Bald cape conjurer

It was another refreshing and bright morning, and the chirping of birds rang out on the campus of the college.

The TV provided by the college for each room of the student dormitory is still broadcasting the morning news.And Saitama stood in the room and put on the yellow tights, lightly tapped the heels of the red boots on his feet, and tightened the rubber gloves on his hands.

He bent down to pick up the remote control on the small table and turned off the TV.The room suddenly fell silent.

A cardboard box was temporarily placed on the balcony, and there was a dog food bowl next to it.At this moment, Tuo Gen was lying on the edge of the cardboard box.

A dog leash with "Woof" crookedly written on it was tied around its neck, the tentacles around its mouth curled up, and its round eyes watched what was happening on Saitama's side.

"Okay." Saitama held the doorknob of the dormitory, "Let's go."

……

The fourth day, the fifth day.

There was a sound of "da da da da" footsteps, and Saitama quickly stepped on his legs alternately, galloping all the way on the street, looking around with a pair of dull eyes.

Pedestrians on the street stared at Saitama who was running all the way with stunned eyes, but Saitama didn't care about the eyes of passers-by, but searched for the shadow of the curse.

"...No." He muttered to himself.

——The curses that I encountered from time to time the day before have all disappeared today.Saitama ran for a long time in the streets and alleys of Tokyo, but he didn't even find a single curse.

Saitama stopped in the alley, scratching his bald head in confusion.

"Where did you go..."

At this moment, behind Saitama, in the shadows, a curse with a woman's head but a centipede-like body silently crawled along the wall, and then raised its sharp limbs high towards Saitama's bald head.

Boom!

The centipede cursed that the body that had been broken in two was thrown far into the air by the force of the boxing, and disappeared without a trace in the air.And Saitama put down his fist and looked at it.

"Today is finally fruitful, so let's end it like this."

Saitama walked out of the alley while talking to himself.He walked a few steps along the street, and his eyes fell on a decoration store on the side of the street.

Before going out, the scene of Tuo Gen lying on the edge of the simple cardboard box and looking over it carefully appeared in his mind.

"Although it's barely enough to live in a cardboard box, it's not a stray dog ​​anyway, so I need to buy a dog house or something." Thinking of this, Saitama raised his legs and walked towards the building materials store, "Go in and have a look."

Saitama walked all the way into the building materials store.When the clerk in the store saw someone coming in, he was stunned by Saitama's strange outfit at first, and then walked over quickly.

"Welcome, what do you need to buy?" the clerk asked enthusiastically.

"Is there a dog house for sale here?" Saitama asked.

"Of course." The clerk rubbed his hands and asked, "What is the size of your pet dog?"

"Uh..." Saitama stretched out his hand while recalling the shrunken size of Togen, "Probably so."

"Oh, it's a small dog!" the clerk asked while leading the way, "Is it a Chihuahua? A starling? A Teddy?"

"Ah, um." Saitama didn't know how to react, so he nodded.

"In short, if it is a dog of that size, then buying a small dog house is enough."

The clerk took Saitama to a place in the store.The ground here is covered with artificial turf on which several different models of outdoor dog houses are placed.

"What do you think of this?" The clerk pointed to a dog house with the most classic design, "red roof, white walls. And the dog house uses special paint, warm in winter and cool in summer, moisture-proof and insect-proof. This dog house is the best-selling dog house in our store." It’s the tallest product. And if you buy the small size, the price is pretty good too.”

Saitama's eyes slipped to the price tag next to the dog house-the price of this dog house is 56800 yen.

"Well, is there a cheaper one..." A drop of sweat came out of Saitama's head.

"Do you need a more economical one?" The clerk guided Saitama to see a hemispherical, blue dog house. "The design of this dog house comes from the Eskimo igloo, and the space is close to the lair that wild animals like." Structure. Although the material is slightly thinner than the one just now, it can also meet the weather needs of most of the year in the Tokyo area, and it only costs 47500 yen."

Saitama stared blankly at the beige dog house, thinking: This one is also very expensive...

