Chapter 325 Twelve Sweethearts

"I didn't make it cry." Chijiang Nayue said confidently, "Its ability to withstand pressure is too poor. I was just stating the facts. Besides, it was the one who gave up first, right?"

He said this directly, so the bad guy opposite and the four people below could also hear it.

Chi Jiang Na Yue looked at the cracks on the shell of Bad Egg, and raised the corners of her mouth in a rather malicious way: "Since you have given up your own dream, why do you still ask others who have been implicated by you to be nice to you?"

"I'm not your psychiatrist." He deliberately slowed down his speech and said sarcastically, "It's obvious that even you think that a dream that was abandoned and changed so easily is worthless."

Unlike his tone, he was very calm inside as he assessed the defense level of the bad guy on the other side.

Verbal sarcasm alone will not crush a bad guy, but it can catalyze a bad guy into a bad sweetheart - he and the class monitor can't find a way to purify the bad guy for the time being, so why not just purify the bad sweetheart directly? This logic is very smooth.

Akae Nagetsu never considered that if purification could not be achieved, the behavior he had catalyzed would be a very bad thing... He would not let such a scenario happen.

As he expected, the bad egg was completely hatched as soon as he finished speaking, and the bad sweetheart with a big red cross on her head and wearing a puffy skirt flew out of the eggshell.

"Come on everyone - listen to my singing -!" The bad sweetheart held a small microphone in his hand and sang a voice that was even more shrill than when he was a bad guy.

...Well, the only downside to being a Catalyst Villain is that it makes the Bad Sweetheart twice as annoying.

Chijiang Nayue touched the earplugs that were transformed by energy, and stopped mocking the bad sweetheart. Instead, she calmed down and looked for the opportunity to attack.

However, perhaps because his previous words had brought such a great shock to the bad sweetheart, as soon as the other party's eyes met him, they trembled in mid-air, and finally passed directly over him and set their sights on the four children who had approached below at some point.

[If you can't beat us, then bully the kids.] Date Kou complained, [Are you serious?]

Chi Jiang Na Yue also wanted to complain a little, but before he could do so, Bad Sweetheart sensed the danger and raised its little microphone and shouted, "I can't do it!"

The next second, Bad Sweetheart split apart visibly in mid-air.

Chijiang Nayue: “?”

He just blinked, and the number of bad sweethearts increased from one to ten, and even continued to increase. As they increased, they quickly flashed around in the air... How could this thing split itself?

Chi Jiang Na Yue immediately realized that the other party wanted to attack the people below while disturbing his sight.

If his original body was here, he would be able to find the real bad sweetheart and capture him as quickly as possible, but he is now using the body of a ten-year-old. Although his physical fitness is still stronger than that of an ordinary adult, his reaction speed and dynamic vision are much weaker than his future self.

Besides, he was alone, and even if he fired, there would be a gap in time, and he would not be able to destroy it all before it hurt other people.

"Hey, transfer student!" A voice suddenly rang out from below, powerful enough to penetrate the energy earplugs and be heard by him, "Give me three minutes, can you do it?!"

Chijiang Nayue glanced down and saw the forced calm expression on the curly-haired kid's face.

Well, having said that, he would of course start to wonder what Zhen Ping wanted these three minutes for, right?

The black-haired boy in mid-air took a deep breath and pulled out the police revolver from his waist.

"Brother Hang, it's time to go." Chijiang Nayue said in a low voice, as if talking to herself, but only he and the other guardian sweethearts who had not come out could hear the answer.

[Okay, go ahead and don't worry, Na Yue!] Ida Kou's voice was full of trust.

Although there was no way to directly find the culprit hiding in the group of bad sweethearts, it was more than enough to just delay time. When Akajina Yue's bullet shattered almost half of the bad sweethearts, the formation below finally finished assembling the things in their hands.

He quickly threw the assembled metal balls to his companions who had listened to his brief explanation early in the morning. The four of them turned around and ran in different directions. It was obvious that the originally concentrated Bad Sweethearts were also divided into many groups by their dispersion, and they couldn't help but chase in every direction.

"Come on!" Zhen Ping threw it up with force.

The transfer student cooperated with him very well. He immediately lowered his flying altitude to catch the thing thrown by Zhen Ping. He lowered his head and found a metal ball exactly the same as the others in his palm.

