Tokyo: My Hundred Demon Scroll

Abe Shoaki was the most outgoing person in the class, but he had a particularly good relationship with a few people, including Gu Yun.

"When I got home, my old man locked me in the room and made me recite texts and chant incantations. It was so annoying."

"Ah, the Shomei family are Onmyoji, right?"

Nakano Maruo seemed very curious: "Nei-nei, Shoaki, do you really know magic? Are there really monsters in this world?"

'Onmyoji?'

Gu Yun realized that she seemed to have overlooked this matter before.

One of his classmates came from a family of Yin-Yang masters, and his surname was Abe.

Of course, in modern society, having the surname Abe does not necessarily mean one is an Onmyoji (a practitioner of Yin-Yang philosophy); the two are not necessarily related.

But Abe Shōmei, whose name sounds like a copy of Abe Seimei, is indeed from the Abe family, and is a direct descendant of Abe Seimei.

"do not know."

Abe Shoaki said, "Anyway, I've never seen a monster."

As for magic...

Xiangming didn't want to deceive his best friends: "Let me tell you, if you ever meet someone who claims to be an Onmyoji, never believe them. They're all scammers."

"Hey~~~"

Not only was Nakano Maruo surprised, but even Tanigumo was extremely astonished.

Seriously, you come from a family of Onmyoji, is it really okay to say that?

They're about to lose their jobs!

'Is Xiangming saying this to hide something?'

Gu Yun naturally knew about the existence of monsters. To ordinary people, sorcerers and folk scholars were not much different from Onmyoji.

However, Gu Yun sensed Abe no Shoaki's spiritual power and discovered that the other party did not possess the ability to see ghosts at all.

Yes, if the purity of spiritual energy is less than 1, the other party cannot see the monster.

Gu Yun had suspected that Abe no Shoaki might be hiding his spiritual power, but that seemed unlikely.

According to my grandfather, people with low spiritual level cannot hide their aura from people with high spiritual level.

Because Gu Yun is human, his spiritual rank is equivalent to the purity of his spiritual power, making him the highest-ranking being.

Even if Abe no Yoshiaki also possessed 100% purity of spiritual power, Gu Yun could not possibly fail to see through him.

'Has the lineage of Onmyoji really declined to this extent?'

Therefore, Gu Yun deliberately mixed in some technical terms when chatting.

"Ok?"

Abe Shoaki glanced at Gu Yun with some surprise.

Clearly, he understood what Gu Yun meant.

So, while Nakano Maruo was tidying up his desk, Abe Shoaki approached Tanigumo alone.

"Gu Yun, what you just said..."

"You wouldn't happen to be the sorcerer the old man was talking about, would you?"

Despite being just a child, Abe Yoshiaki's emotional intelligence was surprisingly high, rather than his maturity.

"what."

Gu Yun nodded and said softly, "So you do know about this too."

"So what you just said was to keep it from Nakano and me?"

He said he didn't know magic, couldn't see monsters, and didn't even believe in such things.

"No no."

Abe Shoaki quickly waved his hand and said, "I'm telling the truth, I can't see those things anymore."

"Hey?"

Gu Yun thought that Abe no Shoaki would feel disappointed, or even jealous that he, who was not an Onmyoji, possessed spiritual power.

But to everyone's surprise, Abe Yoshiaki had no such idea at all.

Because he simply didn't like being an Onmyoji.

“Since you can see those things, Gu Yun, I don’t need to hide them from you anymore,” Abe Shomei told Gu Yun about some things about his family and what he had seen and heard. “I have no interest in Yin-Yang arts, and you know my dream.”

"Cowherd?"

"Yeah, it's way more interesting than Onmyoji, isn't it?"

"Forehead…"

Gu Yun didn't know how to comment, so he could only say, "You win."

"But it's really difficult."

Abe Shoaki uttered a sentiment beyond his years: "I am the heir of the Abe family. Even without spiritual power, I can manage the family and run the business. The so-called head of the family can do a good job even without spiritual power."

