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Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment before realizing that her bloodline level was too high, and she immediately started talking about her dragon-patterned achievements.
In the parlance of ancient fantasy novels, it would be like a Great Immortal speaking a divine voice that mortals could hardly bear.
"Let's talk as we walk. Today we need to make the most of our time and visit all the places you want to go!" Lu Mingfei took down the suit from the wall. He had bought it with Erii when they went shopping together. It fit his body perfectly and was the best suit he owned.
Soon, Lu Mingfei rented a Porsche 911 from a car rental company. After buying a lot of snacks in Ginza, he prepared to head west.
Erii stood in front of a Rilakkuma plush toy for a long time, seemingly wanting to buy it.
Without saying a word, Lu Mingfei bought her the Rilakkuma bear.
So Rilakkuma became the third guest in the sports car, sitting in the cramped back seat.
Lu Mingfei drove westward, pressing the accelerator all the way, not caring about speeding or not, only caring about having fun driving. He ignored the warnings from the traffic police behind him and used the speed of his sports car to leave them behind.
The Snake Clan had pinpointed Erii's approximate location yesterday and were currently searching house to house in Shinjuku and Minato wards of Tokyo. Therefore, Lu Mingfei's decision to leave Tokyo with Erii at this time allowed them to evade the main clan's search operation.
However, his reckless departure shook off all those who were following him, such as the broadcasting team led by Mai Shude. Fortunately, Mai Shude was alone, riding a high-displacement motorcycle, which is why he was not left behind.
She had been chasing after them all the way and was so hungry and thirsty that she stopped to buy apple juice and croissants.
For some reason, the sky cleared up after Erii left Tokyo.
The sky, which has been overcast for so long, still holds your smile.
Mai thought to herself, "With such beautiful weather, I should enjoy the sunny street scene while cruising around, and occasionally admire the cherry blossoms."
As a result, I had to carry a gun and track her down for thousands of miles. I've had enough.
"Heron, heron, I see your GPS location has stopped. The target is now heading towards the Shikoku region in the west. Hurry up and catch up!" Su Enxi urged in the communication headset.
"I know even hanging oneself needs some fresh air, can't I at least have a drink of water and something to eat?" Mai Shude said angrily, "Can't you stop exploiting your workers like this?"
"The boss said he'd hold a wedding for them in Tokyo. What if they don't come back?" Chip Girl said.
"People will always embark on a journey to distant places on a whim, but the destination of the journey is always the place where they started."
"Good heavens, this assassin ninja is talking to me in such a pretentious tone! I studied at Harvard, and I've read more romance novels than you've killed!" Su Enxi said angrily. "But we're in a hurry. Tomorrow is the deadline for the boss's wedding. What if we don't make it?"
"A miracle? We'll just have to wait for a miracle to happen. Besides, even if we don't complete the boss's task, he won't fire us."
Mai hung up the phone with the talkative potato chip girl, too lazy to listen to her rambling anymore.
At this moment, Caesar and Chu Zihang were driving a Land Rover SUV, chasing after Lu Mingfei.
This car was prepared by Kazama Ruri for their escape, and they accepted it without hesitation. If they needed money, they could sell the car to make ends meet.
However, with Gu Ran, a money-making expert, around, they weren't short of cash, so they used this car to follow Lu Mingfei.
However, the car broke down just as Lu Mingfei arrived on the highway in Shikoku.
"When Kazama Ruri gave us this car, she must have checked it. How could it break down after only a few hundred kilometers?" Chu Zihang said with some suspicion.
"I heard that this car company was sold to an Indian three years ago. You know what kind of products Indians make, they probably cut corners." Caesar got out of the car and started to open the hood, pretending to check the car's condition.
After taking a look, Caesar said he couldn't fix it. Chu Zihang questioned, "Aren't you a race car driver? How come you can't fix your own car?"
Caesar said that rich people don't need to fix their own cars; of course, they'll have someone else fix them for them to drive. Otherwise, what does it mean to be rich?
After arguing for a while, Chu Zihang took it upon himself to fix the car. After all, he was an engineering student, so fixing a car was no problem for him.
