Parsed with an automated reader. The content accuracy is not guranteed.
Previous | Contents | Next
The house in the request was about a ten-minute walk from the station.
"This house kind of gives off a vibe that says it has an interesting history doesnât it! As the request form stated, there seems to be a few minor first-ranked spirits here and there."
"All small fry! This request is probably going to be a piece of cake!"
Karasuma shaded her eyes with a visor formed by her hand and Soya circled her fingers to make glasses like a kid in elementary school as they looked at the house for spirits.
I could only see the minor spirits peeking out of the window, but the two of them were using spirit detection to carefully measure the strength of the evil spirits. After a cursory inspection, we opened the door of the house.
With our shoes still on, we entered.
Soya held a talisman in her hand and I unsealed both my hands.
The room was dusty and gloomy, so much so that it was hard to believe it was daytime. On the other hand, it might have been because there was still a lot of furniture and household goods left, but there was a strong sense that someone had lived there until yesterday. However, the house was supposed to have been vacant for about two months now.
"Itâs not like the people who lived here before are haunting this place, I think. There should only be minor spirits here."
The term "minor spirit" was a generic term that referred to wandering spirits whose souls had been worn out and were on the verge of disappearing, low-ranking animal spirits, and other similar spirits.
"But if thatâs the case, I donât understand why all these minor spirits are gathering in this house. This house doesnât seem to be a place of mourningâŠ"
As Soya spoke, she placed a foot on the stairs leading to the second floor, where the presence of minor spirits was particularly strong.
A single minor spirit sprung at her from the second floor.
Soya screamed as she activated a simple warding barrier with a talisman.
"T, that surprised me. But if itâs just this muchâŠ"
Taking advantage of the moment the barrier and spirit were engaging in a power struggle, Soya threw an exorcism talisman at it. With that, the minor spirit was easily exorcised.
"Wow, as expected of someone from class B."
I praised her perfunctorily and Soya puffed out her chest with pride.
"Youâre pretty good at conserving your spirit power. It wouldnât make sense to activate a technique when the spirit had barely enough power to qualify as a first-rank."
Unlike me, Karasuma could accurately detect spirit power and praised Soya from a different perspective.
"âŠeh? E, ehehe, rightâ?"
For some reason, Soya paused strangely and made an ambiguous expression.
"W, well then! Iâll go ahead and continue exorcising the spirits!"
She shouted that as if to gloss over something and then proceeded to almost single-handedly wipe out all the minor spirits inside the house.\n
"âwait a second! This isnât right!"
When the extermination of the minor spirits was completed and all that was left was to report the results to the client, Soya raised her voice.
"Didnât we decide that today we were going to confirm Aoi-chanâs ability and see how well we would work as a team!? Why am I the only one working!?"
"No, there was no need for me to do anything since you were so eager to exorcise all the spirits."
I also didnât want to use climax exorcism, if possibleâŠ
"There was no enemy worthy of me showing my true power!"
Karasuma said so proudly. This girl⊠was really all talk, wasnât she?
"Oh, come on! Weâve wasted a whole day⊠hmm?"
Soya suddenly started looking restlessly around the room and Karasuma also followed suit, with a "Hmph?".
"Thatâs strange. Iâm sure Miss Misaki exorcised all the spirits but arenât they gathering again?"
We looked out the window. Since we were currently on the second floor, we could see out quite far⊠and there were definitely some shadows coming towards us. Clearly, something was wrong.
"Is there still something in this house⊠that attracts other spirits?"
Soya summoned her four shikigami and ordered them to search inside the house.
"Weâll also try looking around, letâs do it together."
Following Soyaâs lead, the three of us began to search inside the furniture, the back of the carpet, and other similar places for anything strange that might have been left behind.
Minor spirits were attracted by places of mourning where negative emotions tended to accumulate, cursed items filled with grudges, amulets made by unlicensed exorcists, and alsoâpowerful evil spirits.
About ten minutes after the start of our search, a shikigamiâs dying scream echoed from inside the closet.
Previous | Contents | Next\n
Like this:Like Loading...\n Related
<time class="entry-date published" datetime="2020-12-15T01:48:29+00:00">December 15, 2020</time><time class="updated" datetime="2020-12-20T02:04:06+00:00">December 20, 2020</time>