Akajiang Nayue's expression became subtle: He seemed to have seen this thing from Dr. Agasa?

He didn't even need Zhenping to teach him how to do it. He flew over the largest group of bad sweethearts, pressed the bulge on the ball hard and threw it out. In an instant, a big net spurted out from it and accurately caught all the bad sweethearts below.

After being caught, the four corners of the big net were still hanging in the air, and then they quickly and tightly clung together when the bad sweetheart tried to escape in a daze.

The other people below completed the capture work in almost the same time as him, and in the blink of an eye, all the bad sweethearts were caught.

"Wow!" Kenji made a sound of applause.

"This is the portable capture net that the doctor and I have been researching for a long time." After handing over the metal balls, Zhen Ping cleared his throat in front of the shocked gazes of others. He looked calm on the surface, but seemed very happy on the inside.

"…Why are you researching this?" Ling's mouth twitched, "Besides, why on earth do you carry this thing with you…"

The formation was stuck for a moment.

"I don't know, but the research process is interesting, isn't that enough?" He snorted. "Anyway, I still helped, which is better than someone who has no actual contribution!"

"you--"

Chijiang Nayue decided to pretend not to hear the noise below. His eyes moved over the groups of restless bad sweethearts who were trapped in the net, and finally locked onto one position.

He aimed and pulled the trigger without hesitation. The bullet flew out of the gun and hit the red cross on the bad sweetheart's forehead accurately.

——It didn't break, but cracks appeared.

Although he said that this gun is a real bullet, it is still a product of transformation after all. In reality, it is estimated that it will only be offensive to bad sweethearts and bad guys, so he used it without any worries.

After Chijiang Nayue found the real bad sweetheart, the other fake sweethearts around her did not disappear immediately. Their originally uncoordinated and inconsistent voices gradually tended to be unified, and finally converged into a volume louder than any previous time.

"Come on -" all the bad sweethearts said with a smile, "Come and listen to me sing!"

They sang in a terrible voice: "Dad~Mom~to you who I love so much——"

The voice of Bad Sweetheart stopped abruptly, because Chijiang Nayue appeared in front of the real Bad Sweetheart at some point. He was wearing goggles from nowhere on his face, holding a cylindrical object in his right hand and turning a pull ring in his left hand.

There was no trace of gentle emotion on his face anymore, only coldness.

"Shut up."

The next second, the energy-constructed □□ exploded in the air. Bad Sweetheart cried out, and the cross on her head shattered and dissipated in the white light.

When Akae Nazuki took off his goggles again, the purified sweetheart had returned to the egg and disappeared from his sight. He looked down and saw his friend staggering on the ground with eyes wide open. [They were stunned by the bad sweetheart's singing.] Ida Kou, who saw it more clearly, explained, then hesitated for a moment, [Nuzui...]

"I'm fine." The now ten-year-old savior waved his hands, "It's just that the song is too bad."

This is the truth. Nothing happened to Chi Jiang and Na Yue. He just suddenly felt a little...homesick? I guess.

It was only when he heard that broken song just now that he equated "going home" with "seeing his parents", and then began to think, do he really want to go back as his ten-year-old self?

Would Yuu-chan and Seigo really not recognize their own child? Even though theoretically this was his past self, not from another parallel world, and the parents here were indeed his own parents... he still inexplicably began to get nervous.

For Chijiang Nayue, he had not spoken to those two people face to face for ten years. The images in his memory were extremely clear, but he still subconsciously began to think about what tone and expression he should use to talk to his past parents.

It was as if this method could make him stop being nervous about other things for the time being... This guy who could keep a calm face even when saving the world actually felt anxious at this moment. If he told this to Furuya Rei and the others, he would definitely be worried again.

No way, he's not a child anymore!

"Cancel the transformation." Chijiang Nayue's mind was in a mess, and she said it casually.

However, after he finished reading it, he remembered that he was still in mid-air. Before he could adjust his posture to land safely, he fell into the warm and dry embrace that had been waiting for him below.

Chi Jiang Na Yue stood there in a daze, her whole body stiffened at that moment.

