There is nothing wrong with the training method of the Justice Messenger

"Well, just provide it. No need to ask for my opinion."

"… Don't worry, the artists I'll find are all people I know, and I'll warn them not to share the video materials without permission."

Li Nian knew about Ren's concerns, and actually felt that the spin-off didn't matter, as when he and Isayama were fighting, they were both cosplayed thoroughly, and Li Nian wasn't worried that anyone would be able to recognize their true appearance from it.

"Well, if everything goes well, we should be able to finish the animated short film before the release date of your new book. Stay tuned... Now, we won't disturb your rest."

Chapter 426: The Faith of Single Dogs Cannot Be Shaken

It was true that Li Nian wanted to rest. This night, there were finally no girls in the room to disturb him. He thought that he could finally sleep well lying comfortably in bed alone, without having to lie on a computer chair and without annoying others. He felt relaxed all over and lay down on the bed, but a faint fragrance wafted into his nose.

He could tell that it was left by Jianshan and Kasumigaoka. It was not that it lasted for a long time. It was simply because Li Nian's nose and perception were too sensitive that he could clearly detect even the slightest residue.

It was mainly the scent of shampoo, but mixed with the scent of the girls, so that Li Nian could still feel their presence in this private space where they no longer existed.

Originally, this was not a trivial matter worthy of concern, but when Li Nian thought about what Xia Zhiqiu had said before, he felt a little strange in his heart, which made him inexplicably associate Xia Zhiqiu's strange attitude and contact behavior.

…Can I really treat that kind of contact casually?

Li Nian is a person with keen senses. He can clearly perceive the changes in all the movements around him. Those are not just changes in physical phenomena, but also changes in people's psychology. He can see them clearly. However, unless it is a special situation, he will not observe his friends carefully with the purpose of analyzing them thoroughly, because he knows that it is very impolite behavior.

The enemy needs to be seen clearly so that he has nowhere to hide and every detail is exposed. Then all his weaknesses will be revealed, making it easier to stab him with a knife and kill him completely.

But friends should not see too clearly. People have secrets and shortcomings. That is information that most people do not want to reveal. Actively exploring is an offense. As long as there is no real problem, just treat it naturally. If you notice it inadvertently, pretend you didn't see it. This is the way friends get along with each other.

But even if Li Nian didn't investigate these lovely children, it didn't prevent him from clearly feeling that the people around him were becoming strange.

Normally, we get along with each other naturally, and have close behaviors and communications with each other without any scruples. Even if we make jokes that are a little excessive according to common sense, and have contacts that seem a little out of the ordinary according to common sense, people still don't feel strange about it. The main reason is that both parties don't have any other thoughts and feel that they are still within the scope of communication between familiar friends.

But now Li Nian can already feel that the approach of Kasumigaoka in the past few days has obviously brought about some different meaning. She always feels that it has exceeded the scope of familiar friends... Not only her, it seems that Gogen and Isayama have also become a little strange.

Communication is mutual, and when they become strange, Li Nian cannot treat their contact with a normal heart.

Li Nian had already promised Kasumigaoka that he would study love, which he had never studied before, when he came back. He was currently thinking seriously about the related things. Looking back on his various contacts with the girls, he couldn't help but speculate.

Do they really like me? Do they have some malicious feelings towards me?

But Li Nian himself immediately denied this speculation.

One of the three major illusions in life is "she likes me."

What era is this? You still mistake a little close contact with a girl as love... Li Nian, Li Nian, you look like a sixteen or seventeen-year-old, but you are actually an adult approaching your thirties. Why are you still doing things that only young boys would do? Isn't this an unrealistic imagination?

People should not take themselves too seriously, and adults especially should understand this principle.

Li Nian thinks he is a handsome guy, but he knows that he is handsome in a real manly way, handsome with muscular body and strong aura, which is the kind of handsomeness he desires to have as a man.

