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As usual, Yuju from Kuonji Temple came to Kanbuko General Hospital today. After registering at the visitor registration desk, she quietly took the private elevator to a special ward on the top floor.

This floor, designated as the highest-level medical ward, has only two rooms, and the person she was visiting was in one of those two rooms.

The elevator doors opened, and the two beautiful nurses on the duty desk looked up. Seeing who it was, they stood up with smiles. "Ms. Kuonji, you've come to see Mr. Rakusho again?"

Yuzhu completely ignored the other person's meaning, simply nodded slightly, and walked past without changing her pace under the other person's gaze.

"Miss Kuonji is good in every way, but it's still too cold," one of the younger nurses said, looking at Yuzhu's retreating figure.

“I don’t think so. We’re from completely different social classes. Miss Kuonji is very well-mannered; at least she nods in response when she greets us.” The older nurse looked at the figure who had already turned the corner with envious eyes. “Don’t forget about the Tanaka councilor who used to live here. His daughter, who is about the same age as Miss Kuonji, looked down on everyone. Hmph, look at them, both are from the upper class, but Miss Kuonji is a representative of nobility, while Miss Tanaka, hehe, looks like a nouveau riche.”

“You’re right, but what about the two young ladies from the Aozaki family?” The nurse nodded in agreement, then brought up another girl who often appeared here.

"Well, it's hard to say. I heard from a friend that the Aozaki family isn't exactly a prestigious clan, and can't compare to the Kuonji Group." The older nurse looked up, recalling the rumors she had heard.

"Huh? How is that possible? That Aozaki-nee-san looks..."

Yuzhu ignored the conversation behind her and walked alone down the empty corridor. She had walked through this corridor countless times in the past year and a half, and only her footsteps echoed in it.

When she reached the familiar door, she first looked through the window to make sure no one was there before gently opening the door and going inside.

If anyone arrives first, she will leave and go straight back to her mansion. As a misanthropic witch, she hates being in the same room with others.

Fortunately, she was the only one there today, just like usual. In a good mood, she smiled unconsciously, gently closed the door, and took out her own chair to sit next to the hospital bed.

That familiar face, which she had seen for over a year, came into her view as always.

Chapter 198 A Tea Party for Three (Part 1)

That familiar face, which she had seen for over a year, came into her view as always.

When she was eleven, Ayumi's father brought her to visit the Aozaki family in Misaki Town. Even though she was still young, she already knew that her father had actually brought her to entrust her to his care.

At that time, she met Aozaki Touko, who was known as the "Egg of the Wizard," and the naturally reclusive girl gained an understanding person.

Not long after, her father passed away, and she, who was already withdrawn, became even more so. Like a walking corpse, she hid in the mansion left by her parents, eating her memories alone and building a world that was only for herself.

No matter how strong she is or how mature her mind is, in the end, she is just a young girl. It is understandable that she is immersed in sadness and memories after losing her parents.

However, just after she resolved never to leave the mansion for the rest of her life, Aozaki Touko came to her house with an invitation from the Fifth Magician.

After reading the very formal invitation, knowing that she could not refuse the other party's request, she left the mansion for the first time two months after her father's death.

Then, from Aozaki Oo, she received a request to protect the magic node of Misaki Town, but this was less of a request and more of her father's last wish.

Returning to the mansion with mixed feelings, she sat on the moonlit bench that her father loved most all night, and finally became the guardian of the ley lines in Misaki Town, fulfilling her father's last wish.

From then on, she became a business partner of the Aozaki family and became involved with the Aozaki sisters.

Compared to her younger sister Aozaki Aoko, who is the same age as her, Kuonji Yuzu has more to talk about with her older sister Aozaki Touko. After all, although Aozaki Aoko knows about the existence of magic, she is not from this world.

Aozaki Touko, hailed as a genius, was regarded as the next magician by the magic world at a young age, and he and Touko had more in common.

That being said, she didn't particularly enjoy being with Aozaki Touko. On one hand, magicians preferred to study alone, and their research required secrecy. On the other hand, whether she went to Aozaki Touko's workshop or Aozaki Touko came to her mansion, Aozaki Aoko, as an unrelated person, would always appear.

Aozaki Aoko is an extremely good troublemaker, and she always likes to mess with herself. Whenever she talks to Touko for a while, Aozaki Aoko's eyes will look at her like she's looking at her father's killer.

