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Chapter 1: Cursed Spirit War

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[Welcome to Jujutsu Homeland game.]

[Here, you can experience the joyful school life, and even build your own home on your own school; plant your favorite vegetables, lay a foundation, and dig a swimming pool. Nothing is impossible, only you can't imagine it]

[In your free time, you can exchange studies with your school friends, fight monsters to upgrade together, and look for god-level equipment dropped by monsters. Monsters with advanced attributes also have a certain chance of dropping "Dragon ♂ Sword".]

[Open free world, full of emotional NPCs, let you find your spiritual destination in Jujutsu Homeland!]

 

"...what kind of game is this?"

The girl wore glasses sitting in front of the computer desk expressionlessly clicked the [Start] button. At the same time, she touched the e-cigarette on the table and started puffing away expressionlessly.

'I've almost finished playing Animal Crossing today, so I just wanted to give myself a change of taste.'

[Games start]

[Please select your character model]

The computer screen started to flash, and a retro-style pixel man appeared. There was also a bit of strange ticking music. The screen was filled with the high-end gray of the old era, and the pixelated person's beady eyes were particularly bright.

Holy shit.

When was this game released?

What's there to be embarrassed about as a pixelated character?

Tiantian put down the e-cigarette and tried her best to stare at the screen, tried to exit the character customization interface and find the settings button.

She had no choice but to operate it for a long time. The game seemed to be afraid that the player could not stand the "old" style and run away. She searched for a long time and couldn't find the option to launch the character customization interface.

Never mind.

Tiantian made a face, operated the mouse in her hand, and started to "Create-A-Character" by dragging the grid on the pixel man.

If nothing else, she didn't get sleepy when it came to character customization.

As the saying went, it took five minutes to play a game and two hours to customize a character. It didn't matter whether the game was fun or not, you couldn't do anything low to create a character. Her actions could be rubbish, but her face and clothes must be the most beautiful in the crowd.

If everyone was mediocre, she must be as beautiful as a fairy.

If everyone was as beautiful as a fairy, she would be unique.

From forest elf beauties to wild mohawked one-armed women carrying Gatling and riding three wheels, there was nothing Tiantian couldn't do.

"What are we making this time?"

"How about a cockscomb head? A savage Buddha in the middle? Hmm... forget it, it's better not to do such a hellish thing at night."

Do it with bare face.

Tiantian finally made a pixelated figure with smoky gray hair and blue beady eyes.

After thinking about it, she still felt that it had no characteristics, so she drew a pixel pipe on the hand of the character.

The small pixeled figure, wearing a white novice uniform, smoky gray semi-long hair, blue beady eyes exuding an honesty and simplicity atmosphere. Two hands as straight as wooden sticks, with a large smoking pole in the left hand.

Very good, it had that taste.

What she wanted was this kind of powerful image that looked like a master from outside the world, rejuvenating one's youth.

If it weren't for the fact that anything couldn't be drawn on her character's face, she would definitely have made a sign with the evil king's third eye on her forehead, so that she could turn around and enter the lotus lantern studio.

Tiantian finished customized her character and looked up at the time.

It is now ten o'clock in the evening, the city lights were bright outside the window, and everyone was starting to have a pleasant nightlife.

Her nightlife had just begun.

It was impossible to sleep. She had just ordered Malatang takeout on her phone and was waiting for her to eat and play games. She would not think about going to bed until around three or four in the morning.

Life was about wandering on the edge of pleasure and sudden death, looking for true meaning.

[What props did you add to the character's hands?]

The computer made a beeping sound, and a message popped up, blocked the pixel man's innocent eyes.

"?"

Tiantian put down the e-cigarette in her hand and frowned at the message.

What the hell?

Could this still be identified?

[Toilet Plunger]

[Pipe]

[Back Scratcher]

[Support Club Palm Clapping Stick]

[If the above options have the correct answer for your drawing, please click on it. If not, please search by text input.]

"Hey, this game is not easy."

The dead fish eyes finally brightened up, staring at the screen strangely.

This option was really given. It seemed that this game was interesting, at least the recognition technology was very impressive.

Tiantian operated the mouse and clicked on the [Pipe] option without hesitation. At the same time, she was lying in front of the computer, leaning forward slightly, and her attitude became a bit serious.

[Your options: Pipe]

[Please enter your name]

Tiantian directly entered [Donut] in Chinese.

[Donut, welcome to the Jujutsu Homeland game.]

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The computer screen suddenly dimmed, and a team of pixel figures similar to the opening animation appeared.

It was a dilapidated building with the word "School" written on it, with a simple flat style and dark blue colors, including small pixel bricks flying everywhere. There were also some broken walls stained with suspicious red and black liquid.

The background music was particularly eerie, and the ticking sound of this melody made Tiantian dream back to Pokémon Lavender Town.

[In the dark and quiet school, a highly destructive monster called the "Cursed Spirits" lurks.]

The game's text narration began with a midnight horror channel-like explanation.

The computer screen clicked, and a purple-black creature with countless tentacles appeared on the rooftop of the [school] and began to squirm with its teeth and claws.

Even though the purple-black creature named Cursed Spirits was a small array composed of countless pixels, its enchanting body, huge mouth, and countless pairs of small citrine eyes on its tentacles still caused a lot of damage to Tiantian outside the screen.

