I, Tokisaki Kurumi, a Wanderer

"Ah?"

With his eyes half-squinted, Kurumi saw what was happening in front of him.

"Hey... Didn't you say that you no longer have allowances?" The tall and sturdy guy carried the collar of a haggard student with glasses, and punched him hard in the abdomen.

He swiped the man's face with a small wad of bills in his hand. "Then can you tell me, what is this?"

Beside him, several other guys leaned crookedly against the wall, or surrounded the man with their hands in their pockets and their shoulders slanted.

It's the most common bad thing in Academy City.

again and again--

It seems that they were startled by the footsteps of Kuang San, and the bad guys turned their eyes away.

"Huh - there's a girl." Immediately, they realized that the person in front of them was a peerless beautiful girl.

He casually threw the beaten guy on the ground, and the man curled up in the corner like a shrimp.

The bad guys came towards Kuangsan.

"Ah~ The little girl looks like a big lady."

"Yeah yeah, leave the wallet to us~~~"

"Idiot, of course I asked her to play with us!"

They laughed and stared at Kurumi who was standing there motionless for some reason.

Looking for Kurumi's gaze, the leading guy looked back at the bullied guy. "What? Still a chick with a strong sense of justice?"

"Huh—" Kuang San sighed.

"You should be glad that I've had enough to eat before. And...I'm starting to cultivate my body." Kurumi said something they couldn't understand.

"Fortunate? Yes, yes, we are super 'fortunate'." The bad guys laughed arrogantly.

"Haha." A terrifying smile appeared on Kurumi's face.

moment--

The entire alley was dyed with black and red patches, pale and slender twisted arms stretched out from the shadows, strangling the bad guys by their necks and hanging them from the wall.

They struggled, then became more and more frightened.

Kurumi tapped his lips and said something terrifying. "Alala, where is the best place to eat first~"

"Yo...youkai!!!"

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He violently pulled out his own banknotes from the hand of the unscrupulous head who was slumped to the ground, and then kicked a few more times.

The bullied guy looked at everyone, including Kurumi, resentfully.

He tightened his satchel tightly and fled from the other end of the alley.

"I don't know why... I always feel like that guy needs to be beaten a little more." Kurumi frowned.

Just looking at the back of the guy fleeing, Kurumi seemed to think of something.

"That's... Hatsuya Jielu?"

Chapter 23 Oh, it's over, Shura field (fog)

"Ding~"

While Kurumi was waiting for the bus, the vending machine beside him suddenly rang.

click-

The can rolls off.

Some curious Kurumi stepped forward, and then, looking at the drink in his hand, he fell into deep thought.

Hot strawberry oden...or hot?

The corners of Kurumi's mouth twitched slightly, the vending machine in Academy City... really lived up to its reputation.

Just looking at it makes people lose their minds, and even seems to see some indescribable aura emitting slightly.

Before she could think about it, the bus had already arrived at the stop, and Kurumi took the bus and left.

Just as the bus had just left, Kurumi heard an earth-shattering cry from behind.

"No...unfortunate!!!"

Kurumi looked at the strange drink in his hand, and seemed to have an answer in his heart.

···

"The chessboard has been completely opened, Aleister."

The seventh school district, the windowless building in urban legends.

Covering all the emotions of joy, anger, sorrow and joy, the almost flat female voice jokingly mocked.

"It's okay, Aiwass," Aleister replied, hanging upside down in the life support device wearing a green surgical gown. "Around the 'fiducial point,' everything that happens is a normal progression."