Why would you carry something like this with you? "...Thank you..." Si Wang didn't quite understand the difference between a woolen hood and a plastic hood in a circle of plastic hoods, but he took the hood with a smile, "This one is indeed much stronger than my cloth bag." But the girl did not leave. She still maintained a close distance of one step away from Si Wang, with her chin raised and staring at him. …Why does it feel a bit like a dog that has just brought back a frisbee and is wagging its tail like crazy in anticipation of throwing it again? Si Wang thought as he pulled the blue hood off his head. "The car is coming." Xiao Niaoyou Xingye kicked the tire of the pickup truck and pushed the shotgun shells into the magazine one by one. "Is everyone ready?" A faint light cut through the darkness, and accompanied by the low roar of the engine, the outline of a car slowly emerged.

Chapter 20 Don’t do that kind of thing! "Hmm... my head..."

The severe pain cut through the girl's nerves like a blade, waking her up from her coma. Kuromi Serika slowly opened her eyes. It was pitch black all around her, with only a few beams of starlight shining in through the gaps above. The floor beneath her shook from time to time, and the sound of wheels rubbing against the ground could be heard. "Is this... a carriage?" Kuromi Serika's cat ears moved, and she immediately realized that she must have been kidnapped by the group of Steel Helmet bastards who had attacked her. She struggled to raise her arm, but this time it was like pulling a damaged muscle. The severe pain was like countless steel needles piercing through the palm of her palm and running freely along the blood vessels. She couldn't help but gasp for air. The little bit of strength she had managed to muster was instantly lost, and she fell back onto the floor of the carriage. "What should I do?! What should I do?! What should I do?!" Kuromi Serika's mind was in a mess. She was celebrating her victory yesterday, but today her condition took a sudden turn for the worse and the girl was thrown into a state of confusion. "Will you be worried if you can't contact me? What if the Steel Helmets attack you when you come out to look for me? What if..." Thinking of this, Kuromi Serika's chaotic thoughts suddenly came to a halt. What if... What if... Ayane and the seniors also think that I abandoned Abydos and ran away like the other kids... what to do…… "No, I don't want to be considered a betrayer!" Kuromi Serika couldn't help but cover her face, intermittent sobs and tears flowing out from between her fingers, "At least let me say goodbye to everyone and explain myself clearly before I die!" "I haven't had time to apologize to the teacher yet!" Looking at the cat head crying heartbrokenly in front of them, Si Wang and Kotori Yu Xingye, who were huddled in the corner, looked at each other in bewilderment. Although four people can fit in the cab if they squeeze together, considering that the favorability has not yet reached the level that can trigger the event, Si Wang took the initiative to sit in the car for safety reasons. Hoshino Takanashi looked at Izayoi Yonomiya, who was patting her thigh with an expectant expression, and after a couple of dry laughs, she followed Si Wang into the carriage. Si Wang swore that he had absolutely no bad intentions and could only shrink into the corner to rest. When he saw Kuromi Serika wake up, he was still considering how to greet her in a way that would scare her. He didn't expect that after just a short delay, the girl went from self-pity to tears. Si Wang nudged Kotori Yuxingye with his elbow. He didn't care whether the girl could see it or not. He signaled with his eyes: You, the junior, are crying so sadly, why don't you, as a senior, take action? Xiao Niaoyou Xingye smiled, put her hand on Si Wang's lower back, and said to Si Wang with her lips: I'm sorry, teacher~

