"What! I... I..."
After Shiraishi Shin spoke, Tomoya Aki also realized that his consciousness was gradually fading. This was the feeling of dying.
"Please save me, I, I don't want to die... die..."
After saying these words, Tomoya Aki's head slumped, and he completely lost his breath.
"He's dead?"
Megumi Kato, nervous and scared, covered her mouth and retreated behind Shiraishi Shin.
Her face was pale, and she felt a bit nauseous. It was her first time seeing such a bloody, cruel scene and a dead person up close. For an ordinary girl, the impact was still very significant.
"Don't look at him, let's get out of here."
After Shiraishi Shin dispelled his Henshin, he pulled the uncomfortable Megumi Kato and jogged away from the place. Not long after they left, the Extermination Squad arrived.
"The Amazon is dead?"
"From the target's reaction to our arrival, an A-rank Amazon died in such a short time. What happened?"
"Could it be Kamen Rider? Haven't the Kamen Rider incidents been causing a stir online recently?"
"Possibly, otherwise a top-level A-rank Amazon shouldn't have been taken down in such a short time. This is great, if we had come, we don't know how hard it would have been. Now we can pick up an A-rank Amazon's armlet for free."
"But this victim, he looks like a student, so young."
"What a pity, but the logistics personnel will handle it. Let's go."
The members of the Extermination Squad were all beaming with joy. After all, getting an A-rank Amazon's armlet for free meant that the higher the rank of the Amazon they hunted, the richer the reward. Of course, the relative risk was also the highest, so why wouldn't they be happy to get it for free now?
..."Here, drink some water to calm yourself down."
After leaving the slope, Shiraishi Shin bought a bottle of water for Megumi Kato from a nearby vending machine.
"Thank you."
Megumi Kato took it, thanked him, opened it, and gulped down a few mouthfuls. Her stomach felt better. She took a deep breath and said, "Phew... Is that a Monster? It eats people, how terrifying. Student Aki really died."
Thinking about it now, if that gust of wind hadn't blown her hat away, she might have been in that position, and perhaps she would have been the one attacked by the Monster. If that happened to her, she didn't know how terrifying it would be.
Seeing her trembling slightly in fear, Shiraishi Shin reached out and placed his hand on Megumi Kato's shoulder. He said, "Don't be afraid, that Monster has already been killed by me. If you can't stop thinking about it, then don't think about it, but think about me, because that Monster only gets instantly killed in front of me."
Feeling the powerful hand on her shoulder, as if warmth flowed into her heart, and those words, indeed greatly reduced the fear in Megumi Kato's heart.
"You're right."
Yes, that Monster seemed scary, but once she thought about how Shiraishi Shin, after his Henshin into Kamen Rider Cronus, instantly killed it, it wasn't so scary anymore.
However, in her impression, didn't protagonists and villains always fight with the protagonist being suppressed and at a disadvantage, only to turn the tide later? What she saw now, whether a few days ago at school or just now, was the righteous Kamen Rider easily defeating the villainous Monster. This was very different from the movies and TV shows Megumi Kato had watched.
"That person just now, do you know him?"
Shiraishi Shin had just heard Megumi Kato say Tomoya Aki's name. He vaguely remembered that in the story, the two met for the first time on a slope, but now his own role seemed to have been forcibly added, and Tomoya Aki was tragically murdered, which was truly miserable and sorrowful.
Megumi Kato nodded, "He's a classmate in my class, but we've never spoken a word because my presence is low due to personal reasons."
So she began to talk about her problem with low presence, a problem that had plagued her since childhood, causing her to not have a single friend even at nineteen.
Shiraishi Shin knew about Megumi Kato's 'background character' physique. He said, "I didn't expect you, Kato, to have such a problem. If you don't speak up, it's not much different from being invisible. But it doesn't matter, I'm not an ordinary person; I won't forget your appearance or you as a person the moment I turn around. So, how about I become your first friend? What do you think?"
Megumi Kato looked at Shiraishi Shin's exceptionally handsome face, and when their eyes met, she shyly lowered her head, then took out her phone and said, "Then, can we add each other's contact information?"
Shiraishi Shin also took out his phone and agreed, "Of course, if you're bored and want to chat with me in the future, you can contact me anytime."
"That's great, now I have friends besides my family."
Megumi Kato looked at the first friend she had added in the chat app, besides her parents and family, her heart was excited, and a smile unconsciously appeared on her lips... After returning home, Shiraishi Shin took a hot shower, put on his school uniform, and at the appointed time, contacted Shiina Mahiru, then grabbed his prepared travel bag and walked out of his house.
This bag contained ordinary daily necessities, a change of underwear, and some small snacks.
Opening his door, Shiina-san also walked out at the same time from next door. After she closed her door, Shiraishi Shin stepped forward and proactively picked up the bag in Shiina-san's hand. He said, "Mahiru, let's go."
"Okay."
The two walked to school together. At this moment, the school playground was filled with students, each carrying their bags according to their class. Soon, school buses would take them to the Summer Camp location.
Seirei Academy has 6 classes per grade, with over thirty students per class. Taking an average of thirty-five students, that's two hundred and ten people per grade, and roughly 630 people in the entire school.
A school with over six hundred students is quite a lot, as most schools generally only have two or three hundred people. Only higher-ranked, more advanced schools have more students.
However, this Summer Camp is only for first and second-year students, not third-year, totaling 420 people. Each class will have one bus, making a total of twelve buses.
Shiraishi Shin and Shiina Mahiru arrived at their class's designated area. When the classmates saw Shiraishi Shin, they all greeted him, showing his popularity in the class. Similarly, many girls also went to talk to Shiina-san.
"Oh, Shin, why do you have two travel bags in your hand? Could the other one be Shiina-san's?"
Tabata Hidenori walked over, his tone gossipy. Although Shiraishi Shin had touched Shiina-san's head before, and the two had since confessed their feelings and become boyfriend and girlfriend, they hadn't announced it.
So the classmates only speculated in their hearts and didn't truly believe they were boyfriend and girlfriend, at most, it was a level beyond friendship but not quite love. Also, since no one had asked, how awkward would it be for Shiraishi Shin to openly declare it without being asked?
Shiraishi Shin admitted, "Indeed, it's Mahiru's."
"I've noticed your interactions have been much more intimate than usual these past two days." Tabata Hidenori stroked his chin, then exclaimed in surprise, "Have you and Shiina-san started dating?"