Lunch time the next day.
Kamiyagawa made an appointment with Sayuri Ishino to meet at the edge of the school's cherry blossom forest.
Yesterday, he was in a hurry to deal with Hanako's hearing aid, and was delayed by being dragged to the school for a lecture later. He never got around to seeing Sayuri Ishino again.
Kamiyagawa wanted to ask Ishino-san about the details of Hanako's spiritual descent.
Also, by the way, give people some financial compensation.
After all, he took away one of someone's hearing aids and smashed it yesterday without saying a word.
After a while, Sayuri Ishino, wearing thick black-rimmed glasses, came to the edge of the cherry blossom forest as promised.
"Good afternoon, Kamiya-san." The girl greeted shyly and friendly.
During lunch time, there were not many people around the cherry blossom forest.
The two of them are like a man and a woman alone.
But no ambiguous feelings arose.
In fact, Sayuri is friendly and grateful to Kamiyagawa, but she does not fall in love with him just because Kamiyagawa helped her rescue her from bullying yesterday.
This kid doesn't have that much love brain, nor is he stupid. At the same time, he has a bit of low self-esteem.
Therefore, she did not think that what Kamiyachuan did yesterday was because he liked her.
The same goes for asking yourself out to meet during lunch time.
"Good afternoon, Ishino-san. So, sorry, I took away your hearing aid without saying a word yesterday. Also, uh, that hearing aid was destroyed by me."
Kamiyagawa responded with a slightly embarrassed smile.
"It's okay." Sayuri Ishino waved her hand, "Yesterday Nagatomo-kun accompanied me to get a new pair."
As she spoke, she pointed to her ears.
There is indeed a brand new hearing aid on Sayuri's small auricle.
"Then I'll compensate you?" Kamiyakawa continued, but the smile on his face didn't stop immediately.
It's just the smile that reveals a little bit of poverty.
It’s really unreasonable for me, a co-leader of ghosts and gods in my formative years, to spend money while protecting world peace.
Moreover, hearing aids should be very expensive...
Losing a pair of them would directly worsen the situation for a family that is not already wealthy.
"No, Kamiya-kun, you don't need to apologize, and you don't need to apologize to me. On the contrary, I haven't had time to thank you properly." Sayuri said, bowing slightly towards Kamiya, with a sincere tone, "Thank you, Kamiya-kun, Thank you in every sense of the word."
Just as Sayuri expected, Kamiyagawa came to find her today because of the hearing aid.
Ever since Ishino Sayuri and her group went to the women's restroom on the third floor on the west side to test their courage.
The slightly aging left ear hearing aid became strange.
Sayuri herself also began to experience strange things, seeing things that others could not see, and hearing sounds that others could not hear.
He even saw a vision of Hanako.
After Kamiyagawa took away the hearing aid yesterday, all these horrible and strange things came to an abrupt end.
The connection between all these things can be understood by just thinking about it a little.
Perhaps, this Kamiya classmate is a spiritual master hidden among ordinary people?
Because of this idea, Kamiyagawa's image in Sayuri Ishino's mind was not only "handsome" and "powerful", but also had an additional "mysterious" label.
"Since you said so, then I won't lose money." Kamiyagawa's smile finally became no longer poor.
He was not a thin-skinned person to begin with.
For Kamiyagawa, after helping others, it is not natural to accept their thanks.
Next, Kamiya asked Sayuri about some things related to the spiritual descent.
I probably asked the other person when he started to notice that something was wrong with the hearing aid in his left ear.
Sayuri didn't hide this either.
He recounted all the things he had experienced these past few days, such as dreaming about Hanako, being bewitched by Hanako's illusion and jumping off the building, etc.
"In the process of testing your courage, you tried the ritual of summoning Hanako."
Kamiyagawa listened patiently to Sayuri's words.
During this period of time, Sayuri and her group were probably not the only ones in the school to try their luck in the girls' bathroom on the third floor of the west teaching building.
But Hanako chose Sayuri's side for the spiritual descent.
This could just be a simple random choice.
It's also possible that Hanako and Sayuri have something in common that attracts each other.
For example, both were victims of school bullying.
Sayuri Ishino herself said that she dreamed of Hanako last night, who had a heart attack in the toilet cubicle because of school bullying.
This is one of the many origin stories of the ghost doll Hanako.
After understanding these things, Kamiyagawa no longer had any need to communicate with Ishino Sayuri, so he said goodbye politely like a friend he had just met.
Sayuri bowed solemnly to Kamiya River again: "Anyway, thank you very much, Kamiya-san."
"This is what you should thank. Ah, no, I mean, I will keep your thanks." Kamiyakawa turned around and waved, and left gracefully.
The wind of late spring blew by, and the few cherry blossoms left in the forest were shaken off.
…
After Kamiyagawa left, Sayuri took out her mobile phone and replied to a few line messages, then found a bench by the cherry blossom forest and sat down.
Spring is coming to an end, and some of the cherry blossom petals on the ground are still pink and tender, while others have already withered and turned yellow.
After a while, a boy with a crew cut came over from the other end of the cherry blossom path.
It was Masao Nagatomo who teamed up with Sayuri Ishino that night to search for spirits.
Xiao Pingtou must have arrived in a hurry. After he stood still, he was still panting: "That Kamiya-san has already left?"
"Um."
"What did you talk about?" Nagatomo Masao became a little nervous.
"It's nothing, it's just about the malfunctioning hearing aid and the spirit exploration we did that night." Sayuri answered truthfully.
"Oh, oh. Is that Kamiya-san really, as you guessed, a spiritual exterminator hidden in the school?" Masao Nagatomo scratched the back of his head, which didn't have much hair.
"Maybe so. I didn't ask about him, and I don't plan to ask in the future." Ishino Sayuri said this while patting the empty space on the bench beneath her.
"That's fine." Xiao Pingtou sat down.
Yes.
fair enough.
That Kamiyagawa-san is undoubtedly a handsome, powerful and mysterious being, and Ishino Sayuri is sincerely grateful to him.
But if you interact closely with such people, you may be involved in danger.
Sayuri never wanted to experience something like her encounter with Hanako-san again.
After all, she always wanted to be an ordinary high school girl and live an ordinary life.
Thinking about it this way, Ishino Sayuri unconsciously put a new label on Kamiyagawa she had just met - "lonely".
Powerful and mysterious people are usually lonely.
