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

"Okay, I'm relieved to know that you can't understand me."

"... Are you kidding me?" An Yi looked over with dissatisfaction: "So what exactly is this thing?"

"That's not the case... Well, it's not the right time yet. I'll translate it into Japanese and show it to you when it's finished. It just so happens that you, a otaku, are the most suitable person to do it."

An Yi was confused, but he still understood what Li Nian meant.

"Speaking of which, the person next to you..."

Like Li Nian, her deskmate Gogen Ruri was also writing at her desk. She was looking over here when the two were talking. Now that An Yi looked at her, she didn't dare to show it as openly as Li Nian did. Instead, she immediately covered her things and gave a hostile look.

An Yi turned his head helplessly.

"I always feel like you and Gogen-san... never mind, you said you were the one who would let me know that day, okay? Don't forget it."

"I won't go during lunch break, please bring me something."

"arrow"

Li Nian watched An Yi leave.

"…What do you write?"

As An Yi just walked out of the door, Wu Geng's voice came from beside him, and he finally spoke.

The girl was staring straight at the notebook on Li Nian's desk. Even though she was still a little angry with him and her tone was deliberately cold, she couldn't hide her curiosity.

On the one hand, he wanted to ignore it, but on the other hand, he couldn't help but pay more attention to that person's actions. As they were sitting at the same table, it was impossible for Wu Geng not to notice Li Nian's movements. For the rest of the morning class, this guy had been writing something. He looked like...

Li Nian did not hide anything from her and answered frankly.

"Just as you guessed, writing a novel." He tapped the notebook with the tip of his pen: "I'd be embarrassed if I criticized you so much and you still can't come up with something useful."

"...Didn't you say you didn't have time to write?"

“Time is squeezed out.”

"...Hmph, whatever you want, it has nothing to do with me anyway."

Wu Geng turned her head away, not wanting Li Nian to see her expression, and her gaze returned to the book on the table.

"How's the article revision going? Is it going smoothly?" Li Nian asked.

"... Nonsense, just wait, I will definitely make you look at me with new eyes later."

"You don't trust my evaluation, and you said you want to ask someone else to take a look?"

"..." Wu Geng stopped talking.

"Come to think of it, who else can you turn to besides me?"

Wu Geng's expression was stiff, and he stammered as he answered.

"Of course... my friend."

Li Nian's brows twitched heavily.

“Oh~~~~~~?”

Gogen glared at me fiercely, "What's with that expression? Is it weird that I have friends?!"

It's quite strange, Li Nian thought so, but she still realized that Wu Geng was a bit desperate, so she stopped teasing her and raised her hands in surrender.

"Of course it's not strange at all~"

"Humph, what an unpleasant man!"

Was it because he was touched in a sore spot? Wu Geng was a little angry and once again didn't want to talk to Li Nian.

This woman is really troublesome. Li Nian shook his head and his eyes returned to the notebook on the table.

Although I feel like I can shout out stupid words like "Writing makes me happy!", I have the urge to write until the sky darkens...

But after a little thought, he put down his pen and decided to focus on his studies for the time being.

"It's just a hobby after all..."

The efficiency of handwriting is too low. He should arrange his writing time when he returns to Sakurasou and has a computer to type. That is the time when efficiency will be maximized. But now, he should continue to learn the skill tree.

……

……

After school.

Li Nian was walking on the street carrying a schoolbag, holding a notebook open in his hand and reading it carefully.

He read a few pages of paper and three thousand words over and over again, making sure that it had reached a quality that his past self could hardly have imagined.

He expected that his level was still stuck in the past, and thought that he would inevitably face difficulties and obstacles in the process of conceiving. However, when he really wrote seriously, those problems were easily solved as if they did not exist at all.

His thoughts flowed freely on how to arrange the plot, how to progress it, how to add polish, and even how to write it in the end.

He found that the so-called perfect state of creation, which he had always longed for but could not achieve, could now be easily achieved.

It is a state of thinking in which all distractions are eliminated and one is focused and concentrated.

There is nothing more genius than this.

Forget about martial arts, but I didn’t expect that he would also…

But think about it, this is an inevitable result. My state of mind has indeed evolved to the point where it can be controlled freely. I can do it easily by just concentrating.

"Unconsciously, I seem to have become a person far better than I imagined..."

Li Nian muttered.

"I know this is a good thing... but it just feels... not so good."

The gap between genius and ordinary people, I never thought that one day it would be reflected in me... Compared with it, the hardships I had suffered in the past were just like...

——"What's wrong, young man? You look troubled?"

Li Nian's body froze, his pupils shrank slightly, and he turned around abruptly, took a step back, leaned forward, pressed his center of gravity downward, and clenched his palms, making the completed ice blade looming in his hands.

He has already assumed a battle posture.

He happened to be passing by the park, and there was a short old man in a kimono sitting on a swing by the roadside, smiling and waving at him. It was he who suddenly spoke up and greeted him, as if he was a kind old man who saw the distressed young man and was curious about what he was asking.

But Li Nian was not fooled by the appearance and was already on full alert, as if facing a formidable enemy.

With his sharp perception, he didn't even notice when the old man got so close to his back.

Even now, even though I see him with my own eyes, the person I perceive seems to be non-existent. It's very strange.

He asked in a cold voice.

"Who?"

Chapter 81: Meeting and showing friendship

The old man looked at Li Nian with great interest.

"Don't you know who I am? It's rare to find someone in this world who doesn't recognize me."

"…I'm sorry, I'm just a rookie exorcist, and I'm not very good at seeing. Even if you're really a big shot in the industry, I probably wouldn't be able to recognize you."

Li Nian answered with a smile, but he never relaxed his guard. He held an ice knife in his hand low and pointed it diagonally at the ground, appearing and disappearing, in a state where it could materialize at any time. The spiritual power in his body was running wildly, and he had entered the warm-up stage of strengthening his body.

