Chapter 393: School Hero Chronicles!

"How do you persuade through acting? How exactly do you act?"

Satomi Rentaro didn't understand what the boy meant, so he asked.

"Haven't you seen Tenchu Shoujo? The villain appears, the public falls into crisis, Tenchu Shoujo makes a timely entrance, defeats the evil villain with the magic light of justice, and receives the gratitude and cheers of the rescued public—that's the kind of acting."

Broly explained in one sentence.

"So, Broly, you want me to be Tenchu Shoujo?!"

Aihara Enju suddenly perked up, widened her eyes at the boy, and hurriedly asked.

"Yes, that kind of role."

Broly nodded.

"Then what about the villain? In this real world, surely an evil villain can't just suddenly appear, right?"

Satomi Rentaro asked.

"The one playing Tenchu Shoujo is Enju, a Cursed Child, so naturally, the one playing the evil villain would be a real Gastrea."

Broly said as if it were only natural.

"Huh?!"

The boy and girl were both somewhat surprised.

"Broly, you're joking, right? Gastreas are called beasts because they lack higher intelligence, their habits are like wild animals, and they are extremely dangerous existences—such existences could never possibly cooperate with any acting."

Satomi Rentaro had to remind him.

"I ask you, when Gastreas see humans, do they attack them?"

"Uh, yes."

Satomi Rentaro nodded.

"Since they do, then it's fine—acting as themselves is also acting."

Broly said there was no problem.

"But where would there be Gastreas inside the school?"

Aihara Enju asked.

"Forget the school—there are very few Gastreas that can even break into the city."

The boy continued.

"Don't you see the huge Monolith on the horizon? It's a building made of Varanium metal, and the aura of Varanium is something Gastreas hate; it can isolate the vast majority of Gastreas wandering outside."

"And even if a small portion of Gastreas manage to break in through some border lines, they first have to face the Self-Defense Force stationed at those lines, and even if they luckily get past the Self-Defense Force's line, they'll still encounter the urban defense line formed by civilian Civil Security organizations."

"It can be said that since the Tokyo Safe Zone was established, incidents of Gastreas breaking into the city's interior have been extremely rare."

"And several of those incidents were caused by people going outside and accidentally getting infected with the Gastrea Virus, becoming infection sources within the city."

The meaning behind Satomi Rentaro's words was just one thing: encountering Gastreas within the city was truly a rare sight.

"There are no Gastreas in the city; we can go outside and catch some to bring in."

Broly didn't think this was a problem.

"How to catch them?"

"Catch them by hand."

"Broly, I have to tell you, defeating Gastreas might be simple, but capturing them alive..."

... Scene change...

"It's not difficult at all!"

Outside the city, Broly held up a bound Gastrea and said.

"Stage Three wolf-type Gastrea..."

Satomi Rentaro's eyes twitched; just looking at how easily the boy had captured a wolf-type Gastrea alive, someone who didn't know would think they were tying up an extremely obedient big black dog.

"We just need to throw this guy into the school, and I guarantee the teachers and students of Kōda Elementary School will deeply recognize the ferocity of Gastreas!"

Broly patted the big black dog in his hand and said.

"This isn't just recognizing ferocity; surely there will be casualties?!"

Satomi Rentaro still couldn't accept this behavior of intentionally bringing Gastreas into the city and releasing them at the school.

"How would there be casualties? If important audience members die, wouldn't that fail to achieve the corresponding change of view effect?"

Broly said as he untied the Gastrea in his hand.

"Careful!"

Just as the wolf-type Gastrea recovered and was about to bite the boy beside them, while the girl was on high alert.

"Pa~"

A small pebble hit the other's chin, and the wolf-type Gastrea's open wolf snout was directly struck shut again.

"Wooh, wooh..."

The wolf mouth opened and closed, opened and closed.

"Owoo~"

The wolf-type Gastrea discovered its biting muscles had a problem, and angrily raised its claw, but the next moment, it suddenly put it down.

Satomi Rentaro turned his head to look and discovered Broly had already floated into midair, throwing small pebbles at the raised wolf claw of the wolf-type Gastrea.

"Owoo, wooh, owoo, wooh..."

Under the correction of the small pebbles, the wolf-type Gastrea bared its teeth at Satomi Rentaro, but besides that, it could do nothing else.

The small pebbles Broly threw not only brought pain, but the faint Qi attached to them could interrupt the flow of Qi within the Gastrea's body, causing the wolf-type Gastrea's movements to be continuously interrupted.