The weather was nice today, or rather, it was nice after leaving Tokyo. A few girls in floral dresses were riding bicycles on a side road under the highway, occasionally accompanied by cheerful laughter.
Caesar couldn't resist whistling at the little girls riding bicycles.
Then, he got into another argument with Chu Zihang.
The argument was about Erii's whereabouts. For a demon as evil as Erii, the Secret Party's solution has always been to keep her on a small island in the Pacific Ocean and implant a miniature bomb in her body, which would detonate if she lost control.
So for Erii, it's probably like being transferred from one prison to another.
Caesar seemed a little soft-hearted and reluctant to do it, so he planned to conspire with Chu Zihang to write a false report to fool the academy so that Erii wouldn't be locked up.
But Chu Zihang disagreed, believing that a ghost is a ghost, and once she lost control, who knows what kind of impact it would have.
Neither side could convince the other. In the end, Chu Zihang went to check and found that the car was low on coolant. He prepared to go to a nearby auto repair shop to buy a bottle and temporarily separate from Caesar so that both of them could calm down.
In the afternoon, Lu Mingfei took Erii to a small town in the southwestern part of Shikoku.
Unlike the bustling city of Tokyo, this place is quiet, with a clean, tidy, and peaceful town.
As soon as Erii opened the car door, she heard the sound of the tide and smelled the sea.
She seemed somewhat incredulous and asked Lu Mingfei, "The sea?"
Lu Mingfei nodded.
This was the first time Erii had ever seen such a tranquil sea. Although Tokyo was also by the sea, she had only seen the sea a handful of times. Occasionally, seagulls would wander into the depths of the city, but Erii's room was dark and had no windows, so she couldn't greet the seagulls.
On the night they dived into the trench, Erii did see the ocean, but it was a stormy sea with high waves and strange, ugly-looking corpse guardians.
That kind of sea is really not beautiful.
Lu Mingfei led Erii into the town, which was called Meijinji-cho. The town's streets still had the feel of the 1950s, with wooden Japanese-style houses on both sides of the streets and cherry blossoms planted between the buildings, blooming indifferently.
In fact, there were hardly any people in the town, only a few primary school students wearing little yellow hats, walking across the road in an orderly fashion with their hands raised.
Erii had always lived in a closed space, and this was the first time she had seen such a quiet and peaceful place. Everything seemed new and exciting to her.
She found the tofu-making workshop very interesting, and the batik workshop very magical. She could even watch the elementary school students passing by for a long time. Lu Mingfei was worried that she would be mistaken for a boy-lover, so he quickly pulled her away.
Along the way, Erii kept pulling Lu Ming to take pictures of her, wanting to take pictures of this and that, even of a snail she saw on the road.
Lu Mingfei regretted bringing the camera, but he was afraid he would regret it if he didn't have a camera to record the memories, so he decided to bring it.
Time was running out, so Lu Mingfei pulled Erii along to catch the last mountain cable car. This cable car was a converted mining cart, and it made a creaking noise when it ran. To be honest, Lu Mingfei was a little scared.
However, there were only him and Erii on the cable car. Erii looked excitedly at the trees, flowers, and all kinds of wildflowers on the mountain. Everything was new and exciting to her.
As the cable car approached the top of the mountain, Lu Mingfei took out a handkerchief and asked Erii to blindfold herself, saying he would take her to see some beautiful scenery later.
Erii obediently did as she was told, blindfolding herself, a hint of anticipation creeping into her heart.
This place is the filming location for the old TV series "Tokyo Love Story". The scenes that Lu Mingfei saw along the way were exactly the same as those described online. It seems that almost twenty years have passed, but time seems to have stood still here.
Lu Mingfei helped Erii to the edge of a cliff. In Japanese suspense dramas, it is common for a man and a woman to come to a cliff, and then one of them pushes the other off.
Now, Lu Mingfei holds this girl in his hands, this human weapon, and her fate seems to be in his hands as well, but he is not happy at all about gaining this power and influence.
He had Erii sit down on a large rock and gently placed his hands on her shoulders: "You can take off your blindfold now."
Erii untied her handkerchief, and the crimson sunset cast a fiery red glow on the boundless sea. The sea breeze gently carried the scent of the distant ocean to the two of them. As the wind blew, the layers of trees beneath their feet rustled, as if a thousand elves were cheering for them at their feet.
