Bald cape conjurer

Inside a shrine in Hokkaido, lightning flashes.

In the shrine, a wisp of black mist gradually condensed into a solid body - a tengu with dark red skin, three heads and six arms, and two pairs of wings growing on its back appeared in front of Saitama, and a huge shadow gradually enveloped Saitama's whole body as its body rose.

"I am the god who was born in response to the villagers' beliefs—Super Sky King!" The six arms holding the staff cursed by Tengu raised at the same time, facing each other with the tips of the staff above their heads.An energy ball quickly formed in the center, and the brilliance of the energy ball shone brightly on the top of Saitama's head.

"Since you found out, there's nothing I can do. I'm going to kill..."

It was too late to say it, and before the tengu cursed it, Saitama strode forward without listening, and punched it.

boom!

"Hey wow ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

A big hole split open in the center of Tengu's cursed body.It unbelievably opened its mouth with three fangs, let out a miserable howl, and disappeared in an instant.

Saitama quickly turned around and asked in a hurry: "That's it. Genos, according to the schedule, shouldn't we queue up for ramen?"

"Yes, teacher!" Genos, who had been following behind him, said hastily, "It only took half a minute to solve the curse of the land god mentioned in the mission. If you run over now, you can just catch up!"

"Then what more to say, let's go!" Saitama hurriedly ran.

Half an hour later, in the ramen shop.

Saitama and Genos are holding ramen bowls: "Suck, suck..."

"Hey, do you want to go shopping?"

In the field practice a week after the end of the Hokkaido mission, Saitama, who still solved the curse with one punch, raised his head in a daze, and looked at Megumi Fukuro, who proposed to purchase.

"Yes. Saitama, you just moved into the dormitory not long ago, so you may not be very clear. Because the college is located in the suburbs, far from the urban area, and everyone lives on campus, some daily items that the college will not provide, such as toilets Paper, toothpaste, beverages, garbage bags, and snacks are all purchased in one go by everyone living in the dormitory.” Fu Heihui scratched his thick black hair, “This time it’s my turn to go with you Purchased."

"This is the shopping list." He took out a handwritten list and handed it to Saitama, "The content is a bit long, because it includes things that everyone in the first and second grades are used to. You and Genos, Saitama, just moved into the dormitory. So I haven't had time to ask. But anyway, you have to go this time, and just buy back the things you are used to."

Half an hour later, the two arrived at the nearest commercial center in Yidichi Jiegao's car.

"There are many kinds of things to buy, and it will be faster if we split up." Fuguro Hui divided the shopping list into two parts, handed one of them to Saitama, and gave him a small wallet containing shopping funds by the way, "We each went to buy the items we were allocated, and assembled here an hour later."

"Oh……"

Saitama glanced at the list in his hand.

Fugurohui probably considered that Saitama often went to the supermarket to grab specials, so this time the things allocated to him were all available in the supermarket.

"Then I'll go to the supermarket first." Saitama took the list and turned and walked towards the supermarket on the first floor, talking to himself while walking, "Let's buy some vegetables by the way."

Seeing the back of Saitama's bald cloak disappear into the crowd, Fukuroi looked at the items on his list, turned and walked towards the other side.

I went to the pet store to buy the hair cleaning sand needed by the panda, went to the drugstore to buy the hair dye, nail polish and makeup of Nagasaki wild rose, and went to the drugstore to buy the throat medicine commonly used by dogs. , Fu Heihui's next purchase is the string wax that Zenin Maki needs-used to maintain the bowstring of the bow and arrow spell.

Zenin Maki's usual string wax is sold at a sporting goods store on the edge of the commercial center.Fu Heihui walked all the way into the sparsely populated commercial street, and was comparing the names of the shops one by one according to the list, when a slightly gloomy voice suddenly came from behind.

"Look at the uniform... Are you a student of the High School of Magic?"

Fu Heihui stopped abruptly, his pupils shrank suddenly.

Almost instinctively, he made a sudden leap and distanced himself from the people behind him, only then did he have time to turn around.

