Curse this wonderful world

02: 【The Curse of Two】

Fukaba still feels that Mori Ogai, who can keep his expression unchanged after listening to such a series of self-introductions, is really awesome.

Of course, although his expression didn't collapse, the frenzy in his heart was very interesting.And the worrying teacher is really a powerful creature. After Mori Ogai verified the authenticity of her mind reading skills, he immediately found a way to deal with it.Not only can he think of a bunch of invalid information in his brain to disrupt her reading, but he can also mislead her judgment with completely opposite ideas.It's really tiring to watch.It was not until he had accumulated enough trust in Shen Yu that he stopped such brain-burning countermeasures.

As expected of a humanoid AI.

In addition, Shen Yu also admired his judgment.After figuring out the nature of Shen Yu's ability, Mori Ogai quickly made a positioning, and placed the importance of Shen Yu's ability to exorcise curse spirits before the lie detector and intelligence collector.

One is because Mori Ogai is also very good at intelligence and lie detection, but supernatural power and magic power are two completely different systems. He can see the magic spirit, but he cannot get rid of it.

The second is because, even if other works are combined, the Yokohama of "Ben Ye" is still unique, glamorous and noble.The forces here are mixed and have been disobedient to the control of the central government for a long time.The so-called official magic world can't be mixed here.After all, everyone has a lot of things that cannot be exposed to the sun. Who knows what the magician will find when he comes to exorcise the magic spirit?

Just imagine, if a certain conjurer of a high school ran into an alley after chasing the curse spirit, he ran into two parties who were trafficking people/torturing/interrogating/arms trading—— oh!Good guy!Isn't that scene extremely touching?

Therefore, all forces would rather cooperate with curse masters or free conjurers.Unless you find a problem that you can't solve, you will notify the official to deal with it.Only the Yokohama government, which has no sense of existence, still keeps in touch with the magic world.

Therefore, the Yokohama curse victimization situation is very abnormal.Compared with the highly specialized conjurers like firefighters in the original work, hired curse masters and free conjurers are more like bodyguards who get paid to do things. Except for the requirements of their employers, they usually do not do "superfluous" things—— For example, charitable exorcism of curse spirits that suddenly appeared in residential areas.

In this case, the importance and cherishment of Shen Yu as a conjurer were suddenly highlighted.Mr. Mori not only collected a lot of information through his own channels to make up a lot of knowledge about the magic world, but also developed a great enthusiasm for developing her abilities.Especially when he knew that Shen Yu had no offensive spells, he seemed more anxious than her.

Fukaba can quite understand Mori Ogai's thoughts.Although she's actually pretty good.With Ye Quanzi's talent bonus, her spell power is comparable to that of a perpetual motion machine, and she is in the state of blue bar MAX all year round.She doesn't need the projection machine in the original work for the third-level spell spirits-speaking of which, in the current world view, it is considered a high-level spell tool-it can be crushed with just spell power.But just like Wutiao teacher said to Huzi, the efficiency of direct confrontation without spells is too scumbag.Although according to the probability, the average person may never encounter a spell spirit above the second level in a lifetime—let alone a special level.But obviously, Mr. Mori, who has ambitious goals, will not be satisfied with this.

Shen Yu wanted to fulfill his wish, so she thought about it with Mori Ogai, and she really caught a little inspiration.

Her [Seeing] can be used on living people to absorb the sorrow and pain of the other person, and make the other person feel calm and comforted—of course it is not permanent, after all, as long as the human brain is still spinning, emotions will continue to arise.

What about the curse spirits?According to the setting of "Curse Back", the curse spirit is formed by the overflowing negative emotions of human beings.So after being absorbed of negative emotions, can the curse spirit still exist?

It really wasn't a whim on her part.In her original game, after the player emptied the blood bar of the Wraith, they could [View] it.[View] Wraith in the game will get a CG of its memory or tragic death.In addition, there is a mechanism called "seeing in battle".For some wraiths, if a specific stiffening effect is activated at a special time during the battle, they can be directly [viewed].

It's just that in the game, the timing of "seeing in battle" is very difficult to grasp, and it is a gorgeous operation that can only be used by super giants.

But here is the reality, there is no special judgment, as long as there is a fight, there are as many opportunities as this.The only thing that needs to be considered is that reality is not a game, [see] the curse spirit may have an unfriendly influence on her.After all, no matter how you look at it, the negative emotions contained in this SAN thing are not comparable to ordinary living people.

But if it's just this level of risk, Shen Yu thinks it should still be within her tolerance.She is confident in her endurance threshold. After all, she not only has the talent hand-picked by the original work, but also has a tenacious (crazy) tenacious (budget) heart.

When this idea came up, it was one year after being taken in by Mr. Mori.At that time, the old boss was seriously ill, and the bloody tyranny that swept over half of Yokohama was in full swing.At that time, she was still living with Mr. Mori on the edge of Leibo Street, and there was a shortage of everything nearby, except for the magic spirit.So on a dark and windy night, accompanied by Mori Ogai and Alice, Fukaha entered a famous haunted house near Leibo Street, and chose a few silly curse spirits that looked around the third level, Started my own experiment.

