Spell Return: The Wheel of Time

Chapter 329 Freshmen
Terui Hideki had never felt so emotional in his fifteen years of life.

The story begins when he received an admission invitation from an unknown university that he had never applied to. The school, which was said to be related to theology, showed his family something incredible.

On the one hand, their close cooperation with major prestigious universities, enterprises and even the government is what attracted his parents the most. Terui Hideki's grades are not that outstanding. If he can be admitted to this university, at least he will not have to worry about his future career prospects.

This has been proven by the local officials he had seen on TV, and he has already gained the trust of the Terui family. However, these more "adult" and more realistic issues are not what Terui Hideki cares about.

There was only one reason why this admission invitation attracted him, and that was because it came from a secret conversation between him and the other party and a confidentiality agreement.

Since he was a child, Terui Hideki has occasionally seen some strange things. Sometimes it is just a vague shadow in his peripheral vision, and sometimes it looks like some strange little animals. Those things often only stay in his sight for a very short time.

Being young at the time, he naturally told his parents the truth about the situation, but those creepy children's words were naturally regarded as innocent children's words.

Perhaps just like some children calling cars man-eating monsters, Terui Hideki's parents also regarded his words as the naive words of a child who was addicted to animation and comics.

But after so many times, his parents began to suspect that their child had been possessed by evil spirits, or had been haunted by mountain spirits when he returned to his hometown. After praying to the temple to exorcise the evil spirits several times, Terui Hideki knew that he should not say such things casually.

And to be honest, the frequency of him seeing those strange things is not very high, and he doesn't know where to find them. Sometimes he may not see them once in a year or two. However, there are also cases where he only catches shadows and is not counted.

In short, Terui Hideki grew up, graduated from elementary school and was admitted to a better local junior high school. Until he was about to enter college, he never told anyone about his strange experience.

For a boy of this age, who is surrounded by all kinds of comics, movies and TV shows, Terui Hideki has thought that he might have superpowers, but apart from being able to see some strange things, he hasn't found anything supernatural about himself.

Over time, he just regarded it as a power similar to the "Yin Yang Eyes", and it was not very useful. During the most reckless years of his life, Terui Hideki certainly tried to explore whether there was any supernatural existence.

The most direct evidence is naturally his frequent visits to forums discussing supernatural beings. As one of the first people to pay attention to these things, Terui Hideki was excited at first. The joy and relief of discovering his "kindred spirits" was simply beyond description.

But he soon discovered that most of the serious supernatural events in those forums were fabricated, or some were so common that it was impossible to tell whether they were true or false.

Terui Hideki was only in his teens, and he didn't even have the energy or money to go to the places where the incidents happened as mentioned by netizens. Gradually, he just treated the things in the forum as stories, and occasionally exaggerated his own experiences and posted them. He did receive some comments praising his good storytelling.

There was nothing that could be done about it. Ever since the topic of the supernatural started to arise, most of the students in Terui Hideki's school had paid attention to this topic. Even if the supernatural really existed in this world, it couldn't be so rampant, right? Of course, some people were making up stories to attract attention.

Hideki Terui had originally made up his mind that once he was admitted to university and became an adult, the time and money he would have at his disposal would be enough for him to accomplish his goals of traveling and exploring at one stroke, but everything in the world is so dramatic.

When he was about to graduate from junior high school and enter college, he received a unique admission invitation.

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"Please sign this confidentiality agreement before the formal conversation begins, Terui-san."

How could the ten-year-old Terui Hideki understand what an agreement was? He could only pretend to be calm and pick up the pages handed to him by the other party and read them word by word. Fortunately, the terms on the pages were very simple.

But the more he read, the more frightened he became, because the terms of the agreement were very vague, and it didn't even specify what would result in punishment for revealing them or what the consequences of violating them would be. However, the various seals on it and the endorsements of many law enforcement agencies made him realize that this was not a joke.

Hideki Terui smelled something strange. None of his good friends received admission invitations from this school, but the other party just happened to find him.

