The losers in daily youth have all become witches

Several people took a short break in the store, and Li Mo took out snacks and drinks made by the house-elves for everyone to use.

Some of the desserts were full of traditional European flavor and were very authentic. Chihaya Aine's eyes turned red after eating them, and she felt like she was back in England.

Of course, it is also possible that he was simply choked.

After eating and drinking, Li Mo asked Chihaya Aine to take out the mirror pendant and let Gokou Ruri try it out.

As a result, Gokogen Ruri's adaptability to the magic spell [Mirror] was even worse than Li Mo's, and she couldn't even activate it forcibly. To her, this thing was just a pendant.

"If there's nothing else, let's call it a day."

After telling the others how to return to the association hut from here, Li Mo said with satisfaction.

No one else had any objection.

Yuigahama Yui and Chihaya Aion both returned to the Round Table Hall from the back door of the warehouse (Music could hear Chihaya Aion shouting something: Why is the word "You are not qualified" this time?), because their schoolbags were still in the club's hut.

Li Mo planned to go home directly from the store.

"Senior Zhuomu, I have something else to say to you."

At this time, Gogen Ruri quickly caught up with him and walked into the Rabbit Mountain Shopping Street with Li Mo.

Rabbit Mountain Shopping Street is a typical Japanese shopping street.

This is the time of the day when there are the most people.

There are rows of shops on both sides with numerous signs.

Maybe it was a coincidence, when Li Mo and Wu Geng Liuli came to the street, they just happened to catch the lights coming on.

First, the street lights on both sides of the street lit up one after another, like a star-studded avenue. Soon, the surrounding signs were gradually lit up, filling the original road with other colors.

The colorful lights complement each other, making the entire street bright and colorful.

The shopping street has its own business logic to cater to the empty stomachs of high school students who just got out of school.

The air is filled with the aroma of various foods, the fresh fragrance of takoyaki, the burnt aroma of barbecue, the rich aroma of ramen, the milky aroma of desserts, and the rice aroma of traditional rice cakes. All kinds of aromas are intertwined together, tempting the taste buds of Sobu High School students passing by.

Perhaps only the Ministry of Magic, which has a constant supply of snacks, and the Light Music Club, which for some reason always has afternoon tea, are exempt from this food trap targeting students.

Unlike being scrutinized by the dean and discipline officers at school, when they arrived at the shopping street, the young couples began to let themselves go under the influence of hormones. They held hands, snuggled up sweetly, stopped in front of various shops, and picked out their favorite food.

——Of course, there are also accessories to choose from, but considering the wallets and appetites of high school students, a croquette is obviously more attractive to them than a less practical brooch.

The elderly people in the shopping street walked slowly and leisurely on the street, feeling the lively atmosphere, with satisfied smiles on their faces.

And Gokou Ruri's Gothic Lolita long skirt, which is completely different from the picture, adds a wonderful touch to this urban scene, making the whole picture more vivid.

Many boys couldn't help but secretly look at the girl.

When they saw the gothic-style long skirt, they would show admiration; when they saw the pair of fluffy and cute cat ears, they would show cute expressions; and when they saw the cat tail that stretched out from the small slit on the girl's skirt and shook from time to time, they would all cast their eyes on Li Mo and show a tacit smile of "Brothers really know how to play."

As a gentleman (sure), Li Mo naturally would not have a tacit understanding with them. He just thought that these guys were touched by Gogen Ruri's cuteness.

Although he couldn't be sure if it was due to magic, the girl's appearance hadn't changed much compared to when he first met Gokou Ruri, but she always gave people a radiant feeling. Even her temperament had improved greatly, and she seemed to be completely different from the dry little girl at the beginning.

"So Liuli, what do you want to say?"

Li Mo asked curiously.

"Takeru-san, do you still remember the offline meeting?"

the girl asked.

"Well, that was quite shocking. I'm sure you won't be able to forget it no matter how much you think about it..."

Li Mo answered naturally.

"Saori... the older girl said she hopes we can get together again this weekend. Let's do something fun together."

The girl whispered, "She said you could go too. Xiao Tongtong will also bring her brother along."

"Well, this week..."

Li Mo couldn't help but hesitate when he heard this.

It’s not that he has any dissatisfaction with the offline activities of the otaku girls, but he didn’t have time to verify any of the urban ghost stories that Saori collected for him last time. He has been a little unfocused recently, and he always feels a little sorry for the other party who has worked so hard to collect these things.

