[Spell Return] Beast of Despair

68.

—July 2018, Tokyo, Tengen Building—

The rain stopped when we got out of the car.

The one who opened the umbrella was a little embarrassed.She suddenly felt as if she had done something meaningless—that is, she opened the umbrella while pushing the car door open.

It seems a little too embarrassing to just put away the umbrella in such a resentful way.She simply walked into the building holding an umbrella, at least this way the embarrassment could be alleviated a little.

Earlier, I asked Yidizhi to reserve the right to use the archives room. Now she only needs to show her ID to enter the building.

This black high-rise building looks like an ordinary office building on the surface, but in fact it is one of the centers for dealing with spell affairs, and it is also the place where the group of pedantic old men from Shangfeng often stay.Perhaps in order to accommodate their obedience to conventions, the interior decoration of the building is quite old, which is completely different from the modern style of the building's exterior.

Every time she came here before, Shizhi always wanted to complain about the earth-shaking gap between inside and outside, but today she didn't care about this little thing any more, and went straight to the elevator.

All files are stored on the top floor, sorted probably by date.While waiting for the elevator, she unconsciously repeated the date of that day several times in her mind, and the fake numbers almost filled her entire brain.

Ding——the elevator finally descended to the bottom floor.

Step into the metallic elevator.The moment she pressed the floor button, Yezhi suddenly remembered that when she came here in the past, an old-school conjurer who lived at the top of the pyramid told her that she was the sharpest knife.

...Oh, no.She was wrong.

At that time, the words she heard should be——

"You can be the sharpest knife, but you can never be a samurai. We won't make you a samurai."

Almost as soon as she heard this sentence, she understood the deep meaning hidden in the other party's words, but now when she recalled this sentence, she couldn't feel anything.

No matter how you think about it, it's because she has become dull. Of course, it's also possible that she doesn't care about such things anymore.I don't want to pay too much attention to this kind of thing.

The elevator, which was set to run at a very slow speed to take care of the elderly conjurer, crawled slowly, and the long wait made her upset.She leaned against the wall of the elevator, feeling drowsiness flooding her.

She almost fell asleep, but fortunately the elevator finally moved to the top floor before that.

Continue to repeat the action of showing the certificate, but she was not allowed to enter the file room. As for the file she wanted, a young administrator who she couldn't name and had never met looked for it on her behalf. Handed it over to her immediately.

This is considerate service, so there is nothing to complain about.

The dark kraft paper bag was a little heavy, so I felt that besides the paper, there was also a thin square hard object inside. It turned out to be a CD box, and all the videos of the on-site investigation and testimony interrogation were recorded in it.

Nesting in the small audio-visual room on the top floor, she played the CDs one by one.In these videos, she saw herself sitting on the hospital bed after the incident, with twisted limbs and pale face.She was asked various questions related to the day when the accident happened, but it was difficult for her to answer, as if her words had become blocked.

As for the experience recorded in the video, Shi Zhi can't remember much now.She didn't really want to see herself at that time, so she turned her eyes away and just listened to the voice.

With the light of the monitor, she flipped through every paper file.She watched very slowly, until all the videos on the CD were played, she still hadn't finished reading these few sheets of paper.

Not because she always read at that speed, but because she simply couldn't speed it up.It's hard to explain why, but she just can't be impatient with the pile of papers in front of her.

Although it was slow, she finished it smoothly.She admits she felt nothing but disappointment when she read the last word — there was less information in the file than she expected.

However, it was barely able to piece together the general outline of that night.She thought she should rely on her own memory, even if this memory was full of self-righteous subjective assumptions.

She picked up the scattered papers and tried to organize them with her clumsy hands, but it was not easy.Her fingertips were stiff.The disc automatically started playing in a loop, so he was forced to listen to how he tried to explain the accident the night before with broken words.

"So stupid."

Ye Zhi stuffed the paper back into the file bag, and the murmured words seemed to be talking to himself, but it was a bit like talking to himself on the screen.

"Can't even speak clearly. You suck."

She pressed the pause button, took out the disc, put it back into the box, and threw it into the file bag together with a piece of paper that she forgot to put in, and slowly wound the sealed coil.

When she got up, her mobile phone accidentally fell out of her pocket.Before he could pick it up, the screen suddenly lit up.

It's a call from Wutiao.

69.

—April 2015, Wakayama, Kii Oshima—

"It's not an exaggeration to say that I feel like my shoulder is going to break off—literally!"

Yezhi said this to Gojo Satoru who was sitting next to her in a serious manner, and deliberately lowered her volume, which made her words a bit like whispering.

Gojo Satoru glanced at Daisuke who was sleeping soundly on Yesyuki's right shoulder, and couldn't help but let out a chuckle.

If I remember correctly, a few minutes ago, Daisuke was just leaning on his sister's shoulder and playing with his mobile phone. Unexpectedly, he had already fallen asleep and put his whole body weight on Yezhi's body. No wonder She would complain that her shoulder was going to break.

"Could it be that he fell asleep so quickly because of the rocking of the boat?" Shizhi muttered, "It's the same principle as 'rocking the crib to put the baby to sleep'?"

Gojo Satoru shrugged: "It's not unreasonable, maybe it's because I'm too homesick. Speaking of which, aren't we almost there?"

