‘Drip ring…’

????????

‘Drip ring ling…’

???????????????

“…”

(ー`??ー)

At night, on the bench in this brightly lit street park, a little girl was frowning and watching her cell phone keep shaking and making noise. She stared straight at the caller information displayed on the mobile phone interface, looking at the picture of "Shirai Kuroko is calling you...", and she didn't move. She didn't answer the phone, nor did she hang up on her own initiative. Even though many pedestrians and students passing by were casting strange eyes at her, even if those people looked at her with strange eyes, she didn't mind at all.

Because, she knew that only by letting the other party hang up on its own initiative or automatically hang up after the call time reaches the upper limit can the person who called her feel that she is not deliberately not answering the call, but is doing something else, which leads to not hearing the ringtone, or thinking that she has not brought her phone with her, so as to achieve the goal of not listening to some people's calls?

‘Bee~!’

Sure enough, after a while, when the little Annie, who was frowning and half-squinting, was a little impatient, the call display on the phone finally hung up by herself, and the call interface on her own phone returned to the standby screen, and another eye-catching reminder of the missed call was added.

"Ahhh!!"

??(????????????)????

"Tibers, look? I just said that as long as I am determined not to answer the phone, as long as I pretend to be without the phone or I haven't heard it, the dark sister will give up after calling two or three times at most!"

????(*???`*)?????

"She gave up now, and now she can finally enjoy our after-dinner dessert happily!!"

??*????(ˊ??ˋ*)???*??

After seeing the phone in his hand finally calmed down, little Annie cheered and threw the annoying phone into the chair beside her, then held the large cup of creamy popcorn that she had just bought and was ready to enjoy her own snack time beautifully.

Click!

"Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

(????????????????)

Click~!

“Ha~!!”

e=(???????*)))?? Very delicious...

Today, the school holiday was on, and she had only played with the young ladies all day in the morning and afternoon. Finally, she finally found an excuse to "escape" by herself and was able to wander outside until now, so she didn't want to go back to that dormitory so early!

Besides, it’s still early now, and it’s not too late to get the dormitory access control and entry and exit. So Annie is not in a hurry at the moment. She has time to slowly enjoy the big cup of sweet butter popcorn in her arms. It’s not too late to go back after eating them?

(Little master, don’t think about it. What if your Shirai Kuroko really has something very important and important to call you? You can’t answer the phone first? Anyway, it won’t waste much time answering the phone...

(●￣(??)￣●)

——Even Tibers couldn't stand the bad behavior of his own miserable little master who refused to answer other people's calls three times... After all, the Kuroko Shirai was so persistent in calling her three times in a row, there must be something slightly more important! But unfortunately, even though Tibers had just vaguely "remind" the other party, some guy who was only concerned about playing and waiting to enjoy snacks could listen to its advice?)

"I don't want it!!"

o(??^')o Humph!

After mercilessly rejecting the bear's suggestion, Annie continued to chew her delicious snacks "crack" and "crack".

Today, the school was on holiday for various reasons, and the labor punishments of the housekeeper's auntie on them were solved by her clever means once and for all. In addition, it was still early, so little Annie didn't think there would be any important things that needed to call to trouble herself before she went back!

In her opinion, it must be those two guys who were fined and confiscated from the scholarship pretending to have forgotten "accidentally" and asked them to bring some midnight snacks or snacks back to the other party. It would be like that super troublesome thing, so she would not be fooled again!

After all, although she herself didn't care about the small things that the other party never bought her things, Queen Anne was not a courier or a takeaway guy, so she didn't have time to bring food and use to the three guys in the dormitory every day!!

Not to mention that their abominable guys never give money, even if they don’t give money, it won’t work!

Because, she would not do things that are super meaningful to her, such as eating, drinking and having fun, so don’t think about using her anymore, even if the relationship is good, it’s a matter of principle and there is no room for compromise.

"Uh-huh……"

(????????)

"Unless they continue to call again, it proves that there is indeed something else important, otherwise I will not pay attention to their bad guys at this point!!"

??(?????????)??

However, Annie herself knew that the dark-spoken lady had called three times just now. According to the usual situation, the lack of patience would definitely not call again. If she calls again, there might be something important?!

????????

‘Drip ring ling…’

“!!”

!?(??''????)??

However, as soon as the little Annie whispered to her little bear stopped, she was soon shocked to find that the cell phone that originally thought would never ring again tonight was shaking and ringing beside her again?

