Chapter 39: Tio Prato
"Woo puff..."
Ryan only had time to raise his injured left arm slightly, and immediately felt a little internally injured by the hard touch from his chest.
‘Breast…breast plate?’
Ryan looked at the big loli who was throwing into his arms with a confused look on his face. Needless to say, even the other five people, including Wen Caier, stared at the two people hugging each other with surprise or gossip.
The big loli, who launched the sudden attack, had beautiful long, water-blue hair, and was tied into two ponytails on both sides of her head by two strange cat ear-shaped hair accessories.
Two lines of clear tears were shed from the cold and expressionless little face. The amber eyes that were similar to Ling were looking at Ryan with a close eye, as if he wanted to ask him with his eyes whether he still remembered himself.
It was a bit uncomfortable with a raised metal breastplate on Big Loli's chest. Ryan stretched out his right hand and gently pushed her away, and raised his hanging left hand to Big Loli like a signal.
"That... are you Teo? I didn't expect to have grown up so big. Sorry, my left hand is injured now and I can't play with you as I did before."
Teo Prato, a...survival experimental subject rescued by Ryan in the D.G sect incident that year.
The D.G Cult is quite large in scale. After all, it is a large cult organization that has been around for hundreds of years. This organizational base with the doctrine of denying the goddess of empty space is spread throughout the Sisemlia continent.
The stronghold that Ryan had invaded with Selgeban and Master Yun was one of the strongholds located outside the suburbs of Altaire, the border city of the Republic. When they entered the stronghold, there were corpses of children who had failed experiments.
Tio was the only survivor found during Ryan's crazy search. When she finally found her, Tio, who had undergone countless inhumane experiments at the age of 8, had already become extremely thin.
His ungod eyes and face without any emotional changes once made Ryan think that the child had been mentally broken and completely helpless.
Fortunately, the stronghold was destroyed and Teo was sent to the Principality of Remifilia, which had developed medical technology for treatment for a period of time. The child finally gradually recovered his feelings. Although the changes in his expression were still very subtle, he was finally able to return to his normal life.
Through the information shared by all forces in the coordinated combat at that time, Ryan and Yun finally found out that Teo's hometown in the Principality of Remifilia and sent the poor tortured child home.
Seeing the parents who hugged Teo and cried with their own eyes welcomed their three-year-old daughter into the house, Ryan and Yun finally set off on the journey of traveling to the mainland with confidence.
After understanding later, Ryan realized that the stronghold he had entered was relatively acceptable.
Other strongholds of the D·G sect even offer children as living sacrifices to so-called demons, or train young girls into young (harmonious) chickens to win over high-ranking officials from all over the world.
Fortunately, under the command of Senior Brother Cassius, all forces united and destroyed the strongholds of the D.G Cult Group in various parts of the mainland. This cult organization that has lasted for hundreds of years has completely become history.
It was precisely because of this great achievement that Cassius Bright was promoted to S-Class Guerrillas, but after Liber's change he quit his job as the Guerrilla Association and returned to the Kingdom Army, and the four S-Class Guerrillas were reborn as three.
Ryan rubbed Tio's water-blue hair as before. As the big loli squinted her eyes comfortably, she asked in confusion, "Teo, why are you in Closebell? And your equipment is..."
Not to mention the blue and black shawl and lining on Tio's chest that made Lane hurt and the whole body tone that was similar to the color of the whole body. When Lane touched the two hair accessories on Tio's head, she keenly felt the flow of conductive energy.
Teo also carried a weapon similar to a staff behind her, but the structure made of metal made Ryan instinctively refuse to believe that this thing was a staff...
Teo reached out to wipe away the tears from the corners of his eyes, took a step back and pulled up the corner of his skirt and turned around for Ryan to observe his outfit.
Only then did Ryan notice the black short skirt that Tio was wearing and... the black tights with inexplicably open crotch on the inner side of her thighs.
‘I always feel a little subtle, which gentleman designed this outfit…’
Tio's face still maintained a faint joy after meeting Ryan, and she briefly explained her situation.
"I am currently working in the Epstein Consortium and sent to Close Bell to serve as a guide network and guide rod tester. I didn't expect to see your report in Close Bell Times."
"Forehead……"
Ryan originally wanted to continue asking why Teo left home to work at the age of 14, but when he heard the Closebell Times magazine, he twitched hard, "Sure enough, was it still reported in the end..."
Because of his identity, Ryan himself is more reluctant to go to newspapers for photos, because it will increase the possibility that his true identity will be exposed to the public.
But this time the Mainz incident was so big that he, the biggest contributor on the surface, could not avoid it no matter what.
Fortunately, he had a conversation with Grace, the reporter in charge of the interview, and at least he agreed that the photos published in the newspaper could only be taken in the side.
Tio showed a faint smile that was hard to observe. If it weren't for spending time together day and night, even Ryan wouldn't have seen this big loli laughing.
She took out the guide rod behind her back and put it in front of Ryan and said, "Although it's just the side, I recognized you at a glance, and... This is the guide rod I want to test. As long as this project progresses smoothly, the subsequent R&D plan will be put on the agenda soon."
"Well..." Ryan touched his chin and looked at the metal staff on Teo's hand, and said with a subtle expression. "Sure enough, something like the guiding staff has appeared in line with the times, but the metal structure always feels a bit inconsistent."
"Ignore?"
Tio tilted his head cutely. "This metal is the most suitable material for conducting magic. Equipping the guide rod can increase my spell power by at least 30%, and it can directly emit a portable, attributeless magic attack through the guide rod."
"Swoosh!"
As he said that, Tio gently waved the guide rod to the open space next to him, and several magic balls made of pure magic power were emitted from the top of the guide rod.
The magic ball suddenly disappeared when it was about seven sub-distance away from the guide rod, probably because the range was only so far.
Aolia, who had been dragged by Lin behind Ryan, finally took advantage of Lin's distracting attention and broke free from his partner's clamp while being guided. Her eyes shone brightly in front of Tio and asked excitedly, "Little sister! Can I hug my elder sister? Just do it?"
When Teo saw the fanatical expression on Aiolia's face, he couldn't help but shivered, hid behind Ryan "swoosh", stretched out his little head and looked as if he was observing in secret.
This cute expression like a frightened kitten made Aiolia even more unable to control herself. Fortunately, Lin caught up from behind and grabbed her again.
"Sorry, little sister."
Lin tried hard to control Aiolia who was struggling hard, and apologized to Teo, who was on guard, saying, "This idiot has no malice. She just has no resistance to the cute existence. Otherwise, you give up struggling and let her hug her."
"Please forgive me for rejecting it with all my might!"
Tio said firmly, and at the same time, he looked nervously at Aolia who was laughing "guhehe" "I always feel that I will lose something important after being hugged by her."
Ryan looked speechlessly at Aiolia, whose character was completely broken. He didn't know that this gentle elder sister with a doctor's certificate and her side as if she was a fool.
"Why……"
Chapter completed!