Dragon Clan: They're all insane, and you still want me to slay dragons?

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A complete stranger, very handsome, even more handsome than her brother. Although Erii didn't have such opinions, she still had feelings about whether someone was handsome or beautiful, and whether she felt comfortable looking at them.

Her surname is Uesugi, her given name is Erii, and her given name is not Liu Qiangdong.

The young man held a knife in one hand and a fancy white semi-automatic pistol in the other. He exuded an aura of bloodlust and menace, as if he had just fought his way out of a mountain of corpses and a river of blood and was about to stand in the sky to judge the world.

However, Erii did not perceive the young man as "dangerous" or a "threat" to her. The "fierce aura" that Ryoma Genichiro and the others feared like a tiger seemed so familiar and comforting to Erii.

That wasn't malevolent energy, nor was it the murderous intent of "I want to kill so-and-so, I want to slaughter the world until rivers of blood flow." Rather, it was a will of judgment, similar to Erii's Word of Power.

The innocent and righteous will not be the subjects of judgment. They will not only be free from sin, but will also be taken up to heaven to be with God. After the judgment, they will go with the Son to the new heaven and the new earth, to the kingdom of heaven.

Is Erii a sinner?

At least in Gao Kui's judgment at this moment, she is neither a clear perpetrator in connection with the kidnapping of Makoto Aso nor has she ever shown any murderous intent or hostility towards Gao Kui.

It's quite strange that two extremely dangerous and ferocious mixed-race individuals, who appear incredibly dangerous and menacing to others, share the same underlying logic of "defense and counterattack," ultimately leading them to believe that the other is not a sinner and poses no threat.

Chapter 164 Farewell, The Cage

Gao Kui couldn't help but glance at the girl a few more times.

Erii walked barefoot on the wooden floor. Her calves, visible beneath the towel, were slender and shapely, with a figure that was quite impressive for an average girl. Even through the towel, her curves were more alluring than they appeared. Her exposed skin was smooth, white, and glowed with a dewy sheen under the light.

Gao Kui felt that the girl looked somewhat familiar, a vague, unsettling familiarity. After thinking about it carefully, he realized who Erii resembled: Nono.

The two girls have similar body shapes and heights, and their hair and eye colors are almost identical. There are not many similarities in their facial features, but there are still some similarities. The differences in the three sections and five eyes of a beautiful woman are generally not too great.

However, Erii's temperament is completely different from Nono's.

If Chen Motong is the kind of bad girl who deceives people's feelings and then swindles them out of their money, then Erii is the complete opposite—a girl who gets completely taken advantage of and then counts the money for them.

The girl's eyes held a naive and innocent foolishness that was so vivid and striking that it was impossible to shake off.

Gao Kui quickly looked away; he had no interest in deceiving such an ignorant girl, at least not for the time being.

After patting the back cover of the arcade machine, Gao Kui said, "You should wipe this area with a damp towel first, and then use a small fan to blow on it. The moisture will carry away the heat as it evaporates, making it cool down faster."

Gao Kui spent his entire high school years in a daze, and this experience has almost exhausted his physics knowledge.

Die!

Erii's dark red eyes gleamed, and she looked at Gao Kui with the gaze of a child looking up at their parents who had just done some small things, as if Gao Kui had done something earth-shattering, solved the Riemann Hypothesis, or created a perpetual motion machine.

Gao Kui felt a sting when Erii stared at him like that; he was all too familiar with that look. There was a time when he had looked up at his "mother" from kindergarten with the exact same gaze.

Now, if he were to return to the orphanage and see his "mother" again, would his eyes still look the same as before? Gao Kui didn't know.

There was a time when Gao Kui felt that he liked simple people, pure people, and people who were unreserved and without any falsehood.

Aso was that kind of girl, at least to him. Now another girl, completely genuine, had appeared before him, yet even a glance from her caused him heartache.

Erii ignored Gao Kui and ran barefoot back to the bathroom. A dozen seconds later, she ran out again, clutching a towel that had been soaked and wrung out. She jogged to the arcade machine and patiently wiped the still-warm back cover of the machine with the towel.

Then, he picked up the erasable writing pad on top of the arcade machine, wrote a few Japanese characters with flowing strokes, and turned it around to show Gao Kui.

ありがとう, translated into Chinese, means thank you; the misheard version is "Arigato".

"You can't speak?"

The moment the question slipped out, Gao Kui realized he had said something pointless; no adult with normal language skills would keep an erasable writing board handy.

