My shikigami is number one in the world

No matter how nervous you are, you have to go home.

Even though 99 Chao was thinking about the possibility of going to Tokyo to find April Yi and Nura Rikusheng first, he still walked towards the familiar door.

But before the last step of the door, he stopped.

The calmer the sea, the bigger the storm. 99 Zhao was always very accurate about this premonition, but the reason why he didn't leave was because the house was full of summer oil, and he didn't feel any particularly sharp sense of danger.

Then why am I hesitating... 99 Zhao is really regretting that his half-demon power is gone, otherwise he would be more sensitive. In the past, when he was standing at the door, he could hear the movement at home.

He hesitated for a long time, and found that there was no sign of loosening the barrier outside the house. It should be that the two little girls woke up as planned, and the breath of the curse was also very low, although he was not sure whether the low was because of his own weak perception or really low. , it's a good sign first...

When 99 Chao was still hesitating unconsciously, a murderous aura suddenly swept out from the mansion in front of him, swept across the long corridors and the white barriers, and swept across the withered grass and trees bent by the wind. The white flowers made him shiver.

On the contrary, 99 said in his heart that this is right, so he stepped in with confidence.

——It can be seen that Xia Youjie understands the fox's thinking now.

Like a shadow, Xia Youjie appeared in front of the door.

The footsteps were fixed again, and when he wanted to take it back, a pitch-black curtain opened behind the young man, and fell against the barrier. Perhaps the intensity was not high, but it made people feel chills when it appeared.

The boy's eyes slowly opened wide, and his clear black pupils trembled slightly, as if he saw something incomprehensible.

Xia Youjie's facial features are very handsome, but his lines are cold and sharp. He is dressed in black, and when he smiles, it makes people feel a little malicious.But this kind of expression always has a kind of specious tenderness, which makes people unable to help but want to find out the truth of this gentleness. When looking at people with drooping eyelashes, the eyes are as quiet as a deep lake, as if all eyes are on you. There is a bit of gentleness and introversion on your body.

In fact, if someone asked, 99 Chao would say without hesitation that it was because he saw such a troublesome Xia Youjie on the street corner that day that he decided to accept him as a shikigami.

But now 99 Chao just feels something is wrong.

There was no smell of curse, no smell of resentment, no monstrous evil thoughts, Xia Youjie just stood quietly under the eaves and looked at himself, no change from when he was in school.

He wanted to wonder if it was because he lost the power of the monster that he could not detect the breath of the curse, but in that case he should not even be able to see Xia You.

99 Chao, who thought he was well prepared to deal with the curse, lost his voice for a moment, but instead saw the man under the eaves raise the corners of his lips and reveal a soft smile.

"Welcome back, Chao."

99 said cautiously: "If I say that I just want to hear you call me 99, will you be angry?"

Xia Youjie: "So you still have the perception that I will be angry."

99 Chao: "Ah, this."

What's the matter with this posture of preparing to ask questions?

Standing on the edge of the curtain, 99 Chao quickly confessed, "I just concealed the fact that I threw your criminal karma into my curse. It shouldn't be a big deal to you!"

After a pause, he hurriedly added, "It's nothing to my curse, isn't it just right, you are my shikigami and I provide the service of storing sin karma, I think this deal is very worthwhile for you! "

Xia Youjie: "Yes."

"So—" 99 Chao said a series of words, took a deep breath, and asked, "What's going on with you now!?"

Xia Youjie smiled again, and said calmly, "I'll tell you when you come here."

"Do you think I'm stupid!" 99 Chao replied immediately.

"It's pretty silly." Xia Youjie replied even more quickly.

99 towards: ? ? ?

Adhering to the principle that if you don't come, I will go, Xia Youjie stepped forward, and appeared in front of 99 Chao almost in the blink of an eye, grabbed his hand, and led him into the room.

99 Chao was shocked, and soon realized that it was not Xia You who had become faster but his own reaction had slowed down. He grabbed a spell and threw it at Xia Youjie with a loud slap.

But nothing happened.

