[Curse Return] How can a sorcerer not be crazy?

Although you have booked the entire private hot spring club, you still have to follow the store's requirements. You are not allowed to bathe naked or bring your own swimsuit.

Huailiang and Jiarui Xiaozi both changed into the brown suspender bath skirts for women distributed by the store, and soaked comfortably in the natural hot spring with a slight smell of sulfur.

Although for Ieiri Naoko it was only the second time they met, it was not the case for Huailiang.

She was familiar with the other person's preferences and topics of conversation that interested her, so even though they were the only two girls present, it didn't feel awkward or embarrassing.

"So Ryo-san didn't tell you about what happened in Onomichi?"

Hearing the key words of his name, Huailiang's gaze followed it and met Xia Youjie's dark eyes.

Huihara Yu covered his mouth with an expression of 'Oops, I said something wrong'.

"I didn't tell you because I didn't want Jie-kun to worry."

Huailiang naturally shifted the topic to his gratitude to Huiyuan Xiong and Nanami Kento: "After quitting my job at the coffee shop, I followed the doctor's advice and went to some remote places to sketch and relax... Fortunately, I met Nanami-kun and Huiyuan-kun."

Nanami Kento didn't say anything. He couldn't help but think that even in such a tense situation, the other party was able to maintain a rational mind and run out to call the police, and then dared to follow the police back to the scene of the accident -

But he didn't confide his horrible experience to the person he was in an ambiguous relationship with, who was actually a sorcerer. Is this reasonable?

Most girls would be scared to death if they encountered such a thing, but to her, it seemed insignificant.

Is it because... I'm not particularly afraid?

Xia Youjie stood up from the hot spring pool, slowly walked to Huai Liang's side, and sat down next to her: "I told you before, Liang-chan, you can tell me directly if you have anything to say."

"I don't want to hear about your situation from other people. It will make me worried."

Ieiri Naoko whistled and looked at Geto Suguru with a teasing look on her face: "Have you been secretly cramming idol dramas recently?"

"cough."

Xia Youjie flew over and glared, "Desert worm teeth, do you still want them?"

Ieiri Naoko forced a smile and then fell silent instantly.

Gojo Satoru, who was on the other side of the hot spring pool, rarely made any remarks and seemed to have been completely immersed in the baptism of the hot spring.

In his mind, he was also thinking about the topic that Huihara Yu had just mentioned.

Including the time she was rescued by Geto Suguru in the amusement park, the time he saved her in the alley, and this time when she ran into Haibara and Nanami in the Onomichi haunted house... In just 4 months, she has already encountered 3 cursed spirit attacks.

It seems like... isn't the frequency a bit too high?

In fact, during this period of time, he has been restraining himself from paying attention to any information related to her.

They are a perfect match made in heaven, and they like each other. How could he be the bad guy who breaks them up?

But even though I thought this in my mind, my body was very honest.

He could almost tell from Geto Suguru's micro-expressions whether the person he was chatting with was her.

I also secretly registered a Facebook account to keep an eye on her daily life.

Occasionally, it would be a few brief and insignificant complaints, small animals encountered on the roadside, a strangely shaped cloud on the horizon... If you're lucky, you can also see her casual selfies.

When times got too hard, he even sneaked into her vacant apartment.

Anyway, it was just downstairs from him, separated only by a thin ceiling.

However, he still couldn't break through this bottom line - it was already sick enough to spy on the other person's social software from all angles, and he didn't want to fall to the level of a "stalking and breaking into a pervert" for the time being.

He told himself almost in a way that he was trying to cover up his mistake, that as long as he didn't meet her, it wouldn't be considered inappropriate.

But this almost false state of peace and tranquility will automatically collapse with just a little bit of external force.

For example, he clearly knew the purpose of Geto Xiayou inviting him, one was to show off, and the other was to warn.

But the thought of being able to see her in her natural state, not intentionally approaching her with all kinds of excuses, nor secretly following her like a rat in the gutter, but a fair and open meeting.

Even if it’s an invitation from… a love rival.

Yes, it has come to this point and he can no longer deceive himself.

Even if he was slow and ignorant when it came to love, he had to admit that he liked the girl that his best friend also liked.

But his intuition told him that this girl named Huailiang was not simple.

I'm not trying to excuse my attention to her, but there are indeed some suspicious things about her.

Before reaching a conclusion, he would not bless them, but he would not deliberately...destroy them either.

"Speaking of this, I'm really annoyed. I finally have some free time, but I have to report to the general manager to get leave just to go out and soak in the hot springs."

After hearing Xia Youjie and Huailiang talking about how it was fun to enjoy the snow and take a hot spring bath in winter, Jiarui Nishiko slapped the water surface in annoyance.

"Am I a prisoner? Put me in a cage."

Gojo Satoru stopped thinking and looked at her: "Ah, you are the only 'wet nurse' after all."

"Although I have also mastered the reversal technique, it can only be used on myself. The effect on healing other people's injuries is very limited, so I can only rely on you to save the dying and the wounded~"

After saying that, he looked in the direction of Xia Youjie very naturally, and as his gaze moved, it seemed that he passed by Huai Liang's figure without any ripples.

"So, Jie, you have to work harder. You are the only one in our second grade who doesn't know how to reverse the spell."

Xia Youjie raised his eyelids: "No way to compete——"

But only he himself knew that even if it was only for 0.1 second, his six eyes clearly captured that beautiful face that was white and rosy due to the curling water mist.

Even the few drops of sweat that slid down the neck into the depression of the collarbone were clearly visible.

He rubbed his earlobe which suddenly became hot, and quickly shifted his gaze to the wooden tray on the water to conceal his feelings, motioning Nanami Kento to hand him a glass of iced fruit drink.

Nanami Kento handed over the juice and took over the topic at the right time: "There is no such thing as absolute freedom. Even sorcerers like us who can go out for activities still have to carry out missions one after another."

"Even office workers, students, construction workers...are still living under an absolute system and need to complete the tasks they are facing at the moment."

Huiyuan Yu also joined the discussion: "I think it feels great to work hard on what I can do."

"Isn't this another way of realizing one's own life value?"

Xia Youjie nodded in agreement: "For example, the confrontation between us humans and cursed spirits is actually equivalent to the universal value of 'either you die or I die' war, so people with different abilities in the war will naturally need to bear different responsibilities."

"We combat-type sorcerers are responsible for destroying cursed spirits, while healing-type sorcerers like you are responsible for healing your companions. The assistant supervisor is responsible for logistics, and Window is responsible for intelligence. They are all doing their respective duties."

Ieiri Naoko sighed and said faintly: "You don't understand, it's because of this that I feel even worse."