Chapter 105 Irresponsible Extra 5
Irresponsible Extra: If the Zenin family was the first to pick up the child (if line, part 2)
"Curious about my last name?" asked Zenin Maki.
That day, everyone at Tokyo Technical High School was attending a welcome event for the new students.
When it came to the game of truth or dare, the pink-haired junior was the first to ask, "Maki-senpai, why does it sound like you hate your last name so much... ah, it hurts!"
The brown-haired schoolgirl immediately hit him on the back of the head: "Are you a newbie in the world of curse? You haven't even heard of the stories of the three great families?"
The black sea urchin-haired junior silently added: "He really hasn't heard anything. After all, he was just an ordinary person last week."
"...Is that true?" Panda scratched his head. "Then it's not Yuji's fault. Let me explain on Maki's behalf."
"No need," Zenin Maki paused. "A few years ago, I didn't want to mention the Zenin family, but things have gotten much better in the past two years. If you want to mention it, go ahead."
Everyone tilted their heads, then leaned forward, pretending to listen attentively.
“You guys…”
"There's melon!" Kugisaki Nobara excitedly slapped the table.
"Simply put, we've just gotten a pretty good replacement in management," Zenin Maki said. "While she doesn't hold any of those boring titles like head of the family or elder, she's overseeing a lot of internal matters and has established a series of new rules. As a result, all the female members are taking care of her."
Kugisaki Nobara used her finger as a gun, waving it at the ceiling. "I understand. He was the one who fired the first shot against feudalism!"
Zenin Maki smiled and said, "She would definitely be very happy if she heard this."
Yuji Itadori touched his chin and said, "He seems like someone who is easy to get along with."
"Salmon, salmon." Goumaki Chi agreed and expressed his curiosity.
At this moment, a white, unidentified floating object with an eye mask appeared in the air above the room. He shouted in a loud voice: "What game are you playing? Take me with you~"
It turned out that it was not floating objects, but the high altitude caused by height.
"Wu, can you please have some self-awareness as a teacher..." Panda rolled his eyes speechlessly, "Don't try to intrude into the students' conversation just because you have the official appearance of a child!"
Gojo Satoru asked nonchalantly, "So, what are you talking about? Maybe I have some more specific gossip."
"We just mentioned Kanako," Maki said.
Gojo Satoru immediately said, "Oh, is that the little Kana from the Zenin family?"
"Little...Little Kana?" A chill ran down Zenin Maki's back. "This nickname is disgusting! Apologize to Kanako right now!"
"Maki is definitely a hidden sister complex," Gojo Satoru said, his chin raised confidently. "But I can understand that. After all, Kanna-chan is second only to me and Gon in handsomeness and charisma."
Even Gojo-sensei, who is arrogant in the field of appearance, admits that he is handsome... What a high evaluation!
Everyone showed an expression of disbelief. Zenin Maki coughed twice and suppressed the corners of her mouth that were trying to turn up wildly.
She turned her gaze to Megumi Fushiguro, who was drinking a drink by herself. "Hey, Megumi, why are you pretending not to know her?"
Having failed to reduce her presence, Megumi Fushiguro was forced to become the next focus.
His eyes drifted to the corner of the wall for a moment, and he tried to organize his words. Then he spoke calmly, "A very decisive person."
"When we first met, I thought she was the head of the Zenin family," commented Megumi Fushiguro.
Gojo Satoru seemed to have heard something incredible and was laughing so hard that he fell backwards.
After more than ten seconds, he calmed down a little and wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes: "Considering that you will most likely have to deal with her in the future, it's better to reveal a little more."
"The story begins ten years ago..."
*
"Are you Xiaohui, born from Fushiguro Jiner?"
On the way home from school, Megumi Fushiguro, who was still in kindergarten, was stopped by a strange woman.
No, it would be more accurate to say "girl" rather than "woman".
Megumi Fushiguro quickly took a look at the girl in front of her with her long white hair tied up. She was older than Tsu Miki and was wearing a goose yellow kimono that looked very expensive.