He first smelled a warm and rich fruity scent. The steady smell made him feel at ease involuntarily, causing him to reflexively tighten the fabric on the other person's chest, and underneath the fruity scent he caught a more familiar, very light smoky scent.

The black-haired boy who was held in those strong and powerful arms seemed to lose his voice for a moment. He tilted his head back, even though he could only see the other's chin in this position. There was a circle of short stubble on it, which looked very prickly.

Especially since he has a childish father who likes to prick his face with stubble, he understands this very well.

This person is...

“…”

The boy sitting on the man's arm instinctively wrapped his arms around the man's neck and buried his face in his shoulder. It was unknown what he was trying to avoid. Only a dull child's voice could be heard: "Did you go out drinking without telling your mother again, Dad?"

"Since I remembered to pick you up, don't tell your mother...wait?" The big hands pulled the boy away from his shoulders and forced him to look into her eyes.

The man with messy red hair had a pair of bright blue eyes. At this moment, the surprise in his blue eyes was so strong that he couldn't help but raise his voice: "What did you call me just now?"

Chi Jiang Na Yue had never called the man anything related to father. At first he denied it, and later he acted like a child and was angry. When he left his life, he no longer had the chance to tell the man that he had regarded him as his father, and he no longer had the chance to call him "Dad".

This spanned ten years, and Akae Nayue should have put aside her awkwardness and called Akae Seigo by that title long ago.

"dad……"

"Wait a minute, let's go home first and let your mother hear it too!" Akae Kiyogo was suddenly delighted, laughing in an extremely silly way, "Xiaoyou always uses this to laugh at me——"

Chijiang Nayue calmly slapped her father on the face, but unfortunately the child's hand was too small and could only cover Chijiang Qingwu's left eye, while the other one remained outside blinking.

The eye that remained outside was full of smiles, and after being pinned down, he stopped saying those nonsense words.

Akae Seigo did not ask his son why he fell from the sky, just as he had never asked his son why he knew Vermouth.

After all, this is his first time being a father, and this child is so worry-free that he has never rebelled...

When Akae Kiyoshige first came to their home that month, he was anxious for a long time because he himself was an orphan. He didn't know how a real father and son should get along, nor did he know how to be a qualified father.

Until one day when he came back from outside, he saw such a small boy standing at the entrance, and he awkwardly handed him slippers and whispered to him, "Welcome home, Qingwu."

At that moment, Akae Seigo seemed to instantly understand the feelings of all parents who love their children. He looked at his son who was just a small ball standing there, smiled brightly, rushed forward and gave his son a firm hug.

It doesn't matter. Akae Seigo thought that it didn't matter even if Xiaohong didn't want to call him dad for the rest of her life. He knew that a title wouldn't change the relationship between them. Even if he couldn't be a qualified father, as long as his child could live happily, he would be satisfied.

Just now, of course, Akae Seigo noticed that Akae Nayue was in a bad mood. He looked at his boy with his uncovered eyes, with soothing eyes.

He never asked Xiao Hong about things that she was unwilling to talk about. He would just let Xiao Hong know in his own way that even though they were not related by blood, even though he and You were undercover agents who might die in the next second, even though unforeseen accidents could happen at any time in this world——

Mom and Dad will always be the people who love him the most and support him the most in this world.

So don't be afraid, Dad is here now.

Chijiang Nayue suddenly rushed forward and hugged the red-haired man's neck, buried her face in his, and said incoherently: "Let's go home... Just move the things on the ground into your car and take them back with you."

As for the guardian sweethearts, his friends returned to his pocket as soon as Qingwu appeared, pretending that they were really just deaf and invisible eggs.

"Huh? He made friends on the first day at his new school. You're worthy of being my son!"

"...Shut up, Seigo."

Akae Seigo laughed loudly twice, pretending that the clothes on his shoulders were not wet by some cool liquid, and pretending that he did not feel the head shaking in the back of his shoulders - where did this kid learn this? He never cried much since he was a child, and when he cried, he never made a sound, just shed tears quietly, which made him and You, the two adults, anxious and at a loss, and every time they tried every way to make this kid laugh again.

His son has such a handsome face, of course he is suitable for smiling.

As usual, Akae Seigo said nothing. He just casually lifted the little boy in his arms up, freeing up one hand to carry his son's new friends without complaint.

"Okay, let's go home."