Now there is this strange agreement, and the request of this man with long black hair and a uniform he has never seen before to have a private interview with him, which is definitely not a coincidence!

With the endorsement of so many official organizations, Terui Hideki certainly would not think that the other party was a villain in a novel. With surging expectations, he agreed to a private meeting called an interview.

After roughly reading the agreement, Terui Hideki quickly signed his name and put his fingerprint on it. The man opposite him with slender eyes and a unique aura put away the agreement with satisfaction.

"Hello, Terui Hideki, I'm the person in charge of your admission this time - Geto Suguru."

Terui Hideki's eyes suddenly shrank, and he found that he did not even see how the other party put away the agreement in his hand, as if the other party had performed a bare-handed magic trick and made it disappear out of thin air.

Then he saw an even more shocking scene: a hand suddenly rested on the shoulder of the man opposite named Geto Suguru, and Terui Hideki was sure that there should be only the two of them in the room at that moment!
The boy sat opposite the smiling mysterious man, and a pale hand that shouldn't have been there was placed on the latter's shoulder...

But this hand was not the end. Terui Hideki soon saw a pale face with white hair slowly rising from behind him. This suffocating scene was so strange that it did not make him feel overly frightened.

"As expected, Terui-san can see it. It seems that there is no problem with the investigation."

hiss--

Terui Hideki took a deep breath and pointed at the figure behind him who had completely stood up. Her skin, pupils, hair and beard were all snow-white. She had a unique beauty, like a character from the second dimension. She was actually floating in the air!

"What is this? Are you an Onmyoji? Is she your Shikigami?"

Geto Xiayou burst out laughing. This kid was right. In the past, sorcerers did have the nickname of Onmyoji. But his mentality was very good. The Snow Girl's techniques didn't have much power, and this kid wasn't very scared. Instead, he was mostly filled with curiosity and surprise.

Geto Suguru was very satisfied as he had accurately captured the other party's emotional changes using the Snow Girl's technique. To become a sorcerer, one needs more than just qualifications, but also character.

"You can assume so, then you should also know why we came to you."

Under the deliberate suggestion of Geto Suguru, Terui Hideki linked these things together under the premise that "supernatural powers really exist". The other party could have contacted him in many ways, but the school's enrollment method was the only one...

"Does your school specialize in teaching this kind of supernatural power?" Seeing Xia Yujie nod, Terui Yingshu's expression suddenly became firm and enthusiastic: "I agree to enroll!"

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With both parties willing, there were almost no obstacles. Terui Hideki quickly completed the "interview" and then welcomed the day of registration for school with anticipation that became longer and longer day by day.

His parents took him to the Shinkansen's destination, where there were buses arranged by the school to welcome new students. After saying goodbye to his parents and putting away his luggage, Terui Hideki boarded one of the buses.

Confusion, expectation, surprise, curiosity... in those gazes filled with all kinds of emotions, Terui Hideki saw dozens of young boys and girls looking at him, the newcomer.

"Hello everyone, my name is Terui Hideki, and I will be your classmate from now on, so please take care of me!"

After greeting everyone in a somewhat eccentric manner, Terui Hideki walked towards the empty seats at the back of the car. Then he saw a slightly plump boy waving at him. Perhaps he had some good impression of the boy because of his self-introduction just now. After all, such behavior is relatively rare for a group of young people in their teens.

"My name is Ogawa Yoshie. Brother, you were really brave just now. It was so cool."

Terui Hideki sat down with a smile. The other party was obviously also a very familiar and sociable person. After a few words, they exchanged basic information such as names.

"Hey, let me ask you... is that why they invited you to this school?"

Even if Ogawa Yoshie lowered his voice, it couldn't be hidden. As soon as he said this, he attracted the attention of the boys and girls in the front of the car.

Terui Hideki smiled and nodded: "Yes, you and everyone else are like this, I just now realize that I am not alone."

