Chapter 129 Chapter 129...
The two sat opposite each other in a room used for discussing matters. After Nanase served them tea and snacks, he quietly left.
Shizuka Deba took a sip of his hot tea and looked across at Tamane, who was still a little distracted. He couldn't help but chuckle and said, "It's rare to see you so hesitant and indecisive. You're not like the Saionji Tamane I used to know. It's just a confession, right? Haven't you run into this several times at school before?"
"How can they be the same?" Yuyin replied subconsciously.
"Oh? Why is it different?" Dechang Jingsi put down the teacup, raised her eyebrows slightly, and asked.
Yuyin was stunned, then began to reflect: Yes, they are both confessions, so why does Jingwu’s confession mean something different to her?
Before she could figure it out, she heard her senior brother say, "But now I understand why you didn't accept anyone's confession before, and why you didn't have the desire to start a relationship or start a family."
The sorcerer who is a demon hunter is not a monk. Moreover, the monks in the island country are not forbidden to have sex and get married. They can start a family and continue their offspring.
Perhaps in other words, continuing the lineage is one of the "important tasks" of these demon hunters. After all, spiritual power depends largely on the continuation of bloodline, and cultivating a capable heir is an important responsibility for the head of a large family like Shizuka Dechang.
Although Shizuka Deba seems to be cold and indifferent, he is actually very opinionated. He prefers to focus on his main business of eliminating demons, taming shikigami, and expanding the influence of the Deba family, and does not get distracted by those unorthodox practices that he thinks are unimportant. Therefore, even if others worry about his family and career, they cannot change his mind.
Of course, Shizue Deba also knew that Nanase and other close associates around him had always believed that sooner or later this pair of people who were nominally senior and junior brothers and sisters but were actually foster siblings would be together, and they would be very happy to see this happen.
But before that day came true, Yuyin died in an accident.
During that period, even the usually smart and capable Nanase was in a low mood. Although Shizuka Deba did not show it on the surface and seemed to be fine, he was not unaffected.
Life and death are unpredictable. He understood this from the first day he became a demon hunter. He just didn't expect it to happen so suddenly, and he didn't expect that the person would be Yuyin.
When you gain something and then lose it again, you will always cherish it more. Even if it is the eldest son of the Atobe family, if he wants to take the young lady of the Chang family away, he will of course have to go through some hardships and tests.
Chang Jingsi, who was sipping tea with his head down, had a gleam in his eyes and thought with a smile.
On the other hand, after hearing what her senior brother said, Yuyin did understand some things that she had never thought about before.
In the past, she did not have a sense of reality, or a real sense of belonging in these four worlds. Especially after she found that she would "die young" every time and returned to her original world, she avoided establishing close relationships with people even more.
Except for her department head, seniors, and other relatives, friends, and superiors whom she had to interact with, she always rejected all confessions from outsiders.
Keigo Atobe was the first person of the opposite sex she actively made friends with in her original world, and also the first person to confess to her.
Yuyin had no idea when his feelings started to deteriorate. After all, she had gotten along with Scepter fencing teammates like Fushimi, seniors like Gojo and Nanami, classmates, and seniors in the same way. And no one's friendship, family, or colleagues would deteriorate after just a while.
"Well, Senior Brother, you called me here specially, not to discuss my relationship problems, right?"
She couldn't figure out the problem for a moment, and faced with Senior Brother Chang's teasing, she could only resort to changing the subject.
"Of course not," Deba Jingsi said, knowing when to stop, "But before we discuss business, I have to condemn your failure to report what you knew."
"Eh?" Yuyin was puzzled and pointed at herself and asked, "I knew about it but didn't report it?"
"Of course it's you," Deba Shizuka glanced at her calmly. "If I hadn't happened to need you and called you, and it wasn't Mr. Sakaguchi Ango from the Special Ability Division who answered the phone, I'm afraid you wouldn't even know what you did until the whole thing was over, would you?"
Oh no!
A big crisis, Yuyin immediately thought, this is much more serious than being caught by her senior brother by Atobe Keigo confessing to her.
