Fujino's adoptive father is named Yasuzou Asakami, and he is the head of the Asakami family, a branch of Asakami.
After the Asakami family went bankrupt, Fujino's mother was forced to remarry Yasuzo, the head of the branch family. Because of this mutually compromised political marriage, almost all the remaining power of the Asakami clan fell into the control of Asakami Yasuzo.
Even though it has declined, Asagami is after all one of the four demon-exorcist families. Yasuzo, who holds the family's resources, has a high position, but he is always wary of his nominal daughter Fujino.
There is of course a reason for this.
Liyuan Women's College is built in the mountains on the outskirts of Guanfuzi City. Even if you take a shuttle bus, it takes more than half an hour to enter the city.
Fujino Asakami is only 12 years old this year and is scheduled to enter junior high school next spring.
Given the power of the Asagami family in Kanfuko City, Fujino, as the eldest daughter of the family, should have been favored by all.
However, just as she was about to go home from the boarding school for the holidays, there was not even a special car to greet Fujino at the school gate. This shows how indifferent Asakami Yasuzo's attitude towards her was.
Analgesia, as the name suggests, means that people suffering from this disease cannot feel any pain.
People who cannot feel pain cannot appreciate the value of life. They lack the concept of self-protection in their cognition. Even if they are injured inadvertently, they may not be able to notice it immediately.
Fujino is a painless patient. She lacks the feeling of pain and has difficulty understanding the reasons why her classmates cry after they fall. She cannot empathize with others around her in some aspects, and is obviously separated from common sense society.
Fujino herself was aware of this in her daily life. She gradually learned to disguise and perform. After being injured, she would deliberately pretend to be in pain to prevent classmates and friends around her from discovering her abnormality.
But a performance is just a performance after all. In her heart, she still can't understand why the injury hurts and why she cries. If it continues like this, it is likely to cause disaster in the future due to the impact of painlessness on the concept.
Lu Xiao's words made Fujino, whose eyes were a little hollow, slightly widen her eyes. She had understood her abnormality, but could not find a solution.
Hearing that the strange man in front of him had a way to cure his pain-free disease, Fujino, who seriously lacked the awareness of self-protection, immediately believed it naively.
"Sir, can you really cure my disease?"
Lu Xiao knelt down and smiled kindly and said, "Yes, call me Lu Xiao."
"Your disease is not difficult to treat. The difficulty lies in how to eradicate the hidden dangers behind the disease."
"Come with me, let's find a quiet place to talk in detail first."
"Um!"
Fujino, who was full of expectations, had no doubt that he was there, and followed Lu Xiao obediently after holding her little hand.
"Haha~"
Before Lu Xiao and Fujino could take a few steps, a blond Western man wearing a red coat and a top hat of the same color suddenly walked out of the forest beside the college road, blocking the road in front of them.
The passing students and parents unconsciously stopped moving forward and kept circling around the invisible arc-shaped boundary.
"Abducting an innocent girl is not a gentleman's behavior."
Lu Xiao stopped and looked at the golden-haired young man in front of him and narrowed his eyes.
He felt a strong fluctuation of magic power from this person, but his eagle vision could not detect any reaction of life.
'The ability to hide aura? Or...'
"Miss Asagami, please stay where you are for the time being."
Lu Xiao drew three runes in succession in the void, and a small barrier emitting a bright blue light protected Fujino, who was confused.
"Rune magic? Humph!"
The blond young man with very three-dimensional features showed a disgusted expression on his face: "You are really Aosaki's lackey? I'm wondering why Araya suddenly asked me to check the status of the chess pieces."
'Araya? That's it.'
Lu Xiao probably guessed the identity of the other party.
"This lame yet familiar accent. Are you Italian?"
"Exactly."
The blond man retracted his slightly distorted expression and saluted Lu Xiao in a standard breast-stroking gesture.
"Cornelus Aruba, heir to the abbot of the Roman monastery of Münbenheim, can be considered a magician from the Clock Tower."
'really.'
Asagami Fujino and Wujo Kirie were both chess pieces prepared by Araya Soren in advance.
