Bald cape conjurer

The next day was still Sunday with no classes or assignments.

Saitama lay asleep under the quilt on the floor, a bubble was blown out of his nose, and it exploded with a "pop".

"Ok?"

Saitama was awakened by the sound of snot bubbles exploding, rubbed his eyes, yawned and sat up, grabbed the small alarm clock beside him and took a look.

"It's past eight o'clock." He patted the alarm clock several times after seeing the time clearly. "Ever since I picked up this alarm clock from the ruins, it can't always ring when it should ring... ah."

There was only a "click", and the cracked glass on the surface of the alarm clock was completely shattered by Saitama's slap.

Saitama: "..."

He had to put down the alarm clock, pushed the quilt aside, sat up, turned on the TV provided by Gaozhuan and went to the kitchen to brush his teeth.

The morning news blared on the TV.While brushing his teeth, Saitama looked around the dormitory room.

Under the premise of not causing damage to the building, the college allows students to remodel the rooms.After Saitama moved in, he and Genos worked together to transform the layout of the dormitory into a structure similar to the small apartment in the ghost town.Because he was used to that kind of room.

"It really feels the same as before." He spit out mouthwash and said to himself, "Except that the scenery outside the window is better."

At this moment, someone knocked on the door suddenly.

"Who is it?" Saitama walked towards the door with a toothbrush in his mouth, talking to himself while walking, "Janos seems to be going to do an upgrade task today, so it shouldn't be him..."

He opened the door, and Yoshino Junpei's somewhat awkward figure appeared outside the door.

"Mr. Saitama!" Yoshino Junpei smiled when he saw Saitama, "Can I take a moment of your time?"

"Ah, um."

Saitama opened the door to let him in, then took a banana in his mouth, and dug out two cracked teacups from the kitchen.

"This is the cup I just found when I went back to the ruins of my former home two days ago." He put the cup on the small coffee table with a somewhat smug expression, "Although the mouth of the cup is a little cracked, but There is no water leakage. Anyway, wait a moment, I will make tea. I have always wanted to try using this tea set..."

"Ah, there's no need for tea," Yoshino Junpei said hastily, "It's too much trouble for you."

"..." Saitama stopped looking for tea, and looked at Yoshino Junpei with a dead fish eye, "So, what do you want me to do?"

"Actually so."

Yoshino Junpei sat upright in front of the small table, putting his hands on his knees: "Miss Glass scanned my brain with a device and came to the conclusion that I have the potential for awakening spells. She guessed that my spells are' Poison', but the part that can use the spell is buried deep in my brain and has not yet been developed."

"In order to pave the way for the awakening of the spell, she suggested that I first learn to summon the shikigami that does not need the spell, and after the awakening of the spell, I can combine the 'poison' spell with the attack of the shikigami to form my own unique way of fighting."

"After a period of training, I finally learned to summon a single normal shikigami. Since Mr. Saitama was the one who led me on this path, I wanted to show Mr. Saitama the results of my training." Junpei Yoshino said courageously.

"I see," Saitama said solemnly after hearing the words, "Okay, then let me see!"

Yoshino Junpei took a deep breath and called out, "Yodotsuki!"

From behind Yoshino Junpei, a beam of light began to light up, and then gradually expanded into a translucent umbrella shape.

A crystal clear luminous jellyfish appeared from behind Yoshino Junpei, and began to swim around him flexibly in the air, as if the air was the boundless ocean.

"Although the size is still small and the ability is not strong, this is the shikigami I summoned, the jellyfish Yodotsuki." Yoshino Junpei explained.

"Oh!" Saitama's eyes widened in surprise, "Can you take a closer look?"

"Of course!" Yoshino Junpei quickly manipulated the jellyfish shikigami to come to Saitama.

