Curse back: Gender-swapped cosplayers always meet the real person

Note: This chapter is two chapters in one

Liying High School.

Junpei Yoshino has always been regarded as a weirdo among his classmates.

He was frail and thin, with a withdrawn and taciturn personality. He had long black hair and bangs on the left half that covered his entire face. He sat in the corner of the classroom every day, rarely answered questions in class, and hardly communicated with others every day.

In his world, teachers are stupid fat pigs with eyes only on the top of their heads, classmates are blind herds of cattle and sheep, and the bullies who like to bully him are hyenas with sharp claws and teeth who will pounce on him when they smell something.

And I am a cowardly, powerless, miserable, without the ability to protect myself, not even a docile lamb, a mouse abandoned in the corner.

Yes, rat, that's how Junpei Yoshino defines himself.

Only those who live in the light will think that the campus is a pure and flawless ivory tower and that the students inside are harmless animals.

All the rules and regulations here are set for people like him, but there are always people - people with excellent academic performance, people with extraordinary looks, people with wealthy families, and... people with arrogant personalities and bullies, who can override the rules.

These people were like wild cats hunting in the dark streets, shuttling through alleys with eyes that sparkled green, and then accurately selecting those of their kind who were weaker than themselves, taking pleasure in cruelly torturing and gradually devouring them.

It is their nature to bully the weak and fear the strong.

In front of school and teachers, I pretended to be a good student, but behind his back, when facing him, I was a completely different person.

And the teachers too.

They arrogantly think that they are just playing with them and that they are good classmates, and they stubbornly deny the fact of "bullying".

It's really funny.

Countless times, Junpei Yoshino had dreamed that people like Ito Shota died in various tragic ways, just as they deserved.

Hanging, falling, drowning, electric shock, car accident, poisoning, stabbing... Why don't they just die?

The only pleasure in his life is watching movies.

The protagonist in "The Legend of 1900" once said that being on land means a life with no end in sight, so he would rather be blown to death than get off the ship. And he seems to be experiencing such a life.

At first, he would watch all kinds of movies.

Later on, he gradually became interested in horror and thriller works that were good at depicting the darkness of society and the ugliness of human nature.

For example, Dead Silence, Saw, Cruise, The Shining, Alien, The Mist, The Butterfly Effect and Earthworm.

The Earthworm Man is almost his favorite movie, but he has only watched The Butterfly Effect once and never clicked on it again.

Because of this movie, he always began to fantasize that if I didn't exist, maybe everyone around him would be able to live a better life.

Yoshino Junpei had thought about this more than once.

When he was being beaten, he could hear the crackling sound of the cigarette flame falling on his skin. The sunlight was blocked by the tall body and the cast shadow covered his face. Pain, humiliation, embarrassment, and resentment surged everywhere in his body.

When he was being beaten, the tinnitus and the rumbling sound in his brain overwhelmed all his senses. After a long time, until the fists and kicks on his body were removed and he felt the scattered sunlight and warmth again, he gradually heard the voice of someone calling him in front of him.

"Hey, are you okay?"

Blood was flowing from his forehead, and his right eye, which was bruised by a punch, was so swollen and red that he could hardly open it. He pushed aside his bangs on the right side and saw two people standing in front of him against the light.

She was wearing the same school uniform as him, the left one had light brown hair, the right one had dark brown, and they both had similar pretty faces.

One of them half-bent over, frowned, and shouted at him, "Can you hear people talking?"

Yoshino Junpei did not respond.

"Could it be that he was beaten stupid?" She turned around and said to the other girl, "It looks like his ears are not working well."

They are the twins from the next class.

Yoshino Junpei's eyebrows twitched, and he recognized him almost instantly.

Nanako Kaba and Mimiko Kaba.

Speaking of them, in a sense, they should be two weirdos in the eyes of their classmates.

Ever since we were transferred to this school in junior high school, we have been inseparable. We do everything together and only have each other in our eyes. It's as if we are immersed in our own world and can't see anyone else.

But they are different from me.

