Chapter 133: The Seriously Ill Girl, Invitation for Three Girls to Sleep Together
"So that's how it is..."
Although Miko's brain wasn't as good as Rio's, seeing that the basement of the inpatient building was the morgue where dead bodies were stored, she instantly understood everything.
This strange phenomenon didn't have much to do with "Doors."
Those dead people appearing on the floors and seen by hospitalized patients weren't exactly evil spirits, or rather, could be considered evil spirits.
Just evil spirits occupying dead bodies to act.
"These guys... really insidious."
As the highest-level hospital receiving the most patients in Kyoto city, the number of bodies stored in the morgue of Kyoto City Hospital was naturally the largest.
In comparison, places like crematoriums, due to fast processing speed, might not store as many bodies as Kyoto City Hospital.
Rio and Miko didn't believe this was just a sudden accidental event.
Obviously.
No matter what was directing behind the scenes, it was certain that evil spirits were conducting an experiment.
Just like spirit mediums.
To avoid the principle of "Observation" and kill unscrupulously in the real world, evil spirits were also trying to create more monsters fused with human bodies.
The problem was...
Those evil spirits occupying human bodies to act would definitely be captured by surveillance cameras.
Bodies just sent to the morgue during the day running out to wander at night.
Such a big thing, the person in charge of Kyoto City Hospital actually didn't call the police?
Completely illogical.
Rio frowned, pushed her glasses frame, thinking constantly in her mind.
The only reasonable explanation...
Was that the person in charge of the hospital was also possessed by an evil spirit.
An evil spirit capable of doing this without "Doors" around...
Probably came from the Otherworld.
Rio gave Miko a look. The latter understood and walked to Menma again, smiling gently.
"Menma-chan, can I ask, why do you stay here all the time?"
Although Menma was a ghost, she still retained the mind of her previous life, completely without any scheming, just smiling憨憨ly (sillily) and replying.
"I don't know where I can go either. Besides, my friend is here."
"Your friend? Human?"
"Yes, she is hospitalized in this hospital."
Hearing Menma say her friend was human and hospitalized in this hospital, Rio and Miko were both startled.
Judging from the fact that patients came and went in the corridor but no one noticed Menma standing by the window.
Menma was the kind of ordinary ghost unobservable by ordinary people.
Then the human who could observe her...
Wasn't she a spirit medium with powerful talent like Miko?
Thinking of this, Rio immediately stepped forward two steps and asked softly.
"Menma, can you take us to meet that friend of yours?"
"This..."
Menma looked at Rio and Miko carefully for a while. After a few seconds, she smiled and nodded.
"Mmhmm, okay. Two Big Sisters don't look like bad people either~"
Hearing Menma say this sentence, looking at her lively and cute demeanor, Rio and Miko breathed a sigh of relief while feeling somewhat heavy in their hearts.
Such a small child...
What kind of strong obsession caused her to become a lonely soul wandering in this world?
A famous person once said.
Tragedy is tearing beautiful things apart for people to see.
Just a short conversation of a few sentences, Rio and Miko both had a good impression of this cute little sister named Menma.
But the more likable Menma's personality was, the heavier their hearts became when realizing the fact that she was already dead.
Menma hopped, humming a song, leading Rio and Miko to the door of a ward.
"Shoko~ I'm here~"
Rio and Miko entered the ward together and saw a girl with smooth black-blue long hair, a pair of beautiful blue eyes, skin so fair it looked a bit weak, petite figure, wearing a hospital gown, sitting on the bed staring at the sky outside the window in a daze.
Hearing Menma's voice, she turned her head. Her face had a tranquil and peaceful look. Although her features hadn't fully developed yet, it could be seen that she would definitely be a beauty in the future.
"Men..."
Just halfway through speaking, the girl saw Rio and Miko standing behind Menma. A strange color flashed in her eyes, and she changed the subject immediately.
"May I ask who you two are?"
Rio and Miko looked at each other, sharing the same thought.
Such a quick face change!
Such a calm topic shift.
Looking at this girl's age, probably fourth or fifth grade of elementary school.
Such response speed and psychological quality, simply an excellent seedling to become an exorcist!
If not for her young age, they would even start considering how to recruit her into the Super-Quant Club....
Wait a minute.
Isn't this something Yoru would do?
Bad, assimilated.
"Shoko, no need to pretend~"
Menma leaned close to Makinohara Shoko's bed, held her hand, and smiled.
"They can see me too."
"They can see too?"
Hearing this, Makinohara Shoko didn't relax at all. Instead, she got out of bed with slightly weak movements, protected Menma behind her, blocking Rio and Miko with her petite body, saying vigilantly.
"Are you... trying to eliminate her?"
"Ah?"
Miko hurriedly waved her hand, laughing dumbfoundedly.
