***

"You say, is there really such a person in this world who treats his real life as a game?"

Thirty minutes before leaving for the detention cell, Xia Youjie stood under the shade of a tree in the playground and said thoughtfully to his peers.

This question seems to be full of philosophical nature, and if I do, it seems to cover the idealistic definition of nihilism. Doesn't sound like a good thing for a sorcerer who spends his days slaying spells to kill spirits.

So it didn't take long for a response from the glass.

"Why, are you finally starting to suspect that you're actually part of a Nintendo game?" With half an unfinished beer in her hand, she sat on the grass away from the brown runway, hugged her knees and held the can up to him, "Congratulations, Xia You." At the age when you should be chasing your dreams, you can see through the true meaning of life - how to say, is it time to leave the high school and travel to the next region? ”

"I'm not talking about my own business. Besides, I haven't even won the 'championship' yet, so even if I want to leave, I should get the special grade title first, right? ”

"Haven't you?"

"Just thinking about it a little bit after your words."

"Okay." Glass said, holding the jar with fine water droplets on the outer wall with one hand, the hand that had just cooled down completely pressed against his chin, and put on a posture of listening carefully, "It's been three months since school started, and Gojo hasn't been able to make you admit that he's actually a Pokémon trainer, and now it seems to be easy to accept?" Who is so charming, come, tell me about it. ”

“…… No, it's all already said, it's not that I'm admitting this kind of thing. ”

Xia Youjie pressed the corner of his forehead, put his hand down again, and walked to the side of the glass and sat down. Looking up at the clear sky in the green mountains and forests.

Glass didn't speak. After a while, Xia Youjie said, "Ah, yes...... Glasses wasn't there that day, so I don't know what she said when she was taken away by Satoru. ”

"'She?' Glass caught the key words, and combined with recent events, it was easy to hear who he was talking about.

"What, did that girl say something like that?" She said as she put the liquid in the jar into her mouth, "Speaking of which, she does seem a little strange, and before leaving, she told me that she would pay me to be her 'wet nurse' or something." ”

"Did you talk about it with the glass? That doesn't seem to be an accident. Xia Youjie said, stretched out his hand, clasped his fingertips downward, and made a gesture of grabbing a basketball, "Being grabbed like this, I am still talking about games, camps, and this kind of confusing words...... It feels like the High Commissioner and the Cursed Master are two 'camps' that can be joined casually - although that's true. ”

"Hmm, that's why you said she was treating her life as a game." Glass shook the beer can with only one bottom left in his hand, and said noncommittally, "Sounds more like a mental illness." Didn't anyone go check it out? ”

"Nope. Compared to this, it is a lot of mana testing. ”

Although he didn't say it explicitly, Glass's face still showed a toothache expression.

"Wow - do you mean you're being treated like a guinea pig? What is that guy's technique? If it's a spiritual technique like the realm, there's no reason to be treated like this. ”

Xia Youjie shook his head.

"I don't know." He said, "The results of the test don't tell us, but I guess it's not the recovery method I thought above, but it's more likely that you said it." ”

"After all, the realm is closely related to things like techniques." Glass commented succinctly, without too much ridicule and criticism of the whimsical high-level executives, turned his head and smiled and asked Xia Youjie, "So?" That's why you're sighing here? ”

Xia Youjie opened his mouth.

"It's not all ...... either"

That's when Satoru Gojo returned. Holding a plastic bag in his hand, he walked slowly from the direction of the vending machine. He beckoned to the two of them from afar.

"Yo, it's all here." As he spoke, he walked in front of him, wearing brand new sunglasses on his face that the assistant superintendent had just sent, and grinned and quipped, "It's rare, Jay." Is it quietly lazy in the middle of physical education class while the teacher is not there? ”

"The person who just came back from the vending machine is not qualified to say such a thing."

"Because training is easy." Satoru Gojo said as a matter of course, raising his arm and lifting the bag in his hand, "Okay, whose beer is it, please raise your hand-"

"Here—" Glass raised his hand cooperatively, exchanging the empty can in his hand with the new drink handed over by Gojo, and stretched out his legs on the grass, and changed his sitting position idly.

Xia Youjie looked disapprovingly at this.

"Do you want to drink it again, Glass? Today is the third can. ”

"This time it's coffee, coffee." Ieri turned the can in a different direction, revealing the icon of coffee beans on the front, clarifying his innocence, "I don't know why, I've always felt a little invigorated lately, and only by drinking this can I not fall asleep in class." ”

"It's okay if you're asleep, that nightmoth guy is just boring, and I don't like to listen."

Gojo Satoru said, took out the newly bought candy from the plastic bag and put it in his mouth, got up and sat down next to Xia Youjie: "Go over there, Jie." Lao Tzu has no place to sit. ”

Xia Youjie: "............ And what's that big open space next to you? Warcraft jungle with nails? ”

That being said, but still made way for him.

