Curse Reply: After choosing Nawa, the cursed spirit cursed me for being cruel.

His words suddenly stopped. He noticed that Duanmu Yan had remained silent ever since he began explaining assimilation, his brows slightly furrowed, seemingly lost in thought, and not paying close attention to his instructions.

"Duanmu?" Ye'e Zhengdao asked in confusion, "What's wrong? Is there something you don't understand, or something you want to ask?"

Duanmu Yan was called out. He slowly raised his head, calmly meeting the gaze of Ye'e Zhengdao, and shook his head: "No, it's nothing. I'll keep an eye on Wu and Jie."

His tone was steady, but Masamichi Yae always felt that something was suppressed beneath that calm.

"Then get ready as soon as possible and set off. A detailed briefing on the specific location and rendezvous method will be sent to you later." Night Moth Masamichi gave them one last look, nodded, hugged his cursed corpse, and turned to leave the classroom.

The classroom door closed gently, leaving only three people.

Chapter 66 Q's Attack

After Ye'e Zhengdao left, Xia Youjie sat down in the seat next to Duanmu Yan.

"Duanmu, what were you thinking just now? Your expression couldn't fool me or Wu."

Gojo Satoru leaned over and plopped down on the table in front of Duanmu Yan, staring at him intently: "Exactly! Ever since we started talking about 'assimilation,' you've looked so preoccupied. What's wrong, do you think there's something wrong with this mission?"

Duanmu Yan did not answer immediately. He remained silent for a moment, his gaze sweeping over his two close friends, before slowly speaking.

"After the assimilation ritual ended, what difference was there between the assimilated girl and her being dead?"

Xia Youjie paused for a moment, then explained, “Assimilation is not the same as death. Her existence will merge with Lord Tianyuan, from body to spirit, they will be intertwined and inseparable. In a sense, she is Lord Tianyuan, and Lord Tianyuan also includes her.”

"Including?" Duanmu Yan smirked, his eyes sharp. "How can the soul of a girl who is at most a teenager compete with an old monster who has lived for hundreds or thousands of years?"

Xia Youjie opened his mouth, but for a moment he couldn't refute it. He frowned and fell into thought.

"Duanmu Yan's voice was icy cold. "No matter what, I cannot accept the needless sacrifice of a young girl's life."

The air seemed to freeze at the sound of his last four words. Xia Youjie frowned, his face darkening. Gojo Satoru also dropped his nonchalant expression, his azure eyes fixed quietly on Duanmu Yan.

A brief silence filled the classroom.

Then, Gojo Satoru suddenly raised his hand and clapped his hands hard, making a crisp sound that broke the silence.

"Hey, Duanmu, don't be so pessimistic!"

He jumped off the table, walked between Duanmu Yan and Xia Youjie, stretched out his arms, and hugged their shoulders tightly, bringing the three heads together.

"At worst, once we find that asteroid brat, we can just ask her opinion! If she agrees, we'll escort her to complete that assimilation process. If she shakes her head and says, 'No, I don't want to die, and I don't want to become someone else,'..."

Gojo Satoru paused, his azure eyes narrowing slightly, a carefree smile curving his lips: "Then let's not go! Who says we have to listen to that old fogey Tengen?"

"As for Lord Tianyuan's side, if he disagrees, or if things turn sour because of this..."

"Let's see if he turns against us then."

"If he wants to be on the opposite side of us..."

Wu Tiao Wu's gaze swept over Xia Youjie, then looked at Duanmu Yan. The three of them met in the air, and without a word, a certain tacit understanding was already reached.

"Then let our strongest trio personally send him on his way."

Arrogant, domineering, and unorthodox.

But this is more like Gojo Satoru.

Duanmu Yan let out a soft breath, raised his hand, clenched his fist, and lightly bumped Gojo Satoru's chest.

"Okay, let's do it that way."

Xia Youjie smiled and pushed away Gojo Satoru's tightly clasped arms, but his eyes regained their light: "Satoru, this time, you actually said something sensible."

……

Tokyo, a relatively bustling commercial street. The afternoon sun was a bit dazzling, and the crowds were dense.

