Curse this wonderful world

32: [The Curse of 32]

If Shen Yu could [see] Xia Youjie's inner voice at this moment, he would definitely shake his head vigorously and answer him "no" very calmly.It's a pity that she called for a long time - the call was from a private detective she commissioned, and the content was a report on the recent situation of her former adoptive mother, Ms. Inoue, and an antique coffee shop in Higami Mountain.The former is purely her self-satisfaction.After meeting Mori Ogai and deciding to become a big pillar, Fukaha never thought about recognizing her adoptive mother again—she was going to leave anyway, so why would Bien make her suffer the pain of her adoptive daughter's disappearance twice?But she still feels a little guilty, so she has been hiring private detectives to regularly check on her adoptive mother, and she has left a sum of money with them, telling them to help her adoptive mother when she needs it.

The latter is to confirm the progress of her family's [plot].According to her age in the original work, the year when the [plot] took place can be roughly deduced, but there is no definite date.And now that it has become a reality, no one can guarantee whether this time will be exactly as she remembers.Although you can wait for the contact from the main office of the shrine—they are professional in observing Mount Higami, Fukaha still has a little selfishness.When playing games, she really likes Himino Fuyuyo and Baibaise Harukawa.So she decided to try to see if she could save them.To achieve this, the key is to get accurate "time on stage".Among all the characters in the original work, Mika Kurosawa, who runs an antique coffee shop near Higami Mountain, is the most suitable reference.There is no need to invade Miss Mihua's privacy at close range, as long as the private detective pays attention to the customers entering and leaving the coffee shop.

Such calls are bound to be lengthy.When Shen Yu finished the call and returned to his seat, the two boys had already changed the subject.However, the power of the kindergarten straight ball is too great. As a witch who is particularly sensitive to emotions, Fukaha still has some clues.Although there is no evidence, she just feels that the relationship between the two seems to be getting better.

—I always feel like something happened while I was away.

The dark-haired girl blinked her eyes while sipping the apple juice in the glass.But she is a beautiful girl who knows how to read the air, so of course she wouldn't foolishly ask her natal friends if you are secretly giving candy behind my back.Ah, it’s better to say that seeing these two in the same frame is sugar for her——as a very principled OTAKU, Shen Yu certainly knows that Wu Xiawu is just her personal YY, but even if you leave this With a little thought, seeing their friendship and interaction, she is already very happy every day.

After all, how many people who like "Curse Return" can't be moved by the phrase "one and only".

"Thank you for the hospitality!" He finished his pizza with the background sound of the two students chatting.Fukaha made a pun very sincerely.

Of course, this kind of meme that only she knows in the world will not be obtained.Xia Youjie looked at Shen Yu, "Are you full?"

"En!" The black-haired girl nodded vigorously.

Wujo Wu raised his eyebrows, "That's all? You eat too little, don't you?" Only two pizzas?feed the birds is this?

How do you describe it?Shen Yu was not convinced: "Is the pizza super easy to fill up?" She also ate other snacks, and the two pieces are already a super level.

"I don't think so at all." Wujo Wu shook his head and said with emotion, "No wonder you are not tall."

"Hey!"

"Cough." Seeing that Shen Yu was about to jump up, Xia Youjie cleared his throat, and quickly changed the subject, "Since we've eaten enough, what do you want to do next?"

"Eh?" Shen Yu's attention was diverted immediately, "Is there anything else?" She thought that the only thing she had to do today was eat.

"Of course." Gojo Satoru raised the corners of his mouth, "It's only 19:00 now! It must be there, right? I don't want to go back to school so soon. Right, Jie."

"Indeed. Today ended earlier." Xia Youjie looked at Shen Yu and smiled, "You can still play for a while."

--Wow!Is it so good!

Fukaba's eyes lit up immediately.Although I feel a little sorry for the left-behind Nitzi, it is true that she hasn't been released for a long time.After quickly going through the things she wanted to do in her mind, she suddenly had a flash of inspiration, "Xia You! Let's go to the movies? I want to! And I don't think Wu Tiao must have seen a movie!"

