Fantasy Library.

Chapter 532 An Increasingly Complete Certificate

On this day, Aize and Asagi Yoshino skipped their usual morning exercise and went into the mountains after a hurried breakfast.

The group included Mako Hitachi, who later arrived at the Asabu family and learned everything, and Murasame, who would inevitably follow. In other words, all the members of the exorcism team were present.

"Actually, I could have come by myself."

Aize felt somewhat helpless as he watched Asagi Yoshino and Hitachi Mako follow behind him up the mountain path.

He has already called Rentaro Kurama and asked him to ask for leave for him.

Originally, he planned to go up the mountain with Cong Yu, but unexpectedly, Asagi Yoshino and Hitachi Mako both asked for leave and insisted on coming along.

"I'm sorry," Yoshino Asatake said softly, "Because I would feel it no matter what, so..."

This was, after all, a matter concerning whether the curse of the Asabu family could be lifted, and even more so, her life and future. Asabu Yoshino simply couldn't pretend nothing had happened and let Aizawa come up the mountain alone while she went to school as if it were none of her business.

"Well, there's nothing we can do about it." Hitachi Mako was able to understand Asatake Yoshino's feelings and said, "Even I am very concerned, let alone Yoshino-sama."

Heaven knows how excited she was when she came from the Hitachi family, arrived at the Asabu family, and learned from everyone that the curse that had lasted for hundreds of years might be lifted.

The Asabu family has been tormented by the curse for hundreds of years, and the Hitachi family has also been struggling for hundreds of years because of it.

The Hitachi family has had members serving as protectors of the priestesses for generations. This means that every priestess has a member of the Hitachi family by her side when fighting against the evil spirits. As a result, the Hitachi family has been entangled with this curse for hundreds of years.

If the curse is not lifted, then in the future, members of the Hitachi family will continue to go up the mountain to fight the evil spirits and continue to risk their lives to protect the priestess.

Therefore, whether the curse can be lifted is also related to whether the future generations of the Hitachi family can live in peace.

If the curse can be lifted, then Hitachi Mako will no longer need to fight against the evil spirits, which is undoubtedly a great thing.

In addition, since she needed to protect Yoshino Asagi, Mako Hitachi also resolutely embarked on this journey up the mountain.

“But perhaps we’re just wasting our time climbing the mountain in groups like this?” Aize reminded him. “Just like Mr. Anqing said, this mountain is so big and covers such a wide area, it’s not easy to find such small fragments.”

Although Azer can produce some strange reactions to the existence of the fragments, he himself is not sure whether this can be a means to find the fragments.

Therefore, he was not in favor of making such a large-scale trip, lest the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.

But Yoshino Asahi and Mako Hitachi clearly didn't care.

“With more people, it would be more efficient if we needed to find something, right?” Yoshino Asagi said softly. “We can’t let you do all the work while we wait for news at home.”

This is also one of the reasons why Asagi Yoshino wanted to go up the mountain.

The issue is……

"Are you really okay?" Aize turned to look at Yoshino Asagi and said somewhat cryptically, "I think you could rest at home for a while."

After all, this beautiful shrine maiden had been exhausted and injured just last night.

"No, no problem." Asagi Yoshino clearly understood what Aize meant. Her pretty face flushed, and her voice became much lower as she stammered, "It doesn't hurt anymore, and it won't affect my movements at all."

Before Aize could react, Hitachi Mako became anxious upon hearing this.

"It hurts? Is it Yoshino-sama?" Hitachi Mako asked quickly, "Are you injured somewhere? Please let me see!"

"No, no need! Mako!" Asagi Yoshino immediately waved her hand and shook her head, feeling somewhat embarrassed and ashamed. "It's just a few minor injuries, and I'm almost fully healed now. Don't worry about me."

“You can’t be too careless, you know?” Hitachi Mako said very seriously. “It may start as a minor injury, but if you don’t take care of it, it could very well become serious.”

"Let me take a look at the wound, Lady Yoshino."

How could I possibly let you see that...?!

Asahi Yoshino almost shouted it out, causing her pretty face to turn bright red.