Below the mountain are several small towns, scattered along the coastline in a pleasingly orderly fashion. These towns are so quiet and peaceful, with wisps of smoke rising from their chimneys under the crimson glow of the setting sun.
Chapter 460 An Unexpected Love Story
Although most households in Japan use gas stoves or induction cookers, many people still grill fish in their yards.
After introducing the towns to Erii, Lu Mingfei put the headphones on her ears and played the theme song from the movie "Tokyo Love Story," titled "A Sudden Love Story" (also known as "Love Story Suddenly Happens").
Erii listened to the song, calmly gazing at the sea, the sunset, and the town before her.
Lu Mingfei was a little nervous because it was the last day. He wanted to take Erii to see the most beautiful place in Japan. He had read online that this place was the most beautiful and had received rave reviews.
I wonder what Erii thinks of this place, whether she likes it or not.
"The world is gentle." Erii finally wrote this sentence in her notebook.
Lu Mingfei was stunned.
Erii continued writing: "The world wasn't like this before; it's never been this gentle."
"What was the world like before?" Lu Mingfei asked.
"The snakes guard the gem; it's far away, beautiful, and dangerous."
It took Lu Mingfei a few moments to realize that Erii was using Tokyo as a metaphor.
Tokyo may appear beautiful on the surface, but it is actually quite filthy underneath. Countless schemers are searching for a gem called 'God,' and who knows what conspiracies they are plotting in secret.
Next, Erii launched into a barrage of questions, seemingly holding back a multitude of questions, ready to ask them all at once: "When did the Holy British Empire's enslavement of Area 11 end?"
Lu Mingfei was stunned. The title "Area 11" appeared in the anime "Code Geass" and was used to refer to Japan. In this work, Japan was defeated by the Holy Britannian Empire in the 19th century and became an occupied territory. Therefore, Japan was stripped of its national title and was only named "Eleventh Occupied Territory".
"That's just a fictional story; the real history isn't like that," Lu Mingfei explained.
"Do those airships really exist?"
"You mean Goliath from Miyazaki Hayao's 'Castle in the Sky'? That should be technically feasible soon, right?"
Are humans really like trash?
"That's just a reference in Miyazaki's works, don't take it seriously."
Are the A-laws and Celestial Being still at war?
"All Gundam models are fictional, as are various shonen manga."
"Is the Third Tokyo still under attack from the Angels? Should we go and help?"
"How invincible do you have to be to think you can beat an apostle... Okay, you might actually be able to beat an apostle, but that's just fiction."
"Also, I wanted to ask..."
"..."
Because Erii has always lived in a closed environment, her only way of understanding the world is through cartoons and games; she is not allowed to watch things like news or TV dramas.
Even when she went out to eat, she was kept in a car with a black curtain covering her face, and she had to wear a black veil when she went out, so she was not allowed to have any contact with the outside world.
This led to a very distorted worldview in her mind, with the worlds of various anime intertwined in her mind, like multiple worlds. Gundam and Code Geass could fight in the same era, and Saint Seiya and Dragon Ball existed at the same time. This made her feel that the people of this world lived in dire straits and were fighting all the time.
The only thing that puzzled her was Gintama. Thank goodness, she didn't take the abstract elements in Gintama seriously. However, the Shinsengumi in Gintama looked like the world's security officers in her eyes, which made her think for a time that the Snake-Headed Family was the Metropolitan Police Department.
It took Lu Mingfei a lot of effort to make her understand that there are many countries in this world, and that the real Great Britain, like Japan, is an island nation with a smaller territory, and that there is no Celestial Organization in this world.
"The world is so gentle." Erii looked at the afterglow of the setting sun. "I love this kind of world."
As the sky grew darker, Erii's eyes also dimmed.
"But the world doesn't like me," she wrote.
She lowered her eyes, her previous joy gone, replaced only by self-reproach.
“I’ll be a burden to everyone, and to Sakura too. I was too willful to leave home. I should have gone back a long time ago… But I’m still very happy.” Erii continued writing as Lu Mingfei remained silent. “This place is beautiful. I should have come on the first day. Thank you…”
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