Hi beautiful people! Hope you all had amazing holidays! Please take care of me this year as well. *Bows* I haven't given up. I just... Had to deal with lots of stuff including stalkers xD anyway.
Thank you so much for the patience, this case seems to have a lot of info but it's a rewrite so I will skip some, please do check it out on the original. Ono really described a lot.
I think I will be able to update on weekends. Not 100% sure I can make it next week but I will do my best. I need to get to the blood stained lab. I really need to write that off.
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"Wasn't I clear enough? I don't pay you to play around" Naru was smiling so kindly it gave her shivers.
Realizing her mistake of hugging Yasuhara, she instinctively push him away.
"Darling, why are you so cold? After what happened yesterday" Yasuhara pretended to cry. Even fake tears dropped down.
Mai blushed from embarrassment, he was implying something that definitely didn't happen but her reaction only made her look guilty.
"Are you serious? I need details!" Ayako hugged her while celebrating, she didn't give Mai a chance to defend herself.
Monk had his mouth open and Lin was definitely surprised, his blobs were frozen behind him. Naru... Well...
The look on his face was cold, so cold he could freeze hell...
"...".
Mai turned around, she raised her hand to Yasuhara. "What you think I said yesterday wasn't me, it was my spirit guide"
"I know, he introduced himself to me" he flashed her a smile, somehow she felt something mischievous out of it. But the temperature warmed up a bit with that.
"If you know then-"
"I have the blessings of your spirit guide"
"Eh?" Mai blinked
"Shounen, By any chance do you really like Mai?" Monk grabbed his shoulders.
Mai blushed again but instantly shivered, she could tell Naru's glare was on them, thankfully she had turned around and could no longer see his face..
Pretending to ignore the matter, she picked up the stack of papers that fell down from an unknown wind..
"Yes I do"
Ayako gasped but Mai couldn't even react because her inner voice told her to play dead.
"..."
"But I also like Shibuya-san, he is beautiful"
"Eh?" Ayako and Monk blinked twice. Lin's blobs were on the floor while the man himself tried to hide his mouth.
Naru, blinked then his face turned to a new level of annoyance, he pinched the bridge of his nose.
Yasuhara took advantage of the situation and held Monk's hands.
"But I like you even more"
"Young Man"
"Yes?"
"Are you teasing us?"
"Of course I am"
Instantly Bou-san melted to the ground
"Don't play with an old man's heart, for crying out loud"
"But now, everyone is wide awake isn't that right?"
"I rather be sleepy, thank you very much" the Miko huffed, disappointed with the outcome
"That wouldn't do, after all if we looked tired, students will think we did something overnight and they will continue to ask, like when they woke us up"
"Uff please, I prefer them rather than Matsuyama" Mai huffed, being used to pranks by Gene she recovered instantly.
"Ah Mai-chan met him when she went to check on the equipment right? I'm sorry about that"
Naru's eye brow shot up when Mai didn't correct him with her name.
"Yeah, but I bet he is definitely sorry now. After bitting his tongue, he won't be able to bad mouth us without pain."
Bou-san messed her hair up while he laughed out loud. He tried asking her for clues on how she did it but Mai simply took her tongue out.
"Enough, we don't have time to waste. Get back to work and Mai, don't fall asleep"
Naru stood up and went to the door followed by a smirking Lin. Surprisingly, one of his blobs stayed behind and landed on Mai's shoulder
She huffed angrily, it's not like she planned to fall asleep. It simply happened but no matter what excuses she could come up with, Naru could care less about it.
"If anything happens or if you discover anything report to me at once"
If it weren't for Bou-san explaining what he meant by that, Mai would had thought he was worrying over her, she nodded in relief that Naru wasn't possessed by anything...
After all having a 6th Sense didn't really made her someone special at all, or so she thought.
...
Hours passed, she had to reorganize the data left in the base and check the video from the tapes that both Bou-san and Yasuhara collected for her.
If that wasn't enough, students came in groups to ask how the investigation was going. To say things lightly by the time Masako and John arrived at 3 o'clock Mai was near the border of collapsing.
Surprisingly the Miko had tried to gather information from the younger staff members but it also took a troll on her. Bou-san and Yasuhara were no better, they had changed the equipment as Naru had ordered and had to deal with the interrogation of curious students that wondered how the equipment worked.
Naru looked annoyed and Lin had a 'don't bother me aura' it appears that they faced resistance when investigating the places of interest.
After Yasuhara introduced himself, Naru asked Masako if she could see any spirit.
"I can feel the presence of spirits, and there are quite a lot of them. I also know where they are, but… exactly what kind of spirits they are, I'm not too clear. I can't see them, I have never been good with wandering spirits"
Masako said and lowered her head.
"Well that's a problem, because these are spirits summoned through Kokkuri, it is to be expected they have no great connection to the school or to the students" Bou-san sighed
Masako nodded and brought her kimono sleeve to her mouth.
