I was the fourth disaster in Yokohama and was loved by everyone.

He looked down at his arm, which was now completely healed. He moved his arm and found that the fractured part was now mobile. He then subconsciously poked the area on his face where there should have been a wound with his finger—it was very smooth.

Is this an illusion?

A deathly silence fell over the ward. After a few seconds, the three of them asked in unison, "...Huh?"

Ms. Xia loosened her grip, and the water glass fell to the ground with a "clatter." She looked utterly incredulous, as if she hadn't woken up yet: "This...this isn't scientific..."

She pressed her forehead hard, her expression showing signs of breakdown: "Is it because I've been working too much overtime these past few days and I'm too tired?!"

Xia Youxi, who has always lived in the worldview of an ordinary person, experienced today what it means to have her worldview reshaped.

Night Moth Zhengdao rushed forward and grabbed Xia Youjie and Zhu Yu's wrists to examine them—there was no residual curse power, and no trace of reversal spells.

So what exactly is this ability?

He suddenly turned to Zhu Yu: "Miss Meichuan, what exactly did you give Jie Jun to eat?"

Zhu Yu tilted her head: "It replenishes blood."

"......What?"

"Do you want it?" Zhu Yu took out the same prop from her backpack—a mochi, which was also the culprit that had just choked Xia Youjie half to death. "I can give it to you."

She's quite easy to talk to green-named NPCs.

She usually gives mochi and other hard-to-swallow items to NPCs, since... the speed at which they eat can't keep up with the speed at which they lose health, which is also very annoying for players!

What if you choke on your breath during a fight?

Moth Masakado's expression changed, and a rare hint of unease appeared on his rugged face.

As an adult, asking a little girl for something...

But he was really curious about what this food with therapeutic effects actually was.

It contains neither cursed power nor cursed objects, yet it can still heal wounds, which strongly suggests that it is a new, undiscovered power outside of "cursed power".

He had a premonition that if the sorcery world knew that this young girl possessed something beyond the understanding of the sorcery world, she would definitely be firmly controlled by the higher-ups.

Every husband is not guilty, and he is guilty of his crime.

With a hidden worry in his heart, he coughed lightly and suggested exchanging contact information so that he could keep an eye on her situation later.

Moth was completely fooled by Zhu Yu's innocent appearance and pitiful background, believing that she was just a little girl with special powers who didn't know how to protect herself. She was even willing to expose her abilities to someone she had just met, just to heal him, and she trusted him so much that she gave him her mochi with mysterious powers.

The sense of responsibility in the moth's heart burned fiercely.

Meeting the other party's "fiery" gaze, Zhu Yu was puzzled: ??? This NPC is weird.

Because of the presence of Ms. Xia You, an ordinary person, Nocturne could not directly explain the affairs of the sorcery world to Zhu Yu, so she had to put it aside for the time being and planned to talk about it when the opportunity arose.

People with special abilities sometimes need to be treated in a special way.

Xia Youxi had no idea about the rich inner thoughts of the Night Moth Master. Staring at Zhu Yu's clear, mirror-like black eyes, her voice trembled slightly: "[Kuzi] Is this... magic?"

"Special abilities." Zhu Yu silently corrected, somewhat puzzled as to why all these NPCs looked like they had been struck by lightning. Come to think of it, didn't this map also have special abilities?

For a moment, she suspected they were acting, but she promptly demonstrated the effects of her superpowers.

She opened her palm, and a tender green sprout suddenly emerged from the seed, growing branches and leaves at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally blooming into a snow-white flower.

The edges of the petals reflected the bright sunlight, making them look exceptionally dreamy.

Xia Youxi subconsciously reached out and touched the flower—the petals were soft and cool, with a moist feel like morning dew.

The sensation was so real; it couldn't possibly be magic or an illusion. Xia Youxi's worldview was dealt another heavy blow, and her fingers trembled slightly.

Even Masamichi Nobi's feigned composure crumbled—how could he have a second ability!

Xia Youjie, who had not received systematic theoretical education in sorcerer, was unaware of the special nature of Zhu Yu's abilities. He only assumed that she was a sorcerer with spells, just like himself—the term "sorcerer" was something that Night Moth had introduced to him.

