After being released from the darkness, Zoe stumbled over something on the ground and fell to the ground with her face flat on the ground.
She stood up and looked around.
This was an abandoned building. The ground was full of broken stones and many steel bars exposed from the limestone walls. The floor might be fragile, so she had to be careful when walking.
Looking out the window, she could see other scenes of USJ and was sure that she was still in school.
That was better. If she was really teleported out of the school, it would be over.
Was she the only one who was teleported to this place?
If there were others nearby, it would be better to meet them as soon as possible.
"Bang."
Someone was here!
The enemy hiding behind the wall broke through the wall and rushed straight to Zoe.
Her hand just touched the hilt of the sword behind her, and before she could see the huge enemy, she was hit by a huge force from the left and was about to hit the wall three meters away.
Zoe used the wind to reduce her momentum, trying to reduce the damage of the collision.
Unexpectedly, before she hit the wall, he took two steps forward and grabbed her left foot with one hand. He swung her body in the air and threw her to the ground.
Zoe's head hit the floor hard. With a bang in her head, she suddenly became weak and lay on the ground, unable to move.
Everything happened too suddenly. Even if the enemy's speed was still within the range that she could catch up with the naked eye, she had no time to adjust her body to deal with the enemy's attack.
The scene in Zoe's eyes became double, constantly overlapping and separating, and a nauseous feeling gradually appeared in her throat.
Oh … no.
It was the head that was hit first …
The monster had white hair and black scales, and its forearms were more than half longer than its hind arms. It was big and strong, and its movements were asymmetrical with its huge body.
Seeing that Zoe stopped moving after a few attacks, it immediately beat its chest excitedly, jumped twice in place, and rolled its black and white eyes twice.
There was movement at its feet. "Huh?"
Zoe, who was on the ground, tried to prop up her upper body with both elbows.
She opened her blurry eyes and saw an ape's hand reach out in front of her eyes to strangle her neck.
The monster's hands were longer than its feet, and it didn't even have to bend its back to choke Zoe and lift her up.
"Cough, cough."
Zoe tried to pull the monster's hand away, only to find that her hands were soft and powerless. Her feet were off the ground, and all she could do was kick her legs.
She kicked her right foot up towards the monster's elbow. This little bit of strength did not hurt the monster at all. Seeing Zoe's foot drop down again, the monster opened its mouth like a smile.
However, this smile suddenly froze on its face. It looked down in confusion to see what had caused its body to turn cold in an instant, but its eyes were covered with blood before it could recognize what it was.
If you looked closely, you would see a neat incision starting from its waist and stopping at its shoulder. Blood was gushing out from the incision.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
After being stunned for half a second, the monster let out an extremely ear-piercing scream. It took a few steps back and let go of Zoe.
Zoe fell to the ground. Before she could catch her breath, she was forced to cover her ears.
What's wrong with this stinky monkey?!
She was not in the mood to find out why the monster was so embarrassed. She just wanted to get out of here as soon as possible.
She looked around in panic and finally found the exit. Just as she got up, the screaming monster raised its leg and kicked her in the head.
Zoe could not let her head get hurt again. She covered her head and used the wind to reduce the force of the monster's foot.
Unfortunately, she could not keep up with the monster's speed. Her body was kicked out and only stopped sliding after hitting the wall.
She got up and her vision was still blurry. However, she found the dark exit and immediately stood up and staggered in that direction.
When she ran out of the door, someone pulled her hair and tried to pull her back.
That person was pulling on Zoe's wound. The piercing pain made Zoe scream. She was distracted and was pulled back into the room by the monster's companion.
Seeing the staircase getting farther and farther away from her, Zoe thought, No, this can't be.
If this goes on, I'll really be killed.
If I don't do something …
The two unbound hands pulled a gust of wind like pulling off a large piece of cloth. For a moment, the whole floor was filled with dust.
