"Has one of the five senses endured an impact beyond the limits of comprehension?" Mei Raiden murmured to herself. Perhaps because of the store manager's hint, she suddenly felt a strange taste lingering in her mouth. Her face turned pale and she covered her mouth with her hands.
"If you want something with a stronger flavor to cover up that feeling, the coffee is already prepared for you, right in front of you." The store manager kindly reminded with a wry smile.
Mei Raiden raised her head in a hurry, and sure enough, there was a steaming cup of coffee placed on the table in front of her. With an expression as if her stomach was rising, she grabbed the cup of coffee like a drowning person who suddenly grabbed a life-saving straw, and then poured it into her mouth without hesitation.
Gulp, gulp, until the coffee in the cup was gone, Mei Raiden put the empty cup back on the table with lingering fear.
"...So, do you still want to know why you fell asleep?" asked the manager.
"No! Thank you!" Mei Raiden answered immediately with cold sweat on her forehead. It seemed that she didn't want to recall what happened at the moment she lost consciousness.
After taking a long break, Mei Raiden stood up and prepared to leave the store immediately.
"Do you need to stay for dinner? You've slept for so long and didn't have lunch, so you must be very hungry, right?" The manager said earnestly, as if he wanted to apologize for the fact that the food in his restaurant had caused the customer to lose consciousness. "Do you need to stay here for dinner? I said during the day that I can pay for all your expenses in our restaurant today, so you don't have to pay."
After feeding me that weird food, who would dare to stay in your restaurant and eat?
Mei Raiden's face darkened.
Although her good upbringing did not let her curse out loud at the first moment, and even because of the unfair treatment she had received in recent times, she did not choose to protect her consumer rights at the first moment after being cheated by this store, but chose to be patient.
But the strange dish served to her by this restaurant, which was able to take away her consciousness in just a moment and even caused her body to actively delete the related memories afterwards, still made Mei Raiden quietly put this restaurant on her blacklist in her heart.
"No, thank you." Mei Raiden said stiffly. She endured the vague discomfort coming from her abdomen and mouth, and walked towards the door of the cafe without hesitation.
"Okay, okay, it seems that dish really left a bad impression on the customer." The store manager said with regret, "Since this customer is not going to use the free bill this time, let me save it for you next time. When you are free to come to my store again, I will give you a free bill then."
Mei Raiden paused as she opened the door. She turned around and said faintly, "If there's a chance in the future."
I would be a fool to come to this store again, she thought.
Chapter 21 It’s noon!
As soon as she walked out of the door of the cafe, the cold wind blowing in her face made Mei Raiden unconsciously shrink her neck.
She lifted her collar, took out her cell phone from her skirt pocket and took a look.
It was already seven o'clock in the evening, the sun had completely set, street lights illuminated the empty streets, and no moon was visible in the dark sky.
Although it is unclear whether it will rain, heavy dark clouds are slowly approaching.
Mei Raiden looked around and suddenly shuddered.
This is the busiest pedestrian street in Changkong City. Logically, at seven o'clock, she should be able to see crowds of people.
The deserted streets looked like a wrecked ship that had sunk to the bottom of the sea. It was filled with a cold and deadly atmosphere that made people shudder.
Mei Raiden slightly turned her gaze. The frosted glass on the outer wall of the cafe reflected the dim light inside the store. Several blurry figures gathered at an equally blurry table, eating dinner in a warm atmosphere - seven o'clock was indeed almost time for dinner.
When she realized this, her stomach made a very embarrassing rumbling sound.
"..." There was clearly no one around and the door of the cafe behind her had already been closed by her own hands, but when her stomach rumbled, an unnatural blush flashed across Mei Raiden's face.
So hungry...
She couldn't help but feel a little regretful. From breakfast till now, apart from a few cups of coffee, she had only eaten - no, she hadn't eaten anything. Looking at the warm appearance of the people gathered around the table in this cafe, the dishes on the table must be dinner that a normal person could eat.
If I had known earlier, I would have accepted the store manager's invitation and had dinner in their store before leaving.
...Oh, what am I thinking about.
Mei Raiden suddenly felt a little discouraged, and the fear that had just risen in her heart also dissipated a lot.
She raised her feet and walked on the empty pedestrian street, looking a little tired.