“It’s so annoying…”

(lll￢w￢)

Unexpectedly, Little Annie, who had no idea what she thought of, had to stop the movements in her hand, and her little mouth, which had been chewing delicious popcorn, couldn't help but pout.

(…)

(●￣(??)￣●)

"Damn it, if nothing important..."

(ー`??ー)

After stopping the uninterrupted thing in his hand that made him feel happy physically and mentally, he found that his phone still had no intention of stopping. Little Annie had to put the big bucket of sweet snacks on the other side of her, and then impatiently picked up the broken phone with the original and ugly ringtones set, and brought the glowing screen to her.

In this situation, she probably doesn't want to answer it, but she has to answer it...

"Hi?"

Hello!~ o(*￣▽￣*)ブ

"Is it Miss Kuroko? Do you have anything important to you? If not, I will hang up, because I'm going back soon. I'm on the way back, and the phone doesn't seem to have much power..."

??(?????????)

After opening his eyes and talking lies, he glanced at the 90% battery display on the phone screen. After looking at the almost full-scale battery power of the phone that was enough for more than half a month to standby for more than half a month, even if it was used frequently, it would take several days to charge. Little Annie curled her lips a little boredly, and after pressing the speaker, she threw it on the knee of her short legs that was close together.

"Yeah oh..."

o(*???????*)o

"The signal here seems a bit bad... Sister Heizi, maybe we can talk about it after we go back, I really have to hang up the phone?!"

(???????▽??????)

Once again, Little Annie picked up her popcorn and said impatiently without waiting for the other party to talk.

This is actually not a lie, because compared to the communicators she used in Bear ShieldD and the communication devices she used in the Kopru Star Zone, the battery power behind this phone is indeed not too much, and there is a reason for her to say that.

Because, if it is something like bringing things, it is absolutely impossible! Of course, nothing else can do, so she won’t let those guys keep calling herself! She must firmly resist and correct those bad habits of those guys!

For example, next time I deliberately go out without a cell phone, I will just throw this thing in the dormitory?

‘Please wait!!’

‘Anne! That’s it, we want to know, now that guy, Indyx, is she with you?’

Unfortunately, before Annie could reach out and hung up the phone, the voice of Miss Kuroko Shirai, who had called several times before finally getting connected, suddenly came out of the speaker of her phone in a hurry.

“Eh?!”

(????_??`)?

"It seems that I'm not together...what happened? I remember she was fooling around with you four guys today?!"

o(*°▽°*)o?

Subconsciously, he turned around and looked around him and around him where people were suspected to be hiding. After finding that no terrible thing like a starving ghost suddenly ran over to compete for food with him, Little Annie let out a little breath and said with confidence.

If the young lady Indyx were by her side, the other party would have pounced over and wiped out the popcorn in her hand in a very short time. How could she have the opportunity to sit on the bench comfortably and comfortably like this, and slowly enjoy it with her two little feet swaying.

'ah?!'

'Are you sure she wasn't with you? It's over, it's bad now...'

‘Sister, Anne said that Indyx was not with her!!’

'What?'

‘Then where will she go?’

‘How could I know?!’

‘…’

Suddenly, a certain dark-spoken lady ignored Little Annie and began to talk anxiously with Senior Mikoto on the other end of the phone. Even Little Annie was affected by that nervous aura.

“!!”

’(°〼°〃)

"Hey? What's wrong, Sister Kuroko? What's the situation? Is there something amazing happening to Miss Indyx?!"

(????w??`)??

Listening to the other party's voice and urgent tone that came out of the speaker of the phone, it seemed that something was wrong. Little Annie frowned and thought for a while, her heart skipped a beat. Finally, she resisted the impatientness at the beginning in her heart, and instead asked in confusion.

Because she heard it, it seemed that something happened to the Indyx again? Could it be that the other party broke out of the small universe and razed the school dormitory to the ground? But logically speaking, that kind of thing should not happen again, because Anne is very sure that she had stabbed the other party's ban that could hurt life and memory and would explode the small universe and break it, and it was still painless! So, she said she was really curious about the reaction of a shady lady on the other end of the phone.

‘Anne!’

‘In the afternoon, the five of us walked around for a while before going back to change our clothes… Then, Indyx said she had nothing to eat with us, so she ran to find you…’

"oh……"

(lll￢w￢)

I knew it would be like this. Obviously, the hateful guy who claimed to be proud of having memorized forty-three thousand magic books seemed to have regarded her Queen Anne as a free meal ticket.

