Chapter 87 The Second Player
Of course, Xi Haiqing Dou did not say this casually.
Just now...he had a new and bold idea.
The description of the special cursed spirit vest "Greedy Beast" states "can become one with any human being", so it is not stated in vain, there must be a special effect involved.
Since it can merge with any "human", who says other vests are not human? Then why can't it merge with the vests? Naturally, it should be possible, right?
It was impossible for him to use this Cursed Spirit Vest directly... Even if this was an SSR, an SSR would not necessarily win against the protagonist; moreover, this card did not even look like a human at all - no, but it was not completely without a human, but at most it had an outline similar to that of a human, but it was only the size of a five or six-year-old child.
If he really had such a weird appearance... Xi Haiqing Dou thought, even if he appeared in the comics, he would just be a cannon fodder villain who would be offline in one episode.
——Whose main character doesn't even have a decent human appearance? Especially in a romance fighting series, the first and most important secret to popularity is appearance! How can you talk about love without a face? Courage?
But as for the remaining three avatars, Xi Haiqing Dou thought carefully about it and felt that it was not a good idea to use them directly in the opposite world.
After all, the types of the two worlds are quite different - most of the people in this world are ordinary people, and even if there are "people with special abilities", they still belong to the category of humans. On the other side, there are obviously "special" sorcerers and cursed spirits, which are similar to the concepts of "Onmyoji" and "monsters". So it is difficult to determine whether ordinary people or simply people with special abilities can participate in the plot in the other world.
But if you can't get into the plot and get to know the "protagonist" and other players, then what difference does it make whether you use this vest or not?
Originally, Xi Haiqing Dou was thinking that the best outcome would be to draw a "Spellcaster" card from the card pool, but who could have imagined that it would be a "Cursed Spirit", and a Cursed Spirit that didn't even have a human shell and even had very low intelligence.
But if his idea is feasible...it seems like it's a dead end?
The system froze for a few seconds, then gave him a positive answer.
[Yes.] The system said, [But you must be in another world to use it. The concept of "curse spirit" does not exist in this world. And be careful]
Hey, he knew it!
He is such a clever little fellow.
Saikai Haruto made a virtual gesture in his mind, [What are you waiting for? Let's go now——]
In this case, the choice of vest this time is easy to decide - no, or rather, he actually only has that one choice left, right?
Xi Haiqing Dou made up his mind.
***
[Is this what the world looked like before it was restarted? ]
A baby-faced boy with black hair and green eyes stood on the deserted street, staring silently at the sky in front of him.
Originally, he thought that some unusual scene would occur in the world, just like the description in the Bible about when God reshaped the world...it would be more grand, at least not like this, almost silently - the result seemed to be completely different.
Except that the sky before my eyes seemed to have undergone some subtle changes - there was no sun, moon or stars in the sky, and I couldn't even tell whether it was day or night.
The color of the sky was continuous. It was neither the interweaving of blue and white during the day nor the deep, dark blue color at night. How to describe it? It was more like - Xi Haiqing Dou considered the words - a chaotic color.
Is it the color of the sky, or is it the scenery beyond the sky, beyond the world?
It is a color that cannot be described with a specific color and can only be vaguely described as "chaos". If you look up at it for a few more times, you will feel shocked and dizzy.
This is a scene that absolutely does not appear in reality.
But other than that - apart from the strangeness in the sky, the world seems to have not changed at all?
It was very quiet... There was not a single person on the street, no, not even a single living creature could be seen, let alone a human. It was so quiet that Xi Hai Qing Dou even had the illusion that this place was actually "dead silent".
[The restart method of each world is different... or is this the case in this world? ]
The system replied uncertainly. In fact, even for a system, it had not seen many scenes of "world restarting".
They entered this world just when it was restarting, so they were able to see this scene.
[This is... the first time I've seen something like this.] Saikai Haruto said softly.
There is a strange "beauty" that can shock people.
It was difficult to see such a scene with a "human" body - even if it was just a vest - so Saikai Haruto quickly switched his perspective to the "cursed spirits".
In fact, the world from the perspective of "cursed spirits" is not much different from that from the perspective of "humans", except that there are a few more of the same dark things in the field of vision, some deep and some shallow - Xi Haiqing Dou guessed that they should be the "traces of cursed power" unique to this world?
The whole world is filled with those things.
I don't know whether it's because the intelligence of the "Curse Spirit" is too low or because the "Curse Spirit" has stronger resistance. If you look at the sky from the perspective of the Curse Spirit, although it is still a chaos and your mind will be shocked if you look at it too much, the symptoms are much milder than from the "human perspective".
But after switching to the perspective of the cursed spirit...Xihai Haruto suddenly felt like he had turned into a little fool who didn't understand anything.
...In short, this perspective is not very friendly to him.
It is better to switch back and forth between the two sides, so that the balance is much more perfect.
[System, you said, the pillars of the world, and the players, will they notice these changes? ] Xi Haiqing Dou suddenly asked again.
[No.] The answer this time did not sound like the system's voice, but was a little softer, echoing in Xi Haiqing Dou's mind.
[No one in this world will be aware of these changes except you and me.] said the voice.
...Could it be the voice of this world?
Saikai Haruto wasn't so sure.
But the sound only appeared once and never appeared again.
The system stopped talking.
The world was restarted "silently" in complete silence.
Without any movement, the world "shattered" into large pieces like a mirror.
