"...I've always been lonely. I don't want to be alone in an empty room. Only when I talk to people do I feel happy."
"But after the excitement, what remains is a deeper loneliness."
“Actually…it’s not just the teacher, I did something wrong too, right?” he asked Willy like a real child. “I don’t want to go on like this anymore.”
“I have a feeling that the ‘Yoshida Yuta’ you’re talking about, the teacher’s real best friend, is actually not me at all.”
"I am just a... lonely monster."
“Master Xijian, I know you are a good person. You saved Ahui.”
He didn't know Willy's real name, so he could only call him by that name.
"Now, could you please help me too?"
"..."
Vili finally turned around and stared at the ghost whose feet were slightly dangling in the air. After a long while, he sighed.
Supernatural beings do not shed tears. Therefore, although "Yoshida Yuta" looked like he was about to cry, his eyes were still dry.
Vili recalled what Yukimura Masashi had told him outside the Hidden Hot Spring, about the three options for dealing with supernatural beings.
Kill it, take it away, or release it.
The first option is rejected; Vili is disgusted by the idea of attacking a lamb with its neck extended to the slaughter.
The second option... given Yoshida Yuta's abilities, if he were sealed and taken to the Investigation Bureau, probably no one would be willing to contract such a weak spirit. Vili also didn't want to lock him up and leave him alone to await Yumishi's arrival.
If we let him go... wouldn't that be watching tragedy repeat itself? Yoshida Yuta's abilities are useless to Yuumi-shi, but they are already in the supernatural realm for ordinary people.
If someone with the ability to distinguish between good and evil is exploited, the consequences will be dire.
Just like what happened today.
Fortunately, Vili is not an ordinary yūmi-shi; he has a fourth option.
Recalling everything she had experienced in the second world, the mother who sacrificed everything for her child, Willy gently closed her eyes.
A familiar staff appeared in his hand, and when the boy opened his eyes again, his gaze was intense, as if the stars had gathered.
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