Looking at Soya and Kirino Akane's backs gradually walking away, among the boys who were silent, someone suddenly came back to his senses.
"Speaking of which, Keisuke..."
"What?"
"Sotani-san and Asagiri-san have known each other before, right?"
Although he didn't know the details of Asagiri Suzu, based on what he had seen and heard in the past few days, Fushimi Keisuke still nodded in the affirmative.
"It's the kind of relationship that can't be more familiar."
"No wonder."
"What? Don't say half of what you said. You're like a high school student pretending to be sophisticated."
"Do you want a beating?"
The boy punched him and continued: "Yoshikawa-san is the first in the entrance exam, but Soya-san and Asagiri-san's student numbers are still ahead of her, and they were already students in Class A before the entrance exam started.
.”
"is that so?"
"My uncle told me."
Fushimi remembered that his uncle seemed to be a teacher in this school.
"Sotani-san and Asagiri-san are the only two recommended students this year, and they were recommended by the same person."
"Are you concerned about the recommendation system? After all, it is a private school, so there is nothing surprising about it."
"No……"
The boy shook his head.
"It's the recommender, and he has some relationship with us."
...
Passing through the stadium, two parallel figures walked towards the sports warehouse.
"Where are Yoshikawa and Suzu?"
"With other girls."
"Did you see Suzuya?"
"Probably." Kirino Akane wasn't sure, "She didn't say anything, and I couldn't tell."
"Yeah."
Soya looked at the sports warehouse ahead.
When Akane Kirino went to borrow equipment, she found a spirit inside. Not knowing how to deal with it, she walked across most of the stadium to find him.
"Ling is used to it, so seeing it is the same as not seeing it. But if Kirino asks her, Ling will still explain it to you."
"I know. But Hongzi has been following her, so I didn't have a chance to speak."
"I see……"
Soya nodded, hesitated for a few seconds and then spoke again: "Tongye thinks it would be better to keep it a secret from Yoshikawa?"
"Eh?"
Akane Kirino was stunned for a moment, "Didn't Souya say that it wouldn't be good to involve Anko?
Because Hongzi is just an ordinary person, his curiosity can never be truly satisfied, and he may become anxious and restless in the long run..."
Looking ahead, Zonggu took a deep breath.
"That's because I didn't think at the time that just hiding it would make her very anxious."
"Yeah."
Kirino Akane murmured, "So Anko is so sensitive."
"..."
Zonggu glanced at her.
Who is this because of?
"Yoshikawa is very concerned about Kirino's every move. If you talk to her more, she probably won't pay attention to these things."
"Really?" She just responded calmly.
The sports warehouse was right in front of him. Soya decided to put Yoshikawa's matter behind, but Kirino Akane suddenly said:
"Sotani and Hongzi seem to be able to talk quite well. You can make your own decision on this matter...and Sotani knows much more than me, and can explain it more clearly, right?"
It seems that she doesn't want to spend more time on this matter, Zongya thought.
"Let's talk about it later."
"Uh-huh."
The two of them walked into the somewhat dark warehouse, with no one else inside.
Equipment such as footballs, basketballs, gymnastics mats, and vaulting horses were piled everywhere. There were no lights on, and all the light came from the open warehouse door and the iron window opposite.
Soya looked around, Akane Kirino pointed to the corner, "Over there."
"Can you see the Daughter of the Underworld around here?"
"No. I could still see a few around the school yesterday, but today they all seemed to have disappeared."
This is because traces of evil spirits were found on the other side of Lake Biwa, and all the girls of the underworld gathered there.
While Yoshikawa was away, Soya told her the vague information from the morning;
At the same time, after receiving her affirmation and confirmation, he took off the amulet around his neck.
"..."
Watching Soya hang the amulet in a conspicuous place, Kirino Akane exited the warehouse again and looked around and at the sky slightly nervously.
"It won't show up for a while, right?"
"Don't worry."
With his spiritual sense restored, Zonggu clenched his fist unconsciously and looked at the corner she just pointed at.
On top of the various equipment piled up, there was a floating figure.
Their faces were still clear, but their bodies were already scattered, and they didn't react much when they saw them.
"Wandering spirit. Indefinite spirit. It's so weak that it can't help the wind. It was probably blown in by the wind." He made a judgment.
Noticing that there were still a few old bamboo swords used for training in the warehouse, Zonggu picked up one, and after thinking about it, he picked up another one.
"Kirino."
"Eh..."
She caught the bamboo sword in confusion, "Do you want to practice kendo?"
