The sll of decay spread little by little.
Looking at the empty space behind the two high school girls Shuka.
Yukima Azuma frowned.
It seed the girl with black hair sensed Yukima Azuma's gaze.
The girl turned around and looked in this direction.
At that mont, Yukima Azuma clearly saw the girl's face.
A dignified pretty face, with long straight black hair, and a gentle expression that spoke without words.
What was most striking was her eyes.
They were gold amber-colored eyes.
As beautiful as precious gems.
Whether it was an illusion or not, Yukima Azuma felt that within those amber eyes, there seed to be a light that moved slowly.
After a mont of staring at each other, the girl silently turned back.
At this point, the fortune teller also ca out from the room behind the shop.
"Girl, have you noticed anything strange lately?"
The fortune teller asked without any preamble.
"No."
The girl quickly answered.
"Has anything bizarre happened?"
"No."
This ti, the girl didn't even let the fortune teller finish speaking.
After that strange conversation.
The fortune teller placed an old red wooden box on the table.
The lid of the box had a strange seal with peculiar characters.
The fortune teller used a knife to cut open the seal.
With both hands, she solemnly opened the box.
"Don't worry, girl, this is the real deal, excellent quality."
The mont the box lid opened.
Light reflected from within.
It was as if inside was not a string of bracelets.
But a box full of diamonds.
The unnatural refraction truly made the onlooker feel like they could barely keep their eyes open.
"This contains a power, completely different from the bracelet I showed you earlier."
"I won't take any money from you."
"Try wearing it."
The fortune teller urged.
"Is it really okay?"
The girl seed a little hesitant.
"Yeah, of course, thanks to you, I've co to my senses."
The fortune teller nodded.
Another strange conversation ensued.
Then, the girl picked up the exquisitely crafted bracelet, with an excessive degree of refraction, and put it on her wrist.
One second, two seconds, three seconds.
Imdiately, with a "boom,"
the bracelet shattered once again like bullets being fired.
Yukima Azuma had prepared in advance.
He quickly extended his hand and caught it.
The bracelet, the beads flying toward Yukima Azuma, were all neatly caught in his hand.
His hand speed was so fast it amazed anyone watching.
The fortune teller was hit in the face by two of the bracelet beads and staggered backward.
The scene was one of continuous chaos.
The other high school girl from Shuka rushed to help the fortune teller.
The girl with amber eyes stood still, frozen in place.
Her eyes seed filled with helplessness.
When the girl sighed, with a face that seed to accept her fate, she turned around and found Yukima Azuma staring directly at the back of her.
Realizing this, the girl with amber eyes suddenly shivered.
Her previously emotionless face now revealed a hint of surprise and excitent.
...
Yotsuya Miko.
That was the girl's na.
Not long ago, she was just an ordinary girl.
Average grades, otherwise, she wouldn't be attending Shuka High School.
Her appearance could be described as cute, but not to the point of being able to debut in the entertainnt industry, and she wasn't good at showing emotions.
Born into a regular family in Japan.
Both her parents were average office workers.
If nothing unexpected had happened,
Yotsuya Miko's life would have continued on the normal path.
She would finish high school, and if she kept herself together and had good grades, she would continue on to university.
If not, after graduating from high school, she would start working, becoming an office worker.
When it was ti to marry, her family would urge her to do so.
If she was lucky, she would et a good partner, have children, and live day by day.
If she was unlucky, she would go through a few failed marriages, ending up in ruins, and continue eventually marry soone randomly and live day by day.
This was the life pattern of most Japanese people.
But Yotsuya Miko's life was no longer like that.
One day during the spring break this year.
Yotsuya Miko's life changed completely.
Her amber eyes, one day, suddenly gained the ability to see things that ordinary people could not.
Monsters, spirits, ghosts, youkai... things that only existed in horror stories.
They suddenly invaded her life.
Within her line of sight.
In a dark alley, terrifying shadows were devouring souls.
On the pile of trash outside her door, arms and legs that had fallen off rose up like ghostly limbs.
In her bathroom, unknown creatures were banging on the mirror.
In her refrigerator, when she opened it, there was always a head, smile back at her.
When she slept, a ghost combed its hair while staring at her without blinking.
Every strange monster that passed in front of her.
They opened their mouths, tearing apart their bodies, twisting their limbs and forms, staring at Yotsuya Miko, roaring toward her.
Surely, she could see them, right?
Luckily, it seed that as long as she didn't look at these monsters, they wouldn't have any effect on her.
When she realized this, Yotsuya Miko—the girl who could see these creatures—was forced to pretend to be a normal person who saw nothing.
Day after day.
Day after day.
She lived in fear, with a heart burdened by emotions she couldn't share with anyone.
Although she still existed in this world,
Everyone around her seed distant, like they didn't exist.
