Huh? Wait, what was going on?
Seeing the girl throw herself into Rowan's arms, Asuna's eyes twitched nonstop. Who was this woman? Calling someone "darling" the moment she came up to him—wasn't she way too shameless?
But she did not immediately lose her temper, because whether it was Medea or Nero, both of them had more right to be angry than she did.
Besides, what if this girl really was someone Rowan knew? After all, she herself had only known Rowan for one day at most. As for her understanding of Rowan, it could not be said that she knew nothing about him.
It could only be said that she knew absolutely nothing about him.
"Your friend?"
Rowan lowered his head and looked at the girl who had thrown herself into his arms. Feeling her trembling body, he could not help smiling.
"In a certain sense, I suppose so."
When Medea and Nero heard this, they understood that the girl in front of them was very likely the heroine of some anime.
Rowan raised his hand and rubbed the girl's head. The head-pat kill was a move that scored very highly in the eyes of many girls, especially two-dimensional girls.
Plenty of male protagonists had relied on this one move to capture a heroine.
Rowan tried it too. How should he put it? It was indeed more useful than he had imagined. At the very least, after the girl in his arms was head-patted, her trembling body miraculously stopped shaking.
The girl raised her head. Tears faintly surfaced in her golden eyes, but her gaze stared unblinkingly at Rowan as she kept acting spoiled.
"Darling, you're so mischievous. We clearly agreed to meet half an hour ago, but now you…"
"Enough. Stop pretending."
Rowan interrupted her before she could finish, his gaze moving to the evil spirit clinging behind the girl.
"It's just an evil spirit. There's no need to be afraid."
At the same time, when the evil spirit behind the girl heard those words, it became completely excited.
"You can see me. You can see me."
Its already terrifying expression became even more hideous, and it once again pounced toward Rowan.
Whoosh!
But this time, Rowan did not choose to guide it to salvation. Instead, he directly shot out an invisible slash, splitting the evil spirit into two, then four, then eight, killing it on the spot.
It could not be more dead.
Seeing that the evil spirit that had been following her had died, the girl who had been tightly hugging Rowan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Immediately after, she realized that her actions were far too intimate. She quickly let go of Rowan and bowed repeatedly.
"Thank you. Thank you so much."
"No need to be polite."
Rowan waved his hand and said, "It was only a small matter."
Asuna looked at Medea and Nero, only to find that both of them had expressions of realization and faint smiles. She immediately felt as if she had been excluded, because she completely did not understand what had happened.
Why had the girl suddenly thrown herself into Rowan's arms, and then suddenly thanked him?
And what did Rowan's words just now mean?
An evil spirit?
Could it be that the girl could see evil spirits? She had been haunted by an evil spirit, so she threw herself into Rowan's arms to ask him for help?
"That's pretty much it."
Rowan gave Asuna an approving look. As expected of a heroine. Her brain worked well.
He pointed at the girl in front of them and said, "This girl is called Miko Yotsuya. She possesses the highest level of yin-yang eyes and can see many things ordinary people cannot see, such as evil spirits, cursed spirits, and yokai."
"Just now, she was being haunted by an evil spirit that kept asking her, 'You can see me, you can see me,' so she jumped into my arms to ask for help."
"Huh? Why?" Asuna asked, not understanding.
"Huh? Why do you know my name?"
Hearing this stranger reveal her name in one breath, Miko Yotsuya could not help taking a step back, dumbstruck and speechless. She could guarantee that she had never seen this person before.
Why did he know her name?
Could it be that she had accidentally asked a stalker for help?
No, no, no. Anything but that.
Rowan first answered Asuna's question.
"Because evil spirits have a special rule. Before you see them, they cannot harm you. Only after you see them can they harm you."
"This is the boundary between life and death, yin and yang."
"Before you actively break this boundary, you are absolutely safe."
"So before most evil spirits harm humans, they will constantly say, 'You can see me, you can see me.'"
"If you can't see them, they won't hurt you."
"But if you can see them…"
At this point, Rowan paused slightly and gave Miko Yotsuya a meaningful look.
Asuna quickly asked, "What should you do if you can see them?"
"Naturally, you should learn from this Miko Yotsuya. See them as if you don't see them. Pretend you saw nothing. Even if you're terrified to the extreme, you cannot waver at all."
Hearing this, Asuna could not help looking at Miko Yotsuya in surprise. There was actually such a method? Even if you could see them, you had to act as if you could not. That was way too bold.
Although she had never seen an evil spirit before, since they were evil spirits, they must be very terrifying.
Facing such terrifying things and still being able to keep a straight face while pretending not to see them…
This girl was strong.