"It's indeed practice, but it's not kendo."
Soya pointed to the wandering spirit in the corner, "I will explain some basic knowledge to Kirino, so that at least when you encounter this lowest level wandering spirit, you can deal with it by yourself."
"..."
Akane Kirino clenched her bamboo sword like a long-handled umbrella, "Just like the day I first met Soya?"
"That's right."
He motioned for her to come closer, "Such a spirit body with a loose shape and unclear consciousness can basically be determined to be a wandering spirit. Any wandering spirit is not aggressive, so you can try it slowly."
She held the bamboo sword and walked towards the corner. The floating spirits were glazed over and showed no reaction to her approach.
"Focus your consciousness on the bamboo sword and wrap it with your spiritual sense."
"...how to do it?"
Zong Gu thought for a while and explained: "You can imagine your spiritual sense as a thin film covering the body surface. What you have to do now is to cover the weapon.
To make an analogy, it's probably like the candy apples that are easily seen at summer festivals. The whole body is covered in syrup without any blind spots..."
"It's so disgusting, I'm going to suffocate."
"..."
"I'm sorry... I understand, let's continue."
"If you want to use ordinary weapons to deal with spiritual bodies, you must let your spiritual sense completely wrap the weapon..." He paused, "That's it."
Akane Kirino explored very quickly, and she had mastered the technique before he finished speaking.
"I imagined myself holding a bamboo sword and falling into a swimming pool full of syrup..."
"Stop talking, I'm going to suffocate."
She laughed immediately.
"Then……"
Sogu swung his sword into the air, "Just attack with a normal bamboo sword."
Akane Kirino practiced kendo in middle school. Although she was not too devoted, she still mastered many kendo skills. She held the bamboo sword tightly, looking for the feel of the past.
"The key is the head, right?"
"Well, it's just like when she was alive."
"..."
Akane Kirino pursed her lips, stared closely at the spirit floating in the air, and suddenly sprinted.
"wait……"
Looking at her eyes, she didn't pay attention to her steps. She took two steps and tripped on the gymnastics mat.
"Don't be nervous."
Zonggu went over and helped her up.
"It's just a human-shaped target. It won't resist or evade..."
Without any warning, a faint low cry suddenly sounded above the two men's heads.
"It hurts."
The wandering spirit with a dull expression remained motionless even with the bamboo sword stuck in his thigh, and only repeated those words.
"It hurts... it hurts..."
Soya was speechless, and Kirino Akane was also stunned.
After regaining consciousness, she pulled out the bamboo sword, and the wandering spirit stopped moaning.
There was a hole in the leg that went from front to back, there was no blood, and the front end of the bamboo sword didn't get even a speck of blood.
"Sogu..."
"Um."
"Since the wandering spirit is not aggressive, why did Zonggu plan to destroy it from the beginning?"
He was silent for two seconds and said, "I'm used to it."
"This is not the underworld."
"Um."
"So... it doesn't matter if we don't destroy her, right?"
"It doesn't matter."
Kirino Akane threw the bamboo sword aside and bowed to You Ling again.
"sorry."
"..."
There was no reaction from You Ling.
"Her consciousness is about to disappear and she can't hear your words." Zonggu reminded.
"Yeah."
Kirino Akane raised her head and looked at it for a while, "If we just let her stay here, she will still be scared next time she comes over."
"Kick her out of the warehouse and a gust of wind will blow her away."
"That's too pitiful!"
"Tirino can take her home."
"...Don't say such ill-intentioned words."
Zonggu smiled and put the bamboo sword back in its place. When he looked up, he saw another figure at the door of the sports warehouse.
"ah……"
The muscular PE teacher stared at him with wide eyes.
"Laziness is not allowed here!"
"No……"
"——Teacher, he is just lazy!"
Kirino Akane grabbed it in the air, walked to Soya again, stuffed it into his hand, then turned around and ran out of the warehouse.
"Leave it to you~"
"..."
Tsuchiya glanced at his empty palms.
"What?"
"……nothing."
...
After catching the volleyball thrown by Yoshikawa Anko, Asagiri Suzu suddenly stopped and looked at the three people passing by not far away.
"Hey, what happened to Soya?"
Yoshikawa also noticed the two people over there, "Have you been caught slacking off?"
Chaogiri Suzu said nothing, looking at the wandering spirit being led by Sogu.
Returning to the staff room, Tsuchiya sat down at his desk and rubbed his hands before he even said the lesson.