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Chapter 27- School Expedition (2)

The monster's head burst into flames.

I looked closely and saw Nina's fairy spreading out to cover the monster's head and burning with "attribute change: flame".

The monster swivels its long neck to avoid the flames, but the fairy is so attached to it that it won't move away.

That's outrageous.......

That’s what I thought when I saw Nina-chan’s magic.

The magic I usually use to guide the attack with the "guiding thread silvate" is also very high in murderous intent, but this one is also very high in murderous intent.

You can feel the determination of the exorcists to absolutely exorcise the monster.

However, the monster extinguished itself when it poked its head into the faucet where it had just been drinking water. It reminded me of an athletic club in my previous life that did the same thing in the middle of summer to cool off.

Then the monster's long neck, completely extinguished, twisted around and turned toward us.

Two eyes in its face look at us.

But how big they were! They looked as if they were half the size of the monster's face. Two of them looking at us with completely different movements. It's creepy.

“No, my throat, my throat! It’s dry, dry, dry, dry...”

A muffled, noisy, and unintelligible voice pierces our ears as the mouth, which seems to have been ripped open to its ears, is let loose.

The moment I heard that voice, a feeling of physiological disgust that I had forgotten about for a while rushed up from my feet.

Yes, that's right. This is what a monster is supposed to be.

Monsters are supposed to be like this, and the ones who make a fuss over such trivial things as cubes and spheres are just a small part of them.

I quickly tried to exorcise the monster with the guide thread silvate and stopped.

I could think of any number of ways to exorcise the monster in front of me.

I could tie up the monster's long arms and legs and cut them off.

I could pierce it through the head with the sky piercer.

Or I could imitate the magic I saw last week to cut it into spheres.

But that would be pointless.

The reason I’m here is to teach Nina-chan how to exorcise monsters.

Just as Nina-chan taught me "alchemy" and "coagulation," I need to help Nina-chan become an exorcist.

“Nina-chan, can you do it again?”

“....Huh.”

Nina-chan's breathing is shallow. She is also pale.

It seems better to maintain some distance now.

“K—cute skin. I want the skin of a child, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it!!! 』

The long hand holds down the broken glass with a snap.

The monster’s right foot touches the wall and its left foot touches the ground.

It’s like an amoeba.

The monster's mouth opened wide, revealing a myriad of teeth.

“I'm sorry, Nina-chan!”

Bajaj!　And then, lightning runs through my entire body.

It was a full-body strengthening using the Raikou-douji’s relics.

I held Nina-chan in my arms and kicked the ground with all my might.

“Oh!!! I want to be a pretty girl too! 』

At the same time, the monster flew up and and tried to bite me!

It moved like a grasshopper.

But it didn't hit me. But I’m not hit because we are running away first.

Seeing us running away, the monster moved its long limbs like a cockroach, and of course, it chased after us.

“Nina-chan! Can you do it again?”

I ran as fast as I could past the poster that said, "Let's walk down the hallway," and shouted loudly to Nina-chan to bring her back to consciousness.

And Nina-chan responded with a pale complexion.

“Burn!!!”

The moment the monster's hands touched the floor tiles, they ignited.

This caused the monster to slip out of his hands and it stumbled forward and hit its head hard.

Guu! And the monster's head slammed into the tile with a heavy, unpleasant sound.

But the tile was defeated and dented. Too hard, the head.

However, the monster ran toward us with its head still touching the ground and its four arms crawling toward us. It's so vindictive.

“Come on, put on some skin!!! Oh, me, me, me too! I want to be a beautiful girl! 』

If you want to be a beautiful girl wearing skin, you should be a Vtuber.

I don't know if they have YouTube over here in Japan.

“Itsuki! Forward!"

"...... yeah. I know.”

The next moment, Nina-chan, who I was holding in my arms, pulled on my clothes and pointed ahead.

The entrance to the music room was approaching there.

Of course, the school corridor is not endless. The end will come soon.

“Nina-chan, hold on tight. I'm going to fly.”

“Huh? Huh!!!”

I leaped through the floor.

By kicking the music room door and flying backward, I forced a U-turn.

I then fly backwards and pull my body, and spin around in the air in front of the ceiling. Kicking the ceiling as it is, the monster flies over...

The rest of the way, gravity takes care of the rest, and the monster lands in the corridor.

I ran back in the direction he had just come from.

“Eh? What did you just do, Itsuki?”

Nina-chan, who was looking around, looked at me, looked at the monster who was going into the music room, and looked at me one more time.

“I’m not doing anything…”

I tried my hand at wire action in my own way, but I managed to make a U-turn, and I was relieved.

And if it had been my father or Renji-san, they would have jumped over it with a triangle jump without using the "guiding thread silvate" because of their good athleticism.

I still have a long way to go, I think. I truly believe that.

I am teaching Nina-chan how to exorcise monsters, but I’m still the one being taught.

And just before the monster, oblivious to our disappearance, plunged with all its might into the music room, I caught it with a net made of woven guiding thread Silvate.

The mirror was broken and the tiles were dented.

I couldn't let it destroy the school any more than it already had.

And while the monster, which I caught with the net made of silvate, was struggling with its long arms and legs, I put Nina down.

“This time, let's put an end to the monster. Nina-chan.”

“......Yes, this time."

Nina looked at the struggling monster more calmly than before, then she said.

“Exorcise it.”

The fairy heard her wish and entered the monster's body.

The next moment, flames began to pour from the monster's mouth.

The monster's entire body flapped as if in agony.

Its large eyes melted and burst into flames.

The monster couldn’t endure it.

The monster died.

It died and turned into a black mist.

I turned to Nina-chan involuntarily as I watched the mist escape through the ventilating window.

“You did it! Nina-chan!”

Nina-chan looked at the door of the music room with a blank expression for a while, as if not accepting the scene, and then spun a few words.

“Huh? Impossible, I've exorcised.... really, I...?"

“Yes, Nina-chan exorcised it!"

The next moment, the color of her face suddenly changed and Nina hugged me.

“Oh I did it! I did it!”

I had never been hugged by a girl in my life before or since, so I froze in surprise. No, Aya-chan pushed me down when I was three years old.

“Wow, even I could exorcise monsters! Now I can be an exorcist too....!”

“That's right. Now you're an exorcist too, Nina-chan!”

“It's because of what you taught me Itsuki-kun!”

Nina says with a smile, leaving me.

When I saw that smile, I was taken aback.

Come to think of it, this may be the first time I've seen Nina smile. Nina always had a pouty face, but when she smiles.... it's kind of destructive.

“Thanks to you, Itsuki, I too can become an exorcist. I'm sure my mom will be impressed with me too....!"

Nina-chan's eyes lit up as she said that, and to hide my embarrassment, I said, "No.

“I don't know if Irena-san is going to take a second look at you yet.”

“I know that much. But that's why I'm going to do my best to surprise her! I'm going to be strong! With you Itsuki!”

Nina-chan's eyes sparkled, I was speechless and nodded.

"I agree. Let's work together!"

When I said that, Nina-chan's face lit up with a sudden expression.

Her expression changed from one moment to the next. It was very different from the time at the entrance ceremony.

“Itsuki, I'm in trouble. It's time!”

“Time? Oh!”

I remembered that Nina had a curfew.

We walked past the poster that said, "Walk in the hallway," and went down to the second floor where the first grade classrooms were.

On the way down, Nina-chan became so happy that she squeezed my hand even tighter.

……This is embarrassing.

Well, whatever, it’s okay if it’s embarrassing.

But it's also weird to wave her hand away.

So I shook the subject off to divert my attention.

"Hey, Nina-chan, do you know the school rumors?”

"Rumors? What kind of rumors?”

When I heard a ghost story about a suspicious person appearing in the school restroom, I suddenly remembered a story.

It's probably the most famous story of all time, and it's probably the counterpart to the bathroom ghost story.

“I heard that the stairs at school have different numbers of steps when you go up and when you go down.

“Is that true? I don't believe it for a second.”

“It's just a rumor."

I said this as a common joke, but Nina-chan looked a little miffed,

"I'm going to go to and count.

"What?"

“I'm going to count it because I'm curious!"

With that, she began to count the number of steps from the third floor down to the second floor.

I wondered what was going on all of a sudden, but maybe she was getting excited after exorcising a monster for the first time. I remember how excited I was the first time I exorcised a monster.

...... No. was I excited?

It was so long ago, I don't remember. ......

As I was thinking this, Nina-chan, who had reached the landing, turned to me.

“How many steps were there?”

“Thirteen.”

Then she started counting the number of steps as she climbed up one more time.

And when she finished counting, she turned to me with a scowl on her face.

“How was it?”

“Thirteen. No change.”

“That’s why it’s a rumor....."

I replied, and we walked down the stairs together this time.

I wondered who was the first to tell such a school ghost story.

I know that a suspicious person in the bathroom means that he or she saw a monster, but I don't understand why there is one more step in the stairway.

I don't think there is a monster that would do such a thing.

I was thinking about something that was not important when I walked into the first grade classroom and picked up my school bag.

......Why don't I hear a sound?

I look towards the ground.

Usually at this time of the day, there are children playing in the schoolyard, but not a single one today. It was only 4:30 p.m.

Has everyone gone home already?

Is that possible?

“Itsuki. What's wrong? Aren't you going home?

“Uh-huh. I'm going home.”

I followed Nina-chan with her black school bag out of the classroom.

I go to the shoe box.

I didn’t meet anyone on the way.

No, it's not that unusual.

All the first-grade students have already left.

But the fact that I don't hear a sound is weird.......

"...... Huh?"

“What's wrong? Nina-chan.”

“Look, Itsuki. All the shoes are gone..."

Nina-chan pointed to the shoe box.

Usually, the shoes of the students who have left school are stored there.

But there are none. There's nothing.

It's not just our class, but all the other classes as well.

Shoes are also missing from the shoe boxes used by 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders.

There should be shoes there.

They should be there.

Because everyone is leaving school. ......

At that moment, the sun in the west suddenly became stronger.

And as if chasing it, a shadow falls on the ground.

It can't be .......

It is still June. It gets dark at 6 p.m. or so, and it can't be dark when it's not even 5 p.m. yet. It shouldn't be there. ......

“What? It suddenly got dark...?"

"Nina-chan. Let's go home. Hurry!”

Something is happening.

Something I didn't know was happening at this time.

I pulled Nina-chan's hand, changed into my shoes quickly, and went out to the field.

The moment I left, I was back in the school building.

"...... why?"

I said and tried to go out again, but I couldn't.

I thought I had gone straight through the entrance to the school, but Nina-chan was right in front of me.

Both of us looked stunned.

We had no idea what had happened.

I don't, but I do understand that I can't go outside.

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