Junior High School
But in just a few seconds, Inumaki Saki's figure disappeared from Hinata Aoi's sight.
Hinata Aoi was worried, and repeatedly emphasized to the two seniors not to come in. She climbed over the wall and ran towards the equipment room.
By this time, Goujuan had already reached the door of the equipment room. The door, which should have been open, was now slightly ajar.
This time, the situation was extremely challenging. There was more than one cursed spirit, more than one location, and the person involved was able to move freely, not just a victim or trapped situation as usual.
He had already walked around the school several times, and had searched dark corners like the equipment room, which were often the scene of violent incidents, several times, but he still couldn't find the curse spirit itself.
There were traces of remnants of cursed energy everywhere in the school, but the cursed spirits were nowhere to be found.
When he found nothing at school again tonight and ran to Ikeda's house, he found a new cursed spirit in the attic.
The door to the Ikeda family's house was unlocked, and only Ikeda's father was home, slumped over on the sofa after a drunken stupor. The attic was used for storage, and the only light came from a small window, which let in a mix of sun and moonlight.
The strange aura of cursed spirits guided Gou Juanji to the attic, and as soon as he entered, he saw a very conspicuous red light that was trembling slightly.
It was a nose, or to be more precise, a glowing nose of a cursed spirit that looked like a mole.
The breath of a third-level cursed spirit was released and running around in the attic. Goujuan Ji didn't want to waste time with it, so he directly used the spell to exorcise the mole, but something unexpected happened.
The curse spirit sensed danger and its body expanded dozens of times in an instant. All the hair on its body disappeared, and its beating flesh and blood were wrapped in skin and multiplied rapidly. The sound of its heartbeat could be heard from under the skin.
Apart from the still bright red color, the mole was almost unrecognizable, and its aura had jumped from a third-level curse spirit to a second-level one.
He could easily deal with the third-level cursed spirit, Dog Juanji, but he had never dealt with a second-level cursed spirit on his own.
Either work together with Megumi Fushiguro to exorcise it, or fight alone for a while and then let Haibara Yu or Gojo Satoru clean up the mess.
It has to be said that the world of magic is always full of "surprises". You never know when the life tied to your waist will be chosen and served on the dining table.
Goujuan took off his mask, folded it and put it in his trouser pocket, and at the same time touched the special medicine prepared for his throat.
The attic was a small space, and he was prepared for a face-to-face battle with the cursed spirit, but the moving piece of flesh didn't hurt him much, and he could only dodge when hurt by the dog roll.
When he was beaten so hard that he got angry, he threw Gou Juanji against the wall with all his strength, but he happened to turn on the light switch.
The cursed spirit was stimulated by the sudden strong light and escaped through the window with a scream.
Goujuan put his hand on his neck and swallowed a few times, feeling that something was wrong.
A normal second-level cursed spirit wouldn't leave its birthplace at will. Even if the mole was irritated by the light, it should have chosen to hide in a dark corner instead of breaking through the window and escaping.
He didn't have much time to review the situation. After seeing Sato's message, Goujuan immediately made a judgment and rushed to school.
On the way here, he sent a text message to Huiyuan Yu for help. Because Ikeda's life was in danger after being captured, he stood in front of the equipment room door.
If there was also a second-level cursed spirit inside, Goujuan had no confidence that he could escape unscathed.
But as a sorcerer, as long as there is a possibility of survival inside the door, he has the responsibility to go in and save people.
Goujuan Ji calmed down and opened the door of the equipment room, and the curse spirit he had been looking for finally appeared before him.
At the top of a corner, a huge flower grew from the corner. The petals had smooth lines and full shapes, but there were no veins like those of a plant. Instead, they bloomed like layers of human skin.
It has eyes, a mouth, a belly, and palm lines... It flutters gently, opening and closing in small movements like breathing.
In the middle of the pistil is a thick tongue, the same as that of a human but magnified countless times, sticking out, and saliva is dripping along the tongue due to gravity.
The eyes on a certain petal saw the dog-curly thorn, and the vines hidden behind the petals stretched out and swayed in the air, not knowing whether it was excited or nervous. Then the sound of retching came from the pistil, the tongue retracted, and a head popped out.
“…Help, help…”
Ikeda's entire head was covered in wet mucus, his hair all stuck to his scalp, and the mask on his face had long since disappeared, revealing a light pink slap mark on his cheek.
Her eyes were covered with mucus, and she moved several times but could not get rid of the discomfort of the foreign object entering her. She opened her mouth wide to breathe in fresh air, but her lungs were still suppressed in the pistil and made bursts of rales.
Seeing the curse spirit gathering strength to swallow Ikeda back again, Gojumaki quickly spoke:
"Spit it out!"
As the sound stopped, the petals opened and closed violently, and during one stretch, Ikeda Anna fell down and was caught by Gojumaki who ran over.
Goujuan carried the man back to the door, put Ikeda down against the wall, and blood flowed from the corner of his lips.
He had just fought several rounds with the mole in the attic. The cursed spirit in front of him was also a real second-level cursed spirit, and it had a tendency to develop into the first level. Goujuan's throat was already over-consumed.
The flower made a vomiting-like sound and spat out a skeleton that fell to the ground with a "thump thump".
