Chapter 9 Ninth Day of Training
Chapter 9
Grandma Hua is an elderly woman in her seventies. She is kind and appears to be in good health.
Specifically, it took Kanako a few seconds to complete the 100-meter sprint towards the old building, and she threw herself into the arms of Grandma Hua. Not only did Grandma Hua not break several ribs due to the huge impact force, she also patted her back with a smile.
"It's Kanako. Long time no see. You've grown taller and bigger." Grandma Hua said with a look of relief.
Kanako smiled and revealed the truth: "Grandma Hana, we just met the day before yesterday."
Granny Hua didn't take it seriously and laughed heartily. "Oh, really? I see. Time flies so slowly. I can't wait to get into the coffin."
Kanako said without thinking, "It's okay! When you don't want to live anymore, I promise to put you in a coffin! And then put you in a fragrant pink urn!"
Granny Hua's face was filled with joy, not feeling offended at all: "As expected of Kanako."
After hearing the above conversation, Gojo Satoru/Suguru Takeshi said: …
Something seems off. Is this really a normal conversation about mental health?
The system's CPU was struggling, and it reminded Kanako: "There are two people waiting behind us."
Kanako then remembered the two sorcerers she had overlooked and quickly said, "Grandma Hua, wait a moment. Let me introduce you to someone I just met a few days ago."
As soon as she finished speaking, she turned around and ran, standing between Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru, then turned 180 degrees.
At this moment, Kanako hesitated.
She could pull Geto Suguru's sleeve without any burden - after all, she had done this two days ago, and she was sure that "Geto" wouldn't mind.
But... Kanako tilted her neck and gritted her teeth, thinking about whether to pull Gojo Satoru.
Kanako has not forgotten the night she first met Gojo Satoru. Although she misjudged his age and kept trying to push him forward as a shield...it wasn't her fault alone!
System: [You can't have such thoughts! Reflect on this!]
Kanako: I don’t care!
It's all Gojo Satoru's fault! Because he looks really good, annoying, and annoying, so other than teasing each other, there's really no other way to interact with him.
Kanako thought very bluntly.
She pressed her fingers awkwardly and continued to think: With this filter, Gojo Satoru might also see her in this way, so she couldn't easily pull her sleeves.
Once he did that, according to his usual routine, Gojo Satoru would definitely regard this as a sneak attack, just like every time Kanako wanted to kick him in frustration, but he dodged it with his special ability that blocked all attacks.
That would be so embarrassing... Kanako was unexpectedly very concerned about her reputation in front of people she knew and would never allow the above situation to happen.
Very good, it’s decided, no matter what happens to Gojo Satoru!
Thinking of this, Kanako, who was immersed in the world of thoughts, regained her composure, and her free left hand was suddenly wrapped by a larger palm.
The Yato clan's subconscious instinct to judge crisis made Kanako's nerves tense for a moment. She turned her head to the side in a daze and blinked.
"Don't waste your time, Kanako—" Gojo Satoru continued to be unforgiving. "You were just hesitating, weren't you? Is it really that difficult to introduce a handsome guy like me to an old woman?"
Halfway through his speech, he revealed a look of sudden enlightenment and said exaggeratedly, "...I really can't help you. I completely understand how you feel."
Kanako:......
What a shameless underage man!
She glanced furtively at the hand held by Gojo Satoru out of the corner of her eye, humming happily in her heart, with a slightly smug expression on her face.
Then the next second, she loosened her grip on Geto Suguru's sleeves and instead suddenly grabbed Geto Suguru's four fingers.
Geto Suguru: Hiss...wait!
Geto Suguru: What kind of weird power is this?
Kanako held Wu's hand on her left and Jie's hand on her right and returned to Granny Hana.
Grandma Hua listened to Kanako introduce the two people with a kind face, and warmly invited the three of them to visit her home.
Before entering the house, Geto Suguru calmly made a gesture to Gojo Satoru.
Gojo Satoru tilted his head in confusion and mouthed "I don't understand".
Geto Suguru: ...
I can’t carry it, I really can’t carry it.
Two beeps came from his pocket, and Geto Suguru took out his cell phone as usual, and saw that Gojo Satoru had sent him a text message face to face.