Although the enemy was a little nervous about losing his vision, he did not forget to grab Zoe's hair tightly. His arm was held by Zoe's fingers and he continued to walk in the direction he remembered.
"Your little tricks are useless," he gasped. "Who cares if Orumit is dead or not? I'm here for little brats like you.
You're the first one. Wait here for a while. We'll catch a few more and then we can go home together … Then I'll make you into specimens … We can, we can … be together forever!
My hand! "
The severe pain from Zoe's arm made him loosen his grip. Zoe did not waste any time. She picked up a brick and swung it at the man's temple.
She thought, I'm protecting myself.
If I don't do something, I'll be killed by this man.
It's okay.
As long as I control my strength, this man will only pass out. He won't —
'Can't kill him.'
Zoe took a deep breath out of reflex. Her train of thought was cut off and her movements stopped.
The man with three obvious wounds on his arm was in tears. His other good hand turned into a steel blade and stabbed at Zoe. "Why didn't you listen to me?!"
"Fengze!"
Zoe, who was still in a daze, was knocked away by a force. The steel blade stabbed into the arm of Che Dao, who had just arrived, and broke in half.
Explosive Tyrant, who came later, shouted, "It's just trash. Don't make a ruckus here!"
"Bang! Bang!"
Zoe looked at the face in front of her. "Seishima?"
"Yes, we were teleported to the first floor below. After we killed the enemy there, we came up when we heard the scream."
It was unknown if the man had lost his will to fight or if the difference in strength between him and Explosive Tycoon was too great, but Explosive Tycoon took care of him in a few moves. He fell down with black smoke all over his body.
"Hey, let's go."
The tyrant casually tossed the man aside and walked straight towards the stairs.
"Hey, Takeshi!
Wait!
Fengze, she … "
When Bao Hao heard this, he turned around and stared at Zoe, but his words were directed at CheShima.
"Just leave the coward alone. He won't die!"
Zoe paused. Coward …
Seishima frowned. "Takeshi, you …"
Zoe interrupted him and smiled. "It's okay, Seishima. Don't worry about me. My head is injured and I can't walk steadily. I'll be a burden to you. You can go. I'll meet up with the others. Seishima?"
Before Zoe could finish her words, Seishima reached out and pulled her onto his back. "Hehe, it's okay. I won't leave you alone. Let's go together!
Let's go, Takeshi! "
With that, he ran past Takeshi with Zoe on his back. Zoe turned her head away, not daring to look at Takeshi.
She found it funny that she was so proud of herself during her lunch break. Now, she was in such a sorry state and he had to see her.
"Seishima, I'll tell you when I feel better."
"Okay, but you don't have to worry. Fengze, you're not heavy. Carrying you won't consume too much of my energy!"
Hearing this, Zoe revealed a sincere smile. "Haha!"
Seishima ran all the way. Zoe felt that she was not as dizzy as before and asked him to put her down. She suppressed the shock in her heart and followed them to deal with the Black Fog in the portal.
He did this not only to follow the trend of the times, but also to quickly deny the comment of "gutless" that Boisterous Tycoon had about him.
It was very childish, but she wanted to prove herself. It was enough that she had been in such a sorry state just now.
The three of them rushed to the fountain in the center of USJ. Zoe's eyes were sharp and she immediately recognized the familiar dark green rushing into the Black Fog.
"Midaya!" She quickened her pace, hoping to pull him away before he was swallowed by the Black Fog.
Suddenly, there was an explosion. Zoe saw that Takeshi had rushed to the front and pressed Black Fog to the ground with Blast in his hand.
He had already seen Black Fog's weakness and suppressed him.
On the other side, Boom also appeared and froze the side of Brainless' body that was restraining Orumit, helping Orumit to break free from his hand.
Zoe ran to Midaya's side and watched as Brainless, who was frozen with only half of his body left, grew a new half of his body.
"He has more than one personality …"
The enemy, who was wearing a lot of gloves, ordered the black monster, "Kill Blast and take back the entrance."
