Chapter 238 Smile, Kamishiro Ruri
Six years ago, Tokyo, Japan.
It was early morning, and two girls of similar age were walking one after the other on an elevated corridor above the road. The sun had just risen, and the faint morning light enveloped their figures.
The distance between them was fixed, never shortened, never widened.
"Miss, why don't you go to school?"
The short-haired girl wearing a kimono with a sword handle tied around her waist asked softly. She had a face as delicate as a light cherry blossom, but her facial features were emotionless and as cold as the winter in December.
The girl in school uniform walking in front did not respond to her or even look back.
"Miss, why don't you go to school?" the kimono girl asked again, "This is not the way to school. If you get lost, I can take you..."
"Could you please stop following me?" the girl in school uniform interrupted her coldly.
"No, this is the order from the young master."
"Then stay away from me, this is my order!"
"But, the young master wants me to follow you." The girl in kimono said expressionlessly.
The girl in school uniform finally turned around, frowned slightly, and her pretty face was full of unhappiness.
"Hey, you! My dad asked you to follow me, but you just keep following me. Aren't you just like a puppet?"
"This is the order from the young master."
"Commands, commands! All you know is commands. You're as boring as a robot! Get away from me!"
"Then I'll stay away. If Miss Asuka is in danger, I will come here the first time." The girl in kimono slowed down her pace, her eyes bright but a little empty.
"Well, let me tell you." Asuka Uesugi took two steps forward, sighed deeply, and looked back at the kimono girl who had stopped walking. "Come and skip class with me today."
"I……"
The girl in kimono hesitated for a moment.
"Ha, you can't even do that?"
"If, young lady, you really don't want to go to school..." The kimono girl raised her head and said softly, "Then I'll accompany you. School courses are far less important than young lady."
"Well, let's go to Kabukicho. I heard there are a lot of fun things there."
"But the young master said that you can't go to Shinjuku District, otherwise it will be dangerous."
"What's the matter with him?"
"He ordered me to do so."
"You! Your name is Kamishiro Ruri, right?"
"Yes, thank you Miss for remembering my name."
Uesugi Asuka walked up to Kamishiro Ruri and pinched her expressionless face: "What on earth did you eat to grow up? You are ordered around by those adults, don't you have any intention of resisting in your heart?"
"My family has served the Uesugi family for generations, and it is my duty to protect the young lady."
"Huh? Why is there such a strange duty?"
"Miss, you may not know that some people's fate is predetermined from birth." Kamishiro Ruri said, "People like me are born to be tools, and I am and will be in the future."
Asuka Uesugi was stunned: "How can this happen..."
"Yes." Kamishiro Ruri said softly.
"In other words...if you don't follow me, will anything happen to your family?"
"Yeah, that's about it."
"Hmph, then I allow you to follow me, but don't disturb me."
"OK."
"Can you show more expression and not always have a stern face?" Asuka puffed up her cheeks and said unhappily, "Also, there's no need to talk like a robot. It's really weird. Can you be more like a human being?"
"...More like a human?" Kamishiro Ruri was puzzled.
"For example..." Asuka Uesugi turned her head, stretched out her right hand, and gently pulled up the corner of Kamishiro Ruri's mouth, "like this."
Kamishiro Ruri stood there in a daze.
She instinctively wanted to resist, and even put her right hand on the hilt of the knife, but in the end she did nothing and just looked at Asuka at a loss.
Asuka Uesugi tilted her head and nodded with satisfaction.
"Smile more, isn't this beautiful?"
Kamishiro Ruri raised her eyes and looked at Asuka bewilderedly.
"Is this the young lady's order?"
"No, this is advice from a friend!" Asuka retracted her hand and put it on her chin. "No, we are not friends, so this is advice from a peer."
"Yes, sir."
Kamishiro Ruri smiled gently at her, and her little face, as cold as winter, seemed to be blooming with late cherry blossoms.
The rain is falling.
The raindrops fell in large drops, hitting the girl's bloody nose, diluting the fishy smell.
Kamishiro Ruri's drooped shoulders trembled slightly.
She raised her heavy eyelids and looked at the huge, hazy red shadow in front of her.
[Boss Name: Myth Carrier——"Flame Giant Surtur"]
[Boss star rating: 4.5 stars]
The glass fragments on the ground reflected the face of Kamishiro Ruri.
The right half of her face had been burned, even her hair was burnt to pieces, her hideous white skull was exposed, but the other side of her face was still intact, the contrast was even more tragic.
...so ugly.
...This can't be me?
Kamishiro Ruri stared at the lonely mirror fragment for a long time.
The rain dripped down her cheeks.
She looked at her hideous, unsightly face in the mirror and smiled with difficulty.
"The young lady asked me to laugh..."
"She said that I looked very pretty when I smiled..."
Kamishiro Ruri's voice was hoarse as she muttered something to herself.
After a while, she raised her head again, and her vision gradually became clearer through the rain.
A raging fire is burning above the ruins of Big Ben.
The Gothic building was swallowed up by it, and the British flag standing on the eaves that looked like a church dome was also broken by the fierce wind and heavy rain.
This was a grand blaze, like a scarlet devil raising its flag in carnival, the fire was like a crimson curtain falling from the sky, sweeping the world in an irresistible manner.
Crunch——
At this time, the house behind her was about to collapse.
The sudden torrent of black data came like a galloping wild horse, whistling in from afar, supporting her head just in time and briefly stopping the falling house.
"Run away!"
In the distance, Gu Qiu was panting, kneeling against the wall and growling.
He could see...
The mythical carrier named "Surtur" was about to attack Kamiyo Ruri.
But he was powerless, and using the last bit of his magic power to block the collapsed building for her and prevent her from being buried under the tiles, that was all he could do.
"Hacker brother, you really know how to joke..."
Kamishiro Ruri moved her stiff right hand and grasped the katana lying beside her. Her only remaining eye was filled with a determined light.
"Run...how else can we run?"
She stretched out her hand and touched the invisible wall behind her, and a cold prompt sound popped up in her ears.
[Warning: You cannot leave this location while the boss fight is in progress.]
Kamishiro Ruri thrust her katana into the ground, struggled to stand up, and stumbled forward.
"The young lady said..."
Kamishiro Ruri swung her sword, and it made a chilling sound in the heavy rain.
"She told me..."
She slowly raised the corners of her bloody mouth, and the sleeves of her kimono fluttered in the rain.
"Smile, Kamishiro Ruri."
Not far away, a giant with violent flames all over his body roared.
It swung the giant flaming sword in its hand, bringing out a devastating rain of fire. This crimson rain curtain instantly burned everything it passed by into ashes.
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