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Well, sorry for being a week late, my dad was ill for a while, and I didn't get around to editing this after the wonderful DragonSlayer2187 sent it back to me. Thank you all for the wonderful reviews, so happy that you are all enjoying it!

Yume no Naka ni Seishin

Chapter Thirteen

Case One – Evil Spirit's All Over

Part Seven

Shibuya-san and Harry had barely stepped into the base room when Takigawa-san asked them his questions, "What did Hara-san have to say? And how did she end up falling from the classroom?"

Shibuya-san ignored him and immediately walked over to the monitors, Harry following closely behind him, wondering a little about what his boss was up to. Shibuya-san, finding the camera he wanted, pressed a few buttons and rewound the video. Harry noticed that it was a camera they had placed in the same classroom that Hara-san had fallen from. He smiled when he realised that they had caught her fall and would be able to show everybody that it was not caused by spirits, making Hara-san right.

"Hey, are you going to answer me?" Takigawa-san's annoyed voice sounded loud in the rather small and quiet room.

Harry looked at the Monk, "We are, but he thought it might be better to show you than actually tell you. Probably wouldn't believe him or her unless he did." Harry then went back to watching the tape rewind.

"Oh," was all Takigawa-san had to say after that.

When the recording got to the part where Hara-san entered the classroom, Shibuya-san stopped it and pressed play while addressing everyone, "As you all have seen, part of the building has started to be demolished, but was never finished. They put a tarp over the majority of it to keep out the elements." He pointed to a part of the classroom on the screen that Hara-san had gone over to investigate, "Here you can see that part of the wall on the Eastern side of the classroom was missing, but instead of extending the tarp for that little bit, they just used plywood, instead of both the tarp and plywood." Everyone watched in fascination as Hara-san walked over to the plywood and leaned against it, only for the wood to crack and then give way, sending Hara-san falling to the ground. Stopping the tape Shibuya-san turned around and finished his explanation, "Like the tape just showed, once any amount of pressure was put on the plywood, which had also been exposed to the elements for an unknown amount of time, it gave way, causing her to fall. It had nothing to do with spirits, a simple accident."

Matsuzaki-san snorted and crossed her arms, "There is no way that the plywood would be that weak. That stuff is normally pretty strong and takes more than a person leaning against it for it to give way like that."

Harry shook his head as he almost bit out rudely, "Didn't you hear, the wood had also been exposed to the elements, rain, hail, sleet, snow, cold air and hot air, that weakens the wood over time, and who knows exactly how long that has been."

Matsuzaki-san ignored him, sending him a scowl as she made sure they knew her opinion, "There is no denying it any longer: there are evil spirits at work here."

"Yeah, the ones that you have failed to exorcise," Takigawa-san remarked as he looked to her, Matsuzaki-san threw him a murderous glare, which the Monk ignored, "We're playing with fire, an unsuccessfully exorcised spirit is like a wounded bear. It will attack again."

'Ugh,' Harry thought while rolling his eyes, 'these people just couldn't let something go could they? Shibuya-san had just given them proof that it was bad plywood and they still deny that there are no spirits.' Part of Harry didn't even want to work with them any more, they were just so stuck on things.

Mai's voice entered the conversation with a simple statement, guised as a question, "Then is it Matsuzaki-san's fault that Hara-san was hurt?"

Matsuzaki-san opened her mouth to give a retort, but was cut off by Shibuya-san's stern voice, "From what we saw on the video it was an accident."

Mai whipped her head towards her temporary boss and all but yelled in a panicked tone, "But they keep happening, over and over, that's why they say this place is cursed."

Harry was surprised that Shibuya-san didn't scold her for the freak out, but explained in a cool calm voice, "That maybe true Mai, but there is no evidence to suggest that. I have no temperature drops, ionic polarisation, and all E.M.F readings are normal." He looked straight into her brown eyes. "Everything points to no spiritual activity."

Seeing that Mai was still stressing out, even though Shibuya-san had explained it to her rationally, Harry went and put a hand on her shoulder. Mai glanced up at him and he gave her a small reassuring smile and she returned it, though it was only half hearted.

Harry's attention was taken away from Mai when Kuroda-san butted into the conversation, "But Matsuzaki-san was trapped in that room, and how can you explain what attacked me?" a smug look began to take over her face, "How can you explain the broken glass and that moving chair and the video being erased?" her hands had planted themselves on her hips at the end and her smug look now resembled one of deep satisfaction.

