Correct use of scientific spells

Toyama Minato felt that he had a long dream.

In the dream, he seems to have returned to his childhood, seriously winding copper wires on the motors of toy cars.During that time, he used to do a lot of things so undividedly. The children's interests and hobbies came and went quickly, which laid a good foundation for hands-on practice.

At the end of the dream, there are conversations in low voices and the sound of tides pushing from all directions.

Toyama Minato opened his eyes, looked around, and woke up quickly and efficiently.

— No one who finds himself floating in mid-air can fall asleep peacefully.

Although the floating height is very low.

Only about half a meter from the ground.

But still floating.

The sky had darkened, and the lights of the city shone brightly in the distance.There is very little industrial pollution in the town, and today's weather is not bad, the visibility is high enough, and a few twinkling stars can be seen in the sky.He just struggled a little, and the boy sitting beside him on the beach turned his head and signaled the curse spirit to let him go: "Are you awake?"

"This is……"

After waking up, he could clearly feel that his body was covered with a layer of something. It felt a bit like animal fur. It was rough, but it was also very warm, but he still couldn't see anything.

"Mr. Iwata has other things to do and can't keep the car parked here."

Xia Youjie explained: "Wu heard that there are festivals nearby, so he went to play by himself."

As for why it was floating in mid-air, the other party's explanation was that it was a curse spirit that looked a bit like a flying carpet. It was dry and had fine hair, which was just right for keeping warm.In the weather before summer, the temperature difference between day and night is relatively large. If you fall asleep outside casually, you may catch a cold.

"Sorry to keep you waiting here for so long."

Yuanshan Minato actually wanted to say that they could send him back to the hotel...but then thought again, they probably didn't know the location of the hotel, so they stayed until now: "Has the curse spirit been exorcised?"

"Well, no problem."

Xia Youjie said, "I've already eaten it."

When Gojo Satoru first started school, he would often call him "the guy who eats the curse spirit". There are eight or nine that have not passed through the digestive system.

His close friend used many metaphors, like a drop of water dropped into ink, and it quickly blended into the color; or like a piece of steel thrown into a steel furnace, losing its original shape.However, after finishing speaking, Gojo Satoru would often deny his own statement immediately - there is no upper limit to his mantra reserve, and whether it is ink or other things, there is a limit, and it is always inappropriate to use it as a metaphor.

...But it doesn't matter, that's what he said at the time.Just like other people can't understand the vision of the six eyes, it's only natural that other people can't get the mystery of the magic spell.

Yuanshan Minato moved his sleeping body a little stiffly, and the tide rolled up white waves, pushing and pushing to his feet.Xia Youjie also stood up with him, showing no intention of leaving: "Senior, don't you want to see it? The dragon you discovered."

"I really want to, but if you look at it with a scanning device, it's probably just a long dark strip..."

Toyama Minato suddenly realized: "Do you want me to touch it?"

"Not only, but you can also touch it first."

The other party answered ambiguously.

Soon, a huge dragon appeared on the beach.Toyama Minato couldn't see the dragon's position, but he could notice the dents caused by the pressure on the sand.The traces circled around, gathering himself in the center, Yuan Shan slowly stretched out his hand towards the air in front of him, and touched the hard and cold large scales.

It was completely transparent, like polished metal.Although the mantra remained quiet, he could still feel from various details that "this is something that moves" rather than an invisible hard statue.

There are some relatively soft manes growing on the dragon's back, and the claws are probably hidden under the body, pressing out several small depressions on the sand.Before Yuan Shanmin had time to squat down to confirm the structure of the huge dragon claw, Xia Youjie grabbed his wrist: "Come on."

"……what?"

"Wu and I have tried it just now, before Senior woke up."

"Wait, you mean... but I can't see it!"

"It's okay, now this is my curse spirit."

Xia Youjie straddled the dragon's back very easily, as if he was riding a horse, and then waved at the distant mountain, beckoning him to ride on it as soon as possible.However, it is very difficult for people to find the right position on an invisible thing. He touched the large dragon scales in front of him, hesitated for a moment, and felt withdrawn: "Otherwise, I'll forget it, Mr. Xia You, you can play this game by yourself." ...I'll just use the sonar detection device on the ground to observe."

It's great that the magic spirit can fly in the sky, and those metal-like scales look very strong, but obviously the friction is limited; Hayao Miyazaki's animated film "Spirited Away" has a scene of flying on a dragon, but After all, the dragon is still a person in essence, and this is just an animated movie... Many things look beautiful, but it may not be the case if you actually participate in it yourself, otherwise there would be no stories like "Ye Gong is a good dragon".

