Chapter 187 The End

187.

October 31, 2018, 19:00.

A tent with a radius of about 400 meters appeared centered on Tokyu Department Store and Higashi Kendo Yoko Store.

After inspection by the [window], it was determined to be a "tent that locks ordinary people in". Ordinary people can enter in one direction, while those with magical powers can enter and exit freely.

The ordinary people trapped in the tent, after reaching the edge of the tent, just kept saying: "Bring Gojo Satoru here."

In order to minimize the impact, the top sorcerers decided to let Gojo Satoru solve Shibuya's riot alone. The rest of the sorcerers could only wait outside the tent with the assistant supervisor, waiting for Gojo Satoru to take action and solve the net that escaped from the tent.

Not long after, the same "account" was also placed on Meiji Jingu-mae Station. The higher-ups assigned this task to the Ming-Mings. They needed to resolve the curse between the accounts in order to resolve the other "account".

Yuji Itadori, who is in the same group with Meimei, chose to eliminate the cursed spirits between "dealing with a large number of low-level cursed spirits" and "eliminating the unknown powerful cursed spirits alone".

"Then..." Mingming walked in another direction with worry, "I hope we still have a chance to cooperate."

"Don't worry, Miss Meimei." Yuji Itadori responded loudly, "I won't lose!"

As soon as he stepped into the second underground floor, he saw a locust-like cursed spirit holding a human corpse and gnawing on it.

The curse spirit noticed his arrival, put down the corpse in his hand, turned his head, and said in a not very smart tone: "You, you, you are a curse, curse, curse master?"

"You are a sorcerer, right?" The multi-handed curse spirit was a little proud, "I am very smart."

Yuji Itadori didn't want to say much to the curse. As soon as he lowered his body and assumed a fighting stance, he saw a heavy black sword flying out from the side wall and nailing the curse spirit to the ground.

"Huh?"

Yuji Itadori, whose eyes turned into dotted ones, blinked blankly.

Frey, wearing armor and emitting black air, walked out from the darkness step by step. As the "clicking" sound from the moving armor got closer and closer, an invisible pressure spread in the small space.

"You, you are a sorcerer?" The immobile cursed spirit waved his hands, "No... You, you, you are a cursed spirit."

"Were you also sent by Kamo?" The Locust Curse Spirit suddenly became angry. "Does he think I'm stupid? I'm smart! Why did he let you come?"

Seeing Frey slowly approaching him, the cursed spirit suddenly became a little panicked, and his eyes kept rolling around.

It was born from the fear of locusts and inherited the intelligence of insects. It didn't know why it panicked. In order to relieve this strange emotion, it began to struggle: "Are you hungry? Kamo didn't give you food? The taste of the cyborg is indeed much worse... This human is for you to eat!"

Strange, so strange, why can't it stand up? Why would a cursed being like it use a weapon to nail it here? Why did its vision become blurry...

Yuji Itadori watched as Frey stretched out his hand and easily rolled the locust curse spirit into a pitch-black curse spirit ball. Then, he saw the other person turn around and look at him quietly with his red eyes.

It was as if it was evaluating whether he was worth being hunted.

Yuji Itadori swallowed nervously. It found it difficult to relax when being stared at in that way.

"...If it's not mature enough, she won't like it." Frey turned his head away and put away the curse ball. "Speed ​​up the speed of collecting fingers. I want valuable prey, not a mouse hidden in someone else's body."

Seeing Frey draw his heavy sword and intend to leave, Yuji Itadori couldn't help but say, "Wait a minute, auntie..." Where is the auntie boss? Where has she been all this time?

"Hey, where is that woman?" A mouth suddenly appeared on his face. Ryoumen Sukuna, who had been silent for a long time, called out to Frey, looking a little excited. "She is so rude to me... I will tear her to pieces!"

She actually put his finger together with the strange mouse, and from time to time she would hang her finger on the fishing line to go fishing... What a disgusting and hateful woman!