But he is sure that as a real man, he can easily win the favor of other men, but he also knows that in the eyes of women, this should be a minus point.

He is self-aware and knows that others may see him as a rough and dangerous guy.

His face is just average, not delicate and fair. He is not the kind of pretty boy that girls like in idol dramas.

He doesn't know how to say anything nice to please girls, and he's too lazy to do so. Although he won't cause girls to dislike him, he doesn't have any elements that could make others like him.

Various actions and words sometimes make girls angry, not to mention making them happy.

How can a girl like a guy like this? Forget it.

Besides, Li Nian knew that, like friendship, so-called love must be a mutual relationship, not a one-sided thing.

If you want someone to like you, you have to take the initiative to flirt with them. Do you just wait for girls to fall in love with you without doing anything? That is just wishful thinking.

Sweet words have to be said, gifts have to be given, care has to be taken, and confession has to be proactive.

As far as he knew, only boys like this could find girlfriends. Expecting to simply accumulate favorability by getting familiar with girls like the protagonist in a novel? And then do nothing and wait for others to confess to you. Haha, that really underestimates other girls.

Now is an era where there are more men than women, and more people than porridge. Cute girls have no shortage of suitors. If you don't take the initiative to win other people's favor, others will not have any good impression of you.

The group of girls around him are such high-quality girls, each of them is very cute, although they all have some regrets, some have their heads full of pornographic garbage, some are socially anxious and have sharp tongues, flat bodies, some have inexplicably low sense of existence, or like to observe and analyze human nature... But Li Nian also thinks that they are good girls with high quality. None of them has found a boyfriend so far, mainly because they don't want to find one.

For girls who are running in both directions, the door is closed.

Li Nian had no intention of pushing open the door.

It is difficult to pursue a girl. Once you become a couple, you have to take better care of your relationship with each other. You have to call each other every day, look for someone else when you have nothing to do, accompany someone else when you have something to do, and be more concerned about them during the holidays. You cannot neglect someone.

...This requires a lot of time, energy, and money.

What's more, in the future, they will talk about marriage, getting married and having children... Children in high school don't need to consider these things for the time being, but Li Nian can't help but think further. To him, love is such a solemn thing. Holding a girl's hand means taking her through her entire life. If he doesn't have this awareness and walks to the end, why start a relationship?

That’s why love is so troublesome in every sense, so it’s better not to start it at all.

Li Nian felt that her to-do list was piling up like a mountain, and she was running out of time to take a break from her busy schedule and close her eyes to think about nothing. What about dating? Forget it. Just thinking about it made her tired.

Since Li Nian didn't want to fall in love, he had never taken the initiative to pursue the girls around him, and had never pursued other girls as love objects. Being friends was one thing, but it was definitely not enough to escalate to the level of love - Li Nian had never had such thoughts about the kids around him.

He is a big brother in his twenties, who has become everyone's friend and also everyone's elder. Elders have the obligation to protect, guide and help children. He must be a scumbag to regard a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl as a romantic partner.

To sum up, it is impossible for a girl to fall in love with me, and I don’t want to be in a relationship with anyone. There is no need to change my freedom and joy as a single person.

Li Nian felt relieved after reaching the conclusion.

Senior Kasumigaoka seemed to have entered the state of script writing, and immersed herself in the role of Ito Shiko. She was so obsessed that she mistook Li Nian as the protagonist Kinoshita Shin, and wanted to find inspiration with him through simulated love scenarios in real life. Maybe she was so into the play that she lost her sense of proportion when interacting with him.

Li Nian was happy to play with her, and in the middle of the night he thought about the future of his relationship… and came to the conclusion that there was no need to ignite the relationship itself. He wanted to study various concepts and forms of love with the help of Kasumi Shiko, and really write the script for the galgame that the club was currently working on, as well as the love between the characters that he would need to design in his own works in the future. However, he did not think that creation really required him, the author, to really get into the play and put himself into it.

