Chapter 3: Persecution of Science Elementary School Students Achieved Hey, hey! What the hell are you...

The office on the sixth floor was empty, and the documents were scattered all over the floor in a mess as if they had been swept away by something.

Outside the glass door, Kirihara Ryouna was stroking the soft little red tiger in her arms boredly, with a light blue hue in her eyes.

I stayed too late drawing the curse runes yesterday. Kirihara Ryouna rubbed the sore corners of her eyes and sighed deeply.

After completing the task, she had to go home and take a nap. Feeling the stimulation brought by the cool mint candy, she yawned again.

"Let me make it clear in advance that I won't attack you unless you're on the verge of death." Kirihara Ryona yawned boredly. "Well, a mere level one scabby can be no problem, right? After all, he has ten types of shadow techniques. Although it's been a while since I've seen him, his strength shouldn't have declined to the point where I need a senior to intervene, right?"

"...Don't worry, I won't give Kirihara-senpai this chance."

The familiar attitude made Fushiguro Megumi blink. Sure enough, it was all an illusion. He finally saw clearly that the exorcist and trash talk of Kirihara Ryona's true character was revealed...

"Then let's get this over with quickly. However, it's a two-person task anyway, so I'll just give you a break as a token of my appreciation."

Lift the fingertips of your right hand and place them before your lips. "Born from darkness, from darkness to darkness, all filth and impurities shall be purged."

For a moment, the entire floor was covered by a gray barrier, isolated from the outside world.

The boss of this company is a complete scoundrel. Not only does he withhold employees' wages, he also exploits them to death. Regular overtime is fine, but now he even makes employees work overtime on their days off.

The employees complained bitterly, and their resentment grew day by day until a man named Ichiro Yamagami broke a window and jumped from the sixth floor in front of everyone on an ordinary working day. The exploitation finally stopped.

Not long after the police determined it was suicide, the boss began a new round of exploitation.

However, strange things happened. For example, the documents that were neatly put away before leaving get off work would be thrown on the ground in a mess when I went to work the next day. If I worked overtime beyond 9 o'clock, my computer would inexplicably crash with a blue screen.

All of this seemed to be aimed at preventing employees from working overtime. Zhou Paopi certainly didn't care about it and even blamed the employees for these strange phenomena.

The employees' resentment grew, and the curse spirit gained more and more nutrients. Finally, one day, Zhou Paopi was the first to arrive at the company as usual. Before he even stepped into his own office, he was attacked by the curse spirit.

And the hand that particularly liked to point at employees' noses and scold them was eaten.

The huge office floor was filled with the remnants of cursed energy, and a monster with eyes on its face was lurking in the boss's office.

"Always working...working...no rest...rest..."

A vague but resentful voice reached the ears of the two.

Without any hesitation, Megumi Fushiguro made a dog shadow with his hands and summoned the Jade Dog. In the limited space, summoning the Nue at the beginning would instead restrict it.

The glass door of the boss's office was violently broken open by a pair of jade dogs, one black and one white. The owner also took out a knife-like cursed tool from the shadows and rushed forward.

Kirihara Ryouna pulled an office chair over and sat leisurely at the door, as if she was on vacation, enjoying the overly violent performance in front of her.

The young man's swordsmanship was clean and sharp, and combined with the jade dog's attack, he was able to fight the cursed spirit's tentacles on equal terms for a while.

The cursed spirit noticed Kirihara Ryona who was watching the show at the door, and its dancing tentacles attacked her mercilessly. Kirihara Ryona snapped her fingers lightly, and a beam of flame emerged from her fingertips, and the tentacles instantly turned to ashes.

"Hey, Fushiguro, don't forget you're a Shikigami user! What happened to the coordination between you and the Jade Dog? Did the cursed spirit eat you?!"

Megumi Fushiguro dodged the tentacles that attacked his face, and his already bad expression became even more sour.

He flipped over and jumped back to distance himself from the cursed spirit, "Nue."

The originally spacious space became very crowded with the appearance of Nue.

"唳——"

A burst of lightning instantly enveloped the cursed spirit and gave it an electric shock spa.

“Aaaaaaaaaaa——!”

The screams gradually weakened, and the hedgehog boy and the jade dog cooperated tacitly to give it the final blow and kill it, ending its sin.

After the exorcism was over, Kirihara Ryona glanced at the shabby office and didn't react much. She just rubbed her rumbling stomach and said, "Well, not bad, although it was a bit slower than my first exorcism of a first-level cursed spirit."

"Fushiguro, you are a Shikigami user. You should trust your Shikigami. Don't just rush in like a brainless gorilla. You need to cooperate with your Shikigami."

I have praised what I should have praised, and now I have to point out the shortcomings.

"Sometimes, you even have to trust your Shikigami more than you trust yourself. People are complex, but Shikigami are pure in a sense. After all, they are wholeheartedly their own Shikigami users."

Fushiguro Megumi looked at the two jade dogs rubbing against his trouser legs at his feet, and the Nue in the air, "Yes, I understand."

The isolating tent slowly dissipated, and the sunlight filled the entire floor again. Kirihara Ryouna squinted her eyes and saw that it was already noon. She decided to eat first and then go home to sleep.

"Come on, Senior, I'll take you to eat the best ramen in Kanagawa. It's my treat."

She raised her hand to pat Fushiguro Megumi's shoulder to show encouragement, but the blood of the cursed spirit on her clothes made her put it down silently, "You should go buy some clothes first."

"I understand. Thank you, Kirihara-senpai." Megumi Fushiguro's half-moon eyes saw through Kirihara Ryona.

The door slid open with a pleasant sound of wind chimes, telling the boss that a new customer had arrived.

"A bowl of our signature pork bone chashu ramen, Fushiguro, how about you?"

"The same is fine."

The ramen was served not long after. Kirihara Ryona was satisfied. It was still so delicious!

"...Dad, seriously, you deserve this headache after getting uncle to drink so much yesterday."

"...Hey, Xiaolan, your uncle and I haven't seen each other in so long, so of course we have to have a big drink to celebrate."

"You can't drink that much."

The wind chimes rang again. The girl was arguing with an unkempt old man, followed by a tall red-haired boy and a little boy wearing glasses and a red bow tie.

"Kirihara-senpai?"

A familiar voice rang out. Kirihara Ryona, who had already recovered from her ramen, looked at the person who greeted her and said, "Ah, it's Mori."

When she was still working in the student union, she was responsible for entering information and integrating the newly transferred student, Hisaburo Mori, into the school.

Several people sat down at the next table, and Ran Mouri greeted Kirihara Ryona enthusiastically.

"Eh? Is this Juzaburo's senior? Hello, I'm Maoli Ran, Juzaburo's cousin. This is my dad, and this is Conan."

Kirihara Ryona is actually a hidden face control, and she feels better when the beautiful girl greets her actively.

"Hello, I'm Kirihara Ryouna, his name is Fushiguro Megumi, and he's my teacher's child. By the way, can I call you Xiaolan?"

Although the beautiful girl is her senior, her inexplicable sister nature takes over and she wants to communicate with her using the same terms as her peers.

After being a sister once, you won’t want to be a sister again (loud)

"Of course." Mao Lilan replied with a smile.

"Oh my~ Big brother, why is there a bandage on your arm?" The little boy wearing glasses asked confusedly about the scars on Megumi Fushiguro caused by the cursed spirit attack.

There are also some on the lower jaw of the face. Although the bleeding has stopped, it is obvious that it was caused by a cut from a sharp knife, right?

The boy had a murderous aura that was not suitable for his age, which forced him to pay more attention.

"Very perceptive, kid." Kirihara Ryona looked at the little boy in glasses who was feigning doubt. "But everyone has secrets. It's not a good idea to ask directly. After all, you have secrets too, don't you?"

She looked at Conan with a smile. The person who was asked the question was stunned. Conan's pupils constricted and his mind was working rapidly for a while.

What do you mean he has secrets too? Is she hinting at him? Are they from over there?

Damn it, Xiaolan and the others are still here. What on earth do these two want to do!

Kirihara Ryona calmly observed that Conan's body suddenly tensed up, and knew that her prank was successful.

"Ah, okay, I'll tell you a secret. We just finished our kendo training. As for the bandages..."

Kirihara Ryouna smiled slyly, "It's his personal hobby. Kids his age all have some little unknown quirks, you know."

Hey, hey, didn't you say you'd tell me secretly? You're so loud, are you afraid no one else heard? Conan's half-moon eyes silently complained in his heart.

Suddenly I felt that the hedgehog-haired boy next to me was inexplicably pitiful.