Come to think of it... why do we use "born by Fushiguro Nori" to describe him? Men can't have children, right?
The girl waited quietly for his reply, and Fushiguro Megumi had no choice but to say, "Yes, I am."
"That's great, I didn't find the wrong person." The girl clapped her hands happily, then squatted down to his eye level. "My name is Kanako, and I come from the Zenin family where Shinji was born."
"You currently have two major options." Kanako pointed her finger.
"One is to return to the Chanyuan family and be trained to become the next head of the Chanyuan family, but the process is very complicated. You might even get to experience the feudal family version of "The Grand Mansion Gate."
"One is to not return to the Zenyuan family and continue living your current life. However, in order to prevent you from being harassed by certain people in the Zenyuan family, a wealthy and foolish guardian will be needed to buy you and act as a shelter."
"So, which one do you prefer?" Kanako looked at him expectantly.
Megumi Fushiguro fell into thought.
After a while, he muttered silently, "Human trafficking is illegal."
"Yes, but bad people often don't care about the law." Kanako answered leisurely.
"...Are you implicitly admitting that you are also a bad guy?" Megumi Fushiguro suddenly asked.
This time it was Kanako who entered a state of contemplation.
"That makes sense." Kanako suddenly realized, "So I'm also a bad guy. Thank you for reminding me!"
Fushiguro Megumi: “…”
Is your attitude quite honest?
Kanako closed the distance between them and quickly rubbed Fushiguro Megumi's face.
By the way, he patted the sea urchin's head and said, "Listen carefully, Xiaohui. Maybe in the future, many people will care about your talent, covet your skills, and try every means to trick you into becoming a sorcerer, but I can't do that."
Kanako said confidently, almost arrogantly, "Because I don't care."
"With or without you, the earth will still turn every day." Kanako pointed to the sky, "As long as you don't become an obstacle to my progress, it's fine."
“…I choose the second one.”
"no problem!"
"I started to like you the first time I saw you." Kanako scratched his chin with satisfaction, as if teasing a cat.
"You're much cuter than Naoya," she said.
*
The time should be pushed back a few years.
The night when Kanako returned from the dead (?) was also the beginning of Zenin Naoya's real nightmare.
The invasion of outsiders in the middle of the night alarmed all the family sorcerers above level two. They rushed into the courtyard of Zenin Naoya and found no casualties after inspection.
The most seriously injured was a servant who fell down the stairs after being frightened by Kanako, while the rest were just temporarily unconscious.
This gesture of holding back gave the Zenin family a signal that they could sit down and have a good chat. Zenin Naohito immediately dismissed the crowd and left Naoya behind.
Yes, left behind - at least in the eyes of Zenin Naoya, his father's tall back seemed to have decided to leave him behind.
The lights in the main meeting room were on all night, and Zenin Naoya also stayed awake all night.
The early morning light peeked through the sky.
Standing on tiptoe, the floor made a squeaking sound. Kanako changed into a clean white kimono and jumped down the stairs steadily.
"Did you come here specially to wait for me?" Kanako covered her mouth and chuckled, "Then let's go back together, Naoya-chan."
...Naoya!? What a lousy name!!!
"The head of the family said that you are younger than me."
The performance of "The Disaster of Zenin Naoya" begins.
In the meeting room that day, it was known that Kanako and the head of the family reached some kind of consensus. The specific conditions were unknown. Judging from the attitude of the head of the family, they must have signed some kind of contractual binding.
Anyway, Kanako successfully obtained the household registration book which is her legal identity document in this world.
In the walled courtyard, Kanako still appeared to be holding her original position beside Naoya.
In fact, due to her overly strong hard power and execution ability, everyone in Naoya's compound tacitly obeyed her management.
The first thing Kanako did was to connect the house to the internet.
Get a fully covered network and buy a full set of new-age convenient furniture.
Replace all rice cookers with the best ones, use washing machines and dishwashers to replace manual labor, adjust the working hours of servants, and reject 996 and 007, starting with her and everyone.
