Curse this wonderful world

85: [The Curse of 85]

Dinner was arranged at the high-end Japanese food shop of Takashi Enomoto Hotel.No matter how marginal Enomoto is in the director's meeting, he is still the head of the family, and the super magician is not short of money.This store is very private, once the box door is closed, it is very suitable for talking about things that cannot be heard by ordinary people.

——Although even if it is heard, the biggest possibility is that it will be mistaken for the second disease of the elderly.Ah, based on the impression of Takanao Enomoto, maybe it will be regarded as the world view of some fantasy novel?

Xia Youjie was thinking nonsensically, when he heard Enomoto ask, "Xia You-kun, would you like some wine?"

"No, I don't need it."

"Yes, you are still young." The middle-aged man ordered himself a drink and sighed, "At my age, I can't sleep well without drinking a little wine at night." As he spoke, a slight smile appeared on his face. With a helpless and heavy tired look.

"...Because of pressure?"

"Probably." As if realizing that he was complaining to the junior, Enomoto smiled ambiguously, and suddenly changed the subject, "Xia You-kun, why did you become a conjurer?"

"what?"

"Ah, don't misunderstand, don't misunderstand." Enomoto smiled wryly, and explained under Xia Youjie's strange eyes: "I'm not asking for anything from the higher authorities. It's just, Xia Youjun, you are different from us. You are ordinary Born in a family, there is also the option of not becoming a magician? I am just a little curious."

As he spoke, he didn't ask any further questions, but continued with a bit of a sigh. "Those of us who come from the family of conjurers, whether it is responsibility or restraint, in short, we are probably born to be conjurers. On the contrary, without the talent to become conjurers, we cannot survive in such an environment. Survived. Of course, using the word 'survival' may be a bit exaggerated. But since you are familiar with Master Wutiao, you should also know something about the situation of some aristocratic families, right?"

"Is it the Zenyuan or the Kamo family?"

"Yeah." Enomoto laughed, and he squinted his eyes. "It seems unbelievable to a conjurer born in an ordinary family. In the 21st century, there are still concubines and bastards. The family motto of the Buddhist monastery is, 'No A conjurer is not considered a human, isn't it too much?"

Xia Youjie nodded.Indeed.

"However," Enomoto suddenly changed the topic, "Once you think that the original intention of all this is to exorcise the curse spirit, you will feel very sad."

Emphasis on bloodlines, marrying concubines is to give birth to more children with spell power and spells, or who can inherit the spells passed down from generation to generation.The same goes for peeking at the spells of other conjurers, or trying to use women with unique spells as reproductive machines.In such an environment, of course limited resources would not be wasted on heirs who did not have spells—that is, they were useless.From the Heian period to the present, the aristocratic families have always operated in this way, but with time, the rotten parts continue to accumulate, like a swamp full of fallen leaves, and finally become a pool of rotten stagnant water.

"But even so, it is still impossible without aristocratic families. The aristocratic families headed by the Yusanjia have built the foundation of the current conjuration world. Curses, spells, and seals. The aristocratic families are in charge of various knowledge inheritance and history, even Now the textbooks of the two colleges are compiled based on the information provided by them. Without their cooperation, conjurers born in ordinary families would not even have the opportunity to receive systematic education. Of course, it is a new society now , with the government in place, for their own survival, it is impossible for them to cherish themselves like before.”

"In short, in the eyes of a conjurer from an ordinary family like Mr. Xia You, they—or we—are all a bunch of old feudalists. But in fact, the family has compromised a lot."

Enomoto propped his head on one hand and said.His eyes are a little distant.Xia Youjie felt that instead of talking to himself, he was simply pouring out his depressed feelings to him in an ordinary family.However, what Enomoto said was indeed reasonable-mainly because he wanted something from others, so Xia Youjie listened patiently.

However, Enomoto Takanao's next words made Xia Youjie's eyes move slightly.

"However, in my opinion, this is meaningless at all. It doesn't matter whether it's a compromise, an organization, or the existence of the Conjuration Director's Council or even the conjuration world itself. It doesn't make any sense." Enomoto Takahashi narrowed his eyes, This expression made his serious facial features look a bit cold.

"Because the curse spirit cannot be exorcised."

As Enomoto said, he turned his gaze to Xia Youjie, as if he wanted to look into his heart.

