I Became a Genius by Running Away From the Academy

90 – Second Pet (2)

“Hey…… Do you have any idea what he’s trying to do in there?”

“Yes, he said he would call a summons and sign a contract.”

Erio sat in the middle of the short steps leading up to the shrine, resting his chin on his lap and said.

“Summons?”

Shigure was slightly taken aback by the unexpected answer, then looked at Doyuna.

Sensing Shigure’s gaze, Doyuna nodded slightly.

“That’s right, my younger brother is coming in.”

Unlike her usual routine, Doyuna said with a strange expression, as if she was expecting something, even though she was a little low-pressure.

‘Well, if it’s him, his thoughts will be complicated in many ways.’

After Shigure decided that it would be best not to touch Doyuna for now, she glanced at the gentleman.

“No. She asked Eugene not to let anyone in until she came out.”

Erio saw him and said like a knife.

“It’s okay not to be so vigilant. I have no intention of entering that shrine either.”

After saying that, Shigure quietly crouched down where he was standing, as if he was serious.

Although she treats Dou-jin with her lighthearted attitude, she has not forgotten that her current position is his subordinate and her tool.

So I had no intention of disobeying her orders.

“Just…… I’m just watching because I’m a little worried.”

That’s also true. According to the book, what is now sealed inside the shrine is one of the three yokai called the best, the strongest, and the worst among the many yokai that shook Japan in the past.

White-faced golden-haired nine-tailed fox.

Because it was one of his nine tails.

‘It’s really okay, right?’

While Shigure was worried like that, he sensed a presence that was presumed to be that of Toyujin from inside the shrine.

‘This is his sign.’

When Shigure thinks it’s strange that he feels for the first time the presence of Yujin Do, who had been hiding his presence all along.

Hwaaah-

As if sunlight poured in as the sky cleared and the clouds disappeared, a bright light radiated from the direction of the shrine.

Not only Shigure who saw that, but also Erio and Doyuna opened their mouths in a daze in surprise.

‘…… What kind of guy did Dad make me stick with?’

Shigure murmured inwardly as she ran her hand over the chicken skin that had risen over her skin.

◎ ◎ ◎

Activate [End of Summoning (7★)].

Activate [Light in Darkness (4★)].

Cheolkooong-!

I swapped the two gears on the inside.

Then the world around me changed as if I had entered another person’s body.

‘As expected, this is the first time I’m using this feature, so it’s a bit unfamiliar to me.’

I reached out my hand lightly, grunting like that.

Now I have a net to catch my prey and a torch to devour the darkness.

As for tools, this is enough.

So now I needed a talent to master this tool.

Diring-!

Light – [0/100]

I raised my [Talent] To the top by using all the points I had in stages.

Then, the feeling of throwing off a thick shell ran down my spine and spread throughout my body.

Now my talent points to 0.

‘It’s just that I’m at the starting point, and yet I’m at this level.’

As if he had ascended from the underground tunnel to the grassland above, a tremendous refreshing feeling wrapped around his whole body.

‘By the way…… What?’

The other day, the moment when I raised my Dark attribute talent and the number reached 0, and something…… The feeling was a bit different.

If you describe that moment as the time when the chains that bound your wings were released and you were able to fly, now it felt like taking off the handcuffs that bound your feet and standing on the ground.

The level of liberation felt is different.

As I was quietly contemplating the reason, I could feel something.

‘I can’t believe this [Talent]…… Is it not the concept of absolute, but the concept of correction?’

Thinking back, when I first raised my dark attribute talent, no, I felt a sense of incongruity from the beginning.

In addition, the feeling that I felt every time I raised my talent, as if it released the restraints on me by the level raised and sent me upward by exactly the same level.

‘If that’s the feeling I got because the [Talent] Of the system supported me as much as I was a human being and my talent…… It all makes sense.’

The moment I thought that, chills ran down my spine.

I was saying that if I hadn’t had enough talent to use my body, I might not have been able to move to this extent properly.

‘But then, did I have some talent for the dark attribute in the first place?’

There was a possibility.

Thinking about it, the system investigated and gave me the trait [Shadow Play (★)].

‘Hmm, come to think of it, even though I received this kind of reverse correction, I somehow managed to feel the magic on the first day. Just in case you didn’t notice, am I pretty good with magical talent?’

This was good news.

