attack on rotten oranges

A few rusty chains hung from the center of the ceiling of the confinement room, and a copper plate was suspended from the chains.

The copper plate is used as a simple candlestick, and half of the candles covered with candle tears burn quietly on it.The flame quietly emitted a faint light, as if frozen in the musty air.

The brig is underground, damp, and cold.

The small, windowless room has only a narrow door and a few ventilation holes that are more decorative than practical.The four walls and the ceiling are covered with dense spells.Under the dim candlelight, the junction of light and darkness is full of eerie shadows.

Wenbu Shuhei was imprisoned here.

Since the Ministry of Education regards confinement as a means of punishment, they will naturally not allow the detainees to live comfortably.The boy sat cross-legged on the floor under the copper pan, his back straight.The top-down light casts shadows, accentuating his unhealthy emaciation.

Candles are very precious, and one will be sent every five days. On average, the boy can only enjoy a short light every day.

Bunbu Shuhei flipped through the notes by candlelight as a rare pastime in the midst of boredom.

[On May 2005, 5, the head of the Takehara family suddenly launched an attack and suspended cooperation with the Bunbu family. 】

[On May 2005, 5, the Presbyterian Church put pressure on the Patriarch. 】

[On May 2005, 5, the head of the family visited the family of the Chanyuan, and the content of the discussion is unknown. 】

If the member who came to deliver the food belongs to the faction that the boy made friends with, he will be informed of some recent family history.In addition, the teenager has another more reliable source of news——

The boy stretched out his left hand toward the door, and Haori's wide sleeve fell down, revealing a pale wrist.He gathered his five fingers together and lightly held it in the air.

Outside the ancestral house of the Bunbu family, outside the owner's living room, the branches and leaves of the prosperous maple tree trembled abnormally, as if there was something invisible to the human eye, lightly jumping down from the tree.In the gaps in the wooden structure of the ancestral house, countless incantations as small as insects and ants gathered under the maple tree.

"Who?" Keiji Bunbu, the head of the Bunbu family, asked alertly, and opened the Zhangzi door.

He seemed to have seen a girl in a kimono about seven or eight years old playing and running past the corridor.

But the Wenbu family has always been proud of strict rules and thorough etiquette, and the owner's room is the most important thing for guarding the ancestral house. How could children who would do such "rude" things as running, jumping and playing, be allowed to appear here ?

Keiji Wenbu firmly believed that he was not mistaken, so he called his servants to investigate.

But the many servants serving the Patriarch are destined to find no trace——

The moment the patriarch, Bunbu Keiji, opened the door, the figure of the "seven or eight-year-old kimono girl" collapsed like gravel, recombined into a small snake, and slid into the shadows.

At first glance, the "Little Snake" is covered with black patterns of different shades. After careful observation, it is found that this snake is not a living creature, but a product of spells composed of many mysterious and obscure spells.

The spell snake approached the confinement room with a clear goal, found the ventilation hole, and got in.Due to the metal mesh barrier in the long and narrow vent hole of the confinement room, the spell was forced to be disassembled and merged again, restoring the original two-dimensional structure of the confinement room, and entered the confinement room through the gap in the grid.

The incantation flew joyfully to the boy's fingertips, circled around the slightly protruding bones and joints on his thin wrist, and finally penetrated into the depths of his sleeve, blending into the skin of his upper arm like a circle of tattoos.

"It's too dangerous to tease the head of the family." The young man said softly.

Having said that, there was not a hint of accusation in the tone.

But the mantra vibrated unsteadily, forcibly broke off half of his arm, turned into the snake tail just now, and whipped the boy's arm angrily, expressing his dissatisfaction.

"You have to be more careful." The young man smiled, his pale golden pupils reflected the candlelight, like amber that had sealed the fire, "If you are discovered, I can only become a curser."

The tail of the snake froze for a moment, changed the intensity, and slapped the young man's tail fiercely as if to vent his anger, then returned to the spell form, pretending that he was a real tattoo, and refused to talk to the young man again.

The boy rubbed the red marks on his arm, raised the corners of his mouth, and began to read the information collected by the spell.

He and the "she" of the mantra are connected with the mantra, the mind is connected, and they can communicate without obstacles in the bottom of their hearts.The conversation just now was just a joke between the two of them.