After calming down the urge to vomit, the thick tongue extended out again. The angry curse spirit waved its vines wildly, and the mouth on the petals spit out sarcastic words:
"What's it like to sit behind the top student in the class during an exam? It's easy to cheat, right?"
"What kind of hairpin is this country bumpkin imitating others? Did he steal it from someone?"
…
While parroting the words, it picked up the bones on the ground and stuffed them back into the pistil. The remaining vines were determined to take back Ikeda.
Seeing this, Gojumaki Satoru wanted to carry Ikeda again and run away, but Hinata Aoi arrived at that moment, squatted down first and put her hand on Ikeda's forearm.
Hinata Aoi didn't care about the slime sticking to her hand and stretched out her other hand towards Goumaki, but was not held.
The target suddenly disappeared before their eyes, and the vines began to dance like mad bees. The giant flower twisted its body, and roots similar to tree trunks grew under its feet, supporting its body to climb outwards.
"Don't worry about me, just get out first!"
Inumaki Ji didn't dare to hold Hinata Aoi's hand.
He knew that once he grasped it, everything related to cursed power would disappear, and his body would return to the quiet night, but at the same time he would no longer be able to see the movements of the cursed spirit.
These cursed spirits, who were supposed to be quietly making trouble in their birthplace and waiting to be discovered by the window, have all grown legs and feet to move.
He was not sure whether the flower would be as free as the mole and run outside the school, so he could only monitor and guide its actions.
Without saying another word, they looked at each other for the last time, and Inujuan Ji dodged and ran away, leaving Hinata Aoi, who opened her mouth but could only make slight sounds, guarding Ikeda in place.
The summer wind was hot, but Hinata Aoi's sweaty body was blown cold.
She couldn't see anything.
He couldn't even shout, and could only watch Goujuan, whom he had always treated as a child, lead the crisis away.
She was in danger but couldn't feel the danger herself. It was like she was being protected by a god, but she couldn't protect the person she wanted to protect the most at the moment, Gou Juan Ji.
Everything seemed like a joke against her, making her run around so busy until now, helping Goujuan find the cursed spirit, and also pushing Goujuan into a dead end.
It was her self-confidence that killed Gou Juanji.
Hinata Aoi picked up Ikeda in silence and carried him out of the school step by step, like a dead fish.
Ikeda gradually woke up from Hinata Aoi's actions, spat out a few mouthfuls of mucus, and turned his eyes to look at Hinata Aoi's profile.
“…Liar, liar…”
He clearly said he could deal with the monster, but he dragged her into the equipment room and almost killed her!
Just like those people, they all want to harm her, they are all liars!!
If the group of people who bullied her hadn't told her that they would be her friends if she played a prank on Taozi just once like they did, how could she have lost Taozi?
Doing what they said only resulted in even stronger ridicule. She was abandoned by them after they had had enough of the drama, causing her to lose her only friend and become a laughing stock of everyone. How could she swallow this?
Taozi refused to listen to her explanation. It wasn't her fault at all. Why couldn't she forgive him? Why did she transfer to another school and run away? Why couldn't she just stand by her through thick and thin?!
Later, when she was locked in the equipment room, she encountered a monster that was about to bloom. She was tied up with vines and bled. She begged at the top of her lungs before the flower bud, which had drunk its fill, let her go.
She used the monster as a tool for revenge, and went to great lengths to trick and kill an abuser who was ignored by everyone at home.
Then she fed a girl who ran away from home, and she finally got promoted to junior high school with great trepidation.
She thought she had escaped and that Peach would come back, but she had already been marked by the monster. Even in her dreams, she saw vines with bared fangs and claws tying her up to the monster's mouth.
“Hungry… so hungry…”
The monster said this, torturing her nerves over and over again.
One time, when she woke up from her dream, she was standing at the door of the equipment room, her hand almost about to open the rusty door.
If she can't escape the fate of being eaten... then Taozi should go with her!
As a result, she met another trickster, a half-baked one who could only temporarily dispel the biting cold, but could not deal with the monster at all!
Since I can't kill the monster, why not just serve as its food? Why would I eat her?!
Can you all just die? Can you all the liars just die? ! !
Ikeda wanted to bite Hinata Aoi's shoulder fiercely, but Hinata Aoi, who noticed that Ikeda had woken up, put him against the wall and made him stand against it.
She pointed at the wall and asked Ikeda to climb up by himself, while she helped him from below.
Ikeda, however, couldn't understand and just threw himself at Hinata Aoi, only to be pushed against the wall by her several times.
Patience and guilt were worn away bit by bit. Hinata Aoi punched the wall next to Ikeda's head, making a dull sound, and then she let her hand drop and loosened her fist.
She thought about going outside to see if her seniors were still there and helping to move Ikeda, but then she realized something and held Ikeda's wrist tightly, fearing that the girl would suddenly disappear from her sight again.
Hinata Aoi was trapped in her own speculation about the danger, and the wall that she could easily climb over turned into a mountain.
"Do you need help?" Two overlapping voices came from the wall.
The two girls in kimono rolled up their sleeves and lay on the wall, not caring about their image, looking at Hinata Aoi together.
Two young faces, filled with flattery and expectation, appeared in Hinata Aoi's dim eyes.
"My name is Nanako."
"My name is Mimiko."
"Do you need our help?"
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