Although it was very strange that there was no one to be seen on the street, this was still a modern society after all. The surrounding street lights were still working normally, and if one listened carefully, one could even hear the sound of traffic coming from afar.
Moreover, after walking a few steps, Raiden Mei suddenly saw that there seemed to be several blockades at the end of the road.
...Perhaps during the time I was asleep, something happened in this commercial street, which was originally a downtown area, so the Changkong City government and police dispersed the people on the street.
Raiden Mei said in her heart.
As for me, I stayed in the cafe for a long time and was ignored by them.
In this case, I shouldn't stay here any longer and should go home as soon as possible.
With this thought in mind, Mei Raiden's pace became a little quicker.
Outside the blockade at the end of the road, car lights were passing by, and next to it stood a guard holding a machine gun.
It seems that during the time he was asleep, something serious had happened here, forcing the police to completely block off the area.
When the guard's figure gradually became clear in her field of vision, Raiden Mei raised her hand and spoke -
Her fighting instinct as a kendo master made her subconsciously dodge to the side before she opened her mouth.
Accompanied by the sound of a silenced gunshot, a strong wind blew past her cheek.
"Eh?"
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“What the hell—?!”
The feet moved on their own.
After narrowly dodging the flames from the machine gun, Mei Raiden ran towards a street lamp in a somewhat embarrassed manner.
One side of the road has been blocked. According to normal logic, since the other party has blocked one side of the road, the other side must be in the same situation.
The only target is a store on the street.
As a master of the Menkyo Kaiden of the Hokushin Ittoryu, if she had a katana in her hand, she would still be able to muster some thoughts of resistance at this life-threatening moment.
But facing several soldiers armed with firearms while being unarmed, no matter how superb her swordsmanship was, the only option she had was to escape.
She raised her arms to shield her face and broke through a glass door with a loud shattering sound.
If Raiden Mei remembered correctly, behind this glass door should be the largest department store on this commercial street. Not lowering the anti-theft net was a great help. Next, she would first try to distance herself from the two people attacking her, and then look for anything in this department store that could be used as a weapon.
Thinking stopped instantly.
The ceiling lights in the department store lit up one by one, followed by a burst of applause.
"For a young lady who lives in a greenhouse, you did quite well and deserve praise." The person who clapped his hands expressed his heartfelt praise in a condescending tone. "It's a pity that you are still too inexperienced in judging the situation. You should have given up resistance when they fired the first shot. In this way, you wouldn't have to face the pain and despair that followed."
"..." Looking at the guards surrounding her, Mei Raiden, knowing that she could not put up any resistance, calmed down instead: "Who are you? Why are you arresting me?"
"Knowing too much is not necessarily a good thing. I'm not the kind of boring villain who is naive enough to explain intelligence to outsiders." Kokolia smiled, raised her hand holding a pistol, and said in a confident tone, "I advise you not to hide. This gun is only loaded with tranquilizer bullets. However, if it hits a vital part, I can't guarantee that you will survive."
She exerted force on her fingertips and pulled the trigger.
click -
No gunshots were heard.
Cocolia's expression froze for a moment. After all, she was a former Russian non-commissioned officer. She certainly wouldn't make the low-level mistake of having no bullets in the magazine, so she immediately realized that her gun had been tampered with.
"Shoot! Don't aim at vital points!"
Cocolia shouted loudly, and all the guards surrounding Raiden Mei raised their machine guns at the same time and pulled the trigger -
Click——click——click——
Just like before, there was no gunfire, but everyone's machine guns made a rattling sound of metal parts colliding, and there were exclamations everywhere.
At the same time when everyone pulled the trigger, Mei Raiden picked up a mop left by the cleaner from the wall without hesitation. There was still some dirty water on the handle wrapped in a cloth.
I don’t know what the mop was used to clean before. The dirty water even emits a mysterious smell.
She picked up the still wet mop, with a cold face, without any regard for the so-called swordsman's demeanor, and without any hesitation, she smashed it hard on Cocolia's head.
Cocolia's face turned pale at first. After being touched by this thing, she probably would never be able to raise her head in front of her subordinates who witnessed everything.
"Hmph." But she reacted quickly and snorted with disdain.
After all, she was a former Russian non-commissioned officer. How could her close combat ability be better than this little girl?
"Let's go-!"
