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2024-10-29 19:42:56Phuong Chi woke up on the bench of the bus stop, in the warmth emitted from the street light. She was a bit confused when she looked up to the dark raining sky, her black eyes moving around the quiet bus stop to look for something. Her midnight-black hair flowed over her shoulders when she turned around, but all the things she found were just her school bag and the umbrella laying right next to her.
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loveforeverAbout “Vermicelli noodles with grilled pork”, it's a famous dish in many cities, the mentioned one is from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. As its name, we have vermicelli noodles, grilled yet tender pork, and lots of things to eat with, such as chopped peanuts, lettuce, bean sprouts and aromatic herbs decorated. Btw, this chapter is quite expensive for you, I know and I'm so sorry about that. But the next ones are being rewritten, too, and if I edit them so many times, it might increase the unnecessary workload for my editor (this is the fourth time). I'm sure that I will edit all of them again when this book is nearly done. And of course, the next chapters won't be as long as this one.
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All the things happened in the blink of an eye. Just five centimeters from my face was a complex shining magical sign, coming without expectation, hitting my fiery dagger, emitting some sparks. The sign became brighter as it wasn't pleased to be restricted. Its silver-white brilliance thrust into my eyes as the tiny needles. I had to close them for a moment, and the sign became heavier and heavier, as it could destroy everything hindering it.
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No need to doubt anymore, my act had provoked those people, who came in great pride and overwhelming strength, surely smashing me like their child, but not successful at all.“Xavier! This is a stupid act! I am now warning you for the last time: stop making fun! You will definitely regret what you have done today!”
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That defiant attitude seemed to be the last thing that I could do, because I immediately vomited a blood puddle right at the moment I came to the intended location. “Ugh… Ugh…” My hand covered the mouth, but the blood didn’t stop overflowing. It moved along my fingers, dying them a freaky red color, then dropped in a fleck of crimson blood on the ground. Everything in front of my eyes was spinning now. It was hard for me to stand still. Both my legs were trembling—a sign showing that I couldn’t use magic for a really long time—and if I did magic once again, it would be the final time in my life. I let my back lean against the cold wall, staying for a while until I didn’t see any blood pouring from my mouth. It took time, but I had no choice. I couldn’t let Diederich arrest me, for all the reasons. First one, I had no time to sit in jail, waiting for someone to come and claim that I was damn innocent, while the devil was running out there and Phuong Ch
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But when Austin had said nothing yet, one of those evil spirits suddenly shouted out with the voice heard like lots of different tones echoed then mixed in a potion of fear. “Run! Run now!” That weird voice turned my head back. I watched those dead souls trying to escape in all the directions. Their figures flickered like flashes, some just drowning themselves in the dark or disappearing in the smoke's way with the rapid pace. And when I was aware of what was going on, there was just an empty place left in front of my eyes, as if those cannibal spirits had never come. “Hmph? Running away?” As a habit, I narrowed my eyes to see clearer. But not so long after that, I recognized I was seeing with my own eyes, which were completely blind in the dark, not the ability I always got from Anne. Everything was pure black, and if I left it there in my mind, it must be the buzzing sound in my ears. The situation of the dead souls hunting us devil raisers was quite
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Since we were born with the ability to feel the dead in such an obvious style, spirit speed was a basic standard for us to evaluate their demonic power. Or, briefly speaking, their ‘ranks’.There were plenty of ways to determine how strong a spirit was, such as the way it attacked you, its understanding of its own death, or the lust. But all of them were time-consuming and inefficient as hell, especially for the investigators like me. You know, in a case where the victim still waited for help, who would let you spend all day long asking those spirits about that? Then checking their physical features was another solution, and one way was judging their speed.It was the academic knowledge for young devil raisers. And after years of learning with effort, I can summarize it in one sentence: the faster they were, the stronger they were.
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Finally, I chose to release all of those spirits. After getting ‘tortured’ by Phuong Chi's tentacles, they were all scared like hell. They begged me for my forgiveness, promising that they would never tell anyone that I used to get there. And of course, they cried in such a fearful and freaky way that spirits usually did, and for short description, that sound made me get goosebumps.In normal cases, I wouldn't trust them. Our Vietnamese had a whole saying ‘devils first, ghosts are second, and the third are students’ to tell about the mischievousness. It's silly to believe in those who used to want to eat you up. But this case was completely different, so I just let them go.“Why do you release them? They might have consumed you, devil raiser.” Looking at those cannibal spirits flying away like rockets, Phuong Chi reached out her limbs to cover my neck, saying with a regretful tone.“I am Xavier, you can call me by
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