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Chapter 20: The Legend of House Demolition

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*boom!*

It was night, and a terrifying loud noise that shook the world and made ghosts cry suddenly rang in Toge's ears.

Accompanied by the thunderous turbulence, there was also the shaking of the iron frame bed under the boy, including the dust falling from the ground and ceiling as they continued to tremble.

"!"

Toge, who was sleeping peacefully on the bed in the infirmary, opened his eyes almost subconsciously. Then at a speed that was as fast as lightning, with a snap, he ejected from the bed and jumped down.

Was there an earthquake?!

The troubled environment of Japan made Toge subconsciously think of that.

The boy was covered in cold sweat, and he leaned against the solid, shock-proof concrete wall behind him in shock. Then he looked left and right, quickly looking at Donut's bed and the window sill where Donut should be lingered.

He saw that Donut's bed was clean and tidy, and it still looked like Toge had made the bed for her.

In front of the window, a patch of white moonlight slanted down like quicksand, reflecting the slightly transparent texture of the curtains.

There was no one on the ground, and Donut had long since disappeared.

The girl, who was possessed by a robot, seemed to have left the room.

"..."

As the loud noise disappeared, the vibration just now disappeared without a trace, like the aftertaste overflowing from Toge's nightmare. Only the white dust on the boy's cheeks still reminded him that what just happened was definitely not a dream.

But now, except for Toge, there was no living being in the entire infirmary.

When it came to the science of magic, there were no twelve episodes that could not be finished — the mysterious disappearance of a hot woman.

"..."

Toge was covered in cold sweat. He stared at the empty and silent infirmary. Before his brain had time to think, his feet and body took action first.

"Mentaiko!"

The young man quickly bent down and put on his shoes. He was so nervous that he didn't even have time to put on his jacket on the chair, so he immediately grabbed the mobile phone next to the pillow and started rushing out the door.

"Mentaiko! Mentaiko!" Waves of feeble shouts flowed out of his mouth.

What should he do? He actually lost sight of someone!

At this time, Toge had no time to consider whether the weird loud noise and vibration just now were caused by the earthquake. Just because there was something more serious and important now — Liu-san was gone!

The task of taking care of Liu-san was originally supposed to be given to Maki. After all, Shoko-san had been very busy recently due to the task of studying for extensive tasks assigned by the higher-ups, and there was only one girl in school, Zenin Maki.

But God's calculations were not as good as those of human. The only female classmate, Maki, accidentally went on a mission with Panda today, its reputation was called internship.

It couldn't be said to be a coincidence.

After all, when Maki left the school gate with a big sword on her shoulder, she said to him with a face full of ridicule,

'Compared with the danger of being kicked in the head by Miss King Kong, I think going out on missions, quietly accumulating experience, and finally surprising everyone is my style.'

At that time, Panda also followed Maki and echoed,

'Come on, Toge, although the young lady is very beautiful, human affairs should still be solved by humans themselves!'

Then, one person and one bear slowly disappeared above the horizon in the sunset, forming a world-famous painting — "Back View".

Toge was in a dilemma about this situation.

Originally, he also came up with a mission to escape this stall.

However, when Toge saw Donut lying on the bed with a lifeless face, he felt pity and distress deep in his heart for no reason.

After all, Toge had seen Donut sober.

Although she was a bit scary when jumping around, and could even be said to be ape-like, she was still a high-spirited and well-organized girl.

Not to mention that he learned from Yoshino Junpei that Donut was essentially a helpful person with a very bold and flexible mind — an elegant and easy-going enthusiastic person.

In general, in Toge's mind, Liu-san was like another Zenin Maki who was burdened with this Heavenly Restriction curse.

God gave Liu-san unparalleled cursed energy and an unpredictable sorcerer, but it also ruthlessly took away Liu-san's human intelligence and normal behavior.

This realization gave Toge a sense of sympathy and responsibility. All these emotions forced the young man to give up his mission and stay to take care of Donut.

When Toge made such a decision, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Including Gojo-sensei, a reliable adult who was too lazy to ask professional caregivers to come to the school.

