What is happening now is far beyond people's common sense.

It was clearly approaching summer, and wearing spring school uniforms was already too hot. Now no one felt dry mouth, because the world in front of them had become a world of ice and snow.

“…Is this a superpower?” people in the crowd whispered to each other.

"I've never heard of anything so exaggerated..."

Besides - the feeling of being stared at by some terrifying thing just now is still unbearable.

Even animals with low intelligence could tell that this kind of terrifying pressure did not come from the snow scene in front of them, but from the young man among the ice flowers.

Axue's natural ice and snow domain, plus the spiritual aura [Pure White Death Thoughts] that absorbed all of Jiuyuan's skill points, these two combined together bring a shock to ordinary people that is absolutely beyond imagination.

What he awakens is the fear of the unknown and the fear of natural forces in human beings.

Then, transform these two forces into "fear" that will make them submit.

The only one who was awake was Axue's prey, the young man he was chasing.

Jiu Yuan, who had been tripped and fell to the ground, stood up quickly, completely forgetting about the injury he had just suffered. Instead, he tried to bypass everyone and escape from the outer wall. However, his escape plan was completely aborted because of the opponent's actions.

Axue uttered the word "start".

The original outer wall of the campus was covered with a tall snow wall. The bright white color almost made people forget that it was dusk in summer.

Dozens of ice walls were quickly constructed to surround the campus.

The crowd that had been whispering just now fell silent, because as the cordon was built, snowflakes began to fall in the area.

The breath they exhaled began to turn white, and some of them wrapped their already thin school uniforms tightly.

...Even the weather can be changed?

And this exaggerated action was just to prevent a tiny human from escaping from his hunting ground.

Is this still a supernatural power?

This was a miniature divine disaster.

Some people have secretly opened their phones to record the screen, and some are even brave enough to open the live broadcast platform and quietly broadcast the current situation.

Unbeknownst to Kuen, the snowstorm was being seen by more and more people.

The only thing that seemed unchanging in this snowy area was the young man in a snow-covered coat and aqua-blue feathers.

He stood in the silver-white storm, and the blue pendant on his ear was curved by the wind.

It was the same arc as the smile on his lips.

Axue looked down at the young man in front of her who looked unhappy——

"...What? You don't want to continue playing the game of chase?"

Hearing this, the young man, who had no way to escape, actually smiled.

It was a very weak smile.

"No," he said, "you can't do anything to me anyway."

Although these words were only meant to show a refusal to accept one's fate and were a last, hopeless act of stubbornness, they sounded particularly harsh to the other party.

It seems that this sentence perfectly hit Axue's minefield.

"Don't take yourself so seriously." His voice was colder than ice. "If you weren't a 'vessel'... do you think I would care about the life and death of a mere human?"

Jiuyuan laughed instead, and he started coughing because of laughing.

"What do you mean by that? Are you giving up your beautiful image of the Snow God? Well, you don't like humans anyway..."

Jiuyuan took the initiative to meet the sharpness in his gaze.

"But... it's precisely because I'm a 'container' that I'm so fearless. Whether it's taking the child away, or...anything else, no matter how much you resent me, you can't go against the master's will. You can only watch me live well in front of you--"

"Even though you always say that you are his most capable assistant and the person he can't leave - but what is the truth? It is you who can't leave him. Why? Because you are a loyal dog, and your master is everything to you, do you know that? Little dog." He sneered.

Then, the boy put one hand on his chest and pointed his fingertips at his heart.

"No matter how you grimaced, you can't touch me. It's so pitiful."

"After all, without me, you'll be the only ones who'll be in trouble, right? Who knows how many years it will take for the next 'container' to be born? Maybe ten, twenty years... or even hundreds or thousands of years?"

"...Can he afford to wait?"

Axue's blue eyes became deeper and deeper. He hated the other party's fearless statement. Although he was angry, he smiled and stepped forward, slowly saying to the boy: "...It seems that you need some lessons."

"Even if I don't leave any harm on your body, I can still make you live a life worse than death."

"You should pay for your rude words——"

Apart from the rising ice flowers, no one heard what they said.

…

…

At the same time, people were reporting and reposting on Twitter and Instagram one after another.

The trending content was pushed up again and again, and even though the images were blurry, many people still saw the scene of this micro-disaster.

At first, some people thought it was a theme park opening somewhere. There have been similar theme parks before, but they all ended up in vain. After seeing such a realistic scene, some people even said in the comments, "If it opens, I must go and see it."

Many more people thought it was a special effects movie until someone saw a familiar figure in it...the boy who was being chased.

"Isn't this Jiuyuan? I haven't seen him for a long time since the talent show ended."

