Zongman I fight weirdness in everyday world

Just then, Ye Xing's phone suddenly rang.

After answering, the voice on the other end, was Yagami Light's voice, filled with a smile.

"Yoo-hoo!"

Hearing these three words, Ye Xing remained expressionless, replying in a flat tone.

"Dango, Mai-senpai, Futaba, and Miko saying hello like that, I think it's cute, but hearing those three words from your mouth, I feel disgusted to the point where my hair stands on end. Please, be normal, did you go to the hospital for a check-up like I asked?"

Yagami Light: "...I'm not sick."

"Don't try to hide your illness from me, I can tell with one glance that you are one hundred and twenty percent a pure psychopath."

"Indeed..."

Yagami Light said with a smile.

"Every time I talk to you, it makes me feel so much better, I'm even considering transferring to your school."

From a young age, Yagami Light, who had always been called a genius and whose father was a member of the Metropolitan Police Department, had carried the expectations of everyone around him.

At first, he also wanted to live up to those expectations.

But later on, Yagami Light discovered something.

Whether it was the Metropolitan Police Department or being a top student...

No matter which identity he chose to be...

This world was just too boring.

In Yagami Light's eyes, everyone around him, including his father Soichiro Yagami, his mother, and his sister Sayu Yagami, were like NPCs in a game, and it was a game he had been playing for over a decade, knowing the plot even with his eyes closed.

Saying anything, telling them any news, would always elicit the expected response.

Even those peers at school, in Yagami Light's eyes, were just meaningless walking corpses.

Just as he felt that this world, and everyone around him, had no meaning, and everything was beginning to spread towards lifelessness, he suddenly awakened the ability to materialize his soul.

And...

He also met the only person in his life who could understand him and not make him feel bored.

"I suspect you have a bit of masochism."

Hearing Ye Xing's highly aggressive and abstract words, Yagami Light just smiled noncommittally.

"Perhaps, but this time I'm calling because I have something important to tell you."

"What is it?"

"A few days ago, when I went to another world, the Slaying Demon told me that a very strange evil spirit had appeared in the Tokyo Underworld."

"Strange? How so?"

"According to the Slaying Demon, when it devoured that evil spirit, what it felt was not the negative emotions like other Underworld evil spirits, but a strange flavor made up of longing, fervor, and hope."

Speaking of this, Yagami Light paused slightly, before continuing.

"That evil spirit wasn't strong, and originally there was nothing worth paying attention to, but combined with the Sunny Doll Killer incident in Kyoto City last time... perhaps the evil spirits in the Underworld are not only formed from negative emotions."

"Most evil spirits are born from negative emotions, simply because negative emotions account for a greater proportion in today's society. For ordinary people, emotions like joy and hope are far less intense than fear, disappointment, and frustration."

"Or rather, whether human emotions are positive or negative is not important at all. The formation of evil spirits in the Underworld only depends on one factor, which is..."

When Yagami Light said this, he heard Ye Xing on the other end of the phone say faintly.

"The number of people who truly believe is large enough, and the accumulated emotions are strong enough, then they can be transformed into reality, is that the principle, right?"

Yagami Light couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and hesitated.

"You... knew it already?"

Ye Xing chuckled and said.

"I can't say I knew it, but after the Sunny Doll Killer incident, I vaguely had this feeling. The emotions of people hoping for sunny days and their aversion to the continuous rain gave birth to the corresponding evil spirit in the Underworld. And in the real world, it chose a human who had the same desires as the public's longing and merged with it, that's probably the principle."

"This..."

For the first time, a hint of worry appeared in Yagami Light's voice on the other end of the phone.

You should know, a proud person like him, arrogant to the extreme, even not putting others in his eyes, has never been afraid or worried about anything, this is the first time.

"If someone else knows the operating principle of the Underworld, like the Shuten-dōji last time, and guides it in the real world... the consequences would be disastrous."

Speaking of this, Yagami Light paused for a few seconds before slowly saying.

"In short, I'm just giving you a reminder."

"Okay, I understand."

After hanging up the phone, Ye Xing walked straight out of the gate of the Private Toyonosaki Academy.

During his phone call, Soichiro Yagami had already arrived outside the school gate, dispersing the TV reporters and photographers, as well as the rescued students and parents, and also sent a few trusted confidante police officers to clean up the traces at the classroom site.

Soichiro Yagami knew very well that he was indeed assisting Ye Xing, and in a sense, even violated the procedural justice he firmly believed in, equivalent to harboring a criminal who committed murder and used the death penalty.

But...

Isn't that moment when those parents see their children safe and sound more valuable than this so-called procedural justice, the so-called Metropolitan Police Department regulations, the so-called just procedure?

Soichiro Yagami knew very well what he was doing and didn't intend to make any excuses for himself.

But he never regretted it.

Protecting the safety of Kyoto City is the most important tenet in Soichiro Yagami's heart.

"Ye Xing!"

Seeing Ye Xing walk out of the teaching building, Shizuka Hiratsuka immediately stepped forward quickly, breathing a sigh of relief, but her eyes couldn't help but reveal a bit of guilt.

Seeing news reports on the internet and television of "Mask" rescuing the innocent and confronting criminals head-on is a completely different feeling from waiting outside the scene.

It wasn't until she saw Souichiro Yagami and Natsumi Suga leading the students out of the teaching building, but without seeing Yoshingen, that Shizuka Hiratsuka finally felt a sense of panic.

