Bald cape conjurer

Episode 1 Too many strange eyes

After defeating the super-cursed Poros and his spaceship formed by human beings' fear of the universe and alien life, it is rare for everyone to gather together again, and Gojo Satoru proposed to hold a celebration banquet tonight.

"After all, the guy this time is a very powerful unregistered special class," he waved his hand richly, "Let's have dinner together today! I will cover the expenses!"

As soon as he heard that someone invited him to dinner, Saitama suddenly became energetic, and even the brightness of his bald head instantly increased a bit: "Then eat hot pot! Hot pot tastes very warm!"

"But what kind of pot should I eat?" The bald man pointed with his fingers, "Assorted pot, Ishikari pot, seafood and vegetable pot, sukiyaki pot... Ordinary chicken pot is also good, simple and delicious."

"Teacher really likes hot pot." Genos sighed, "But winter is indeed the season for hot pot."

"Then let's settle it down!" Gojo Satoru said cheerfully, "The last time we had hot pot together was the day when Junpei entered school, and it was already a few months ago. Yuren, I have to trouble you for the chicken balls this time." gone."

"Wrap it on me!" Knotabagi Yujin rolled up his sleeves.

However, at that time, everyone did not expect that this gathering would surprise so many strange eyes...

……

"Yi Dizhi and I will take the second grade to buy ingredients, and the first grade will be responsible for staying to prepare equipment and drinks."

"In addition, because everyone in the first and second grades is coming to eat, the pot last time was not big enough, so I have to go to the warehouse of the high school to find a bigger pot. I also need to prepare all the utensils."

After the group returned to the high school dormitory to gather, Gojo Satoru took out a key from his pocket while talking, and handed it to Saitama: "The work of getting the pot from the warehouse will trouble you, Saitama."

"..."

Saitama looked down at his red-gloved hands.In his palm lay a bright silver metal key.

"Just bring a bigger pot." He said to himself.

"Teacher, let me go with you." Genos suggested.

"No need. It's just a pot." Saitama scratched his head, "This kind of thing can be done alone. Genos, you can stay here and help."

Saitama took the key and left the high school dormitory.And Genos watched Saitama's figure gradually go away.

15 minute later.

"Oops, where did this come from?"

Saitama stood in a daze at the door of a certain building in the high school, sweat dripping from his bald head.

"Recalling carefully, I actually don't know the way to Gaozhuan at all. If I knew it, I would have brought Genos here just now." He said to himself, "What should I do, I am completely lost now..."

"Is it here? Why don't you just open the door and have a look." Saitama said, stepping forward, raised his hand and pushed towards the door.

There was a long sound of the door shaft turning, and the two heavy doors in front were pushed open a gap of about half a meter.The interior of the void was dark, and nothing could be seen clearly.

Saitama glanced at the probe, and walked in: "It turns out that you can really come in. Excuse me--"

In the next second, the feeling of weightlessness suddenly hit.Saitama stepped on the air, his body fell instantly, and even his bald head became an afterimage: "Oh oh oh oh oh!"

With a "plop", Saitama, whose body was in the shape of a "big", fell into a bush.

Silence lasted for a moment, and a bald man with a cape rose from the bushes.

"What's going on here?"

——What appeared in front of Saitama was a huge space under the high school.The place is completely closed and does not see the sun, but there are huge trees more than ten meters high, and the crowns of the trees are crowded together to form a dense forest.

Looking far away toward the end of the forest, you can see circles of ring-shaped buildings and complicated roads. Countless arches, torii gates, and stairs are distributed among them, making this area look like a huge maze.

Saitama pulled the cloak off his head.He raised his legs high, stepped out of the bushes, and looked around suspiciously, "I don't know if there is a forest or something underground under Gaozhuan."

He looked around with a dull expression, found a random place and walked over.

……

It was obviously a closed underground college, but there were waves of rustling of branches and leaves in the forest.The white cloak behind Saitama was slightly lifted by the wind, and a few fallen leaves drifted obliquely.

The crisp birdsong sounded in the forest.In the grass on the ground, a grasshopper bounced a few times.

"Who are you?"

Amidst the chirping of birds and insects, an old but calm voice sounded from behind Saitama.

Saitama froze for a moment, then looked back.

Appearing behind him was a figure in a white robe.It's just that although this person's body is no different from that of ordinary people, but on his shoulders is a cylindrical head.