"Can't you?"

Wu Geng Liuli stared at Li Mo with wet eyes, like an abandoned puppy.

"It's not impossible..."

Li Mo was immediately defeated.

"Thank you, Takuma-senpai."

Upon hearing this, Gokogen Ruri's lips curled up slightly, revealing a gentle smile.

Li Mo scratched his head and was about to move forward, but his steps suddenly stopped.

"By the way, regarding that rumor you mentioned earlier, Liuli, about 'a lot of strange foreigners', what specific countries are those foreigners from?"

he asked.

"Um...Lucia, Europe, Southeast Asia, or something like that?"

The girl asked, tilting her head in confusion.

"The scope is too large..."

Li Mo complained.

"Why would Senior Takumi suddenly ask this?"

Gokou Ruri asked back curiously.

"That's because, of course,"

Li Mo's expression didn't change at all, as if he was telling a boring joke. He replied in a low voice, almost talking to himself, "Not far behind us, there's a 'foreigner' who meets the rumor you mentioned earlier."

The girl subconsciously wanted to turn back, but was stopped by Li Mo.

"Don't look back, that guy seems to be following us secretly."

He said, "Use a cat."

The girl immediately showed an expression of sudden enlightenment.

She just glanced at the roadside and stammered slightly. On the eaves where no one noticed, a loose plastic board turned into a light and nimble kitten.

The size of a kitten, but with body proportions similar to an adult cat, it ran swiftly and ostentatiously on the roof, and ran silently behind Li Mo and the others. At the girl's instruction, it turned around and kept an eye on the strange "foreigner".

Chapter 288: Sticking.

Because there are so many people coming and going on the street, it would be troublesome if someone acts randomly and causes a big disturbance, not to mention the need for large-scale memory clearing. Even though there are not as many surveillance cameras on the island as in the University of Tokyo, they are still installed in many places in this kind of shopping street.

Li Mo calmly winked at Wu Geng Liuli, and the girl nodded in understanding.

His meaning was very simple. He wanted the girl to cooperate with him as soon as possible and go to a place with fewer people. This would make it easier to confirm the situation of the guy who was following them.

However, if you turn too deliberately, the other person will obviously notice it, so some acting skills are needed.

Probably to confuse the people who were following her, Wu Geng Liuli affectionately took Li Mo's arm and pressed most of her body against him.

Her movements were smooth and seamless, as if the relationship between the two of them was already so close.

Only Li Mo, who was being held by her, could feel the girl's fingers were cold and trembling slightly, and her body was tense due to nervousness.

Although she always talks about various middle school fantasies on weekdays, after all, Gokou Ruri is only a fourteen-year-old junior high school student. When encountering such things, it is obvious that she is more nervous and worried than excited.

She pretended to be calm, and even had the arrogant smile of the Night Queen she often cosplayed on her lips. However, Li Mo, who was so close that he could even catch the cheap but quite pleasant smell of detergent on the girl, could clearly see the panic hidden under the girl's smile.

The girl's long eyelashes cast a faint shadow on her fair face under the reflection of the street light. The sparkling light in her eyes was clear and bright, her slender and lovely cherry lips were tightly pursed, and even her breathing was obviously more rapid under the infrared observation of the magic spell [Snake].

Although it was inappropriate, Li Mo felt as if he had accidentally discovered some new cute points about the girl.

Cute.

So Li Mo put his arm around the girl's slender waist, and said to herself, "This schoolmate has fallen for my charm, and now we're going to some undisclosed hotel to have some fun," and turned into the alley very naturally.

The girl's pretty face flushed instantly, and the already beautiful teardrop mole on her face became even more charming against the blush. As passersby stared at her in astonishment, saying things like, "Now? Here?" and "That girl's age... is too young," even the tips of her ears were red enough to bleed.

She looked at Li Mo shyly, and then found that Li Mo was giving her a new look, which roughly meant: No need to stick so tightly, I feel a little inconvenient to move, and my chest is a little bit hurt, are you wearing a badge or something today?

So the girl's just-developed girlish feelings instantly flew away.

She rolled her eyes at Li Mo in annoyance and broke free from his arms. Her face was cold and fierce, and her wine-red eyes were less misty and more alert than usual, as if asking, "Do you want to do it here?"

Li Mo's steps suddenly stopped, and the smug expression he had pretended to have as if Aquaman had successfully hooked up with a new girl suddenly collapsed.