From the conclusion, the effect is better than in the game.

You don't even need to fight, just a face-to-face, and the curse spirit that has been "watched" and lost its negative emotions collapses instantly like a building whose skeleton and foundation have been smashed.And because Shen Yu's "Looking" only needs to see the opponent's eyes, this is a "Instant Death" magic skill of "No Contact", "Ignore Defense", "Must Hit".

Except for one thing.

The side effects of this magical skill are as awesome as its effects.

Shen Yu [Look at] when a living person does not absorb the opponent's spell power, even if the object is a conjurer.This point, she has confirmed with the assistance of Mr. Sen.However, when [seeing] the spell spirit, along with the strong negative emotions pouring into her heart, all the spell power of the spell spirit poured into her body.Unlike the negative emotions that she can empathize with, the mana absorbed by her does not directly stack up on her mana bar for her to use.On the contrary, all these foreign spells rushed to her back after going around in her body.Shen Yu only felt a severe pain spread from the back from the position of the left shoulder blade.

It was as if a red-hot soldering iron was pressed firmly against the skin, and all the nerves were screaming.

It was very, very painful.

Unprepared, she shivered and curled up.When Mori Ogai realized that something was wrong, he rushed up and tore off her blouse, and what he saw was the intricate and gorgeous tattoos on the skin where the severe pain was.

The pale blue hiiragi branches and leaves are layered, and a thick purple giant snake is wrapped around it. The snake's mouth is wide open, revealing sharp fangs and snake letters.It is the representative pattern of "Zero-Tattoo Voice".

"What is this?" Mori Ogai asked.

Shen Yu leaned against Mori Ogai's arms, touched the lifelike pattern with shaking fingers, and then, she suddenly "understood".

"It's...a technique..."

She awakened her spell at this moment.

【Tattoo · Seeing spells】, as if an instruction document was automatically downloaded from the DNA, the name of the spell and how to use it naturally appeared in her mind.

In the first half of this spell, she is regarded as the witch of the sun going up the mountain, and through [seeing], she absorbs the negative emotions and spell power of the spell spirit.In the second half of the operation, she is regarded as the tattooed priestess of the Kushi family, and the absorbed magic power is turned into [tattoos], which are "carved" on her skin.The more mana she absorbs, the larger the area of ​​the tattoo, until it covers her whole body including her limbs and cheeks.

In the original "Zero Series", the tattooed maiden is a ritual in which the grief and longing of the living are engraved on the maiden's body in the form of tattoos, and she carries it on her back.Tattoos can cause pain.Therefore, in order to alleviate the pain of the tattooed maiden, it is necessary for the "town girl" to implement "blame beating".And when the witch is covered with tattoos all over her body and can no longer bear more pain, the "Rite of Precepts" must be performed, and the tattoo wooden nails are used to pierce the limbs of the witch, so that she will fall into a long sleep with the pain she bears.If the tattooed priestess does not fall into a long sleep, or wakes up again from a long sleep, the tattoos will spread into the eyes of the priestess, causing a catastrophe called "broken ring".

Now, this FLAG belongs to Fukaha.And different from the original work, Shen Yu has no town girl, so no one will help her "blame" or perform "precepts" for her, so she must always endure the pain of tattooing by herself.And once an excessive amount of mantra is absorbed, it will directly trigger the revised version of the mantra to "break the precept".

Specifically, she herself transformed into a super curse spirit in an instant, releasing all the pain she had been carrying before, forming a large-scale indiscriminate curse attack.At the same time, a birth area called "Hazama" is automatically generated. "Hazama" is a shrine maiden's nightmare.Will continue to expand as she moves.Not only can it turn all the living people in the coverage area into dead people, and the dead people into curse spirits, it can also randomly attract people who "have strong thoughts and grief for the dead" regardless of physical distance.Those who are recruited will get lost in the dream and enter the "narrow room" to become a curse spirit, while the body left in the real world will turn into black ash like cinders.

"Hazama" will not disappear unless the shrine maiden who "broke the precept" is exterminated.

—I reasonably suspect that the world is targeting me.

This was Fukaha's first reaction after reading the "documentation".

To be reasonable, it's fine that "The Crow" is from her family, but where did "Tattoo" come from?Is it because the Kushi family doesn't need a blood relationship to pick a blue witch?Or is it because Mama Crimson conceived her in the "narrow room"?And is this level of side effects too much?With her magic power, she really "broke the ring". If she runs faster, "Zama" can swallow most of Yokohama City!

Fortunately, tattoos formed by mantras are not permanent.It will slowly dissipate over time, although it is very slow - it takes at least a month for a normal level.Otherwise, she would really wonder if this world is too anti-human. The purpose of creating this technique is to let her harm innocent people more while killing herself.

On the contrary, Mori Ogai's focus is as sharp as ever.After listening to her explanation, the man tilted his head, smiled and narrowed his eyes.

"...That is to say, apart from the pain and not being able to exceed the limit, and the need to rest in time, there are no other shortcomings in Xiao Fuyu's ability?"

Shen Yu blinked, [looked at] the names and usage methods of various painkillers that flashed through his mind, and silently swallowed the words "you are worthy of it".