Xia Youjie took a deep breath, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously turned up slightly.

Those twisted shadows that only he could see, those silent memories of the nauseating smell of the cursed spirits when he woke up in the middle of the night... perhaps no longer become dark clouds hanging over his heart.

His special abilities make him like a ghost walking on the edge of light and darkness. In order not to harm others, and to avoid being seen as a monster, he chooses to stay away from people and wander and fight alone in the darkness.

Every confrontation with the cursed spirit was an endless, arduous battle. Victory brought no joy to share, and defeat required him to lick his wounds alone. That loneliness, like a malignant tumor, was deeply rooted in the depths of his soul.

For a long time, Xia Youjie was like a lonely, trapped beast.

And now, the cage is crumbling little by little.

Some people can see the world through his eyes, and some people can stand shoulder to shoulder with him.

Are these... our kind?

Something was swelling wildly in my chest, each heartbeat like a newly thawed stream crashing through thin ice, carrying a warm tremor that overflowed the banks of my heart.

He instinctively covered the lower half of his face with the back of his hand, but couldn't stop the laughter from leaking through his fingers. The muffled laughter resonated in his chest, awakening the child who had been dormant deep within his soul for many years, a child who still longed for companionship.

Xia Youjie suppressed the smile on his lips and looked at Ms. Xia You, whose mind was in turmoil and who was trying to appear calm, with some distress.

However, the most pressing issue now is probably how to explain it to my mother.

Chapter 112 Thank you for the NPC's gift!

Zhu Yu blinked and handed the small flower to Ms. Xia You: "Don't you like flowers?"

Shouldn't it?

Don't NPCs all like receiving flowers?

They were very happy when I gave them to Sister Hongye and the others.

Xia Youxi subconsciously took it, her fingers unconsciously stroking the stem of the small flower. Her gaze gradually cleared from a daze; her professional police skills allowed her to quickly remain calm even in the face of such a bizarre situation.

Her gaze swept across the ward—Xia Youjie and Ye'e Zhengdao both maintained a subtle silence.

No, that's not right. The attitude is wrong.

"No, I like it very much, I just..." She turned her head, took a deep breath, and asked somewhat seriously, "[Kuzi], who else knows about this ability?"

"Only you two." Besides the cursed spirit that turned to ashes, there are only these three NPCs in front of me on this map.

"That's good." She gently patted Zhu Yu's head, her voice soft but firm. "Don't use this ability to conjure flowers in front of outsiders, okay?"

Zhu Yu nodded.

When a green-named NPC speaks, players only need to nod and smile.

“Mr. Moth,” Ms. Xia You said, arms crossed, her tone gentle yet unyielding, “did you already know about the existence of these kinds of supernatural phenomena?”

"And Jay, your reaction was strange too."

Xia Youjie felt uneasy under his mother's sharp gaze.

He recalled how, after his first exorcism, his mother had stared at him and questioned him about the bloodstains on his school uniform. He had lied about accidentally falling down; the beginning of one lie meant the need for countless others to cover it up.

From then on, he used countless clumsy excuses to cover up the wounds left from fighting the cursed spirits. The fabricated fortresses he built grew higher and higher, and he sank deeper and deeper into the abyss.

And now-

Tell her the truth? But Mr. Moth said that the existence of the sorcery world cannot be revealed to ordinary people, and besides... ordinary people are weak, and the weak need the protection of sorcerers, so it's better not to know some things.

Continue to hide it? But her mother has already witnessed [Kuzi's] abilities firsthand. Should she play dumb...?

Xia Youjie awkwardly touched the back of his neck, his gaze drifting elsewhere.

Xia Youxi naturally knew that this was a little trick he used before lying.

"Hmm?" She tapped her knuckles lightly on the bed railing, subtly applying psychological pressure to Xia Youjie. "Jie, thinking back on it now, some of your past behaviors were quite strange—"

"Ahem." Seeing that the future student was already sweating, Moth quickly came to the rescue, "Madam, you are very perceptive."

"However, some things should not be investigated too deeply."

In adult conversations, some things are best left unsaid. Xia Youxi understood the meaning behind the other person's words, but...

