Bald cape conjurer

"At that time, I was tortured physically and mentally by the curse, and I couldn't help but say that to him." Saori was immersed in the memory, repeating her own words at the time, "I asked him..."

……

"Not only did I not find a suitable company to work for, but I was also entangled by that strange thing...Because I was entangled by that monster, my friends who participated in the inauguration activities together felt that I had become strange and did not want to associate with me... Everything is screwed up."

A year and a half ago, in the ghost town, Saori fell to the ground with tears still on her face.

She said in a daze: "After moving back to Tokyo, I have been trying my best to establish a good relationship with everyone, but in the end I was still excluded by the people around me like that... Can I really survive in this society like this? "

"What the hell am I supposed to do?" she murmured.

"Are you asking me?" The bald man who punched the curse was standing in front of Saori, and asked in surprise.

"If you have the answer..." Saori was just venting to herself, but since the bald head asked, she simply said, "Then please tell me."

"is it?"

The bald head scratched his shiny head, thought for a while and said: "Actually, I was just like you more than a year ago. I was a college student who had just graduated but couldn't find a job. I went to interviews every day and was rejected every day. Rejected. At that time, I also felt that I might not be able to adapt to this society, and I was an underachiever left behind by this society."

"But then, I found out what I wanted to do — and that was to be a hero for fun."

"hero?"

Saori froze for a moment, she didn't expect to hear such an answer like making up a story.But the sight of Saitama punching down the monster following her was too real for her to have any doubts.

She tentatively asked, "Is that why you have become so strong?"

"Ah."

The bald head nodded and raised his eyebrows: "So if you ask me what to do, just do what you want."

"You are a few years younger than me. If I can do it, then you must be fine."

--what happened?This natural attitude?

Saori stared at the bald head with wide eyes, dumbfounded.But at this time, the simple words of the bald head suddenly caused an unprecedented impulse in her heart.

A small voice said in her heart, just try it!Like he said, do what you want to do!

……

After listening to Saori's story, Nagasaki Yaqiangwei sat there dumbfounded.

—too many familiar details.A bald man, a ghost town, a hero out of interest... So, the one who saved Saori back then, wasn't that guy...

It's Saitama!

At that moment, Nagasaki Wild Rose felt a feeling of unwillingness.

Although she was the one who saved Saori today, she always felt a little uncomfortable when she thought that Saitama had done the same thing a year and a half ago.

And...Kagizaki Ye Qiangwei had to admit that in Saori's description, that bald head was damn handsome.

Always feel like I'm losing.

"...After that, according to the unknown Mr. Hero, I found a job in the editorial department based on my interest." Saori said happily, "Although I am proofreading now, I will work in another year or two , if you perform well, you can become the editor of a fashion magazine!"

"Maybe in the future, I will choose the collocation of the fashion magazines that Wild Rose reads! At that time, I will find Wild Rose as a reader model!" Saori said while turning her head to look at Nagasaki Wild Rose, "Huh? Wild Rose, why are you in a daze?"

"Ah? Well, it's nothing." Kaginizaki Wild Rose came back to her senses and shook her head immediately, "From now on, when I match clothes, I will always refer to Saori-chan's opinion!"

"Haha, it's actually thanks to that mysterious Mr. Hero. I'm really lucky to have met him. I don't know how he is doing now, is he still sticking to his interests..."

"..."

Nagasaki Rose fell silent again.

After a while, she suddenly solemnly raised her index finger and said, "If Saori-chan thinks that guy is too perfect, she will definitely be disillusioned if she sees him again in the future. That Sai...I mean that bald hero, Maybe he is unexpectedly stingy. He must be the kind of person who would go to the housewives every day to grab supermarket specials."

"Eh?"

……

"Ah!"

Saitama, who was sitting cross-legged in front of an electric fan, sneezed suddenly.

"Teacher, are you catching a cold?" Genos asked courteously, "Do you want to turn off the fan?"

"How could it be possible to catch a cold in this kind of weather?" Saitama shook his head sweating profusely, "It should just be dust in his nose."

