Chapter 440: Chapter 263: Rainbow Wings’ Two Urgent Missions
[Hacker: Anyway, you and the young lady should head to Hokkaido and stand by. Sapporo City, first take the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station, then change to the JR limited express train to Sapporo City.]
[Xia Pingzhou: Oh, see you in Hokkaido then.]
After sending the message, Xia Pingzhou turned his head to glance at Ayase Origami, who was still sleeping, then picked up a book from the floor, raised it high, and deliberately let it go. The book hit the ground with a "thud."
The kimono girl woke up in response. She opened her eyes from the pillow and stared blankly at the book on the floor. After a while, she lifted her head and looked at Xia Pingzhou.
It had happened countless times. Every time Xia Pingzhou wanted to wake her up early in the morning, he would take a book from the attic shelf, let it fall to the floor with a loud "bang," startling her awake from her sleep.
"Rebellion..." she said softly, but there wasn’t a hint of anger in her pitch-black eyes.
"So tell me, how should I wake you up better?" Xia Pingzhou said while slightly bending down and reaching out to pick up "Snow White" from the floor.
"Not waking me up would be best," Ayase Origami said, gently resting her head back on the pillow and closing her eyes.
"Then you’ll turn into the ’Snow White’ poisoned by the apple," Xia Pingzhou said casually as he put the book in the gap between "The Dancing Girl of Izu" and "Snow Country" on the shelf.
"Snow White... how should she be awakened?"
"I forgot," Xia Pingzhou said. "I think it was the villainous Empress who gave her face a deep kiss, and from then on, their mother-child feud was resolved, and they lived a happy life with the seven dwarfs in the forest."
The kimono girl listened and remained silent for a long time.
"Kitten, you miss your mom again," she said.
"Let’s get down to business. The captain and Jack the Ripper will arrive in Japan tomorrow. I heard the captain plans to break an old friend out of the superpower user prison in Hokkaido," Xia Pingzhou said calmly. "This should be to prepare for the next mission since we lost a member, and there’s still one vacancy in the brigade."
Ayase Origami slowly got up, her elegant hair draping over the folds of her shoulders. She stared blankly while lowering her head, took a deep yawn, and then opened her eyes and raised her hand.
A thin sheet of paper flew out from her scarlet sleeve, handing her the cup of water on the bedside table.
"How many people?" she asked, slightly bowing her head while drinking water.
"What do you mean, how many people?"
"The members participating in the mission."
Xia Pingzhou thought for a moment: "Bloodline, Jack the Ripper, you, me, and the captain... five people. Oh, right, plus Robert and the hacker, that’s five people, one AI machine, and an electronic pet."
"Are we leaving now?"
"There’s no rush. The hacker has already arranged the itinerary. We’ll first take the Shinkansen, then the JR limited express train, which will take about nine hours." Xia Pingzhou turned to look at Ayase Origami. "You can sleep a bit more if you want."
Ayase Origami thought for a moment, lowered her shoulders, and her eyelids drooped along with her kimono sleeves. She suddenly picked up the gray and white notebook placed by her pillow.
This was the "Endless Notebook," a treasure that Xia Pingzhou handed over to her that day, from the royal treasury of the Whale Terrarium.
The Endless Notebook could generate endless sheets of paper. Initially used to record the daily lives of every Terrarium king, the citizens later realized it wasn’t necessary.
Because in the closed-off environment of the Whale Terrarium, the kings lived carefree lives, doing nothing but eating, drinking, playing, and sleeping, so little was done that it couldn’t fill even one or two pages of the book. The citizens of the Royal Court simply placed the Endless Notebook into the royal treasury.
"I want to find a place to try this," the kimono girl said softly as the Endless Notebook floated up, spinning before falling into the scarlet sleeve, along with her mother’s haiku collection.
"Indeed, you should try it," Xia Pingzhou nodded. "We’ll have to break into the prison in a couple of days. If you wait until the mission starts, it might be too late to test it."
They descended the stairs, both a little groggy from sleep, walking unsteadily. The wooden steps creaked. Xia Pingzhou lifted the café’s shutter, letting sunlight filter through the glass door.
While Ayase Origami freshened up in the bathroom, Xia Pingzhou prepared breakfast in the café kitchen—two cups of hot milk and a slice of toast.
They sat in the café, eating breakfast and communicating via cell phone.
The reason for not speaking directly was that the young lady had just learned to use a mobile phone and found this method of communication novel.
Whenever Xia Pingzhou grew tired of typing and looked up from his phone to speak, Ayase Origami would use a sheet of paper to lightly cover his lips. Without raising her head, she sipped milk in small sips, her slightly vacant eyes reflecting the text on the screen.
After breakfast, Xia Pingzhou and she walked out of the café, locking the glass door securely. Then, in a quiet corner of the long street, they summoned the Queen’s Statue.
The Queen’s Statue cradled Xia Pingzhou on its left shoulder and Ayase Origami on its right, then leaped into the air, striding through the city.
They could see the hazy outline of Mount Fuji, the morning light casting shimmering waves across Tokyo Bay. Tokyo was vibrant in the early morning, with cars endlessly crossing Rainbow Bridge. The summer breeze swept in, reflecting the silhouette of the Queen’s Statue on the glass curtain wall. The kimono girl’s hair fluttered in the wind.
Before long, the Queen’s Statue brought them to a large nearby mountain. Sunlight filtered through the tree canopy onto their heads, and the girl’s skin was as clear and transparent as Liuli.
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