But now, Liu-san had disappeared.

Toge took care of Donut for an afternoon and an evening. During this period, he was so nervous that he did not even blink, ate only one rice ball, and even went to the bathroom twice while taking advantage of the time. All this was done to protect Liu-san's personal safety, not to disturb the girl from stopping in front of the window to look at the scenery, but also to prevent her from leaping into the infirmary through the window like a "sky monkey".

He stared at it for six hours without any accident.

But during his short break, Donut disappeared.

This situation made Toge extremely depressed and confused!

"Ha ha ha ha..."

The young man ran wildly through the passage on the first floor, his steps so fast that he lost his image. While he ran towards the staff residence at high speed, he looked sideways at the glass windows flashing between the corridors, tried his best to soothe his heart, and tried every means to take advantage of the running spirit. Allowed himself to calm down in between.

Could not panic now.

Toge warned himself.

Liu-san possessed the mysterious teleportation ability. According to Gojo-sensei, that kind of teleportation was not a conventional limited warlock. The teleportation range was very wide. It had not yet been determined to what extent the limit of her ability was.

In other words, if Liu-san was awake and had a clear purpose, it was possible to move from the northernmost part of the country to the southernmost part of the country.

The main task now was to find Gojo-sensei.

Gojo-sensei had Liu-san's locator in his hand. Although the locator was delayed, it could clearly record her teleportation trajectory, which could improve the speed and efficiency of finding Liu-san.

"..."

Toge's thoughts kept spinning, his brows furrowed, and his white teeth unconsciously bit his lower lip.

He now seriously suspected that Donut was just like last night, when she briefly recovered her consciousness and ran away without being very clear-headed.

After all, a truly sober person would not be able to go out drinking and smoking at night to pick up a younger brother.

And he had his own responsibilities here too.

After all, it was obviously him who took on the task of taking care of Liu-san, but because he was greedy for that hour of sleep, he lost sight of the girl. In this case, Toge must be responsible for Donut.

"Takana?"

The moment Toge glanced out.

A head of long gray hair that was so familiar that it impressed him appeared in Toge's sight.

The flash of this scene interrupted all the young man's messy thoughts and made his mind go blank, he stopped and stood there blankly.

"..."

Donut's back to Toge outside the window was facing away. She was wearing an orange workman's suit that she had gotten out of nowhere. She was wearing a pair of black wading boots and stood in front of the dusty utility room clutched her waist.

She was petite, but her back was straight. She seemed to be looking up at the utility room in front of her.

There was a majestic aura around him that points to the country.

"...tuna?"

Toge muttered.

The young man with silver hair and purple eyes, wearing light-colored short-sleeves, walked forward blankly, his trembling little hands attached to the glass in front of him, and crystal sweat slid down his snow-white neck.

In his mind, the girl who had teleported to thousands of rivers and mountains away.

She didn't go far.

No, she didn't even leave this school.

As for how she got the clothes on her body and what she was going to do, these were not important to Toge.

The important thing was that he and Gojo-sensei did not have to cross thousands of mountains and rivers to fish out the drunk Liu-san from the police station in an unknown jurisdiction.

"..."

In this way, Toge, immersed in endless joy, looked at Donut's majestic back through the glass window.

Then, Toge watched helplessly as Donut lowered her head and bent down, picking up a long black bar from the ground.

"...?"

The boy's slightly distorted amethyst pupils widened slightly.

She seemed to have picked up something in her hand.

Wait... why was the direction of the utility room so messy?

"Mentaiko?"

A strong uneasiness suddenly appeared deep in his heart. Toge looked at Donut's back and the mysterious strip in her hand with a pale face.

*whirr*

Donut in the darkness ruthlessly raised the long bar in her hand.

Under the illumination of the moonlight, it was a large black stick about 1.7 meters in length. At the top of the stick was a hammer head with a cold glow.

The hammer head was as big as a volleyball, and it gave off a shrill cold light in the night.

"..."

With just one glance, Toge began to sweat again all over his body.