Xia Youjie pulled him and tore off the spell with a half-smile, "I'm in a normal state now, are you disappointed?"

The sound of footsteps thumping in the hallway, accompanied by the soft complaint of "Then can you not pull me, I will go by myself", two puppet girls poked their heads from upstairs, Xia Youjie took a look at them and told them, "Go back to the attic go."

"...No, I am their master now, right?" 99 Chao hurriedly looked over, "At least let me see them."

"You can get to know each other well after that," Xia Youjie kept on walking, making his own decision as if standing at the height of his parents, then raised his eyebrows, and rolled out a title from the tip of his tongue in a particularly gentle voice, "Master."

His voice was originally low, but 99 Chao could clearly hear a desire called danger from this title, blushed, stopped and started a dragon, and he was dragged into the room.

Xia Youjie has a lot of debts to settle with 99 Chao, but the first thing to do is to make this fox understand a problem.

"Do you remember what you said before you left?" he asked 99 Chao.

In the end, it was okay not to mention it, but when he mentioned 99, his face turned even redder, and he shrank his neck and looked at him in surprise.

After a long while, he said hesitantly: "I don't think the focus now is this..."

"Really," Xia Youjie snorted softly, "You want to know why I didn't become a curse spirit, and you said that you wanted me to leave, but the barrier you set up was not to resist foreign curses, but It was to restrict my departure, even to prevent me from recovering my memory, and to play the emotional card of Mimiko and Nanako."

99 shifted his gaze, Xia You was so smart, it was still noticed.

He considered the words for a while, but said without blushing: "After all, you have been with me for so long, and I will be a little bit reluctant to part with you. Anyway, I don't have much strength now. If you..."

"99 Chaos." Xia Youjie interrupted him.

They stood very close, the man leaned close to the boy, his deep lake-like eyes no longer smiled.

He raised his 99-faced face slightly, stared at his face seriously, and suddenly asked, "Say you like me."

99 Chao: "You—"

He leaned down slightly, his voice was soft and serious, "You want to know if you have the ability to like someone, I'll give it to you."

The heartbeat seemed to have stopped, and there was only a monotonous sound like tinnitus in my head.

what?

What is Xia You talking about?

Not only was it a crash, but even his confident thinking ability was directly wiped out.

99 Chao froze in place, feeling like he was covered in cold sweat, and also felt dizzy before his eyes.

But he can still damn well see Xia You's eyes.

[I want to bet on whether I have the ability to like someone. 】

Before he came back to his senses, Xia Youjie asked him: "At first, didn't you just want to find a substitute?"

99 Chao was even more sluggish, but he answered honestly, "...No, no, I just think you look good."

Then he bit the tip of his tongue himself, as if trying to swallow the answer, and patched it up, "And because of some other... eh?"

There was a temperature on his lips, and Xia Youjie was rubbing his pale lip color with his thumb, "I think—even though I may not have proved this, but I think that as a normal person, there is a starting point for liking someone There are all kinds of things, but there is always one thing: I hope the other party can get better.

"I looked at your past. Do you know what I heard in it? I can still remember that voice."

It was a cry of pain.

Unlike any other time.

The half-grown boy, who had no mood swings, was surrounded by lava and fire when he opened his eyes, licking in the bright and beautiful light like gold.

"You did it very well, 99 Chao." Xia Youjie said very calmly, but his voice sounded like a dark gauze falling down, "I feel like a piece of my heart has been dug out, dripping with blood, it has never hurt so much .”

【I treated him favorably, concealed him, deceived him, and won his sympathy. 】

99 Chao's voice trembled, "This...how did you..."

The warm fingertips slowly rubbed his eyes again, revealing all the answers.

"I like you, 99 Chaos." The person in front confessed first, and then said, "You saw me."

Whether in the phantom of the past, or in the streets of Tokyo.

"And I watch you."

Looking into your eyes is a joke from time, so the gods don't know, and neither do you.

"It's me." Xia Youjie repeated to him in a voice so low that he couldn't hear clearly.

"It's always been me."

"Understood, you... cunning fox."

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