This night is destined to be a sleepless night.
There were more than one or two people who were startled by the ringing. It was almost impossible for anyone who heard this long ringing to fall into a peaceful sleep again. Countless people were wondering who rang the bell and what that person's intention was.
However, the person concerned faced the gentle breeze and slowly put away the bell, not knowing what a sensation his gentle shaking would cause.
"From now on, we just have to wait quietly."
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Gojo Satoru put away his phone and asked, "Is this all right?"
He was asking even though he knew the answer. It was impossible for the owner of the six eyes not to know what kind of power the ringing sound emitted after Kuen injected power into it just now had. However, the calm look of the young man in front of him made him even more curious about the next development.
"Isn't it all we can do now, just wait?"
Soon, Geto Xia Yu, who had the best vantage point to observe the overall situation, brought new information.
“…I’m here.”
He was very familiar with the energy of souls. Although they were just scattered groups of undead, the number of people coming seemed to exceed Xia Yujie's imagination.
...That's right, after all, the ringing sound just now was so exaggerated. It's impossible to pretend not to hear it, right?
"Is it a large quantity?" Jiuyuan asked.
"...quite a lot."
After receiving a satisfactory answer, the boy put the mask back on. Xia Youjie noticed that the moonlight shrouding the boy made him look even more mysterious and holy, as if he was born to do such a business.
He stepped slowly and stood on the edge of the platform again, seemingly very satisfied with this shaky position that seemed to be just one step away from falling into the abyss.
The dead who came from all directions gradually gathered together to reach this road.
They found that more and more companions were moving forward, and the brave ones had already pulled those who looked friendly to them and started asking questions.
"Who is calling us?"
"I don't know." A middle-aged man in a suit shook his head. A halo of fear seemed to have descended on his head. He still kept his habit from his previous life. When he was nervous, he would take out a handkerchief to wipe his sweat. He wiped his forehead and said, "...but it must be a new big shot."
"You are talking nonsense." Someone beside him said sarcastically, "He is using such a big show to spread his prestige. Isn't this just a way of showing off and asking us to go and pay him a visit?"
This person was not convinced after being criticized, "Then do you dare not go?"
The man immediately became angry.
Yes, after all, only a minority dare not go.
Wasn’t it that this newcomer, who announced “I am here” so loudly, wanted them to come and worship him?
Some people hold different views.
"Tokyo is so chaotic these days...it would be great if a benevolent monster could come and take control."
"There's nothing we can do. The situation in Tokyo is too complicated." Someone said helplessly, "There are sorcerers, onmyojis, monsters, cursers, cursed spirits... there's everything. I didn't know this world was so scary before I died."
"It would be more terrifying if I could see these things after I die."
"yes……"
Walk straight to the end and you will be under the tall building.
Hundreds of ghosts gathered here as if they were attending a garden party. They looked up and saw a young man wearing a black fox mask floating above their heads with a full moon in the background.
On the top floor, the young man in a kimono holding a wind chime was wearing a fox mask that was the color of the sun.
The crowd was in an uproar again.
"Is it a monster? A fox?"
"It could be a shikigami from somewhere, or maybe a messenger of God..."
"Isn't this the master behind this? Can a servant be so powerful?"
This uneasiness and the people's following the crowd fermented even more in Jiuyuan's silence. Seeing that the time was almost right, the boy used the demon power amplifier he exchanged at the store, mixed in the voice, and announced:
"Gentlemen—"
"Please be quiet."
The intimidating voice immediately silenced everyone present.
Xia Yujie sat in the air and changed into a comfortable posture, supporting his chin with one hand and holding down the stack of flyers that Jiuyuan had placed with him with the other hand, which would be thrown down soon, and watched Jiuyuan's next move.
"I called you all here today..." he said slowly, "because I have something good to tell you."
"Those who are concerned about unfinished business in life, those who feel lonely and bored after death and want to change their ghost life, those who are tired of the stagnant afterlife, those who are weak and have to survive in the cracks between the big monsters and humans, those who have no shelter, and all those who are eager for a new wave to sweep up -"
"Now, there is an opportunity before you."
The boy raised his other hand, and Kagome, who received the signal, dropped the promotional leaflets he had prepared long ago from high in the sky.
Before anyone knew what was happening, the dead and the monsters started snatching the items. Those who got the items started to carefully observe the appearance of the items.
This is a three-fold invitation, tied with a delicate slipknot using dark gold thread. On the gray-black parchment-textured paper, there are dark gold scraps, which at first glance look like some special text.
After opening it, there was a raised relief pattern in the middle, which looked like a shop.
Someone touched the pattern and exclaimed, "Look!"
A three-dimensional phantom actually emerged from the pattern.
At the door, two men with black sun and fox masks pulled open the curtain, and a neat stand came into view in the center. Then, there was a blurry figure of a child, who seemed to be waiting for customers to arrive. In front of him was a scale.
A dark golden subtitle appeared below: "A fate-changing occupation, a fair exchange of equal value, a transaction that reverses the virtual and the real..."
“If you need something, just call for it in your heart.”
After this magical image disappeared, something that looked like a product catalog appeared on the left side of the tri-fold invitation.
Among them, a little monster who got the invitation read out: "Monster candy?"