That month, Zenin Naobi recommended Kanako to the "Kukuru" team.
The Kukuru-tai includes all male members of the Zenin family who do not have any techniques, with Kanako being the first exception.
Be it gender or magical powers, she has none of the advantages that the Zenin family is proud of.
This just happened to verify a guess in Kanako's mind.
"All these miscellaneous rules are used to restrain the weak." Kanako dodged Zenin Naoya's sneak attack and turned back to block the sharp blade with her bare hands.
The sharp cursed tool was crushed into pieces by her fingers. Kanako calmly finished the second half of the sentence: "The strong are responsible for making the rules."
"Have you been slacking off in your practice lately?" she asked.
Zenin Naoya, suffering from the side effects of his own technique, froze in place for a second before glaring at her and loudly retorting, "I didn't!"
She is getting stronger too fast, who can catch up with her abnormal growth rate!
——Zenin Naoya would rather keep these words in his stomach than admit them.
Kanako closed her eyes and hooked her fingers in the air, "The murderous intent is too obvious. If you want to assassinate someone, you must first deceive the whole world with your aura. This way, the other party will be caught off guard and the probability of success will increase."
Although they were clearly the same age, Kanako became his half-Kaijutsu teacher.
"How about you just switch to a head-on confrontation?" Kanako laughed. "Everyone's taking the shortcut of a head-on berserker style. Who can you really beat?"
I definitely can't beat her anyway.
Zenin Naoya dug both of his hands into the ground.
The dirt sank into his fingernails bit by bit. This legitimate young master, who had been hailed as a genius and future successor since childhood, was crushed in all aspects of his talent.
He never doubted his talent… He awakened the art at the age of five, was able to apply the complicated projection spells to actual combat training at the age of six, and could perfectly complete an exorcism mission at the age of seven.
But all of this is not enough.
After a while, whenever Kanako was called over by the head of the family, he would follow without saying a word.
Kanako walked very fast and had no intention of waiting for him. Every time, Zenin Naoya would jog to catch up with her back.
It's funny to say that one time a short-sighted and ignorant guest saw the two of them and mistook Kanako for one of the owners of the main family.
The guest habitually teased, "You have a good-looking attendant."
"Hmm?" Kanako turned around and used her eyes to hold back the angry Naoya. "So he's considered a beautiful type? Thanks for the reminder."
The guest smiled and explained his purpose, saying that he wanted to recommend a few talented young men from the clan to the Zen temple for training.
He stated very bluntly, "Of course, once you become a formal sorcerer, you will naturally belong to the Zenin family."
Kanako patiently met those people.
The average age of those people was older than Kanako, who had just turned twelve at the time, and the number of seconds they lasted during the duel did not even exceed this number.
Kanako clapped her hands and announced that everyone should get out of here smoothly.
The exasperated guest shouted angrily, "You haven't even shown them the technique yet, so how can you decide on their behalf? Where's the head of the family? I want to see him."
"The head of the family said I have the final say." Kanako yawned in boredom. "They don't have a good foundation, and they don't have much talent."
"The ability to perform magic innately is the best proof of a sorcerer's talent!!"
Kanako shook her head and said, "Then let me tell you a story."
There was a person who, on the second day after joining the "Kukulu" team, beat up all the captains of the "Kukulu" team in front of everyone.
They went through one-on-one duels and round-robin battles, and the situation got so bad that even the leader was called out.
Although the leader of "Kokuryu" did not have any techniques, he was a top-notch expert in controlling cursed power techniques. At the moment the round-robin battle ended, he suddenly attacked and aimed at the relatively vulnerable back of the neck.
He used 80% of his strength, trying to crush her cervical vertebrae in an instant and eliminate the future trouble.
Then the scene in front of him suddenly changed, and he felt dizzy. The person who was pinched by the back of the neck turned out to be the leader himself.
She sprained the leader's neck and became the new leader of the "Kujuliu" team.
