Youren, I will raise you with a trumpet!

"The so-called curse is the negative emotion that overflows from the richness of human emotion."

"And mantra is the power condensed from negative emotions."

"The existence of the magician is to lift the curse and get rid of the existence of the curse spirit."

"—And Jie and I are the strongest magicians in the world!"

Rei Inuzuka raised her left hand, expressionless: "Excuse me—"

"You guys are high school boys, right?"

Xia Youjie watched the clerk look them up and down. She stood the knife tip down on the counter with her right hand supporting the handle. She looked much more relaxed than before.

"Huh? So what?" Gojo Satoru was upset when he was interrupted, "It's hard for me to explain these miscellaneous things to people—"

Rei Inuzuka: "Sure enough, it's time for male high school students to have secondary illness."

She looked impatient, but still dealt with them: "I didn't see the curse you were talking about at all,"

"You saw it just now. It's just that a customer came to seek revenge, and I happened to find out that the person on duty was me, so my conscience discovered that's all."

"Since you're a high school student, hurry back—"

This time it was Xia Youjie who interrupted her: "No."

"...what's wrong?"

"You are too clean." He looked at the knife, but still did not find any magic power attached to it. "Since you are a human, you will have negative emotions."

"Everyone I've seen has a more or less cursed aura on them, and there is no one who doesn't have a cursed aura at all."

"So," his eyes fixed on the strange clerk in front of him, Xia Youjie finally remembered why Wu followed this clerk so persistently.

Because of this person, this clerk, she appeared in any shop where he and Satoru appeared today.

Whether it's a cake shop or a restaurant, or a commercial building where the first-level curse spirit appeared today.

——There is this woman.

"--who are you?"

'Is there really such a thing as they say in this world? Tsurue asked from the bottom of his heart with the face of Rei Inuzuka.

[Of course, after all, the game is called "Curse Return Battle", the focus is on 'curse·jutsu'. 】

'So, Yuren also changed schools because of the curse? '

[That's right. 】

'Then why can't I see? He Jiang looked at the two people in front of him, and always felt that if he didn't give an explanation, they would stay here today.

[There are several possibilities,] The sound of GM typing on the keyboard came through, [First, Rei Inuzuka is not a pure human being, so she may not have the ability to produce and see curses. 】

[Second, she has undergone a mutation, making it impossible to integrate into the settings of this world. 】

【third……】

The GM paused for a moment, then said helplessly: [Maybe it's just that she's too optimistic. 】

He Jiang was also silent.

He recalled the work schedule of "Rei Inuzuka", who had dozens of temporary jobs a day and didn't know the word rest.

...If this is not optimistic, you will not die suddenly...

No, no, even if you are optimistic at this level, you will die suddenly, right? ? ?

But none of these three reasons could be told to the two "magicians" in front of him.

and so……

"Aren't you," Rei Inuzuka frowned at him, "... have problems with your brain?"

Xia Youjie: "..." The hands of the condensation technique trembled slightly.

"According to what you say, can it be inferred from this logic," Rei Inuzuka looked at him strangely, "I'm not human?"

The white-haired DK who stood by laughed so hard that tears were about to come out.

"There must be a limit to the second stage of illness, don't always think about expulsion from other people's family." Rei Inuzuka said, "I'm so tired but I still have to deal with the second stage DK".

She walked out of the counter, took out two cans of iced soda from the cooler next to her, scanned the barcode at the cashier at the counter, and turned to face them.

"Here, take it," she threw the soda to the white hair who laughed so hard that he pulled Xia Youjie, and handed another bottle of soda directly to the black-haired DK in front of him.

"Drink some refreshing soda and go home early."

Although the female clerk in front of her had no expression on her face, there was... kindness in her eyes?

Whatever it was was embarrassing for him.

This was the first time that he saw other reactions of humans who knew the existence of the curse spirit apart from emotions such as disgust, bewilderment, and panic.

love……?

Goosebumps arose.

"Wu, can you stop laughing?" Xia Youjie stood under the street lamp, looking at the soda in his hand, listening to the unstoppable laughter, feeling a little helpless.

"Hahahahahahahaha...ha, hahahaha," Gojo Satoru couldn't stop laughing, and he wiped away a tear from his eyes, "She said you have a problem with your brain...hahahahahahahahaha!"

"Pfft-"

The soda in his hand was squeezed out by the magic power, and the faint fruity fragrance overflowed the back of Xia Youjie's hands.

"Enlightenment."

"Hahahahahaha what are you doing?"

"Let's fight."

Xia Youjie smiled and smashed the soda in his hand towards Wujo Wu's hair, which was blocked without accident.

"Who explained the spell to her first—!"

"—I didn't expect her brain circuits to be so strange!"

Rei Inuzuka knew nothing about what happened in the dark street across from the convenience store.

She just glanced at her watch, waiting for the time to pass and the notification that the next temp was coming through.

After all, the joy of being a worker is so unpretentious and boring.

Until the evening of the next day, Gojo Satoru and Xia Youjie, who were still following Inuzuka Ling, finally confirmed that it was just a coincidence that they met her all day yesterday.

