Chapter 2: I am the queen, shining with confidence
"Ha, Queen?" Gojo Satoru scoffed. "From the way you're hiding and sneaking around, afraid to show yourself to anyone, I think you might be a witch."
"I do."
Faced with provocation, Cheng Xiaoyu was not annoyed at all.
After all, this is the truth, she is still a black magic wizard and a gas wizard.
"I'm not afraid to see anyone. I originally thought that the legendary six eyes could see me."
She retorted to Gojo Satoru lightly, and before Gojo Satoru could explode and attack her, she took the initiative to find Geto Suguru and change the subject.
"Did you just come here to quarrel with me?"
"Of course not." Seeing that the other party was willing to communicate, Geto Suguru hurried forward to replace Gojo Satoru who was attracting hatred.
"Excuse me, do you know why cursed spirits appeared in large numbers in Beika Town in such a short period of time?"
"Know."
Without any warning, a young woman appeared out of nowhere in this dark alley, floating in the air.
The woman who appeared out of nowhere was about twenty years old. She was wearing a very ordinary sweatshirt and sweatpants. Her long black hair was tied loosely behind her head. She looked no different from an ordinary young woman.
Geto Suguru thought that the word "queen" was probably just a casual remark to criticize Gojo Satoru. The smiling girl in front of him looked nothing like the word "queen" in terms of her temperament and dress. She looked more like a female college student.
But the woman's next words pinned them to the spot:
"Those are cursed spirits from the future."
Although he had guessed it long ago, Cheng Xiaoyu still looked solemn after receiving the analysis result No. 233.
"If things go wrong, the world will be destroyed."
Gojo Satoru: "What is a 'Cursed Spirit from the Future'?"
"You should have discovered it, right?"
Cheng Xiaoyu pointed to the place where the curse spirit dissipated.
"These cursed spirits appeared suddenly, and many of them are high-level. It's impossible for so many high-level cursed spirits to appear in Beika Town in such a short period of time."
"Indeed," Xia Yujie nodded. The report provided to them by their superiors did mention this suspicious point. Their mission was not only to eliminate these sudden appearances of cursed spirits, but also to investigate the cause.
But would anyone really believe this? Cursed spirits from the future, even in the inherently unscientific world of sorcery, were not something people could easily believe.
What on earth could have happened in the future to produce so many first-level and special-level cursed spirits?! Was Beika Town destroyed?!
After hearing the two people's questions, Cheng Xiaoyu recalled the "achievements" of the Death God Elementary School students in Beika Town many years later, and said that it was simply the real version of "Final Destination" and the Japanese version of Crime City.
The author of Detective Conan even drew a comic book specifically to show the bloody and "pure and innocent" atmosphere of Beika Town. The abundance of talented people there is comparable to Gotham, where Cheng Xiaoyu once visited.
Aside from Death God, the world of Detective Conan is best known for its fast and chaotic timeline.
Originally scheduled to run for three months but ultimately stretched to over 20 years, this comic accompanied Cheng Xiaoyu from kindergarten to office life, yet Conan in the comic is still in first grade. The original author even stated in an interview that only about six months had actually passed in the comic...
In other words, in just six months, Beika Town experienced hundreds of murders, several bombings, and many illegal activities of transnational organizations...not to mention other minor problems such as kidnapping, hijacking, robbery, and burglary.
Japanese Gotham is truly worthy of its name!
It is for this reason that such large-scale temporal infiltration occurs.
As mentioned before, this is a new hybrid world. It is now trying to integrate the world laws of different worlds. The chaotic and high-frequency timeline of the Detective Conan world has gone wrong in this fusion process, which is why so many cursed spirits from the future appear in this timeline.
Since a certain elementary school student is restless and wandering around the world, and this world may be more than one, the cursed spirits and other adverse consequences caused by the time distortion are definitely not limited to Beika Town...
The moment the system test results came out, Cheng Xiaoyu's face turned black.
In order to ensure that the critical fusion process does not go wrong, she must stay in this world to observe the situation and eliminate crises until the fusion of the timelines is completed.
That is to say.
She will have to work overtime here for an unknown amount of time!
Especially now because she has activated her ultimate skill, the ghost army cannot be summoned before the ultimate skill is completed, so she can only work overtime in Beika Town by herself these days.
This is also the reason why Cheng Xiaoyu decided to contact Gojo Satoru and the others. He would never miss out on free labor!
Especially in this situation where we are extremely short of manpower and intelligence, if so many dangerous cursed spirits were removed a minute later, more people might have been killed.