She knew this feeling was called jealousy, but it was a little hard to understand because she had no siblings, and her parents, who held the concept of family ties, had passed away. Without anyone telling her, she was ultimately different from normal people.

Orange seemed to be aware of the situation, but always pretended not to know. Moreover, she had seen Orange teasing Aozaki Aoko with great interest more than once. Whenever she saw this scene, she would unconsciously feel a feeling called envy.

Then one day, Aozaki Touko brought her sister back to her mansion and casually mentioned someone she had met before.

"By the way, Yuzhu, last week Aoko and I met a very special person." Orange smiled as she put down her bone china teacup and recalled, "That person's temperament is somewhat similar to yours; you're both very interesting people."

"Sister, Ling-chan and Ice Face don't look alike at all!" Aoko, who was constantly stuffing scones into her mouth, suddenly looked up and said with dissatisfaction.

Yuzhu wasn't particularly interested, but since Orange brought it up, it was only polite for her to listen.

"Oh dear, Aoko, do you really think it doesn't look like it?" Orange laughed and pointed to the crumbs on Aoko's lips. "Also, you have something on your face."

Aoko quickly wiped it off with the back of her hand, but it still wasn't clean. Seeing this, Orange shook her head in exasperation and reached out to remove the crumbs stuck to her sister's face.

Seeing the crumbs in her sister's hand, Aoko blushed, then turned to look at the silent Kuonji Yuzu, pretending not to care.

She looked Yuzhu up and down, then pouted and waved her right hand in a disdainful manner. "Ling-chan and Ice Face are completely different, okay? I admit Ice Face looks good, but Ling-chan is much cuter than her."

"Oh, is it because Lingjun doesn't fight back when you bully her?" Chengzi looked at her troublesome younger sister with amusement. Although she had mentioned to her many times that Le Zhengling was a boy, for some reason, Qingzi always stubbornly believed that he was a girl.

"Hmph! How could that be! In short, Ling-chan and she don't look alike at all!" Qingzi shouted angrily after her secret was exposed, adding a touch of warmth to the deserted mansion.

“Okay, okay, you’re right.” Orange shrugged and looked at Yuzhu again. “That child gives me a very special feeling. It feels like he doesn’t belong to this world, just like you, but his condition is more serious than yours.”

Aoko was stunned after hearing her sister's words. Then, she frowned and recalled the scene when she met Yue Zhengling. Although she also felt that Yue Zhengling was special, no matter how hard she tried to recall, she could not feel the kind of feeling her sister was talking about.

Her impression of Yue Zhengling was that he was easy to bully, seemed to know how to cook, looked cute, and her intuition told her that this person couldn't be bad.

As for what Orange said about not belonging to this world, I don't feel that way at all. No, or maybe I do, but it's overshadowed by the qualities mentioned above. In short, the feeling my sister described is completely unimportant!

Having figured this out, Aoko nodded to herself, pleased that she had come to this conclusion.

After hearing Touko's words, Kuonji Yuzu finally showed a little interest. Note that it was just interest, not interest. For a witch who lived in seclusion, she had no intention of expanding her social circle.

She knew that Orange's intuition was rarely wrong. If Orange thought there was something wrong with the person she had met, then there must be something wrong. But being unfamiliar with the world and such, it seemed a bit too arbitrary.

Listening to Aozaki Touko's words as stories to pass the time is a good option, but if it goes beyond that, then please refrain from doing so.

Orange, who was not particularly interested in discovering that Pearl was listening with interest, gave a mysterious smile.

"Do you think a boy about the same age as Aoko, who goes out alone to a hospital far away, reads 'No Longer Human' on the train, and intentionally or unintentionally tests us, is an ordinary person?" Orange glanced at Aoko, who seemed lost in thought, and quietly picked up her fork, took the last scones from her sister's plate, and put them in her mouth.

Chapter 199 Tea Party for Three (Part 2)

Yuzhu looked at Orange's actions, which clearly seemed to be looking for a fight with her sister, and revealed a subtle expression.

"Ah! Sister, you stole my snacks again!" Coming to her senses, Aoko looked at her empty plate and instantly knew what had happened.

"What do you mean by stealing your snacks? Don't forget who bought these scones." Orange twirled her fork, looking smugly at Aoko's distressed expression after hearing her words.

Yuzhu, who preferred peace and quiet, certainly didn't want the two sisters to start arguing here, so she finally spoke up: "The person you mentioned is a bit special, but I don't think there's anything wrong with him."

