Under the diligent management of Manami Suda, the situation within the Panxing Cult was barely stabilized after a month.

The former Panxing Cult cadres trembled in fear for several days before they were mercifully released by a certain unscrupulous cult leader, who did not forget to defraud them of a huge sum of money before letting them go.

Kimiko Ohsaka suddenly became the head of the publicity department of the Bankei Cult. Under the recommendation of the well-known celebrity Kimiko Ohsaka, new believers continued to flock to the Bankei Cult.

Not long after, Geto Xiayou gave his first speech with a thick stack of speech scripts. The speech was a great success, and their image as a "healing master" began to take shape.

Do you have recurring nightmares?

Do you always have back pain recently?

Are there always strange noises at home?

——Come to Panxing Sect, Panxing Sect can solve all your troubles.

What? Suspected that you have cancer?

——Dear, I suggest you go to the hospital for a color ultrasound right away. There is no time to waste, please leave right away!

By the way, it is free to exorcise cursed spirits for their followers. Of course, if the followers voluntarily donate money, they will not refuse. In addition, the Panxing Cult will also accept some commissions related to cursed spirits. The fees to be paid are proportional to the difficulty of the commission. The specific amount needs to be discussed in detail with the secretary.

In the lounge, Xia Yujie, who had just returned, complained: "I say, isn't the slogan 'Panxing Cult can help you solve all your troubles' a little too arrogant?"

Gojo Satoru sat down on the sofa, turned on the fan, and replied, "It's so hot... What do you know? For a cult like us, the more arrogant the slogans we shout out, the better."

Al said quietly, "Jack, isn't our church the Berserker Support Association?"

Xia Yujie ignored Al's question calmly and continued, "But it's common sense that medicines that claim to cure all diseases are usually fake, right?"

"Huh? Who with common sense would believe in such a cult? Aren't there a bunch of idiots lining up to buy fake medicine?"

“…That makes sense.”

Manami Suda and Lalu, who had just sent away a group of believers, walked into the lounge. "Why did you three come back so soon? Has the problem with that family been resolved?"

Last night, a newlywed couple came to the church and said that there were always strange noises coming from their newly bought house. When they asked for the address, they found out that they lived in Evergreen Town. Since Evergreen Town had many incidents of cursed spirits injuring people, Al and the other two simply went out together, and the result was...

Al replied, "Oh, there's no curse in their house. The strange noises are just because there's a problem with the water pipes. They have a basement under their house that they don't even know about. I kicked open the entrance and found that it was full of water. There's enough water for children to swim in."

Simply put, the house is too old and the pipes are leaking.

Manami Sugata: "..."

Lalu pretended to be serious and said, "Well, that's how it is. It seems you have come here for nothing."

The blond-haired, blue-eyed boy shook his head. "That's not the case. Jake helped them fix the water pipes and cleared the blocked drains, solving the noise problem. We got all the commission fees."

Manami Sugata: "..."

Boss, what are you doing, boss!

Lalu covered her face and said shyly, "Ah, he is indeed a good man."

Gojo Satoru grinned and said, "What's strange is that after all the water was drained out, we found a safe and human skeletons from below. The couple was timid and asked us to take the safe and the skeleton away. Guess what we found in the safe? Full of gold."

Manami Sugata: "!!!"

She was shocked and asked, "Where's the safe?"

Gojo Satoru pointed at the plastic bag under her feet.

Manami Suda opened the garbage bag and saw that the four or five layers of black plastic bags were actually filled with gold bars!

This, this, this, this! Can we really keep this?

While she was in shock, Al's voice came over calmly: "I've always said that Evergreen Town has a bad feng shui. There's the Noisy Gayachu Coconut and the Noisy Spider Woman, and now there's even the aging of the water pipes. Why do people still want to buy houses in Evergreen Town?"

Manami Sugata: "..."

The main point of that house is obviously not the aging of the water pipes, right?!

"Because it's cheap." Xia Yujie said, "Land in Tokyo is very expensive, and the housing prices in Tokaido Town are probably the cheapest in Tokyo."

Lalu touched his chin and said, "So, Master Xia Yu, what are you going to do with this gold?"

"Ah, put them all away. They are gifts from Emperor Al, gifts from the mascot. Everyone should spend the money with gratitude." As Xia Yujie was talking, he remembered something else: "By the way, Manami, how is our headquarters?"

"The decoration is almost done. We can move in in about a week." Suda Manami said quickly and tangledly: "Then Master Getsu, that skeleton..."

"He has been buried in the cemetery. The gun found on the body had long been soaked and rotted, so it was buried with him."

Gun, gun?

It's getting more and more outrageous.

"Don't you need to call the police?"

Xia Yujie shook his head. "He carries guns and gold with him... He must be a man with a story. Manami, you should find a way to investigate this matter."

