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

This is the overall policy that Li Nian has established along the way to deal with the issue of his identity being exposed. Although it was said tactfully, it was expressed very clearly, and the irrefutable meaning had been conveyed.

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what to say next. Kasumigaoka didn't seem surprised at all. He stared straight at Li Nian and muttered, "Sure enough..."

She seemed to accept it quickly and nodded in agreement with Li Nian.

"Anyway, I hope you come back safely."

"…Thank you for your concern, but it's not a big deal, just a small matter."

Kasumigaoka asked meaningfully, "So for an exorcist, being injured like that is a piece of cake?"

"It's a common thing." Li Nian's expression remained unchanged as he lied, "So you don't have to worry, senior."

What happened was just a small incident. This was the characterization that Li Nian was prepared to insist on to everyone. He wanted to make a big thing small and a small thing nothing. He wanted to put this matter behind him.

Xia Zhiqiu stared at Li Nian, and Li Nian looked at her calmly, without any intention of changing her words. In the end, Xia Zhiqiu softened first and sighed helplessly: "Come on..."

Li Nian was determined and felt it was impossible to get any more information from him, so Kasumigaoka had no choice but to give up.

Chapter 141 The whole picture is gradually confirmed by people around him

Li Nian looked at Xia Zhiqiu's reaction and felt as if she had been seen through. It was indeed strange that Xia Zhiqiu was the least surprised person when she knew that she was an exorcist. It seemed that she had expected this...

Kasumigaoka had indeed known about Li Nian's identity as an exorcist for a long time. At that time, Li Nian had a dispute with the Old Rat Group. She happened to watch everything and even saw him being called out by the rat demon as an exorcist. That's why she became interested in Li Nian. Although she didn't confirm it until today, she was indeed mentally prepared and was the person who could accept this sudden incident the most.

Xia Zhiqiu knew that Li Nian said it lightly, but the actual situation was not like that. There must be great danger hidden under that spiritual disaster. The attack on Li Nian was clearly intended to kill. In fact, the injuries he suffered were shocking enough to be fatal to anyone. She remembered it very clearly.

Wu Geng also noticed this. As the first witness standing next to Li Nian when the battle broke out, she also knew that Li Nian was injured because he protected everyone present.

Because of this, they understood more clearly the good intentions behind Li Nian's concealment of the truth. Just as he said, he did not want the people present to have any unnecessary thoughts and burdens. Understanding this, they remained silent and did not expose him again.

Kanda and Shiina were also the ones who saw Li Nian's stomach pierced by a spear, and they did not think that the horrific injury was a trivial matter. But Li Nian had already said this, and although Kanda was not quite relieved, he decided not to investigate further as he wished. Kanda did not say anything, and Shiina, who was at a loss, did not know what to say.

The people who experienced the incident stopped talking. Mitaka and Aoyama were not at the scene and did not know the origin and severity of the incident. It was a bit difficult for them to digest the news that Li Nian was an exorcist. So they followed their attitude and remained silent.

Li Nian slowly glanced around and asked again to confirm.

"It seems no one has any objections."

"Objection Ali!" Kamiigusa raised his hand.

"...If you tell me, Senior Kamiigusa, that you just wanted to say this, I will definitely seal your mouth with tape." Li Nian said seriously.

"Scary! Newcomer-kun is so scary!" Kamiigusa was really scared and shook his head like a rattle: "I really want to ask about the exorcist! Why can't I ask anything when such a rare species is around? I will be so thirsty that I can't sleep at night!"

"Don't use the word 'hungry'... Forget it, it's not that I have no comment on everything. Of course, as long as it doesn't involve things that shouldn't be asked, I can answer you." Li Nian thought about it and changed his tone as he wished.

"Yoshi!" Ueigusa became excited: "Then I have a question I've wanted to ask for a long time!"

"You ask."

"Mr. Newcomer, do you like plains or mountains?" Kamiigusa asked seriously.

"...Kanda, where's the tape? Oh no, needle and thread will be fine too?"

It can be seen that after Shang Jingcao heard that Li Nian was an exorcist, he did not think about the danger represented by this profession. Instead, he became more interested and started to make a fuss.

Seeing Li Nian's forehead veins throbbing and him looking around for something to seal Kamiigusa's mouth, Sanying had no choice but to speak up and stop his childhood sweetheart from running away.

