Master Xia You is still thinking about life today

"You nonsense!" The half-grown boy rushed in angrily, and it was Neki Riku.He blushed, looked angry, and said loudly, "I didn't!"

Seeing the target of this execution, the first-level conjurer lifted his spirits, ignored the little hand on his shoulder, and said decisively: "Your traces are left on the bodies of the five victims and on the scene." The spell is filthy. The only victim who survived the disaster woke up in the hospital, and she identified the murderer who hurt them as you, Negi Rihisa!"

"Mr. Xia You, even if you are a super magician and powerful, this world still pays attention to evidence and axioms!"

This kind of murder case with conclusive evidence, is it because the murderer has the protection of a super conjurer, is it going to end?

The first-level conjurer was inexplicably moved. He felt that he was transforming into the light of righteousness, illuminating the sky of the conjuration world.

For this reason, he must not back down.

"I didn't!" Neki Riku gritted his teeth, and was about to die of anger at the righteous man in front of him.He subconsciously looked at Xia Youjie, and when he touched Xia Youjie's still calm and gentle gaze, the grievance and anger that almost overwhelmed his reason before slowly settled down.

He took a deep breath and paused word by word: "Lord Xia You, I have never done those things."

"You still want to quibble, you obviously just—ah!" The first-level conjurer snorted, his knee hurt, but it was Banruo's subordinates who directly pushed the first-level conjurer to his knees.

The first-level conjurer, who was forced to kneel down, contorted his expression in pain.

"I know." Xia Youjie raised his hand and called Neki Toshihisa to his side, without even looking at the resentful first-level magician, he said calmly, "I know it's not you."

Whether Neki Toshihisa has killed anyone, and what kind of person he has killed, the ghosts and gods from the land of judgment in the underworld can judge by weighing the weight of the sin in Neki Toshihisa's soul.

Xia Youjie was stating the facts, but in the eyes of the first-level conjurer sent by the high-level, this was cover-up and prevarication.

The first-level conjurer couldn't help being very angry. He wanted to complain about such a low-level behavior regardless, but Banruo didn't let him disturb his Highness's conversation, and directly blocked him with a ball of magic power.As for the conjurers and assistant supervisors who followed him to arrest people, they were all restrained by her.

The first-level conjurer could only stare angrily, trying to use his eyes to condemn Xia Youjie, a conjurer who had been depraved after leaving the world of conjuration.

In Ranjiao's main hall, Xia Youjie patted Neki Riku on the shoulder to comfort him, and said softly, "I know that Riku did not do it, but I want to know how you got involved in this matter."

No matter how blind the high-level rotten oranges are, they can't tie together people and things that have nothing to do with wind and horses. There must be special reasons for this.

Neki Riku pursed his lips and said in a low voice, "The thing is like this..."

This matter is related to the task he took over yesterday.

The 14-year-old Negi Toshihisa is not like Manami Suda. Her age and experience allowed her to quickly secure the position of the leader's first assistant after joining Ranjiao, and took care of most of Ranjiao's affairs.Half-grown teenagers are not considered children, but they are not considered adults either.However, he lived in a small backward fishing village since he was a child. He had no father, mother, household registration, let alone go to school, and was disgusted and rejected by the villagers because of his special power.

Not all people who are isolated, excluded and bullied will be full of desire for the kindness and acceptance of others. Once they pass the age of truly eager to accept, the person concerned will disdain to accept the kindness from others.

Neki Toshihisa is at the stage of being disappointed with humanity and the world. If Xia Youjie, who found him, was a magician similar to him and gave him a sense of identity with the same kind, he would not be with Xia Youjie at all. leave.

After Nimu Rijiu got along with Xia Youjie for a period of time, he recognized him very highly.Even if he doesn't have much empathy for other young magicians who may be in the same situation as him, Negi Riku is willing to recognize Ran Jiao's idea of ​​helping young magicians from ordinary families.

Having recognized Ran Jiao and his companions, Nemu Rijiu eagerly hopes that he can be useful in Xia Youjie's ideas and blueprints, so he is very attentive in mana control and spell research.

However, he really really doesn't want to go to school.

Neki Riku felt suffocated when he thought of the group of ignorant non-magician peers who would always gang up for some inexplicable reasons in school.He would rather practice hard and work as a conjurer ahead of time than go to school.As for basic character recognition learning, he can follow Shikigami.

Xia Youjie agreed.

Neki Toshihisa has some fighting talents. Although he is only 14 years old, he can probably have the level of a third-level conjurer.With Xia Youjie's guard and the magic tools in his hand, at the critical moment, he can explode the lethality of a second-level conjurer.

Yesterday afternoon, he received a house-cleaning task from the mission department of the church.

House cleaning is a term in the housing intermediary circle, which is aimed at those houses where murders and suicides have occurred.

