Temple and special horse racing skills

When Shi Er came back, Ah Jing was sitting at the computer desk stretching.

Working at a desk for a long time is not good for the spine. It is best to get up and move around every once in a while. After a game of Go, you have to review the game with your opponent, and time is consumed quickly.Although Mrs. Kurata's lecture has ended, the other party would occasionally be willing to take a look at her chess records—all in all, after becoming a professional chess player, these are all work-related areas.

In addition to participating in official Go games, Go players also need to do some work such as helping to memorize game records and check lists, which can be regarded as recognizing more people in the industry and dredging relationships.

These days, Ah Jing's arrangement is like this. In his spare time, he also needs to coordinate the website construction of the Ainu Spell Alliance. The workload is quite full, and it can be said that the phone calls are constant.

Fortunately, the best news is that the more detailed docking work will be taken over by the local conjurer, so that she won't have to worry about it all day long. Subsequent entrustment and website maintenance costs will also be covered by the conjuration alliance. Among them, it only plays the role of throwing bricks and attracting jade.

Shir knocked on the door.

"You can just come in...Huh?"

Ah Jing looked at the big and small bags in his hand, showing a surprised expression.

This kind of gaze made him a little uncomfortable: "I stopped by the supermarket when I went out."

He took out the contents of the shopping bag one by one, put them into the cupboard, and finally opened a can of cat food and placed it in front of Ah Xiang.This time, the black cat was very face-saving. It changed its previous attitude of ignoring him and buried itself in hard work, purring happily.

"It just so happens that the family lacks these things now."

Ah Jing squatted on the ground, stroking the black cat's back: "I originally planned to spare a weekend to go out and make big purchases."

"Speaking of which, can you predict everything?"

"The specific scope of ability is very clear. I will give priority to judging the dangers from all aspects, and the rest depends on my mood and whether I will receive an entrustment."

"For example, the anime plot that will be aired next week?"

"I won't go to see that. Life still needs to have a sense of expectation, and my magic power doesn't support that kind of waste."

...Well, Shi Er thought, this guy seems to have said that his mana reserves are not very large.Taking advantage of the good mood of one person and one cat, Shier saw this opportunity to speak and relayed the invitation from Aaron for the weekend barbecue party.

Ah Jing agreed with a very expectant expression, but was a little puzzled: "Is Shier's social skills so strong? I just moved to Tokyo and made friends right away..."

"Not friends, just met by chance on the road."

He immediately dismissed it.

"Passers-by don't casually drag others to a barbecue party."

"Just helping him a little bit."

"Anyway, I'm looking forward to it. Do you want to bring the ingredients in advance?"

"...I don't know either. I'll ask you when I go out tomorrow."

The social life of ordinary people’s families also belongs to the knowledge blind spot of both of them. In their lives so far, Ah Jing was either solemnly enshrined as a child of the gods, or lived in the traditional conjurer family of the Zen Academy. The entertainment items are lackluster, and the behavior of eating barbecue with neighbors is even more unprecedented.

Shi Er's situation is no different. He has been to the barbecue restaurant several times, and even invited many girls to dinner with Kong Shiyu, but it is obvious that Aaron's invitation is not such a frivolous dinner party. , but a collective activity based on the family.

Family, he smacked the word again, and couldn't help but look at Ah Jing, who happened to be looking at him too. After meeting his line of sight, that light green eye dodged for a moment, and immediately looked away.

...Is reading the future, this guy.Shi Er tried his best to put on a tolerant expression, reassuring the other party that there is no need to feel offended by this kind of thing-in a sense, this is prying into other people's privacy, and some girls do care about such details, but He doesn't care because he has no privacy.

His past partner is almost fully aware of it, and for a long time in the future, he will be bound together in a cooperative relationship. Facing his employer, partner, boss and road sign, there is nothing worth hiding.

But the other party frowned, his ears turned red, and he was obviously annoyed: "I'm not looking at the future! I'm—"

"What is it?"

"……nothing!"

She dropped this sentence, slammed the door and went back to the room, and Shi Er stood in the living room, surrounded by an unknown curse spirit and a black cat who was unaware of the surrounding environment.

