Tokyo, love before they become female ghosts

In the conference room, Takuya Hase remained silent for a moment, looking at her with annoyance.

"What do you mean by 'cleaning up'? When did I cause any trouble?"

Mio Koizumi glanced at the exorcists around her who were greeting her, then looked at the corner that Takuya Hase had deliberately chosen, grabbed his ear, and dragged him to the front row.

"Let go!"

While struggling to break free in an annoyed manner, Hase Takuya looked speechlessly at Koizumi Mio.

Mio Koizumi kept nodding to the exorcists around her, and led Takuya Hase to sit down in the front row.

"What are you wiping my ass for? Shouldn't you think about this carefully?"

"Um?"

"Do you really think that the girl you saved that day would have been released by the police station if I hadn't spoken up?"

Takuya Hase pursed his lips, a hint of embarrassment on his face, while Mio Koizumi twisted open the bottle of mineral water in front of her and took a sip.

"And that time you paid for cleaning the hunting robes—if it weren't for my sake, I would have deducted at least half of the fee and fined you, deducting points from your credit score!"

"..."

"It was already contaminated..."

Koizumi Mio watched his stubbornness, a cold smile appearing on her lips.

"It's contaminated. The cleaning fee for a contaminated hunting robe belonging to an E-rank exorcist like you would be no more than five thousand, but you're asking for a ridiculous fifteen thousand!"

In a low, gritted voice, Hase Takuya awkwardly scratched his cheek.

Seeing his defeated expression, Mio Koizumi shook her head helplessly.

"Since we bought them at 15,000, we'll keep that price for all future purchases."

"what?"

"What?! The prices aren't uniform? Are you hoping people will find out I used connections to get you a higher price?!"

Seeing Koizumi Mio's annoyed expression, Hase Takuya chuckled and immediately raised his hand to tap her thigh.

"The price is too high, won't it expose us...?"

In response, Mio Koizumi gave him a tap on the head.

"My hunting robe, sewn by my own hands, isn't worth 15,000 yen?!"

"Hmm...but it isn't."

"It is now, and it always will be."

Upon hearing this, Takuya Hase looked at his cousin with admiration and gave her a thumbs up.

With everyone present, the meeting officially began.

With the host's introduction, Mio Koizumi walked onto the stage to begin the quarterly meeting of the Kyoto branch of the Genseizure Defense Force.

Don't assume that exorcists are all old fogies and inflexible scholars. With the advent of the supernatural, exorcists, whether by choice or by force, have begun to abandon sectarianism and share their exorcism skills in order to better cope with the increasingly severe situation of supernatural pollution.

The quarterly meetings are not just about reporting on the paranormal pollution situation in each region; more importantly, they are about publicizing new types of paranormal pollution or noteworthy events encountered during exorcisms.

By drawing on the strengths of various schools of thought, we can analyze and address these unclear issues.

For example, right now, the gray-haired exorcist executive director of Kobe City is demonstrating the strange and supernatural pollution he has encountered.

Looking at the almost intangible evil creature on the screen, which could possess not only living people but also inanimate objects and change their properties, causing them to grow flesh and blood.

The exorcists in the audience quickly formed groups around the group and, after summarizing, began to analyze the paranormal contamination incident.

Based on the information provided by the Kobe City exorcism executive director, a rudimentary but effective standard solution was quickly developed for this type of evil spirit.

In terms of exorcism techniques, the quarterly meetings of the Exorcism Association are always highly valuable.

Exorcists from various cities in the Kinki region would clear away any paranormal activity in their surroundings several days in advance in order to attend the conference and learn from the experience.

If something can't be dealt with quickly, reinforce the seal immediately. Make sure you can make time to attend the meeting.

Even a newbie like Takuya Hase, after listening to the experience shared by his seniors, felt that humans were quite amazing.

From initial confusion and helplessness, to barely managing to survive three years later, and now to normalizing the handling of paranormal pollution and minimizing its impact on the normal development of the human world.

Every step we've taken embodies countless hours of human effort.

The memories included not only exorcism-related content, but also introductions and promotions of equipment developed by official institutions for ordinary people to resist paranormal pollution.

The appearance of such devices must be reviewed by the exorcism association to determine their effectiveness. Of course, there will also be some financial transactions involved.

But for exorcists who, in a sense, risk their lives, this is not a big deal.

Most ordinary people are aware of this and will accept it.

During the lunch break, Koizumi Mio grabbed Hase Takuya, who had just taken his lunchbox and was about to find a corner to eat it, and threw it away while Hase Takuya looked at her helplessly. She then led him and a group of big shots to sit at a table.

Around the round table, a group of bigwigs, including the Kobe City exorcism executive director, looked at the siblings and watched Hase Takuya being scolded and taught experience by Koizumi Mio at the same time, and a sense of emotion appeared in their eyes.

After all, not every exorcist is like Mio Koizumi, and not every exorcist has a good grandfather like Takuya Hase who has accumulated such great fortune for him.

But everyone could only sigh. After all, if they put themselves in her shoes, they would find it hard to support Koizumi Mio like Toshio Hasegawa did with a distant relative who was burdened with huge debts because of her outrageous parents.

After all, that's not tens of millions, it's hundreds of millions...

He reduced her debts and taught her exorcism techniques. It's hard to say whether Hase Toshio's death at the age of sixty was due to overwork while helping Koizumi Mio.

During a short rest after a hearty meal, Koizumi Mio watched Hase Takuya, who was opening the Reality Defense app and filling out some form.

"What do you need to declare?"

"It seems like a haunted area has appeared around the shrine. I plan to send the cleanup team to deal with it."

Mio Koizumi immediately slapped him on the head.

"You're so lazy!"

"No, I don't get paid for the cleaning team's work, so why should I get involved? Besides, although it's not dangerous, it's incredibly tedious. I'm already busy taking on commissions every day, okay?"

With a wronged grumble, Mio Koizumi pursed her lips helplessly.

"Stop writing, I'll take care of it after the meeting."

Takuya Hase blinked upon hearing this.

"Are you going to the shrine?"

"Otherwise what? Look at the state of the shrine you've set up."

As Mio Koizumi spoke casually, Takuya Hase's expression became somewhat frozen.

"What's with that expression?"

"It's nothing..."

"Um?"

Koizumi Mio glanced at Hase Takuya with a puzzled look in her eyes.

This kid's in trouble!

However, as the host came to inform her, Mio Koizumi temporarily suppressed her desire to ask questions.

In the conference room, watching Koizumi Mio explaining exorcism knowledge on the stage, Hase Taku felt a chill run down his spine at the thought that she might run into Kayako and Mako on her way to her family's shrine.

After all, her older sister's title of "Black Flower Retsu" wasn't given lightly. With her spiritual power level and mental perception, if she were to notice anything unusual about Kayanoko and Mako, things would get interesting...

However, I don't think anything unusual will be found, right?

After all, Kayako and Mako are still alive and haven't turned into demons yet, so it shouldn't be possible...