Chapter 62: Day 62 of Cultivation
Chapter 62
They continued walking straight for ten meters, then parted ways. Yuta Otsutsukota remained defensive and continued to explore forward. Gradually, the only sound left in the dark space was his breathing.
“Help…Help.”
It's a faint female voice. There's someone in front!
Yuta Otsutsukota turned on the flashlight on his lock screen and started running. "I heard you. Please hold on a little longer. I'll be right there!"
At the same time, he shouted, "Mr. Nanami—the missing person is here!"
"Bang!"
The top of the ruins collapsed. Yuta Otsutsukota quickly protected the two unconscious high school students and raised his head.
Moonlight poured into the dim space from the sky. Beneath the collapsed tiles and stones lay a first-level cursed spirit that had been forcibly crushed.
The cursed spirit was the highest level in the entire venue and seemed to be the mastermind behind the incident. Naturally, this minor injury did not cause fatal damage to it.
But the next second, a long stick broke through the tiles and stones, and then pierced through the cursed spirit's skull. Its shrill roar in its dying struggle echoed in the air, and finally turned into dark particles.
"The path Ino and I took was a cover. I rushed over as soon as I realized something was wrong." Kanako landed on the ground, shook off the stains on Youyun, and couldn't help but joke, "Otsutsuki, did you cry on your first mission?"
Yuta Otsutsuko was surprised: "Kanako-senpai!"
"The first-level cursed spirit is the master of the nest. It used a spell to create this hidden location and forced a small curse to act as bait, intending to lure the invaders into the ruins and then destroy them in one fell swoop." Nanami Kento rushed over from behind. "The exorcism was very quick and efficient, Kanako-san."
Ino Takuma silently pointed at himself: "...No one cares about me?"
"Are you...rescuing?" the high school girl asked in a hoarse voice.
After receiving a positive response, the student who had spoken suddenly became excited. She hugged another student's arm and said, "Please save her! Amei was fine before, but suddenly she fell into a coma, and no matter how much we shouted, she wouldn't wake up!"
"Thank you very much, everyone. Please save her first!" The female student couldn't control her tears.
"Ino, go meet the assistant supervisor first. Call an ambulance after you leave the tent." Nanami Kento squatted down and said soothingly, "Don't worry, she'll be fine."
Yuta Otsutsuki noticed the black mark on the unconscious girl's forehead and wondered if she was affected by a curse.
"Wait, what was her name?" Kanako suddenly asked.
The female student couldn't stop crying, and sobbed, "Ami...Her name is Takekawa Amiri."
Kanako leaned over and signaled for the system to fly with her.
"Ami... that's a nice name. Is she from the Seasoning City?"
The female student answered every question: "Yes! Amei and I are from the same hometown. She is my good friend. We agreed to enter this high school together..."
The system understood Kanako's hint, quietly flew to Ami's forehead, and gently covered it like an ice patch for reducing fever.
The curse was absorbed somewhat by the system covered in the shell of the curse spirit, and Ami's frown gradually relaxed.
"Hmm..."
"Ami? That's great, you're awake, Ami!" The female student cried with joy. "Someone is here to save us. You'll be fine soon. We're going to take the college entrance exam together and open a shop together after graduation. How could anything happen to you? ... You'll definitely be fine!"
"You can't leave me alone!!"
The female students sniffed, raised their heads and were about to thank the benefactors who saved them, but found that they had disappeared without a trace.
She wiped the tears from her face, bravely stood up, and shouted at the deserted ruins: "Thank you!!"
"You are all good people, good people will definitely be rewarded!!!"
I shouted many times until I heard the ambulance siren in the distance, but no one answered, as if no one had ever come.
The other side.
The exorcism mission was successfully completed and the missing persons were found. Ino Takuma bought a few cans of drinks from the vending machine and threw them to everyone in turn.
Ino Takuma joked, "Since you're treating me, just calling me 'senpai' is a thank you."
Kanako used her mysterious "stare" tactic and raised an eyebrow: "Are you sure? The guys I called 'senpai' always ended up in a bad way..."
Ino Takuma was a little stunned: "How bad is it exactly?"
Kanako hooked her finger, seriously indicating that she wanted to whisper to him.
"The guy I called senior...will definitely die within a hundred thousand years!" Kanako said softly.
System: "...What's the difference between what you said and nonsense! You might as well say 'You know what? Everyone who breathes the air eventually dies'!"
It was obvious that Kanako's prank was better, and Ino Takuma was completely defeated: "..."
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Nanami: "Otsutsukoshi-san, are you studying now?"
Otsutsuki: "Eh? I'm still enrolled. I don't go often due to a series of problems at school. I only go occasionally when there are exams..."
Nanami: "A brief summary?"
Otsutsuki: "I didn't study seriously!"
The voice was loud and powerful, yet it delivered the most unimpressive conclusion.
Nanami Kento understood: "He was bullied at school."
Otsutsuki Yuta:! ?
You can guess this!
Nanami Kento took the drink can thrown by Ino and continued to talk to the person in front of him, "The situations you will face in the future will be similar to today, and it is almost impossible for external help to arrive in time."
"The death of a sorcerer is always accompanied by loneliness. Even so, are you determined to become a sorcerer, Otsutsuki-san?"
The appearance of ordinary people contaminated by the curse and their cries for help flashed before my eyes.
Yuta Otsutsuki uncontrollably put himself...or rather, his past self, into that state. Although it was a series of misunderstandings caused by Rika, he didn't want to go back to the days of living troubled by the curse.
