Finding The Real Name Chapter 3

The friction between the pen tip and the paper creates a rustling sound.

Aaron Li finished writing the answer to the last question and let out a sigh of relief.

The Chiyo Municipal Inaba High School where he studied was considered a famous school in the county, and the academic pressure was quite high.

Looking around, most people in the class were still writing furiously.

Xingchuan, who was sitting next to me, bit his pen lightly and frowned.

Noticing Aaron Li's gaze, she raised her head and looked at him, then suddenly pointed at the desk with her finger.

Is there something underneath?

He followed the direction of the other person's finger, looking down, past the slender waist under the uniform shirt and the navy blue sailor skirt, the black knee socks and indoor shoes wrapped around the white legs, and saw a line of black fonts crawling on the ground like ants, then climbing onto his desk, forming a line of text on the desktop: "The answer to the third-to-last question is ()?"

Is this what the magical girl's power is used for? !

He shook his head firmly.

The other party pursed his lips and snorted.

A few minutes later, as the teacher announced the end of the exam, a series of sighs were heard in the classroom.

Noah Mizushima turned around, his eyes straight: "I want to play football."

Xingchuan lay on the desk as if she was burned out. She faced Aaron Li, looking listless.

"Student Aaron Li, if you do not help someone in need, you will be punished by heaven."

"I am doing this to protect everyone's dreams."

Protect the dream of magical girls.

"So, to avoid punishment from the gods, please treat me to takoyaki for lunch!"

Xingchuan, who had already disqualified herself as a magical girl in Aaron Li's mind, pushed the conversation forward on her own and sat up with great momentum.

She winked at Aaron Li.

Do you have anything else to say about what happened yesterday?

"...Fine."

"What a perfunctory answer!"

"Yes."

"It makes no difference at all! I'll go to the cafeteria first!"

She slipped out of the classroom like a rabbit.

Noah Mizushima, who was sitting back on his back, no longer had his lifeless eyes, but instead showed an interested expression.

"When did you two become so close?"

"She just blackmailed me into paying for lunch? You call that good?"

"Generally speaking, I think so."

Noah Mizushima chuckled a few times.

"It's been less than two weeks since the start of school, but I feel like the relationships in the class have already started to take shape."

In fact, this is true. The new high school students have gradually adapted to the school environment and started to form small groups.

Aaron Li is also very concerned about the changes in interpersonal relationships in the class, especially those who are given strange names.

From what he could see, the blonde girl from [Subhuman (Mimicry)] was quite popular with both boys and girls, [Phantom Thief] was quite popular among the females, and [Vampire] was rather aloof and often sat in his seat by himself in a daze.

"I am going to eat."

He spoke to Noah Mizushima.

"Oh, come on!"

"What oil should I add?"

When I walked out of the classroom, a few boys with dyed hair came towards me.

The leader stopped him and said frivolously: "Classmate, can you help me call Yashu from your class?"

"cannot."

Aaron Li glanced at the words "Bad A" and "Bad B" on the heads of these people and shook his head.

"Hey, first-year, has anyone ever taught you how to behave towards your seniors?!"

[Bad B] had a nose stud, shook his fist, and reached out to grab his collar.

Aaron Li grabbed his hand, turned sideways and pulled gently.

[Bad B] was thrown out like a small stone, fell prone on the ground, and slid for three or four meters.

He covered his bleeding nose and let out a disembodied scream.

The other bad guys obviously hadn’t expected this development and looked at each other in bewilderment.

The noise at the door was heard in the classroom. Noah Mizushima walked over, took a look at the scene, and stood next to Aaron Li.

"Want to fight?"

Following him out came a short and handsome boy. When the leading boy with a "Bad A" on his head saw him, he quickly shouted, "We are here to look for Masaaki-kun, not to fight."

Aaron Li frowned.

Owen Uehara Uehara, a boy who usually seems timid and has a strange nickname on his head.

[The person with the spiritual physique].

But the strange thing is that even though Aaron Li can now see spirits, he didn't see anything entangled with Uehara in the classroom.

Could this spiritual physique be fake?

Uehara looked at these bad guys with a panic expression, but he still managed a bitter smile: "They came to find me. Sorry to trouble you, Aaron Li."

Aaron Li glanced at him and said to Noah Mizushima, "Let's go."

The bad guys ran over to help their companions as if they had been pardoned.

"Is Uehara-san being bullied?"

After walking some distance, Noah Mizushima said worriedly.

"It's possible, but if the person involved is unwilling to admit it, there's no way to guarantee that this is the case."

Aaron Li seemed to be thinking about something. He could still clearly hear the conversation between the bad guys and Uehara behind him:

"...Yes, tonight at 7:30...the dark alley near the school...you'd better come here honestly..."

Arriving at the cafeteria, the two went to order food separately.

Aaron Li bought an extra portion of takoyaki and walked over to sit next to Lila Aoi, who was swinging her legs out of boredom.

"Your takoyaki."

"So slow! I'm sorry."

She took a bite of food and smiled contentedly.

"By the way, I was just about to ask Xingchuan, what do you think of our class?"

"? What's up?"

"Is there anything special?"

"Yes, there are magical girls like me enrolling here."

Couldn't she be aware of other possible anomalies?

Aaron Li thought for a moment and asked, "You said yesterday that you couldn't sense the monsters, and what about local mysticism? What does that mean?"

"Ah, this is exactly what I wanted to tell Aaron Li about the identity of the person I will introduce to you tomorrow."

Aaron Li pretended to listen attentively.

"First, I want to ask Aaron Li a question. Which do you think is more powerful, the magical girl or the miko?"

"How would I know? A magic girl will definitely beat a miko in seconds."

Xingchuan retracted his piercing gaze and said, "Although I also feel that way, in fact, it is more accurate to say that the two have different worldviews and cannot be compared."

"Worldview?"

"A convenient way of saying it is that whether it is magic, Yin Yang Jutsu, Ninjutsu or something else, it is essentially a different perspective on and distortion of reality. This causes mysteries with similar perspectives to attract each other, while mysteries with different perspectives will repel each other."

The magical girl pointed at herself and said, "For example, I can deal with the demons and monsters on Sakurajima, but my strength will be weakened, and vice versa."

"So from ancient times to the present, based on the differences and similarities in perspectives, circles centered around certain extraordinary groups have gradually emerged. Just like fictional works with different worldviews, stories dominated by vampires and werewolves, stories about magical girls fighting monsters from other worlds, stories about witches subduing demons and monsters... Most of the time, they do not interfere with each other, but occasionally they do intersect."

Hearing this, Aaron Li understood: "Because I killed the monster, you think I belong to the so-called native mysticism worldview?"

"Pretty much. There are basically three main worldviews on Sakurajima."

Xingchuan raised three white and tender fingers.

"The ancient monsters and ghosts, as well as the evil spirits of humans, are suppressed by the [Hachiman Shrine Joint Committee]."

"The supernatural beings who are rampant in the world will be punished by [Public Security Section 9]."

"The Negative World monsters that have descended from outer space will be purified by the magical girls of our Negative World Disaster Countermeasures Bureau."

"The professionals I mentioned yesterday were the members of the Shrine Association."