Standing behind Fu Heihui was a man wearing a large kimono with a mantra across the bridge of his nose and two braids on his head, looking at him with a hostile expression.

——Judging from the sudden burst of breath, that guy is undoubtedly a first-class... No, maybe he can reach the super-class level.

Is he a wise curse like the "Hana Yu" at the exchange meeting?

This thought flashed through Fu Heihui's mind, but he dismissed it immediately.

Although the braided man was full of powerful magic power, he was holding a paper bag in his arms, which contained oranges, tomatoes, onions, lettuce, and baguettes. He had obviously just gone through some shopping.And those who passed by the man with the pigtails consciously avoided him.There is no doubt that ordinary people can also see the figure of this guy.

So, this guy is human... Could it be a curse master?

Fu Heihui's eyes dimmed.

If the other party can point out the uniform of the High School of Conjuration in one word, they must have already set their sights on him.

What should I do, do I want to fight here?But there are still people in the surrounding shops...

Just when Fu Heihui was thinking about what to do next, he saw the man with the braids holding the paper bag and looking around.

"Because my younger brothers wanted to eat salad, they went out to buy. I didn't expect to meet a student from a high school." Xiang Xiang said in a low voice, "But since a student from a high school is here, it means that that person may also..."

"Where's Saitama?" he asked bluntly, "didn't he come out with you?"

Hearing Saitama's name from a stranger made Fuguro Hui startled: "Saitama is not with me, he went to the other side. Who are you? Are you someone he knows?"

"Really, isn't Saitama with you?"

Zhang Xiang didn't answer Fu Heihui's words, but blinked his slightly dry eyes, and the sickly blue and black under the eyelids became more and more eye-catching.

"Forget it, since you can't find him, it's you."

Lu Xiang put down the things he had bought in his hands and folded his palms together.On his palm, blood was rapidly spinning into shape.

"If there is a commotion here, Saitama should notice and rush over here."

……

At the same time, in the supermarket on the basement level of the commercial center.

In front of the fresh freezer, there was a bald man with a cloak on his shoulders.He stared at the crab claws in the freezer, his eyes were bloodshot.

Perhaps it was because the bald head's clothes were too eye-catching, and his eyes were too focused on the crab claws. The customers who were choosing products all cast their gazes in the bald head's direction intentionally or unconsciously.

——At this moment, Saitama stared at the bright red crab claws, feeling that he might have encountered a once-in-a-lifetime choice.

When shopping according to the shopping list, I passed the fresh food counter. Saitama found that the original price of crab claws in this supermarket was 1350 yen, which was currently on sale for a limited time, and a box was only 855 yen.

Although 855 yen for crab claws is not a bargain for Saitama, it is also within the price range he can currently afford.

In an instant, dinner plans for tonight appeared in his mind.

Saitama has been eating in the high school cafeteria for a week.Although the canteen is as good and cheap as Gojo Satoru said in the past, it is not the same as cooking by yourself after all.

The canteen is a little tired.Today he wants to change his taste and have a hot pot made by himself.After all, it was midsummer a week ago, but now the weather has begun to gradually cool down.

The crab pot is delicious.Although you can't afford a whole crab, if you buy two or three boxes of discounted crab claws and put them in the pot instead of the whole crab, you can still enjoy the deliciousness of the crab pot.

——The supermarket is located underground, so the movement outside did not reach Saitama who was planning the content of dinner at the moment.

……

15 minute later.

In Saitama's shopping basket, there are two more boxes of crab claws, as well as common vegetables in hot pots such as enoki mushrooms and green onions.

"Please separate the crab claws and hot pot ingredients." When he came to the cashier, Saitama said to the cashier.

"Okay. The total of crab claws and hot pot ingredients is 2144 yen. The total of other things is 34290 yen."

Saitama took out money from his own small wallet and the funds given by Fukuro Hui to pay.Then he walked out of the supermarket with the things he bought.

"The meeting point seems to be the entrance to the west of the commercial center." Saitama said to himself and got on the elevator, "Although it's still early, let's go and have a look first."

