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I: The Flowers Are Not Sleeping
Chapter 39: The Swallows in The House
You haven't been beaten to death by that redhead yet?

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"Miiu-"

The glass wind chimes under the eaves were swirling in the wind, and the tongues of the bells were spinning around in the wind chimes, making a ringing sound in the wind.

The soft fleshy mat made no sound when stepped on the floor. The light and agile black cat swung its tail and jumped to the floor.

The little black guy yawned and opened its mouth, revealed its little pink tongue and pointed teeth. Its amber eyes were filled with golden sunshine. Wherever the little guy went, the black shadow on the floor would follow. where.

"You're here again."

Yayoi picked up the little black cat, and the little guy curled up its tail. The black tail was wrapped around her white wrist, and the soft touch of the tail hairs came to her skin.

"Meow-"

The little black guy who was picked up in the air screamed again, swishing its tail, and the sunlight in its amber eyes was like fine gold foil, so beautiful.

It looked a little fatter, probably because it couldn't find anything to eat recently and came to the courtyard where Yayoi lived to look for food.

Grandma Kuriko recently taught Yayoi how to feed cats. As long as the cat came, Yayoi would feed it food consciously. Grandma Kuriko told Yayoi a lot of things about cats, such as not to disturb cats when they eat, and not to touch them. If you want to pet them, you have to wait until they have eaten and drank enough, because cats don't like to be disturbed when eating.

"Meow-"

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"Meow-"

Tangerine turned its head and rubbed the back of Yayoi's hand, feeling furry on the back of her hand.

When Yayoi came back to her senses, he saw Tangerine lying on her lap, with its orange tail curled around its chubby body, its faint green eyes narrowed into two small slits, and its two erect ears twitching.

Snowflakes began to drift outside the window at some point. The fine snowflakes fell into the clothes and were instantly melted into the clothes. Because they were so small, they did not even leave any water stains.

Through the glass window, you could see people passing by on the street, office workers wearing suits and holding briefcases, young and beautiful girls playing around, and young lovers holding each other's hands. The sky was gray, made the falling snow lonely and cold, but the city below was silently overflowing with vitality through the crowds of all kinds.

Tangerine opened its mouth and meowed softly, but its squinted eyes were still half open and half closed, making it seem like it was dozing off all the time.

Yayoi looked down at the fat Tangerine on her knees, and the messy hair on her forehead fell quietly.

She was in a daze.

Tangerine's eyes on her legs opened a little, just a little, and the green exposed in the gap was like emerald.

"Tangerine." Yayoi reached out and touched Tangerine's head, "Why did you come to me?"

The voice was very soft, like feathers falling silently. It seemed like she was asking Tangerine, but it didn't seem like she was asking it.

Tangerine, who was lying on Yayoi's lap, shook its ears without making any sound, not even a 'meow', and narrowed its eyes again.

Woof woof woof-

Meow meow meow-

There were mostly dogs and cats in the pet hospital. Whether they were held by nurses or led by their owners, those cats and dogs instantly become restless as if they have made an appointment, and their barking and meowing sounds are mixed together, like a symphony of chaos.

Tangerine on Yayoi's lap stopped dozing off and opened its emerald green eyes. There was no trace of sleepiness in its eyes and its spirit was so energetic that it was hard to imagine that this guy was dozing off just a second ago.

The white Pomeranian dog led by its owner opened its mouth and barked wildly, its tail like a cloud kept wagging, and it jumped on the ground anxiously. Its owner is a beautiful girl. The Pomeranian barked around its owner and opened its mouth to pull her trouser legs out.

The young lady had never seen her Pomeranian become so restless as it was now. Its teeth kept touching her trouser legs, almost wearing them to pieces. She tried to comfort her little Pomeranian, but the little Pomeranian kept barking and showed no intention of stopping.

The young lady was a little angry.

"Animals' ability to sense danger far exceeds that of humans." Someone told the girl who raised a Pomeranian.

The young lady looked up and saw a red-haired girl who was half a head shorter than herself. She was holding a very big orange cat, much bigger than the Pomeranian she had raised.

The red-haired girl looked at the little Pomeranian, "There is something scary here that makes him so scared that he wants to run away, but you are here, so he wants to run away with you."