If the birth of Zenin Jiner only brought pure physical heaven and curse into the vision of a small number of people, then the appearance of Zenin Kanako was openly telling the curse world that she was a terrifying genius that no one could control.
Her very presence is a deterrent.
Kanako herself said that she would stay at Zenin's house forever because the person who handed her the first bowl of mayonnaise with white rice was a kind aunt named Zenin.
Revenge must be taken, and favors must be repaid.
"Unfortunately, the 'person' in the story is not 'a friend of mine', but myself." Kanako said with a little humor.
At this moment, Zenin Naoya, who was standing three steps behind Kanako, suddenly realized something.
Learning the technique and becoming a "genius" in the broad sense of the word among sorcerers is just the threshold to her achievement.
And he himself was within the threshold set by Kanako from the beginning to the end.
What... He is indeed a unique genius, even Kanako has to admit it.
Zenin Naoya thought with satisfaction.
*
But Zenin Naoya refused to accept it. When insulting her failed, he racked his brains to find ways to make things difficult for Kanako.
While Kanako was handling things, he messed up the report.
When Kanako was training the team, he used all his skills to sneak attack her.
Kanako was eating, so he sat next to her and ate with her, snatching her food...
Finally, Kanako grabbed Naoya by the collar and said, "Are you jealous of me?"
The incoherent sentence completely disrupted the words that Zenin Naoya had prepared: "Huh?"
"Surprisingly not." Kanako let go of her hand and continued adding mayonnaise and crab meat to the rice, stirring it back and forth with her chopsticks. "Are you jealous of me?"
Zenin Naoya looked confused: "What nonsense are you talking about?"
"Hate me? Dislike me?... No, why would Naoya eat with someone he doesn't like? So it's none of the above." Kanako said indifferently.
Suddenly, her sense of humor got the better of her, and Kanako asked seriously, "So you're secretly in love with me, haha, just kidding."
Zenin Naoya's face flushed red with anger: "...You shameless woman!!"
"Shameless! Unfaithful to husbands! No man would want you!"
The words that Naoya thought were very offensive were nothing to Kanako. She even had a perfect universal counter-phrase.
"The so-called equal exchange, if I can't do something, why don't Naoya do it for me?" Kanako stuck out her tongue.
She continued: "Naoya has such a beautiful face, he needs to be well-behaved and sensible, otherwise no woman will like him."
We must defeat feudalism in a more feudal way.
*
Once they reach a certain age, the family will arrange for them to study at Kyoto Technical High School.
This is a good way to stay away from Kanako. After receiving the notice, Zenin Naoya didn't even bring his servants with him and rushed to the school without stopping.
Less than half a year after entering school, Zenin Naoya had accumulated dozens or even hundreds of reasons that made him feel unhappy. After completing a commissioned task, he returned to Zenin's home overnight.
Anyway, for the children of the three great families, enrolling in school is just a formality. Many people are unwilling to live in a collective environment, and no one thinks there is anything wrong with Naoya's behavior.
...Except that woman, that woman will definitely use this matter to mock him severely.
Zenin Naoya prepared his emotions and all the means of counterattack. Just as he stepped into the courtyard, he heard a servant say in the conversation: "Lady Kanako is going on a long journey and we don't know when she will return."
Zenin Naoya asked decisively, "Where did she go?"
The man was startled and spoke incoherently, and he couldn't explain himself clearly after talking for a long time.
Zenin Naoya tutted his words and said, "Forget it. I'll ask someone."
Naoya immediately went to see his father.
Zenin Naobi seemed to have misunderstood his intentions and said, "I asked Kanako to intervene on my behalf regarding Shin's matter."
"…What does Kanako's matter have to do with Shinji?" Zenin Naoya was completely kept in the dark.
In the next few words, Zenin Naobi briefly informed him of the existence of Fushiguro Megumi.
Regarding the deal to bring Shigeru's son back to the Zenin family, Naobi had a face-to-face meeting with Shigeru, who had changed his surname to Fushiguro, shortly after Fushiguro Megumi was born.
It was just a small accident.
