Xia Yujie vaguely realized that he was dreaming.

A haggard-looking woman flipped through an old photo album and said with a smile, "This is the photo of my parents when they were still in school."

The woman raised her eyes, and her haggard face still vaguely showed her former beauty, but Xia Yujie felt that the woman's eyes were inexplicably familiar to him.

Yes, it's Al.

The background outside the window was a blue sky... no, a vast galaxy. The room they were in seemed to be floating in a universe that only existed in science fiction movies.

This person... could it be Al's mother?

In the black and white photos in the album, young men and women snuggle together, smiling sweetly and with sparkling eyes.

The woman smiled and said, "At that time, there were many boys in the school who were pursuing mom. When I was in school, I was often blocked in the corner by the hooligans in the school to confess their love, and then they were all beaten away by your father..."

As she reminisced about the past, there seemed to be a little light in the woman's dull eyes.

The scene changes again, showing a couple arguing fiercely. The extremely angry father drives his car at full speed into an exaggerated building. After a piercing noise, the world spins.

Bang--!

At the end of the dream, there was a sky full of flames and a boy with orange hair.

"Hey, hey, are you still alive?"

"He" moved his gaze toward the burning car.

"Your parents..." The orange-haired boy looked at "his" expression and finally couldn't finish his words: "Hey, what are you guys doing? If you have a cell phone, hurry up and call someone to help..."

…

"Master, Master——"

Xia Youjie woke up from his dream and saw a blond-haired and blue-eyed boy squatting in front of him, looking at him expressionlessly.

The moment their eyes met, he felt a sharp pain in his temple, as if something had been tampered with.

Xia Yujie stood up and rubbed his brows quickly: "Sorry, I fell asleep accidentally. Hiss, my head hurts..."

Gojo Satoru returned to Kyoto to retrieve the videotape, and Geto Suguru also used the team channel to inform Ieiri Naoko of the latest progress here. Shortly afterwards, Yaga Masamichi called and scolded them.

"Do you know how much money you have to pay to the hospital?!" The head teacher was furious: "That's a whole floor! A whole floor!!!"

"…It wasn't me who broke it."

"Xia! Oil! Jay!"

“Yes, yes, yes…”

"You let Gojo Satoru and Al answer the phone!!!"

Xia Yujie looked around at the empty space and said, "Uh, ah, now... it's not very convenient..."

"Inconvenient? What are you trying to do to me?!"

"No, I just asked them to buy breakfast..."

"You're lying!!!"

After finally dealing with the furious head teacher, he called the assistant supervisor and took this opportunity to buy a lot of snacks for their breakfast.

Al flipped through the plastic bag and said, "Their supermarket also sells rice balls. They were all newly purchased early in the morning, so I bought all of them."

Beef rice balls, squid rice balls, eel rice balls, salmon rice balls...

If you want to eat them all, just buy them all. It’s the owner’s money anyway.

Al cleared out all the fresh rice balls in the supermarket under the surprised expression of the store manager. When he came back with a big bag of rice balls, Xia Yujie was shocked and asked, "Did you rob the supermarket?"

Al sat down on the steps next to him and said, "Master, I bought all this with your money, how can it be called robbery?"

“…”

Yes, it was not the supermarket that was looted, but me that was looted.

Xia Yujie rummaged through the bag and took out two salmon rice balls. "Here. This is delicious."

"……Thank you."

Geto Xiayou took the rice ball, but his emotions had not yet completely emerged from his previous dream.

In Fate, there seems to be a setting where the master dreams of the heroic spirit in the past, so, that is indeed Al's past? The family is not harmonious, and the father seems to be planning to die with the whole family...?

He subconsciously looked at Al, and the moment their eyes collided again, his temple began to hurt again, and some cognition was silently blurred.

"Master?"

"……Um?"

"Are you still asleep, Master?"

"Sorry, I was distracted. Did you say anything?"

Al swallowed the remaining rice ball in one gulp and said, "Zhenzi."

"Oh, it's Shinko. Let me think, Shinko's full name is Yamamura Shinko, and its curse wreaked havoc on Japan last century, more than 50 years ago."

Al ate while listening attentively to the lecture given by the honor student.

After giving up the dream he was thinking about, Geto's thoughts gradually became clear: "...Sadako is the most famous curse in Japan. Or rather, it was after the emergence of Sadako that the curse world deliberately separated the special branch of 'curse' from the cursed spirits, because Sadako's influence at the time was really too great."

Al said incoherently, "Is it that strong?"

Xia Yujie took out a tissue and helped him wipe the rice grains from the corners of his mouth like an old lady.

