Chapter 56: Cultivation Day 56
Chapter 56
Yuta Otsutsuki didn't know why the situation turned out like this.
All his initial resistance to returning to school had vanished at this moment, and he only wanted to do his best to stop the situation before it became irreversible.
Prevent Kanako's behavior from being discovered by passers-by, as it would be troublesome to deal with the follow-up. Some things have to be done secretly.
Just a second ago, the habitual bullies were saying, "Apologize to the brothers soon, or you'll be in trouble."
The next second, their heads were stuck upside down in the mud.
Habitual offenders:?
"Classmates, are you rehearsing a play about pulling out radishes?" Kanako pretended to pull them out one by one and then stick them back into the ground, making them eat a mouthful of dirt.
Otsutsuki: "Kanako-senpai, stop it..."
The male students never dreamed that the only person speaking for them was Otsutsuki, whom they had bullied for a long time. They had just crawled out of the dirt and were about to call for help when they were suddenly interrupted by the second half of the sentence.
Otsutsuki said seriously, "Someone will pass by this road. Kanako-senpai, please go to another place and continue picking radishes."
them:? ? ?
Kanako: “OK.”
The system came over and tried to mediate: "That's what I mean! Let's fight somewhere where the surveillance cameras can't see us!"
Kanako then grabbed a student by the back of his shirt and threw him into the alley behind the teaching building. "This is where the surveillance cameras can't see."
"That group of people, to trap Otsutsuki, would definitely pick a place with no surveillance and corner you." Kanako turned around and said, "Is it like this before?"
Yuta Otsutsuki repeated softly: "Before..."
Kanako tilted her head. "You've been bullied for a long time. They seem to be very good at bullying people in school, and you haven't wanted to come to school."
Kanako threw out a puzzle that she couldn't figure out: "Why didn't you teach them a lesson, Otsuko?"
Not far away, a group of boys who had just mocked them were lying in a mess in the bushes.
Okkotsu Yuta remained silent.
Kanako: "Forget it, I'll find out the reason sooner or later anyway."
Before he could say anything, Rika was already cheering in his heart: "Kill the guy who bullied Yuta!"
"Well done...Kanako!"
Yuta Otsutsuki quickly made amends: "...Please don't do this."
"Considering that Rika-chan is a cursed spirit, it's understandable that she's getting so emotionally extreme," Kanako said, sounding righteous. "You can't kill her, Rika-chan. A lesson without restraint or boundaries isn't even worthy of being called a lesson; it's intentional harm."
"Does Rika want to see Otsutsuki become a bastard like them who commits intentional harm?" Kanako kicked the bushes.
Rika thought for a moment and said, "I don't want to..."
"Well, you're so good, worthy of being Xiao Lixiang. Let's go into the school."
Kanako, an expert in taming cursed spirits, walked in front, followed closely by Yuta Otsutsuko. He stared blankly at Kanako's back, which was completely different from her aura, and his thoughts gradually drifted towards somewhere.
If it's Kanako-senpai, maybe...
He thought blankly: The senior is a very good person. Although she is young, she understands more principles and the connections between things than him, and she has a bottom line in doing things.
The teacher at the Jujutsu High School, Gojo Satoru, told him to first learn about cursed powers from Senior Kanako, so he should devote his whole heart to thinking and follow Senior's instructions...
——He wants to put all his trust in Kanako.
Unbeknownst to anyone, Yuta Otsutsukota's inner thoughts quietly left a faint mark somewhere in his heart. For a sorcerer whose power stems from negative emotions, his innermost thoughts will subtly influence the spells he casts.
At the same time, the special-grade possessed cursed spirit "Rika Kimoto" lost its hostility towards Kanako.
*
That year, after being hospitalized for pneumonia for a period of time, Rika Kimoto returned to school.
She and Yuta Otsutsuki returned to the same elementary school, and as soon as she returned to school, she showed extraordinary adaptability and popularity.
Rika Kimoto can quickly get along with all kinds of people and easily gain the favor of others. Her classmates and teachers also like this well-behaved and lovely girl.
"You Tai."
The familiar tone in his memory rang in his ears again. Yuta Otsutsuka thought he was hallucinating. How could the dead Rika appear in the junior high school classroom?
"There's a ghost!" The system roared and hid behind Kanako.
Kanako's face was full of question marks: "You are a ghost too, why are you afraid of ghosts?"
