Gunslinger from Butei

Sendai.The interior of a large shopping mall including a four-story above-ground building and a three-story underground building——

There is no longer the prosperity of the past.

The well-decorated glass windows were broken one after another, and both the shop assistants and customers were screaming and running away frantically.From time to time, people could be seen lying in a pool of blood, but no one could detect the source of the attack, and invisible fear shrouded everyone's hearts.

"Ahhh!!!" A girl with delicate makeup felt empty under her feet for some reason while running, and she seemed to be floating out of thin air.

In the eyes of others, the back collar of the girl's exquisite little coat seemed to be grabbed by invisible big hands, and an upward fold appeared out of thin air, matching her limbs constantly struggling in the air, it was not so much floating as it was floating. Picked up by some hideous, invisible monster! !

Everyone screamed, and at the critical juncture, they all instinctively distanced themselves from the area where the girl was. Only the girl's miserable wailing echoed in the cold air.

"Don't! Help me—help me!!!"

The girl burst into tears, she seemed to feel something foul-smelling gently touching her neck, and then the back of her neck was slightly cooled, and she felt something warm flowing out——

She lowered her head in a daze, and the blood-red liquid that slid down filled her sight.

Ah, am I dying.

It's just so light and insubstantial——

death.

Bang.

During the few seconds when her mind was completely filled with fear, the girl almost lost the specific perception of time and the environment, until she felt something exploded at close range and splashed on her face, and the flow of time around her It seems to be back to normal.But at this moment, she felt that the strength that had fixed her had disappeared, and her body began to fall uncontrollably.

All of a sudden, all the feelings of death were left behind, and the desire to survive made her almost instinctively flap her arms and legs in the air.

The crowd also saw the girl falling from a height of seven or eight meters, and they couldn't help crying out.

Some people couldn't bear to witness and closed their eyes, while some just watched with wide eyes.During the sudden accident and fleeing in just ten minutes, they had seen too many horrible and hideous corpses, and gradually became a little numb.

At this time, I pay attention to the state of the girl, and I want to judge the specific movement of that invisible and terrifying monster through her appearance.

But the expected picture of the girl falling apart did not appear, instead they saw an incredible scene.

At some point, a girl wearing a long windbreaker appeared not far from the falling girl.

She raised her head slightly and stared at the figure above for a while.

Immediately, with a slight swipe of the arm, under the dumbfounded gaze of everyone, a huge white air cushion suddenly appeared out of thin air, almost meeting the falling girl everywhere.

The girl only felt that her body was trapped in something extremely soft, and the next moment, she was bounced up firmly.

This time, a slender arm grabbed her uncontrollably shaking shoulder and pulled her to his side.

"...?"

After experiencing an extremely exciting life-and-death crisis, the girl who was rescued in a daze stared blankly at the girl in the windbreaker in front of her. The original delicate makeup had already been crying. At this time, her eyes seemed to have been smoked, and she was in a state of embarrassment. Out of shape.She asked hoarsely, "You...?? Excuse me... did you save me?"

"It's okay." Oda Haiyin casually constructed a handkerchief and handed it to the unlucky girl. After she took it in a daze, she turned her eyes away and looked at the curse spirit lying on the side of the air cushion.

It was a lousy sprite that looked like a lynx but smelled like toilet excrement, about six meters tall.Before Oda Haiyin rushed over, he didn't know how many people were killed, and the sharp claws of the beast had a strong smell of blood.Because of the girl on the claws of the curse spirit before, Oda Haiyin's shot only broke its elongated forelimbs. At this time, the broken limbs also fell on the air cushion, and the aroused movement was stronger than that of the girl falling. much larger.

Countless people watched the white air cushion suddenly dent, and uttered horrifying screams at the same time.

Turning a deaf ear to the surrounding human voices, the lynx-like curse spirit was standing upright, using its remaining claws to grab and pull the fallen limbs, stuffing them into its mouth and chewing hard.

As it digested, the originally severed forelimbs grew back at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Is IQ only at the level of a beast?" Oda Haiyin tilted his head and observed quietly for a while, seeing that the lynx curse spirit was blown up under her sight, but he still couldn't bear to part with his dropped arm and tried to speed up to gnaw on it. With a biting look, he made a judgment, "And it smells so bad. Let's not leave it to Jie. En..."

Oda Haiyin shook his head slightly after imagining the appearance of his own bamboo horse holding his nose and devouring the magic ball miserably.

The girl straightened her arms and raised her gun in a gesture of aiming.

