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To prevent any accidents, Asakura did not let the girl go home alone. Instead, he took her to a less crowded parking lot nearby, called out the old Ford, and personally drove her home.
But it wasn't time to relax yet.
After all, besides Gokou Ruri, there was one other witch who could use Curse without external aids.
After safely sending Gokou Ruri home, Asakura directly teleported back to the Round Table Hall via Great Blessing.
Then, he went from the Round Table Hall to the Clubroom and woke Hoshino Ai from the poster.
"Has anything strange happened with Hitori?"
Asakura asked the other party.
Compared to the narrow and cramped postcard in Gotō Hitori's hand, Hoshino Ai clearly preferred the spacious poster with a stage background in the Clubroom, so she stayed in the poster most of the time. Only when there were few people in the cabin and she felt a bit bored would she go to Gotō Hitori's side.
Of course, if Gotō Hitori actively called her, she could also feel it, but currently, the number of such calls was not many. Clearly, for Gotō Hitori, this act of not caring about Hoshino Ai's own wishes also broke through the usual social anxiety's action limit and belonged to the skills of a normie.
[Does her messing up another Live count?]
Hoshino Ai said, yawning.
"To what extent did she mess up? To the point where she needs to play the guitar with her teeth to salvage it?"
Asakura asked.
"No, not at all. At most, it's just the stage where I'd perform 'Catch me, my friends below!' and then directly smash my face on the ground."
"Even at your peak, when you were alive, you couldn't have done that kind of performance, could you?"
"Asakura, you're underestimating me too much! Forget about my peak after debut; even during my peak as an underground idol, I absolutely could have done that!" The washed-up idol in the poster snorted, then her spirits suddenly sagged. "It's just a different matter how much those otaku fans would take advantage of me."
"That's how idols are. If you don't cater to the otaku, you can't survive."
"Asakura, your view of idols is quite biased."
Asakura didn't reply, merely hummed Revolution with great interest.
"Speaking of which, instead of reminding that child to watch out for accidents, I think it would be better to help her band find a lead singer as soon as possible."
"Hitori can't sing well without Curse?"
Asakura asked, frowning.
"Currently, on 5ch, the evaluations of Hitori's singing ability place her above An ○ Economics and the LGBT movement in the United States."
"No, no, it's not that bad, Hitori doesn't deserve that…"
Asakura said helplessly.
He had heard Hitori's new song before, something like "You Are My EGUMI Legacy." Although he never understood what the so-called EGUMI Legacy was, and the lyrics made him subtly question the girl's mental state, if it was just about whether it sounded good, Asakura actually thought it was quite pleasant.
Hmm, it shouldn't be that his aesthetic sense was problematic.
However, aside from the Founders' Festival, Kessoku Band's current live performance failure rate was alarmingly high. It seemed that having Hitori as the lead singer was indeed too much for her. She couldn't use Curse every time she went on stage; what was the difference between that and urge○wash□…
At this moment, a pink-haired person popped into Asakura's mind.
How about recommending Chihaya Anon to Kessoku Band to try out as a lead singer? Although her voice sounded a bit forced, it couldn't be worse than Gotō Hitori's normal state, right?
In any case, at least from Hoshino Ai's reaction, Hitori shouldn't have suddenly encountered a stalker or anything.
Looking at it this way, was that guy's target really Asakura himself?
If that were true, Asakura wouldn't have much to worry about.
As long as he kept a layer of Curse [Scale] constantly covering his body during this period, the opponent could never instantly kill him, and once the opponent showed up, it would be their turn to face the consequences.
Of course, the necessary protection for Gotō Hitori and her friends could not be neglected at all.
"Curse… is still quite sufficient—" Asakura, who had just taken a sip from Gokou Ruri, felt quite at ease at this moment: "Then I'll maintain a certain level of alert until the other party shows up…"
After arranging Snakes responsible for monitoring and vigilance around the Magic Club members, Asakura specifically carved [Scale Flash Pattern] into the bodies of those Snakes. Even if they encountered any sudden incidents, a layer of [Scale] could be passively activated. Regardless of whether it was strong or not, at least it could hold on until Asakura arrived.
"As for Yukino… the ring I gave her has a trigger-activated [Scale Flash Pattern], so there shouldn't be any problems… As for Yanami… aside from her stomach capacity, she doesn't seem much different from an ordinary Muggle. Does she really need protection? Wouldn't excessive protection instead attract attention?"
With heavy thoughts, Asakura didn't go home that day, spending the night directly at the Clubroom.
As he refined his Curse, ordinary Snakes converted through Curse were now somewhat insufficient. Asakura began to pursue more functional Snakes.
Of course, there weren't that many useful Snakes in nature for him to use freely. So, many of the Snakes Asakura currently controlled (like the small black Snake that crawled out of the manhole cover yesterday) were first created by him through methods similar to alchemy, producing alchemical ingots with special properties. Then, he would use the Curse [Snake] on those metal ingots to catalyze various new types of Snakes that clearly weren't naturally occurring.
To create new little Snakes, he naturally didn't get much sleep.
The next day, when Asakura appeared in the club room, Yukinoshita Yukino was startled by his dark circles.
"What did you go out to do last night?"
She asked suspiciously.
"Protect world peace."
Asakura yawned and said casually.
The girl snorted lightly, clearly dissatisfied with Asakura's casual perfunctory reply: "Thank you for being so perfunctory with me when you're so busy. If you don't want to say, then don't."
After speaking, the girl even put on a tsundere expression of 'I don't care anyway.' As for how much of it was genuine, only the girl herself knew.
"What about you? Did you find anything?"
Asakura rubbed his throbbing temples and asked the girl.
At his question, Yukinoshita Yukino fell silent.
However, it wasn't the guilty silence of having found nothing. Instead, it was a conflicted silence, similar to 'although I know the inside story, I don't know whether I should say it or not.'
The girl put down the paperback novel in her hand, looked at the yawning Asakura, and said seriously: "I want to talk to you properly, about Togawa Sakiko."
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