The stop where you got off the bus was very simple, and Fujimaru Tachika and Zenin Maki could fill up the shadow cast by the eaves.

After getting out of the car suddenly and leaving the range of the air conditioner, the oncoming heat wave was even more suffocating.

However, looking up, there is no village or shop behind this small station, only the road twisted in the hot air can be seen.

A small half of the sun hit the front half of Fujimaru Tatsuka's toe, turning the upper into a barbecue iron plate.

No one wants to get out of this shadow at all?? Ah.

Fortunately, this place is still within the capability of mobile phone navigation, but the accuracy of the map is obviously not as good as that of a big city. The two of them huddled in the shadows and dragged each other for a long time but couldn't find the mission location.

It is said that the description of the mission location is "in the mountains", which is too general!

Originally, Fujimaru Tachika thought that it was a mountain that could be seen at a glance when he came here, so he wrote it so rough. As a result, the terrain here is not all mountains!

It's not the kind of particularly tall mountains, but the kind of continuous ups and downs that can be seen at a glance.

People who grew up in two cities are a little dumbfounded.

"Anyway, let's go to eat first, and find a place with air conditioning to sit down." The weather is too hot, the sweat on the body is like rain, and the feeling of hanging hair sticking to the body is very annoying, Zenyuan Maki simply took the ponytail Turned into a ball head, "That's right, let's ask the locals about it when the time comes. Well, let me see, the nearest restaurant is..."

After walking on foot for an impossibly long time, the two finally arrived at a place that looked a bit like a town.

"How about going to that restaurant?" Fujimaru Tatsuka pointed to a ramen shop on the corner of the street.

"It's okay, I have no objection."

Eating a bowl of ice-cold cold noodles is the most appetizing in this weather. Put more thinly sliced ​​cucumbers and add some vinegar.

Fujimaru Tachika emptied his mind while walking like this, and bumped into a small obstacle without paying attention.

The other party was wearing a kimono and looked like a child. He staggered and wobbled when he bumped into him. He was about to sit down on the ground. Fujimaru Tachika quickly reached out to hold him.

"Sorry! Are you okay?"

The child covered his head and shivered, lowered his head, and remained silent.

head?Didn't seem to hit it just now?

Fujimaru Tatsuka looked over subconsciously, but what he saw made him rub his eyes, almost thinking he was hallucinating.

Ears... animal ears? !

And it doesn't seem to be that kind of decoration, but the real animal ears that are actually connected to the body, and are still trembling slightly in sync with the body.

"don't want……"

Faint voices came out.

"What? Do you need help?" Fujimaru Lika didn't care about the abnormality, and squatted down, trying to hear the child's words more clearly. Unexpectedly, the child seemed to tremble more as he approached.

The curtain at the entrance of the ramen shop was lifted, Zenyuan Maki, who went in first, poked her head out, "Fujimaru, what are you doing? Why haven't you come in after so long?"

"There's a child here..."

"Child? Ha, it's just me and you here, where is the child?"

Zenyuan Maki adjusted the glasses frame, confirmed that she was still wearing glasses, and scanned the surroundings again, but still did not see the child in Fujimaru Tatsuka's mouth.

"If you insist, you mean the little fox you caught?"

"Hey……"

Fujimaru Tachika was also stunned for a moment.

When he turned his head away, the child holding his head took advantage of his inattention, and ran away waddlingly as soon as he turned his head, without looking back, as if he was afraid of being overtaken by something terrible.

Before Fujimaru Tachika could react, a tall shadow appeared from beside him.

The onmyoji who had been following the left and right in the reishi state stepped out of the air, and easily caught up with the short-legged child who was running shaky. His sharp nails were like the claws of a ferocious beast on his thin shoulders.

Completely enveloped by that powerful and chilling aura, as if feeling as if it would be swallowed up in the next second, the little fox finally couldn't help but screamed out.

"Don't eat me! I don't eat uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"

While yelling wildly, the little fox's tears couldn't help falling down. He desperately wiped the tears with his two little hands, but he couldn't wipe them clean.

Natsume brought him to eat at this ramen shop last time, and he just came to take a look. Why did he encounter such a terrifying big monster.

It's scary, Natsume, where is Natsume... No, this monster is so powerful, Natsume can't beat him, and he can't let him know Natsume's name.

The little fox was sobbing, and secretly made up his mind that even if he was eaten, he couldn't call out Natsume's name.

"Oh yeah, the poor monk hasn't done anything yet." Ashiya Michimitsu was not moved by the crying child at all, but rather interested, he lifted the child up to Fujimaru by the collar of his kimono In front of Lixiang, "Master, how do you want to deal with this little monster?"

Just inadvertently, his servants bullied the child and made him cry.

To be precise, it was scared to cry.

