Chapter 10 Club Activities 1
【Friday, April 17】
The high school that Utaha Kurosaki attends has many clubs.
Although the performance of these clubs is not outstanding - they can't beat Hyotei in tennis, Rakuzan in basketball, Karasuno in volleyball, can't beat Hakone Gakuen in road cycling, their reasoning research results are far inferior to Fudo High School, they have only participated in one LIVE in idol research, have never made it to the finals of karuta, and can't form a full mahjong team...but the time requirements for club activities are still quite strict, and basically require attendance at least four days a week.
Compared to them, the Psychic Research Club, with its simple requirement of "free participation in activities", seems very attractive.
It was the first day back to Mihua after vacation.
Kurosaki Utsuki originally came to the school in the afternoon to handle some procedures. After all, she had taken a long vacation of more than two weeks and was injured in school, so she had to go through some procedures.
While waiting for the paperwork to be processed, she was forced to take a lighter but tight deadline job. After the paperwork was finally completed, the student affairs office staff suddenly inquired about her interest in the club. They essentially said that the club's recruitment was almost over, and if anyone was interested, they could visit the club's activity room.
As someone who has to work part-time after school every day and is a kind of animal, Kurosaki Utsuki originally wanted to go back home directly, but while killing time and browsing the list of clubs, she suddenly felt that joining a club and acting like a celebrity to her friends at home might not be a bad idea.
Take this relaxed and comfortable Psychic Research Department for example.
Not only free, but also professionally relevant.
She asked the teacher a few simple questions and received a notice that the club would be disbanded if it had less than five members, and that the club was finally saved because three people joined this year.
There were five of them in total... It was great that I didn't have to spend much energy identifying them.
Calculating that it was already past school time, Kurosaki Utaki said goodbye to her teacher, left the student affairs office, and headed straight for the Spiritual Research Club's activity room. After leisurely climbing four floors, she found herself in an empty room.
"The schoolbag is here..."
The door was unlocked, and there were three backpacks on the only sofa in the small room, indicating that at least half of the club members had come to participate in the activities after school. But where were they? It was impossible for the three of them to go to the bathroom together hand in hand, right?
After waiting for two minutes, looking through the decorations on the walls and tables of the small room, and seeing that no one had returned, Kurosaki Utsuki was about to leave and come back next Monday. As soon as she opened the door, a bespectacled boy suddenly rushed in without braking.
Not good, Kurosaki Utsuki frowned.
It wasn't that she was in any trouble, but rather that the aura of the young man who had just entered was very weak. Although he was still alive as a human, his soul still in his body, he could vaguely see half of the karmic chain on his chest.
This couldn't be the result of a natural disease. No disease could directly affect the soul. There must be an evil spirit at work. If left alone, he would die soon.
Of course, she couldn't just pretend she didn't notice anything. Even if she didn't talk about the fine qualities of saving lives and being brave and righteous, or the professional ethics of being a death agent, she didn't want her school to have any more accidents that would make headlines.
Fortunately, she had learned the "Return Way" quite well. As long as the chain of cause and effect was not broken, she could always save people with a burst of output - this had been practiced before on "Future is Promising".
Speaking of which, this person is already so weak, yet he still wants to come to school and even come to the club activity room. Could it be that...
The boy with glasses took two breaths, wiped the sweat off his face, and pushed his glasses up. His eyes were not focused when he spoke: "Where are the others?"
He seemed completely unaware that the girl in the room, who was slightly raising one hand towards him with a subtle movement, was not a member of the club, but a strange schoolmate whom he had never met before. He was only concerned with asking about the whereabouts of the others.
Kurosaki Utsuki pointed at the sofa with her free hand: "Only the schoolbag is here."
The young man immediately let out a cry of grief, his legs gave way and he sat on the ground. After a moment, he struggled to his feet again, his voice also filled with tears: "I must go find them, I can't let them... Otherwise, otherwise..."
Kurosaki Utsuki increased the spiritual power output of his hands, feeling more and more uneasy: "What else can I do?"
The boy with glasses took a deep breath and said, "He'll be eaten..."
……well.
A being that feeds on humans, or more specifically, human souls, and considering the weakened state of their souls, the culprit must be a Hollow, right?
As if she saw a new job beckoning to her, Kurosaki Utsuki grabbed the person who was about to leave - she didn't use any force at all, but the boy sat back on the ground as if he was being scammed.
"Don't you have their cell phone numbers?" she asked.
After a moment's pause, the boy shook his head and said, "My phone is gone. I don't remember the number."
……well!
"Tell me the location, I'll go stop them." Kurosaki Utsuki put down the shoulder bag, put the phone in the pocket of her pleated skirt, and glanced at the boy. "Go to the infirmary. You're going to faint before you even leave the school."
The causal chains on the chest were no longer visible, and the treatment she could provide ended here. She could only leave the rest to modern medicine.