"yes."

Gojo Satoru said confidently, "Just use the gold. It's probably from shady sources anyway. We can just rob the thieves."

After buying a super large headquarters, their savings became precarious. Although Gojo Satoru is not very sensitive to money, he also knows that for them now, the more money the better.

Al blinked expectantly, "Jack, what are you going to do with this money?"

Xia Yujie paused, "How do you want to spend it?"

"Our headquarters is very cool, but I always feel that it is still missing something. For example, can we put up a Berserker statue at the entrance of the headquarters?"

Manami Sugata: "..."

A statue of the Berserker? A statue of the Berserker? A statue of the Berserker? Doesn't that mean they are the Berserker's fan club?

Lalu realized from their conversation that the so-called "Berserker Supporters Association" seemed to refer to the "Al Supporters Association", so he asked: "Master Al, do you want to erect a statue of yourself?"

Unexpectedly, Al refused: "If we want to put a statue at the entrance of the church, it would be better to put up a powerful Berserker. My suggestion is that we put up a statue of Hercules."

Gojo Satoru: “!!!”

Xia Yujie: “!!!”

Who are the typical representatives of Berserkers? Of course, it is Berserker "Lancelot" and Illya's "Hercules"!

Gojo Satoru said: "Are you a genius, Al?!"

Summer Oil: "No, wait..."

"Jie, this is a once-in-a-lifetime request. I want to see a super-large Uncle B figure every day!"

"...Your request is too much for once in your lifetime. Have you lived for several lifetimes?"

"Je-chan!!!"

"Jay!!! I want to see Hercules's life-size figure, too! Can he be as tall as the church?"

"Something like Dacheng is not something that can be done by a person of equal stature, right? Uncle B is only two meters tall, and even with the base, it can't be more than three meters..."

Manami Sugata: "..."

Mr. Getsu, do you know that the way you are gradually being led astray is really heartbreaking?

She turned around and made crazy eyes at Lalu. Lalu then remembered the purpose of his visit and took out a transparent container.

Inside the container are six curse balls of different sizes, the largest one is as big as a baseball, and the smallest one is the size of a ping-pong ball.

"These are the cursed spirit balls collected from the believers."

Xia Yujie took the container and said with satisfaction, "Thank you for your hard work."

One of the biggest benefits of developing a church is that it can quickly collect a large number of cursed spirits.

As they were talking, there was a sudden noise outside. Manami Suda looked out and said, "Is someone causing trouble? Mr. Oosaka is not here today, so that person should be Makoto..."

"I'll go and take a look."

Al stood up on his own initiative and ran towards the direction where the noise came from.

As mediums, Kimiko Ohsaka and Makoto Higa could not help much in exorcising cursed spirits, but Kimiko Ohsaka is now the head of the publicity department of the Bankei Cult, and most of the believers were introduced by her. It can be said that she has made outstanding contributions to the development of the church. The other medium, Makoto Higa, was arranged to work in the squatting room.

Being able to observe the connection between souls and the world...what a perfect skill for playing tricks?

In front of the squatting room, there were many believers who came to squat, but inside the room, Higa Makoto was having a fierce argument with a man.

The man in his thirties grabbed Makoto Higa's slender wrist and said, "Follow me!"

Higa Makoto looked like she wanted to shake off his hand, but because she was too weak, she couldn't break free no matter what she did. Al walked over, grabbed the man's wrist and twisted it hard. The man cried out in pain and immediately let go of Higa Makoto.

The blond-haired, blue-eyed boy said calmly, "Please don't make trouble in the dining room. We don't welcome rude guests."

He put Higa Makoto behind him and glanced sideways. There was a clear handprint on the girl's slender white wrist.

Tsk.

Al said coldly: "Please leave here."

The man angrily asked, "Are you from this church? Tell your boss to come out!"

Al raised his eyebrows: "What? Are we hiring child laborers? As far as I know, Miss Makoto is an adult, so it is not illegal to employ her."

The man said angrily: "Stop talking nonsense, I must take Makoto away today!"

Al turned around and asked Higa Makoto: "Ms. Makoto, do you know him?"

Higa Makoto whispered, "He's my boyfriend."

Oh no.

It turned out to be my boyfriend. Upon closer inspection, this man looked a little unkempt but was indeed handsome. However...

"Do you want to go back with him?"

Higa Makoto looked at him steadily and shook her head.

Al said, "Did you see that? She doesn't want to quit, so we can't take her away."

The man was puzzled and asked, "Makoto, do you know what you are doing? The Bandei Cult is a cult! Why do you have to stay here?"

"Oh, you can't say that."

Al said calmly, "The Panxing Cult has always been a legal church. It just changed hands now. Besides, what's wrong with everyone believing in me as a mascot? I won't call on everyone to hire assassins to kill innocent little girls."

