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"My friend, I've finally found you! Let us achieve glory together!"
A strange man with square-rimmed glasses, white hair tied into a small braid at the back, a stout build, and wearing a coat resembling Sherlock Holmes's attire, shouted at them.
"Who is he talking about?"
Yuigahama Yui whispered.
Hachiman Hikigaya already had his hands on his forehead, his head bowed.
"He's Hikigaya's friend," Kisaragi Rin replied to her.
"If you're here to find someone, please feel free. If it's a request, please introduce yourself first."
Yukinoshita Yukino stood up.
Facing Yukinoshita Yukino's cold words, he still maintained his strange posture. "I am the Blademaster General Zaimokuza Yoshiteru! I am here to give you a mission."
"You're here to request treatment for a mental illness, aren't you?"
Yukinoshita Yukino responded unceremoniously.
"Yukino is amazing!" Yuigahama Yui raised her small hands, her eyes sparkling.
Kisaragi Rin glanced at her, muttering to himself, "Mochi, you're an NPC."
"You have not come here by my contract to fulfill my wish."
Speaking strange, incomprehensible words, Zaimokuza Yoshiteru kept staring at Hachiman Hikigaya.
"I'm talking to you. Please don't look elsewhere when you're speaking to someone."
"He's a chuunibyou. Please give me a moment."
Hachiman Hikigaya, embarrassed, got up and pulled Zaimokuza Yoshiteru away, fundamentally preventing his impending astonishing remarks.
"So Hikigaya has friends, after all."
Yuigahama Yui remarked strangely.
"It doesn't seem to be that kind of relationship; otherwise, Hiratsuka-sensei wouldn't have dragged him to the Service Club."
Yukinoshita Yukino analyzed.
After a long while, Hachiman Hikigaya finally walked in with Zaimokuza Yoshiteru.
Hachiman Hikigaya explained to everyone, "Zaimokuza wants to write a novel and wants to commission our Service Club to help him gather material."
"Precisely. Although my inspiration is inexhaustible, it still needs to be close to reality."
For some reason, after Hachiman Hikigaya spoke, Zaimokuza Yoshiteru's chuunibyou tendencies lessened considerably.
"So, what kind of novel is it that you need to gather material for?" Kisaragi Rin asked strangely.
If he wanted to write about the Japan lights of Tokyo, he couldn't just go to Tokyo. If he wanted to write about the extravagance of Takamagahara, they couldn't bring Zaimokuza into it.
"It's a horror genre. The content is about General Zaimokuza exorcising ghosts and demons, discovering crises, saving the world, and then…"
Zaimokuza Yoshiteru spoke voluminously, seemingly wanting to read the novel's content to them first.
"Who writes a novel and puts their own name in it?"
Yuigahama Yui said oddly. Coupled with the genre, she just felt that Zaimokuza Yoshiteru's behavior became even more bizarre.
"So, what exactly do you need to gather material for?"
Yukinoshita Yukino calmly glanced at the evil spirit on Zaimokuza Yoshiteru's head. When it heard that Zaimokuza Yoshiteru wanted to write a horror novel, it stretched its neck and poked its missing head into Zaimokuza Yoshiteru's mouth.
However, this kind of ordinary evil spirit had no ability to harm people, and ordinary people couldn't see it.
Zaimokuza pushed up his reflective glasses and said eerily, "Have you ever heard of the Seven Mysteries of Soubu High?"
"The Seven Mysteries of Soubu High?"
Yuigahama Yui suddenly remembered something.
Kisaragi Rin, Yukinoshita Yukino, and Hachiman Hikigaya all had question marks on their faces.
Yuigahama Yui quietly explained, "They are campus ghost stories circulated among students, known as the Seven Mysteries…"
"That's right. My material gathering will be to personally witness these existences and then write an excellent horror novel."
Zaimokuza Yoshiteru shouted passionately. Above his head, unseen by him, the evil spirit had already plucked off its own head.
Event demarcation line…
Because Zaimokuza Yoshiteru said that no ghost stories would appear at noon, their time to complete the material gathering request was after school in the afternoon.
"I have classified the Seven Mysteries by horror level. To give you time to prepare, we will verify all events from weakest to strongest, step by step."
"You're just scared, aren't you?"
"I am General Zaimokuza! How could I be scared!"
Hachiman Hikigaya, seeing that he could no longer hide his relationship with the chuunibyou Zaimokuza Yoshiteru, walked at the very front with him.
"There won't actually be any ghost stories, will there?"
Yukinoshita Yukino quietly spoke to Kisaragi Rin.
"No…"
Kisaragi Rin suddenly remembered Ms. Sadako who lived next door, then changed his mind and said, "Maybe, but nothing difficult to resolve should appear."
Kisaragi Rin glanced at his 2 points of luck. If necessary, it could even become 3 points. From a metaphysical perspective, he should be quite lucky.
Yuigahama Yui noticed them whispering and quickly came over to pull Yukinoshita Yukino away, making a goofy face at Kisaragi Rin.
"Don't be scared, Yukino. I'll protect you later."
Being pulled away, Yukinoshita Yukino smiled helplessly.
"The first mystery is called the Mysterious Sports Storage Room. Every Sports Festival, someone sees figures in the locked storage room. It is said that the grudges of the defeated athletes from each year cling to the sports equipment and reappear whenever the Sports Festival arrives."
Zaimokuza Yoshiteru at the very front began to explain the first place they were going.
However, the story didn't seem like a ghost story.
Hachiman Hikigaya and Kisaragi Rin exchanged glances, already realizing that this ghost story was a bit off.
Yuigahama Yui's ears were even red as she looked up at the sky, pretending to admire the scenery, clearly already knowing what the so-called mysterious ghost story was.
Only Yukinoshita Yukino looked bewildered, not understanding why their expressions were so strange after hearing the ghost story.
Evidently, when they got the key and opened the sports storage room, they found nothing but a lot of dust.
Soubu High, after all, was a famous university in Chiba; not everyone wanted to seek thrills every day.
"Under my mighty presence, mere grudges dare not appear! But this is only the weakest of the mysteries; greater challenges await us next."
Zaimokuza Yoshiteru made a seemingly passionate declaration and was about to head to the next location.
"The Mysterious Art Room."
"The head of the art club has a private art room that everyone is forbidden to enter. Whenever the head stays inside for a while, they become full of inspiration. It is said that they exchanged their soul for art…"
This time, they couldn't even get in. The art club was a very popular club, and many people were there after school. When Zaimokuza Yoshiteru tried to enter the head's exclusive room, they directly kicked him out.
Kisaragi Rin used his Transparent World to take a look from outside. The manuscripts hidden inside the room were doujinshi, and extremely terrible NTR-themed ones at that.
After evaluating them, Kisaragi Rin made his judgment: "7 points. The scenes are explosive enough, but the tension of the changing room wasn't fully conveyed."
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