Chapter 201: The Determined Raccoon, the Snake Servant, and the Bystander
Humans don't often get bored or tired when they're planning to do something bad.
Anyway, it's like this every morning and evening.
Apart from the necessary expenses for buying energy potions, she was very frugal with her Raccoon Coins and didn't buy many clothes for herself - after all, the ordinary appearances that could be purchased with Raccoon Coins didn't have any special properties, and she was not very interested in ordinary beautiful clothes.
But when it comes to pets...especially pets like Shi'er...
Chaomu was doing his daily tasks while wandering around the mall.
She did some research when she was with Shen'er these days and found that Shen'er is worthy of being the main promoter of the game, the meat-selling boss. In addition to the pure human form and beast form, he actually has two half-beast forms.
One of them was a half-human, half-snake creature somewhat similar to a mermaid. Its upper body maintained its human form, its pupils became vertical pupils, and its lower body turned into a pure snake form. Even when Tianyu Tyrant lost his legs for the first time, he still lay on the ground in a panic for a long time, and missed the best opportunity to snatch the mobile phone that was recording the video from Chaomu.
The other form was the snake tail that emerged from his hips during his first transformation attempt. Chaomu spent a long time studying the pet interface that day before realizing it was Shi'er's evolutionary companion skin. The snake tail was the primary stage; once fully upgraded, it would transform into a small black dragon, complete with horns sprouting from its head.
"Evil official character lover... Why doesn't our Mimi get this kind of treatment?" She complained indignantly, demanding companion skins for both Akai Mimi and Squalo—even a combined beast and half-beast form for Squalo! This was too perfunctory! Money back!
The customer service response was that there is absolutely no discrimination in the game. Akai Mimi comes with an organization skin, an FBI skin, and a pink-haired graduate student skin that has not been unlocked yet. Squalo also has a killer skin and the players' favorite Chinese-themed cheongsam (? ) skin.
Qipao Squalo… must be hot.
Chaomu imagined it for a moment, then wiped his nonexistent saliva with his paw. Compared to this, Shen'er didn't seem to have that many skins. Just one maid outfit wasn't enough. She needed some uniforms...
The mall's pet-friendly skins are reasonably priced, and the variety is quite plentiful. Chaomu, from butler uniforms to bunny boys and body paint, was completely captivated and eager to get a set of them all for his pets.
Before she could passionately place the order, the task notification sound interrupted her train of thought.
"Are you in charge of cleaning this area today?" A young, professional woman in formal attire smiled slightly as she handed her a small bag. "Thank you for your hard work, Xiao Mu. This is for today."
Inside the bag was a small snack, seemingly from the conference room. Chaomu took it while carrying the vacuum cleaner and politely thanked him, "Thank you for your help today, Mrs. Getsu."
"How could it be troublesome?" Mrs. Summer Oil covered her lips with her hands and smiled gently. "It's all thanks to you, Kogure. The strange noises and dust in the house have disappeared recently. You also coordinated the upstairs apartment."
A week ago, strange things started happening in the Getu family's home. First, there were strange noises coming from the upstairs household, a place that didn't even live there, and then there was a strange black mud appearing in the house. The Getu couple thought it was some kind of mysterious pollution, which was solved by the excellent cleaner Chaomu who happened to be passing by.
Chaomu thought that it was not ordinary pollution, but that the Getu couple, as successful people, were unexpectedly materialistic... If it were an ordinary person, they would probably have been frightened by such a supernatural incident.
After exploring for a period of time, she has discovered that this so-called "Past" copy is just a copy, and it also introduces the element of cursed spirits, but the value is not high, and some of the tasks issued are not difficult for her now.
Was it because her vacuum cleaner was at a higher level? It felt like those curses weren't that threatening anymore. She could also use the materials transformed from the curses, combined with the merman's pearl, to refine her Golden Raccoon vacuum cleaner. This virtuous cycle allowed her to quickly refine the vacuum cleaner to its sixth and eighth levels.
The most ferocious curse she'd encountered was from the Takeru family. The first time, it clogged her vacuum cleaner, making her want to seek reimbursement from Takeru. What the hell was wrong with Takeru? Was he some super-powerful curse manipulator that couldn't even protect his own parents?
As for how they knew the Takeru couple were Takeru's parents... firstly, Mrs. Takeru mentioned a son around her age who was always away from home, and secondly, it was based on the experience of certain players. Generally speaking, in this kind of dungeon, the system wouldn't involve completely unrelated NPCs; if they appeared, there had to be a reason for their presence.
All in all, combined with the system's task prompt "A Curse Spirit Operator Who Has Not Completely Fallen", it is not difficult for Chaomu to judge the general plot of the past: it is nothing more than a righteous Curse Spirit Operator who has seen the ugliness of the world in the process of saving people and gradually doubted his own ideals. He saved everyone but failed to save his own parents, which became the last straw that broke the camel's back...!
Doesn't this fit with Geto Suguru's constant talk about "fate"? It also fits with the theme of fate's tricks. Seeing her so conflicted later on must be because he's both annoyed by her and uncomfortable with her saving his parents. I didn't expect that squinty-eyed character to be such a tsundere.
With tolerance for tsundere, Chaomu worked at full speed and used a vacuum cleaner to completely clear away all the cursed spirits that she could not see around Gouyu's house.
But she hadn't seen Geto Suguru during this period... How busy was he?
This confusion was fleeting in her mind, quickly replaced by the newly-released hollow maid costume. She happily carried the vacuum cleaner home, ready to see what new tricks her snake butler had prepared today.