... Fortunately, there is no need to feed the curse spirit, otherwise it would be an extra expense.

The next day, Aaron went out to shop as usual, and saw Shier who was waiting here early at the corner of the road.The other party explained that he had never participated in similar activities before, and as a freelancer, he did not arrange work recently, so he wanted to discuss with him.

"Freelancer?"

Aaron frowned, stretched out a hand, put on a knife pose, and gently scratched his neck: "It's this kind..."

"It's with the mirror, similar to a two-person studio."

Shi Er explained: "We travel all over Japan, and Go players are free even when they are not competing, so they just work as they see fit."

"so……"

In fact, not to mention freelance work, even Go players are considered an unpopular and niche field in Aaron's eyes. He nodded and didn't ask any questions, but walked into a shopping street: "Today is mainly to purchase ingredients, supplement Do you want to go with me for some daily necessities that are missing at home?"

Shi Er shrugged, and followed behind the other party indifferently.The shopping street is not as prosperous as the supermarket, and the shops hidden in the depths even look a bit bleak. Shi Er kept vigilant and pricked up his ears, trying his best to ignore the noisy sounds hidden in the shadows.

... It's a curse spirit, but Ah Jing is not here.

He does carry the opponent's charm with him, which can add a thin layer of magic power to his attack, but if he really fights in this kind of place, ordinary people will be involved, and he can even do the simplest "account" "Can't let go.

"The economy has been sluggish in recent years."

Aaron was ignorant of the curse spirit, and his eyes fell on those shops that few people patronized: "Meijiu told me that when she was looking for a job a few years ago, many big companies were laying off employees. Fortunately, she got the job." It’s a big company that stuck around after the bubble popped.”

Shi Er nodded absent-mindedly. That's right, he had heard of the bursting of the bubble economy. The most obvious impact on conjurers was that there were more spell spirits.

People who committed suicide, businesses that went bankrupt, various religions rampant because of the economic downturn, the Tokyo subway gas incident two years ago... the world seems to be dragged into a worse direction, and these will all be transformed into curses. The pressure on the surgeon's shoulders.

If it is to be concretely implemented to a certain person, it may become the pressure that Wujo Satoru will bear.After all, people said that the birth of Six Eyes broke the balance, which led to more and more curse spirits, and the resulting curse should be borne by the person concerned.

...But maybe that lawless six-eyed kid doesn't care about it at all.

Ah Jing once said that it is a very shameless behavior for a large group of adults to shirk their incompetence to children, but it is a pity that no one treats Gojo Satoru as a child.At that time, they were still at the Zenyuan's house patiently enduring it. Shi Er was watching her play chess while laughing in his heart, thinking that you were not 16 years old or not.

The eyes that observe the magic power, the eyes that determine the future, who would have thought that the most communication between such two people is in the Digimon card battle 2V2 platoon in the game.

"...Mr. Chanyuan."

It was Aaron who was calling him, and he should have called several times: "It is more cost-effective to buy whipped cream in a one-liter package, but once this kind of thing is opened, it is easy to break if you can't use it up in one breath. I plan to make one at home. Cream cake, if you don't dislike it, would you like to come to my house to make one and take it away?"

He paused: "I don't know if your wife likes to eat these—"

"You can just call them by their first names. I hate this surname."

Shier recalled the person's dietary preferences and concluded that she was indeed not too picky: "It should be fine, and her job requires sugar intake."

So the two hit it off, Aaron took down a large portion of whipped cream from the shelf, and Shier took the other's shopping bag.The aura of these two people standing in the store is simply shocking, other customers even have to bypass their area for shopping, and even startle the drowsy cashier when they check out.

Shi Er stared at the cashier's shoulder with a truly ferocious expression.In the field of vision that only you can see, a teeny head is sitting on the shoulder of the other party-this is a very common situation, and it frequently appears in industries with low wages and hard work. Due to the economic downturn in these years, the number of teeny heads is almost There are too many to count.

He is not a magician, nor does he have the power to exorcise curse spirits.Although it is possible to use physical strength to mediate and escape when facing the curse spirit, pure physical attacks cannot kill these things.

The only thing that can eliminate the curse is the curse. According to Ah Jing, it is called "only magic can defeat magic".