The jellyfish shikigami turned around Saitama, up and down, floating up and down.Saitama's eyes also followed the trajectory of the jellyfish.But at this moment, under the interaction between Saitama and the jellyfish, a strange phenomenon suddenly appeared in the room——

The shimmering light emitted by the jellyfish shikigami Yodotsuki began to reflect moving light spots through Saitama's bald head as it moved away from Saitama and drew closer.The spot of light shone around the room, like beams of light emitted by the ceiling laser lights of the ballroom.

Saitama withdrew his gaze from following Yodotsuki, and looked at Yoshino Junpei wordlessly: "..."

At this time, Yoshino Junpei did not find anything wrong with the reflection of Saitama's head, but asked further: "By the way, Mr. Saitama, I have one thing to ask you: After entering the high school, I still follow the method you said I do muscle building every day, but until now, my body has only gained some muscle, and there is no sign that it will become as strong as yours. And my hair has not decreased at all...”

Saitama's facial features began to distort again: "..."

At this moment, Saitama's cell phone on the table rang suddenly.

"Ah, please."

Yoshino Junpei hastily put away Yodotsuki.Seeing that the jellyfish that turned his head into a laser light disappeared, Saitama finally breathed a sigh of relief and picked up his phone.

As soon as he picked up the phone, Jianren Qihai's voice came over.

"Saitama, do you still remember the mission we carried out in Kyoto?" Kento Nanami asked straight to the point.

"Oh, it's about the armor!" Saitama recalled and said with certainty.

"...Let's just treat it like that." Nanami Jianren replied after a few seconds of silence, "Anyway, I just discovered the kind of filth that once appeared in the battle scene of the ultimate machine pill. The guy who traded with Xingji Currently staying in Tokyo."

Jianren Qihai said affirmatively: "Next, I plan to track down Ruan Hui, find and exorcise that guy. Come along with you."

Saitama's expression was instantly solemn: "Okay, anyway, I'm free today."

After putting down the phone, Saitama's serious face instantly returned to a dull expression.

"Someone asked me to do a task," he finished eating the remaining bananas in two or three bites, grabbed the tights hanging by the door and was about to put them on, and hurriedly said to Yoshino Junpei while putting them on, "probably I don't have time to entertain you."

"Ah, it's okay!" Yoshino Junpei said quickly.Afterwards, he hesitated for a moment, and asked tentatively, "Well...can I go with you as a trainee? Teacher Wutiao said that compared with other students, I still need some field experience."

"Eh?"

Saitama paused for a moment with his gloved hand.He lowered his head, looked at his hands, and thought, "Well, Qihai probably wouldn't mind having one more person."

……

After changing into the tights and cape that he usually wears when going out, Saitama strode out with Yoshino Junpei full of expectations.

Just as he was walking out of the college gate, the black car came from a distance at the right time, and with the sound of tires rubbing against the ground, it slammed to the brakes in front of Saitama.

The car window was lowered, Nanami Kento in the driver's seat stared at Saitama through the sunglasses: "Get in the car quickly....Also, who is this?"

Nanami Kento's eyes fell on Yoshino Junpei.Yoshino Junpei hurriedly introduced himself: "I am Yoshino Junpei, a first-year student in a high school. I have been enrolled for a month. This time I plan to train with Mr. Saitama."

"Enrolled for one month?" Jianren Qihai frowned, remembering the tragic situation of the victims discovered this time, and asked bluntly, "What level are you now?"

"I don't have a conjurer level yet..." Yoshino Junpei said nervously, "but I have learned to summon shikigami!"

Jianren Qihai suddenly showed a disapproving expression: "A high school student who has only been enrolled for a month can only summon Shikigami, and most of them still don't..."

His eyes fell on Saitama's sluggish expression, and he finally sighed: "Forget it, anyway, Saitama is here. You can come up together."

"Yes!" Yoshino Junpei quickly turned his head and said to Saitama, "Let's get in the car, Mr. Saitama."

Saitama opened the door of the back seat, but was slightly taken aback when he saw the people inside.

