The Path to Godhood Begins from the Otherworld

"Who said I don't mind?"

Luo Shu pinched Sasaki Setsuna's face unhappily, then looked at Hamasaki Reina.

"Reina, I'm just kidding, but if you want to use this wood, you have to promise me that you won't take the finished puppet out without my permission."

"I understand." Hamasaki Reina thought for a moment, then agreed. "Shu Jun, I'll listen to you from now on."

"Okay, let's go back to the garage first." Luo Shu was relieved when she heard Hamasaki Reina agree. She then looked at Kurumizaka Ruri and said, "Ruri, please check if there are any shops nearby that sell wood carving knives. I'm planning to go out and take a look."

"Let me check." Upon hearing this, Kurumizaka Ruri quickly lowered her head and started working on her phone. She soon found several tool stores in Bunkyo Ward that were close to Chizakura Apartment. "I've sent the address, Shu-kun, please keep it."

"Okay, who among you will accompany me?"

Luo Shu led the three girls into the underground garage of Qianying Apartment. As he led them to his Toyota motorcycle, he asked, "If you don't want to go with me, then help me guard the door."

"Let me go with Shu." Sasaki Setsuna winked at Luo Shu, "After all, doesn't Shu have to cook tonight?"

"Eh? When did you say that?" Hamasaki Reina's eyes widened when she heard that. "Shu-kun, why didn't I know that?"

"Then Xuecai, please accompany me." Luo Shu did not explain. He looked at Kurumizaka Ruri and Hamasaki Reina, "I'll trouble you two to take care of the family. I'll be back soon."

"Great~" Sasaki Setsuna was very excited. She couldn't wait to get on the back seat of the Toyota motorcycle and put on her safety helmet. "Ashu, we can go!"

"Okay." Luo Shu heard this, glanced at Kurumizaka Ruri and Hamasaki Reina standing next to him, then pulled down the glass visor of his safety helmet, "Hold on tight."

The Toyota motorcycle roared and rushed towards the entrance.

Soon, he disappeared from the sight of Kurumizaka Ruri and Hamasaki Reina.

Chapter 40: This is just a magic show

More than an hour later, Luo Shu's Toyota motorcycle, carrying Setsuna Sasaki, stopped in front of a tool store.

As soon as he got off the car, Luo Shu received a call from Kurumizaka Ruri.

"Hey?"

"Shu-kun, a woman who claims to have applied for the position of manager of Qianying Apartment just came over."

"Sorry, I was driving just now. Can you entertain me? I recruited that person yesterday."

Luo Shu thought for a moment and said, "Please arrange for her to stay in a room on the first floor first. We can discuss other matters when I come back."

"I understand." Kurumizaka Ruri didn't ask any further questions and quickly hung up the phone.

"What's wrong?" Sasaki Setsuna had just taken off her helmet and was busy combing her hair. "Why is Liuli calling?"

"I hired an apartment manager yesterday. After all, Qianying Apartment needs someone to look after it after school starts tomorrow."

"Ashu, do you plan to rent out Qianying Apartment in the future?"

"Ah."

“Will there be a risk of information leakage?”

"Don't worry, I will transform the eleventh and twelfth floors into my own workshops. No entry without permission."

Luo Shu wasn't too worried about this. "You can't let me leave so many rooms empty, right?"

"That's right." Setsuna Sasaki thought about it. The current occupancy rate of Qianying Apartment is really too low. It is always uncomfortable without popularity.

"Besides, if Qianying Apartment isn't popular enough, it'll easily attract some evil spirits. I don't want some uninvited ghosts to move in one day just because my apartment has been vacant for too long."

"Eh..." Sasaki Setsuna shuddered upon hearing this. "Ashu, is this the mutual attraction between mysteries?"

"I guess so." Luo Shu thought for a moment. "You've seen horror movies, haven't you noticed that most horror scenes are set in sparsely populated places? For example, abandoned hospitals and apartment buildings. Isn't it because there are too few living people in these places, and there's not enough vitality?"

"That's true." Sasaki Setsuna thought back to the horror movies she had seen. "But does a place with a lot of people necessarily mean there's a lot of life?"

"In most cases, places with many people do have more vitality, which means there is more yang energy.

Schools are a typical example. Most schools buy public cemeteries. This is partly because cemetery land is cheap, and partly because most students who need to attend school are at the peak of their yang energy. With a large amount of young and vigorous life energy gathered here, the yang energy is naturally strong enough to overwhelm the yin energy of the cemetery.

