COSER, summoned by the strongest

Japan, Aomori Prefecture.

Obata Ze.

A reliable adult woman. Kuroi Misato drove the car and followed the instructions of the magicians into the increasingly dark woods.

Riko Tennouchi, who was sitting in the passenger seat, folded her arms and shivered, "It's so cold."

It was supposed to be a hot summer, but she felt the slightest bit of cold air, which penetrated into her bones one by one, making her hair hairy all over.

Xia Youjie handed her a dress from behind.

Misato Kuroi asked a little worriedly: "Mr. Gojo, are we really not lost? After turning a corner 5 minutes ago, I always feel that we have been walking the same way over and over again."

"Just repeat it." Wujo Wu said with a relaxed tone: "Repeat it a few more times and you will be at the right place."

"...I see. Is it something like a labyrinth?"

Kuroi Misato quickly accepted this statement and breathed a sigh of relief: "Indeed, if you hide in the maze, the possibility of being found is also reduced."

"It's not just a maze here." Gojo Satoru asked them, "Have you heard of Sugisawa Village?"

"Shanze Village?"

Kuroi Misato shook her head.

Riko Tenuchi also shook her head, "No, is that place famous?"

"Shanze Village is where we are going now." Gojo Satoru said excitedly: "Well, yes, Shanze Village is already a thing in 1938. It's normal that you little devils haven't heard of it."

Riko Amouchi & Misato Kuroi: "..."

Al & Xia Youjie: "..."

Al reminded friendlyly: "Wu Jun, if I remember correctly, you are only 16 years old this year."

And Misato Kuroi, the biggest here, is already in her thirties.

Ever since he officially embarked on the road of "escape", Gojo Satoru has been very excited, just like a kid who got a new toy, and once he gets excited, his mouth is very unforgiving.

Riko Tenuchi said speechlessly, "Although I'm really curious about what Sugisawa Village is, but with Gojo's tone, I don't want to pursue it at all!"

Kuroi Misato was a little surprised and said: "So the destination of our trip is Shanze Village? But when I rented a car before, I didn't see a place called Shanze Village on the map."

Wujo Wutiao said: "Of course. We searched for Shanze Village for half a month. If we hadn't memorized the road at that time, it would have been impossible to drive in so early today."

Tennai Riko complained: "Wow. Is this called early? It's been a long time, just like a ghost hitting a wall, that place is too mysterious."

Xia Youjie smiled and asked her: "Then, sister Lizi, do you want to listen to the story of Shanze Village? I promise you won't be sleepy again."

Tenuchi Riko narrowed her eyes, "Okay, but I want to listen to Al!"

Suddenly, Al from CUE raised his eyebrows, thinking he had heard wrong.

"I?"

"Yes." Riko Tenuchi said, "Wusiao and Xia You will definitely scare me on purpose."

And Al, a clean freak who loves cleaning, looks very serious—well, although he is a "nurse" who carries a grenade and pistol, Riko Tennai still trusts Al very much.

Al blinked in surprise, Xia Youjie patted him on the shoulder and asked his opinion: "How is it? Al, can you tell stories?"

If it was the blond-haired and blue-eyed Al before, he would not have asked, but now this Al...

Aldao: "I'll try my best. Jiejun, you only talk about the legend of Shanze Village, not about our last experience, right?"

Xia Youjie thought for a while: "Well...it's not impossible to talk about our experience, but it's not necessary for the time being. Let's leave a little surprise for Sister Lizi."

So Al nodded.

"I understand."

In fact, the reason why they know about Shanze Village is thanks to the rotten oranges in the magic world. They entrusted the task of expelling the curse of "Shanze Village" to the Al three, and the Al three That mission was accomplished—at least on the surface, they did.

"Shanze Village is named after the stream flowing through the fir forest. In 1938, the 'Tsuyama Murder Case' occurred in Shanze Village."

Al narrated sternly: "It is said that a man in the village participated in the military medical examination, but because he failed the physical examination, he was rejected by a woman who had a relationship with him. In his anger, he massacred the entire village with a pistol for two hours. After that, he fled into the mountains and committed suicide by drinking a bullet."

"Wow." Riko Tennouchi said in distaste: "What kind of loser is this? If you are rejected by a woman, you will kill the whole village?"

Kuroi Misato educated: "That's right, miss, so you must keep your eyes open when looking for a boyfriend, especially this kind of guy, who must be a little violent at ordinary times."

Xia Youjie smiled and echoed, "Yes, that's right, and you must date for a few more years before getting married. Some scumbags are very tolerant, and they will pretend to be married before revealing their true colors."

Kuroi Misato suddenly raised her voice, and agreed: "That's right! I've seen this kind of scumbag in the news, saying that I swallowed my anger and got married for a year. After getting married, I began to retaliate against my wife twice, often beating or threatening her. She is a completely different person than she was before she got married, she is simply a deliberate pervert."

