Right now, there is a mini construction boom in Seiji City, where Masato Domori lives. In six months, several condominiums are scheduled to be completed near the station.
　Because of its position as a bedroom community from the city center and because it is located on the edge of the city, Seichi City is a bedroom community, but if you leave the station for a while, you can find a tranquil rural landscape.
　Recently, however, when the vast train depot at Kiyoji Station was relocated, plans were announced to develop a suburban commercial mall directly connected to the station in the vacant space.
　Then land prices gradually rose, and major real estate companies, believing that the market could be profitable, began building large condominiums, which is how the current rush to build mini-condominiums began. In fact, sales of the condominiums have been good, according to the report.
　On Sunday, a young man working at the site, Yuto Du Du, lamented over and over again as he carried the rubble away.

I can't get a job. My life is going to dry up if I don't do this. My life will dry up if I don't get a job.

　Masato, who was supposed to be in the middle of his labor right now, muttered something like that.

''I even took the exam of the World Ability Agency, which I didn't really want to go to, to get a rank...''

　This is because the job that Yuto is talking about is not this kind of part-time work.
　This year, Yuto just started his first year of high school. But his life was far from sunny. The reason for this is that Masato had to earn his own living expenses and rent money as a high school student.

Boy!　You can take a lunch break after you carry that!

I understand!　Thank you!

　After being instructed by the foreman to do so, Masato stopped working at the end of the day, took off his gloves and pulled out a homemade sandwich and a water bottle that he had brought with him from his own luggage.
　It's June now and the construction site is hotter than the rest of the place. Yuto sat down on the edge of the site where the sun was shaded to avoid the sunlight.

'Sigh. At this rate, it will be difficult to balance high school life. Our school is tolerant of people like me, but...''

　This year, Yuto was admitted to Horaiin Jirin High School, a private school that has been in existence for over 80 years and is known for its prestigious reputation for both the literary and military arts.
　It is a popular high school that has produced celebrities in various fields, and students come from all over the country to attend. However, the tuition fees are also somewhat high for the school.

　So there was a reason why Masato, who was extremely poor and had to pay for his own living expenses, was able to attend this high school.
　The reason is that his mother passed away during spring break, when he was a junior high school student, and his father hadn't been home for several years due to the special circumstances of the Du Du family.
　It might seem strange to some people to hear that. But that's not the reason.
　He has a large amount of money that his parents left him, and he has been able to use it to make ends meet because he has been entrusted with the management of his parents' living expenses.
　Because of this, it was impossible for him to have any financial problems during his high school years.

　However, in the summer of the beginning of his junior high school years, something terrible happens.
　It was revealed that his grandfather, Kazura Dodo, had stolen the money from him and spent almost all of it.
　Masato's grandfather, Kazura, is a playboy... It would be too easy to call him a playboy, but he has a troubled personality.
　The fact that Masato's parents entrusted the family's savings to him when he was still a child shows part of this.
　At that time, Masato became furious with his teacher and grandfather, Kazo, but there was nothing he could do to change what had happened.
　As a result, he initially tries to give up his plans to go to high school.

　However, an acquaintance of his grandfather, who was the root of all evil, was the principal and chairman of the board of trustees of Jilin High School, and the principal of the acquaintance kindly offered him the tuition fee and all the school materials and events as long as he could pass the entrance examinations on merit, under the condition that he could pay the school fees as long as he could.
　He is an old man who has only negative points for his character, but he has a wide range of friends and acquaintances that even Masato doesn't know about.
　Most of them were connected to dubious connections at restaurants at night, which was somewhat subtle for a serious man like Masato, but he had no choice but to go to high school, and he had no choice but to go along with the proposal.

　However, at the time when he was in the third year of junior high school, he did not have the academic ability to enter Jilin High School. That's why Masato studies hard and bloodily, and he manages to get into the school.
　But then more bad luck struck him.
　The family's lack of financial resources didn't stop there.
　As soon as he entered high school, the Du family decided that they couldn't afford to support the young man.
　The Do-Do family run a small dojo for old school swordsmanship, but the number of students was small, and the income was very low.
　So what was the decision he made for his grandfather Kazo's lovely grandson?

"I don't have money to support you, so please leave.

　That was what it was.

'That old man you're the one who spent all the money in the house!

　The image of the displeased Sumazo with a grin on his face comes to mind, and Masato grabs his precious source of calories, the sandwich.
　Of course, Yuto tried to resist this outrageous proposal, but the still inexperienced boy Yuto was well persuaded by cunning Sumazo.

Yuto doesn't remember everything because she said things like "a man of the Du family is a full-fledged man at 15" and "when I was young".