The government has clear regulations on the sale of haunted houses, that is, real estate agents and sellers must not conceal previous deaths in the house from buyers.

However, there is a loophole in this law, that is: if the house where the murder occurred has moved into another resident, and the new resident lived for a period of time, no similar death occurred until they left. The past murders will be covered, the house will be whitewashed, and this place will no longer be regarded as a murderous house, and the seller and intermediary will not need to inform the buyer of the previous death.

This is called washing the house.

Ordinary people engaged in house cleaning work clean up the name of the haunted house by living there, but for onmyoji conjurers, cleaning the house is to really purify the room and remove bad luck from the room. In fact, it is better than living here. The name of the haunted house is much more reliable.

In this curse-infested island country, one or two teeny heads can be seen in ordinary houses, but in places where people have died and are regarded as a haunted house by the people around them and are constantly feared and rejected, the curses will only be more and stronger.If someone's soul does not go away after death, but stays in place full of resentment, turning into a cursed ghost...then the situation is even worse.

Of course, the difficulty of the house-cleaning task that Negi Toshihisa took over cannot be too high.The Ranjiao task department is equipped with a commissioner for audit tasks, similar to the auxiliary supervisor of "window"-in fact, it is the former auxiliary supervisor poached from "window" with a high salary. After joining Ranjiao, they still do the same work and are responsible for auditing. The task level is handed over to the person who meets the task requirements.

The house that Negi Toshihisa needs to be washed has been seen by the assistant superintendent himself. Although there have been two cases, it is a proper haunted house in the eyes of others, but the house itself is not a big problem, just a few teeny heads and some gloomy, random spells The teacher can handle it.

There would be no problem entrusting such a task to a young boy like Neki Riku.

Neki Toshihisa set off, and he also refused the pick-up from the assistant supervisor, and took the subway by himself.

then……

Neki Riku lowered his head and whispered, "I went to the wrong place."

Xia Youjie: "???"

Neki Riku bit his lip hard. He himself felt like he was lying when he said this, but he really... went to the wrong place for no reason, and he didn't realize it at all.Even after he entered the house, he saw blood all over the place, and there was a third-level curse playing with an ordinary woman. Negi Riku's head seemed to be stuck, and he didn't realize what was wrong with this house-cleaning task. Only the third-level curse hit.

As for what the assistant superintendent said when receiving the mission, there are only a few teeny heads, there will be a person in charge sent by the owner to be present, and the exorcism of the curse will be done beautifully. Negi Riku never thought of these instructions stand up.

Neki Riku killed the third-level curse, saved the seriously injured woman, and kindly called an ambulance for her.

Before the ambulance arrived, Neki Toshihisa, who consciously completed the task, did not want to have any interaction with ordinary people, so he left the house.Almost out of that block, Neki Toshihisa received a call from the assistant supervisor, asking where he was and why he hadn't arrived yet.

It was only then that Neki Riku realized that he had gone to the wrong place. He just expelled a curse spirit in vain.

It's very depressing!

Neki Toshihisa had no choice but to rush to the real mission location as soon as possible, and he completed the mission satisfactorily.

Sure enough, as the assistant supervisor said, it was just one or two teeny-headed, effortless at all.

As for exorcising the third-level curse and saving people before, Neki Toshihisa felt that it was shameful to do the wrong task, so he regarded himself as a rare kindness, and he didn't take it to heart at all, let alone mention it to others.

It never occurred to him that he had rescued someone by accident, but the scapegoat fell from the sky, and he almost couldn't tell the difference between east, west, and north.

How did he become a vicious curser who cursed and killed five non-magic masters?Also charged by the sole survivor?

"When I rescued her, she obviously said 'thank you' to me!" Of course Neki Toshihisa didn't care about her "thank you", but after saying "thank you" to him, he turned around and falsely accused him of murder, that woman What kind of scum is that?

Sure enough, non-artists don't have many good things!

After listening to Nemu Toshihisa's narration, Xia Youjie, who easily judged the authenticity of his words, glanced thoughtfully at the first-level conjurer who came to ask the teacher for his punishment.

Isn't this a conspiracy by the top management?For example, using Negi Toshihisa's incident to charge him with a cover-up crime, positioning him as a curse master, and ruining his Ranjiao business.

He really felt that the high-level rotten oranges could do such a thing.

The first-level conjurer glared at Xia Youjie and Neki Riku, with "he doesn't believe nonsense" written all over his face.

After pondering for a while, Xia Youjie said, "Li Jiu, come with me to the hospital to meet that lady."

He could see that Neki Riku hadn't lied, so the problem was the woman who kept saying that he was the murderer.

Neki Riku clenched his fists vigorously and nodded without hesitation.

He wants to ask, why did that woman frame him!

