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After the eventful first two days of Golden Week ended, the remaining days of the holiday became rather uneventful.
However, for Asakura, it wasn't a bad thing.
He had more time to research Magic, potions, and magical artifacts.
The Blessing that had split from the Great Blessing was taken back to Kagamihara Nadeshiko's home in Yamanashi Prefecture and placed in what was probably a storage room—Asakura and the others immediately tried to teleport once they received the message 'It's placed (σ???)σ~'.
As a result, Asakura landed headfirst in a cardboard box, Asagumo Chihaya was buried under a pile of clothes, and Yuigahama Yui had something that looked like a fish tank on her head.
Gokou was spared because she had to take care of her sister and couldn't come to Yamanashi Prefecture to play.
Finally, Asakura decided to move the split Blessing to a hidden corner in the girl's backyard outside the house.
In the future, whenever they needed to teleport here, everyone could simply climb over the noticeably lower fence nearby, making movement more convenient.
Incidentally, the message with the emoji mentioned above was sent by Kagamihara Nadeshiko on the Line group chat using her phone.
That day, when Asakura handed her the Blessing, he said he would give her his contact information. The girl was initially looking forward to Asakura pulling out some miraculous Magic tool—after all, Gokou had just shown off by turning Yuigahama Yui into a cat-eared girl.
However, when Asakura told her his Line and email address, the girl showed a subtle expression of disappointment.
"I understand your disappointment, but believe me, many wizarding contact methods are really not as good as modern radio waves."
Asakura said to her earnestly, "You don't want to catch dead mice every day to feed owls, do you?"
Kagamihara Nadeshiko immediately expressed understanding and no longer held any expectations for the magical world's communication methods.
That being said, Asakura himself actually wanted to figure out a more Magic-oriented contact method.
After all, while mobile phones were convenient, just like the Mount Kumotori incident this time, once they were out of range of signals, they were completely useless.
However, Asakura's research into Magic was limited, and he currently had no clues, so he could only place his hopes on his system, hoping for a one-shot success and a miracle from a single draw.
After all, he had destroyed all the Yamanokemono, and there must have been a mother among them. By any calculation, the task should have been completed.
This was indeed the case; the Nameless Magic Book had already settled, and the rewards were waiting for Asakura to claim them.
As Asakura eagerly checked, he found that the system was very touched, and then gave him a broken car.
[Task completed, obtained 'Modified Ford Anglia 105E Deluxe Sedan (Used, 70% new)']
Yes, it was a truly broken car.
[Modified Ford]
[Mysterious Traits: Flight, Invisibility, Undetectable Extension Charm]
[Driver (crossed out) Keeper Asakura Takuma]
[A modern industrial product seemingly modified by some magic. Its dilapidated, near-scrap appearance is just a facade; internally… well, internally it's also quite rundown. However, due to the solidified Undetectable Extension Charm, the back seat can easily fit a family of nine with room to spare for a savior or something; it handles very well, even a 12-year-old child can drive it to catch up with a steam train.]
[It will explode when its durability runs out, causing tons of damage to the surroundings. Every day at midnight, all durability will be automatically refreshed, and it will be parked in the Keeper's garage. If the Keeper doesn't have a garage, it will wander off, so please make sure to prepare a garage. The Keeper can summon it by calling its full name.]
[Durability: 5/5 (1 point of durability can withstand roughly one attack from a Whomping Willow)]
[Note: "It flies and can turn invisible, it's simply the coolest car in the world, what more could you be unhappy about?"
—Scarhead]
[Note 2: "Yeah, if it didn't have a life of its own."
—Weasley, looking bitter as the flying car chased spiders and centaurs in the Forbidden Forest]
Although he hadn't paid much attention to it, Asakura felt that this old green Ford was definitely not a vehicle that could casually appear on modern roads; once it hit the road, it would likely be pulled over by traffic police not long after.
It seemed that without a driver's license, he could only fly it like a plane.
Maybe occasionally using it as a giant brick to smash people would also work…
By the way, the new quest was [Quest: Contain or Eliminate an Undead Creature].
Even focusing on the Nameless Magic Book offered no other guidance, so it seemed to be another day with no clues.
Fortunately, Asakura was already used to it, so he decided on the spot not to bother with it and just continue with his own research.
After receiving Asagumo Chihaya's reminder, Asakura began to explore the brewing of Essence of Dittany. Because it was a brand new version of the magical potion, the original recipe could only be used as a reference, so the initial attempts were disastrous.
How disastrous, you ask?
Asakura and the others never went to the Clubroom again during the last three days of the Golden Week holiday, and students in the school club building constantly thought someone was cooking feces or opening cans of fermented herring, reporting it to the Student Council multiple times. Eventually, even the police thought someone might have died and was rotting in the building, coming to investigate, but found nothing.
Thus, one of Soubu High School's eight mysteries unknowingly became 'the rotten smell in the club building'.
Fortunately, the smell had mostly dissipated before school started, otherwise Asakura would have had to consider moving the items from the Clubroom back to his own home.
On the first day of school, everyone's mood was somewhat restless, and the teachers understood this situation, so school ended quite early that day.
Asakura also went to the Service Club activity room for the first time in a while.
"Although it's called the 'Service Club activity room,' if we're talking about the proportion of club members, shouldn't our Magic Club be dominant?"
Asakura casually drank his canned black tea: "Shouldn't this activity room be renamed the Magic Club's activity room?"
"Unfortunately, the Service Club used this room first, and there's no rule about later comers taking precedence."
Yukinoshita Yukino glanced at him and continued reading her book.
Asakura was about to say a few more words, but then he saw Yanami looking distracted and couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong, Yanami?"
"How do I put it, I feel like I haven't appeared in a long time… Well, I know it's because of the long holiday, but there's just a strange, unexplainable feeling of unease. If I had to describe it, it's like a friendly character who appeared in the prologue but then faded out of the main group in the middle because their combat power couldn't keep up with the version…"
Yanami mumbled, a bit puzzled.
"What are you talking about, reality isn't a story,"
Asakura elegantly took a sip of tea: "Chadou-kun."
"Who's that?! A name I've never heard of just appeared!"
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