Seeing that Kurozawa had finished eating, Kana quickly sped up, but she accidentally choked and drank a large gulp of milk, her face bright red.
"No need to rush," Kurozawa said lightly.
Since they were in the same high school, Kana always wanted to go to school with him every morning.
After indicating that he would wait for her, Kurozawa took out his phone and clicked on some local news.
"Garden Road caught fire last night, Takeda Jiro encountered..."
Garden Road was where that house was located yesterday, not far from Kurozawa's home, about eight hundred meters in a straight line, but with many turns and corners. If you were to walk there, the path would be over a kilometer long.
Kurozawa scrolled down the news, one headline after another.
"Super popular idol Jinfan Ye exposed for long-term dating of underage girls, facing over ten years in prison."
"Osaka Observatory issues statement: Many doubts about last night's meteor shower..."
"Professor at a high school in Nagoya reported by multiple people for sexual harassment."
"..."
Kurozawa scrolled down for a long time, seeing only a pile of garbage news, and never finding what he wanted.
For example, a dismembered body murder case.
However, Kurozawa thought about it again. Perhaps the Parasyte Larva had just matured and was still learning to adapt to human society, and hadn't started hunting on a large scale yet.
Furthermore, even if someone was killed last night, if it was far away, the news wouldn't spread that quickly.
Although this was the case, Kurozawa guessed that within three days at most, death incidents would occur frequently all over the world, and all of them would be gruesome deaths.
"Brother, I'm done."
"Quick, quick, we're already late."
Kana was in a hurry, grabbing her schoolbag and urging Kurozawa to go to school together.
The place where they lived was not far from the school.
They mostly walked.
Kana walked with a hurried pace, gradually breaking into a trot. Kurozawa, on the other hand, appeared unhurried. He seemed to be moving slowly step by step, but he always stayed by Kana's side.
"It doesn't matter if we're late, there's no need to walk so fast."
Seeing Kana rushing because of some school rules and almost falling, Kurozawa couldn't help but frown and say.
In his opinion, these rules had basically no restraining power. Being a few minutes late and getting a few reprimands could just be heard with one ear and out the other.
Moreover, since they were already late, wouldn't it be better to just go a little later?
However, for students who hadn't left school yet, the school and teachers were indeed things they held in awe. Many students argued with their parents, but were timid and compliant in front of teachers, which was a strange but common phenomenon.
"I can't. My grades in the past few exams have dropped, and the teacher is keeping an eye on me."
"If I'm late again, he'll definitely make trouble for me."
Kana explained, and Kurozawa nodded noncommittally.
A few minutes later, the two arrived at an intersection.
After crossing the traffic light and turning right, they would reach their school in about three minutes.
While waiting for the traffic light, Kurozawa keenly noticed that a person with a bookish air but good-looking eyes and eyebrows was walking towards them from the other side. His expression was somewhat dazed, as if he was in a state of shock and unease.
Looking at the direction he was walking, he had just come out of school.
Kurozawa was slightly stunned, and the images in his memory flashed constantly. He quickly understood the identity of this person.
Shinichi Izumi, the protagonist of Parasyte.
Due to some accidents and his own resistance, the Parasyte Larva failed to invade Shinichi Izumi's brain and instead parasitized and matured in his right hand, with the two coexisting.
Seeing Shinichi Izumi getting closer, Kurozawa turned to look at Kana.
As expected, Kana was full of astonishment, staring at Shinichi Izumi, and then quickly turned her head to look at Kurozawa, back and forth several times, looking bewildered and uncertain.
Indeed, Kana's ability is actually to sense special non-human creatures...
I'm no longer a normal human, so she has had a sensory connection with me for a long time.
The current Shinichi Izumi has also been parasitized, right?
After knowing that he was in the Parasyte world last night, Kurozawa's memory became clear, and he also remembered the information about Kana.
In the original trajectory, because of that unique perception, Kana thought Shinichi Izumi was her destined one. As a result, she finally released her mental fluctuations with all her might, but it attracted the prying eyes of other Parasytes, and then she died.
"Brother, that person..." Kana's eyes widened, and she hesitated to speak, her mood a little complicated.
Because she could only sense Kurozawa alone, her feelings for Kurozawa had always been very strange, but now a complete stranger suddenly appeared, which made Kana very confused.
Could it be that Brother is not her destined one, and everything was just her own illusion? But she thought about it carefully and quickly suppressed the uneasy thought.
At first, she did have different ideas because of that unique perception, but to the current extent, regardless of whether she had that perception or not, Brother was the object of her admiration and would not change because of the appearance of others.
"Looks like he's from our school. Is he your friend?" Kurozawa said calmly.
Shinichi Izumi was wearing the same school uniform as Kurozawa and Kana, and he was walking in the direction of having just come out of school.
Kana realized her reaction had been a bit over the top and quickly added, "Yeah, probably. He looked like he left early, and he seemed a bit worn out. Maybe something happened."
She meant that as a fellow student, her reaction was purely out of concern.
Just then, a mother and daughter waiting at the same red light had a toy fall from the little girl's hand, who looked to be no more than four or five years old. It rolled into the middle of the road.
The little girl let go of her mother's hand and ran over with her short legs.
The girl's mother was looking at her phone while waiting for the light, so she didn't react as quickly. By the time she snapped back to attention, the little girl was already in the middle of the road, bending down to pick up her toy.
Honk! A sharp horn blast sounded. From the intersection on the other side, a car was speeding towards them. The driver had a horrified look on his face and slammed on the brakes, but it was too close; it was too late.
Kurozawa stood rooted to the spot, making no move.
Across the street, Shinichi Izumi yelled, "Watch out!"
As he shouted, he also lunged forward, pulling the little girl into his arms, his back to the rapidly approaching car, and squeezing his eyes shut.
His face was filled with panic and fear, but he did it without hesitation.
If nothing unexpected happened, he would be thrown back, and the little girl he was protecting would likely also be injured.
But at the same time, Shinichi Izumi's right hand suddenly shot out, aimed directly at the front of the car.
On his palm, layers of strong, wire-like muscles with bloody纹理 emerged, and his five fingers instantly took on a cold, hard metallic sheen, like an exoskeleton but more like metal, all displaying a cold gray metallic texture.
Bang! There was a loud crash.
His right hand collided head-on with the car. Shinichi Izumi didn't budge, but the car jolted violently, coming to a sudden stop. Black smoke billowed from the engine, and the front of the car was largely caved in.
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