The silence lasted for a while, and Saitama looked around his room blankly.

"But speaking of this, when I moved in, I had already cleaned it. I didn't expect the room to be dusty again so soon." He said to himself.

"Teacher!" Genos pushed away the notebook at hand with a "swipe" and stood up, "I'll help the teacher remove the dust!"

A few pipes popped out of the transformed man's arm with a "click".He put a plastic bag on the other end of the pipe, and then flattened his palms against the ground with a serious look on his face.

Hearing a deep and slight "buzzing" sound, Genos lowered his body solemnly, lying on the ground like a gecko, and the power core in his body brought a suction force, sucking all the dust into the end of the pipe installed in a plastic bag.

Saitama's eyes were straightened: "It's amazing, this is a vacuum cleaner! Genos, you actually have the function of vacuuming!"

"Think about it carefully, you can wash dishes, wash clothes, heat food, dry and dehumidify with ultraviolet light, plus the current vacuum..." Saitama sighed, "I always feel that after getting to know Genos, I don't need to buy a small Appliances."

Genos said sonorously: "I will continue to work hard, teacher!"

Nagasaki Rose and Saori sat in the coffee shop all afternoon, and settled for dinner by the way.After that, the two of them walked around Ginza and took a lot of photoshoots.

When passing an arcade hall, Nagasaki Wild Rose caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of her eye, and suddenly stopped in her tracks.

"Ah, it's a cake monster!" She slumped to the redemption prize table posted at the entrance of the arcade hall, her eyes glowing, "I didn't expect to get it here!"

Thirty game coins are required to exchange for cake monsters.Seeing this, Nagazaki Wild Rose clenched her fists tightly, her eyes blazing with flames.

Let her—the arcade queen who beats all the town's invincible players win the cake monster key chain in one fell swoop!

"Hey, does Wild Rose like this?"

Saori's voice sounded from behind.She leaned over and took a look curiously: "Ah, this cake monster is really cute. Since Wild Rose likes it, I'll win it for you!"

"Eh?" Nagasaki Wild Rose couldn't help being taken aback, and asked with a question mark above her head, "Is Saori-chan good at playing arcade machines?"

"That's not true..." Saori curled her hair embarrassingly, "But Wild Rose wants this doll, right? Then I'll try my best!"

——Actually, I’m really good at arcade games now.

These words lingered in Nagasaki Ye Qiangwei's mind for a few times, and she swallowed them down again.

If it's a gift from a dessert shop, forget it.But if it's an arcade victory prize...

Sure enough, she still wants to get the cake monster that Saori-chan won for her!

Nagasaki Wild Rose followed Saori into the arcade hall. After watching her exchange a few game tokens, she hesitated and stood in front of the shooting game.

"Let's try this first." Saori glanced at the words "Resident Evil" on the game console and the lifelike image of a zombie with teeth and claws, and took a deep breath.

"Ugh——Saori-chan would choose this first?" Nagasaki Ye Qiangwei looked surprised.

"Because I always feel that this kind of shooting game will look...more domineering in the game hall?" Saori entered the player name, and then clicked on the score leaderboard to take a look.

"Wow, what's going on?" She exclaimed in a low voice—only the top ten leaderboards were swiped by the name of the same player named "TOJ".

After closing the leaderboard, Saori looked at the prompt on the screen and did a full-loading operation, took a deep breath, and said solemnly, "Wild Rose, I'm going up! If I'm scared to scream by zombies later, Don't laugh at me."

"Absolutely not!" Nagasaki Wild Rose quickly assured her.

A bright red countdown popped up on the screen.Saori, dressed in exquisite and fashionable clothes for working women, stood nervously in the game area holding the black electronic machine gun of the game console, attracting the attention of many regular customers.

"3, 2, 1... Start!"

A 3D modeled street view appeared on the screen, and the first-person view kept advancing.Saori held her gun nervously, wary of monsters that might appear at any time.

Suddenly, a howl sounded.A zombie suddenly jumped out of the alley ahead, and quickly approached the player.

