What does a Cursed Spirit taste like?
Generally speaking, this question is difficult to answer accurately because no one in this world would choose to eat something as strange as a Cursed Spirit.
But Suguru Geto can answer this question very clearly.
It's like a rag soaked in vomit...
Every swallow is a double torture, from the soul to the body.
The blue Cursed Spirit orb glows with a hazy light in the night, looking like a crystal clear crystal, but inside it is actually a mass of Cursed Spirit flesh and blood squeezed together, a collection of filth and emotions condensed to the extreme.
However, for the current Suguru Geto, the negative emotions of swallowing this kind of thing are suppressed and covered by the joy of being able to protect others.
He tells himself that every Cursed Spirit orb he swallows can become a ray of light in the despair of the weak.
Light is something that always gathers ray by ray. He will use his own hands to weave that hard-won light together to illuminate a little bit of the place for those who are in the dark.
He knows that what he can light up now is pitifully little, but he also knows that one day, he will be able to become the sun in the hearts of countless people.
Just like that, he once again swallowed the Cursed Spirit orb that was shining with a dreamlike light.
Bitter, disgusting, nauseating, sour, rotten... all kinds of negative tastes flooded his heart at this moment. It was a taste that could not be resisted by pinching his nose. It was as if a thick layer of lard had been smeared on his heart, sticky and greasy.
His stomach was cramping, and the urge to vomit was unstoppable. He could feel that the vomit had reached his throat. He was like a cat about to vomit, his body trembling, his palm on the wall, a little bit of wall dust falling, and a few not-so-obvious white spots falling on his school uniform.
I can't vomit. My parents both live in a remote town. It was already very difficult for them to send me here. My living expenses are limited. If I vomit this out now, I'll go hungry. My money is very little, so little that it's only enough for one meal a day.
He clutched his throat tightly with his hand and forcibly suppressed the vomit. This feeling was not good, but he was used to it. Heroes often have to endure more hardships than ordinary people. This was something Suguru Geto had read in a foreign book a long time ago.
He still firmly believes in that sentence to this day.
But just as Suguru Geto thought this was just another ordinary day, a somewhat unfamiliar voice suddenly came from behind.
"You look like you're in a lot of pain. Want some of this? It'll make you feel better."
It was a voice that sounded about his age. He turned his head, but before he could see the other person's face, his cheek was touched by a can of cold coke.
The heat of summer, plus the inner struggle and pain of swallowing the Cursed Spirit orb, made Suguru Geto's face very red at this moment. The moment he was touched by this ice water, he subconsciously exclaimed, but the next moment, a very bright smile appeared in his eyes.
Perhaps it was a very bright smile. Zenin Kiyoshi felt that he had just smiled politely at that time.
But people's memories will choose to beautify certain fragments, so he didn't want to change that memory.
"Ice coke can effectively remove the unpleasant taste in your mouth. That thing just now must have tasted terrible, right?"
The moment he heard the other person's words, a look of astonishment first appeared on Suguru Geto's face. He subconsciously muttered:
"You saw everything just now?"
"Yeah, you turned that Cursed Spirit into a blue ball and then swallowed it. But looking at you, that thing probably tastes terrible, right?"
Zenin Kiyoshi's concerned words made Suguru Geto suppress the question that had already reached his throat. He looked at Zenin Kiyoshi, took the coke, but did not open it, just said with a smile:
"As for the taste, it's not something delicious, but I don't need coke to relieve it. The weather is very hot, you only bought one can, it should be for yourself, right? You drink it, I'm not thirsty."
Zenin Kiyoshi just shook his head upon hearing this. He looked at Suguru Geto, who was covered in sweat and whose bangs were stuck to his forehead, and said with a smile:
"That Cursed Spirit was very strong. If you weren't there, I might have been killed by that thing. This is my thank you gift. Although I'm not a very noble person, a can of coke should still be worth something.
By the way, be careful recently. Don't wander around here too much. It's been a bit unsafe here recently. Something much stronger than that monster just now is wandering around here. Don't get caught by those things."
With that, Zenin Kiyoshi turned and left towards the other side of the alley. And looking at Zenin Kiyoshi's back, Suguru Geto was stunned for a moment. He looked at the coke in his hand, and then said to the figure that was about to disappear:
"Tha... thank you. Can we meet again?"
Hearing this, the corner of Zenin Kiyoshi's mouth, who had his back to Suguru Geto, slightly raised, but he hid it well and did not let the other party hear anything strange:
"I probably pass by here every Saturday to buy groceries, usually around five or six in the afternoon. If you're free, we can meet again later."
Hearing Zenin Kiyoshi's words, before Suguru Geto could say the rest of his words, the figure at the end of the alley had already disappeared.
If it weren't for the can of coke in his hand that still had a bit of coldness, Suguru Geto would have even suspected that everything just now was a hallucination from eating the Cursed Spirit orb.
He stared at the alley entrance where Zenin Kiyoshi had left, dazed for a long time. When his palm was so cold from the coke can that it started to hurt, he lowered his head and looked at the coke can in his hand. He smiled.
The sound of "click" came, and the faint smell of coke instantly filled the air. It was a sweet taste with a bit of excitement.
The freshly opened ice coke was even a little spicy at the entrance. He drank a lot in one breath, and the bitterness and stickiness seemed to turn into a series of burps at this moment, dissipating in this hot afternoon.
"Next time we meet, I should introduce myself first..."
Suguru Geto looked at the coke can in his hand that still had a bit of coldness. For some reason, a wave of joy rolled up in his heart.
Why was he so happy?
Was it because he met someone who could see those monsters like him?
Or was it because of the other person's concerned words?
Or was it the ice coke he had been wanting to drink for a long time?
Suguru Geto didn't know the reasons, but he knew that he would be waiting for him here next Saturday.
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