The Daily Life Of A Cyberpunk Magician

Chapter 49 - 50: Jiang Shu is unkind, treating Kirie as a throwaway dog!
Chapter 49: Chapter 50: Jiang Shu is unkind, treating Kirie as a throwaway dog!”But how did you manage to turn yourself into a playing card?” Having learned from past mistakes, Kirie dared not shout and could only ask in a hushed tone, cautious and soft.

”You... really can’t tell?” Jiang Shu asked, surprised. As it turned out, this innovation was only possible after arriving in Lonely City, thanks to its technology.

”I can’t tell.” Kirie shook her head honestly.

”Xiao Jia.” Jiang Shu called out, and Xiao Jia, understanding the cue, activated the Projection and projected Jiang Shu in front of Kirie.

He continued, ”Just like this, when I was crouching there tying the ribbons, I blocked the view and sneaked into the Magic Table. The rest was up to Xiao Jia’s Projection. After the projection of the playing card fell to the ground, I stealthily pushed some real cards over to mix the fake with the real.”

”Is it that simple?”

”It’s that simple.” Jiang Shu smiled. To be honest, the Tablet Spirit’s black technology was really handy.

Liu Tingruo—Occasional God touch!

This was also his first time using Projection in his magic performance. The effect was potent, but he would certainly not use it often, for a simple reason.

Using Projections for magic was too easy and too powerful.

It turned hundreds of hours of practice into a single-click execution of a cold program and made the last remnants of reality in magic entirely false.

Jiang Shu didn’t like that, so he would only use Projection as a trump card, only for those magic effects that even he completely couldn’t figure out how to deceive the audience with, would he consider combining with Projection to complete the trick.

Yi: You looked cool holding the cup, but you were really awkward sneaking under the table.

Jiang Shu: ”...”

Kirie replayed the entire magic show of Jiang Shu in her mind and then rewatched it in her Prosthetic Eye for a long time without speaking.

Watching Kirie’s ”played out” expression, Jiang Shu also found it amusing.

Yi: I look at Kirie, and the girl has no expression. Her pale, tender face had ’I am SSR’ written all over it. Unable to sleep, I watched her intently into the night, finally seeing in her eyes the two characters ”giveaway” written all over her face!

Jiang Shu: ”...”

This thing could always hurt people on the fly.

”Here you go, you lost.” Jiang Shu saw that she didn’t speak for a long time and reminded her in a low voice.

Kirie let out a long sigh, her face full of resignation. Leaning back in her chair, she gazed at Jiang Shu with distant eyes. ”Alright, what do you want to do? Go ahead.”

”I want to make a playing card. No special requirements, just that it needs to be rigid and not too fragile. It needs to have a certain flexibility,” Jiang Shu excitedly put forward his request.

”Eh?” Kirie was startled, and then she heard Jiang Shu continue with ”Also.”

”Also, could you spare one day every weekend to tutor my apprentice, starting from the basics in subjects like mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and such?” Jiang Shu quickly went on. ”Nothing too complicated, the basics will do.”

”Eh?” Kirie was startled again. This was different from what she had expected, but then suddenly, she heard another ”Also,” and her heart skipped a beat.

”Also, help me find an organization, with a logo like this Night Owl.” Jiang Shu showed her the image constructed by the Tablet Spirits.

”Oh.” Kirie answered, then asked subconsciously, ”Anything else?”

”That’s it.” Jiang Shu scratched his head, that was all he currently needed Kirie’s help for, and he didn’t dare make any more excessive requests. He couldn’t shear Kirie down to a puppet!

So, he thanked her politely, ”Thank you, that’s about it. If you’re unwilling, it’s okay.”

No matter how reckless Kirie was, they had only known each other for a week, and Jiang Shu really couldn’t bring himself to force her to do anything.

”No, no, no, I’m willing.” Kirie hastily agreed repeatedly. Her feelings were a bit jumbled, uncertain about her own mind.

A little scared, a little relieved, and a bit unwilling.

Just a Jiang Shu, and he has absolutely no interest in me?

”That’s even better.” Jiang Shu breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, ”Thank you, so now we are friends.”

Kirie thought she must have heard wrong and muttered, ”Friends?”

”Yeah.” Jiang Shu cleared his throat and said solemnly, ”You’re a good person, but we’re better off as friends.”

”Oh—” Kirie nodded dully, her mind racing with other thoughts.

Does that mean, because I’m not bad enough, I can’t become his minion, so he has no sexual interest in me, so we can only be friends?

Unexpectedly, a sense of defeat rose in her heart, but suddenly, another thought popped up.

Friends...

Friends?

What kind of friends?

Not the kind between humans and dogs, right?

Kirie’s mind suddenly cleared, all her confusion resolved at once.

No wonder he pretended to scare me while considering me a friend, no wonder he put the bones and meat in front of me yesterday, no wonder he refused to let me become a minion, no wonder he, being a man, had no interest in me...

Jiang Shu is heartless, treating Kirie like a disposable dog!

How absurd!

I, the top technician of the Seventh Police Station of Lonely City, have to swallow my pride and be a dog for the Jiang family?!

Wait until I become a T1 or even T0 god in three years, I shall ensure that the Jiang family is in utter chaos!

Rage churned in Kirie’s eyes; she was furiously indignant, but in a split second, she remembered Jiang Shu’s witchcraft, and her slender, fair neck involuntarily shrank.

It seems, direct confrontation is still not an option.

I have to lie low!

Kirie Tsukimiya’s eyes rolled cunningly as she formed a new plan in her mind.

”Okay, then, Kirie, what do you think about the cards I talked about?” Jiang Shu rubbed his hands excitedly, thinking that if such cards really existed, he could at least be considered a Sword Immortal, right?

In Lonely City now, only a very few people are exploring the Magic Principle, and ”Shadow Cutting and Flowers” has yet to be explained by anyone; following this trend, ”House of Cards”, which combined several mechanisms and numerous props and techniques, might never be solved in this lifetime.

After all, this magic was created by merging the talents of many magic geniuses from a previous life; it’s not that the common folk of Lonely City are necessarily smarter.

”I’ll take care of the card thing; you don’t worry about it.” Kirie was still somewhat resentful but regretted her tone as soon as she spoke.

She cautiously glanced at Jiang Shu and, seeing that he wasn’t angry, said softly, ”What I mean is, with your intelligence, it’s hard to explain to you... oh no!”

Kirie realized she had misspoken again, immediately bowed her head, closed her eyes, and shrank her body, her delicate features bunching up tightly on her face, ready to take a hit.

But after waiting for a while, Jiang Shu in front of her made no move, so she opened her eyes again and said weakly,

”Anyway... just leave it to me.”