You say this is a love game?

As a shrine maiden of Inari Daimyojin, Furuya Ruriko is not only good at killing and exorcising spirits, but is also a skilled bowman who is proficient in healing. Her [Demon-Breaking Arrow] is a healing arrow, and when her spiritual power reaches the standard, it can also be used to activate the combat skill [Fox Holding Ears of Grain].

Mizutani Makoto judged the need and exchanged a [Demon Breaking Arrow Kill] from Furuya Ruriko.

Healing?

His trump card is [Undead Totem]

What he really needs is the killing power that can determine victory!

"I'll get a few more ordinary souls and small souls... Of course, I can't get them all. I have to keep some for rewarding the little demons in real life. So, now I have more than 4,000 souls left."

Mizutani Makoto thought, he can still improve!

That night, Mizutani Makoto worked all night.

He turned himself into a ruthless soul-boosting script.

He spent the entire night frantically farming souls - in the past, he would just farm monsters in the monster tower and then just sit down to fight after that, but now he accepted all monsters and hacked his way from the north to the south of the private Hiiragiyama Academy, from four in the evening to eight in the morning. Four hours of hard work earned him nearly three thousand more souls.

Soul: 7522

Still a little bit short.

In terms of time, it’s a bit too late.

Mizutani Makoto had hoped to work up a bit more spiritual energy, but ultimately, he would have to wait another night. As school time approached, under the resentful gaze of the little god of fortune, he slung his schoolbag over his shoulder, hurriedly ate a bowl of rice porridge, packed up, and prepared to go to school.

"Jiazi, I have to ask you for the next thing."

"……Oh."

Yoshiko Satori looks unhappy.

Mizutani Makoto unconsciously looked away, of course he knew what the little guy was worried about... It was actually a good feeling to be cared for by others. It was just that men, sometimes when they were too ambitious about their careers, did tend to ignore the thoughts of those around them.

We still have to do more of what we can prepare for.

Makoto Mizutani arrived at Yomi High School with Yoshiko Satori.

The person contracted by the ghost story, this is his target. At the same time, he has to find out which class will have swimming lessons today. The classes taking swimming lessons must be checked first to prevent them from causing human tragedies.

However, Mizutani Makoto was overthinking this time.

The moment he entered the classroom, he had already completed most of his tasks for the day.

In the Class B classroom of Grade 1, Satori Yoshiko pointed at the boy in the corner of the classroom and said with a broken heart:

"Brother, that person... is dead."

"There's only a tiny bit of life force left in him, but that doesn't mean he's still alive... This situation is different from my elder brother's excessive life force consumption. His life force has completely disappeared. The life force in his body is incompatible with him now. It must be a gift from the monster."

"This vitality originating from the monster supports the illusion that he is still alive."

Yoshiko Satori lowered her head.

The little god of fortune had an extremely melancholy expression on his face. He wanted to say something several times but stopped himself, and finally kept his words to himself.

"It's too late."

She said in a low voice.

The contract that originated from the strange story was a lie from the beginning.

Mizutani Makoto looked at the students in the classroom. Nakano Takeya was unable to come to school today. He must have taken a leave of absence.

Come to think of it.

Yesterday, Mizutani Makoto realized that the place he was tracking was near Nakano Takeya's home. Although he did not encounter the scene of Nakano Takeya's suffering head-on, from Miyamizu Inaba's subsequent retelling, he could imagine how devastating that scene was to Nakano Takeya. Life is just like this.

After going through so much, it would be too unrealistic to ask Nakano Takeya to continue going to school the next day.

If nothing unexpected happens, we won’t be able to see Takeya Nakano for a long time.

At the front table were Shinji Kubo and two others.

They encountered the ghost doll at the same time as Nakano Takeya, but the bully chose to attack Nakano Takeya, so Kubo Shinji, Fukui Iku, and Asakura Yoh did not suffer. Now they are gathered together to talk about what happened yesterday. Nakano Takeya did not contact them, and they could not contact Nakano Takeya.

...It seems that the psychological trauma is really heavy.

Makoto Mizutani didn't talk to them about the haunted doll, but instead asked Shinji Kubo the name of the boy in the corner.