Although the fidelity of the zombies modeled in the game is far less than that of the promotional pictures, Saori was still taken aback, and stood there holding the gun in a daze, forgetting to even shoot.

"Saori-chan, shoot it!" Nagasaki Ye Qiangwei hurriedly urged.

"Yes, yes!" Saori woke up suddenly, quickly raised the machine gun in her hand, and frantically pulled the trigger in the direction of the zombie on the screen.

Virtual bullets poured out like raindrops.Under Saori's one-pass blind attack, although the first zombie that came up was eliminated, when the two zombies that jumped out immediately rushed towards her, she had no time to change the bullets, and could only watch the screen being attacked by the two zombies. Rotting heads occupy.

With a zombie-specific howl, the game ended: "Gaover!"

"Ah, why is this..." Saori sighed, then patted her face, reinserted two game coins to start the next game, "Again!"

"Gaover!"

"Again!"

"Gaover!"

"..."

Saori played several rounds in a row amid the cheers from Nagasaki Wild Rose, and it took more than half an hour to finally get to the third map.But this game must pass the fifth map to complete and get the game currency.

"Hey, when will I be able to successfully pass the level...and after failing so many times, the image of a 'big sister who can do things with ease' established in front of Wild Rose when I was a child must have collapsed to nothing..."

Saori was holding the gun, thinking like this while standing in the same spot with some entanglement, and secretly looked back at the wild rose Nagizaki with shining eyes, "But today we must win the cake monster, because wild rose really wants it."

Do I continue to play this game, or is it better to change to another game strategy...

Just when Saori was struggling in her heart, a lazy voice suddenly came from the side.

"Playing this kind of game, if you don't react fast enough, you have to remember where the enemy appears and the amount of blood."

"Eh?" Saori and Nagasaki Wild Rose were taken aback at the same time, and when they looked back, they found a black-haired young man in a black T-shirt who looked about the second half of his twenties sitting in front of the racing game next to him, squinting She was also throwing a shiny game coin in her hand.

"Is that so?" Saori asked suspiciously.

Unlike Saori who responded subconsciously, Nagasaki Wild Rose's eyes flashed suddenly.

——This guy feels very different from ordinary people.Her intuition could feel that this person was very strong.

"Uncle, we don't know you, right?" Nagasaki Wild Rose asked deliberately.

"Uncle?" The black-haired young man was speechless, "You little girl has a really poisonous mouth. I don't look more than 30 years old, right? How can I look like an uncle?"

After finishing speaking, he said to Saori again: "Later, you can fight wherever I tell you to."

The black-haired young man didn't pay attention to Nagasaki's slightly wary eyes, stood up from the racing game seat, and picked up a woven bag at his feet.

At this moment, the eyes of both of them were straight - I saw that the woven bag picked up by the black-haired youth was full of game coins!

"This... you won all these?" Saori already addressed the black-haired youth with respect, "There are at least a few thousand coins here, right? Why did you win so many game coins..."

"The grand prize of this arcade is a two-day, one-night trip to Hokkaido worth 50 yen. There is no limit to the number of prize redemptions. I plan to exchange that and convert it into cash."

The dark-haired young man showed a sure-fire smile on his face, and a thin scar on the corner of his lips was raised together: "Going to the casino, you have to limit the threshold for gambling, but here, I don't need a single cent of the principal." Out—all game coins are won with a coin I picked up from the ground."

Holding the woven bag, he slowly stood behind Saori, ignoring Nagasaki's unhappy expression: "Let's start again."

"Okay!" Saori quickly put in the last two game coins and restarted the game.

"Right 30°, left 50°, left 40°, right 70° two consecutive shots..."

Under the unhurried prompt of the black-haired young man, Saori only needs to shoot in the direction and angle he said.The black-haired young man has been standing behind Saori to remind her, and from time to time he helps her hold the muzzle of the gun. Although his tone of voice and movements are a bit slack, his shots are quite precise.

Time passed quickly, and before she could react, the words "You!" popped up on the screen.

There was a loud "crash", and ten game coins fell out of the machine.

"Really won!" Saori picked up ten game coins in disbelief, "You are really strong!"

