The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 772: The Bizarre Adventure of Shichijo Masato Part 5 ()

Iku Terao was born in a small seaside city. His family ran a supermarket. They were not rich, but not poor either. He had never lacked anything since he was a child, just like most ordinary people in the city where he lived.

Growing up, every summer vacation, their family would go back to their hometown village to worship their ancestors during the Obon Festival. It was not a very big village, and the Terao clan was considered a big family in the village.

Before Terao Yu was sixteen, he had no idea about curses or incantations. His life was very dull. Even returning to the village to worship his ancestors was just a custom. There was nothing special about it. He just came to visit his grandparents and escape the summer heat in the countryside.

The only thing that puzzled him was that the other villagers in the village seemed to be afraid to approach the mansion of the Terao family. As soon as they heard his last name was Terao, they immediately became silent and taciturn.

Terao Yu didn't take it seriously. After all, he only came back for a few days during the summer vacation every year and wouldn't care about such a small matter at all.

But it was not until he was sixteen years old that he learned the truth - the Terao clan was a cursed clan.

According to the legends handed down from ancient times, children who inherited this bloodline were very likely to die young, and many did not live past the age of 16. Therefore, 16 was a hurdle for the people of the Terao family, and every family member who successfully lived past the age of 16 would return to the main mansion that year to be tested for the talent to inherit the family secrets.

Perhaps to modern people, this might be because the Terao family has some incurable genetic disease, but for those old people, they firmly believe in ancient legends and curses.

Because this is also the capital that the Terao family can build a mansion in such a remote village. Occasionally, some luxury cars will stop in front of the mansion and discuss some secret business with the owner of the house.

As a branch of the branch family, Terao Yu's bloodline was already very thin. Generally speaking, the thicker the bloodline, the more likely the family members who died young were to inherit this talent. Terao Yu just came back to go through the motions because he was old enough. After all, even his father failed the test, so he had no hope.

But what no one expected was that Terao Iku passed. Although the process was difficult, this middle school boy who had longed for those bizarre stories since he was a child and longed to be the protagonist in the stories, actually managed to hold on and became a real psychic.

So Terao Iku transferred to a school in the countryside and began training to become a sorcerer.

It was also during this period of time that he learned about psychics, exorcists, and his own sorcerer. What he never expected was that the Terao clan was actually a villain-like family that specialized in helping people do shameful things. This made Terao Yuu feel very disgusted. No wonder the villagers didn't dare to talk to him.

Just when he wanted to give up his training and escape, a person appeared in the family. He was a gloomy man with long hair parted in the middle and a mole between his eyebrows. After asking around, he learned that this person was called Hiruda Makoto, an outcast heir of the Terao family. It was said that he had made quite a name for himself in Tokyo.

The main family of Terao originally wanted to call him back, let him recognize his ancestors, inherit the surname "Terao", and become a helper of the family.

Unexpectedly, Hiruda Makoto despised the poverty of this place. When he heard that he had to come back to help the family, he started to speak nonsense in front of the head of the family, mocking that this place was just a run-down country family that was not worthy of him at all. He was dreaming if he was asked to come back.

Then, this guy started a battle of sorcery with the head of the Terao clan and several main forces at that time. The result was naturally that Hiruda won a great victory and then left. The strength of the Terao clan's sorcerers declined a bit, and later several members of the clan even ran to Tokyo and joined Hiruda.

Terao Yu was very curious about this guy. He also heard from other people the story about Hiruda Makoto's mother, Terao Keiko - the "witch with a curse".

According to legend, Terao Keiko, the strongest of the Terao clan, did not want to do anything bad, so she had a dispute with the previous head of the family and ran to Tokyo. She became known as the "strongest sorcerer", and now her son Hiruda Makoto has inherited this title. Terao Yuu began to take an interest in this senior. The more he learned about this cursed witch, the more he admired her, believing that this was the existence he longed for.

So after graduating from high school, Terao Iku left the countryside and came to Tokyo. He heard about Hiruda Makoto and wanted to work with him.

At the beginning, Hiruda Makoto was quite welcoming to Terao Iku. After all, it was good to have one more younger brother under his command, and they were from the same clan, so it would be good to strengthen his momentum.

But Terao Yu immediately discovered that the bad things done by Hiruda Makoto were exactly the same as those done by the Terao main family. The quarrel that broke out was just because of the uneven distribution of the spoils. It was not like Hiruda Makoto's mother, who left because she could not stand it.

Terao Iku immediately had a big fight with Hiruda Makoto and accused him of not being worthy of such a mother.

What happened afterwards became a matter of course. Makoto Hiruda gave Terao Iku a severe lesson, and Terao Iku left Hiruda Makoto's sorcerer group and started working on his own, but business was terrible. Makoto Hiruda even said that whoever dared to assign work to Terao Iku would have a problem with him.

The poor and destitute Terao Itsuki could only do odd jobs everywhere to earn rent, just like Shichijo Masato. If it weren't for the fact that Kidou Ryumitsu felt sorry for him and secretly assigned him some odd jobs, Terao Itsuki might have returned to his hometown to work as a supermarket cashier long ago.

It was not until last year when Hiruda Makoto and his army of sorcerers were killed single-handedly by someone that Terao Iku was able to make a name for himself in the exorcist circle. He even turned a disaster into a blessing and got a lot of business. He sold some fake cursed items to people with bad intentions and made a fortune.

After all, Hiruda Makoto's gang had fallen, and the remaining capable sorcerers were afraid of being liquidated, so they just ran away. There were not many options left, so his business naturally came.

Then Terao Iku started to focus on the awesome psychic detective, and everyone knows the rest of the story.

It seems that it was because of their part-time work experience that Terao Iku and Shichijo Masato became friends, and young people always like to brag in front of their friends.

So in his mouth, he became...

"Hey~ Isn't this the strongest sorcerer in Tokyo~" Qian Xiaoyi greeted him, "Are you here?"

"Qian... Teacher Qian?!" The moment Terao Yu saw Qian Xiaoyi, he was a little confused: "Why are you here!"

He had been studying the "Curse Book" at home during this period of time. He was called over by Shichijo Masato on the pretext of helping with special training, and Qian Xiaoyi's name was not mentioned.

"This guy said he knew the strongest sorcerer in Tokyo." Qian Xiaoyi pointed at the innocent-looking Nanajo Masato and said, "So I wanted to meet this strong man. I didn't expect it to be you. What a fortuitous encounter."

"Ah...it's over..." Terao Yu slapped himself in the face. He shouldn't have come. Qian Xiaoyi's special training was very uncomfortable.

(End of this chapter)