Chapter 18 Chapter 18 Where is the boring part?! ...
Mid-July.
The midsummer sunshine is like melted gold. It was already hot at nine in the morning, and it is still hot now at six in the afternoon. Eri Kimoto does not like summer. She prefers winter to the scorching summer.
Leaning close to the air vent, feeling the cool breeze from the car's air conditioner caressing her, Qiben Eri squinted her eyes comfortably, feeling very good.
Then, he was quickly reminded by Fushiguro Megumi who was sitting next to him: "You are wearing too little. Don't be exposed to the wind. Be careful not to catch a cold."
Ignoring him, Eri Kimoto stared out the window, extremely excited: "How long will it take~ Sister, sister~ Sister~~~"
This guy is hopeless. He has said the word "sister" a hundred and eighty times from this morning until now. Fushiguro Megumi is really about to vomit.
"I can feel you, sister. We're getting closer!"
...Is this guy real or fake?!
Fushiguro Megumi was shocked: "Are you kidding?"
"How could I joke with my sister?" Qi Ben Eri's expression changed instantly, and she looked at him angrily: "Don't underestimate the bond between me and my sister!"
Fushiguro Megumi: ".....Hmmmm."
Looking at the scenery outside the window, Megumi Fushiguro estimated the time. At this speed, it would take about ten minutes to arrive.
At this moment, the driver who had just answered the phone looked at them seriously, then changed the direction of the car and drove towards another place.
"?"
Sensing something was wrong, Eri Norimoto looked at the driver in confusion: "Nene, are you taking the wrong road?"
"What's wrong, Mr. Ijichi?" asked Megumi Fushiguro.
The person sent to pick them up was Assistant Supervisor Ichichi Jietaka, a hapless man who was often persecuted by the willful Gojo Satoru.
And now, facing the burning gaze of the girl in the back seat who had stopped smiling, the unlucky guy wiped the sweat off his forehead and said fearfully, "Go... Mr. Gojo told me to send you directly to the gang first... to deal with this emergency—"
"ha?"
Qi Ben Eri had a smile on her face, but there was no smile in her eyes: "Whoever listens to that silver-haired idiot, send me to the Jujutsu High School now, I want to see--"
"What kind of cursed spirit?"
Fushiguro Megumi patted her head, signaling her to be quiet: "Won't Gojo-sensei join us?"
Yidizhi broke out in a cold sweat under the girl's strange gaze and stammered, "He he he he he he he he he he said someone would come to help you later!"
Of course he knew that it was normal for this line of work to be short-handed, but letting two junior high school students who hadn't even started school yet to deal with a quasi-first-level curse, and Mr. Gojo Satoru not even going to watch on the scene... wasn't that still a bit too exaggerated and too dangerous!
Isn't Mr. Gojo too bold?! What if something goes wrong?!
Although Ijichi knew that Fushiguro Megumi had exorcised a quasi-first-level cursed spirit a while ago, he was still a little worried! Bringing a new student who hadn't even enrolled yet was simply ridiculous!
besides!
What on earth is Mr. Gojo thinking? When will he stop persecuting himself?
Ichichi wiped away a tear of sadness, and then saw the black-haired girl with a slightly raised mouth, pulling out a silver...
The silver knife was already placed at his neck, and Ijichi was really about to cry.
"It's really not me, Mr. Gojo. He arranged to let me go. I'm just an unlucky worker—"
Qi Ben Eri's eyebrows curved, and she smiled and threatened in a sweet voice, "I don't want to listen to that bastard. Turn around now and send me to Gao-Ouch! It hurts!"
Retracting the hand that had slapped her violently, Fushiguro Megumi grabbed her collar and pulled her back. After holding her down and sitting her down again, she sighed and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Ijichi."
"So, what exactly is the situation?"
“And who will assist us then?”
.......
.......
Summer nights always darken faster and more purely,
The building in front of the two of them looked just a little dilapidated on the surface.
"The student who helps hasn't arrived yet..." Ijichi looked at the time and frowned: "Let's wait for him!"
