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Chapter 26- School Expedition (1)

A week has passed since then.

They say that children's interests change quickly, but Nina-chan's interest hasn’t shifted, and she is still interested in exorcism.

So we would meet early in the morning for an hour behind the gymnasium, where no one would come, to practice our magic, and after school, Nina and I would take a walk to look for monsters.

The story of the monster-hunting walk is exactly as it sounds, and it was my idea.

I told Nina my amateurish idea that  she first get used to seeing monsters, and she said, "That's true”.

Incidentally, if I just wanted to meet monsters, all I had to do was release my magic power without restraint. Just by doing that, monsters would gather around me like insects on a midsummer night when the light is lit.

But that's not good.

What is bad is that I don't know what kind of strength of monsters will come.

The first and second ranks are still fine.

But it would be out of my control if I were to attract 5th rank or 6th rank monsters.

So we are searching for monsters by foot.

Incidentally, we are still in the middle of it.

Where we are walking with our school bags is inside the school.

The time has already passed 16:00.

It's almost time for Nina-chan to go home, so we are walking around the school a bit impatiently.

We walked around various places for the past week, and as a result, we concluded that the best place to look for monsters is at the school. The school is a great hunting ground for monsters because there are so many children, and they can easily obtain magic power.

The probability of meeting a monster was much higher than in other places.

“Itsuki! Let’s go to the bathroom on the fourth floor today!”

"Bathroom? Why the bathroom?”

“I heard that in the evening, there are monsters in there.”

“Monsters?”

“Yes. A woman with long hair appears there.”

I repeat my words.

But a monster in the bathroom?

It's a common story, or rather, it's an ironclad ghost story.

But, well, the only moments in an animal's life when it is unprotected are when it is sleeping, defecating, and mating, and the fact that a monster appears in the toilet, which falls into one of those three categories, well, it's not impossible.

I've never met a monster in a school bathroom, though.

I'm more interested in where Nina-chan heard about this story. It may sound heavy to say this, but I have never seen Nina talking to anyone other than me at school.

“Hey Nina-chan. Where did you hear that story?"

"In the bathroom......"

“Eh?”

“I heard the rumor in the bathroom! You have a problem with that?"

“Uh... No, I don't.”

Nina-chan pressured me, and I couldn't help but apologize unintentionally.

No, well…this is my fault.

“Next time I’ll be the one to exorcise the monster.”

By "next time," she was probably referring to the monster she met the day before yesterday.

We heard the sound of a piano being played in the music room after the students had left, and when we went to take a peek, we found a monster in the shape of a large index finger silently playing the piano.

I am not familiar with the piano, but I remember that it was a very monotonous piece of music that could be played with only one index finger.

As soon as the index finger noticed us, it started wandering over to us, and I exorcised it. Next to me, Nina-chan's face turned pale.

Maybe that was the first rank.

“Hey, Itsuki.

“What's wrong, Nina-chan?”

“I'm actually starting to understand a little bit more about coagulation recollect technique.”

“Huh, really?”

“Here, look.”

Nina-chan said this and produced a purple haze in her hand.

This is her fairy. Though it is incomplete.

“Please. Burn!”

Nina wished so.

The next moment, the purple blur trembled in front of my eyes and burst into flames!

"Eh? It's really burning!”

“This is called the ghost fire-wisp. It's the basis of the basic of the "coagulation recollect technique!”

Nina-chan looked happy as she said that.

I looked at the blazing fire and analyzed it for a moment.

What she is doing is probably "attribute change: fire.”

However, unlike the "Silvate" magic, Nina-chan's magic is changing her own body on her own, without the magician having to do anything.

That means that one person can do the work of two.

It's more than just a big advantage.

So, I wanted to be able to use it as soon as possible, so I asked Nina-chan.

“Hey Nina-chan, how did you learn to use it?”

“I tried to imitate the magic that my mom was doing at that time.”

Wasn’t that a week ago?

Oh, no. I was so caught up in the appearance of Irena that I didn't see the magic properly.

"Well, I'm going to divide the magic power into two so that the magic power doesn't scatter around."

“Two?”

“Yes. The core magic and the container magic that surrounds it.”

Come to think of it, Nina-chan said something similar when she came to visit me.

She said that it is easier to do when there is a container.

I see, so you can replace it with magic power.

I haven't tried it with a doll yet. ......

But there was something that sparked a little in Nina-chan's words.

This is just that.

I guess it's not the method of deploying magic power like Daifuku, which I tried and missed sometime back in "Alchemy". No, it doesn't matter if it's Daifuku, Anpan or Curry Bread, but anyway, it means to change the quality of magic power inside and outside.

I see, I'll try it later.

With this in mind, we went to the rumored fourth-floor bathroom and heard what sounded like a leak. Did someone leave the faucet open? Or was the bathroom left unattended and broken?

With these thoughts in mind, we fearfully stretched our faces toward the bathroom, and there it was - the monster.

Its black hair was ragged and growing messily. Its skin was rough and it looked very poorly nourished. Above all, it had a long neck. The neck alone must have been a meter long. No, it was not only the neck that was long. It’s arms and legs were also at least one meter long each.

It was indescribably awkward.

I had such an impression when I saw it.

Moreover, It was drinking water from the faucet while stretching his arms and legs like a spider web on the floor, ceiling, and wall of the washroom and fixing his body. Hmmm. It's creepy.

But it doesn't know.

If it doesn't know, then it's a good chance.

"Nina-chan. Do your magic while you still can.”

When I whispered this, Nina-chan was shaking and reaching for me as if she was searching for something.

"...... Itsuki, hold my hand."

“Yes."

It was just the same as before, I took Nina-chan's hand and she calmed down a little. The first thing to do is to take a deep breath. It looked, as if it had been taken back.

And then she took a deep breath and sent the fairy flying toward the monster.

“Please! Burn!"

The next moment after Nina-chan made her request, the monster's head burst into flames.

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