"Huh?" The white-haired boy suddenly opened his eyes wide, "What kind of impression do you have about me?"

"Six eyes in a deep boudoir."

Xia Youjie suddenly rolled his eyes. "Pfft." He didn't want to laugh, but this description was too apt.

"Hey!" Gojo Goku glared at him, then turned to Shen Yu, "Who are you talking about?"

"So have you seen it?" Shen Yu looked up, "I mean the kind that buys tickets with everyone and enters the venue while drinking Coke and eating popcorn!"

Gojo Satoru was at a loss for words.That's... really not...

"Look! I'll just say it!" Shen Yu immediately became proud, "Life is incomplete without eating popcorn in the movie theater!" After she finished speaking, she immediately looked at Xia Youjie: "Xia You! Hurry up Arrange! We must take action to complete Gojo Satoru's life!"

"Yeah. Indeed." Seeing the dissatisfied white-haired cat with a look of interest in his eyes, Xia Youjie smiled and nodded, "As a friend, it seems that I have a great responsibility. .”

So the young conjurers with great responsibilities played happily until almost 22 o'clock before rushing back to school.Fortunately, the situation of the high school is special, there is no such thing as access control, and the dormitory management never dictates the schedule of the conjurers.

It's a pity that there are not many opportunities to surf from afternoon to night.Due to their relatively high average strength, since they opened the door called "tasks", their class has quickly followed in the footsteps of their predecessors, living a life of more tasks than rest.Shen Yu was still thinking about bringing Nitzi to play with her next time, but she couldn't get enough people for several weekends and Sundays.

Even, they who have to take care of their studies are even worse than the seniors who have graduated.The calendar turned to July. One day when Shen Yu and Xia Youjie were sitting on the Shinkansen heading to the destination of the mission, and watched him take out an English vocabulary book, he realized that the final exam would be two weeks away. up.

"...this semester has passed so quickly?" Shen Yu snapped her fingers, becoming more and more stunned, and couldn't help but look up at Xia Youjie, "What's going on? I don't think I've done anything yet, three gone in a month?"

However, as the person being asked, Xia Youjie was surprised by her speech. "What do you mean you didn't do anything?" Leaving aside the first day of school that he still remembers so far and the series of nonsense caused by her spells, since Shen Yu started to go on missions with them, Xia You Jie has seen what it means that one plus one is greater than two.

Gojo Satoru, who is full of curiosity and lacks in ethics and lacks in daily problems, is already very lively, plus a lively and energetic Hinasaki Fukaha who will give you a skin from time to time, if the task itself is serious and heavy, He felt that he was living on the variety show scene every day—and not as an audience, but as a guest.

Among other things, "In less than a month, you and Satoru have already visited all the dessert shops in Shinjuku and Tokyo Station, right?" Packing and taking away—the euphemistic name is "give the nitrous a taste" and most of them end up in their own stomachs—the way of shopping.Thanks to these two, Xia Youjie felt that he could contribute to a gourmet magazine.

Speaking of it, Xia Youjie found it miraculous, but it's okay to be enlightened. After all, he is at that age, and the consumption is there.What happened to Shen Yu?Because of level issues, Shen Yu followed him on missions more often than Gojo Satoru.During this period of time, he has mastered many of her habits.She really doesn't eat much, why can she eat so much when she enters the dessert shop?The first time he saw the black-haired girl eating three pieces of cake and being able to add another parfait, he was shocked. What kind of discrimination is this?

"Because desserts are placed in the stomach of another dimension."

There's no such thing as, "You just don't eat dinner?"

"Hey~ No. Didn't Gojo and I accompany you to find a delicious soba noodle restaurant?"

"Then you throw all the tempura to me and take two bites of noodles, and it's over."

"It's not lost!" Shen Yu protested, "I gave it to you because you like to eat it!"

But Xia Youjie was not fooled, "It's because I like to eat." He corrected, "And you can't eat it."

"Woo!" The little animal who had been exposed suddenly made a guilty sound.