"Of course not, I'm just a kind of white floating object! Look... Kanako! There's a ghost!"
Looking in the direction of the system's shouting, in the empty classroom after school, a girl with a physique similar to Kanako was sitting in one of the seats.
She probably had long, shiny black hair - because the upper half of the girl's head was missing, her entire face looked like a hollow skull that had been cut horizontally, with only half left, floating in the air. This could only be determined from the hair hanging on her shoulders.
Soon, everyone present recognized the identity of the "ghost": she was eleven-year-old Rika Kimoto.
Kanako speculates that Rika's special appearance may be related to the location and Yuta Otsutsukota's state of mind.
System: “It really appeared!!”
"Otsutsuko, put up the tent." Kanako said immediately.
“...I understand!” Yuta Otsutsuki reacted and made an awkward gesture.
A black curtain enveloped the entire school. After more than ten seconds, Rika Norimoto's figure became much clearer. Kanako and Yuta Otsutsuki walked into the classroom. Except for Rika, all directions in the classroom became a cursed vacuum zone.
The various low-level curses scattered throughout the corridor frightened "Rika Kimoto" and all kept their distance from her.
"When I was in elementary school, I sat almost exactly in this seat," said Rika Kimoto in a nostalgic tone. "You was so clumsy that he couldn't even interact with others."
She pointed towards the row in front, and a translucent cursed spirit with rose-red cursed power suddenly appeared there.
"Yuta sits there, all by himself, with no friends. No one understands him except Rika. So, without Rika, Yuta won't be able to do anything right, right?"
Qi Benlixiang said softly.
"You won't fight back even when being bullied by a hateful bastard... Rika can help you. Do you really want to leave me forever?"
This sentence was a response to the decision that Yuta Okkotsu made secretly the day before.
At that time, he told himself: I want to become a sorcerer and...break Rika's curse.
The truth that Yuta Otsutsuki learned from Gojo Satoru was that "he cursed Rika", so the fundamental reason was that he didn't want to let Rika leave.
It was he who couldn't accept Rika Kimoto's death.
After calming down, Yuta Otsutsukota let out a sigh and said, "When I was little, I never considered how I would live after Rika left, and it's the same now... Perhaps that's why Rika is in her current state."
Rika used her cursed power to create a smile with a perfect arc, as if she was determined to win.
"But...even if I'm not ready to lose Rika, I must let Rika be free." Otsutsukota said, "I don't want to...I don't want to lose Rika, but I also don't want to see Rika trapped by my side forever."
His voice was a little choked up, and he became more and more excited as he spoke: "I want Rika to have true freedom."
"True...freedom?" Rika's face changed, and the human form she transformed into began to mutate. The white skeleton of a horrifying monster emerged from under her feet.
"Yuta!" Rika roared angrily, "You——"
Her roar came to an abrupt halt because of a sudden shout coming from outside the classroom.
A sharp male voice cried out: "Azhen! Even if I die here, I will not leave you alone!"
Qi Ben Li Xiang stopped talking immediately, ran to the small window and looked down.
This classroom is located on the second floor of the teaching building, and the window faces a small garden.
In the middle of the bushes, two students, a boy and a girl, hugged each other tightly, crying bitterly at the circle of harmless low-level curses around them.
"I'm going to die, I'm going to die... We're stuck in a maze and can't get out of the school! Aqiang!" the girl shouted.
The two were a young couple who were having a tryst after school and were accidentally locked in a "tent".
Since ordinary people's brains cannot distinguish the "curse" and they cannot see the curse spirit unless their lives are in danger, they can only wander around the school and finally conclude that they have encountered a "ghost wall".
Kanako leaned against the window, turned her head, and looked at Rika silently.
Rika questioned in silence: Didn’t you check ordinary people in advance?
Kanako also responded with silence: "The "tent" was set up by Kotobukatsu, so it was his fault for not isolating ordinary people in advance. Well, it was his problem, absolutely!
Rika: You're shirking responsibility!!
Kanako: I didn’t!! …Okay, to be a reliable adult, I admit that I was wrong QAQ, it’s my problem.
Rika: That’s more like it.
"Um...you two." Otsutsuki Yuta stuck his head out the window and said, "Please don't panic. This strange feeling will disappear soon."
Finally, a normal person appeared, and the young couple Azhen and Aqiang were instantly attracted to Yuta Okkotsu.