"Eating it can increase your demonic power..."
"And it's a long-term stable sale..."
After being excited, he immediately calmed down again, because... this kind of thing would definitely not be cheap, but he had nothing to exchange for it.
He looked at the relief pattern again with frustration and couldn't help but reach out to touch it. However, this time, after seeing the subtitles on it, he had an idea...
Reversing the transaction between virtual and real...Does it mean trading intangible and tangible things?
Intangible things...if it's something like intelligence, can it be used as an item of exchange?
When he mustered up his courage and finally looked up to ask, there was no one under the moonlight.
The two young men wearing fox masks no longer exist.
The others who were still immersed in surprise came to their senses, looked at the bright moon... and then lowered their heads again.
He and his companions looked at each other in bewilderment.
"Wait, look, there's more here!"
The rightmost fold of the trifold paper turned out to be a recruitment advertisement!
The crowd exploded again.
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At this time, Jiuyuan took off his clothes and turned back into his usual young man.
Feeling his reputation rising, Jiu Yuan asked the system contentedly: "System, how much reputation do I have now?"
[System: The master now has a total of 390,000 reputation! When it reaches 400,000 reputation, there will be new rewards! ]
He didn't feel anything, but he didn't expect the system to be more excited than him.
The three of them were already on their way back to the technical college. To be exact, it was Ichichi who was in charge of driving them.
Gojo Satoru and Kuen sat in the back, while Kagome Kei was the co-pilot.
Gojo Satoru crossed his arms over his chest, turned his head to look at Kuen, and said, "What happened today will cause quite a stir again."
He raised his cell phone and showed Jiuyuan the page filled with missed calls.
"The guys who received the news can't wait to start testing it. Right, Ijichi?"
"Ah?" Ijichi responded and began to report, "Yes... The commotion here is too big. Someone at the window has reported it, or the sorcerers who are nearby in the city have also felt this unknown demonic power... The phone line has been flooded with calls."
Jiuyuan pretended to be surprised: "I didn't expect it to turn out like this."
"You have a deceptive expression." Gojo Satoru exposed him, "Is this your purpose? Let me guess... Because we are weak in terms of military strength, we have to seize the initiative by taking advantage of the information gap and creating momentum. It just so happens that there has been no news from Yukio recently. It seems that he is quietly plundering resources. We have to seize this time..."
At this point, he laughed and said, "Your style is completely reversed. Is it intentional?"
"What do you mean?" Jiuyuan replied with a smile.
"Never mind. It's nothing."
Gojo Satoru thought: Although Yukio is not friendly to humans, he knows that he needs to rely on human resources to gain a foothold, so he didn't attack the monsters at all. On the contrary, Kuen, who is pro-human, chose to attack the monsters...
Ah, it doesn’t seem to be the other way around. After all, it seems to make sense.
Xia Yujie roughly guessed what Gojo Satoru was thinking.
He had thought something similar when he got the promotional leaflet to be distributed today from Jiuyuan.
According to the current progress, the number of customers who come to visit will probably increase rapidly in the future, and the information of the Kanto region will soon be in Jiuyuan's pocket...
But, wouldn't this make humans jealous?
Also, in the Kanto region, in addition to cursed spirits that appear in high density in big cities, there are also many monsters and even Shinto-related things... Did Jiuyuan know?
Or did he clearly know the outcome, yet still chose such a high-profile way of appearance?
Of the four people present, only Jiuyuan remained calm.
Choosing a fox mask and dressing up as a pair of gods' messengers with Kagome Kei was not just a coincidence.
He is paving the way for the next vest.
Anyway, the incident with Xue Nan has already attracted the attention of the government. It is a pipe dream to think that he can get away with it unscathed. It is better to make the incident bigger and drag more people into it. The government will also be cautious.
What he wants is a gradual progress.
If we take them individually, the appearance of the Snow Man, the revenge of the Slit Man, the strange story of Hanako... they all seem to be fragmented puzzle pieces that can only attract a small range of attention. In other words, in the eyes of the government, these individual soldiers are no different from the scattered cursed forces dealt with by the sorcerers.
Afterwards, the two camps were divided, and the purpose behind the scenes was roughly revealed. In this way, the relationship between humans and ghosts was involved, and the level of vigilance was even higher. However, the scope of their fighting was not large. Although it would attract some attention, it was not enough to make people nervous to the point of having a deathly nervous state.
Such a big commotion today will also affect the forces such as monsters and Onmyoji who are still waiting and watching, and the government's anxiety will be further increased...
The idea that the monsters were really going to do something horrible soon entered their minds.
When the chaos accumulates to a certain extent, a new vest will come out.
If there are people causing trouble, how come there are no people to punish them?
He closed his eyes until he was almost at the high school, when he was awakened by Gojo Satoru.
The boy started walking towards his dormitory building with sleepy eyes.
As soon as he opened the door, he saw Hanako sitting in the middle of the room, looking at him and Geto Suguru with an expression that said "you came just in time".
"You're back just in time." Hanako took out an empty Japanese invitation and shook it, then he jumped off the chair.
"Someone holding an invitation is calling for the 'shop' to show up. Unfortunately, Geto-kun, we have to work overtime."