Lunch time the next day.

Kamiyagawa asked Sayuri Ishino to meet at the edge of the school's cherry blossom forest.

Yesterday, he was in a hurry to deal with Hanako's hearing aids, and he was delayed by the school later, so he didn't have time to see Sayuri Ishino again.

Kamiyagawa was thinking of asking this Ishino classmate about the details of Hanako's spiritual descent.

Also, by the way, give people a little financial compensation.

After all, he took away one of someone's hearing aids yesterday without making a sound.

After a while, Sayuri Ishino, wearing thick black-rimmed glasses, came to the edge of the cherry blossom forest as promised.

"Good afternoon, Kamiya-san." The girl greeted shyly and friendly.

At lunchtime, there are not many people in sight near the cherry blossom forest.

The two are equivalent to a lonely man and a widow in solitude.

But there is no ambiguous feeling.

In fact, Sayuri is friendly and grateful to Kamiyagawa, but she doesn't fall in love with Kamiya Kawa because she helped her out of bullying yesterday.

This kid is not so love-minded, not stupid, and at the same time a little inferior.

Therefore, she doesn't think that what Kamiyagawa did yesterday was because she took a fancy to herself.

The same goes for asking yourself out to meet at lunchtime.

"Good afternoon, Ishino-san. What, sorry, I took away your hearing aids yesterday without a sound. Plus, uh, that hearing aid has been ruined by me. ”

Kamiyagawa responded with a somewhat awkward smile.

"It's fine." Sayuri Ishino waved her hand, "Yesterday, Nagatomo-kun accompanied me to get a new pair." ”

She pointed to her ear as she spoke.

On Sayuri's tiny ear, she did wear a brand new pair of hearing aids.

"Then I'll lose money to you?" Kamiyagawa continued, and the smile on his face did not immediately retract.

It's a smile that reveals a little poverty.

Anyway, I'm a co-owner of ghosts and gods in the growth period, and I have to put money in it in the process of guarding world peace, so I really have no place to reason.

Moreover, hearing aids should be very expensive......

If this is a loss of a couple, the family that is not rich will directly make matters worse.

"No, Kamiya-san, you don't have to pay for it, and you don't have to apologize to me. It's me, on the other hand, who hasn't had time to thank you properly. Saying that, Sayuri bowed slightly towards Kamiya, and her tone was sincere, "Thank you, Kamiya-san, thank you in every sense." ”

As Sayuri expected, Kamiyagawa came out of her today, and it was really for the hearing aid.

Since Sayuri Ishino and a group of people went to the women's toilet on the third floor on the west side to test their spirits.

The hearing aid in the left ear, which was a little old, became weird.

Sayuri herself also began to encounter strange things, seeing things that others couldn't see, and hearing voices that others couldn't hear.

I even saw a vision of Hanako.

When Kamiyagawa took the hearing aid yesterday, all this terrible and strange thing came to an abrupt end.

The connection between all these things can be understood if you think about it a little.

Perhaps, this Kamiya-san, is a soul slayer hidden among ordinary people?

Because of this thought, Kamiyagawa's image in Sayuri Ishino's mind is not only "handsome" and "powerful", but also adds an additional "mysterious" label.

"Since you said so, then I won't lose money." Kamiyagawa's smile finally became no longer poor.

He wasn't a thin-skinned person in the first place.

For Kamiyagawa, it is not natural for him to accept his gratitude after helping others.

Next, Kamiya asked Sayuri about some things related to the spirit descent.

I probably asked the other party when he began to notice that the hearing aid in his left ear was starting to become wrong.

Sayuri didn't hide it either.

I told all the things such as testing the spirit these days, dreaming of Hanako, and jumping off the building by Hanako's vision.

"In the process of testing your courage, you tried the ritual of summoning Hanako."

Kamiyagawa patiently listened to Sayuri finish speaking.

During this time, it is estimated that Sayuri and his gang were not the only people in the school who tried their courage in the women's toilet on the third floor of the dead west teaching building.

But Hanako chose Sayuri's side for a spiritual descent.

This may be a simple random selection.

It's also possible that Hanako and Sayuri have something in common that is attracting each other.

For example, both have been victims of bullying at school.

Sayuri Ishino herself said that she dreamed of Hanako last night and had a heart attack in the toilet cubicle because of school bullying.

This is one of the many origin stories of the oni doll Hanako.

After learning about these things, Kamiyagawa didn't have any need to communicate with Sayuri Ishino anymore, so he politely said goodbye to him like a friend he had just met.

Sayuri solemnly bowed to Kamiyagawa again: "Anyway, thank you very much, Kamiya-san." ”

"That's what you should be thankful for. Ah, no, I mean, I'll take your thanks. Kamiyagawa turned around and waved his hand and left in style.

The wind blows in late spring, and the few cherry blossoms left in the forest are shaken off.

……

After Kamiyagawa left, Sayuri took out her mobile phone and replied to a few LINE messages, and then found a bench to sit on by the cherry blossom forest.

Spring is almost over, and some of the cherry blossom petals on the ground are still pink, while others have long since withered yellow.

After a while, from the other end of the cherry blossom path, a flat-headed boy rushed over.

It was Sayo Nagatomo who teamed up with Sayuri Ishino that night to explore the spirit.

Xiao Pingtou was estimated to be in a hurry, and after standing still, he was still panting heavily: "That Kamiya-san, has already left?" ”

"Hmm."

"What did you talk about?" Nagatomo Masao squirmed a little.

"It's nothing, it's just about the malfunctioning hearing aid, and the fact that we tried to be brave that night." Sayuri replied truthfully.

"Oh, oh. Is that Kamiya-san, really as you guessed, a soul slayer hidden in the school? Nagatomo scratched the back of his head, which didn't have much hair.

"Maybe. I didn't ask about him, and I don't plan to ask in the future. Sayuri Ishino said as she patted the empty seat on the bench beneath her.

"That's fine." Sit down with a small flat head.

Yes.

That's fine.

That Kamiyagawa-san, there is no doubt that he is a handsome, powerful and mysterious existence, and Sayuri Ishino is also sincerely grateful to him.

But if you have a close relationship with such a person, you are likely to be in danger.

Something like encountering Hanako-san, Sayuri never wants to go through it a second time.

After all, she has always wanted to be an ordinary female high school student and live an ordinary life.

Thinking about it this way, Sayuri Ishino unconsciously put a new label on the Kamiyagawa he just met in her heart - "loneliness".

Powerful and mysterious people are mostly lonely.