Before Yuta Otsutsuki could come up with a suitable lie, they started chatting happily.
"Who is he?" "I've never seen him...but I think I've seen him somewhere. Is he a delinquent student on probation?" "That's right. Otherwise, apart from us and the delinquents, who else would stay in school so late?"
Yuta Otsutsuki decisively gave up explaining and continued apologetically, "It will return to normal after a while. Please be patient and wait for a while."
The two of them accepted this statement very quickly and continued to look at each other affectionately.
"Azhen, don't worry, I will never leave you even if I die."
"Aqiang, I'm so touched, me too—but let's just keep it in words, otherwise it'll be like the ghost in a horror story, all scares and no surprises."
Yuta Otsutsuki seemed to be shot for no reason: "..."
"..." The spirit behind him, Qi Benlixiang, frowned, "Yuta, can I kill them?"
Otsutsuki: "No!"
Rika: "...Okay."
The young couple below were completely unaware of this.
"Azhen!" "Aqiang!"
They hummed a strange tune out of tune, oblivious to the people around them: "Ah Zhen fell in love with Ah Qiang~"
“Stop!!” Kanako rushed to the back door of the classroom, as far away from the window as possible. “This is horrible, horrible! I feel like my outlook on life has been severely impacted!”
system:"?"
It flew to Kanako's side and asked incredulously: "What have you been through?"
Kanako covered her face and said, "You'll have to ask Zhen and Qiang! That's definitely not the way love looks in my mind!"
"My eyes and ears are dirty. Even with disinfectant, they can't be cleaned—Wow!" Kanako shouted in despair.
The system guessed: "Are you the type who has perfect theoretical scores in the field of love, but zero practical experience, and who becomes a fool when it comes to real cases?"
"No! Oh... You don't understand at all." Kanako was confused. "It's so embarrassing! How can they say such embarrassing lines without batting an eyelid?!"
System: "It's normal during the honeymoon period. It's nothing..."
etc.
It seemed to have discovered Kanako's weakness.
She has always been proud of her thick skin and shamelessness, but surprisingly she becomes extremely shy when it comes to the topic of love.
The system looked like it had foreseen everything and said with a smile, "That won't do. Aren't you the strongest Kanako? How can you not even stand watching other people's love affairs? Watch other people's dates more often and overcome your weaknesses through practice!"
"That's the problem. I never feel uncomfortable helping Rika complete the dates she wants." Kanako's tongue was a little tied with excitement. "But, but, I can't meet that young couple downstairs."
"The love I want to understand shouldn't be like that. It's too clingy!" Kanako was extremely entangled. "Honestly, I can understand that the clinginess between the male and female protagonists in romance works is completely reasonable, but it's not the plot I'm looking for..."
"After all, is it that I hate overly intimate behavior? No. Is it the sentences I say? That shouldn't be the case. It was much more exciting when I practiced Poseidon's quotes on the rabbit doll!" Kanako pondered deeply.
"I'm a little confused..." Kanako struggled to herself, "What exactly is love?"
“Is it for me to feel good, or for others to feel happy and joyful?”
"I don't want to think about anything anymore..." Kanako's mind was empty, her eyes were hollow, and she seemed as if her soul was about to leave her body.
The system shook her shoulders desperately: "Wake up, Kanako! You still have things to do!"
“Neither.”
Unexpectedly, the first person to answer Kanako was Rika Kimoto.
She managed to maintain her rationality for the time being, and her appearance became more human.
"What's causing Kanako pain isn't just the uncertainty surrounding 'love,'" she said, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear and smiling confidently. "It's the entire definition of 'love.'"
The sweet voice of Rika Kimoto during her human period echoed in the classroom, and Kanako's red eyes gradually brightened.
[…Rika must know something.]
With this thought in mind, Yuta Otsutsuko looked over, and the moment he met Kanako's eyes, he remembered a sentence.
"Love" is the most twisted curse.
What is contained in "love" is not just "love".
【Author’s words】
Kanako's strange weakness appears!
Ah Zhen fell in love with Ah Qiang~
I feel that Rika is a relatively precocious child, so her understanding of love must be deeper than Kanako's, huh!
(The non-existent small theater)
Kanako: I understand! I saved Otsutsuki and have been teaching him these past few days. I have a deep motherly love for him!
Otsutsuki Yuta: ???
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