"Misaki, calm down."

“…Yes, Ren.”

If Kasumigaoka's warning only calmed Kamiigusa for a while, Mitaka's words really made Kamiigusa as docile as a well-behaved kitten.

Seeing her like that, Li Nian was a little surprised. He sighed, but then smiled and said to everyone.

"Well, after all, being an exorcist isn't a rare profession. I just happen to have this ability and entered this industry after training. It's not a big deal. Just let everyone know about it. There's no need to think too highly of me. Conversely, I don't want the whole school to know about it. Please keep it a secret." He added to Kasumigaoka and the others, "The same goes for my friend. Please don't tell anyone."

However, the tablet computer representing Ryunosuke suddenly lit up, and an AI maid cartoon image popped up on the interface.

"Lord Ryunosuke has understood everything and has no objection to it. He also said that he has destroyed all the data in the backup of Lord Li Nian's computer. Please rest assured."

Li Nian: “…”

So this guy was still hacking his computer without restraint after he warned him? Was he finally giving in now that he knew he was an exorcist?

Anyway, after Ryunosuke expressed his opinion, everyone nodded in agreement. Li Nian was not worried about the character of these people, but he looked at Uegusa more. Ren saw Li Nian's distrust and said seriously: "I will make Misaki stop talking nonsense."

Mitaka's words are more convincing than Kamiigusa's own promise.

But...can a secret known by so many people still be called a secret?...Li Nian herself actually didn't have much hope that she could keep it secret forever.

"That's all. I'm tired too. I'm going back to my room to rest. You don't have to prepare dinner for me later."

Li Nian gave some instructions and turned to leave.

After Li Nian left, the people in the living room didn't move much.

Although Li Nian told them not to care about it and repeatedly warned them not to think too much about it, how could they really not think too much about it? Now everyone's hearts were extremely complicated.

It was Qingshan who broke the silence first and expressed his emotion.

"It's unbelievable... Is there really a demon exorcist right next to us? And it's Li Nian."

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it." Kanda whispered, "I always thought that Li Nian was the only ordinary boy like me in Sakurasou. I didn't expect that he was such a powerful person behind the scenes..."

"I told you our new guy has a lot of secrets," Ren said with a wry smile, "It seems he's hiding even more from us."

Ueigusa muttered, "I'm super curious, I'm itching..."

"Like the protagonist in a comic book." Shiina suddenly gave a summary.

"I think he's more like the protagonist in a novel." Kasumigaoka smiled and asked Gogen: "Gogen-san...right, you and this person are in the same class, right? Did you find anything?"

Wu Geng didn't say much. She just looked at Li Nian silently, listening to what he said, thinking about the way she saw him recently... and the way she saw him in the past, as well as the secret that Li Nian's parents were both dead, which only she knew among all the people present, and slowly came to a conclusion.

"Around the summer vacation, he seemed like a different person."

"…Summer vacation, huh?" Kasumigaoka thought for a moment, and suddenly reached out to Gogen: "Can you lend me that book for a few more days?"

Wu Geng was stunned for a moment, nodded, found Li Nian's manuscript and handed it to her.

"Thank you. I will return it to you after I finish reading it." Kasumigaoka thanked him politely and turned to Shiina: "Teacher Shiina, I think everyone is tired today. How about we take a rest first and talk about it another day?"

Shiina nodded slightly, and Kasumigaoka left with Li Nian's manuscript.

Gogen also politely said goodbye. After the two left, Jin said that he couldn't keep Miss Rumi waiting for too long, and left the living room first. Misaki shouted that she had a new inspiration and ran back to her room to make animations. Aoyama also left in a hurry because he had a part-time job in the evening. Shiina said goodbye to Sorata and went back to his room.

Kanda was left sitting alone in the empty living room, saying something to the air that no one could hear.

"Everyone at Sakurasou is so awesome... I can't be depressed anymore. I should find something to do."

Chapter 142 Everyone Loves Home

Li Nian returned to the room, turned around and closed the door, leaned against it, looked up at the chandelier hanging on the ceiling, exhaled a long breath, and then murmured

"…Is it really better for me to leave?"

He asked himself this question more than once as he walked all the way back to Sakurasou.