The extremely outstanding appearance, unique personality, and identical looks make the Jiachang sisters very popular among their classmates.

Even if they are ignored by them, there will still be a bunch of boys and girls rushing over to make friends with them.

The elder sister, Nanako Kaba, has a strong and strong character. She keeps her word and has a strong desire to protect her younger sister. She is also very opinionated and is not afraid to confront the teacher.

Her younger sister, Mimiko Kaba, is a little gentler and quieter. She has excellent grades and ranks among the top students in school. It is said that she plans to enter a medical university for further studies in the future and has already started preparing for it.

They are two people who are almost on the same level as Shota Ito.

How could someone like this come to help him?

But, anyway.

"Thank you." Yoshino Junpei adjusted his posture, covered his stomach that had been kicked several times, stood up with difficulty, and said to them as loudly as possible, "But if you drive those people away, you will also be..."

They will also be targeted, excluded and bullied.

Yoshino Junpei has seen Ito Shota's methods.

That person is very good at inciting words, forming cliques and even spreading rumors. No matter whether it is a man or a woman, as long as he is provoked, he will not give up until the person being bullied collapses.

However, he has not been punished so far, simply because his father is a school director.

"I don't care." Nanako raised her chin fearlessly and said proudly, "Not even if he's the governor's son. If a scum like that dares to offend me again, I will definitely beat him up again and beat him until his teeth are all over the floor."

"If he dares to use his power, the worst that can happen is that we will just transfer to another school." She patted Mimiko's shoulder and said, "Besides, Mimiko's grades are so good. If we leave, it will only be a loss to this school."

The behavior of Shota Ito and his lackeys reminded the two sisters once again of the bullying they suffered in a remote village when they were young.

Those people were stupid, ignorant, and followed the crowd. Just because they could see the so-called monsters, they regarded their entire family as monsters.

From then on, whenever something went wrong, they suspected that the two sisters had cursed them.

We are all human beings, but we can magnify the darkness in our hearts infinitely and use it as an excuse to do evil. It is really disgusting.

When they were six years old, their father was bedridden and their mother accidentally fell into the water while she was out.

The surrounding villagers were not far away, but they watched her struggling in the lake with indifference, and even cursed her, wishing that her entire family would drown in the water together.

If there hadn't been a kind-hearted sister who happened to pass by and jumped in without hesitation to save their mother, they would probably have lost their mother forever, and would have found it difficult to forget the existence of this shadow for the rest of their lives. Or even, they would still be living in that hell.

In the final analysis, what she hated most was those who took advantage of their power to wantonly bully the weak and even took pride in it. They were just a mob.

Yoshino Junpei lowered his head in silence and did not speak for a long time.

"I don't want to cause you any trouble." He smiled bitterly and said, "Besides, we don't have much of a relationship to begin with. There's really no need for you to do this for me."

"It's not because of you." Mimiko Kaba said to him seriously, "Just now, when we passed by, no matter who we saw being bullied, we would not sit idly by."

Their mother, Oko Kaba, once taught them to use their own strength to help others as much as possible.

It is precisely because someone once reached out a helping hand and pulled others out of the darkness, so we must never turn a blind eye when we pass by the suffering of others.

Those who have received favors should also spread the favors, so as not to let down the person who helped them in the past.

It’s just...the older sister back then was really just saving someone. After sending my mother home, she left without leaving her identity or name. There has been no news of her since then, and I don’t know if I will have the fate to see her again in this life.

Yoshino Junpei opened his mouth.

He seemed to want to say something to refuse help, but was decisively interrupted by Nanako.

"I have something else to tell you." She pointed to the ugly monster lying on the branch in the playground next door and asked, "You can see that thing, right?"

"Eh......?" Yoshino Junpei looked up in surprise and asked, "How did you know?"

"Because I can see it too." Nanako said, "And I observed your reaction. When you talked to us, your eyes would unconsciously glance over there, and then quickly move away, as if you were avoiding us."

"So, do you know what that is?"

"Yes." Mimiko Kaba asked, "When did you realize that you could see those things?"