Mizutani Makoto knew most of the boys, but now that he thought about it carefully, he realized that the boy in the corner looked familiar, but he didn't know him... He thought he was the kind of person with a low sense of presence, as if he was not close to everyone, and no one would talk to him.

"him?"

“The sense of presence is really low.”

Kubo Shinji muttered, but he did not disappoint Mizutani Makoto's expectations.

"His name is Kei Matsushita, and he's in the swimming club. Like you, Makoto, he's a top student who got in based on his own strength."

……

……

Kei Matsushita, a boy who seems to be just an ordinary person.

He has soft, slightly curly black hair, an unrecognizable face, and wears a pair of black-framed glasses all day long. He sits timidly in the corner of the classroom, as if he has no sense of existence. Only when the test results are announced will people discover that he is among the top.

"Makoto?"

"Why do you suddenly care about him?"

Because of Mizutani Makoto's question, the three rich old men who had never suffered any hardship were all surprised. They couldn't understand why Mizutani Makoto, a popular figure on campus, would care about this little test-taker in a remote corner.

In terms of appearance, Makoto Mizutani has him beat.

In terms of academic ability, Mizutani Makoto is the undisputed king of the night view paper. He is the type who will be at the top at the end of his studies. At present, the only one who can compete with him in academic ability is the talented girl from the Yajima family. The rest of the test-takers have to be suppressed by Emperor Mizutani.

Not to mention that Kubo Shinji knew it too well - Mizutani Makoto's life had also improved. He was surrounded by several rich ladies and he almost didn't need this group of rich old men anymore.

How could such a super popular Mizutani Makoto be related to the unknown boy in the class?

Mizutani Makoto: "Just now, when I was daydreaming, I saw him daydreaming too. I felt like he didn't have any memory of it, so I asked him."

Kubo Shinji: "Hey, so artistic? If his gender was switched, could you all pretend to be the beginning of a light novel?"

Mizutani Makoto: "..."

I really can’t chat with a typical otaku like you!

It was Mai Yajima, this girl, who had come close to Mizutani Makoto at some point, and was listening to the conversation between them.

Her gaze fell on Matsushita Kei... and with a slight tilt of her head, she really understood Mizutani Makoto's purpose.

It turned out that it was the corpse that was talking.

Mai Yajima actually doesn't care much about what happens in the class. Except for the period when she was just starting to learn how to behave, she has never paid any attention to the unknown people in the class since then.

But her strength is there after all.

She remembered that the day before yesterday she saw Matsushita Kei as a normal person, but when she went to school yesterday, Matsushita Kei had turned into a walking corpse.

From this, it can be inferred that Matsushita Kei died the night before yesterday.

He died the night before yesterday, which was Monday night, and then on Tuesday he continued to go to school as if nothing had happened. Now it is Wednesday, and no one knows what will happen.

So, her Makoto wants to slay demons and monsters? Play the role of a righteous ally?

Should she look at him more...

The main thing is that Mizutani Makoto always gave her the feeling of being weak. Before, he was really very weak, as if made of paper. Now, he may have made some progress and has become "very weak".

Mai Yajima is a wild-growing monster. She has never come into contact with an exorcist and has no idea how human exorcists are rated.

But she felt she was still strong.

No matter how many noobs like Mizutani Makoto come, they can't beat her.

What if Mizutani Makoto encounters an enemy as strong as her?

This girl was standing next to Mizutani Makoto, and the young girl's active mind could be so indecisive that it didn't seem like herself anymore.

Mizutani Makoto didn't notice.

His eyes fell on Matsushita Kai and he stared at him for a long time. The boy didn't notice his gaze and curled up alone in the corner of the classroom. His arms and the table formed a small space, and he buried his head in it. His shoulders would twitch occasionally, as if he was afraid of something.

The swimming class for Class 1B of Senior High School is on Thursday, which actually leaves some room for buffer.

Makoto Mizutani did not let his guard down. During the break and lunch break, he took Yoshiko Satori to visit all the classes from the first to the third year of high school to make sure that there was no second person under the contract.

He did not rush to kill Matsushita Kei, but followed the young man for a while and found that Matsushita Kei was still working in a convenience store. The young man was obviously worried about something and was absent-minded standing behind the cash register. He was scolded by the store manager for this.

What an ordinary person.

That night, Mizutani Makoto gathered 10,000 souls in the crevice, and after two days of immersive hard work, he could finally take a break.