They were on a boat bound for Kii Oshima.From the window, the coastline is already clearly visible.Today's weather is very good, and the visibility is also very good. From a distance, he has already seen the outline of Yae's house.But she didn't want to point it out to Gojo Satoru.

There's no reason, she just doesn't want to.

He had already told his father about marrying Gojo Satoru.As for how the rest of the family would react to this incident, she didn't care too much.Today, I will specially bring Wujo Wu and Wakayama, and I just want to let him meet his family in return.

Otherwise it would be too outrageous.

As for why Daisuke followed.The reason given by him is because "I am too tired from work and want to go back to my hometown to rest for two days."Previously, Yezhi doubted his statement a little bit, but looking at his younger brother who treats himself as a pillow at the moment, Yezhi is willing to believe that he is usually really tired.

But it was also true that her shoulder was hurting from the pressure.She didn't want to disturb her brother's lucid dream, so she didn't dare to move at all, so she could only continue to maintain an upright sitting posture.It made her shoulder hurt even more.

"If my shoulder is the root cause of the disease, then I will definitely let this brat pay for all my medical expenses in the future!"

Ye Zhi gritted his teeth and said, it seems that such attention is indeed made up.

Gojo Satoru rubbed her head with a smile, and moved to her side.

"Lean against me," he said, "that should take some of the weight off of you."

Now that he has said so, it is of course impossible for him to refuse.

She hugged Gojo Satoru's arm without hesitation, leaning against him like Daisuke was pillowing her, and asked with a smile, "Am I heavy?"

"not heavy."

It was obviously the most pleasing answer, but he felt an inexplicable dissatisfaction.She pressed Wutiao hard for a while.

"What about now? Is it heavy now?"

Gojo Satoru was amused by her childish competitiveness.He flicked Yezhi's forehead lightly.

"It's all said and done!"

"Historical Records"

- On the day of the incident, the written records of the "window" observers -

Observer: Haruka Narugami

2015年8月18日3:32pm

"Window" observed a large-scale curse spirit in the abandoned shipyard in Nerima District, and preliminarily determined that it was an unnamed third-level non-hypothetical curse that failed to be exorcised in 2001

2015年8月18日4:13pm

The spell confirmed.The homeless people temporarily living in the shipyard were successfully evacuated and the site was closed.The task of exorcising the curse spirit was entrusted to three third-level magicians, Yae Suzune, Yae Kata, and Yae Here.

2015年8月18日7:20pm

Three magicians arrived at the scene, assisting the supervisor Amami Ichiro to set up the "tent"

The extermination mission begins

The communication status with the three magicians is normal

2015年8月18日7:50pm

The sorcerer Yae found two civilians drowned in the well, but no trace of the curse spirit

The danger level of the spell spirit has been raised to level two, and the second-level magician Yae Hiroshi and the quasi-first-level magician Yaeya are dispatched to the scene

◎The communication status is normal

2015年8月18日8:27pm

No trace of the curse spirit has been found yet

Considering the complex structure of the abandoned shipyard and the cunning of the spirit, "Window" sent second-level magician Yae Seya to the scene for support

◎The communication status is normal

2015年8月18日9:12pm

Due to the failure to find the spell spirit for a long time, the six sent magicians showed abnormal anxiety

It is reasonable to suspect that this emotional change has something to do with the mantra

◎The communication status is normal

2015年8月18日10:04pm

Detecting strong fluctuations in spell power, "Window" suspected that the spell spirit was about to expand its domain, and urgently dispatched first-class magician Yaesuke and special-level magician Yae Yoshiyuki to the scene

◎The communication status is normal

2015年8月18日10:14pm

Yaesuke, a first-class magician, and Yae Yuki, a special-level magician, arrive at the scene

◎The communication status is normal

2015年8月18日10:25pm

There was a scream in the communication channel with the dispatcher, and it was suspected that the spell spirit had been found

Then the screams turned into a cacophony

◎The communication status is unstable

2015年8月18日10:26pm

◎The communication was interrupted, unable to get in touch with the dispatcher

2015年8月18日10:32pm

The expansion of the domain was observed, and it was impossible to confirm from the outside whether the domain belonged to the special magician Yae

◎The communication was interrupted, unable to get in touch with the dispatcher

2015年8月18日10:54pm

◎The communication was interrupted, unable to get in touch with the dispatcher

2015年8月18日11:08pm

The "tent" is forcibly released from the inside, and the fluctuation of mana power disappears

◎Communication returned to normal

2015年8月18日11:20pm

The assistant superintendent entered the shipyard, ready to remove the filth left by the curse spirit

◎The communication status is normal

2015年8月18日11:32pm

Two auxiliary supervisors found a large number of suspected human limbs scattered on the ground at the connecting passage between the first workshop and the second workshop of the shipyard.

◎The communication status is normal

2015年8月18日11:57pm

According to all the human severed limbs collected, it was confirmed that the third-level magicians Yae Higata and Yae Kazama, the second-level magician Yae Seya, and the quasi-first-level magician Yaeya died on the spot

The remaining limbs cannot be identified, so the survival status of the remaining dispatchers needs to be further confirmed

2015年8月19日7:32am

It is confirmed that the third-level magician Yae Suzune, the second-level magician Yae Hiroshi, and the first-level magician Yaesuke died in yesterday's mission