Donut waved her arms stiffly, as if she was trying out the new weapon in her hand.

The big hammer, which was taller than her, was as light as a feather in Donut's hand. She wielded the hammer as skillfully as Lord Guan wielded the sword, and it was as easy as her fingers. [1]

*bang!*

Under Donut's swing, the hard hammer head lifted up slightly and hit the door frame of the utility room hard.

After a deafening and familiar loud noise, the door frame of the utility room was shattered, the concrete collapsed with pieces of peeling wall skin, directly squeezing the iron door under the door frame into a tattered rag, and then there was another wave of overwhelming dust.

In the turbid smoke and dust, Donut revealed her cool profile in the direction of Toge.

There was no trace of guilt on that young face for destroying public property, or a sense of evil for revenge.

But an impassioned and strange smile.

That kind of smile that made people feel scared was full of the joy of harvest, the enthusiasm of labor, and the joy of being about to receive the fruits of victory.

Toge: "..."

That's not normal Liu-san.

Toge was quick to confirm Donut's status.

The young man took a step back with a pale face, his little fingers shaking as if he was suffering from Parkinson's disease.

"..."

Toge opened his mouth and was supposed to spit out some "Inumaki language" he designed himself, but he couldn't find a suitable Inumaki's word to describe the extremely shocking and terrifying scene in front of him.

But, at least.

He finally knew where the loud noise that woke him from his sleep came from.

*bang!*

When the young boy was stunned, Donut did not stop her great construction work. She waved the big hammer in her hand passionately, she ruthlessly hammered down the side wall of the utility room.

For a moment, table legs flew all over the sky, and a mop circled 360 degrees in the sky and landed on the grass not far from Toge.

"Ah... ahhhhhh!"

The speechless Toge held his head with both hands and stared in the direction of Donut in collapse. He finally burst out the most primitive human instinct — shouting.

What was she doing?

Why was that?!

The second series of questions, full of shock, echoed in the young man's heart.

*bump* *crash*

After shouting, Toge raised his elbow, and an elbow strike directly shattered the glass in front of him in excitement.

Then the young man's eyes filled with tears that might have been excitement, the young man held the window frame with one hand and climbed out of the window, running toward Donut with staggering steps.

"Tuna?!"

Toge ran while waving his hands wildly in Donut's direction.

Liu-san, what were you doing? Don't take it apart anymore!

Donut's back was getting closer and closer to him, but his calls turned a deaf ear.

Her back was still straight, and she exuded an aura of incomparable confidence. As she watched, Donut raised the big hammer in her hand again, and mercilessly hit the dying utility room again.

"ー[no more!]"

Toge had no regard for propriety, justice or shame at a moment of intense mental stress.

Suddenly, he leaped forward and hugged Donut from behind, yelling curses at the top of his lungs, he stared at Donut's indifferent back with red eyes.

And such a scene.

He was like a fragile and grieving wife who stood in front of her stalwart husband, she prevented the irritable and bear-like scumbag husband from domestically abusing her children.

*bang*

"!"

Toge's pupils began to tremble, just because the child was hammered into dregs in front of him.

The curse didn't work. This fact was completely forgotten in the young man's excitement. Donut's unaffected movements were regaining the unbearable memory of that night.

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[No more!]

A sharp electric sound that was tuned like a chihuahua was transmitted directly to Tiantian's eardrums along her earphones. The irritated Tiantian frowned and took off the earphones from her head and threw them on the table.

"Why are you yelling so loudly?!"

Tiantian was frightened by the sudden appearance of game sound effects.

Originally, she was concentrating on dismantling the school's utility room, and planned to follow the utility room to remove the No. 2 teaching building.

As a result, before she had taken it apart for fifteen minutes, this little pixel man named Inumaki Toge suddenly grew like a little gnome in the garden. He appeared out of nowhere and clung tightly to her behind.

Her eyesight was not working well, and she watched the little pixel man sticking behind her and shaking constantly. She thought that the dog was possessed by a poodle dog, so he was ummm.