Because it meant that I could use my current state as a guidepost to follow the path I had to take.

Ugh-

‘Ah, this isn’t the time.’

After coming to my senses, I installed a summoning circle made of the finest materials I could find under the tail of a fox floating in front of me.

Except for the fact that he was biased toward the light attribute just like last time, he was no different from the basic summoning circle.

‘Let’s try it.’

This time I didn’t have the absolute talent to talk to everyone in the dark, but that was fine.

Instead, an incredibly powerful medium was floating around like that.

‘Because the place is okay…… Is all that’s left of the summoning phrase?’

Well, that’s actually it, I didn’t even think about it.

There was only one phrase I could say in this situation.

After clearing my throat a little, I spit out the words with magic in accordance with the rhyme in my head.

Fox, fox, what are you doing?

As if he was answering my mischievous question.

Hwaaah-

The summoning circle resonated with the fox’s tail and emitted a bright light.

Seeing him, I smiled and pushed my magic even further toward the summoning circle.

‘Hmm, it’s not like last time.’

The color of the thread protruding from my hand was very pale, unlike the last time.

Well, there was no problem.

If pure talent wasn’t enough, I just had to cover it up with techniques and tools.

‘In addition, I also grew more than last time.’

Ugh-

It moves like a flowing river with twice as much magic compared to the past.

I poured all of him generously into this summoning, but even so, it was only a handful of mana.

Originally, her magical power was so low that it couldn’t even be connected to a historical level, let alone a legendary level.

However, the ability to reduce all costs required for summoning [End of Summoning (7★)] Was activated, and that handful of mana continued to amplify, eventually transforming into a huge sea.

‘Here’s one more.’

I concentrated for a moment and pulled out the dark attribute magic from my heart.

Among the talents I’ve activated right now, none of them are related to the dark attribute.

However, with the body acquired through the [Standing at the Edge of Darkness (9★)] Talent and the extreme talent of the dark attribute, if these two were used together, it was possible to bring about a little darkness.

The moment that darkness bloomed in my heart.

Hwaah-!

The dimly twinkling light emitted a brighter light.

The reason was simple.

Chwaaak-!

Just as the darkness in the light is the darkest, darkness is necessary for the light to be the brightest.

Sug-

Concentrated consciousness.

A blurry thread that was as thin as hair and looked like it would melt and disappear at any moment.

It becomes stronger like a rope as it is entangled and entangled, and becomes more vivid by darkening the surroundings.

‘Then, what kind of guy will come out this time?’

Well, of course, a fox-type summoner would appear, but even knowing that, it was expected.

At the same time I thought it would be nice if a strong guy came out.

Ugh-!

The summoning circle suddenly trembled and created a small crack like a haze in the air above it.

‘Suddenly what?’

I looked at it puzzled.

Even though I instinctively moved the thread, in fact it only circled around the crack in the shimmering space and did not enter it.

No, to be precise, I couldn’t get in because I tried to get in, but it bounced back as if something was blocking it.

I watched it for a while and then carefully put my hand inside the shimmer.

Then my hand simply went through it and grabbed something fluffy inside.

So let me reflexively grab it and pull it.

“What is this?”

A girl with a white tail, like I’ve seen many places, jumped out like a fish caught on a fishing rod.

“No way!”

I quickly turned my head and looked to the side.

Then I saw that the white fox tail, which had been floating around like a cloud just a moment ago, had disappeared before I knew it.

‘I can’t…… Did you open a door that leads not to the spirit world, but to a sealed space?’

A mistake, not a mistake, caused by the resonance between the summoning technique and the medium of the sealed fox’s tail.

When I was perplexed by that.

“Ugh…… “

The guy with fluttering white hair the same color as his tail was talking in his sleep.

After wriggling small for a long time, he opened his eyes and looked at me with golden eyes that reminded me of the morning sun.

Clean-!

“Hmm? Why is this human face so close up? Also, that person did strange things as soon as he entered, so I thought it was amazing, but could he have walked on the ceiling?”

Hearing the fox girl’s words, I couldn’t stand it and grabbed my hair with my remaining hand.

Then, she set her down on her land and said good.

“I have a lot to say…… Let’s put on clothes first and talk.”

“…… What?”

Reflexively, the guy who received the priestess outfit I threw pricked his fox ears as if he still didn’t understand the situation.