Chapter 652 – Misty Pupil
”What exploded?”
”I don’t know! It seems to be coming from the east.”
”Is it some factory on fire?”
”It’s possible. ……”
”……”
The surrounding pedestrians pointed at the fire in the distance, their eyes filled with doubt.
Boom–!
A second explosion came, this time even more powerful than before, and even the earth began to tremble slightly.
Yuzurina grabbed Xiao Jin’s hand and stared tightly at the direction from which the explosions came, not knowing why, her heart was a little uneasy.
”The oracle messenger! The Oracle Envoy is coming!!!”
At the end of the street, several voices rang out, and Xiao Jin’s face instantly changed.
Yuzurina turned her head to look, only to see that on the other side of the street, a red-robed Oracle Envoy was slowly walking from the center of the road, and when the pedestrians on both sides of the street saw him, they all knelt down in place and bowed low.
”Greetings to the Oracle Envoy!”
”Greetings to the Oracle Envoy!”
”……”
Wherever he passed, there was no longer a single person standing, like a group of fearful ants, a tidal wave of people kneeling down.
”Little Brother Jin, it’s the Oracle Envoy ……”
”Hurry up!!!”
Without saying a word, Xiao Jin directly pulled Yuzurina’s wrist and walked towards the corner of the street.
Although they were still a long way away from the red-robed oracle envoy, amongst the tidal wave of kneeling pedestrians, these two silhouettes swimming against the current were very eye-catching, and the red-robed oracle envoy who was walking in the center of the road had a red aperture manifesting in his left eye, which was rapidly locking onto the duo.
Ding–!
A coin suddenly fell from the air and hit the ground with a crisp sound.
At the same time, a psychedelic light flashed unnoticeably in Xiao Jin’s eyes.
In the next moment, his and Yuzurina’s figures disappeared into thin air.
The red-robed Oracle Envoy, who had lost his target, furrowed his brows slightly as he stomped his feet on the ground with force and swept across the street with lightning speed, directly rushing to the place where the two had just disappeared.
In his left eye, the red aperture carefully swept through the surroundings, but still found nothing, as if the two people he had just seen were just an illusion.
However, the red-robed oracle ambassador knew very well that the two people just now were definitely not an illusion, as his left eye had clearly recorded the image just now.
”This is number 4, suspected to have found traces of [Mystic Hitomi], accompanied by a little girl, identity unknown for now, suspected to be Yuzuri Kurotetsu’s daughter.” He wore a headset and said to the other two Oracle Ambassadors in the channel.
”Roger.” The yellow-robed Oracle Envoy’s voice came from within the headset, “Yuzuri Kurotetsu has already been found by No. 6, you continue your search, and leave the whereabouts of the [Mystic Pupil] and that little girl to me.”
The red circle of light in the red-robed oracle’s eyes gradually dissipated as he took one last look back at his empty surroundings, turned around, and continued walking towards the front of the road.
When his figure completely disappeared, the pedestrians kneeling around finally stood up trembling, the snacks in their hands were already dusty on the ground, they sighed and quickly walked in the direction of their homes.
No one noticed that just a short distance away from the corner where the red-robed oracle envoy was standing, a blonde-haired teenager with a little girl was standing by the wall, quietly watching them.
”Little Brother Jin, how come they didn’t seem to see us just now?” Yuzurina asked suspiciously as she waved her hand at the pedestrians, no one had noticed their presence.
Xiao Jin looked at the direction that the red-robed oracle envoy had left and let out a slight sigh of relief, but his expression was still grave.
”It’s nothing …… Let’s hurry back.”
Osaka.
The roof of the Abeno Building.
At the top of this tallest building in Japan, a figure clad in yellow robes was standing quietly in the wind, his eyes gazing at the chaotic and noisy city below, and in his left eye, a yellow aperture was slightly lit up.
”The sixth of the Nine Blades of Banezu, [Enchanted Pupil], capable of species-ignoring mass hypnosis through the mediums of sight, hearing, smell, and touch, even electronic machinery can be deceived, the only drawback is that this is a non-combat knife, and when the hypnotized person senses the intent to kill he or she will automatically get out of the state of hypnosis ……
This knife has already appeared, and the little girl beside it, what is it?
The location transmitted by No. 4, is it in the vicinity of Nine Wells Street …… can only search over little by little.”
The yellow-robed oracle messenger muttered, and with a wobble of his figure, he leapt down from the tall building in a single bound, and sped towards the street that the blue-robed oracle messenger had just passed through!
At the same time, his eyes were closed, as if he was listening carefully to something.
”Tonight’s fireworks festival is so beautiful, next year I want to come back with Nozaki-kun to see it ……”
”It’s so hard to go to work again tomorrow! That bald lewd old boss hurry up and die!”
”Damn, why hasn’t the chairman confessed to me yet, it’s already gotten to this point, is he waiting for me? Hum …… I’m not going to confess first, love is both war, the one who confesses first loses!”
”What? Blue and White Bowl has come out with a new hand puppet? Buy it!”
”This man how to rolleyes, hum, looks also with the black sycamore of the shallow feather is far from it, when to go to find him drink once again it, he is really handsome ah ah ……”
”……”
Hundreds of voices drilled into the yellow-robed oracle envoy’s ears, and these were the heartfelt voices of all the people within a two-kilometer radius of the place he passed.
The yellow-robed Oracle Envoy carefully discerned each and every voice among them, blocking out the useless content directly, and gradually, there were fewer and fewer heartfelt voices echoing in his ears, and in the end, a single voice flashed through his mind.
”Just now, when I saw the oracle messenger, why did little brother Jin run? Is he also like Brother Seven Nights, possessing special powers and is he from outside?”
It was a girl’s voice that sounded very childish, and the yellow-robed Oracle Envoy’s eyes lit up as he sped off in the direction where the heart’s voice came from!
”Found you guys ……”
Dotonbori.
With Yuzurina in tow, Kogane walked back to the entrance of the Black Sycamore Club.
Holding the cardboard box, Yuzurina walked into the club and looked around, but there was no sign of Uncle Kyousuke.
”Where is Uncle Kyousuke?”
Xiao Jin’s body was slightly shaken, and after he was silent for a moment, he smiled and spoke, “He’ll be back in a while, let’s rest here for a while.”
Xiao Jin stepped into the club, a psychedelic light flashed in his eyes once again, and the streetlight at the entrance of the Black Sycamore Club dimmed, quickly returning to its original state as if nothing had happened.
All the doors and windows of the club were broken, and the tables and chairs were in disarray, so Yuzurina could only pick a small stool and sit down, quietly waiting for Uncle Kyousuke to return.
Kogane, on the other hand, walked over to the second floor landing and looked around carefully.
A few minutes later, the yellow-robed Oracle stood at the intersection of the path.
”Is it around here? ……”
He stepped into the path, there weren’t many stores on this road, the place where he came in was a barbecue stand that had already closed, inside was an izakaya, and then inside ……
The yellow-robed oracle messenger passed under the streetlight, the pale yellow light flickering from his eyes as he stood at the end of this path, looking up at this last storefront.
No?
The yellow-robed oracle froze.
The last storefront of this path was surprisingly empty, this street came to an end at the Izakaya, and beyond that it was just a barren empty space, nothing existed.
He was about to turn his head and leave when a heartfelt voice suddenly resounded in his mind.