"We all know that curse spirits are born from the negative emotions of human beings. Malice towards others: jealousy, killing intent, desire to hurt; If you continue to think, you are still a social animal, so you need as much as you want. Even a saint who has never had the idea of ​​hurting others cannot live without anxiety or fear. Even indifference is a negative A kind of emotion."

"In my opinion, to get rid of these things is to fight against human nature. Compared with the population of Japan, compared to the speed and frequency of the production of magic spirits, how many magicians are there? If we compare the number of magic spells in Japan The number of magicians and the number of magic spirits are placed at the two ends of the scale, so they cannot be measured at all? Then, what is the difference between what we magicians do, and what is the difference between what we magicians do, and ants trying to lift small stones to fill up the river channel that broke the embankment? "

"The most important thing is, Xia You-kun, do you know?" Enomoto suddenly bent his lips, "Conjurers don't produce curse spirits."

"——!" Xia Youjie was stunned.

"Well, no. Ah, of course, except for the case where the conjurer himself becomes a curse after death." Enomoto tilted his head, and there was a mocking, sneering look in his eyes. "Have you learned it before? The conjurer squeezes negative emotions to generate mana, which circulates in the body and drives the spells engraved on the body. Therefore, the curse is equal to the mana, which is bound and circulated in the body. But ordinary people do not have such ability."

"It is ordinary people who create the curse, but it is the conjurer who does not cast the curse. Don't you think it is ironic, Mr. Xia You? Ordinary people know nothing, but the conjurer is working hard for These ignorant people are busy with curses. But no matter how busy we are, there will be no fewer curses to exorcise."

Enomoto said, took a sip from the wine glass, paused, and said, "Xia You-kun, I almost died in a mission. Not only that, but a colleague who went with me died in that mission."

"Ah." Xia Youjie nodded hesitantly, "...I've heard of this."

But Xia Youjie didn't know that Enomoto had colleagues at that time.Of course, he didn't say that rashly at this time.

The middle-aged man then smiled—the kind that didn't have much of a smile.After laughing, he squinted his eyes and looked at the wine glass in his hand, and didn't mention anything about his colleagues.He just turned the topic back to himself.

"I'm ashamed to say it. My ability as a conjurer is not outstanding, and quasi-level one is already the limit. But as the head of the family, at least one level is required. That's what the Kamo family said, so I barely became it A first-level conjurer. Then, I encountered a curse that cannot be removed."

"'In order to protect ordinary people at the scene', that's written in the report. But it's not really counted." Enomoto cocked the corner of his mouth mockingly, "...just suddenly feel very tired."

At that moment, I realized that I couldn't get rid of the curse spirit with powerful spells, and I couldn't save my colleagues who were dying, and I couldn't keep the ordinary people involved in the scene safe, so I didn't know what to do.

In other words, the desire to survive was lost.

After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he suddenly raised his head, "Mr. Xia You, so, why do you say we are exorcising the curse spirit? Curse magicians—or what we are doing now is really meaningful. ?"

Xia Youjie couldn't answer this question.Feeling the silence of the young man, Enomoto Takanao seemed to wake up, and immediately pulled the corners of his mouth apologetically.

"Ah, I'm sorry, Mr. Xia You. Sure enough, I'm getting old, and I started complaining to you before I knew it." Realizing that his long speech was inappropriate, the middle-aged man waved his hands pretending to be cheerful, "You and I It's different. You are a super magician, don't take the crazy words of these unsuccessful losers to heart."

After finishing speaking, he straightened his expression, reached out his hand and took out a stack of photocopied materials from the purse beside him, with his usual gentle smile, he changed the subject on purpose.

"Let's get back to today's topic. About the bondage you asked me about..."

Shen Yu didn't know that on this day, after Xia Youjie missed the appointment to have dinner with her, what he heard was a very serious and heavy topic.

Because Xia Youjie looked normal and relaxed after returning to the college.Not only brought her the pudding bought on the way, but also got tired of her for a long time at night.When holding her on the sofa and watching TV, I would kiss her hair and cheek from time to time.He had to travel again the next day, so he apologized many times.In the end, Fukaha simply blocked his mouth with pudding when he opened his mouth.

"You're so annoying~ You said I don't care anymore." She held a spoon in one hand, and grabbed his bangs with the other and tugged.

"It's too much." Xia Youjie swallowed the pudding, quickly freed his bangs, and stretched out his hand to pinch Shen Yu's face with a smile.

