Chapter 142 The Second Player
Since she had promised Hanayamain Haruna to "keep the secret", with Igarashi Yuuki's personality, she would of course insist on doing so, and no matter how curious Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru were, she couldn't tell them.
...Of course, if the two of them noticed something wrong later, it would have nothing to do with him either - after all, it was Hanayamain Haruna who asked him to keep it a secret, and he just regarded her as a friend, so he kept his promise. After all, "Igarashi Yuuki" was such a sincere and warm person who never guarded against friends and never doubted friends. She was sincere to the point of being a little "stupid". So even if Hanayamain Haruna had some problems, what did it have to do with him?
As the thought went through his mind, Xi Haiqing Dou looked more and more "death-ready", and he even took the time to smile and wink at Hanayamain Haruna to signal her.
——He, Yuuki Igarashi, is the best tree hole. He will definitely keep the "secret" between the two of them "secret", so don't worry!
Seeing that Saikai Haruto refused to tell them what the so-called "secret" was no matter how much they asked, Gojo Satoru and Kagome Ken, who already knew his character completely, had to give up and turned to ask Hanayamain Haruna.
It's just that Hanayamain Haruna wanted to hide the existence of Fushiguro Shigekiru - in fact, she was not particularly clear about why she wanted to hide the existence of Fushiguro Shigekiru from Gojo Satoru and Kagome Geto. It was more of a subconscious thought.
But of course it wasn't the nonsense she just said to Saikai Haruto - in fact, Hanayamain Haruna felt that if she said that, she could only use it to deceive Igarashi Yuuki, such a "naive" person who completely trusts others. If it was Gojo Satoru or Geto Suguru, she probably wouldn't be able to deceive him.
But no matter what the reason was, Hanayamain Haruna still didn't say anything, but instead made some jokes to get around the topic.
After shopping in the department store, it was already dusk. The four of them had dinner together and then went back to the technical college to rest.
Originally, Saikai Haruto had already prepared himself to be inexplicably tired today - after all, according to his only previous experience of going shopping with the Miyano sisters under the Cointreau pseudonym for a whole day, shopping was probably an activity that would make people inexplicably tired?
But he didn't expect that after he returned this time, although it was already past ten o'clock in the evening, he not only didn't feel tired, but he became more energetic inexplicably. After taking a shower, he lay in bed for a long time without feeling sleepy at all.
...So, is this because "Cointreau" hasn't exercised enough and is too weak, or is it because "Igarashi Yuuki" has too much physical strength and energy, or is it because the people shopping and the things they encounter are different?
Not wanting to think about this problem any further, Xi Hai Qing Dou shook his hair, not caring about the water drops that had not yet been wiped dry sliding down from the ends of his hair, soaking the sheets on the bed with small patches of water. Taking advantage of the fact that his brain and energy were overly vigorous, he simply half-lay on the bed and opened the forum.
——On the way back with Gojo Satoru, the system reminded him that the forum comics had been updated. However, he did not have the energy to look through the forums and comics and analyze them in front of Gojo Satoru. He had originally planned to wait until tomorrow when he had some free time to read them.
I didn't expect my brain to be so active tonight, so I decided to finish reading it tonight.
The content of the comic was beyond Xi Haiqing Dou's expectation, and two chapters were updated in a row.
The protagonist of the previous episode this time is not Gojo Satoru or Geto Suguru, nor is it "Igarashi Yuuki", but it has become Hanayamain Haruna.
The previous episode begins with Gojo Satoru and his friends chatting together after completing a mission one summer day. They talk about "Kanayamain Haruna who temporarily left Tokyo and returned to Kyoto", and then the scene shifts to Hanayamain Haruna, showing her daily life after returning to Kyoto from her perspective in several pages. Except for some missions to exorcise cursed spirits, most of the content is at Kasuga Shrine and Zenin family. There is even a page that takes up half a page and a whole page at Kasuga Shrine and Zenin family's main residence.
Xi Haiqing was reading the contents of the comic with great interest.
This episode also has a rare scene involving Hanayamain Haruna's curse "Senra Wanxiang".
"Senra Wanxiang" is an illusion-type spell. Saikai Haruto and Hanayamain Haruna have come into direct contact with it more than once in the past few months, so naturally they have copied this spell a long time ago.