Well, Kasumigaoka-senpai is such a smart person. Even if I act with her and make her more immersed in the play, when the song ends, the people disperse, the drama comes to an end, and the story is completed, she will suddenly realize it and easily pull out her own thing in the end.

The thoughts about the so-called love came to a conclusion, and all the distracting thoughts and strange feelings disappeared. Li Nian regained his calm state of mind, and could ignore the lingering scent of the girls. He closed his eyes and slept soundly for another night. He slept peacefully in his own bed for the first time in a long time, and completely recovered his spirit.

The next day, Li Nian did a slightly boring morning exercise without a sandbag... oh no, a sparring partner.

When I took a break, I looked in the group and saw a file that my senior had uploaded. The name of the file was "The second draft of a super interesting beautiful girl game plan that makes straight men's hearts flutter, full of love atmosphere, and tells various love stories (tentative)"

If this kind of obvious mockery towards single people was mentioned yesterday, Li Nian would have felt offended and become angry. But now he just smiled coldly. I have once again confirmed that I am a single person who has awakened!

The upload time was just now, and it can be seen that the senior sister must have stayed up all night.

Gu! (I will never give up): Senior sister spent the whole night again?

Xia Shizi: ...Well, it's Li Nian who didn't let me sleep~~~

Gu! (I will never give up): I don’t remember saying a sentence to express this meaning.

Kasumi Shiko: There's nothing I can do. The feeling of being enveloped by a boy's passion is just too much for me to stop.

Gu! (I won’t give up): I’m really curious about why you feel that way when you change the outline of a script.

Kasumi Shiko: The passion of the creator has been conveyed to me through this outline. I imagine walking through various lives with you...

Chiba's Fallen Saint Black Cat: "You are imagining the male and female protagonists of the script going through various lives, right, senior? Also, if you haven't slept yet, I suggest you go to bed quickly. I can see that you are not very clear-headed and have started talking nonsense."

Coo! (I will never be late): If you sleep now, you will be late. You should sleep in school.

The producer of the great project: "What do you think school is?"

Kasumi Shiko: "Where I sleep every day."

Gu! (I won't miss it): "The place to check in."

The producer of the Great Project said: "These two people are actually the top students in the second and third year of Sobu High School. It seems that Chiba's famous school for further studies is almost over."

I'm not a tsundere blonde with twin ponytails! : "Puhu, these two people can definitely go to college, stupid Lun, guess who won't be able to go to college after graduation?"

The producer of the great project: "Healthy teenagers don't need to discuss things related to study!"

Kasumi Shiko: "Anyway, could you please confirm the revised outline as soon as possible and give me your comments on the revisions? We can get together to discuss it after school this afternoon?"

The producer of the great project: "Got it!"

Gu! (I won't miss it): "Don't get caught in Mr. Hiratsuka's class again... No, you should just listen carefully in class, An Yi. I'm really afraid you'll fail the exam and repeat the year if you keep going like this."

The producer of the great project: "Don't remind me of what I've been avoiding!"

Li Nian downloaded the outline that Kasumigaoka had revised overnight, but was not in a hurry to read it.

He was not in a hurry, but when he arrived at school, An Yi, who had arrived earlier, had already prepared photocopies of the revised outline and distributed them to everyone. He took a copy back to his seat and read it more carefully than anyone else, occasionally making a few marks with a red pen. It seemed unrealistic for him to listen to the class seriously today.

So Li Nian also began to seriously consider giving this idiot extra lessons.

At noon, Li Nian, who had been practicing for the whole morning, went to the cafeteria to find food and ordered various things before he had time to take a look at the revised outline of Kasumigaoka.

He browsed very quickly, and after just a few glances he had basically grasped the places where Kasumigaoka had modified. In general, as Kasumigaoka had said before, she had added, deleted and modified some plots based on the original plot framework she had given. It must be said that Kasumigao Shiko really understood love better. The outline after the modification significantly increased the concentration of the "love heart" element, and it was more like a galgame type plot framework, but the overall feeling had changed a lot.