Li Nian had thought about leaving Sakurasou. He was not a fool. Considering today's attack, there was no guarantee that the same situation would not happen again, and fighting would break out regardless of the occasion, dragging the people around him into it.

But after thinking about it carefully, he felt that leaving was not a good option.

Because he thought that he might not need to worry about being found again.

This is not arrogance due to overconfidence in one's own strength, but the conclusion Li Nian came to after fully considering the situation.

From the information that the two monsters obtained after they attacked Yamamoto and his companions and tortured them before killing them, it can be seen that his identity was not exposed at the beginning. Since the monsters needed to get his information through the three people, it means that they did not know who killed Kidomaru at the beginning, and only locked their target on Li Nian after they tortured the three people. Li Nian speculated that they were probably tracing back the death of Kidomaru through the line of the Old Rat Group. If the two monsters did not have time to report to Yuyuko, then at least for a short period of time, he would still be an unknown existence.

In addition, Li Nian did not think that there would be many monsters with the strength of those two. If Kidomaru was the right-hand man of Yuyuko, and the two who attacked her were equal to Kidomaru in strength, could it be that she had more than a hundred left and right arms? If not, after Kidomaru, two more generals died in Chiba, and she should have felt the pain and be cautious.

The above are all optimistic theories, based on optimistic assumptions, that is, they assume that the two monsters did not remember to leak out Li Nian's information, and died in his hands after doing useless work, and that Li Nian's identity is still hidden.

He also determined that Yuyuko did not have enough power and could send a stronger killer.

But Li Nian certainly knew that it was not a good idea to pin her hopes on coincidence. She thought about things not only from a positive perspective, but also from a pessimistic point of view and from the worst perspective.

The worst development is that his identity has actually been exposed. Yuyuko has clearly known that it was him, Li Nian, who killed Kidomaru. Adding the new grudges of the two generals into the mix, he is even more unwilling to give up. Moreover, his subordinates are powerful enough, and he is going to send more and stronger forces to cause trouble for him.

In that situation, Li Nian's area would indeed become a battlefield, and the Sakurasou where she lived would most likely become a target and be dragged into the battle. Li Nian himself didn't care, but he also understood that for Kanda and Kamiigusa, it would definitely turn into a very dangerous situation.

Li Nian was very clear about this, and he certainly didn't want to cause trouble to everyone... However, he also couldn't allow himself to cause trouble to others. Even if he really had to move out, unless he moved to an uninhabited place, he wouldn't be able to control the impact at all, and it would only drag other people into it. It was a superficial solution and not a fundamental solution.

More importantly, being afraid of fighting is absolutely undesirable. Li Nian is in the open, while Yuyi Fox is hiding in the dark. It seems that the enemy is in the dark and we are in the light. We are infinitely passive and surrounded by darkness. We may be attacked at any time. But in fact, this is not the case, because there is another important factor that must be considered.

That is the Yin-Yang Hall.

Yuyuko is a ferocious demon with a history dating back four hundred years. She is also the culprit who caused the spiritual disaster in Kyoto recently. There are many phenomena that indicate that the recent restlessness of monsters is caused by her. Moreover, she is undoubtedly the number one alert target of the Onmyoji Agency now. Judging from what Isayama said before, the Onmyoji Agency focused its previous search on Kyoto, as if they had concluded that Yuyuko is still hiding somewhere in Kyoto and were keeping a close eye on her every move. This in itself has relieved a lot of pressure for Li Nian. Perhaps this is why it was not Yuyuko herself who came.

Moreover, in Chiba, with Kidomaru appearing in front and two big monsters attacking again from the back, it is about time for these high-level officials who have a little intelligence to turn their attention here. Isayama also said that a big shot will come to Li Nian in the near future, probably to discuss how to deal with this matter.

Taking all these factors into consideration, Li Nian was not afraid that the feathered fox would make any further moves. If it made any further moves, its tail would be exposed. The power here would definitely become greater than she imagined. If she was prepared, she could catch it red-handed.

So, he can stay...

……

……

"…No matter how many excuses I find, the fact is that I don't want to leave."

Li Nian talked to himself and made a summary.

Yes, this is the most fundamental reason.

He understood that if he made the choice to leave Sakurasou, it would mean more than just changing the place to live.

