COSER, I became the leader of despair

Gojo Satoru was in Yokohama for a reason.As one of the teachers of the Tokyo Metropolitan Higher School of Magic, his work is not limited to teaching.To be honest, there are not many students in a grade, and it is quite boring to take care of children all day long.Students, only when they grow independently can they truly grow.

However, Gojo Satoru did not appear in Yokohama because of other work.He came here because he had received an obituary.When he woke up one morning, some kind of creature who had played tricks on his house in the middle of the night before but did not come near had left a letter saying that his distant relative had passed away.

The unlucky relative who passed away was called Ji Guo Yuan Yi.After Gojo Satoru consulted a family tree as thick as a dictionary, he discovered that his blood relationship with Ji Guoyuanyi was so far away that it could basically be ignored.But, it's boring anyway, and it doesn't matter even if you cross a few counties to meet each other.

...see the dead body of the other party.

When Gojo Satoru arrived at the hospital, he only saw a push-bed covered with a white mourning cloth.He didn't lift it up to see what the other person looked like (this is a sign of disrespect for the dead), but from the protruding limbs under the white cloth, he could almost imagine the other person's skinny appearance.

The doctor blamed Gojo Satoru, the relative who had just arrived, with some blame, but then he could only let out a helpless sigh.

The doctor said: "The burial outside is also very strict now, let's cremate it." He sincerely made a suggestion.In the past, people could bury their relatives in their own fields, and when they were doing farm work or simply passing by, they would see the faces of people who had left.Later, this practice was gradually managed.People will burn the dead bodies to ashes and put the ashes into small porcelain cups...

Gojo Satoru said, yes.

He found out that the only relative of this distant relative, that is, his twin brother disappeared without a trace a few months ago, and the police have not yet found him.The conjurer had a hunch that the creature hovering over his roof and leaving a letter on the balcony might be related to that brother.

But that is only approximate.

Gojo Satoru didn't know what happened between the two brothers at all, he only knew that Ji Guoyuan was admitted to the hospital because of a burst lung.According to records, he inhaled a large amount of ice powder-like things, and those cold things froze his lungs.The patient himself was in poor health, and coupled with the high fever caused by the trauma, he could not survive this summer.

"It's a pity that such a young child left like this..." The doctor said it was a pity.But as a doctor, he has seen too many people leave.If it is so painful for every patient's death, he must not be able to be a serious doctor.He skillfully put away his emotions, and asked the nurse to take Gojo Satoru to go through the formalities.

The female nurse looked curiously at the man who was dressed in fashion but wearing a black blindfold.After hesitating, she asked curiously: "Mr. Gojo, what is your eye—?" Because she found that the other party's actions were not as difficult as the blind person's, and they were no different from ordinary people.

Just after she asked the question, the silver-haired man suddenly pulled down half of his blindfold.

"It's a matter of necessity."

The nurse suddenly understood.

The other party has a pair of beautiful blue-cat eyes, and he is a handsome man when his hair is down.

She has fully understood.

——Actually, this is not the case at all.

As an ordinary nurse outside the magic world, there is no need to know about this.

After a while of tossing, Gojo Satoru got the ashes belonging to Ji Guoyuanyi.It's as big as a person, and there is only a little powder left after burning.

Gojo Satoru sighed for a while, and stuffed a wooden box into the backpack he brought.

When he goes back, he may want to bury the other party in a quiet cemetery.Because he contacted the child's teacher before, they were first surprised that Ji Guoyuan had a living distant relative (in fact, there were more than one), and then they were moved by his kindness (Gojo Satoru felt a little unbearable).

"Enichi likes a peaceful place very much." These were the words spoken by the other party's teacher and the principal of that private school, Yoya Ubuyashiki.

Gojo Satoru decided to bury him in a place where few people would pass by.

Gojo Satoru, who left with the wooden box containing the ashes of the children from the distant family, sensed the breath of the curse on the way.

This is a very strange thing.

There is an invisible hood on the land of Yokohama, except for the innermost people in the inner world, no one knows the existence of that hood.It is precisely because of that cover that the "curse" cannot invade this land, and can only act on the land outside Yokohama.

But Wujo Satoru sensed the breath of curse here.

With a curious attitude, he came to the place where the cursed breath emanated.