The change in Wujo Kirie's state aroused the suspicion of Soren Araya. He asked Aruba, who came from Rome to assist him in completing his plan, to go to the Rien Women's College first to check on Asakami Fujino's situation, and he happened to bump into Lu Xiao.
A positive one.
"Since you are Aosaki's lackey, don't blame me for being ruthless."
After the meeting etiquette was completed, Aruba stopped talking nonsense, put away the sarcastic smile on his face, pointed the civilized staff held in his right hand at Lu Xiao, and launched the first round of attacks tentatively.
"gandr."
A red-black magic ball shot out from the top of the civilized staff, aiming directly at Lu Xiao, who was motionless.
Gandr, a curse magic passed down from Northern Europe.
It is not as powerful as other large-scale magics, but it can reduce the mobility of the person who is struck by it.
When the magic concentration injected into Gandr is high enough, its power can be comparable to the bullets fired from modern rifles. It is an entry-level magic that is easy to learn and use.
The gandr shot by Aruba was quite powerful and should have blasted a small crater on the ground, but Lu Xiao didn't even bother to dodge in the face of such a boring attack.
"biu~"
Gandr's light ball flew about a meter in front of Lu Xiao and dissipated on its own, as if it had hit some invisible magic barrier.
"Um?"
The relaxed expression on Aruba's face faded slightly. He frowned and looked at Lu Xiao and asked, "What did you do? I obviously didn't see you activate the barrier magic."
"magic?"
Lu Xiao, who put his hands in his trouser pockets, lowered his head and smiled sarcastically: "This kind of spell that even a 5-year-old child can use still needs magic defense?"
Lu Xiao did not deliberately stir up Aruba's emotions with fictional facts. Sakura, who is about to turn 6 years old, does know how to use gander.
"Tsk!"
Aruba, who had a high self-esteem, could not bear Lu Xiao's sarcastic tone. This condescending attitude reminded him of Aozaki Orange who always looked down on him.
"You are seeking death on your own, don't blame me for being too harsh!"
The top of Aruba's civilization staff flashed with crimson light, and he began to recite incantations quickly.
"go away the shadow (disappear, phantom)"
"it is impossible to touch the thing which are not visible(I will turn the visible into the invisible)"
Modern magicians need to use chanting to assist them when using great magic. Aruba speaks extremely fast, and the tide of magic rising from him is quite spectacular. The raging flames gradually gather into civilization as he chants spells.
The head of the staff.
"i am the order (I am the truth of all things)"
“therefore(therefore)”
"You will be defeated securely! (You will eventually destroy yourself)"
"boom!"
High-temperature magic flames erupted from Aruba's "staff" and swallowed up the motionless Lu Xiao in the blink of an eye.
"Hahahahaha!"
Aruba laughed hysterically: "Stupid and arrogant magician, turn into ashes under the heat of thousands of degrees of flames!"
Fujino, who was protected in the barrier by rune magic, could not feel the temperature changes in the outside world, but she could roughly judge the lethality of these flames through the rapidly withering and charred flowers and trees around her.
"Mr. Lu Xiao..."
Having just had hope of curing the painless disease, Fujino didn't want it to be replaced by despair.
She worriedly looked at the place where Lu Xiao was standing, which had been completely engulfed by raging fire.
"That's it?"
The leisurely sound coming from the fire made Aruba's laughter turn into a short exclamation of "ga", and the duck-like quack made Fujino couldn't help laughing.
"call!"
A strong wind suddenly blew up from the center shrouded in flames, and soon the raging flames were blown apart.
The uninjured Lu Xiao looked indifferent and still kept his hands in his pockets. He didn't even move his feet at all. He just used the dragonborn's innate ability to call on the strong wind to blow away the flames around his body.
"No...impossible!"
Aruba thinks highly of himself, and his abilities as a magician are pretty good, but his willpower is so weak that even the slightest blow can put him into a hysterical and irrational state.
The civilization staff in his hand sent out gandr to attack Lu Xiao one after another. Aruba yelled crazily: "What kind of monster are you! Why can you block my great magic without even using a defensive barrier!"
Lu Xiao continued to approach Aruba, but Gandr dissipated before he even got close to his body. Lu Xiao even had time to take a look at his skill panel.
Life outside the realm b: the mystery level increases.