"I didn't expect to go the same way as Kano, because I've never seen you around here."

"Well … maybe it's because I've only been living here for a short time."

"I see, looks like you're a new neighbor, but I haven't heard of anyone moving here recently … Where's your house?"

"It's near the branches."

"Ahaha, Kano sure knows how to joke."

As they chatted casually, their shadows were elongated by the setting sun.

"Although I really want to thank Ormet, he's been doing interviews …"

"If you see him again, just remember to thank him."

"Sigh … I don't think there'll be a next time. When I get home, I'll send him a message through the homepage …"

"Stinky Jiu!!"

Hearing the familiar voice calling his nickname, Midaya Dehisa stopped walking.

Cano stopped in his tracks as well, and turned to look with him.

The blonde boy who chased after them stopped a few meters away, panting. He clenched his fists on both sides of his body, and his fists were trembling because of his complex emotions.

"I didn't ask you for help, and you didn't save me!!"

He raised his head and glared with his bloodshot eyes. With a ferocious expression, he continued, "Listen well, I've made it through alone!

You're just a piece of trash with no personality, are you trying to do me a favor?!

Don't look down on me!! "

"And you, masked guy!"

He changed the topic and looked at Kano, saying word by word, "I wasn't saved by you either!!"

"You two bastards, don't look down on me!"

Then, without giving anyone a chance to answer him, he angrily turned around, kicked up a cloud of dust, and swaggered away with his hands in his pockets.

However, from Kano's point of view, whether it was his words or his purposeful walk, it all seemed like he was trying to be brave.

It was as if his self-esteem was severely damaged.

"Ah … Kano."

Dehisa said weakly beside her, "Xiao Sheng didn't mean any harm. The word 'bastard' is like a neutral word to him … Please don't mind him!

He's just too competitive … But, maybe being held hostage by the enemy hurt his self-esteem, so he rushed over and said those words … "

The boy explained in a panic.

"It's alright, I don't mind." Kano, who had never taken it to heart, shrugged and gestured for Green Valley to relax.

"That's good." Midaya Dehisa was relieved.

Even if he wasn't sure if he and Xiao Sheng could be considered friends, he didn't want his childhood friend's unyielding words to cause misunderstandings or affect others.

"..." Kano stared at the left corner in front of him for a while before saying to Green Valley, "I suddenly remembered that I have something to do. I might need to turn back the way I came. Why don't you head back first?"

Because she had been working as an assassin for many years, she was particularly sensitive to the aura of "humans".

"I see."

The boy lowered his eyelids with a little regret, but he quickly pulled himself together. "Then … it would be great if we could meet again in the future!"

"Okay."

The girl nodded slightly, but didn't leave immediately. Facing the boy who was looking at her, Kano said sincerely, "Even if you don't have a personality, you're full of possibilities."

"Huh?"

"I hope that the next time I see you, you'll be completely different."

"… I understand."

Dehisa was grateful to Kano for being willing to comfort him. "Actually, I've also decided to think about a suitable future for myself and embark on a life path that suits my identity."

How inferior was he to blindly take other people's words as a kind of comfort?

Kano helplessly put a finger in front of her mouth, which was covered by her collar.

[Don't say things like giving up on yourself.]

Then she stretched out two index fingers, one up and one down, maintaining an inch of distance between them. The two fingers alternated on the same plane.

[Why don't you turn around and take a look?]

Even if he didn't understand sign language, Dehisa could roughly guess what Kano wanted to say. So he turned around and took a look. There was nothing there except for the road ahead and the corner on the left.

"Kano, there's nothing behind me?"

He turned around again, but in less than two seconds, the girl had disappeared.

"… Kano???"

Dehisa, who doubted his eyes, was surprised. Suddenly, a deep voice sounded and a figure appeared at the left corner in front of him.

The turning point of the boy's life was here.

…

Evening.

Lying on a tree branch that wasn't very thick, the moonlight shone through the fine leaves like fluorescent powder on the girl's white face.

"… Hero."

Murmuring that title, Kano closed her eyes.

"It seems very interesting."

Sleepiness gradually overwhelmed her, but before she could fall asleep, there was a commotion not far away.

And … there seemed to be two locations of the incident.

At this time, the possibility of two or more enemies who didn't know each other causing trouble at the same time was very low. Since that was the case, it should be a collusion, right?

"The enemies are really energetic." Kano, who was a little sleepy, sat up from the tree branch.

Since she decided to meddle in other people's business, then now … she could only meddle in other people's business.

Putting on the cloak that she had already retrieved, the girl jumped down from the tree and quietly disappeared into the night.

…

When Kano arrived at the scene, she effortlessly overturned the enemy, threw it to the police, and planned to go to the other location of the incident, but she heard that the other location had also been quelled.

Kano suddenly felt that she had nothing to do. Just as she was wondering if she should buy some supper, a group of media reporters rushed towards her with cameras and microphones in their hands.

… She would shake them off every time, but they didn't learn their lesson every time. It seemed that they wouldn't give up until they interviewed her.

Kano didn't know whether to admire the reporters' professionalism or get tired of their clinginess.

As usual, she was ready to slip away, but just as she lifted her front foot, someone put a hand on her shoulder.

The speed at which the other person came to her side was so fast that she was stunned. 0.5 seconds later, she suddenly came back to her senses.

0.5 seconds — it sounded unimaginably short, but judging from the difficulties and dangers that the girl had experienced in the past, in a life and death situation, even if she was stunned for 0.1 seconds, she could be dead on the ground.

Fortunately, the person didn't mean any harm, and instead of putting his hand on her shoulder, he put his arm around her shoulder like a brother.

Don't challenge opponents who are stronger than yourself — this was the lesson that the girl born in the assassination family had received since she was a child.

Although Kano had never challenged a strong person, it didn't mean that she had never seen a strong person.

That kind of person, even if they didn't emit any malice, would often give people a suffocating sense of oppression.

But the person who put his arm around her not only didn't emit any malice, but also didn't make her feel oppressed or suffocated. Instead, it gave her a … strange feeling of containment.

She had experienced this feeling twice today, and it came from the same person.

— Ormet.

Because she had already guessed the other person's identity, she was very vigilant and didn't tense up her nerves to guard against him.

At the same time, seeing that Kano, who was about to run away, was stopped by Ormet, the reporters were even more excited and rushed over.

Seeing this, Kano's mouth began to twitch …

Why did things turn out like this?

She didn't want to be surrounded by reporters, and now there was Ormet. She wasn't sure why he stopped her, but since he stopped her, he wouldn't let her go easily.

She had always avoided the media, and now they had accumulated a lot of questions to ask her.

In addition, as the No. 1 hero and known as the symbol of peace, Ormet had the responsibility to accept interviews. If she had to be interviewed as well …