Magical User Aozaki Aoko Case Files

"...You don't think Orange can beat me?" Youzhu was a little surprised. She was very confident in her magic system, and she believed that Orange also knew her strength when facing a magician.

"It's not necessarily that she can defeat you," Qingzi said after thinking for a while, "but her familiar might."

"You must always carry the things I give you," Qingzi said, looking seriously into Youzhu's eyes, "If you meet Chengzi, use it immediately. I will come right there. Don't try to be brave."

In the original time and space, Orange was a pure magician who had never received any care from an ordinary family.

Her personality is stubborn and twisted. Even though Orange has been changed a little by Aoko, her persistence in her goal is still deeply rooted.

"...Um."

Feeling the concern of her roommate, Kuonji Yuzu was stunned for a moment, then responded in an imperceptible voice.

Chapter 26 Encounter (3K)

Shizuki Sojuro is an ordinary young man from the mountains.

He remembered what his grandfather told him before he died: if he couldn't find a way out in the mountains in the future, he should just go down the mountain, because people don't belong to the mountains after all.

When he first came to the city, Kusajuro felt very scared. This was not the fear he felt when facing a wild beast, but in the eyes of the young man, the city had evolved to the current level and was already a kind of demonic realm that would devour young people like him if they were not careful.

After much effort, the country boy Kusajuro finally found a suitable rental house. This was because the boss of the shop where he worked took pity on him and rented him the attic at a low price. Although the environment was not very good, Kusajuro was very grateful, so he worked very hard.

The owner of the restaurant runs a Chinese restaurant, and every day there are customers coming in an endless stream until late at night. Kusagikuro, who grew up in the quiet mountains, was a little overwhelmed at first, but gradually got used to the noise. After all, human noise is always more reassuring than the roar of wild animals at night.

The word "school" was unfamiliar to Kusajuro, but he decided to go to high school because of his grandfather's advice before he left.

The school's teacher, Yamashiro Kazuki, is a very friendly person, and reminds Kusajuro of the manager of the place where he works part-time.

Of course, he couldn't tell Mr. Yamashiro about his secret part-time job. After all, Misaki High School did not allow students to work part-time after school.

"This is really a headache," said Mr. Yamashiro, ruffling his hair. "I wanted to ask Aozaki from the student council to take you on a campus tour, but unfortunately, she didn't come to school today."

"Aozaki?" Kusajuro was a little confused, but it was his first time at school today and he didn't know anyone.

"She's the president of the student council, Aozaki Aoko," Mr. Yamashiro explained, "She's a very good person, although she's often not found in school."

With this new knowledge, Yamashiro Kazuki led Shizuki Sojuro to the student council office.

Here, Shizuki Sojuro met the vice president of the student council, Tsuki Tobimaru, and the accountant, Kumari Kinkaku. In the boy's opinion, these two members of the student council are very unique and kind people who are eager to help him.

"Aca, do you want to join the student union?" Tsukiji Tobimaru asked a few days later, "We are very short of people in the student union. If you come to work as a clerk, it will give you extra points in your grades, right?"

"I've tried my best just to raise tuition money," Shizuki Kusajuro sighed and said, "I'm sorry, Tsuki, to be honest, I'm working two jobs and it's a bit difficult."

"By the way, please don't tell anyone," Kusajuro quickly warned, "After all, our school doesn't allow students to work part-time."

"...You're not having a good time either." Tsukiji Tobimaru patted Kusajuro on the back and said with emotion.

Kusajuro felt a little puzzled. Tsuki's family situation should be good, so why did he feel so hard? However, his beast-like intuition did not let Kusajuro speak out this doubt.

The boy guessed that it might be because of the student council president Aozaki, whom he had never met before, but it had nothing to do with him.

---Dividing line---

During lunch break one afternoon, Kusajuro was sitting on a bench somewhere on campus with the cheap lunch box given to him by the store manager, wondering whether he should find a third part-time job because he was running low on money recently.