"No need." Qi Ben Eri shook her head and was ready to enter the mission location.
She was still sulking and ignoring everyone after the car changed direction, but she suddenly got better and returned to the state she was in when she first arrived in Tokyo.
Although Fushiguro Megumi felt it was a little strange, this guy was usually like this, so he didn't think much about it. He just watched her quietly hum a little tune and took out a new weapon that she had been using recently from the trunk.
"Let's go," Eri Kimoto turned around and smiled brightly at him, "Let's go explore the way first~"
This abandoned building in the suburbs of Tokyo is unattended. The cursed spirits inside appear mainly due to human fear and the catalysis of the increasingly widespread urban legend.
'A dark shadow flashed by', 'I always feel like I'm being stared at by a dark shadow', 'suburban ghost' are all such thoughts that make the brave ghost bloggers rush in impulsively, and now they are all in a coma in the hospital.
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…
The iron lock on the big iron gate was rusty and too dirty. Eri Kimoto didn't want to touch it. After looking at Fushiguro Megumi, he seemed to know what people were thinking. He sighed and reached out to check the iron lock.
“It’s not easy to drive.”
The young man shook his head as if he found it troublesome: "How about climbing over the wall? It would be more convenient."
Qi Ben Eri looked around and soon found the most suitable place to climb over the wall.
The girl moved very quickly, and it was obvious that she often did some sneaky things. Megumi Fushiguro, who was standing at the foot of the wall, tilted her head back and calmly watched her as she lowered her head and smiled cunningly at him, swinging her legs with a smug look on her face.
After waiting for the boy to move for a long time, Eri Kimoto, who was sitting on the wall, asked in confusion: "You can't climb over the wall? Is that true? Your childhood—"
Making a stop gesture helplessly, Megumi Fushiguro interrupted her: "Your childhood and my childhood seem different."
The boy climbed up the wall just as skillfully. After exchanging a glance with her, they jumped down one after the other.
As soon as the two of them stood firm, they suddenly heard the iron door next to them open without wind.
"What's going on?" Fushiguro Megumi frowned. He didn't see the curse spirit.
Qi Ben Eri waved her hands: "It's okay, it should be just an ordinary haunting."
Upon hearing this, Fushiguro Megumi showed her dead eyes again, but she was able to calmly continue the joke: "...Then why didn't it open earlier? Why did you bother us to climb over the wall?"
However, the strange things have just begun. I don’t know how this building was designed. There are walls inside that trap the building in the center. It’s very strange.
Eri Kimoto surveyed her surroundings, smiling at the puzzled gaze of the young man beside her. "It's like a labyrinth containing a Minotaur."
"?"
The two of them did not climb over the wall again, but walked forward, because wherever they walked to, the door would open automatically, as if it was a silent invitation to them.
"The Minotaur," Eri Kimoto explained cheerfully, "is a monster in Greek mythology with the head of a bull but the rest of the body of a human. Imprisoned in a labyrinth by the King of Crete, he became a cannibal, eating criminals and young boys and girls sent by the defeated nation of Athens."
"What a coincidence, Fushiguro-san."
The corners of Eri Kimoto's mouth curled up even higher, and she raised her chin towards Fushiguro Megumi...and Fushiguro Megumi could already guess what she was going to say. For some reason, she seemed to be in a happier mood.
"Boy,"
Under Fushiguro Megumi's even more speechless gaze, Qi Ben Eri turned her index finger and pointed at herself: "Virgin."
Fushiguro Megumi rolled her eyes at her: "..."
Eri Kimoto has always loved reading, and she loved reading Greek mythology stories when she was a child. So she moved closer to the boy and asked Megumi Fushiguro, who tilted her head, to guess the ending of the Minotaur.
Megumi Fushiguro said that she was too lazy to pay attention to her, but she was still listening to her story seriously while glancing around the surroundings vigilantly.
"You should know this, Theseus, Fushiguro-san,"
"To save the virgins, Theseus took the offerings to the Temple of Apollo, made offerings for his protection, and after praying sincerely, he joined the seven pairs of virgins and sailed off to the Minotaur's Labyrinth."