"Hi!" Ino Takuma, who was sitting in the back seat, greeted him enthusiastically, "Meet you again, Saitama! Come in and sit down! The one behind is a junior, come in quickly!"

"Oh……"

Saitama bent down and got into the car, pointing at Ino Takuma and asked Nanami Jianren: "Is this guy also participating in this operation? Or is he just hitchhiking?"

"Ino volunteered to join me after learning that I needed a mission companion." Nanami Jianren restarted the car, "Besides, he seems to have been very concerned about your affairs. Although I don't know exactly what's going on .”

"That..." Takuma Ino was silent for a moment when he heard that, and then turned around in the car with great difficulty, staring at Saitama seriously.

"Last time, during the briefing session..." He struggled for a moment, but still asked, "Did you knock down that strong man with black hair and a scar on the corner of his mouth?"

"Well, I knocked it down." Saitama nodded.

"The clothes on Zenyuan Naoya's upper body are gone, did you make that too?" Ino Takuma asked in a daze.

Saitama turned his head to look at Takuma Ino, with disbelief on his face: "Of course I didn't do that. Why should I strip him?"

"..."

Sure enough, it is true.

The official result of the Conjurer leveling up description being invaded is that the invaders fled after knocking everyone down.But the truth is that Saitama defeated the intruder!

Ino Takuma had imagined the answer he would get countless times, but when his conjecture was confirmed, he felt speechless instead, and looked carefully at Saitama with eyes that he had never had before.

No matter how you look at it, this man is very ordinary, and you can't see his strength at all from his appearance...

——Even if Zenyuan Naoya makes trouble again in the future, he doesn't need to worry about whether to swallow his anger for the sake of his future or help Saitama... No, in fact, Saitama doesn't need anyone's help, including him. Most conjurers are more powerful...

Although this guy is still at the fourth level, he must have a bright future in the future!

Ino Takuma was still staring at Saitama, and Saitama noticed his gaze and couldn't help but shed a drop of sweat.

The bald head couldn't help but said: "What's the matter with your eyes, staring straight at me, it's a bit disgusting..."

Ino Takuma was suddenly recalled by Saitama's words.He stared at Saitama again, his eyes lit up, and he spoke suddenly:

"I'm really sorry last time, I didn't defend you in front of Zenyuan Naoya. Obviously we were already friends at that time."

"Ah?" Saitama was taken aback, "You don't need to defend me, right? And we weren't friends at all at the time, we just talked a few words. Now we can only be regarded as people who barely know each other."

"Yes, is it..."

Ino Takuma coughed twice, and then continued to say enthusiastically, "But after going through this mission, we can be considered friends. Although I entered the magic world a little earlier than you, and my level is higher than yours, But you don't have to treat me as a senior, just as a peer."

"And if you don't understand anything about the magic world, just ask me. We have to get along with each other."

Saitama: "..."

"Saitama, you are in the first year of the magic school, right? I can understand why your age is much different from the general situation of the magic school, but the school still made an exception to let you enroll. The people in the school still What a vision!"

Saitama: "..."

"You live in the dormitory of the high school, right? To tell you the truth, the Tokyo high school is also my alma mater. Next time I will visit your dormitory as a guest. After all, we are all magicians, so we need to take care of each other. OK."

Ino Takuma blinked at Saitama, "If we have a chance, we can hang out together, eat or sing karaoke. After all, in our line of work, it is also very important to relieve stress in time and maintain a balance of negative emotions. "

Saitama finally couldn't help but speak: "It's okay, but your attitude has changed too strangely, and so has your expression, it feels more and more disgusting..."

"Ahahahaha..." Ino Takuma scratched the hair on the back of his head and laughed.

Jianren Qihai, who was sitting in the driver's seat, finally interrupted the two of them unbearably: "If you have nothing important to say, let's understand the situation of this mission first."