She suddenly remembered that when Jay was little, he said that he always saw monsters. She and her husband thought Jay had psychological trauma and worriedly took him to see doctors everywhere. Jay also became more and more silent, always looking at them quietly and fearfully.

Then one day, Jay never mentioned the invisible monster again, and everything seemed to have never happened, so they assumed that Jay's psychological problems had been cured...

She saw her son nervously observing her expression, that cautious probing just like it had been at her bedside ten years ago.

She couldn't imagine how uneasy Jay must have felt if he had always possessed this special power all by himself.

At that moment, she suddenly noticed her trembling fingertips.

The deepest fear wasn't facing supernatural phenomena, but realizing that the child had already waded through this dark river alone, while the parents were absent.

She thought she was protecting her child by "well-intentionedly ignoring" those unusual things—she naively thought she should respect her child's wishes and not force him to confess.

In fact, they built an even higher and colder wall.

There was a calm resolve between her brows, like a rock standing firm in a storm.

Without hesitation, she said firmly, "Mr. Moth, please tell a mother the truth about this world."

"Jay, Mom also wants to know, what exactly are you carrying out...?"

*

After successfully learning the truth she wanted, Ms. Xia rushed back to work—she had already taken a short leave to get to the hospital.

Xia Youjie's injuries were not minor, and her recovery was too fast and too obvious. After being discharged from the hospital, Ms. Xia immediately asked the school for a long leave, ostensibly to "recover at home".

In reality, Xia Youjie was to learn about "spells" in advance by following the Night Moth righteous path. As for Zhu Yu, the Night Moth did not mention her special qualities. In Xia Youjie's eyes, she was also a "spellcaster" just like her own son.

So they simply entrusted both of them to Mr. Moth, who seemed very reliable.

The two arrived at Moth's apartment.

Moth first handed Xia Youjie a theoretical book containing knowledge of the world of sorcery, so that he could learn about the basic common sense of the world of sorcery. Then she called Zhu Yu into a room to talk.

"[Kuzi], your ability isn't magic, is it?" Moth got straight to the point.

She nodded; she hadn't awakened her magical powers yet: "It's a special ability."

“Listen, Kuzi.” His voice was low, and his usually fierce face was tense. “Your abilities are too conspicuous; you absolutely cannot expose them.”

Then he earnestly emphasized to Zhu Yu the special nature of her abilities and the potential harm if they were exposed.

Nagging.

Zhu Yu should clear his mind.

Then, as if he had made up his mind, Moth Masamichi took out a black cursed artifact from his bosom—it was already infused with his cursed power and could protect her safety until the cursed power was exhausted.

His rough fingers held the cursed corpse, yet his movements were unusually gentle as he placed it into her hand.

Congratulations on obtaining: The Cursed Remains of the Nightmoth's Righteous Path

It looks like an ordinary teddy bear, but it will activate when it senses an attack from the outside world and diligently protect the user's safety.

It was given to you by its creator, Moth of the Righteous Path. Now, you possess a living, breathing doll. Rejoice! (The Cursed Corpse is powered by the cursed energy within your body; replenish it promptly if your cursed energy is depleted.)

[Beep! Current task progress is 20%]

Not only did I get a new item, but the progress bar for the side quest that allows me to awaken my magical power also jumped.

Zhu Yu, holding the Cursed Corpse, looked at the Night Moth Path with surprise and delight—thank you for the NPC's gift!

Her eyes lit up instantly, as if she were holding the most precious treasure in the world. She held the little bear's furry arms and brought it up to her eyes, her nose almost touching the little bear's nose, and carefully observed the little bear's appearance.

Hehe, free protective gear.

Cute~

Moth's brows suddenly furrowed, her expression turning somewhat grave—the instant she received the cursed remains, he keenly sensed a strange fluctuation of cursed power.

The feeling was like a match suddenly struck in the dark, flashing briefly before quickly disappearing into the air.

Is it an illusion?

Moth stared intently at Zhu Yu—who was grinning foolishly at the Cursed Corpse...

Noctuid moth: ......

He turned his head away, pretending he hadn't seen anything.

*

Zhu Tazkivsky once said, "A diligent player will have good luck."