This is the time to be honest.Xia Youjie felt that he was going to become the No. [-] breeder if he went on like this, so he reached out and tapped Shen Yu on the forehead, and he sighed: "Anyway, I still have to eat, right?" I don't understand what the girl is thinking , so thin, still lose weight?Ah, this little animal probably doesn't have the nerve to lose weight if it eats desserts like this.what is that?Children's partial eclipse?

"There is no partial eclipse."

She just experimented too much recently and couldn't eat anything other than sweets.Different from having fun, in the past few weeks, Fukaha has been actively preparing for her "Spell Spirit Ball Taste [Watching] Project".Whether it's with Wujo or Xiayou's outstanding mission, considering efficiency, most of them act separately.This gave her a lot of opportunities to experiment.

But of course Xia Xia couldn't know this.So, if I have to say, "It's just a bit of a bitter summer." Seeing Xia Youjie flipping through the vocabulary book with double-edged attention, Shen Yu muttered, and lay down on the open small table.Regardless of her cheek being pressed into a strange shape, she blinked and looked at Xia Youjie's finger on the page.

They were long and powerful fingers with well-defined joints, and thin calluses on the finger pads and joints.

It is completely different from the callused hands of ordinary high school students.

——Ah, how disgusting, the current mood must also be due to the influence of doing too many experiments recently.

Shen Yu closed her eyes, "...you have eaten less recently than before."

Xia Youjie's eyes paused after browsing the words. Just as he was about to look at Shen Yu, he saw that the girl had buried her face in her arms like a child, and she was still complaining vaguely: "I don't like summer. La."

"Is that so..."

"It's hot and humid, and the typhoon brings a lot of rain every year." Whether it's in Yokohama or now, it's too catastrophic to send out missions on rainy days.She paused, and added, "The most annoying thing is that there are mosquitoes."

"Well. Mosquitoes are really annoying."

"The cicadas are also very noisy. In short, apart from being able to go to the beach, there is nothing good to do."

Fukaha, who has always been energetic, rarely showed such a listless look.Xia Youjie looked at the standard angel circle reflected by the light inside the Shinkansen car on the girl's dark hair, imagining her puffy bear-like expression at the moment, paused, reached out and gently rubbed her head All of a sudden, the corners of his mouth curled up.

"Ah, I don't like it either."

But I don't like the duo in Xia Tian, ​​so I still have to go on missions in Xia Tian.And the location is the deep mountains and old forests that Fukaba just complained about.

After getting off the Shinkansen, he met the local assistant supervisor who was in charge of picking up people. Seeing the car driving more and more sideways, Fukaha's expression became more and more serious.When the car stopped at the end of the gravel road, there was only a hiking trail among the dense trees, Fukaba said hello to the auxiliary supervisor of the car, and then took out a bottle of unscented mosquito repellent from his schoolbag Liquid, sprayed himself from top to bottom.

After spraying, he immediately handed the bottle to Xia Youjie.

You don't need to be polite at this time, mosquitoes don't care what level of magician you are.Xia Youjie took it, and sprayed his arm while thinking, Wujo Wu is probably the only exception.

Shen Yu immediately nodded vigorously in agreement, "At this time, I am especially envious of unlimited."

indeed so.Xia Youjie nodded, and suddenly laughed inwardly. If Wu knew that his no-lower-limit spell was envied by the two classmates for this reason, he didn't know how he would feel—of course, he wouldn't tell him.Pass the small bottle back to Shen Yu, watch her put it in the bag, and hand over the school bag to the assistant supervisor.The black-haired girl adjusted her straps, raised her head, and looked at him.

"Let's go."

"Yeah." Xia Youjie nodded, and smiled at Mr. Assistant Superintendent in his early forties, "Just ask Mr. Sagawa to wait for us here. If necessary, we will release the account by ourselves. After the end, call connect."

"Yes." Mr. Auxiliary Supervisor, who seemed weak in writing and a bit introverted, nodded quickly, "I wish you both good fortune."

And what responded to him was the boy and the girl speaking in unison.

"Thank you."

The young conjurers who could be his children in terms of age smiled at each other, waved their hands, turned their backs to him, and walked forward.