The man didn't understand what he was saying, but keywords like "hired killer" and "killing innocent little girls" made his alarm bells ring.

He didn't care and wanted to pull up Higa Makoto again: "Anyway, Makoto, you can't stay here any longer!"

They had been together for so many years, and he knew Higa Makoto's social circle very well. But just a month ago, they had a big fight, and after that Higa Makoto suddenly moved out of his original residence and started a church with a group of strangers. After a quick check, he found out that this person was very involved in the church.

It is said that the Panxing Cult believes in "Lord Tianyuan". Over the years, no one knows how much money has been spent in the name of "Lord Tianyuan". They have even done a lot of things like excluding dissidents. It is a veritable cult.

How could he let Makoto stay in a place like this?

Higa Makoto slapped his hand away and said, "Don't you want me to change? If I change, will you be dissatisfied?"

"I didn't ask you to join this place!"

"I think this place can bring me a new life, so I chose this place. I am trying to get rid of the shadow of the past. Isn't that enough?"

“But this is a cult!”

"You have a good eye." Gojo Satoru clapped his hands and said with satisfaction, "You are the first person to praise this place as a cult. Good, you have a good eye."

man:"……"

The man could sense a hint of danger: "Who are you?"

Gojo Satoru said in a relaxed tone: "Of course he is the boss here."

The man choked. He didn't expect the leader of the Panxing Cult to be so young... Isn't this a little bit wrong?

He hesitated and said, "The founder of the Panxing Cult doesn't look like this..."

Al curled his lips and whispered, "I told you long ago that the Panxing Sect has changed its leader. Why don't you listen to others?"

Xia Yujie rolled his eyes and said, "You have no right to criticize others."

After saying this, Xia Yujie's expression suddenly changed, and he said to the man with a smile: "But who are you? Makoto is now an employee of the Bankei Cult. We don't mind Makoto's friends coming here to see her, but if you use violence against her and forcibly take her away regardless of her wishes, we will call the police on her behalf."

"…I didn't use violence against her."

Xia Yujie just looked at him with a smile.

The man had no choice but to take out his business card and give it to Al, who was closest to him.

Al took the card and read aloud: "Nozaki Kazuhiro, freelance writer."

Nozaki Kazuhiro said: "I am her boyfriend and we have been together for a long time."

Higa Makoto remained silent, which was considered as tacit agreement. She did not seem to hate or reject Nozaki Kazuhiro per se, but rather acted more like a sulking little girlfriend.

"Oh, you're a writer." Xia Yujie's eyes lit up, "Then you should be good at writing copy, right? It just so happens that the publicity department of the Panxing Cult is still short of a deputy director. Are you interested?"

Nozaki Kazuhiro: “…”

Al: “…”

JJ, are you crazy?

A week later, Panxing Sect successfully moved into its new base in the suburbs.

The tentative name of the new base is Panxing Palace. It has three floors above ground and one floor underground. It is a towering palace with a total of four floors. The first floor is the reception hall, meditation room, restaurant and other places used to receive believers and guests; the second floor is the office, meeting room, library and collection room for spell tools and objects of each cadre; the third floor is the cadres' bedroom and entertainment room, where the cadres live.

As for the underground part, it was temporarily divided into a dojo and a training room. They specially purchased very expensive defense materials from the black market and reinforced it with various runes to prevent the three special-level people from collapsing the entire Panxing Palace with a simple move of their fingers.

At the entrance of the Astrological Palace stands a life-size statue of "Hercules". The custom-made "Hercules" has a burly figure and is three meters high including the base. He holds a huge axe, and his aura is so terrifying that it can scare children to tears.

"Born from darkness, from darkness to darkness. All filth and impurity are purged."

A light blue tent dropped from overhead, wrapping up the Panxing Palace, and the final preparations were completed.

There were all kinds of classical oil paintings hanging in the corridor, all left by the previous owner of the palace. Tenuchi Riko was jumping excitedly in the corridor, and said excitedly: "Wow, are we going to live here in the future?"

"Yeah." While controlling the cursed spirits to move the luggage, Xia Yujie asked, "Do you like it?"

"Yeah!" Amanouchi Riko said contentedly, "The space for activities has finally gotten bigger. Geto, can I plant flowers on the rooftop in the future?"

"Of course you can. You can grow whatever you want."

"Hahahahahaha, then I'm going to plant a whole rooftop of mushrooms!"

Xia Yujie: “…”

Are mushrooms considered flowers?

Gojo Satoru, who was walking in the front, had already kicked open the door and walked into the room he had booked long ago. He took a quick look and felt quite satisfied, but...

He asked, "Where's my skateboard? Hasn't it been sent to me?"

