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Fox's Aid felt that he was being completely kind. "Lord Divine Inquisitor,
Whether it's' Mage 'or' Magician ', it sounds too much like a pseudonym. "
Prince Ren was very puzzled. "Shouldn't it be a pseudonym?"
"It's an unspoken rule for the Divine Inquisitor to give pseudonyms," Fox's Aid advised earnestly, "But you have to be considerate of God Fu.
They want to be close to the Divine Inquisitor. "
Prince Ren didn't get any useful information from Fox's Aid's words.
The cause..,
After, the result..,
This fox couldn't explain it clearly at all. How could it be so unclear?
But Prince Ren thought,
I shouldn't have had a conflict with a "senior" on the first day of my part-time job.
"Okay," he said,
"Then a Deceiver?"
Fox's Aid: "... Do you have to be involved with 'Teacher'?"
Prince Ren lowered his head and looked at the red-haired fox.
He got some information from Fox's Aid's eyes, and he couldn't help but bend down and pick up Fox's Aid.
He narrowed his eyes and stared at it. "Do you think that at my age,
Is it too arrogant to call me 'Teacher'? "
His voice rose at the end. It was obvious that he hadn't finished changing his voice, but it made Fox's Aid tremble. "Please don't think so!"
Strange.
Why is he so afraid of me?
Prince Ren pursed his lips. I'm just an ordinary junior high school student.
But forget it.
He threw Fox's Aid back to the ground,
Glanced at his trembling ears and resisted the urge to rub them twice. "Okay,
I'll believe you for now.
Then I'll be called Fox. "
Fox's Aid: "..."
It sounded really careless,
Could it be because of me?
He was doubtful and inexplicably excited. He was in a dilemma — should he continue to persuade the Divine Inquisitor to change his name?
While it hesitated,
They finally arrived in front of the space-time converter.
Fox's Aid's eyes lit up when he saw the space-time converter.
He held onto his communication device and said, "Lord Divine Inquisitor.
This will be your means of transportation to and from the Government of the Time Headquarters and your own Honmaru.
You just have to be here — yes, here it is.
Enter your own Honmaru number.
You can return to the Honmaru.
The serial number of the headquarters was changed every day.
The serial number of the day will be updated on your communication device at 5 am every day. "
Prince Ren nodded and glanced at the space-time converter that looked like a stone tablet.
"What's my Honmaru number?" he asked.
Fox's Aid pressed a button on the communicator terminal. "I'll register your name first. Are you sure you're called Fox?"
"Yes."
"Yes, Master Fox.
Your Honmaru serial number … "Fox's Aid seemed to have seen something frightening all of a sudden. He almost threw his communicator terminal away.
"What's wrong?" Prince Ren squatted down and raised his eyebrows.
Fox's Aid's eyes widened, and his ears trembled again. "Wait a minute. Let me confirm it!"
He put the communicator terminal on the ground and fiddled with it for a while before he squeaked twice like a deflated balloon.
Fox's Aid looked up with a nervous look in his eyes. "Do you know what contract you signed?"
"Didn't you give me the contract?" Prince Ren thought for a while. "I didn't see anything special."
"Yes, yes, but because you're still a minor …" He hugged his tail under Prince Ren's suddenly sharp eyes. "Because you're a minor, special rules for minors are adopted."
“puri？”
"To be specific, you'll have a mature Honmaru."
Fox's Aid quickly explained, "This is because you're a minor, and your time in the Honmaru is limited. You can only stay for two hours at most.
It's impossible for a newcomer to complete official business in two hours, so this arrangement is made.
Among the mature Honmaru, the swords that have been trained can solve official business very well, and can also arrange daily classes on their own.
And you made a request to the Government of the Time to teach Reiki … "
His voice became lower and lower under Prince Ren's gaze.
Mature Honmaru?
Does it mean that it already has a master?
Prince Ren recalled the slogan in the brochure and found that this was his blind spot.
With his understanding of the swords and swords, they were almost equivalent to retainers, subordinates, or shikigami.
And changing masters, weren't there only a few situations?
A fine bird chooses a tree to nest in, and being forced to change masters.
Obviously, the Government of the Time would assign newcomers here, so it couldn't be the first one.
Then it could only be the second one.
The second one, being forced to change masters …
Is the master dead?
Or committed a crime?
Probably because Prince Ren's eyes were too cold, Fox's Aid could only hug his tail and tremble.
He thought that the Inquisitor's eyes were too scary. Were 13-year-old boys nowadays so scary?
He tried to salvage the situation: "You don't have to worry too much, we won't assign a fallen Honmaru to an ignorant newcomer."
Fallen?
This was a new word.
Prince Ren secretly noted it down, and guessed most of the truth from these two words.
He exhaled: "For example?"
