Spook 9 | Exorcist

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"He climbed the rooftop?! Is he becoming delusional or what?!"

The female apparition was ridiculously horrified at the sight of him climbing on top of the small building of the entrance on the rooftop of the old building while floating in the air that could view the entire school bound. But what made her almost shriek with her heart already jumped out from her mouth is when his gesture told her that he was about to jump.

You rushed over to the male side and in the blink of an eye, you took a hold of him by holding his collar with your palm while your other one took a hold of his forearm that is holding his exorcist staff, slowly floating down to the floor and gently land him on the hard concrete.

"Oh, dear. You don't need to jump down!"You frowned, hiding one of your eyes behind your bangs. Lifting your gaze to see the disappointment across the daikon girl's face that soon was replaced with astonishment while Hanako shot you his bright grin.

"U-Ukiyo-san! It's been a while!"The girl stammered, completely surprised at the sight of the familiar spirit in front of her. Before she can open her mouth to speak, the male suddenly squirming to escape from her hold which she instantly obligates when he turned his face around to look at you with his staff was pointing directly right in front of your face, much to your dismay.

Looks like you will introduce yourself as the supernatural to him in your—

"Why the hell you help me there? It's not like I'm a little kid or what!"He spat, narrowing his eyes, "Ya better answer me or Imma going to exorcist ya."

His action startled the poor female student while the male spirit watches in amusement at your unfazed figure with his harmless threat. Moving the raiteijou away from your face by using your haraegushi and locking your gaze with his.

"Your brother told me to watch over you."You replied with a monotone voice, unbudge from your spot as seeing his priceless expression when your words dawned on him.

"Teru-nii did?"

"Sadly . . . yes."

"Ohhhh. Wait— who the hell are you?!"

"Well . . ."You slowly fluttering your eyes close for a short moment to recall the memory that was not a really long time ago.

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Please protect Kou and Tiara from any harms for me, Ukiyo-san.

You can count on me, child of Minamoto.

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What a burdensome promise, you mentally sighed and reopening your now cold eyes, giving him a chill running down on his spine when you started down at his figure. Taking off your hat from the top of your head, holding it in front of your chest.

"A caretaker of a delinquent yet a rowdy member of Minamoto clan. Ukiyo-san is here to prevent you from doing something foolish . . ." A sly sadistic grin was produced across your lips with of your brows raised as if taunting him, ". . . or do I should?"

"Y-You . . ."He grumbled, his grip around his staff tightened when he suddenly charged forward to your direction and since the distance between you two were pretty close, it gave him an advantage for him to do so, "Stop fooling around!"

However, you simply invaded his predicted attack rather in an effortless manner as it can be seen across your feature. Provoking him even more when you decided to taunt him by mocking yawning.

"Surprise or not, my idiotic level couldn't even stand against yours."The female smirked, dodging his attack once again as a hand appeared over her shoulder and grabbed his staff with the owner of the hand is clinging onto her from behind as usual.

"Gotcha~"He sang and was about to take his staff away when a sudden electricity flowing around the two supernaturals which surprised them while the boy only smirking in triumphant when all of a sudden, it starts electrifying them simultaneously in the process. Leaving them paralyzed in their place.

"Stop it! Why are you doing all this?!"Yelped the daikon girl and while his attention was on her, you instantly recovered from your temporary condition before helping your friend to stand up to his feet carefully.

"Ah, that kid was pretty strong for his age. I bet he will become such an excellent exorcist."Hanako grinned nervously while you checking his hand condition gently, agreeing to his words with a small smile.

"Yes, that's why I'm expecting a lot from him."With a small hum, you told him that you would treat his injury later.

"He took someone's life using that knife!!!"

Oh my.

Looks like the secret was exposed.

Both supernaturals snapped their heads towards the pair of human students but the whole air was a lot more different than earlier.

It was a suffocate one.

Nene shook her head in disbelief, "You . . . You're lying . . . "She whispered softly but it was still audible to the younger exorcist who then groaned at her boldness.

"Listen! You're being tricked, sen—"

That's when a kitchen knife was pointing at the male's throat, cutting him off from continuing his sentence while the Ukiyo-san does the same gesture with her haraegushi to Nene's with a sadistic look painted on hers including Hanako's faces, wrapping an arm around their humans possession around their neck in a protective manner from each supernatural.

"Looks like the cat's outta the bag~ That's too bad."Hanako grinned darkly when a sly dark smirk pursed on your lips.

"Don't you think you were saying a little bit too much than you should, bōya? You might be scaring this poor girl. But oh well, it looks like that I need to kill someone today~"

"What the hell?! I thought you will protect us from him! Why are you doing this?!!"Kou growled, feeling the anxiety engulfed himself when he was waiting for your answer. Only receiving a light hum from the female apparition.

"Even I said I'll taking care of you, it doesn't mean I am your servant, aho bōya. I won't obligate to your instruction since it was valid to me."

Kou took this as a chance and jumped away with his senpai when the two supernaturals lowered their weapons, assuming they were lowering their guards down. Cold sweats slides down to his temple, swallowing the lump in his throat in anxious.

The aura around you scared him.

No.

He was terrified.

What is with those murderous glints in your eyes?

That was insane—

"Haha, I like this staff. Like it or not, I'll be taking it~"

Hearing those words from the same voice, his eyes widened in surprise when he see you were not where you were standing. when he felt a tug from his staff, he predicted you were behind them.

And his prediction was right.

But it was too late for him to do anything when you put a paper with a ' 封 ' written on it. And what's worse, he couldn't take it off.