"How could that be? Menma hasn't done anything to harm humans; why would we eliminate her?"
Hearing this, Makinohara Shoko breathed a sigh of relief slightly.
"Since that is the case, that's good."
....
After the misunderstanding was resolved, Rio and Miko asked in detail about the recent events in Kyoto City Hospital and the process of Makinohara Shoko and Menma getting to know each other.
Makinohara Shoko, currently in the fourth grade of elementary school, suffered from a very serious congenital heart disease that was difficult to cure with contemporary medical means.
Since she had memories, she had been in and out of the hospital.
Around early spring this year, Makinohara Shoko's condition worsened.
It was during hospitalization that she met Menma wandering in Kyoto City Hospital.
At first, Makinohara Shoko could only see a blurred white shadow.
As time went by, with her physical condition worsening day by day... Menma's figure and face became clearer and clearer until now, she could see clearly.
Due to frequent hospitalization, Makinohara Shoko didn't have many friends.
Although Menma was a ghost, her personality was no different from when she was alive. Plus similar age, they became friends like this.
Regarding Menma, Makinohara Shoko didn't tell anyone, including her parents.
After all, seeing ghosts and becoming friends with them, ordinary people wouldn't believe it at all, only thinking she suffered from mental illness due to excessive stress.
Taking a step back.
Even if her parents believed Makinohara Shoko's statement, they would only hire exorcists or something.
Makinohara Shoko didn't want Menma to be driven away, so she kept hiding the truth.
As for the ghost appearances late at night?
Makinohara Shoko slept very early every day and hadn't seen the rumored ghosts with her own eyes.
"So that's how it is...."
After listening to Makinohara Shoko's narration, Rio and Miko nodded, having a rough understanding of the process.
"Very difficult to handle..."
Rio pushed her glasses frame habitually, her brain running fast, finding the difficulty of handling this strange event really high.
Leaving aside the power of one or more evil spirits they might face.
The population density of Kyoto City Hospital was too high. Once a battle occurred, it was difficult not to affect innocent people around.
If it were another place, such as a school or a mall, that would be fine.
At worst, let Yoru negotiate with Kyoto's Number One Square Face Yagami Soichiro as "Mask," asking him to evacuate the people on site with a fabricated reason as the Chief of Criminal Investigation Bureau.
But a place like a hospital couldn't be evacuated just by saying so.
Many critically ill patients didn't even have consciousness, let alone those patients being rescued.
Rash transfer would be equivalent to taking their lives.
"Thank you for the information provided."
Rio said faintly, then stood up with Miko, ready to turn and leave.
Makinohara Shoko opened her lips, finally couldn't help asking just before the two left the room.
"Will people in the hospital... be in danger?"
Miko turned around, her golden eyes carrying a gentle smile.
"Don't worry, we became exorcists to protect Kyoto."
"Moreover..."
"We have Kyoto's Number One Exorcist on our side."
Rio pushed her glasses frame and complained.
"Isn't it Butter Shooter?"
"Don't talk nonsense; Makinohara-san is still young."
"Oh."
Looking at the backs of Rio and Miko leaving, Menma opened her mouth slightly, eyes full of excitement and thrill.
"Shoko, Shoko."
She pulled Makinohara Shoko's sleeve.
"These two Big Sisters, so cool!"
Makinohara Shoko smiled gently, nodding in agreement.
"Mmhmm, indeed very cool."
.....
Meanwhile, Kyoto's Number One Exorcist in Miko's mouth, Butter Shooter in Rio's mouth, Sobu High's Number One Villain, Sakura Prefecture's Most Heinous Criminal, Successor of Multiple Boat Jumping, Modern Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Congenital Abstract Body Yoru-sama, was accompanying the Kawasaki sisters.
Kawasaki Keika with a red face was lying on the hospital bed receiving an infusion.
Her fever reached over 38 degrees high temperature, just holding on all the time.
Fortunately, they came early; otherwise, dragging on might cause serious problems.
"Big Brother...."
Even fallen into sleep, Keika was still talking in her sleep, a happy expression on her small face.
Sitting by the bed, Kawasaki Saki heard her sister's sleep talk, couldn't help sighing helplessly holding her forehead, looking at Yoru sitting on the other side.
"My sister really likes you."
"Sigh, look at what you're saying."
Yoru waved his hand nonchalantly and laughed.
"How can there be people in this world who hate me?"
Kawasaki Saki pouted helplessly.
"There are quite a few people in school who hate you, right?"
"Hmm? Absolutely not."
Yoru looked relaxed, smiling and speaking.
"I don't treat them as human."
Kawasaki Saki frowned and sighed lightly.
"It is this nasty personality of yours that causes you to have few friends."
Yoru asked back.
"Aren't you my friend?"