And then, in a flash, it was put back together - all this happened in just a moment, so fast that it was impossible to catch it.
The world's "restart" began and ended silently.
While Saikai Haruto was still busy controlling the two avatars, "Igarashi Yuuki" came into contact with a cursed spirit whose "intelligence was as pure as that of a baby."
"Fusion" was activated, and the cursed spirit dissipated into the air in an instant.
The baby-faced boy with black hair and green eyes swayed slightly, his pupils turned black, and then disappeared the next moment, with a look of confusion on his face.
[Is this... done? Success?]
Saikai Haruto shook his hand - and didn't feel anything different.
But when he raised his eyes again, everything in his vision became exactly the same as what he saw in the eyes of the curse spirit before.
Xi Haiqing Dou reopened the card page of the vest.
[Igarashi Yuuki SSR]: A seemingly ordinary 16-year-old high school student with perfect motor skills and physical fitness. He has the affinity to chat with anyone from 80 to 8 months old, and has bad luck that cannot be improved no matter what he does. Although he encounters danger every time, he can always survive and get a glimmer of hope.
Special status: Half human, half cursed spirit, has the special ability to copy the spells of the sorcerer or cursed spirit that it touches within three seconds and use them, but it seems that it has never been used. (Note: The upper limit of spells that can be used at the same time: 3, usage time: 30 minutes, can be overdrawn and used 2 times, cooldown time: 12 hours)
***
The sky is clear.
Gojo Satoru was held by Hanayama Haruna, and walked down the street with big strides, his face was full of dissatisfaction. Xia Yujie followed behind them, his pace was neither fast nor slow, leisurely, and looked very leisurely.
"Slow down, walk slower!"
The pink-haired girl pulled the sleeve of the white-haired boy at her side, with a helpless expression: "Wu, I say you should also pay a little attention to the height difference between us!"
——The white-haired boy is tall and has long legs. He is 1.9 meters tall. With his pair of long legs, he can easily take two steps with one stride. The pink-haired girl next to him is only 1.65 meters tall. She is not short among girls of the same age. She can even be considered tall. But compared with the boy, she is not good-looking at all.
Therefore, when his steps started to get bigger, even if he just slightly quickened his pace, the girl still had to jog to keep up with him.
The black-haired boy next to the two men couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"Pfft! Isn't it Haruna's own fault that your legs are too short? Hahaha, I didn't expect you to actually run?"
Gojo Satoru put his hand in front of his chest to measure the height difference between the two of them, and his voice was full of surprise: "If I run faster, will you really have to run to catch up with me, Haruna?"
Hanayamain Haruna: "That's too much! I won't run away!"
"But this speed is a normal walking speed for me." Gojo Satoru turned his head and looked at Geto Suguru naturally: "Geto, don't you agree?"
They are 1.9 meters tall and 1.8 meters tall respectively, and their speeds are usually similar.
Kagome nodded first, and when he saw that Hanayamain Haruna's cheeks were puffed up with anger, he chose to stand next to Hanayamain Haruna without hesitation: "Satoru, why are you walking so fast? Isn't it better to walk slowly like Haruna said, and take a look at the surrounding scenery."
"Hey, Jay, where are you standing anyway?"
Gojo Satoru yelled, "Is there anything worth seeing around here? Hurry up, hurry up! Ah——Girls are really troublesome. If you hadn't insisted on coming with me, I might have arrived a long time ago."
It only took less than half an hour to exorcise the cursed spirit, but because they had to bring Hanayamain Haruna along, the two of them took a lot longer.
"I'm so sorry, because I delayed Mr. Gojo's dessert time."
Hanayamain Haruna stretched out her tone and said helplessly, "But I really don't want to go back to the Zenin family so soon. I just want to play outside for a while longer."
Her voice is clear and soft, and when she speaks she only needs to add the slightest interjection to make it sound like she is acting coquettishly.
Xia Yujie comforted her softly, "Don't worry, Haruna. If you don't want to, Wu and I won't send you back so early."
"Okay, thank you very much, Geto-kun!" Hanayamain Haruna gave Geto-kun a brilliant smile without hesitation, her clear sapphire eyes full of gratitude.
“Don’t be so polite, just call me like you do.”
Xia Yujie was dazzled by her smile, and a faint smile appeared on his face unconsciously.
"I said this was something you agreed to alone, Jay. It has nothing to do with me."
Gojo Satoru spoke in a very unpleasant way, unknowingly breaking the somewhat subtle atmosphere between the two people: "You two are too slow, I'm leaving first, I've already seen the dessert shop ahead!"
After saying that, the boy let go of the girl beside him without hesitation and walked quickly towards his destination.
"Hey, Satoru! Wait for me!"
Looking at his back, Hanayamain Haruna hurriedly picked up her skirt and hurried after him.
By the time Geto Suguru quickened his pace and caught up with Gojo Satoru, he saw his white-haired, blue-eyed companion reaching out without hesitation and grabbing the arm of a black-haired boy who looked about the same age as them and was wearing a dessert shop employee's uniform.
"Hey...guest, can you please let me go? Is this considered harassment?"
The boy with black hair, green eyes and a baby face showed a helpless and troubled expression.
However, Gojo Satoru was not embarrassed at all, and still held him tightly with an interested look on his face. His icy blue eyes flashed with the light of curiosity and excitement that Kagome was familiar with.
"I say, are you a human or a cursed spirit?"
he asked.