As if in response to Yayoi's words, the little Pomeranian barked even louder, and the corridors of the pet hospital were full of meowing sounds. Cats and dogs are naturally misaligned creatures, but when they sensed the dangerous aura, at that time, the reaction was so unified.

"Run." Yayoi said softly, "Take your little Pomeranian with you."

Meow-

Meow-

Amidst the wave of barking dogs and cats, Yayoi suddenly felt something biting her sleeve. It desperately pulled her sleeve out, and it shouted eagerly.

-You run quickly, you run quickly.

-You will die.

The black tail kept wagging, meowing and whining, and it was spinning around on the floor anxiously, but it just refused to go away on its own.

"Meow-"

Tangerine opened its mouth and shouted.

When Yayoi came to her senses, a barking golden retriever dragged its owner out. The golden retriever exerted more strength than the husky at this time and dragged its owner directly to the door.

Nurses and doctors in the hospital were scrambling, and the frightened pets were screaming and desperate to get out of the building.

Yayoi saw the little nurse who was holding the short-haired cat. The little nurse looked very worried. She didn't understand why the animals in the hospital became restless for a moment. Groups of cats and dogs passed through her feet like a rising tide.

Yayoi pulled the little nurse aside, and the little nurse breathed a sigh of relief after being freed from the wave of cats and dogs.

"Have you seen my white furball?" Yayoi asked.

The little nurse was stunned for a moment, unable to realize what the white furball thing in Yayoi's mouth was.

"White fur, blue eyes, wearing small sunglasses." Yayoi said.

The little nurse realized that it was the long-haired cat. It was bigger and prettier than the other cats. Among the cats she had ever seen, the big cat wearing small sunglasses was the most beautiful cat. When he had a physical examination, she was worried that the cat was so big because the owner was too indulgent and did not control his diet, leading to obesity.

During the physical examination, the nurse was worried that white kitty would have many complications in the future due to excessive obesity. She secretly reminded herself to remind his owners to control his diet. If such a beautiful cat died young, it would be very serious. What a pity.

After examination, the cat had a very low body fat rate and was covered in tendons.

The doctor in the hospital was not only amazed, he said that if it weren't for the fact that the cat wouldn't go to the gym to exercise,, otherwise he would have thought it was a cat that went to the gym every day.

"He's in the operating room upstairs!" The little nurse responded.

Yayoi stuffed Tangerine into the little nurse's arms. When the heavy Tangerine was stuffed into her arms, the little nurse staggered and almost failed to hold the fat orange.

Tangerine meowed, looking unhappy.

"Get out quickly." Yayoi told the nurse, "something happened in the hospital."

At the end, Yayoi added, "Take my cat with you."

After Yayoi finished speaking, she ran away. The little nurse stood there blankly holding Tangerine in her arms. The red-haired girl ran against the wave of cats and dogs towards the hospital. The red hair in her sight was like a flame swaying in the wind, like a fire and blood.

Suguru pressed his wrist veins expressionlessly, digging his nails into his skin. He pulled the hand back, flipped his wrist, and threw the person to the ground.

The face of the person who was thrown to the ground came into close contact with the hospital floor. He fell to the ground with a "thud" and screamed in pain. Suguru quickly kicked high and slashed down, and hit the opponent's head directly with his heel. His chin hit the ground directly, and he fainted from the pain on the spot.

Suguru looked at the man who was thrown to the ground, lying unconscious, and for a moment he couldn't help but sigh.

'I actually learned this trick from Yayoi.'

After watching countless fights between Yayoi and Satoru, even Suguru had to admit that if he were to fight Yayoi solely with physical skills, neither he nor Satoru would have a chance of winning, there was no chance of winning, at least for now.

Heavenly Restriction already had a powerful physical body that was difficult for ordinary sorcerers to match. What's more, Yayoi was a person who was proficient in melee combat. If she used curse, whether it was Satoru or Suguru, there was no suspense about victory or defeat, but in the case of hand-to-hand combat, it was a different matter.

Arteries, kidneys, heart, spine, lethal acupuncture points... Yayoi knew the vital points in the human body like the back of her hand. When fighting, she specially picked the places where a single blow could knock people to the ground.

Ever since he was poked in the acupuncture point by Yayoi one winter day and fell to the ground, Suguru would occasionally discuss taijutsu with Yayoi and compete with each other.