At the same time, he doesn't want to see more people in a similar situation as him.
"Yes..." He closed his eyes, "If possible, I want to save as many ordinary people as possible."
"Is it for yourself?" Nanami Kento pointed out sharply, "Just a casual question. I don't dislike selfish people. No matter how dishonorable your ultimate goal, the key is that you did something others couldn't... I won't deny your way of living."
"Thank you, Mr. Nanami." Otsutsukota thought for a moment and opened his mouth, "You're right, this feeling is really wonderful..."
"I've never been a strong person, but I have to thank you for supporting me in saying things like 'save more ordinary people.'"
Having said that, Yuta Otsutsuki turned his head slightly and looked at Kanako who was still chatting with Takuma Ino next to the vending machine.
Nanami Kento replied quickly: "Well, before you enter the technical high school, I will do my best to fill the gaps in your training. Please be prepared, Otsutsuki."
"Ah? Is it decided like this? So quickly!" Okkotsu Yuta said in surprise.
Nanami Kento looked silently in Kanako's direction. Kanako noticed his gaze and walked over leisurely with a drink can in hand: "Thanks to me for begging Nanami for a long time with tears in my eyes!"
Kanako: "I also talked to Nanami for a long time about your situation, but I can't explain it clearly. Nanami should have asked you questions, right?"
Combining this sentence with Nanami Kento's analysis of him during the mission, Yuta Otsutsuki suddenly understood.
Kanako-senpai said she would be leaving soon...so before that, she seriously considered who to entrust the task to, and that person was Mr. Nanami.
"You don't have much time left, is there anything else you need my attention?" Nanami asked.
"Let me think about it..." Kanako said, "Nanami, Otsutsuki is the type of person who retreats into a corner when alone and can't resolve his own conflicts by himself."
"He easily falls into an emotional dead end, but I always know that's not his limit." Kanako said seriously, "So, you can force him to become stronger, but you don't have to force him to become someone with my personality."
Ino Takuma was stunned when he heard this and whispered, "I didn't expect her to be so tolerant..."
Nanami Kento: "Sorry to interrupt, but I'm afraid your overly lenient approach will only lead to him becoming more extreme."
"Really..." Kanako thought, "I don't think there's any problem with that."
Kanako thought about what she had done: "He wanted to die, so I killed his past self... If he wants to have a new life, then I will become his motivation to survive."
"Please, on my behalf, let the sorcerer's world give him a reason to live again." - Said Rika Kimoto.
"Nanahi," Kanako said with some emotion, "I just realized a few minutes ago... I'm actually the one who's going to be the older sister."
I have even become a senior and served as a teacher for more than ten days.
This feeling had already begun to take shape when she was willing to give up the candied strawberries she wanted to eat to a younger sister.
Thinking further back, there is a newly born panda classmate in the technical high school. The rescued Takekawa Amiri is a sister that Kanako met in the Seasoning City on the first day she traveled to the Jujutsu World. She even helped her sell flowers on Valentine's Day.
Those days seemed to be just around the corner, and it made Kanako realize for the first time that the future was such a distant noun...
In this future, her younger sister, Ameri, has become a high school student who is taller than her. Kanako finds it hard to imagine how long she will have to wait to fulfill the promise she made with Yuta Otsutsukotsu.
However, since it is an agreement, the longer it lasts, the better the effect will be.
"Then, little Otsutsuki... just rely on people like me," Kanako said. "You don't have to deliberately change yourself. Just hide your timidity and low self-esteem and keep getting stronger for us."
"You will meet many companions in the future, and they will not let you feel lonely."
"To put it in a curse--don't dwell on who you're dying for every day. Instead, always remember that you're living for me."
"Okay." Yuta Otsutsuko nodded solemnly, "I will, Kanako."
Kanako laughed heartily, and a black vortex appeared from behind her, gradually turning her body transparent.
How dare he call her by her full name! Kanako was very vindictive.
Therefore, she deliberately said: "Bye, Otsutsuki Yuta, pray to Rika."
At that moment, the scene of Kanako jumping into the ruins and Youyun piercing the cursed spirit appeared in front of Yuta Otsutsuka's eyes.
He couldn't help but think of the night when he was rescued from the water. It seemed to be the same scene - the hazy moonlight fell on the top of Kanako's head, making her white hair particularly bright.
Plop, plop.
But...but no matter how dazzling the light was, it couldn't compare to the moment when she reached out her hand to him.
The rapidly increasing heart rate seemed to recall the experience of falling into the water and falling off the cliff before the brain could recall it, the confusion after suffocating, the relief after figuring out the meaning, the obsession with Jietuo Rika and...
He was somewhat unable to determine whether his feeling at the moment was reluctance or sadness.
Yuta Otsutsuki subconsciously thought pessimistically that perhaps the promise about the future itself was fake, and it was simply an excuse that Kanako found to give him the courage to keep living, so there was no deadline set... But what if it was fake?
Yes, so what if it’s fake? He thought vaguely, even if it’s fake, it doesn’t matter, because he is destined to never forget her.
During those short ten days of getting along, Yuta Otsutsuki had the good fortune to meet Kanako.
It was a precious and special memory that he would cherish forever.
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[Current Cultivation Value: 73/100]
【Author’s words】
System: Why did the training value increase so much this time?
A whisper from the author: Because raising others also counts towards your raising value, please see Chapter 1 for details...
You can read chapter 2 for the character of Ami, that little girl.
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