The conversation between the two seemed to open up everyone's chatterbox in the carriage. At first there were a few quiet words of agreement and introductions, and then soon the carriage became lively. They all had some understanding of their own "abnormality" to a certain extent. This journey to a brand new and magnificent world naturally made everyone at this time restless.

This situation continued until the bus driver and what should be school staff got on the bus and prepared to depart. There was nothing much to say about the driver, except that his temperament did not seem like that of a simple driver.

The person sent by the school attracted more attention, because she was a pretty and heroic woman who did not look much older than them. The most important thing was that she was wearing a uniform that looked like a school uniform, and on her back was a long piece of cloth wrapped in a cloth bag, which looked like a weapon.

"My name is Zenin Maki, and I'm a second-year student, your senior. I know you have a lot of questions, but don't ask them. The teachers will teach you when you get to school."

This senior seems a bit cold and hard to mess with...

This thought came to everyone's mind at the same time. Looking at the other person taking root in the slightly undulating carriage, many people probably guessed in their hearts that this senior schoolmate might be a member of that world.

Maki heaved a sigh of relief after calming down the group of freshmen. As one of the people assigned to welcome the freshmen, she was honestly not very willing to do this kind of work. Although it was not troublesome, it was boring, wasn't it?

But there were only a few of them in the second grade. Panda and Goujuan were not suitable for this job. The third graders were basically half-graduated and would not stay in school for a long time. There was no choice but for her to take over.

"Three buses, there must be about 130 to 140 people. Tsk, tsk, I didn't expect that Juju High School would have so many students one day. But how many of them can become official Jujutsu masters?"

Maki was lost in thought out of boredom, but the situation in the car behind was different. Otsutsuki, who was almost as affectionate as his girlfriend, was called back to do the welcoming work. With his gentle personality, he couldn't refuse the chattering questions from his junior classmates at all.

And it was not convenient for him to finish the work of introducing the spell in advance, so he could only retreat step by step in front of these very emotional young people. Fortunately, the journey to the spell height was not very far.

The car could no longer move forward after a certain distance, so they had to walk the rest of the way together.

Standing in front of an old torii gate, freshmen from several buses got off the buses. They were told, carrying their luggage, that they would have to take a small test and walk the rest of the way to their destination.

"There are so many people..."

Hearing Maki's sigh, Otsutsuki echoed her. He said that having more people is also a good thing. If one-tenth of these people can become level 2 to level 1 magicians, and about half can become level 3 magicians, and the rest can join the auxiliary supervision team even if they do not become sorcerers, it will be a very good signal for the current situation.

By then, there will be enough people to deal with low-level curses, and they will have enough energy to deal with those troublesome curses, and the damage caused by various curse incidents will naturally be greatly reduced.

"Have you heard that the first-year student, not them, is a traditional student recruited like Kei, and he seems to have become Sukuna's vessel."

Of course, Otsutsuki knew who Sukuna was. In fact, he had even carried out the mission of exorcising the curse that resulted from swallowing Sukuna's finger. Now, when he heard the news that Maki probably got from the Kaba sisters or the panda, he was also very moved.

"But it was Genichi-sensei who was in charge of that mission and recruited him into Juuko."

"Oh, that's fine, but I still want to meet that new student..."

The two of them were walking at the front of the team and talking. No matter how hard the people behind tried to catch up, they were always some distance away from them, which once again caused waves in the hearts of the freshmen.

Finally, when they could see the school building, Otsutsuki announced the good news that they were about to arrive at the school. Then, the hundred or so people saw three figures at the end of the stone road between the tall trees.

"Hi, hi, hi, everyone! I'm one of your future practical class teachers - Gojo Satoru. You can call me Gojo Sensei."

The bright sunlight filled the gaps between the mossy stone slabs. A tall and handsome man with white hair shining in the sunlight waved to everyone. Then, with a smile that seemed brighter than the sunlight on his face, he opened his arms as if for a hug.

"Welcome to a brand new world, and welcome to the Tokyo Metropolitan College of Jutsu!"

(End of this chapter)