Magic world

"Okay, Index, stop making trouble, let her go back quickly so we can have some ice." Seeing that everyone around him was attracted by Index's voice, Ito Cheng had no choice but to stop him.

"No, I must find out the origin of this guy." Index said loudly and reluctantly.

At this moment, Ito Cheng suddenly felt that something was wrong with the surrounding atmosphere, and immediately turned around and looked behind him. In an instant, twenty or thirty young men of varying heights, but all around twenty-seven or eight years old, wearing black suits, sunglasses, and expressionless faces appeared in the aisle of the store, faintly looking at each other. Ito Cheng, Himegami Akisa and Index surrounded them.

"Is it the effect of magic again... I can't even detect it until I'm so close." Ito Cheng thought, squinting his eyes slightly.

Although he knew where these guys were coming from, Ito Cheng slowly retreated to Index, protecting Index behind him.

"It's just a hundred yuan difference." Himegami Qiusha turned to look at the people in black and said.

Hearing this, one of the men in black didn't say anything, and took out a hundred-yuan coin from his pocket and put it into Himegami Qiusha's hand.

"I'll take my leave first." Himegami Akisa, who held the coin in his hand, stood up and saluted Ito and Index, then gradually disappeared into the fast food restaurant in the passage where the people in black spontaneously gave way. .

"Okay, the smoothie is almost melting. Eat it quickly." Ito Shige, who watched all the men in black leave, put away his hundred-yuan coin on the table, squatted down and sat down where Himegami Akisa was sitting. . He said to Index who was still angry.

"Hmph." Index snorted upon hearing this, but sat down again as he was told, turned his anger into motivation, picked up the spoon and ate it. And in order to completely calm down his anger, Index finished the portion in his hand and ordered two consecutive portions of the same ice cream before it was over.

"It seems that there is no need to cook tonight." Ito Cheng looked at Index and smiled.

"Don't think about being lazy. In order to appease my inner dissatisfaction, I will have a big meal tonight." Index said, staring at Ito Cheng fiercely.

"Yes, yes." Ito Cheng said perfunctorily with an indifferent expression.

Then Ito Shigeyue paid the bill and left the fast food restaurant with Index holding a popsicle in his hand. While talking and laughing with her endlessly. While rushing back to his dormitory. At this time, it was already past five o'clock in the afternoon, and the sky was gradually getting dark.

At this time, Index, who had always been noisy, suddenly became quiet as if he had discovered something. And stopped moving.

"What's wrong?" Ito Cheng saw this. He asked with some confusion on his face.

"...It's so strange. Ah Cheng, I feel that the flow of magic power around here is concentrated!" Index muttered to himself as he looked at Ito Cheng.

"...The attribute is earth, and the color is green. This ritual is...using the earth as a medium to channel magic power, and relying on the intervention of consciousness..." Index murmured to herself with divergent eyes what she was thinking about at this time. thing.

"Has the gold from Misawa School been forged into a great barrier..." Ito Cheng, who somewhat understood what Index had discovered, turned to look at the twin-spire building not far away - Misawa School, and thought to himself.

"But the gold-refining technique is worth buying. Whatever you want in your heart can be turned into reality...it has the charm of realizing the fantasy of the moon world."

"...Rune." At this time, Index's eyes sharpened, and he rushed out to the edge of the road, into the alley between the buildings.

"Really." Ito Cheng muttered upon seeing this, and quickly took steps to catch up with Index's back.

In this way, Index took the lead and Ito acted as the tail. The two of them moved forward along the weird route one after the other. Only when he was halfway there, Index was attracted by a small yellow and white tabby cat, and he completely put aside the things he wanted to investigate before.

"Ah Cheng, let's raise it." Index, who held the cat in his arms, turned to look at Ito Cheng and said with a pitiful look.

"It's okay to raise it. The key is who will take care of it? It usually bathes, feeds, plays and so on." Ito Cheng looked at the kitten and shrugged.

"I'll do it, I'll do it," Index said loudly without hesitation.

"Are you sure you can take care of it?" Ito Cheng looked at Index with doubt.

"What do you mean?" Index, who saw Ito Cheng's expression in his eyes, stared at Ito Cheng with an unhappy expression and said.

"You have to know that you usually need me to take care of you. Taking care of the cat is really beyond my imagination. Don't blame me again in the end." Ito Cheng curled his lips and said.

"Ah Cheng!" Index shouted as he stared at Ito Cheng with an increasingly ugly face.

Seeing Index's expression, Ito Cheng, who knew that he would definitely be bitten if he didn't handle it well, quickly straightened his expression, nodded seriously and said, "But I believe you can take good care of Index, okay, let's Just take it back with you.”

"Yes." After hearing this, Index's expression changed and he nodded happily. Then he grabbed the cat with both hands, raised it in front of him, and announced, "From now on, your name will be Sphinx."

"Well... this name is really weird." Ito Cheng muttered in a low voice.

"What did you say?" Index said, glaring at Ito Cheng fiercely again.

"Okay, okay, let's go back quickly." Ito Cheng turned his head and glanced at Misawa School not far away again, changed the subject and said, "Then we can clean the Sphinx."

Sure enough, Index was immediately diverted and followed Ito Cheng back to the dormitory.

After returning to the dormitory, Index took the kitten Sphinx into the bathroom and used the shower head to clean it. Ito Cheng walked into the kitchen and started preparing dinner for Index.

Afterwards, Ito Cheng had dinner with Index, and when Index turned his attention to the Sphinx, he said hello to her, left the dormitory and walked towards Misawa School.

"I hope Touma and Steele haven't come here yet, otherwise I won't have many opportunities." Ito Cheng said softly to himself while standing outside the Misawa Junior High School building, looking up at the roof.

Then he withdrew his gaze and walked towards the interior of Misawa School.

"Because I didn't have Touma's help, and I'm not a magician myself, so I didn't enter the inner level." Walking into Misawa Private School, Ito Cheng frowned slightly when he found that he could contact the tutoring students in Misawa Private School. The secret passage.

However, Ito was well prepared for this. He walked out of the Misawa School again, used his mental power to activate the golden barrier wrapped around the Misawa School, and then walked into the Misawa School building again. This time, Itogo, who once again tried to contact the students who stayed in the building, was not discovered by them.

Seeing this, Ito Cheng did not hesitate and walked towards the abnormal point in his mental perception. (To be continued...)