"Yeah, I heard that he was banned because he offended someone with a background?"

"Hey, what is it now?"

"Oh yeah...are you filming a movie? Or a commercial? A music video or something like that...?"

After noticing this, the trending content was originally named "Is the sudden appearance of bizarre disaster a sign of the end of the world?" and now it has been added with "Popular talent show idol Huang Quanchuan's new work"...

However, this also gave the special departments, especially the Special Powers Division, some time to buffer.

The military and police hope that they can mediate and make the public believe that this is a supernatural power and not something else.

However, Ango Sakaguchi showed a tough attitude.

"The masses are not fools who can be fooled at will. If we use supernatural powers to fool them, it will only reduce the credibility of the government." Sakaguchi Ango looked at the screen, "Chief Taneda will agree with me." He vowed.

The Special Powers Department not only monitors people with special powers, but also controls the overall direction and public opinion of special powers.

If such a powerful ability were to be told to the public that it was a superpower, it would only cause panic and even lead to unnecessary hatred towards the superpower.

All along, the public's understanding of superpowers has been formed through information processed by the government, which means that most superpowers are not even "too beyond common sense" in the eyes of ordinary people, and powerful superpowers are ultimately a minority.

The vast majority of supernatural powers do not give people the impression of being "extremely powerful and violent". Many abilities give people the impression of being "subtle", "practical", "not very aggressive", and "testing the user's level".

This is to prevent the majority of the population from feeling disappointed or having a rebellious mentality. In addition, the information and movements of most powerful, rare or special ability holders have long been controlled by the government, and ordinary people cannot access them at all.

This means that most ordinary people's understanding of superpowers is that the power that superpowers can display is completely different from what the people in the video show.

Rather than calling it a supernatural power, this has completely entered the realm of fantasy.

After all——

"Even the weather can change..." He sighed and thought more.

In primitive society, humans had very limited ability to resist natural disasters. With the development and progress of science and technology, as well as the exploration and disclosure of nature, and the rapid spread of information through education and the Internet, modern humans' awe of nature has dropped significantly.

However, the behavior of the snow-haired young man is tantamount to forcibly removing people from the natural environment they are familiar with and throwing them into a natural environment that they cannot predict and cannot resist.

Sakaguchi Ango shook his head and murmured, "Being able to play with the power of nature..."

——It is equivalent to arousing the most primitive fear in human genes.

Let people remember their own weakness.

If someone were to say that this was a supernatural power, the crowd would definitely be angry.

Why is this different from the superpowers you usually talk about?

Is the government hiding information from the public?

Or has the government done something in the area of ​​supernatural powers that cannot be made public?

Such doubts will only snowball and eventually become out of control.

The Special Powers Agents cannot take the blame for this.

On the other hand, the Jujutsu world will definitely not take the blame, and they have even issued a death order to block it, and not a single detail can be leaked.

The power of fear will make the curse even stronger. The curse world has long reached an agreement with government agencies not to make these things public.

Jiuyuan's special identity at this time almost gave the government the most perfect excuse.

What? Superpowers? They don't exist.

Paranormal activity? Even less likely.

Yes, it’s just a special effects promotional video.

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…

Here at Polytechnic

"It's a report from the window."

By the time the message reached Ijichi, it had been in the hands of the other party for several minutes, because the people of "Window" were confused about whether the snow-haired young man who suddenly appeared was a cursed spirit. However, considering their responsibilities, they still chose to report it.

A video was also attached, which was also uploaded to the Internet.

Although everyone on the Internet is watching for fun, for professionals at the technical college, it is not as simple as just watching for fun.

"I'm sorry to trouble Mr. Nanami again..."

While Ijichi Masaru was on the phone with Nanami Kento, the other party also saw the video.

Kento Nanami, who was originally doing field work nearby, received an urgent investigation mission when it was almost time to get off work.

Ijichi feels very sorry for making Nanami work overtime to deal with the emergency.

"I see." Nanami Kento was concerned about something else: "There are no casualties reported at the scene yet, right?"

"Yes, the target seems to be hostile to only one of the boys." Ijichi conveyed the truth.

Precisely because there is no intention to attack others, there is no need to mobilize more power to send out sorcerers.

"I see." After hanging up the phone, Nanami Kento thought of the traces he found in Minato Kuro last time.

If what the Hong Kong.Hei people described is correct, one of the two uninvited guests that appeared that day should be the Snow Man in the video.

According to the standards of sorcerers, it is at least top grade.

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…

After Kagome separated from Hanako, he found the eavesdropping device in the flowerpot. He was a spirit, so he didn't care whether the soil would dirty him. After cleaning the thing, he went upstairs. Unexpectedly, Hanako came back earlier than Kuen.

