Chapter 177: High Curse Situation #Favorability Event!
The player clicks the [!] behind [Spiritual Communication].
This is a favorability event that is refreshed when the progress of [Spiritual Communication] reaches 75%.
Among the many familiar or unfamiliar avatars, players hesitated to choose which one to improve their favorability.
"Are you okay?" he asked with concern in a slightly distant voice.
A slender shadow stopped in front of the player. The sorcerer with a bun seemed much thinner than in his impression, and when he lowered his eyes, a faint trace of fatigue could be seen on his dark circles.
He rushed over as soon as he received the news, not caring about his usual proper demeanor and looking a little exhausted.
When the player shook the other person's outstretched hand and stood up, as the light changed, he realized belatedly that it was just an illusion caused by the shadow.
"So he was just daydreaming..." He scanned the player's face and suddenly smiled with relief. That tiny smile immediately diluted the vague alienation on his body.
The player stared at him intently for a few seconds, then nodded slowly, as if he had been in a daze and had not yet come back to his senses, just as Takeshi Suguru said.
"*Favorability Event: Target selected: [Geto Suguru]!"
The target was chosen and nothing special happened.
Everything was normal for the parties involved, and they successfully exorcised the curse that the three first-year students were unable to solve. They then returned to the technical high school along the same route.
Players notice interesting details.
Like Gojo Satoru, who talks about his feelings all the time and lets everyone know his likes and dislikes, Geto Suguru actually doesn't like overly hot weather either.
He would prefer to walk under the shade of trees. As the temperature rose, his mood did not become noticeably depressed, and he had no interest in other things.
He is no longer inseparable from Gojo Satoru, nor does he actively approach the first-year students, including the players, but watches them from a distance.
When asked about it, he would just smile gently and say that it was "comfortable because there were so many people squeezed together and it was sticky."
Players are skeptical about this.
However, Gojo Satoru, who was a contemporary of Suguru Geto, did not show any surprise or strange reaction to Suguru Geto's behavior, so players can just treat the above as a bitter summer.
Symptoms of summer heat include loss of appetite, fatigue, and lack of energy...
The player put a can of Coke that he had just taken out of the vending machine on the face of Geto Suguru, who had his eyes closed and was immersed in some inexplicable thoughts. Only then did he raise his eyes and realize the player's approach.
The cold can touched his skin, and his eyelashes trembled slowly, without showing the reaction he should have had if he was frozen.
"Will you buy me a drink?" He habitually curved his eyes, took the soda from the player's hand, and paused on it with a sticky gaze.
"I feel like Senior Gosho has been in a bit of a bad state lately. I'm a little worried..." The player put his hands behind his back. "If you cool down a bit, maybe that will cheer you up."
Xia Yujie looked at the player deeply and did not refuse: "...I will."
With a "click", he opened the pull ring, put the mouth of the can to his lips and tilted his head back, thus completely revealing his clear jawline.
The player caught a glimpse of the screen of Geto Suguru's phone, which was placed beside his legs, lighting up.
"It was the 'window' that detected the traces of the living realm." He explained briefly and concisely.
Geto Xiayou stood up, put down the can in his hand, and was ready to go to the target location at any time.
The player suddenly called out to Geto Suguru.
"Getsuyu-senpai! Hey, um... can you take me with you?"
Players clearly saw the undisguised surprise in Geto Suguru's eyes, as if he had heard an unexpected suggestion. Even his facial expressions were temporarily out of control. It was rare to see a side of him that was different from his usual self.
The symptoms of summer heat seem to be particularly obvious in Geto Suguru. The player has to say each sentence more than twice before he seems to truly understand the meaning of the words and return to his normal state.
"This mission is a solo operation." There would be a strange pause in Geto's voice occasionally, as if he was refusing, or as if he was deliberately emphasizing some key points that he wanted the players to pay attention to.
He followed the player with a deep gaze, and the person being stared at blinked: "Sorry, so it's not allowed?"
"...It's okay." Geto Suguru suddenly smiled, changed his attitude, and agreed to the player's request.
The Rainbow Dragon was summoned and appeared directly at the high school, flying into the sky with Geto Suguru and the players.
"Mr. Ye Moth will probably be angry?" The player was referring to the fact that the other party had ignored the school rules prohibiting the summoning of cursed spirits.
The habitual criminal, knowingly committing a crime, narrowed his eyes and raised them, his sigh of feigned helplessness being crushed in the wind: "There's nothing I can do..."
"If Wu sees us, he'll haunt us."
Eh...there's nothing wrong with being together?
As soon as he opened his mouth, the wind rushed into his stomach, but the player still couldn't say what was on his mind.
The route from the air to the target location was quite efficient, and the Rainbow Dragon stopped near the destination.
The player followed Geto Suguru and searched around to find traces of the territory.
"Nothing can be seen from the outside. It is an area that can only be destroyed from the inside." After a simple investigation, Geto Suguru came to the conclusion.
The player was surprised by his hesitation and said, "Aren't you going in?"
