Chapter 96
They entered the village quietly.
According to the information sent back by the cursed spirit, after the two girls saw the cursed spirit wandering in the village, they ran back to the house with fear on their faces. It was a small wooden house located far away from the village and close to the forest. It looked a bit dilapidated. It was hard to imagine that two children who were only a few years old lived in such a place, and it seemed that there was no adult to take care of them.
It is not difficult to guess how these two children are regarded by the villagers.
Amemiya Keizo stood at the door. As he got closer, he could clearly feel the cursed energy overflowing from the room due to the emotional fluctuations. He lowered his eyes with a complicated expression.
Kagami Kazuo stood not far behind him, the expression on his face even more gloomy than Amamiya Reizo's.
There are many ordinary people in this world, and among them there are inevitably some who have the talent for spells, and Geto Suguru is one of them.
These people do not understand their own abilities, nor do they know that cursed spirits are only visible to them. They are often rejected and looked down upon by ordinary people because their actions are different from those of others. They are looked at as if they were freaks. Even their relatives and friends do not understand and only think that they are sick.
This is what Geto Summer Oil used to be like.
He awakened to the technique when he was in elementary school. At the beginning, his cursed power was very weak, and he attracted low-level cursed spirits that would not cause harm to the people around him. So when he told people what he saw, people would just think he was talking nonsense and give him a severe lecture.
Later, as he grew up, his cursed power gradually increased, and the cursed spirits he attracted became more dangerous. In order to prevent his family and friends from getting hurt, he often led those cursed spirits away. Occasionally, he would be injured in the process of confrontation. He did not dare to go to the hospital, so he could only go home with injuries, and then his parents scolded him for why he went to fight again.
He became more and more silent day by day and learned never to speak. If he had not encountered a life-and-death crisis one day, he would have finally learned to use his own techniques. His ability was discovered by the people in the [Window], and the Governor-General's Office brought him into the world of spells. Now he might still be just a weirdo in the eyes of others, staring gloomily and blankly at the world that others cannot see, burying his own secrets deep in his heart.
Xia Youjie looked at the dilapidated wooden house in front of him and felt a chill in his heart.
He used to believe that he had powerful abilities, and he wanted to protect his parents who raised him and his friends who cared about him from these monsters, so he was injured again and again, but not everyone is as lucky as he is.
Perhaps some children will be abandoned by their parents, alienated by relatives and friends, and suffer the hostility of countless strangers, just because they are different, and eventually die quietly in a corner.
Why?
The sorcerer protects ordinary people, fights against cursed spirits, and even sacrifices his life, but those ordinary people who are protected treat the talented children in this way.
Ordinary people shouldn't die, but does that mean the sorcerer should die?
Xia Yujie turned his head and looked far into the village, his emotions churning in his eyes, even the cursed energy in his body was fluctuating.
"Suguru-kun." Amamiya Reiichi called out to him, "What are you looking at? Shall we go in?"
Xia Yujie turned back, closed his eyes, and tried to suppress his thoughts. He said, "Let's go in and take a look. If these two children... we have to take them away."
Xia Yujie walked up to Amamiya Raisei and tilted his head to look at him.
By the way, Amamiya was also born into an ordinary family. What did he think? Was he also discriminated against and rejected by ordinary people? Did he also have a period of confusion when he was not understood? Why did he enter a technical high school and become a sorcerer?
Xia Yujie took just one look, concealed his expression, and raised his hand to knock on the door.
The children inside were frightened, and several panicked cries came from the house: "We didn't cause any trouble. We stayed in the house all day today, didn't go out, didn't--"
"You can see something different, right?" said Xia Yujie. "Don't be afraid, we are of the same kind. Just now..." He described the appearance of the cursed spirit he released. "The monster you saw is called a cursed spirit. It is my shikigami. Don't be afraid. We will not harm you."
The noise in the room quieted down for a long time, and the little girl spoke weakly: "What?"
Xia Yujie explained directly: "We are sorcerers. You are not freaks or monsters. You are also sorcerers, just like us. You are special. It's just that ordinary people can't see the curse spirits, so they can hurt you."
"But we are the same kind. I won't hurt you," the boy said in a soft voice. "Can I go in and see you? If not, we will leave."
After a long time, the girl spoke again: "...Please come in."
Xia Yujie breathed a sigh of relief and pushed the door open.
Amemiya Raisei glanced at Kagome Geto, took a step back on his own initiative, and followed him in.
The door of the wooden house creaked, and it seemed as if it would fall down at any moment just by pushing it with such force. The room was a little dark, with only light coming in from one window. As soon as they opened the door, the light from outside shone into the room, allowing them to see the two girls huddled in the corner, hugging each other and shivering.
"Don't be afraid," Xia Yujie soothed them softly, slowly approaching them and releasing a small, cute-looking cursed spirit - this was the one Gojo Satoru had asked him to collect because he thought it was fun - he passed the cursed spirit in front of the girls, "Look, we are the same."
"Can you tell me your names?"
The girls took a look at the cursed spirit in Geto Suguru's hand, then moved their gaze to the boy's gentle smile, and then looked at the well-behaved and friendly face of Amamiya Keiichi standing behind him. The fear gradually subsided, and one of the girls boldly reached out and grabbed the small cursed spirit handed to them.
Under Geto's control, the cursed spirit certainly didn't resist, and it even rubbed the girl's wrist with its little tail, acting cute.
"My name is Mimiko," the girl holding the cursed spirit smiled shyly, but it only caused a bruise on her face, and she withdrew her smile in pain. Her expression looked a little weird, "This is my sister, Nanako."
"My name is Kagome Kagome, and this is my friend Amamiya Tadashi."
After saying this, Geto Suguru reached out his hand tentatively and touched Mimiko's hair. He naturally noticed that the two girls were extremely thin and had many wounds on their bodies. In this relatively cold weather, they were only wearing two tattered clothes and their faces were pale from the cold.
Anger rose in his heart, and his tone became softer: "... Can I take you away? I will take you to a world similar to ours, where you will meet many people who are just like you and us. You will not be hungry, you will not be without clothes, and you will not live in a place like this..."
"You won't be bullied by those..." Xia Yujie looked at the girls' gradually brightening eyes, his emotions reached the peak at this moment, and his words suddenly became sharp, "You won't be bullied by those stupid and ignorant ordinary people who don't understand you."
Amemiya Rui was startled and had a bad premonition. He instinctively looked at Kagome Kei who was squatting in front of the girl.
The light coming in from the door shone on Kagome Jie's back, and also buried his face in the shadows, making it appear dim and unclear.
The next second, the system prompt sounded.
[Progress: 25%]
It actually went backwards.