How could it be such a coincidence? Oh, it was such a coincidence. When Senior Brother contacted her, she happened to have collapsed from excessive spiritual energy consumption on her way to Yokohama to resolve an issue. I wonder how much Mr. Ango revealed. This is a secret of the Special Ability Division, so he shouldn't have revealed much, right? Probably not, right?
Saionji Tamon was unsure and held up her teacup to hide her awkward expression. "Ah, this happened suddenly. Mr. Ango suddenly asked me to come over for help. I didn't expect that this would happen..."
Anyway, just be vague and try your best to get it over with.
Deba Shizuka sighed slightly. "I remember you said before that your true identity cannot be revealed to the Special Ability Division and the Jujutsu Association. In other words, you can only act in secret. It's okay in the Jujutsu World, as you still have Mr. Gojo Satoru and his three students at the Tokyo Jujutsu High School to support you. But it's different in Yokohama, right? Except for Ango Sakaguchi, your identity cannot be revealed to anyone. In other words, all your actions in Yokohama are carried out alone, without any support except for intelligence, right?"
If she hadn't known that Mr. Ango would definitely not tell outsiders too many things, Yuyin would have thought that her senior brother had witnessed everything she had experienced in Yokohama in the past few days. As expected of her senior brother who always had outstanding insight and wisdom, he guessed her experience in Yokohama at once. She even wanted to applaud his guess.
However, she was now the target of criticism, so she could only bow her head and apologize: "I'm sorry, actually, this was really just a simple mission of providing covert assistance, but there was a little accident along the way."
She tried to quibble again.
"Yuyin," Deba Jingsi said earnestly, "I know you're grown up now and have your own opinions. You have your own considerations for your actions outside, and there are things you're not comfortable telling me. But I hope you'll think about the people who care about you. Isn't it basic to report your itinerary before leaving? Even when you went out to exorcise demons, although it was your personal mission, you would still inform your family of your departure direction to prevent any unforeseen accidents."
Just like this time, it wasn't until Sakaguchi Ango answered the phone that Shizuka Deba realized that Tamane had gone to Yokohama to help, instead of staying in Karuizawa to protect the young master Atobe Keigo. Although Sakaguchi Ango had refused to let Tamane answer the phone, using the excuse that she was busy with a mission and temporarily inconvenient, Shizuka Deba was so smart that he figured out what was wrong in a blink of an eye.
He communicated with Tamane using his work phone, which he never left behind. This was the number he called when assigning tasks. Unlike his other personal phone, Tamane never left her side. Shizue Deba believed that even if Tamane was helping to carry out a highly confidential mission, she would at most turn off the work phone and would not hand it over to Ango Sakaguchi for safekeeping, unless she had lost consciousness.
He took a two-day break until he received a call from Sakaguchi Ango not long ago, saying that Tamane was on her way back to Karuizawa. He made a special trip out without prior notice just to see what that person had done to him.
Although the person was intact, he accidentally witnessed the eldest son of the Atobe family confessing his love to his junior sister. He interrupted Yuyin's reply out of mischief, dragged her back to discuss business and settle accounts with her for her disappearance in the past three days.
Yuyin was silent for a moment, "I understand. It was my fault this time. I won't do it again next time."
Such frank conversations were rare among the senior and junior brothers and sisters. This rare occasion made her realize that her past behavior had somewhat traumatized her senior brother. She immediately admitted her mistake and promised never to make it again.
Deba Shizuka nodded and said, "It's good that you know you're wrong. I don't ask for too much. I don't need you to report every detail of your itinerary. For example, before you leave this time, just tell me that you're going to Yokohama and when you'll be back."
Then he changed the subject, frowning slightly as he said, "Of course, the premise for me not asking is that nothing has happened. You were out of contact in Yokohama for three days. What happened?"
"Ah, well..." When mentioning this, Yuyin scratched her head a little embarrassedly. She couldn't say that she was not injured, but fainted from excessive consumption of spiritual energy. It would be so embarrassing to say it out loud.
But facing her senior brother's pressured look, she could only hesitate and stammer: "Senior brother, do you still remember the new technique I used at the Matsudaira family banquet?"
"I remember," Deba Shizuka nodded. "I can say I was quite impressed. If I'm not mistaken, that was a technique you invented that only you can use. It utilizes the conversion between several powers to utilize the properties of other powers and special techniques, right?"