For example, the news of Fushiguro Shigeru's death a year ago almost drove Naoya crazy.
He left behind a talented son, whose whereabouts are unknown. Kanako, who oversaw everything from small matters to major ones in the Zenin family, was happy to coordinate his fate.
"Maybe it's that ancestral technique." Zen Temple Zhibiren laughed heartily and played a huge joke on his son.
"Heh." Zenin Naoya rolled his eyes and repeated sarcastically, "Maybe it's that ancestral technique."
The next day, Kanako came back.
Seeing that Zenin Naoya, who had just returned from school, was indifferent, she walked straight up to the head of the family and said, "Yes, it's that ancestral technique."
Zen Temple Zhibiren paused in his drinking.
Zenin Naoya: “?”
The air froze for a moment, and Kanako shrugged nonchalantly: "Are you deaf? I'm referring to the 'Ten Shadow Spells'."
Zenin Zhibiren became serious for the first time in a long time: "Does anyone else know this news?"
"Besides you two, no one else in this family knows about this for now," Kanako said briskly. "Kimi has no plans to return to the Zenin family. Gojo Satoru said he wants to fulfill his 'promise' with Fushiguro Jyouji and is willing to buy him out."
"I see..." Zenin Naobi said, "Naoya, please leave first."
On the way back to the courtyard, Zenin Naoya seemed a little overwhelmed.
He was not in a good state. He was trying hard to restrain something but still showed a gritting teeth expression.
Kanako said bluntly: "If you have something to say, just say it quickly. Keeping it in your heart will only suffocate you to death."
"Shin'er's son has inherited the ancestral technique," Zenin Naoya blurted out, frowning. "The thought of those old idiots from the Elders' Council taking advantage of this situation makes me feel irritated."
"Yeah, there are so many endless processes to deal with. It's so troublesome if we can't see it or clean it up." Kanako had the same idea.
She tilted her head and said, "By the way, Naoya-chan, why didn't you go to school?"
Zenin Naoya was unhappy: "I'm not going."
Kanako dragged out her tone: "Oh——"
Zenin Naoya's reflexive response was, "...Just because I'm not going to the technical secondary school doesn't mean I won't study anymore! I can learn theoretical knowledge at home. Once I figure out that damn turtle principle, I'll be able to crush even Gojo Satoru sooner or later!"
In the corridor, the two of them were not walking side by side, but one in front and the other behind. In order to prevent the news of the Tenkage from reaching other people's ears too early, Zenin Naoya lowered his voice.
Taking advantage of his developmental advantage, Zenin Naoya, who had grown taller since puberty, was half a head taller than Kanako, so he had to lower his voice and bend down slightly.
Unconsciously showing an almost submissive look.
Servants passing by would tactfully stay away quietly to avoid hearing unpleasant news.
In the yard, Kanako said to Naoya: "I'll share a secret with you."
Zenin Naoya thought he was probably out of his mind, and actually asked, "Is this secret known only to me, or does the head of the family and my uncles also know about it?"
Kanako actually answered him seriously: "Only you know."
Zenin Naoya was stunned for a moment.
She spread out her hand, and a blue light appeared on her palm.
As the light spots unfolded a plane parallel to the sea and sky, a screen commonly seen in science fiction movies appeared in front of Zenin Naoya.
It was a mixture of all sorts of categories like "system rules" and "underlying logic"… The tiny words in the middle were blurry, but only one line of large characters was clearly visible—
[Current Cultivation Value (98/100)]
Zenin Naoya's expression was very difficult for a moment. He pondered over it for a long time before finally coming up with an answer that satisfied him: "Is it the special technique that the cursed spirit that killed you in the past bestowed upon you?"
Kanako was about to explain in detail, but then she thought better of it.
At least Naoya managed to convince himself purely by using his imagination.
She made up a lie: "Well, it's just like playing a cultivation game. The object I am bound to is the entire Zenyuan family. After the cultivation value is full, I will receive game rewards."