But it would not be wrong to say that there were nothing worth changing. There were many places that Li Nian felt were too much or too little. Without paper and pen at the moment, he circled them in his memory and planned to mark them in red when he returned.

While eating and thinking about the plot about Kasumigaoka's reformation in the outline, Li Nian suddenly felt something in his heart. He looked up and saw that a friendly boy wearing glasses had sat down next to him. It was Nura Rikuo in human form.

This cunning guy's talent is still outrageous. If Li Nian hadn't sensed someone sitting down next to him, he wouldn't have noticed him approaching.

Li Nian looked up and saw that the head of the Nura team had a serious expression on his face, as if he was in a bad mood. He asked, "What's wrong, Lu Sheng? You don't look very happy."

In human form, Nura Rikuo does not have the carefree and handsome feeling of the monster form. He looks like an ordinary student. However, he complained with murderous intent: "Student Li Nian, tell us how to summon Yato God. We have already tried it."

"Failed?"

"It succeeded... I succeeded in summoning the gods."

"Oh, so the siege failed."

Chapter 427: Internet Celebrity Night Fighting God

He is now considered a celebrity in the school. There are many curious people watching him when he eats. If he wants to talk to Nura Rikuo about something in this situation, it will be easily heard by those who are interested. So Li Nian snapped his fingers and cast an invisibility spell to reduce his presence. Those who looked over curiously suddenly felt that Li Nian was not so conspicuous, and there was no point in staring at others eating, so they all naturally looked away.

At this time, Lu Sheng nodded, confirming Li Nian's guess.

It was Li Nian who told Lu Sheng how to summon Yato God. He knew that the Nura group would use this to arrange a siege on Yato God. Although Li Nian didn't want Yato God to die so easily now, because he wanted to see if Yato God could really change...but in fact, he didn't think that the serious Nura group could let Yato God survive, and was actually quite surprised by the failed result of the siege, so he asked curiously.

"I know that guy has the power of [Slash], and can easily destroy all kinds of spells. It is probably difficult for you monsters to stop him, but since you have arranged a siege, your focus should be on killing him. It is not easy for him to escape."

Nura Rikuo replied: "...I didn't intend to kill him simply. Before that, I wanted to ask him something."

"...Oh, so the purpose of killing him was not clear from the beginning." Li Nian shook his head with some regret: "Perhaps this is the biggest problem."

He was still wondering how the guys who were going to be killed by the Nura group would escape if they really wanted to, but it turned out that the Nura group had left a way for others to survive from the beginning.

Li Nian would not have made such a mistake. He was wise after the event, enjoying the delicious food while reviewing the situation for Nuliang Lusheng: "If you had thought clearly from the beginning that you wanted to kill him, you would have used all kinds of killing moves at once when you summoned him. No matter how strange Yatoshin's power was, he would not have had any chance to break out. To put it bluntly, he is just a warrior with a slightly sharp blade. In fact, he has no other means. If you had done that, he would have died ten times on the spot. At least, he would not have had a chance to escape."

Nura Rikuo looked at Li Nian speechlessly, shaking his head and clicking his tongue, expressing his genuine regret for not being able to kill Yatogami. He had previously thought that this man didn't want Yatogami to die, but now it seems that he was overthinking it. It was obvious that Li Nian intended to deal with Yatogami in this way when he made a mistake.

Lu Sheng knew that what Li Nian said was right. Looking back, he did make a wrong judgment by not making up his mind to kill Yatoshin at the beginning. This was also the reason why he was in a bad mood at the moment. He sighed and explained his thoughts.

"The whole family of Kanto Great Ape Society was wiped out, not only Yatogami, but also the mage named Fujiki. Ever since I lost the chance to catch him in front of Tsuchigumo, I can't find any trace of this person anymore, so I want to ask about the whereabouts of Yatogami."

"Teng Qi is Yato's father, he will never tell you even if he dies." Li Nian chewed the fried chicken, took two mouthfuls of rice, swallowed it, and changed the subject, but did not say that the possibility was eliminated. He said nonchalantly: "Of course, if you capture Yato alive, you monsters should have no shortage of ways to make him speak honestly, right?"

“…That’s it.”

"Well, then there's nothing we can do. We can only say that your siege... oh no, the arrest operation was not carried out properly."

"…Although I didn't plan to kill him, I did try to neutralize his fighting ability from the beginning, such as taking away the knife or breaking his legs…But he was on guard from the beginning, and when he came over, he was already in a fighting state with a knife in his hand, so he reacted immediately."

Li Nian was stunned, and after thinking about it, he understood Yatoshin's vigilance: "Oh, I called him over and chopped him once, so he still got a lesson from me, but even so, he can't run away, right?"

“He didn’t actually succeed in breaking out.”

"Ok?"

"He was summoned by the others in the middle of the battle, so he took the opportunity and disappeared right under our noses."

"...Then it's essentially a means of teleportation, right? Shouldn't it be blocked by the [Fear] of you monsters...Oh, he has the power of cutting, and can easily break through your domain." Li Nian suddenly realized: "This combination is perfect, it means he can come and go freely. Thinking about it this way, it won't be too easy for me to kill him...But someone just happened to summon him? Is he such a popular god now?"

"Others have become popular online celebrities recently." Nura Rikuo had naturally done a detailed investigation on Yatoshin. At this time, he took out his mobile phone, opened a website and threw it over: "You will know for yourself after you take a look."

Li Nian took a look and found that it was the search result with "Ye Dou Shen" as the keyword. There were quite a lot of things presented, including news, discussions, and videos. Just by taking a quick look, one could tell that the three words "Ye Dou Shen" were indeed very popular.

In the past, Yato God suffered from being unknown. As a god, he was nameless and had no sufficient faith to support him. He was in danger of disappearing, so there were issues concerning his survival that needed to be resolved.

He printed flyers, distributed them, and made knives for people as a way of collecting faith, but the results were not ideal. In the end, he could not put it on the table and did not gain the faith of too many people.

At that time, Li Nian gave him some advice, asking him to find a way to become an internet celebrity. He hooked up with a passerby named Marusue Haru who was also a TikTok up-loader with millions of followers. The latter edited the video of Li Nian's battle with Yatogami into the image of "Yatogami fighting against evil forces to protect ordinary people". It became a small hit at the time and also attracted the attention of the Onmyoji Bureau, leading to Isayama's on-site investigation.

Even so, after being approached by Isayama, Marusue Haru still did not seem to sever his relationship with Yatoshin, but continued to have contact with him, and continued to help Yatoshin make videos, spread his beliefs, and gather popularity.

Li Nian originally thought that even so, Yatoshin would need more time to become truly popular, but he seemed to have underestimated how rare it was for a spiritual being to be willing to show up on the Internet. He also underestimated the determination of the passerby named Marusue Haru to help Yatoshin, as well as the ability of this little-known up-master to manage popularity and attract attention.

Starting with the video becoming a small hit, Yatoshin made his debut on social media platforms as a martial god who protects all living beings, which immediately attracted the spread and discussion of those who were interested.

The spiritual disasters in this world are widely known, and spiritual creatures are ubiquitous, but they usually actively hide themselves to survive. Although related videos are often leaked, it is rare to find someone like Yato who is willing to take the initiative to appear on camera and show himself on the Internet. Most of them follow ancient customs and live in shadows and legends.

It is rare for Yatoshen to be willing to show up on the Internet, and he became an instant celebrity.

This Marusue Haru took advantage of the opportunity to spread the method of summoning Yato God in the video. He then filmed more videos related to Yato God and recorded various deeds related to him.