"It's probably just recently." Yoshino Junpei exhaled lightly and said with a little depression, "I thought it was because I saw the earthworm man too many times and I had hallucinations."

"Earthworm man? Why are you looking at that?" Nanako said in confusion, "They are all bizarre scenes, and the plot is average...ah, forget it, it's not the point."

"Yeah, that's not the point." Mimiko Kaba glanced at her sister helplessly and continued to explain, "Those monsters are collectively called cursed spirits. They are something that grows from human emotions. It's okay to leave low-level ones alone, at most they will cause nightmares or backaches, but if they absorb more negative energy over a long period of time, they will upgrade to high-level cursed spirits."

"What will a high-level cursed spirit do?" Yoshino Junpei looked carefully at the black-green monster lying on the tree, constantly shouting "Homework, homework is endless..." and asked, "Will it kill people?"

"Almost." Mimiko Kaba nodded. "Originally, exorcism of cursed spirits is done by sorcerers trained by specialized institutions."

“When we were young, we were also discovered, but we just didn’t choose to go.”

She recalled that after the drowning incident, the whole family moved out of the village and settled in the city of Tokyo. A kind landlord gave them a lot of rent reduction, so the family lived like this.

Not long after that, an older brother named Geto Suguru came to visit with black hair, a bun and a gentle smile.

He mentioned inviting them to attend technical college in the future.

For some reason, even though it was their first meeting, the two sisters always felt an inexplicable sense of closeness to him in their hearts.

It was a little strange to say this, after all, he was just a young man who was only a few years older than them, but he gave off an inexplicable feeling of kindness and amiability, like a close elder.

Of course, the white-haired guy who followed him was very unpleasant to the eye.

In short, over the years, they have maintained a certain contact with the Jujutsu High School, and Master Getsu would take time out to teach them how to use cursed power, and he was more patient and careful than a real teacher.

However, even so, the two still did not choose to enter the world of sorcery.

After all, her parents are around, her father is frail and sickly, and her mother's health is not very good either. Mimiko Kaba still hopes to stay in the secular world to accompany her family, and wait until the future, through her own efforts to become a capable doctor, maybe one day she can cure her father's illness.

And in order to stay with her, Nanako did not choose to become a sorcerer.

Therefore, they just practiced spells in private and exorcised the cursed spirits on campus.

"Haha..." Yoshino Junpei chuckled twice and said calmly, "Teacher? Are they really that stupid that they don't know that Ito Shouta and his gang are domineering and bullying others?"

"It's just that I think dealing with school bullying, especially when the bully is from a child from that family, is asking for trouble. It will be much easier if I just pretend I don't see it and know nothing about it. If I'm held accountable in the future, I can just say 'I didn't see it' and I can get away with it easily."

"After all, for a profession like teaching, most people just come here to get paid to read out textbooks to students."

He even thought darkly that the teachers and classmates who chose to turn a blind eye might actually be more willing to see him suffer.

You should be more lively and cheerful. Don't always stay in the corner and not communicate with others. It's not something you want to do.

So, you really deserve to be bullied like this, right? Who can you blame now?

"Well, if they don't care, we will." said Nanako, "Now that we share a secret, we are companions."

"Give me your contact information."

"Eh?" Yoshino Junpei was stunned. "Contact information?"

"Yes." She nodded, without any reluctance or unwillingness on her face. She stretched out a hand and said to him seriously, "If they come to bully you again, we will come over."

"Don't think we are just ordinary students." Mimiko Kaba said, "In fact, there is still a strong power in our bodies."

"........"

Suddenly, Yoshino Junpei covered his left eye which was hidden by his bangs, and a tear slid down his fingertips.

"Thank you," he said. "Really, thank you very much."

However, if he is saved by girls time and time again without making any effort or fighting, it would be really lame.

"Um..." He put down his hand and asked, "You said that I also have this thing called magical power. Then, can I learn from you how to control it?"

"Of course," they said, "but in this case, we are also half your teachers."

"I will treat you severely. Don't underestimate the power of a sorcerer."