"I can swear an oath to everything I say next. Everything I do is to fill up the cultivation value and push the Zenin family to the top." Kanako said solemnly, "And I promise that what you worry about will never happen."
"Even if ten more people with the ancestral technique appear, you will still be the only heir to the family head, Naoya."
The sudden "vow" made Zenin Naoya a little confused: "What did you say...?"
"As long as I'm around, I'll definitely make you the next head of the family. This is part of the bond between me and the Naobi people." Kanako folded her arms and looked up at the sky, looking a little reluctant as she said, "Of course, there's also some selfish motives involved."
"From this year on, the time we've known each other will take up more than half of your life. Is there anyone else in the world who I know as well as I do?"
She said he would become the head of the family.
She said she would help him become the head of the family.
There would be no second option, she said, and this was also part of her selfishness...
Zenin Naoya's pupils constricted and trembled slightly, and his thoughts were in a mess.
Kanako suddenly wanted to touch Naoya's newly dyed golden hair, but due to her height, it was not very convenient to touch.
Forget it, she casually said: "Naoya, I want to eat an apple."
Zenin Naoya came back to his senses from the shock. While muttering to himself that Kanako was short-handed, he went back to the house and dug out a washed apple.
Kanako caught it by throwing it high up, but she didn't take a bite of the plump flesh.
She raised her hand and threw it back: "I don't want this, I want to eat applesauce."
Zenin Naoya turned and walked away cursing.
However, his skills had become very good after several years of practice, and he would take the apples only to find someone to peel them and make applesauce.
Kanako watched him leave, glanced at the corner of the wall not far away, and was inexplicably reminded of that afternoon eight years ago.
It was in the same place that when he was a child, Zenin Naoya ignored the fruit she gave him and smashed it into a pulp.
At that time, her heart and eyes were filled with revenge. She bullied Zenin Naoya in the same way that he bullied her.
But later, the pleasure of revenge gradually reached a critical point, and ordinary little fights could no longer satisfy Kanako's expectations.
What is an enlarged version of a yard?
It’s the Zen temple, the world of spells… and even the world.
The Zenin family is a very useful stepping stone, with a rich reserve of spell tools and curse spirits that Kanako loves.
There is plenty of money to eat, many high-level sorcerers as subordinates, and even those vulnerable management are within reach.
This is much more convenient than starting from scratch and going through the development process.
Since the bond was established, Kanako has indeed solved many troubles for the Zenin family.
As one of the real fighting forces, she snatches resources and fights for the right to speak from the general directorate, and anyone who has an opinion will be beaten into a pig's head by her (in the physical sense).
After bearing all the criticisms alone, Kanako clapped her hands and found that it was still not exciting enough.
When the day comes when she officially reaches the maximum level, she will start planning and set a small goal: to "clean out" the useless management and turn the director's office into her reception room.
It makes people happy just listening to it.
When I thought of this, Zenin Naoya came back.
Kanako stared into his eyes, but could not see the initial sharpness and arrogance in his eyes.
At least when facing her, long-term habits led Zenin Naoya to an extremely dangerous area of thinking.
Zenin Naoya felt a little uncomfortable being stared at, his cheeks flushed: "What are you looking at? Eat your food!"
[Current Cultivation Value (99/100)]
It is a kind of trust and dependence born out of distortion.
Kanako licked the tip of the fang in her mouth and tasted it with satisfaction.
"It's delicious, thank you, Naoya-chan."
Perhaps one day in the future, when he realizes this, Zenin Naoya's life will have become like his character, and he and the Zenin family will be heading towards the end chosen by Kanako...
Turned into a puddle of mud.
Current Cultivation Value (100/100)
【Author’s words】
*Actually, the person Kanako is bound to in the if-line is Naoya, and the training value is also called Naoya's pua progress. Who said that pua others does not count as training? (System: Wait!? Is the if-line without me so scary!?)
Kanako: I have no humanity in the if line.jpg
Also known as "Zenin Naoya's Life of PUA"
I can’t take it anymore. It’s so funny. Let me laugh for a while (buhi)
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