Kusajuro's grades have not been very good since he entered school. For him who ran away from the mountains, Misaki's courses are too difficult. Those knowledge that he had never encountered before and was difficult to understand forced Kusajuro to write down every word in his notes and ponder over them again after returning to the rental house.

Just as he began to think wildly, a figure passed by Sojuro.

Kusajuro looked up and saw a mysterious high school girl who was holding a motorcycle helmet in her hand, wearing a jacket on her upper body and a school uniform on her lower body.

She has long, beautiful black hair, a tall figure, and an indescribable temperament surrounding her.

Shizuki Sojuro had never seen such a beautiful person before. He couldn't help but think of the beautiful birds standing on the treetops in the mountains, proud and distant.

Just when Kusajuro wanted to continue eating with his head down, the girl spoke. It was a female voice that was slightly magnetic but not mature.

"I didn't expect you to be here."

Shizuki Sojuro was a little confused. He didn't know this girl, but from what she said, he guessed that she obviously knew him.

The boy looked into the eyes of the mysterious girl, as if he was caught in a whirlpool, and gradually began to feel sleepy.

When he woke up again, the bell for the end of lunch break had already rung. Shizuki Sojuro had to quickly stuff the remaining food in the lunch box into his mouth, and then ran towards the teaching building, completely unaware that he seemed to have lost a piece of memory.

---Dividing line---

After finishing today's cleaning work, Kusajuro tapped his back tiredly and planned to put the cleaning tools back on the second floor.

"Acao, there is a customer at machine number 40 on the second floor. Go check it out," the store manager said. "I feel like there's something wrong with that customer."

Kusajuro nodded and walked up the stairs carrying his tools.

This typical two-story structure is the typical structure of a pachinko shop. This shop, located in a busy section of the commercial street, does good business, so the boss pays him generously. This is also an important reason why Kusajuro came all the way here to take on his third job.

The customers of pachinko parlors vary greatly. Apart from professional gamblers who make a living from gambling, most people just want to play occasionally to relax, but there are also some bad guys with bad intentions who want to make a fortune through improper means.

Going up to the second floor, the sounds of machines and noisy music mixed into a harsh ambient sound. Compared with the first floor, the scene here was even more chaotic.

However, in the midst of this chaos, a figure that was clearly out of place with the surrounding atmosphere came into view.

She was a young woman who looked a few years older than Sojuro.

The green slim-fitting windbreaker fits her slender figure perfectly. Her slender legs are beautifully crossed, and the black stockings make her look more elegant than the models in the photo album.

Normally speaking, there would never be such a person here, Soujuro thought.

He found that this woman's winning rate seemed a little too high. In just a short while of observation, this woman had already won several times.

Next to her were four black boxes that looked big and heavy, and contained something unknown.

This charming woman seemed to be dissatisfied with something and brought the cigarette in her hand to her lips.

Suddenly, she seemed to realize something and turned her head to look at Kusajuro. Her wine-red eyes looked the boy up and down, then stared into his eyes, as if she saw something.

A chill swept over Shizuki Sojuro, and it felt as if he had encountered some ferocious wild beast in the mountains.

Kusajuro would never be able to adapt to this kind of fear. He never expected that he would encounter such an embarrassing situation in a city far away from the mountains.

He wanted to run away immediately as a conditioned reflex, but the woman's left eye seemed to be slightly blue. When Kusajuro noticed this, he couldn't even move his little finger.

Before we knew it, there was no customer on the second floor of the pachinko parlor.

"Really? So it was her work." The woman murmured to herself. Kusajuro knew very well that she was not talking to him, but just something was confirmed.

"Are you a student of Misaki High School?" the woman suddenly asked.

"Yes..." Kusajuro's body answered involuntarily, "...I am a new student who just enrolled not long ago."

"I see..." the woman thought, "Do you know Aozaki Aoko?"

Before Kusajuro could reply, his throat lost control and he began to speak in an unfamiliar voice.