As a result, before Tiantian could react, the pixel man in the game suddenly let out a shrill scream of "no more". The scream was as if Donut had dragged him into the grass in the middle of the night and humiliated him. Tiantian was so frightened that he had to stop what he was doing.

"System wizard, system wizard."

Tiantian grabbed the microphone on the headset, put it against her lower lip, and impatiently called out the voice assistance function he had just figured out.

[I am here~]

The clear female voice from a certain mobile phone came through the earphones.

"What's going on?" Tiantian asked, staring at the tearful pixel man in front of her.

[Searching for relevant answers and solutions based on the current situation~]

When the system saw this scene, it was simply ecstatic.

[Name: Inumaki Toge]

[Gender: Male]

[Age: 16]

[Occupation: Sorcerer, cursed speech user]

[Current status: The wind is strong, the sky is high, the ape is screaming and mourning [2]]

[Evaluation on you: An elegant, easy-going and enthusiastic person.]

"Fucking hell! Are these important to me?!"

Tiantian, who was not interested in the plot of the characters, immediately became anxious.

What's the use of popping up these useless data for her, and then add a poem to it? Couldn't we just change the state of strong wind, high sky and screaming monkey directly into "crazy"? Wasn't this a Japanese game? Why were you still reciting poetry?

[Into the plot: Although Inumaki-san is your companion, school is as precious to him as home.]

[And now, in order to build a new empire, you have demolished Inumaki-san's home, which makes Inumaki-san very sad.]

[Recommended solution: Stop dismantling teaching buildings and use the sites provided by the system for construction and activities.]

Tiantian: "..."

Tiantian: "System wizard?"

[I am here~]

Tiantian: "Can this friend whose name is a dog be expelled from my station? He is so annoying."

She was taken off the map inexplicably at the beginning of the game, and now she's still here getting in the way.

[...]

The system was instantly shocked upon hearing Tiantian's shocking remarks.

Oh my God, you really regard the high school as your own territory.

Sister, you were going to kill the aboriginal people right after you move in.

Looking at such a cute little pixel man, how could you say this?! No sympathy?

This was so cruel and ruthless, and had no moral ethics.

[Keywords for detection: Expulsion.]

It had reached this point, and the system could only pretend to be a sir.

[Game character: Inumaki Toge, a character who cannot be expelled; the system recommends peaceful coexistence with indigenous characters to create a beautiful home together.]

"Eh?"

When Tiantian heard this, she was suddenly inspired and raised her eyebrows with a little interest.

"If I were a lord, could I just force these NPC to help me demolish this teaching building and then help me build a house?"

She felt that this plan was okay. In previous home-building games, didn't you hire people to help you farm? This way she wouldn't have to go to the trouble of having the pixel guys come over and bulldoze the whole place and rebuild it.

At that time, she could also build nice-looking accommodation buildings for these NPCs, recruit more NPCs, and try to make her residence more lively.

[System: ...]

Sister, do you know that it's forcing?

[System prompt: The keywords "forced" and "reconstructed" were detected.]

[Dear players, this is a civilized and peaceful building game, in which forced partner behavior is prohibited. Each NPC lives freely in his or her own world. They are kind and cute, and they also have endless kindness towards the players.]

[We should reciprocate kindness when facing these hard-working and brave characters. Instead of forcing them, it is better to learn to live in peace and find a way to coexist; in the game, we must also protect our sense of justice and three views, and use to be kind and inspire the characters in the game.]

"...thank you very much."

Tiantian stared at a series of text prompts on the game interface with dead eyes, and took a puff of e-cigarette.

She didn't expect that this game actually paid great attention to the mental health of the players. Just using the word "force" could write such a short piece of chicken soup for the soul prose.

Anyway, she didn't particularly care about this.

Every game had its own game mechanics, but it's just a game, so it's really not a matter of getting angry and scratching your head. The anxiety was only temporary, so just make it clear.

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Dust filled the utility room that was smashed by Donut. Toge reflexively buried his head in the back of Donut's neck to avoid the wind that stung his eyes.