"Escaped."

He frowned and looked back: "Did your cat see how the other one escaped?"

Wu Geng Liuli didn't bother to protest Li Mo's straight man behavior just now. She directly called the cat that was following her. After squatting down and communicating with it with "meow meow meow" for a while, she replied: "We don't know how the other party escaped. It just seemed to sense something was wrong when it followed us into this beak alley. Then it twisted its body and flashed before disappearing."

Li Mo touched his chin.

Because Ryunosuke's software did not collect the information, the specific situation was not clear, but it was mentioned in some urban ghost story videos that he used to watch while eating. The characteristic of "Slender Man" is that in addition to its habit of kidnapping children, it also has the ability of teleportation.

However, if the figure following behind them just now was really a tall and thin ghost, then it would prove that the other party was different from the conventional weird ones that usually only appeared in remote places or when there were few people. It was a very rare supernatural existence that could appear in a bustling crowd and would not be noticed by anyone.

Its rarity is probably similar to that of a ghost that can break through the protective shield of the quilt and appear directly in the quilt. It is an exception among exceptions.

Li Mo turned his head to look at the manhole cover on the side of the road. Wu Geng Liuli also subconsciously looked over because of his action, and then she was horrified to see a dark tentacle suddenly emerged from the gap of the manhole cover.

After a while, she realized from the snake's tongue that was sticking out from time to time that the other party was actually a small black snake.

Under Li Mo's gaze, the little snake shook its head very humanly.

"Aine-san and Yui weren't being followed by that thing. Does that mean the trigger for being followed by that thing isn't 'possessing magical powers' or 'being a witch'?"

he muttered.

Considering his own uniqueness, the possibility that the slender figure's target is him feels much higher than the possibility that the target is Gokou Ruri.

"Like a stalker, it makes people feel bad."

Gogen Ruri said with a stern face.

Li Mo pushed his glasses. Considering that he had already used Truth Vision today, he hesitated again and again and finally gave up the idea of ​​using it again to look for intelligence.

After all, the opponent had already left, and nothing was left on the ground - no body tissue, no hair, no footprints. Even if the truth vision was activated here, at most one could only try to infer the direction of the opponent's escape based on some kind of fluctuation or energy (if it existed) remaining in the atmosphere. For a target that could teleport, it was too useless and meaningless.

And now there's no guarantee the other party is the enemy: perhaps it's just a witch who's awakened her own spell, using it to create a familiar? If that's the case, the figure's twisting and flickering could also mean the other party has canceled the summons of the familiar, right?

However, if we continue to speculate in this divergent way, there will be no end to it. For the time being, it is better to follow the principle of Occam's razor and regard the other party as a weird or similar supernatural entity.

"I'll have snakes on guard around you for the time being, but if you notice anything unusual, don't hesitate to find a way to notify me directly."

Li Mo solemnly warned the girl. He would also send snakes to keep watch not only for Gokage Ruri but also for Asagumo Chihaya and the others.

Gokou Ruri nodded sensibly.

Chapter 289: Yili’s recent situation.

In order to prevent accidents, Li Mo did not let the girl go home by herself. Instead, he took her to a nearby parking lot where there were fewer people, called out the old Ford, and personally took her back.

But it’s not time to relax yet.

After all, besides Gokou Ruri, there is another witch who can use spells without relying on external objects.

After sending Wu Geng Liuli back safely, Li Mo was directly teleported back to the Round Table Hall through the Great Blessing.

Then he ran from the Round Table Hall to the association's hut and woke up Hoshino Ai in the poster.

"Is there anything strange happening over there?"

Li Mo asked the other party.

Compared to the narrow and cramped postcard in Goto Ichiri's hand, Hoshino Ai obviously prefers the spacious poster with its own stage background posted in the club's hut, so she stays in the poster most of the time. Only when there are not many people in the hut and she feels a little bored will she run to Goto Ichiri.

Of course, if Goto Ichiri calls her actively, she will be able to feel it, but at present, the number of times she is called is not very many. Obviously, for Goto Ichiri, this behavior of not caring about Hoshino Ai's own wishes has broken through the upper limit of ordinary social phobia action ability and is a skill of current fulfillment.

Does it count if she messed up another live performance?

Hoshino Ai said while yawning.

"How badly is it broken? To the point where I need to play guitar with my teeth to salvage it?"

Li Mo asked.