After that, Ling Xingye wandered the night market street for a while, dragging on until three o'clock in the morning, and finally set foot on the way home after confirming that the flowers had stopped following her.
After returning to the apartment, Ling Xingye changed his clothes, washed up briefly, and fell on the bed, taking the time to rest.
It will be dawn soon, and we have to go to school.
Although it seemed absurd, Ling Xingye did insist on being a student. So going to school is his main job, as for fighting at night... at best, it's just an amateur activity.
Next door, Misaka Mikoto woke up suddenly, she subconsciously looked at the clock on the wall.
"Huh? It's half past four!" The bangs on the girl's forehead flickered, and she jumped up, "Oops, I accidentally fell asleep!"
Misaka Mikoto saw that not far from her, Kanzaki Kaori was leaning against the wall with her eyes closed, holding her scary long knife in her arms.
Misaka Mikoto immediately turned off the lights and kept quiet, for fear of waking up the other party.
"You're awake." Unexpectedly, Kanzaki Kaori immediately opened his eyes, his eyes were clear and energetic, as if he hadn't fallen asleep at all.
"It's so late..." Misaka Mikoto said, "No, it's already morning! I don't know if Xingye has returned."
"As for Xingye, she came back about an hour ago." Kanzaki Kaori said.
"Huh? Really!"
"Yeah," Kanzaki Kaori nodded affirmatively, "I heard his footsteps."
Without even thinking about it, Misaka Mikoto rushed out, came to Ling Xingye's house, and pressed the doorbell hard.
But there was no response.
"At this time," Kanzaki Kaori followed, "he should be resting, right?"
Only then did Misaka Mikoto notice the dawning sky outside.
There was silence all around, as if the whole city hadn't woken up yet and was in a peaceful sleep.
Just when Misaka Mikoto was about to give up, the door was opened.
Ling Xingye appeared in front of them as if he hadn't woken up yet.
His expression was a little dazed, his spirit was low, and he looked a little worried.
Because of the change of clothes, the two girls couldn't see the hard battle that Ling Xingye had experienced not long ago. They could only think that it was caused by lack of sleep.
"Xingye, it's great that you're okay!" Misaka Mikoto took a closer look and breathed a sigh of relief, "...By the way, are you really okay?"
"It's okay, it's okay." Ling Xingye cheered up, shook his head and replied, "It's just a little sleepy...Speaking of which, Misaka, you didn't go back to the dormitory, you stayed at Kanzaki's place? Is there any problem in the dormitory?"
"Ah, don't worry about that," Misaka Mikoto waved her hand, "Kuroko will help cover it. But by the way..."
The girl tiptoed and looked into the room behind Ling Xingye.
"Where are my sisters? You should have successfully rescued the second sister, right? Where are they?" Misaka Mikoto asked one after another.
Hearing this, Ling Xingye showed a look of "this is troublesome".
Letting the two girls at the door into the room, Ling Xingye took his mobile phone from the bedside, opened an email and showed it to Misaka Mikoto.
—It was sent by Misaka 10001.
In the email, Misaka 10001 said that both himself and Misaka 10002 are safe, so that the "master" doesn't have to worry.
In short, it is an email to report safety.
But more intelligence information is completely absent.
"Is everything safe?" Misaka Mikoto muttered, "Why didn't you tell me... Ah, my phone is broken!"
"But," the girl didn't relax because of this email, "they didn't come back after all, didn't they? And this email...is suspicious no matter how you look at it!"
After all, it's just an email, so it's too easy to fake it.
"No, don't worry about the two of them." Ling Xingye looked very relieved, "Look at the signature."
He pointed to the end of the content of the text - not the default fixed format of the email, but the signature entered by himself.
In addition to Misaka 10001, it is marked with a small red flower.
"?" Misaka Mikoto looked at him inexplicably.
"I can be sure," Ling Xingye shrugged, "The two of them are absolutely safe now, and may even be the safest time in their lives."
Then, Ling Xingye introduced and explained the existence of "flower".
Misaka Mikoto couldn't hide her surprise when she learned that there was another batch of clones. But before she had time to feel sympathy, she learned about the powerful strength of the "Flower Legion".
Not only Ling Xingye, but even Fang Accelerator were hunted down by them unilaterally!
"Is that so..." Misaka Mikoto still looked incredulous, "Although it's a bit subtle, it does make sense—that flower army will protect my sister and the others."
And extraordinarily reliable.
"Right." Ling Xingye shrugged.
Leaving aside the grievances between himself and the Hua Legion, from the perspective of protecting his sisters, the positions of both sides are the same. That's why Ling Xingye can rest assured of Misaka 10001's safety.
Of course, in fact, even if he was worried, there was nothing he could do.
While the two were exchanging information, Kanzaki Kaori had already returned to his kitchen and prepared breakfast.
—I'm sorry, but since the bodyguard's job can't be done properly, at least let me prepare breakfast.
Speaking of such subtle lines, Kanzaki Kaori invited Ling Xingye and Misaka Mikoto to have breakfast together.
After finishing her late breakfast, Misaka Mikoto decided to rush back to the dormitory before roll call in the morning.
"I'll take you there." Ling Xingye also changed into her school uniform, picked up her schoolbag and a new travel bag, "I happen to be going to school too."
The two walked side by side on the empty and silent street in the early morning.
"Misaka," Ling Xingye said suddenly, "What do you think of Accelerator? Do you hate him?"
"Huh? Why did you suddenly ask this?" Misaka Mikoto asked in surprise.
The face that had been blushing until just now quickly lost its color.
"Of course I will hate him!" A flash of lightning flashed in the girl's eyes, "But..."
Misaka Mikoto sighed: "Sure enough, I hate myself the most, right? I hate that I'm too weak, I can't beat Accelerator, I can't stop him personally, I can only rely on you, Xingye..."
As she said ~www..com~, she secretly glanced at the boys beside her.
But I saw Ling Xingye's serious and scary expression.
"If given the chance," Ling Xingye asked again, "would you kill Fang Accelerator and avenge your sisters?"
"This..." Misaka Mikoto also fell silent and did not respond for a long time.
Sudden mention of killing or something is a distant thing for her, and she hardly thinks about it seriously. But now, she suddenly discovered that this turned out to be a really possible scenario.
"Or..." Ling Xingye's voice came again, "Will you choose to forgive him?"
— Can a person who commits a "sin" really be forgiven?
Ling Xingye seemed to be talking to himself, and didn't expect to get an answer from the girl at all.
He looked up to the distant sky.
Beside her, Misaka Mikoto also lowered her head and fell into deep thought.