Chapter 187 The Second Player

A week later, Saikai Haruto met Geto Suguru again.

Haruto Nishimi had just completed his mission to exorcise the cursed spirit. When he was taking down the "tent" and preparing to turn around and leave the mall occupied by the cursed spirit, he suddenly saw Geto Suguru, who was half leaning against the wall and also wearing a high school uniform.

The black-haired boy's hair had grown a lot longer than it was two years ago. It was half tied in a bun, and the other half was scattered on his shoulders. He had two obsidian earrings on his earlobes, which were longer than those of ordinary people. There were faint blue-black marks under his narrow and beautiful eyes.

The black uniform on him was loose and casual, in his usual style of not dressing properly. He held two cans of Coke in his hands, one of which looked like he had drunk a lot. The setting sun behind him shone on him, stretching his shadow on the ground in front of him.

"Would you like a can?"

After seeing Sai Hai Haruto turn around and look at him, Geto Kagome casually threw an unopened can of soda in his hand to him. The red-packaged can drew a parabola in the air and landed right in front of Sai Hai Haruto.

"Jay? What a coincidence, you are here too."

Xi Hai Qing Dou was stunned for a moment, raised his hand to catch the Coke, and pulled the ring. Brown bubbles flowed out from the opening of the can and dripped onto the ground. Xi Hai Qing Dou raised his head and silently gulped down more than half of the Coke in one breath.

"What a coincidence. I just received a mission. It said that there is a level 1 cursed spirit in this mall. I heard that the person who issued the mission was not very confident about the sorcerer who accepted the mission. It just so happened that my location was not far from here, so the mission was directly assigned to me."

Xia Yujie also drank the other can of Coke in his hand in one gulp, crushed the can and threw it into the trash can, then smiled casually at Xi Haiqingdou.

"Only after I got there did I realize that you were the one who took on this mission, so I just waited here and took a few minutes to rest."

"The spell cast by that cursed spirit was quite common, so I exorcised it directly. However... that guy must be worried that I would accidentally demolish this shopping mall." Xi Haiqingdou immediately understood the idea of ​​the person who issued the task.

After all, in the past two years, as famous as he is as a top-grade sorcerer, is his reputation of "destroying everything wherever he goes"... Although Gojo Satoru and Geto did not care about the surrounding environment when they fought, Saikai Haruto was different in that although his "demolition" was passive every time, the economic losses caused were much more serious than those of Gojo Satoru and Geto... Perhaps this is also one of the manifestations of bad luck buff?

"But I was careful this time. I only damaged a few buildings, not much else," he added.

"Would you like some candy?" He took out a candy from his pocket and threw it to Xia Yujie.

Xia Yujie raised his eyebrows and gave the candy in his hand a suspicious and vigilant look, probably afraid that it was another candy with a strange taste. But he didn't say anything, tore open the bag, and then took a bite.

It tastes like normal sweetness. A candy with a citrus-mint flavor.

Xia Yujie looked at him in surprise again.

"Don't worry, it's not that kind of candy this time." Xi Hai Qing Dou laughed hoarsely and waved at him: "I don't have that much bad taste."

"Besides, even if you really want to ask me for candy of that flavor, I don't have any left." He smiled slowly at Xia Yujie: "I've given you my last candy."

Xia Yujie was even more surprised.

Of course, what they were talking about was specifically the [Sour Candy] that Xi Haiqing Dou drew from the system.

During the whole process, Saikai Haruto drew three boxes of that kind of candy from the system. He gave two boxes to Geto Suguru in the past two years. Although he still had the remaining box, he didn't like sour or bitter things. So he used most of the candy in that box to feed Geto Suguru over and over again in the past two years... and the remaining small part was given to Gojo Satoru and Ieiri Shoko as a prank.

Although the amount of candy in each box was considerable, it was still too much for Xi Haiqing Dou, so he fed the last candy in his hand to Xia Yujie at the beginning of last month, and successfully used it up.

Xihai Qingdou was very satisfied - this was considered to be making the best use of things. Anyway, he had always been insensitive to that kind of sour candy, and feeding him would save him from worrying.

But of course, Geto didn't know this. Saikai Haruto had given him two boxes of candy before, and he still hadn't finished them. Because Saikai Haruto had said that they were homemade candies, and he had seen him taking candy out of his body at any time before, Geto had never thought that there would be a day when he would "finish" all of them.

Looking at Xi Haiqing Dou's smiling face, Xia Yujie suddenly felt a sense of emptiness and loss in his heart.

"Would you like to go back together?" he asked.

Saikai Haruto nodded.

Since the last time he "accidentally" left the assistant supervisor at the mission location, Xi Haiqingdou no longer let the assistant supervisor follow him when he went on a mission, nor did he let the assistant supervisor pick him up. After the mission was completed, the assistant supervisor would also leave on his own accord.