It’s just that spells like “Senluo Wanxiang”, “No Limits” and “Spirit Curse Manipulation Technique” are all different. Even if they are all “Senluo Wanxiang”, different sorcerers have different brains, so the spells they can cast are also different.
Although Saikai Haruto and Hanayamain Haruna spend a lot of time together, they don't go on missions together very often. With his bad luck, even if he goes on missions with Hanayamain Haruna, they will always be separated for various strange reasons, and he will face the most dangerous situations alone... When he finishes exorcising the cursed spirit, when he turns around, Hanayamain Haruna has already exorcised the cursed spirit.
Moreover, for illusion-type spells, one cannot know the level of the spellcaster unless one is immersed in it. Even with daily training, Hanayamain Haruna rarely displays her true level of skill.
So strictly speaking, the "Senra Wanxiang" of Hanayamain Haruna in the manga was the first time that Saikai Haruto observed Hanayamain Haruna's level of curse from the perspective of a "cursed spirit".
After seeing the speed and level of Hanayamain Haruna in exorcising the first-level cursed spirits in the comics, Saikai Haruto touched his chin and came to an evaluation - his current understanding and control of "Senra Wanxiang" is better than Hanayamain Haruna's.
Xi Haiqing Dou was happy for just two seconds.
The comments on the bullet screen were quite good for Hanayamain Haruna.
[Finally, I saw Haruna use spells instead of bows and arrows! So cool!!]
[Oh, my wife is so handsome and cool! Haruna is killing me]
[Wow, is this the All-Seeing? The Curse-Returned Kaleidoscope?]
【？ Don’t use any illusions, Kaleidoscope. Thank you. Haruna’s spells are not that powerful. Wasn’t it broken by the first-level curse spirit?】
[But it's almost like confusing the fake with the real. I found out about the broken silk only when I was about to die. I suspect Haruna is teasing the cursed spirit.]
And Hanayamain Haruna's daily life at Kasuga Shrine and her daily life at Zenin's house made Saikai Haruto realize the importance of Hanayamain Haruna.
It goes without saying that she is a shrine maiden at Kasuga Shrine. She was originally a member of the Hanayamain family. Even though Kasuga Shrine only appeared in a few frames in the comics, it can be seen that the treatment of Hanayamain Haruna in the shrine must be beyond reproach.
The description of Hanayamain Haruna at the Zenin family is much more detailed than the time she was at Kasuga Shrine and exorcising cursed spirits.
After reading it, Xi Haiqing Dou roughly summarized the following information:
First, Hanayamain Haruna has a very high status in the Zenin family and is very popular. She is no worse than the direct descendants of the Zenin family and can be considered half of the "favorite". Of course, she is also inevitably envied and criticized by some people;
Second, the Zenin family is indeed a descendant of the previous sorcerer family. They are very old-fashioned and feudal in every aspect, very much like the style of thousands of years ago, with many rules and regulations. Of course, there are even more feudal dregs and bad habits, even to the point of being a bit suffocating;
Third, the Zenin family does have a guy named Zenin Naoya, who has an arrogant and rude personality. He used to dislike Hanayamain Haruna, but after being beaten up by her, he was convinced and admired "Zenin Shin'er" very much.
——This is the first time that Saikai Haruto directly sees how much importance Hanayamain Haruna is valued by the Zenin family, and it is also the first time that the name "Zenin Shinji" appears in the manga.
[Miko Haruna!! I’m going to kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss, die!]
[Aaaaa, Haruna looks so pretty in a kimono! This episode is called Miracle Haruna-chan, right? She changed into so many different outfits, and they all look great! ]
[The difference between the Zenin family and the Gojo family is huge. Damn, this environment is really suffocating.]
[There are so many rules... Baby goose girl is so smart! She can adapt to all of this! Everyone loves Haruna, hehe, by the way, it seems that Hanayamain Haruna might also sound better if she changed her name to Zenin Haruna? The difference in Chinese characters is just one character.]
[What kind of sand pig man is Zenin Naoya? This is too classic. My fist is hard and I want to rush into the comic and beat him up. Harunabao hit him too lightly.]
[Fuck, J-man, please tell me that this Zenin Naoya is a cannon fodder who will be offline in one episode, and I won’t be angry anymore!!]