And unfortunately, this wolf-type Gastrea was a bit stupid; despite having its attack wind-up bugged, it diligently wanted to continue attacking.

Its intelligence was so low that it made one wonder if it had a close genetic connection with a creature named Erha.

"Look, just throwing small pebbles can solve the problem."

Satomi Rentaro: "..."

This really treats Gastrea like trained wild beasts.

"Broly, let me try throwing pebbles too, okay?"

Aihara Enju's eyes were shining as she looked at the boy floating in midair and asked.

"Uh, sure."

Broly nodded and handed over a handful of small pebbles he had picked up casually.

"Hey—"

The girl imitated the boy's behavior and threw a pebble at the wolf-type Gastrea.

"Roar—"

The next moment, the wolf's snout ignored the pebble she threw and bit directly at her.

"Smack, whine—"

Broly arrived in front of the girl, raised his hand, and clamped the wolf's snout shut.

"Why didn't the pebble I threw work?"

"Because I infused it with Qi; yours didn't have any."

"Qi?"

After Broly finished explaining Qi to Aihara Enju, Satomi Rentaro finally understood that this method of using pebbles to interrupt a Gastrea's attack was something only the boy could do.

"Are you sure it's safe, no problem? It won't cause casualties, right?"

But he was still somewhat uneasy.

"Broly, I don't want others to die because of me."

The girl also said.

"Rest assured, if the pebble can't control it..."

Light lit up at Broly's fingertips, and the next instant, a spreading energy beam submerged the wolf-type Gastrea. The Stage Three, which possessed formidable regenerative power and which ordinary armies needed heavy weapons to deal with, was annihilated in the blink of an eye.

"Then at that time, I will step in promptly and clean up the opponent."

Satomi Rentaro looked at the place where the Stage Three had been standing just now, but on the ground there was nothing but a bit of black ash.

"Broly, what is this, Magic Flash?!"

Aihara Enju, on the other hand, was somewhat excited and pursued the question about the fingertip energy wave.

"This is also Qi, just a simpler application."

Broly explained. In his view, attaching Qi to a pebble and relying on throwing the pebble to interrupt a Gastrea's movement was much more difficult than directly turning Qi into an energy beam to eliminate the Gastrea.

"If safety can be guaranteed, then that indeed poses no problem."

Satomi Rentaro said so. The Saiyan boy's strength had already conquered him; even if the other party intended to throw Gastrea into Aihara Enju's school, at this moment he didn't feel there was any problem.

Anyway, these are all fake — using the danger displayed by Gastrea to perform and persuade others.

"Right, but we need to go find a new villain actor!"

No time to mourn the wolf-type Gastrea. The next villain actor sought out was a Gastrea resembling an ancient hammer dragon.

"Stage Four... Broly, if I remember correctly, Enju is supposed to publicly perform how to defeat the villain Gastrea afterwards, right?"

Satomi Rentaro asked.

"Mm."

Broly, who was stepping directly on the head of the hammer dragon-shaped Gastrea, pinning it to the ground so it couldn't crawl up, nodded.

"Then this Stage Four hammer dragon, even if it stood still and let Enju kick it, she probably couldn't budge it."

Satomi Rentaro pointed this out.

The higher the Gastrea's evolution stage, the stronger its recovery and defense.

A Stage Four hammer dragon can already ignore most heavy weapons.

To deal with this thing, one would probably need Varanium armor-piercing rounds fired from a heavy sniper to have a chance of breaking its defense.

As for the Varanium shoes on Aihara Enju's feet, forget it.

"Eh, is that so?"

Broly scratched his head, realizing that selecting a villain actor wasn't such an easy matter either.

He only thought about having lots of Qi and looking powerful enough, but didn't consider the girl's strength.

In the end, under Satomi Rentaro's advice, Broly selected a Gastrea that looked relatively ferocious in appearance but was actually only Stage Two as the antagonist.

According to Satomi Rentaro's words, for ordinary people anyway, Gastrea are all relatively terrifying existences.

Then, selecting a high-stage Gastrea and selecting a low-stage Gastrea actually don't have much difference.

On the contrary, choosing a low-stage Gastrea is instead a bit easier to control; he was still actively lowering the risk of bringing Gastrea into the school.

"Then Enju, when you eliminate this Gastrea, you must not kill it instantly in one move. Try to act like you're fighting very hard, like you're risking your life in battle to protect others. Mm, this is my wife, you have enough of Jibril letting me brief you on this."