Asuna admitted that she had never really admired anyone before, but now she genuinely admired this girl, who was about the same age as herself.
A heroine among women.
At least, if she encountered such a situation, she believed she absolutely could not do the same.
At the same time, Miko Yotsuya still could not understand why Rowan knew her name, so she simply asked.
"Because I've read your manga."
Rowan's answer left Miko Yotsuya dumbstruck. On the other hand, Asuna, standing nearby, understood. She had not expected this heroine among women to also be a manga heroine.
No wonder she could keep her expression unchanged and pretend she could not see evil spirits. Impressive.
Miko Yotsuya was very dissatisfied with this answer. What did he mean, he had read her manga? Was this guy treating her like an idiot?
She felt she should be angry, but considering that he had just saved her life, she could not get angry.
That made her even more annoyed.
After sulking silently for a while, Miko Yotsuya swallowed that anger down, stared dryly at Rowan, and asked, "Excuse me, are you an onmyoji?"
When she had been haunted by the evil spirit and did not know what to do, she had coincidentally seen Rowan eliminate an evil spirit. That was why she decided to run over and ask Rowan for help.
"Not quite."
Rowan shook his head and said, "I suppose I'm a jujutsu sorcerer."
He had now learned how to extract cursed energy, possessed cursed energy, and had even awakened an innate technique. He was fully qualified to call himself a jujutsu sorcerer.
After all, when one was out in the world, one's identity was something one gave oneself.
"A jujutsu sorcerer?"
Miko Yotsuya shook her head, indicating that she had never heard of jujutsu sorcerers before.
Seeing this, Asuna took the initiative to explain the origins of jujutsu sorcerers to Miko Yotsuya.
Miko Yotsuya suddenly understood. She had not expected that aside from evil spirits, this world actually had cursed spirits too. No wonder she had seen some evil spirits with bizarre forms that were completely different from traditional evil spirits.
Now it seemed that those strange things were not evil spirits at all, but cursed spirits.
However, none of that was important.
What was important was…
"Lord Jujutsu Sorcerer, may I ask if you can close my eyes so I can no longer see these things?"
Yes. In Miko Yotsuya's view, what mattered was whether her yin-yang eyes could be closed.
Ever since she became able to see these messy things, she felt that her life had become colorful, full of twists and turns, and unbearably exciting.
Every day, she was either holding in her pee or on the way to holding in her pee. If this continued, sooner or later her bladder would explode.
For the sake of her future happiness, what she wanted most right now was to close her yin-yang eyes, make herself unable to see anything, and return to the life of a normal high school girl.
"It's not impossible."
After hearing Miko Yotsuya's request, Rowan calmly said, "I can replace your eyes with those of an ordinary person so you'll never see these messy things again. But are you willing to accept that?"
"Huh?"
Miko Yotsuya looked at Rowan in confusion.
Rowan said, "Ever since you began seeing these messy things, your life has been turned into a complete mess. Don't you want to strike back? Blow up all those things you can see so they'll never dare harass you again."
"No, no, no, no, no…"
Although Rowan's words were very tempting, Miko Yotsuya kept shaking her head. She was just an ordinary high school girl. Her past life was either going to school, karaoke, shopping, or watching television.
To suddenly ask her to fight and kill, like those heroic female martial artists in manga, blowing up every enemy in her way?
Sorry, this humble concubine could not do it.
Seeing this, Rowan did not force her.
After all, he himself did not actually like fighting and killing. He still understood the principle of not imposing on others what one did not desire for oneself.
Just now, he had only wanted to offer Miko Yotsuya another choice. Since she was unwilling, then so be it. There was no need to force her.
So Rowan turned his head and looked at Asuna.
"What about you? Do you want these yin-yang eyes, to see the truth of this world?"
"Huh? I can?"
Compared to Miko Yotsuya, who only wanted to escape, Asuna seemed eager to try.
Having already died once, she clearly understood the danger of this world.
She had already developed a certain desire for power. If she could obtain a pair of yin-yang eyes, perhaps they would be quite helpful for her future.
"You can. No problem. Leave it to me."
Rowan brought the group to an empty place with no one around, switched to the Op-Op Fruit, and raised his hand to snap his fingers.
Room!
In an instant, an invisible spherical space expanded outward with Rowan as the center, enveloping both Miko Yotsuya and Asuna.
This thing was essentially an operating table.
Inside the spherical space, living beings cut by a blade would not die, would not bleed, and would still remain alive.
Even if their heads were cut off, they could still bounce around energetically. It was perfect for surgery.
Rowan raised his hand and plucked Miko Yotsuya's eyes out of her sockets.
"Aaaaaaaahhhhhhh!"
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