It was a small remote villa. Sunflowers, roses, and pink palms were planted in the yard. The small pool looked like running water because there were some small lotus flowers and lotus leaves in it.

Standing outside the yard, he saw a black mist hovering over the roof, like crows gathered together.Based on experience, he quickly judged that the curse in this room was a quasi-secondary curse.Curses and conjurers both have five levels, and the order from bottom to top is level four, level three, level two, level one, and special level.And between the special grade and the third grade, there are quasi-grades.

The quasi-secondary curse is a huge disaster for ordinary people, it is an existence that can barely be killed with guns.Just when Gojo Satoru was about to go in and kill the curse for the sake of helping others, the black mist, which was moving like a swimming fish, perceptibly intensified.

From quasi-secondary to secondary.

The curse is getting stronger too fast.

Are the people in that room sending out a lot of fear?

Gojo Satoru planned to go in and have a look.

****

"As for me, I saw the real body of the guy who made trouble from the video recorder."

Akashima sparrow still thinks it was Tsukishima's doing. Besides that child, who else would hate him so much?However, if you want to hate, you can hate her, the older sister (Ayu) is innocent.

She asked feebly, "How is it?"

Osamu Dazai looked at her with those cold eyes in the dark night.

"It's a black baby." He saw some particles at first, and the particles made up the body - "baby".

"And it's a giant baby at least 1.3 meters four."

"Ms. Akashima, is there a possibility... Have you ever thought that it was another [child] who did all this?"

There have been three people left in the family.Shinji as the husband, Tsukishima as the eldest son, and Ren, the second son who lost his chance of surviving before he was born.

Akashima sparrow couldn't believe it.

"But Ayu...she always said..."

"Because my brother doesn't want to leave yet, mom." Because I was a child, I saw things that adults couldn't see.

"Brother, he still wants to be with us."

Akashima Ayu has seen his younger brother (the dead brother) standing alone in a corner of the house countless times.When she woke up in the middle of the night, she would even see the other party crying sadly alone.

Ayu comforted him by saying don't cry, but her words couldn't reach the other party's ears, and her hands couldn't touch him.

People and ghosts have different ways.

Akashima sparrow's lips trembled.

There was no time left for her to think over and over again, to explore the final conclusion.

The living room that was finally quiet began to howl like the wind again.Not only the living room, but also the crackling sound came from upstairs.The crucifix hanging on the wall was twisted by an invisible evil force, and it became the reverse cross representing "evil"!

In the exclamation of Akashima Sparrow, the piano keys seemed to be stepped on by countless pairs of feet, and countless notes staggered and made sounds.Heavy, crisp, low, and high, the whole earth is ringing.

Some black particles ran over from all directions, they swarmed like bees smelling honey.Xi Jianzi saw them build a baby shape, and then elongate the arms and feet, making the torso extremely slender, like a bamboo pole.However, that big head is still hanging on the neck of "Bamboo Pole" like a stone.

Now it is a scene that can be seen without a video recorder.In the past, those weak ghosts could only be observed through the camera, but in the competition, the strength of the other party has become so strong that it can reveal its real body.

Seeing the monster similar to the monster "Larry", Xi Jianzi couldn't help laughing, her laughter was like a strange one among the crowd.

The Akashima Sparrow was frightened in place, unable to move.She was just an ordinary woman who had never experienced a storm, and she almost lost the ability to act in front of ghost-like creatures.

But amidst the chaos, a pair of small hands pushed her away, telling her to leave here.Akashima sparrow was groggy, and when she got to the yard, she found that sweetfish had been waiting for her here.

Akashima Sparrow thought it was Ayu who was pulling her away at first.

So... who is it?

She heard a sharp call as a silver-haired man brushed past them.Akashima sparrow told him loudly that there were monsters inside, but the young man who came from nowhere made an "ok" gesture to them very easily.

……

Don't worry.

Gojo Satoru is the strongest magician in the world.

……

Osamu Dazai stared at the bamboo pole baby who started to do evil, and he had a premonition: he was about to die here.

The desire to "want to die" became stronger than ever before, and at this moment he seemed to have been controlled by this emotion.

Shouldn't...but...

What awakened this young man who wanted to commit suicide on the spot was the slap of his former "mentor".

"This is not your voluntary death!"

