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After being teleported back to the original world, the landing spot remained unchanged, and the flow of time in the world was no different. It was already close to midnight.
"It's about time to head back…"
Shiraishikawa shook his head lightly. The dark streets, having been purged, held no lingering resentful aura, especially after clearing out the goblins.
For such low-experience ghosts,
he truly had no intention of engaging them. After leaving the alley, finally free, he decisively opened his profession panel.
"Profession 3: Holy Sword Master Lv4 (1967 / 20000)"
"Core Skill: All-Encompassing Lv3 (7901 / 10000)"
"Basic Skills: Mana Tempering Lv1, Mana Emission Lv2"
"Skill Points: 3"
"Evolution Points: 3"
Skill points, as the name suggests, are used to raise skill levels, as some skills cannot gain experience points and can only be improved through training.
Similar to the Exorcist's "Vajra Body."
However, there was no need to improve the former profession. Shiraishikawa focused his attention on the Holy Sword Master profession's basic skill, Mana Tempering.
It was a body-tempering skill that improved overall physical fitness and mana.
"Add points."
"Basic Skill: Mana Tempering Level Up!"
"Lv1 → Lv4"
"Next up is the attribute panel."
Evolution points are not for improving professions, but for enhancing overall physical attributes. After all, they are free rewards obtained after leveling up.
To put it simply, it's Deep Blue! Add points!
After opening his attribute panel, the data presented before him was completely different from the profession panel, detailing Shiraishikawa's information.
"Name: Shiraishikawa"
"Gender: Male"
"Age: 17"
"Constitution: 11"
"Agility: 9"
"Strength: 10"
"Intelligence: 11"
"Spirit: 8"
"Currently Mastered Professions: Student (Lv5), Exorcist (Lv5), Holy Sword Master (Lv4)"
..."There's an extra attribute!"
Shiraishikawa quickly scanned the profession panel, his gaze finally landing on the Spirit attribute, and he couldn't help but feel a little surprised. He knew very well.
This attribute… wasn't there before he awakened as a Holy Sword Master. Was it because the essence of the Holy Sword Master profession was to transform soul power into a weapon, which is why the Spirit attribute appeared?
Adhering to the idea of being a five-sided warrior,
he didn't hesitate to evenly distribute the evolution points gained from increasing his profession level to his Agility and Spirit attributes, breaking all values past 10.
"…"
The increase in Agility didn't have a particularly intuitive effect, but the increase in Spirit attribute was the most noticeable, as his thoughts and mind became clearer.
This kind of improvement is difficult to describe abstractly.
Perhaps the ultimate feedback would be in the "All-Encompassing" Holy Sword aspect?
"I should head back first."
Shiraishikawa wasn't in a hurry to test it out. The dimensional chat group had already opened the world teleportation function, so he could master it by taking some time to visit the Goblin Slayer world.
Currently… what he was most looking forward to was the Mana Tempering skill from the "Holy Sword Master" profession. He just didn't know if this thing could directly bring about numerical improvements.
Walking back to the street.
It was nearly 11 PM, and aside from drunkards, there were few pedestrians strolling on the streets. At the other end of the street,
a figure in homewear with smooth black hair walked, stopping and starting.
Every now and then, she would stop and clutch her stomach.
"What Shiraishi-kun said must be true. As long as I pretend not to see these ghosts, they can't do anything to me."
Nighttime.
For Yotsuya Miko, it was an absolute taboo. The number of ghosts wandering the streets had increased sharply, and they were closely following her… She had moved to Chiba City to live alone.
Her living situation wasn't perfectly settled yet. Perhaps the pain from an upset stomach made it impossible for her to endure any longer.
She had no choice but to bite the bullet and go out to the nearby pharmacy to buy medicine.
But… just after leaving the pharmacy, a ghost emitting a powerful malevolence began to follow closely behind her. Its face, stitched and mended with needle and thread,
emitted a strong, foul odor.
In fact, this ghost would occasionally walk in front of her and ask in a sinister voice, "Can you see me?"
The streetlights ahead were somewhat dim.
Yotsuya Miko had completely clenched her teeth, forcing back the tears welling in her eyes, not wanting the ghost following her to notice anything unusual.