'Then……'

‘We just went to your dormitory and didn’t see her coming back until now. There was no one in your dormitory. She didn’t see her coming back for dinner…’

‘…’

‘I called you several times but you didn’t answer. We thought she was with you!!’

‘Now, maybe she was really caught by the red-haired 'porn thief' magician, maybe she was suffering from some inhuman torture!!’

‘Hey?hey?!’

‘Annie, are you still listening now? Hello?!’

After finally explaining the matter clearly, the anxious voice of the young lady in the mobile phone speaker started to yell loudly again. The sound also made many passers-by again cast that curious look at a little girl from the "girl" of Changpan Taichung School who was so late and didn't return to school.

'Hello?!'

‘Annie? Are you listening?!’

Obviously, a Taotie who had three meals a day was very punctual, suddenly disappeared, which made Kuroko Shirai very nervous and involuntarily worried that the other party had encountered some unfortunate things.

"I'm listening..."

(lll￢w￢)

In fact, just after the dark-spoken lady said that a greedy guy disappeared, little Annie immediately used her spiritual sense to quickly scan the school city and accurately found the whereabouts of Indyx!

However, she didn't explain to Miss Heizi...

Because, that little sister Indyx was indeed captured, but she was not the red-haired magician, but someone else! However, she is just an lv5 flame control superpower now. She doesn't want anyone to know that she has power beyond the lv5 flame control ability, so she didn't tell the other party that much.

However, it would be impossible for Miss Index to "find" her back quickly. She is now thinking about a solution urgently, wanting to come up with a good way to think of a good way to achieve the best of both worlds without being too prominent and being able to perfectly complete her behavior?

‘Damn it! You guy, please be a little serious about this kind of thing!’

‘Ah! Sister, don’t rob it…’

‘…’

‘Hey? Anne?’

"Yes! Senior Sister Mikoto, I'm listening. What do you want to do?"

(,,???????,,)

After hearing the other end of the phone for a while, then Miss Shirai Kuroko's voice turned into another person, Xiao Annie didn't need to think too much about who was snatching the phone and talking to herself.

‘!!’

'Just listen, I want to ask: Do you know what places Indyx would go to or where she would often go?'

‘If you know, go and search quickly! It’s getting late now, you must hurry up! Also, don’t answer our calls!’

‘By the way!’

‘The housekeeper will come to check the bed soon. Heizi and I will go to your dormitory to help you with some disguise. If you really can’t find it, remember to call us. I will use the space movement ability with Heizi to sneak out to help you!!’

‘Hey! Sister…’

‘Don’t rob!’

‘Hey? Annie, do you understand what you said just now?!’

A guy like a Taotie suddenly disappeared and didn't come back to have a meal. That kind of thing must be very abnormal for Shirai Kuroko and Misaka Mikoto! What's more, there was a big fight just yesterday, and they all knew that someone wanted to be unfavorable to the other party?

So, just after seeing off the two men, Shuri and Satori, they kept calling and opened Annie's cell phone for a long time, and finally confirmed something that might be bad for them.

"Uh-huh……"

????(?????????????)?????????????????

"Okay, I understand, I'll go now! Yes... Then I'll hang up first?!"

Beep~!??(°〼°〃)

So long-winded!!

As soon as he reached out and did not give the other party a chance to continue to slap, he directly pressed the red button to end the fairy tale on the mobile phone screen. After only one hand, Little Annie stuffed the annoying phone into her pocket, and then began to pick up her big cup of paper-tube popcorn like a small bucket and began to eat it one by one with relish.

(…)

(●￣(??)￣●)

(Great little master, you just scanned it with your spiritual sense. Wasn’t that Indyx taken away by the bad guy? Why, you are not worried at all now and are in the mood to eat here?!

(????????????)

——Titbos said that he was confused about the behavior of a little miserable owner who was still in a state of calm and eating popcorn grains and swaying his legs proudly, and he seemed to be in a hurry to save people.)

"Shut up! Tibers!!"

(??╭╮??)

"They aren't eating now!"

(￣～￣) Chew!

"This is to turn grief and anger into appetite, and try to supplement the brain with nutrition, so that we can think of a good idea!!"

e=(???????*)))?? Very delicious...

"And, think about it, Miss Kuroko and Mikoto have just called to talk about Miss Indyx's disappearance, and then they called directly to the door, and they even found and rescued the greedy guy from the evil devil's hands...will that kind of thing be accidentally known to others?!"

s(??'ヘ????;)ゞ

"So!"