"GAAAAHHH!!! What the hell were you thinking you were doing to our family's heirloom, old hag!!"

Old hag?

Okay, that managed to get you irked but you still managed to keep that gentle smile on your face, for now, watching him suffer as he does the same to you when you had to hold yourself back from consoling him right there and then.

"That aside." Tugging him by his wrist; maybe slightly harder because of the angry emotion that you still keep bottling inside you— turning his palm around so you could see electrified mark across his palm, meaning him hissing in pain when you pressed your thumb on the mark.

"I knew it. You were being reckless with your staff, bōya. It could bring destruction upon yourself by not using it correctly and get electrocuted every time that lightning shoots out." You hummed, quickly releasing his grip from your grasp when he pulled it away.

"I don't care! If it's to protect [Y/N]-nee and everyone! I'll even give my life!"

Your eyes slightly widened in surprise before it turned back to normal, lips no longer pursed into a smirk but into a warm yet gentle smile instead.

"I see. You are serious with your promise, Kou."

An image of you flashed across the boy's mind after seeing the smile on the female supernatural, unconsciously mumbling the simple words under his breath.

"[Y/N]-nee?"

"Besides, I thought your brother said to leave the Secret Mystery for him to handle. Because we all know the truth, that you couldn't even stand either one of us."You quickly added, changing the topic and gave him a sly grin that shattered the image of you from his mind with his thinking it was impossible since you are nice to him and . . . you are still alive.

Safe and sound.

Yeah, that's right.

It's not possible.

"Accept the reality, kid."

You grinned, now into a genuine one though he couldn't feel the genuine part though, "We, ' Secret Mystery ', are stronger than all the Seven Mysteries in this school. Make sure it lasted forever in your mind. I bet you couldn't even land a single hit on No. 7 and he would knock you out cold."

"W-Wha—"

"Get ready!!"He heard a childish cry from his side and before he knew it, a sudden great impact was felt on his bowel, letting out a grunt in pain and felt his consciousness would fade from him.

"You cheating bastard . . . "

With that, his view went pitched black and the last thing he knew, something has caught him from falling.

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Ding! Ding! Ding!

Thus, the sound of the bell has declared Hanako as the winner with him doing his victory pose.

"WinNeR!! YeEEeAaaYyy!"

Glancing over the overjoyed ghost before turning your gaze back to the unconscious male in your hold, smiling softly as if he was fast asleep.

"Thank you, Kou."

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"Don't you think you were being harsh to him?"Hanako inquired, now in the infirmary alongside with you as he had been helping you carrying the heavy unconscious male to the destination.

It was not easy, to be honest.

You shrugged, glancing over to the now sleeping male with Hanako staring at him in irritated, already regretting for knocking him out until you spoke,

"I know but . . . He is not going to be a little kid that I know forever. He needs to grow up and that's my duty to help him. Without him knowing, of course."

"He will realize it soon."

"Let's not talk about that."That's what you said to him, not wanting the conversation going further than it should with you two now staring at the blonde.

"He will be an excellent exorcist."The male apparition smiled softly,

"That's for sure."The other apparition nodded her head in agreement before saying simultaneously with Hanako, with a smile adorned across their features.

"We'll be counting on you, bōya."

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Kou groggily woke up from his slumber. He just had a weird dream about those supernatural's he just met.

Counting on him?

For what?

"Oh, you woke up. That's good."

His eyes shot open at the familiar voice, revealing to him the surroundings of an infirmary with him lying on the soft mattress, slowly sitting up as his eyes screwed shut to adjust himself with the pain in his head.

Looking at the side, though his vision still blurry, he swore he saw the Ukiyo-san sitting on the chair next to his bed but after readjusting his vision, it was you who is looking at him in concern, a small book about Ancient Kanji was in your grasp before you put it away in your bag.

"Is something wrong, Kou? I found you passed out on the rooftop of the old school building."That was half true though. Besides, you don't want his unconscious body around the entrance of your boundary.

"No . . ."He slowly shook his head, holding his head with his palm on the side as he doesn't want to concern you about his small matter even more, "It was nothing. Your face just reminded me about someone I just met."

"Someone? Who?"You froze yourself from moving, surprising you that he still could remember the early event even after you blurring his memories about it.

"Well . . . It's not important at all. Sorry for troubling you, [Y/N]-nee."He quickly apologized, making you sighed but more like a tired one.

"Kou, you are not a trouble at all. How many times should I remind you?"Your hands now we're placed on your hips, watching him scratching the back of his head with his head hung low before shot you an apologetic grin.

"Sorry . . . I'll keep that in mind."

You sighed once again, letting your hands fell to your side.

"Oh well, don't think about it too much and have a nice rest at home. Teru will arrive here in a minute to accompany you home."You reminded him after looking over at your watch and bidding farewell to him. His smile slowly faltered with each second passed after you leave.

When he suddenly threw the pillow towards the wall, screaming at the top of his lungs in frustration, not liking himself for finding something similar between you with that evil spirit!

"Ah, that was totally beyond my imagination! There is no way in hell she is that supernatural—"

Hearing him keeps complaining about the oblivious complaining by hiding yourself behind the wall, you couldn't help but to stifling the small laugh with your palm and walked away to your next destination.

Guess where?

Don't know?

The broadcasting room, of course!

There's a new rumor that needs to be tell to students, after all.

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[ Translation ]

Japanese : Bōya : Boy

Aho : idiot

封 : ' seal ' in kanji

To be continued . . .