Temple and special horse racing skills

He really hadn't thought about it-life planning issues of this level usually had to be handled by another person.

It’s just that I habitually feel that it’s better to buy a larger house for conjurers, so that it’s convenient to hide spell tools and other things, to receive guests, to train, and at least there must be room for an elephant for activities—he knows ten kinds of shadow magic exercises What kind of noisy and messy scene will it be in the later stage.

Although he is a genius, this kind of technique is very troublesome... He glanced at his son, who was playing a handshake game with two dogs, one black and one white.

Seems to be fine too.

Since Ah Jing recovered, those airtight assassinations seemed to disappear in a flash. It seems that knowing that there is no way to defeat Kabuki Kagami in its heyday, he finally decided to hide his minions and find a way.

During this period of time, Ah Jing would occasionally write some materials, probably about the flow and operation skills of the mantra, and plan to send them back to Kabuki’s house someday as a manuscript——I even casually asked about the content, and got the answer that it was objectionable. Some of the experience of Zhuanshu Shi, after they are all a hundred years old, may have some useful influence on those "mirrors" in the future.

"I'm the first since the Heian era."

She looked at Shi Er: "So it is necessary to leave the manuscript."

"I don't know much about conjurers."

Shi Er put down a pot of oranges beside the table: "But will Hui go to live in Hokkaido in the future?"

Compared with Tokyo and Kyoto, the two base camps of conjurer activities, the atmosphere of the Ainu Conjurer Alliance can be a little more relaxed, but the work pressure is the same: the strength of the conjurers there is stronger than that of the conjurer world. A level of decline.

"At least stay in Tokyo when you are a student. The educational resources here are better."

Ah Jing thought about it, at least the quality of the school should be higher, and you can freely choose a junior high school for further education or employment... Sapporo is indeed a bit barren as the soil for cultivating magicians, although the city has also developed in recent years There is a style.

Shir nodded of course, she was always right.

During this year, the former well-known pianist Sou Ajino, who retired for many years due to injury, reappeared in the corner of the news. It is said that he accepted a little boy as his student in a rural elementary school.The student's name is Ichinose Kai, a fifth grade elementary school student, who plans to participate in this year's All Japan Student Piano Competition.

Zenyuan Naoya has always been interested in inquiring about this person, so naturally someone is willing to pass the pillow while dozing off, and the information is quickly delivered to him.

"What backcountry."

The disgust on Naoya's face is obvious: "There are not many decent curse spirits in this kind of place."

"It is said that Sou Ajino has been teaching music in the local elementary school since he was injured in a car accident. Maybe he decided to take students after he discovered the piano talent."

The voice on the phone said, "Are you going to check it out?"

"What's the point of being an 11-year-old non-artist? Maybe he's only been learning the piano for a year."

Naoya pouted: "I learned earlier back then."

Moreover, his own talent on the piano is also very good. He was praised by the teacher at the time as a talented type, but as the son of the Chanyuan family, he must first inherit the family business and become a magician. There is no way to think about music.

"Then don't care?"

"No... It's better to tell me the time and location of the game. I plan to ask for leave that day."

Zenyuan Naoya suddenly asked for leave, which surprised his two contemporaries.

Although this person has a stinky and tough temper, he is definitely dedicated enough to work as a conjurer, and the success rate of the task is also higher. He is the most talented one among the freshmen in this period.Of course, no matter how talented he is, there is no way to cover up the disdainful nature of this person. Jianren Qihai basically walks around whenever he sees him, and refuses to stay under the same roof except for necessary lectures. Wu also needs to be vigilant.

In my impression, his temper is quite bad, and he has a series of feudal concepts of the big family of conjurers, so he will definitely not have anything to do with non-magicians.

"I didn't expect students from the Chanyuan to pay attention to the elementary school students' piano competition!"

Huiyuan clenched his fist with his left hand and tapped the palm of his right hand, sighing, "Does a person with such a bad mouth have a childlike innocence..."

Gojo Goto made a disgusted expression when he heard the words: I beg you to stop talking.

Xia Youjie also seemed speechless, he felt that this junior was really overly optimistic.