"That's right," Yuyin said excitedly, still somewhat interested in discussing things after meeting someone truly knowledgeable. "My spiritual power was at its peak, and back then I used this method of transformation to convert it into other powers. The nature of the Blue Sovereign's power is order, calmness, and defense, while the domain expansion in the spell is the unfolding of a special space based on laws. The new technique I used at the Matsudaira family banquet utilized the special properties of these two to achieve my goal. If I could independently control the nature of the laws that govern the space, then the power of this new technique could be even greater..."
"But this technique is quite exhausting, isn't it?" Deba Shizuka said calmly. "You only used it for a long corridor at the Matsudaira residence, and you felt a little weak. How much did you use in Yokohama to leave you lying down for three days without movement?"
"Uh..." Yuyin replied listlessly, as if a bucket of cold water had been poured down on her just as she was talking. "Not that big..."
Deba Shizuka snorted softly, "It's not that big."
Yuyin whispered, "It's probably about the size of downtown Yokohama."
Anyone with a little knowledge of conversion can understand the ratio of the area of a corridor to the entire Yokohama city area, and then understand how great a sacrifice she made this time.
"You, you," Deba Shizuka really didn't know what to say to her this time. If he really said she shouldn't have done that, forcing her to use such a large-scale new domain technique must have been a very serious difficulty and crisis. But if he didn't say anything to her, she wouldn't know how to reflect on it at all. She would definitely fall back into her old ways next time. He could only warn her again, "You should know that excessive consumption of spiritual energy by a demon hunter can also be life-threatening."
"I know, I know," Yuyin nodded repeatedly, "but if I hadn't taken action at that time, the ordinary people in Yokohama would have been affected, and there might have been serious casualties."
Yuyin still remembers that when she first woke up in the supernatural world, Yokohama was still a battlefield for underground dark forces. Many ordinary people were affected every day. Even the original owner and her parents were accidentally involved in the firefight in Yokohama and died.
This is why, although she did not like the bureaucratic style of the Special Ability Agent Department, she did not choose to escape and go into exile after her ability was exposed, but joined the department to work. At least the purpose of establishing the Special Ability Agent Department was indeed to maintain the stability and prosperity of the lives of ordinary people in Yokohama. For this reason, she was willing to do her part.
The same thing happened this time when Mr. Ango asked her to help with the Guild's affairs. If the Guild only took action against the Port Mafia and the Armed Detective Agency, she would not have intervened as selflessly as she did now. However, the Guild wanted to take action against the many ordinary people in Yokohama, and this was something she could not tolerate.
Hearing her answer, Deba Jingsi sighed, then curved his eyebrows and smiled again: "You, you are still the same as before."
After saying so much, although Yuyin's action this time was reckless, she had her own reasons. Dechang Jingji stopped asking about it and turned to talk about the real business he wanted to discuss with Yuyin.
"In that case, I won't pursue the matter of Yokohama. Just let me know what's going on. Let's talk about the curse in Tokyo."
"Curse?" Yuyin's expression straightened. "What happened?"
"Do you still remember Geto Suguru, the senior you mentioned before who had died at Tokyo Jujutsu High School, who was suspected to have been resurrected and was involved in the Shinjuku arson case?" Shizuka Deiba said slowly.
Yuyin's eyes lit up: "Is there any new news about him?"
This matter was originally discovered by Scepter 4. With the clues provided by her, she contacted Senior Gojo from the Jujutsu High School. Since exorcists often deal with cursed spirits in their daily commissions, she also informed Senior Deba.
As for what kind of intelligence communication and cooperation the head of the department, Senior Gojo and his senior brother have in private, even she doesn't know everything.
Deba Jingsi nodded and shook his head and said, "You can say it is, and you can also say it is not."
Yuyin didn't even bother to eat the snacks on the low table. She said quickly, "Hey, Senior Brother, please stop keeping me in suspense."
"According to Mr. Munakata from Scepter 4, they have captured the traces of 'Geto Suguru' on camera several times, but every time before they could rush over, he slipped away, as if he knew they were coming," explained Shizuka Deiba.