Three teenagers, whose demeanor was completely out of place with their surroundings, were walking on the sidewalk in a very eye-catching manner.

Surrounded by the conspicuous Gojo Satoru and Natsumi Yuki, Duanmu Yan silently took out a simple mask from his bag, revealing only his eyes and mouth, and put it on.

There's no way around it; the combined walking style and demeanor of the two people next to me are just too overwhelming.

As Duanmu Yan got closer to them, he felt like he had become a member of some kind of bad gang, and the elementary school students passing by looked at them with suspicion.

Wearing a mask, though suspicious, at least provides some psychological comfort.

"Speaking of which," Gojo Satoru took a big gulp of soda, exhaled contentedly, and looked up at the sky, "that cursed group Q came to get involved, wanting to exchange the Stardust for the bounty, I can understand that. People will die for money, right? But that Star-Pan Cult... they don't want the money, why do they insist on killing that brat? Are they out of their minds?"

Xia Youjie explained, "The Panxing Cult worships the pure Tianyuan Lord. They believe that the assimilation of the Star Essence Body with the Tianyuan Lord would defile the purity of the Tianyuan Lord and introduce impurity. Therefore, they want to prevent assimilation and even eliminate the Star Essence Body in order to maintain the perfect and flawless image of the Tianyuan Lord in their hearts."

He paused, then added, "However, the Panxing Cult itself is a religious group composed entirely of non-magicians, so we don't need to worry about it. What we mainly need to be wary of are those curse masters from the Q Group who will stop at nothing for the bounty."

Duanmu Yan, wearing a mask, hummed in agreement, then said to Gotō Sō, "Sō, when you see the target later, watch your words. Don't keep calling me 'I' or 'old man.' It might scare the kids."

"Ugh, this is so troublesome." Gojo Satoru looked reluctant, then his eyes lit up and he offered an even more outrageous suggestion, "How about this, we just find her, knock her out and kidnap her, then wake her up when we get to a safe place, and then just ask: 'Hey, kid, do you want to become part of that old relic Tengen? No if you don't want to, shake your head if you do... oh wait, the other way around. Just ask her clearly, right? So much easier!"

“No, Wu.” Xia Youjie glanced at him helplessly. “The mission briefing relayed by Teacher Moth emphasized that we should try our best to satisfy the desires of the astral bodies before assimilation is complete.”

"Tch, so many rules." Gojo Satoru scoffed.

Just then, a sudden, loud explosion came from the middle floor of a luxury apartment building not far ahead!

Immediately afterwards, through the gaping hole in the shattered window, a petite figure plummeted straight down!

Gojo Satoru and Natsume were just about to set off.

However, a green afterimage was faster than them.

Whoosh! ! !

Almost simultaneously, from the window of the exploded room, a figure slowly emerged, looking down at the falling girl, and said, "If you have to blame someone, blame Tianyuan. The Stardust Body..."

His words came to an abrupt end.

Because he saw a strange green dart-shaped object shooting toward him at an incredible speed!

"What?!" Kokun exclaimed in surprise, and hurriedly tried to dodge to the side.

But the green dart seemed to have a life of its own, drawing a strange zigzag trajectory in the air, circling rapidly twice above his head, and then, in the reflection of his terrified, dilated pupils, the dart spun around and struck him heavily in the chest!

Kokun felt as if he had been hit head-on by a speeding truck. He felt a sharp pain in his chest, let out a muffled groan, and was thrown uncontrollably out of the window, crashing into the wall behind him before bouncing back and landing awkwardly on the floor covered with broken glass.

Below, Duanmu Yan had already caught the falling girl and placed another unconscious maid on the sofa.

Chapter 67 Riko Tennai

After placing the two on the sofa, Duanmu Yan raised his hand and retrieved the Hurricane Shadow Dart.

He turned around and cast a cold glance at Kokun, who was struggling to get up upstairs.

"To kill an innocent, unarmed girl... are you even human?"

Kokun clutched his chest, coughing up a mouthful of blood. His eyes, hidden behind his mask, were fixed on the strange man who had suddenly appeared downstairs, filled with both shock and anger.