Shen Yu immediately hid with a smile.She really doesn't care about these.Even though the reason Xia Youjie gave was "meet a senior in the magic world" instead of "temporary assignment", she was not unhappy about it at all, but felt that Xia Youjie could get to know more people in the magic world , It is a very good thing to have your own contacts.

If she had to say it, it was a pity that she couldn't [see] through other people's hearts at a glance now, and couldn't help Xia Xia in terms of interpersonal communication.

So before Xia Youjie left the house the next day, she also warned: "If you are busy or have other things, you can contact me at any time. I really don't care. Rest when it's time to rest, don't rush back to accompany me Yes. I'm not a child anymore."

"Okay." Xia Youjie nodded and agreed with a smile.

He always does what he promises.Afterwards, Shen Yu also received several calls from Xia Youjie, "I might not be able to make it back soon" or "I'm back in Tokyo, but I won't be going back to the high school this year, so I'll come to you tomorrow morning" .Although a little lonely, she relaxed a little.Knowing how to rest is a good thing.In addition, after learning from Xiaowu that a magician who has a good relationship with Xia Xia is "not a very bad rotten orange", Shen Yu felt more at ease while laughing.

Xiao Wu is very picky when it comes to rotten oranges, and if he says they are not rotten, then there is no problem.

But even with a lot of relief, Fukaba's nerves were not completely relaxed.On the one hand, it was because the main hall of the shrine and Osamu Dazai had not made any progress, and on the other hand, the more she [observed], the more she found that Xia Youjie's mission was really unfriendly.

Although Xia Youjie never mentioned it—because there is no happiness in any mission, so the few of them have not talked about the content of their respective missions since before—but Shen Yu would watch his negative emotions at the same time. These memory fragments are all content that will make ordinary people feel sick or feel cold.Shen Yu deeply felt that if Xia Youjie's report was compiled into a book, it would probably be called "Handbook of Malicious Human Observation".

Obviously there are relatively normal tasks - such as imaginary curse spirits born in urban legends or traditional stories and other curses with unknown origins.But just like aiming at super magicians born in ordinary families, or verifying the saying that "spell spirits are born from negative emotions of human beings", the ones assigned to Xia Youjie are all the types who want to be published in social news .

If it wasn't for Xia Xia's morality being the highest among the few of them, she wouldn't be too mentally clean, and she had a "seeing" weapon that could clear up his accumulated negative emotions with one click, Shen Yu would be worried about herself One day when I return to the college, what I meet is not a smiling breeder, but a sneering leader Jie.

But even with 【Looking】, Fukaba didn't dare to relax completely. [Looking] It can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause, Xia Xia has a criminal record in the original work.As long as people are still thinking, they will have negative emotions at any time.So while she was working hard, she didn't forget to recruit the junior and junior students.

Huiyuan's cheerfulness is very healing. This child looks carefree, but he is actually very sensitive. When she is not around, let him pester Xiaxia more, don't give him time to think about it alone.Xiaowu should give full play to the advantages of the Wutiao family, and make good use of the rotten oranges so that they don't get too far.

The former was quite successful.But as a result of the latter, Wujo Wu and Xia Youjie's tasks were exchanged simply and rudely.Gojo Satoru didn't care, he and Shen Yu were a little crazier than Xia Youjie, and he was quite indifferent to what happened to unrelated outsiders.But Xia Youjie cared.When he found out, he couldn't laugh or cry, saying that the two of them were messing around, and they just changed the task back.

This is also the reason why I never told Xia Youjie that you should not do this kind of mission or stop being a magician—he would never listen to him.

It was very helpless.Shen Yu could only strongly dislike Gojo Satoru's lack of strength, which made the latter almost explode.In the end, the two people, one black and one white, came to the conclusion that after all, the bastards above were not good.However, Gojo Satoru's usual diss, the rotten oranges, began to feel that Fukaba had made a fuss over a molehill.

"Jie is not as weak as you think?" White-haired DK raised his eyebrows lazily, "It has been said that we are the strongest. You guys are just worrying about it."

Shen Yu couldn't spoil him—whether it was saying that these small things might shake Xia Youjie's ideas, or worrying that he hated ordinary people because of this, it was already within the scope of spoilers—but he couldn't listen to Gojo Satoru when he tapped on the side, After several times, I could only silently give up this useless white hair.

But she still poked his belly to remind him: "Anyway, you should play with him more and pay more attention to his situation! Jie won't tell me if he is unhappy, and you are the only one left. "

"Got it." Gojo Satoru agreed in a drawn-out tone.In my heart, I am not surprised at all.With Jie's character, he would have trouble with Shen Yu.The girl he likes is not a trash can, and if he has something unhappy himself, he can only complain to Shen Yu vaguely.Who would tell her from the beginning to the end to make her unhappy together.