"Long time no see, sister." Kusajuro's mouth opened and closed, but the voice that came out was that of a young woman. The boy felt inexplicably familiar with this voice.

"...Aoko." The expression of the woman in front of Kusajuro turned slightly gloomy.

"Are you short of money recently?" Kusajuro's mouth moved involuntarily, and he said in a girl's voice, "A famous top puppeteer, now reduced to coming to a pachinko parlor to raise funds?"

Hearing these words, the woman in front of him felt as uncomfortable as if she had swallowed a fly. Kusajuro could personally feel the pressure caused by anger, which made him shudder, but unfortunately he was still unable to move.

"This is none of your business!" the woman in green replied, "I just want to take back what I deserve!"

"Come back, Orange," Kusajuro said softly in a feminine voice, "As long as you admit defeat, I can support you financially in the future, okay?"

"Humph," the woman in green said disdainfully, "No matter what you say, I will defeat you, and then everything will belong to me."

"Ah, you're really stubborn." The voice in Kusajuro's mouth said, "But it doesn't matter. No matter what you prepare, you can't defeat me now. See you then."

After saying that, Kusajuro felt the pressure relieved. He immediately knelt on the ground, pinching his throat and starting to cough.

In a trance, he saw the beautiful woman in green standing up and looking down at him, as if she was confirming something for the last time.

But after a short while, the woman in the green windbreaker lost interest and turned away with her belongings.

Shizuki Sojuro tried hard to raise his head and see the person in front of him clearly, but he felt his consciousness becoming increasingly blurred, and a strong sense of fatigue and sleepiness swept over his whole body, causing him to easily lose consciousness and fall to the ground and faint.

Chapter 27 Doll

The next morning, Shizuki Sojuro woke up in his rental house.

He rubbed his head and felt a sudden emptiness, as if he had forgotten something very important, but subconsciously thought that it was no big deal.

"You should talk to your boss... and quit your job at the pachinko parlor."

Sojuro subconsciously believed that his current poor condition was caused by working three jobs. Although the salary at the pachinko parlor was high, it was too far from where he lived, and going back and forth consumed too much energy.

Thinking of this, the boy nodded to himself as if he had convinced himself, then jumped off the bed, walked to the side and called the manager of the pachinko shop.

---Dividing line---

At night, Aoko leaned over and rode on her beloved Interceptor, speeding along the road in Misaki Town.

The cold wind on a November night was painful, but it had no effect on Qingzi.

The magic cast on Shizuki Sojuro was originally just a way to keep him away from himself and Orange, but unexpectedly the so-called "historical inertia" was too strong. Even though Shizuki Sojuro had just met Orange for the first time last night, he was eventually dragged into it.

The current version of Aoko has little interest in him, a waste abandoned by the killer organization, and does not have the slightly excessive sense of justice of Aoko in the original time and space.

So she activated the magic buried in Shizuki Sojuro again, deleted his related memories, and planted the hint of "resigning from the pachinko parlor".

As for the poor classmate from the mountains losing a well-paid part-time job, it was not within Qingzi's scope of concern.

Be blessed, young man.

The motorcycle was very fast, and Aoko arrived at the target park in no time. According to the information she secretly obtained from Orange last night by remotely controlling Kusajuro, the attack arranged by that guy would take place at the spiritual vein node in this area tonight, destroying the barrier set up by the Aozaki family.

No wonder Orange owed so much debt in the original time and space and was always short of money.

The Great Barrier, as an important property of the Aozaki family, was destroyed without hesitation. It can be seen that this woman really spends money like water when she goes crazy.

"A sister who is not diligent and frugal needs to be taught a lesson."

After parking the motorcycle, Aoko took off her helmet and walked into the park.

Thick clouds blocked out the starlight, and even the howling wind was unable to blow away the thick darkness in the park.

A tower with a hanging clock is located in the center of the park, and the overlapping hour hands point to midnight. I will rest at home tomorrow, Qingzi thought. After all, adequate sleep is necessary.