"Very strong." He confirmed: "It is said that Yamamura Sadako's mother is a powerful sorcerer who possesses a powerful spell that can control life and death. Some say it is a reversal spell, and some say it is killing with the mind. When Yamamura Sadako was still alive, she once helped a paralyzed man stand up again, so many people later speculated that the mother and daughter of Yamamura were both owners of the reversal spell."

The inversion procedure is a very special procedure.

Since the essence of cursed power is a person's negative emotions, cursed power can only hurt people but not save them. The reversal technique is just the opposite. It is said that as long as there is still a breath left, the reversal technique can be used to bring the dead back to life.

It's a pity that there are very few people who can use the reversal technique, and it's even harder to find a sorcerer who can use the reversal technique to heal others.

At present, there is only one company in Japan that can do this.

Al asked curiously, "Can it cure paralysis? Can glass do that, too?"

Xia Yujie thought about it and nodded, "It's a bit difficult for people who are born paralyzed, but for people who are paralyzed later in life, Gaozi can still give it a try."

Al sighed: "She is indeed the most powerful nanny in the Japanese magic world."

Xia Yujie smiled and said softly, "Well, that's true. If Zhenzi could survive, she would definitely be a respected sorcerer. Unfortunately, her family was very unfortunate. Her mother committed suicide, and she was also chopped with a sickle by her father and thrown into a dry well. Her resentment after death condensed into a videotape."

"What's on the tape?"

"It is said that these are fragments of Zhenzi's memories when she was alive. Anyone who has watched the videotape will die. If the videotape is copied and shown to others during the process, the date of death can be successfully delayed, but the final result will still be the same."

Al took a sip of milk and asked with rare interest, "So this curse can be delayed?"

"Yes, but that's not a good thing." Xiayou Jie explained: "People mistakenly thought that copying the videotape would completely get rid of the curse, so the videotape was copied countless times and passed on to more and more people. Zhenzi's curse spread rapidly in Japan like a virus."

Al understood.

Everyone wanted to live, and in order to survive, they were willing to pass the curse on to their trusted friends and relatives, but the end result was - none of them survived.

How ironic.

"The one now stored in Wu's house is the first videotape that Zhenzi condensed. It took the Gojo family five years to destroy all the other videotapes. The first one also went through several sealing ceremonies. Now, decades later, Zhenzi's curse has been completely dispelled."

Al seemed to understand something.

"So, if Mr. Nightmoth knew that we were planning to release the chastity, he would definitely go crazy."

Kagome nodded in agreement.

"That's right. But why hasn't Wu come back yet? It's been an hour. Could he have teleported and got lost?"

"Ha, who is it that is whispering bad things about me behind my back?"

When Al and Xia Yujie turned around, they saw Gojo Satoru standing behind them holding something wrapped in talisman paper like a silkworm cocoon.

Gojo Satoru threw the videotape into Geto's arms and snatched the bag next to Al: "I'm so hungry..."

Xia Yujie complained: "You've already gone home, why don't you stop by to have a meal before coming back?"

"I don't want to eat with them. Why are there only popping candies? Is this what you eat for breakfast?"

Al-Qian gave him two rice balls: "Beef rice ball and eel rice ball, these are the only two left."

Xia Yujie: “…”

You eat pretty fast then.

Gojo Satoru opened the rice ball packaging bag and said, "Don't just sit there, hurry up and load the videotape!"

Xia Yujie rolled his eyes and said, "Idiot, who still uses videotapes these days? Everyone watches DVDs, okay?"

Gojo Satoru was confused: “…Ah?”

Al compared the thickness of a videotape and then a DVD: "One is so thick, and the other is so thin. The players they use are obviously different. Master No. 2 who lacks common sense even more than the Heroic Spirit, are you ashamed?"

Gojo Satoru: “…”

Gojo Satoru was shocked: "What should we do then?"

Just then, Al heard the sound of tires rolling over the ground.

He coughed lightly, and announced in a calm tone and expressionless face: "Welcome to the great Assistant Supervisor - Mr. Ota Jishigure!"

A black car stopped in the background, and the hardworking assistant supervisor jumped out of the driver's seat, holding a heavy machine in his arms.

"Here it comes! The video player!"

The high school students were very moved: "Mr. Datian!"

The assistant supervisor was also moved. He was about to say something in response to the children's enthusiastic call, but Al took the heavy player and rushed into the murderer's house first. Geto Suguru slapped the assistant supervisor's empty hand and ran after him. Gojo Satoru threw the remaining rice ball into his mouth and rushed in as well.

Auxiliary Supervisor: "..."

He looked at his empty hands, then at the backs of the three young men rushing into the haunted house. A gust of cold wind blew past, making him feel particularly shiver.

“…”

Ah, the brief moment of glory is so fleeting.