Tiantian: "..."

What the hell?

Wasn't it a home-building game?

Why did you look like you're going to start fighting as soon as you come up?

Shouldn't she be given a foundation first?

Just when she was confused, the plot explanation started again.

[Your partners, classmates from Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical School. They are a group of great, selfless and dedicated "sorcerers".]

As soon as the narrator finished speaking, the screen clicked again.

A pixel panda and three blurry, basically invisible pixel figures appeared directly on the roof of the building out of thin air.

These four guys look like they were products of the same camp.

The monster called the cursed spirit was twisting there with its teeth and claws, and then the four pixel men were swaying back and forth like ghost steps. With the background music, it was a bit stepped on.

*gulp* *gulp* *gulp*

Tiantian took a sip of malva nuts from the thermos cup and continued to stare at the screen.

[At this moment, you, who cannot sit back and watch your friends in crisis, is born.]

The sound effect of a howling donkey appeared on the computer, and a pixelated man once again appeared out of thin air on the already crowded rooftop. This little pixel man was the simple and honest man with blue beady eyes that Tiantian spent half an hour creating - Donut.

Donut had a straight back and was wearing a novice outfit that was either a skirt or pants because it was pixelated.

Behind her hands, she appeared with a Taoist attitude like a Taoist priest descended from the mountain.

"The hell, where's my pipe?" Tiantian wondered.

Why did this character appear with empty hands? Was it possible that the appearance animation script did not add this accessory program?

[Brave new sorcerer Donut, please carry forward the great spirit of selfless dedication of your companions, join this battle, and defeat this stinking cursed spirit with your companions.]

[You can start free exploration operations.]

The narrator finally disappeared.

Tiantian moved the mouse on the table and began to carefully operate Donut to move around the rooftop.

She first controlled Donut to jump around on the rooftop twice, and then walked back and forth to get familiar with the feel of the keyboard.

Well, the up, down, left and right keys operate the same as the Forest Ice and Fire Man, so there was no problem.

But at this moment.

Among the four pixel men from the same camp, one suddenly walked towards her.

Tiantian stared at the little pixel man, put down the mouse and keyboard in her hands, leaned on the chair, and took a sip of malva nuts tea indifferently, not panicking at all, even everything was expected.

There was no need to guess at this. The guy would definitely walk up to her next, talk to her a lot, explain the rules for releasing combat operation skills, and gave her a novice weapon.

Otherwise, how could we fight? Were we just rubbing fireballs with our bare hands?

Even if you were making fireballs, you still need a skill book, right?

Tiantian stared at the screen, preparing to read the plot.

As expected, the figure walked up to her.

Then, the NPC's body and Donut's body suddenly stuck together tightly, looked like two oysters stuck together.

Tiantian: "...?"

She gave an old man subway expression.

The two stuck-up little people rushed out of the school rooftop with funny little steps.

They were like dancing a waltz, jumping up and down on the roof of the scattered building, and finally landed safely.

This wasn't the end yet. The two little guys jumped all the way and started to open the map. As they moved forward, the layout of the school gradually became clear. Tiantian could no longer even see the school rooftop due to the game's perspective.

"Fuck, where are you going? You've already seen the school security room, why don't you fight the monsters?"

Feeling bad, Tiantian immediately put down the thermos cup and began to operate the keyboard and mouse with both hands.

As soon as she took advantage of it, Donut fell off the other pixel man with a pop.

No matter what, Tiantian immediately controlled her character to return to the battlefield.

The strange thing was that Donut was running in front, and the little companion behind her was chasing after Donut. There were several times that the two of them almost got together again.

[Mission 1: Please escape from the pursuit of Inumaki Toge and return to the main battlefield smoothly.]

[Unlock skill: Throw stones.]

[Skill Notes: If you use more force, you can smash out human brains.]

"Damn you, I'm going to fight a monster later, give me the skill of throwing rocks." Tiantian was completely impressed by the game's cool operation.

And where was my big pipe?

And wasn't this dog-rolled towel[1] from the companion camp? He's chased after me, and I didn't have emergency syrup with me.

Tiantian jumped up and down to avoid the straight wooden stick hand extended by Inumaki Toge, while pressed the left mouse button to prepare to launch the stone-throwing skill against Toge.

See if she could directly kill this "companion" who was suspected of hiding a monster.

Otherwise, it would be too annoying.

[Snap.]

Tiantian indifferently pressed the left mouse button to attack.

[Drop.]

[Please do not use attack skills on your companions. This is a very low-moral behavior. As companions, we should unite and love each other, help each other, develop together, and strive to achieve a better future.]

Tiantian: ...

I'm convinced, since it's my companion, why should he chase me? As long as he chased me, I couldn't fight back, right?

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· Genuine translation can be found only in OchatimesBlogspotCom and FanFictionNet

· Heroine's ID in the game is 'Donut' which is 'tian tian quan (甜甜圈)' in Chinese, while her first name is 'Tiantian (甜甜)' which means 'sweets'

[1] It's really written as 'dog-rolled towel'. Toge's surname, Inumaki 狗巻, can be roughly translated as 'dog roll'. And Tiantian just make fun of his name.


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