The silver-white gun body is beautiful, against the girl's slender and beautiful fingers, it doesn't look like a murder weapon, but more like a work of art.

The rescued girl held a handkerchief and nervously watched the girl's every move.The girl with long black hair has a pair of beautiful green eyes, she looks very young, not even a few years older than her.She is wearing a white shirt, denim shorts, and Martin boots. Her legs are straight and slender. The coat is a long windbreaker with a unique and heavy feeling. The belt around the waist outlines the slender waist, and her waist-length hair is covered by a The drawstring fastens loosely.

The girl looked elegant and reserved, even with a gun in her hand, she looked uneasy and delicate.

After the reason finally came back, the injured girl finally sorted out what happened.It can be said that although there are still many things that I don't understand, the girl in front of me suddenly appeared and rescued her from the predicament of mortal death-the only thing that is beyond doubt.

Judging that the girl was about to start a battle with the invisible monster, she suppressed her fear and whispered, "That, please be careful."

Oda Haiyin blinked when he heard this, and hummed with a smile.

She pulled the trigger three times, firing out the bullets she constructed out of thin air one after another.

The bobcat-shaped curse spirit moved its ears, and stuffed the last bit of its arm into its grown mouth hungrily, while quickly jumping up to avoid the bullet.

The next moment, it rushed fiercely in the direction of the girl.

Oda Haiyin had no intention of dodging at all. He lowered the white ivory of his right hand and raised his left hand. The ebony with a larger caliber was facing the coming curse spirit, and the muzzle of the gun gradually emitted a dazzling flame.

The head-on wind made the girl who was clutching the handkerchief stiff, and subconsciously took two steps back.

At this moment, the movement of the curse spirit suddenly froze.The bullets that had already been dodged hit its unsuspecting back crosswise with incomparable accuracy.

The powerful paralyzing effect made it stiff for an instant.

Although the body of the curse spirit with strong anti-toxicity only paused for a short moment, it was destined to be resolved in this short period of time.The unavoidable bullet exploded the curse spirit's head.

Oda Haiyin managed to build a large paper umbrella at the last moment, tilting the umbrella surface to block most of the splashed blood of the curse spirit.

Every time at this time, I am particularly envious of Satoru's technique.

Staring at the blood splattered on his Martin boots, Oda Haiyin showed a look of disgust.

The girl put away the paper umbrella unhurriedly, lowered her head as if no one was there, and took out her mobile phone.

"The first floor has been cleaned up."

In the small group of three, Oda Haiyin was the first to send the message, and this fact made her look happy.Until she sees the next message.

Gojo Satoru: I have cleared two floors~

The boy picked up the topic almost immediately after Haiyin uttered it, and the speed of his hands was shockingly fast.

Oda Haiyin puffed up his face, immediately put away his phone, turned around, and headed towards the basement floor.

Before coming in, the bored three started a gamble to compare the speed of solving tasks.Oda Haiyin had already managed to resolve the battle within 3 minutes, and it must have been delayed a little because of saving the hostages.

Of course, the stakes are nothing, but Oda Haiyin couldn't help speeding up his pace as soon as he recalled the boy's smug face when they met at the end.

"Well, please wait a moment."

"Where are you going?"

"Didn't you come to save us?"

Almost as soon as the girl walked towards the escalator, the girl who was by her side and the people watching from a distance became anxious.

People who can live to this day are not stupid. Even if they cannot see the specific appearance of the curse spirit as ordinary people, they can still be aware of the existence of the curse spirit through various indirect traces.They also knew that their escape from the crisis was largely due to the sudden appearance of this young girl.

As long as she rescued the girl who was the victim, one would know that she should not be a bad person.

In this case, it would be more at ease to have her present.

Seeing that she was leaving, everyone who was hesitant to talk to her became anxious.

"I'm going to the next floor to exorcise the curse spirit—ah, the thing that killed people just now." Oda Haiyin threw away the umbrella, looked back at everyone, and said, "The curse spirit on this floor has been eliminated. It’s gone. It’s best to stay here and wait for rescue.”

Of course, there is also the possibility that spell spirits of other levels may be transferred here.But under the joint encirclement and suppression of the three of them, this possibility is very small.Rather than moving with a large force, Oda Haiyin prefers to let these people stay where they are and wait.

It's just that people who were still immersed in the terrifying atmosphere of involuntary life and death just now obviously didn't want to sit still.

"So you are from a special department of the government, right? A legendary superpower?"

