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

May, Okinawa, Naminoue Shrine.

This is a shrine built on a cliff. As the name suggests, when huge waves surge, the building seems to be on the waves from a distance.

Ships entering and leaving Naha Port will look at the shrine on the cliff while sailing to pray for a smooth and safe voyage.

"Where have you been?"

Huai Liang lowered his head and replied to Xia Youjie's message:

"It's boring to stay in the hotel. I'm going to go to the Naminoue Shrine. Are you done?"

"Yeah. It's so annoying. This year's summer seems to have come early. It's supposed to be vacation time, but they still sent me on a mission."

"Luckily, we're all on Okinawa Island, not far away. Come pick me up when you're done~"

"Okay, I'll be there in 2 hours."

Huailiang was very familiar with the process, and he washed his hands, visited the shrine, drew lots, and bought amulets in order.

Just as she was about to find the clergy in the shrine to inquire about the matter of Huai, an old man suddenly appeared and took her around the main hall of the shrine and into the back hall which had been closed and not open to tourists.

She was very similar to the old woman she met last time in an unknown shrine near Tokyo.

The old man also said some mysterious words like "this is how it turned out in the end" and "never mind, it's God's will in the end".

Huai Liang was confident of his strong fighting ability and was not afraid of encountering any accidents.

She was thick-skinned enough that she roughly realized that the other party seemed to regard her as a descendant of the Huai family.

After leading her to pay homage to a wooden carved plaque, he took out a wooden box from behind it.

I don’t know what material this wooden box is made of. It feels cold like metal and heavy.

When I opened it, I saw a clear bead the size of a longan lying quietly inside, with wisps of floc-like golden suspended objects lingering inside.

As soon as she stretched out her hand to touch it, the bead seemed to be pulled into the air and floated, emitting a bright light.

Good guy!

For a moment, she didn't know whether to complain that Newton's coffin lid was about to burst, or to feel distressed about Edison's loss of an advanced invention.

Just as she was about to ask the old man, "What is this thing and what is its use?" and "Do you know the soul-locking rune of the Huai family?"——

The other party said, "You can only stop... after you look for the bloodstain," and said no more.

No matter how she asked, he kept saying the same thing over and over again, like an NPC in an RPG game that could not be triggered again.

At this point, Huai Liang had no choice but to leave in disappointment with the unexpected RPG item - a golden bead.

But she did not forget to frantically call the system in her mind:

[Brother Tongzi, my body shouldn't have any of those miscellaneous techniques like 'life replacement', right? ]

[Drip——No]

[Then this body of mine is truly the original one, right? You didn’t bring any contraband with me, did you? ]

[Ding——The system won’t lie]

Knowing that he was not a member of the Huai family, Huai Liang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After all this time, the old woman and the old man made her lose confidence in herself.

In her eyes, the Huai family bloodline is simply a death warrant. Think about it:

One can use blessing spiritual power which is completely opposite to curse power. In addition to killing curse spirits, it can also have a positive effect on the bodies of ordinary people.

Second life replacement technique, who can resist the temptation of an extra life? If you catch more to sign a bond, it is almost equivalent to having N lives in hand, you can spend them as you like.

She has produced three batches of "spiritual tools" that can kill cursed spirits. She has not forgotten Fushiguro Shier's warning.

The vast majority of people in this world of sorcery are not idealists dedicated to protecting ordinary people. That's just a trick to deceive children.

Most of them are ambitious people who want to consolidate their superior ruling class and gain greater benefits.

There is an old Chinese saying: Wherever there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

In the ordinary secular world, even employees of a small company would engage in intrigue for promotion and salary increase, let alone people in the world of sorcery whose fighting power and destructive power far exceed theirs?

Without the protection of a powerful military force, Huai would be like a child carrying gold bricks through a busy street alone. It would be strange if he was not eaten up by greedy hyenas.

If she were the head of a powerful family, she would probably treat Huai like livestock.

As long as there is a bloodline born through the life-replacing technique, it will be picked out separately, restrained while it is still young, and then raised to be useless.

She guessed that there must be people from big families who had thought of such an idea, but they were more worried about the inequality than the scarcity of wealth.

The fact that no force that could unify the world of curses appeared led to the decline of the Huai clan.

Even marriages between sorcerers would produce children with weak spell power who could not awaken their spells.

Huailiang had long deduced that the world would be destroyed, perhaps because there was too much "negative" cursed energy. No matter how hard the sorcerers tried, they were only a very small number of people.

So she set her goal that if ordinary people could also use cursed tools to kill cursed spirits, perhaps she could expand the strategic manpower. This is also the reason why she studied the mass production of cursed tools.

The development of communicators is also intended to reduce the losses of sorcerers.

She even thought that if offensive spell tools could be successfully developed, then defensive spell tools should not be an insurmountable problem.

"I figured out Kazuya Matsushita's daily routine"

"He actually has two techniques. One is to control illusions, and the other is to create a 'clone' over a very long distance. I guess we need to kill both his original body and his clone at the same time to truly get rid of him."

"I also saw him using a stone to stimulate the cursed spirit's cursed power. This guy is a bit weird."

As soon as he stepped out of the palace gate, several messages from Fushiguro Shigeu came flooding in.

Huai Liang quickly scanned the screen, extracted useful information, and quickly replied:

"Is it a blood-red seal?"

"Yeah, it looked like red and black, I wasn't too close."

"How about it, do you want to do it?"

Huailiang guessed that the seal that Matsushita Kazuya snatched from her home was most likely the "blood seal" that the old man mentioned.

This seal is most likely related to the golden bead in her hand, and she must play this RPG treasure hunt game.

"Done."

"I'll be back next Monday"

Walking on the sparsely populated tree-lined path outside the back hall, Huai Liang had just closed the cover of his mobile phone when a tall shadow appeared in front of him.

"Yeah, I caught you—"

"Liang sauce."

Looking at the smug Liuyan in front of him, two thoughts quickly flashed through Huailiang's mind.

This guy must have seen the golden bead suddenly change in her hand, and the unnatural phenomenon that occurred!

And, this guy is really smart!

She must have secretly given the communicator to someone else, which is why she saw the 'red dot' representing Gojo Satoru moving normally outside, and therefore came alone to look for the secret of the rune without any disguise.

I have been hunting geese all day, but today I got pecked in the eye by a goose.