Qihai refused to stay too close to this group of people. When Gojo Satoru appeared, he would rather keep a safe distance of about 20 meters from everyone, and he was currently reading a book under a tree.After chatting for a while, Huiyuan was also very interested in the children's piano competition, so he simply called the assistant supervisor and asked if there were any suitable tasks nearby to deal with - he and Qihai were allowed to get together Exorcising spell spirits of the second level and below, the spell spirits in the countryside are generally not strong, and they are also very suitable for beginners to practice.

"It just so happens that there is indeed one! The third-level curse spirit has not yet decided who to send. Since Huiyuan-san is interested, I might as well invite you and Qihai-student—"

The feedback from the auxiliary supervision is also very fast.

Qihai: I don't want to go, don't call me, stay away from me.

He was thrust into the car with utter defiance.

Naoya sat in the co-pilot's seat and gave his two classmates a ruthless backlash.He really felt that these two people were meddling in their own business, and they involved some of his personal hobbies, which made people feel that their privacy was offended.

"I won't help with tasks."

He repeatedly claimed: "Today I am on vacation, just riding in the same car with you common people magicians."

"Yeah! I know! Curse Spirit, Qihai and I will solve it by ourselves!"

Haibara replied without hesitation.

Qihai remained silent in the car, her eyes staring dead: I beg you not to interfere, I would rather face the curse spirit than deal with my own classmate.

Seriously, he wanted to quit school.

Naoya obviously thought the same way, he got out of the car without hesitation, and bought a ticket at the game site to enter.It's just a regional qualifier and not the finals in Japan, so most of the audience are locals. He, who is dressed as a traditional magician in a hakama and has dyed hair, is particularly conspicuous on the scene, but he might be able to do it. People in art are always exaggerated, and no one has any objection to him.

There are a lot of children participating in the competition, all of them are elementary school students, and some people cry in the corner with their voices lowered because of the pressure of participating in the piano competition for the first time, which makes Naoya's mood even worse.

Why on earth did he want to listen to the piano performance of this group of elementary school students for a while.

Ichinose Kai's appearance sequence was very late, and before that, he was forced to listen to several sets of piano selections of different styles.It can be seen that these children have worked hard to participate in the competition. No matter how talented they are, the works tempered by time will not be too unpleasant-even though they are trembling nervously and anxiously in the background, as if a spell came from them. Born in the body.

Sou Ajino sat not far away.

The person can be recognized at a glance - once the number one pianist in Japan, sitting next to a non-artist woman with no characteristics.The conjurer's hearing far surpassed that of ordinary people, so he quickly figured out the identities of these people. The woman was the mother of the contestant Ichinose Kai. This time, there was also his little partner who was a pianist who participated in the competition at the same time. In analogy, it can be understood as a large family of conjurers in the field of piano.

Each song is three to five minutes long, and several pages of contestants each prepare two songs, which makes the competition extremely long, and even divides the competition into two halves.During the intermission, a paid bento box was provided on the spot. Naoya randomly picked the most expensive one, and observed Sou Ajino's situation while eating.There were several reporters surrounding him to interview him, and he focused on the other's left hand, which was covered with scars, and it was obvious that he could no longer continue playing the piano.

Then a child with messy hair ran over and gave his mother a bear hug from a distance, standing or sitting, wearing the cheapest hurdling vest, which made Naoya want to frown even more: This is what the strongest accepts. disciple?

……That's it?That's it?

However, his qualities as a conjurer prevented him from having an attack. In the second half of the game, he finally carefully selected the empty seats away from the crowd and sat down two acquaintances, one on the left and one on the right.

"Our mission has been completed ahead of schedule!"

Huiyuan said brightly, "I heard from the assistant supervisor that you are here! I didn't expect to come to listen to the kid's piano performance, student from the Zen Academy!"

Naoya: ...

He really didn't bother to explain to these two ordinary conjurers, but he didn't reach out to hit the smiling man, so he turned his head to look at Jianren Qihai, and blamed him why he didn't tie up his little friend.

Qihai responded with a grim expression: You think I want to come?

The piano is beautiful, but the guy who appreciates the sound of the piano is a scumbag.

Naoya didn't care about the resentment of his contemporaries at all, he stretched out both hands, and moved his fingers habitually, when the venue suddenly went dark, and a new performance was about to begin.

