Chapter 532: More and more complete
On this day, Aize and Asatake Yoshino did not do their usual morning exercises, but went into the mountains after hurriedly finishing breakfast.
The companions included Hitachi Mako, who arrived at the Asatake family later and knew everything, and Cong Yu who would follow as expected, that is, all the members of the usual exorcism team were present.
"Actually, I can come alone."
Looking at Yoshino Asatake and Mako Hitachi following him up the mountain path, Aize felt helpless.
He had already called Kurama Rentaro and asked him to ask for leave for him.
Originally, he planned to go up the mountain with Cong Yu, but who would have thought that Asatake Yoshino and Hitachi Mako would also ask for leave and insist on coming with them.
"I'm sorry." Asatake Yoshino apologized and whispered, "Because I still care about you no matter what, so..."
After all, this concerns whether the curse of the Chaowu family can be lifted, and even more so her life and future. Chaowu Yoshino really can't pretend that nothing happened and let Aize go to the mountain alone while she goes to school as if it has nothing to do with her.
"Well, there's nothing we can do about it." Hitachi Mako could understand Asatake Yoshino's feelings and said, "Even I'm deeply concerned, let alone Yoshino-sama."
God knows how excited she was when she came from the Hitachi family and arrived at the Asatake family, and heard from everyone that the curse that had lasted for hundreds of years might have been lifted.
The Asatake family was tormented by the curse for hundreds of years, and the Hitachi family also struggled for hundreds of years because of it.
From generation to generation, the Hitachi family has had someone serve as the shrine maiden's guard. That is, when the shrine maiden from generation to generation fights against the evil spirit, there will always be someone from the Hitachi family by her side, so the Hitachi family has been entangled with this curse for hundreds of years.
If the curse is not lifted, people from the Hitachi family will continue to go up the mountain to fight the evil spirit and continue to risk their lives to protect the shrine maiden.
In view of this, whether the curse can be lifted is also related to whether the future descendants of the Hitachi family can live in peace.
If the curse could be lifted, then she, Hitachi Mako, would not have to fight the evil god anymore, which would undoubtedly be a good thing.
In addition, because she needed to protect Yoshino Asatake, Hitachi Mako went up the mountain without hesitation.
"But if we go up the mountain in a group like this, maybe we're just wasting time," Aize reminded him. "Just like Mr. An Qing said, this mountain is so big and covers such a wide area. It's not easy to find such small pieces."
Although Aize could produce some strange reactions to the existence of the fragments, he himself had no idea whether this could be a means to find the fragments.
Therefore, he was not very in favor of mobilizing such a large force for this trip, for fear that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
But Yoshino Asatake and Mako Hitachi clearly didn't care.
"If we have more people, we can be more efficient if we need to find something, right?" Asatake Yoshino said softly, "We can't let you work alone while we wait for news at home."
This is also one of the reasons why Asatake Yoshino wanted to go up the mountain.
The problem is…
"Are you really okay?" Aize turned around and looked at Asatake Yoshino, and said somewhat obscurely: "I think you can rest at home for a while."
After all, this beautiful witch was exhausted and injured last night.
"No, it's okay." Asatake Yoshino obviously understood what Aize meant. Her pretty face flushed and her voice became much lower, causing her to stammer: "It doesn't hurt anymore now. It won't affect my movements at all."
Hearing this, before Aize could react, Hitachi Momoko became anxious first.
"Does it hurt? Lady Yoshino?" Hitachi Mako asked hurriedly, "Are you injured somewhere? Please let me see!"
"No, that's all! Mozi!" Chaowu Yoshino immediately waved her hand and shook her head, a little embarrassed and ashamed, saying: "It's just some minor injuries. They are almost healed now. Don't worry about me."
"You can't be too careless, okay?" Hitachi Moko said seriously, "Maybe it's just a minor injury at first, but if you don't take good care of it, it could very well become serious."
"Please let me take a look at the wound, Lady Yoshino."
How could I possibly let you see this...? !
Yoshino Asatake almost shouted out, and her pretty face turned red.