Inlaid on the front of the head are two pairs of huge eyeballs, the upper and lower, and a wide mouth below the eyeballs, which looks rather weird.

"Who are you?" Four Eyes asked again, "Why did you come here?"

"I'm Saitama, a hero driven by interest." Saitama looked at the person in front of him dully, "I was planning to go to the warehouse to find a pot for making hot pot, but I opened a door and got lost here."

Hearing this, the other party's four eyes widened slightly, without exception reflecting Saitama's eye-catching bald head.

"Really?" He was a little surprised, "The door leading to here changes every three hours, but you just happened to open the corresponding door?"

"By the way," Saitama looked straight at the four-eyed old man, "Where is this place? Who are you, four-eyed old man?"

"Ah, I haven't had time to introduce myself yet."

The four eyes smiled gently: "This is the lowest level of the high school, the 'Xing Xing Palace', which is the foundation of all the main barriers in Japan. The building on the edge of the forest is the main hall of the Xing Xing Palace. And I am responsible for maintaining the barrier Conjurer Tianyuan."

"Tianyuan?" Saitama recalled the scene of the exchange meeting in his mind, "Oh, you are the very powerful enchanter in the legend."

"You're overrated." Tian Yuan shook his head, "I'm just an old man who must rely on the 'star plasma body' to sacrifice his life and fuse with me on a regular basis to maintain his life. It's nothing compared to you."

"Eh?" Saitama was taken aback, "The old man also knows about me? Obviously I've never seen you before."

Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered the hate letters he had received, and his expression suddenly became a little subtle: "You don't want to scold me because of Shibuya, do you? You have to say something first, I don't accept hate letters or anything like that."

"Hate letter? How could it be?" Tian Yuan raised his eyebrows, "Are you referring to those conjurers who were misunderstood because of your speech in Shibuya? I won't do that kind of thing. Because I know the behind-the-scenes the truth."

"I can't leave the Xingxing Palace. There are a lot of people outside watching me. But the night moth will come to tell me what's happening outside." Tian Yuan replied with a smile, "Of course, including your actual performance in Shibuya, it is also reported in my ears."

"There are not many people in this world of magic who can destroy my magic formula with one blow. I heard that you were exiled from the world of magic by those high-level people. I feel it is a pity."

"Do you want to come back to the magic world?" he asked Saitama.

"..." Saitama scratched his face with his index finger, "Forget it. Gojo Satoru also asked me the same question, but I feel that being a magician is very troublesome."

At this moment, a voice suddenly came from a distance: "Lord Tian Yuan!"

A middle-aged man ran all the way through the forest from the direction of the main hall of the palace.Wearing a black uniform, he is tall and strong, with sunglasses on the bridge of his nose. He is the principal of Tokyo High School Masamichi Noctua.

Seeing the gazes of Saitama and Tianyuan, Ye Mo Zhengdao couldn't help being surprised: "Master Tianyuan left suddenly during the conversation, so it was because he found Saitama?"

Running all the way to the two of them and stopping, Ye Mozheng asked puzzledly: "Saitama, why are you here?"

Before Saitama opened his mouth, Tianyuan answered for him with a smile: "He seems to be looking for the warehouse of Gaozhuan, and got lost here by accident."

"Lost here?" Noctua Masamichi also showed an unbelievable look, "How did you get lost to get to the Xingxing Palace... But forget it. Saitama, what are you looking for?"

"The pot used to eat hot pot at night." Saitama replied, "I just solved the enemy, so everyone plans to have dinner together."

"So that's how it is. For Guozi, go out from there and go straight. You can find it in the warehouse that turns right at the third corner." Ye Mozheng pointed to the arch in the distance and said, "Hurry up and go back."

"Oh."

Saitama responded, but did not leave.

Under the somewhat puzzled eyes of Tian Yuan and Ye Mo Zhengdao, he asked: "We plan to eat hot pot on the first floor of the men's dormitory later. Do you want to come and eat together? Anyway, Gojo Wu said he was treating guests."

"Really?" Noctua Zhengdao thought for a while, "Then I will go to meet you later."

"Where's the old man with four eyes?" Saitama's eyes turned to Tian Yuan.

"I'll forget it." Tian Yuan raised a hand and waved it, "After all, my life and death are closely related to the important enchantment barrier in Japan. For this reason, I have not been out of the star with the strongest barrier for hundreds of years. Palace."