The girl gave a gentle push with unmatched strength. ??? You want me, someone you’ve only met for less than three days, to win the favor of your juniors? Little bird is wandering in the star field, are you awake? Si Wang felt like a piece of paper in front of an electric fan. He didn't even have a chance to struggle in front of this small hand, and he stumbled and fell out. "Who?!" Kuromi Serika was frightened by the sudden noise. She didn't even wipe the tears from her face. She jumped up from the ground in an instant and subconsciously reached behind her where the gun should have been. "Hey, classmate Qinxiang, good evening." Si Wang straightened his collar and cuffs, smiled and extended his hand to greet the girl, "I didn't expect to run into you here, it's quite a coincidence, don't you think?" "Teacher?!" Kuromi Serika's eyes widened in disbelief, revealing an expression as if she had seen a ghost in broad daylight, and her voice unconsciously rose an octave, "Why is the teacher here!" "This is a very long story, and now is a bit inappropriate." Si Wang thought for a while and shook his head. "In short, we are here to take you home." Si Wang extended his hand and smiled at the girl, "You must be scared outside. Welcome home, Qinxiang." "Thank you... Thank you, teacher." Looking at the faint smile in front of her and listening to the soft voice beside her ears, a tingling warmth suddenly penetrated from every pore. For some reason, Kuromi Serika suddenly couldn't control her tears. She shrugged her nose and tightly held Si Wang's outstretched hand, "I... I'm back" "It's good that you're back, it's good that you're back." Si Wang patted the back of the girl's hand gently like an old grandfather, "It's more important than anything else that someone can come back safely!" Hei Jianqinxiang couldn't hold it in any longer this time. She screamed and threw herself into Si Wang's arms, clutching Si Wang's clothes tightly with both hands. Tears and cries poured out like a burst dam, filling the entire carriage. "It's scary to die quietly! It's scary to be alone! It's scary to be misunderstood by everyone!" The girl sniffed and burrowed into Si Wang's arms to vent her fear. "It's scary that I didn't have time to apologize to the teacher." Si Wang's hand, which was about to pat the girl's shoulder to comfort her, paused, hesitated twice in mid-air, and then touched the girl's cat ears instead. "Teacher, what happened over there?" Si Wang's communicator on the left shoulder of his tactical vest suddenly glowed, and the virtual image of Sand Wolf Baizi was projected in the air. "We all heard a loud noise in the cab." "Senior Baizi's voice?!" Kuromi Serika jumped out of Si Wang's arms like a frightened rabbit and hurriedly wiped her tears. "Hmm..." With the help of the camera, Sand Wolf Baizi also discovered the startled school girl, "So it was Qinxiang who woke up with tears streaming down her face." "Who... who is crying!" Kuromi Serika felt her face was about to burn. She shouted at the virtual image of Sand Wolf Baizi with her fangs and claws bared, "I'm not crying?!" "You're lying!" Sand Wolf Baizi retorted without hesitation. She frowned, glanced up and down at Kuromi Serika, and spoke in a more serious tone, "You haven't wiped the tears off your face yet!" "Hey, is Serika-chan crying?" Izayoi Nomiya squeezed her head in and said with a smile, "Don't be sad, don't be sad~ How about letting the teacher help Serika-chan wipe away her tears?" "I told you I'm not crying! Stop talking nonsense! Shut up!" Hei Jianqin grabbed Si Wang's wrist and yelled angrily at the pinhole camera in front of his watch, "It's just an illusion! Illusion! Can't the seniors focus on more important things?" "More important things..." Izayonomiya hammered his palm, pretending to be enlightened, "Senior Hoshino, we are almost at the Steel Helmets' base. I'll leave it to you and the teacher to explain the specific mission to Serika-chan." Kuromi Serika was stunned, "Senior Hoshino?" A bad premonition suddenly emerged in her heart. "Hey, Qinxiang-chan." A small head popped out from behind Si Wang, and Xiao Niaoyou Xingye greeted with a smile, "Good evening~"

Suddenly, in the deserted desert, a heart-wrenching scream from some unidentifiable creature was heard, breaking the silence of the night.

Chapter 21 I think you are a bit extreme "Hiss~ Although it's my fault for not taking good care of the child, but Qinxiang-chan, weren't you a little too harsh?" Hoshino Kotori covered her left eye, which had a fist imprint on it, and gasped, "Just now, for a moment, Mom seemed to see Grandma waving at her from heaven." "Isn't it that Senior Hoshino deliberately hid in the corner to watch me laugh?!" Kuromi Serika clenched her fists, and her eyes looked so ashamed and angry that she seemed to want to punch her senior in the other eye. "I'm so... worried! Senior actually hid and didn't say anything on purpose. Don't you think it's a bit too much?!" "Yes, yes, don't you think you've gone too far, Hoshino?" Si Wang moved aside without hesitation, exposing Hoshino Takanashi completely in front of the red-eyed Kuromi Serika, and nodded in agreement, "You're actually making fun of your cute junior. Is this really what a senior should do?" "And the teacher too!" It would have been fine if Si Wang didn't say anything. As soon as he opened his mouth, Hei Jian Qinxiang's attention was immediately focused on the culprit. The girl gnashed her teeth and said, "You actually...you actually teased me with that kind of words!" I was so touched and believed you so much, I believed every word you said... I didn't expect that you were just deliberately cooperating with Senior Hoshino to have fun! "Negligence! Immorality! Idiot! Stupid...!" The more Kuromi Serika thought about it, the angrier she became. She wanted to cry even more. She had already thrown away the thought in her mind that "I will definitely, immediately, and instantly apologize to the teacher as soon as we meet." Instead, she poured out all the offensive words she had learned throughout her life. "You are so familiar! You are so stupid! You are so hypocritical...!" Taking advantage of the opportunity when Kuromi Serika was scolding him, Si Wang raised his eyebrows at Kotori Hoshino. Look at the good things you have done. Hoshino Takanari touched the back of his head and gave a silly laugh, trying to get away with it. "I'm so sorry, Serika-san. It was really Hoshino-san's fault for joking with you when you were so scared." Si Wang reached into his pocket and took out a handkerchief from the system backpack and handed it to the girl. "I apologize to you on her behalf." The noisy atmosphere in the carriage suddenly stagnated. Hoshino Takanashi and Serika Kuromi turned their heads to look at Si Wang at the same time, wondering if their ears were wrong. "But." Si Wang didn't give the girls a chance to come back to their senses, and then said, "I think you are a little extreme." "Me? Extreme?" Kuromi Serika was bewildered. She even forgot to continue being angry. Her mind was filled with questions. "How am I extreme?" "Think about it carefully. Why do you have to choose between [I want to make a joke to relax your tense nerves] and [Actually, Hoshino-san is worried about you]?" Si Wang calmly added a few prepositive adjectives to the facts and looked into the girl's eyes with a serious expression. "Why can Hoshino-san be so worried about you, but at the same time want to play a joke on you to ease your tense nerves? There is actually no conflict between the two, right?" Kuromi Serika was stunned by Si Wang's series of questions. Her excitement had not yet completely subsided, and she had to start thinking about so many questions immediately. The girl felt like a spoon was inserted into her head, stirring it constantly, making her mind, which had already been confused by the recent series of ups and downs, even more confused. But...what the teacher said seems to make some sense?