"Oh, don't worry about it, Mozi." Cong Yu was already beaming with joy, and said with a restrained smile: "This is a very happy injury. Let Fang Nai heal slowly and experience it slowly."
"Huh?" Hitachi Moko was suddenly confused. "A happy injury? What kind of injury is that?"
"You don't have to make it so clear!" Asatake Yoshino couldn't stand it any longer, blushing and saying, "Anyway, I'm fine, just listen to me!"
"Okay..." Hitachi Moko was a little bit unable to accept it, but still nodded obediently and stopped asking questions.
Aize focused his eyes on his nose and his nose on his heart, as if he couldn't hear the talk behind him. He was completely focused.
This is not a topic he can casually intervene in. If he is not careful, he will become a nobody.
So, just pretend you didn’t hear it.
Cong Yu teased Chao Wu Fang Nai for a while, then caught up with Aize and asked.
"By the way, Master, how exactly do you plan to find the fragments of the token?"
Yoshino Asatake and Mako Hitachi were immediately distracted and turned to look at Aize.
Aize did not respond, but stopped and stood between the mountains and forests.
“————”
He closed his eyes, held the transparent crystal-like fragment in his hand, and sensed it with his heart.
In this life, he has possessed incredible talents since he was born. He can perfectly utilize the performance of any tool that comes into contact with his hands. Even if he holds a branch or a stick, he can instinctively make it powerful. He even dares to pick up chickens and beat dogs when he is a little bit weak, and has become a bully in the surrounding area.
Thanks to this, Aize is not only outstanding in kendo, but also a master in cooking. His knife skills are so good that even his master, a famous chef, is impressed and feels inferior to him. He even took the initiative to accept him as his apprentice and taught him cooking for two years.
Holding a kitchen knife, whether it is carving patterns and trees on food ingredients or removing tendons and bones from various meats, Aize can do it perfectly.
This kind of talent is not only limited to sharp weapons, but also has an effect on some tools and props.
Therefore, Aize's carpentry skills are actually impeccable. He can use all kinds of tools with ease, and his skills in assembling figures or puzzles are unmatched. No matter how complicated the things are, he can figure them out immediately and finish them in the fastest speed.
He can also use marbles to shoot birds down from trees, and he can always hit the target with a water gun. When playing cards, he can immediately guess what card it is just by touching the corner, whether it is poker or mahjong. He has never lost when rolling dice.
He may not be a cooking god, after all, cooking is not something that can be achieved by just mastering the kitchen utensils, but he is definitely a gambling god. He has never lost except for gambling methods such as rock-paper-scissors that do not require gambling tools and other gambling methods that he cannot master.
Even when playing slot machines in the arcade, Aize can come up with some tricks. If he wasn't uninterested in these things, he would have taught the arcade owner a lesson.
Aize felt that it was because he possessed this kind of talent that he could attract Cong Yuwan so much, forcing it to call him out for help and willing to help him integrate divine power and master extraordinary power. The reason why he could touch Cong Yu was also because Cong Yu was Cong Yuwan's manager and its sword spirit. He completely mastered everything about Cong Yuwan, so he could touch Cong Yu and become the only one who could touch her.
Also, when he saw the fragments of Ping Dai in the shrine before, he was able to produce the same reaction as when he was called by Qu Yumaru, which was also due to this special talent.
Although the reaction was very weak, he could vaguely feel that the fragment of the generation was also calling him, begging him, hoping that he could help it.
It hopes that it can recover completely.
This is based on one's own wishes.
Aize didn't know whether this was a sign of his own spiritual power or the spirit of the dog god that was used as a cursed sacrifice was praying to him to help it get rid of it.
However, no matter which one it is, it should be possible to stimulate it with one's innate special abilities.
Just like how he had felt about this fragment of power before, Aize hoped that he could do the same now.
"I can help you, provided you can help me find it."
Aize silently recited this in his heart, and let a trace of divine power flow through his palm and into the fragments of Pingdai.
“Zheng…”
At a certain moment, Aize suddenly felt that the fragment of the token in his hand was getting hot, and there seemed to be light emanating from it.