Facing this sudden preaching, Riko Tenuchi curled her lips, "How can I tell the difference? I don't have mind reading skills."

Gojo Wujo said to himself: "If you can't tell the difference between scumbags, you can always tell the difference between high-quality human men, right? How do you say that, ugly people are always ugly, but handsome men are all similarly handsome, they are all the same reason."

——It means: scumbags have their own characteristics, but the image of a good man is quite uniform.

Riko Amouchi: "..."

Riko Tennei said painfully: "Wujo, I understand that you are very confident in your appearance. But, have you ever been pursued by a girl?"

Wutiaowu: "..."

Gojo Satoru choked.

Xia Youjie laughed and said, "You're right, Sister Lizi. After all, this guy has a mouth."

Gojo Satoru said unconvinced: "Do you want to fight, Jie?"

Riko Tennai muttered to herself, "Hey, you're half-baked, right? This kind of guy who is good at deceiving people at first glance is not reliable, like a liar..."

Xia Youjie: "..."

Kuroi Misato agreed: "I think so too, miss, he is too good at making others happy, I don't think so."

Xia Youjie: "?"

Who is this talking about?You can't be talking about him, are you?

The reliable adult woman seemed greatly relieved: "Great, I was worried that you would have some feelings that you shouldn't have during the escape... Miss, it's great that you are not interested in them. "

Gojo Wu & Xia Youjie: "..."

Riko Tenuchi said: "Hahahahahahahahaha, no way, if I like it, I like Al too! After all, he is the guy who protects me personally!"

Gojo Gojo let out a sigh: "I told you, Riko, you will definitely regret it. You have never seen Al go crazy."

"It's really rude, Wutiao, what is crazy, and even if Al is crazy, it must be because you are too unhygienic!"

Wutiaowu: "..."

Damn, it's hard to refute.

After listening for a long time, Al realized that Riko Tennouchi was praising him as "a good man". He nodded solemnly and said, "Thank you, but I'm not married, so it doesn't matter if they are not as good as me."

Wutiaowu: "..."

Xia Youjie: "..."

"Oh?" Riko Tennouchi said in surprise, "Non-marriageism? Why?"

Others also looked over.

Al said calmly: "Because the misfortune in a person's life often starts with marriage."

Riko Amouchi: "..."

Kuroi Misato: "..."

What a sober speech! ! !

Al said seriously: "Can we continue to tell the story? After the incident in Shanze Village was discovered by the outside world, the person in charge of that area felt that it would affect his career, so he concealed the massacre of the village."

"……Eh?"

"They erased the name of this village from the map, and even deleted everything about Sugisawa from the official records of Aomori Prefecture, trying to erase the entire existence of the village."

"..." Riko Tennei commented, "This behavior is no different from a murderous scum."

Al nodded: "So I got retribution."

Riko Tenuchi asked interestedly, "How do you say it?"

"Shanze Village really disappeared from its original place, and there was no wreckage left. Later, the officials involved in the operation to erase Shanze Village sent people to investigate this, but all the people who went to investigate never returned. After a few times, no one dared to look for Shanze Village anymore."

Riko Tenuchi asked in surprise, "What's the matter? What happened in Shanze Village?"

Al shook his head, "I don't know. But for a long time after that, there was no news about Shanze Village in the society. Until 1988, 50 years after the 'Tsuyama Murder Case', a self-driving tourist The woman and two men got lost here and entered Sugisawa Village by mistake."

Riko Tenuchi asked nervously, "And then?"

"Then, the next day, the nearby villagers found the car and the unconscious woman on the bridge they had passed before. She had gray hair all night, woke up in a daze, said a lot of strange things, and moved out of Japan not long after. As for the other two men who were with her...no one knows where they went."

"real or fake?"

"Really." Al said: "This is a case with files left in the archives of the Kyoto High School of Curse and Magic."

"Is there really ghosts in the world?"

"Miss..." Kuroi Misato called her helplessly, and she calmly analyzed from the perspective of a conjurer: "I guess those people should have entered the birth realm of curse spirits or something? Listen It is said that high-level spell spirits have the ability to expand the field."

"Ha, you're right." Gojo Wudao said, "The resentment of the villagers turned into a powerful curse. In the incident in 1988, ordinary people strayed into the realm of curse spirits. Two men died in the realm , although the woman escaped, she was too severely eroded by the curse."

Xia Youjie said: "At that time, she was sent to a hospital in Aomori County, but ordinary medical methods could not get rid of the curse in her body. When the Conjurers Association sent people, she was already dying, but fortunately It was still saved."

"..."

Oh, it's good to be saved, it's good to be saved.