Many people around held their breaths and focused. The three conjurers had extraordinary powers of observation. Huiyuan blinked and lowered his voice curiously: "Is the reason for the Zen Academy students to listen to this child's piano music?"

Shuhei Amamiya, who came on stage, bowed to everyone calmly. He is the child of pianist Yoichiro Amamiya, and he is very skilled in this kind of small competition, and he is not at all stage frightened.

"not him."

Naoya said perfunctorily.

But this child performed very well, with extremely high granularity, skillful tremolo, and a crisp and calm voice.His emotional handling of the song from the beginning to the end is in place, and he can't find any mistakes, which naturally received full applause.

Hui Yuanxiong also applauded. From the perspective of a layman listening to the excitement, he could tell that the kid's level was significantly higher than the previous young players.Jianren Qihai still sat silently in the auditorium, but the expression on his face was softer than before.

"If nothing else, Amamiya-san will be No.1 this time."

At the end of the song, there were whispers in the audience.

"Damn it, why didn't he go to participate in the Tokyo competition, but came to this kind of place to grab our spot—"

There are also people who are dissatisfied with the sudden arrival of the famous piano boy to carry out dimension reduction strikes.

But no matter what everyone says, Amamiya Shuhei's results are impeccable and excellent, and qualifying at the No.1 level is already a certainty.After that, a few more children came forward to perform, which seemed to bring more psychological pressure because there were already people in front of them. There was even a child who was too nervous to play the wrong note because of this.

"I also became nervous."

Hui Yuanxiong said: "It feels like a school sports meeting in elementary school. Nanami has also experienced this kind of experience?"

"...I'm okay, because I often get No.1 in sports events, so I'm rarely nervous."

Jianren Qihai said.

The only person who was educated in a family private school did not speak. Zenyuan Naoya looked at the open stage, and Ichinose Kai walked towards the light under his gaze.He didn't stand in front of the piano and salute the audience in a regular manner like those children before, but stopped halfway and looked at the piano as if something terrible was waiting there.

——Curse spirit?Jianren Qihai frowned. He concentrated the magic power in his eye sockets, but the scene was clean, leaving no trace of filth. The only remaining magic power reaction was the three of them in the audience.

But soon he adjusted his mood and sat in front of the piano bench again.Ichinose Kai’s competition repertoire is the first movement of Mozart’s Second Piano Sonata K.280. The audience was stunned at the beginning of the performance. Many knowledgeable people have already recognized that this is the playing method of Sou Ajino .

Zenyuan Naoya also has this song in his collection of vinyl records. Both Haibara and Qihai have heard it before. They can't help but turn their heads at this time. It seems that this is the first time they have touched the surly character that the contemporaries are unwilling to share with others. inside of.

But at this moment, the performance stopped abruptly.

The boy was silent for a long time in front of the piano, then he tore off the tie on his chest, flung his shoes off with both feet, stood in front of the piano like this, stepped on the pedal with his bare feet, and started playing again.

The forest-like clear sound flows in the concert hall.

Zenyuan Naoya didn't care about Ichinoseumi's ranking. From the moment the piano sound resounded in the hall, the result of the competition was not so important.

This kid, without a doubt, is a rising talent.

Many years ago, he lost his temper because he couldn't hear a piano performance. At that time, he learned a future that he didn't know when he would be able to realize it. Now, the 11-year-old boy in the spotlight finally let him vaguely see A shadow of some future.

There will be no second Sou Ajino in this world, but there will be a brand new Kai Ichinose.

"Let's start by facing up to the power of the weak."

At that time, that person once said so under the eaves.

He didn't fully understand the meaning of this sentence at the time. When human beings face the curse spirit, there is often only a thin line between life and death. People around stood up from the auditorium one by one, applauding towards the spotlight.

Sou Ajino was not defeated.

He returned here with a new student.

"Students from the Zen Academy must have come to the scene because they wanted to hear his performance!"

Haibara showed a look like a small animal: "Ichinose-kun is really amazing!"

"..."

Naoya didn't answer, he was still in the shock of the fifth grade non-art teacher elementary school student, there was something incomprehensible in that child's eyes, but it made people vaguely think of the unknown twin who was called garbage at home cousin.

"Let's go, there's nothing to see after that."

He yawned, stood up first, and walked towards the door.