Before anyone could react, someone on Takeshi's side was violently knocked out.
Midaya shouted worriedly, "Ka-chan!!"
Then he found that he was behind him. "Ka-chan!?
Did … did he dodge it!?
That's amazing!! "
"As if. Shut up."
The one who was knocked out was Orumit, who had swapped places with Takeshi in time. But because of this, the portal was taken back by the enemy.
The enemy then began to speak, a lot of presumptuous declarations. The more Zoe listened, the more she felt that this person was talking nonsense. She did not know how he gathered so many people to kill Orumit with these unidealistic beliefs.
Seishima was determined to fight here. "Although they are all powerful guys, if we support Orumit … we can defeat them!!"
"Ka-chan also exposed Smoke's weakness!"
"Three against six."
When Zoe heard this number, she could not help but look at Boom and said to herself, "Don't think about that nonsense!!"
Unexpectedly, Orumit stopped them. "No!
Run. "
Then he did not accept Kazuhiro Midtani's words and went up to fight with the black monster alone.
When the first fist collided, the wind produced by the fist made the rest of the people present slide back continuously, and they could not move half a step forward.
Zoe covered her face with one hand and pressed the ground with the other to stop herself from moving back. She could vaguely see the fighting posture of the world's number one hero.
It was too great.
It even made people tremble.
Every punch was more than 100% of his strength. He beat Brainless to the point that he could not fight back. He completely carried out the spirit of a hero.
"How can you be a hero if you don't destroy Despair!"
"Enemy!
Don't you know this sentence!!? "
“PLUS
ULTRA！！！”
At that time, they really understood the meaning of this sentence that the teachers always said.
Orumit's last punch fell, and Brainless was beaten out of USJ.
In the billowing smoke, the victorious Orumit issued a challenge to the surprised remaining members. "What's wrong?
Not fighting anymore?
Didn't you say something about clearing the level … If you can do it, then try it!! "
Seeing this, Boom felt that they should leave the battlefield. "As expected of him … It seems that there is no need for us to fight …"
Seishima reached out to pull Midaya who was still focused on the battlefield. "Midaya, it's better to stay away. It will be bad if you are taken hostage." He said again, "Orumit is the main culprit, let's go help the other students …"
Zoe stood beside Midaya and looked at his increasingly strange expression. Then she looked at Orumit who was indifferent to the rushing gloved man and Black Fog.
She asked Midaya next to her, "Midaya, don't tell me you …"
Want to go help Orumit …
Before she could finish, a shadow flashed past the corner of her eyes. The person who was there half a second ago had already dashed out.
"Midaya!!"
Zoe's legs reacted faster than her brain, and she had already rushed out to chase after him.
The few people who were about to leave behind heard her shout and turned around. "What … Midaya?!"
Whether it was Black Fog or gloved man, none of them were people that Midaya could fight alone now!
She wanted to use her personality to separate them, but with her current level of control, if she used her personality to blow them away, it might implicate Green Valley as well. She had to reverse the situation and pull Green Valley towards her.
She had to pull him back.
She had to pull him back.
On the other side, Black Fog realized that his weakness was targeted by Midaya. He immediately sent one of the gloved man's hands to Midaya.
"Hiss …" Ignoring the tingling in her head, Zoe forced herself to control the wind without slowing down. She wrapped around Midaya's legs, which had become weak due to the side effect of her personality.
Wrap around him, wrap around him.
Follow the feeling and pull him back!
"Five meters." She suddenly stopped, stomped on the ground with her right foot, and pretended to pull Midaya back with her hands.
"You lunatic … Come back …!!"
Midaya's face was almost in the gloved man's hand. At this critical moment, he felt the distance between him and the hand gradually increasing.
He was moving back …?
"Come back!!"
"Fengze?!"
Zoe's control was not good. She could only pull Midaya less than three meters away from her.