The latter was also somewhat surprised not to see the familiar person at home, and whispered: "He hasn't come back yet... Did he forget the time while playing outside?"

Geto Suguru remembered that not long ago Hanako told him "Don't treat Kuen as a child", but now he mentioned Kuen in the tone of an elder looking at a child, which made him feel helpless and a little funny.

"He's not a child anymore. Maybe he was delayed by something." The situation took a turn and he was the one saying this.

"Forget it... By the way, Geto-kun." Hanako took out an apple from the refrigerator, walked to the sink, and while washing her hands, she asked Geto-kun next to her, "Did you remember anything about going to the technical high school today?"

Geto shook his head.

"Unfortunately, my memory is still like a veil, and I can't see the whole picture." After saying this, he smiled helplessly, "Is this also included in my entry test?"

"No, I'm just curious. Even if the soul is incomplete, there shouldn't be any gaps in the memory. I think Geto-kun's situation is very rare." Hanako bit off the fruit flesh. Jiuyuan had already consulted the system about these matters, and the system's evaluation was: "Perhaps, there is a key key hidden. As long as this key is found, this layer of gauze will disappear."

"But we still don't know what this key is." Xia Yujie said frankly.

What Hanako didn't say was: he wondered if this was a protection mechanism that Geto had for himself.

Does hiding the key part of his memory that could turn his life around prove that in his mind, his life is divided into at least two stages?

After chewing the fruit into pieces, Hanako thought: Even if Geto Suguru himself wants to recall all this, is it a good thing for him?

(Hmm, I don’t know.)

At this moment, he felt someone calling his name.

"Suguru-kun." Hanako took the mask that Suguru-kun had just placed on the table, then walked over to him and handed it to him, saying, "It's time to set off."

After taking the mask, Geto Suguru didn't put it on, but looked at Yuuki outside the window.

"now?"

"The location was at Kuen's school. There was a girl who kept calling my name... or rather, she was so enthusiastic that I almost suspected that she was believing in me."

After saying that, Hanako yawned.

"And bring that idiot back with you."

Xia Yujie did not refuse, but he did not expect that after moving to another place, he would see a girl with red eyes crying.

Hanako seemed to have little interest in the joys and sorrows of humankind, and was about to make her usual opening statement: "Humankind, you came to me..."

However, before he could finish, the girl interrupted him hastily.

"Please! Please help him—"

"Help him! Help him! He didn't do anything! Help, help him—"

After seeing Hanako, the girl started to express herself crazily, but she was obviously unable to keep calm at this moment, and even her words were unclear.

Hanako rubbed his eyebrows in pain. He realized that this was one of the students who played the Pen Fairy game last time, and the girl who said at the end that she wanted to see her again.

"Calm down," he said.

However, the other party continued to beg incoherently. Hanako knew that this would not calm her down, so she shouted at her, "Calm down! Figure out what you want to say before you make a wish to me!"

He suddenly shouted, and the girl was frightened by him. Seeing that it worked, Hanako added another sentence -

"Do you want to waste such a hard-earned opportunity? Just to make me listen to your nonsense?"

The girl saw Hanako's expression, which was resolute and cold, and she suddenly sobered up a lot - the memory of the pen fairy that night came to her mind.

(Right, right… If I don’t explain it clearly now, he’ll leave! And there’s no way Kuen-san can be saved!)

"Please, please! Please save Kuen!" She was so brave that she grabbed Hanako's wrist. This action made Kagome Takeshi beside her look a little dumbfounded. The girl pulled Hanako to the window and said while holding back her tears: "There is a strange person... It seems that he wants to take Kuen away, and he has turned our school into this!"

After saying that, she opened the window.

Standing several meters away from the window, Xia Youjie felt a gust of icy cold wind.

(If I remember correctly, isn't it almost summer now?) He thought and walked forward.

A snowy area came into view, and there was Jiu Yuan sitting on the ground with a painful expression, and a young man as white as snow in front of him. Even though they were far apart, he could feel the tense atmosphere between the two.

(What is going on?)

After a very brief moment of distraction, he quickly looked at Hanako next to him, hoping that he could explain what had happened.

However, Hanako's reaction was even more violent than his. He broke free from the girl's hand, then held the window frame with one hand and leaned out as if looking for something. Soon he pulled back - his face looked even worse.

He said to the girl, "...I will help him, you leave first."

Seeing that the girl was still not leaving, he sneered: "If you don't leave, I will leave."

The other party then obeyed and left the toilet reluctantly.

As soon as she closed the door, Hanako said to Geto, "We have to help him. You see? Kuen is right there."