Between them, there was a wall of sorrow.
Yotsuya Miko could only live in solitude.
However, today seed different.
Today, Yotsuya Miko reached the second turning point in her life.
Together with her friend Yurikawa Hana, Yotsuya Miko went to a neighborhood to buy sweets.
When crossing a narrow alley,
A terrifying monster blocked her path.
It was a humanoid creature about three ters tall, holding a large knife, constantly shouting that it was very itchy.
As she passed by it,
The string of beads Yotsuya Miko had bought online imdiately shattered.
At that mont, Yotsuya Miko realized,
The monster in this dark alley was perhaps even scarier than anything she had encountered before.
Pretending nothing had happened, Yotsuya Miko quickly pulled her friend, Yurikawa Hana, out of the alley.
However, unexpectedly, the monster continued to chase them.
In the panic of running away,
Yurikawa Hana pointed to an fortune-telling shop by the roadside.
Fortune-telling, exorcism, everything without limits.
That's what seed to be written on the sign.
In a state of desperation,
Yotsuya Miko entered the astrology shop.
What surprised her was...
Inside the shop, the old fortune-telling seed truly extraordinary.
In her words, it seed like she understood the world that Yotsuya Miko could see.
And then, a cherished string of beads, which appeared special, was handed to her by the old fortune-telled.
Perhaps, if she wore this, she could avoid those things!
Yotsuya Miko hoped so in her heart, and felt such joy that she felt like a bird about to escape from its cage.
But often, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointnt.
When the beads were worn around her wrist, Yotsuya Miko heard an anxious sound from the monster behind her.
Its body began to crack, and gigantic eyes appeared on its form.
"It itches so much!"
A roar rang out, like a giant wave crashing down.
That special string of beads.
Just three seconds after being put on,
It shattered, spreading everywhere, just like the ordinary beads before it.
It looked special, but in the end, it t the sa fate as the old beads.
Yotsuya Miko silently fell into despair.
Gods, Buddhas, and similar beings seed unable to save her.
Perhaps for the rest of her life, she could only live each day silently, pretending not to see.
As Yotsuya Miko prepared to accept her fate, she turned around and realized.
Behind her, it seed another custor had entered the astrology shop.
Among them was a young man with short black hair and sharp eyes, like soone straight out of a manga, who was now looking behind her.
No, more precisely,
He was looking at the monster that was rampaging behind her.
In that mont, Yotsuya Miko's heart skipped a beat.
Could he see it too?
In this world, wasn't she the only one who was alone?
But imdiately, the fear overtook the joy.
Although the monster continued scratching furiously, it then turned its head, its gaze fixated on the young man.
The young man's eyes did not leave it, not even a bit.
"Can you see ?"
"Itches!"
"Can you see ?!"
"Itches!!"
The mournful roar, like nails scratching a blackboard, made the hair on the young man's forehead fly.
"Don't..."
Yotsuya Miko wanted to speak up to stop him.
But she didn't know what to do.
If this continues, they would die!
How could she make him understand?
He needed to be like her, not looking, but not letting the monster notice sothing was wrong?
Yotsuya Miko struggled to think.
However, the situation didn't give her the chance to think further.
The monster, its gigantic eyes on its body began to swell, spinning wildly.
The huge knife, as heavy as its body, was lifted.
And a direct slash aid at the young man.
Yotsuya Miko felt utter despair.
...
And so, ti returned to the present.
Yukima Azuma looked behind the girl with amber eyes.
The sll of decay grew stronger, assaulting his senses.
In contrast to the distinctive fragrance of the two girls beside him,
Yukima Azuma felt a slight sense of nausea.
So, even though he couldn't quite grasp what was happening,
He whispered calmly, "Get Lost!"
The aura of Shogi lv8 manifested fully on Yukima Azuma for the first ti.
The air pressure around him clearly dropped.
The sunlight in the sky seed to be obscured by dark clouds for a mont.
The genius who had once been undefeated, standing atop the corpses of countless players.
The one who had fallen into hell but crawled out of it with one hand.
Throughout Heaven and Earth, He Alone The Honored One.
Even those two whispered words seed to carry the power to cover the sky.
A wind.
A strong gust of wind rose from beneath Yukima Azuma.
The sll of decay instantly disappeared.
He took a deep breath.
The gentle fragrance of tuberoses and the sweet scent of pears filled his nose.
The discomfort imdiately vanished.
Yukima Azuma's mood lifted once more.
Yotsuya Miko stood there, dazed.
Her amber eyes were wide open, but her pupils were slowly shrinking.
What did she see?
Just now, in her vision,
The terrifying monster was rampaging.
The very monster that even the extraordinary beads were easily crushed by.
The giant knife was swung toward the young man.
But it was held in place by the soft whisper of "Get Lost."