I've been trembling since just now, so it's because I felt Ashiya Michimitsu's breath?

This is not the first time this kind of thing has happened, Fujimaru Tatsuka quickly thought of the whole process of the misunderstanding.

The owner of the evil beast raised his forehead, looked at Ashiya Michiken helplessly, rescued the child from his hands, and put the child firmly on the ground, "It's okay, we won't eat you, it's a misunderstanding. Look, this This brother...uncle...brother can't do anything."

Ashiya Michimitsu put on a "kind" smile cooperatively——

"Wow--"

The child cried louder.

The fur on the tail and ears were blown up, and it looked more than twice its size.

Fujimaru Tachika scratched her head in distress, "What can I do... stop crying, let me treat you to ramen?"

"Uuuuuuuuuuuu, ramen?" The big ears caught the key word, stood up sensitively, and turned left and right.

Seeing that the other party seemed to have a tendency to stop crying, Fujimaru Tachika hurriedly continued the topic, "Yes, I accidentally bumped into you just now, this is my apology."

Chanyuan Maki leaned against the door, watching Ashiya Michimi grab the little fox who was about to run away and bring it to Fujimaru Tachika by the back of his neck. It didn't run away, it just yelled softly, which sounded a bit like crying.

It looked very much like an animal cruelty scene.

If it is not clear about the cause and effect of the incident, and knowing the character of this junior, Zenyuan Maki will probably go up to perform Quan Wu Xing at this time.

After seeing Fujimaru Tachika squatting there and saying something to the little fox as if having a conversation, the fox stopped barking and followed Fujimaru Tachika into the shop.

Zenin Maki: ...

Is her junior a Disney princess on the run?

By the way, foxes can enter ramen shops?

In theory, it is impossible, let alone ordering ramen for a fox, which is unbelievable in the eyes of ordinary people.

It's fine, but if the fox really picked up the chopsticks and ate it, it would be the first to be the first tweet.

In order to avoid this from happening, Fujimaru Tateka asked Ashiya Michimi to set up a barrier around them that would allow ordinary people to ignore them to a certain extent, and at the same time temporarily opened the "eyes" for Zenyuan Maki for the convenience of communication.

Zenyuan Maki closed her eyes, enduring the urge to fight back, and let her sharp nails draw simple eye shapes on her forehead.

When he opened his eyes again, the scene in front of him changed.

The little fox who was squatting obediently next to him turned into a young child, wearing a kimono, with drooping ears and tail, flushed cheeks and nose after crying, which can arouse people's desire for protection.

"This is... a monster?"

Looking at the ears and tail of the child, and thinking of what Ashiya Michiman said just now, Chanin Maki said suspiciously.

Fujimaru Tachika came over with the meals ordered by several people, and put them all on the table, "It seems to be? limbo, what's the difference between a monster and a magic spirit?"

"Hmm, that's the problem. Monsters are different from mantras. Unlike mantras, which rely on human negative emotions, monsters are mostly naturally produced spirits, and sometimes they become gods because of belief. "

Ashiya Michiman glanced over the little fox who was grabbing the chopsticks and munching on the ramen. The person being looked at trembled, and the noodles slipped from the chopsticks. "In terms of attack power, the newborn magic spirits have more advantages than monsters. .”

"But if you are a poor monk, you will like monsters more, and the possibility of growing up will be greater."

"That's it." Fujimaru Tachika thought thoughtfully, "Then what are the conditions for seeing monsters?"

"Spell power and demon power are not the same kind of power. People who can see curse spirits may not be able to see monsters, and vice versa." Ashiya Michimi narrowed his eyes, "Well, it is something that cannot be obtained through hard work. In other words, it is Commonly referred to as 'talent'."

With the expected explanation, Zenin Maki looked away annoyed.

Born as a body bound by heaven and curse, and in a big feudal family like a monastery, she has suffered discrimination and belittlement since she was a child.

Oh, it's ridiculous.

It doesn't matter if you have spell power, otherwise you still can't beat her.

A group of old antiques who cling to the current power class and don't let go, just wait for the day when she becomes the head of the family.

Fujimaru Tachika had also heard about Zenin Maki's situation from Fugurohui's mouth. At this time, seeing Zenin Maki's expression was worried, she didn't know how to speak.

After all, if you want him to say it himself, Maki-senpai is not untalented, okay?

Perhaps because he was not born as a conjurer, he didn't pay much attention to spell power and spells. He always felt that using spell power and spells as the only criteria for talent was inconceivable.

If the purpose is to defeat the curse spirit, wouldn't it be enough to use strength as the criterion?

Although Maki-senpai stated that it is only level four on the surface, in fact, it is easy to clean up the curse spirits of level two, and it is not a problem to be quasi-level one.

If you have spell power and spells but can't defeat Maki-senpai, it's almost the same as not having it.

