I am a freeloader in the anime world

"Oh, what a trouble! Couldn't that guy save me some trouble? He couldn't run away when he couldn't win? His body was blown to pieces and turned into a spirit. Should he learn his lesson this time?"

A middle-aged man in white Confucian robes, holding a knife, squatted in a corner at the Enoden terminal in Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture, shaking his head and sighing in silence.

"Speaking of which, how can I enter the hidden place of the gods? Do I have to become a spirit too? Forget it, I'd better find a spirit body."

After saying that, the man in Confucian clothes stood up from the corner and wandered aimlessly near the Enoden terminal. Suddenly, he looked into a convenience store on the roadside. At this moment, there was a young man selling bills in the convenience store.

"Fuck, a psychic?!"

............

"Hello, do you have any cabbage left?"

In a convenience store, a teenager put a bunch of things on the cashier counter and prepared to pay. Suddenly, he seemed to think of something and asked the clerk.

The boy, who was thinking about what to cook for dinner, didn't hear the waiter's reply. He thought the waiter didn't hear him, so he urged again: "Excuse me, do you have any more iceberg lettuce..."

The boy paused.

Because the convenience store clerk in front of him didn't react at all. It's not that he didn't hear him, but it's as if someone pressed the pause button and he kept preparing to answer.

At this moment, a chill ran up Sakuta Azusagawa's back like a cold winter wind. He suddenly turned his head and looked around. Outside the convenience store, the station, which was already sparsely populated, was even more silent, and there was no sound coming from the road outside the station.

However, Sakuta Azusagawa also knew that they could not make any sound at the moment, because as far as he could see, not to mention people and vehicles, even the birds flying in the sky seemed to have been paused in the air and could not move.

At this moment, an unspeakable fear filled Azusagawa Sakuta's brain. He tried hard to restrain himself from shouting, but his brain was shaking wildly.

Something was wrong. Everything around was absolutely wrong.

At this moment, Azusagawa Sakuta could only stand there like a statue.

until......

A slightly heavy footsteps came to his side.

"Moxi Moxi, can you hear me?"

A man's voice sounded beside me. His voice was like the melodious sound of a piano, clear and pleasant, making people intoxicated.

However, Azusagawa Sakuta didn't dare to look back at the moment, because he could easily understand that at this moment, in this strange environment, who else could act freely like a normal person except for him, a heretic? Or in other words, who could it be?

"Hello, can you hear me?"

"Hello, can you hear me?"

"3дpaвctвynte, вы mehr cлыwnte?"

"Bonjour, vous entendez?"

"Hallo, k?nnen Sie mich h?ren?"

Perhaps because there was no response in Sakura language, the male voice changed to Longguo language, with a very standard Longguo capital accent. However, when seeing that Azusagawa Sakuta still had no reaction, the male voice used standard Maoxiong language, Gaulish and Hansic.

At this moment, Sakuta, who had just mustered up the courage to look back, felt nervous again. He was nervous because the man standing next to him had a Tang sword in his hand. He paid almost no attention to the man's face and attire. He was attracted by the Tang sword's exquisite appearance, the unique patterns carved on the blade, and the dark blue blade that showed nobility and mystery.

At this moment, Azusagawa Sakuta was completely stunned because the blade was at his neck.

"I'd like to ask you for a favor." The man's voice, like the melodious sound of a piano, sounded again.

This is totally not the way to behave when asking someone for help!

Sakuta Azusagawa complained madly in his mind.

"We can't help it. Otherwise, if you see someone walking towards you with a knife, you will probably just run away." The man said.

"Eh?" Azusagawa Sakuta was stunned when he heard the man's words. How could he know the complaint that he hadn't said out loud? Could it be...

"Yes, it's just what you guessed." The man spoke again.

"I...I...can refuse..."

"Unfortunately, I can't. God knows how long I spent looking for you here before I found you," the man said.

"Looking for me?" Azusagawa Sakuta was puzzled.

"Well, it's better to say that I'm looking for a psychic than looking for you. But you're the only psychic around here right now, so it's not wrong to say that I'm looking for you," the man explained.

"Um..." Azusagawa Sakuta was silent for a moment, then he lowered his eyes slightly and glanced at the knife whose blade was already against his chin, "Um... can you put the knife away first?"

"No, at least not now." The man shrugged, and the knife in his hand moved. At this moment, Azusagawa Sakuta seemed to have felt the blade cut a hole in his neck. "I'm not worried about you escaping, but because I forcibly pulled you into the time-stopping area, once this knife can't touch you, you will directly enter the hidden place. In that case, not only will you be unable to help me, you may even be unable to return to the normal world."

"..."

"Okay, let me make it short. Do me a favor. I'll kick you out of the time-stop area later. You take this knife and go to the Hidden Land to find someone. Give him the knife, and then he will take you out of the Hidden Land." said the man.

"Then why don't you go and see him off?" asked Sakuta Azusagawa.

"There are two conditions for entering the hidden place of the gods. You must be either a spirit or a psychic body. There is no other way. And I am neither a spirit nor a psychic body, so I cannot enter."

"That......"

"Okay, don't worry. This won't hurt you in any way. As a reward for helping me, whether it's money, power, or something else, I can give it to you."

The man said this before Azusagawa Sakuta could ask any questions.

"Then can I ask you to help find someone?" asked Sakuta Azusagawa.

"Looking for someone? That's fine, but I suggest you find someone to help you, the owner of this knife."

"Eh?"

"I am not the owner of this knife."

"That......"

"Don't worry, as long as you take this knife to the hidden place and find its owner, he will definitely help you."

"Then what should I do?"

"Simple." After saying that, the man grabbed one of Azusagawa Sakuta's hands with one hand, and then put the handle of the knife in Azusagawa Sakuta's hand.

"Then how do I find the owner of the knife?" asked Sakuta Azusagawa.

"The knife will guide you." After saying that, a light curtain appeared beside the man, and the man walked in.

After the man left, time seemed to start moving. However, before Azusagawa Sakuta could react, he was surprised to find that the convenience store clerk who was still standing there had simply disappeared, as if he had never existed.