Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 512: A Life Healed as Well

“Brother, I’m a little scared.”

“What are you scared of?” Qing Chen asked in confusion.

Shinguji Maki hesitated for a long time before saying, “Those things just now all crawled into my head, will they eat my brain?”

The little girl voiced her concerns.

Qing Chen said seriously, “From today onwards, you have to train hard. If you don’t train hard, they will make trouble in your head.”

The little girl burst into tears, “What kind of training?”

Qing Chen’s lips curled up slightly. He seemed to have found some of the fun Master Li Shutong had back then. “There’s a lot of training. Just train obediently.”

He thought carefully. Could he really buy a phone for such an easy-to-fool little girl? If Yi were to fool her, wouldn’t she be completely fooled?!

No, the little girl must be kept away from Surface World One.

Qing Chen pondered. Although he didn’t know why the little girl couldn’t sense the Shikigami, one thing was certain: they shouldn’t do anything harmful to the little girl while staying inside her.

If the little girl were gone, they would certainly be gone too, having lost their home.

The Shikigami’s spiritual bodies need the Spiritual Bridge in the brain to nourish them. This is why Red Leaf Hunt and the others want to use the little girl as their home. If the little girl dies, they will die too.

Qing Chen suspected that these three Shikigami might already belong to the little girl, but she hasn’t embarked on the Cultivation path yet, so she can’t establish a connection with Red Leaf Hunt and the others.

Perhaps, after a few years, when the little girl completes her first Trials of Life and Death challenge, she will see the harvest of today.

But what’s interesting here is that other Yin-Yang Masters have weak bodies, so when everyone kills Yin-Yang Masters, they will try to attack the body first.

But if the little girl takes the Knight path, her body will most likely be stronger than her Shikigami in the future.

Anyone who wants to pick on a soft persimmon may very well find themselves a father on the battlefield.

Qing Chen imagined how many people a Knight Yin-Yang Master could trick, and found it very interesting.

“By the way, after they entered your head, did you feel dizzy or any other discomfort?” Qing Chen asked.

In the Hu Family Intelligence Agency’s information, Yin-Yang Masters can actually summon Shikigami beyond their level. For example, a B-Class can summon four.

However, after extra summoning, the Yin-Yang Master, overwhelmed, would be drowsy all day, with constant pain between their brows.

Shinguji Maki thought for a moment, “No, I didn’t feel anything.”

Qing Chen recalled the information he had read about the Shinguji Clan of Japan. The Uji Shūi Monogatari recorded a strange phenomenon, the Hyakki Yakō.

Later annotations couldn’t explain this phenomenon, because demons wouldn’t idly gather together. If it was a Yin-Yang Master’s doing, there was no such powerful Yin-Yang Master.

Now that he thought about it, Qing Chen looked at the little girl. Could it be that some great being of the Shinguji Clan had once controlled hundreds of Shikigami?!

Qing Chen glanced at the little girl. Should he help the little girl find the other Yin-Yang Masters and see how many Shikigami she can accommodate?

In the past, Yin-Yang Masters randomly selected from hundreds of Shikigami. If he takes the little girl to steal most of the Shikigami, leaving only Dōjōji Bell, Nekomata, Zashiki-warashi, etc. in the card pool, all Yin-Yang Masters would probably feel desperate?!

This is like cutting off the enemy’s supplies!

No, I have to leave first.

Shendai Yunyi had already sent the message back to the Shadow Agency. The other party would surely attack in full force to ensure that Shinguji Maki, such a threatening figure, dies.

To be honest, although the little girl is still an ordinary person, in the eyes of the Shadow Agency, the priority of capturing her is definitely higher than capturing Qing Chen.

This is an existence that will shake the foundation of Shendai.

Qing Chen took the little girl’s hand and walked north, “Let’s go, before some people go crazy, leave this place.”

They came from the north, cutting through three search lines. Just when everyone thought he would bravely continue to fight, arrogantly, Qing Chen suddenly turned back.

Because Hokkaido is in the north, and Shinguji Maki’s mother is there.

After an unknown amount of time, a fully armed combat team arrived. After finding Shendai Yunyi’s body, they quickly searched the nearby battlefield.

One of them knelt beside Shendai Yunyi and took out a black dagger.

The dagger was painted with red talisman patterns. The person gently swung the knife, cutting open Shendai Yunyi’s chest skin.