"After that incident, the Conjurer's Association took over Shanze Village, but because they couldn't get rid of the curse spirits in Shanze Village, what they can do is to try to prevent ordinary people from entering this place by mistake, and arrange for nearby villages Get out of here."

After learning that Al can get rid of the curse, the high-level Rotten Oranges entrusted them with the task of Sugisawa Village.

After all, it is always a hidden danger to keep such things as grievances.

Tian Nei Lizi was surprised: "Wait, is this the place we are going to enter? Isn't that very dangerous!"

The three college students said innocently: "Yes."

Riko Amouchi: "..."

What is yes!

She was shocked: "Even if you are fleeing, you don't need to escape to this kind of place?!"

"Don't be afraid, Miss." Misato Kuroi tried to calm down and said, "Didn't Mr. Gojo just say that they are very familiar with this place? So the curse spirit inside must have been expelled, they are super!"

"puff."

Gojo Satoru deliberately teased them: "It's not right to say that. Because the curse spirit inside is not an ordinary curse spirit, but a curse—think about it, if it's just an ordinary curse spirit, no matter how weak the high-level officials are, they can't let it go. It's been around for so long."

Misato Kuroi: "!!!"

Curse!

Curse!

Is it the legendary curse? !

"Look." Xia Youjie said, "It's already here."

Misato Kuroi & Riko Amouchi: "!!!"

They saw a faint red torii gate in front of them... No, it can't be called red now. The torii gate in front of them is quite faded and seems to have been decayed for a long time. There is a skeleton-shaped rock beside it.

The whole forest was very quiet. It was obviously summer, but there was not a single bird or insect chirping, and the whole world was silent.

"Get out of the car."

The three members of the high school opened the car door and got out one after another, and Riko Tenuchi and Misato Kuroi had no choice but to get out of the car with them.

Al calmly said: "The torii gate enshrining the skull-shaped rock is the entrance to Sugisawa Village."

Riko Tennouchi swallowed.

"Are we...are we going to take refuge inside?"

Al nodded and walked into the torii gate first. Gojo Satoru turned his head and said to them, "Follow."

Riko Tenuchi and Misato Kuroi looked at each other, followed them into the torii gate, Xia Youjie walked at the back, the magic spirits behind him opened the trunk, took out their luggage, Xia Youjie released another ten Only low-level spell spirits lurk around the car, counting as eyeliner.

A group of them stepped into the torii gate, and the moment they stepped over it, the surroundings suddenly became dark. They walked on the weedy mountain road, and after walking silently for about 100 meters, a large open space and several buildings appeared in front of them. Dilapidated houses.

This is Sugisawa Village.

Shanze Village is silent, the houses are old and dilapidated, the thatched roofs are stained with suspicious blood, there are many farm tools scattered around the house, and there are corpses of cows and horses, a large amount of dried blood forms winding traces, besides In addition, there are many... human corpses.

"Hey."

Shocked and hesitant, Riko Tenuchi said, "These people...haven't been dead for decades, right?"

At most, he died for a few hours.

Al and Gojo Wujo walked into one of the rooms, Riko Tenuchi reluctantly followed, and looked back at Xia Youjie, Xia Youjie smiled at her comfortingly.

"Don't be afraid."

"..."

Tennouchi Riko took a deep breath and walked into the house anyway.

"Let's live here recently." Al pulled out a mop from the mess: "I'll clean it up first. I cleaned it up last time, but it hasn't been here for a month, and there are bloodstains everywhere."

Gojo Satoru had his hands in his pockets, and he had no intention of helping with the cleaning. He said leisurely, "Well, there's nothing we can do about it. If we hadn't set up a 'tent', this room would be reset along with the entire domain..."

Riko Tenuchi murmured, "Here...are all the murder scenes in 1938?"

"That's it."

Wujo Wu smiled mysteriously, and asked Xia Youjie who just walked in, "How is it, Jie?"

"Ah..." Xia Youjie said, "The time in the domain should be before zero o'clock, and it's not time to reset it yet."

Tennei Riko dissatisfied: "What do you mean? Hey, when I have money, I must hire some bodyguards who can speak human language!"

Gojo Satoru: "Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha—"

Al and Xia Youjie couldn't help laughing, and Misato Kuroi couldn't help laughing either.

Wujo Wudao said: "Xiao Lizi, it's no fun to reveal spoilers in advance. Life needs many, many surprises."

"...It's a shock, right?"

"Hahaha." Xia Youjie took the initiative: "Then I'll clean up the garbage here first. Just like last time, we throw out all the useless things and bring the bedding with us, right?"

"Okay, anyway, it's not Lao Tzu who does the work."

Kuroi Misato hurriedly said: "Please let me help too!"

Sanitation Commissioner Al nodded and assigned her a job: "Then you can sweep the floor. I'll fetch water from a nearby stream."

