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Ten minutes had passed since I received the dreadful blackmail disguised as a love letter.
Having regained some composure, I arrived in front of practice room number five.
I took a deep breath and then opened the door.
"Ah, youâve finally arrived!"
The person who had been sitting in a chair inside stood up with a flourish and a bright smile on her face,
"Weâll be teammates starting from today! I donât know what kind of technique you used back then, but itâs a real bargain to find someone with such powerful exorcism abilities in class D."
Said the sender of the letter and my blackmailer, Soya Misaki.
"So letâs go exorcise a bunch of spirits and rise up the ranks together!"
I asked Soya, who was suddenly proceeding at her own pace, to wait.
Although Iâd heard that she was looking for teammates from class S and class A, it seemed like this girl, Soya Misaki, was awfully determined to do exorcist work.
I was honestly happy that she invited me to join her team.
But it was another matter entirely if I had to go on exorcism missions together with her.
Unless it was an emergency like yesterday, I didnât want to use my rotten climax exorcism ability nor let anyone find out about it. No matter how much I risked my life to exorcise a spirit, I would still be treated as a pervert. People would start avoiding me and I would die of embarrassment.
"Iâve come to turn down your invitation."
Soya widened her eyes as I said so firmly.
"Do you want the contents of the letter disclosed? If you donât join my team, it will be revealed to everyone."
This girl⌠so the blackmail was for this after all.
Shamelessly uttering threats with a cute face.
I had already anticipated Soyaâs words so I tried to feign calmness as I retorted,
"Go ahead, do it. Who would believe such groundless bullshit?"
In reality, her letter wasnât groundless at all but whether people believed it or not was a separate matter.
As I faced Soya, I was confident that as long as I remained unyielding this matter would resolve itself safely.
"âŚhmm, so you want to go about it that way."
Soya stared at my face and then suddenly spoke the name of a guy from class D.
It was the guy who said that Misaki was in some ways more frightening than Kuzunoha.
Soya blushed awkwardly as her gaze swam and then continued,
"J-juice made from 100% breast milk."
What cryptic nonsense was this?
"S-send that to the guy I just mentioned. Youâre his friend so you should have his contact information."
âŚHey, it couldnât be.
I messaged the words with a bad feeling. Then,
Within seconds, I received a call from him.
"Furuya, you bastard⌠who told you my fetish⌠what do you want� Money?"
He spoke in a shaky voice, as if a knife were being pressed against his neck.
I almost dropped my phone. Soya fanned her red face with her hand and then asked something horrifying,
"How many more people do you want to try? I have dozens more."
When I was unable to reply, Soya looked at me awkwardly and said, "âŚitâs not exactly something I spread around."
"I reject all the people who confess to me by saying things like âIâm not interested in guys who are into that kind of thingâ or âIâm not interested in guys who masturbate every morningâ⌠Iâve found that itâs the most effective way and more than that, itâs how I really feel."
Her face was red with embarrassment and she had a somewhat sorrowful expression. However, her words were brutal. Just imagine squeezing out the courage to confess only to get rejected due to your fetish⌠youâd probably end up forever traumatized.
If it were me, Iâd be so suspicious of where the information leaked from that I would skip school for a while.
At that moment, I suddenly remembered what Iâd heard from one of the guys in my class.
That in this school alone, numerous people had confessed to Soya.
Did that mean that⌠countless people in our school, including those in class D, had been traumatized by Soya? Too scary.
Soya smiled as if to say, "Give up already."
"I think that quite a few people would believe the information I send out, donât you?"
I was talking to the guy from class D who was still on my phone, not to Soya.
"Why didnât you tell me that Soya had such an outrageous psychic ability?"
Although Iâd never heard of any psychic abilities specialized in pervertedness to this degree, secret techniques and incomprehensible mysteries were commonplace in this industry⌠I didnât have the right to judge anyone either.
It was doubtful that I could have defended against Soyaâs psychic vision even if Iâd heard about it beforehand, but I decided to vent my frustration on the guys who must have been deliberately concealing Soyaâs ability by questioning the guy on the phone.
"We⌠wanted as many people to confess to Misaki-chan as possible so they would also get shot down."
I finally understood. So this was why these guys had been trying so desperately to keep me and Karasuma in the dark about Soya. I really needed to stop being friends with these people.
"Or rather, since youâre asking this, you couldnât have confessed to Misaki-chan and gotten rejected!? Congratulations! From today, weâre true buddies! Hey guys! Haruhisa has finally become one of usâŚâ"
I hung up and started to consider cutting ties with them.
Before I knew it, Soya had approached me and was looking into my face.
"You know, my ability is rather well-known among professional exorcists⌠Isnât there a professional exorcist in our school? For example, the one who appeared in your dream, Kuzunoha-san."
"Naturally, she also knows about my ability."
"Well, my ability is also why she has never let me meet her⌠at any rate, what would happen if that fearsome Kuzunoha-san got this information, too?"
She would kill me. If Kaede knew that I looked at her that way, she would kill me for sure.
After being socially annihilated, she would blast my soul with will-o-wisps.
I could no longer tell Soya that nobody would believe her. My life was now at stake.
So I decided to stick through with my feigned ignorance.
"Although I donât know what kind of misunderstanding you have, Iâm only a D class student who ranks lowest in the grade. As I explained yesterday, that shikigami disappeared on its ownâ"
"Thatâs a lie, absolutely impossible."
Soya immediately denied my words.
"You know donât you, Furuya-kun? What people call my family?"
"âŚSoya the Shikigami Family, right?"
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