"Oh, don't worry about it, Moko." Congyu, who was already beaming with joy, said while trying to suppress her laughter, "This is a very happy injury. Let Yoshino heal slowly and experience it all on her own."

"Huh?" Hitachi Mako was immediately bewildered and asked, "A wound of happiness? What kind of wound is that?"

"You don't need to make it so clear!" Asagi Yoshino couldn't stand it anymore and said, her face flushed, "Anyway, I'm fine, just listen to me!"

“Okay…” Hitachi Mako was a little hesitant to accept it, but she still obediently nodded and didn’t ask any more questions.

Aize, on the other hand, kept his eyes down, seemingly oblivious to the gossip behind his back; he was completely focused on his task.

This is not a topic he can casually get involved in; if handled poorly, he could end up pleasing neither side.

So just pretend you didn't hear it.

Cong Yu teased Asahi Yoshino for a while, then caught up with Aize and asked her a question.

"So, Master, how exactly do you plan to find the fragments of the token?"

Asatake Yoshino and Hitachi Mako were immediately distracted and turned their attention to Aize.

Aize did not respond, but stopped and stood in the forest.

"------"

He closed his eyes, holding the transparent crystal-like shard in his hand, trying to sense it with his heart.

In this life, he possessed incredible talent from birth, able to perfectly utilize the properties of any tool he came into contact with. Even if he was holding a tree branch or a stick, he could instinctively make it move with great force, to the point that he dared to beat chickens and dogs when he was just a little kid, becoming a local bully.

Thanks to this, Aize not only excelled in swordsmanship but also possessed exceptional culinary skills. His knife skills were so impressive that even his master chef, a renowned chef, was humbled and admitted his inferiority, even taking him on as an apprentice and teaching him cooking for two years.

With a kitchen knife in hand, Aize can perfectly carve flowers and trees on ingredients or separate tendons and bones from various meats.

This extraordinary talent is not limited to sharp tools; it can also be useful in other tools and implements.

Therefore, Aize's woodworking skills are impeccable. He can use all kinds of tools with ease, and his skills in assembling figurines or puzzles are unmatched. He can figure out even the most complicated things immediately and finish them in the fastest time.

He can shoot birds down from trees with marbles, and he can hit the target every time he shoots with a water gun. When playing cards, he can immediately guess what card it is just by touching the corner of the card, whether it is a poker card or a mahjong card. He has never lost when rolling dice.

He may not be a culinary genius, since cooking skills aren't just about mastering the utensils, but he is definitely a gambling genius. Except for gambling games like rock-paper-scissors that don't require equipment or that he can't play, he has never lost.

Even when playing slot machines in the arcade, Aize could come up with some tricks. If he weren't uninterested in these things, he would definitely teach the arcade owner a lesson.

Aize felt that it was precisely because he possessed such extraordinary talent that he was able to attract Congyu Maru so much, forcing it to call out to him and even helping him fuse with divine power to master extraordinary strength. The reason he was able to touch Congyu was also because Congyu was the manager of Congyu Maru and its sword spirit. He had complete control over everything about Congyu Maru, which was why he was able to touch Congyu and become the only being able to contact her.

Furthermore, the fact that he could react in the same way he did when Muramasa called upon him when he saw the fragments of Yoshiro at the shrine was also due to this special talent.

Although the reaction was very weak, he could vaguely sense that the fragments of the vessel were also calling out to him, pleading with him, hoping that he could help it.

It hopes to recover completely.

This is based on one's own desires.

Aize didn't know whether this was a manifestation of his own spirit, or the spirit of the dog god, who was being sacrificed as a curse, was pleading with him to help it be freed.

However, regardless of the type, one should be able to activate it based on their innate special abilities.

Just as he had sensed the fragment of the vessel before, Azer hoped that he could do the same now.

"I can help you, provided you can help me find it."

Aize silently recited this in his mind, and then channeled a wisp of divine power through his palm into the fragment of the token. "Clang..."

At one point, Aize suddenly felt that the fragment of the token in his hand was getting hot, and it seemed that light was emanating from it.