"What's the cheapest dog house in your store?" he asked.

"Is it the cheapest?" The clerk was slightly taken aback, but still pulled out a square dog house with log wood grain from the corner: "This is the cheapest dog house in our store, the price is 27700 yen, and it is also good as a short-term residence oh."

Saitama stared at the square doghouse, sweat growing on his head.

The cheapest dog house costs almost [-]...

"Then... where are the materials?" He looked around, "Are there any materials that allow people to build dog houses by themselves?"

"Of course there is this!" The clerk put down the square dog house in his hand and pointed to the building materials on the other side, "These materials can be used to build dog houses. They are all treated wood, and they can also be used in ordinary house construction. It’s very common and can improve a dog’s life.”

Saitama followed the clerk to the building materials area, looked around, sweating profusely on his head, and veins bulged on his bald head.

— Damn, these are so expensive!One square meter can easily cost thousands of yen!

While scanning the building materials of the dog house nervously, Saitama's eyes suddenly caught some wood in the distance.

It was some white oak wood, and the price per square meter was only more than 800 yen.

"I'll just buy that." The sweat on Saitama's head disappeared instantly.He raised his finger and said, pointing at the wooden board costing more than 800 yen.

"..."

The clerk looked in the direction of Saitama's finger, and then fell silent for a moment.

"That's untreated wood."

The clerk looked back at Saitama.For some reason, his expression darkened a little.

"Are you sure you want to buy that?" he asked.

"Ah... um." Saitama nodded blankly.

"Untreated thin wood boards do not have any moisture-proof and thermal insulation functions. Once it rains, the hut made of that simple wood will be completely wet. In the coming winter, such thin wood boards will not be able to resist the cold wave... ..."

The clerk took a deep breath, foamed at the mouth, and asked Saitama loudly: "What do you think of your dog!?"

Saitama looked at the clerk blankly: "Huh?"

……

In the end, Saitama walked out of the building materials store empty-handed.

"What, the materials are so expensive, and if you buy cheap ones, you will be taught a lesson by the clerk..."

"Speaking of..." The image of Tuogen appeared in Saitama's mind, "Does the hut where that guy lives really need such high-grade wood?"

Thinking of Tuogen's trembling appearance the night before, Saitama was silent for a moment: "..."

"But the clerk just now seemed to say that that kind of treated wood is also common in construction. If you think about it carefully, as long as you find suitable materials in the ruins, and let Genos build the dog house, it won't be a problem. Don't you need to spend money?"

"Okay!" Saitama clenched his fists and made up his mind, "I'll just go to the ruins of the old house and look for it."

The atmosphere in the apartment building, which is the temporary residence of the curse spirits, is a little tense at the moment.

"It's been more than a day."

In the apartment, Liuhu was a little restless, and the crutch in his hand was banging on the ground: "What's the matter? Even if Tuogen wanted to go out to play, he wouldn't stay out all night."

"You're too nervous, Leuhu."

The real person played with a lot of transformed people compressed to the size of nuts in his hand, and said with a smile: "We are a curse, and a curse is a free existence that can do whatever you want. Moreover, Tuogen is not a weak human child, how can you set it up?" What about access control?"

"No, I'm still a little worried."

Leu Hu's face was sullen, and Huo Di stood up: "I'm going out to look for it. You also go with me."

"No." Zhenren shook his head, "I still have something to study. Besides, Lihu, are you an old father who is overly worried?"

"I'm not going either." Limei said indifferently, "I'm going to continue to search for the whereabouts of the remaining two fingers of Master Liangsu Nuo."

"Tch," Leu Hu squinted her huge one-eyed eyes, turned her head and asked, "Xia You, are you going?"

Xia Youjie stroked the tea cup in his hand with his fingers.

"Then I'll look for it too." He stood up and smiled at Leuhu, "It might be faster if we search separately. And I also want to see the current situation in Tokyo."

"Then I'll go search the waters of Tokyo, Tuogen may run into the water," Leo Hu said, "Chongmian Chunta said that he and Tuogen were separated in the ghost town area, so you can come to Xia You Ghost Town to see if I can follow the trail and find it."

