The Exorcism Tale of Hachiman

With another worry lifted from her mind, Hiratsuka Shizuka waved and prepared to return to the camp.

"And you, Shizuka-sensei?"

Hachiman Hikigaya suddenly asked this question.

"I?"

Upon hearing Hachiman Hikigaya's words, Shizuka Hiratsuka paused slightly.

"Teacher, your family probably doesn't have any protective measures in place, right?"

Although the Hiratsuka Shizuka family's power was indeed immense, it was only within the perspective of ordinary people.

Money and connections are things that are invincible to ordinary people, but evil spirits have no interest in them.

Although Hiratsuka Shizuka's family may have already made contact with a psychic family and obtained protection, Hikigaya Hachiman still felt it was safer to ask.

"My mom has been urging me to come home; I guess she's already found a solution."

Shizuka Hiratsuka was very pleased that Hachiman Hikigaya had thought of her.

only.....

"Instead of worrying about me, why don't you spend more time on Yukinoshita and Yuigahama?"

Hiratsuka Shizuka curled her lips into a smile, making teasing remarks about Hikigaya Hachiman to mask the complex emotions in her heart.

"Stop bringing them up all the time!"

Upon hearing Hiratsuka Shizuka's words, Hikigaya Hachiman, who had been frowning over the previous intelligence, suddenly became awkward.

"Haha, sorry, I forgot you have no experience at all."

He patted Hachiman Hikigaya's shoulder hard, then Shizuka Hiratsuka left behind a dashing figure and disappeared from his sight.

"You don't have any experience either, do you?"

Because of the lessons learned from the past, this time Hachiman Hikigaya only dared to complain after Hiratsuka Shizuka had completely gone far away.

However, after hearing that Hiratsuka Shizuka had already made arrangements, Hikigaya Hachiman breathed a sigh of relief.

"So, the next step is to prepare for a possible evil spirit riot?"

As Hikigaya Hachiman walked toward the camp, he pondered these thoughts.

"If I had known this would happen, I should have asked my senior for his contact information in the first place..."

Hachiman Hikigaya harbored some resentment towards his past self.

Given that it was a rare opportunity to meet an exorcist, he only asked some emotional questions, which made him an absolute idiot.

...............

"Is it my imagination?"

Baihechuan glanced at a lamppost by the roadside.

Whether it was her imagination or not, she seemed to have seen a strange black shadow as she passed by.

But the phantom only lasted for less than half a second before disappearing.

And it never appeared again after that.

This made Yurikawa Hana wonder if it was just a figment of her imagination because she had been listening to Yotsuya Miko talk about the evil spirits she had seen these past few days.

After all, according to Yotsuya Miko, the number of people who can see evil spirits is very small.

She couldn't see evil spirits before, so how could she suddenly suddenly be able to see them?

"Well, let's go home."

Having come up with a reason that convinced herself, Yurikawa Hana felt a weight lifted from her heart.

Thinking about her promise to go out with Yotsuya Miko tomorrow, she couldn't help but smile and skipped home.

However, it was not long after she left.

Suddenly, an extremely thin, blurry figure gradually appeared in front of the streetlight.

"Damn exorcist..."

The venomous tone echoed in the air. After lingering in place for a while, the phantom suddenly stopped, as if it had found something.

It then chased after the direction that Yurikawa had left in.

Chapter 320 A Beacon in the Dark

the next day.

As Yurikawa Hana set off with anticipation to meet Yotsuya Miko at their agreed meeting place, she suddenly encountered a little boy on the road who was holding an empty rope and crying incessantly.

"Um, what happened?"

Because there was still a long time before the agreed-upon time with Yotsuya Miko, Yurikawa Hana, seeing the little boy crying so sadly, squatted down and asked him why.

"Qi Ke is missing."

The little boy wiped away his tears and sobbed as he spoke.

"Qike?"

Yurikawa blinked, a hint of confusion in her eyes.

But then she noticed the collar in the little boy's hand and suddenly realized what was going on.

"Qike is a puppy!"

"Um....."

The little boy nodded upon hearing this, then looked at the abandoned building across the street and began to sob again.

"Hey, don't cry. Tell your sister where Qi Ke ran off to, and your sister will help you find her!"

Seeing the little boy crying, Yurikawa, seemingly overflowing with maternal love, quickly waved her hand to indicate that she would help.

"really?"

Upon hearing what Yuri Kawana said, the little boy looked up with a hint of surprise on his face.

But that initial surprise quickly turned into worry.

"Kiko ran into that building, big sister, are you sure you're okay?"

"That building?"

Following the direction the little boy was pointing, Yurikawa slowly turned her head.

Then, after realizing that the building the little boy was referring to was the notorious haunted abandoned factory nearby, her face instantly turned green.

"Of course, no problem!"

Although my calves were already trembling before I even got inside, I had no choice but to bite the bullet and go for it since I had already made that promise!

Touching the bracelet that Hachiman Hikigaya had given her on her wrist, Yurikawa Hana's tension eased slightly.

There shouldn't be any super-class or higher evil spirits inside the building in front of us, right?

After all, according to Hachiman Hikigaya, there are only so many evil spirits of Special Grade or higher in the entire Chiba area; her luck couldn't be that bad...

Controlling his trembling body, he slowly moved into the factory.

Yuri Kawana's calls for the puppy began to echo throughout the factory.

However, after searching most of the factory, Baihechuanhua still hadn't received a response from the puppy.

"Did it run off to somewhere else again?"

Thinking of this possibility, Yurikawa Hana scratched her head in distress.

Right above her head, a three-meter-tall evil spirit covered in arms was constantly reaching out and stuffing all the evil spirits attracted by Yurikawa Hana's immense life force into its mouth.

As time went on, the multi-armed demon devoured more and more of its own kind, and its size grew larger and larger.

As the evil spirits in the factory gradually disappeared, the originally eerie space became more reassuring.

“Woof…”

Just as Baihechuan Hua was about to give up and go back, a soft hum suddenly reached her ears.

"Little puppy?"

Upon hearing the sound, Yurikawa's eyes lit up immediately.

She quickly ran in the direction where she had heard the sound and finally found the puppy hiding under a tarpaulin.

"Honestly, you came to a place like this, and I spent ages looking for you."

Lifting the puppy out from under the tarpaulin, Yurikawa Hana angrily stroked its head.

Faced with Yuri Kawaka's violence, the puppy did not resist at all, but just kept burrowing into her arms, as if it was afraid of something.

Yurikawa didn't notice anything amiss about the puppy's unusual behavior.

After all, it's perfectly normal for puppies to be clingy.

As Yurikawa Hana walked out of the factory with the retrieved puppy, she unexpectedly spotted Yotsuya Miko next to the little boy.

"Huh? Miko, what are you doing here?"

After returning the puppy to the little boy, Yurikawa asked curiously why Yotsuya Miko was there.

Why did we end up in front of an abandoned factory when we agreed to meet somewhere else?

How dare you ask that!

Seeing that Yurikawa Hana still didn't realize she had gone over time, Yotsuya Miko angrily pinched and rubbed her cheeks.

But as she continued massaging, Yotsuya Miko suddenly noticed something was amiss.

Why does the sky always seem a bit dark?

It's supposed to be a sunny day today, and there aren't any clouds yet.

However, even under the scorching sun, Yotsuya Miko didn't feel any heat; on the contrary, she even felt a chill...

"No way?"