Chapter 845: 512, the sa cured life
“Brother, I’m a little scared.”
“What are you afraid of?” Qing Chen asked, puzzled.
Jinguji Maki hesitated for a long ti before saying, “Those things just crawled into my head. Will they eat my brain?”
The little girl voiced her concerns.
Qing Chen earnestly said, “From today onwards, you need to train well. If you don’t train properly, they will cause chaos in your brain.”
The little girl was so frightened that she started crying loudly, “What kind of training?”
Qing Chen’s lips curled slightly; he seed to find so of the joys his ntor, Uncle Li Dong, experienced in the past: “There are many kinds of training. Just be obedient and train.”
He thought carefully whether it was really a good idea to buy a phone for such an easily tricked little girl. If he let Yi trick her, wouldn’t she be tricked completely?!
No, he had to keep the girl away from the Outer World and Yi.
Qing Chen pondered. Although he didn’t know why the girl couldn’t sense the shikigami, he was sure that they wouldn’t harm her by staying in her head.
If sothing happened to the girl, they too would lose their sanctuary and perish.
The spirit bodies of shikigami needed the Divine Bridge in the brain to nourish them; this is why the Red Leaf Hunter and its companions wanted the girl as their sanctuary. If she died, they would die with her.
Qing Chen suspected that the three shikigami might already belong to the girl. However, since she hadn’t started her training yet, she was unable to establish a bond with them.
Perhaps, after a few years when the girl completes her first life-and-death challenge, she could witness today’s rewards.
What’s interesting here is that most onmyoji had weak physical bodies, so people would always attack their bodies first.
But if the girl was on the Knight’s path, her body would likely beco stronger than her shikigami.
If soone tried to target her as an easy opponent, they might end up finding a formidable enemy instead.
Imagining a Knight onmyoji, Qing Chen thought of how many people could be tricked, and found it quite amusing…
“By the way, did you feel dizzy or any other discomfort after they entered your head?” Qing Chen asked.
According to the Hu’s Information Agency, onmyoji could exceed their level to house more shikigami, like summoning four at B-Class.
However, after summoning extra shikigami, onmyoji would be overwheld and feel dizzy all day with constant pain in their foreheads.
Jinguji Maki thought for a mont, “No, I didn’t feel anything.”
Qing Chen recalled the literature he had read about the Jinguji clan in the Island Country. In the Uji Miscellany, there was a record of a strange phenonon…Hyakki Night Trip.
Later annotations couldn’t explain this phenonon because yokai wouldn’t congregate without purpose, and no onmyoji was powerful enough to command such a gathering…
Now, Qing Chen looked at the girl. Perhaps a powerful figure from the Jinguji clan once controlled hundreds of shikigami?!
Qing Chen glanced at the girl. Should he help her to capture a few more onmyoji and see how many shikigami she could accommodate?
Previously, onmyoji chose randomly from hundreds of shikigami. If he took most of them away with the girl, and all that was left in the cards were things like the Taocheng Temple Bell, Mao You, and Zashiki Doko, wouldn’t all onmyoji feel desperate?!
That would be cutting off their lifeline!
No, they had to leave first.
Jindai Yunyi had already sent the news back to the Mysterious Business Departnt. They would undoubtedly mobilize fully to ensure such a threatening person like Jinguji Maki would die.
Honestly, although the girl was still an ordinary person, the Mysterious Business Departnt would prioritize capturing her over Qing Chen.
She was soone who could shake the foundations of the Jindai.
Qing Chen held the girl’s hand and walked northwards: “Let’s go, before so people go crazy.”
They had co from the north, battling through three search lines. Just when everyone thought he would continue to fight and be reckless, Qing Chen suddenly turned back.
Because Hokkaido was in the north, where Jinguji Maki’s mother was.
After so ti, a fully ard combat team arrived. They found Jindai Yunyi’s corpse and quickly searched the nearby battlefield.
One person crouched beside Jindai Yunyi, pulling out a black dagger.
The dagger had red talismans drawn on it. This person gently swung the blade, cutting Jindai Yunyi’s chest.
Blood gushed from Jindai Yunyi’s body into the dagger, which seed like a bottomless pit, never filling up.