"That's because you haven't actually seen him. I'm pretty sure you'll have a special feeling once you see that child with your own eyes." Orange put down her fork, then looked at the dejected Aoko. Feeling she had bullied her enough, she pushed her plate in front of Aoko.

Aoko's face brightened instantly. Looking at Orange's "I've given you everything" eyes, she forgot all her previous frustration.

Watching this scene, Yuzhu shook her head almost imperceptibly. Orange's behavior was like that of a beast tamer, and Aoko was the tamed beast.

"Tell me all this, what exactly are you planning to do? You know I'm not interested in anyone else, no matter how special they are." Yuzhu lowered her eyes, looking at her reflection in the red tea.

"You can't say that. I think you should get to know that child." Orange rested her chin on her hand, looking at Yuzhu who exuded a cold and aloof aura, and felt a little uncomfortable.

Although she shouldn't be saying these things herself, Kuonji Yuzu has no close friends left. Although she has heard that she has a good friend in England, that friend is unable to come to Japan.

She only came here today for the sake of the witch's mental health, but this action was just a momentary impulse. After reading the two volumes of "No Longer Human", Orange was deeply moved.

From this book, she learned that personality defects are closely related to a person's living environment, and that one's environment will inevitably shape the kind of person one becomes.

As someone who had been accepted by the Aozaki family and become an ally, she did not want anything to happen to Kuonji Yuusu.

Although magicians deviate from common sense, it doesn't mean they have to become abnormal. Humans are social animals. In her spare time while she was fully engrossed in studying her family's magic, in order to change her mindset or relax her brain, she did some research on human beings as a small project.

This study used people around them as case studies and created a personality trait table similar to a chain map, using seven colors—red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple—to represent categories ranging from passionate to ruthless.

Using her keen senses that allow her to perceive the subtleties of things, she briefly filled in the form with the people around her during the week.

Her grandfather was represented by purple, symbolizing ruthlessness; if there was a pearl, it was blue; her silly, destructive sister was orange; and she herself was cyan.

Because she had only met Lingjun once, she temporarily categorized her words as yellow.

“We’re thinking of going to Lingjun’s Chinese restaurant tomorrow, let’s come together,” Orange invited with a smile.

Yuzhu remained silent. Just as she had said at the beginning, she wasn't very interested in that person; she was simply listening to what Orange had to say.

"Why do I have to go with that ice-cold face?! I don't want to!"

But before she could even refuse, Aozaki Aoko on the other side objected first.

Aoko thought to herself: She and her sister were going to return a book and try Lingjiang's cooking, but wouldn't it be too much of a mood killer to bring this ice-cold face along?

Feeling inexplicably treated as a burden, Yuzhu felt a surge of anger, then nodded defiantly to Orange, "Okay, I'll go with you to take a look. As for Chinese food, it's been a long time since I've had any."

"Wait! Why are you, Ice Face—" Aoko suddenly stood up and said.

But before she could finish speaking, Orange swiftly forked a scone and stuffed it into her mouth, preventing her from saying the rest of her words.

"Alright, see you at the foot of the mountain at ten o'clock tomorrow." Orange nodded to Yuzhu while twisting her fork, then pulled out the fork, took Qingzi's hand, and got up to leave.

Watching the two sisters disappear into the entryway, Yuzhu made no move to get up and see them off. She lowered her head, looked at the teacup that was rippling with tears, and finally brought it to her lips, slowly drinking the half-cold black tea.

"Bang." The sound of the mansion's door closing rang out, and soon after, the magic array around the entire mansion was activated again, and the witch's mansion returned to deathly silence.

Half an hour before the agreed time the next day, Kuonji Yuzu had already arrived at the meeting point, and fifteen minutes before the meeting time, the Aozaki sisters also arrived.

"Arisu, have you been waiting long?" Aozaki Touko asked with a warm smile, while her younger sister, Aozaki Aoko, deliberately turned her face away, refusing to look at Arisu.

"Yes, I've been waiting for fifteen minutes," Yuzhu said honestly, since she didn't think there was any need to follow social etiquette.

"Really? Well, thank you for your hard work." Orange replied casually, then looked her up and down before praising, "You look great today."

Yoo-joo likes to wear black clothes, and today she wore a black long-sleeved top, black skinny jeans, and black boots. Although she looks young, she already looks very beautiful.