"咚咚-"

At that moment, Aize's heartbeat began to vibrate, causing him to suddenly open his eyes.

"Here."

In a moment of inspiration, Aize turned in one direction and walked towards it.

"Aze!"

"Lord Aize!"

"Owner!"

Asatake Yoshino, Hitachi Mako, and Murasame exclaimed in surprise, then quickly followed.

The group didn't go far before stopping in one place.

Aize crouched down and dug in the ground for a while. Soon he dug out a piece of transparent crystal-like fragment from the soil.

It is precisely the fragments of the era.

"We really found it!"

"Great!"

Yoshino Asatake and Mako Hitachi were pleasantly surprised to see this.

"As expected of you, Master!"

Cong Yu also smiled, looking extremely happy.

Aize put the fragment of the phallus in his hand together with the fragment of the phallus he had just found. As a result, the two fragments attracted each other like magnets and suddenly merged into one in a blinding flash, becoming a slightly larger fragment.

Holding the fragment, Aize immediately sensed something.

"The vague feeling from before seems to have become stronger, and the power of possession also seems to have become stronger."

This intensified the resonance between Aize and the fragment of the shard, causing his heart to beat faster.

In this case……

"Maybe it really can work."

Aize's eyes lit up.

If it's just a faint and vague sensation like before, then at most you can find a few fragments not far away, and you might not even be able to find the next fragment.

However, as the fragments are collected, the power of the vessel will also become stronger, and the senses that one activates through the fragments will also become stronger, thus allowing one to find more and farther fragments.

Thinking of this, Aize was full of motivation.

"Let's go find the next one."

Aize turned in another direction.

He had already sensed the location of the next fragment.

…………

Next, Aize continued to follow his increasingly strong senses, searching for the fragments of the scepter hidden in the mountains.

Some of them are hidden in the soil, some in the grass, some among the trees, and some even drift in streams and rivers, very scattered.

To find these fragments, Aize put in a lot of effort. Sometimes he had to dig, sometimes he had to clear weeds, sometimes he had to cut down trees, and sometimes he had to go underwater to search. It was time-consuming and exhausting.

Even so, after a whole day, Aize found quite a few fragments, which made the phallus grow bigger and bigger, gradually restoring it to its complete state.

By nightfall, the token in Aize's hand had grown much larger than it had at the beginning.

"We should have collected about one-fifth or one-sixth of them by now, right?"

Aize drew this conclusion from the increasingly complete appearance of the replica.

Judging from its shape, a complete tablet should resemble a bead, roughly the size of a palm.

The fragments of the shards that Aize collected were already beginning to resemble the edges of beads. They looked like a shattered glass ball with white mist moving inside, giving them a somewhat mystical appearance.

"At this rate, we should be able to collect them all in about a week."

Aize said this to the girls who were with him.

"If we go up the mountain to search at night, it will probably be faster."

Therefore, Aize decided to continue climbing the mountain that night.

"We'll join in too!"

Yoshino Asatake and Mako Hitachi immediately spoke up.

"No way!" Aize refused without even thinking, saying, "Look at the state you're in now, how will you have the energy to go up the mountain tonight?"

Upon closer inspection, both Yoshino Asagi and Mako Hitachi had an undeniable weariness on their faces.

After a busy day, the two girls were completely exhausted.

Not to mention them, even Aize felt a little tired, since he did everything himself, whether it was climbing trees or going into the water.

However, he has outstanding physical fitness and excellent physical condition. With a little rest, he should still be able to work hard tonight.

However, Cong Yu also voiced her opposition.

"We think it would be best if the master also went back to rest, otherwise it might affect the daytime operations."

Clearly, she disapproved of Aize going up the mountain alone at night.

Not only because it's tiring, but also because it's dangerous on the mountain at night.

Searching for a tiny fragment in complete darkness is definitely not as efficient as during the day.

Therefore, Cong Yu made a suggestion.

"There's no rush, we can just come back during the day, right?"

At Cong Yu's suggestion, Aize did not insist and nodded in agreement.

"Then come back during the day."

(End of this chapter)