In an instant, the corpse ‘withered’.
The red talismans on the dagger glowed. This person used the dagger to carve a pentagram in the snow, and the absorbed blood flowed back out during the carving.
The person stood up, waiting and watching the pentagram intently.
However…after a long ti, nothing appeared in the pentagram.
“Huh, where is the shikigami, Red Maru?! No Red Maru!”
He took out a satellite phone from his pocket and dialed with a grave expression: “Boss, sothing serious happened. After Jindai Yunyi’s death, there is no Red Maru in his heart. Soone must have taken it!”
The other end of the line was silent for a long ti: “From now on, this is the top priority for the Mysterious Business Departnt. We must find those two people and recover the lost shikigami, Red Maru.”
When Jindai Yunyi desperately sent the ssage, the senior officials at the Mysterious Business Departnt were skeptical. After all, they had never seen soone who could suppress shikigami.
Now, they believed.
Soone can indeed suppress shikigami and even steal them.
Shikigami are unique. If they cannot retrieve Red Maru, it ans those cards will no longer be in the deck!
Instantly, the entire Mysterious Business Departnt went crazy.
Originally, they mobilized only half their people to hunt Qing Chen and Jinguji Maki. Now, within a day, 80% of the Mysterious Business Departnt mbers joined the pursuit.
This ti, Qing Chen really stirred up a hornet’s nest. While the outside world noticed the Mysterious Business Departnt’s movents, they didn’t know what had driven them to such extres.
Many thought that even if Kyushu directly went to war with the Mysterious Business Departnt, there wouldn’t be much more commotion.
Nobody knew how bold Qing Chen was; he had returned to Nakatsugawa City in Gifu Prefecture.
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Nakatsugawa City.
A bored little girl waited outside the shopping mall, sitting in a newly rented RV.
She leaned on the window, looking through the glass into the mall, where a boy was smiling and talking with another little girl.
Jinguji Maki felt envious. Qing Chen rarely smiled so brightly at her. It seed only recently that his smiles had increased.
Usually, her brother was very stern.
At that mont, Qing Chen returned to the RV with large and small bags.
He had changed his identity and would stay with the little girl in the RV from then on.
“Brother, what did you just do?” the little girl asked softly.
“Went shopping,” Qing Chen replied.
“Who was that little girl you were talking to? You talked to her for a long ti,” Jinguji Maki asked curiously.
“Oh,” Qing Chen said, “I asked her what kind of gifts girls receive on their birthdays here. She listed many things. I didn’t know what you would like, so I bought it all.”
Jinguji Maki was stunned. So that’s what it was…
“Brother, why buy gifts for ?” the girl asked softly.
Qing Chen thought for a mont and said, “From now on, you will call Master, understand.”
Qing Chen reminisced: “A long ti ago, when I first beca an apprentice, my master foolishly asked Ti Travelers what fathers in the Outer World should give their children. The Ti Travelers, equally foolish, suggested cars for dating and houses, as the Outer World practices monogamy. My master almost believed them.”
“He took to buy a car, a house, and even led to defeat my opponents. My master said that whatever other children had, I must have too.”
“Looking back, it’s quite nostalgic. So, I am treating you the sa way. Whatever other girls have, you must have too.”
Qing Chen believed that besides the tradition of tricking apprentices, the Knight legacy also passed down so warmth.
Uncle Li had healed his life, and now it was his turn to heal Jinguji Maki’s life.
Strictly speaking, he taught Hu Xiaoniu, Li Tongyun, Nan Gengchen, Liu Dezhu, Luo Wanya, and others, more like finding companions.
When it ca to true apprentices, those were Li Ke, Qing Yi, and Jinguji Maki.
Li Ke and Qing Yi had their businesses and clans. Only Jinguji Maki was taught by him constantly.
Therefore, Qing Chen was especially attentive.
Jinguji Maki looked at the RV filled with gifts and could imagine Qing Chen telling the sales associate to wrap them nicely.
The girl discreetly wiped her tears: “Thank you, Master.”
Qing Chen said, “Open the gifts and see. Keep what you like, throw away what you don’t.”
The girl said, “I like them all.”
“How do you know without looking?”
“I just know.”
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There’s another chapter at 11 PM.
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