The black-haired middle-aged man's purple eyes were as cold as frost, Dazai was stunned for a moment, the feeling just now disappeared suddenly.He turned his head in astonishment, and found Yosano Akiko also lowered his head, covering half of his face with his hands.

It turned out that this man directly slapped the two of them twice!

This kind of thing cannot be forgiven no matter when, but now that Dazai has come to his senses, the appearance of a baby in his pupils is getting bigger and bigger.

The opponent is rushing towards him!

flash.

Silent thunder.

hidden.

Kill.

A silver-haired man made mudras with his hands.

Under the spell constructed by fingers, this curse, which had reached the second-level qualification, disappeared in a burst of screams belonging to it.

The violent wind and waves gradually subsided, and the silver-haired man with bandages on both eyes made Osamu Dazai feel a little familiar to Osamu Dazai who used to tie one eye (for what reason).Then he heard the man say in a somewhat frivolous tone, "Yo, it's gone."

Xi Jianzi felt that his palm was a little swollen.

Painful and swollen.

"Ah, what's the matter?" The woman who had been caught in the vortex and had nowhere to operate, didn't even have time to deal with the disaster that hit her just now with her familiar weapon - a medical hatchet. The doctor only saw the black baby who was destroyed by a blow from a strange "passer-by" within less than a minute of rioting. .

There was still a throbbing pain on her face, and just now, Yosano Akiko, who was caught in the extreme idea of ​​"wanting to die", was slapped by the black-haired man.The slap was not heavy, but Yu Xie Ye felt that not only her face, but also her soul was hurt.The past, which he had been trying to escape from the past, was awakened by the slap of the enemy.

This new-age woman clenched her teeth tightly together, and she accidentally bit the flesh next to her teeth, grinning in pain.She quickly suppressed that expression, and pulled out her hatchet from the backpack she was carrying.

She couldn't stand being controlled by a weird force into something that didn't belong to her.

however.

This seems to have gone beyond her concept.

Curses and abilities exist in two categories.

The people of Yokohama, protected by the hood, saw the existence of "curse" for the first time.

The pitch-black baby wobbled and wobbled, and it looked like a lanky ghost.However, its head is much larger than that of Slender Ghost, and its entire body looks like a cauliflower with heavy flower bulbs hanging from it.

However, just as they were thinking (Xi Jianzi even thought about whether to leave the house or not, don't be tough with this kind of thing), the silver-haired man appeared.He made a simple seal with his hands, and the weirdness disappeared.The other party came in a mighty manner, and then disappeared as silently as moonlight.Some fine powder fell from the broken ceiling, and then the storm disappeared into nothingness. .

Strange.

So weird.

What these detectives had done before seemed to be futile.

Aware of this, Shi Jianzi had a feeling of "ah, my poor time".

The silver-haired man wearing a blindfold walked on the floor covered with various odds and ends, his feet stopped in front of the carpet.

"Well, everyone looks very healthy." Gojo Satoru said this because, on average, more than [-] human beings die or disappear without reason every year across the country, and most of these people are cursed.A curse is an evil existence born of negative human emotions. Most ordinary people often have no bones left when they encounter a curse. It is quite remarkable to be able to leave a whole body.

However, after observing the appearance of the few people in front of him, Gojo Satoru retracted the idea that "they are all ordinary people".Since Yokohama is a special area, Gojo Satoru had never been here before.Because of this, he doesn't know much about the famous people here.

Also, the health referred to here is not only physical health, but also mental health.

All are healthy.

That's nice...it's not.

Gojo Satoru was worried about how to explain the existence of curses and conjurers to the people present, but as a secret that should not be passed on in the world, it was really inconvenient to tell others.

But fortunately, no, that was not luck at all, someone present knew of his (Gojo Satoru) existence.

"Is this gentleman a conjurer?"

Gojo Satoru was a little curious, "Well, it counts." His use of "sort of" was a little subtle, making it impossible to be sure.

Yosano Akiko glanced at the resourceful young man next to her. Although Osamu Dazai always looked unreliable, most of the time he acted as the "brain tank" of the detective agency.Moreover, he is also a well-informed person.

At least Yosano Akiko and Yosano Akiko have never heard of the existence of "Conjurer".

Xi Jianzi's eyes turned cold all of a sudden.

