book and reading it?"

"Ha! Stupid mortals, can't you see these noble words on the cover? "Calendar of the Advent of Demons", this is the correct history book that records the journey of my Majesty the Demon King to become king...also, for someone like you

How can such a reckless man with well-developed limbs and simple mind understand the preciousness of history?"

"I understand..."

"You know nothing! If you had understood, you would never have come to this era in the first place."

"You——! Okay, I don't understand. Then tell me, according to the records in your book, when exactly did Tokio complete the Kadoya Shi's trial and return to this world?"

"Oh, when it's time to tell you, I will naturally tell you where to go to meet my Demon King... Don't forget why you came to this era. I don't trust you. The reason why I stay

I came down just to keep an eye on you!"

"Keep an eye on me? Okay, very good. Don't worry, I'll keep an eye on you too! I haven't forgotten how you betrayed our teammates who trusted you... Captain Watts!"

The result of a real quarrel is to settle old scores.

Woz doesn't trust Gates, who came to this era with the purpose of changing the history of the Demon King's becoming king and hunted down Shougo Tokiwa. But why does Gates trust Woz?

In 2068, Gates, Tsukuyomi and Woz all had a past where they were all members of the Demon King's Resistance Army.

Woz is their captain.

Later, Woz took the initiative to lurk next to the King of Demons and become an undercover agent.

But after going to the Demon King's side, Woz betrayed the Demon King's resistance.

Woz delivered a key wrong message to the Demon King's Resistance, which resulted in the death of many members of the Demon King's Resistance.

Gates' close friends are among them.

That has always been a thorn in Gates's heart that he can't get rid of.

If it weren't for Tokiwa Shogo, if Tokiwa Shogo hadn't emphasized that what happened in their "past" was the "future" for this era, and the "future" could be changed from now on, then whether it was Gates

, or Tsukuyomi, there is no way they can stay in the same place peacefully with Woz.

Therefore, when their eyes met, what Woz saw in Gates's eyes was unforgivable anger and hatred, while what Gates saw in Woz's eyes was undisguised suspicion and distrust.

Eyes collide and sparks fly.

But in the end, it was Gates, who had been the most irritable in the past, who was the first to hold back his anger and did not let the conflict continue to escalate.

"If you feel that staying here and reading is your best support to King Shi, then you can continue to stay here... until you die, I have no objection."

With these last words, Gates turned around and left angrily.

In this regard, Woz did not stop him, nor did he continue to speak to irritate Gates. He just lowered his head, reopened the Demon Advent Calendar in his hand, and read the words on the page word by word.

However, soon, the sound of silent reading stopped abruptly in his heart.

The light in his eyes quickly dimmed and was filled with confusion.

The perspective turned and came behind Woz, looked down, and approached the "Adventure Calendar" opened in Woz's hand.

I saw that the pages of the "Demon Advent Calendar" opened in Woz's hand recorded the passage after Tokiwa Shogo left this world and went to Kadoyashi's trial place...

A blank.

Go back, go back, go back... go back!!

all pages,

All,

piece,

blank.

…

Time continues to move forward.

…

"Mr. Junichiro..."

"Gates, you are finally back... Ah, that's the case. There is a little girl who came to Zhuang Wu for help. Look, Zhuang Wu is not here during this time. So I recommended you to her..."

"Little girl? Well, what's her name?"

"Ola."

…

"Ola, why did you come to King Shi? Tell him and I will help you on his behalf."

"My brother, Ur, is missing."

…

"It's not an option to search aimlessly like this. I still have predetermined training targets to complete... In this way, you can search alone first, and then contact me after you find really useful clues, okay?"

"……good."

…

"Gates."

"Woz? What are you doing here?"

"Let me tell you something... a strange knight has appeared."

…

"Ola, Ur... Swaruz! What have you done, you bastard? Aren't they your companions!?"

"Companions? Of course, they are of course my most important companions, so isn't it natural that they would give everything to help me?"

…

"Turn over your own time to resurrect the power of immortality? It's really interesting, but what's the use of immortality? The alien knight can only be destroyed with the corresponding knight watch, why don't you use it?"

…

"Gates, the alien history that was eliminated by my Demon King has reappeared, causing severe distortion of time and space. If this continues, this world will be destroyed!"

"I know, I won't let it be destroyed."

…

"Gates! Are you hiding something from me?"

"You just need to know that everything I did was allowed by King Shi."

…

"Woz, do you want to know what Gates has hidden from you?"

…

"Asshole! Gates, you are actually destroying the knight watch left by my Majesty the Demon King? I will never allow this to happen!"

"You can't stop me. I'm the one who was entrusted with these knight watches by the King of Time."
To be continued...