The escalator went all the way up from the negative floor, and Saitama's smooth head gradually floated to the ground as the escalator went up.However, at this moment, screams suddenly came from the entrance of the commercial street not far away.

Office workers in one-line skirts, shopkeepers wearing aprons, middle school students shopping after school... People kept running from the commercial street.And in the invisible commercial street, there were successive bangs.

A boy wearing a yellow cap and carrying a red schoolbag ran out crying, but on the way, the toe of his shoe was tripped by a satchel dropped by someone who escaped on the road, and fell to the ground with a plop.

Fear and pain intersected, the boy knelt on the ground, opened his mouth and burst into tears.

"Are you OK."

A voice suddenly sounded from above.The boy sucked his nose and moved away the hand rubbing his eyes, and saw a hand wearing a red rubber glove appearing in front of him with tears in his eyes.

The little boy looked along the arm in a daze, and saw that Saitama had arrived in front of him at some point, bending down to look at him, a star of light flashed quickly over his bare head.

"Can you stand up?" Saitama asked.

The little boy froze for a moment, nodded vigorously, sobbed and grabbed Saitama's hand.

"Okay, one or two—"

With a little effort, Saitama pulled the little boy up.He patted the little boy's back, took out his handkerchief and handed it to him, and pointed to the distance: "It might be dangerous here, you should go there first."

"Hmm." The little boy took the handkerchief, sniffed and said, "Big brother with a bald head, why are you wearing a cape?"

"Because I'm a hero."

After Saitama finished answering, he paused again: "Just call me big brother, not to mention the bald head."

After the little boy ran away, Saitama stood up straight and looked into the shopping street.

"Okay," his expression became serious in an instant, "let me go and see who is doing the bad things."

A gust of wind lifted the snow-white cape behind Saitama's back.He raised his leg, maintained a serious expression, and walked quickly towards the inside of the shopping street with a "da da da".

The sound of fighting in the shopping street grew louder as Saitama approached.Finally, Saitama came to the entrance of the shopping street and glanced inside.

In the next second, his serious face instantly changed back to a dumbfounded expression like a stick figure.

Fighting inside the shopping street were Fukuromegumi and Luxiang.

Zhang Xiang kept closing his hands, and the "blood-piercing" blood arrows flew around with their long tails, like a red meteor shower.

And Fu Heihui has already summoned his shikigami——the art form "I don't know the bottom of the well" composed of shrimp and 鵺.A few toad shikigami with wings on their backs sometimes spread out and sometimes gather, jumping around quickly, ejecting purple tongues from time to time, but they are not used to attack, but to assist Fu Heihui to quickly use his strength to dodge the swelling phase blood attack.

The surrounding shops have already become a mess during the battle, and the TVs of various sizes placed in the windows of the electrical appliance store have all been blacked out.The uniform on Fu Heihui's body had become tattered during the battle, and there were bloodstains on his face and body.Obviously, when facing the bloated phase alone, he is still powerless at present.

At the moment when Saitama was standing in a daze at the entrance of the shopping street, Zhang Xiang manipulated his own splashed blood, suddenly lifted a TV, broke through the remaining glass on the edge of the window, and slammed it heavily towards Megumi Fukuro.

Zhang Xiang's attack speed was too fast, Fu Heihui only had time to cross his arms in front of him, and the [-]-inch TV hit his arm heavily.

The force of the impact suddenly pushed Fu Heihui back seven or eight meters.Fu Heihui's arm bones felt a sharp pain, and the soles of the brown leather shoes on his feet rubbed against the ground, making a series of long-drawn blunt sounds, and the soles of his feet became hot from the friction.

Just when Fu Heihui thought he would break through the wall of the shopping street and hit the outside, a red shadow suddenly flashed in his peripheral vision.

A foot in a cheap red boot suddenly protruded from the slant and kicked the TV in front of him away.The deformed TV turned into a black shadow and hit the wall beside it with a "boom".The entire screen of the TV was squarely embedded in the wall, and there were countless tiny cracks on the wall at the edge of the screen.