At the same time, on the rooftop of a building not far away.
Geto Suguru watched the departing figure and his warm home expressionlessly.
...How many times has this happened?
When he was about to sever his last connection with this decadent world, every time he made up his mind... that weird woman would always appear at this moment, using that inexplicable vacuum cleaner to unreasonably wipe out all his efforts.
The first time he failed, he almost instinctively breathed a sigh of relief, then realized that he was probably hoping someone would stop him. The second time, he felt he had made up his mind completely, and sent out a more powerful curse spirit, which did indeed cause her to fail, but still failed. The third time, the fourth time...
She destroyed everything for him.
After failing countless times, Geto Suguru thought so.
He could hardly help but feel that this was some kind of "divine will," preventing him from severing everything with such a sin. His hesitation grew deeper and deeper, and he began to doubt himself, yet he couldn't truly make up his mind—because even if he did, success wouldn't necessarily be achieved.
The accumulated guilt grew stronger, and he began to wonder if he had been too impulsive in making such a decision. The ugliness he had witnessed was actually only in a small number of people. There were many... many ordinary people who had interacted with that strange girl, including his parents...
Not only that, but even his focus on "greater justice" was gradually diverted. Before he could finish the job, he should first eliminate the girl who, despite being a monkey, possessed the ability to exorcise cursed spirits... She seemed to be hanging out with Zenin Shijiro, who had disappeared from Wu's clutches...
This made it impossible for Geto Suguru to think that she was a good person with pure stance.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, summoned two extremely insignificant fly heads, let them serve as his "eyes", and followed the back of the girl below.
And he himself...
He looked down at the message on his phone where his mother was asking him if he would be going home for dinner today. After a moment of silence, he went downstairs and decided to go home first.
The extremely stubborn will strengthened by the sense of fate seemed to be gradually dissipated, and he himself did not even notice it... The cursed spirits he sent out became weaker and weaker, and he almost didn't intend to complete the goal.
The black-haired boy walked through the busy streets with his hands in his pockets. The lights in the shopping street gradually lit up, but the light and shadow could not illuminate his dark eyes.
The aroma of grease wafts from the entrance of the barbecue restaurant, and white-collar workers working overtime are carrying shopping bags in front of the convenience store; students in school uniforms are gathered in groups of three or four, laughing and discussing last night's TV series and new games, carefree.
This is the world he has been familiar with since childhood, an ordinary and noisy world made up of countless "monkeys".
Geto was caught up in the crowd, yet for some reason he didn't want to look at the scenes. He switched perspectives expressionlessly, and another scene played silently through his tiny eyes.
This wasn't the first time he'd sent a flying head to follow Chaomu, but each time he'd been discovered by her or even Shi Er, the chances of the flying head surviving were always very low. The flying head he'd sent this time was one he'd carefully nurtured, its presence much lower than before, its cursed power minimal, and therefore, it had managed to follow her all the way.
Even though his previous attempts to track her had always failed, Geto Xiayou wasn't completely clueless about the girl. He'd followed her many times, watching her meddle in other people's affairs, teasing cats and dogs, one day building a nest for stray cats, the next helping an old lady cross the street... It was as if she was just that idle and... kind-hearted.
The closest he had ever been to her wasn't when he was deliberately following her, but during a mission. He was wearing a fox doll costume, suppressing his nausea and blending in with the monkeys, waiting for the curse that had sprouted from the boring and dark thoughts of humans.
Then he saw her.
Chaomu secretly turned into a little raccoon (still without any magical fluctuations on his body), and ate something to become much bigger. He took a balloon and blended into the pile of dolls. He also performed a performance for the children like a little raccoon digging out of a trash can, and slipped away with a bunch of fresh bouquets that someone had left behind.
There seemed to be many expensive decorations among the bouquets. When she appeared again, she had turned back into human form, patting her bulging pockets contentedly, and strolled over to hug the furry dolls.
She didn't recognize him—technically, she wasn't supposed to know who he was.
She just hugged every doll, including him.
The hug was brief. Through the thick doll costume, he couldn't even feel the other person's body temperature... It was gone in an instant. Geto Suguru should have no memory of that hug.
But he didn't know why he remembered it.
Just like he didn't know why he was standing at the door of his house, looking at the perspective of a fly - the girl was happily returning to her home, and the inexplicable Sky and Tyrant was greeting her at the door in a hollow maid outfit.
Geto Summer Oil: “…………”
He looked at the man's attire and closed his eyes silently.
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The author has something to say: Kogure: The process was all wrong, but the result was all right (right?)
Let me explain to those who haven't seen Curse: Geto Suguru, after making up his mind to treat ordinary people as monkeys, first killed everyone in a village and then killed his own ordinary parents. My personal understanding is that it's like going to Liangshan and "writing a letter of surrender". Once you do something like this, there's no turning back. It's a kind of determination (not judging whether it's right or wrong), at least that's how it should be in the design of IIVM.
In this story, Xiao Xia's parents are private characters, and the timeline is also crooked. The setting here is probably that Xia is still unable to make up her mind and is in a very twisted state (also influenced by fate, that is, the original plot), and is always stopped by Kogure... The world is a huge stop.
Then in the middle, it is mentioned that the cheongsam Scuvaro (…) is real (?), and the Chinese-style pattern of the tutor is really… Friends who are really interested can go and search for the modified picture later. The second-creation modified picture is still very beautiful)
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