About Bijie...

"Xiao Mi, what's the matter with your spell power?" Gojo Satoru pushed his sunglasses, "Who told me that it would recover? Why did you go back when I didn't come back after a few days?"

"Ah, this is normal. I'll tell you later. Didn't Nishi also say that I'm very healthy? Don't ask me any more." Seeing Gojo Satoru turned his gun, Fukaha quickly changed the subject.

There's no way, and she can't tell Xiao Wu that every time she is almost full, she has to go back to the sun and go up the mountain to recharge the doll-speaking of which, Xia Xia won't ask her questions about spell power or spells recently.Hey~ At this time, I feel that Xia Xia's personality is quite good...

Fortunately, even though he couldn't completely settle down, Shen Yu never saw Xia Youjie's face blacken every minute after that.In short, although the situation did not suddenly improve.But it didn't continue to be bad.With Fukaba struggling to maintain balance and their respective busy schedules, winter is coming to an end.The cherry blossoms in the campus are from bud to bloom, and it is another spring year.

"Time flies so fast." Shen Yu looked out of the window and couldn't help sighing.

The two students downstairs were bouncing around—to be exact, Huiyuan bouncing around Nanami—and walked towards the teaching building.The freshman who didn't know anything back then has become someone else's senior in a blink of an eye.

Ah, speaking of which. "Jie~" She turned her head and looked at the back of him packing his luggage, "Have you seen this year's freshmen? I didn't see many people in your building."

"I haven't come yet. I heard from Noctua that I and my family are still struggling, and I may enter school later. What's wrong?"

"It's nothing, Wu seems to have met him before. It seems that he came to visit the school at that time." Shen Yu smiled, "You say that, I deeply doubt that the freshmen are not entangled because they met Wu Wu?"

In Fukaba's memory, it seems that Yizhiji is Nanami and Huibara's junior?If so, um, with Ichiji's character, it would be very tangled.

"Pfft, it's hard to say." Although he didn't know who the new student was, Xia Youjie knew Wujo Wu.So Shen Yu laughed as soon as he said it, "But it's okay. We are all busy now, and the freshmen can't meet Enlightenment when they come in." As for Gojo Satoru, he won't be so boring that he will specifically block the freshmen to make trouble.

As he spoke, Xia Youjie straightened up and walked back to the table after finishing tidying up his things. He reached out and grabbed a handful of candy from the tin box on the table, and stuffed it into his pocket.At the same time, he looked at Shen Yu whose eyes followed his movements, and the corner of his mouth deepened.

"What's the matter? Can't bear it?"

"Who doesn't want to." Shen Yu looked up and saw Xia Youjie smiling with "bad intentions".She blushed suddenly, "Eat candy, eat candy, what am I doing? You are so boring."

This tin box is her candy box.After that [watching], this box of candy was confiscated by Xia Youjie.Every time he goes on a business trip, he grabs a handful and takes them away, and asks her to replenish them after eating them all.In his words, when he is away on a business trip without Fukaba by his side, he can eat sugar to clear his mouth.After all, he sometimes goes away for several days now, and he may not always meet Shen Yu every time he comes back. It is not realistic to save all the magic spirit balls and deal with her together.

As for why he snatched her instead of buying it himself, of course it was because Shen Yu's candy taste was very good, which just saved him from looking far away.

Of course, Shen Yu didn't believe this reason-every time this man took candy, he smiled at her like a fool.

"Don't think I don't know what you're thinking because I can't see it. It's gone today." After Shen Yu finished speaking, he glanced at the clock on the wall, jumped off the chair and stretched out his hand to push him, "Hurry up, hurry up, when the time comes Alright, I'll take you to the door."

Saying that, Shen Yu looked up helplessly at the 180 cm muscular young man who couldn't move at all, and gave up on himself, "I'll let you kiss the head office casually when you come back, right?"

"Hmm~" Xia Youjie frowned, "You said so."

"Yes, I said so."

Shen Yu said without any fear.She had already figured it out, Xia Xia would bring the magic ball with her when she came back.If he said that, he would come to him immediately.She just happened to be able to [look] away the magic ball and his negative emotions.As for the new side effects.Thinking back then, she didn’t reveal any of the super magic spirits in front of the overtime teacher of the three students of the same grade. Isn’t it because the negative emotions she saw would be linked with those accumulated by the priestesses of Rishangshan over the years?After this period of time, Shen Yu felt that he had completely mastered all kinds of new tricks!

