Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 845: 512, the same cured life

“Brother, I’m a little scared.”

“What are you afraid of?” Qing Chen asked, puzzled.

Jinguji Maki hesitated for a long time before saying, “Those things just crawled into my head. Will they eat my brain?”

The little girl voiced her concerns.

Qing Chen earnestly said, “From today onwards, you need to train well. If you don’t train properly, they will cause chaos in your brain.”

The little girl was so frightened that she started crying loudly, “What kind of training?”

Qing Chen’s lips curled slightly; he seemed to find some of the joys his mentor, Uncle Li Dong, experienced in the past: “There are many kinds of training. Just be obedient and train.”

He thought carefully whether it was really a good idea to buy a phone for such an easily tricked little girl. If he let Yi trick her, wouldn’t she be tricked completely?!

No, he had to keep the girl away from the Outer World and Yi.

Qing Chen pondered. Although he didn’t know why the girl couldn’t sense the shikigami, he was sure that they wouldn’t harm her by staying in her head.

If something happened to the girl, they too would lose their sanctuary and perish.

The spirit bodies of shikigami needed the Divine Bridge in the brain to nourish them; this is why the Red Leaf Hunter and its companions wanted the girl as their sanctuary. If she died, they would die with her.

Qing Chen suspected that the three shikigami might already belong to the girl. However, since she hadn’t started her training yet, she was unable to establish a bond with them.

Perhaps, after a few years when the girl completes her first life-and-death challenge, she could witness today’s rewards.

What’s interesting here is that most onmyoji had weak physical bodies, so people would always attack their bodies first.

But if the girl was on the Knight’s path, her body would likely become stronger than her shikigami.

If someone tried to target her as an easy opponent, they might end up finding a formidable enemy instead.

Imagining a Knight onmyoji, Qing Chen thought of how many people could be tricked, and found it quite amusing…

“By the way, did you feel dizzy or any other discomfort after they entered your head?” Qing Chen asked.

According to the Hu’s Information Agency, onmyoji could exceed their level to house more shikigami, like summoning four at B-Class.

However, after summoning extra shikigami, onmyoji would be overwhelmed and feel dizzy all day with constant pain in their foreheads.

Jinguji Maki thought for a moment, “No, I didn’t feel anything.”

Qing Chen recalled the literature he had read about the Jinguji clan in the Island Country. In the Uji Miscellany, there was a record of a strange phenomenon…Hyakki Night Trip.

Later annotations couldn’t explain this phenomenon because yokai wouldn’t congregate without purpose, and no onmyoji was powerful enough to command such a gathering…

Now, Qing Chen looked at the girl. Perhaps a powerful figure from the Jinguji clan once controlled hundreds of shikigami?!

Qing Chen glanced at the girl. Should he help her to capture a few more onmyoji and see how many shikigami she could accommodate?

Previously, onmyoji chose randomly from hundreds of shikigami. If he took most of them away with the girl, and all that was left in the cards were things like the Taocheng Temple Bell, Mao You, and Zashiki Doko, wouldn’t all onmyoji feel desperate?!

That would be cutting off their lifeline!

No, they had to leave first.

Jindai Yunyi had already sent the news back to the Mysterious Business Department. They would undoubtedly mobilize fully to ensure such a threatening person like Jinguji Maki would die.

Honestly, although the girl was still an ordinary person, the Mysterious Business Department would prioritize capturing her over Qing Chen.

She was someone who could shake the foundations of the Jindai.

Qing Chen held the girl’s hand and walked northwards: “Let’s go, before some people go crazy.”

They had come from the north, battling through three search lines. Just when everyone thought he would continue to fight and be reckless, Qing Chen suddenly turned back.

Because Hokkaido was in the north, where Jinguji Maki’s mother was.

After some time, a fully armed combat team arrived. They found Jindai Yunyi’s corpse and quickly searched the nearby battlefield.

One person crouched beside Jindai Yunyi, pulling out a black dagger.

The dagger had red talismans drawn on it. This person gently swung the blade, cutting Jindai Yunyi’s chest.

Blood gushed from Jindai Yunyi’s body into the dagger, which seemed like a bottomless pit, never filling up.