　It's a very good idea to be able to have a good time with them.
　After being kicked out of his home, Masato was at his wits' end, but now he was introduced to a real estate agent through a questionable connection of Kazura's, and now he lives alone in a cheap house by himself.
　Hearing this, the house?　Everyone would think so. The same was true for Masato.
　When Masato went to the site for the first time after moving out, he was astonished to see the house because he hadn't been told about it by Kazura and the owner, who hadn't even contacted him.
　The house was not just a house, but a large one-story wooden house with a yard that looked like an old house, maybe three orders of magnitude older.

　It was in a state of disrepair, uninhabitable.

　Yuto was stunned and called Kazura to complain, but Kazura was a delinquent old man and would not talk to him.
　The owner of the house remains unknown. There is no way that Masato can afford the huge restoration costs of a needlessly large house.
　A socially and income-powerless high school freshman, Yuto is now in that wide, rundown yard...

　He lives in a tent.

'Kuh!　I hate that wasted space!

　Yuto remembered the house that had become his home and lamented as he spat.
　If it could be restored, it would be a fine house. But that would require an enormous amount of money for a high school student like Yuto. Even though it is hard to earn money to live on his own, Masato still wanted to restore the house somehow.
　Anyway........I don't want to live in a tent anymore.
　Therefore, in order to get over this financial predicament, Yuto voluntarily violated the biggest taboo of the Dou Dou Dou family.

　It was to get in touch with the World Organization of Gifted People, take the rookie test and get a rank.
　Although the Dou Dou family has kept it a secret from the world, they are a family of gifted people who have inherited different abilities. According to his grandfather Sumazo, the Dou Dou family is the strongest spirit swordsman (self-proclaimed) who can manipulate spiritual power at will.
　However, Masato didn't believe in the strongest part at all.

　What's more, in fact, the spiritual swordsman was not relevant to Yuto....
　The fact that it wasn't relevant was also a big problem for Yuto as the successor of the Dou Dou family.
　It was because he had inherited the spiritual power of his father, Liaoichi, who was said to be the strongest member of the Du Du family and even the second coming of the first Du Du, and the magical power of his mother, who was said to be the greatest witch in the world of magic.

　This is something that is impossible for those with abilities to do.
　It is said that spiritual power and magic power have different roots, and their characteristics are water and oil, light and darkness. It has been said that these two powers do not exist in a single individual.
　In fact, no such person has ever been identified, and all of them always have only spiritual and magical power in their bodies.

　Moreover, spiritual and magical powers are both repulsive to each other. For this reason, when magic and spiritual power come into contact with each other, an extremely large explosion will occur.
　In other words, it is presumed that when both of these powers are housed in a single unit, it will explode and blow away.
　If the mother hadn't immediately noticed this when Eugene was conceived and immediately sealed the magical side of his body, we don't know what would have actually happened to Eugene and his mother.

　Then, as Eugene was born and grew up, a revelation was revealed.
　That is, although Masato has a powerful and enormous amount of spiritual power, he is unable to control it at all. Moreover, his spiritual power is leaking out of his body regardless of his will. This was a rare occurrence in the history of the Dou Dou Dou family.
　It was probably a side-effect of sealing the other power that was in Yuhin's possession, the magic power, which was a side effect of the seal.
　What was Grandfather's decision in spite of the biggest incident in the history of the Du Du family?

'Wouldn't it be nice to have other powers?'

　This was the reason why he decided to make Sun Yi, a master of the Immortal Way brought from somewhere, to be his teacher.
　He decided to make Sun Wei, a master of the Immortal Way, who had been brought from somewhere by the clan, his teacher, and made him learn the Immortal Way.
　As the direct descendant of the Du family, he was not only required to become a spiritual swordsman, but also to train in the hermit's path, which was an extremely tough training. This training is so severe that Yuto is proud to say that he is one of the top-ranked swordsmen in the world in terms of the number of times he has almost died at his age.
　It's not something to be proud of.

　But this is how he became the worst spiritual swordsman in the history of the Du Du family, and he also became the exceptional Taoist master of the Du Du family. This was an internal matter for the Du Du family and had no impact on the world.
　This is because the Dou Dou Dou family has long since abandoned the practice of using their abilities to get paid for their demon removal requests. And not only that, the Du Du family never had anything to do with the people who were said to have abilities in order to keep the fact that they were from a family of people with abilities secret.