This Saiyan little director Broly, following the reminder from that Red Demon Clan girl Jibril who is a director, was face-to-face coaching Aihara Enju, the female lead Cursed Child's friend, on tomorrow's scenes.

And Satomi Rentaro, this odd-job man, was nervously preparing to make the Gastrea villain role reasonably appear at the elementary school.

Bringing Gastrea into the city — on a small scale, it's transporting dangerous creatures.

On a large scale, it can be called anti-humanity.

If they don't properly conceal their own roles in this, they might just end up on the Official wanted list.

"Ant-type Gastrea burrowing underground is normal, right!"

Studying the Tokyo map, Satomi Rentaro actually found a route that looked relatively reasonable.

Thus, the ant-type Gastrea brought into the city from the sky while bound became one that infiltrated the Outer District from the suburban sand grounds by burrowing.

Then, they entered the inner city from the abandoned sewer, emerged from a sewer outlet on the street outside Kōda Elementary School, and at night ran into the school to lie in wait as the villain characters.

In one night, with the efforts of the four of them, the plot of 【Aihara Enju Campus Hero Legend】 was prepared.

"Ah, it's a Gastrea, a Gastrea has invaded our school!"

The next day, after Satomi Rentaro took Aihara Enju to the Principal's office at Kōda Elementary School to discuss withdrawal, accompanied by a panicked shout, the entire Kōda Elementary School suddenly fell into chaos; an ant-type Gastrea had, for some unknown reason, appeared inside the school.

"Teacher, help!"

Students ran in the corridor, and the ant-type Gastrea chased after them in fits and starts.

"Quick, run outside!"

Responsible teachers directed the students to evacuate, but the irresponsible ones had already run away themselves.

"Mr. Satomi, never mind whether Aihara-san withdraws or not, you're Civil Security, so please think of something."

The old Principal saw the chaos in the school, yet appealed to Satomi Rentaro.

"That's a Stage Two Gastrea, while Enju and I are just a Promoter and Initiator pair who've been on the job less than a year; with our strength I'm afraid..."

The youth showed a troubled expression, making excuses as if worried for his own safety.

"Aihara-san..."

The old Principal looked at the girl; if a student of his school were slaughtered by a Gastrea during his tenure, he'd be finished too.

"Enju, this doesn't concern you; aren't your classmates still rejecting you?"

The youth spoke up from the side to stop her.

"Even so, I have to go save them!"

Aihara Enju ran off as soon as she finished speaking; the old Principal watched the girl run toward the commotion, and because of her words, his impression that Cursed Children are monsters was somewhat shattered.

How could a girl like that be a monster? She's clearly a good kid willing to fight a dangerous Gastrea to protect her classmates!

The old Principal didn't see the red on the girl's ear tips; Aihara Enju, acting in a real-life stage play for the first time, was still a kid not too good at lying.

On the other side, the ant-type Gastrea had already reached the vicinity of Aihara Enju's class; several fleeing elementary students didn't know why their knees went weak and they collapsed on the ground.

"Teacher, save us!"

The children were already scared into crying and wetting themselves, crying for help to the only adult nearby.

"I won't let you hurt my students..."

Takeuchi-sensei's legs were a bit weak, but she surprisingly didn't abandon the students and flee; she grabbed a chair and blocked the ant-type Gastrea, which was like a small truck.

Just as the Gastrea looked at the group of food before it, each time it tried to move its mouth it was interrupted; for a full fifteen seconds of standing frozen in place, Aihara Enju finally arrived.

"Uh, don't hurt my teacher and friends!"

Upon seeing her homeroom teacher blocking the ant-type Gastrea, Aihara Enju first froze, but quickly reacted, adding the teacher into her lines.

Pushing off the ground, the girl launched herself with legs together, flying in a kick, but this heavy, powerful kick didn't achieve much effect.

However, Aihara Enju remembered Broly's instruction: when she kicked the ant-type Gastrea's head, she dissipated her own force to avoid kicking the giant ant to death.

So the ant-type Gastrea was only kicked back two steps; its sharp proboscis aimed at the girl and stabbed down, but she dodged it.

"Ah, it's Aihara-san!"

"Enju, Enju came to save us!"

Seeing the Gastrea intercepted by the girl, the teachers and students were instantly stirred with excitement.

"You all go quick, this guy's really strong, I might not be a match."

But the girl's one sentence calmed them down.

"Then what about you?"