Several reasons for persuading him to quit quickly appeared in Toyama Minato's brain, and he picked and picked among them, intending to find some convincing ones to inform the other party.However, at this moment, several soft, unknown things picked up his elbows and directly lifted themselves up, and placed them firmly on the back of the curse spirit dragon.

Toyama Minato: "..."

The other party's attitude is so positive, and I am really embarrassed to refuse.

He recalled the scene when he showed his parents the children's inventions he made when he was a child, and guessed that the other party might have a similar attitude.After all, conjurers are a niche group in this world, and there are not many people who share the same language on weekdays. The assistant supervisor is much older than himself, and Gojo Satoru is a genius with a little KY... There are really not many people who can show off. many.

OK, he totally understood all of this.

The curse spirit is wider than the horse, but it is not impossible to ride it. The main problem is that there is neither a saddle nor a pedal. He is too embarrassed to ask a person younger than himself if he can install it on the back of the curse spirit. Safety seats.The brown hair that grows on the back is the only place where he can grasp it. Although theoretically speaking, he can also grasp the dragon's horn, but he doesn't even know where he is on the dragon's body, and he can't feel where the horn is. Where.

"Spirited Away" is indeed a lie, Yuan Shan thought, riding a dragon is not as smooth as it looks in the movie.

But no matter how much he slandered in his heart, the dragon was still slowly lifted into the air under Xia Youjie's control.

This is a fishing port, there are no people on the coastline, and it is getting late, no one really pays attention to this place.The sea breeze blew past his ears and the corners of his clothes. Apart from not being able to see any entities, the flying speed gave him a feeling that he was ascending in an elevator.

"What do seniors think?"

"...so high."

"Ha, this is just the beginning."

The two sat on the back of the dragon one in front of the other, and as the height gradually climbed, the horizon began to show a slight curvature.Farther in the field of vision is the shining city, followed by the endless mountains and rivers. There is a thin, slightly shining line in the mountains, stretching from the foot of the mountain to halfway up, faintly but never broken.

——That's the flow of people who participated in the Dashan Kaishan Festival.

"Is breathing okay? If the altitude climbs too fast, it is said that some people will be prone to altitude sickness."

"That's okay... It's just that the surroundings are empty, which makes people feel a little nervous."

Toyama Minato sincerely expressed his current feelings: "For Xia Youjun, riding a dragon, right? In my eyes, "riding the air and flying in the sky" is indeed quite impactful."

Why did he change back to "Xia Youjun"?Xia Youjie frowned. The senior is older than himself, and the difficulty threshold for addressing people directly by name is much lower. On the contrary, if he goes beyond honorific words, there is always the risk of his image being broken.

He was sitting right behind the opponent, with his back against his chest, probably because in the eyes of his predecessors, he was the only living creature in mid-air, and human beings' instinctive fear of heights would prompt the opponent to get closer to him.

From his point of view, he could see the swaying hair swirling in the wind - the other party had the very common short hair that fell to the length of the ears, and occasionally went out to drink with friends on weekdays, and never touched cigarettes. Apart from liking to stay up late, life can be described as regular and well-behaved.Probably because the KPIs of college students are also very busy. Apart from occasionally going to comic exhibitions and playing card games, seniors have no other entertainment. The social circle and scope of activities are strictly concentrated in the Tokyo metropolitan area with Chiyoda District as the core.

In comparison, he grows long hair, wears earphones, learns to smoke from Nitzi, tries all kinds of things that minors are not allowed to do, and presents a mature, steady and reliable attitude to everyone he meets. However, when facing this person, he could always feel the distance brought about by the time difference of several years.

...Senior also had a high school time, right?He heard that the other party went to school in Ikebukuro. How would the days when he couldn't see the magic spirit and never cast a shadow, and the years growing up in the big city, be different from his life so far?

One after another, the heart beats in the chest cavity.Under Xia Youjie's order, the flying angle of the mantra spirit suddenly changed, changing its original steady upward posture, and accelerating towards the clouds.Toyama Minato was caught off guard and fell backwards, and was held by the young conjurer behind him with two arms like the safety rails of a roller coaster in a playground, and the exclamation was forced back into his throat.

Fortunately, the image has not been damaged - Toyama Minato thought with lingering fear, if he was scared to this extent, he would probably be laughed at by Okabe in the next university life.