Unexpectedly, the black-haired young man subconsciously raised his hand and touched his forehead as if he had been recalled by this sentence.

There still seemed to be a dull pain there.

"Of course there are people who are much more powerful than me." He said abruptly, and then waved his hands towards Saori and Nagasaki Wild Rose, "Goodbye."

"Are you leaving?" Saori asked quickly.

"Do you still want me to continue to guide you?" The black-haired young man smiled, and couldn't help but stroke the scar on the corner of his lips, "... If you want to extend the time, there will be a fee, little girl."

Saori immediately lowered her head in embarrassment.Nagasaki Wild Rose was taken aback for a moment, and then she showed displeasure: "What's the matter with your charming spirit? Are you a cowherd?"

Seeing the dark-haired young man disappearing at the end of the flashing lights of the machines in the arcade hall, Saori couldn't help but sigh: "I didn't expect there to be such a person in the arcade hall... I always feel that such an attractive person shouldn't appear in the arcade hall." here……"

While talking, Saori started another round of the game.But Nagasaki Wild Rose still looked at the direction where the black-haired youth left, and said to herself: "I always think that guy looks familiar..."

……

When they walked out of the arcade, the two cake monster keychains were divided by two people, one by one, and buckled on the bag.

"that……"

Nagasaki Bari stared at the cake monster keychain on the bag, hesitated for a long time, then suddenly grabbed Saori's sleeve and spoke loudly.

"Taking pictures... posting on Instagram?" she asked.

"Well, okay!" Saori quickly took out her mobile phone, "By the way, let's lock each other up!"

On that day, Nagasaki Wild Rose's Ins updated a photo.In the photo, two women's bags are side by side, and a cake monster keychain is hung on each bag.

There is one more person named saori who clicked Like on the photo than in the past.

Fuheshier sat in the game hall, leaning against the railing, playing baseball games time after time.

As the controlled player swung a stick, the white ball flew across the sky, and the words "home run" and cheerful sound effects jumped out.

The exit of the machine "jingled" and spit out a few game coins.

Fu Heisher let go of the handle in his hand, bent down to grab the game coins, and couldn't help muttering: "It's still too slow. Otherwise, I'd better hook up with a rich woman..."

Just as he was complaining in a low voice, a familiar voice suddenly came from behind: "Oh, Genos, this is where the panda said!"

Fuheshier's hand holding the game coins stopped.With the help of the game console's reflection, he clearly saw a bald head in high spirits standing not far behind him at the entrance of the arcade hall.

——Isn’t that Saitama who defeated him last time?

Fuhesher didn't look back, but observed quietly with the help of the machine's reflective mirror.

"Teacher," the blond boy next to Saitama reminded solemnly, "Are you going to play the arcade? Didn't you say that the main purpose of going out for a walk after dinner tonight is to hear that the weather is too hot to breed curses, see if there is any Can the curse be resolved?"

"But I happened to come to this place, so it doesn't matter if you play it!" Saitama pointed to the inside of the arcade and said, "I heard from Panda that he had a field practice here before, and there seems to be a big prize that can be exchanged here."

"Is that it?" Genos pointed to the list of prizes posted on the door, "Special prize - a trip for two to Hokkaido worth 50 yen."

"Oh, this is it!" Saitama's eyes lit up, "Look, there are many famous products in Hokkaido! There are cheap and fresh crabs, Sapporo ramen, Otaru sea urchin rice bowl, Genghis Khan barbecue, honeydew melon, milk ...Ah, and the sweets are pretty good too!"

Genos said: "Teacher, even if the grand prize in the arcade is a trip, few people will actually go on a trip. On the surface, the grand prize is travel, but in fact what attracts people is the cash discounted from the grand prize. That is Because directly using cash as a prize will be considered gambling, so the owner of the arcade hall is just using travel as a cover."

Speaking of this, he added: "It's just a trip of 50 yen. If you want to travel to Hokkaido, why not let me invite you to go."

"It's different, Genos."

