Chapter 14 Club Activities 5
Facing the girl's angry gaze, Hagiwara Kenji, feeling guilty, gave a dry laugh and didn't struggle. Instead, Kurosaki Utsuki, speechless, let go of her hand, took two steps back, and jumped onto the windowsill, actively creating distance between them.
"I'll give you a minute to explain." The exhausted Death Agent crossed his arms. "Why did you become like this? After the first earthquake, there should have been enough time for ordinary people to take shelter, right?"
But not only did this guy not seek refuge, but he bumped into Xu who appeared in the teaching building before her... He obviously doesn't look like the type of hot-blooded young man who likes adventure!
"While everyone was evacuating outside, Kurosaki-san was sneaking upstairs by himself. I thought it might be the same situation as Saturday evening, so I was a little concerned and followed him unconsciously."
What's the big deal? Even if there is something there, he can't see it!
"Besides," Hagiwara Kenji looked up at the girl on the windowsill, his eyes reflecting the warm orange light of the setting sun, "even if I die like this, Kurosaki-san will bring me back to life, right?"
……ha?
"That's not right." Kurosaki Utsuki snorted coldly, "Did you misunderstand something? You're not completely dead yet. As long as the chain on your chest is intact, you can still be saved. Of course, whether you can be saved depends on my mood. Of course, I can also cut it off and really send you on your way."
The smile on the boy opposite froze.
"Sending me off or something like that, Kurosaki-chan wouldn't do something so seriously illegal...right?"
Kurosaki Utsuki glanced at him. "Anyway, no matter which medical examiner comes, they'll simply conclude that you died unexpectedly, with no possibility of foul play." She curled her lips. "Besides, my job is to send all souls to their proper place. I don't have to bear any unnecessary responsibility for humanity."
"Kurosaki-chan..."
"My relationship with Hagiwara-san isn't close enough for you to use 'chan' (ちゃん)."
That kind of coquettish name sounds strange.
"Then let's start building a good relationship from now on." Hagiwara Kenji immediately found a solution, "Kurosaki-chan, please don't use honorifics to address me anymore."
...Tsk.
She is really not good at dealing with people who are either very outgoing or have no sense of distance.
"Also, as a thank you for saving me a second time," the boy winked at her, "if Kurosaki-chan ever needs to leave her body in the future, you can safely leave it to me."
Eh? This proposal...she seemed a little tempted.
With someone inside looking after her and covering up for her, the body wouldn't have been dumped somewhere, and then falsely photographed as having fractured ribs, or found by someone who mistook it for a corpse and called the emergency services or the police, a situation so unfortunate that she'd want to resign. But...
"You... don't have any improper thoughts about my body, do you?" she asked suspiciously.
The boy opposite immediately widened his eyes: "For example?"
...She couldn't say it, she just said it casually.
Being easily outmaneuvered, Kurosaki Utsuki snorted and simply passed on the topic: "Of course, of course."
"If you dare to tell anyone, I will kill you."
After another pause, he said, "Also, this isn't the second time, it's the third time. From now on, when I ask you to run, you should run fast. My body can easily heal itself when it's damaged, unlike yours."
At worst, if her body is damaged to the point where it cannot be healed, she can still buy a prosthetic body from Manager Urahara.
But the boy opposite was stunned. "Eh? Three times? The one I don't remember, could it be when school started... But I clearly remember that explosion, that was the battle of the Heroic Spirits in the Holy Grail War, even though Jinpei said I must be dreaming."
Kurosaki Utsuki turned her face away silently.
"...Because I wasn't using a spray that had expired since the Showa era."
"Showa... How old is Kurosaki-chan?"
Tsk.
Kurosaki Utsuki gave a creepy smile: "Do you still want to be resurrected?"
Hagiwara Kenji said simply, "I understand. Kurosaki-chan is fifteen."
...She's actually fifteen! Why does it seem like she lied about her age?
"Hurry up and go back to your body and lie down. Your classmates will be back soon. It will be troublesome if they find you dead."
Before she finished her words, she had already used instant step to put on her own body and came over, holding the other person's lifeless body in her arms like a princess.
"Forget it, come with me, let's go to the activity room first and then I'll treat you."
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During the not-so-long treatment time, Kurosaki Utsuki seriously thought about several issues, mainly about the extent to which this new "assistant" in front of her should understand her work.
But before she could make up her mind, the person half-lying on the sofa in front of her slowly opened his eyes, and the first words he said were, "I was carried like a princess by a girl again."
"Any comments?"
"How could that be?" Hagiwara Kenji gave a wry smile. "Kurosaki-chan, who exactly is that person in the black kimono?"
Kurosaki Utsuki raised her eyes.
