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Just at this time.
A gentle breeze swept by.
The wind chimes tied to the red string jingled as they were shaken.
It seems to be urging someone to make a decision.
The witch said again:
"Moreover, you are a girl blessed by cherry blossoms, so this is even more true."
Incidentally, this was also said by "self".
"That 'self' really talks a lot!"
The other person seemed to be praising me, but then again, they didn't.
Yui actually wanted to say that cherry blossoms won't bloom until next spring, so this will be autumn.
However, after thinking about it, she still didn't say it.
She didn't understand these things, so she could only laugh awkwardly.
“Aido.…”
Yui then turned her gaze to the three brocade pouches, looking somewhat conflicted.
broken.
She has trouble making decisions!
"Xiaoqing, which one do you think I should choose?"
"Just choose randomly. If it's an active crawl, the result is already predetermined, right?"
"It's possible that all three of these 'strategy bags' contain the same thing."
Su Qing answered without hesitation.
"But even so, there would still be differences due to the time involved, right?"
Yui suddenly said.
"...That's not wrong."
Su Qing glanced at Yui in surprise. The girl was staring intently at the several protective charms, her expression focused.
Therefore, I didn't bother them any further.
"Let's choose this one!"
After a short while, Yui reached out and took a brocade pouch; it was the second one.
"Have you chosen?"
"Okay! This is it."
Yui nodded, and the bun on her head swayed.
Like the cherry blossoms hanging on the branches, waiting to bloom, in the spring of next year.
"Then let's go."
I've already spent quite a bit of time here, it's time to go explore other places.
Before leaving, Su Qing looked back one last time.
The purple-eyed priestess remained in that respectful posture, motionless.
It was as if they were seeing them off.
......
?
After leaving that place, the number of people inexplicably increased.
Arriving at a relatively open space, Yui eagerly opened the brocade pouch, then exclaimed in delight:
"I'm Daji!"
Say it.
She said to Su Qing with a smug and happy expression:
"I feel like I'm on a lucky streak today, want me to open it for you?"
"No way, what if you run out of luck?"
Su Qing pretended to be wary as she protected the brocade pouch, then jokingly said with a smile.
"Tch, I'm a girl blessed by cherry blossoms, my luck won't run out so quickly!"
Yui pouted angrily, like a little squirrel that kept stuffing food into its mouth out of greed.
Weirdly cute.
Girls who are favored by squirrels or pufferfish are more likely to be favored.
Su Qing thought to herself.
Just as he was about to open it, a surprised voice suddenly rang out, "You...you're here too?"
"Xiaoxue! What a coincidence!"
Upon seeing the person who arrived, Yui immediately greeted them excitedly.
"It's quite a coincidence, I didn't expect you to come here too."
Yukino probably still remembered what happened last night, so her gaze was fixed on Yui.
"Mmm! Look, this is the amulet I just bought. Xiaoqing and I even got a free 'luck' blessing!"
Yui held up the still-wet item, Yui Mori, and introduced it.
"A lot of people come here specifically for this, but why does it look like there's water on it?"
Yukino gently stroked her chin, her eyes filled with confusion.
"Hahaha.... That thing up there isn't water, it looks like alcohol or disinfectant or something."
Yui explained while looking at Su Qing.
"Alcohol...disinfectant?"
Yukino looked incredulous and followed Yui's gaze to Su Qing, but only glanced at her briefly before looking away.
She opened her mouth slightly, as if she wanted to say something, but was momentarily speechless.
Disinfecting the amulet—it's obvious that Su Qing "instigated" Yui to do it.
Could it be said that he genuinely cared about her?
It's amazing that they even came up with this idea...
The combination of science and metaphysics is surprisingly absurd.
But it's actually quite reasonable!
"However, we should be wary of things that come into contact with the skin."
Yukino sighed silently, tentatively agreeing with Su Qing's approach. Then, she cast a curious glance at the brocade pouch, before frowning and saying:
"A brocade pouch? I did pray for good fortune, but not in a brocade pouch."
"I don't know. We were given to us by a shrine maiden. I heard it was to pray for [self]. By the way, I have great luck."
"I also have a very auspicious name."
Yukino smiled faintly, though she didn't really believe in that.
However, we can take it as a good omen.
"Self? Do such gods exist?"
Only then did she notice Yui's strange words.
"They claim to be the only efficacious deity or something like that..."
Yui immediately explained to Yukino, who nodded despite looking puzzled.
After all, she wasn't familiar with Kyoto, and besides, the "Kizuna" the other party was holding didn't seem fake, so she didn't pay much attention to it.
"Has Xiaoqing finished unpacking it? What's inside?"
After Yui and Yukino finished speaking, they turned to look at Su Qing, only to see him calmly take out a piece of paper from his brocade pouch.
Yukino also looked over curiously, but when she focused her gaze and saw the contents of the paper, her pupils instantly contracted.
It was clearly written on it—【劫】 (calamity).
......
......
Chapter 295 Protecting You from Calamity
?
"Have you been scammed?!"
Yukino took two big steps forward, biting her lips lightly, and frowned.
Neon's fortune is only divided into very auspicious, moderately auspicious, slightly auspicious, least auspicious, and inauspicious.
This is known as "divine divination paper".
In reality, these so-called "fortune" are all controlled by people.
Many shrines, unless they are scams, may not even be truly "inauspicious".
After all, shrines also need a constant stream of tourists to make a living.
Once there are too many "fierce" people, how many more will come?
You should know that there is no shortage of shrines here.
But now Su Qing's fortune is actually "calamity"?
A flicker of surprise crossed Yukino's eyes, which was quickly replaced by deep suspicion.
She would find it hard to believe such a coincidence unless it was intentional.
There should be limits to pranks, right?
She thought indignantly.
You feel like someone is bullying her friend and you want to stand up for her.
"We don't have the concept of 'robbery' here, do we?"
Yui blinked her bright eyes, took the fortune slip from Su Qing's hand, and looked just as puzzled.
Her fingers gently stroked the paper, as if confirming its authenticity.
"How could that be? In fact, in recent years, even drawing a 'bad' character has become extremely rare. I think you must have been scammed."
Yukino sighed softly and explained.
"But the divination slips we use are all the same, and they don't seem fake."
Yui carefully compared the three pieces of paper and asked, puzzled.
Even if that shrine maiden is a bit strange, she wouldn't sell them "fake goods," would she?
Well.....
No, apart from her protective charm, these two fortune slips were free.
"...It's unlikely. I think it's better to just lose it."
Yukino pondered for a moment, then looked at Su Qing, just about to ask for his opinion.
But when she saw what Su Qing did the next moment, she couldn't help but fall silent.
Su Qing took out a blower-type alcohol lamp from his backpack and sprayed it vigorously onto the divination slip.
That wasn't enough; he sprayed his hands several more times, and finally said to Yui casually: