Chapter 179: Tuanzi's God-Tier Operation, The God's Red Silk Thread
"Anyway, let's find time tomorrow to visit the Shibuya pedestrian street."
Hearing Yoru say this, Rio first nodded, then showed a worried look.
"But an evil spirit capable of doing such a thing must be extremely cunning, possessing intelligence no less than a human's. Could it be that it just placed the 'Door' there, while hiding far away itself?"
"That's highly unlikely."
Yoru smiled and directly said a straight ball sentence that made Rio, Mai, Yui, and Miko blush and their hearts beat faster.
"Even evil spirits are creatures. They won't confidently stay away from things they cherish. Just like even knowing it's very dangerous, I wouldn't let you four leave my side either."
Feeling the silence in the room, Kawasaki Saki was at a loss.
No...
What about me?
Four people, meaning he didn't count me in?
Kawasaki Saki felt somewhat upset in her heart.
But thinking seriously about it, she was just an ordinary person after all. Compared to Yui, Mai, Miko, and Rio, these spirit mediums who could truly fight side by side with Yoru, her status in the opponent's heart probably couldn't be compared indeed.
The reasoning was true.
But Kawasaki Saki still felt very sad in her heart.
"Then tomorrow let's go together..."
Just as Rio was halfway through speaking, Yoru waved his hand and cast his gaze on Kawasaki Saki sitting there.
"Saki, you accompany me."
"Eh? Me?"
Seeing Kawasaki Saki's incredulous look, Yoru just nodded and emphasized again.
"Mmhmm, just you and me."
Hearing this sentence, Miko was about to say something, but Rio nodded first, thoughtfully.
"Kawasaki-san going together... that's actually a good idea."
Seeing Miko and Yui looking eager, like cats having their tails stepped on, Rio sighed and said.
"Don't be anxious, listen to me finish explaining."
"Although Kawasaki-san is just an ordinary person, for this operation, it's best to have an ordinary person who knows the inside story but cannot observe evil spirits."
"On a bustling pedestrian street with people coming and going, even if we confirm the existence of a 'Door' there, it's very hard to destroy it on the spot."
"Moreover, if as Yoru said, that evil spirit is hiding nearby observing in the dark, seeing the 'Door' it finally managed to fuse with about to be destroyed, it might jump the wall in desperation and do some dangerous actions."
"If it also has the ability to pull the nearby area into the Otherworld, given the foot traffic of the commercial street, it would implicate at least hundreds or thousands of innocent people."
"To ensure the safety of innocent people, and of course, to ensure the operation is not hindered and identities are not exposed, based on the above two reasons, tomorrow's operation should mainly focus on scouting to obtain intelligence. There is no need to rush."
Speaking of this, Rio paused, looked at Mai, Yui, and Miko in front of her, and raised her chin.
"Can you guarantee yourselves one hundred percent that even if you see a terrifying evil spirit, you can still maintain a straight face, walk straight through the opponent's body, and not show the slightest flaw?"
"Anyway, I believe I can't do it. Whoever thinks they can, join tomorrow's operation."
Hearing this sentence, Miko and Yui, who originally wanted to say something, looked at each other and both chose to remain silent.
Miko's psychological quality was extraordinarily strong, this was true.
But would she gamble the lives of hundreds or thousands of innocent people with her courage just because she wanted to go strolling with Yoru in the prosperous Shibuya commercial pedestrian street?
The answer was naturally no.
Even if there was only a 0.01% possibility that she would expose the flaw of "being able to see" in front of the evil spirit, alerting the snake in the grass, the consequences would be extremely serious.
"Since none of you have this confidence, then I will continue."
Rio pointed to Kawasaki Saki sitting aside looking at a loss, saying faintly.
"In comparison, Kawasaki-san cannot 'observe', so she won't expose any flaws."
"Moreover, unlike Yukinoshita-san and Kitagawa-san, she is an internal member who knows the truth."
"Overall, Kawasaki-san is the only suitable candidate."
Hearing this, Mai really couldn't hold back and raised a very logical question.
"Then... why not let Yoru go alone?"
"Have you not gone out with him?"
Rio glanced at Yoru sitting there with a frivolous smile and sighed helplessly.
"This guy's appearance is simply too attractive. If he walks on such a prosperous commercial pedestrian street, there will definitely be many coming up to hit on him. Leaving aside that with this guy's personality, his way of handling it would be too eye-catching, refusing advances takes time after all."
"Staying one second longer in that area increases the possibility of alerting the enemy."
"Going out together with Kawasaki-san, disguised as a high school couple, there wouldn't be such concerns."
After finishing her analysis, Rio looked at Yoru sitting there.
"What I said is right, isn't it?"
Yoru nodded repeatedly, expressing his agreement.
"Yes, what you said is completely right, that's exactly what I thought."
Seeing his appearance, Rio was somewhat doubtful, muttering softly.
"Is it really right?"
Yoru stood up, walked over, patted Rio's shoulder, and said earnestly.
"You have to trust your own brain, Rio!"
"Wait a minute, wait a minute!"
Seeing the matter was about to be settled like this, Yui instantly jumped up, waved her hands repeatedly, and said righteously.