Yotsuya Miko could only see that after the young man whispered, it seed as though an invisible hand pressed the monster into the ground.
The massive knife cracked under pressure, eventually breaking into three pieces.
The terrifying monster lay face down, struggling to scream, but only causing its body to contort further.
Finally, with a series of horrifying sounds of bones cracking,
Its body shattered into black smoke, swept away by the strong wind, leaving no trace behind.
This was the first ti Yotsuya Miko understood.
It turned out that even such bizarre creatures could die.
And die in a way that was utterly astonishing.
Yurikawa Hana quickly ran in front of her friend, shielding Yotsuya Miko behind her.
"What are you talking about?!"
Kato gumi grabbed Yukima Azuma's sleeve.
"Yukima-san, what's going on?"
Eriri hid behind Yukima Azuma, sticking her head out.
She clearly still didn't understand what was happening but sneered at Yurikawa Hana.
"It's fine, don't worry."
Yukima Azuma said, gently patting Kato gumi and Eriri little head, signaling for them to stay calm.
"Hana, I'm fine! Don't worry so much!"
Yotsuya Miko urgently pulled her friend closer.
"Huh? But just now, you…"
"I'm fine, really, and actually, I'm really grateful to him."
"Huh? Huh huhhhhh!?"
Yurikawa Hana was slightly stunned.
So her friend actually liked this kind of "play" after all?
Could it be that she was… an M?
Yurikawa Hana shook her head, trying to clear the weird thoughts from her mind.
No, it must be a misunderstanding.
Maybe her friend was just worried that there would be so conflict between her and the guy.
While thinking this, Yurikawa Hana saw her friend, Yotsuya Miko, take out her phone and approach the young man.
"Excuse , could I exchange contact information? Please!"
The girl clasped her hands together.
There was clearly no sadness at all.
Her face was expressionless, but sohow, a charming smile appeared.
She looked like a girl in love.
Yurikawa Hana felt like she had been struck by lightning.
Oh no, her friend really seed to be that type of person!
The kind who would feel excited by humiliation and tornt!
Yurikawa Hana had misunderstood.
....
On the other side,
Eriri, who had no idea when, had already run out from behind Yukima Azuma.
Like a protective mother hen, she cautiously eyed Yotsuya Miko.
"You, why does you want to exchange contact information with Azuma?"
This person, still happy after being scolded?
There was no doubt about it!
She was definitely an "M"!
Eriri had reached enlightennt, Weird knowledge added
How could soone like this be allowed to get close to Yukima Azuma!
"Alright."
Yukima Azuma thought for a mont, then took out his phone.
His arm reached over Eriri's head, scanning Yotsuya Miko's QR code.
Eriri: !?
Stabbed in the back, Eriri turned around in embarrassnt to look at Yukima Azuma.
She was about to open her mouth to give him a "talking-to."
This ti, she had no psychological burden whatsoever.
This guy.
Clearly, she was protecting him from those weird won approaching him.
And yet, he couldn't resist even the slightest temptation.
Who else would she bite if not he?!
Yukima Azuma had already been prepared for this.
He raised his hand, blocking Eriri's forehead.
Baka Eriri.
She got the contact information.
Yotsuya Miko was so overjoyed she almost wanted to jump.
However, she was the type of person who rarely expressed her emotions.
So outwardly, she didn't show any expression at all.
"Well, we'll take our leave now. We'll contact you later on LINE,"
Yotsuya Miko bowed to Yukima Azuma.
Clearly, Yotsuya Miko had seen Yukima Azuma as her savior.
After that, Yotsuya Miko and Yurikawa Hana left.
....
On the way back,
Seeing the slight smile on her usually expressionless friend's face,
Yurikawa Hana thought for a mont before softly speaking:
"Umm… Miko."
"Huh? What's up, Hana?"
"Even... even though everyone has their own preferences, I still recomnd that you see a doctor."
"Huh?"
Yotsuya Miko: ?
.....
Shimokitazawa.
Eriri turned her head away, no longer paying attention to Yukima Azuma.
What's so great about people with weird tastes like that, anyway?!
As she was getting frustrated, she accidentally saw a red-haired figure running away.
"Ah! It's Kita-chan!"
Eriri pointed toward it and shouted.
Clearly, it was Kita Ikuyo.
Eriri didn't even notice which store she had run out of.
Now she was carrying a musical instrunt case, looking like she was running away.
There was no way they could catch up now.
Unless Yukima Azuma abandoned the two girls and chased after her.
So, the three of them had to just watch Kita Ikuyo leave.
"Tomorrow, I'm definitely going to ask Kita-chan what's going on!"
Eriri was determined.
At that mont, Kato gumi had approached Yukima Azuma.
"What happened earlier?"
Kato gumi whispered.
Yukima Azuma nodded.
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