"I thought some evil force was running amok, but when I came here, it turned out to be the two of you." Saitama put down his legs kicking the TV, raised his hand and swelled his face, and asked loudly, "I said, what are you doing?" ?”

The familiar voice made both Fu Heihui and Zhang Xiang pause.Fu Heihui's eyes widened suddenly, and he turned around in an instant: "Saitama!"

It wasn't until this moment that Fu Heihui staggered and finally stopped his retreat.However, his leg went limp because of the injury.

Although Fu Heihui regained his footing immediately, he accidentally bumped into Saitama beside him.

The plastic bag in Saitama's hand was hit by Megumi Fukuro, the handle of the bag was snapped off, and the contents of the bag fell to the ground with a "crash", and was "cracked" by Megumi Fukuro in a hurry Stepped on several times in a row.

"what……"

Saitama stood there stiffly, looking down at the ground.

What Fu Heihui stepped on under his brown leather shoes were the crab claws he had just made up his mind to buy.

The plastic wrap covering the plastic box had been broken by Fu Heihui's foot, and the broken red crab claws were squeezed out from the soles of his shoes. The dust turned into dirty meat paste.

The crushed crab claws are like a portrayal of Saitama's expectations for the crab pot when he was disappointed.

However, in the next second, Saitama's thoughts were interrupted by the voice of swelling.

"Saitama, you're finally here."

The blood in the palm of the swollen phase kept spinning, and the edges gradually deformed and elongated, turning into a sharp sawtooth shape.

Compared with the embarrassed Fu Heihui, the situation of bulging is obviously much better.There were no obvious injuries on his body, and his clothes were only slightly stained.

Seeing this, Fu Heihui shrank his pupils and warned loudly: "Saitama, he is coming for you! The purpose of fighting me is only to draw you out!"

"Hey, is it because of me?" Saitama was taken aback and asked, pointing to his nose.

"Yes, Saitama, I have something to tell you."

The blood in the palm of the swollen face spun more and more rapidly, which seemed to reflect his excited mood at the moment.

He took a deep breath, opened his mouth suddenly, and the sound resounded through the entire messy shopping street.

"Saitama, be my little brother!"

After the sound of swelling fell, the lingering sound continued to echo in the silent shopping street.

The edge of the TV embedded in the wall was kicked by Saitama just now, and broken bricks fell from the edge of the TV, and fell to the ground with a wobbly "boom".

The silence lasted a long time.

Saitama looked puzzled: "Huh? What are you talking about?"

"Saitama, I have seen your strength in the last battle. After that, I have been looking for a chance to meet you again."

Lu Xiang stared at Saitama, and said loudly, "Your purpose is to let us choose the human side between the magic spirit side and the human side? It is not impossible for us to choose the human side, but the condition is that you also become One of our brothers!"

"No," Saitama asked numbly, "Why do I have to be your brother?"

Lu Xiang stretched out a finger and asked, "Saitama, how old are you?"

Saitama's expression remained unchanged: "...25 years old."

"That's right." Zhang Xiang said calmly, "Our Jiuxiangtu brothers are embryos conceived during the Meiji period, and they are all over a hundred years old. You are the youngest, so you are the younger brother."

"No, no, you made a mistake." Saitama still said with a wooden face, "Why do I have to join you?"

"Saitama, you were able to defeat me in the previous battle, which shows that you have the strength that ordinary humans, even ordinary magicians, rarely have. But it is not enough."

Zhang Xiang said, "Although our brothers temporarily chose to cooperate with the curse spirit party after being fleshed out, my younger brothers were defeated by you in the first 88 bridge mission. Taking this as an opportunity, we got rid of the curse spirit. Lingfang is now a neutral person who is not instructed by anyone."

"But even if I have only maintained a cooperative relationship with the curse spirits for about two days, I can vaguely feel that what the curse spirits are planning is far beyond the imagination of all your magicians."