"Even so, in the past hundred years, various forces have tried to assassinate me through different means. The Tokyo High School and the Xingxing Palace have been under the surveillance of various forces all year round. If I leave the Xingxing Palace, they will spare no effort to carry out attack."

Saitama scratched his bald head: "But old man, you actually want to go out and have a look."

Tian Yuan was stunned at first, then laughed: "That's natural. Although I can live forever through the sacrifice of the magic formula and the astral body, for me now, living in the isolated Xingxing Palace every day is nothing. What's the difference, living is only to fulfill the obligation to maintain the enchantment."

"But once I'm assassinated, all my hard work will be in vain. So I can't leave the Xingxing Palace." Tian Yuan explained.

"If someone comes to assassinate, wouldn't it be good to beat them all?" Saitama frowned and asked puzzledly.

"Things are not that simple... In fact, my current existence is actually closer to that of human beings..."

Tian Yuan wanted to continue talking, but suddenly Ye Mo Zhengdao said in a deep voice: "No, it should be possible."

Tian Yuan looked at Ye Mo Zhengdao in surprise, and the latter nodded when he met his gaze.

***

"...So, Lord Tian Yuan is also included in the dinner party this time."

In the hall on the first floor of the dormitory, Ye Mo Zhengdao introduced with a serious face.And Tian Yuan stood beside him, with four eyes slightly bent, smiling kindly.

At this time, Gojo Satoru and the second-grade students have returned from shopping, and now everyone is busy processing ingredients and preparing to start making hot pot.

"I see." Hearing this, Wujo Wu nodded, "Occasionally, the old man comes out to relax or something."

However, apart from the teacher, the students who saw Tian Yuan for the first time could not keep calm at all.

"Oh, this is the legendary Lord Tianyuan?" The spoon for making meatballs in the hand of Katsuobu Yujin fell with a "snap".He opened his eyes wide with surprise on his face: "Why do you have four eyes!"

"Hey, Knotweed, don't say such things casually!" Fu Heihui reminded immediately.

"Haha, it's because I have lived for 500 years," Tian Yuan explained with a smile, "When you live 500 years, you will become like me."

Fu Heihui: "...actually explained..."

Chanyuan Maki sighed: "But it's amazing to be able to see the real person... By the way, is it really okay for Master Tianyuan to leave the Xingxing Palace? The enchantment of the Xingxing Palace is the most complete, and it is still deep in the ground. That's where it's safe, right?"

"That's because of Saitama..."

Speaking of this, Ye Mo Zhengdao was startled suddenly: "Hey, where's Saitama? He was clearly one step ahead of us just now, logically speaking, he should have arrived first."

His eyes moved to the pot on the table: "And, the pot is also brought..."

"Ah, this," Gojo Satoru glanced at Noctua Masamichi, "This was brought by Genos. Saitama seems to have sent an email to Genos suddenly, asking him to get the pot. It never came back."

"Really?" Night Moth Zhengdao's eyebrows frowned, "Where did Saitama go..."

Before he finished speaking, the dormitory door suddenly made a "click".

"I am back."

Saitama's familiar voice sounded, and everyone looked towards the door, but opened their eyes wide at the same time.

Saitama, who appeared at the door of the dormitory, was covered with dust and dried blood.His bald head, which was shining just now, also became black and white, and the whole person looked dusty, and the facial features on his face were wrinkled.

"Teacher!" Genos exclaimed, "What happened? Did you encounter an enemy?"

"Yeah, it's really bad luck this time."

Saitama came in with a sigh, and at the same time took off the gloves covered with dust and blood on his hands, and took off his dirty boots: "Screw it, screw it up."

Hearing this, even Gojo Satoru showed a look of surprise.But Yi Guyou, who had seen Saitama's punch splitting the ocean with his own eyes, asked in surprise: "Is it a strong enemy? Could it be that even Saitama is at a disadvantage?"

"How should I put it..."

Saitama put the gloves and boots in the entrance, "After I left the Xingxing Palace, I was walking and got lost outside the school, and I happened to meet a group of sneaky people."

"Could it be that those are the enemies who want to attack Lord Tian Yuan?" Ye Mo Zhengdao's eyelids trembled slightly.

"I don't know too much." Saitama frowned, "In short, they gathered together and seemed to be discussing something secretly. I asked them what they were doing there, but the guys saw that I was from the enchantment of the high school. came out, they rushed up together without any explanation and wanted to attack me..."

"...Did they do something to you?" Panda asked, "Could it be that the blood on your body is..."

