I, holding a long sword in my hand, only know one move

After experiencing the death of a loved one, Hishito Knotweed stood in front of his grandfather's bed for a long time. Even now, he still feels a little bit unreal, as if he is dreaming.

From the time the doctor confirmed his death until his grandfather was pushed out of the ward, the young man remained silent. Cheng Rang took the initiative to help complete some of the subsequent procedures and processes.

There was a knock on the door, and Hu Zhi, who was sitting on the chair holding the photo, raised his head and looked at the door.

Cheng Rang stood sideways by the door: "Youren, the certificate needs to be signed by the family members. I can't help you with this."

"I know, I'm really sorry to trouble you...thank you."

"What are you talking about? No matter how mature you are at your age, you have never experienced the experience of an important person around you leaving. I'm just doing it with a little effort."

Cheng Rang waved his hand and said with a smile: "I can't advise you to look away. It's okay to cry at this time. It's better to say that crying for the death of a loved one is a real man. I can only give you something to be alone with." Time, in short, everything will pass, time will always dilute everything."

"Um...."

Huzhang put down the photo, walked out the door and passed by Cheng Rang, he stopped.

Under Cheng Rang's puzzled gaze, the young man raised his lips and said, "Now I feel that Brother Cheng is not the kind of decadent office worker uncle who only knows how to drink and get drunk!"

"What..." Cheng Rang smiled bitterly and leaned against the door with his hands on his hips, "I realize it's a little too late now, go quickly."

"oh!"

Although Hezhuang still returned to his somewhat joking tone, his red eyes couldn't be covered up in time, and it could only make people think that he was forcing himself.

But these were all excusable, and Cheng Rang did not expose them.

After Huzhang signed the death certificate from the nurse's desk, all the procedures were over.

Carrying a handbag containing grandpa's belongings, the two walked home together from outside the hospital.

"By the way, the cremation of grandpa's body has been scheduled for tomorrow by me and the hospital. Here it is."

The can of drink made a brief arc in the air and fell into the hands of the knotweed.

"When did you buy this?" Knotweed's expression was a little surprised, and he looked at the ice-cold Coke in his hand, which still had fresh cold air on it.

"I picked it up from where I work."

"Brought along? Isn't this a crime?"

"Hey~ I'll pay you back. I'll pay you back when I get paid."

Huzhang handed the coke back to Cheng Rang: "Then I won't drink this until you pay properly."

Cheng Rang laughed heartily twice, patted the shoulder of Polygonum Weed a few times and said, "You're just kidding, I used my last 500 yuan coin to treat you. Drinking some ice Coke at this time of summer can make people happy." Get up."

Hu Zhi held the coke that Cheng Rang forced back again and looked at him blankly.

"But...that's the last bit of money you have, right?"

"Right."

"Used to buy me a drink, just to make me happy?"

"yes."

Cheng Rang nodded calmly, then waved his hand and said: "It doesn't matter whether it's money or not. I don't value those things. The most important thing is that the people around me can get some even trivial help. It’s enough to make me feel at ease, not to mention, the only person staying with you now is me, the eldest brother, right?”

"Since you call me Brother Cheng, I must have the courage to be your big brother." He said to himself.

"..."

Huzhang stared at the Coke in his hand, something flashed in his eyes, and then he grinned at Cheng Rang.

"Then I'm not welcome!"

In the eyes of Hiroyuki Hiroyuki, it might be because Cheng Rang was the only one around him when he was most vulnerable, so even though the two met not long ago, he felt that Cheng Rang was a good person.

In those deep and clear black eyes, there was a maturity that seemed to transcend his apparent age. Just walking with him can make people feel calm and secure, like a real elder.

This made the knotweed who had just lost his grandfather deepen the image of Cheng Rang in his mind.

"Thank you, Brother Cheng!"

"Oh, you look more energetic."

Cheng Rang also smiled and scratched one of the pink hedgehog hairs of the knotweed. The relationship quietly progressed as it should be, without any sense of violation.

Without Cheng Rang's true age, for Hisahito, who is only fifteen years old, it is estimated that Cheng Rang would be the one who suffers the most if he calls him grandpa...

Just when Cheng Rang and the two were about to walk out of the hospital door, a voice suddenly came from the shadows beside them.

"Japanese knotweed Yuhito...right."

"Who are you?"

"I am Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu

Fushiguro from the College of Vocational College, I have something to tell you now. "

The visitor was wearing a black uniform with a stand-up collar, black hair and black eyes, the corners of his sharp eyes were slightly raised, and his expressionless face gave people a cold appearance.

But he is obviously not very old, so Cheng Rang feels that he is deliberately pretending to be cool.

Um...? Wait, Tokyo College of Magic? !

The more Cheng Rang listened, the more familiar it became, and he immediately opened the system task list silently to confirm.

[Partner Mission 1: Meet your partner "Isabella Campbell" at the Tokyo Metropolitan College of Magic. 】

Isn't Isabella right over there? !

"Um...I'm in mourning..." Huzhang's tone was a little helpless.

"I'm sorry, there's no time - the spell in your hand is very dangerous, please give it to me immediately."

"A curse?"

The boy expressed doubts about words he had never heard before.

Fushiguro took out his phone and showed him a photo.

"this."

Huzhang leaned over and took a look. The thing in the picture was an old wooden rectangular brocade box, which was open. There was an oval-shaped unknown object wrapped in a thick talisman paper inside.

"Ah yes, yes, I picked this up."

When Kizuki said this in a nonchalant tone, the face of the young man named Fushiguro was obviously full of shock.

"I don't care, but seniors are very interested in it. Why is that thing dangerous?"