"Is anyone there…"
"Can anyone save me?"
"Anyone at all!"
The evil spirit following her seemed to sense Yotsuya Miko's inner fear. It didn't continue to follow behind her; instead, it walked in front of her.
With its hideous face, it said in a chilling tone, "You really… can see me?"
"…"
Experiencing a double assault on her mind and body, Yotsuya Miko was nearing her limit. She lowered her head, wanting to continue walking forward.
On this already dim street,
without constantly observing the changes in the road, her head accidentally bumped into the person in front of her… She must have been seen by the ghost, right… so she bumped into it?
With a strong feeling of exhaustion, Yotsuya Miko directly fell to the ground, unable to imagine what awaited her. But a moment later,
there was no suffocating sensation depicted in horror movies.
"…"
Yotsuya Miko couldn't help but look up. Standing before her was an extremely familiar young figure, holding a trembling ghost in his hand.
His slightly furrowed brows seemed to indicate he was contemplating how to deal with this ghost.
And when Shiraishikawa noticed that the person who had bumped into him was his classmate Yotsuya Miko, a smile appeared on his handsome face.
His hands, however, didn't stop moving. Relying solely on the brute force of his max-level Vajra Body, he tore the evil spirit directly into pieces. As the malevolence vanished,
it completely lost any proof of its existence in the world.
"Miko-chan, I think I forgot to tell you…"
He said in a relaxed tone, "The best way to overcome fear is to face it. See, this ghost isn't as scary as you imagined!"
...PS: Chapter 4. The chapter has a bit more words, successfully completing 10,000 words daily. Now, it's the usual request for flowers, rating tickets, and monthly passes.
The author is staying up late to write tonight, can there be an extra update?
There will be an extra update!
Chapter 13: My house is quite big, do you want to come and see?
Sometimes it's like a fated coincidence. Even Shiraishikawa hadn't expected that when he finished everything and was ready to go home,
he would be bumped into while walking.
He found it was an ordinary person being chased by a ghost. He originally intended to deal with the monster casually, but he didn't expect to meet an old acquaintance.
A classmate from Soubu High.
Yotsuya Miko.
Having come to a slice-of-life anime world and finally gaining supernatural powers, he still had to maintain a distance from the anime heroines, which felt a bit cowardly.
So,
the way he dealt with this evil spirit was not as gentle as before. Using his max-level Vajra Body, he violently tore the high-level evil spirit to shreds.
"You have successfully slain a high-level evil spirit, gaining 50 experience points."
"…"
"Good evening. I didn't expect to meet you here, Yotsuya-san."
Shiraishikawa looked at Yotsuya Miko, who was slumped on the ground, and extended his hand to help her up. However, having witnessed the scene just now,
Yotsuya Miko, whose face was originally a bit dazed, now only showed blankness. She didn't even react to his outstretched hand, clearly having been too scared.
If she hadn't seen wrong just now, it seemed Shiraishi-kun… directly tore the evil spirit apart?
Recalling the discussion about urban legends in the "Classics Club,"
and his friendly reminder to her after school today, especially the impactful scene just now, her gradually returning rationality told her.
This Shiraishi-kun's identity seemed more complex than she imagined… As control over her body slowly returned, Yotsuya Miko silently climbed to her feet, and then asked with an extremely serious expression, "Shiraishi-kun…"
"Are you… a legendary exorcist?"
Although the method of exorcism was a bit difficult to describe, Shiraishikawa didn't see any problem with the title. No one had ever stipulated that
forced exorcism wasn't exorcism?
He nodded lightly, taking advantage of this identity to say, "I generally understand your physique. It's the kind with particularly strong spiritual awareness."
"And Yurikawa Hana, who transferred with you, has a naturally spirit-attracting physique, which is why you encounter so many ghosts."
Explaining the relevant settings,
Shiraishikawa cast his gaze towards the distracted Yotsuya Miko. The plastic bag scattered on the ground contained common household stomach medicine.
The reason for her going out at night was obvious.
"Thank you, Shiraishi-kun."
Carefully considering the explanation for her frequent encounters with ghosts, Yotsuya Miko fell into a brief silence. The frequency of encountering ghosts had indeed increased recently.