Cutting the carotid artery with appropriate force could make someone faint, hitting the heart could cause a heart attack, the seventh vertebrae was the center of the body... there were some places that could only be accessed by professional doctors with clinical experience, and Yayoi knew all about them.

"What I heard," Yayoi said, "After amplifying the hearing, you can hear the sound of the heartbeat, the sound of the lungs exchanging air, and the sound of the liver functioning."

Because of the abnormal five senses, she knew the rules of the operation, so she could hit the nail on the head.

"The intensity and the location of the impact will have different effects."

At that time, Suguru had only one thought before he fainted after his carotid artery was cut by Yayoi. There were thousands of tricks in this world. There were no endless tricks. There were only tricks you couldn't think of. The redhead would not deceive me.

Suguru glanced at the curse users who was thrown to the ground with disgust, squatted down, groped around on him, and found a box. The remnants on it was definitely from that room.

Suguru raised his eyebrows and thought to himself, could it be that Satoru went into the operation room in vain?

The box was still in good condition, but it was not known what's inside. This thing was quite old. As time went by, the seal attached to it had weakened, and was as fragile as a piece of paper. Copy paper specially used for printing was even stronger than it.

If something like a curse was not handled properly, it would grow in size over time, and the existing sealing techniques simply could not keep up with its growth rate.

It would be terrible if someone tore off the seal. The leaked cursed energy would attract all kinds of curse spirits.

It took a lot of effort to reseal a stamp.

When Suguru opened the box, he could feel the heavy cursed remnants. There was just a lingering filthy aura, but the rage was rushing towards him.

The box was empty.

Suguru was stunned for a moment, looked at the curse users who was unconscious on the ground, and then looked at himself, and thought to himself, could I wake him up now and ask where this thing went?

Just do it. Just when Suguru was about to put his idea into practice, the phone in his pocket rang.

Suguru frowned, stuffed the empty box into his pocket, took out his phone and pressed the answer button, "Moshi moshi."

"It's me." Satoru's voice came from the phone.

Suguru paused, "The curse on you has been lifted?"

Wow, that's really gratifying.

The voice on the phone paused, and then came the sound of grinding teeth. The other party obviously wanted to skin him alive, "I'll settle the score with you three b*stards later!"

You b*stard, you actually came up with such a bad idea! Fortunately he could figure it out! He would go back for revenge!

"The finger was swallowed by a cursed spirit," Satoru said.

Suguru paused, his eyes moving back and forth between the few things in front of him. He looked at his phone, then at the empty box, and then at the unconscious curse users. The sudden expansion of cursed energy in the air and the sudden restlessness of the cursed spirits around him all told him that Satoru was not in good situation as him. Although his best friend was usually unreliable, he was absolutely reliable in big things. It was okay to call him the reliable Gojo.

Now things were getting serious.

Suguru thought.

Human beings were all creatures that produce negative emotions. No matter how amiable they seem, they would produce negative emotions. As the negative emotions increase, the body's curse power leaked out, and a curse was born.

A place like a hospital was suitable for breeding all kinds of curses, even if it was a pet hospital, not to mention that this place had been the scene of frequent cases of unexplained deaths.

Shoko slipped out the cursed weapon in his hand. The cursed weapon came from the Tokyo Jujutsu High School's cursed warehouse and was made into the shape of a wakizashi.

Shoko was not suitable for fighting cursed spirits on the frontal battlefield. She had a rare Reverse Cursed Technique and could heal others. She had been taken seriously by the jujutsu community as soon as she entered school. She only needed to take care of the wounded in the back and did not need to be on the frontal battlefield between the curse users and the cursed spirits. Those who needed strength were always the other two b*tches in the first grade.

But just because she didn't need to be tough on the frontal battlefield didn't mean she wouldn't.

Shoko held the wakizashi in her hand and ran quickly in the corridor. Behind her was a huge curse. Its slender limbs were like bones without muscles, its long mouth was like that of a hippopotamus, and the two eyes hung firmly in the eye sockets.

There was no road ahead, only a white wall.

The girl continued to run expressionlessly, and even sped up, her short hair rising and falling with the movement, and her skirt swaying like flowers blooming in the wind.

Shoko raised her foot and stepped on the wall. She stepped on the wall hard and jumped. She flipped in the air and reversed her vision and drew out the wakizashi in her hand. She held the handle of the weapon in one hand and pressed the end of the handle with her palm. Shoko directly pierced the wakizashi into the head of the cursed spirit. The hand on the end of the handle was pressed hard, and the entire blade sank into the head of the cursed spirit.

The cursed spirit made a deafening wail hysterically, and its head hit the ground hard, losing its breath.

Shoko pulled out the weapon, jumped off the cursed spirit, shook off the blood on the blade, took out a cigarette from her pocket, and lit it. The girl stood behind the corpse of the cursed spirit, smoking and frowning.

What were those two idiots Gojo and Geto doing? Let me, a wet nurse, handle this mess.

Fortunately, most of the people in the hospital had been evacuated by the "window", and now they didn't have to worry about being on the news or anything.

The hospital regularly held fire drills, and they had done so countless times. The nurses and doctors here were very good at dealing with sudden fires. The assistant director was also very stupid. When he received the signal, he went straight to the broadcasting room and howled on fire.

Shoko looked at the broadcaster in the corner and thought that broadcasting was a good thing.

Just when she was about to blow out a smoke ring to relax her body and mind, the wall in front of her on the left suddenly collapsed. Concrete and broken glass blocks fell, and sharp gravel and glass fragments scratched the opposite wall. There was also a person thrown out by the rubble and glass shards. The person was directly stuck to the wall. The falling sand raised a large cloud of dust, blurring her vision.

Shoko held the cigarette in one hand and subconsciously squeezed the wakizashi with the other hand.

The wall was smashed through by someone. Someone pushed the other person and hit him from the other end of the wall. The force was so strong that he directly smashed through the wall.

Shoko clenched her teeth. The wall of the hospital was not a shoddy project. Suguru, that taijutsu enthusiast, couldn't break through the wall, could he? He could only split two bricks at most, and he still had to scream for her to use Reverse Cursed Technique.

If the other person was an enemy, that's bad.

But what was a person who could break through walls doing in a pet hospital? Did you want to give cats and dogs a medical checkup? Don't be ridiculous. This kind of person who didn't look like a normal person comes here to do such a thing? Most likely the person came here for that thing.

Shoko's hand squeezed the handle of the weapon tighter, and sweat even broke out in her palms.

She was a wet nurse, so there was no pressure to be tough with a weak-minded person like the cursed spirit, but when she first becomes a hard person, it was really... quite bad.

The man whose figure was obscured by the diffuse dust slowly approached. Sweat dripped from Shoko's forehead. Her hand holding the handle of the weapon tightened, and her heart beat faster.

A white sneaker came into view first, and then a large dark blue woolen jacket. The jacket was relatively wide in style, which made the other person's figure look petite and smaller. The red hair was tied up high, with a wisp of red hair fell on the shoulders.

The little red-haired girl carrying a fire extinguisher slowly came into Shoko's sight. She looked murderous. There was blood dripping from the bottom of the fire extinguisher in her hand. The red blood dripped on the ground and dyed the dust covering the ground dark.

Shoko: "..."

She really was a guy who came here to give cats and dogs medical check-ups.

Shoko looked at the person who was lying on the ground. He was a tall, thick-looking adult man with tendons all over his body. The bloodstains on the surface of his body were splashed out by Yayoi using a fire extinguisher.

She thought back to what Satoru said about this red-haired girl with strange powers.

Shoko took a deep drag on the cigarette to calm down. After calming down, she looked at the girl. Yayoi had already walked in front of the man, and the bloody end of the fire extinguisher was pressed against the man's forehead.

"I'll say it again, where is my cat?" Yayoi said coldly, her voice neither happy nor sad, extremely calm, so calm that it made people feel a cool feeling in their hearts.

For a moment, those soft amber eyes seemed to be boiling with lava. The way she calmly put the blood-stained fire extinguisher to the person's forehead was like a lioness who was about to roar with her roar suppressed in her throat, it's as if the other party said the wrong thing and she could throw out the fire extinguisher and send him to his death.

Shoko's heart thumped, and she couldn't help but stand in awe of Satoru, thinking to herself, Gojo, you hadn't been beaten to death by this red-haired girl yet?

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• Omake •

5 Satoru: Achoo- achoo-

Little redhead: When I heard there was a fire, I grabbed a fire extinguisher and went to put out the fire.

[0] The title of this chapter "The Swallows in The House", I won't explain it, anyway it has something to with the old days, rich people, officialdom and ordinary people or commoner



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