Although most of the cleaning was done by Aoki Aoko due to her training problems, the act of cleaning the other party was not something difficult to accept for Aoki Aoko.
"That's right."
Victor didn't refute what he said. He just took a sip of tea and said, "It's just that killing an innocent person, or someone you know, is completely different from killing someone you think deserves to die. Watching someone kill someone is even more so."
As long as you don't do it yourself, it's actually very easy to accept being killed.
Moreover, with the same murderous intent and determination, the former is more easily shaken.
Don't doubt it, killing also requires faith.
Even a cold-blooded killer who has killed hundreds of targets, or a general who has massacred tens of thousands of people, will eventually waver in his beliefs. The only difference is whether this wavering... can be suppressed by reason and determination.
Even Victor would waver occasionally, let alone a fledgling magician.
Kuonji Yuzu keenly grasped the other meaning in Victor's words. She looked at Victor again and said, "You mean the witness is someone Aoko knows... Hmm? Do you know who the witness is?"
"If I'm not mistaken, then it's pretty close."
Victor was also quite calm. After all, in the hands of a magician, even unreasonable things can become reasonable: "So don't worry, if it really doesn't work, I can handle it. It's not a big deal."
"..."
Kuonji Yuzu remained silent. She weighed the pros and cons and suddenly said, "With Qingzi's ability, we will be able to find out who the witness is by tomorrow at the latest."
"Then we'll see."
Victor nodded and raised his tea to indicate, "Aoko's determination."
……
Kuonji Yuzu was silent again for a long time. She sighed slightly and changed the subject: "There is one more thing."
"After being defeated by Aoko tonight, the magician was revealed to be a puppet."
"This is the only good news tonight." Hearing this, Victor was stunned while drinking tea, and immediately smiled: "It seems that Aozaki Orange can't help it anymore."
"One month. If I hadn't had accurate intelligence, I would have thought she had been scared away by my trick."
"One month of preparation time, and it's still Orange..." Kuonji Yuju stared at Victor and whispered, "Are you sure?"
Arizuma Kuonji knows about oranges.
After all, before teaching Aozaki Aoko, the so-called successor of magic had always been Aozaki Touko. On the contrary, Aoko had always lived in the secular world and had never even come into contact with the mystery.
Therefore, she was quite aware of Aozaki Touko's strength as a magician, and also knew what a month of preparation time meant to a magician.
A well-prepared magician.
is invincible.
This is also one of the words that Victor agrees with the most.
"Don't worry, everyone is preparing."
Victor disagreed.
With Altluchi standing behind him, what is he afraid of?
"But then again, aren't you curious?"
Victor glanced at Kuonji Yuju and said, "What is Aozaki Touko's purpose? Why did she come back?"
"No need to be curious."
Jiuyuan Temple Yuju said softly, then raised her teacup and took a sip.
When she left, both Qingzi and Youzhu had already anticipated this day.
This is the personality of Aozaki Touko, she is extremely strong-willed and never willing to accept defeat.
One day she will come back and take back everything that belongs to her with her own hands.
They never doubted this.
I just didn't expect it to be so soon.
"How the Fifth Law should be inherited has long been a secret since the death of Qingzi's grandfather."
Kuonji Yuzu said calmly, "But in fact, according to Aoko, her grandfather told her when he suddenly changed his mind and chose her as the successor."
"When she completes her training and becomes a true magician who can stand on her own, she will naturally know how to inherit this fifth law."
"Orange knows this, too."
"Come to think of it, last night was probably Aoko's first battle as a magician."
"The first time?" Victor lowered his eyes slightly: "So, you think that at this point in time, Aozaki Touko believes that Aoko is about to embark on the path of a true magician, and thus start the so-called inheritance ceremony..."
"That should be the case." Kuonji Yuju nodded: "But she will probably be disappointed."
Magic as a thing does generally require a ceremony to begin.
But magic...
I really can’t say for sure.
Regarding the grandfather who was an extremely strange and unfathomable magician in his memory.
Even Kuonji Yuju didn't think that the other party would leave any loopholes. Even if he died at the hands of Aozaki Touko* (except Touko herself, no one knew that she didn't kill her grandfather), it must have been one of his arrangements.
Chapter 59: Love and Hate
Victor did not take the initiative to interfere with Aozaki Aoko's campus life.
In other words, this world was just a copy for him and was not worth interfering with.
In this regard, for Aozaki Aoko, the only change in the world is that there is an outsider in her family who can teach her. Apart from that, her daily life has not changed.
Likewise, the emotional twists and turns and disputes between her and Shizuki Sojuro remain the same.
Aozaki Aoko has been complaining more and more about Shizuki Sojuro in recent days. As someone who was silently drinking the black tea, he saw it all, but he was too lazy to express his opinion.
That's what feelings are.