"Yes, Mr. Nanami!" Ino Takuma immediately shut up.

The vehicle was driving on the winding mountain road in the suburbs at high speed, and the rearview mirror kept passing forest after forest.Jianren Qihai tapped the steering wheel in his hand with his fingernails, and spoke.

"In the past two months, the number of missing persons in the area from Tokyo to Kanagawa has suddenly surged, which is three times the year-on-year data of previous years. Although this summer is hotter than previous years, it is more likely to breed curses, but such an exaggerated multiple increase still seems Extremely unusual."

"When investigating a case of disappearance that happened yesterday, I discovered the filth left by the curse spirit." He said, "The filth extended all the way to the underground drainage system. After comparison, the filth and the ultimate mechanical pill The filth at the battle scene is consistent, and it is confirmed that they belong to the same curse—that is, the special curse spirit called 'True Man'. That guy may be related to the recent surge in the number of disappearances."

"So our goal today is to investigate the filth." Jianren Qihai's sunglasses slid a gleam of light, "Of course, it would be best if we can directly exterminate the real person."

"The location that needs to be investigated is the underground drainage system in the Shinjuku area of ​​Tokyo. I followed the debris to the entrance of the drainage system and stopped."

Jianren Qihai continued, "That's because, according to the information provided by Xingji, the magic formula of the super-level mantra is called 'Wuwei Transformation', which can change the shape of a person's soul through palm contact, thereby causing simultaneous changes in the physical body. This forcefully distorts the human body to kill people. And that curse spirit has already mastered the technique of field development. I can't go deeper with my own strength."

"Expand the field?" Yoshino Junpei was taken aback, "Isn't that the move that Gojo-sensei said must be hit?"

Ino Takuma's complexion turned pale as well—after hearing that the long-awaited senior Nanami Kento needed a mission partner, he immediately signed up, but he didn't expect Nanami Jianren to take on such a dangerous mission.

"That's right. So this mission should only be attended by super-class magicians. But there is not a single super-class magician that can be dispatched at present--among the three existing super-class magicians in the world of magic, B Gu Youtai is still studying overseas; 99 Youji has always been doing his own way, basically not accepting tasks, and of course he does not take the huge subsidy issued by the association to super magicians, so the high-level can't do anything about her; now the only one who has been working Gojo Satoru's schedule has already been taken up by business trips, so I have to be dispatched by a first-level person like me."

Hearing this, Saitama was slightly surprised.

It turns out that Gojo Satoru, who seems to be fooling around and often finds someone to take his place, is the only super conjurer who is still working?From this point of view, I am afraid that all the super missions have been piled on him.He really worked very hard.

Saitama thought silently, the appearance and the inside of a person really cannot be generalized.

"There is really no way." Just when Saitama had such an idea, Nanami Jianren sighed, and continued, "There is a shortage of conjurers all year round, and conjurers with insufficient levels must challenge high-level curses." Things like this happen from time to time. But since you have chosen this line of work, you cannot back down at such times.”

"—You can say that as you like, but this sentence is for me, a first-class conjurer."

Qihai Jianren suddenly parked the car on the side of the road where no one was around.He stared at the faces of Ino Takuma and Yoshino Junpei through the rearview mirror.

"Ino, and Yoshino, even though leapfrog challenges are common, the gap between the two of you and that curse spirit is still too great."

He unlocked the car door and said, "When you asked to join, you didn't know that what you were going to face next was an opponent who could expand the field."

"This is an opportunity I give you as a senior: If you decide to quit now, get off the car and go back immediately. I will not look down on you because of this."

Facing the choice, Ino Takuma and Yoshino Junpei's expressions had already become extremely tense.And Saitama still maintained the original expression: "..."

The silence in the car lasted for a while, and neither of them got out of the car.

"I see. I see."

Jianren Qihai locked the door again.The black vehicle restarted slowly.

