Abnormal Moon

"It's nothing, don't worry about it."

Roy smiled dismissively.

He had already experienced this kind of treatment at Kirin Toudou's house, so he was already quite used to it when he encountered it a second time.

"Great!"

Kita Ikuyo visibly breathed a sigh of relief.

She really didn't want her parents to leave a strange impression on people they met for the first time.

Although the person in front of her might fit the definition of an eccentric in a realistic sense.

"You're really brave."

Roy took the green tea from Kita, took a small sip, and the slightly bitter aroma instantly invigorated him.

"A normal person would run away as fast as they could after seeing that scene, and you actually dared to come over and talk to me?"

After the battle in the Okubo area ended.

While Roy was counting his spoils, Kita Ikuyo ran up to him and struck up a conversation with him with unimaginable courage and initiative.

Her two companions were startled by her actions, but thankfully they were very helpful—well, to be precise, the blonde one was very helpful and ran over with her. The blue-haired one, with an expression that said "you can't see me," hid in the cover like an ostrich burying its head in the sand and refused to come out. In the end, the blonde girl had to forcibly pull him out.

"Haha, actually I think I was a bit impulsive back then..."

Kita Ikuyo scratched her head somewhat embarrassedly. She had rushed out without thinking much at the time, and now that her mind had calmed down, she realized how brave she had been.

"Aren't you afraid that I am a bad person?"

“Mr. Roy is human, so he must be a good person, right?”

Kita Ikuyo tilted her head and answered without hesitation.

She certainly didn't mean that all humans are good people.

Rather, it means that Roy, a human, is fighting against non-human monsters, which implies that Roy is a superhuman protecting ordinary people in secret and is on the side of justice.

"Just like the Demon Slayer Corps!"

She pointed to a large poster on the wall of her living room.

That's a poster for the currently popular anime Demon Slayer, with Tanjiro standing in the center. It was put up by her dad.

Moreover, she witnessed the monster, who looked like an old man, personally release a huge meteorite that destroyed the streets, completely disregarding the casualties of ordinary people. He must be a bad guy, so Roy, who fought against him, must be a good guy.

"You'd better change your simplistic way of thinking."

Roy smiled, neither admitting nor refuting Kita's statement, but simply offering her a word of advice in an outsider's tone.

"We'll talk about that later!"

Kita Ikuyo laughed heartily, brushing the question off.

I have a subtle feeling that Roy has a similar aura to his father.

"More importantly, how's your injury?"

"hurt?"

Roy raised his eyebrows in confusion.

"Yeah, didn't you get knocked away by the monster earlier? And your clothes were all torn!"

Kita Ikuyo replied very seriously.

When that 20-meter-tall elephant-headed monster appeared, it almost scared her half to death.

When Roy was sent flying, she was also startled. She wondered if they, the onlookers, would be killed by the monster if Roy was defeated. Fortunately, Roy quickly fought back and killed the monster, showing that he was quite strong in combat.

But after being sent flying like that, Kita Ikuyo felt that he must have been injured, and with the subsequent chaotic battles with many monsters, his injuries might have become even more serious.

"So that's why you ran away and asked me to go with you back then?"

Roy's expression was knowing.

When Kita suddenly ran over, I thought something had happened to her. But she immediately asked him to come with her. I thought this girl was out of her mind. Turns out she thought he was injured and needed treatment.

"Of course that's the reason, but I couldn't easily take you to the hospital in your condition, so I had to bring you home..."

Fortunately, there was a first-aid kit at home, and he didn't look like he was seriously injured and needed to go to the hospital, Kita Ikuyo said.

But when she looked at Roy now, he had a calm and natural demeanor, exuding a composed air, as if nothing could faze him, and he possessed a strong adult charm.

Moreover, he looked like a sculpture carved by the gods themselves; although he appeared tall, he was still very young, about the same age as her.

Such a person, with such an aura, would definitely have a special effect on naive young girls!

No, who knows, it might even be a blow to older women who like younger men!

No, no, no, what am I thinking?

Kita Ikuyo quickly shook her head to come back to her senses and focused her attention on Roy himself.

Upon closer inspection, it became clear that he had changed out of his tattered clothes sometime during the day.

It seems like he was already looking very presentable when he entered his own home.

"Well, thank you for your kind offer, but it's a bit of a waste. I'm not injured, and I could fight another battle right now without any problem."

Roy smiled and thanked Kita-chan for her kindness, but he didn't really take the battle he had just fought seriously.

Throughout the entire battle, his most serious injury was just a minor cut when he was pushed away by Ganesha, which was similar to a fall.

As for magic power, his already limited magic power was almost completely depleted after defeating all fifteen cursed spirits, including the real person and the elephant-headed god.

Although he could continue to extract magic power to join the battle if he forcibly squeezed his body, magic power had become his biggest weakness at the moment, and he had to think of a way to solve this weakness.

However, because they were attracted by the cursed spirits that appeared later, Hanami and Louko disappeared without their knowledge.

When Roy finally tried to find them, he discovered that they had disappeared from their original location, leaving only the remnants of their cursed power, which had likely been tampered with and were too faint to be traced.

Thinking about it carefully, it was probably while he was being attracted by those cursed spirits that the evil spirits possessed Xia Youjie's body.

Roy didn't seem to care.

Hana and Louhu are much weaker than the current real people. Although one has a very strong defense and the other has a very strong output, their techniques are probably not bad.

But for Roy, the value of these two was not as great as that of the dozen or so cursed spirits with different spells.

In particular, the Ganesha's spell, which conceptually eliminates all obstacles, is valued by Roy even more than the Leaky and Flower Goddess spells.

For Roy, acquiring powerful spells and abilities is much harder than increasing his damage output.

but.

By the way, this burden is heavy, and the skin is not smooth. It is difficult to see the skin ...

Or is it that they don't want to show their face in front of people in the world of sorcery at this stage?

"Really no injury at all?"

"Really, I can heal myself. Even if I was injured, I'm already healed. If you don't believe me, do you want me to check?"

Roy made a gesture as if to lift the hem of his clothes, revealing a bit of his abdominal skin.

"No need for that, I believe you!"

Kita-chan blushed slightly and quickly waved her hand to refuse the suggestion.

But he does have abs, right?

It still looks very hard!

What would it feel like to touch it?

"...Seriously, what am I even thinking?!"

Kita Ikuyo banged her head against the glass in the corridor, trying to banish the strange thoughts from her mind.

"This child seems a bit sick."

Roy glanced thoughtfully at Kita-chan.

Immediately afterwards, his gaze shifted from Kita Ikuyo to the blonde girl with a ponytail outside the yard.

She was probably on the phone with her guardian or someone similar, saying that she was at a friend's house and mentioning what had happened that evening.

The blue-haired man had already gone back ahead, saying that his grandmother was critically ill.

Within a few minutes.

A blonde girl with a ponytail approached the two of them with an apologetic expression.

"Sorry, Kita-chan, I have to go back. My uncle won't let me stay out overnight."

"It's alright, you should go home first. It's more important to put your family at ease!"

"But this way..."

"Leave Mr. Roy's reception to me! Don't worry, I just spoke with Mr. Roy, and he's a good man."

"Sorry, I'll come earlier tomorrow!"

The blonde girl with the ponytail glanced at Roy and saw that his expression was calm and gentle, like the surface of a lake under the summer sun, giving people a peaceful and serene impression. He was completely different from the person he was during the previous battle.

Seeing that Roy didn't seem difficult to get along with, the girl felt much relieved. She apologized to Kita Yu and quickly left Kita's house, heading towards the station.