The other party continued: "Kurosaki-chan just said that your job content is to "send all souls to where they should go." So, could it be that you are——"
After all, I have to tell him this level of knowledge.
"Yes." Kurosaki Utsuki tilted his head, "As you thought, I am the god of death."
After giving a rather shocking answer, she added a few words: "Although it's only a proxy... not a true proxy, the Shinigami in charge of this area are also working diligently. It just so happens that the term 'Shinigami proxy' exists, and its nature is similar to my own, so this is the decision."
Hagiwara Kenji blinked, his face filled with humility and eagerness to learn: "Is there anything else about the worldview that I don't know about? Could you please explain it to me?"
Kurosaki Utaha curled her lips and said, "You'll know when you die."
Seeing that she didn't want to continue, Hagiwara, who had just been exposed to a new worldview, was not in a hurry. After all, there would be plenty of time in the future, and he would always be able to get a glimpse of the "truth" more.
Moreover, although she seemed to have some method of distorting human memory, she had not used it on him until now, which meant that the method was limited, most likely limited to distorting "memories within a period of time", and now it was impossible to delete those existences from his mind.
"Then I have one last question. As I saw today, being a 'Death Agent' is a very dangerous job, right?"
"It's okay." Kurosaki Utsuki tilted her head. "Today's situation is different from Saturday. Saturday's was an earthbound spirit."
At this point, she couldn't help but add, "Those masked evil spirits are Hollows, once human souls. One of the Shinigami's duties is to purify them. They mostly live in Hueco Mundo, and those that do make it to the human world aren't very strong, at least not to me."
As soon as he finished speaking, the phone on the table suddenly vibrated.
There was no need to look at who sent the message. At this time, it could only be Geto Suguru who was urging her to go to work.
"There's a new job." Kurosaki Utsuki stood up, clicked on the message to confirm the time and place, and warned the other party again before starting the work, "You are forbidden to tell others secrets related to me, you are forbidden to touch my body, and you are forbidden to die casually. If you violate any of the above, I will kill you."
After receiving a half-hearted "yes~" in response, she touched the small prop she always kept in her pocket and separated it from her body. As her soul transformed into an agent of the god of death, her body lost its breath and fell to the ground, barely caught by the boy opposite.
Time was not urgent, so she did not leave immediately. Instead, she jumped onto the windowsill and observed her "helper" for a while.
"Kill me if I die... That's not quite right..."
The boy muttered as he placed her body on the sofa, closed the door, and sat down on the chair next to her.
"I don't know when Kurosaki-chan will be back. I hope she won't be late for work today..."
The corners of Kurosaki Utsuki's mouth twitched slightly.
I'm not sure if he's truly trustworthy, but...
"...Let's try to get along well from now on."
She took one last look at her body and jumped out of the open window.
Please finish work and come back as soon as possible. She doesn't want to delay the other person from making money because of her.
...This can be considered as mutual understanding among workers.
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While waiting, Kenji Hagiwara was writing a page of math homework half-heartedly when he suddenly heard the girl on the sofa mutter to herself, "That's enough," with reluctance.
It looks like the work is done.
He put down his pen and looked up at the girl who had already opened her eyes. Her voice continued to come to him, this time as if she was complaining to him.
"Following the commission for the murder case, a commission for the robbery case has also come in."
Perhaps it was the first time she found someone who could understand her feelings, and Kurosaki Utsuki showed no signs of hiding her emotions.
"Why do I, a Shinigami, have to mediate between two souls? They were clearly robbers who killed each other, but in the end they ended up in Soul Society instead of Hell. It's unbelievable."
Kenji Hagiwara quickly pieced together the events from her words.
Perhaps outside of the battle, she met two souls who were fighting. After she tried to stop the fight, she heard from them that they were both robbers and had killed each other, and they also asked her for a favor.
But the thing that interested him most was—
“Does Hell really exist?”
"Soul Society" or "Soul World" should be the place where souls live. If you only understand it literally, it feels like a world not much different from the current world. It is not quite the same as the "heaven" he has always imagined, but the "hell" corresponding to heaven actually appeared.
Kurosaki Utsuki stood up and said, "I heard that it does exist. For souls that were bad enough in their lives, the gates of hell will open for them, but I haven't seen it yet."
After all, she had only been a Shinigami agent for a month and a half, and most of the souls she had devoured were tragic victims. And if Hollow simply followed her instincts and devoured souls, it wouldn't be considered a heinous crime.
Moreover, she had never studied at the orthodox Shinō Spiritual Arts Academy in Soul Society, and her knowledge of the relevant knowledge was fragmentary, and she had no idea what the judgment mechanism of hell was.
"But we'll see each other eventually," she finally said with emotion, "after all, we're in Rice Flower."
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