　It was the same for Yuto since he was a child, so he didn't have any doubts about it. For Masato, he didn't have any complaints about his normal life.
　When Yuuto became a junior high school student, he finally learned the reason why he was not to get involved with the other people with Dou Dou Dou people's abilities, and the serious nature of Yuuto's life made him more cautious to prevent others from getting suspicious of him.
　The reason for this is due to the property that is secretly managed by the Dou Dou Dou family.

　There are several of them, and each one is sealed with the secret techniques of the Du Du family, which has been in the lineage of spiritual practitioners for generations. And none of them can be put to rest with the word "dangerous".
　He said, "Well, you have to be prepared for a whole Kanto area...or even a whole country with just one property.
　It sounds shady when you say it, but.....
　However, managing those ultra-dangerous properties also required skills as a spiritual swordsman, which was why Yuto's condition was a big deal. After that, only the sealing technique was something that Yuto managed to learn the hard way, so he was able to get out of it.

　Because of this reason, the Du Du family kept these dangerous properties hidden from outsiders and people with bad ideas, and kept them away from the public, especially people with other abilities.
　But.........
　Yuto violated that taboo.
　He participated in the World Ability Agency's rank test.
　That was also the beginning of Masato's words when he lived alone in Sumazo. With an unusually serious look on his face, Sumazo said to Masato.

You have the right to make all the choices and responsibility since you are leaving home. There are no exceptions to that. You do everything at your own risk. You are not bound to the Dou Dou family.

　It's a very good idea to have a good idea of what you're looking for. It's a good idea to have a good time with them.
　Because of these words of Hazama's, and also because of the fact that he was being thoroughly hunted down in his life, Yuto decided to take the rookie rank examination sponsored by the World Ability Agency, which is said to be a difficult task, and he successfully obtained a rank D.
　Of course, he hid his Dou Dou family and participated in the test not as a lineage of gifted people, but as a natural gifted person who manifested through mutation.
　Rank D is the third from the bottom of the nine ranks. Although it could be said to be a lower rank in terms of positioning, Masato is satisfied with it.

'I even faked getting a rank as a Natural Abilities person, and I heard that the agency's work pays well, so as long as the request comes in, I'm going to do it well and earn a living!　I mean, what?

　Yuto, who had been bracing himself and clenching his fists, frowned at the sudden feeling of discomfort.
　Then a dim space appears in front of where Yuto is sitting. It was clearly different and would be difficult for an ordinary person to understand if they saw it.
　However, rather than being surprised, Yuto sighed.

''I guess I'm drawn to this peculiar constitution of mine again........ It's a hassle, but it would be bad if my masters got into trouble~

　Since Yuto's spiritual power usually leaked out due to the side effect of having his magic power blocked, he was often attacked by miscellaneous spirits and others. This was not an unusual occurrence.
　When Yuuto got up and began to knead the sacred air into his own sub-navel dantian with a bother, in contrast to Yuuto's tired expression, the sacred air was instantly sublimated to possess spiritual power.

　Yuto is a rare Sendo user, even for an able-bodied person, due to his previous history. His master, Sun Wei, who was a master of the elixir, called him a genius.
　The dim space containing spiritual energy in front of Yujin's eyes starts to fade. But in proportion to that, the spiritual energy was compressed and began to take on an odd shape. Yuto was not caught off guard and stared at it.
　Then, out of the dense spirituality, a three-legged outsider in the form of a white tiger appeared. For some reason, the three legs meant that the left leg part of the front leg was missing.
　With the appearance of this monstrosity, the color of the area became slightly dull. It was proof that the dimension had slid. This is a common phenomenon when a medium or higher level non-human being appears.
　As Yuto looked at the white tiger without changing his expression, the white tiger's spiritual energy touched the circle of sacred energy spreading around Yuto.

''Huh?　I thought it was the usual miscellaneous spirits, but this guy is surprisingly tough, isn't he?　And wow!

　Suddenly, the tiger's human gaijin leaped low as it rushed towards Yuto at high speed, and thrust out the sharp claws of its right front paw at Yuto's chest.
　Surprised, Yuto reacted astonishingly, rotating his body around the axis of his right leg and ducking the white tiger attack of the human gaijin. And by dodging with his minimal bodywork, Yuto was able to afford to counterattack.
　

''Hmph!''

　Yuto rotated his body and didn't stop moving as he ducked and slammed his right hand sword into the white tiger's back as if it were flowing.
　An ordinary person would not be able to visualize how Yuto moved.
　The white tiger, which had been gliding in low altitude and at high speed, was knocked down by the impact of that Yuto's hand blade and crashed to the ground, scattering dust all over the area, and then stopped moving.

''Phew.''