She knelt down weakly. The wind around Midaya dispersed, and Midaya fell to the ground.
At this moment, a bullet flew through the air and hit the gloved man's hand.
Zoe guessed that help was coming. She waved her hand weakly and couldn't withstand the more severe dizziness and pain. She blacked out and lost consciousness.
This school was too crazy.
When she opened her eyes again, Zoe saw her grandma. No, it was the restored girl. "Teacher …"
The restored girl stepped back. "Well, it's good that you're awake. Do you feel any discomfort?"
Zoe sat up with difficulty. "I'm fine except for a little dizziness in my head."
"Well, I've taken a CT scan of your brain. It's just a slight concussion. You just need to rest. Anyway, school is closed tomorrow. You can stay at home and rest."
"Okay."
Zoe replied and reached out to touch the swollen bump on her head. Except for the bump, she only had a few minor abrasions on her body. She had applied some ointment on them.
"What about Midaya?" Zoe thought of his legs. "Aren't his legs broken?"
The restored girl looked at Zoe quietly for a while before she turned to her desk and said to Zoe, "I've cured him. He only has two broken legs and a finger. He came to see you after I cured him, but he left half an hour ago."
"Oh … It's good that he's fine … I'll text him when I get home …" Zoe said and put her feet on the ground. Then she thought of a funny thing. "Haha, 'only two broken legs and a finger'. Such a terrible thing on Midaya's body can make people feel that it's nothing …"
The door of the clinic was pulled open and Tenya rushed in. "Zoe, are you okay?"
"My head is dizzy. Tenya, can you carry me home? I can't walk …" Zoe pretended to be weak.
Tenya agreed. "Okay, we'll leave your bike at school and come back to pick it up in two days.
Go to the locker room and change your clothes. We'll go back to class and take your things home. "
"Okay, okay …" Zoe let Tenya pull her up and carry her on her back.
"That's it. Sorry for the disrespect, restored girl!
Goodbye! "Tenya bowed slightly and walked to the door.
"Goodbye, restored girl."
After changing her clothes, Zoe was carried home by Tenya. As soon as she stepped into the house, she was hugged by her mother who was watching the evening news on TV.
She cried like a pear blossom in the rain. "Do you know how worried I was about you …"
Zoe hugged her back guiltily. "I'm fine. I just have a slight concussion and some abrasions. I'll be fine as long as I have enough rest.
Really, I'm fine! "
After talking to her mother and telling her everything, Zoe was pushed upstairs by her mother so that she could wash up and go to bed early.
After lying in bed, Zoe stared blankly at the ceiling.
A lot had happened today. She recalled her encounter with the white-haired monster and the man, and suddenly remembered the scene when she threw the brick at the man.
"Don't kill him." And Takeshi said to her, "I don't have the guts."
For a long time, she had deliberately avoided any situation where she needed to use her personality. It was not until she was forced to enter the Sunyoung hero course that she finally made up her mind to face her personality.
She was afraid of using her personality, so she used a lot of encouraging psychological hints to motivate herself. She also forced herself to use more of her personality so that she could get used to the existence of her personality as soon as possible.
However, it was only today that she realized that she was more afraid of hurting others.
Even when the man pulled her hair and said that he wanted to make her into a specimen, she still hesitated at the last moment.
Now that she thought about it carefully, maybe she was not afraid of her personality, but she was resistant to it.
If she thought about it this way, everything could be connected.
Because she was afraid of hurting others, she resisted using her personality. In Teacher Number 13's words, "One wrong step and you'll die."
Even though she had been trying to control this weapon, she backed down at the last moment and became the "gutless person" that Takeshi said.
And the reason she was so afraid of hurting others was because her father once said to her, "Don't kill him."
"Hmm …" Zoe turned around and hugged the pillow. She saw two almost identical faces in the family photo on the bedside table, one big and one small.
That was the current head of Fengze and Zoe's father.
She buried her face in the pillow and sighed. Do I have to face this?