"...In Japan, the number of unidentified deaths and missing people exceeds 10,000 people every year, most of which are caused by the 'curse'."

"curse?"

"Believe it or not, this is the truth."

"That... Fushiguro-san?" Cheng Rang finally found an opportunity and intervened.

"Whoever is your classmate, just call me Fushihei." Fushihei showed no mercy to Cheng Rangtou's approach.

"Well, you said you came from the Tokyo Conjuring High School, but this is Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. Why do you come here? Don't the students there take classes?"

"...I'm not going to answer your question."

Fushihei glanced at Cheng Rang, and when he was about to speak again, he heard surprising information from Cheng Rang.

"By the way, do you know Isabella Campbell?"

A trace of surprise flashed in Fushiguro's eyes, curious as to how the man in front of him knew about Teacher Campbell, so he asked casually: "Who are you?"

But who could have known that Cheng Rang's words were shocking on the spot.

"Oh, I...I am her husband."

"impossible!"

Fushiguro took a step back suddenly and immediately denied it.

"How is this impossible?"

"Teacher Campbell, she..." Fushiguro was stunned mid-sentence. In his memory, Mr. Campbell, who came to a high school as a trainee teacher, seemed to have never talked about her emotional experience...

"Look, I'm still wearing my wedding ring. It's our first time meeting. What did I lie to you about?" Cheng Rang stretched out his hand, and a silver-blue ring was shining brightly on the ring finger of his left hand.

Indeed, Teacher Campbell also wore a paired ring on her left ring finger. She was very concerned about that ring and kept it carefully.

In Fushiguro's eyes, Teacher Campbell is undoubtedly a very kind and gentle teacher. Even though she is only a trainee teacher, her serious and responsible attitude towards students and her ever-warming smile make people respect and identify with her.

What's more, Mr. Campbell was attacked by a curse and fell into a coma to protect others... and even lost a large part of his memory.

Regarding this, Fushiguro believed that the man in front of him who claimed to be Mr. Campbell’s husband did not know.

But it is too complicated to explain and confirm here. The most important thing at the moment is to recover the stray special-grade cursed objects as soon as possible.

So Fushiguro decisively changed the subject.

Chapter 10 Special Spell

"In schools and hospitals, it is especially easy to gather a lot of resentment, pain, regret, shame... Human negative emotions are the source of curses."

"So many schools secretly store exorcism charms, and the one you got is one of them."

Knotweed raised his hand as a question: "Since it can exorcise demons, isn't it a good thing?"

Fushiguro frowned and continued: "That's not entirely the case. If you store evil curses, other curses will not come close. This is extremely poisonous. The so-called exorcism is just a bad habit in name only... . Its seal has been loosened year by year, and now it has become a bait to attract the curse and make it grow stronger."

Cheng Rang held his chin and said, "Good guy, does that mean you guys are raising voodoos in schools and hospitals? If this doesn't go wrong, there will be ghosts."

"So it needs to be recycled before the seal completely expires. This is the purpose of my trip." Fushiguro pointed at the knotweed in front of him. "The one he got is a dangerous object classified as 'special grade'. Before there is any trouble, If you take someone’s life, hand it over quickly.”

"It's outrageous to store such things in a place where ordinary people can easily pick them up. I have serious doubts about the reliability of your college..."

Regarding Cheng Rang's verbal attack, Fushiguro could only grit his teeth and continue, he covered his forehead as if he had a headache and said: "I am also angry at the person who did this and want to punch him in the face, but there is no way.

at this point. "

"Then we can only try our best to save it." Cheng Rang shrugged. He had basically completed the collection of intelligence. He already had an idea of ​​how to achieve the next stage of the mission. Next, he only needed to watch the show and then find a chance to follow Fushiguro can join Isabella by returning to the Magic College together.

Hu Guang touched his pocket and took out a small wooden box that was exactly the same as the one in the photo, "That's it, right? A special curse... By the way, Brother Cheng, didn't you ask me what dirty things I touched today? Could it be that Did you discover it then?"

"Sa, who knows?" Cheng Rang's answer was subtle.

Fushiguro quickly grabbed the box and opened it only to find that it was empty.

"Where's the stuff inside?!"

"I told you, it's with senior! Oh, by the way..." Tiger Stick seemed to have remembered something.

"how?"

"They said they would take off the talisman at school tonight."

As soon as these words came out, Fushiguro took a few steps back as if he had been hit hard, and his pupils trembled uncontrollably.

Cheng Rang scratched his head at this.

"What a group of qualified [Spiritual Research Association] members..."

"Eh? Could it be that something big is going to happen?"

"More than that." Fushiguro said slowly.

"They...will die!"

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In the dim corridor of the teaching building, warm yellow light shines from the door and window at the end, making the shadows printed on the wall sway.

The simple signboard of the "Psychic Phenomena Research Society" is just a few large black characters written with a pen on a white paper and pasted on the door.

In the room, a white candle was burning between Iguchi and Sasaki, who were sitting opposite each other around the table, and the "special curse" that Fushiguro said was currently playing with Sasaki-senpai's hands.

"It's strange...I can't take it off..."

The talisman paper obviously looks loose, but it is very difficult to tear.

"Is it necessary to sneak in here to do this?" When Iguchi saw that Sasaki had not made any progress for a long time, he stood up and was about to turn on the light, but she stopped him.

"No, don't ruin the atmosphere! Feeling the stimulation is the essence of the spiritual seminar, and nothing will happen anyway..."

It seems that Cheng Rang's prank in the last courage test was particularly exciting. The fearless boys and girls did not have the slightest awareness of their dangerous behavior.