What exactly was I thinking?

Yoshingen is indeed suspected... no, assuming he is "Mask," but inside that teaching building, there were more than twenty students being held hostage, and several criminals wielding guns, who were clearly mentally unstable and would not hesitate to kill.

If something unexpected were to happen...

Then Shizuka Hiratsuka, who asked Yoshingen to come here to help, would probably live in deep guilt for the rest of her life.

"Yoshingen..."

Shizuka Hiratsuka lowered her head, covering her lips with her hands, and two lines of tears uncontrollably flowed from her eyes, like a pear blossom in the rain.

"You're okay... I'm so glad..."

Souichiro Yagami and Natsumi Suga next to her saw Shizuka Hiratsuka's appearance, and the two exchanged a glance, both thinking the same thing.

This scene is quite touching.

However...

Is it really necessary?

"Shizuka."

Because they had met at the fireworks festival before, Natsumi Suga was not unfamiliar with Shizuka Hiratsuka, so she directly addressed her by her first name at this time.

She walked up to Shizuka Hiratsuka, took out a tissue from her pocket and handed it to her, with a wry smile on her face.

"Don't cry, it's not that serious, is it? Do you have some misunderstanding about this guy's strength?"

"Eh?"

Hearing this, Shizuka Hiratsuka couldn't help but be stunned, subconsciously took the tissue, wiped the tears from her face, and looked up at Yoshingen, unlike his usual lazy appearance, at this time Shizuka Hiratsuka's eyes were shining with tears, looking like a pear blossom in the rain.

Seeing her like this, Yoshingen had only one thought.

Single, iron-fisted old woman, so cute.

"Yes, don't worry, I'm fine."

Shizuka Hiratsuka's nose twitched twice, she stretched out her right hand and grabbed Yoshingen's sleeve, saying with a crying voice.

"Are you really okay?"

"I'm in great shape right now, how can mere bullets compare to my body that has been tempered a thousand times?"

Seeing Yoshingen's nonchalant appearance, and even continuing to say such abstract words, Shizuka Hiratsuka smiled through her tears, gently patted him, and chided.

"Really, you're just making me worry, you're such a problem student."

"Hey, hey, hey."

Natsumi Suga took two steps forward, separating Shizuka Hiratsuka and Yoshingen, looking speechless.

"Why are you flirting? This is a public place, please pay attention."

Hearing this, Shizuka Hiratsuka couldn't help but blush, after all, she and Yoshingen were teacher and student, but seeing Natsumi Suga's appearance, she felt a little unconvinced and immediately retorted.

"What does it have to do with you? Ms. Media Person Natsumi Suga?"

"Of course, it has something to do with me."

Natsumi Suga affectionately hugged Yoshingen's arm, saying with a smile.

"Yoshingen, I helped you so much today, disregarding my own safety, shouldn't you repay me? And help me with a favor?"

"Moral kidnapping?"

"Eh, don't say it so harshly, I just want to treat you to a meal."

Hearing this, Shizuka Hiratsuka couldn't help but complain, her voice even carrying a bit of jealousy that she herself didn't realize.

"Hey, you're treating him to a meal, and you're saying it's asking him for a favor? Isn't that backwards?"

"It's not backwards."

Natsumi Suga revealed a meaningful smile.

"Being able to have a meal with someone I like, even if I'm paying, is something I'm happy about."

"Li... Li... Like!?"

An earthquake occurred in Shizuka Hiratsuka's pupils, and she stammered.

"But... but you... you two's age..."

"Age? That kind of thing doesn't matter."

Natsumi Suga waved her hand, looking indifferent.

"I only graduated from university not long ago, I'm only twenty-three, Yoshingen is already seventeen, what's the big deal about being six years apart?"

"But... but, why would you like... him..."

"Eh? Isn't that a very normal thing?"

Natsumi Suga smiled and asked back.

"Suppose, there is a person, who appears in front of you during the low point of your career, even during the difficult time when you can't even pay the rent, saves your job, and also saves your greatest ideal in this life, and is also a very handsome, more charming than anyone else, would you not like him?"

When she heard this, Shizuka Hiratsuka was stunned.

The reason Natsumi Suga said she liked Yoshingen, for herself... seems to be the same.

It can be seen from that expensive red sports car that Shizuka Hiratsuka is a rich second generation and does not lack money.

She chose to come to Soubu High School to be a teacher, naturally not for that little salary, but for her life goals.

To guide students in distress in the right direction, even if they are not so outstanding at graduation, at the very least, they must be able to move towards their future life path as a grown-up person without any psychological burden.

This is Shizuka Hiratsuka's ideal.

However, just like Natsumi Suga, who was in a slump during that time and whose income was not enough to maintain a normal life, although she did not have financial difficulties, she also suffered setbacks.

And the so-called setback refers to her student and friend, Yukino Yukinoshita.

In the eyes of outsiders, Yukino Yukinoshita, who graduated with excellent grades and was admitted to the Faculty of Science and Technology of Chiba University, is an extremely perfect genius student from any point of view.

But according to Shizuka Hiratsuka's educational philosophy, Yukino Yukinoshita is the biggest setback she has encountered in her teaching career.

She has a good relationship with Yukino, but after the long three years of high school, she still failed to untie Yukino's knot.

After graduating, Yukino Yukinoshita continues that disguised fake life.