Gojo Satoru didn't care that the people around him had been squeezed out of place for more than half a meter, and after sitting down, his two long legs were spread apart, and he crossed his legs with a big grin, and the plastic bag was placed in the open space in the center of his legs.

"So, what were you talking about? Is it something that Lao Tzu can't listen to? ”

"Not really. To be precise, it has something to do with enlightenment. ”

Xia Youjie drank the barley tea in his hand while slowly repeating the conversation he had just had with Glass.

Gojo Satoru listened expressionlessly, one hand on his open knee, and the other against the side of his face, looking not very interested at all.

"That's it? Are you done? ”

"Yes. Don't you think it's very concerning? ”

"What's there to care about, you can see it from that guy's domain, it's just a guy with a bad brain? It's normal to think like that. ”

"That being said, it's true that he's a person who behaves very unconventionally." Glass interjected and commented sharply, "I always feel a little similar to Gojo when we first met." ”

Gojo Gotaka raised his eyebrows on one side and said in a super loud voice, "Huh? "Yes.

"How could it be! Lao Tzu has been treating you very carefully, huh? After all, it was said in the TV series that if the relationship between the same period can't be resolved, it is very likely that something will happen that you will be locked in the toilet and splashed with cold water - although you can't splash me. But I don't want to. ”

“……”

Xia Youjie ignored Gojo Satoru's speech that would completely deviate from the topic, and continued with the previous question.

"I suspect it's possible that she was suddenly able to see the spell, or that something had happened in her home that had stimulated her...... That's why there was that scene on the streets of Shinjuku. ”

Glass nodded casually: "Well, I don't rule it out." ”

Compared with the kindness and brilliance full of humanity released by the two people at the same time, the five young masters who were sitting cross-legged there on the side seemed a little disapproving.

"Okay, right?" Gojo Satoru chewed the candy in his mouth and swallowed it, somewhat unconvinced by the excessive attention that the two of them had cast on the new guy, and pointed out the problem very sharply, "Then how to explain that spell?" If I'm not mistaken, that thing is still in your room, Jay? ”

"There are only four levels of spells, and compared to other high-level spells with special powers, they are just infused with mana, so it's really not hard to buy."

Xia Youjie said, seeing that the time was almost up, he simply stood up from the grass and stopped discussing this issue.

"You two go first." He put the empty jar back into the plastic bag and said a brief goodbye to the two contemporaries, "I'll go to the cell and get the people out first—as for what the specifics are, I might as well come and hear what I have to say later." ”

***

You are taken to the teacher's office by Xia Youjie.

According to him, the reason why you are not seen by the old headmaster but by the future homeroom teacher Noctuidae is because of the will of the old headmaster himself.

The events of that day seemed to frighten the old man, but after hearing that you had passed the resolution of the board of directors and were sentenced to be admitted to the high school, and carefully cultivated and monitored as the object of attention, the old principal immediately refused to go through the procedures for you to go through the admission procedures.

However, the decision of the superintendent council cannot be dismissed, so the task naturally falls into the hands of Noctuidae Masayo, who is likely to be the successor of the next principal.

That is, the man you are going to meet now.

The college covers a vast area, and the school buildings are arranged in a complex manner. As you make your way through the seemingly indistinguishable corridors to Nightmoth's office, you notice that Glass and Gojo Satoru are already waiting there.

Before you entered the Japanese room, you had just experienced a car accident, slashed a spell spirit, and had a lot of blood on your clothes, and then you were locked up for nearly 48 hours, and now your appearance is already ruined except for a great face. Satoru Gojo has a disgusted expression almost as soon as he sees you.

"Didn't I say - can't you just take this guy to a shower first? Wow, the hair is stuck together! ”

Compared to his babbling, the glass on the side showed a sympathetic expression for your pitiful-looking appearance.

You click on the panel and glance at your attributes.

In fact, very few people in the game will pay attention to their appearance and charm, unless this is related to the marriage of NPCs, otherwise you generally skip it.

And now, you realize that your original charm value of 170 is now only 90. The back of the costume shows that the durability has been exhausted, although it has not reached the level of being completely destroyed and scrapped and cannot be used, but wearing it is the same as not wearing it, and the bonus to the attribute has completely returned to 0.

As a result, you're in about the same situation as naked/running now.

It dawns on you. On the spot, I prepared to take a detour back to the toilet to equip the new fashion in my backpack. Mimi's reappearance at the entrance ceremony.

But the night moth is stopping you.

"Wait a minute. I'll talk about the clothes later, but I have a few questions for you first. Please go and sit down on the chair over there—Satoru, you get up. ”

Satoru Gojo reluctantly gets up from his chair and gives up the "interview" position to you.

You sit across the table from the nocturnal moth, across a table from the macho man who looks in the prime of life and has a rather rugged face, looking through strangely colored goggles.

"Let's introduce the people present first, after the past few days, you should be familiar with them." One by one, Noctuidae pointed past the three students standing by the wall, and finally introduced himself.