"That's not true," Saitama shook his head, "The blood is not mine. Anyway, those guys are nothing special, they fell down with one punch."

Everyone is getting more and more confused.Yoshino Junpei asked cautiously: "Then why is Mr. Saitama so depressed?"

"...It's because of this."

Saitama dejectedly took out a pot from behind.

It was a large pot, which happened to be the same one Genos brought.It's just that there is a big hole in the bottom of this pot.Through the hole, everyone can see the top of Saitama's barren head.

"The pot was broken by them." Saitama said dejectedly, "I have no choice but to send an email to ask Genos to find another pot..."

Everyone was shocked.Nagasaki Wild Rose murmured: "It's just such a small matter..."

"No, there is one more thing." Saitama's expression became serious again.

"Eh? What's the matter?" Everyone was startled.

"When I was fighting those guys, my wallet..." Saitama paused, with a pained look on his face, "it was eaten by one of their curses."

"..."

"There are six thousand yen in it..."

"..."

"That's my food expenses for several days..."

Saitama slowly sat down against the wall, extremely depressed.Gojo Gojo cleared his throat, and said loudly, "Then let's have a good meal tonight, Saitama."

At this moment, Tian Yuan, who had been silent all this time, silently took out an exquisite wooden box from behind.

Under everyone's puzzled eyes, he opened the lid of the box.What appeared in the box was a row of tightly tied lobsters.

Dog Curly: "Salmon... Lobster!"

"Ahaha, I forgot to mention just now, this is something sent by the Conjuration Association." Tian Yuan's four eyes narrowed into a smile, "Because I have been staying in the Xingxing Palace to maintain the stability of the enchantment, so I need my organization There are always regular gifts like this."

"There are too many lobsters delivered this time," he said. "I can't finish them all by myself. Let's eat with everyone today."

The eyes of Yuzu Yuhito and Nagasaki Wild Rose suddenly lit up.And Saitama, who was sitting in the corner in frustration just now, stood up with straight eyes.

"Yes, is it?" The bald head's crowded facial features stretched out in an instant, and he said in a daze, "If the old man encounters difficulties, he can't help. Then we will finish eating for you!"

……

After half an hour.

Because Tianyuan took out the lobster, tonight's original chicken assorted pot was temporarily changed to a lobster-based seafood chicken pot.

While chewing with the lobster claws, Saitama said vaguely: "Oh, this lobster is so big!"

Broken pots and lost wallets seem to have been forgotten by the contented bald hero.

The hall on the first floor of the dormitory was bustling with activity, and the milky white water vapor overflowing from the pot blurred the eyebrows of the boys and girls.Watching this scene, Tian Yuan held the bowl in his hand and didn't move his chopsticks for a long time.

How long has it been since he saw such a lively person last time?

Tian Yuan, who has lived for more than 500 years, can no longer remember many things clearly.The former relatives and companions have also become vague shadows.The last time he witnessed such a scene was probably when he was still living within the lifespan of an ordinary person before he became an "immortal magician".

But the scene in front of him is enough for him to recall it from time to time before completely forgetting it.

"Father."

Saitama's words suddenly interrupted Tian Yuan's thoughts.He turned around, and saw Saitama's cheeks bulging with food, pointing at the lobster, and looking at him seriously with a pair of dead fish eyes: "You said you often receive such ingredients, right?"

"That's right..."

Hearing this, Saitama suddenly became energetic.

"It's boring to stay underground all the time, isn't it? Please, Mr. Tianyuan, eat hot pot with us!" He solemnly said to Tianyuan, "By the way, bring some delicious meat or seafood over here!"

"Hehehe..."

Tian Yuan laughed: "Definitely."

The author has something to say: Start happy to update the episode!One chapter, one side story!

(Warning, I was almost able to complete the 3000-character this month, so I plan to work harder!)

Judging from the current situation, Tian Yuan should not be a villain, so I wrote it like this.If there is a reversal in the future, I hope everyone will not hit me, but regard this article as a parallel world where Tianyuan is not a villain.

As for sacrificing the astral body to maintain Tianyuan's immortality and further maintain the stability of the enchantment, whether it should be done or not is actually a proposition of "sacrificing one person to save a group of people is not justice".It's the same as whether Hu Zi, who has made no mistakes at all, should be executed to prevent Su Nuo from continuing to kill people.This proposition is too deep, so I won’t discuss it here (Aya, whose brain capacity = walnut, gradually recedes while talking