Chapter 183: The Courage to Start Over (Seventeen)
"Ring... ring!"
The surrounding roads had turned into ruins under the impact, and Tachibana Hibiki was kneeling on the crystallized ground. Seeing this scene, Xiao Hinata Mirai panicked instantly and rushed towards his best friend desperately.
Zhi——
Future's subordinates shrank back subconsciously stimulated by the high heat.
There is no doubt that the heat surrounding Hibiki's body is enough to hurt someone - but if he gets closer, it won't just be a simple burn.
"Don't... ring!"
However, at this time, Future could no longer think calmly, he just wanted to come to her side and support his own sun.
"Stop! If you continue, it won't be as simple as getting burned!"
At this time, the red pretender, Kris Xueyin, arrived in time and stopped the future before the tragedy happened.
"But Hibiki..."
Future struggled to get over, with tears in her eyes due to anxiety, but Chris shook her head and held her back.
Sizzling...
Under the high temperature, the pool on the chest was fused with holy relics and condensed with crystals of life force production, making it even more eye-catching.
Buzz~
At the same time, the buzz of the locomotive arrived, followed by the singing of psalms.
"imyuteusamenohabakiritron"
Accompanied by Tian Yu Yu Zhan's chants and blue waves, the blue defender riding a motorcycle turned into a blue and white suit. While riding a motorcycle of the same color on the road, the sharp blades of his feet stretched out.
, forward and closed on both sides of the front wheel of the car, two sharp blades jumped into the air with Wing's driving skills, and the target was the water tank above Hibiki.
[Riding Blade Flashes]
The sharp blade split the water tank in an instant, and a large amount of water spurted out, hitting Hibiki's body.
For Hibiki's overheated body, entering the water would undoubtedly have a quenching and cooling effect.
Hot and cold alternated, and a large amount of steam burst out. However, the heat on Hibiki's body did not slow down. Instead, as if he had been stimulated, the steam rose upward again.
"Tachibana...!"
Tsubasa really didn't expect this set of operations to have the opposite effect, but when she was about to go up against the heat, Hibiki's crystallized chest suddenly glowed with red light, and the cross scar on her chest lit up slightly, gold and red.
The radiance touched each other, producing a stimulating red current that spread all over Hibiki's body in the next moment.
"Ugh...ah!"
Under the stimulation, Hibiki let out a weak scream, and the golden crystals on her chest began to melt as if it had reached the melting point... After reaching a certain critical point, the gear on her body turned into flashes of light and disappeared.
"I didn't protect Tachibana..."
Watching this scene, Yi felt complicated and filled with self-blame.
"[Am I not protected]?"
Chrissy, who had sharp ears, heard the clues and recalled that Yi looked worried before. She rushed over and asked impatiently: "What are you talking about? Did you already know that idiot would do it?"
Has it become like this?"
"..."
"Hello!"
The heavy emotions were accompanied by unspeakable loss. At this moment, everyone at the scene was overwhelmed by this terrible full opening.
Hibiki, who had returned to his original state, fell to the ground with a sickly flushed face.
Her best friend was shaking Hibiki's body in pain, calling her name.
"Ring... ring... ring!!!"
Is it... the future?
In a daze, Hibiki heard the vague voice of her best friend, but now she was unable to respond.
Sorry...I've made you worry again this time...
His consciousness completely fell into darkness, and the last thing he heard was the rotating propeller of the helicopter and the shrill cry——
"ring--"
[After bringing Hibiki Tachibana back, the medical staff of the Mobile Second Department quickly treated him. With their efforts, Hibiki was temporarily out of danger, but...]
"We have something we must tell you."
On the screen behind Fengming Genjuro, a shocking perspective view was displayed. In the human body, shadows like eroding lightning were growing wantonly inside the girl's body.
"This is……"
In the future's eyes, Chris kicked the table hard, her face full of weakness, but she couldn't do anything.
"Damn it!"
"The fragments of the holy relic buried in her chest are eroding Hibiki's body. If it continues to deteriorate...she will no longer be herself."
The heart, mixed with golden deadly crystals, gives her the power to wear miracles and is gradually turning her into no longer human.
"Is there no way to stop the deterioration..."
In the future, she knew that the possibility of solving the current serious situation was almost zero, but out of the little luck in her heart, she still wanted to hear it with her own mouth...
"There is a possibility that has little hope..." After hesitating for a moment, looking at Mirai's eyes full of hope, Xianjuro finally couldn't bear it and spoke out the slim hope, "According to what Zijun left
Judging from the data, the unknown energy left in Xiangjun's body should have the effect of counteracting the holy relics. From a medical perspective, this energy competes with the erosion of the holy relics in Xiangjun's body, although it brings powerful effects to Xiangjun.
Explosive power and pain, but it also prevented Xiangjun's body from deteriorating further."
"However, in the final analysis, we are completely unable to analyze this energy, and we are completely unable to know its origin. The only thing we can think of is the [little insect] that Xiangjun mentioned many times before."
As for his subsequent traces, the investigation by the Second Section yielded no results, and no intelligence was collected at all... It was as if this person did not exist in this world at all.
Even if it hadn't been for the fact that Hibiki's gungnir produced a completely unknown new decisive battle function in the [Hunting Moon Incident], with this empirical example, they would have thought that the existence of this person was all caused by Hibiki's heavy blows in the past.
fantasy.
The future also knows this... the implication is that it is impossible.
"...So, if Hibiki doesn't fight, will the erosion continue?"
If it can't be solved, then it can only be postponed.
"Hmm... For Hibiki, you as a close friend are the most important thing in daily life. I think that only by spending peaceful days by your side can we restrain the erosion of gungnir."
"That is...I want..."
During the conversation, Genjuro nodded slowly.
"I hope you can protect Mr. Xiang."
In the absence of clarity about it, this is the only safe way, and this is the only decision Feng Ming Genjuro can make.
"I will protect you!"
From this, little Hinata made up her mind in the future to protect the sun that had bruised her body in order to protect her.
But soon, the cruel reality made her realize that there was nothing she could do without determination and strength.
He obviously just wanted to calm down Hibiki by enjoying the beautiful scenery of Tokyo Sky Juri Museum, but he was attacked by noise.
Fate is such a joke, showing its fangs when you least expect it.
Under the brokenness of daily life, Hibiki was about to go to the battlefield, but she could do nothing but watch from behind...
Under the broken ruins, in the high altitude about to fall, the two held hands, but their hands became looser and looser.
"In the future, this place won't last long! Let go!"
"No! I have to protect Hibiki!"
In the end, even if he just wanted to protect his relatives and friends and not let them fight... he couldn't do such a small thing.
"...If you really encounter difficulties one day, you will definitely ask Mirai to help."
There were also tears in Hibiki's eyes, but then his eyes became firmer.
"So let me work harder today."
Still, I compromised, and I made it clear that I wanted to protect him.
The girl's tears were streaming down her cheeks. The painful sadness came from the heart that was bleeding because she couldn't protect the one she cherished.
My hands are getting looser and looser, and I can't hold them anymore.
"I...obviously want to...protect..."
The gravity of the earth acted cruelly at this moment, pulling Hibiki out of Mirai's hands and suddenly falling to the earth.
"ring--"
And under the mourning of the future, a life-burning hymn was sung.
Sorry, future.
In a daze, she recalled the burning figure there.
At that time, he broke away his hand without hesitation.
Afterward, she always felt that it was because she was so useless that she acted like this.
I just didn't expect that this time she would also...
My heart is wavering and tired, and my singing voice seems more firm and powerful.