Anyway, the more you care, the more conflicted you will be when the time comes.
For example, now.
After Aozaki Aoko came back, she went straight back upstairs without saying a word. Only Kuonji Arizuma, who had been investigating with her, was left. She quietly returned to her usual seat and began her nightly preparations.
"it's over?"
Victor asked curiously. He really didn't know much about the plot of Wizard's Night, but based on his understanding of people's hearts and his understanding of Aozaki Aoko in recent days, he didn't think that the other party could bring himself to do something to the person he had begun to like.
Naturally, this question that was asked despite knowing the answer did not get an answer. It only caused Jiuyuan Temple Youzhu to pause for a few seconds in making tea. After a while, a sudden voice was heard.
"She said she would take care of it herself tomorrow night."
"I'll follow and see when the time comes."
"That's best."
"Aren't you coming?"
Victor turned around when he heard that, and saw Kuonji Arizuma's eyes, like black pearls, staring at him, her little head slightly tilted, seeming a little confused.
These days, she has been working together with Victor, and unknowingly, Kuonji Yuzu has gained some basic understanding of this guy who never takes off his mask, such as his love of joining in the fun and his unabashed taste for gloating.
"…If you don't go, don't forget that I have my own purpose."
Victor smiled and shook his head. It was certain that Kuonji Yuzu had made a second-hand preparation. After all, he was not the only one who understood Aoko.
Just saying this, the battle between Aozaki Aoko and Kuonji Arizuma in the original work refers to this time, right?
It was exciting to see two beautiful girls who were former companions fighting each other, but he was not very interested in this inevitable ending.
At least so far, he still has no idea how to peek into the Fifth Law mission option, and he still has a lot to investigate while the opportunity presents itself.
However, Kuonji Yuzu was keenly aware of the other meaning in Victor's words.
"Do you think Aozaki Touko will take advantage of the opportunity as well?"
"I just think it's better to be careful." Victor chuckled, and the next sentence made Kuonji Yuzu lower his eyes slightly: "After all, you don't think... the invading magician is a puppet bait, but it just happened to be seen at this time."
"The person I saw is the one that Qingzi is currently caring about..."
"Is it too much of a coincidence?"
Let alone anything else, the question of how Shizuki Sojuro broke through the barrier set up by Kuonji Arizuma is full of traces of deliberate human intervention.
Too many coincidences are inevitable.
and so……
"I understand."
Kuonji Yuju nodded silently: "I will also pay attention to it over there."
……
Under the night sky filled with clouds and stars, Shizuki Sojuro walked back to the dormitory as usual.
I walked up the stairs to the second floor, making the clanging sound of metal as I stepped on the iron until I reached the door, picked up the paper bag containing the apples and took out the key.
It's already ten o'clock in the evening.
He needed to work. As a child who came from the mountains with no source of income, Shizuki Sojuro had to work three or four jobs almost every day.
However, he himself had no complaints about such an environment.
Being able to live in the city and not having to worry about survival as long as he spent money was the greatest happiness he could understand.
After returning home, Shizuki Sojuro planned to have a good rest because he had an exam soon and needed to review later, but...
Suddenly, an extremely conspicuous letter on the table caught his attention.
There was no sender or stamp on the letter.
There was a piece of letter inside, which only stated what the letter was about and who the sender was.
The content is also relatively simple.
[I have something to tell you. Come here tonight because it is something very important. I will wait until you come over.
There’s no need to say any other useless words—】
Very concise, powerful, and easily misunderstood words.
This form of intention is very obvious to ordinary adolescent boys and girls, but it is quite simple in the eyes of Shizuki Kusajuro:
The sender is written as Aozaki-senpai, so if it's her, it must be something very important.
So, without any hesitation, he opened the door and disappeared into the night.
…………After that, in the ownerless house, the envelope that was left behind burned up by itself, as if it had never existed in the first place, completely disappearing without a trace.
In the corner, the puppet acting as a surveillance figure slowly crawled out and began to move.
Then, somewhere outside the house, a mouse made of mud also sniffed and made a hissing sound.
……
Tsk.
Somewhere far away, Victor looked up helplessly at the crescent moon.
"It's really lively tonight."
……
The agreed location was an abandoned amusement park called "Shemu".
As a child from the mountains, even though the prosperity has declined, Shizuki Sojuurō still feels shocked from the bottom of his heart.
But overall, the atmosphere of the entire amusement park should be extremely weird.
Just imagine, the paint on the eyes has dissolved, and the mascots flowing out of the eyes seem to be clapping their hands, welcoming your arrival.
In the quiet park, you can hear your own footsteps and breathing with every step you take.
Faded buildings and machinery covered in rust.
Those dolls and giant puppets are the residents who have no concept of time.
If Victor were to see it, even though he had just mastered the witch's system and was only at the first level of fairy tale magic, he would have to sigh.