Sometimes she did say some inexplicable things, Shi Er couldn't help but want to laugh, she didn't know which era she confused with her current knowledge.

Just when Shi Er was deep in thought, the cashier began to sweat coldly on his forehead. He urgently thought about whether he could save his life if he squatted down honestly if he encountered a robbery. Standing on the spot, watching the black-haired man in front of him stretch out his hand towards his shoulder, curled his thumb and middle finger, and flicked on his shoulder a little.

The charm hidden under the sleeve burst out with magical power.

There was a bang, as if compressed air burst out from the fingertips, and the teeny head disappeared in an instant.Shi Er flipped his palm and patted the other person's shoulder, saying, "I just found a bug on your shoulder."

"Ah! Is that so! I thought..."

"what?"

"Hey! Nothing!"

I thought I was fighting back and forth between life and death!

And it was strange to say that the cashier moved his shoulders, as if his body was much lighter now than before—was it because he was suddenly frightened and secreted a lot of adrenaline?He blinked in bewilderment, but the two stressful guys in front of him had already turned away with the shopping bags they checked out.

Aaron's house is a very common one-family building in Japan.

It is a bit far away from downtown Tokyo, and you need to take a car to reach the nearby neighborhoods. The house is very clean and warm. The interior decoration is traditional, with tatami mats on the floor, but it is modern enough compared to Zenyuan.

The cat named Ah Yin looked at the two of them, and was not surprised by the visitor, so he arched his body and yawned.

There was a wedding photo on the window frame, and Shir glanced at the bedroom, where there were two pillows next to each other on the bed.

He seldom has the experience of visiting other people's houses, and he feels uneasy when he steps on the ground, and the strange atmosphere left by the two people living together is everywhere in this house, like an airtight "tent" shrouded the whole house.

It's as if something viscous and different from mana is flowing in this house, and the owner of the house uses it as oxygen to survive.

"Uh... welcome to my house?"

Aaron rolled up his sleeves and took out two egg-beating bowls: "Do you want to try it? The basic chiffon cake is very simple. Although it is easy for one person to make two, it is also very interesting to try it yourself. thing."

"What do I need to do? Start by washing the strawberries?"

Shi Er thought about the appearance of the cakes he had seen in the store.

He must have a mental problem, so he ran to the non-artist's house to do these messy jobs.

"Start from the separation of egg whites and egg yolks. You can borrow the egg separator, and I can use a spoon."

"... so professional, even has electronic scales."

"Afterwards, stir these things, and add sugar according to your preference...Hey, why are you pouring so much!"

"If it's for that guy to eat, it would be better to double it."

Direct sugar intake was better than glucose injections, at least he didn't want to see an arm full of pinholes anymore.The two grown men squeezed into this small kitchen actually seemed a bit crowded. Shi'er had never done such light work before, but his natural body control ability allowed him to keep up with each other easily.

"Ah, oops, the egg beater is broken."

"...In short, you want to stir these things quickly?"

"Probably, but it's quite difficult to beat the egg whites by manpower-wait for it, don't beat it anymore, it's hard foam!"

Is this man a monster!Aaron was dumbfounded, and began to wonder if he had ever been a gangster in Kyoto. Judging from his size and physical performance, he was definitely a role at the level of a chief... Forget it, he decided not to ask about other people's past.

"Then in the end, it's about pouring love into the shape of the mounting—"

The other party had already made a move first, and he was very proficient in using the piping nozzle. Shi Er stood behind him with his arms folded and watched for a long time, but he couldn't think of anything he could pour on the cream.

What is love? It is a cheap thing that can be said casually in a cowherd shop, and it is a word that can be easily spit out in a bar to open an expensive drink.

So it cannot be used on that person.

As for the word to use, one can never offer another what one has never seen.

"...It won't bother you like this."

Seeing that he didn't move for a long time, and was lost in thought on the scraped surface, Aaron offered to suggest: "Let's start with the simplest mounting."

Half an hour later, while walking on the road with a box of cream cakes in hand, Shier fell into deep thought; what did he waste his time doing this afternoon.

Cursed by the strange air in the house of those two non-magicians.