Geto Xiayou smiled, as if he was very satisfied with the player's reaction: "Good boy."
"Don't worry, you won't get hurt."
The player and Geto Suguru entered the field one after another.
"*Favourability Event (In Progress): You and your captureable character are drawn into a new realm. Your captureable character is currently under the [debuff] effect, unable to discern the true nature of the realm.
Please awaken the captureable character in the [Spiritual] state! (The success or failure of this event will not be counted towards the increase or decrease in favorability!)
You can freely control the flow of time/skip schedules and omit unnecessary repetitive plots!
(Note! The actual favorability of the captureable characters is affected by the flow of time!)
Countdown: 2:59:59"
The player looked at himself in the [Spiritual] with curiosity—a non-substantial, translucent shadow.
The player waved in front of Geto Suguru who was standing next to him, but the other party was completely unaware.
Invisible!
The excitement only lasted for a short time, and the player began to observe the scene in the area.
Hmm...
Isn’t this a technical college?
The player deeply recognized that the place he was in was the high school classroom he had left not long ago.
Geto Suguru seemed to have completely forgotten that he was in the field, and also didn't remember about the mission. He sat in his seat and listened carefully to the lecture of Ye Mo Zhengdao on the podium, and took notes on the paper in front of him.
The player leaned in to take a closer look: Hmm... they're playing Tic-Tac-toe.
By moving the perspective, the whole picture of the classroom can be taken in.
The colors are too bright, the modeling is visibly stiff and unnatural, and the distant view is obviously textured...
Is this to differentiate it from the game? The simulated reality in the domain is exceptionally poor.
But Geto Suguru didn't seem to realize this.
The player floated to other corners of the classroom, and not only Ye Mo Zhengdao, but also Gojo Satoru, Nanami Haibara and others were copied in the field. The player even saw a "player" in the classroom.
Unable to touch the entity, the player looked at it for a while, and when the novelty wore off, he returned to Geto Suguru, ready to explore the specific abilities of [Spiritual Communication].
It has a ghost-like form, cannot move any objects, and cannot feel touch when touching others, but the sound is not blocked.
Ahaha!
Players see the light of completing the mission.
"Senior Geto." The player called softly, leaning over the shoulder of the sorcerer who was in a hallucination.
Geto Xia Yu was slightly startled and looked up to find the source of the sound. He glanced at the 'player' who was listening attentively to the class in front of him. The distance between the two of them obviously made it impossible for him to hear the sound that was right next to his ear.
What follows is…
"Shut up."
Eh?
The player's thoughts came to a sudden halt.
What?
"Getsuyu-senpai?"
The player called out again uncertainly, this time fully seeing every change in the other person's expression.
Xia Yujie was smiling, but the smile in his eyes was very faint, and the amplitude of his lips opening and closing was barely noticeable. His tone was cold: "Shut up."
He spoke harshly in a voice that was almost whispered, and he sat upright. If you didn't hear what he was saying clearly, he looked like a good student who was listening attentively.
—Eh!?
It is difficult for players to connect this Geto Suguru with the Geto Suguru she has in mind.
This, this...ah?
I must have heard the players' voices! But I pretended not to hear anything and continued listening to the class!
Player: Oooooooooo!
The flow of time in the domain was much faster than the normal time in the game. The dazed players watched Ye Mo Zheng Dao announce the end of the get out of class, and the scene flashed to outside the classroom.
The unwilling players followed Geto Suguru who was exercising, and tried to strike up a conversation whenever they had the chance.
In the first few times, Geto Suguru would fake smile and tell the player to shut up, saying things like "be quiet", but later he would just ignore the player.
It was obvious that when the player spoke, he subconsciously turned his head to listen and his eyes shifted. All these reactions showed that it was not that Geto Suguru really could not hear the player's voice, but he simply ignored it.
Player: Haha...
【jump over】
A new day.
After being ignored repeatedly, the player confirmed that this was not a bug.
Xia Youjie was completely unaware of anything amiss. He continued to follow his normal life trajectory within the domain: waking up, attending classes, going out for activities, and sleeping...
The player took advantage of him being alone to make his presence felt again.
Geto Xia Yu put the coin into the vending machine without changing his expression. With a "bang", he bent down and took out the cold soda.
I walked to a place under the shade of a tree where I could see my peers and juniors, and sat down with one leg propped up.
He wiped off the water droplets on the bottle and held it against the side of his neck to cool down.
Being ignored...
【fast forward】
The sun was high in the sky one second, and the next second it was shrouded in darkness.
As night fell, Geto Suguru lay on his bed in the dormitory, his forearm resting on his forehead, staring at the ceiling in a daze.
Good opportunity!
"Senior Geto..." This time, Geto moved without waiting for the player to finish.
He raised his hand to take the cotton out of his ears and stuffed it back into the pillow.
"It really can't be separated."
The player firmly pressed [Skip].
After some difficult processes, players roughly grasped the area where Geto Suguru was active.
Although he goes to the same place every day, Geto Suguru will go to the infirmary where Naoko is on Saturdays.
