Tokyo, love before they become female ghosts

After a bumpy half-hour bus ride, Takuya Hasegawa finally arrived at his destination: a construction site undergoing renovation.

Looking at the detached house in front of him, which was already half demolished, Takuya Hase took out the contact information displayed on the Emerging Defense Person App and dialed the client's phone number.

"Hello, I have arrived at the mission location."

Two minutes after the brief conversation, a middle-aged man wearing a white construction hat walked out of a detached house and came up to Takuya Hase.

"Hase-no-ji?"

"it's me."

"I didn't expect him to be so young."

After a brief conversation, the foreman led Hase Takuya toward the interior of the detached house.

Takuya Hasegawa had already learned about the mission details through the Reality Defense APP. The mission was simple: to exorcise the suspected Edo-era evil spirit in the detached house.

The surrounding workers looked at the exorcist brought by the contractor with some curiosity but not much surprise.

Putting aside the fact that offerings are placed to appease any potential local spirits before construction begins, it is also common for extraordinary things to be unearthed after a supernatural event.

This has led to a decline in archaeological work and tomb raiding activities around the world, since the idea of ​​encountering something dirty in a tomb before the supernatural occurs only exists in novels.

Whether black donkey hooves are actually useful in tomb raiding and archaeology today is unknown to Hase Taku, but if you're unlucky, you might actually encounter things like zongzi (sticky rice dumplings).

Especially tomb raiding; not all tomb raiding involves large underground tombs with enough space to carry out the operation.

Most tombs are just underground caves of less than ten square meters. In such narrow terrain, bumping into something dirty is like handing over a can of food to the other party.

Earlier tomb raiders had considered using explosives to deal with tangible, unclean things like zombies, but...

After a muffled thud, whether the zombie appeared or not, no one else knew, but the tomb raiders never came out again.

Following the foreman into the interior of a detached house, and in the direction he pointed, a dark, earthen jar was faintly visible under the decaying floorboards.

The pale skeletons piled up in the clay pot looked gruesome, next to a broken samurai sword and a nearly empty set of decaying dōmaru (a cylindrical, lightweight suit of armor).

Beside these things, a warrior spirit with a broken body, numerous defects in its face and body, a bluish-gray complexion, and pitch-black eyes stood coldly watching the crowd.

When Takuya Hase noticed the samurai evil spirit, the samurai evil spirit also noticed him.

As their eyes met, the samurai spirit began frantically manipulating the broken katana and the shattered dōmaru armor hidden in the floor cave.

The sound of samurai swords striking the ground rang out, and the foreman and the surrounding construction workers silently retreated a considerable distance.

Takuya Hase glanced at the retreating construction workers, smacked his lips, and began to take out exorcism tools from his backpack and begin to use them.

Judging from the Samurai Demon's situation, this guy's strength is just so-so; he can't even control objects, and he's not much stronger than a ghost.

It's okay to scare people, but it's obviously impossible to actually do anything to a living person.

"Lord Laozi, may your command be fulfilled immediately!"

The Cantonese opera style was sung again, and Takuya Hase used willow branches torn from the shrine to make a sacred fence and shimenawa rope to surround the pit and began his performance.

"You ignore me, I'll ignore you; you jerk me, I'll jerk you; if you jerk me, I'll jerk you to death!"

After another round of rambling, Hase Takuya placed the shimenawa rope around the large pit to create a simple barrier.

"Immediately apply it to your body to sober up!"

As the barrier was set up, Hase Takuya pointed two fingers at the samurai demon and lashed out at the demon with the divine fence in his hand.

Snapped!

"Aww!!"

The roar, audible only to Takuya Hase, reached his ears. The spot where the samurai demon's body had been struck by Kagome shattered with a deafening roar, and a large amount of gray smoke began to rise, faintly revealing the samurai demon's terrifying appearance.

Upon seeing this, the surrounding construction workers retreated even further until they left the detached house.

Takuya Hase smiled; this was exactly the effect he wanted.

If they don't leave, Takuya Hase won't be able to continue pretending. If he were killed by the demon in a few moves, the contractor would inevitably argue with him about the fees.

However, just as Takuya Hase was babbling on and on, a figure wearing a black vest with a healthy bronze complexion, military green work pants, and whose arms showed faint muscle lines, walked in through the door carrying a square piece of wood.

To Takuya Hase's somewhat bewildered gaze, with a thud, the wooden plank on his shoulder was placed aside, and he casually picked up the white towel from his shoulder and began wiping the sweat from his face and forehead.

As she wiped her sweat and turned around, Takuya Hase was finally able to see her clearly.

Takuya Hase's first reaction was that the woman was really tall, and his second reaction was that she was really cool.

Her thick, ear-length hair was soaked with sweat and clung tightly to her cheeks. Her narrow eyes were devoid of any emotion, and her delicate oval face made her look extremely indifferent.

The girl was very beautiful, so beautiful that even her bronze skin couldn't hide her outstanding appearance; instead, it added a touch of healthy and wild beauty.

Ignoring the exaggeratedly large pectoral muscles beneath his black vest, which contrasted sharply with his slender waist, he was a handsome tomboy whose gender was hard to discern.

As their eyes met, the girl glanced behind Hase Takuya and slightly raised her chin at him.

Takuya Hase was startled, then turned his head sharply to look, only to see the samurai demon roaring as it raised its skin-and-bones claws to dig at his head.

Although this level of evil spirits does not cause actual damage when they attack people, it is enough to make people feel nauseous and sick and bedridden for several days.

Takuya Hase suddenly turned his head to dodge the samurai demon's attack, and then picked up the sacred lily and lashed it down on the demon's head.

"You idiot, how dare you launch a sneak attack!!"

Enraged, he lashed out with several more lashes, and the samurai demon's body suddenly shattered, shrinking back in fear into the jar containing the skeleton.

Takuya Hase let out a breath and turned to look at the girl behind him.

On the dirty floor, the girl sat cross-legged without a care in the world, her round thighs faintly visible beneath the baggy cargo pants.

Watching her expressionlessly fan her neck, Takuya Hase was about to ask her name to express his gratitude when the foreman's voice suddenly came from behind him.

"Haseji, have you dealt with the guy inside?"

"not yet!"

While casually replying, Hase Takuya noticed the girl licking her lips.

After a moment of silence, looking at the blinding sunlight outside the broken house, Takuya Hase called out to the outside.

"Get me two bottles of ice water and an ice cream!"

"what?"

"No, exorcism is very tiring!"

"Okay, okay, I'll buy it right away!"

A few minutes later, as the foreman arrived at the door with ice cream and ice water, Takuya Hase took them and went back into the detached house.

"Thanks."

The girl, sitting cross-legged on the ground, looked at the ice water and ice cream that Takuya Hasegawa handed her. Her narrow eyes looked at him calmly for a while before she reached out and took the ice water and ice cream.

Eating ice cream and pressing ice water to her forehead to cool off, a hint of comfort appeared in the girl's expressionless eyes.