"No! You can't leave us behind! What if that monster appears again?!"

"Why did you come so late! My girlfriend just died!!"

Fear, expectation, resentment, justifiable accusations...

Even though many more remain silent, the mere manifestation of these brazen humans speaks volumes for the diversity of humanity.

It's just that, no matter whether it's heavy expectations or accusations, the black-haired girl's delicate and delicate face always maintains the same curvature.

She just looked down at the time on the phone, and then raised her gun without hesitation to aim at the man who quarreled the most.

The man who was trying to stir up public opinion froze immediately, and backed away again and again: "You, aren't you from a government department? Don't you... dare to shoot at the people?"

"Sorry, I'm in a hurry." The girl covered her ears with one hand and smiled viciously.

There was a loud bang, and the man opposite fell to the ground.

The crowd exclaimed.

"Don't worry, it's just to let him calm down." Oda Haiyin has turned his head and continued his pace, the girl's tone is leisurely, "It's everyone's freedom to act without authorization or do whatever you want. Don't listen to me It doesn’t matter what your suggestion is, people are always responsible for their own lives, aren’t they?”

As if frightened by the girl's soft but secretly cold tone, there were no more harsh voices from the crowd.

Only the girl who was rescued by Oda Kaiyin was still holding the handkerchief she handed over. She mustered up the courage to follow, and asked cautiously, "Can I follow you?"

Now that he knew that the girl would not stay because of them, following her was also a good choice.Only she can bring the utmost peace of mind.

"Okay." Oda Haiyin glanced at the embarrassed girl.Probably the reason why she saved her at the most dangerous time, the girl's eyes are full of trust.

The girl smiled and waved at her, stretching out her fingers to rest on the back of her blood-stained neck.

As long as you arrive a little later, this delicate neck will be cut off directly.

But now it's just a slight curling of the skin and flesh, and it can be cured easily.

Feeling the sudden itching of the neck that had been aching, the girl touched the neck in a daze. The place that had been so painful and numb before felt smooth to the touch, as if it had never been injured.

"It's amazing." Stars almost popped out of her eyes.After realizing that the girl in front of her was not familiar with this mall, she immediately asked Ying to lead the way, "The nearest elevator is over there!"

However, even with a little sister who is familiar with the terrain to lead the way, Oda Haiyin hadn't finished cleaning up the beetle curse spirit on the basement floor when he saw a picture of Gojo Satoshi holding a strange heart in his hand and sitting on the curse spirit in the group chat on the mobile phone. Selfie with tongue sticking out of dead body.

The high spirits spilling out of the screen, and the appearance of its tail flying to the sky, make people itchy to watch.

"Haiyin." The boy's deep voice sounded.

Oda Haiyin raised his head and saw Xia Youjie slowly walking up with a little boy in his arms.

"The two basement floors have been cleaned up." The black-haired boy had gentle and compassionate eyes, and the child who should have been greatly frightened nestled in his arms full of dependence, looking very at ease.

Xia Youjie also held the phone in his other hand, apparently seeing Gojo Wu's selfie. He looked at the obviously unhappy girl with a suppressed smile, and said consolingly, "It's a good thing that the mission is over. Let's meet Wujo."

The two went upstairs together.

Along the way, the girl who followed Oda Haiyin also relaxed. She repeatedly looked at the boy who appeared behind her several times, and then at Oda Haiyin, and began to think about it out of instinct at this age.When she saw the last white-haired boy who appeared, her mind was even more turbulent.

"You guys are so slow." On the first floor of the shopping mall, Gojo Satoru sat cross-legged on the guardrail in a thrilling posture, looking down at his phone from time to time, looking a little bored.He was far more arrogant than Oda Haiyin, completely ignoring a group of trembling people standing not far away.It wasn't until he saw the two of them appear that he became lively again.

"Enlightenment is too fast." Oda Haiyin said in a leisurely tone after he had collected his emotions.

"Is this a compliment?" Gojo Satoru blinked, sounding a bit wrong.But he didn't think much about it, he just leaned in front of the two of them and said happily, "It's a deal. If I win, today I will decide where to play next!"

"no problem."

"For the amusement park, please spare me."

The three of them were arguing, as if they formed a world of their own.

After walking out of the shopping mall with the surviving ordinary people, the auxiliary supervisor and the police who were waiting outside took over the follow-up processing.The three high school students naturally made their way through the crowd to leave.