Thinking of this, Kuromi Serika couldn't help but turn her gaze to her predecessor. Si Wang slapped Kotori Hoshino on the shoulder, waking the girl up from her state of thinking about something. "Oh, right, right." Hoshino Kotori came back to her senses. She looked at Si Wang's slap that was so quick to escape, and then looked at the junior who was fooled into a blur. After two seconds of silence, she gave Kuromi Serika a thumbs up, "Uncle, I really thought so. I didn't expect the teacher to know it so clearly." "Ah...ah...so that's how it is..." Kuromi Serika was at a loss for words for a moment, her scarlet eyes darting everywhere. If...if that's the case, wouldn't I be the kind of annoying person who would pester my lifesaver? ! Kuromi Serika felt as if there was a fire burning on her face. The girl pursed her lips tightly, suppressed the urge to run away, took a deep breath, walked to Si Wang and Kotori Yui Hoshino with great perseverance, and bowed fiercely. "Thank you so much, Mr. Si Wang, Senior Xingye, and everyone else!" Although only Kuromi Serika's cat ears and the back of her head could be seen because of her bow, one could more or less guess the girl's current expression and mood from her red ears. "I made you worry!" Si Wang breathed a sigh of relief, finally it was settled. To be honest, he never thought that a minor could be so delicate. Shouldn't gunfights, robberies, and kidnappings be the daily rhythm of Kivotos? Why do they always fall into self-pity or can't control their emotions and attack those close to them? He felt that the [Good Friend Number Five] in his previous world was not so difficult to deal with when he discovered that he was [Good Friend Number Five]. But I finally got it done. "Wow, seeing my child finally grow up and become sensible, and understand my mother's hard work, I, as a mother, am really touched." Xiao Niaoyou Xingye grabbed Si Wang's sleeve and pretended to wipe his tears, "Don't you think so, the child's father?" "Stop... stop joking!" Kuromi Serika felt the blood rushing to her head. She slapped away Hoshino Kotori's fingers that were rubbing against Si Wang's face with his sleeves, grabbed his collar, and shook him angrily, "Senior Hoshino, why are you taking advantage of me again? Do you want to be beaten again?!" "Hmm...what a strong arm." Hoshino Kotori said with emotion as he looked at the blurry vision in front of him, "It seems that everything is fine now." "Senior Hoshino!" "Okay, Qinxiang, you'll have plenty of time to teach your Hoshino-senpai a lesson when you get back." Si Wang pulled out a motorcycle helmet from behind him in a fancy way, "but now is the time to get down to business." Kuromi Serika looked at the motorcycle helmet in Si Wang's hand, which was very familiar, and she couldn't help but slow down the speed of shaking her senior's head, "What is this?" "I think you are definitely not the kind of girl who won't fight back after being beaten." Si Wang handed over the helmet and said with a smile, "It's just the right time to settle old scores together. Why not take this opportunity to break into the Steel Helmet Team's base camp and wipe out their entire family in one fell swoop." "it is good!" Hearing that she could take revenge, Kuromi Serika suddenly felt that her waist and legs were no longer sore, and even the place that was hit by the 88mm blade was only left with a massage-like tingling sensation. She took the helmet from Si Wang and put it on her head fiercely, "I will repay today's humiliation a hundredfold!" As for the plan? Although they had only spent one day together, for some reason, she subconsciously thought that Si Wang was already prepared. And we are prepared to never let them down!

Chapter 22: Do Not Speak the Abydos Language “…That’s roughly the plan.” Si Wang pressed the communicator on the shoulder strap of his tactical vest and asked, "Do you have anything else to add?" "Uncle, I don't have any more here~" "receive." "Got it~ Now it's time to avenge Serika-chan, right~"