"OK." Xia Youjie had no objection.

One person and one curse spirit walked out of the room, and then disappeared at the door of the apartment at the same time.

……

In the sky of Tokyo, Xia Youjie was riding a flying bird-shaped mantra, overlooking the busy traffic below.

Bustling Tokyo is full of pedestrians, but no one looks up.And even if someone happened to look towards the sky at this moment, those dull and cloudy eyes that belonged to non-magicians would not be able to see the traces of the curse spirit and Xia Youjie.

——Thinking of this, Xia Youjie couldn't help but a contemptuous smile appeared on his lips.

The scene on the ground gradually changed from a bustling neighborhood to a sparsely populated road, and then a no-man's land surrounded by barbed wire.The buildings in the no-man's land have turned into ruins all over the place. From a high altitude, they are densely packed gray broken walls that cannot be seen clearly.

Xia Youjie didn't feel the power of Tuo Gen's spell, so he glanced casually and then looked away.Unexpectedly, at this moment, a white light suddenly shone from below and landed on Xia Youjie's face, making him squint his eyes.

Something below is reflecting the sun's light.He thought, is it a broken mirror?

The bird-shaped curse spirit continued to move forward, and the white light emitted only briefly flashed on Xia Youjie's face, but he didn't care.

Soon, the bird-shaped curse spirit circled a few times over the positions where Tuo Gen and Chongmian Chuntai were separated the day before, and then slowly descended.

The claws of the curse spirit fell to the ground.Xia Youjie jumped off the mana spirit's back briskly, and the two wide sleeves first fluttered in the air, and then fell to his side.

——Although Xia Youjie agreed to go out with Leuhu to look for Tuo Gen, he was not worried about Tuo Gen's safety, unlike Leu Hu.All he cared about was that a good curse got a little out of hand—that's all.

But the immediate signs seem to be that there is something wrong with the tools.

The monk-robed man with a half-ball head put his palm on the mount, and the bird-shaped mantra disappeared into the air in an instant.

He lifted his feet and walked a few steps in the ruins, his eyes swept across the ground, and then flickered.

Here was found the tainted power of Togen's spell...

After a period of time, Tuogen's curse power in the original place of the ghost city has become extremely thin, if there is nothing at all.However, the reason why Tuogen releases the mantra here is quite intriguing.

— Could it be that it encountered an enemy here?

Xia Youjie does not agree with the curse spirits as his partners, but Tuogen is a super-grade curse embryo condensed by human beings' fear of the sea. When it grows up, it will have considerable use value, so Xia Youjie still explores carefully From the surrounding clues.

However, after looking again and again, he only found Tuo Gen's filth in the same place, and there was no trace left by the second person.Even Chunta Chongmian's filth could not be found, which proves the fact that Chunta Chongmian did not use the magic power here.

——A suspicion that had appeared in the past seized Xia Youjie's heart again.A lingering sense of nowhere comes from the repeated setbacks of plans.

Just as Xia Youjie was looking at the filth that was vaguely visible on the ground and meditating, a voice suddenly came from behind him.

"Excuse me, can you give way?"

"..."

Xia Youjie turned his head, and saw a bald man wearing a yellow jumpsuit and a white cloak with a blank expression suddenly appearing behind him at some point.

The bald-headed clothes were covered with some dust, and there were a few equally dirty wooden planks under his armpits.He stood where he was, staring at Xia Youjie's feet with a pair of dull eyes.

No obvious traces of magic power were felt.Is it an ordinary person - "monkey"?

Xia Youjie thought to himself like this, with a gentle smile on his face: "Are you looking for something under my feet?...Please go ahead."

He tucked his hands into his sleeves, and stepped back two steps to the side with a smile.

"Oh, thank you."

Saiyu walked towards the ruins where Xia Youjie was standing, bent down and began to search in the ruins.

"Ah, there really are..."

Saitama is looking for intact planks among the ruins.And Xia Youjie stood aside with a smile, and suddenly asked curiously: "It may be impolite to ask, but why did you come to this no-man's land?"