Shendai Yunyi’s blood gushed into the dagger, but the dagger was like a bottomless pit, never seeming to be full.

In a blink of an eye, the corpse withered.

The red talismans on the dagger glowed, and the person used the dagger to carve a pentagram array in the snow. As he carved, the blood that had been absorbed flowed back out.

The person stood up and waited, staring intently at the pentagram array.

But after a long time, nothing appeared in the pentagram array.

“Huh, where’s Benimaru?! Benimaru is missing!”

He took out a satellite phone from his pocket and made a call with a solemn expression, “Boss, something big has happened. After Shendai Yunyi died, there was no Benimaru in his heart. Someone used some unknown method to take away the Shikigami!”

The other side of the phone was silent for a long time, “From now on, this is the top priority of the Shadow Agency. We must find these two people, and we must find the missing Benimaru.”

When Shendai Yunyi desperately sent back the message, the higher-ups of the Shadow Agency were only dubious, after all, they had never seen anyone who could suppress Shikigami.

And now, they believe it.

Someone can really suppress Shikigami and even steal Shikigami.

You must know that Shikigami are unique. If they can’t extract Benimaru, it means that there will be no such cards in the “card pool” in the future!

For a moment, the entire Shadow Agency went crazy.

Originally, they had only mobilized a small number of people to hunt down Qing Chen and Shinguji Maki, but within a day, eighty percent of the Shadow Agency members had joined the hunt.

This time, Qing Chen really stirred up a hornet’s nest. Although the outside world knew about the Shadow Agency’s unusual activity, they didn’t know what could have driven the Shadow Agency to this point.

Many people felt that even if the Nine Provinces and the Shadow Agency went to war directly, the commotion wouldn’t be this big.

No one imagined how bold Qing Chen was. He actually returned to Nakatsugawa City, Gifu Prefecture.

Nakatsugawa City.

A bored little girl waited outside the mall, sitting in a recently rented RV.

She leaned against the car window, looking through the glass at the mall. A young boy was smiling and talking to another little girl.

Shinguji Maki was a little envious. Qing Chen rarely smiled at her so brightly. It seemed that only recently had her brother smiled more often.

Usually, her brother was very strict.

At this time, Qing Chen returned to the car with bags of things.

He had changed his identity, and he would be living in the RV with the little girl.

“Brother, what did you do just now?” the little girl asked softly.

“I went shopping,” Qing Chen said.

“Who was that little girl just now? I saw you talking to her for a long time,” Shinguji Maki was curious.

“Oh,” Qing Chen said, “I was asking her what gifts Japanese girls usually receive for their birthdays. She said a lot, and I don’t know what you like, so I bought them all back.”

Shinguji Maki was stunned. So that’s how it is.

“Brother, why did you buy things for me?” the little girl asked softly.

Qing Chen thought for a moment and said, “From now on, you have to call me Master, you know.”

Qing Chen fell into his memories, “A long time ago, when I first became an apprentice, my master foolishly went to ask the Time Travelers what Outer World fathers give their children. The Time Travelers were also foolish, some said to give cars, because you need a car to date, others said to give houses, Outer World is a monogamous system. My master almost believed it.”

“He took me to buy cars and houses, and he took me to kill my opponents. At that time, my master said that whatever other children had, I must have.”

“Thinking about it now, it’s really nostalgic. So, I’m the same to you. Whatever other little girls have, you must have too.”

Qing Chen felt that the Knight inheritance, besides pitting apprentices generation after generation, also passed down some warm things.

Li Shutong healed his life, and now it’s his turn to heal Shinguji Maki’s life.

Strictly speaking, teaching Hu Xiaoniu, Li Tongyun, Nangeng Chen, Liu Dezhu, and Luo Wanya the Cultivation inheritance is more like finding fellow travelers.

Only when facing Li Ke, Qing Yi, and Shinguji Maki did he truly take on apprentices.

Li Ke and Qing Yi have their own careers and families, only Shinguji Maki is the one he teaches by his side.

Therefore, Qing Chen is especially attentive.

Shinguji Maki looked at the RV filled with gifts, and she could even imagine Qing Chen telling the clerk to make sure the packaging looked nice.

The little girl lowered her head and quietly wiped away her tears, “Thank you, Master.”

Qing Chen said, “Unpack all the gifts and see. Keep the ones you like and throw away the ones you don’t like.”

The little girl said, “I like them all.”

“You know you like them all without even looking?”

“Yeah, I know without looking.”