The fur on Fox's Aid's tail was about to explode: "For example, the Honmaru assigned to you, its previous master had an emergency in the real world half a year after taking office, and submitted his resignation to us.
He already completed the handover last week.
Don't worry, his swords and swords have plenty of experience.
And this Honmaru's swords manual still has a lot of gaps, you can still cultivate your own swords! "
Prince Ren: I'm not worried about that.
He wouldn't say anything more to Fox's Aid, who looked like a fox but was actually a standard shikigami, so he could only look at him suspiciously.
His intuition didn't warn him. On the contrary, his Reiki seemed to be telling him to accept this and that it would be good for him.
Okay, okay, he believed in himself.
Prince Ren stretched out his hand and stroked Fox's Aid's tail twice before standing up: "Then you lead the way."
Fox's Aid stared blankly at his tail that had lost two hairs, and said: "Oh."
He instructed Prince Ren to enter Honmaru's serial number into the space-time converter, and then had him cover the switch with his hand: "You can use your Reiki to activate it."
Reiki?
Prince Ren thought about how he had used his Reiki before, and silently took out a tennis ball and smashed the switch.
In a flash, they were standing in the middle of a jungle, and the open space in front of the jungle was a closed courtyard door.
Honmaru's situation couldn't be seen from the outside, only a strange courtyard that had been cut out (it seemed to be an arc) could be seen.
The outer wall wasn't high, but they still couldn't see inside.
Fox's Aid trotted to the front, jumped up, and knocked on the door.
Creak.
It seemed that someone had been waiting outside for a long time, and the door opened as soon as he heard the knock.
The person who opened the door was a black-haired man between a teenager and a young man.
He was wearing a black double-breasted trench coat and a thin red scarf.
A white belt, black tights, and even black boots — all of them were high-heeled and pointed.
If he didn't appear in such a fitting background, Prince Ren would think that he was more suitable to appear in some fashion capital.
New York, Milan, any one.
Is this a sword?
There is indeed a sword hanging on his waist …
"We have a guest."
He said briskly, and when he looked up and saw Fox's Aid, he smiled and said, "Is our new God's Inquisitor here?"
He walked past Fox's Aid and looked behind Fox's Aid.
When he saw Prince Ren, he originally intended to go up to him and act coquettishly stopped.
His expression stiffened for a moment, and he said, "Is our new God's Inquisitor … an adult?"
"No ~" Fox's Aid pretended to be excited.
"I'm a middle school student," Prince Ren added when he saw that the young man had been dealt a blow.
The black-haired young man looked back and forth twice, and then hesitantly said, "A middle school student … No wonder."
He lowered his head and whispered, "He's not as tall as me."
The polite smile hanging at the corner of Prince Ren's mouth disappeared.
He sized up the black-haired young man twice and accurately estimated the young man's height. You're only 1.65 meters without high heels, right? I'm over 1.7 meters tall. I'm taller than you!
Ten minutes later, they gathered in the front hall of Honmaru's mansion together with the Satoshi Fu who had received the news.
Prince Ren was given the main seat, and Fox's Aid introduced the two sides to each other, "… In short, because the God's Inquisitor signed a special contract for minors, the time he can appear in Honmaru is limited.
I'll have to trouble you with official business. "
The Satoshi Fu: "…"
"Fox?" Sitting in the corner, Fox Ball looked at the God's Inquisitor who had a particularly obvious fake name.
From the name, and the God's Inquisitor's spiritual power, he perceived something that surprised and delighted him.
Leaning against the wall, he said to himself, "Oh, oh, oh, this is bad. The name of Little Fox is going to be given to someone else.
Compared to me, my lord is Little Fox. Then I'll reluctantly become Big Fox. "
He made the decision very happily.
Fox's Aid's introduction wasn't over yet.
Just as the Satoshi Fu's expressions became more and more subtle, Prince Ren interrupted him.
"Red Fox."
He called out. "Does the time we wasted with the Government of the Time also count as two hours?"
Fox's Aid was stunned.
He hurriedly took out his communication terminal and tapped a few times before suddenly raising his head. "Yes, yes."
"Then it should be almost two hours." Prince Ren looked down at him. "But I still don't know anything. You're a newbie guide, right?
If I'm not satisfied with your work, can I complain? "
Fox's Aid's hair was about to explode.
"Lord Inquisitor!!!" He jumped up and plunged into Prince Ren's arms. "Don't complain about me!
Do you think I'm too inefficient?!
Then we can start the newbie guide right away!
For example, forging knives – "
"That's not it."
Prince Ren unceremoniously hugged him and stroked his hair. "There's not so much time. You'd better introduce what the daily lessons are and what I need to do."
"About this, if you don't mind …" Candlestick bowed slightly to the young man in the main seat.
Prince Ren quickly adapted to this identity, which was similar to an ancient lord.
He stood up with Fox in his arms. "I've read the basic information in the Government of the Time's contract.