"The ship was sailing on the sea when he received an oracle. The oracle instructed him to choose the goddess of love as his guide. If he received the goddess of love's blessing, his wish would be fulfilled."
The two continued walking forward. The summer night breeze was still somewhat chilly.
"Theseus at the time was just as confused as you are now," Eri Kimoto continued, her storytelling tone vivid. "Why did he ask Aphrodite, the goddess of love, to be his guide? But even though he didn't understand what she meant, he still did it."
"So when he landed and was taken to see the King of Crete, the fate arranged by the goddess of love appeared."
Qi Ben Eri paused, raised an eyebrow at the boy beside her, and said in a less serious tone: "Such a handsome man, handsome and brave, just standing here has attracted the princess's full attention."
"Love at first sight."
"Princess Ariadne fell in love with him at first sight!"
"She met him secretly, confessed her love to him, and gave him a ball of red string. She taught him to tie one end of the string tightly to the entrance, and then to let out the string while exploring the way until he found the Minotaur—"
Eri Kimoto's voice is very nice, soft and lazy, and from time to time she drags out the ending tone without even noticing it, just as unruly as she usually is when she's not pretending.
The girl with black hair and red eyes has delicate features, her hair is fluffy and soft, and her eyes are full of uninhibitedness when she smiles. This should be her truest appearance now, with a faint sense of alienation like playing in the world.
After the dark clouds dispersed, the faint moonlight shining on her made her cold white skin look even more striking. She was indeed the kind of girl that her classmates had described, someone whose appearance was hard to look away from.
Megumi Fushiguro averted her eyes, thinking that he just had a bad personality, which was a far cry from the kind of charming personality they talked about. If she had to say it, it could only be related to the word "charming".
After a few seconds, Megumi Fushiguro also stopped.
He stood up straight and watched quietly as Eri Kimoto drew her weapon towards him. The weapon she was carrying on her back today was a samurai sword, which was her new favorite.
The mirror-like blade was cold and reflected the two people's faces with different expressions.
As she drew the sword, the katana was revealed in her hand in its entirety. After Eri Kimoto made a clean and beautiful sword flower, Megumi Fushiguro's expression was calm: "And then?"
"Then?"
Qi Ben Eri turned the direction of the knife tip, and a sharp blade flashed.
The blade rose higher and higher as she raised her hand, and the atmosphere seemed to become more and more weird as her eyes gradually darkened.
Qi Ben Eri bit her lower lip and smiled, the interest in her red eyes becoming more intense: "Then, let me think..."
"And then Princess Ariadne, who had fallen in love, gave Theseus a magic sword that could kill the Minotaur!"
Lowering her eyes, she glanced at the tip of the katana in her hand, which was pointed at her neck. Megumi Fushiguro did not say anything, but just looked at her quietly.
The black-haired girl's expression changed almost instantly. Her face remained expressionless and her voice lowered. There was only indifference and coldness in her words: "Just like this."
In the next blink of an eye, a cold light flashed!
The knife flashed like lightning, extremely fast. A flash of cold light passed by, and Eri Qiben suddenly stabbed Fushiguro Megumi's neck - from behind.
“…”
“…”
Megumi Fushiguro tilted her head and glanced behind her. The small cursed spirit that was pierced by her sword was about to be exorcised and disappeared. The boy continued to walk forward, thinking that he was not wrong.
This guy really does have some evil tastes in him, and he's really good at adding drama to himself... He's a fool.
“Tsk!”
"Wait for me, Fushiguro-san."
Not getting the response she expected, she sheathed her knife in dissatisfaction, and Qi Ben Eri followed him with a pout.
Looking up at the boy walking forward with a slightly raised mouth, Qi Ben Eri grumbled in a low voice,
"Fushiguro-kun, you're really boring!"
The author has something to say:
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Actually, it’s very good at picking up the jokes hhhhh
Hui herself didn't realize that she was quite talkative in front of this person_(:3_」∠)_
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