"Uh-huh, I've heard of it, uh-huh." You impatiently raised your hand to interrupt him: "It's all familiar - teacher, can we get to the point quickly?" ”

Your main quest rewards are still waiting for you. Don't waste any more time doing useless cutscenes.

"......" The noctuidae stuck a shell, and at this moment, I don't know who it thought of, the blue tendons on the forehead jumped lightly, and he picked up the white paper full of questions without changing his face and said in a deep voice, "Since this is the case, let's get to the point - the first question: What is your identity and origin?" ”

You say bluntly, "I don't know." Next. ”

Noctuidae: "......"

"How could you not know?" The night moth said, "Is your family gone?" ”

You: "Uh-huh. ”

You nod perfunctorily, and then you feel that something is not right, so you put it another way: "You can't say that?" In another world, she is probably still alive and well. ”

Noctuid:?

Compared to the head teacher's puzzled expression and obviously didn't understand what you were talking about, in the background of the room, Xia Youjie and Glass glanced at each other, and they both saw the expression of "sure enough" in each other's eyes.

Glasses also secretly gave him a thumbs up.

As for Satoru Gojo - he's boringly pressing his phone under the window, obviously not interested in your admission interview, not listening at all.

The inexplicable reply was skipped, and the night moth continued to ask questions in the order written on the paper.

"Forget it...... The next question is more important, and I hope you will think carefully before replying. The next question is – why are you creating panic on the streets of Shinjuku? ”

Faced with this somewhat tricky question, you didn't blink an eye, and immediately replied, "For the money...... In order to get the attention of the High Commissioner! ”

Everyone present: ?

Almost everybody's face said, 'Do you see I believe it?' 's expression.

"Good." Nocturnal Moth said, bowing her head and writing quickly on the paper with a pen, "Then the next question: What is the source of the spell?" ”

You start to shake your chair in boredom, your eyes wandering around the office: "Do you want to ask too?" It was Doraemon that I put in my pocket. ”

Nocturnal Moth: "......"

The steady head teacher pressed the end of the pen against his temple and took a deep breath. His chest rose and fell rapidly.

"Okay." He said, "Then the next question: What do you think of ordinary people and sorcerers?" ”

As he spoke, he pressed his hand to the paper on which the handwriting penetrated the back of the paper, masking the answer from the part of the paper above, and lowered his voice to look at you with a very warning look.

"This is an important question – let me give you one last word of caution."

Hearing him say this, there seems to be a faint suppressed irritability in his tone, and your attention from flying around is finally pulled back a little, and you finally have some tendency to answer questions seriously.

Ordinary people and conjurers?

You recall the two objects in the question, and you really don't think you need to think about it.

Ordinary people - the creator of negative emotions, the mother body born of the spell spirit, can burst a steady stream of gold coins, and you are the most indispensable existence in this world.

Spellcasters are even simpler.

Then you raise your hand lightly and say, "Spellcaster, it is the only way for me to become the strongest; As for ordinary people......"

You thought about it for a moment and nodded firmly and vigorously.

"They're important!" You say, "It's something that needs to be carefully kept and protected as a world-class endangered animal." ”

Otherwise, where will your money come from?

In the face of your remarks, Xia Youjie couldn't help but remind you loudly.

"It shouldn't be a thing, should it...... It's human. ”

And Glass said: "It's not captivity, it's free-range." ”

"—Why animals?"

Gojo Satoru put his phone back in his pocket and said casually in a dragging tone, "You guy's in the game you set, isn't it some kind of role like the principal?" ”

Then he was dragged to the back by Glass and Xia Youjie covering his mouth. Immediate manual silencing.

You:?

You tilt your head in confusion. Didn't understand what they were talking about.

The nightmoth seems to have been silenced by you.

He looked at the answer he wrote in his own hand, and it seemed that there was a confrontation between heaven and man in his mind that no one knew, and finally chose to believe your answer - after all, there are still key words such as 'guardian' and 'important' in it. Although it looks a little weird, it doesn't get too anti-human no matter how you think about it.

So he said, "Alright then, that's the final question." ”

You immediately grimaced, knocked the back and forth leg of the chair back to the place, and stretched out your hand to gesture, "Okay." Say, please. ”

Noctuida: "I haven't asked you since we met, so the question now is - what is your name?" ”

You: "............"

You pause eerily and look away.

“…… Can you change the question? ”

"Why, isn't it convenient to say? Or maybe I don't remember the name. ”

"Not really." You puff up your face and reluctantly say, "Is it okay to have a kana?" ”

"It's better not to." "Spellcasters of the High School need to register their spells with the Spell Association, and if they use a pseudonym, they will be dealt with as if they are investigated." ”

You: "............"

"Oh. The woman smacked. "You say.

The nocturnal moth bowed slightly, and the tip of the pen hung on the paper waiting to land.

"So, what's your name?"

……

……

……

Meeting his waiting gaze, you take a deep breath and spit out a string of words with an expressionless face:

"—'Swirl Mud Butterfly'."