"Eh?"
Kawasaki Saki froze for a moment, then blushed slightly, acting shyly, using a stiff tone to cover up the shyness in her heart.
"Wh... what are you saying, non... nonsense!"
Yoru chuckled and teased.
"Not to mention, your defense is a bit too low. Bro hasn't even gotten serious yet, just saying casually."
Yoru discovered.
The more cold-looking beautiful girls were, the more ridiculously low their defense was.
Like Kawasaki Saki in front of him.
Like Kazusa.
Like Yukino...
Oh, her defense wasn't low, just exposing weakness when Haruno was mentioned.
"Um..."
Kawasaki Saki composed herself, looked at Yoru embarrassedly, as if summoning up all her courage, stammering.
"Tod... today's matter, and introducing the part-time job... all... all thanks to you. Th... thank you."
Kawasaki Saki wasn't an ungrateful person.
She remembered every favor Yoru did in her heart.
Like accompanying her to take her sister to see a doctor and get an infusion today.
And introducing a part-time job making Cosplay costumes that met her interest, could be done at home, wasn't so tiring, and paid well.
Even introducing Marin, a professional who knew a lot about Cosplay, to her.
Even the material costs needed for her early practice were paid from the Super-Quant Club activity fund.
Kawasaki Saki felt that for someone like her, Yoru definitely didn't do this because he wanted something from her.
Don't look at his appearance...
Actually, he was a very gentle and kind person.
"Yoru."
Hearing the voice from the door, seeing Rio and Miko standing outside, Kawasaki Saki spoke to Yoru softly in a gentle tone she had never used in her life.
"You go busy; I can stay here with Keika."
"Sure."
Yoru responded, then left the ward, closing the door by the way.
....
Ten minutes later, Rio told him exactly about the clues collected along the way, including meeting Menma and Makinohara Shoko.
"So that's how it is."
Yoru nodded slightly, thinking this was very reasonable.
It seemed the first Tarot card "Death" in Godmother's divination result didn't have much deep meaning, just the meaning closest to the card surface.
Death.
Not the death of Super-Quant Club members, but predicting the important people the members would meet.
Whether the rare ghost Menma, aka Honma Meiko, with no malice towards humans.
Or Makinohara Shoko who gradually opened Yin-Yang Eyes during the time her physical condition worsened.
These two were related to death.
After all, one was dead, and the other was half buried in the earth.
This was very reasonable.
"Evil spirits capable of possessing corpses..."
Looking at Yoru's thoughtful appearance, Rio added.
"It is also possible to be special evil spirits capable of manipulating human corpses."
"No matter which one, the danger is too great."
Ordinary evil spirits couldn't harm humans.
But the evil spirits appearing in Kyoto City Hospital, whether capable of possessing human corpses or manipulating human corpses to act, possessed extremely high danger.
"Yeah."
Yoru nodded and said in a deep voice.
"Too terrifying. If this Bastard (BYD) pulls the plug in every intensive care unit while nurses are slacking off every night, how many people would die."
"Uh..."
Rio and Miko were stunned.
This idea...
Although very outrageous, thinking carefully, it seemed indeed the most convenient and fastest way to cause human death?
A few people dying in ICU was also normal.
Fortunately, Yoru stood on the human side.
If he died one day and turned into an evil spirit, with such unexpected ideas, which exorcist could exorcise him?
Normal exorcists wouldn't think supernatural events occurred just because people died in hospitals.
Rather.
People not dying in hospitals would be strange.
"It seems I have to show real skills this time."
Yoru said solemnly, then took out his phone and dialed a number.
"Hello hello hello, Mai, it's me."
"Nothing else, I just want to ask, are you free tonight?"
Under the shocked gazes of Miko and Rio, Yoru said an astonishing sentence.
"Free? Then want to come sleep with me?"
"Okay, I'll send you the address later."
After hanging up, before Rio and Miko could speak, Yoru dialed another number and invited Yui and Kazusa with almost identical wording.
The two girls were dumbfounded listening.
Good grief, are you this brave?
Inviting three club members to spend the night together at the same time?
Isn't this rushing into a Shuraba?
"No..."
Rio looked complicated, took off her glasses, rubbed her eyebrows, and sighed heavily.
"Inviting five people to your house at the same time like this, aren't you really afraid of a fight?"
"Five people?"
Yoru asked back: "Where did five people come from?"
"Me and Miko, plus Yui and the others you just invited."
"Hmm?"
Yoru felt puzzled.
"Who told you that you were invited?"
"Oh right, none of your business anymore. Go home and rest first, or go sweep evil spirits in Kyoto city, up to you."
"Don't delay me sleeping with Tuanzi, Touma Kazusa, and Mai."
"Go quickly, go quickly, bye-bye."