Valet, Forging Knives, Handlers, Internal Affairs, Deployment, Expedition.
I remember that's all I need to do, right?
Let's follow your original arrangements first. "
"Do you want to try forging knives first?" Candlestick asked.
Prince Ren looked at him in surprise. "Why do you all think that forging knives is more important?
No, no, I'm not suitable for forging knives right now.
A new knife is too dangerous. "
He didn't explain the word "dangerous".
"Not all the Fu Zombies are here, right?" He asked.
"The first unit hasn't returned yet." Candlestick said.
Prince Ren nodded. "I don't want to explain it again.
When they come back, you explain my situation to them clearly.
Also, there are some of you who are good at official business and organizing, right?
Please write a report for me, including the daily lesson arrangements, the basic situation of the Fu Zombies, and the remaining resources and funds. The more detailed the better.
If possible, I'd like to see it tomorrow.
Ah, I'll probably come a little later tomorrow, at night in the modern world. "
"Minors should go to bed early and get up early." Candlestick said smoothly.
Prince Ren narrowed his eyes at him.
He needed to look up, which made him feel inexplicably uncomfortable. "I'll come before nine o 'clock. It won't affect my schedule."
"Yes."
"As for the rest, I'll make a decision after I see the reports you've organized." Prince Ren said.
He only walked half a circle around Honmaru before the time was up. The communication terminal in his pocket rang like crazy, and the space-time converter in the yard had entered standby mode.
Fox 'Aid finally came back to his senses.
He shook his messy fur and extended his claws to Prince Ren. "Yes, Lord Inquisitor!
In order to make it easier for you to come to Honmaru, I'll give you a spell in the phone. It will be in the form of an app. You can enter Honmaru by logging in like a game. "
He took the phone from Prince Ren's hand and was stunned.
This … this phone …
"What kind of game can you play on a phone, Tetris?" Prince Ren said.
Looking at the vintage Motorola Little Smart in his hand, Kyuuke Yuusuke silently inserted the technique into it.
It returned the phone and said, "Send us a text message when you're here.
It's the number on the back of the brochure. "
He was crying in his heart. It's one thing to not have a smartphone, but … Is the Inquisitor really living in the 21st century?!
Prince Ren had no idea what he was thinking.
He took the phone. "Got it."
As soon as he finished speaking, he disappeared into Honmaru.
With Jiyuan's interruption, the others also came back to their senses.
Marui calculated and found a loophole in this sentence. "The training will end early. What about the training?"
"The training in the morning will not change. Cancel the training in town in the afternoon and come back directly to pack your things and change your clothes."
Liu smiled and shook his head. "Don't worry, I'll take your health into consideration."
Marui couldn't help but shudder.
Under the influence of Liu's "notification", everyone was a little absent-minded during the training in the morning.
In the afternoon, after the simple training, everyone went to the shower next to the hostel's hot spring and changed into the bathrobes provided by the owner of the hostel.
Most of them brought simple luggage with a change of clothes (almost all of them were sportswear).
But the owner of the hostel provided a bathrobe rental service.
The drawback was that they were all classic fashion in shopping malls. They would always bump into the same clothes as they walked, or the color was particularly old and looked very similar to the curtains at home.
Prince Ren picked and chose a dark red one that the others didn't want.
This kind of design was between men's and women's. The color of the clothes was dull because of repeated starching, and it felt tacky in the hand.
But Prince Ren looked passable in it.
"I don't think you're that white." Marui looked left and right. "Red suits you quite well?"
"… I'm not white." Prince Ren adjusted his belt.
Although he didn't like to bask in the sun, his skin was not obviously white (at least not as white as his partner). Fortunately, he wouldn't get tanned even if he basked in the sun for a few days. This was probably a problem with his foundation.
"At least I'm whiter than you." Prince Ren tied a bow on himself, raised his head and said with a smile.
Jiyuan, who had just finished changing his clothes, was confused. "What? Senior, why are you talking about white? Don't you think it's strange?"
Marui snorted and jumped a few steps. After messing up the half-dried hair of the junior, he pressed the back of his neck and pushed him forward. "Let's go. We won't be able to make it to the temple fair."
"… Senior, why are you in such a hurry? It's not dinner time yet."
"We'll be there when we reach the town!"
"… It's not dark yet."
"It'll be dark when we reach the town!"
Prince Ren shook his head and looked at the two heads, one black and one red, walking away.
He pulled up his wide sleeves and had an inexplicable intuition that a lot of things might happen at the temple fair today.
Puri, my intuition is very accurate now, isn't it?
Prince Ren thought. He put his palms together and bowed in the direction of the void.
"Prince Ren, what … are you doing?" Yanagi, who walked out of the room, wondered if he had interrupted some important ceremony.
Prince Ren withdrew his hands and turned around without changing his expression. He tilted his head and said, "I'm waiting for you.