"I am now thinking of a better way, not only to be able to rescue Miss Indyx in time, but also to try not to attract other people's attention and not let others think too much..."

(??????????-)??

Yes, if Little Annie came to the door now, that would seem a little abrupt... It would be easy for some guys who have been secretly monitoring and paying attention to her every move. Therefore, she had to think of a good way not to make people feel so strange, and she had to make her behavior logical.

(Really, so troublesome... Then when will you think of a good idea? You heard it just now. It's getting late. If you wait any longer, you'll be waiting for punishment tomorrow.

??????~???????????

——If it were Tebers himself, who would dare to touch his own person, he would have called him to the door long ago! Then, he would directly twist off the other party's head and eat it in one bite, and then he would be as concerned as he is now?

Sure enough, being a human being is really too difficult, and being a bear is easier... In short, it doesn't have to think about anything. If it weren't for the little master, it could do whatever it wanted, bite whoever he wanted, and eat whoever he wanted!!)

"I didn't think about it..."

(ー`??ー)

"Anyway, the popcorn hasn't been finished yet, so let me think about it slowly..."

(,,?????????????,,)

Little Annie said that she is now trying hard to think and try to scan the city with her spiritual sense, and is building a reasonable plan in her mind...

In short, thinking about that kind of thing is very sugar and energy-consuming, but she feels that when her popcorn is eaten, she will definitely be able to think of a better, logically reasonable way!

so,

Now she just needs to work hard to finish this big bucket of sweet and delicious popcorn! After eating and drinking, she can pat her belly and set off!

As for the matter of Indyx...

That doesn't matter, because, the bad guy who captured Indyx has not made any dangerous moves until now, and it seems that he has not done such strange things to a greedy guy, so she is not in a hurry at all~!

(…)

(lll￢??￢)

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“…”

"call!!"

Looking at the four high-rise buildings connected together under the night in the distance, Stir Magnus, who was holding a cigarette in his mouth, couldn't help but sigh softly.

Today, he had to meet a guy who had not met for more than three years, and he didn't know what the ending would be... But he had to go, because he had a entrusted task, and the person he attached the most and vowed to protect was inside! Although he also knew that the guy inside should not do such a dangerous thing, he was still a little worried after all!

Besides...

"Tsk!!"

"It's getting late now. Didn't that guy from Shenli say he wanted to bring the person who could deal with magic that the client said? Why has it been so far and hasn't come yet?!"

Looking at the sky and the trajectory of the moon in the sky, Steel, who knew it was getting late, muttered impatiently and directly spit the cigarette on his mouth that was about to burn to the filter to the ground.

"Hello!"

(??_??)

"It's wrong for a bad guy with red hair and earrings to spit out cigarette butts everywhere, and smoking in public places!!"

(????????????????)

Suddenly, at this moment, the extremely familiar and cute voice of a little girl rang behind Steele, which really scared him!!

“?!”

"You! It's you?!"

I found that the person I was waiting for did not come. What I was waiting for was a powerful lv5 flame control superpower whom I would never want to see again for the second time. After seeing the little guy wearing this Changpan Taichung school uniform was turning out pretty under the street light behind him and blinking at him mischievously, Steel was so shocked that he took several steps back.

Yesterday, although he and Shenli ran away shamefully at a critical moment, he saw clearly that the terrible magic power burst out for some reason, the guy who made them unable to join forces, was defeated and turned back in front of him!

So, if he can, he really doesn't want to be entangled by the other party tonight when he has an important task.

"ha!"

|??˙??˙)!!

"Are you afraid of me?"

(????w?????)

As soon as she turned out from behind the street lights, she found that the guy had a vague idea of ​​running away, and little Annie couldn't help but feel a little proud.

“…”

Steele didn't say anything. He only gritted his teeth after hearing the little girl's words and mocking look at him, and stood calmly without moving. He did not continue to retreat, and temporarily extinguished the idea of ​​running away.

"Hello!!"

(???????▽??????)

"Black uncle, my Indyx was captured by a bad guy. I felt that she was nearby, and you were here terrified... So, tell me quickly, did you capture her?!"

s (????vev???)ゞ

Anne knew that it was not the other party who captured Indyx, but since the other party is here now, since the other party looks nervous, then what he said is not said. The other party must know something, and she must have to tease the other party first, and then, even if she pretends to ask the other party about the situation!

“Um…”

"No! I didn't do it, I didn't capture Indyce..."