Osamu Dazai said again "modestly", "I just heard about it occasionally, and made a wild guess."

Yu Xieye found his humility disgusting, and so did Xi Jianzi.But at the same time, it was the name "Conjurer" that made the heart in her chest thump.

She decided to be patient a little bit.a little.

"It's great that someone knows that!" The silver-haired man folded his hands together, showing a slightly grateful expression, "Then let me introduce the situation this time, tentatively setting the second-level curse, I will call it For [the baby]."

The code name is "baby", what a ridiculous and desperate thing.

"Record - July 7th, Level 28 Cursed Infant Outbreak, Casualties... 0."

The other party said this in the form of a report.

"Because it has been solved perfectly, I hope everyone present can promise me one thing."

This self-talking man seemed completely unwilling to take into account the feelings and thoughts of other people present, talking to himself.

"Confidentiality principle." Yosano Akiko snorted.Not only did the pain on her cheek not disappear, but it was still faintly emitting scorching pain.Akiko Yosano, whose self-esteem was shattered by the enemy in the past, but who did help him, felt that he had split.Part of her still hated and resented the other person, and part of her felt she was doing the right thing.

What a pain.

She had no choice but to change the topic with other words, hoping that her attention would be diverted from now on.

"Bingo!"

Japanese people always have a strange emphasis when they speak English, and Gojo Satoru is no exception.

"So please don't talk about this matter! Let's make an agreement like this, okay?"

There is absolutely no room for others.

So weird.

"After all, it's a secret thing... This is the first time I encountered a life form like [curse] in Yokohama."

The two men were okay, and then exchanged pleasantries about the weather, the population, and so on.

it's too cold.

No humor at all.

Gojo Satoru thought about contacting the logistics team to clean up the scene, um, and the mother and daughter outside.

Gojo Satoru felt the wooden box in his backpack move.But the movement was so small that he thought it was just the vibration caused by the wind blowing.After all, the curse has just been eliminated not long ago, so it is easy to understand that there is still a sense of vibration here.

……

Akashima Sparrow didn't know what happened.Everything came suddenly and inexplicably, like a hurricane that lingers only for a moment on the land.

She looked at her house in a panic, holding her daughter's right hand tightly with her left hand.

Ayu looked around timidly.

Ahhh.

Around her she saw a small boy.

****

Dun looked at the gray sky.Perhaps, it was because he was in such a bad mood that he felt that the bright sky was dark and gray, which seemed to indicate that the people under the sky had neither present nor future.When he met the strange man's eyes, a terrifying and strange emotion rushed through his brain like an electric shock, and he, who had always been a coward, ran away naturally.

When Dun returned after calming down for a while, everyone had disappeared.At first he thought that a group of people had gone back to the port of Mafia (the chief gifted them a house), but guided by a kind of inspiration in the dark, he followed the invisible substance floating in the air. A small villa located outside the main street, and relying on excellent eyesight to see familiar people from a distance.

Mr. Doctor, and... and.

And that person.

That strange yet familiar person.

Dun looked at the other party with extremely panicked eyes, and at the same time found a man he had never seen before.The opponent's face was covered with a black blindfold, and his hair was standing on end.

Doesn't look like a nice guy.

Dun approached hesitantly, but a sense of fear hanging above the gate of heaven made him keep retreating.Even when the black-haired man waved at him, he didn't respond, nor did he go over.

Xi Jianzi finally saw Dun, and subconsciously beckoned him to come over.However, unlike the usual weird intimacy, Atsushi didn't come over, but backed away like a child who saw a monster.

The silver-haired man told the mother and daughter of Akashima again what he had told them this time.The mother and daughter have never understood such things as curses, but they were born in Yokohama and have a shallow understanding of similar "supernatural powers".

Akashima Sparrow pursed his lips, and after thinking twice, he asked, "That curse...is it Xiaolian?"

Who is Xiaolian?Gojo Satoru doesn't know.He pretended to smile, and Ayu added another noun for him.

Xiao Lian is the unborn younger brother of this family.

"Maybe, no." The man who called himself a conjurer said, "The curse is formed by the overflow of people's negative emotions. I think that a baby who has not been born and has no intelligence can't do this. To a certain extent." Although he also suspected that the reason for this curse to evolve from a quasi-level two to a level two in a short period of time was the negative emotions emanating from the group of people in front of him.Gojo Satoru could feel that these people had an evil spirit that had not yet dissipated.

