NOVEL WEB Chapter 40
Chapter 40 Part 2 – Lin Sai San Liu Si Liu Sui So: Chapter Thirty-Seven, Jujutsu High Specialized Class
“Small Enterprise?”
Yui Yuigahama looked at Hachiman Hikigaya who reached out to her with a somewhat startled expression, worry evident on her face. “What’s wrong?”
“Huh?” Hachiman Hikigaya was taken aback for a moment, then he came back to his senses, put down his hand awkwardly and said, “I was just thinking…whether we can go home. Since there’s no one else to entrust us with any tasks.”
Yuigahama looked at him dubiously with a slightly resentful tone, “Really? You are treating me like an idiot, aren’t you?”
But if that was the case, why do you look so panicked?
“…It’s true.”
Being scrutinized with a doubt and apprehensive gaze, Hikigigaya was already sweating profusely. He fumbled with his pant leg with lowered hands, as if trying to scratch out a three-bedroom apartment with his toes.
Seeing him not telling the truth, Yuigahama frowned and pouted, “Hmph! Mysterious and secretive, I won’t talk to you anymore!”
With this, she grabbed her bag and walked out of the Service Club quickly, while Hikigigaya was still standing at the entrance like a呆鹅, giving the girl with soft pink buns a gaze.
After a few steps, she turned around again with a puffed-up face, urging him, “Aren’t you going to leave?”
“Oh oh, I will leave.”
Waking up as if from a dream, Hikigigaya hurriedly grabbed his bag and left the Service Club. But just as he stepped out the door, a key flew towards him; he subconsciously caught it with a puzzled look on his face. “Go put the key for the activity classroom back in Mr. Hozuka’s office, I’m leaving first!”
Yuigahama threw the key to him and left without looking back, 4 seemed really angry.
Hikigigaya scratched his cheek, and waited until the other had disappeared down the stairs, he turned around and headed towards the teaching building.
Part two: he suddenly remembered.
Ordinary people cannot see the existence of cursed spirits.
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After Miou eliminated the fly-headed cursed spirit, Yukinoshita Yukino returned to the room where the victim was found once more.
She looked complicatedly at the body still bleeding on the ground, filled with mixed feelings.
“What do we do now?” She asked.
“What do you mean by ‘what do we do’?” Lin Qi replied casually, still observing the newly added points.
Points Accumulated: 1450
He added 550 points for a bug that was also a Grade 3 cursed spirit, and the bug was worth 800 points. The cursed spirit defeated by Yukinoshita was weaker than the bug.
However, it was a centipede last time, and a fly-bee-craft this time. Does Yukinoshita have some sort of affinity with bugs?
“Of course, it’s this victim!” Lin Qi, who was rather indifferent, left Yukinoshita a little miffed.
“Why don’t we just burn it?” Lin Qi suggested.
“That won’t work.” Yukinoshita rejected this suggestion right away.
She seemed to have discovered something amid the mess in the living room. She moved swiftly, bent forward and picked it up.
It was a shattered glass frame, but luckily, the photo inside remained intact.
The photo looked old, already slightly yellowed. It seemed to be a family photo.
The middle-aged parents were smiling kindly, a young man stood behind his father, looking bashful. Next to him was a little girl who was barely seven or eight years old. The girl wasn’t looking at the camera but pouting and looking at her brother; her chubby little hands were tugging at his sleeve.
The victim should be the young man in the photo.
The background of the photo was a field of golden wheat, beyond which were low houses with white walls and brown tiles, distant mountains, and a blue sky.
It was easy to deduce that the young man came to the city from his hometown to work hard, and this recently built apartment was perhaps the result of his efforts. However, before he could enjoy a better future, he died under the attack of a cursed spirit.
“He has his own family…” said the maiden, her voice echoing compassionately. “If we just burn it, not only will his body be erased, but also the traces of his life effort.”
“I’ve never been particular about these things.” Lin Qi sounded lethargic. “So what would you do? Call the police? Then how do you plan to explain your presence as the first witness at the scene? Maybe your family will know something.”
“Think carefully before making a decision.”
Yukinoshita froze for a moment, then fell silent for a long time. During this period, she thought about many things, including how her sister and her family might react.
Finally, Yukinoshita lowered her eyes and looked at the faded photo in her hand, whispered, “At least let his family know.”
“It looks like you’ve made a decision,” Lin Qi said.
After making a decision, the rest became much simpler.
Lin Qi removed the curtain, and after Yukinoshita confirmed the location of this apartment building, she called the police.
In the call, she first identified herself, then calmly described where the death occurred and even detailed the victim’s tragic state.
The ghastly description shocked the person on the phone; this could be considered a major case, attracting severe attention from the police headquarters, especially since the person reporting it was the daughter of a Chiba prefecture councilman.
If anything happened to her, it would be disastrous.
Not long after, the sound of sirens echoed below the apartment building.
Yukinoshita stood quietly outside waiting.
Soon, several policemen rushed to the crime scene. Leading them was a middle-aged man wearing the badge of a police inspector. He first greeted Yukinoshita before instructing the officers to enter the apartment.
Within ten seconds, everyone came out pale-faced, covering their mouths. One young officer vomited directly against the wall, spitting out undigested lunch mixed with gastric acid.
Once everyone recovered, the police inspector said solemnly to Yukinoshita, “Thank you for your report on the cursed spirits, Miss Yukinoshita. Please return home and take a rest today. Facing such a nightmarish scene should not be easy.”
Yukinoshita calmly shook her head, “Actually, I’m fine.”
“Hope you can come to the police station for a statement tomorrow after the preliminary investigation results come out,” the middle-aged man couldn’t help feeling ashamed of the youth’s composure.
Could my stress resistance be less than that of a girl?
She nodded slightly, “As expected.”
Afterwards, she didn’t have much involvement. She returned home as usual and seemed not to attract her sister Yarno’s attention, although Yarno noticed that her younger sister was somewhat gloomier than usual.
The next day, Yukinoshita took a leave from school and went to the police station alone.
Only, she didn’t wait for the middle-aged inspector from yesterday, but a man dressed in a suit.
“Hello, Miss Yukinoshita, I am an assistant supervisor at the Jujutsu High Specialist Class.”
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After school, become a jujutsu sorcerer: