Sword Raiders II

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The sky is high and the clouds are white, and the small towns in the countryside are as peaceful and peaceful as ever.

Natsume was walking alone on the streets of the small town, holding a shopping bag in his hand, and turned his head to watch the TV news broadcast in the shop window next to him.

The news anchor on the TV was chattering, explaining the live video broadcast on the screen. It was a picture of a young and beautiful woman shaking hands with the chairman of the consortium with a smile.

The girl with long chestnut hair was tall and bright, with a pair of green eyes smiling and staring at the camera, her eyes were confident and calm, surrounded by countless celebrities clapping and applauding.

The girl's graceful demeanor without stage fright caused the young man to feel a little dazed.

"Sister Yu Li, it's getting better and better..." Xia Mu watched the TV and murmured softly, with a blessing in his expression and couldn't help feeling emotional.

Suddenly, his expression froze, and his eyes turned vigilantly and precisely to a deserted alley at the corner of the opposite street.

At this time, people were coming and going on the street at the entrance of the alley, but no one noticed a strange head exuding black mist lying on the corner of the alley.

And the bulbous eyes of this head were looking straight at Natsume.

The first time he realized that he was being targeted, the boy turned around and ran away without hesitation, and deliberately ran away from the crowd to a less crowded area, attracting countless passers-by to look at him in amazement.

Seeing him running, the monster hiding in the shadows in the alley also chased after him. Even though such a big one was running through the streets, no passerby still saw it.

Natsume ran all the way, and soon left the center of the town, getting closer to the edge of the town, met fewer and fewer passers-by, large green fields appeared in sight, and the green mountains in the distance were getting closer and closer.

And the less popular they are, the more unscrupulous the monsters chasing the boy all the way.

"Natsume...! You are the Natsume who holds the account of friends, right?" The monster flew high in the sky, calling from behind, gradually expanding and changing from the original state of just a black mist head, and the tone was full of greed and malice , "Hand over the friend account!" After speaking, a pair of sharp long claws stretched out from the black mist, stretching straight towards the boy.

Sensing the danger, Natsume ran faster, but from his increasingly serious face, he knew that he also knew that the situation was very bad.

Just when the monster was about to catch up with Natsume, and the boy's heart sank to the bottom of the valley, a long snow-colored sword light suddenly flashed out from not far from his side, directly cutting the monster in the air behind him in two, then The monster only had time to let out a short scream, and the whole monster body melted into the air like ice and snow.

Natsume was still in shock, gasping for breath and looking in the direction of the helping hand for the first time, before he could see anything clearly, he heard a familiar female voice calling.

"Kikishi, why did you come to Gomachime alone?" Long chestnut hair, blue eyes, the face I saw on the news just now was in front of my eyes.

Behind her was a tall man in a black suit with a blindfold on his right eye. He was holding a long sword in his hand and was sheathing it at this time.

Obviously, there is no doubt about who it was that cut off the monster just now.

But Natsume was even more surprised to see her, and raised her voice in surprise: "Sister Yuli!? Why did you appear here?"

Natsume Takashi, a person who was born able to see monsters, he was able to see weird things that ordinary people can't see, and he suffered a lot because of it.Things like today's being chased by monsters, I don't know how many times it happened since I was a child.

And the person standing opposite him also had the same physique as him.And because of the relationship between Shigeru Fujiwara, the adopter, they are cousins ​​who are not related by blood.

"I have something to buy in Gomachime, and Aunt Tako asked me to buy some local specialties..." Standing under a big tree by the road, Natsume talked to her cousin who hadn't seen her for a while.

"In my case, I came to visit Ms. Tsumura Rong Lizhi." Facing his cousin's questioning eyes, Xinggong Yuli said directly without hiding anything, "Recently, I received a very high-standard birthday family banquet, and the layout of the banquet scene is very good. It is left to me to handle it at my own discretion, and the birthday boy himself likes carvings and paintings, so I thought of coming to Gomachi and looking for Ms. Tsumura, who is a carving and painting artist."

"Aunt Rong Lizhi?" Natsume called out subconsciously.

"Why, you know Guizhi?" Yu Li tilted his head to look at him.

"It's...a familiar elder." It was a long story, and Natsume didn't know how to explain it to his cousin for a while, "Sister Yu Li, have you already visited?"

"Yeah, I've already negotiated with the other party, and I'm about to go back now. I didn't expect to see you being chased by monsters again not long after I came out..." Yu Li said here as if he suddenly thought of something and started to look around, "Why are you alone? Where's Teacher Cat? Is that Fat Sanhua bodyguard lazy again?"

"No." Natsume quickly explained, "I was out shopping, so I didn't bring it."

People with their physique must either be self-reliant or find a strong person to protect themselves. Natsume thinks it should be the latter. Ever since Mr. Cat came to him, he has really helped him a lot.

And my cousin...

Natsume looked up at the young man in black behind her. Others didn't know that he knew the truth. This man is not human, but his cousin's...subordinate?

Appeared with the sustenance of ancient swords, the sword Fusangshen, who was raised by his cousin, is a strange existence driven by her as his master.

As for ancient swords and swords, my cousin has collected a lot, and she is not afraid of monster attacks at all.

When his thoughts diverged, Yu Li lowered his head, looked at the big shopping bag in the boy's hand, and suddenly nodded clearly: "Indeed, carrying it is equivalent to increasing the burden. Especially it has already eaten in the past year." I've gained a lot of weight, but I'm still eating..."

A large part of the reason for getting fatter and fatter is due to you, sister Yu Li.

The boy complained silently in his heart, but he didn't dare to speak out.

Both he and Sister Yu Li were born with the ability to see monsters, but their destinies were completely different.

The cousin Xinggong Yuli is now a top chef and painting master who is well-known all over the country. She has many contacts and is now actively developing her career; and he will soon graduate from high school. In contrast to the classmates who want to get rid of this rural place, Natsume intends to stay here forever.

This also means that he took the initiative to cut off his future development in big cities, but he has no regrets at all.

For Natsume, who has been displaced since childhood because he was born able to see demons, Yahara is the place where he feels the most at ease and the happiest.

"It's rare to meet you, so let's take my car back to Yayuan." The cousin said to him gently, then turned her head and told the man in black who had been silent beside her, "Guangzhong, you drive the car over, we... ..."

"No, no, no!" Natsume hurriedly waved his hand to refuse, "Sister Yuli, you must be busy with a lot of things. I'll be back soon after waiting for the bus. Don't waste time for me."

This time Yu Li didn't speak, but the man in black beside her smiled when she heard the words: "You don't have to be so polite, Master Guizhi. My lord does have other plans today, but there is still time to drive you back to Yayuan Yes." His other unobstructed orange left eye was equally gentle, and his mellow voice was full of politeness.

Natsume blushed immediately at the sound of "Young Master Guizhi", but before he could continue to evade, his hand was held and walked towards the car.

"Okay, I'll take you home, why are there so many words." It was the cousin who rudely took him to the private car, "I'll take you to the edge of Yayuan Town, so there won't be any delay. Don't be so pushy for fear of causing trouble to me."

Just like that, the boy was forcibly pulled into the car and sat in the back row with his cousin.

The car engine started, the scenery outside the window began to sweep back and forth, and the cabin suddenly became quiet, but there was no silence.

"By the way, Kishi, you haven't told me about the Gomachi, how did you know that lady engraver?" The cousin asked about the topic that she hadn't finished talking about before.

"Ah, I've known Aunt Rong Lizhi for a long time, but I got acquainted with it because Mr. Cat suddenly changed from one to three because of greedy eating and swallowing things a while ago..."

From the boy's mouth, Yu Li heard another gentle and sad story about monsters.

"So that's how it is, a strange monster that can naturally blend into the crowd when it comes, and people will forget about it when it leaves..." Yu Li sighed after hearing this, looked at the young man beside him, and couldn't help but sigh, "I don't care about your ambition." When I knew it, I encountered a lot of things.”

"Isn't Sister Yu Li the same?" Xia Mu looked at her sideways with a serious expression, "Sister Yu Li will encounter more things than me in places I don't know, right?"

What he said is not an exaggeration. Compared with the troubles and pains she encountered because of physical problems since childhood, everything Yu Li encountered was more complicated and dangerous than him, but she survived all of them and is still moving forward.

"I...actually, I have always admired Sister Yuli." The young man looked down at his hands on his knees, "It is also natural to see monsters. Sister Yuli even hated them because they were eaten by monsters when she was a child, and then she met them again. So many terrible things, but you have survived and become more and more powerful. But I just want to stay in Yayuan..."

"If you want to say that, I'm the one who admires you." Interrupting Natsume's words, Yuli smiled and said, "I can gradually accept them from hating monsters, and then climb up to today's achievements little by little. , It’s also because of your attitude that influenced me. My current achievements are inseparable from meeting you. You know, at the beginning I was afraid of monsters, so scared that I dared to stay in the house all the time, and didn’t even want to look at them Take a look at them."

Natsume couldn't help laughing when she heard her cousin's half-serious joke.

Later, the siblings chatted about homely topics, and the two talked and laughed, and the car had already driven to the vicinity of Yayuan.

When Natsume got out of the car and wanted to bid farewell to go home, before leaving, her cousin forcibly stuffed a beautifully shaped bamboo food box.

"This, take it back and use it with Erbo and the others. I still have work and can't visit directly. You can ask them for me."

Without waiting for the boy's follow-up reaction, she waved her hand and sat back in the car. The car started immediately and drove away quickly.

Natsume who turned into holding things in both hands and watched the car step on the accelerator and run away: "..."

Helplessly watching the car go further and further away, until it disappeared at the end of the road, Natsume turned around and rushed towards home.

After walking a few steps, I heard a familiar call from a distance.

"Natsume--"

A Fat Sanhua stepped on the weeds on the field stalk and jumped towards the boy.

"You're back! Go to Wucho alone to buy food and eat something delicious without taking me... Wait, I smell the smell of dim sum! And it's a high-end dim sum made by that girl in Xing Gong! This one has a special spirit. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the taste of power! Give it to me, give it to me!"

While Fat Sanhua was talking, he was thumping to grab the food box in Natsume's hand with agile movements that didn't match his figure, which frightened the boy to raise the snacks high.

"Teacher, don't be like this, you will be home soon!"

"I don't care!" Sanhuamao continued to thump, "Natsume, you eat alone, you actually left me alone to find Xing Gong's delicious food! I ate up all these snacks!"

"My cousin and I just met by chance!"

One person and one cat are getting closer and closer to home amidst the noise.

On the other side, the car carrying Yu Li had diverted onto the nearby expressway, drove straight all the way, and finally stopped in front of the gate of an aristocratic school with a plaque named "Yuanyue Saryao Cuisine Academy".

Not long after the car stopped, a blond long-haired beautiful girl in a high school uniform and a pink-haired girl following her immediately came towards this side.

"Master Xinggong, you are finally here!" The blond girl was very excited when she saw Yu Li, her eyes were full of admiration and joy, "Welcome to Yuanyue to give the last public class for the graduates!"