When he came out of the interrogation room, the sky had completely darkened. Because it was near the mountains, the mosquitoes here were also bigger than elsewhere.
After swatting a patterned mosquito, Zenin Naobito sucked his teeth, then he patted Zenin Kiyoshi on the head twice and said slowly:
"You brat really know how to cause trouble. You're not a Jujutsu High sorcerer yet. When you encounter a Cursed Spirit attacking humans, if you can ignore it, then ignore it. There are so many unlucky people in the world who are attacked by Cursed Spirits. Can you take care of every single one of them?
"Besides, even if you become a Jujutsu High sorcerer later, as long as it's not a Cursed Spirit attack within your jurisdiction or mission scope, you don't have to manage it. Don't cause trouble for yourself and others, you know?!"
Zenin Naobito yawned, and a puff of alcohol-smelling breath that had been suppressed deep in his throat came out with his yawn, drifting in the air, sticky and smelling of alcohol.
To Zenin Naobito's words, everyone did not have much surprise or objection, not even Masamichi Yaga, who had the strongest sense of justice among them. He just frowned slightly. Although he didn't really agree with Naobito's concept, he wouldn't refute anything either.
Jujutsu sorcerer is a profession with an extremely high mortality rate. Just completing the Cursed Spirit missions in their own jurisdiction already has a mortality rate of over 80%. To ask the sorcerers to manage attack incidents outside their missions, such a thing of being generous with others' health is shameful.
It's like the difference between a saint and a "saintly bitch."
A saint will put the lives of others before their own when danger comes, while a "saintly bitch" will, in the absence of ability, still exude a foolish kindness that can kill the people around them.
The difference between "follow me" and "charge for me" is quite big.
Needless to say about Toji, if it weren't for Zenin Kiyoshi, he would have been too lazy to bother with this kind of thing at all.
Just when everyone thought that Zenin Kiyoshi would humbly accept Naobito's teaching, Kiyoshi, who had always been relatively obedient, firmly expressed his opposition at this time:
"A grain of dust of the times, when it falls on a specific person, becomes an insurmountable mountain.
"There are many unlucky people in the world who are attacked by Cursed Spirits, including me once. My parents both died in that Cursed Spirit attack. Because I have really been in that environment, I know better than anyone how strong my desire for survival is when facing a Cursed Spirit attack.
"I will not try to be a hero. When I don't have the ability to save the other party, I will not let my emotions get the better of me and drag myself or my companions down.
"But when I have the ability to save others, I will not be stingy with my ability, nor will I look down on those ordinary people. In my eyes, the so-called sorcerers are just ordinary people who have been lucky enough to master special abilities.
"I think only those who are willing to fight hard to protect the weak can be called sorcerers. Just not randomly harming ordinary people is actually only a little bit better than the curse users that everyone despises."
Hearing Zenin Kiyoshi's words, Masamichi Yaga's originally tightly furrowed brows completely relaxed at this moment. He looked at Zenin Kiyoshi, and in his eyes, which were hidden by his sunglasses, a gleam of light was now bursting forth.
From the very beginning when Zenin Naobito wanted to push Zenin Kiyoshi to Jujutsu High, Yaga had no good impression of him. He thought that Kiyoshi was just another second-generation sorcerer who relied on his family's power.
When Yaga saw the apologetic Zenin Kiyoshi next to the corpse, his malice towards him had completely disappeared. He began to realize that the young sorcerer in front of him should be a sorcerer with some conscience.
After listening to Zenin Kiyoshi's speech, Masamichi Yaga's feelings for him had completely turned into appreciation and friendliness. He liked the words Kiyoshi said. Even though he himself couldn't do those things because of his mediocre ability, he had still been adhering to his original intention for so many years.
Just as Zenin Kiyoshi said, only those who are willing to fight for ordinary people can be called sorcerers.
And Toji at this moment also stopped his continuous swatting of mosquitoes. He looked at Zenin Kiyoshi, his face expressionless, but his thoughts unconsciously returned to the punishment room of the Zenin clan when he was a child. At that time, did he also hope that someone would come to rescue him?
As the one who was refuted, according to reason, in a country like Japan where the senior-junior culture is extremely strong, being refuted directly by his junior like this, he should feel extremely angry and lose face. But at this moment, Zenin Naobito was rarely silent.
He looked at Zenin Kiyoshi, suddenly smiled, a little embarrassedly, and the wrinkles on his face were all squeezed together, like an old chrysanthemum.
His voice was a bit hoarse, and the smell of alcohol was still so strong:
"You brat, you really dare to speak. But you're right, a sorcerer should be like what you said. But in this way, you will be walking on a path where you may die at any time. You are still young, and you have encountered too few things. You don't understand how difficult that path is to walk, and you don't know how dark that path is.
"I ask you, if at the end of this path, all you can face is a mountain of your companions' corpses, what would you do?"
The old man's voice was muffled, as if the words had been held in his throat for many years, and when he spoke, they even carried a musty smell.
Hearing Zenin Naobito's question, everyone silently turned their heads and looked at the ten-year-old Zenin Kiyoshi at this moment.
Although this was just a ten-year-old brat, everyone had an indescribable sense of trust in their hearts. They felt that this question, which had troubled many sorcerers for a lifetime, could get a pretty good answer from this brat.
Zenin Kiyoshi raised his head. It was dark all around, and only the streetlights above everyone's heads were shining with a bright white light.
A few unknown small flying insects were dancing under the streetlights. The wind around was stuffy, with the unique stickiness of summer sweat.
He raised his head, looked at everyone, suddenly smiled, and then said slowly:
"There is no regretful death for a sorcerer. It is very dark outside the streetlight, but it is still bright here. A corpse is not just a corpse. Or rather, the soul that once resided in the corpse is the most important thing.
"The words those souls want to tell us, the changes that the piled-up corpses can bring, are the end of this road. The footsteps blocked by corpses and flesh are the greatest curse on those deceased souls!"
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