Al poked his head out from behind Geto Summer Oil and said, "Go-chan, the couriers are all in the duty room on the first floor."

Gojo Satoru scratched his head and turned to go downstairs to get the package, but Tenuchi Riko called him, "Gojo! There's still my package!"

"Tsk, got it!"

Watching Gojo Satoru running away in a hurry, Geto Summer Oil asked Tenuchi Riko: "Did you buy anything too?"

"Yeah." Tenuchi Riko said, "I bought some clothes I liked online, but I was afraid I would have too much luggage so I mailed them here directly..."

Xia Yujie paused for a moment, then realized something: "Sister Riko, if you want to go shopping, we can accompany you."

"No need."

Tenuchi Riko waved her hands and pretended not to care, saying, "The church has just started to develop. You should focus on your work and wait until the church is completely established before you talk about it."

“…Yeah, that’s fine.”

The little girl with the floral headband stood at the door of her room. She pushed the door open with great anticipation, her eyes sparkling: "Wow! What a great view! It's worth spending so much money on this house!"

Hearing her energetic voice, the others couldn't help but soften their expressions.

Al dragged his suitcase full of grains and stopped beside Geto Suguru. He tapped Geto's shoulder and pointed at Tenuchi Riko's back.

“She’s really small.”

Xia Yujie: “…”

Indeed.

After getting to know Amauchi Riko, they realized that Ieiri Shoko was actually a very tall girl, because Amauchi Riko... was really petite, so petite that she had to stand on tiptoe for her head to just pass over their shoulders.

After getting used to Ieiri Shoko's 1.7-meter height, Tenuchi Riko seems so strange no matter how you look at her, just like a little hamster. No wonder Gojo Satoru always likes to pick Tenuchi Riko up and play with her.

Tenuchi Riko narrowed her eyes and said, "Ha! I heard it!"

She pointed at Al and said with great energy, "Don't be complacent. I will grow taller as long as I drink more milk. I can still grow taller for at least another five or six years!"

Al, who had obviously grown his hair, said: "..."

Xia Yujie showed a helpless smile: "But sister Riko, you never drank the milk that Kuroi brought you."

Tenuchi Riko: “…”

It’s because there’s no sugar in the milk!

They shook their heads and walked into their own rooms. Al threw the bag of clothes into the closet, then took the time to tinker with his grain and posters. Oh, and his new COS costume. The clothes and weapons were already made, and now he just needed to make a wig.

——Haha, Wu-chan and Jie-chan will definitely be shocked when they see his new skin.

When he tidied up his room and walked out slowly, he heard Geto Suguru's voice at the staircase.

"Manami, Al and I are planning to go out for a while, so I'll leave the church to you."

Suda Manami said in surprise, "Yes. But Master Geta, where are you and Master Al going? When are you leaving?"

"Tomorrow, if it's quick, I can be back in one day."

Oh, you're talking about that.

Al walked over.

"Has anything happened recently? I haven't heard Kong Shiyu mention it..."

"This is not a job that Kong Shiyu found for us. We are going out this time because of the previous Po-Xu Demon."

"Po-Xuan Demon?"

"Well, I have been studying the use of Pok'u Mo recently, and sometimes..."

Al slapped Xia Youjie's shoulder suddenly, and Xia Youjie was so scared that he almost punched him.

The black-haired boy widened his eyes, showing a rare childish side: "Al???"

The blond-haired, blue-eyed boy laughed unscrupulously.

Xia Yujie twitched his lips and tapped his forehead hard.

"ah!"

Manami Sugata: "..."

So childish.

Xia Yujie continued: "I can feel some summons through the Pokémon."

"Summon?" Suda Manami became alert: "You mean..."

"You guessed right." Xia Youjie's expression was a little solemn: "The Pok'u Demon will be summoned by a child like Zhisha, so there must be another child like that in this land."

Children who are being abused or abandoned by adults will unconsciously attract the Polu demon with their resentment, making it restless.

Al knew this, "Also, Miss Manami, those who can summon the Pokémon are usually children with the talent of sorcerers."

Xia Yujie sighed and said worriedly, "Yes, if a child with the talent of a sorcerer is being abused by an adult, then if he is not careful, a big disaster will happen."

That time, Orisa accidentally injured a colleague of Orisa's father. That unlucky colleague suffered an unprovoked disaster. If it weren't for Manami Suda running around for him, he would probably have been killed by the Pakuyu curse long ago.

Suda Manami said, "I understand. I will take good care of Gojo-sama and Riko-san. But do you know where the child is?"

Geto shook his head.

"We have studied the map, but that place seems to be a rural village that does not exist on the map, so we still have to go there to find out the specific situation."

He waved his hands and said optimistically: "Don't worry, with Al, the European Emperor, everything will go smoothly."