Luo Shu whispered to Sasaki Setsuna some of the basics of Feng Shui he had learned before crossing over, "Only Yin can produce life, and only Yang can grow. The balance of Yin and Yang actually exists in every aspect of our lives."

“Is this also occultism?”

"This involves Chinese Feng Shui and even theories from the I Ching. It's not really mystical, really."

"I know about Feng Shui." Sasaki Setsuna's eyes suddenly lit up. "I've seen Hong Kong movies before, and there's a Feng Shui master in it. He's got a compass and a peach wood sword, and he uses talismans."

"You saw that zombie movie, right?"

Luo Shu couldn't help but grumble, "But you can't say there's anything wrong with the image of Feng Shui masters in Hong Kong films."

"Don't you like zombie movies, Shu?"

"I used to watch it often when I was a kid, but as I got older, I wasn't interested in it anymore."

While Luo Shu was chatting with Sasaki Setsuna, he walked into the Goche Tool Shop that Kurumizaka Ruri specially recommended. "Okay, let's stop talking for now. After buying the tools, we still have to go buy red beans."

"Okay, I understand." Upon hearing this, Setsuna Sasaki obediently shut her mouth and silently took his arm and walked towards the cashier counter in the store.

The decoration of this tool store is quite simple and the overall environment is very clean.

The goods are also neatly arranged.

Luo Shu simply told the clerk about his needs and quickly found a suitable product.

Carpentry tool box.

According to the clerk, this woodworking toolbox includes wood carving knives and various tools of different sizes and types used for wood carving.

The only thing is that the price is a bit high, at 800,000 yen.

Luo Shu originally planned to pay directly by credit card, but Sasaki Setsuna stopped her and started bargaining with the other party.

Then, it was finally sold for 680,000 yen.

After paying, Luo Shu left with the toolbox weighing over ten kilograms. When he reached the Toyota motorcycle, he said to Sasaki Setsuna, "Setsuna, you're amazing."

"Ashu, don't you usually bargain when buying things?"

"Uh, I rarely bargain, right?" Luo Shu smiled awkwardly, "I'm sorry to embarrass you."

"That won't do." Sasaki Setsuna glanced at Luo Shu with a hint of resentment. "If you don't bargain when buying things, the only one who gets the bargain is the merchant. Even though I just cut the price down to 120,000 yen, do you believe it? I'm pretty sure the cost of that toolbox wouldn't be more than 500,000 yen."

"Hahaha, it's really unlucky to run into those businessmen like you." Luo Shu teased, then glanced around, "Xue Cai, can you help me see if there's anyone nearby?"

"No." Sasaki Setsuna looked around. "What's wrong?"

"If not, then I'm relieved."

Luo Shu showed a mysterious smile, "Xue Cai, let me perform a magic trick for you."

"Ok?"

"Watch this! I'm just going to touch this toolbox, and before you can blink, it'll be gone."

"I don't believe it." Sasaki Setsuna shook her head when she heard that. She immediately realized that the "magic" Luo Shu was talking about might not be what she knew. She was a little surprised. "Ashu, could it be that you are thinking?"

"Shh..."

Luo Shu gently extended his finger and placed it on the girl's red lips. "This is the magic show I showed you, Xue Cai."

Seeing this, Setsuna Sasaki could only suppress her curiosity and watch Luo Shu's operation without blinking.

However, unfortunately, Setsuna Sasaki never thought of Luo Shu at all. The essence of the so-called magic was that Luo Shu attached a "teleportation beacon" that was linked to the "Sky Island World" to the toolbox, and then used the authority of the Lord of the World of Benefits to transmit the items.

"Huh? It really disappeared in the blink of an eye!"

Sasaki Setsuna walked around the Toyota motorcycle several times, "Ashu, how did you do that?"

"Let's go, it's time to buy some red beans. We still have to prepare the red bean rice tonight."

Luo Shu did not answer Sasaki Setsuna's question. Looking at her face full of disbelief, he suddenly felt very happy in his heart. There was nothing he could do about it. Boys sometimes just like to show off their abilities in front of the opposite sex.

He handsomely got on his Toyota motorcycle and said to her, "Hurry up and get on."

"Oh." Setsuna Sasaki looked depressed, but she also knew that asking further would get no results.

Because she knew without even thinking about it that Luo Shu must have used some mysterious skills that she didn't know about.

"Okay, don't be depressed." Luo Shu waited until Sasaki Setsuna got in the car and put on her safety helmet. "When the time is right, I will explain to you how I did it."

"Really?"

"of course."