Therefore, Cheng Xiaoyu, who had no intention of contacting the top leaders of the curse world at the beginning, cooperated very well with Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru back to the high school after removing the curse spirit that appeared in Beika Town.
When they arrived at the technical high school, Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru took Cheng Xiaoyu directly and knocked on the door of an office.
In the office, there was a muscular man sitting among a pile of dolls and poking the felt.
Although Cheng Xiaoyu had already prepared herself mentally, the visual impact she felt when she actually saw it did not diminish.
Wow, is this what contrast means?
"You said you found out the reason why high-level cursed spirits appeared in large numbers in Beika Town in such a short period of time?" The tough guy kept poking the felt with his hands.
"Klang, right here!" Gojo Satoru jumped to the side and opened his arms to Cheng Xiaoyu like a TV host showing off a prize. "This witch lady said she knows!"
At this moment, Cheng Xiaoyu looked at Xia Yujie and Ye Mo Zhengdao with admiration.
You have worked so hard to take care of this older kid.
Xia Youjie ignored the look Cheng Xiaoyu was giving him: "This is Master Yega Zhengdao."
"Hello, Mr. Ye Moth." Cheng Xiaoyu nodded towards Ye Moth in a righteous manner to show respect.
"Hello." Ye Moth put down the blanket and looked at the girl, who looked like an ordinary young person in both her attire and temperament. "May I ask your name?"
"Ghost Queen." The woman smiled and said, "My human name was abandoned after I became the Queen of the Ghost Kingdom. Ghost Queen has become my nickname."
This is neither a lie nor the truth.
When on a mission, Cheng Xiaoyu often referred to herself as the Ghost Queen, and so did other colleagues on missions. Anyway, everyone had a duty name to use when on a mission, and one person might have several.
Because a name is connected to the soul, it is risky to casually tell your real name to someone you just met.
When Cheng Xiaoyu was still a rookie, a colleague of hers accidentally revealed his real name during a mission and was taken into the enemy's recycling target and turned into concentrated water.
Fortunately, the person who lived at the same time had the ability to "reload the game" and finally returned to their happy hometown intact. However, this incident also became a long-term shadow for her, causing her to take a detour when she saw a gourd-shaped container for a long time.
"You're like this, and you still want to be the queen?" Gojo Satoru stuck out his tongue. "Don't tell me your country is doomed."
"Gojo Satoru!"
After scolding the students, Ye Mo Zheng Dao tried to bring the topic back.
"I can't sense any magical power coming from you."
"It's just that I can't feel it for now. When we first met this girl, she was full of strange cursed energy." Gojo Satoru said, "After that, I couldn't feel it anymore. My six eyes couldn't see through her curse and couldn't tell what she was."
"It's a 'thing' that can make you feel the beatings of society." Cheng Xiaoyu laughed dangerously.
It’s hard to say what the complete form of Gojo Satoru will be like in the future, but she can still beat up the DK Gojo Satoru who has not yet loaded all his skills.
There is no naughty child that Cheng Xiaoyu cannot correct. She is the one who has led and successfully corrected the "Grandson of the Devil" Damian!
Compared to his own Damian Auger who almost conquered half the world, Gojo Satoru, a simple and arrogant teenager who had never killed anyone, needed a beating from society.
"Want to fight? Come on!" Gojo Satoru, who had been looking forward to a fight for a long time, began to rub his hands.
“That’s enough!”
Ye Mo Zheng Dao's veins popped out as he immediately gave the noisy Gojo Satoru a slap on the head. Based on the force of the righteous iron fist and the sound of the wind it created, Cheng Xiaoyu concluded that Gojo Satoru must have a bump on his head.
"Gojo Satoru, get out of here! You too, Geto Suguru."
"So, those cursed spirits that suddenly appeared were the product of the distortion of time and space. You appeared here because your hometown was also affected, and you also lost important treasures. That's why you came here to seek our assistance and warn us."
After kicking the two naughty kids out - mainly Gojo Satoru - the conversation could finally proceed normally.
"Yes," the girl said, tapping the teacup gently. "I'm already investigating, but this isn't my original world, so it'll take time. During this time, there's no guarantee that innocent people won't be harmed."
"I will report this to higher-ups later."
Facing the girl who claimed to be the queen from another world and another country, Yega Zhengdao used honorifics carefully - he was just a school teacher and he was really not good at such diplomatic things.
Although the woman before him didn't look like a queen in her attire, lacking even a guard or a single attendant, and seemingly nonchalant, rather than discussing a matter of life and death, Yaga Masamichi, as a seasoned adult, keenly sensed something about her. He'd also experienced this same feeling when interacting with high-ranking sorcerers.