There are a lot of things that I can't remember, and it's super tiring.
Let's go to sleep. We'll deal with it tomorrow.
*
"You're not a monster, Zoe."
Tensei Iida and Zoe were sitting on the edge of the bed that summer. There was an electric fan blowing beside them, making a sound.
"Hmm?"
Zoe licked her ice cream and looked up. She didn't understand how Tensei Iida could tell her so firmly that she was not a monster. Because, "But the children who came to play around, including the butler's son, all called me a monster in private. They said that I was very scary and they didn't dare to come close to me."
Tensei Iida pulled a long face and said to Zoe, "Did you eavesdrop on other people's conversations again?"
At that time, seven-year-old Zoe was already able to eavesdrop with the wind.
Seeing that she had been exposed, Zoe lowered her head and ate her ice cream without answering Tensei Iida's question.
Tensei Iida sighed. Eavesdropping was wrong, but those people's attitude towards the young Zoe was also wrong.
Ever since she told Zoe that she was different from other people, she became more sensitive to things and people around her.
She was afraid that she would behave differently from other people, so she was eager to know what other people thought of her. That was why she cared so much about other people's opinions of her.
It was not her fault … Tensei Iida reached out and pressed Zoe's head. She pushed Zoe's mouth towards the ice cream again and again, making her mouth full of ice cream.
Zoe, "…"
Tensei Iida didn't realize what she had done. She said to herself, "Does Zoe know about homosexuality?"
Zoe shook her head honestly. But Tensei, are you sure this is something a seven-year-old girl should know?
Tensei Iida continued, "They like people who are the same sex as them. Gay men like boys, and lesbian women like girls."
Zoe understood what Tensei Iida was talking about. Even though she was only seven years old, she could see that the old couples coming in and out of the house were one man and one woman. Her grandparents were not two men, and her parents were not two women.
So … this thing called homosexuality …
"It's hard for people to accept. That is to say, if you are gay, you will be hated."
Tensei Iida fanned Zoe twice with the round fan. "There is a grocery store on the street where my family lives, and the owner of the grocery store is gay."
At this point, his face suddenly turned serious. "This kind of thing is not only unacceptable, but some people will also think that he is disgusting.
After the uncle's sexual orientation was exposed in the city where he lived before, his family kicked him out.
The funny thing is that no one in the big city was willing to accept him. He came to us because he couldn't stay there anymore. "
Zoe listened quietly. She could guess what Tensei Iida wanted to say.
Tensei Iida continued, "The uncle said that it was very hard after he found out that he was like this. For a period of time, he had been suppressing his true self, trying to blend in as much as possible, but that only made his life harder.
Although he wanted to be born like others, he had no choice. This was how he came to this world.
Instead of forcing himself to be like others, it was better to ignore how others saw him and just be himself.
Others can think of you as a monster, but you can't think of yourself as a monster.
You have to accept it, because it is your nature and also a part of you. You can't refuse it.
Most women like to dress up, most boys like to take risks and excitement, and you like to kill. In theory, it's the same.
But, Zoe, you have to understand … "
*
Zoe sighed when she thought of the dream last night.
Today was the second day of the attack on the school. It was supposed to be a holiday, but she thought that instead of staying at home and being bothered by the dream last night, she might as well come to school and do something.
Like now, she could help the robot water the flowers and run laps.
"Ah ah..." Zoe yawned and stretched herself, ignoring the fact that she was still holding the water pipe in her hand.
After running ten laps and watering the flowers, she started to feel sleepy.
Water gushed out of the pipe endlessly.
"Hey, baseball guy."
Zoe turned her head and laughed. "Takeshi!
What a coincidence! "
Takeshi gritted his teeth and said, "Do you want to die?"
"Huh?" She looked down and realized that the water pipe in her hand had sprayed him.
She hurriedly moved the pipe away and shouted, "I'm sorry, Takeshi!"