"Okay." Sasaki Setsuna got Luo Shu's promise and stopped worrying. She put her arms around Luo Shu's waist, then put her face against his and said in a dull tone, "Let's go buy some red beans."

"Boom..."

The roar of the Toyota motorcycle rang out, and the two of them rushed towards the largest supermarket in Bunkyo Ward.

Chapter 41: Sasaki Setsuna's Little Thoughts

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, Luo Shu finished his shopping and drove his Toyota motorcycle back to Qianying Apartment.

This time it took less than two hours, and on the way he tried to convert ether into magic power and inject it into the motorcycle, improving the performance of the Toyota motorcycle.

This idea of ​​his came after he bought red beans and other ingredients for dinner, and suddenly thought of the famous scene in the Fate anime where the king was racing on a motorcycle.

He tried to imitate it, but to his surprise it actually worked. So he naturally couldn't resist the crazy idea of ​​using magic to race cars.

Setsuna Sasaki had just awakened her mysterious talent and had just become the "Winter Witch". She was not sensitive enough to magic elements, so she did not notice Luo Shu's actions of driving magic power.

Sasaki Setsuna just felt a little dizzy at this moment. After getting off the car, she even walked a little unsteadily. She rolled her eyes at Luo Shu and said,

"Ashu, can't you drive slower?"

"I'm sorry, Setsuna." Luo Shu looked at Sasaki Setsuna, who was staggering, with an embarrassed expression on his face. He stepped forward to support her, then said, "Forgive me this time. This is my first time driving a motorcycle with passengers."

"It's okay, Shu. I actually find it quite exciting."

Sasaki Setsuna gently leaned her body against Luo Shu, her tone full of satisfaction, "I never dreamed that I would have such a flying experience."

Luo Shu just smiled when he heard this and said nothing.

If Setsuna Sasaki knew that when Luo Shu was racing just now, the Toyota motorcycle under the effect of magic had reached the non-track speed of 380km/h set by Kazuhiko Nagata, she would understand that her riding experience was almost like flying and it was not an illusion.

Fortunately, today is not the weekend and it is afternoon, most schools in Bunkyo District have not yet started, and there are not many vehicles on the road, otherwise he would not be able to be so crazy.

However, it is inevitable that speeding will be noticed by the Fuso Traffic Police of the Ministry of Transport.

It’s a pity that Luo Shu’s car was driving too fast, like a streak of light, just like a flash of lightning on the road.

Even though there were surveillance cameras in some blocks along the way, the traffic police played back the surveillance videos but were ultimately unable to make out the license plate clearly.

After all, when Luo Shu's magic power acted on the Toyota motorcycle, a layer of dark golden magic protective film was formed on the surface of the motorcycle.

If this magic protective film is tested using modern technology, the final image that appears will appear to be covered with a layer of mosaic.

Thus, Luo Shu was unaware that his impulsive action had left a new urban legend in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo.

A dark golden phantom in the downtown area of ​​Bunkyo Ward.

At this time, Luo Shu was holding Sasaki Setsuna with one hand and carrying the purchased red beans and other ingredients with the other hand, and walked into the elevator of the underground garage of Qianying Apartment.

When he arrived at the room on the eleventh floor and walked into the living room, he found Kurumizaka Ruri and Hamasaki Reina each holding a laptop and playing games.

He came forward curiously and found that it was a magical MMORPG online game that he was completely unfamiliar with.

"Why are you two playing online games?"

"I didn't know much about puppeteers, so I asked Liuli if there was a similar profession in any online game, and then I found this game."

"So, Reina, you're trying to draw inspiration for your future magic from the game?"

Luo Shu's face looked a little strange. He thought of the job transfer books prepared for the three women, which were all taken from a destroyed game world.

According to Luo Shu's understanding, the destruction of the game world was probably due to the closure of the main game of that game world.

However, he has not yet found any definite basis for this speculation, and it is highly likely that he will not be able to find evidence to prove this speculation in the future.

After all, according to the information provided by the World Tree Terminal, this game world has been doomed.

"Yeah, do you think it's feasible, Shu-kun?"

"Uh, I don't know about that either." Luo Shu pondered for a moment. "But instead of playing games, you might as well go online and watch some videos about puppetry."

"Oh, that's right." Hamasaki Reina's eyes lit up when she heard that. "Why didn't I think of that?"

"Shu-kun, didn't you go buy tools?" Kurumizaka Ruri also quit the game at this time. Seeing Luo Shu and Sasaki Setsuna carrying shopping bags, these bags didn't look like they could hold carpentry tools at all. "Why didn't I see them?"