"I'm going to find some planks and go back to make a dog house." Saitama replied.

"I see."

Xia Youjie nodded slightly, and asked suddenly and inadvertently: "But you are really brave to come here to find wooden boards. Haven't you heard those rumors? It is said that there are many The curse is lingering, if you meet a human, you will kill it."

"Eh? I haven't heard of it." Saitama replied with a dull expression.

Xia Youjie was silent for a few seconds, then continued: "Really? But the rumor might be true. This place is quite dangerous."

"It's okay." Saitama still flipped through the ruins on the ground without looking back.

"Do you really think so? But the humans you thought you met here might actually be curses." Xia Youjie continued.

"..."

Saiyu suddenly put down the half-turned stone in his hand, stood up, and looked back at Xia Youjie.

"What do you mean by telling me this all of a sudden?" Saitama's two rough eyebrows slightly raised, "Could it be...you are a curse?"

The smile on Xia Youjie's face gradually spread.He slightly opened his squinted eyes, his eyes seemed to be able to swallow the vortex of people's hearts.

"Do you think I look like a curse?" He asked a very curse-like remark.

"..."

Saiyu looked at him with both eyes, and his eyes gradually fell on the strange bangs hanging down on the side of Xia Youjie's forehead.

The bald head suddenly became serious.

"Could it be that you are..."

Saitama raised his hand and pointed at Xia Youjie, and said loudly confidently: "Curse 'Aunt Liu Hai'!"

Xia Youjie: "..."

For some reason, Saitama suddenly felt that Xia Youjie's smile was a little stiff.

—What a nasty bald monkey.Obviously, this physical body is rare in terms of technique and appearance, but this bald monkey has such a strange name...Kill him!

Xia Youjie narrowed his eyes slightly, and moved his hand hanging in the sleeve of the monk's robe. Just as he was about to summon the curse spirit, the sound of a police car suddenly sounded from afar.

Why would the police come?This is a bit troublesome.

Xia Youjie didn't intend to kill in front of the police.After all, if the police issue an evacuation announcement to prevent ordinary citizens from traveling in the future, or to suspend citizen gatherings, it will be very unfavorable for the Curse Spirit to implement the plan.

He paused slightly, and his fingers relaxed and drooped again.

"How could it be?" Xia Youjie changed his expression and smiled like a spring breeze, "I'm just an ordinary monk."

Saitama's dead fish eyes silently looked at Xia Youjie: "..."

At this moment, the police car had stopped on the road covered with gravel.The car door snapped open, and two policemen ran down.

"Ah, Saitama, it really is you!"

A person running in front yelled, who is it?

I saw Takagi ran up to Saitama quickly, took a deep breath and said solemnly: "We just received a report from the citizens, saying that a suspicious guy in a strange costume can be seen running around in the streets and alleys in the past few days. , and punches in the air. And according to eyewitness information, that guy in a strange costume has just entered a ghost town..."

"I didn't say that," Saitama raised his finger and pointed at Xia Youjie who was standing next to him, "If he is dressed in a strange outfit, he might be talking about him. How many people would run around wearing such a thick cassock?"

"...How is it possible." Gao Mushe's face darkened, "Of course he was talking about you. The citizen who called the police clearly stated that the suspicious person has no hair."

Saitama's face changed: "...What!?"

However, Gao Mushe turned around, and said to Xia Youjie with a pleasant face: "I'm sorry, but this area has not been very peaceful. This monk should go back as soon as possible."

"Thank you." Xia Youjie finally cast a glance in the direction of the filthy.

——Tuo Gen left only a little filth here, and the clues were interrupted in the ghost town.The bald man in front of him was nothing more than a gangster who had been warned by the police, and it was useless to stay here any longer.

Thinking of this, Xia Youjie rolled up his sleeves, turned and left.

Walking all the way, away from the sight of Saitama and Takagi She behind him, Xia Youjie suddenly noticed something "buzzing" vibrating in his sleeve.

He reached into his sleeve, took out the phone and put it to his ear.

