Today was a sweltering hot summer day.

"Rui, Are you feeling fine?" Rin asked and I nodded numbly as I fanned myself by his side.

"Anyways, what's with this disgusting theme park?" I asked as I stared at the familiar face of our school's principal.

"Nise-san, It's best not to think about it too hardly." Yukio said and I left it at that as I leaned more into Rin's side.

I really hate summer. I ended up falling asleep for awhile and was awakened by Rin who gently shook my shoulders.

"Rui, we've been partnered." He told me and I rubbed my eyes to wakefulness.

I held unto Rin's hand like a child while we were being debriefed for our mission, Rin and I walked hand in hand into the theme park. I kept on looking around searching for probable places that a ghost would be hiding in when Rin tugged my hand.

I looked up to him and asked,"What?"

"Will you be fine splitting up?" He inquired and I nodded.

"Yeah, I'll go to the left and you take the right." I said immediately letting go of his hand and walked slowly towards the direction I pointed as I regretted not bringing my umbrella. The heat reminded me of the summers I spent on Okinawa with the Okinawa Branch Family.

I sighed and wiped the sweat off my forehead. When I heard crying from the distance, I stopped and looked around to find where it was coming from. I tried to focus my attention in feeling out the "presence" of the ghost kid. After a few minutes of standing, I immediately rushed to the direction I had pinpointed it at and ended up in front of the carousel where the kid was crying.

"Ah!" I said with a deadpan voice as I realize Rin was there too.

"...Please don't cry anymore." I said to the ghost child turning my attention away from Rin.

"Oi! Don't talk to demons!" Rin admonished me and I nodded at him before turning back to the ghost kid who was holding his a few moments of silence where I was contemplating what to do next, Rin shouted at the kid,

"How long do you plan on crying?!"

"Rin...it's not good to shout at kids..." I told him as the ghost kid came flying at me hugging my neck as he told us his story.

A part of me who could understand his loneliness sympathize with him. I patted his head and tried to do something that was probably dangerous,

"I'm Rui and that onii-chan over there is Rin, would you like to play a game of Tag with us?"

The ghost kid smiled brightly and replied,"I'm Tarou! Onee-chan you're it!"

He then ran away and I turned to an astonished Rin and smiled at him who returned it and the two of us began chasing after Tarou-chan. Rin and I ended up getting separated but I had confidence that Rin would've been fine alone. He was strong and courageous so I continued searching for Tarou-chan in silence.

Then I spotted him by the ice-cream stand and sneakily tried to get to him but he was alert and ended up running away with a grin on his face. I huffed at my defeat before grinning with a determined look to begin searching for him again.

Just as I made my way to the ferris wheel, I felt the familiar presence of blue flames and immediately tried to locate where it could be.

"The roller coaster!" I blurted out and immediately rushed to that direction just as I heard the sound of something breaking, I hastened my pace and arrived in front of it seeing a debris of woods and metal.

"Was Rin here?" I asked assuming he had done this destruction, probably at an attempt to find Tarou-chan.

"Ah...this feeling...maybe he's here?!" I asked excited at the prospect on meeting the demon exorcist from my childhood again. Just then I felt Tarou-chan's presence and went over to him deciding that I could use this mission to get him to see how far I've come.

"Tarou-chan!" I shouted and grabbed hold of him successfully ending the game. However just as I was about to tease him for winning, a saw a shadow forming from behind. Looking up I saw a rapidly falling woods and metal and immediately jumped away from it. Hoping to make it in time, I closed my eyes and hoped that I wouldn't get injured in front of Tarou-chan, when I felt the presence of blue flames over my head and snapped my eyes open.

It happened all too fast for me to see where it had come from but the warm feeling in my heart made me smile and check if Tarou-chan was alright.

"Tarou-chan, Are you ok?" I asked him and he just grinned at me and laugh in joy, slipping out of my grasp.

"Hahahaha, Nee-chan that was fun!" He said and I just smiled at him.

"That may be true but it was still dangerous you know?" I retorted but he firmly had his cheeky grin and told me,"But I'm already dead! so it wouldn't have hurt me at all!"

I blinked and admitted defeat at his reasoning.

"Onee-chan, I've been sick ever since I was born so I got scolded every time I went out to play," Tarou-chan told me with a nonchalant tone," That's why today was so fun."

Tarou-chan looked at me and smiled," Thanks, Onee-chan!"

And just like that Tarou disappeared from my sight.

"Sometimes...it's really the simple act of kindness that does the trick...doesn't it?"I said to myself and smiled before getting up and dusting myself.

It was time to search for Rin.


"Rin-kun!"

I rushed to his side seeing how battered he was however I did not expect him to rebuke me.

"Don't touch me!"

I felt my heart twinge at his words,"Ri-rin..."

"Ah...I'm sorry." He apologized and looked down at his feet, I looked away and kept my distance as I inquired about his state.

"Anyways, what happened to that kid?" He asked gently and I answered,"He thanked me and then disappeared."

I fidgeted on where I was and tried to not reach out and give him some Holy Blessing. I saw him move and flinched when he came near that is until he patted my head and said,

"I'm sorry...I didn't mean that..."

I looked up at him and saw his genuinely smiling face and felt my heart lighten up. I smiled at him brightly and immediately tried to patch him up.

"Rin, Let's go the amusement park after we visit the Kyoto Tower!" I said brightly,reminding him of our promise long ago.

"Sure." He said weakly and I wondered what happened while we were separated.

At that time, it was probably better if I was a bit more forceful in getting Rin to tell me what the problem was but my timid self that I have never really outgrew stopped me.


June 23

Today it seemed that our Hoodie classmate was an undercover senior inspector. It was surprising but I'm more worried about Rin,I don't like how she just took him to the Japanese Branch Head Quarters. Rin isn't a bad person at all, I know that since Rin took good care of me.I hope that Rin-kun wouldn't be put into danger.