
The dismantling of the structure and the cracking pavement protrude in some parts. The buildings that once stood firm today no longer had a balance. Debris of demolished buildings piled on top of houses and buildings.
“Is this the place?” Esdeath asked with a frown because he did not expect that he would be teleported in such a trash can. He remembered the bustling scene in Toriko's world that was in stark contrast to this place. But at the same time, he felt that this place was very similar to the slums in the Empire in the past when Honj was prime minister.
“We are in the Outer Area.” Haru turned around and pointed his finger at the distant city. “You can see the bustling city there.”
Unlike where they stood, the city Haru showed had many tall buildings, bright lights, and a lot of noise. It seemed that the two places were like different worlds.
“So what should we do here? It's dark,” said Esdeath.
In the Outer Area, there was no electricity and that was why this place was so dark at dawn.
It was at this time that Esdeath took the sword and was ready to stab his sword, but he was stopped by Haru.
“Esdeath, wait!” Haru hugged his waist to stop him.
The sword of Esdeath stopped exactly a few centimeters away from the little girl.
“Small girl?” Esdeath calmed himself down and put down his sword, but he felt strange because he could sense that this little girl was strong enough and thought that this little girl was a monster or Gastrea because he remembered this world was being threatened by her.
“You okay?” Haru walked towards the little girl and calmed her down as she could see the fear in the eyes of this little girl after being almost killed by Esdeath.
“I – I'm fine...” Looking at Haru's soft eyes, the little girl nodded with a reddened face as this was the first time someone had treated her gently. From her life, she had been treated badly and many people looked at her with disdain, but Haru was different because she could really see that she was very gentle with him. Haru's face is also a plus and every girl's dream is always to wait for their prince on a white horse.
Esdeath looked at the girl and shook his head because he could feel what this girl was thinking.
“Sorry. We were both from the Civil Security Corporation and we got a mission to kill Gastrea. We just got back on our way to town after killing Gastrea and my partner is still pretty uptight thinking about it. You're a Gastrea. Again, I'm sorry for him,” Haru said with an apologetic expression.
“T – No problem...” The little girl shook her head with a red face and nodded as she felt it was normal for the people in the Civil Security Company to come to this place to hunt Gastrea.
The Civil Security Corporation is an organization specializing in the fight against Gastrea.
Immediately after humanity lost the war against Gastrea in 2021, humanity organized a 2-man combat team to specifically fight against Gastrea: and thus the Civil Security Company was born, or in short, the Civil Security Company was born, Civil Security.
Haru who was very skilled in persuading the little girl made the little girl forget that someone from the Civil Security Corporation usually had to bring the Initiator with them.
The initiator was Cursed Children, an individual with the Gastrea Virus, who partnered with individuals from the Civil Security Corporation.
Looking at the dirty looking little girl and the torn clothes, Haru could guess that this little girl was the Cursed Child. He had a hunch that they were teleported in the Tokyo Area because if he remembered well this area made discrimination against the Cursed Children, but he needed to make sure again.
The damned children are young women with superhuman abilities and have the Gastrea Virus. Although their existence helped the people to fight Gastrea, they were treated badly.
Haru could say that the name Cursed Child was blatant discrimination, but it was quite ironic when the people who discriminated against them used the Cursed Child to protect them. He thought that they should change the name of the Cursed Child to the Messenger of Gods as there were also some religions in this world that would worship Gastrea itself.
Haru kept talking to the little girl and asked her many questions.
From his mouth, he could tell that they were in the outer area of the Tokyo area.
As he explained earlier, there are only five areas that can be inhabited by humans and the region is Osaka, Tokyo, Sendai, Sapporo, Sendai.
Haru felt the little girls were very pitiful and that was why he would pamper them for a bit.
Of course, Haru tells Esdeath that they are just children and their minds are not yet mature enough. The only way for them to become stronger was to have someone guide them.
“Isn't it good that you will have many strong subordinates in the future?”
Esdeath nodded as he thought about it and said, “That's true, but the problem is how we will unite this country.” He looked at Haru and said, “From what you said, the five regions of the country have their own leaders, do we kill them directly?”
“Esdeath Haru fell silent and closed the little girl's ears.
The little girl was quite confused by Haru's actions, but she did nothing, just staring at Esdeath and Haru curiously.
“What you said is very easy to do, but I don't want too much bloodshed in our search,” Haru said.
There are many ways to unite this country and the easiest is to use force.
With the strength of Haru and Esdeath, it was possible to conquer an entire country in just one strike making many people tremble in fear in front of them, but he really wanted to avoid such a way to unify this country. because such a method would definitely provoke the leaders of each region and would make them want to fight to the death with them.
If that really happened then the number of victims would be many, but he knew very well that the victims in this quest would be inevitable.
But at least he will try to reduce it as much as possible.
“And...” Haru grabbed Esdeath's hand and said, “I want to do this quest slowly with you, spend time together, and honeymoon together because we haven't had it since our wedding.” He felt that he had not done much to Esdeath and that was why he would make him happy in this quest.
Esdeath blushed and approached towards him, kissing his cheek. “I'll listen to you, Darling.”
“Thank you. I am so happy to have you as my wife,” Haru said as she hugged her waist.
“Honorful!!” Esdeath immediately hugged her, ignoring the little girl who lived with them.
“….”
The little girl who saw their interaction couldn't help but feel sad, but then she looked at their interaction with curiosity as this was the first time she had seen an adult interaction. His face turned red and he tried to cover his eyes with his hands, but there was a huge gap between his fingers.
*Snarling!*
The sudden sound made Haru and Esdeath stop staring at the little girl who looked so embarrassed.
Haru smiled and patted the little girl's head. “Where is your home? Let's have breakfast together and I'll cook you something.”
“R – Really?” The little girl was surprised.
“Ya, it's almost morning.” Haru looked at Esdeath and asked, “What do you think?”
Esdeath thought about his food and nodded with a smile. “Come breakfast.”
“…..”
The little girl looked at Haru and Esdeath and wondered if she could find her lover in the future.