"Ok!"

Gojo Satoru said relaxedly: "Yes, yes, please clean up quickly, and eat the self-heating hot pot after packing, this tomato-flavored hot pot is really not bad, but it's a pity that we only brought ordinary instant noodles when we came last time, it's unpalatable .”

Judging by his tone, he was here for camping.

Tennouchi Riko complained to him: "It's a shame that you can say such things in this place full of corpses..."

With that said, he sat down on the suitcase.

Xia Youjie: "..."

Xia Youjie said: "You two, if you are free, quickly set up a 'tent', and then help me dress up Bai Jing."

Wujo realized, and soon, a translucent curtain fell from the top of his head, covering the room they had chosen.

Riko Tenuchi asked curiously: "Why are your 'tents' different colors... By the way, if you use the 'tents', won't someone know about it?"

Gojo Satoru shrugged: "It's okay. The domain itself is a very special space. Even if you use it, the old guy can't locate the exact location. As for what we said in the 'tent'...ha, he heard it now What can I do?"

"……Too."

While Al, Xia Youjie, and Kuroi Misato were diligently cleaning the room, the idle duo found a bag of Christmas tree decorations from the suitcase.

I bought this by chance when I was replenishing supplies, because it was something that could not be sold, so the boss only charged a small amount, and Riko Tenuchi thought it was cute and bought it.

Shirai, who was dressed in a deacon outfit, stood dignifiedly in front of them, and Xia Youjie, who could change outfits with one click, explained: "It has worn all the clothes we bought, so we can only do some other easter eggs on the same outfit. "

Gojo Satoru and Tenuchi Riko wrapped Shirai with small hanging lamps over and over again, and even pasted small stars on their clothes.

Gojo Satoru teased, "Now, 'Curse spirit practitioner likes to play dress-up play with curse spirits' is a solid hammer, right?"

Xia Youjie said speechlessly, "Isn't this your idea with Al?"

"Hahaha, I didn't expect the mastermind behind the scenes to be so powerful. Every time Bai Jing went there, he would break up the grudge. If it weren't for the immortality of the curse itself, it would have disappeared long ago."

Conscience of heaven and earth, they didn't plan to harass once an hour at first, but after they found out that the so-called "behind the scenes" was strong enough to break up the first-level curse spirit, they started to seriously carry out this "harassment" plan.

"Okay, Jay."

As soon as Xia Youjie turned his head, he saw a Christmas tree version of "Bai Jing" standing at the door.

"..."

He snapped his fingers, and Shirai disappeared from where he was, and went to harass the forum posters.

Gojo Satoru stretched his waist: "Anyway, stay here until the assimilation is over and the magic world gives up on Xiao Lizi, and then we will go out to settle accounts with the mastermind behind the Panxing Cult."

Al added: "By the way, Riko, the flow of time in this area is different from the outside, so we will live here for many days. Although this is a murder scene that is difficult to clean up, there are many beautiful flowers in the mountains behind."

It took a long time for Riko Amauchi to show a smile from the bottom of her heart.

"Thank you for saving me - let's save this kind of words until after everything is over."

Gojo Satoru smiled and said, "If you're really embarrassed, it's okay not to say anything."

"Huh? Do I look like a coward? How disrespectful!"

"Isn't it? As an astral body, I'm afraid of ghosts."

"How can I be afraid of ghosts? Didn't I just walk in by myself!"

Al: "..."

Wait, these two brats not only couldn't help, but they even stirred up dust at the door, it's really unreasonable.

It's a pity that the two brats really don't have much eyesight, and they didn't notice Al's increasingly unkind eyes at all.

"?"

Ar Ruo turned his head knowingly, and looked at Xia Youjie with a serious expression.

"what happened?"

Xia Youjie came back to his senses, and said in a low voice, "Bai Jing was broken up again."

Al was puzzled: "Isn't it always like this?"

Xia Youjie shook his head, "The location where it was broken up is a little closer than it was an hour ago."

But logically speaking, they have all gone to this kind of deep mountains and old forests. They should be getting farther and farther away from the person who posted the forum. An hour ago, he thought it was just a coincidence that the distance was not widened, but now...

He said solemnly: "The enemy's attack may come earlier than we thought."

"..."

Al glanced at Kuroi Misato who was mopping the floor, and Tenuchi Riko who was fighting with Gojo Satoru, and said in a low voice, "Tell Satoru about this later."

"Ah."

Riko Tenuchi suddenly let out a scream outside.

The world outside the "tent" began to reset, the corpses on the ground and the blood around them turned into light spots and dissipated, and the dead livestock stood up again. Everything in Shanze Village was restored to the day of the "Tsusan Murder Case", and the tragedy had not yet happened. when.

Al said calmly, "It's zero o'clock."