"What little hobby?" Mori Jusaburo joined in.

"Chuunibyou." Kirihara Ryona answered as a matter of course.

"I didn't say that. Don't talk nonsense. Kirihara-senpai, could you please stop taking the liberty of adding a Chuunibyou character to me?"

Megumi Fushiguro put down her chopsticks speechlessly, wiped her mouth, and immediately launched into a series of three denials.

"I just wasn't paying attention while sparring with my senior and got hurt accidentally," he explained, looking into Conan's eyes.

Why does this boy give people such a discordant feeling?

Kirihara Ryona was very relieved, she finally discovered it.

As soon as she entered the door, she found that the soul of this little kid with glasses gave her the feeling that he was wearing adult clothes secretly. It was very incongruous and he had a maturity that was not in line with his age.

Interesting, was he under some kind of spell? Or did he ingest some cursed substance? Should I steal it and give it to Miss Glass for research?

Conan felt a chill and felt as if something was staring at him.

“Ah! Someone’s dead!”

Kogoro Mouri, who was originally drowsy, woke up instantly, and Conan also reacted quickly and ran towards the bathroom.

That level of proficiency definitely wasn't the first time he'd done this.

Kirihara Ryona and Fushiguro Megumi looked at each other and followed. They felt the malicious cursed energy coming from the bathroom, which had reached level three.

"Really, Conan, stop running around."

Mao Li Ran was afraid that Conan would disturb her father's work, so she followed him. Now only Mao Li Jusaburo was left looking at the ramen bowl in bewilderment.

"I knew something would happen if I followed my uncle out."

With the cursed spirit as their target, the two quickly identified the murderer, but rash identification would attract unnecessary attention.

I didn't expect that the Mori in Maori Jusaburo is the same as the Mori in Maori Kogoro, the famous detective "Sleeping Kogoro". The case should be solved soon.

Kirihara Ryona frowned as she stared at the cursed spirit that had taken root in the murderer's body, and when she saw that there was no sign of a surge in cursed power, she left it alone for the time being.

The cursed spirit kept repeating the same words, "Unforgivable... Unforgivable..."

The victim was the president of the university's musical instrument club, Kurokawa Shimoki, and the people who were with him were his friends in the same club.

Excluding him, there were two men and two women.

The four of them all acted indifferent, and it seemed that the relationship between them was not good.

The police quickly arrived and cordoned off the scene. Shigeo Yokomizo noticed Kirihara Ryona at the scene. Kirihara Ryona shook her head at him, indicating that this murder was not caused by non-human reasons.

Yokomizo Shigeo understood.

In a previous case, the police searched for a long time but could not find any clues to the murderer, and the number of victims kept increasing. Later, they were told that the case was taken over by another party, and he was the person in charge of the handover. As a result, he learned that there are some dangerous species in this world that ordinary humans cannot see.

Kirihara Ryouna raised her eyebrows slightly. Is it really true that no one thinks that it is inappropriate for a child to run around the crime scene collecting evidence?

"Boom"

Kogoro Mouri slumped on the ground and began his brilliant reasoning.

When the truth was revealed, Songshan collapsed and screamed.

"He took advantage of his talent and family connections to snatch the chairman's position, but he never showed up for training..."

"...So what if I have talent? Does talent mean it can be wasted endlessly?! We lost this year's competition! We lost! The chairman position was clearly mine, and my selection score was clearly higher than his. But just because of my ridiculous talent and family background, the position that should have belonged to me was taken away. I won't accept this... I won't accept this!"

Kirihara Ryona watched coldly as the man in front of her went crazy. Seeing that the cursed spirit was about to riot, she reacted quickly and kicked him to the ground.

"So, you're going to take revenge by killing one thousand enemies and injuring eight hundred of your own? That's really stupid, monkey."

Just to take revenge on a scumbag, he was willing to sacrifice his own future and gamble his beloved violin. There were so many ways but he chose the stupidest one.

Kirihara Ryona sneered. She understood why Teacher Getsu called them monkeys.

——

"Huh? Senior Mori didn't skip training today?" Marui Bunta looked at Mori Jusaburo who was training seriously in shock.

Liu opened the data book, "It seems something happened over the weekend that changed his attitude."

Maori Jusaburo was in tears. He absolutely refused to admit that he was frightened by the dream he had last night! Absolutely!