Frowning, Steele thought for a while, and finally looked at the little girl with her innocent and calm eyes with the dangerous lv5 flame control superpower, and expressed her innocence in her body language.

"no?"

(ー`??ー)

"If it weren't for the bad thing you did, and if you took Indyce away, what would you want to do here?!"

s(??'ヘ????;)ゞ

When he found out that the other party knew that the Indyx was caught, he thought that things had become more fun, he simply did not rush to find someone in the four tall buildings. Instead, he planned to examine the guy in front of him who looked like a good person.

"Oh……"

"Indyx should be in the 'Sanze School' over there now... But, little girl, I don't understand how you found me, and then I felt that Indyx was nearby?!"

Yes, this is the most curious thing about Steele now!

You know, if he hadn't happened to take on a mission and needed to come to Sanze School to investigate, and if he and the Divine Rift were staring at Indyx, it would have been easy for them to find this place! Therefore, he was very curious about the little girl in front of him, about the little girl who could successfully find the supernatural powers here, even though he could not have magic or magic tracking.

"It's very simple!"

(???????▽??????)

"Because, I can easily find you based on the remaining flames on your body if you have fought with me or burned by me with flames!"

<(￣︶￣)↗Yeah!

Yes, even without using his own spiritual sense to scan, Little Anne only found the bad guy magician and the greedy Index in front of her with her flame control ability!

(…)

(●￣(??)￣●)

"snort!"

"So that's what it is..."

Nodding, Steele expressed his understanding of this statement...

After all, as far as he knows, those who are capable of lv4 or lv5 have the same power as magic. Therefore, it is not too difficult to accept that the little girl playing with fire in front of him will find people based on the residual aura of the flame, because it seems to be the same as the way he uses the magic aura of the "mobile church" on Indyx to track it?

"Hello!"

(??╭╮??)

"You haven't said yet, what bad things do you want to do here? Are you with the bad guys who captured Indyx? Let's be honest, otherwise I'll set you on fire!!"

??(??????~???)╭??

“…”

"I got a commission and needed to come here to investigate the situation of the 'Sanze School'..."

After thinking about it, Steel remembered what he saw and heard in the building full of pipes and circuits without windows, and finally briefly explained the reason why he appeared here.

If he hadn't had to wait here for the arrival of Divine Rift with a guy who was said to be helpful to their actions tonight, he would have run away with the rune magic of "mirage". How could he say so much to the little girl playing with fire in front of him?

“…”

(lll￢w￢)

"But I think it's probably you did it!!"

??(?????????????)??

Even though he knew that the other party seemed to have nothing to do with the arrest of Indyx, he still asked pretending to be aware of the little Anne, who found that someone was watching here.

After all, some rules of the game must be followed. Since others have not made things difficult for themselves, have not exposed their identity and allowed themselves to continue playing in this city, then Queen Anne must follow the tacit understanding between them. She treats herself as if she doesn't know anything, but as if she is an lv5 flame superpower, and continues to let some guys keep staring at her?

"Indyx is inside..."

"After a moment, you can go in with us after one of our helpers arrives. At that time, I think you will definitely know that we have nothing to do with the arrest of Indyce."

Steele didn't explain much, but pointed to the four connected buildings in the original place and said to the place where Sanze School was.

“Huh?!”

∑(??△)?!

"Does it really have nothing to do with you?!"

(ー`??ー)

"It's really not..."

Sighing in his heart, Steele, who felt that the other party might be unreasonable, felt that it seemed that he should change his place, although doing so would make the things he had agreed with the God Split trouble...

But he didn't know if the little girl in front of him was really as the other party said. As long as she had fought or was burned, as long as she was contaminated with the other party's flame aura, she would easily be found by the other party?

“…”

??(??????~???)o

"Forget it! If you didn't do it, it's not right. I'm going to go in and save Indyce, so I don't have to be with you!!"

o('^??)o Humph!

After saying that, little Annie finally stopped making things difficult for the bad guy red-haired mage in front of her, but instead stepped on her short legs, carried her own bear Tibers, and walked towards the one-piece building in the distance.

“!!”

"Wait! There is a magic barrier there, and it won't work if you go in directly like this!!"

Originally, Stile did not intend to get involved with the little girl who was playing with fire, but, thinking about the uncertainty of the task tonight, thinking about the other party has come here, thinking about the fact that they have all found another supernatural student to help, now, it seems that it is not impossible to add a powerful little girl?

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Chapter completed!