Hearing Touko's praise of Ayumi, Aoko secretly glanced at her. Although she was annoyed by Ayumi's appearance, she had to admit that she looked very beautiful today.

The other woman had slender hands and feet and a thin figure. The kind of figure that countless women would pursue was covered by high-end clothing, but it was precisely because of this clothing that she presented a just-right feeling.

Her black pupils were cold and deep, her beautiful face always wore an expression that was neither sad nor happy, and her short hair that reached her shoulders was jet black without a single blemish. The witch completely controlled the black color all over her body, and it was hard to say whether she suited black or black suited her.

Driven by a competitive spirit, Aoko looked down at her clothes and suddenly felt a little discouraged.

Although the Aozaki family is a well-known family in this area, they are not actually very wealthy. The clothes she is wearing were picked out by her older sister. Although they look new, neither the style nor the color suits her.

"That's why I hate rich people the most..." Qingzi muttered to herself, drawing a silent gaze from Chengzi.

Orange, knowing what her younger sister was struggling with, had already planned to give Aoko new clothes for Christmas.

Chapter 200 A Chance Fate (Part 1)

"Shall we set off now?" Kuonji Yuzu asked, looking at the map in Aozaki Touko's hand.

"Yes, it's not very far, but it will still take some time to transfer." Orange waved the map in her hand. "I already made the route map yesterday, so let's just go there now. As for lunch, we can eat there."

As soon as she finished speaking, Orange was pulled towards the station by Aoko, who was getting a little impatient.

Orange gave Yuzhu a helpless, bitter smile. "Let's go, Yuzhu."

Kuonji Yuzu nodded almost imperceptibly and followed Touko at a distance. The three of them officially set off towards their destination for the day.

On the green tram, the passengers kept glancing at the seats of Yuzhu and her two friends. Suddenly encountering three exceptionally beautiful girls, they all felt that today was their lucky day.

However, Yuzhu felt extremely uncomfortable under these gazes. She couldn't help but fiddle with the small wristband on her wrist. A wave that was invisible to ordinary people swept across the entire carriage, and then everyone on the train was momentarily dazed. When they came to their senses, no one looked in their direction again.

"Oh dear, Yuzhu, is it really okay for you to do this?" Orange smiled slightly, knowing what her companion had done, and asked in a teasing tone.

Kuonji Yuju turned her head and silently looked at Touko.

Orange thought Yuzhu would say something, but after ten seconds she was still staring at her without saying a word.

Under her intense gaze, Orange gave in after thirty seconds. "Okay, I apologize. I knew you didn't want to go out, but I didn't expect you to be so uncomfortable."

That's right, the reason why Kuonji Yuzu doesn't like to go out is not because she's shy, but because she hates the way people stare at her.

She had impulsively agreed to go out with Chengzi yesterday, and then she regretted it a little, but since she had already promised, she could only keep her word.

"Touko, you must not be used to this kind of environment, right? Why do you seem to be completely fine?" Ayumi finally asked the question she had been holding back for a long time. In her mind, Touko Aozaki was just like her, an outcast who was not used to interacting with ordinary people in society.

But whether it was buying the ticket or the way the people on the bus looked at her, Chengzi's every move was no different from that of a normal person.

"It's true that I'm not used to it, but unlike you, I can endure it." Orange brushed a strand of hair behind her ear, her gaze containing a strange meaning. After reading "No Longer Human," she had a new realization.

Magicians are outliers in the world. Their worldview, outlook on life, and values ​​are different from those of ordinary people. This is similar to Yozo in "No Longer Human". Because of this, after reading this book, Aozaki Touko began to think about the question of what "human" is.

In fact, what happens next in this book is no longer important. What interests her most now is observing different people and seeing what kind of beings they really are. Her final targets are Yue Zhengling and Kuonji Yuzhu.

The younger sister, Aozaki Aoko, is easy to understand. Her parents are ordinary people, while her grandfather is no longer considered human. Therefore, she focuses her attention on the visiting magician.

Most uninteresting magicians are the same type, so she eventually focused her observation on two exceptions in her social circle.

The fairytale witch, Arisu of Kuonji Temple.

The true body is unknown, but the joy is listening.

These two are the people that Aozaki Touko is most interested in. Both of them give off a unique feeling, mysterious and interesting. Most importantly, when comparing the two of them, Touko always feels that they have an inexplicable connection.