Finding The Real Name Chapter 2

"what have you done?"

There was a hint of anxiety in Mira's tone.

She was about to start eating, but she found that the food had a smell that the monster hated and even feared.

In order to vent this emotion, she did not choose to hide, but resorted to more direct violence.

The man-eating monster's hands transformed into beast-like claws, which swung down with a gust of bloody wind.

But the prey, which should have been unable to move, suddenly jumped up and stretched out its left hand to grab her throat.

With the support of an inexplicable force, Aaron Li actually suppressed Yin Po and threw her to the ground.

The monster let out a scream, and its white neck emitted a burning smell as if it had been touched by a branding iron. Its hands, which had turned into sharp claws, also returned to their original state.

"Get out of my way!"

She tried to push Aaron Li away and punched the damn human.

Aaron Li's consciousness was already on the verge of disintegration. He had no idea why he could suppress the monster by brute force. He just followed the urge to attack and raised the piece of glass in his right hand.

Not sure if it was an illusion, he vaguely felt a crimson glow on the fragments.

Mira, who was pinned to the ground, suddenly let out a terrified roar. She struggled to break free from Aaron Li's grip, got up from the ground, and then activated her ability to become invisible.

But it was of no use.

Aaron Li stared at the words floating in the air.

I have discovered your real name.

He chased after the line of text that was cautiously drifting toward the door, and stabbed the fragment under the text like swinging a dagger.

There was a real feeling of hitting a solid object.

Mira revealed her figure. She opened her mouth slightly as if she wanted to let out a silent roar. With the wound where Aaron Li had stabbed her as the center, red lines expanded like blood vessels, and then a clear flame ignited.

This man-eating monster was reduced to ashes.

With the death of the enemy, Aaron Li felt a warm current surging from inside his body. He fell to the ground with a plop, and his energy and consciousness receded like the tide.

At the last moment before he fell into darkness, he vaguely saw a figure rushing into the classroom and saying to the doll-shaped thing floating in the air: "...The barrier was clearly opened, why did someone get dragged into it..."

When I opened my eyes, I saw the ceiling of the school infirmary.

Aaron Li stretched his body and found himself lying on a hospital bed. The lights were on in the room and he could tell from the clock on the wall that it was already late at night.

The campus was quiet and silent, as if everything that happened at dusk was just an illusion.

Hearing a slight breathing sound beside him, he turned his head and saw a figure sitting on a chair beside the bed.

It's Lila Aoi.

She was wearing a school uniform, her head moving up and down a little, and she looked like she was having a hard fight with sleepiness.

Aaron Li's movement obviously woke her up, and she said in surprise: "Student Aaron Li, you finally woke up! I saw you fainted on the campus after school, so I sent you to the infirmary. Remember to thank me."

"...Why are you looking at the wall and talking?"

And she even stole a glance at his reaction out of the corner of her eye. This lie was such a bad one!

Even if you haven't witnessed your transformation, the words on your head have already betrayed your identity!

"Hey, I'm not used to looking into the eyes of boys. I hope you've recovered. I'll take my leave now!"

She stood up from the chair somewhat stiffly.

"Speaking of which, I felt like I entered a strange place after school, and saw girls wearing strange clothes beating monsters."

Lila Aoi-san's face is very interesting, showing the style of an abstract painter.

"Hahaha, we're already in high school, Aaron Li, you wouldn't still take dreams seriously, right? Girls wearing strange clothes fighting monsters is an outdated animation routine. I'm just asking out of curiosity, how strange is it?"

"It's the kind that's, ah, really powerful, really exaggerated."

"Is it exaggerated?! Well, I mean, no girl would wear exaggerated clothes to fight. They are not middle school or elementary school students... wuwu."

She looked like she was about to cry, which was considered a very exciting conversation.

Although he realized that Lila Aoi did not want to reveal her identity, Aaron Li was really eager to know the truth.

Where did those monsters come from and what is the story behind Mira?

Most importantly, has a being like her, who possesses extraordinary powers, always been hiding from ordinary people?

Before today, even though Aaron Li could see those guys with strange words on their heads, even if he really believed in the authenticity of the words, he was still mentally in the position of a bystander.

He had never experienced any unusual events, and his daily life was like a thick glass. Even if he saw a little bit of the reality of the world through the glass, he still felt that there was a barrier in front of him.

Until it was torn apart by the life-and-death crisis brought by the monster.

So, he has to choose to take a step forward.

"Lila Aoi-san, are you doing a job like a magical girl or Sailor Moon?"

"What the hell! Sailor Moon is so shameful! Who would do that kind of work?!"

She blushed and shouted angrily.

"That's the job of a magical girl?"

Lila Aoi said nothing, but sat back in her chair with her hands on her knees, looking very distressed.

After a while, she raised her head and looked at Aaron Li, saying seriously: "The magical girls of Sakurajima originated from the influx of European witch heritage in 1966, which was mixed with local culture and mutated."