Shall we go together? "
Yanagi: "… Okay."
On the way to the town, Prince Ren chatted with Kazuyanagi.
As usual, he started with, "Yanagi, you have to hurry up and enter the main team."
Yanagi was used to it and didn't feel uncomfortable. He didn't feel uncomfortable at the beginning and didn't tease him later.
He said faintly, "What's that thing you used the other day?"
"What?"
"It's a trick that can see through other people's balls."
Prince Ren tilted his head and deliberately put on a mocking expression, "Lord Yanagi, that's my trade secret."
"… I heard Liu say that it's the limit of overflowing talent," Yanagi said.
Prince Ren blinked and reacted for a while before he remembered what the limit of overflowing talent was.
He snorted, "What is it?"
"Isn't it?
Then what is it? "Yanagi asked.
"In short, it's not the limit of overflowing talent," Prince Ren said.
He pulled up his sleeves and complained half-truthfully, "Do you think that every trick is the Anatta Realm?
You're so narrow-minded. "
"The Anatta Realm." Yanagi pushed his glasses, "I saw it when I was looking for information.
Is it the trick that Echizen Minami Jiro used to shock the world when he reached the top? "
"I've always thought that if it's a unique trick, it can only be used by one person. At most, it's a trick that can be used by a limited number of people on two hands."
Prince Ren no longer maintained his usual sarcastic tone. His flat tone sounded inexplicably magnetic, "So, there are so many people in the world who continue to expand on the tricks that Echizen Minami Jiro once used. It's really not stylish.
Either the Anatta Realm and the Three Great Limits that Echizen Minami Jiro used are the real Anatta Realm and the Three Great Limits, or don't treat the Anatta Realm as an invincible 'unique trick.' "
Yanagi pondered over these words.
It was difficult for him to discern Prince Ren's emotions in these words.
Because Prince Ren was smiling when he spoke. Although it was very faint, there was a smile in his eyes.
But his tone was very light and deep, and his attitude was inexplicably sincere.
Yanagi didn't find any logical flaws in Prince Ren's words.
He always felt that Prince Ren shouldn't say such things.
Then, what was his impression of Prince Ren like?
Probably because the silence lasted for too long, Prince Ren suddenly laughed.
"Puri, don't be so nervous. I won't eat you."
He resumed his high-pitched tone, and his voice was three octaves higher, "I'm carefully protecting you."
Yanagi was speechless.
He ignored most of the content in Prince Ren's words, "So, what trick did you use that day?
Foresight?
Or calculation? "
"Calculation?"
"In theory, you can judge the development of a person's actions by observing their expressions," Yanagi said frankly, "I'm a little interested in behavioral psychology."
"Oh, then what kind of person do you think I am?"
"Why don't you explain what trick you used that day?"
"Yanagi, at the end of the day, it's not a gentleman's behavior."
Prince Ren raised his head slightly, "But it doesn't matter if I tell you. I can see things that others can't."
"… Yin-Yang Eyes?"
"You believe it?"
Yanagi's eyes wandered for a moment, "Don't always joke, Prince Ren."
It was already dark when they walked slowly from the guesthouse to the town.
Most of the stalls at the festival began to bustle.
Prince Ren had his own plan of action, so he casually said goodbye to Kazuyanagi.
He bought a civet cat mask from a stall that sold masks, and then went to a stall that sold curry fish eggs to buy a bowl of fish eggs.
He slightly arched his back and pulled the mask a little, revealing his naturally sharp chin and pale lips. He held a bowl of curry fish eggs and ate casually.
His silver-dyed hair scattered behind him, and it was half-wet and a little long.
"Mommy, it's the fox fairy," the little girl said in a tender voice.
Prince Ren looked through the eyes of the mask and saw the little girl pointing at him with her eyes wide open.
When they met eyes, the little girl giggled.
"Jiuhui." The young woman's tone was a little helpless as she called her daughter's name.
She took the little girl's hand and showed an apologetic expression when she looked up, "Did I disturb you?"
Prince Ren shook his head, "She's very cute.
Do you want to eat candy? "
He squatted down, one hand still holding the bowl, the other hand digging in the wide sleeve of his kimono, and pulled out a small colored ball from nowhere.
The little girl stared at it with her eyes wide open.
Crack.
The colored ball cracked in the palm of his hand, revealing a small faceless man's head.
"Wow." The little girl sighed softly.
Prince Ren's fingertips touched the faceless man's head, and the white mask fell down, revealing a dark plum candy with a transparent package.
He stuffed the dark plum candy into the little girl's open hand, and the soft little hand made his heart soft.
If only I had such a cute little sister.
Ah, forget it, I don't have a little sister, but I do have a cute little brother.
Prince Ren stood up with his hands on his knees, winked at the little girl, and left with the curry fish eggs.