Yuji Itadori quickly slapped Ryomen Sukuna on the mouth, but he only hit his own face. The next second, Ryomen Sukuna's mouth moved to the back of his hand:

"Hey, I can sense how powerful you are. Can you bear to be inferior to a woman? She only relied on external things to get to this point. Your magical power is much higher than that woman's."

"Come and be my subordinate."

"Sorry." Yuji Itadori quickly covered the back of his hand and said awkwardly, "I'm very sorry, please don't mind what this guy said."

"...Shut up, what the hell are you talking about when you don't even have a body?" Frey stopped where he was and turned slightly to the side. "I am the power she uses to fight for the world."

"If you keep talking, I'll skin you alive."

*

After you fly above the Shibuya tent, you discover many red dot cursed spirits near the Meiji Shrine not far away.

Ingredients, these are all ingredients. I don’t know if they are limited in time - after all, they just appeared. If you miss them, you won’t be able to sleep well tonight.

Damn it, now you start to regret sneaking out alone.

But it doesn’t matter, you still have the Dark Knight’s good partner, the ever-reliable Frey!

Frey goes to another place to get ingredients for you, and you ride the bird down from the center of the tent - the map shows that the ingredient that is red and a little purple is at this location.

But after you landed, you saw nothing. After thinking for a while, you lowered your head to look at the ground: Could this thing be underground?

You pulled out your heavy sword and gestured at the ground twice: Using your wife to dig the ground doesn't seem to be a good idea? It takes too much durability... Never mind.

You pull out the useful cherry bomb.

Hmm... a radius of 500 meters, isn't that a bit too big? You ponder, then pick one of the cherries and put it in your backpack. Now, with a radius of 250 meters, the food won't turn into ashes, right?

Your former former former boss, who lived in Yokohama sewers for many years and was petite, frail and sickly, was able to escape from a complete version of the cherry bomb. As a 3S-level ingredient, you can't be so lame, right?

Of course, you still save a file just in case.

As for the other NPCs in the account... you think indifferently, you'll pass the level once you get the ingredients, so who cares about them?

"It's you, Cherry Bomb!" You rode on the bird, flew into the air, and threw a single cherry bomb. "My turn, explosion is art!"

"Bang——"

A small cherry-pink mushroom cloud passed through the pitch-black tent and rose in the sky above Shibuya.

At the same time, on the fifth underground floor of the Tokyo Metro.

Gojo Satoru, who was fighting against the cursed spirit of equal magnitude, suddenly sensed a vibration coming from above. Almost without thinking, he jumped back and increased his unlimited output at the same time.

The low-level cursed spirits that didn't have time to dodge disappeared along with the building without even a scream.

Noose, who had been observing the development of the situation, could no longer sit still.

"What is this?" The one who was at the center of the explosion and took a lot of damage covered his chest and asked in disbelief, "Is it a curse?"

"Stupid, it's a bomb." You jumped down from the place damaged by the bomb, "Hey, I landed safely!"

You flew too high, and since you hadn't thrown a bomb for fun in a while, you accidentally let the bomb explode in mid-air... Fortunately, the hole was deep enough, so you caught a special-grade cursed spirit, right?

"Eh? Boss?" Gojo Satoru pulled his sunglasses down, then pushed them back up. He walked around you twice, as if complaining, or acting coquettishly, "Why did you leave for several months without saying a word? Really... We were so worried about you."

"Don't worry, Auntie is busy."

You were busy grabbing ingredients to grill, you pushed Gojo Satoru aside, and without even looking at the bloated face that was badly injured by the bomb, you walked to the side with shining eyes.

You see the food with a red health bar and a question mark on its head hiding behind.

But when you bypass the obstacles, you only see an ordinary person with stitches on his forehead - at least an ordinary person on the surface - hiding behind the ruins and shivering.

Upon seeing you, this plain-looking man raised his head with anticipation on his face: "Are you...are you here to save us?"

