Chapter 25

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“I’m sure that man knows a lot of things, he just doesn’t tell me.”

“Well, that’s just the way he is.”

With Subaru still on his shoulder, Shouma walked through the crowd of the Summer Festival.

The Tofu Boy was left behind, standing by at the temple together with Tendou. Since if something happens to go wrong, the Tofu Boy, who wouldn’t be able to do anything, would be nothing but a burden.

“I thought I would try to see if there’s anything suspicious, but I don’t know what could be considered that, so I don’t know what I should do after all…”

“Can’t you tell from that indication-like thing you suddenly felt before?”

“No, I don’t even know how I understood that there was a presence there at that time…”

That was just like what others call intuition. It wasn’t something Shouma did consciously and it wasn’t something he was particularly aiming for.

“Maybe you’ve become naturally sensitive to such things since you’ve become involved with us.”

“Is that how it is?”

“I’m not sure about it either.”

Somehow, Subaru might be correct. However, if Shouma can believe this theory, then will he be more and more sensitive to the kaii’s presence?

If he truly becomes a highly functional kaii detector, there is no telling how Tendou would treat him. Even now, he takes up Shouma as a bait of good quality. It was scary just to imagine.

Shouma shook his head and tried to switch over his thoughts.

Now, finding the Mikoshi Nyuudou was more important than the horrifying visions of his possible future.

“If the goal is to destroy the real body of the Mikoshi Nyuudou, then that identity too must be something that can be destroyed, but the question here is what it is.”

“Did you understand the hint Tendou was talking about?”

“Hmm, in all honesty, I don’t know”

Shouma let the man’s hint turn over in his mind once more.

“The Mikoshi Nyuudou hates humans, therefore it doesn’t want to maintain eye contact with them, right? Pay attention to your surroundings. In that case, I’m sure you’ll notice it, Shouma.”

“Doesn’t want to make eye contact, hmm…”

That’s when Shouma realized what was happening.

“Hey, Subaru. So, the Mikoshi Nyuudou gets bigger to avoid eye contact, right?”

“That’s what the Tofu Boy said.”

“In other words, it feels safer when it’s in a higher place than the people, right?”

It’s quite hard to find a person who gazes above their own eye level. He had an experience of this from the incident of the Random Assailant.

If everyone was walking around looking up above themselves, Shouma wouldn’t have been able to spot the attacker from above.

“So, to find it, we have to look above our normal field of vision.”

“There is nothing up there, right?”

Imitating Subaru, whose face turned upwards, Shouma also looked up.

“Up…Up…ah found it!”

“Huh?”

“Subaru, look there!”

“The lanterns?”

A row of lanterns hung there. But one of them slightly differed from the others.

In the midst of red lanterns, the white one seemed to be floating a little.

Shouma realized the lantern the Mikoshi Nyuudou carried was also white.

“There it is!”

The moment he pointed at the lantern, the thing bounced like a ball then began to roll towards a less popular area.

“This is not good! Didn’t it say “until you destroy it”? If we don’t do something it will just run until we can crush it!”

“It’s not just a hide and seek then, but also a game of tag. Don’t worry, this is one of my specialties!”

Shouma followed the lantern back into the forest, just like he did earlier that night.

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