After the boy reacted, he felt that his actions were very inappropriate. He took two steps back from Donut and was half a meter away from her.

"...?"

Toge looked at Donut's back frozen in the ruins, feeling a little at a loss.

Satoru and the principal were far away from their residence here. Maybe they were resting now and would not notice such a big movement for a while.

According to common sense, Toge should contact Satoru immediately at this time and ask the teacher to stop Donut.

However, this series of operations would be fine if it were done by normal people. They could just talk on the phone directly. The problem was that Toge is a spellcaster. If he talked to Satoru on the phone and accidentally said something that he shouldn't say, the backlash of the curse reflected from Satoru could directly kill Toge.

If he was to send a text message, he needed to pay close attention to the text arrangement.

Toge was very worried that while he was editing text messages, Donut would use the gap to do something else or slip away.

"...go back, don't do it anymore."

After a long time, the boy opened his mouth, and jerky Japanese words came out of his mouth.

It was Toge's deliberate decision to speak.

The curse was of no use to Liu-san. This realization left a deep impression on Toge. At the same time, it also planted a small hope deep in the young man's heart.

'If the curse has no effect on her, I will not suffer backlash. So... can I communicate with her like an ordinary person without anyone else?'

'No need to use obscure Inumaki language, no need to type on the phone to communicate, and no need to use hand gestures with difficult, just communicate like a normal person.'

Toge was waiting.

He quietly held Donut's wrist and took the long hammer from her hand. He gently soothed the restless Donut with a hoarse voice that was almost coaxing to a child.

"Go back to sleep and stop making trouble."

When facing mentally unstable patients, your attitude must be stable and you must not panic.

The new "psychiatric nurse" Inumaki Toge, who was driven out by reality, calmed the aggressive "patient" in front of him in a strange way.

Even though he knew that he might be in danger of being kicked in the head as Maki said, he still didn't back down or give up.

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[Go back to sleep and stop making trouble.]

The white-haired pixel man on the screen looked at Donut with tears in his eyes, and carefully touched Donut's wooden stick hand with his own.

At this moment, the game background played a piece of music box music that was melancholy and touching with a hint of healing.

Tiantian: "..."

The operation of this dog game directly made her charred on the outside and tender on the inside.

My mother, why don't we just demolish a building? [3]

It's not like she wouldn't build him a new home.

When she demolished this shabby house for him, wouldn't it be nice to build a Louvre for him to live in?

"Eh..."

Tiantian touched her face, her eyes showing a hint of exhaustion and helplessness.

Perhaps the background music was too provocative, or perhaps Toge's kelp-like appearance aroused her reflexive pity for the disadvantaged in real life.

She planned not to demolish the house for now.

Anyway, it's only about one o'clock in the morning, and she has slept for such a long time during the day, and now she was not sleepy at all. She could first go to the assigned place mentioned by the system to check it out.

Tiantian was thinking in her mind, she controlled Donut to take back her big hammer from Toge, and headed in the opposite direction of the infirmary, intending to go to the fishpond mentioned by the system first.

As a result, Donut didn't take two steps. Toge suddenly followed her and once again stretched out his wooden stick hand to grab Donut's arm.

Donut stopped in place because of Toge's pull.

[System prompt: Your actions are restricted by your partner Inumaki Toge.]

[System prompt: Partner Inumaki Toge has invited you to "sleep".]

Tiantian: "..."

Ah, this game was so cheap.

Was this NPC artificially mentally retarded? He actually wanted to make such a request to the protagonist.

What was it, a sleep invitation? If you want to sleep, sleep on your own, okay? If you invite the protagonist over, do you want to lie down on the bedside and coax you to sleep with the story?

*click* *click*

Tiantian controlled the mouse to click on the portrait of Inumaki Toge and browsed the attributes of this villain again.

[Name: Inumaki Toge]

[Gender: Male]

[Age: 16]

[Occupation: Sorcerer, cursed speech user]

[Current status: Face like a peach blossom]

[Evaluation on you: An elegant and easy-going enthusiastic person, someone who can communicate with others.]