Ogawa was somewhat moved by the girl running over and shouting those words, and also because she'd seen a similar plot in Heaven's Punishment Girl, she asked.

"I'm fine, I'm a Cursed Child, I have more power than you, I should protect you."

The classmates' gazes were complex, watching the girl entangled with the Gastrea.

"Then be careful, classmates, go quick!"

The male teacher reacted first, pulling the students away.

"OK, Act One done. Next, rampage in the corridor, leave traces showing the Gastrea is very strong, very dangerous. I won't throw pebbles anymore, you be careful yourself."

In the earpiece came the director's command.

"No problem."

Aihara Enju answered, and the ant-type Gastrea, no longer pelted by pebbles, quickly displayed its prowess as a Stage Two.

The school corridor, already evacuated of teachers and students, was instantly rammed all over by this Gastrea; glass windows shattered where they shattered, the ceiling blossomed where it blossomed, leaving all kinds of battle traces along the way.

"Alright, everyone in the school has gathered at the playground. Enju, come to my side."

Broly emerged from around the corner; Aihara Enju hurriedly retreated to his side.

"Here, this is a blood plasma bag. Slap it on your head."

Broly handed over a bag of blood plasma.

And this is real blood, taken from the cold storage in Doctor Muroto Sumire's lab.

"Do I really have to go this far?"

The girl's complexion turned bitter.

"The more wretched you look, the more grateful those you save will be; heroes have always been this way."

Hearing this, Aihara Enju could only slap the blood plasma onto her own head.

"Go to the broadcast room; there's no one under that room's walls. In a bit I'll rig something on that room's wall.

You lure that idiot ant over, let it smash through, then you, with the mic turned on, fall down along with it. Remember to get some dust on yourself, make yourself look even more dusty and disheveled."

Broly directed on the spot; although he'd already snuck in last night for a rehearsal, the actual situation still required some modifications based on circumstances.

Just as the teachers and students evacuating to the playground listened to the huge commotion coming from the teaching building, faces pale, wondering whether to keep running outside — Bang! The wall of the fifth floor of the teaching building was smashed through.

"It's a Gastrea!"

An elementary student exclaimed in surprise.

"Enju fell down too!"

Aihara Enju's classmate, a sharp-eyed chubby boy, however discovered the girl's trace.

Landing, one person and one Gastrea, resumed their aerial battle together.

"Damn Gastrea, my school will be protected by me!"

The girl called out her prepared line.

The undamaged wireless broadcast microphone on her body received this sound, but it was transmitted through the speakers throughout the school.

The teachers and students about to flee were stunned, looking at that side where the girl with blood on her face was battling the terrifying Gastrea, and involuntarily stopped their steps.

"Enju, don't lose to the Gastrea!"

Ogawa, whose eye sockets already had tears, shouted toward Aihara Enju's direction.

"Aihara-san, cheer up!"

Teacher Takeuchi also shouted a sentence.

The atmosphere having reached this point, the surrounding Aihara Enju's classmates also began to shout cheer up, don't lose words.

Originally, when Aihara Enju hadn't exposed her Cursed Children nature, her popularity was not bad, and now, it merely made classmates recall their former friendship.

Furthermore, humans are emotional animals, not to mention this is an elementary school, mostly children, seeing this side many people cheering for that girl, they also followed along cheering.

"Good, conduct the final strike, must exhaust all efforts some, after knocking it down, you face everyone and reveal a hearty smile, facing these classmates cheering for you say the final line, then, you pretend a powerless appearance, fall down for me!"

Under the gaze of ten thousand people and cheering shouts, Aihara Enju finally kicked and shattered the ant-type Gastrea's head with one kick.

The girl turned her body, facing the playground's known and unknown classmates, revealed a hearty smile: "Everyone, you are safe!"

Finishing speaking, she somewhat stiffly, but also can be said to be just right, directly fell down.

"Enju!"

Satomi Rentaro shouted loudly, hurriedly ran over.

He is the finale, but also indeed nervous.

Aihara Enju in his arms blinked at him, only then letting him rest assured.

Satomi Rentaro knew his quest, he could not let people see Enju wasn't injured, was pretending to faint matter.

Carrying a crowd on his back, first took off the earpiece from the girl's ear, unobtrusively stuffed it into his pocket.

"Let through, let through..."

Shouting this in his mouth, he hugged the girl and rushed out of the campus.

Aihara Enju Campus Hero Legend, with numerous students making way for a path, watching the youth hugging the girl rush out of the school scene, formally fell the curtain!

(Chapter End)