If the player tries to talk to Geto Suguru at that time, he will not say anything and just sit in the infirmary for the entire afternoon.
Of course, if the player doesn't say anything, the result will still be similar.
Xia Yujie was usually silent, and would ask for some medicine to treat summer heat or stimulate his appetite, which would eventually earn the doctor a sigh of disapproval: "That won't work, Xia Yu."
On Sundays, Geto Suguru would regularly be assigned exorcism missions, and at that time he would be more... excited than usual?
Normal missions wouldn't be given out on a single day out of kindness, the player thought silently.
Players should note down the dates when Geto Suguru has special actions, skip the other five days, and focus on Saturday and Sunday.
“…” Geto Suguru spent the afternoon in the infirmary.
“…” Geto Suguru exorcised the target of the mission.
After so many times, the dialogue becomes an ellipsis representing silence.
Seeing Geto Suguru indifferently raising his hand to wipe away the blood of the cursed spirit that splashed from the corner of his eye, the player was rarely disappointed and poked him: "Pay attention to me..."
As he left the scene, Geto Suguru paused. He spoke in a strange tone, not knowing who he was addressing: "What kind of reaction do you want me to have in order to satisfy you?"
Eh?
Although it wasn't clear if he was talking to the player, the player who received the response immediately excitedly said, "Getsuyu-senpai!?"
The increasingly thin sorcerer chuckled to himself and stopped talking.
……【jump over】
Geto Suguru sat across from Ikari Nozomi, looking out the window at Gojo Satoru, who, under the guise of being a sparring partner for the younger generation, was actually using his magic to tease the three first-year students, and...
His eyes shifted and stared for a long time, then looked away when he heard the sound of Ieru Nishiko.
"Don't think that being able to reverse a spell means you can cure all diseases." Ieiri Naoko said this helplessly, shaking her head, opened the drawer, and handed him a bottle...
【jump over】
babble!
The player mechanically pressed [Skip] and only realized later that he had encountered a new plot.
But it doesn’t matter. The next day, the player saw the bottle of medicine at Geto Suguru’s bedside.
It doesn't say what it's used for.
Considering the context, it is likely to treat appetite.
The player sets the time flow to 3 times the speed.
You won’t miss the plot, but you won’t be too bored.
After the player gave up communicating with Geto Suguru, and who knows how many days had passed, Geto Suguru finally did something he had never done before.
Lying on his bed in the dormitory, Geto Suguru's medium-length hair spread out flat on the back of his head. In his hand, he played with the medicine prescribed by Ieiri Naoko. It was the last pill in the bottle. He fixed his eyes on a certain spot and whispered, "Fushimi."
The player quickly moved closer: "Getsuyu-senpai."
"You're here after all." He said as expected, as if he was not surprised by the result.
Sensing an opportunity to communicate, the player quickly said, "Getsuyu-senpai, you're hallucinating."
"Hmm? I'm well aware of that." Contrary to the player's expected reaction, his tone was quite light, his eyelashes drooping, forming a small shadow. "Otherwise, I should have mentioned Wu a long time ago."
"Why did you mention Senior Wu?"
Except for the two of them, the others are dummies fabricated by the domain.
The players were confused as to why Geto Suguru said this.
"That's it."
He was laughing, speaking in that gentle, slightly coaxing tone familiar to players: "That's why we can't go on like this."
Xia Yujie swallowed the medicine in his hand, his expression was unbelievably gentle: "Disappear."
Player: ...
It turns out you didn’t realize you were in the field!
"*Favorability Event: Countdown: 0:00:01"
The moment the countdown ended, the realm was shattered and destroyed.
The surrounding scenery collapsed, and the colors above faded away as if melting, revealing the real sky.
Geto Suguru was in a trance for a moment.
The battle-hardened sorcerer quickly realized the truth: "The spell power was insufficient to support the domain, and it shattered automatically."
"So..." He paused, his chaotic thoughts finally coming back to normal, and he subconsciously looked for the player.
When he saw the player, he was visibly relieved. "This cursed spirit is very powerful. Its domain must have the effect of disrupting common sense. The moment I entered, I thought I had completed the mission normally and returned to the technical secondary school."
"After spending so much time in the field, how is it? Do you feel any discomfort?"
"Yeah, I've been attending classes, doing missions, and training. It's no different from the courses at a technical high school," the player recounted what he had seen of the other person under Suguru Geto's probing gaze, then answered his subsequent question, "No."
"Where's Geto-senpai?"
Geto Xia Yu exhaled slowly, squinted his eyes and said with a relaxed look, "Everything is fine... except my mood."
"Eh?" The player poked his head out. "What what?"
He stopped laughing.
Under certain lighting conditions, his deep eyebrows and eyes formed a small shadow that obscured his expression. The thinness caused by the bitter summer further highlighted the dullness in his bones.
"How could I possibly tell you this feeling?" He jokingly whispered in a whisper so close that others couldn't hear it.
Someone rubbed the corner of the eye, which made the player feel a little itchy. He blinked and heard a very light sigh.
"A slow child."
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