Heh heh heh~ She is Hinasaki Fukaha-sama with superb acting skills

Thinking of this, Shen Yu became a little proud again.Anyway, her [Looking] really came in handy.The black-haired girl was in a good mood because of this, she was still smiling when she saw Xia Youjie's car at the school gate when she saw the auxiliary supervisor's car.

She originally wanted to send Xia Youjie to the car, but as soon as she saw the car, her phone ding-dong thought about it.

Xia Youjie smiled.

"It seems that Wushui woke up." The black-haired young man who knew the ringtone of Shen Yu's cell phone smiled and reached out to pat her on the head, "Go and be with him. This guy came back at midnight last night, and we weren't there the last time he came back , if you don’t coax me any more, there will probably be trouble.”

Although I don't know why, Shen Yu has put more energy on himself recently, and Xia Youjie is not indifferent.

"Then I went?"

"Well, go. Come back and bring you dessert." Xia Youjie stroked Shen Yu's black hair again, and watched the girl turn and leave.It wasn't until her figure became hazy among the flowers and trees that he narrowed his eyes.

It's not that he doesn't want to ask about Deep Feather spells and restraints.It's just that the last conversation with Takanao Enomoto gave him a deeper understanding of "bondage".Although he didn't disclose the details of the bondage he inquired about throughout the whole process, the information that Enomoto Takanao gave him is not quite right.But Takanao Enomoto's words are still useful.According to what he said, the price of being able to interfere with the shackles of the spell is basically relatively severe. If you are not sure, it is better not to ask me.

"Restraint itself is a bit of a word game. The price and content are completely determined by the two parties. You can request 'not to disclose or forget the content of the bondage'. Even if the requirement is 'not to let a third party know', If you explain to the party who is bound that 'I already know the content of your bondage' without authorization, the other party may be in danger because of violating taboos."

Xia Youjie knew the first points, but it was the first time he had heard of the latter points.But when Enomoto Xiaozhi demonstrated Xia Youjie's curse spirit and proved his words, he immediately became more cautious.Afterwards, he even contacted Gojo Satoru and told him to be careful.

All he and Satoru did was to help Shen Yu solve the problem.If instead you hurt Fukaba for your own reasons...

Xia Youjie let out a breath, cut off his thoughts, turned around and walked towards the car parked at the school gate.

The one who went on a mission with him today was Kagawa Kana—the Miss Kagawa that Fukaha and Wu also like very much—so Xia Youjie is not polite.He directly opened the door of the back seat, and was about to get in the car, but was surprised to see that there was already a guest in the back seat.

"Mr. Enomoto?"

"Mr. Xia You, excuse me. Long time no see."

The person sitting in the back seat was the person who was still in Xia Youjie's thinking just now.Seeing Xia Youjie, Enomoto Takanao smiled and nodded to him with a gentle expression that didn't match the serious facial features as usual.

"Long time no see, why are you here?" Xia Youjie raised his eyebrows.

"Ah. Xiayou-kun!" Kagawa Kana in the driver's seat quickly explained, "That's right. Master Enomoto came to the high school to handle business, but it seems that he has to go back to Kyoto for a while. His entourage can't leave now. Because we also It happened to be going to Tokyo Station, so Enomoto-sama asked if he could drop him off."

"That's it." Takashi Enomoto smiled apologetically, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry to trouble Xia You-kun."

"Oh, it doesn't matter at all." Xia Youjie nodded.When Kagawa said it, he understood.This business trip is an ordinary task that can be completed in one day, and there is nothing to keep secret, even if he and Kagawa chat about the content of the task in the car, it doesn't matter.It's just a drop-off, he doesn't mind.

With that in mind, Xia Youjie got into the car.As soon as the car started, he was just about to find something to talk about, but Enomoto Takanao spoke first.

"The one just now is Hinasaki-sama, right? I've heard about it, but this is the first time I've seen it. The relationship between the two of you is really good." Apparently, while sitting in the car, he saw the scene of two young people saying goodbye. Takanao Enomoto She smiled gently, and sighed: "It's amazing. So is Xia You-kun, and so is Hinasaki-sama. [Looking at] Miko-sama, who sees the sins and pains of the world, she's just a child at all."