You look at the man who is shaking with fear, then look at the red blood bar on his forehead, and silently take out your weapon: No matter if it is food or not, this guy is a red name, so you might as well chop him down.

As if it didn't expect you to attack directly, the fallen NPC showed an expression of disbelief when its health bar returned to zero.

Apart from a message popping up in the system saying that you gained xxx experience points after defeating the enemy, nothing happened.

Strange... It's really not a food ingredient? But the big red dot on the map is still here... Do I have to go underground?

How could this ingredient be hidden so well? Could it be the pangolin, a protected species?

You take out the remaining cherry bombs and get ready to bomb again: this time, if you bomb 250 meters down, you will definitely find some food, right? At the very least, you will get the news that the food has been destroyed by your bombing, right?

"Huh? Boss, you're not planning to blow up here, are you?!"

Fearing that you were going to make something big again, Gojo Satoru hurriedly chased after you after making sure that the sullen person had lost his ability to move. When he saw the cherry bomb in your hand, he flew over and hugged your legs.

"Wait a minute, boss! There are many ordinary people and sorcerers here!" Gojo Satoru racked his brains to persuade you and started playing the store card, "These are all your future customers."

More importantly, Rokuyan told him that being hit by this wave of bombs at close range would put a huge strain on his body. He didn't want to spend the rest of the time in Glass's infirmary before finding the culprit behind today's crime.

"Auntie didn't blame you for secretly solving the curse and not offering it, and you even stopped me from finding ingredients." You shook your legs, a little disgusted, "Auntie doesn't have a disloyal kitchen employee like you!"

"Jie has actually captured a new imaginary special-level creature in the past few months. If you need it, boss, I can steal Jie's cursed spirit... hm?"

Gojo Satoru paused for a moment, and the next second, he looked up at you as if he had seen something interesting: "Boss, I think I know where the special ingredients you want are."

"I just saw this man's brain move."

Did your head move? Your brain buffered for two seconds, and then you looked at the gray NPC at your feet and suddenly realized: "There is a problem with the seam."

"Bingo!"

Gojo Satoru snapped his fingers, squatted down next to the dead NPC, reached out his hand, and mercilessly tore open the seams on the opponent's forehead, peeling off the upper half of the skull.

So you learned from a dead NPC what it means to be edible after opening the lid.

The golden brain installed in the NPC's head, which is judged by the system to be level 3s, appears in front of you.

Well, if you take off the cognitive filter you can still see that this brain has teeth.

The ingredients are pretty good. I know some people have bad teeth, so I brought a pair of dentures to help them make a living.

Realizing that he was exposed, Noose simply abandoned his current body, jumped down from the head, cast a spell, and quickly fled deep into the subway.

But before it ran far, it was caught by an insect net that fell from the sky and was unable to struggle.

"Oh... it's a small ingredient, not very big, but it runs pretty fast." You picked up the insect net, wiped your forehead without sweat, and smiled brightly, "Ha, I was caught by Auntie after all."

"Oh... Is this the mastermind behind this?" Gojo Satoru bent down, took off his sunglasses and observed the noose, somewhat curiously, "It actually looks like this... Boss, this ingredient doesn't look very fresh."

"Indeed, then why not boil it in a hot pot? It will be fine as long as it can be well-seasoned."

"Boss, don't tell Jay yet. I'll give it to him to taste after it's cooked."

"You are too mean... Then throw the eyeball curse spirit you caught last time into the pot."

…

While you and Gojo Satoru were chatting from time to time, the system began to pop up the copy settlement content.

[You have obtained 3S ingredients: Thousand-year-old brain flower]

[Main quest completed]

[You have cleared the current instance]

[You can freely switch between full-level professions. Currently available professions: Dark Knight/Scholar/Summoner/Warrior]

Not bad, not bad, now that the main quest is complete, you can switch careers and let Xiaobao come out to play with you - wait, choose between the Dark Knight's eternal wife Frey and the fluffy Gem Beast, hiss... this is simply a world-class challenge!