This place where he has lived almost since he came into this world has become his home. If he leaves Sakurasou, he will leave his home, and not only that, he will also leave everyone in Sakurasou.

To be more straightforward, he should leave school and everyone he knows... That way, he would cut off the few ties that he had worked so hard to build, and be alone without having to worry about affecting anyone.

Li Nian actually understood that perhaps this was the best approach.

In his situation, only by cutting off all his worries can he be clean and tidy. Only then can he better grow as an exorcist, as a person who practices justice as expected by God, and only then will he be qualified to become a true hero, a true messenger of justice... Such a person must be lonely and detached, and cannot be tripped up by trivial things.

But when he really thought about the situation, he felt extremely empty and lonely, and was very resistant.

Li Nian smiled self-deprecatingly.

After all, humans are social animals and must find their own value in others. Li Nian is no exception. After all, he cannot break free and is too far away from the state of transcendence.

Li Nian once yearned for that greatness, but now that he is really taking steps in that direction, he becomes more and more aware that he is not such a noble person at all, and he sees more and more clearly how lonely it is at the top.

He learned from Bing Xin and used ice skates, but he did not like cold things and did not want to stand in such a cold place. On the contrary, he missed the warmth surrounding his body and like all ordinary people, was reluctant to leave.

Do you want to move out of your current home? Leave your rare friends? Give up your studies? Give up your hobbies and daily life? Overturn your current lifestyle?

For Li Nian, that would mean overturning everything she has now.

He is not afraid. He is not afraid of death. He feels that he can sacrifice his life for a certain goal if necessary.

But it hasn't come to that point yet. The threat of a mere feathered fox is not worth losing everything he has worked so hard to build.

"...At least, let me wait and see, and try harder...I will continue to move forward and become stronger...in order to protect my limited place."

Chapter 143 trace on!

Li Nian knew that since he had decided to stay, even if his analysis was very reasonable, he should not just let the situation develop naturally. He should make some targeted preparations and arrangements as a precaution.

He decided to go out and make some arrangements with Sakurasou as the center, draw some barriers, and turn the surrounding area into his own position. This was not too difficult for Li Nian, but a key issue here was the lack of energy, because the construction of the position should be based on the spiritual veins, using the underground spiritual veins as energy to maintain the basic consumption of the technique. The upper limit of what kind of position can be built depends on the quality of the location, but Sakurasou is not located on any Feng Shui treasure land by chance. It is just a piece of urban land that can be seen everywhere. It is not realistic to build a fortress.

But there is no need for that. Li Nian believes that controlling the range to a radius of 500 meters and making a small and exquisite reconnaissance barrier and a triggered defense spell can play a good role. He often travels back and forth here and can also maintain it well.

Building a position is secondary. As the saying goes, a blacksmith must be strong himself. Li Nian understands that the most critical part still lies on himself.

It is said that all tragedies happen because of the lack of ability of the parties involved. Looking back on this monster attack, he summed up the reasons why he was in danger. He must have been hit by the first blow and had to take it completely. As a result, he was attacked by surprise, not only was he seriously injured, but he also wasted a lot of spiritual power.

Otherwise, if he were to face the two men head-on in his perfect condition, with a fair fighting environment, ample reserves of spiritual power, and many means at his disposal, the fight would not necessarily be so dangerous and precarious.

First of all, the main reason was definitely due to insufficient anticipation and hasty response...but to be honest, he didn't have any good way to solve this problem.

Li Nian was not without guard. Normally, he focused his perception on a close distance in order to be able to detect sudden attacks in time. There was nothing wrong with this, but truly capable people deliberately concealed their murderous intent and aura, and launching surprise attacks was still quite insidious. Although he was able to react in time, he had to take others into consideration. To be honest, it was a bit difficult, and this problem was not easy to circumvent.

However, after this attack, Li Nian will be more careful and react more promptly in the future, not to mention being on full alert. After suffering a loss this time, he will be appropriately more vigilant when interacting with people around him, and further extend his perception, so as not to have such a hasty reaction time when he is attacked next time. With more margin, he will have more room for maneuver.

and……

Li Nian thought about the situation at that time and felt that if he had a good weapon in his hand, such as Isayama's Lion King-like spiritual sword, he should be able to directly break the enemy's attack even if his reaction was hasty, and the result would definitely be different.