Not only Xia Youjie and Nemu Rijiu, but also the first-level conjurer and other entourage sent by the high-level officials were taken by Banruo to be witnesses together, so as not to argue that Xia Youjie had tampered with after clarification.

***

The survivor of this vicious murder is Chida Naomi, and the other five victims are all second-year students of Ariki High School.They will appear together in that house because that house is a well-known local haunted house, and they are going to explore and test their courage.

People are always so strange. They are obviously afraid of death, but they are attracted by death, like moths to a flame. Where there are horror legends, there are bold young people who carry their heads to explore.As long as the butcher's knife didn't really fall on them, that curiosity couldn't stop.When facing death, they began to regret again.The dead are unwilling, and the living are burdened with guilt.

Xia Youjie has no sympathy for those people who always go to such-and-such haunted house to explore and end up losing their lives, and he is quite disgusted with the existence of such people.Because a considerable part of the tasks handled by the high school conjurer is to go to this kind of place to save this kind of person.

It stands to reason that Neki Toshihisa, as a suspect, should not have met the victim Naomi Chida, but people with "windows" negotiated, and they met Naomi Chida lying on the hospital bed without a hitch.

When Naomi Chida saw Neki Toshihisa, her already pale face turned even whiter. This was not at all an expression of guilt after slandering others, but she was clearly afraid of Neki Toshihisa's existence.

"Don't—don't kill me!" Chida Naomi hurriedly buried herself in the quilt, trembling, "Let me go, please, let me go."

"I didn't mean it, I didn't mean it!"

As soon as Chida Naomi's reaction came out, the first-level conjurer immediately turned to stare at Neki Riku.The victim had already reacted in this way, so there was nothing he could argue about.

Neki Toshihisa was almost pissed off: "I just killed a curse spirit and saved her, and I didn't do anything else!!"

Why is that woman so hateful, she is even more shameless than those ignorant villagers in the broken fishing village, they suspect him whenever something bad happens, and this woman, she directly blames him!

Scratching his hair angrily, Neki Riku finally came up with a reason: "Is it because she didn't see the curse spirit, so she looked at me a little strangely at that scene?"

The more I say it, the more it makes sense.

The existence of the curse spirit can only be seen by a few humans with special talents, and ordinary people can only see it when they are dying.This created a somewhat embarrassing situation, that is, ordinary people who strayed into the battlefield could not see the reality of the fierce battle between the magician and the magic spirit, but only saw the magician jumping up and down like a neurotic.

Chida Naomi didn't seem to be seriously injured at the time?

Although Neki Toshihisa helped call an ambulance, he didn't even touch Chida Naomi, let alone help her check her injuries.

His mentality at the time was: Live as long as you can, forget it if you don’t, anyway, he doesn’t care.

Xia Youjie glanced thoughtfully at the quilt roll, Chida Naomi's fear was too strong, this fear was not adulterated at all, she was really afraid of Negi Riku.

Could it be that he was really frightened by Neki Riku's appearance when exorcising the curse spirit?

But he remembered that Neki Toshihisa's battle was well-regulated, so it wouldn't make ordinary people frightened.Moreover, Xia Youjie didn't believe that a man as old as Neki Riku could even hear "thank you".

After a pause, Xia Youjie suddenly remembered something, and said, "By the way, Li Jiu, did you put the "account" at that time? "

Neki Toshihisa's face froze: "...I forgot." He scratched his hair with some annoyance, and he slumped his shoulders, "I'm sorry, Master Xia You."

Putting the "tent" can isolate the sight of ordinary people outside, cover the movement of the exorcism scene, and also make the curse spirit in the "tent" visible.Even if ordinary people in the "tent" are not dying, they can still see the existence of the curse spirit.

"Not an example." Xia Youjie patted Neki Toshihisa on the shoulder, with a calm look, not at all the same as when he and Wujo Satoru worked together on double-entry missions, he repeatedly threw off the auxiliary supervisor but always forgot to put the "account" problem Children look like.

Ah, those young and frivolous, let the black history go with the wind.

This year Xia Youjie is calm and relaxed, look, now it is time for him to urge others to put their "accounts".

Xia Youjie took a step forward, walked to the hospital bed under the vigilant eyes of the first-level conjurer, and said in a gentle voice, "Miss Qiantian, I'm interrupting your cultivation. I'm Xia Youjie, and there are still some cases related to the murder of your companion." Doubt, please answer us a few questions."

Xia Youjie's voice was very gentle, and the voice blended with spiritual power was soothing.

A corner of the shivering quilt was rolled back, and Naomi Chida poked her head out slowly.She didn't look at Neki Toshihisa, and although the number one suspect, Negi Toshihisa, wanted to question the other party, but seeing her appearance, it was hard to say anything more, so she had to back away and back away so that she would not appear in the other party's sight .