For some reason, Saitama's expression instantly changed from a stick figure to a serious face.He raised a finger and said solemnly to Genos: "If you pay for the travel expenses, it is nothing more than an ordinary trip at best. But if you win a big prize here, it is not an ordinary trip, but It is the glory of victory."

"Glory..." Genos was stunned, and suddenly realized, "I understand, teacher! Then win the glory!"

"I don't have much money, so let's exchange five game coins first." Saitama ran to the counter to exchange the game coins, and then looked around, "The place where you can win the most game coins... should be this. "

Through the mirror of the game console, Fuheshier saw Saitama pointing to a VR somatosensory fighting game "Monster Wars".

Playing "Monster Wars" against AI can get up to 15 game coins at a time, but if you win against other players, you can get 40 game coins at a time.And compared with the clearance games that take a certain amount of time, as long as the skills of the battle game are good enough, the time of a round can be minimized.Fu Heisher himself earned a lot of game currency from this game.

"Since it is a somatosensory game, it means that the combat actions of the game characters will be synchronized with the player wearing the sensor helmet and bracelet." Saitama said confidently.

"So that's it!" Genos muttered to himself, "So, the strongest person in real life is also the strongest in this game..."

Watching Saitama and Genos walking towards a "Monster Wars" game machine, Fuheshier picked up the woven bag full of game coins and walked to another game machine at an angle they couldn't see.

——This is just a good opportunity.

After being hit with a hammer by Saitama last time, Fu Heisher regained his senses, and he gave up and ran away.The man had shown him that he had no chance with a single blow to the head.

But after that, Fuheshier always wanted to know what it would be like if Saitama fought with all his strength.

It's too dangerous to fight that bald head in real life. If both sides use their full strength in their prime, even the surrounding area will be destroyed.

But what is a safer and more convenient way to test Saitama than this VR somatosensory fighting game?

Fuheshier glanced at the serial number of Saitama's game console and started a game.On the other side, Saitama's eyes lit up: "Oh, someone matched me so soon!"

A countdown to the game appeared on the screen.Saitama said to Genos while wearing a helmet and bracelets and leg rings on his body, "Look at me and finish the battle with one punch!"

After five seconds.

"KO!"

On the screen, the monster controlled by Saitama crashed to the ground.Saitama, who was wearing a helmet, still maintained a normal boxing posture, staring blankly at the screen.

Genos said softly: "Mr. Saitama..."

Saitama finally came to his senses at this time, took off the helmet on his head, and put it on the helmet rack of the game console blankly.

"Teacher, do you want to play again?" Genos asked.

"...Forget it." Saitama turned his head with straight eyes, "This game costs five game coins once, and the game coins that were exchanged just now have been used up..."

On the other side, Fu Heisher frowned and took off his helmet, with a look of disbelief on his face.

"What's going on, that guy just lost like this?" He muttered to himself, "Because he's too strong to win with skill, so he only fights with ordinary boxing?"

After a while, Fu Heisher was interrupted by the sound of the game machine spitting out game coins, bent down and grabbed a handful of game coins and stuffed them into the woven bag.

After all, game characters are not as good as real people.Although he defeated Saitama in the game, everything suddenly became dull.

"Forget it, let's redeem the prize."

……

When leaving the arcade hall, Saitama and Genos heard the broadcast in the arcade hall: "Congratulations to player TOJ for winning the special prize in this game hall—two-day, one-night trip to Hokkaido for two..."

"That's great." Saitama said enviously, "There is really someone who can win this award."

Just as he finished speaking, the cell phone in his pocket rang suddenly.Saitama picked up the phone and looked: "It's Gojo Satoru's call. I don't know what's up with him?"

"Saitama, I have a mission for you."

As soon as the call was connected, Gojo Satoru's very discerning voice came from the phone.I just heard Gojo Satoru say on the phone: "Recently, there has been a special curse incident caused by faith. The location is in Hokkaido. The estimated task time is two days and one night. The expenses will be borne by the Conjurer Association. If you accept the task, tomorrow We're leaving early in the morning. Are you going?"

Saitama's expression was instantly solemn: "No problem! Let's go tomorrow morning!"