After listening for a while, a strange smile suddenly appeared on Xia Youjie's face.

"Really? The barrier of the Tokyo High School was destroyed yesterday for unknown reasons. It can be completely repaired tonight...?"

He ended the call, lowered his brows and smiled softly: "Although I don't know who destroyed it... But the opportunity has come."

……

When he left the ghost town, Saitama had seven or eight relatively intact planks under his armpits.

"These should be enough to make a dog house for that guy." He looked at the wooden boards under his arm and muttered to himself as he left the city and walked towards the high school in the suburbs.

The winding mountain road is winding, and the woods on both sides are green.Saitama came all the way to the vicinity of the high school, but heard a noisy life that was different from the tranquility of the past.

I saw a group of people wearing rustic clothes gathered in the usually empty and clean entrance of the high school.Facing the college campus, they yelled something loudly, holding conspicuous signs in their hands.

Taking a closer look, there was actually a tall blond man in the team, whose figure seemed somewhat familiar.

——That’s Nanami Jianren.

Saitama couldn't help walking over quickly.He squeezed into the crowd, came to Qihai Jianren's side, and patted him on the shoulder.

Jianren Qihai turned his head subconsciously, the sunglasses reflected the light on Saitama's bald head, and flashed slightly: "Saitama?"

"What are you doing at the high school?" Saitama asked.

Jianren Qihai was silent for a few seconds, and said, "It's about the transfer of local conjurers."

"A few days ago, the high-level executives of the magic world ignored the fact that local magicians were also short of manpower, and transferred a large number of local magicians from their original positions and sent them to Tokyo."

"The conjurers from the local area originally thought that the situation in Tokyo was already very bad. Although they were reluctant, they reluctantly came, but after arriving in Tokyo, they found that the spell spirits in the mission had already been solved by other conjurers. Many After receiving the task, the conjurers all ran for nothing, wasting time and energy in vain. Sending a large number of local conjurers to Beijing has caused redundancy of conjurers."

When Qihai Jianren said this, he pushed the sunglasses on the bridge of his nose, turned his head to look at the conjurers who were protesting with placards, and continued: "Even so, the higher-ups are not willing to let the local conjurers go back. Therefore, The local conjurers who want to leave Tokyo decided to collectively protest the unreasonable decision of the high-level. After all, the location is remote, and there are only two high schools in the country to protest. It is not easy to be noticed by ordinary citizens, but it will definitely be known by the high-level .”

Saitama was a little stunned: "Then you also protested with them because you opposed this?"

"No, I have other goals."

Jianren Qihai said in a deep voice: "Whether it is Tokyo or other places, there are extremely insufficient conjurers, but the rules for conjurers in the conjuration world are too rotten. The promotion of conjurers is a recommendation system. In this world that relies on relationships, A well-connected conjurer will upgrade faster, while a conjurer with a poor network will not be able to get the opportunity to upgrade for a long time even if the strength reaches the standard."

"The allocation of tasks is linked to the level of the conjurer. This also leads to unreasonable allocation of resources for the conjurer."

"In addition, people like Zenyuan Maki, or you, who have no magic power but have superior strength, would not even have the opportunity to enter the magic world if it weren't for Gojo Satoru's willfulness."

Jianren Qihai said: "What I object to are the rotten rules that lead to all kinds of irrationality in the magic world. It just so happens that today's workload is not much, so I will also participate in it when I come."

At this moment, the female conjurer from Wakayama noticed the conversation between Jianren Nanami and Saitama.She turned around enthusiastically, patted Saitama on the shoulder, and handed a blank cardboard and a few colored markers to Saitama.

"In short, in order to make the number of protesters look a little bigger, it doesn't matter if you protest other issues like Mr. Qihai, as long as you protest with us." If you are dissatisfied, you can say it!"

"So you come to join our 'League of Victim Conjurers' too!" She said earnestly.

I saw Saitama looked down at the cardboard and marker pen in his hand, and his expression suddenly became serious.

"Okay, then I will participate too." He said solemnly.