"Is that right?"

Gu Yun realized that it seemed like she was meeting this classmate for the first time.

However, he did not dislike the other person.

He is sincere and has no airs of a rich kid; he has a sunny and cheerful personality.

“That’s true,” Gu Yun praised, “With your personality, if you became the head of a family, I think everyone would be very comfortable.”

"You truly deserve to be called the little sun of our class, Mr. Xiangming."

Hearing Gu Yun's teasing, Abe Shoaki blushed instantly: "Where did this shameful nickname come from? It's so embarrassing!"

This shows that Abe Shoaki is different from ordinary children. If other people had a similar title, they probably wouldn't feel ashamed, but would think it's cool.

"Little Sun, what is this?"

For example, Nakano Maruo: "Shoaki, you have such a cool title, and you didn't even tell me!"

"..."

Abe Shoaki gave Gu Yun a reproachful look, but the latter simply avoided his gaze.

"I'm so happy to be in the same class as Iijima-kun again."

Gu Yun was quite popular in the elementary school.

After all, she gets perfect scores in every exam, has a cute appearance, and is humble and gentle—she's definitely at the top of the pyramid.

However, there are many outstanding children in Gu Yun's class, such as Handa-kun, the child of a certain calligrapher, and that boy named Omota Rimichi, who won the Tokyo Children's Gymnastics Championship at the age of 8.

"Gu, Gu Yun-jun, we're classmates this semester too."

As Gu Yun was checking the class information and comparing it with the list, a slightly chubby little girl stood in the aisle next to him.

"Yes, Chihiro."

This girl was one of the very few female friends Gu Yun had in her class.

The reason they crossed paths was purely because of each other's names—Ogino Chihiro.

When Gu Yun first heard the name, she found it hard to accept.

At first, when he heard the name Hiratsuka Shizuka, he thought he had traveled to an ordinary world, while Ogino Chihiro was a character in a supernatural animated film called "Spirited Away".

Although Chihiro is only 9 years old, it will be several years before she disappears from the world.

At this time, Chihiro was still just an ordinary little girl. Even her ability to enter this school was due to her father's high position in the company.

The girl was extremely introverted. Qianxun remembered that when she was in first grade, Gu Yun took the initiative to talk to her, which really made her feel a little flustered.

In fact, even after two years, Chihiro still hadn't gotten used to it.

Each time, I only dared to greet Gu Yun, and then there was no further communication.

'We can call each other by our first names now.'

Gu Yun nodded to Qian Xun, then watched as the girl ran to Hiratsuka Shizuka's side and joined Shizuka's cute little group.

'It's much better than it was at the beginning.'

A year and a half ago, Gu Yun saw that Chihiro, who had transferred to the school, was all alone in class and felt sorry for her. He was worried that she would be bullied, so he asked Hiratsuka Shizuka, who had a rather heroic temperament, to keep an eye on her.

There were no conspiracies or schemes involved; it was simply a matter of encountering an anime character I knew from a past life and offering help within my means.

In retrospect, Chihiro was indeed a good child.

She became friends with Hiratsuka Shizuma, and through that, she also got to know several other girls.

Unfortunately, due to the class reshuffling in the third year, several of these girls went to other classes, but their best friends, Hiratsuka Shizuka and another girl named Kongo-you, remained.

"Hiss~ Hiss~ Hehehehe~~"

"How cute."

"It's another beautiful day~~~"

Looking towards the sound, Gu Yun saw a small, silver-gray figure squatting beside the desk, silently observing Hiratsuka Shizuka, Kongo Yo, and Ogino Chihiro.

"Ok?"

When Gu Yun first saw this girl, she didn't seem to be someone he knew before.

"That's Shizuku Hazuki."

Abe Shoaki explained, "He was in Class 4 in the second year."

"Ye Yue?"

Gu Yun asked, "That famous home appliance chain supermarket?"

"Yes, it's her family's business."

Yoshiaki Abe added, "I heard that she really likes cute things, especially cute girls like herself."

"Hey?"