Sorry this took so long, but Quick clarification for the last chapter, I'm an atheist. Also, think about it, there's no way Christianity truly works in this universe so someone had to bring it up! Especially since Hino treats himself as a god in this franchise, so look, IN the YO-KAI WATCH UNIVERSE, Christianity was staged, Japanese mythology is legit, can we all agree on that? Thank you.

Chapter 6: Yokai Komasan

The next morning Katie woke up with a start, she just felt today was gonna be a good day. She saw her new butler snoring at the foot of her bed, snoring quite loudly.

"Whisper, Time to get up," she gently pushed him.

The yokai stirred until finally, he awoke, "ugh, good morning, Mistress Katie."

"Morning," Katie replied with a smile.

The marshmallow-like ghost rose up with a yawn. He pulled out his yokaI-pad and logged into the . To his surprise, all of the recent discussions had been about one single topic.

"Well isn't that odd?" He said catching Katie's attention, "what is it?"

Whisper opened one of the discussions, "evidently there was an exorcism last night."

"An exorcism?" Katie asked, "like in the movies."

"Eh, kind of, only certain exorcism techniques actually work, like holy water, though it's not for the reason you think," Whisper said, "and evidently this one went quite arie! The yokai proved to be too powerful for this exorcist methods and ended up putting him in the hospital! Local yokai describe the event as a sudden and unexpected explosion of purple aura, and…" he kept reading then gulped, "IT WAS IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD!"

"Wait, this happened nearby!?" Katie said in question.

Whisper frantically searched through the feed, "yes, here it is, the event happened around 8:30 P.M. last night at 254-1210 Maple St."

"Wait… that's Nate's address!" Katie said.

"That friend of yours?" Whisper asked, "oh dear."

"Come on, lets see go see what happened," Katie said running downstairs pulling her phone out, she dialed a number and waited for a response, it eventually went to voicemail, "Hey, you've reached Nate, I'm not here at the moment but leave a message and I'll be sure to call you back!"

"Oh man, Voicemail," Katie said putting her phone away, "I hope he's alright!"

Soon Katie was now running down the block to Nates, to her horror, she saw the door haphazardly stood up against the wall, with a number of cracks as if it had been hit by a rhino, all of the lights within the house were off giving it an eerie vibe.

Katie looked to the empty gravel driveway, "no ones home."

"You are correct, mistress Katie," Whisper said holding his chin, "it appears Nathen's family vacated the home after the exorcism went arie, no human is in the building… Key word "Human"."

"You think there's a yokai?" the girl asked her undead butler.

"If the yokai from last night was able to thwart the exorcist, then it wouldn't leave unless on it's own terms, odds are it's still in the house," the yokai replied, "based on the door, I don't think negotiation will be an option."

"Right, let's go find em," his mistress nodded, "Got my back?"

"Indubitably," Whisper nodded as Katie began to walk into the seemingly empty home. The young girl gripped her yokai watch, flippin the lense up. The entrance hallway was engulfed in the black light, nothing seemed to appear. She slowly walked forward surveying the room, trying not to miss a single detail.

Katie heard something fall in the next room. She gave Whisper an eye gesture to the door, he nodded and flew to the door, carefully opening it. The pair walked through the door into an empty living room, dining room, kitchen combo, sunlight flooding in through the drapes. Through the watch light, Katie could see that the chairs we all knocked over, several things had been removed from the refrigerator, clearly the yokai was making itself at home.

The two heard another bang, this time from behind the counter. Katie tiptoed to the counter, keeping her hand on the watch. When she made it to the corner of the counter she moved her arm to the other side illuminating the kitchen. A black shape began to take form near the trash can which was tipped over.

"That must be it! Be careful mistress, if it could defeat an exorcist than he must be a real monster!" Whisper cried out in alarm as the light revealed the yokai. He was a short, chubby, white lion dog with blue flames on his forehead, a blue stomach, and green backpack.

"Howdy y'all," He said with a cute little wave.

"Some monster," Katie said eyeing Whisper.

"I take it back," the butler sighed taking out his YokaI-pad. He took some time to type then said, "here it is! That guy is Komasan."

Komasan: D rank

Charming.

"Wow mister, how'd ya know ma name?" Komasan asked wide eyed. Whisper frowned while Katie let out a giggle.

"Komasan is a guardian spirit that typically protects shrines, farms or places of religious value. They are very loyal but quite naive and often show great awe to even the most mundane experience," Whisper finished with a huff, "fortunately, komasan is typically a partner to an exorcist, not one to attack them, he can't be the one."

"Well then, whats he doing here?" Katie asked.

"Ah came to see what all the ruckus was 'bout," Komasan replied, "Ya see, ah only moved to this here city 'bout a week ago after the shrine ah was protecting got torn down."

"Oh, that's so sad," Katie said.

"What can ah say, nothin lasts forever," Komasan said somberly, "ah decided ah needed a change of pace, I've been in that shrine almost a hundred years and quite frankly, ah always wanted to see the city life."

"That's wonderful, but could you please skip to the part that involved you coming into this house?" Whisper asked with a harsh tone.

"Whisper, don't be rude!" Katie scolded him.

"Oh right," Komasan said with almost no regard to whispers comment, "ya see, last night ah was walking down the street by ma lonesome, when I heard a big kabloosh. Ah ran over to see what in tarnation was goin' on, and ah saw a family packin up and movin out, seemed to be in a hurry."

"So than Nate got out of here fine," Katie sighed in relief.

"Course ah thought they was leavin cause of the Yokai that followed em," the lion dog finished.

"Wait, you saw the yokai that attack?" the undead butler exclaimed.

"Sure did, she looked like a purrty lady with purple hair, a tiara and was floatin," Komasan answered.

"And she followed nate, you don't think she's inspiriting him do you," Katie turned to her butler whom had a grim expression, "I'm afraid it's entirely possible, I recommend we find this yokai before she can do any more damage."

"Right," the girl replied then said, " but there's one thing I don't get, if all this happened last night, why are you still here, Komasan?"

Said yokai blushed, "W-well ah stayed the night, haven't found a place to stay yet, and ah thought no one was using this here house."

"Oh," Katie said, "well you can come with us if you want."

"Good thinking, we need him to identify our mystery yokai," Whisper said to his charge.

"Aw shucks, that's mighty kind of you folks," Komasan replied.

"Think nothing of it, My name's Katie," Katie introduced herself and then gestured whisper, "and this is my butler, Whisper."

"Charmed," Whisper said.

"Well it's a gosh darn pleasure to meet y'all," Komasan smiled, he glowed blue and his yokai medal landed in katie's hand.

"Alright, now with that out of the way, we have a ghost girl to find!" Whisper spoke up. Katie nodded, then scooped up Komasan, and ran towards the door, her butler following, "that yokai won't know what hit her!"