Suddenly, accompanied by a huge force, Cocolia felt that someone had kicked her butt hard. She lost control of her upper body and involuntarily fell towards the stained mop head.
The beautiful golden curly hair and the mop head covered with dirty water were hugging each other intimately.
A blow that is not very harmful but extremely insulting.
Chapter 22 Sir, Times Have Changed
On one side was the culprit with his foot half-raised.
On the other side, there was a kendo girl wielding a mop.
The victim, trapped between the two men, kept his upper body leaning forward, as if he was about to fall.
The rag strips from the mop were randomly stuck in mid-air on that face that was charming yet also had a soldier-like sharpness.
The background is a brightly lit department store and a circle of stunned anti-entropy guards.
The absurd scene, like something out of a comedy movie, seemed to be frozen at this moment.
The next moment, time resumed flowing.
Mei Raiden swung her sword without holding back at all.
——Even though the weapon swung was a mop covered in dirty water.
However, the strength of every inch of muscle in the body was squeezed to the limit, and Raiden Mei's unreserved slash from the waist directly towards the enemy's face was perfect, whether it was the posture of exerting force, the landing point of the weapon, or the timing of the attack.
——It’s a pity that the weapon he swung was a mop covered in dirty water.
Therefore, at the moment when the weapons came into contact with each other's faces, the Cocolia head and the mop head, which had hugged each other for a moment, bounced away from each other under the influence of the reaction force.
As we all know, a mop is not a weapon.
Although Mei Raiden did not hold back, the mop's shaft was made of ash wood, which was not very hard, and the rag strips covered in dirty water formed a buffer. Therefore, even though the slash hit Cocolia's panel, it did not cause any substantial damage to her body.
But after suffering this blow that didn't even cause much pain, Kokolia's eyes widened and his expression was extremely ferocious with anger and shame.
Because - she felt the dirty water slowly flowing on her face.
Because - she smelled an indescribable smell.
The anger that threatened to burn away reason was fleeting.
As a "witch" who once roamed Siberia, Kokolia's fighting instincts are actually quite good.
She immediately realized that her opportunity had come.
Despite her superb swordsmanship, Mei Raiden is ultimately just a young lady living in a peacetime.
Without a weapon, she could not pose any threat to the people on her side.
The one who can pose a threat to you is the person who shoots you in the back and kicks you hard in the ass.
Therefore, as long as she can control or defeat the person behind her in the first moment, Raiden Mei will still only belong to her.
The Snowfield Witch was very shrewd. Even if she was hit by a mild attack, the advantage of the situation was still on her side. She mustered all her strength, pretended to be knocked away, and turned around, with a cold and fierce smile in her eyes.
——Then he froze in front of the pitch-black gun barrel.
No one knew which guard had stolen it from. The young store manager smiled and raised a pitch-black machine gun in one hand. His voice sounded like he deserved a beating: "Suprise~~Are you surprised? Are you surprised? Do you think I'm as naive as that girl who hit people with (beep——)? I had guessed that you would do this!
"——" Mei Raiden, who originally felt a little grateful to the store manager who came to help her in this critical moment, suddenly showed an expression as if she had eaten shit-flavored chocolate. She glanced at the mop that was slowly dripping with dirty water, and felt that it was not right to hold it, nor was it right to throw it aside.
"..." Cocolia narrowed her eyes and suddenly reached out for the gun in the manager's hand with lightning speed.
After all, Kokolia was also someone who had been tempered in the army.
If the store manager was an ordinary person with no combat experience, he would probably be caught off guard and his weapon would be easily taken away by the opponent.
but--
boom!
With the sound of a gunshot, the burning sensation brushing across her cheek forced Cocolia to stop trying to grab the gun.
“Don’t touch me, Auntie.” The young store manager narrowed his eyes, put away his smile, and looked down at me with contempt and disdain. “I am a family man, please pay attention to your image… haha…”
You laughed, didn’t you? You definitely laughed just now! Cocolia’s eyes were almost on fire, and her teeth were chattering.
"Hey, you're a former soldier who was famous in Siberia, why did you come to the Far East and stare at a harmless student?"
The young store manager shook his head in disappointment, and spoke casually as if he was chatting with a friend he met by chance on the street: "If you stay in Siberia and act like a local boss, no one will dare to mess with you. People who have the ability to cause trouble to you will not have the time to run to that godforsaken place to suffer."