Why can't they exist at the same time? You are a player, the game should let you have both Frey and Xiaobao, and it would be best if the fairy could appear at the same time, and then make a pet system for you.

When you were thinking about how to have fun in the future, the system panel suddenly turned white, and then a line of conspicuous red words popped up:

【About to enter the final settlement scene】

[Scene change countdown: 10, 9, 8...]

Eh? No? Do I have to change the scene just because you agree?!

Without time to think, you hold the insect net and yell to Gojo Satoru: "Don't kill any cursed spirits tonight, save them for me to come back..."

Before you can finish your words, your eyes blur and you arrive at a new scene.

It's very similar to the login screen, you are suspended in the air, there is nothing around you.

The only difference is that the background here is pure black.

[System elf reminds you that your important items have been purified]

[You have obtained the world-class item "Four Souls Jade"]

You almost forgot that there is such a thing being purified... Come to think of it, it took two copies to be purified before it was finished. This little elf is really inefficient.

That's right... Why do you feel that the name and style of this prop are not similar to those of the Knife Spirit? They look like two layers when placed together... Or maybe this jade is too ancient and simple, and it doesn't match the year 2205...

You are still daydreaming when a blurry figure slowly appears in front of you.

There is a soft white light surrounding the other person, and in your eyes, it is just a white person drawn on a piece of black paper, with a layer of soft light and a 15% Gaussian blur stroke applied.

But this nameless NPC looks so familiar... white robe... red mask... I'm going to say it's the ancient style of Fantasy 14! And he's an official of the 14th Committee, incredible.

At this moment, it would be more appropriate to add some background music of Zu○!

Really, the game team doesn't understand fantasy at all.

"Thank you for your hard work along the way."

The member of the Fourteenth Committee, whom you have never seen in the game art book, spoke in a voice that sounded like a man and a woman, and it sounded like you had binaural surround sound turned on: "Give me all the mission props, and you will complete the game."

You didn't say anything, and the other person didn't say anything either.

So the two of you stared at each other in silence in the dark scene, until the other person spoke again, more hesitantly and uncertainly: "...Please give me the props."

"What about the rewards?" You continue to stare at him, "Rare golden titles, cool equipment appearances, and superb achievement illustrations... Are there none of these?"

You are asked to submit the mission props for a mission that contains nothing? Isn't this just freeloading?! Even if you know that this is part of the game's recycling of mission props, how can you not be given anything?

Even the crappiest errands I know will give you ten gold coins, okay?

"...No." The ancient NPC paused, "You have already got more than enough."

"oh."

You didn't say anything else, but just took out a small stool from your backpack, sat down in the air, and brought out the steaming butter and red soup hot pot, waiting for the soup to boil.

The aroma of the hot pot slowly spread.

The Ancient NPC seemed a little impatient: "What are you doing?"

"I'm making hot pot." You answered confidently, "Can't you see that?"

"...Please submit your mission items."

"Haha." You poured tofu, bean sprouts and bean curd skin into the hot pot and started to speak in a sarcastic tone, "No way, no way, no way, these days no one would let others work for nothing, right?"

"You're thinking too much."

You took off your mask, grinned, and showed your conspicuous white teeth to the ancient NPC, "If you don't give me a reward, I will just eat these props--"

You dipped the brain you just took out into the boiling hot pot for a second, stuffed it into your mouth with blood and membrane, and chewed it while making a provocative gesture to the NPC: "I won't give it to you either."

The NPC who didn't have time to stop you was angry: "Do you know what you did?!"

"Damn it... Ashem... You are always like this... No one... No one can stop us from returning home..."

Noticing the faint health bar on the NPC's head, you clicked to exit the game. Before leaving, you didn't forget to provoke him: "So what? Kill the player if you can."

【You have exited the game】

You take off your helmet, lie down on the bed, and let out a long breath.

It's so exciting to run away after teasing.

But the NPC... you wondered blankly, is he calling you Ashem?