Honshu, Japan, Kyoto.
Today was the day first-year students enrolled at Soubu High School.
The gentle breeze of early spring, accompanied by scattered pale pink cherry blossoms, complemented the youthful boys and girls, forming an extremely beautiful scene.
Meanwhile, in the activity room on the second floor of the main teaching building.
A girl with smooth black long hair, wearing a Soubu High School uniform, with a pair of golden eyes, and a cute but not particularly outstanding appearance, was standing by the window, as if admiring the scenery.
However, the tears about to overflow from her eyes, her slightly trembling pupils, and her constantly shaking body, betrayed the fear in her heart at this moment.
"Can you see it?"
"Can you see it?"
...
To ordinary people, there was no one else in the activity room besides the girl; it was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
But in the girl's eyes, the activity room at this moment was like a living hell.
More than a dozen twisted, terrifying Evil Spirits, emitting faint black mist, surrounded her.
One of the Evil Spirits had its body in the corner of the activity room, but its neck stretched out nearly five meters, and its head dangled in front of her, its two eyeballs, about to fall out, staring intently at her face.
"Can you see it?"
Facing the Entanglement of the Evil Spirits, Yotsuya Miko, though terrified to the extreme, forced herself to remain calm, pretending to admire the scenery outside the window, and muttered to herself.
"To-today's weather is re-really nice."
At this moment, Yotsuya Miko was on the verge of tears.
How could such a thing happen?
This wasn't the first time Yotsuya Miko had seen Evil Spirits and ghosts.
Usually, as long as she pretended not to see them, those "things" would at most ask two or three times before silently leaving.
But this time, she had been hiding in the activity room for nearly ten minutes, and the other party seemed to have no intention of leaving!
"What should I do?"
Yotsuya Miko lightly bit her lower lip, feeling like she was about to break down.
She had thought about leaving the activity room, but in such a terrifying scene, her legs had already gone soft. If she hadn't been holding onto the windowsill, she would have probably collapsed onto the ground long ago.
If that really happened...
These "things" would definitely realize that she could see them.
As long as she pretended not to see them, there would be no danger.
This was the iron rule Yotsuya Miko had concluded for surviving in this dangerous World.
But looking at the current situation, even pretending not to see them wouldn't solve the problem.
Just as Yotsuya Miko felt despair, she suddenly heard the sound of the activity room door being pulled open behind her.
She turned around with all her might and saw a black-haired, black-eyed boy, who looked about her age and was exceptionally handsome, slowly walk in.
Yotsuya Miko immediately realized this was an opportunity.
An opportunity to escape her current predicament of being surrounded by Evil Spirits.
"Um... classmate."
Yotsuya Miko's voice trembled, and her golden eyes showed a pleading look.
"I think I sprained my ankle. Can you help me back to the classroom?"
Under normal circumstances, Yotsuya Miko would never make such a request to a boy she had just met.
But now, she couldn't care less.
If she didn't leave here soon, she would eventually be discovered by the Evil Spirits.
"Sprained ankle?"
To Yotsuya Miko's surprise, the boy merely smiled indifferently, then slowly closed the activity room door.
Then, under her bewildered gaze, he walked to the desk in the activity room, and with very elegant movements, took out several items from his embrace, muttering as he did so.
"Let me see, what I haven't experimented with yet are the peach wood dagger, silver nails, and a few talismans that are said to ward off demons. That's about it."
After checking the items on the table, the boy looked up and showed a kind smile.
"Hello, my name is Kano Yoruhoshi. I'm a first-year student enrolling at Soubu High School today."
Yotsuya Miko nodded subconsciously.
"My name is Yotsuya Miko, and I'm also a first-year student. Please take care of me in the future."
After introducing herself, Yotsuya Miko belatedly realized what was happening, and nervously pursed her lips.
"Um... can you help me out first?"
The moment her voice fell, all the Evil Spirits in the activity room suddenly turned their heads in unison, their gazes fixed on her face, and squeezed out hoarse, roaring sounds from their throats.
"Can you see us!?"
Yotsuya Miko's body trembled violently, and her back broke out in a cold sweat from fright.
Just then, something she never expected happened.
"Cough, cough."
Kano Yoruhoshi lightly coughed twice and waved his hand at the Evil Spirits around Yotsuya Miko, as if greeting neighbors, and said in a friendly tone.
"I can see you."
Yotsuya Miko was stunned for a moment, then her pupils constricted in shock, and she hastily warned him.
"Don't... don't say it out loud!"
She didn't know why this boy named Kano Yoruhoshi also had the ability to see Evil Spirits and ghosts, but that question was no longer important.
The most crucial issue was that he had actually exposed this fact?
If the Evil Spirits and ghosts knew that he could "see" them...
Then it would all be over!
However, the next scene was something Yotsuya Miko had never anticipated.
After Kano Yoruhoshi said that, the Evil Spirits in the activity room actually all shrank into the corner, their twisted bodies huddled together, and on their terrifying faces, an expression she had never seen before—fear—appeared.
"Wha... what's going on?"
Yotsuya Miko had an incredulous expression.
Evil Spirits...
Are they afraid?
What are they afraid of?
Could it be this boy named Kano Yoruhoshi in front of her?
What exactly is going on?
Kano Yoruhoshi looked at the group of Evil Spirits cowering and trembling in the corner, and shook his head with a slight disappointment.
"There aren't any stronger ones, huh... Oh well, I'll make do."
After saying this, he picked up the peach wood dagger from the table, walked to the group of Evil Spirits, and directly stabbed one.
The Evil Spirit, whose body was pierced, let out a piercing shriek Yotsuya Miko had never heard before.
Kano Yoruhoshi's gaze did not waver in the slightest; he merely stared at the hole in the other's body, and after it slowly closed, he pulled out a small notebook from his embrace and recorded on it.
"Hmm... the peach wood dagger's lethality against ordinary Evil Spirits is similar to that of steel. It seems it has no special effect."
Immediately after, Kano Yoruhoshi repeated the same action several times, but changed the weapons to silver nails and talismans.
"Silver nails seem to be slightly better than ordinary metal, but only marginally."
"This talisman is completely useless. That old swindler who set up a stall in front of the Shrine, I need to go get my money back from him."
After finishing his notes, Kano Yoruhoshi put the small notebook back into his embrace, stood up, stretched a long yawn, and said with a yawn.
"Good, your work is done."
After he said this, Yotsuya Miko was horrified to see that as Kano Yoruhoshi slightly opened his mouth, the bodies of those dozen or so Evil Spirits actually transformed into a large mass of struggling black mist, emitting a strange aura, and were all sucked into his belly!
Seeing the Evil Spirits finally disappear, coupled with the shock brought by this scene, Yotsuya Miko's psychological endurance finally reached its limit.
Her legs gave way, and she collapsed onto the ground, two lines of clear tears uncontrollably flowing from her bright golden eyes.
Just then.
"Eh, what's that noise in the activity room?"
A Teacher wearing a white lab coat and black suit pants pulled open the activity room door.
What appeared before her was a girl sitting on the ground, looking as if she had been bullied, crying piteously.
And Kano Yoruhoshi, standing not far away, still holding a peach wood dagger in his hand.
"What... what's going on!?"
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