"Recently, haven't you noticed that the curse is more active than in the past ten years? Natural disasters, the environment, people's hearts... At the same time, imaginary vengeful spirits are constantly being artificially created, such as the famous urban legend High Speed ​​​​Grandma, Hanako in the toilet, Kayako , and some false gods formed by faith are also gradually appearing, such as the king of the sky, the king of the underground..."

Saitama still looked stunned, but Megumi Fukuro was startled when he heard the words.

"What are you all planning?" He interrupted Xiang Xiang and asked loudly.

"It's not us, it's them. I've already said that our brothers have left the Cursing Spirit Party and are now a free force. —Of course, when changes occur in the future, we will naturally choose to join the one with a greater chance of winning." side."

Zhang Xiang shook his head and replied, "Although I can feel that Curse Spirit Fang has a huge plan, the cooperation time between our brothers and them is too short, and we don't even have the finger of Su Nuo, the first mission to surrender. I could get it, so I didn’t gain their trust, so I don’t know any specific information, and I don’t even know the composition of the other party. During that time, the other party handed over to our brothers, and there was only one man with the appearance of a young man. It's just a spirit."

"If you want our brothers to choose the human side in the future war, then Saitama, you have to grow up further." Lu Xiang raised his finger to his lips, and stared at Saitama with black eyes, "Your flesh 〇The body is extremely powerful, but the fighting skills are in a mess and there is no skill. As long as you join our brothers, we will teach you better fighting methods."

"But I don't want to join you." Saitama replied quickly, "And, compared to that..."

Saitama glanced at the trampled crab claws on the ground, and then his eyes fell on Baoxiang again.

That look is too familiar - that night in Xiaozhi Shopping Street, Saitama showed the same look when he pulled up the dessert shop and walked towards the bulge.

The bulging body couldn't help but froze.

"If you didn't want to fight with Fu Hei, the crab claws I bought with money wouldn't have been crushed."

Saitama raised his foot and walked towards the swelling step by step.The hand hanging by his side has already clenched into a fist, and the cloak behind him is suddenly raised, fluttering.

"It doesn't matter if you want to trouble me in the future, and I will accompany you if you want to fight me. But there is only one thing you don't want to do."

Saitama approached the bulging phase step by step.

"Just don't break the long-awaited crab claws!"

Boom!

……

"So, did the teacher beat that unreasonable guy away today, and then left with Fu Hei?"

Genos asked, sitting at the table.The two were sitting in Saitama's room in the college dormitory, and the hot pot was boiling on the small table in front of them.The room was steaming, filled with the smell of food.

"Yeah," Saitama sighed, "The crab claws I bought specially were crushed, so the crab pot that was originally planned had to become a deep-fried tofu pot without crabs."

"If the teacher wants to eat crabs," Genos immediately took out his mobile phone, "I will buy crabs online right now, and send them over immediately..."

"No need. Every time I mention what I want to eat, Genos will buy it back like this immediately." Saitama quickly stopped, "I always ask you to treat me like this, I feel a little sorry. So this time I also want to treat you to eat something."

"However, money is a bit tight recently, and Genos should not expect me to buy any high-end ingredients." He added.

"Does the teacher invite me to dinner?"

Genos held the phone, looked at the crab purchase page displayed on the screen, still couldn't bear the temptation of being invited to dinner by the teacher, and obediently canceled the purchase.

"Anyway, let's do it this time." Saitama held the bowl and stared at the tofu in the pot, "Next time I'll see what ingredients I can get, and then you can eat hot pot again."

"But compared to this - fried tofu is ready to eat, let's start."

"is teacher!"

……

At the same time, in another extremely ordinary room in the bustling Tokyo.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The clock on the wall struck seven times.Under the bright light, at the side of the long dining table covered with white tablecloth, the two men with bad looks and blood smeared with white napkins around their necks, holding a knife and fork in their hands, sitting quietly facing each other, with an empty white table in front of them. Ceramic dish.

Silence continued for a moment.

"Why hasn't big brother come back, it's so slow..."