"Saki hasn't agreed to this matter yet!"
"Eh?"
Seeing the topic suddenly shift to herself, Kawasaki Saki couldn't help freezing for a moment.
She parted her lips, seemingly wanting to say something, but Yui's speaking speed was one step faster than hers.
"After all, Saki is a girl. Even for the Super-Quant Club's operation, going out alone with a boy like Yoru, and even pretending to be a couple going shopping together. If she is unwilling herself, we can't force her, right!?"
Immediately after, Yui moved close to Kawasaki Saki, grabbed her hands, looking very considerate.
"Saki, I know you are not the kind of personality good at acting. If you go out with a boy you don't have the slightest good feeling for, even if you want to pretend to be a couple, it would seem very awkward, right? If the evil spirit sees the flaw, it would be bad."
Kawasaki Saki opened her mouth: "This, that... I."
Yui pre-empted again.
"See, Saki is very troubled. Why don't we forget it and find Little Yukino or Marin. If it's Marin, she shouldn't mind Yoru's weird behavior of looking around...."
"No!"
Having her words blocked twice in a row, Kawasaki Saki felt a strong sense of grievance in her heart, couldn't help standing up, her hands by her sides clenching into fists, lowering her head, her face flushed red.
"Pre... pretending to be a couple with Yoru... I, I can do it!"
"Really?"
Yui had a slightly hesitant look.
"But, if you are with a boy you hate, even if you want to act, you wouldn't be able to act it out, right?"
"This, I..."
Kawasaki Saki blushed with shyness, stole a glance at Yoru standing there, and said in a voice as tiny as a mosquito's.
"I... how could I hate him..."
"Oh, so that's how it is, so that's how it is."
Yui said as if casually, yet seemingly with underlying meaning, yawned and said.
"Miko, Mai-senpai, Rio, it's so late, we should go back to our rooms to sleep. After exorcising for so long, finally having a vacation, let's leave this little matter for Saki and Yoru to discuss. Let's go, let's go."
Having said that, Yui pulled those three and left Yoru's room.
After standing in the corridor, Mai finally looked at Yui with a sweet smile and sighed from the bottom of her heart.
"Yui... you... are truly amazing."
"Eh? Am I?"
Yui smiled sweetly.
"I didn't do anything."
Mai, Rio, and Miko looked at each other, simultaneously realizing one thing.
Tuanzi-san...
Is really strong.
They had never realized before, unimaginably strong.
So you are the true master of the Shuraba!
Come to think of it.
What kind of person is Yuigahama Yui?
She is the one with the best interpersonal relationships among all, note, all members of the Super-Quant Club.
Even Kitagawa Marin, who belongs to the same gyaru type but dresses more flashily, is far from having this gentle aura of Yuigahama Yui that makes people trust her completely.
Such a figure, in emotional confrontations and seeing through others' inner thoughts, is definitely a top-tier master!
Natural airheads are all black-bellied when cut open.
The ancients truly didn't deceive me.
....
On the other side, inside the room.
Under Yui's continuous pressure, having spoken quickly out of a moment's impulse and uttered that shameful sentence, Kawasaki Saki was shrinking on the sofa, covering her face with a sofa cushion.
She had already turned red-hot.
When a girl says she doesn't hate, it is divided into many situations.
In some situations, not hating is just not hating.
But under the topic just now.... and the one saying this was Kawasaki Saki, who was very cold and impatient towards boys, having a personality different from her appearance, and not straightforward at all...
Then this not hating was not purely not hating.
"By the way..."
After quite a while, Kawasaki Saki quietly poked her face out from under the cover of the sofa cushion, asking softly.
"Why not ask Touma-san? She is also an internal member and is more suitable... more suitable to pretend to be a couple with you and scout the scene together..."
"Kazusa?"
Yoru shook his head and smiled.
"She is adjusting to the time difference these two days. After all, she usually sleeps during the day and is active at night. Tomorrow she probably won't be able to get out of bed until afternoon."
Hearing this, Kawasaki Saki's heart sank, subconsciously frowning.
"You know her daily routine so clearly? Could it be that you two..."
"Are you okay?"
Yoru looked at Kawasaki Saki with eyes as if looking at a fool.
"If I remember correctly, we are in the same class, right? She sleeps in the back row every day, haven't you seen her?"
"Uh... that's true."
Kawasaki Saki was so embarrassed she wanted to find a crack in the ground to hide in, feeling completely unwell.
I clearly knew Touma-san's routine was sleeping during the day and being active at night...
Why did I have to be so talkative and ask such a sentence?
Did I forget in a moment of hot-headedness?
Or is it...
I wanted to hear a different answer from Yoru's mouth?
What kind of answer?
Compared to Touma-san, more willing to choose me?
No, no, no, this is impossible, right.
After all, Touma-san is so pretty, and has multiple times shown possessiveness towards Yoru in front of everyone, as well as bold straight-ball actions and words.
I...
Can't win, right?
Kawasaki Saki recalled her sister's encouraging words before departure.