"But you don't have to be too nervous. Fortunately, there is Saitama here." Jianren Nanami said something that made the two feel a little more at ease, "Saitama once successfully smashed the curse spirit from the inside in Kyoto. field. So what we have to face is not a battle that must be lost."

Ino Takuma and Yoshino Junpei were taken aback at first, and then let out a slight breath.

"Of course the main force is me and Saitama. Ino is doing some cleaning work. Since Yoshino is here as an intern, let's try to stay away from the battlefield." Nanami Jianren looked at Yoshino Junpei in the rearview mirror and asked, " Yoshino, have you learned to let go of the 'trap'?"

"Learned the simplest..."

"That's enough. As long as it can block the sight of ordinary people." Nanami Jianren said, "This job is too dangerous, so I didn't call the assistant supervisor. Originally, I planned to put down the 'trap' by myself, but since Yoshino Jun is also here, and I will teach you some simple tasks of assistant supervision."

Qihai Jianren said this, thought for a while, and added: "By the way, after all, it is an underground drainage system, and the environment will be relatively humid. And there may be some small animals, such as stray cats and dogs, mice or snakes. Inhabit there, you must be mentally prepared when the time comes, and don't get confused just because of the appearance of small animals."

In the tense atmosphere, a voice suddenly sounded.

"is that so……"

That voice was coming from Saitama's mouth.

For a moment, the three of them looked at Saitama at the same time, only to find that the bald head who had been stunned just now had frowned and muttered to himself: "It seems that this time is troublesome..."

At this moment, the three people except Saitama were slightly stunned, and an ominous premonition floated in their hearts.

At this moment, Saitama raised his hand again and asked solemnly: "When you meet a supermarket or a convenience store, can you stop at the door?"

"Why?" Jianren Qihai frowned and asked.

"I still need some other preparations." Saitama looked at the tights and cloak on his body, and replied with a serious expression, "This is not enough."

As soon as these words came out, the hearts of the three sank slightly again.

——Does even such a powerful Saitama feel that he is not prepared enough for this mission?

There was silence in the car.The car drove all the way to a convenience store, and then stopped.

Saitama opened the car door and jumped down like his ass was on fire.As he ran towards the convenience store, he hurriedly shouted, "I'll be right back, just wait for me in the car!"

The three people in the car watched Saitama's panicked back disappear behind the convenience store door: "..."

"That guy Saitama...what the hell is he going to do?" After a while, Ino Takuma spoke cautiously first.

Nanami Jianren didn't know what he was thinking about, and stroked the new weapon placed between the seats with his fingers - the first-level spell tool given by Saitama, and didn't speak.

"I don't know." Yoshino Junpei stared at the convenience store where Saitama could no longer be seen, and muttered to himself, "But Mr. Saitama is very strong, and his actions are beyond ordinary people's guess."

"Maybe...he may be preparing for the battle to come."

Yoshino Junpei's eyes flashed with longing: "Just like Popeye had to eat a can of spinach first to become infinitely strong, Mr. Saitama may be preparing his... secret weapon!"

The silence in the car continued.

After a while, there was a sudden "ding dong" sound at the door of the convenience store.Accompanied by the clerk's voice of "Thank you for your patronage", Saitama walked out with a plastic bag.

He walked quickly to the car, opened the door and sat in: "Okay, I've finished shopping, let's go."

Saitama's expression has changed from the panic just now to the usual sluggishness.And this was seen by the three people in the car.

The three of them looked at the bag that Saitama took back from the convenience store almost in unison.

What is contained in it is something that can make Saitama change from flustered to calm again.

——Is it Saitama's secret weapon?

The gazes of the three people almost burned a hole in the plastic bag of the convenience store.It's just that the plastic bags in the convenience store wrap the contents tightly, and only a little outline can be barely seen.

What is the secret weapon that Saitama bought at a convenience store?

With this in mind, the car restarted and drove towards the incident in Shinjuku.