3. Guanbuzi City

After waiting for a while, the door of Matou Shinji finally opened, and Mousse, who was carrying the suitcase, walked out with a smile, while Matou Sakura followed behind her with a guilty conscience.

Of course, Shinji pretended not to notice Sakura's abnormality, and after instructing the head maid at home, Matou Shinji took Mousse out of the house, while Sakura took Shinji out the door all the way, until she couldn't see them. Gloomily walked home.

"Shinji, don't mess around with flowers outside, but I was instructed by Sakura to monitor you and keep bad women away from you!"

After leaving Sakura's line of sight, Musi said such a sentence with a light smile, which made Shinji stunned for a moment, and said with a smile, "Is it really good to say it like this? Shouldn't you keep it a secret for Sakura?"

"Hmm~"

Mousse shook her head, her blue hair swayed mischievously in the air, with a sly smile on her face, she said to Shinji who was walking beside her: "That child is too clumsy emotionally, it makes people a little anxious to see , so I'll help her too, since Shinji should have noticed it anyway."

"Well... Mousse's mind has grown so fast, I really miss you who was ignorant a few years ago."

"Ha ha..."

Mu Si covered her small mouth and let out a chuckle, and didn't say anything, but the inadvertently exuded temperament mixed with motherhood and purity attracted the eyes of passers-by around, and even triggered a couple's relationship. quarrel between.

"Children are fickle, and Sakura is only ten years old. I'll look at it later. Maybe she will change her mind when she grows up."

Matou Shinji only said this sentence, and then he didn't say anything, just walked towards the station.

Maybe Sakura was just because she lacked a sense of security, and regarded her reliance on Shinji as other feelings. As time passed, she would finally see her own heart clearly, after all, children's hearts are always changeable.

Time will tell. If Matou Sakura has not changed by then, let's talk about it. After all, Shinji feels that he is... very indifferent to this kind of thing.

...

Pedestrians on the street came and went, most of their faces were full of fatigue and numbness, and they dragged their bodies like walking dead.

The dusky sunset shrouded the city, combined with the scorching heat in summer, it made people particularly bored and melancholy.

The walls were full of graffiti, and some young people gathered in the alley, staring at the bustling streets with bad eyes, with wrinkled cigarettes in their mouths.

There are several homeless people sitting or lying under the bridge hole, holding the only old luggage, and staring at the dirty wall with a dull look.

The towering office building stands in the city center, the concrete and steel bars are exposed, and even some places are covered with rust. The balconies and rooms without windows make this building look like a giant full of wounds, and even grow on some cracks. Tiny wildflowers.

As soon as Matou Shinji walked out of the train station, he saw this bleak scene, which made him even wonder if he had gone to the wrong place. The dead air here is really the Kanbuzi City in Tokyo?

He doesn't know anything about this place. The only person he knows is the two rituals that connect the roots, but it's only news extracted from the words of others in the dream, and even what the two rituals look like and what abilities they have. Not sure.

"Here! Here! Master Shinji—!"

A blond man with a round hat held up a sign with Matou Shinji's name on it and waved it hard, for fear that Matou Shinji wouldn't be able to see it!

Seeing Morrison, an old acquaintance, Shinji had to accept the fact that this is indeed Guanbuzi City!

How should I put it... This is a bit different from Shinji's idea! Not to mention the Fuyuki City in its heyday, even the Fuyuki City after the fire! It is simply an old and dying city.

After reuniting with the person who received him, Matou Shinji and Mousse sat in the long-awaited car, and the driver was the blond man Morrison who held the sign just now.

Matou Shinji observed the man driving, with a faint smile on his face, his eyes focused on his hands full of rings: "Morrison, it looks like it's been a good time recently."

"I made a fortune, thanks to you. Without your potion, I would still be the one running errands for the Magic Association."

This person is the magician Morrison who went to the Matou family to register the change of owner a few years ago, but now he is no longer in the Magic Association, but as a businessman, he mainly sells various potions made by Matou Shinji.

Of course, to put it more crudely, he went from running errands for the Magic Association to running errands for Matou Shinji.

"Master Shinji, recently, the demand for black blood potions from the Holy Church is increasing, and it is even said that when they hunt down disciples, those people in the Temple will bring a bottle and turn their flesh and blood into a potion for the dead. Highly poisonous, only 20 bottles a month, which is really too little."

"There's no other way, I can only make the people of the Holy Church work harder. Didn't they come here like this before... Without the black blood potion, it wouldn't have killed a lot of dead disciples."

Matou Shinji said disapprovingly, he still has to study magic, exercise and swordsmanship himself, how can he have so much time to increase production, if it is not for the behemoth of the Church, he does not even want to give a fixed twenty bottles a month.

Morrison can't do anything about it, after all, he is just a small intermediary and a second-order dealer, and it is impossible to force Matou Shinji to work, if it is the other way around.

The vehicle stopped in front of a hotel, Morrison took the two people into the elevator, went to a luxury suite in the hotel, and handed some things to Shinji: "This is the map of the city, the hotel's key card, the two Zhang has a local bank card..."

Matou Shinji took these miscellaneous things, and Morrison left here afterwards. He still has his own business to do, and he is not a subordinate of Matou Shinji. The relationship between the two is more like a collaborator. .

Looking at the time, it is already afternoon, and Matou Shinji will not go to the door to "greet" the tenants.

Shinji turned his head slightly and saw Mousse kneeling on the ground, opening the suitcase and taking out all the things inside. After checking the cleanliness of the hotel wardrobe, he sorted the clothes into it.

Matou Shinji had nothing to do in the room, and it was still some time before night, so he told Mousse and left the hotel to go out for a walk. After all, this was the first time he came to another city.

Whether it is to get acquainted with the streets or to have a little understanding of the customs here, Matou Shinji thinks that this will help him in his next work. After all... he is likely to come to the door as a bad guest!