The old man seemed to see through his actions and he uttered a dry sneer.

"Horrible, terrible. With such a powerful spiritual force, and with such a terrifying consciousness locking onto me, you keep saying stupid things like you're a newcomer. Showing weakness is not your style, right?" Looking at the alert young man, the old man still had that nonchalant smile on his face, and continued with a pointed tone: "If Kidomaru knew about this and heard that the person who killed him was so self-destructive, he would definitely feel that his dignity was insulted, and he might even jump out of the ground and chop you down."

"..."

"Although I am telling the truth..." The words were stuck in his throat. After hearing the second half of the old man's words, Li Nian swallowed them and narrowed his eyes slightly.

The old man's words showed that he knew about the incident involving Kidomaru.

When he was called out and his senses could not detect the person in front of him, Li Nian already knew that this guy was definitely not an ordinary person. Thinking of Isayama's warning, he judged that this old man might have come to him because of the Kidomaru incident, and thought that the visitor was not a good person, so he was so alert.

Now, listening to the meaning of the old man's words, his guess was gradually verified.

Li Nian's eyes turned cold and murderous intent surged. He no longer cared about the old man's name and asked directly in a cold voice.

"So, you're here to avenge that guy called Kidomaru?"

When the old man heard this, he was stunned, his eyes widened, he seemed stunned for a moment, and suddenly burst into laughter.

"I see, is that so? You actually think this way?"

"…What's so funny?"

The old man finally stopped laughing, but there was still a hint of smile in the corners of his eyes and eyebrows, and his wrinkles were all knotted up.

"No, it's nothing. I know. It seems that you are not completely unaware of what you have done to yourself. That's right. You must have been living in fear recently. I can't help but think so when I show up like this." He looked at Li Nian with interest: "But this seems to be a very interesting development."

"..." Li Nian just remained on guard, his cold eyes fixed on the old man, waiting for his answer, and didn't seem to want to speak anymore.

The old man looked Li Nian up and down, and suddenly his smile widened. He then said slowly, "Kidomaru and I are old acquaintances, so I came here... I wanted to see what kind of person is capable of causing Kidomaru to fall."

Well, in short, he is here to fight me.

Li Nian no longer hesitated, raised and lowered his toes, and lightly chopped the ground.

A huge amount of spiritual power immediately drilled into the ground, then suddenly exploded, splitting into countless fine threads and spreading out in all directions from under his feet.

These filaments of spiritual power spread underground with Li Nian as the center, radiating out until they extended to nearly two hundred meters in radius, then suddenly stopped and began to connect and change in units of each strand. In the blink of an eye, they had evolved into specific patterns, and a large-scale spell was immediately outlined and took effect.

The old man's eyes twitched and a look of surprise appeared on his face.

"He's really good at it..."

First, he released countless tiny spiritual powers to lie in ambush underground, and then evolved each tiny spiritual power at the same time, directly drawing out the detailed formula. These steps sound simple, but the actual execution requires extremely delicate manipulation. To achieve this level of efficiency, there are no more than six exorcists who can draw out the formula so quickly in this way within the old man's cognition.

As a result, invisible waves permeated the space covered by the ritual.

"Snapped."

One of them thought Li Nian's behavior was strange. He was licking a candy and looking at the children here. Suddenly, his hands lost strength and the candy fell to the ground. Then, a confused look appeared on his face, but he acted without hesitation. Without saying a word, he turned around and ran in the opposite direction of Li Nian.

In addition to the children, the scattered pedestrians around also followed suit, forcibly changing their routes with mechanical movements and quickly moving away from the two people.

The park, which had been bustling just a moment ago, suddenly became quiet. In such a large place, all the passers-by suddenly left, leaving only Li Nian and the old man.

——Large-scale spell-disperse idlers.

Li Nian has learned many skills these days, and this is one of them.

The function of this technique is to indiscriminately send the hint of "stay away from here" to people within the range. It is not very effective and basically has no effect on people with inspiration, but ordinary people have no means of resistance and are easily caught. They are also the ones who want to retreat. As the name suggests, it is used to disperse idle people.

The old man also received the same hint. Naturally, he was not affected at all, but he still understood Li Nian's intention from this message and knew that this was a signal to start a war.

"Haha, you really took the bait." Even though he knew Li Nian was going to attack, the old man still smiled and didn't seem to care: "Then let an old man like me see, the exorcist who killed Kidomaru is..."

Before the old man finished speaking, his pupils suddenly shrank.

Because at this time, the roaring sound of the ground being cracked and the sudden flash of the cold knife had already been pushed in front of him.

This was an extremely fast attack.

It was just like a reappearance of the knife that Kidomaru had stabbed into Li Nian's heart in the past.

Li Nian had once been defeated by that swift sword. After he came back to life, the first thing he thought about and studied was, of course, the sword that had killed him.

He has the talent of understanding techniques and mastering martial arts, and is also useful against monsters' special moves. In essence, such an attack is the unity of Kidomaru's mind, body, skills and energy, reflecting his entire understanding of martial arts and energy utilization after a lifetime of research. Of course, the details are profound and cannot be seen through by just seeing it once.

But Li Nian remembered that knife attack with his heart.

After repeated research and deduction these days, he finally figured out the trick.

Now, with his natural talent, he has perfectly reproduced that blow here.

As long as your sword strike is faster than the enemy's reaction, the opponent will not have the strength to fight back. This is a perfect killing move as a meeting gift - because if the enemy cannot react in time, you will die.

The knife pierced the old man's chest without any hindrance.

An expression of surprise was fixed on his face.

One hit.

Li Nian stopped and felt that he had really hit the target, so the winner was decided.