Putting himself in her shoes, Gao Kui even felt a pang of regret. He recalled a few months ago when he was still in the mental hospital. Back then, when he went to Professor Guderian for a follow-up examination, Jiu Deya and Ye Sheng, who were present, looked at him with eyes full of apprehension.

At the time, Gao Kui was very unhappy, and naturally, he thought Erii would be unhappy too.

But no, Erii's expression remained unchanged, as if Gao Kui had merely asked an ordinary question. She nodded, then shook her head.

Gao Kui no longer wanted to have any further contact with Erii or this girl.

In just a few words, Gao Kui realized that this was definitely a girl who could perfectly hit his target area—beautiful, simple, and pure. Not the kind of pure purity that Aso Makoto had only for him, but pure purity towards everyone and everything.

But he probably wasn't good enough for this kind of girl. This had nothing to do with Aso Makoto or Seiko. As a person, Takagi didn't consider himself pure. His mind was always a mess, sometimes even dirtier and more filthy than a dirty adult. Naturally, he shouldn't have much contact with a girl like this.

Of course, Genjiro was also a beast.

Gao Kui had made up his mind that in order to prevent the despicable, shameless, and cold-hearted Yuan Zhisheng from corrupting this girl, he would kill Yuan Zhisheng the moment he saw him, so that the last bit of purity would also disappear from the world.

So Gao Kui completely ignored Erii's thanks, turned around and walked into the bathroom where Erii had just come out. He was 99% sure that Aso was not with Erii, but he still wanted to verify that last bit of uncertainty.

The bathroom was empty and filled with steam. The ceramic bathtub was more than half full of warm water, its surface shimmering and spotless.

Erii ran into the bathroom again, her delicate cheeks flushed, and held up the writing board in front of Gao Kui, on which a new line of large characters was written.

"What are you looking for?"

Gao Kui suddenly felt like the Big Bad Wolf in an apron and cloak, and the girl in front of him, whose hair and eyes resembled Nono's, was Little Red Riding Hood. The Big Bad Wolf had been misled by Western moralists and decided to become a vegetarian to spare Little Red Riding Hood, but Little Red Riding Hood just kept jumping into the Big Bad Wolf's mouth.

This girl, who bears a resemblance to Nono, exhibits a similar trait: she is very clingy.

However, Erii's reasons for sticking to Gao Kui are fundamentally different from Nono's. Nono did it because she liked him, while Erii did it because she didn't reject him and was too lonely.

Similar underlying logic and a seemingly plausible "judgment" will led Erii to regard Gao Kui as a harmless fellow human. Her long-standing loneliness, apart from her brother, father, and medical staff, and the fact that she had never seen any strangers, made Erii curious about this harmless stranger who had suddenly entered her world.

It's not liking, but a kind of closeness to one's own kind.

"I'm looking for my girlfriend."

What does "girlfriend" mean?

"A girlfriend is a female friend who is even closer than a friend. She is a girl who is about the same age as you and about the same beauty as you."

Gao Kui was completely helpless against Erii.

The wolf grandmother, who had switched to a vegetarian diet, wanted nothing more than to push Little Red Riding Hood far away, but her carnivorous instincts, inherited from her genes, still made her unable to resist showing her claws to Little Red Riding Hood.

Gao Kui didn't want to have much contact with Erii; he just wanted to focus on finding his girlfriend, but that seemed impossible. This kind of pure and innocent girl had a fatal attraction for him.

It took 12 hours for Takagi to fall for Aso Makoto, but only 12 seconds for Erii. In a daze, Takagi finally understood what Haruki Murakami meant by "the perfect girl".

Why are you looking for your girlfriend here?

"Because your brother's men are very, very bad people, they kidnapped her."

To protect the girl's innocence, Gao Kui didn't directly say, "Your brother sent people to kidnap my girlfriend." After saying that, Gao Kui's thoughts drifted to a video of Edison Chen, the master of parody.

I'm Edison Chen, and I'm in LA right now. I've run into some really bad people, some gangsters. I need your help. Please transfer 300 HKD via WeChat to help me get back to Hong Kong. Do you understand what I mean? I salute you!

"What about my brother?"

Your brother isn't here.

Oh ~

Erii nodded thoughtfully, wiped the writing from the writing board, wrote with flowing strokes, and finally held the writing board up in front of Gao Kui.

"I'll go with you to find your girlfriend. How about you take me out to have some fun?" Erii wanted to run away from home again.