"The Chanyuan family signaled to the Kyoto school to refuse my admission?" The young man laughed in a low voice, "That's great, it saves a lot of time."

He originally planned to slowly "nurture" the conflict with the Zenyuan's son-in-law, but he didn't expect that the Zenyuan Naoya would explode with a poke.In the eyes of the aristocratic family, a brawl that "offended the superior" caused the boy to be imprisoned for three months, but because of this, the boy was able to leave Kyoto, which was shrouded by the power of the aristocratic family, earlier than planned.

"However, [Six Eyes] of the Gojo family is also studying in the Tokyo school... I need to get a shackle just in case." The boy stretched out his hand to pin the too long bangs on his forehead behind his ears, and clenched his fist with his right hand and tapped the palm of his left hand, " If you don’t bother the two masters with one thing, you still have to brush Zenyuan Naozai again!”

The boy found a blank piece of paper and wrote it down——

[May 2005, 5 The confinement period is coming to an end. 】

The notes are the unlettered edges torn from the wall charms.And a piece of charcoal left by an unknown "senior" in the corner made it easier for the Ministry of Education, so that it didn't have to worry about the source of the ink.

Relying on the once-a-day eating and cleaning count, the boy who lived a fairly clear life, merged the new note into the previous stack, and extinguished the candle.

In the darkness, the young man was still sitting upright. He closed his eyes and integrated the information obtained through various channels in his mind.

The young man knows that he is not like his guardian Oda Sakunosuke who has nothing but curry, novels and children, nor is he a genius who manipulates people like his teacher Mr. Dazai, nor is he as overwhelming as the rumored Six Eyes of the Gojo family. .

Therefore, he must manage his own strength silently, formulate plans carefully, and choose allies carefully, so as to lengthen his own leverage, hoping that he will be able to leverage victory even if he is weaker in the end.

***

The confinement is finally over.

"The council of elders has decided that Shuhei will transfer you to the first year of the Tokyo Metropolitan Conjuration College, and the procedures have been completed." In front of the window of the head of the house, Bunbu Keiji said to the young man standing a step away behind him while admiring the scenery. .

"Everything is obeyed by the Patriarch." The young man replied respectfully.

Shuhei Bunbube had just been released from the confinement room. He was pale and haggard, with thin cheeks, and his short smoke-gray hair hadn't been trimmed for a long time, making the shadow of his bangs cover his eyes.At this time, he bowed his head slightly, showing a gloomy and submissive state.

"The [Six Eyes] of the Gojo family is also studying in Tokyo. After you enroll, you should avoid making enemies with him, but you don't need to be too close." Keiji Bunbu looked up and down Shuhei Bunbu with an appraising gaze, "The Gojo family doesn't Knowing how to educate the heirs, [Six Eyes] is raised by them to be too rebellious, and they fight against the elders all day long, and they don't know what is good or bad."

"You have to pay attention to the distance, don't be distracted by [Six Eyes]."

"……clear."

Satisfied with the boy's obedience, Keiji Bunbu decided to give him something sweet: "I will officially announce the status of your family's heir at the family meeting next month."

"Thank you for your appreciation." The boy remained calm.

Keiji Bunbu was a little dissatisfied when he didn't see the other party's grateful expression as he wished, and his expression turned cold: "But you should also take on the responsibility of being a successor candidate."

"The Bunbu family is a neutral family that maintains the stability of the magic world. Shuhei, it was really irrational for you to choose to clash with the son of the Chanyuan family before." He changed his tone of accusation.

"……Feel sorry."

"However, the conflict between you and the son of the Chanyuan is not a big deal. The old man communicated with the Zenyuan family, and the Zenyuan family allows you to leave the confinement room early. You only need to wear the curse until the end of the year."

What a hypocrisy, it is obvious that Yue Zuo of the Zen Academy punished the members of the Wenbu family on his behalf, it seems to be a kind of gift in his mouth...but it solved the problem of the curse.Shuhei Bunbu stared at the pattern on his skirt, thinking casually.

"In addition to Six Eyes, you can get in touch with the [Reversal Spell] woman in the Tokyo school. If you want, it is not impossible to marry her after graduation." The evaluation of Shuhei's future classmates, "Our Bunbu family has the support of the Chanyuan family, and there will be no objection to accepting the [Reverse Art]."