In an instant, the corpse ‘withered’.

The red talismans on the dagger glowed. This person used the dagger to carve a pentagram in the snow, and the absorbed blood flowed back out during the carving.

The person stood up, waiting and watching the pentagram intently.

However…after a long time, nothing appeared in the pentagram.

“Huh, where is the shikigami, Red Maru?! No Red Maru!”

He took out a satellite phone from his pocket and dialed with a grave expression: “Boss, something serious happened. After Jindai Yunyi’s death, there is no Red Maru in his heart. Someone must have taken it!”

The other end of the line was silent for a long time: “From now on, this is the top priority for the Mysterious Business Department. We must find those two people and recover the lost shikigami, Red Maru.”

When Jindai Yunyi desperately sent the message, the senior officials at the Mysterious Business Department were skeptical. After all, they had never seen someone who could suppress shikigami.

Now, they believed.

Someone can indeed suppress shikigami and even steal them.

Shikigami are unique. If they cannot retrieve Red Maru, it means those cards will no longer be in the deck!

Instantly, the entire Mysterious Business Department went crazy.

Originally, they mobilized only half their people to hunt Qing Chen and Jinguji Maki. Now, within a day, 80% of the Mysterious Business Department members joined the pursuit.

This time, Qing Chen really stirred up a hornet’s nest. While the outside world noticed the Mysterious Business Department’s movements, they didn’t know what had driven them to such extremes.

Many thought that even if Kyushu directly went to war with the Mysterious Business Department, there wouldn’t be much more commotion.

Nobody knew how bold Qing Chen was; he had returned to Nakatsugawa City in Gifu Prefecture.

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Nakatsugawa City.

A bored little girl waited outside the shopping mall, sitting in a newly rented RV.

She leaned on the window, looking through the glass into the mall, where a boy was smiling and talking with another little girl.

Jinguji Maki felt envious. Qing Chen rarely smiled so brightly at her. It seemed only recently that his smiles had increased.

Usually, her brother was very stern.

At that moment, Qing Chen returned to the RV with large and small bags.

He had changed his identity and would stay with the little girl in the RV from then on.

“Brother, what did you just do?” the little girl asked softly.

“Went shopping,” Qing Chen replied.

“Who was that little girl you were talking to? You talked to her for a long time,” Jinguji Maki asked curiously.

“Oh,” Qing Chen said, “I asked her what kind of gifts girls receive on their birthdays here. She listed many things. I didn’t know what you would like, so I bought it all.”

Jinguji Maki was stunned. So that’s what it was…

“Brother, why buy gifts for me?” the girl asked softly.

Qing Chen thought for a moment and said, “From now on, you will call me Master, understand.”

Qing Chen reminisced: “A long time ago, when I first became an apprentice, my master foolishly asked Time Travelers what fathers in the Outer World should give their children. The Time Travelers, equally foolish, suggested cars for dating and houses, as the Outer World practices monogamy. My master almost believed them.”

“He took me to buy a car, a house, and even led me to defeat my opponents. My master said that whatever other children had, I must have too.”

“Looking back, it’s quite nostalgic. So, I am treating you the same way. Whatever other girls have, you must have too.”

Qing Chen believed that besides the tradition of tricking apprentices, the Knight legacy also passed down some warmth.

Uncle Li had healed his life, and now it was his turn to heal Jinguji Maki’s life.

Strictly speaking, he taught Hu Xiaoniu, Li Tongyun, Nan Gengchen, Liu Dezhu, Luo Wanya, and others, more like finding companions.

When it came to true apprentices, those were Li Ke, Qing Yi, and Jinguji Maki.

Li Ke and Qing Yi had their businesses and clans. Only Jinguji Maki was taught by him constantly.

Therefore, Qing Chen was especially attentive.

Jinguji Maki looked at the RV filled with gifts and could imagine Qing Chen telling the sales associate to wrap them nicely.

The girl discreetly wiped her tears: “Thank you, Master.”

Qing Chen said, “Open the gifts and see. Keep what you like, throw away what you don’t.”

The girl said, “I like them all.”

“How do you know without looking?”

“I just know.”

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There’s another chapter at 11 PM.