Yuyin said thoughtfully, "If that 'Gatsuyu Geto' possesses Senior's own abilities, then he should be able to control cursed spirits. Senior has so many cursed spirits under his control, it wouldn't be surprising if one or two have the ability to detect and report. Even if he can't use Senior's abilities, he might have other abilities that give him advance warning and allow him to escape."
Shizukata nodded. "Mr. Munakata Reiji and I thought the same thing. It's just that the enemy is extremely cunning. After Scepter 4 missed several attempts, they may have guessed that Scepter 4 was using technological means to capture their whereabouts. They may have changed their location and chosen an area with fewer surveillance cameras. It's also possible that they used special abilities while traveling to interfere with the cameras' operation, preventing them from clearly capturing their footage."
Yuyin pondered: "This is terrible... So, brothers, which one do you think it is?"
Deba Shizuji didn't answer directly, but instead brought up another matter. "You know, ever since the demon hunters, under my leadership, formed a certain cooperation with Scepter 4 and the sorcerers, I've instructed some of the lesser demon hunters who encounter cursed spirits during missions to record the incident and location, and then withdraw whenever possible, handing the matter over to Scepter 4 or the Spell Association for resolution."
This is not because Jingsi Chang is timid, but because everyone has their own expertise. If a demon hunter with lower skills faces a cursed spirit, the damage rate will be very high.
"However, from the end of July to August, the number of encounters with cursed spirits by demon hunters has dropped dramatically. Even if we had previously marked a location with a powerful cursed spirit, we would find that the spirit had disappeared upon returning."
Yuyin asked, "Was it exorcised?"
Deba Shizuji shook his head. "Of course, I asked Gojo Satoru about this matter. He used his power to research the locations I mentioned where cursed spirits were found. But he told me that neither the Jujutsu Association nor the Polytechnic High School had any records of exorcising these cursed spirits."
This shows that these cursed spirits are most likely not exorcised by sorcerers registered with the association.
And those evil curse masters obviously would not do such a good deed. In other words, someone was secretly exorcising these cursed spirits or taking them away in some way.
Thinking of this, Yuyin suddenly realized: "Brother, you mean to say that the person using Senior Geto's body can use his magic power and he is subduing the curse spirit!"
When talking about Geto Suguru's ability to subdue cursed spirits, Shizuka Deba felt a little regretful. Why is this ability innate and not something that everyone can learn?
You should know that one of his father Shizuka's hobbies in life is to capture Shikigami. If Geto Suguru hadn't died, he would definitely find him and talk to him about his experience in "collecting" Shikigami/Cursed Spirits.
That's right, like Shizuka Deba and Tamane, they are both absolutely certain that the real Geto Suguru is dead, and the one controlling his body now is either the "non-human" he turned into after his death, or some other "non-human" who has taken over his identity.
Because true resurrection does not exist, the dead cannot be brought back to life, and many seemingly feasible resurrections are actually heretical methods.
As he understood, after death, people would be unable to ascend to heaven due to their obsessions and would turn into earthbound spirits. Generally, earthbound spirits did not pose much threat to ordinary people, and they were the kind of beings that he was too lazy to get rid of or take as Shikigami. However, sometimes some earthbound spirits would be transformed into evil spirits due to stimulation or pollution. At that time, not only would their power increase greatly, but they would also pose a great threat to ordinary people, so they had to be eliminated.
On the other hand, on the sorcerer's side, Shizue Deba heard a different statement, that the dead would turn into curses because of the strong emotions of the living, so he was also very curious about what the situation was with this "Geto Suguru" now.
Is the one using Geto Suguru's body now the "evil spirit" or "curse" that he himself has transformed into, or is it another non-human that has taken over his body and is acting?
Deba Shizuji didn't deny Yuyin's guess and nodded, saying, "I proposed this guess, and neither Mr. Munakata Reiji nor Mr. Gojo objected. Unless there's a third party force we're not aware of, this possibility is very high."
Yuyin also became a little anxious after hearing this: "The other party has collected so many curse spirits, so their intentions must be great. Maybe they are secretly plotting some big conspiracy."
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The author has something to say: Naohua suddenly realized that there are too many forces in this world that will hinder his plan. He is worried that there will not be enough curse spirits to cause trouble, so he continues to work hard to collect them.
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