"But there is a spirit that I feel particularly strongly here…" she closed her eyes and continued "a male about my age...I can see him very clearly. I can feel a very strong emotion from him, perhaps something happened in this school that saddened him. He is currently trapped within the school."
Mai nodded "his name is Sakauchi-kun"
"Is that so? he must had committed suicide, he is not nearby but his presence is strong and his death was not that long ago"
Masako turned to look at Naru but he on the other hand was looking at a file. After confirming the contents he turned to Lin and asked for the last night events.
The aforementioned Lin-san took down his headphones.
"There are some locations where the temperature was abnormal. 3-1, 2-4 and the LL classroom had especially low temperatures."
(3-1 was Yasuhara's classroom where the mass poisoning occurred.2-4 was the classroom where the black dog appeared.)
"There is nothing abnormal with the visuals; the microphones recorded sounds in 3 locations. Distinctly, they are the Art Preparation Room, 2-4 classroom, and the Gym Storeroom."
Naru narrowed his eyes and turn to everyone. His instructions were clear.
"Commence exorcism with the 5 aforementioned locations as the core. Hara-san, please walk around the school and check the locations where there are spirits. Matsuzaki-san, please accompany Hara-san, and conduct exorcisms to the best of your abilities."
"Ok." both girls stood up
"Mai will keep watch over this place, and actively manage the communications. Monk and John," Naru looked at the pair as he said that.
"First, proceed to the 5 locations which had activity last night and conduct exorcisms there. After that go to locations pointed out by Hara-san."
"Yeah."
"Yes."
The pair replied and rose from their seats.
"Lin and I will continue to investigate suspicious locations. Yasuhara-kun, please help us. Mai,"
"Yes!" Mai replied instantly, she saluted like a soldier ready to go to war.
"..."
"?"
"Don't be lazy or fall asleep"
Before Mai could even retort everyone was out. Quietly fuming, she organized the reports they had collected the day before.
"Yo! "
" Kyah! Gene you nearly gave me a heart attack!" she grabbed her chest.
"It's Genie for now remember? Anyway, want to come around for a bit?" He extended his hand to her.
"Eh? But I'm working"
"This is work too you know? Naru will be pleased"
"Mmm if you say so. . " Reluctantly she grabbed his hand, suddenly her field of vision changed.
She saw herself sitting in front of her, her eyes were open staring at her. It felt like she was in front of a mirror. However her reflection didn't follow her movements.
"Gene, this is so creepy I don't know what to say"
"Hahaha you will get used to it, come we should get going before you reach your limit" he guided her out of the base.
"Oh this is the same as the dream I had last night"
"Is that so? I thought it was weird how you lost consciousness. Did you meet someone?"
"Yeah...Sakauchi-kun..."
"He is stronger than I thought, be careful this place is dangerous"
"You always say the same Gene" she laughed
"I'm serious, look" Gene pointed at the floor.
The pitch black floor turned transparent, if it wasn't for Gene holding her hand she probably would had fallen to her bottom.
"It's nothing, calm down a little."
"Ye.. yes"
The floor and the walls everywhere had turned transparent. Just like the negatives of photographs stacked together. She swallowed hard, the only ones that remained the same were Gene and her.
Just like her dream, spirits were glowing in forms of balls, some had tails that followed them when they moved.
"Gene, there's a lot of them"
"Yeah, even while the exorcism is on going, it's useless with so many" he pointed upwards were Ayako and Masako were.
They were in the Locker Room.
Masako approached a huge spirit next to some storage shelves and stopped. That spirit looked larger and blacker than the other spirits.
She pointed at that spirit, and Ayako started brandishing her jade rosary. The pale black spirit floated weightlessly to escape, and floated out of the window. Neither Masako nor Ayako noticed any of these.
"It escaped?" Mai frowned.
"Correct, it went to somewhere else, look" once again he pointed it out.
The spirit floated to a small room at the end of the second floor, and closed in on a white spirit straying in a corner. That was the Broadcast Room…
The large black spirit and the smaller, rounder white spirit circled each other. Their tails became intertwined. Soon, the smaller spirit was engulfed by the larger one. It felt like the larger spirit grew a little larger, and a little blacker.
"How disgusting…"
"Yeah. It's a really nasty sight: spirits devouring other spirits. That's why I said… this place is very dangerous."
"But…"
"Just like that they grow… then…"
Gene pointed down to a swamp-like patch of an ominous color. It was immense, like a huge pit had opened in the center of the room.
"That is evil… do you understand?"
"Yes."
*Ba-thump* (sound of a heart beat)
"Have someone teach you a spell"
"Huh?"
"Just in case, I am unable to protect you if I'm sleeping"
"Then I will just fight, like always"
"No, that's not good enough, please Mai" Gene turned around and looked at her seriously. Somehow the scenery around them was changing.
"I understand"
"What do you understand?" Yasuhara asked, he was waiving his hand on front of Mai's face.
Mai backed away blinking rapidly.
"Ah Yasuhara, you scared the hell out of me"
"Call me Yashu. And I should say that, were you sleeping with your eyes open?"