"Well?"

"So it's not surprising that the magical girl's battle costume is a parody of the image of the 'witch who hides her face.'"

"ah?"

"Not surprising at all!!"

"Okay, sorry."

Xingchuan Aoi nodded with satisfaction and said, "I originally wanted to find someone else to contact Aaron Li, but this is also okay---Let me ask you first, you awakened a special power and killed a monster, right?"

Did you guess this?

When it comes to special powers, Aaron Li subconsciously thinks of the ability to see words.

Xingchuan continued, "Sometimes, ordinary people awaken the power to dispel evil spirits, so you and the monster are sucked into the barrier together. Well, if I wasn't unfamiliar with local mysticism, I would have sensed its existence a long time ago."

But before Aaron Li was caught in the barrier mentioned by Xingchuan, he probably did not have the so-called power to exorcise demons. It would be better to say that he killed the monster by relying on some kind of combat ability given by the words.

There is obviously a difference.

He didn't mean to correct it, but asked, "I'm not sure what's going on. Are the monsters that Yokai and Lila Aoi-san fight the same thing?"

"Of course not!" Xingchuan jumped up and crossed his hands in front of his chest, "Monsters are monsters, and monsters from the negative world are monsters from the negative world."

She leaned forward slightly and said, "And I am a magical girl codenamed Xinghui, who is under the jurisdiction of the Negative World Disaster Countermeasures Bureau!"

Negative World Disaster Countermeasures Bureau?

No wonder it’s [Active Magical Girl~(^_)☆], it turns out there is indeed an organization behind it.

Aaron Li was thinking, but found that Xingchuan, who had just acted like a great man, was raising his hands to cover his red face and muttering something.

"Wow, giving out code names is more embarrassing than I thought. How did the seniors manage to be so calm?"

He asked, "According to what Xingchuan said, I have awakened my superpowers and was involved in the barrier you mentioned. Will I be under the jurisdiction of the Countermeasures Bureau?"

"It's not a superpower, and it's not under the jurisdiction of the Countermeasures Bureau. Didn't I say that I wanted to find someone else to contact Aaron Li?"

Xingchuan shook his head to express his disapproval: "But it's so late today, and you've been through so much, you should go home first. I will introduce more professional people to you on the day after tomorrow when we have a day off."

Without waiting for Aaron Li to express his opinion, she picked up the schoolbag beside her, ran to the door, and waved at him: "Student Aaron Li's injuries have been healed. I will go back first. See you tomorrow."

The door snapped shut.

Not long after, accompanied by the sound of dong dong dong footsteps, the door was pushed open a crack, revealing a face with a slight blush: "Well, well, I hope you don't tell my true identity to others, please, Aaron Li!"

I originally thought that Xingchuan was a serious person, but today I discovered that she actually has a pretty weird side.

And she's a magical girl.

Aaron Li lifted the quilt and got out of bed.

When he stood on the ground, he felt that his body seemed to have become completely different.

Full of energy, the world before his eyes seemed to become clear and distinct. He even had the illusion that as long as he concentrated his attention, time in the outside world would slow down.

He placed his hands on the railing of the bed and applied a little force.

The metal felt slightly deformed.

Is this the power brought by the words of the Exorcist?

Aaron Li found the glass surface of a medicine cabinet and saw the words "The Exorcist (Completion 3.5%)" written above his head in the reflection.

It's rising...maybe it has something to do with killing Mira.

When you focus on the completion level in brackets, a new column will open next to it.

[Power to drive away evil: suppress evil, strengthen, attach, ???]

【Clear Eyes】

There is still a large number of question marks below.

Based on his experience in playing games, Aaron Li speculated that new abilities might emerge as the degree of completion increases?

He also remembered that a certain condition seemed to be met, so a "prototype" was extracted. So by analogy, are there other prototypes?

"It feels like the belt buckle in a special effects movie."

On the way home, Aaron Li saw a lot of illusory figures. Most of them looked like humans, but some were walking on the ground, some were floating in the air, and passed straight through the surrounding objects.

There are also words on their heads, basically in a form similar to "Tanaka Taro's Wandering Ghost".

"Are these ghosts? Is this what the [Purifying Eye] does?"

Aaron Li curiously stretched out his hand and tried to touch a spirit that happened to be strolling in front of him, but the other party showed a vivid expression of fear and turned into a wisp of white smoke and flew away.

He could only give up the idea.

When he returned home, he took a look at the second floor of his neighbor's house and found that the light was still on in the room.

Since my father was away from home most of the year, the house was naturally dark.

Aaron Li ate something quickly, took a shower, and continued to study his abilities.

He picked up the compass from his pencil case and recalled the feeling at dusk.

A crimson light shone on the compass.

Soon, books, pencils, and erasers were all in his hands, and he was having a lot of fun.

As a result, I fell asleep without officially starting the research.