At this time yesterday, she was preparing to run away from home. She had packed her bags and was just waiting for an auspicious day to set off.

The Oni Clan's surprise attack on Genji Heavy Industries disrupted Erii's plans. Genji Chisei, who wanted to protect Genji Heavy Industries, was in a state of panic. Erii, not wanting to cause trouble for her brother, had no choice but to temporarily put her plans on hold.

But now, well-meaning people say that my brother's subordinates are all very bad people, a bunch of big villains.

The villains don't deserve to be protected by me and my brother; they should all be kicked to death by Kamen Rider. Naturally, my reasons for staying at Genji Heavy Industries have diminished.

As it happened, her brother was away again, and Erii's idea of ​​running away from home resurfaced. If she didn't run away now, when would she?

After careful consideration, Erii decided to take her talent out of Genji Heavy Industries. As for the members of the Snake Clan, Erii wished they would all be kicked to death by Kamen Rider.

What does it mean?

Gao Kui looked at Erii in astonishment, completely baffled as to what she was thinking. Could this be the wolf in sheep's clothing disguised as Little Red Riding Hood? Am I the innocent Little Red Riding Hood?

"Don't even think about it."

The girl named Erii in front of me looks like the kind of innocent girl who would be sold out and still count the money for the seller. How can a girl like this survive in the outside world if she is taken out of Genji Heavy Industries?

Just as a fledgling bird must one day fly into the sky, a girl with a pure heart must one day break free from the cage that protects her and see the wider world, but the person who takes her out should not be herself.

Gao Kui shook his head, left Erii's bedroom expressionlessly, and continued searching the remaining rooms on the top floor. Footsteps echoed again in the deep, quiet corridor.

Watching Takagi walk out of Erii's bedroom on the surveillance footage, Ryoma Genichiro and the others finally breathed a sigh of relief, slumped into chairs, and finally felt relieved.

They couldn't understand why Gao Kui and Erii, who seemed like sworn enemies and should have been at odds, hadn't clashed. This wasn't the best-case scenario, nor was it the worst-case scenario.

Erii's destructive potential is still too high. Without the restraint of Genjiro and Tachibana Masamune, once a fight breaks out, she might demolish an entire building, or even an entire block or city.

Once Yuan Zhisheng returns, the situation will be more under control if the brother and sister work together.

Ring ring ring ring ring.

The liaison office rang urgently, and Ryoma Genichiro, whose limbs were limp, quickly grabbed the phone: "Moshi Moshi?"

"How is the situation at headquarters?"

From the other end of the microphone came a child's anxious question, along with the loud sound of a propeller spinning.

"Neither good nor bad. The Northern Qi prince just went to the Uesugi family head's room and left quickly. They didn't have a conflict. Now he's searching the remaining rooms on the top floor."

Ryoma Genichiro reported the important information to Genjiro.

Very good!

A massive Apache helicopter swept across the vibrant city of Tokyo, and Genjiro, his eyes gleaming with golden light, raised his fist in relief.

There is another possibility that Gao Kui did not stay in Erii's room for long: that he killed Erii silently in a very short time. However, this possibility is so small that Genjiro and others would not even consider it.

"Hold on, wait for me to come back. In three more minutes, no, in two minutes I'll be back at headquarters!"

"understand!"

After hanging up the call with Genjiro, Ryoma and the others were all radiant, as if they had just received a shot of adrenaline. The young master is back; headquarters is at peace. The young master is back; the heavens are clear!

With the two emperors joining forces, they will surely be able to force the Northern Qi prince to his knees!

On the other side, in Erii's room, the girl with dark red hair had taken off her bathrobe, put on underwear and a white and red hakama shrine maiden outfit, and was kneeling on the floor, hurriedly packing her things.

Although her suggestion was rejected, Erii's idea of ​​running away from home did not disappear. This opportunity was too good to pass up.

Her brother's men are a bunch of villains who deserve to be kicked to death by Kamen Rider. And with her brother gone, even if she is rejected by Takagi, Erii really can't find any reason to stay.

Goodbye, cage.

Ultraman, Kamen Rider, and other monster plastic toys, plush toys, towels, toothpaste, toothbrushes, pajamas, slippers—each item with a label was placed on the bed sheet by Erii. Finally, she grabbed a corner of the sheet, tied it up, and made a pretty bow.

Erii jumped back onto the bed, took down the curtain rod, used one end to hang the bundle, and, imitating Tom from "Tom and Jerry," carried the bundle on her shoulder.