"Alright Yashu, is that even possible?" Mai brushed her eyes eagerly.
"Well, you tell me. You didn't respond until I reach out to you" Yasuhara shrugged his shoulders.
Just then Bou-san and John got in.
"Yo, what's up with Jou-chan?" Bou-san grabbed a coffee mug.
"She was sleeping with her eyes open"
"Huh?" John was surprised but monk just laughed on the background, saying that nothing else could surprise him coming from Mai.
"Whatever, can any of you guys teach me a spell to protect myself? My spirit guide insisted on it"
"Well, to call it a spell... Perhaps a prayer? But it won't work unless you're a believer" John shook his head.
"Then Bou-san?"
"It will be over for us the day we have to resort to you performing an exorcism"
"Hey!"
"Put your fingers like this"
"Eh?"
Efficiently, Bou-san stopped Mai from storming and taught her how to use the chant mantra of the fudo myoo (the immutable one)
"Got it?"
"Sorta"
"Well, practice it till you remember it, here I will write it up for you"
"Thanks"
"You're welcome, now that this is set, at what time is the fire taking place on the locker room?"
"Ah now that you mention its today right?" John nodded to Bou-san and turned to Yasuhara
Before he could reply Mai interrupted him.
"It will not happen there"
They all turned to look at her as she was moving her fingers
"It will happen on the Broadcast room"
"What? How..." Bou-san asked
"I got a dream while napping with me eyes open" she tried to make a joke out of it but their reaction was totally different from what she thought it would be.
"And then?" Bou-san grabbed her shoulders.
With a nervous voice she described how the spirit escaped and was eaten.
"That's all, my spirit guide said I should learn to protect myself, it's not a big deal"
"Not big deal? "Your dreams are a form of collecting information. Be a good child now and go to bed."
"That's right. Mai-san, please go and sleep." John provided a pillow out of nowhere.
"What, no-"
Cutting Mai's refusal, Bou-san gave her a lesson on how dreams are a type of ESP phenomenon, he explained the d-ASC, discrete-Altered State of Consciousness.
In the meantime both John and Yasuhara created a makeshift bed out of nowhere.
"Even so, I can't sleep like this! Knock it off " Mai struggled to get out of the princess carrying hold that Bou-san did when he pick her up.
"What's the meaning of this?" Naru growled icily as he opened the door followed by the rest of the members. Masako simply hid her mouth while Ayako instantly got inside to beat the monk with her purse.
"Wait! I can explain! Don't hit me-"
"Naru~" Mai called out finally relieved to be off their attention.
"Does a warning not suffice?" Naru pinched the bridge of his nose.
"Eh?" Mai blinked.
"Ah Shibuya-san please excuse her what happened was..." John and monk explained and at the end of it Mai had to describe her dream again.
"That's all..." Her voice was low but she finished her story quickly, she tried her best not to be angry but it was probing to be difficult since Naru kept looking at her with a pokerface.
No signs of remorse at all.
For all that matter Ayako had a look of annoyance for the whole situation while Masako was looking at Mai coldly. You may had guess it, Lin had his usual pokerface on but his blobs, well it appears that they were making fun of Naru by dancing around him.
"If Mai-chan's right, we will be able to see tonight"
"You sound like Mai's manager" Bou-san patted Yasuhara's back for his comment.
"Yasuhara-kun is right. We only need to see where the fire occurs to find out. Lin –"
Naru turned to Lin-san who stood at his back waiting like an attached spirit.
"Set up equipment in the Broadcast Room."
...
"Ne~ Bou-san there's something that I can't get a hold of in my mind, don't you think this whole thing of the Kokkuri is way different than the original one?"
"Well now that you mention it, the way it's made is very new" Bou-san nodded while placing the camera down.
"Is it really that different?" Yasuhara asked
"Yeah, I wonder who came up with it?" Mai commented but she turned to Naru and asked "where do you want the camera to look?"
It took her a moment to notice the silence, he was only staring at her and when she turned to look at Bou-san he was doing the same. Lin, John and Yasuhara as well. Ayako sighed and Masako rolled her eyes.
"What? What's wrong? Did something happen?" She panicked.
"Is she an idiot or a genius?" Bou-san mumbled, but it was loud enough to be heard by everyone.
"An idiot" Naru sighed and turned to Yasuhara.
"I'm on it boss" saluting, Yashu left the room.
"Yo, calm down! You're wearing a skirt!" Bou-san held Mai.
"Narcissists jerk!"
...
At 4:32:24 am, flames suddenly spurted from a cool wall on the Broadcast room.
Hope you liked the update! The chapter of the silence voice on Christmas will be made after this case is over, I won't mix it like the manga did, I wouldn't be able to bring the best of this chapters if I did.
Naru may look like a jerk but hold on to the hate, he is simply awkward on socializing, can't deal with his new emotions and is jelly but isn't aware of it. I will deal him a punch later on so he can apologize xD I'm putting myself on his shoes don't kill him yet. Thank yous xD
Review time!
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