After all, there are too many jobs for migrant workers, and they just happened to go to a few places where she worked.

"However, no matter how you look at it, I don't think this person is an ordinary person." Xia Youjie had a faint black circle under his eyes.Since expelling a first-level curse spirit yesterday, I have been wandering around with Gojo Wu, and I haven't had a good rest until now.

But the culprit was in good spirits, and the two chatted while sitting in the car to the High School of Conjuration.

"I haven't rested for a moment." Xia Youjie thought that he had only been in school for a few months. Ordinary people?"

"Of course this kind of person is not an ordinary person," Gojo Wu said seriously, his six eyes looked at Xia Youjie seriously, "That's..."

"Ok?"

"—Social animal!"

"..."

"...Compared to cursing, I think I should exorcise you, Wu!!"

The two naive ghosts scratched each other like two JKs in the back seat of the car. Seeing that the car had been parked for a long time and no one got out, Jia Ruozi walked forward helplessly and knocked on the window.

It took a while for the car window to come down, revealing Xia Youjie's face.

"What's the matter, Nitro?" Thanks to him still smiling, Nitro saw that the opposite Wu had already put his evil hand on his head.

"You two hurry up and come down." Niatzi glanced at the trembling auxiliary supervisor who had to smile, and sighed.

"I was able to come back yesterday, and it has been delayed until now."

"The teacher even asked me about the two of you."

Facing the two classmates who can still laugh now, Jiarui Nizi smiled sympathetically.

"I said you two went to the bathroom."

Gojo Satoru: "Eh, that's fine, thanks, Nitro—"

"No," Jia Ruozi touched a cigarette (auxiliary supervisor: Well, smoking is not allowed in the school...) and put it in his mouth, with a melancholy expression on his face, "Mr. Yemo asked twice, once yesterday and once today."

Xia Youjie had an ominous premonition.And in the next second, this premonition came true.

"My answer was the same both times."

The only female classmate at the same time looked at them with pity in their eyes.

"I think you two should go to the hospital to get a certificate now,"

"——After all, it took a day, and if I collapsed, I went to the hospital to prescribe medicine, maybe I could escape the guidance."

Gojo Wu & Xia Youjie: "........."

**

It was already three o'clock in the middle of the night when Tsurue Kentaro woke up again.

Through GM's debugging, Rei Inuzuka's task information bar was set to the top, and Tsurue returned to his body in 2018.

He got up and went to the window, taking advantage of the moonlight, he could see the Huzhang house on the opposite side.

It was pitch black and silent.

【Huzi went to Shanze Hospital to take care of his grandfather,】GM read the record to him, 【Go to rest early. 】

[After all, you are not Rei Inuzuka now, treat yourself as a normal person. 】

When He Jiang left the window, he looked back at the window of Hu Zhang's house across the street.

Yuren...

He went back to bed and fell asleep.

The next day is still the morning class at 08:30.

He Jiang sat in his seat and his mind was in a mess—who can wake up early and maintain a good attitude after dreaming of working all night? !

He was lying on the table again.

"Kentaro? Didn't you rest yesterday?" Knotaba Yuhito turned around and saw him in a bad state.

He Jiang glanced at him lazily, opened his mouth wide and yawned: "...it's nothing."

"Aren't you afraid of ghosts?" Youruto touched his chin, pretending to be shocked, "But on Friday we're going to Sato Sakura High School to investigate supernatural events!"

"Huh? Sato Sakura High School... Isn't that in Tokyo? The school will let us go?"

"Don't worry," Youroto gave him an ok gesture, "Senior Sasaki has already applied for funding from the school!"

"And it's on Friday. I'll talk to grandpa after school today, and then I'll be back as soon as possible on Friday!"

"Ah..." He Jiang nodded dejectedly, "Then I'll accompany you today too."

Youruhito: "Speaking of which, does Kentaro want to go in and see grandpa?"

"Forgive me!" He Jiang waved his hands in horror, "Every time I go in, I will be criticized from head to toe!"

"I almost had hospital PTSD!"

"It's not that exaggerated..."

"No exaggeration at all!—no, are you laughing?!"

"Where is there~"

**

He Jiang stood outside Room 301 and kept wandering.

There was a conversation between Yuren and his grandfather Wasuke.

"I'm going to Tokyo for club activities on Friday, and I'll be back right away. Remember to use the pager to trouble the nurse sister if you have anything to do."

"It's too long-winded!"

"—and it's not because you don't use the pager all the time!"

"I'm fine, what's the use!"

"Really..." A murmur came from inside the door.

"Also, that kid outside the door," the old man's voice came through from behind the door, "come in for me."

He Jiang: "!!!"

The door was opened, revealing Yuren's pink quills.

He made a face to He Jiang, saying that he couldn't help him anymore.

"I'm going to buy something for him." He patted He Jiang's shoulder with a painful expression on his face. "Until I come back, hold on!"

He Jiang: "........."

——It’s even scarier to say that, huh? ! ! ! !