"..."

Tiantian stared strangely at the words "peach blossom face" and "elegant and easy-going" with unclear meanings. Her mouth was half-opened, and she was stunned for a while.

Just now he was in a roaring and crazy state, but now his face was like a peach blossom.

And this word [elegant and easy-going], why did she feel that this word was humiliating her?

*click* *click*

She didn't think too much about the confusing aspects of this game. She moved the mouse and clicked on the hidden interface under [Evaluation].

[Name: Inumaki Toge]

[Competition]

[Send a Gift]

[Please turn on the microphone to communicate]

In the [Competition] interface, Tiantian saw [Curse: Death of John Doe], but when she tried to click on this skill with the mouse, the skill interface was gray, and the system prompt also showed [Not available at the moment. Do you want to draw new skills?]

Faced with such a game routine, Tiantian acted very calmly and clicked [Confirm to draw cards].

As the golden light on the screen flashed, the system played cheerful rhythmic sound effects, a little man wearing a red turban appeared in front of Tiantian's eyes.

[Dun dun dun! Congratulations to the player!]

[Cursed Technique: Moonfall Gym]

[Curse ability reminder: The person who casts the skill will have a wrestling showdown with the person who is being cast; abilities other than physical technique cannot be used within the scope of his ability, nor can he use cursed energy.]

[Curse supplement: Oi! Kiss my a$s! Hnnghh! ! Arrgghhh!]

[Instructions for using the curse: It can only be used twice and can be given to partners, relatives and friends.]

"Pfft! Hahahahaha! This game is awesome!"

As soon as Tiantian saw the game card interface, she couldn't help but laugh so hard that he almost burst into tears.

Everyone understand it.

This game was quite viable.

"It's you. Beat him up."

Tiantian took the mouse and clicked directly [Confirm the number of uses.]

Philosophy time had begun.

[Moonfall Gym] skill, activate.

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"Are you going to wrestle with me?"

Donut, who had been silent until now and only smiled, suddenly spoke.

She turned back, stared straight at Toge in front of her with a pair of dull eyes, and asked something of unknown meaning.

"Eh?"

Toge looked at Donut blankly.

He didn't know whether it was Donut's sudden speech that scared Toge, or the question Donut asked casually was so weird that Toge didn't know how to answer.

Wrestle?

Do you mean fighting?

"Oka... no... I didn't want to fight with you Liu-san."

Toge answered at a loss. He was a little confused now and didn't quite understand whether Donut was awake or still suffering from the disease.

"Don't worry, my good friend, let me see your limits and let's compete."

Before the boy finished speaking, Donut raised a stiff smile on her face and began to speak.

Toge: "...?"

[Just! Do! It!]

A strong and magnetic European and American uncle's voice suddenly sounded in Toge's ears.

The sound came out of nowhere, and Toge, who was so quick, didn't even have time to determine his location.

"Mentaiko?!"

Under the boy's shocked eyes, Donut smiled and held his wrist.

Those blue pupils, like cold-blooded animals, were staring straight at him.

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[1] Lord Guan or Guan Yu lived in the time of the Three Kingdoms and was a famed military general that served under the warlord Liu Bei. He was a key player in the events that lead to Liu Bei founding the Shu Han state and he governed and protected Jing Province for his leader from 214 for a number of years.

Guan Yu is known by many different names, including Yunchang, Guang Gong, and Guandi. Since his lifetime, Guan Yu has been deified into the Chinese god of war and is remembered as one of the five greatest military men of Classical China, known as the Tiger Generals.

[2] "The wind is strong, the sky is high, and the cries of apes are very sad. There are birds circling on the riverbank with clear water and white sand ." This sentence describes the scenery, goes straight to the point, and exaggerates the sad atmosphere. The combination of movement and stillness creates a wonderful ink painting with cold tones, which triggers the poet's inner melancholy.

[3] "My mother", it's a curse word, not Tiantian's mother. Most Asian uses their parents to insult or curse.


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