　Yuto exhaled and looked down at the white tiger, who was out of breath from Yuto's blow.
　The game was over in the blink of an eye, but the content was not at all comparable to a high rank holder in the World Ability Agency. The content of the exam was tough on Yuto, and he only received a rank of D.......

''Isn't this guy........maybe he's a land god?　We built a ward, no one leg, and this strength... but why did he get so angry and attack me?

　Yuto looked around the grounds where the apartment building was being built. There, his eyes fell on something.
　There is a magnificent large rock lying at the edge of the site. Probably because it was in the way during the construction of the apartment building, the contractor removed it from its original location with an engineering machine or something.
　And then, when he moved it out of the way, a piece of a rather large rock, which must have been part of the large rock, was lying haphazardly next to the main body of the rock.
　Yuuto approached the rock and inspected it.

Wasn't it worshipped in the past?　That guy came out of here. Then the missing part is his left leg....

　Yuto looked back at the white tiger, who couldn't move anymore, and checked. The white tiger had lost its power in the fight with Yuto and its presence seemed to be on the verge of disappearing as well.
　Before the construction of this apartment building, there was a large house on this large property. I've heard that Yuto was the home of a pretty influential person. It must have been in that yard all along. Masato imagined that it had been left there when the landowner sold the property and moved away.

''It would have been a guardian deity of this area.........I'm going to be angry. Moreover, his divinity was quite high, wasn't it?　Surely this rock must have been placed on a knot in the earth's vein.

　Essentially, if the guardian deity of the land is eliminated in this way without any procedure, the inhabitants and trees in the vicinity will not benefit from it, either. If it's not done well, it can even become a haunted god.
　If this is the case, even if a condominium is built, the residents who live here and the landowner who sold this land will lose their blessings.

''The fact that the landowner who lived here even became an influential figure wasn't unrelated to this guardian god's blessing...''

　The white tiger, which was about to lose its power, was staring at us.
　Yuto made a decision when his eyes met with the white tiger.

''Alright, this place is an important place for me to work right now, and it's also my territory as a fallen spiritual swordsman and sacred path user, right?

　As he said that, Yuto placed his hands on each of the Oiwa and its pieces on both sides. Then he pulled the two together and superimposed them with a power that was unimaginable for that high school freshman's average body.

''My peculiar constitution didn't allow me to become a straightforward spiritist, but my study of the Sacred Dao helped me. I'll use this useless, just out there, spiritual power of mine!

　Yuto placed both palms on Oiwa as if letting Oiwa suck in his spiritual power, and used a tremendous amount of sacred ki to draw the streaks of earth veins from underneath the condo foundation work to himself.

''Haha!''

　He could see what looked like a light red river flowing on the ground where Yuto was, drawing in from underneath the apartment building under construction. Eventually, it moved directly underneath Masato, or rather, it was drawn to the point where the large rock that Masato was holding onto was located.
　Then a small light is emitted around the large rock, and the area regains its usual calmness. And.........right after Yuto had accomplished that, the warding caused by the sliding dimension also disappeared.

''Fufu.........I guess that's it. Now I just need to tell my master not to mess with this. Hmm, but what do I tell him?

　Thinking of this, Yuto turned his head to the white tiger and it was no longer there.

''Huh?　No?

　Yuto wore a worried expression and rode the warm late spring breeze to hear his voice.

　".........Thank you."

　When he heard that gentle girl's voice, Yuto almost smiled. Apparently, that divinity of this white tiger was a girl.
　An outsider who even has a divinity doesn't care much about gender, but takes the form of a man or a woman with that outsider's nature. However, the color of his voice made Masato feel as if he had saved a girl, and he was happy. Unintentionally, Yuto smiles.

　"But........I'll never forget that I added a hand sword to your back!"

'Ohee!　Wait, that's because he's going to attack me out of nowhere............oh, hey!　You saved me!　I'm sorry!　Please!　Don't be haunted!　Any more bad luck would be a hindrance to survival!

　Yuto fumbled with his blood, and even though he desperately shouted, there was no reply....

''Ora!　Kid!　What's the big deal, why are you all alone?　Now get your ass back in the field!

　Yuto's shoulders rise at the angry voice of the field master.

''Eh!　I haven't had much time off!

　If the World Ability Agency had given him a job, he would have been paid on better terms and would not have been resented by the land gods he thought he had helped, Yuto was puzzled.

''Hurry up and give me a job!''

I'm giving it to you! Quickly!

　Afterwards, Yuto told the master that he did not want the large rock to be moved.
　Both the master and the condo developer originally thought that the Oiwa could be used for the exterior of the condo's courtyard, so the Oiwa was to remain in place, as they had moved it to its current location.