“Dongdong——”
At this moment, Aize's heartbeat began to vibrate, causing him to suddenly open his eyes.
"Over here."
A sudden inspiration came to Aize, and he turned in one direction and walked towards that direction.
"Aze!"
"Lord Aize!"
"Owner!"
Asatake Yoshino, Hitachi Mako, and Cong Yu first exclaimed, then hurriedly followed.
The group didn't walk far and soon stopped at a place.
Aize squatted down and dug in the ground for a while. Soon he dug out a piece of transparent crystal-like fragment from the soil.
It is the fragments of the generation.
"I really found it!"
"Very good!"
Yoshino Asatake and Mako Hitachi were surprised to see this scene.
"As expected of you, Master!"
Cong Yu also smiled, extremely happy.
Aize put the fragment of the token in his hand and the fragment of the token he had just found together. As a result, the two fragments were attracted to each other like magnets. In a dazzling flash, they suddenly merged into one, becoming a slightly larger fragment.
Holding the fragment, Aize immediately felt something.
"The vague feeling I had before seems to have grown stronger, and the power of the power seems to have grown stronger as well."
This made the resonance between Aize and the Pingdai fragment become much more intense, and his heartbeat became faster and faster.
In that case...
"Maybe it will work."
Aize's eyes lit up.
If the sensing was just as weak and vague as before, then at most he could only find a few fragments not far away from him, and he might not even be able to find the next fragment.
But if the power of the proxy becomes stronger as the fragments are collected, then the induction stimulated by the proxy fragments will also become stronger, and more and farther fragments can be found.
Thinking of this, Aize became full of motivation.
"Let's go find the next piece."
Aize turned in the other direction.
He had already sensed the location of the next fragment.
…………
Next, Aize continued to follow his increasingly strong senses, searching for the fragments of the token hidden in the mountains.
Some of them are hidden in the soil, some are hidden in the grass, some are hidden between the trees, and some are even floating in the streams and rivers. They are very scattered.
In order to find these fragments, Aize also spent a lot of effort. Sometimes he needed to dig the soil, sometimes he needed to weed, sometimes he needed to cut down trees, and sometimes he needed to swim underwater and keep searching, which was time-consuming and laborious.
But even so, throughout the day, Aize found a lot of fragments, which made the token grow bigger and bigger and gradually restored to its original state.
By the time it got dark, the token in Aize's hand had become much larger than it was at the beginning.
"We should have collected about one-fifth or one-sixth of it, right?"
Aize came to this conclusion from Pingdai's increasingly complete appearance.
Judging from the appearance, the complete token should be in the shape of a bead, about the size of a palm.
The fragments of the token collected by Aize already have the edge of a bead. They look like a broken glass ball with white haze flowing inside, which looks a bit magical.
"If we continue collecting at this rate, it will only take about a week to collect everything."
Aize said this to the girls who were accompanying him.
"If we go up the mountain to search at night, it will probably be faster."
So, Aize decided to continue climbing the mountain at night.
““Let’s come too!””
Asatake Yoshino and Hitachi Mako immediately spoke up.
"No!" Aize refused without hesitation, saying, "Look at how you look now. How can you still have the energy to go up the mountain tonight?"
Looking closely, both Asatake Yoshino and Hitachi Mako had fatigue on their faces that was hard to conceal.
After a busy day, the two girls were exhausted.
Not to mention them, even Aize felt a little tired. After all, whether it was climbing trees or going into the water, he had to do it all by himself.
But he has outstanding physical fitness and excellent physical fitness. As long as he gets some rest, he should still be able to work hard at night.
As a result, Cong Yu also voiced his opposition.
"We think it would be best for the master to go back and rest, otherwise it might affect our daytime activities."
Obviously, she didn't approve of Aize going up the mountain alone at night.
Not only is it tiring, but it is also dangerous on the mountain at night.
Searching for a small piece of debris in such a completely dark environment is definitely not as efficient as during the day.
So Cong Yu made a suggestion.
"There's no need to rush. Can't we just come back during the day?"
Following Cong Yu's suggestion, Aize did not insist and nodded in agreement.
"Then come back during the day."
(End of this chapter)
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