Gojo Satoru: What do you mean by not just texting on your phone?
【Sugaru Geto: (violent punch.jpg)】
[Suguru Geto: You still remember why we came here. ]
Gojo Satoru: (Cats don’t know anything.jpg)
【Suguru Geto: ...You remember it, right? 】
Gojo Satoru: (Cat Confused.jpg)
[Suguru Geto: Pray nia (Are you praying) ^_^? ]
[Gojo Satoru: I feel like it's not very convenient to just take action directly.]
【After all, Kanako really likes that old woman. 】
*
In the house with pink and green wallpaper on all four walls, while Grandma Hana went to the kitchen to pour tea, Geto Suguru asked Kanako how she knew Grandma Hana.
Kanako organized her words and roughly described the process she experienced after crossing into this world. Of course, she remembered to conceal the system and the crossing, and cut out the beginning and the end.
At the beginning, (because her strange brain circuit caused a deep blow to the system, the system temporarily ran out for upgrades) Kanako thought about asking for help from relevant agencies to serve as temporary accommodation.
But not long after, she discovered that there was no mayonnaise in the daily menu of the shelter. Kanako couldn't accept it, so she climbed over the wall and left.
System: [How much do you like mayonnaise?!]
Then, while wandering around, she found a restaurant and accidentally bankrupted the owner by eating out. She left her weapons and umbrella in the store as collateral and vowed to pay it back.
The boss looked at her several times and said reluctantly, "I have a temporary job that I can recommend to you."
And that place is Grandma Hua’s residence in the old building.
"Grandma Hana is called Grandma Hana because she loves to grow flowers," Kanako said. "She lives on the first floor, and her entire backyard is filled with flowers. To save money for her coffin, she talked to a restaurant owner she knew and asked him to find some employees to sell flowers for her."
Kanako was more and more moved as she spoke, and she bit her lip: "Grandma Hana is so old, and her legs and feet are not very convenient. She can't even recruit people herself... As the future Queen of Seasoning City and a super reliable adult in reserve, of course I have to help her!"
Gojo Satoru interrupted, "So where's your money?"
Kanako: "After distributing them to the other children selling flowers in the park, the rest were left to Grandma Hana."
Gojo Satoru: “Huh?”
"Ah." Kanako realized it belatedly, her eyes dazed, "I forgot to save some for myself."
Gojo Satoru: "...You are an idiot!"
After listening to Kanako's introduction and combining it with the information observed by the Rokugan, Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru were even more puzzled as to why this ordinary old woman had such strong cursed power.
Grandma Hua said she was going to boil water and make tea, but she had not returned for a long time. Geto Suguru sent the curse spirit to inspect the entire building, but found nothing unusual.
The only problem was that Granny Hua was not indoors.
He glanced at Gojo Satoru, who sighed and made an "OK" gesture to show he understood. Then, Gojo Satoru quickly threw a bag of chocolates onto the sofa.
Gojo Satoru's acting was excellent: "Oops, my hand slipped."
Kanako's eyes lit up and she rushed over: "Whatever I get is mine!"
After effectively sending Kanako away, the two of them walked towards the backyard.
Among the clusters of blooming flowers, a young man had an argument with the flower lady.
The man arrogantly quoted a few figures, and said with his gold teeth, "This is the price now, it can't be higher."
Granny Hua stretched out her hand tremblingly and said weakly and helplessly, "No, it's too low..."
The man sneered and said, "How is it low? It's been this price for so many years, okay? If you can't afford it, don't charge!"
Seeing that the price had not been agreed upon, the young man snatched the plastic bag from Grandma Hua without saying a word.
The two men were about to step forward to understand what was going on when suddenly, Granny Hua's aura suddenly changed. Her kind eyes narrowed into slits and she kicked the man directly in the back!
The young man screamed in pain and fell to the ground. The plastic bag fell to the ground, revealing hollow express boxes.
He looked up at Granny Hua in disbelief. The usually gentle old woman had a gloomy look on her face as she skillfully took out a lighter from her jacket pocket.
Granny Hua lit a cigarette and blew out smoke rings: "I originally wanted to retire when I get old... Forget it, kid, there's something wrong with you.