"Please wait—" The girl who was always holding the handkerchief tightly looked at Oda Haiyin's back, and eagerly grabbed the hand of the assistant supervisor who was comforting her, and asked, "Who is she? What's her name?" ?”

The young and capable assistant supervisor fell silent. She gently touched the girl's head in front of her and said, "It's better not to know. Everything that happened today should be regarded as a nightmare."

"No. Although it was a nightmare at the beginning, it was a dream at the end! Who is she? She is a very powerful person, right... I will definitely repay her!" The girl gritted her teeth and borrowed a phone, and called his father whom he hadn't contacted for a long time, "Hi, it's me. Dad, help me find someone..."

On the other side, the assistant supervisor Xiao Gu Zhenghe followed behind the trio, and said with a serious face and awe: "Thank you for your hard work. You can exorcise all the curse spirits that fill the entire shopping mall within 10 minutes, and you can also find out the trigger curse." The origin of the collective evolution of spirits and the guarantee of such a large number of survivors, this is something only you can do. The curse that started a month ago and broke out all over the country at the same time has finally come to an end."

"This is what we should do." Xia Youjie smiled politely.

Gojo Satoru tossed the cursed object that had been sealed in the box up and down, looked casually at the surrounding shops, and said, "This thing is quite hidden, if it didn't emit the fluctuation of the spell power, it would be considered a [Six Eyes] may not be able to find it either."

"The person who arranged him has a very high level of spells. Don't you think it's strange to expose this level of arrangement in advance?" Wujo Wu asked suddenly, "So, who are those old men? Didn't find it?"

"About this point..." Xiao Gu was sweating on his forehead, hesitated for a moment, and answered, "Even high-level dignitaries cannot draw accurate conclusions about this rare situation. But through some means, they can still judge It turns out that the arrangement of these spells has some similarities with the usual techniques of Kamo Xianren, an extremely evil magician who died a hundred years ago. Perhaps it is a remnant of the methods he left behind."

"Being able to make such a big deal with the Spell Association behind your back, if it weren't for this unexpected outbreak, no one would have discovered it at all—presumably those old grandpas are also very disturbed now?" Oda Haiyin showed a gentle and friendly smile, "will It would be very disappointing if all the emergencies of the outbreak of curses were thrown at us, but we could not find any results. Because...the matter is far from being reassuring, or it is just the beginning. I hope they Don't slack off, try to get more information. Can you report these words up, Kotani-kun?"

"Yes, yes." Xiaogu Zhenghe broke out in cold sweat and responded repeatedly.

Since the outbreak of the curse throughout the country, the conjurers of the entire conjurer world have been mobilized.The three first-year college freshmen in front of them were also assigned a lot of tasks.It is precisely because of this that the completely super-standard strength of the three of them has finally officially spread in the magic world.

However, the efficiency and level of completion of all the tasks they took were astonishingly high.Whether it is the rescue of the hostages or the exorcism of the curse spirit, it has been achieved to the point where other conjurers look up to them.

Possessing [Six Eyes], Wujo Satoru who can see through all spell movements at a glance, Xia Youjie, a super versatile [Spell Manipulation], and perfect both frontal attack and auxiliary abilities, his mind is frighteningly clever, and he can [Construction Art] Oda Haiyin who can quickly control the situation...

From time to time, conjurers who were caught in a high-risk curse dilemma were supported by them nearby, and any conjurer who had worked with them would be shocked and convinced by the performance of the three boys and girls.

The first-line conjurers who had only heard of their names before, but never saw them, finally saw the demeanor of the strongest conjurers of this generation.

Letters recommending them to advance to the level of conjurers flew to the principal's office of Tokyo High School like snowflakes.

Everyone is looking forward to the future of the three of them.

I'm afraid that as soon as this incident is over, they will soon begin the evaluation of special magicians, right?If the merits of this period of time are added, the possibility of exempting from the evaluation of exception promotion is not small.

It is also unique in the history of the magic world to achieve such a point in the student days.

It is precisely because of the skyrocketing reputation that any one of the three now has a completely different weight than before. Even the great figures of the Director of Spells must pay attention to it.

It is a great honor for me to be their assistant supervisor.But Xiao Gu Zhenghe's only trouble is that the three people in front of him are self-willed and equal in strength first.

"Then, about the specific report on this mission..." Xiaogu Zhenghe asked tentatively, "Do you want to go back to the high school for a review?"

"No. We're going out to play. Don't follow." Wujo Satoru refused politely.

