“…”

The bullied girl was stunned for a few seconds, and finally she wiped her eyes while taking out her cell phone and obediently recorded the screams coming from the closet.

Al scratched his face and said, "Did I just speak?"

"It's okay, I didn't expect Berserker to fully cooperate with our plan... Anyway, we just need to keep those rotten oranges hidden."

They all felt that they were almost done, so Al reopened the closet door and the three girls immediately fell out.

"Ghost... there is a ghost!" The arrogant girl turned pale with fear, "There is really a ghost in there!"

Al looked up above the closet. There was indeed an entrance to the attic, but from where he was standing all he could see was darkness.

"Let's go check it out."

After receiving the order from their master, Xia Yujie's two cursed spirits went into the attic first.

Al followed closely behind.

The bad girl said in fear: "Hey, don't go! Don't leave us here!"

Al turned a deaf ear to the question. There was no staircase in the closet that could lead to the attic, so Al reached out and grabbed the entrance to the attic and jumped up easily.

After the incident five years ago was exposed, the attic that served as the murder scene was cleaned up by the police. Later, no one knew who sealed the attic entrance in the closet, and also demolished the simple stairs that should have existed. Anyway, according to the information provided by the "window", the family of the new residents who died not long ago only knew that someone had died in their home so they were particularly cheap, but they did not know the existence of the attic.

However, when the volunteers found their bodies, the couple were lying in the attic with their eyes open, and the closet door was tightly closed.

After the couple died, the only one left in the family was the grandmother-in-law who suffered from Alzheimer's disease. She couldn't even take care of herself, let alone find the whereabouts of her son and daughter-in-law. The younger sister, the only one who would visit the family, also disappeared mysteriously at about the same time and was probably killed.

It was not until two months later that college student volunteer Rika Nishina walked into the house and found two bodies in the attic. She immediately called her senior volunteer, and when she and the police arrived, they only found Rika Nishina who had fainted from the shock, an old lady who had died next to her, and two bodies in the attic.

Oh, by the way, the senior volunteer, the police, medical staff and reporters who rushed to the scene all died within a few days, leaving only Rika Nishina who escaped death several times.

The police finally realized that something was wrong and urgently transferred the case to the sorcerer.

Detective Al: "Hmm... no ghosts."

The attic was empty, with no trace of the vengeful spirit.

Al closed his eyes, still not feeling anything. He was a Heroic Spirit and could not understand cursed energy. His perception of cursed energy was indeed not as sharp as that of a sorcerer, but a Heroic Spirit's five senses were far superior to those of humans. If there really was something here, he would not have been unaware of it.

However...

Al bent down and picked up the diary at his feet. The diary was tattered and looked quite old.

It's strange, why is there such a conspicuous diary left at the crime scene?

He opened it and saw the name of the diary owner written on it.

——Kawamata Coconut.

Oh, the wife who was tortured and murdered was named Kayako Saeki, but before she got married, her last name was Kawamata.

The blond boy thought for a moment and looked at the two "cameras" that were exploring the attic: "Master, I found Kayako's diary, but I didn't notice the existence of the cursed spirit. What about you?"

"Neither do I." Summer Oil replied, "But if it's Satoru, maybe he can find something that we can't see."

Gojo Satoru on the side interrupted and said, "Well, there's no need for that. Al, come out now. Whether you've been marked or not, the students over there must have been marked by the Grudge. It won't be long before the Grudge comes to us. All we have to do is wait and see."

Geto sighed, "That's all we can do. Al, bring out the diary."

"Understood, Master."

Because of a campus bullying farce, things became more troublesome. If they were the ones marked, they would not be afraid at all and would just be ready to beat up the vengeful ghost. But now the ones marked were four students who had no ability to protect themselves... Tsk.

Xia Yujie raised his hand and rubbed his brows: "In the next few days, I'm afraid we will have to stay with them and serve as bodyguards."