Bunbu Shuhei finally looked up at Bunbu Keiji, a coldness flashed in his pale golden eyes:

Using magic to measure the value of others, underestimating the ability of others because of gender, and using power to interfere in other people's lives...

Is this the family?What stupid arrogance.

Moreover, the Wenbu family seems to be no longer an independent family of conjurers.As the patriarch of the Ministry of Education, Keiji Bunbu never left the monastery in three words. If someone who didn't know anything came here, he would probably think that the Ministry of Education was a branch of the monastery.

However, considering that the patriarch has blood from the Zenyuan family, and defeated all the competitors with the support of the Zenyuan family back then, the current situation is not incomprehensible.

"There is also the [Spell Spiritual Art], but it is from a commoner background, but the art is very dangerous, you can pay attention to it."

"The higher-ups have other arrangements for him."

"..."

When Bunbu Shuhei stepped down, he just thought it was absurd——

In order to leave the confinement room as soon as possible, he used his network of contacts during the confinement period:

The elders of the family openly challenged the head of the family.

In order to support him, the Takehara family unilaterally cut off cooperation with the Bunbu family... This is a provocative act similar to meddling in the internal affairs of other families...

However, under internal and external troubles, the head of the family summoned him today, just to warn him about some things after entering school?

Bunbu Shuhei returned to his courtyard with doubts, charged and turned on the terminal that had run out of battery.

All kinds of information accumulated for three months rushed in. The old terminal flickered tenaciously for a while, and finally got stuck peacefully on the loading interface with a black screen.

Bunbu Shuhei knocked the terminal lightly on the desktop, and finally gave up using the metaphysics and physics maintenance method.He took out the terminal provided by the Bunbu family from the deep drawer, and began to report the safety of those who might have contacted him in the past four months.

"Odasaku~ it's me, Shuhei."

"There is an urgent mission, I just came back today."

"No injuries, don't worry."

"The battery of the terminal is broken, and there is no way to repair it in that ghost place. I haven't played games for three months, and Odasaku is miserable."

"Yeah, it won't happen in the future, this time it's a special situation! It's a special situation!"

"Now? It's a temporary terminal now. No, you don't need to remember this number, the previous one will be repaired soon."

"Is the work going well?"

"It sounds like Mr. Kunikida is a very reliable person. How is the progress of the new novel?"

"Already contacted for publishing? Good! I want to collect Odasaku's manuscript!"

"Where are Sakule and the others?"

"Yeah, you must not leave behind in your studies. I will collect the latest exercise sets and send them back. Remember to sign for them."

"I miss them too, send them my regards."

Covering up the lies with coquetry, Wenbu Shuhei finally dispelled the worries of his "old father" who was far away in Yokohama.After secretly adding study tasks to his younger brothers and sisters, Shuhei Bunbube hung up the communication contentedly.

After re-entering several familiar numbers, Shuhei Bunbu stopped, and then deleted the numbers expressionlessly: No, I cannot contact Mr. Dazai here.He looked around, in the Wenbu family's ancestral house, there were spells stacked on top of each other, formations within formations, and the circulation of spell power brought an anxious feeling of being spied upon.

Talk about plans for destruction where destruction is planned?Forget it, I just want to achieve my goals in a mediocre way, and I don't have the hobby of challenging the limits of life like Mr. Dazai.Bunbu Shuhei thought to himself.

As for Mr. Dazai, will he be dissatisfied because he delayed the contact?

I still have the manuscript of Odasaku's new novel.

Shuhei Bunbu gave his perfect plan a thumbs-up, so he started to contact his friends.

"Tatara~it's me~"

"Well, that's right, those things you know."

Last year, Bunbu Shuhei Koei was injured due to the appearance of a curse spirit far stronger than intelligence during the mission.So, he and Toku Tara, who was injured while riding a bicycle on a steep slope, met in the hospital consultation room.

At that time, Zhou Fangzun and Kusanagi Izumo, who were taking care of the ten bundles of tatara, noticed the abnormal bruises, abrasions, and burnt and corroded marks on Shuhei Bunbube's body, and thought that he had been abused.The two minors blocked the assistant supervisor aggressively, and they didn't relax their vigilance until Shuhei, the Ministry of Education, came over to explain in person after finishing the bandage.