"It feels like I haven't seen you, Yuki, for a long time." The two of them walked side by side on the street, and as they saw more and more people around them, Geto suddenly said softly.

Xi Haiqing Dou smiled and said, "Because everyone is very busy this summer, isn't Jay the same?"

"That's true. I feel like it's the same with Satoru, Naoko, and... Haruna. They're all very busy. They all live in the same school, even next door to each other, but they're so busy that they don't necessarily see each other every day."

"After all, the weather this year is really hot... and there are a lot more curses than in the past two years. Even with the help of seniors and juniors, it's still the same. Everyone has a heavy burden on their shoulders."

"Yeah. This summer is really hot. And besides exorcising the cursed spirits, everyone has their own things to do. There's nothing we can do about it."

"After all, besides exorcising cursed spirits, everyone still has their own lives to live."

"Come to think of it, Yuuki, you look a lot more haggard than before. Would the Heaven's Curse be troubled by the hot summer?"

"Even a heaven-given curse can't make the weather cooler. I can't do that."

"No sorcerer can do something like that, right? Perhaps only gods can do it."

"As for you, Jay, you should also pay more attention to rest recently and don't work too hard. You look very tired, and the dark circles under your eyes are very obvious. Missions can never be completely completed."

"...This sounds like a fact that can easily make people feel depressed." Xia Yujie sighed calmly.

"Well, so Jie, you should also relax appropriately and don't push yourself too hard." Xi Haiqing Dou said, "Let's not talk about me, at least learn from it."

"I'm not Wu, so of course I can't learn from him." Xia Yujie's eyelashes drooped slightly: "If there is a way to completely eliminate the curse once and for all, that would be great."

"Because Jie is Jie." Saikai Haruto also made a joke imitating Jie's previous joke: "This kind of thing... maybe only gods can do it, right?"

"If you ask me, Jie, you are just used to thinking too much." He smiled at Xia Yu Jie, "Don't put too much burden on yourself."

Xia Yujie did not comment: "Don't talk about me, Yuxi, aren't you the same? And I heard that you seem to have not rested for two or three days in the past few days... Are you still dreaming? Can your body still take it?"

“Eh? You and I are different, Jay. Even if I had to stay up all night for two or three days, I’m still in good spirits. You see, my body can still hold on—at least it’s stronger than you and Satoru.”

As he spoke, Xihai Haruto specially pulled up the sleeves of his uniform a little, revealing his smooth and muscular forearms. He clenched his fists and bent his arms in a show-off manner.

"Yes, yes, yes... I've already seen it, there's no need to prove it to me again." Xia Yu helplessly raised his forehead.

After a moment of silence, Kagome Kagome's hesitant and uncertain voice rang softly in the evening breeze: "...Anyway, Yuki, you..."

His voice was very soft, and was drowned out by the sudden sound of the wind. Xi Haiqing Dou seemed to be unable to hear what he was saying for a moment, so he turned his head slightly, and stared at him with a pair of black eyes in confusion: "What?"

"…Nothing." Xia Yujie smiled at him and said, "I mean, Yuki, you should also pay attention to rest more. Have you forgotten that you stayed up late and were caught by Mr. Nightmoth in the classroom?"

However, Saikai Haruto had a hunch: this was not what Geto wanted to tell him. No, it was definitely not this.

But what could it be? Why didn't he say it now?

I don't understand.

"Hey, Jay, how come you still remember it? Quickly delete those memories from your mind!"

Xiayou Jie made it clear that he didn't want to talk about it, so Xi Haiqing Dou simply stopped asking and continued to say what he said: "I am the best at combining Lao Yi and Yi, so you can rest assured, Jie."

"I'm sorry, those memories have been engraved into my DNA, and there's no way to forget them." Xia Yujie couldn't help laughing: "Indeed, when it comes to being lazy, sometimes even Wu and Haruna can't compare to you. However, if you accidentally fall asleep in class next time, I will definitely take a photo of Wu together - it's a pity that I forgot last time."

"That won't happen again!"

Nishimi Haruto put his hand on Geto's shoulder and confidently made an "OK" gesture to Geto: "Have some faith in me, Geto. Maybe it's because I'm too tired recently? When this busiest time is over, I think I won't have dreams all the time anymore, right?"

"Well... who knows?" Xia Yujie smiled slowly and leisurely.

"Hey!" Xi Haiqing Dou punched him angrily.

The sun had not yet completely set in the sky, and the orange clouds were connected into one. The young men walked back home arm in arm, their figures seemed to be coated with a layer of warm orange glowing gold. Their shadows were stretched out by the setting sun, and the gap between the two black shadows was particularly clear, like parallel lines that would eventually go in two different directions.

The sun is about to set.