They must have been afraid of something, hated something just now... These emotions are the main reason for the strengthening of the curse.However, he still believes that an unborn child from an ordinary family can do this.

"Actually—" The male youth with a beautiful face showed an ambiguous and mysterious smile.

"Recently, the frequency of children dying has increased."

"More than ten children have died this month, and detectives have received at least three cases in which the spirits of dead family members have returned home," Dazai said.

"Why do I know so well? Why, because I love reading newspapers."

Yosano Akiko had never seen this guy seriously read newspapers or anything. Dazai was always researching books about suicide, or turning ordinary books into books about suicide.

It's always the case.

"Is that so?"

"If this is the case, maybe it can be suspected that it is man-made. For such a curse to form, at least twenty lives must be condensed." Twenty does not sound like a big number at all, but adding "life" With this noun, everything becomes frightening.

"Anyway, I have to report to the group of old men over there first."

"Is there anything else you want to ask me?"

He acted like a really warm-hearted man.

Silent, silent, silent as if he felt guilty for the two slaps just now, Shi Jianzi asked him in a smooth voice: "Can I know the name of this Mr. Conjurer?"

A name is very important, but Gojo Satoru doesn't think anyone can grasp his name. Perhaps Abe Seimei, who has died thousands of years ago, can restrain him with the fact that "name is the shortest curse".

"Me."

"My name is Gojo Satoru."

Xi Jianzi kept that smile.

"It's a good name."

……

After Gojo Satoru pulled away and left, Atsushi came over.His face was extremely pale, almost like the face of a dead man.

Dun walked over and saw the mess all over the floor, and Xi Jianzi standing in the shadows.

"Mr. Doctor... are you okay?" He asked cautiously.

The purple eyes that belonged to Mr. Doctor were so bright that it was as if someone had lit a fire in them.

When Dun asked in a low voice, Xi Jianzi ignored him.She turned around and walked to Chi Dao's mother and daughter, and asked softly, "Now, can you still see Brother Yue Dao?"

Ayu nodded vigorously, "Tsukishima is over there." She pointed in a direction, and there was nothing there, but Ayu said that her dead brother was standing there.

In Xijianzi's field of vision, there is also a little boy.Short black hair, thin body.

Chidao Yuedao, male, 12 years old.died of illness.

That boy looked like he had a timid face.This conclusion can be drawn just by looking at the appearance.

Ayu said: "Usually, I can neither touch him nor talk to him."

Xi Jianzi looked at the boy, but the very timid boy spoke to her.

Xijianzi said to Chidao sparrow: "Brother Yuedao asked, Mom, do you forgive me?"

Akashima Sparrow opened his eyes wide.

"You...you are not joking!"

As the mouthpiece between the human and the ghost, Xi Jianzi continued: "Mom, I'm sorry, I really didn't mean it."

It's embarrassing to call a woman who is about your own age as "mom" or something with an adult appearance.But Xi Jianzi had a sullen face.

Akashima sparrow believed what Ayu said, "Tsukishima has always been there".She finally believed it.She remembered that she was pushed away from that chaotic place by a pair of invisible hands before.

She immediately burst into tears.

"I'm sorry...I'm sorry..." She began to cry, covering her face.

Dun didn't understand what Xi Jianzi was doing at first.He saw a pale little boy talking to the doctor, who then relayed the words to the woman.The woman cried out in an empty direction.

At first he didn't understand why.

Obviously, even he heard and saw the black-haired boy...

When Dun was confused, the dark-haired boy looked at him.

"Big brother, wait a minute, do you want to go together?"

Want to go together?

Where to go?

Dun didn't know, didn't understand, couldn't answer.His mouth seemed to be tied and he couldn't speak.All his voices were buried in his throat.

Finally, he choked out a "no".

Somewhat disappointed, the boy came to his mother and sister and hugged them.

Dun saw the boy's hands penetrate the bodies of women and girls, his heart and the blood flowing on his body suddenly became cold.

A body that is always cold.

Blank past.

"Big brother, wait a minute, do you want to go together?"

Dun had a very bad guess.