But because of this, Bunbu Shuhei and Jutsu Tara became good friends, and Zhou Fangzun and the others also learned a little about things related to spells.

"Hahaha, how can I be busy. They are all rubbish, just a waste of time."

"I haven't congratulated you yet, how does it feel to be at the same school as Brother Zun and Brother Kusanagi?" Trying to change the subject.

"...What? Did you tell Brother Zun about my disappearance?" It failed to change the subject.

"Yeah, King is very angry. He said to meet again, if you are like the first time we met, I will teach you a lot hahaha." The other side smiled brightly and said something If not.

"..."

After being out of contact for three months without any reason, now that he has gained a lot of worries, Bunbu Shuhei can only rely on the closure of the magic circle to the outside world, and randomly fabricate the content of the task to deal with the people who care about it.

If you give them the real reason, those people who love to worry will definitely be worried, and the grumpy people may come to your door...

After making the phone call, Shuhei Bunbu found that the time had not passed.The old terminal is still struggling to digest the information.For a while, he had nothing to do.

Someone should have cleaned up the house in advance.Bunbu Shuhei relaxed his body, lay on his back on the soft bed, emptied his mind, and tried to be in a daze.

Leaving the confinement room that isolates and confines the spell power, once the spell that was able to move freely a few days ago is found, it can be easily traced back to Shuhei Bunbube.So at present, "she" can only be fixed on Shuhei's left arm, and can no longer appear at will.Even in some cases, in order to prevent exposure, the exchange of spells between Shuhei Bunbube and "her" should be avoided as much as possible.

The indescribable loneliness, as well as the anxiety and frustration brought about by the lack of results in the investigation for the past six months, rushed into Shuhei's heart.

"Sister..." He murmured looking at the ceiling.

***

After spending several days doing nothing at the Bunbu's house, Shuhei Bunbu finally found a chance to go out——

"Good day, Your Excellency, I have ordered you to welcome you to [Royal Pillar Pagoda]."

"[Imperial Pillar Tower]?" Shuhei Bunbube looked at the man in black robe with the golden rabbit mask in front of him, the guard in his eyes flashed away, and he greeted warmly, "Are you [Rabbit]?"

"I have heard about you for a long time, please take care of me."

If it is said that the world of conjuration protects human society secretly and cannot be known to the public, then [Feishiyuan] headed by the King of Gold-Guochanglu Dajue is the leader who governs the country standing in the sun class.The Golden Clan [Feishiyuan] has gathered outstanding talents from all walks of life, and its tentacles are all over all national institutions and industries.

The [Rabbit] in [Feishiyuan] is the personal guard of the King of Gold, and is famous all over the world for its powerful combat effectiveness.

Wenbu Shuhei got into the car with this [rabbit], his expression was still and his thoughts changed quickly: The cooperation that needs to be discussed this time is just a certain company under the jurisdiction of [Oshikiin] that needs to establish an enchantment at the headquarters, so I contacted Takehara family and the Ministry of Education.

In the beginning, only the Takehara family, who had inherited the enchantment technique in the magic world, were the only ones to cooperate with.

The reason why the Bunbu family can be included is only because Takehara, who is the head of the Takehara family, has a good relationship with Shuhei Bunbu, so the Bunbu family is brought in as a provider of enchantment spells.

Under the jurisdiction of [Feishiyuan], there are tens of thousands of enterprises of that size, and there are countless such simple cooperations.

So, what makes [Feishiyuan] dispatch combat troops [Rabbit] to pick up people?And changed the meeting place to the center of the Golden Clan's territory - where is the Imperial Pillar Pagoda?

When Shuhei Bunbu arrived at the Pillar Tower and saw the people waiting there, everything became clear.

"We're meeting for the first time." The middle-aged man with long dark green hair and a knife at his waist took off his top hat, "Patriarch Takehara has already started a discussion."

"And I have something else to discuss with you."

The author has something to say:

As for Shuhei being picked up by [Rabbit] to discuss cooperation with the Imperial Pillar Pagoda, it can be understood as follows:

Xiuping, a building materials supplier, was brought to a meeting with Party A’s father by Zhu Yuan, the owner of the decoration company, but found that the person who came to pick him up was the guard of honor from the three armed forces (…), and the place to discuss cooperation was the Great Hall of the People (bushi)

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In the new plot——

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