"That, but, the report... As the end of the series of missions of the curse, this report is very important." Xiao Gu Zhenghe's eyes were wet, and the adult man made an extremely humble request, "Although I can write for you, but at least you must understand Some key things..."

"Satoru found the source." Oda Haiyin put one hand behind his back, pushed Gojo Satoru with a smile, and said, "It's fine for Kotani-kun to ask him. Satoru, please clarify quickly, so you can play with peace of mind later, right? "

"Hey~" The snow-haired boy groaned in dissatisfaction, "Then you have to say, hey, wait—"

Staring wide-eyed at the back of Oda Haiyin pulling Xia Youjie away quickly, Gojo Satoru was about to follow without thinking, but the tearful eyes of the assistant supervisor appeared in front of him.

"Ah, I'm so annoying." Gojo Satoru sighed, and said hastily, "I found it in the ceiling of the monitoring room on the fourth floor. Specific traces of spells..."

The tall boy was pulled forward by Oda Haiyin, not only did not resist at all, but also followed her strength thoughtfully, making her effortless at all.

"Jie." Oda Haiyin didn't look back, but asked softly, "When Kotani-kun mentioned the time just now, what did you think of?"

Xia Youjie hesitated for a moment, but said frankly: "Last time, the time when Ling Xiaolu-kun joined me to attack and kill the enemy who had sneaked up on you was exactly one month ago. After that, Ling Xiaolu asked Fu Hei Shi I hunted it down for a month—it happened to be the time when the curse died down—too much of a coincidence, I fear.”

"I agree too. Nine times out of ten, the curses that erupted were accumulated secretly by that mouse. You really did a big thing quietly." Oda Haiyin said with emotion, "The identity of that person Probably it is really not simple, because he has lived for too long and has his own layout all over the country. It is simply exposed like this... It seems that this time he has really hurt his vitality."

Xia Youjie lowered his voice: "Haiyin, you have to stay vigilant. If you are right, if he is not dead, he has already escaped from the pursuit."

"Will the next step be jumping over the wall in a hurry, or will you be patient and lurking?" Oda Haiyin showed a happy smile, "It's really exciting. Jie, don't hide this from me next time! Don't follow Ayanokōji-kun. "

"Okay." Xia Youjie nodded without changing his expression.

"What are you whispering again!" A white-haired man stepped between the two, the boy's broad shoulders stretched out, and his arms directly embraced the two of them from left to right, and said loudly, "I've decided, next I will experience Sendai Special product! Go to the dessert shop that specializes in selling Kikufu first!"

Apparently, Gojo Satoru regarded most of the day after the task was completed as a vacation, and had no intention of going back to school at all.

"Okay." Oda Haiyin said happily, "I had the matcha Kikufuku brought by Jie before, and it tasted pretty good."

"You guys go." Xia Youjie looked down at the notification that was sent suddenly on his phone, and his eyes lit up immediately, "There is information about a suspected imaginary magic spirit Nine-Tailed Fox in a place, and I'm going to investigate."

He apologized to the two of them apologetically, and hurriedly turned and left.

"Jie has been too active in subduing the curse spirit recently, right?" Gojo Wu tilted his head and looked at the young man's back, and said with some doubts, "Didn't you say that the curse spirit ball is delicious, is it necessary?"

"I heard that Jie tested a new move last time, which consumed a lot of mana reserves." Oda Haiyin said softly, "Since it was his decision, there is nothing to do. Pursuing strength is not a bad thing. However, Wu, Don't be too lazy and be overtaken by Jie."

"Huh? Absolutely not!" The white-haired and blue-eyed boy was in high spirits, "I've been working hard too."

The efforts of those around him have a positive impact on him.Gojo Satoru seemed lazy, but he was actually practicing precise spell manipulation all the time, slowly but uninterruptedly pushing his spells to the next level.

"That's true." Oda Haiyin smiled, "Then, there are only two of us left, so why don't we go eat Kikufu?"

"Go. Play video games after eating?"

"Is the arcade in Sendai different from that in Tokyo?"

"Just try it once."

In the bustling crowd, Gojo Satoru held the girl's hand, and the two of them walked casually on the street without looking for a map.

Occasionally, when he sees a dessert shop with a long line of people, he will go to watch it curiously, and when he encounters a favorite taste, he will clamor for it.

As a result, we dawdled all the way down, and only found the legendary Sendai famous product Kikufu shop when it was dark.

"All Xijiufu in this store are freshly made, with a daily limit. Please come early tomorrow."

Gojo Satoru was silent for a moment, then took off his sunglasses.