Chapter 17: Chapter 17

I'm currently cleaning Kasen's house despite her fervently stopping me

“Ibaraki, put that broom down!”

“No!”

“Why are you kept cleaning?!”

“I'm bored!”

“That doesn't make sense!”

“It is in my way of thought!”

We are doing a tug-war until she gives up

“fine, let's play a game instead”

“What game?”

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We are playing Othello, it's a very simple game

But for some reason, I can't win

“36-28”

“Why are you good at this?”

“Well, you are very impatient Ibaraki, and always strike when you could and not thinking if it's a trap or not”

“you kept relying on brute force and that's what made you lose”

“I see”

That reminded me of my very past…

Where I emotionlessly sacrifice my pawns to reach victory

Where I didn't care about emotions and forcefully broke all of my connections with my classmates because they aren't helpful in any way

Where I always follow his orders to burn the happy family of others for his satisfaction

I hate it…

That suffocating feeling of being a tool only to destroy others

I hate that… That's why,

“Hmph, what's the fun of thinking anyway?”

“Victories are meaningless if you know the outcome”

“The satisfaction of winning something you have no idea the result makes your blood pump higher than before”

“that's what I believe in, and I will keep following it till I die”

*sigh,* “you are very stubborn”

“One more round!”

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It was already afternoon when I arrived in Kourindou

As I open the door, I see Rinnosuke eating his food in loneliness

“ahh… Ibaraki”.

“Sorry I didn't come here in the morning, I'm at the Hermit earlier”

“Hermit?”

“People that want to attain immortality or some sort”

“I see, did you already eat?”

“I still haven't”

“then let's eat together”

“Thanks… I guess”.

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As per usual, I'm cleaning the surrounding of Kourindou

When I see a mysterious girl

her eyes are dark golden. She wears a purple Chinese-style tabard with various Trigrams over a pale pink Western-style dress, wears her hair coiled up into her mob cap, and carries a pink parasol.

Her eyes met mine and all I could feel is absolute fear

It felt like if I do something, I will die in an instant

So I forcefully avert my eyes and continued to clean the surroundings while making my presence as thin as possible before she reaches here

I felt sweats in my back as I try to distance myself from the main path without making any obvious indications that I'm scared

“My~ are you new here?”

My Body become rigid, how did she come close to me…

I'm sure that I will take a minute or so, and my monologue doesn't take that long… Or I hope it wouldn't.

“He-H-Hello N-Nice to meet you”

“My N-Name is Ib-Ibaraki Douji”

Ahh! I'm so scared that I can't form words.

“Oh my~ what a polite kid you are”

Haah?! Me a kid?! I don't care anymore!, I'll die if I die!

I look at her eyes and I revert them to the ground

“Thanks…”

Death is probably the best scenario, but I'm sure she won't kill me but do something worse if I rub her off in the wrong way

Until I felt a hand ruffling my hair

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“Yakumo Yukari, that's my name Ibaraki-chan”

Suddenly my fear disappears instantly

“yes, Yakumo-san”

Since when did I use honorifics? I rarely used them, and people here didn't use them at all.

“I've heard that Morichika has hired someone, I didn't think it's an Oni nonetheless”

“but from what I see, you are vastly different from Oni's that I've seen”

She is probably a costumer

“well, I've been raised differently I guess”

“Hmm…”

Don't stare at me, you are making me flustered

“So cute!”

She pinched my cheeks!!!

“What are you doing?!”

“Sorry~ I just do it unconsciously”

She is messing with me! And my cheeks hurt!

If I remember in the wiki Ibaraki's height is 147 I'm

She is small in the average standard

“I forgive you… Can I ask what is your goal here?”

“Secret~”

Ah… This person's personality is annoying, she is the type of seductive type but secretly an eldritch identity-

“Ahh! Stop pinching my cheeks!”

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We are inside the store

“Rinnosuke! There's someone who wants to talk to you”.

“Who is-”

He freezes and stops everything he did

“Yakumo…”

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I'm currently outside piling up the leaves and putting them in a trash bag

It seemed full, so I grab it and walk towards the hole where we throw trash to

I kept walking while occasionally kicking the stupid yokai that tried to attack me

And did you know that fairies sometimes attack you too?

Fairies can come back from the dead, so it's very convenient, and they come in different shades of colors

As I slashed the fairies and it explodes into dust

I'm at the hole, but there seemed something in the center

It's a human body that has been recently feasted on by Yokai's

The clothes are like a suit of some sort from the modern times

I've heard from Rinnosuke that outsiders tend to appear inside and the majority of them died because of Yokai's

As an Oni, I will do what Oni normally do

Plundering from a dead body!

You can't expect me to give empathy as a former criminal and an Oni

That person just had bad luck

I kept touching the pockets and plundering the bag as I see a smartphone in the bad and a watch on the severed arm

I take it with me, I pour the leaves on top of the body covering it as flames manifested in my hand

“Please don't haunt me”

The whole that has been filled with trash has been fully integrated by me and I kept giving it flames, so smoke won't appear

I kept doing it until the hole become deeper again, and I see some charred bone

I crank up the heat until it disappears

*sigh* “I'm exhausted”

“At the very least, I have a useless smartphone!”

Gensokyo doesn't have internet service, so you could say it's useless

“so here's where you are”

“Yakumo?”

“It's Yukari~”

Fine

“Yukari-san, why are you finding me?”

“I just want to talk to you, is that bad?”

“No, fine… let's talk until you are bored”

“Hehehe~”

My life is probably started to go hellish from now on

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