That's the arrogance and carelessness that are unique to those in high positions, as well as... the sense of danger that lurks in the shadows and cannot be seen through.
Even if the girl in front of me is not the 'Queen', her status is definitely not low. It's always better to be careful.
After realizing this, Ye Mo Zhengdao became more cautious.
"They should have a conversation with you later. Please stay here for the time being."
"Sure." The girl agreed readily.
In reality, Cheng Xiaoyu herself had always lived in the famous Beika Town Hotel in this world. She wasn't exactly a pampered person; in extreme cases, she'd even retreat to sleep in the shadows. But since someone was willing to provide a dorm, why bother staying in a hotel with a fee? Wouldn't it be nice to save some mission funds?
The top leaders in the magic world responded quickly, and Cheng Xiaoyu didn't have to wait long before someone came to invite her to attend the meeting.
What happened in the middle was so boring that the author was too lazy to write it. It was nothing more than a group of senior executives trying to blackmail and threaten Cheng Xiaoyu because she was so young, and make money from her.
From beginning to end, Cheng Xiaoyu stood in the middle of the room indifferently, looking at the senior executives sitting in the shadows of high positions, tilting his head and picking his ears.
"So, what you're saying is that if you want us to cooperate, you have to ask me to do things for you, right?"
"You unreasonable brat! We can't trust you based on your own words alone. We're already being generous by agreeing to work with you," said Senior A. "How could anyone know you were on our side? You must show sincerity."
"Sincerity?" She folded her arms across her chest and sneered. "As the supreme ruler of our Ghost Shadow Kingdom, I stand before you in person without any guards. Isn't that sincerity enough?"
For someone like them who has been traveling through various worlds and timelines for a long time, the total amount of time they have experienced is quite a lot. Furthermore, most of these "employees" were recruited after dying in their original worlds, so naturally they don't age any further. Trying to tell the specific amount of time they have experienced from their appearance is sheer wishful thinking.
These dying old guys who tried to use their age to put pressure on others had no idea that the young-looking woman in front of them had actually experienced more years than all of them combined.
The more Cheng Xiaoyu saw their arrogance, the more she wanted to laugh.
"On the other hand, you let me, a top leader, stand below you and try to take advantage of me and take the blame. You really have shamelessness."
"Don't be so presumptuous! Don't forget that you need our help now!" Senior executive B slammed the table and stood up.
"I think you have made a mistake." The woman put down her hands and stared quietly at the senior executive who spoke.
The next second, a huge invisible pressure erupted from the woman's body, pressing heavily on the two arrogant cannon fodders who spoke rudely, and pinning them directly to the ground.
"Don't look down on me, you losers."
"This...this cursed power..." The high-level C's face was as red as the bottom of a pot, and he swallowed the word "monster" tremblingly.
"It seems you didn't understand what I meant."
Cheng Xiaoyu tucked the loose hair on her temples behind her ears and didn't even glance at these high-level executives who were covered in rotten skin and screaming.
"That's right. After all, I just politely let you, a bunch of wrinkled, chattering old men, speak first, and I didn't even have a chance to say a word. So let me state my position now."
"I'm informing you of this simply because I don't want to cause any innocent casualties. But if you're so reckless about the lives of your compatriots, I won't bother interfering. Anyway—"
"If the world is destroyed because of your negligence and slacking, it has nothing to do with me. I'd rather have less work to do."
"Oh, by the way, there's one more thing." The woman clapped her hands, and the pressure that seemed to weigh a thousand pounds disappeared in an instant, and several old men almost fell to the ground.
"If you find any unusual situations you've never seen before, please send someone to contact me. I'll send my contact information to that...what was the name of the place I was staying at before?"
"Tokyo Polytechnic Institute." Senior executive A, sweating profusely, answered tremblingly.
"Oh, right, Tokyo High School. I'll send my contact information to Tokyo High School. If you need anything, just let them notify me. Are you wondering why I didn't give you my contact information? Because at least they knew how to talk to me and gave me a chair and hot tea. Do you think you can compare with them?"
"Finally, I'll give you one piece of advice: Don't think I'm easy to talk to just because I'm younger and prettier than you. Don't try to manipulate the negotiation table. I've overturned more negotiation tables and crushed more ungrateful people than you have beards. If you want a fight or some underhanded tactics, I'm here for you, but be prepared to be wiped out."
The woman opened the door, leaving only her back against the light for everyone to see.
"If you mess with the Ghost Kingdom, even hiding in the underworld will be useless."
Cheng Xiaoyu turned around for the last time to look at the scarlet eyes in the dark shadows that the higher-ups didn't notice, and said her last words of the day.
"The Ghost Corps is everywhere."
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