She stepped on several express boxes and pressed them into long strips. She then used a small knife that she took out from somewhere to cut off the strips of transparent tape that were preventing her from flattening the express boxes. Her technique was very skillful.
"Just think of it as you paying for a lesson, why don't you get out of here? Bah!" Grandma Hua said in a hoarse voice and twirled the knife.
After being reminded, the stunned young man finally came to his senses, got up, and ran away without looking back.
A sharp cry echoed in the air, and soon a new cursed energy flowed into Granny Hua's head.
Gojo Satoru/Suguru Geto: ...
Ah this.
Is this called having difficulty walking? Are the old and weak easy to be bullied?
Kanako, you've been deceived! You've been completely deceived!
"Those two male students, you've been staring at them for a while. Come out." Granny Hua said, without stopping her hands, muttering, "How much can these cardboards be sold for..."
*
"So what you two are saying is that, for some special reasons that are inconvenient to explain, you need me to lose to Kanako in any way." Granny Hana flicked the ash off her cigarette and put it back in her mouth. "That's it?"
Xia Yujie had a headache: "...Yes."
He began to miss the seemingly gentle "Grandma Hua". It was true that one could judge a person by his appearance but not by his heart. Neither Wu nor he was good at dealing with such an experienced character.
Is this the only way to break up? How should I explain this to Kanako? She really likes this old woman.
Granny Hua: "I agree."
Um?
The progress was unexpectedly smooth.
"What are you looking at? Do you think I'm difficult to talk to just because I've been involved in some shady business?" Granny Hua laughed. "Humans are not creatures that can be defined by a few simple words."
She spoke slowly, as if telling a long story: "Kanako, she is a very good child."
"When I was young, during the height of my life, I'd heard a lot about some paths in this world that weren't meant for ordinary people... What were they called? Superpowers or supernatural abilities, I guess?" said Granny Hana. "The first time Kanako came to pick flowers, she accidentally used too much force and blew away half the soil and the entire flower bed in my backyard."
Gojo Satoru echoed, "I can tell she's going to make a scene."
"Don't interrupt, little brat." Granny Hua pointed at him and continued, "I heard from the restaurant owner that she also collapsed the restaurant's floor. It was really a death sentence to encounter such a little brat."
"But... when she said she wanted to make amends, her eyes were serious, as pure as the water at the bottom of a well. I haven't really entered the coffin yet, so I can recognize it clearly. Who could hate such a lovely little girl? How much can she blame me?"
Granny Hua laughed. "To use her parents' words, she's just naive. She doesn't know how to control her body and strength. She keeps stumbling and trying, then bumping into the wall. When she fails, she just bumps into the next one..."
"I'm a little worried that she'll get herself bruised and battered. While wounds on the skin can be repaired, wounds in the heart are hard to heal. So, when she returns to where she belongs (your world), you must teach her how to become a reliable adult—this is Kanako's own ideal."
"That's all I have to say. I still have to go bargain with the scrap collector." Grandma Hua put out her cigarette butt and threw it into the pile of cardboard boxes.
Then, she gathered her energy and shouted out the window, "Kanako!"
A young night rabbit poked its head out of the window. Kanako licked the chocolate on the corner of her mouth and said, "What's wrong, Grandma Hana? Is there anything I can help you with?"
"I lost, Kanako—" Granny Hana shouted cheerfully, adding the second half of the sentence to herself, "I lost to those two new friends you made. Seriously! I'm already old, and I can't even beat the young ones at small games."
Kanako said happily, "I told you they were both very strong!"
Granny Hua laughed helplessly. The wrinkles left by the years did not prevent her from smiling broadly. "Yes, so you have to grow up well and become stronger slowly, Kanako."
“Don’t push yourself too hard to be a perfect good person, and don’t go astray to be a bad person either. Just be someone who is neither good nor bad, but who will never let you down.”
In the backyard, the fragrance of flowers floating in the air lingered on everyone's nose.
"Your future will surely be surrounded by sunshine and flowers, becoming particularly dazzling."
【Author’s words】
Suddenly inserting strange and heartwarming scenes is a sure-fire way to complain about daily life!
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