"Listen well, Sister. Once you have a chance to be alone with Big Brother, strike hard! Hesitation means defeat! Don't care about anything else, sprint first and talk later!"
Strike hard? Hesitation means defeat?
Kawasaki Saki looked at Yoru sitting there and sighed slightly.
It's not as easy as imagined...
"Then I... will go back to my room first."
"Mmhmm, go ahead."
Just as Kawasaki Saki walked to the door, Yoru suddenly added a sentence.
"Since we are going to the commercial street tomorrow, let's buy you two sets of clothes along the way. Judging by how old your cuffs are, it's time to buy new ones, right? No need to be so frugal."
Kawasaki Saki's footsteps paused, responding faintly.
"Mmhmm, okay."
Click.
After leaving the room and carefully closing the door, Kawasaki Saki leaned against the wall of the corridor, blushing and covering her chest. All she could hear in her ears was her own rapidly beating heartbeat.
She looked down at the cuff area of this white long-sleeved shirt of hers.
Because it had been washed too many times, if observing carefully, one could indeed find it was a bit too old.
But if just glancing casually, one couldn't find any abnormality at all.
Yoru could actually notice it?
Does he pay a lot of attention to me...
"No, no, no... don't think blindly."
Kawasaki Saki shook her head, forcibly tossing the thoughts in her mind aside.
Thinking too much and misunderstanding the opponent's attitude would only lead to getting hurt.
Yoru is a gentle person.
So everything he has done so far is just out of his true heart to help others, not having any special...
Kawasaki Saki couldn't make it up anymore.
How is that possible!?
That Yoru is completely not a goody-two-shoes personality. It would be more accurate to say he has a nasty personality.
Except for emotional factors, Kawasaki Saki really couldn't think of the reason for the opponent making all these actions so far.
"Forget it... let's talk about it tomorrow."
Thinking of going to Shibuya to scout, involving a strangeness event that could implicate hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of people, Kawasaki Saki took a deep breath, strongly suppressing her love-struck emotions.
Working part-time comes first.
As for other things...
Take one step at a time.
...
Next day, at the crack of dawn.
The strongest professional exorcist in history, Kyoto city's Number One Yellow Butter Shooter, King of the Harem, Natural Enemy of Factional Disputes and Stock Speculation, Destroyer of Shuraba...
In short, Yoru, possessing many titles, opened his eyes.
"Going on like this... is not good, feeling a bit hungry."
"Should I find time to go to Tokyo's Otherworld? It should be different from Kyoto's."
Yoru sat up from the bed, only to see a beautiful girl wearing a high school uniform with long black hair standing beside his bed.
Yukinoshita Yukino?
No.
Touma Kazusa?
Also not.
Amano Hina? Even less so.
Yoru and the girl looked at each other. After a moment of silence, he popped out a classic, highly aggressive opening line.
"BYD (Damn it), does the hotel even have room service delivery?"
"Uh..."
The girl's eyes looked somewhat confused, scanning the surroundings, murmuring to herself.
"Where is this... why am I... here..."
"This is a hotel."
"Hotel?"
Hearing this word, the girl seemed very surprised. She hurriedly ran to the floor-to-ceiling window and looked outside.
"This is!?"
She looked at the high-rise buildings outside, the roads already bustling with traffic even though it was just dawn, and most importantly, the superb view looking down from the high-floor hotel room, taking in all this scenery. She was completely stunned.
"This is..."
Yoru put on his clothes, stood up from the bed, and said faintly.
"Tokyo."
"Tokyo!?"
Seeing the girl let out another exclamation, Yoru rolled his eyes and complained.
"I say, can we not make a fuss about everything?"
"Sor... sorry."
The girl first apologized embarrassedly, then looked at Yoru, thinking secretly in her heart.
Even if it's a dream, to be able to dream of such a handsome guy is truly a good dream.
And Yoru at this time had different thoughts from the girl's fangirl ideas.
He was pondering a matter.
Why?
Why is it me?
He knew this girl in front of him.
Miyamizu Mitsuha.
The Miyamizu Mitsuha from the Miyamizu family with generations of Miko inheritance that Godmother Granny mentioned.
"BYD, did you make a random wish?"
"Wish?"
Perhaps feeling she was dreaming, Miyamizu Mitsuha completely lacked any vigilance, thoughtful.
"Mmhmm... I did think that if there is a next life, I want to become a handsome guy living in Tokyo. I didn't expect to dream of it so soon, even though I didn't desire it that much."
Living in Tokyo.
Handsome guy.
Thinking of this, Yoru scanned the room and could see a faintly discernible red silk thread flashing behind Miyamizu Mitsuha, and it was reaching towards his body.
"BYD, dare to tie one on me and try?"
When Yoru said this sentence, the red silk thread floating in the air seemed to be frightened and stopped there.
Immediately after, he revealed a kind smile and spoke softly.
"I think this god of yours is not a good thing either. Sooner or later I'll eat you BYD too."
Just as his voice fell, a tremor seemed to come from the air.
"Eh?"
Immediately after, amidst Miyamizu Mitsuha's slightly puzzled voice, she dissipated like mist.
"Returned to Itomori Town, into her own body..."