The Lawless Zone of the New Federation.
Just as the literal meaning suggested, this place had none of the legal rules that other places should have.
As for fairness?
Living on the dark side of the world, one should not delude oneself about such nonexistent things.
Living here, people could ultimately only rely on themselves.
Pitch-black deep alleys, layers of concealed whispers, gazes that concealed greed—whether for mercenaries or the ordinary residents of this place, these were all common scenery.
Yet within the darkness and shadows, there were often people who would dream.
If looking up no longer revealed the night… if there existed another kind of life that one could choose…
Unfortunately, most of the people living here had no right to choose.
Because they were either the black gloves that the New Federation government used and then discarded, or lost lambs who had not even set a path for themselves yet.
But there was one person who became the lucky one among countless lambs.
Perhaps it was only because of luck, or perhaps her nature that was different from others finally won the favor of the gods.
In short, she obtained a gift.
And the content of the gift was a ticket leading to Startorch Academy in Lahai-Roi.
This made the girl wild with joy.
Even if it came accompanied by a price that had long been secretly marked…
But so what?
The girl who had grown tired of living in the gutters would still, in the end, seize it without the slightest hesitation.
And when that girl of the past who had experienced darkness left the New Federation, she discovered…
Every day at the academy was even more wonderful than she had imagined.
Bright corridors completely different from the gloomy dark alleys, confident discussions completely opposite to hypocritical whispers…
Every single thing here was incomparably dazzling, every single one making her even more urgently want to understand them.
Only at this time did the girl discover… it turned out that the colors of “living” could also be so brilliant, so difficult to let go of.
Not living merely for the sake of living, but living for herself.
Buzz!
Buzz!
Buzz!
But when the academy’s expulsion disposition finally descended, when the bright red alarm lights rang out…
The girl thought of the manga and novels she had previously read at the academy.
During her time at the academy she had read many of these things, and some of the lines and some of the plots remained fresh in her memory.
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“Do I really… just escape like this?”
…
“Ryuji, you follow the other people of the academy to a safe place.”
Without time for too many words, after Rover instructed Ryuji once, she ran toward the outside.
Click—
With the sound of the dormitory door closing, through the window Ryuji saw the scene outside.
Rolling thick smoke was approaching from outside the academy.
The faculty and students inside the academy were hurrying toward safe places together with the machine constructs.
All of the beautiful scenery of the past had completely disappeared.
There was no need to say much about what Rover had gone out to do.
Although Ryuji did not yet completely understand the other party’s past, from the way the other party had previously, with a hatred of evil as if it were a personal enemy, handled the elimination of that Fractsidus, Ryuji felt that the other party’s positioning in this world was probably that of a “hero.”
So now this great hero, after instructing this ordinary person of his to properly stay in a safe place, was going to go save the world.
What about Lynae?
At this time she might have taken advantage of the chaos to escape?
After all, that way she would not have to worry about being caught by the academy.
No…
The other party would not do that.
Because the academy she liked was currently facing a crisis, she would definitely also go confront that Void Matter Magnetic Storm and Voidworm.
Then what about himself?
Just as Rover and Lynae positioned Ryuji as an ordinary person, Ryuji himself also felt the same way.
He felt that compared to all the ordinary people in the world there was not much difference; he had merely been a bit luckier.
Encountering a Void Matter Magnetic Storm meant running quickly—this was the regulation of this academy toward ordinary students.
Hah.
So, under the gaze of the white Divine Dog, Ryuji stood up and walked toward the dormitory door.
Finally, he turned his head back to look at the Divine Dog that had been staring at him the whole time.
That was his own shadow.
“Let’s go. Time to go help a friend.”
…
At this moment inside the academy, people’s hearts were in a state of panic.
The students felt uneasy about everything around them.
A Void Matter Magnetic Storm was about to strike, which meant that the Exostrider creatures polluted by the Void Matter Magnetic Storm would ultimately transform from the academy’s little helpers into their enemies. This chapter was copied from g.com without permission.
But this was still not the most terrifying part.
Because the instigator of this Void Matter Magnetic Storm, Voidworm, was currently advancing toward the academy’s side.
Infection from a high-concentration Void Matter Magnetic Storm, the rampage of Exostrider creatures, plus the invasion of Voidworm…
At this time the students of the academy simply did not know what to do.
“Beep beep…”
At this moment, among the crowd, the signal light of an octagonal disk-shaped Exostrider creature changed from green to red.
This was the message that crisis was about to arrive.
“Uwah! Exostrider! The Exostrider is about to!”
Whoosh!
Just as this student cried out in alarm, he felt something extremely fast brush past him.
“Kree!”
That giant bird wearing a mask, with a body shape resembling an owl, after a cry, emitted purple electricity that caused the Exostrider creature that was about to rampage to immediately shut down on the spot.
Ryuji also arrived among the crowd at this time.
He had previously been attracted by the loud cries of the students here, so he had come over to take a look.
Here, he could clearly see what was happening outside the academy.
That enormous blue worm…
Without a doubt, it was the monster that he, Lynae, and Rover had previously shaken off.
Aside from that enormous worm, Ryuji could also see two human figures beside it.
They were Lynae and Rover.
At this moment they were riding motorcycles, seemingly wanting to lead that monster away.
“Tch.”
Seeing this, Ryuji could not help but feel a surge of anxiety.
The Shikigami he currently held only numbered two.
If he summoned the Divine Dogs to stay and guard here, relying on only one Nue would definitely not be enough to help Rover and the others.
But right now taming a new Shikigami on the spot was definitely also too late…
“Doctor Luuk Herssen?!”
At this time, a cry of surprise erupted from among the students.
Ryuji turned his head and saw that Doctor Luuk with whom he had previously had a brief encounter.
“I am here on the academy’s side. The threat of Voidworm is far greater than that of the Exostrider creatures.”
As if he had seen through Ryuji’s thoughts, his gentle speech still carried a trace of encouragement.
“Then I’ll leave it to you.”
So Ryuji mounted his own motorcycle and sped toward the direction of Voidworm.
On the way, he was thinking of ways to rely on his own methods to inflict damage on that monster.