Al stuffed the diary into the ears of Xia Yujie's cursed spirit, jumped down from the attic, and picked up the frightened student followers one by one with one hand, turned around and went downstairs without mercy. The transfer student hurriedly followed, and the girl who led the bullying also quickly got up and followed behind him downstairs tremblingly.

Not until they all went downstairs and left through the weed-covered yard did a pair of pale hands reach out from the attic, and a woman with disheveled hair slowly crawl out, crawling along the stairs like a snake, making strange creaking sounds from her mouth, her hollow eyes staring in the direction where Al and the others had left.

…

"Yes, we found four students at the mission site... They were students from a nearby girls' school. Yes, no curse was found... Ah, okay, okay, I understand..."

The assistant supervisor hung up the phone and politely said to the girls, "Students, for your own safety, you need to go to the hospital to check your health. Don't worry, we will communicate with your parents."

The transfer student was stunned: "Should we contact the parents?"

"Yes." The assistant supervisor said gently but firmly, "We have an obligation to protect your personal safety, so please understand."

"Who are you? Do we have to understand just because you ask us to? This is so incomprehensible! I want to go home!"

The bad girl suddenly turned pale and started to make a scene.

“…”

Al grabbed her by the back of the neck and pushed her into the car with a tough attitude. The bad girl was a little afraid of him, but she still struggled hard. Xia Yujie stood behind Al and said coldly: "Does your teacher know that you bully your classmates?"

The bad girl made a move.

"No school would allow a new student to be brought to a crime scene where someone has died to play a prank, right? Do you need us to contact your homeroom teacher and parents?"

The bad girl stopped talking.

Al stuffed her into the car, closed the door considerately for her, and waved.

Bad girl: “…”

The assistant supervisor breathed a sigh of relief.

He nodded to Al and the other two outside the car window, drove the car, and took the four frightened girls to the hospital.

If nothing unexpected happens, these four students will be kept under the care of the sorcerer until the "curse" is completely resolved.

Xia Yujie summoned the cursed spirit in the shape of a manta ray: "Let's go, let's go to the hospital to meet up with the teacher and Glass, and ask the volunteer lady about the specific situation."

Hearing this, Al couldn't help but complain: "Still need to work?"

Xia Yujie said helplessly: "After all, the incident has not been resolved, Al."

Gojo Satoru was too lazy to talk nonsense. He grabbed Al by the scruff of the neck and jumped onto the back of the manta ray with him: "I rarely see people who are more passive than me. Al, you are a Heroic Spirit."

Thinking about Nightingale who was full of action before, and then looking at the blond boy who just wanted to live a Buddhist life, both male high school students felt that the mental illness of split personality was really amazing.

These two personalities are simply two extremes!

"I'm not being particularly passive today," Al defended himself, "I still care about this case."

This is the truth.

"Also, the idea that 'slacking off is wrong' is itself deeply problematic."

Gojo Satoru and Kayuki Kagome raised their eyebrows: "Oh?"

Al-Israel said sternly: "A diligent person can accomplish great things, and so can a lazy person. Laziness itself is a kind of practice. When a person cultivates laziness to the extreme, he can comprehend the true meaning of the universe and reach the height of a god."

After a strange silence, the two high school boys burst into laughter.

At this moment, a huge bird cursed spirit with eyes all over its body rushed towards the direction of the manta ray. Due to its low level, the two high school boys did not take it seriously. Al turned around and kicked it on the spot.

“——!”

The cursed spirit was deformed by the kick and flew far away, so far that Gojo Satoru and Kagome Kai had to look over their shoulder.

Bang!

The cursed spirits that fell like a flood smashed the roof of a black car.

Al exhaled and calmly withdrew his feet: "See, this is the power that laziness and calories bring me."

Gojo Satoru & Kayuki Kagome: "..."

Looking at the car that was stabbed in the back before it had driven far, Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru stretched out their hands. One was genuinely worried, while the other had a crazy smile on his face.

"Assist-Supervise-!!!"

Al: “…”