"But--"
The hesitant voice was interrupted by her cold voice: "Hurry up, you don't want to see them die."
After a few seconds, she heard the boy's resigned reply: "...I understand."
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After rushing out with the sickle kick for a full minute, when he received a call from his brother, Kurosaki Utsuki belatedly remembered that he had forgotten to bring the memory-clearing spray.
How should I put it? Anyway, the boy with glasses had already witnessed a supernatural event and almost died. Even if he gets unlucky later, it won’t matter if a few more people encounter it... right?
As expected, Ichigo Kurosaki called her to ask about her recent situation - but she had just left home this morning, and he said goodbye to her when he left for school that morning.
"How am I doing? How about what?"
……well.
"So, I told you it was just a joke. I'm not in any trouble, and even if I were, I could handle it myself—"
Or was it because of the words he misunderstood before? It was obviously her who did not explain it clearly and muddled through it, but she still felt annoyed by the excessive concern she received due to the misunderstanding.
"I'm working now and the customer is still waiting. Don't call me unless it's something important."
...and the result was like this again.
Kurosaki Utsuki lowered her head and remained silent for a few seconds. Unfortunately, she couldn't find a small stone to vent her anger, so she could only jump twice on the spot in anger.
Damn it, the relationship had just eased a little...why couldn't she be a little more patient with her only brother!
"When will it be..."
When would he be able to awaken the power of a Shinigami or a Quincy and take his own power back from her?
The orange-haired girl sighed for the umpteenth time today, looked at the location indicated by the map on her phone, and started walking again.
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As a result, Kurosaki Utsuki was one step ahead of the three people she was supposed to catch up with.
Thinking that if Hollow existed, she, as the agent of the God of Death, would have to solve the problem sooner or later, she decided to go in and find out.
It's a three-story commercial building near the shopping district, halfway through renovations, now abandoned due to paranormal activity. According to ghosts lingering nearby, the building once housed five businesses: a convenience store and milk tea shop on the first floor, a nail salon and osteopathic clinic on the second, and a beauty salon on the third.
The landlord decided to renovate the property because the contracts of the two shops on the second floor expired at the same time. As a result, just one week after the construction team started work, the manager of the beauty salon on the third floor was suddenly killed by a customer. Some of the decorators on the second floor were also injured, and the scene became quite serious.
After a period of rest, when the construction team resumed work, workers collapsed one after another for unknown reasons. The hospital's diagnosis was the impossible, long-term, severe malnutrition, as if a ghost had drained their vitality... In short, the building eventually became a mere decoration.
She had just seen a notice posted by the landlord on the building's exterior wall, announcing that the building would be demolished and rebuilt next week. Perhaps that was why their Psychic Research Department had rushed to explore the area before the last available opportunity.
There was no Hollow presence nearby, so Kurosaki Utsuki first went to the second floor to investigate. Apart from feeling a bit eerie, she didn't notice anything unusual. Then she went up to the third floor and immediately saw a phone with a broken screen that had fallen to the ground.
The salon had closed suddenly, leaving the furnishings largely untouched. The sofa by the entrance and the bed nearby were still there. A cell phone had fallen beside it. It must have belonged to the bespectacled boy from the club. She bent down to pick it up when a faint, ominous spiritual energy surged from behind her, and a tentacle swung toward her waist.
Kurosaki Utsuki instantly stepped back a meter to avoid it, and raised the corners of her lips slightly: "Hey - you're here?"
The attack missed. The other party could see him and was not afraid at all. He even smiled at him calmly. Xu, who had been using this place as his base and was barely knowledgeable, immediately sensed the danger and broke the glass and escaped through the window.
“…Huh? That’s it?”
The orange-haired girl, who had already condensed spiritual power in her hand and was ready to draw the bow and shoot an arrow, stared at its fleeing back for a second, her eyes swept across the bustling crowd on the street outside, and finally resigned herself to her fate and lifted the dust-proof plastic sheet covering the sofa. After sitting down, she left her body, transformed into a Death Agent and began to track it.
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Who is she, where is she, where is her body?
After extracting as much information as possible from the Hollow and sending it away with a single blow, the Death Agent, who once again protected the peace of Mika, immediately rushed back to the abandoned building where his body was placed, and jumped through the window into the room on the third floor.
However, the house was deserted, the dust-proof plastic sheet was still thrown there, and the sofa was so empty that not even a hair could be found.
Kurosaki Utahi, dressed in a pitch-black Shinigami uniform and with a knife stuck in her waist, stared at the empty sofa in amazement for a full half minute.
"this……"
How could this be?!
Could it be that someone took her body away?
It's true that she saw a few ghosts wandering around on the street just now, but it shouldn't be so easy for a living person's body to be taken away by other ordinary souls with low compatibility! That would be much more difficult to control than wearing ill-fitting shoes!
...Or who took her body away?
No way, no way, it’s not that easy to lose your phone if you leave it on the table when you leave your seat!
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