There was Xia You's outstanding horse, Chida Naomi who originally wanted to hide, swallowed her saliva, and answered the question cooperatively.And from her confused narration, she gradually pieced together the truth in her eyes.

To sum up, it is an adventure of an ignorant high school student in a haunted house, and encounters a perverted serial killer.Although she was a few years younger than them, her force value was astonishing, and she quickly killed her five companions and tortured her.

As for why she survived, it was because she called the police while fleeing for her life, and when the police arrived, she escaped with her seriously injured body.

Xia Youjie: "..."

A troublesome situation arises.

Chida Naomi also did not lie.

So, the third-level curse that Negi Rikusei got rid of was a spirit-type curse spirit?

But the conjurers in the room, they all saw clearly that Chida Naomi, who had undergone special treatment, did not have any traces of conjuration.Even though she might have been affected by the curse spirit before, she should be sober now.

Ignoring the resentful expression of "I see how you can argue" on the face of the first-level conjurer, Xia Youjie looked at Chida Naomi who was shivering while hugging the quilt, and then at Neki Riku who gritted his teeth and expressed dissatisfaction. , with a heavy face, said slowly: "I have an idea."

He has the business card of Hell Communications in his hand.

In addition to the victim Chida Naomi, five non-art masters died in this incident.Their souls should have already arrived in Huangquan, why not let Yan Moai go there and call out their souls to ask.

Chida Naomi may have a cognitive error, but the souls of the five deceased should know who killed them, right?

However, he didn't want to directly say that he had a connection with Huangquan Shenguo, so he might as well start from Yinyang Dao and find an onmyoji to summon the soul, and Yan Moai cooperated to send the soul to Zhongjin Kingdom.

Just as Xia Youjie was about to speak, a voice rang in his ear: 【Jie. 】

Xia Youjie was stunned, and subconsciously responded: 【Kagutsu? 】

【it's me. 】The voice hesitated, and said in a low voice: 【Brother. 】

After boldly saying this title, a red light emerged, and a tall young man appeared in the ward.He wears a high black and red ponytail, a flame pattern on his left forehead, and a sun disk earring on his earlobe.He was wearing a black horse riding hakama, a red feather, and a Japanese sun blade with a black sheath pinned to his waist.

The young man was handsome and calm, even if he just stood there quietly, he still felt full of presence, but the other people in the room didn't seem to see him.They all looked at Xia Youjie, waiting for his so-called idea.

Xia Youjie let out a breath slowly, he took a deep look at Yuan Yi, and was about to ask him to wait, when he settled the dispute first, Yuan Yi turned his head and said in a low voice: [What is it? ? 】

As he spoke, he stretched out his translucent palm and fished it in the direction of Naomi Chida.

Something separated from the air and landed on Yuanyi's fingertips.

It seemed to be a strand of black hair, hooked by Yuanyi's fingertips, hanging down softly.

[...The boy named Negi Riku defeated the monster and saved her. ]

[Chida Naomi is saved, she gratefully says to the boy: Thank you. ]

[But, was he really the one who saved her? ]

[Naomi Chida sees the boy give her a weird smile, that smile makes her hair stand on end.The inexplicable sense of crisis made her seriously injured body tremble. She opened her eyes wide and stared blankly at him walking away. ]

["I, I remembered." Chida Naomi murmured full of fear, "It was him, he killed Jiro, he killed everyone!"]

[He is the real murderer! ]

[But why would he leave her alive? ]

["Of course it's because it's fun." The teenager standing at the door showed an unpredictable smile, "Because you are the prey of the next hunt."]

[no no no! ]

[She wants to live, she must not just die like this! ]

["Help me, save me!" Naomi Chida burst into tears, "I saw him! I saw the murderer who killed my classmate! He said I was next!"]

[Chida Naomi is not cowardly, if she cannot get rid of that perverted murderer in the future, then she will take the initiative to ask the police for help.Rather than struggling to survive by herself, seeking help from professionals is what she, an ordinary citizen, should do. ]

[She will live as a reward for her bravery. ]

[Nemu Rijiu will be brought to justice, if Xia Youjie, the leader of Ranjiao, wants to cover up Neki Riku's crimes, the director of spells will...]

No, not hair, it was lighter and thinner than hair, not so much hair as black spider silk.

Xia Youjie's heart shuddered. Before Yuanyi fished out the black spider thread, he didn't see anything unusual about Chida Naomi's body at all.

Yuan blinked his eyes, and crushed the black spider silk with his fingertips. Obviously, he did not use much effort, but the black spider silk was immediately crushed into powder, sticking black on his fingers. superior.

Yuan looked at it, smelled it, then stretched out the black and ash-stained finger to Xia Youjie, and said: 【Jie, it's Mo. 】

【ink? 】

Xia Youjie was stunned for a moment, why did the ink that turned into spider silk appear on the victim's body?