Shibuya-san stared the girl down and slowly her look faded to one of uncertainty. All he said was, "I'm still not convinced," then went back to looking over the monitors and equipment.

Kuroda-san gave a small huff and walked over to a wall before sliding down it and crossing her arms over her knees, pouting as she did so. Harry watched her for a few moments, a thoughtful look on his face, before he patted Mai on the shoulder and took a seat near the monitors himself.

Thoughts were whizzing though his head at an unbelievable speed, and he needed to take the time and sort them out. He agreed with Shibuya-san and Hara-san about there being nothing here, his empathy would have caught something the moment he stepped inside, even if he had his shields up, he couldn't turn off his ability at all. He had always been able to feel spirits emotions, granted his shields right now were really weak, so if something was here, he definitely would have felt it, and not just the subtle push of them going towards him, but a large wave of them.

The thing that was really confusing him was the stuff that Kuroda-san had mentioned. The camera he could chalk up to malfunctioning equipment, which does happen. The door being stuck could have been because of that nail Shibuya-san had found, and as for the attack on Kuroda-san, she could have made that up to try and convince everybody that there were spirits here, since he felt some deception around her. The glass had no reason to break the way it did and he knows for a fact that chairs don't move on their own. So that left two out of the five incidents that couldn't be explained, that still left him unsettled and puzzled.

Harry was pulled out of his thoughts by Takigawa-san asking, "Could it be an intelligent spirit that is strong enough to pretend that it isn't here?"

"What do you really think Takigawa-san?" Shibuya-san asked him instead of answering him, giving the other a hard stare, trying to make sure that the other would answer.

"Like I said, I think it's a Jibakurei, a site bound spirit." The Monk answered with confidence.

Shibuya-san turned to John, "What about you, John?"

John seemed to once again think for a few minutes before saying with some confidence, "I don't know, but I do agree that it is dangerous to be here."

Nodding his head in agreement Shibuya-san turned his steely dark blue eyes on Harry, "What about you Harry? You seem to have some experience with spirits?"

Giving a sigh of frustration, Harry ran a hand through his hair, messing it up more than usual before he answered, "I know that there isn't a spirit or anything like that in here. It's something else, I just can't pin point it though." Looking up at Shibuya-san with irritation and annoyance written on his face he asked, "What about you Shibuya-san?"

"I think I will reserve my opinion for now. I wish to investigate from a different angle for now." That was all he said before he walked out of the base room, leaving Harry and everybody else confused and annoyed.

"What do you think of this guy?" Takigawa-san questioned, not expecting anybody to answer, "He makes a grand show with his equipment, but is he capable of anything?"

Harry glanced to the Monk, "I did some research on his company, they have an excellent reputation, so I believe he knows what he is doing, they have been working in the area for around a year, and not one failure. He knows what he is doing and so does his assistant. I even talked to some of the people that have left reviews on him, they say he is professional and helpful."

Takigawa-san raised an eyebrow at Harry, making him shrug his shoulders. They both turned to John as he stood up from his position next to them, "What are you going to do John?" Harry enquired as the Priest headed for the classroom door.

Stopping at Harry's question John turned and said with a small nervous smile, "I've decided to try and exercise what ever is here."

"I see," Takigawa-san said as he nodded his head slowly.

"Good luck, but I don't think there is anything here to exercise," Harry replied leaning back in his chair.

John just smiled and walked out of the door. Mai who had been quiet for a while, threw her hands up in the air and with exasperation shouted out, "What are we suppose to do now?"

Both of them laughed at her and Takigawa-san ruffled her hair with his left hand, which earned him a glare as she tried to pat it all back down into place. Harry chuckled at their antics before turning back to the monitors saying softly "I suppose we could just watch the monitors until he comes back."

"That is so boring," Mai whined at him as she pulled a face.

"Then go and talk to Kuroda-san over by the wall. It looks like she could use some cheering up." Takigawa-san said, before Harry could say anything to her.

Mai gave a nod and walked away from them and over to Kuroda-san. As soon as she got there the two girls were engaged in a conversation. It then left Takigawa-san and Harry to watch over the monitors in peace, as they waited for John to come back in.

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