Probably it was a rule set by the part of the family who originally held power and had magic power to exclude dissidents.

But is it really a reasonable decision to suppress people with other talents for this reason?

Besides, from the point of view of the entire conjuration world, they not only suppress people like Maki-senpai who have no conjuration power, but they are also not very polite to people like Mr. Gojo who can be said to be at the pinnacle of conjuration.

This time when the news of Mr. Gotjo’s disappearance came out, the first to send a salvage and rescue team was actually the planning company of the cruise ship and the dignitaries of other countries on board. There was a quarrel in Japan for several days over whether to send and how much to send, and finally It took a while to send some people over.

When he heard the news, Fujimaru Tatsuka couldn't help but rubbed his ears and asked Da Vinci to say it again.

If it weren't for the fact that Mr. Wujo was so strong that those people couldn't easily attack him, Fujimaru Tateka suspected that he would have been treated badly earlier.

In fact, to be honest, the current treatment is not very good.

This kind of behavior is completely weakening the strength of the entire magic world and restricting its development, which is completely unreasonable.

Fujimaru Tachika couldn't understand the thinking of the person who made this rule.

But talent.

Fujimaru Tatsuka shook his palm a few times.

Whether it is demon power or mantra power, he has no feeling at all, and he can't use it independently, so he can only reach the level of 'seeing'.

The magic power can be used, but compared with Da Vinci and Miss Medea, it is only like a preschool child learning to turn over.

Compared with Zenyuan Maki, he is the so-called ordinary person without talent, right?

In the final analysis, the evaluation standard itself is unreasonable.

At this time, it's useless to say anything to comfort her, and the other party probably doesn't need these words.

After they talked to themselves, no one paid any attention to the little fox, and the little monster became much more at ease. Apart from still not daring to look in the direction of Ashiya Michimitsu, he also dared to secretly glance at Fujimaru Tachika and Zenin Maki.

Catching his gaze, Fujimaru Tateka smiled back at the little fox—of course, unlike Ashiya Michimitsu's 'kindness', it was a genuinely friendly smile, "I'm not so scared now."

"Let's get to know each other again. I'm Fujimaru Tachika. What's your name?"

This person didn't hurt himself, and he invited himself to eat. If he wanted to eat him, it shouldn't take so much trouble, right?

And...he looks a bit like Natsume when he smiles.

After calming down a bit, the little fox became bewildered by his performance just now, and hid half of his face behind the bowl, only revealing a pair of brown eyes secretly looking at Tachika Fujimaru, "Name...you can't just say it casually."

"Master, the name is very important. A powerful magician can do many things with only his real name." Noticing Fujimaru Tachika's doubts, Ashiya Domitsu explained.

"'The name is the shortest mantra'." This familiar sentence naturally appeared in Zenyuan Maki's mind.

If the curse spirit itself is a collection of curses, the effect should not be so great. This is probably the reason why sorcerers rarely use this method among conjurers.

Zenyuan Maki was distracted for a while, and was suddenly recalled by a premonition of danger.

Although she couldn't see the magic power, the extreme given by the sky and the curse allowed her to perceive the strangeness around her through the five senses, and at this time, she could clearly see the source of the dangerous feeling without using the five senses——

That weird shikigami of Fujimaru Tachika suddenly showed a forbearing and ferocious expression, his nose wrinkled and his pupils dilated, "Really, really, I can hear that guy's words everywhere, ummmmm——"

Although Zenyuan Maki couldn't understand what he was saying, but the growing premonition of danger was clearly identifiable, and his hand was already on the position of the weapon in an instant.

Ah, sure enough, Abe Seimei is a forbidden word.

Fujimaru Tachika also got stuck in her brain, and took a turn to think of the reason.

After all, this sentence is widely used in various creations in Japan today, and few people still remember its original source. It is estimated that Maki-senpai just said it in passing.

The most urgent task is to let Ashiya Doman calm down first.

Thinking of this, Fujimaru Tateka stood up, pressed Ashiya Michiken's shoulder, and was about to speak, but a white shadow came straight to his face——

"You bastard, let that little monster go!"

slap-

The huge palm stood in front of Fujimaru Tachika, just in time to grab the ball of white meat that was flying towards him.

"A talking...cat?" Fujimaru Tatsuka looked at the white creature in surprise.

The three-flowered cat, which was fat and round, was almost unable to be grasped by Ashiya Michiman's unusual palms, and the fat was dripping down, probably not expecting that he would be imprisoned, struggling desperately, biting the tiger's mouth, Trying to escape from the tightened grip.

Being interrupted by such a distraction, Ashiya Michimitsu's ferocious expression had already sunk, his complexion was pale, and he looked at Sanhuamao with unfriendly eyes, "Master, this cat looks very fat, how about I give you an extra meal?"

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