Tokyo, My Childhood Friend is a Ghost Story

Chapter 42 Should I Know?
In a large, single-level apartment on the 28th floor, Haruko Higa held a glass of juice, looking down at the bustling streets below, still teeming with traffic despite the heavy rain.

When she recalls the puppet spirit that was torn apart and dismembered by spiritual power, the image of Uta Kasyapa's black bracelet involuntarily comes to mind.

Did something from inside come out and kill the puppet spirit?

Looking back at the table, I saw a camera that had taken many photos of abandoned shrines.

If Uta Kasyapa is from a family of mediums, that's fine. But if he's just an ordinary person who accidentally obtained a powerful magical artifact, then it's troublesome.

The use of cursed artifacts comes at a price. Once Uta Kasyapa can no longer afford the cost, that will be the day the creature sealed in that bracelet wreaks havoc.

No one can say for sure what the consequences will be.

With this in mind, Haruko Higa felt it necessary to contact Uta Kayo again, as for the girl named Fue.

I don't know why, even though she is very beautiful and has a charming and alluring temperament, she always gives me a strange and scary feeling.

Especially its incredibly powerful and inhuman vitality is something that leaves people completely baffled.

But Haruko Higa is a very decisive person. Once she made up her mind to contact Uta Kayo, she was not willing to waste a single minute.

In the old classroom, Uta Kayo, Fukue, and Kayano were cleaning; this would be the future headquarters of the Folklore Research Department.

Although the school requires clubs to have five members, these problems can be easily solved by Fu Jiang with just a few simple words.

Not to mention there was another person, Higashi Mutsu Saburo, who was not even present but was nominally in charge.

However, Uta Kasyapa often had to admit that superpowers were indeed very useful.

"Speaking of which, what will happen to the data on the camera if it's lost?"

Uta Kassapa rolled his eyes at Fukie's rambling.

"What happened that day that you still had time to worry about documents?"

"That's true."

That day?

Jia Yezi blinked her eyes, looking somewhat bewildered, as she listened to their conversation.

Perhaps it's because I've been frequently seen around Fukie and Uta Kasyapa lately, and also because Uta Kasyapa has asked me to stop hunching over.

Jia Yezi gradually became known to some people at school, but that was all. Once Uta Kasaya was gone, she reverted to being a silent, ominous nobody.

Just as Fu Jiang was getting a little frantic because of the missing information, the sound of leather shoes stepping on the ground suddenly came from outside the door.

Haruko Higa was still wearing a white suit, and her expression remained completely blank.

This time, however, she was carrying a bag.

"This is the camera you dropped."

Upon seeing Haruko Higa who had come to their door, Uta Kasaya and Fukie exchanged a glance, and Uta Kasaya stepped forward to take the camera.

"Thank you."

Haruko nodded, glancing at Fukie, who was wearing a black miniskirt and a white short-sleeved shirt, and Kayoko, who was wearing a sky-blue floral dress and whose eyes were darting around.

Can we talk in private?

"I?"

Pointing to himself, Uta Kasyapa asked somewhat blankly.

Haruko nodded, and just then, Fue suddenly stepped forward with her arms crossed.

"I'm sorry, no."

Haruko glanced at the girl who was hostile towards her but didn't say anything, instead continuing to look at Uta Kasaya.

Fujang stepped forward, ready to shoo the person away, but was stopped by Uta Kasyapa.

"Okay, let's talk outside."

Fukie, annoyed at being pulled back, kicked Uta Kasyapa, but it didn't stop him from making his decision.

The two arrived at the flower bed outside, and Higa Haruko casually took out a cigarette and handed it to Uta Kayo.

"Do you want to smoke?"

Uta Kassapa looked at the cigarette in front of him, hesitated for a moment, and then shook his head.

Haruko Higa took a cigarette, lit it, and exhaled a puff of smoke. "You must have seen that thing that day, right?"

Uta Kasyapa then remembered the strange demon that looked like a dried-up corpse and nodded.

"That's a puppet spirit, which was suppressed there by an exorcist five years ago."

Before Uta Kasyapa could respond, Haruko Higa continued speaking to herself.

"In this world, all sorts of supernatural events that are beyond the imagination of ordinary people can happen anytime and anywhere. The smaller ones are nothing more than getting sick, while the more serious ones can cause the death of people in a village or a town."

Uta Kasyapa blinked but did not refute.

Aren't you scared?

Utakayo smiled awkwardly, after all, he had one being who could destroy the world while alive, and another who could destroy the world even after death.

Asking me if I'm scared seems a bit disrespectful.
Seeing that Uta Kasyapa remained silent, Haruko Higa continued to speak.

"At first I thought you were just lucky that day, after all, that puppet spirit is something that can destroy a village."

"You ignorant young people are lucky to have survived it."

"But later, after I inspected the scene, I realized that things were not so simple."

"?"

Haruko Higa glanced at Utakayo's wrist.

"You're the one who had the thing in the bracelet kill it, aren't you?"

".ah?"

What does that mean? What is this thing inside the bracelet? Wasn't this bracelet given to me by Jia Yezi?
"You do not know?"

Haruko Higa frowned as she looked at Uta Kasyapa. His blank expression clearly showed that he was unaware of the special nature of this bracelet.

"Should I know?"

Seeing this, Haruko Higa frowned even more deeply.

"Could you take off your bracelet so I can take a look?"

Upon hearing this, Uta Kassapa hesitated for a moment before taking off his bracelet and handing it to her.

As soon as she got her hands on it, a huge and distorted spiritual power entered Higa Haruko's senses, even though this chaotic and distorted spiritual power was easy to dissipate.

However, driven by a powerful obsession, it quietly resided within the bracelet.

Moreover, there were no evil things inside, which was quite different from what she had expected.

"Not you?"

"What am I?"

Seeing that Uta Kasyapa truly knew nothing, it seemed that this bracelet must have been given to him by a powerful exorcist.

So, what exactly killed the puppet spirit?
After handing the bracelet to Uta Kasyapa, Haruko Higa fell into thought.

"Can you tell me who gave you the bracelet?"

Uta Kasyapa shook his head without even thinking.

Seeing this, Haruko Higa was not disappointed, after all, there are still many exorcists who are unwilling to show themselves in public.

"Um, shall I go now?"

"Leave me your phone number."

"Eh?"

"My sixth sense tells me that we will meet again in the future."

"Forehead"

After speaking, Haruko looked at Kasaya Uta.

"My name is Haruko Higa, and I am an exorcist."

"Uta Kasyapa, an ordinary college student."

(End of this chapter)