Before Geto could say anything, Hanako came forward and grabbed his clothes, forcing him to bend down and listen to her.

"Now is not the time to explain to you. Simply put, our enemies have come to our doorstep, and we must take Jiuyuan back - otherwise we will all be doomed." He gritted his teeth, "...Do you understand what I mean?"

Xia Yujie didn't ask any more questions. He said, "What do you need me to do?"

Hanako didn't answer him right away.

His small teeth pressed uneasily against his lower lip, and he tried to bite it down several times, but in the end only shallow tooth marks were left. He seemed to be making an extremely difficult decision, but his eyes were fixed on the window. The small piece of land where the two of them were had never shifted even a little, as if he was always paying attention to the war situation and ready to rescue.

"…Take him away." Hanako took a long time to squeeze out these words.

The situation was urgent, and the boy spoke quickly: "I am bound by the earth and cannot leave the building. I can only interfere with the ability of the white guy within the farthest range of my ability. Once he enters the range of my ability, I will use my greatest strength to fight him. What you have to do is-"

Xia Yujie concluded: "I'm going to take Kuen away while you guys are fighting, right?"

"...Yes." Hanako's eyes drifted.

Seeing him like this, Xia Yujie couldn't help but ask, "Do you have a chance of winning?"

"have."

"How much?"

"…Fifty percent." He said impatiently, "Why are you asking so much? Anyway, I will make sure you leave safely."

But Xia Yujie said firmly, "You are lying."

He looked outside the arena again and said, "I think the enemy must know that you are a ground-bound spirit, right? Once I take Jiuyuan away, the enemy will realize that they have entered your range of power and will choose to escape as quickly as possible. In this way, Jiuyuan and I will be chased by the enemy again, and we may not be able to escape from him a second time."

He looked at Hanako—

"Then why did you still choose to do this? I think you have a way to ensure that once the other party is affected by your ability, they can't escape, but you were hesitant just now, and now you are deliberately hiding it, which makes me guess-"

"Will this method cause irreversible harm to you?" When Jianhuazi didn't answer, Xia Yujie frowned slightly, "...Or, are you planning to let us leave by sacrificing yourself in some other way?"

Hanako actually smiled after hearing this. He didn't admit it, but at this moment, not denying it was almost the same as admitting it.

"You forgot something very important, Geto-kun," he said, "Kyuon is a human being. He is very fragile. A small thing could cost him his life. He will die."

"And I am a monster. Even if I am reduced to dust, as long as my legend lives on, I will be able to meet you again."

These words, which sounded almost like a farewell, made Xia Yujie's breathing pause.

(What does this mean? Because he is not a human, he can bear the consequences? Or is it something else...) Before he could think about it, Hanako pulled the window as wide as possible. He didn't know where he got the strength from, but he actually dragged Geto, who was much taller than him, to the closest distance to the window.

"——Kaguya, you only have one chance." He called his full name, "Ten seconds from now, I will activate my ability. But I need you to enter the battlefield and appear next to Kuen. The moment that white guy is distracted is my chance. As long as you see him being affected by me, immediately, absolutely do not stop and run out of here, understand?"

Hanako's voice seemed to sound commanding and unkind, but Kagome actually heard a helpless request in it.

——He is at his wits' end.

"...I understand." Knowing that he had no choice, the boy put on the fox mask, held the window frame with one hand, and was ready to jump at any time.

Hanako was counting down in the background.

"Ten, nine, eight—"

Geto Summer Oil began to adjust his posture.

"Seven, six, five, four—"

The young man pressed the mask with one hand and began to exert force.

He leaped down.

"Three, two—"

It landed, and dust flew everywhere.

"one!"

Perfect landing.

The landing point is accurate.

He was almost right next to Kuen—

As he approached, Jiu Yuan's body had already fallen down powerlessly, hitting the ground with a dull thud. Xia Yujie almost caught up with him at the last moment, preventing him from falling completely onto the cold stone ground.

At the same time, the indifferent voice of the snow-haired young man in front of him was also heard.

"——As a 'container', you only have this much value."

"This is your punishment for wanting to be 'free.'"

This inhuman tone was like a thunderbolt in the summer night, striking down vertically with a breath of destruction.

Afterwards, it fell on the young man's heart and opened the fountain of memory.

He thought of many things, many extraordinary things, like gurgling spring water, flowing from his heart to every part of his body.

Just as Xia Youjie's thoughts were racing, Nanami Kento also came in from the place where the side wall of the campus was not locked by the ice wall.

He was behind the Snowman, trying to get a better look at the boy the Snowman was hunting, but he saw the target being held in the arms of a boy in uniform and a fox mask.

The next second, they looked at each other through the masks.