On the other side, Xia Youjie glanced at the other party with some guilt, and heaved a sigh of relief after realizing that the latter hadn't paid attention.

...Shoulders are narrower than his own, he belatedly thought, this is probably due to his height, after all he is taller than most people except for Wu.Probably due to being in the high altitude and facing the night wind directly, the other party's body temperature was a bit cooler, so he naturally moved closer.

——That's right, Xia Youjie thought, so that's what happened.

He should have known, should have known.

The moonlight shines on the silent but throbbing heartbeat.

A few seconds later, the curse spirit passed through the stratus clouds, and the two of them were exposed under the continuous galaxy.The ground has become very far away, and the sky is closer than ever before. Apart from the sound of the wind, there is only the sound of breathing in the surrounding area, which is empty and silent.The field of vision extends infinitely forward, and the dark but twinkling sky and the dark and turbulent sea of ​​clouds are connected together, becoming the silent scene of the whole world.

... Is this the world they usually see?Yuan Shanmin couldn't help thinking.

He took a breath, and finally felt the decrease in the oxygen content in the air, but this kind of experience similar to an open-top airplane was rare in his life, and he was unwilling to let the other party immediately turn around and start descending.Before he hesitated for a long time, Xia Youjie reminded in a timely manner: "It's not good for non-sorcerers to stay in this kind of place. If you still want to try it, you can contact me in the future."

"Isn't this a little too much trouble?"

"This time can still be squeezed out."

"But if it's easy to be discovered by others, right? You can't always stay up late like today..."

"Just release the account, and no one will notice."

Xia Youjie used his usual strengths to answer the questions fluently.Of course, no one will notice that the non-magician who can detect the curse spirit by himself is like an accident of the whole world, and it is such an "accident" that may be killed by the curse spirit at any time. In the process witnessed by my own eyes, it is growing with extremely high efficiency.

He didn't know what kind of method he used to detect the anomaly. He traveled thousands of miles to Tottori Prefecture, and found such a curse spirit that it was difficult for ordinary magicians to find——

He is neither a conjurer nor a non-magician, so he is too cunning.

After hovering in the air for a few minutes, the curse spirit turned around and dived towards the sea.This time the feeling is closer to that of a roller coaster, but there are no guardrails or safety belts around, so the mental stimulation is super doubled.Xia Youjie was almost glued to his back, serving as all first aid measures and safety margins, making the dangerous flight process look like air skiing or movie CG.

After the altitude is lowered, the mantra is galloping on the sea, and the user experience is much more interesting-a bit like driving a floating speedboat (if there is such a thing in the world).

Human beings' yearning for the sky is almost engraved in their genes. If it takes no energy to use the technique, Xia Youjie dares to pat his chest to ensure that Gojo Satoru will be able to float and never walk.Toyama Minato obviously also enjoys the feeling of galloping forward against the sea water: the body of the dragon pushes away the spray and draws a flight path on the sea surface, like a fantasy limited to one day.

They stirred up a lot of movement in the waves, but when they returned to the shore, the curse spirit seemed silent.The two of them sneaked back to the shore in the shadow of the fishing boat. The night was quiet and the waves were heavy, without attracting anyone's attention.

The soles of the shoes touched the ground, and Yuan Shanmin finally felt a sense of solidity after the dust had settled.The eyes of the young conjurer seemed to be shining brightly. Obviously, this flight did not consume much mana power. If he wanted, he could continue to fly around the sky as before at any time.

——Like the protagonist in a manga.

Although I used to make jokes about the enduring old stalk of the protagonist, but after I really experienced it myself, I realized a feeling that "juvenile comics have been brought into real life".

Yuan Shanzuo looked at the young conjurer beside him, who was standing upright, looking at the sea, and the black coat of Gaozhuan was hanging loosely on his shoulders, and it was slightly shaking with the sea breeze.

With a click, the phone camera rang.

"……Hey??"

Xia Youjie's calm expression was broken in an instant.

"I think it's very suitable for framing just now, and the photos will be sent to you later."

"Oh……"

"After all, I have taught myself a little bit of photography before. Unfortunately, when I flew up, my mind went blank and I completely forgot to take pictures."

With a ding dong, Xia Youjie received a new message on his mobile phone, which was exactly the profile of his face just now.The person concerned posted the photos in a dignified manner, nodding with satisfaction, and saying something like the composition of the beach, waves and sky is very good.

...It's too cunning, he sighed again.

It doesn't matter though.

According to the plot in the comics, the protagonist always has a way.