In Furuya Ruriko's gentle embrace, Mizutani Makoto felt that all his fatigue was being washed away.

[Spiritual Power: 23]

This was his final preparation.

……

……

The next day, Thursday.

The second chapter class in the afternoon is swimming class.

Speaking of swimming lessons, for students in my hometown, there is a bit of a dream element to them.

But in Japan, swimming lessons are a required part of high school curriculum as part of physical education.

In June and July, when summer is approaching, the original physical education classes will be replaced by swimming lessons during these hot weeks.

And it's not the same as the mixed pool shown in some anime.

When it comes to swimming lessons, boys and girls go to class in different time periods.

For example, the Thursday afternoon courses for Class B in Grade 1 are Basic Chemistry and Physical Education (Swimming). In the first class, the boys take Basic Chemistry while the girls take Swimming. In the second class, the situation is reversed. After swimming, the girls return to the classroom to take Basic Chemistry while the boys go to the gymnasium to take Swimming.

This eliminates the possibility of boys peeping into girls' swimsuits from the source.

But then again, what's so great about school swimsuits? The sexy, figure-defining swimsuits seen in anime are long gone. School swimsuits generally have built-in skirts and boxer shorts underneath, not the swimsuits boys dream of.

Inside the enclosed swimming pool.

Panasonic Kai stood in front of the swimming pool. The others had already entered the water one by one under the teacher's instructions. Only he had asked the teacher for leave on the grounds of spraining his ankle. Now he was sitting on the side, watching the swimming class.

But is it really right to do this?

Whenever he thought of what happened on Monday night, Matsushita Kei would subconsciously shudder.

Panasonic Kei has always been a nobody in the class.

Since childhood, due to some unspeakable inferiority complex, I have been accustomed to staying away from social interactions. Although I often have to appear in front of others due to my academic performance, the decadence and inferiority complex in my bones are always difficult to eradicate.

This is also a helpless thing.

People are most afraid of knowing that they are inferior, and then knowing that they are inferior but unable to change.

Matsushita Kei has an ordinary appearance and comes from a poor family. His only outstanding feature is his academic performance, which he achieved with great effort. However, his academic success cannot make up for his inferiority in other areas. Coupled with Japan's unique xenophobic tradition, although he has not suffered any bullying, his long-term loneliness has still made him unwilling to be active.

In this lifeless society, there was something heavy and invisible pressing on him, making him breathless.

The boy's parents had high hopes for him, praying that his talent would allow him to achieve a class leap. But did Matsushita Kei truly love his studies? He had no answer in his heart, simply being pushed forward. He passed through a relatively mediocre junior high school and set foot in this aristocratic school filled with geniuses of his own age and young masters and ladies. He was swept up in the wave, continuing to move forward with half determination and half confusion.

Actually, he was quite envious of the guy next to him named "Mizutani Makoto".

Although he was also a test-takers teenager from a mediocre family, that guy had been the center of attention since he started school.

He has outstanding talents and surpasses all others.

He is so handsome that countless girls are obsessed with him.

Even his seemingly cold temperament, after actually getting along with him, you will find that he is a very easy-going person, quite different from the people he has met before - people in this society always pay attention to "sense of distance", and being a little radical can easily lead to "uneasy" comments, but that guy has never cared much about boundaries, and sometimes he doesn't even seem like a teenager who lived in this repressive country.

So, after a semester of getting to know each other, he even received embarrassing comments from girls such as "iceberg warm man"... Tsk, I think it still has something to do with his face.

Well, do you remember the bullying incident before?

Now Rika Nishimura has reconciled with Mai Yajima. Someone analyzed the current situation of this group of people on the forum and came to a conclusion that is said to be very reliable - the reason why Rika Nishimura and others excluded Mai Yajima was purely because they loved Makoto Mizutani but could not get her, and when they saw Makoto Mizutani and Mai Yajima being so affectionate, they immediately became furious and lost their minds and became crazy.

Later on, it was the jealous Mizutani Makoto who stepped forward and reasoned with everyone, appealing to their emotions, which led to Rika Nishimura's public apology.

As for what price our classmate Mizutani paid to appease these two groups of people and why they can still live in harmony with each other, it is not something that outsiders can tell.