"A person? Ha... Whether they're human or not doesn't matter, I just want money. Hand over that little girl, and maybe I'll consider it..."

"Heh." Duanmu Yan interrupted him, letting out a cold laugh.

The next moment, a flash of emerald light appeared.

Just ten seconds later, Cokun collapsed to the ground like a lump of mud, his face bruised and swollen.

"I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry! I was wrong! I'll never get involved in this again! I'm not going to be a curse master anymore! I want to go back to the countryside! Go back to my hometown and grow rice! Please, please let me go!"

Duanmu Yan didn't speak, but after removing his armor, he looked down, took out his phone, and tapped it a few times.

Seeing that he didn't react and even started playing on his phone, Kokun assumed the other person was humiliating him, and he struggled and screamed:

"You bastard! You're just a student! How dare you look down on me! You wait! Our Q's strongest fighter, Mr. Bayer, has already arrived in Tokyo! He's a true powerhouse capable of single-handedly dealing with a level one cursed spirit! You..."

He stopped speaking again.

Because Duanmu Yan turned the phone screen towards him.

On the screen is a photo that was taken recently.

In the photo, Xia Youjie and Wutiao Wu are on either side of the camera, making V-signs with bright smiles. On the ground between them lies a man with bumps all over his head and face, who has already fainted.

……

“Hey, she’s really scared. Should we take her to see a doctor? Or maybe a psychologist?” Gojo Satoru said.

Xia Youjie also came over, glanced at Tian Tian Lizi, and said with some helplessness, "I should have brought Shoko along."

Upon hearing this, Duanmu Yan glanced at Gojo Satoru and casually retorted, "It's all because someone insisted on taking a detour to that limited-edition dessert shop on the way here, saying they didn't need to use their armor to travel and wanted to enjoy the journey. Otherwise, we could have arrived at least ten minutes earlier. Maybe we could have stopped the explosion before they made a move."

Gojo Satoru, though caught off guard, wasn't embarrassed. He just sighed dramatically and touched his smooth chin: "Sigh, if only I knew how to reverse spells, I wouldn't need to wait for Shoko or find a doctor. I could heal her anytime."

Duanmu Yan recalled the scene when Xiaozi tried to explain the principle of the Reversal Spell to them, and shook his head with a wry smile: "It won't work. That Reversal Spell thing... we can't understand what Xiaozi is talking about at all."

Upon hearing this, Gojo Satoru and Natsuyu Jie both showed expressions of sympathy.

The three of them simultaneously conjured up a similar image in their minds: Shoko, a cigarette dangling from her lips, scribbling randomly in the air with her finger, muttering, "It's just... whoosh, reverse the curse power... whoosh, and imagine... um... whoosh... whoosh... snap! And that's it! Got it?"

Seeing the three of them looking completely bewildered, Shoko would usually sigh, "Looks like they just don't have the talent."

The three genius teenagers, who were considered monsters by outsiders, could only sigh in despair at the mysterious and unpredictable reversal technique, and they all sighed in unison.

"Alright, stop thinking about those useless things." Gojo Satoru shook his head, putting aside the frustration about the reversal technique, and turned his attention back to the girl on the sofa.

He moved closer, even reaching out to curiously poke Nenriko's cheek with his index finger.

"Hmm... I don't feel any different. This is a Starmaw? It looks like just an ordinary kid..."

"Oh! You're awake!"

As soon as Gojo Satoru finished speaking, Riko Tennen's tightly closed eyelashes trembled violently a few times, and then she suddenly opened them!

Those eyes immediately met Gojo Satoru's handsome face, which was filled with curiosity.

"!"

Riko's pupils constricted instantly. It was almost an instinctive reaction. Without thinking, she raised her hand and slapped him!

"How despicable! How dare you harm me! You should die first!"

Kiyogo Satoru's head tilted slightly after being hit, and his sunglasses even tilted a little.

He covered his face, his whole body stiffened, his expression changing from surprise to disbelief, and finally turning into real anger.

"???"