Yotsuya to………
At this moment, Yotsuya Miko reacted.
With a panicked expression, she pulled out her phone and hurriedly dialed Yurikawa Hana’s number.
After waiting anxiously for a few seconds, it wasn’t until she heard Hana’s energetic voice that her fluttering heart finally settled down.
“Hello!
Hana, are you okay?”
“Oh, Miko!
Did something happen?
But your call came at such a good time.
Let me tell you, when school ended, didn’t you say you had things to take care of and told me to head home first?
Well, I just happened to take a detour to the supermarket to buy some things, and now I’m making a super-duper-huge cake!………”
Listening to the continuous chatter on the other end of the phone, Miko’s lingering worries vanished without a trace.
“I see.
I just wanted to ask, is your body feeling any discomfort?”
“If Miko asks like that, my body is perfectly fine!
It’s just…
just that my stomach is hungry again.” Even through the phone, Miko could imagine the look of disappointment on her best friend Yurikawa Hana’s face.
“Mm, that sounds just like Hana.”
Because Hikigaya Hachiman was still standing nearby, Yotsuya Miko quickly ended the call.
“It’s fine; everything is well with Hana.”
“I see.
In that case, let’s keep going.
Staying here won’t give us any more clues.”
The walk was silent.
After continuing for another ten minutes or so, they arrived at Yotsuya Miko’s front door.
Yotsuya Miko’s home was a perfectly ordinary detached house; there was nothing particularly special about it.
But as they approached, a numb, tingling sensation traveled up Hikigaya Hachiman’s wrist.
The spirit-detecting watch given by Ms.
Hiratsuka was reacting.
Hikigaya Hachiman’s heart suddenly jumped into his throat.
“We’re home.
Yotsuya, you don’t see anything, right?”
“No, not yet.”
The watch Ms.
Hiratsuka had just given him was now vibrating slightly on his wrist.
It would be best to investigate Yotsuya Miko’s home properly.
Normally, this would be the place to say goodbye, but now he had a reason to go inside and sit for a while.
But how should he bring it up?
Just as Hikigaya Hachiman was agonizing over an excuse to enter a female classmate’s house, the door opened.
A woman was standing at the entrance, wearing loose, lounge-around-the-house clothes.
Her hair was swept up and rested on one side of her shoulder—it was the style often referred to as the “dangerous hairstyle.”( dangerous hairstyle=Motherly Side Plait/ “Dead Anime Mom” hairstyle) Her cheeks bore a strong resemblance to Yotsuya Miko’s, but she looked more mature.
Not only that, but her stature was also much more imposing than Miko’s.
Without a doubt, this was a person who would make anyone exclaim, “Ma’am, you are so beautiful!” It was Yotsuya Miko’s mother.
“Miko, to not invite your classmate in for a seat when he’s at our front door?
That is so rude.”
“Uh, that…
Hikigaya-senpai, would you like to come in and sit for a bit?”
“I would be honored to accept.”
Yotsuya Miko’s home was decorated very warmly, in a typical family style.
The living room, neither too large nor too small, was furnished with furniture in different color schemes, but because it was well-maintained, it did not appear cluttered.
Behind the glass coffee table placed in the center was a row of dark leather sofas arranged against the wall.
Directly opposite the sofas was an LCD television, and on the TV cabinet next to it, there was a group photo of the family of four.
In it was a younger, more energetic Yotsuya Miko from middle school, next to whom was her brother with an innocent face.
Beside him was the beautiful Mrs.
Yotsuya, and a tall, upright man whose facial features were obscured, as if by the light shining from above.
Presumably, this was Yotsuya Miko’s father.
Hikigaya Hachiman, sitting on the sofa, looked around.
Taking advantage of the time Yotsuya Miko and Mrs.
Yotsuya were preparing tea and snacks, Hikigaya Hachiman secretly lifted his sleeve; after all, the vibration of the spirit-detecting watch on his wrist was becoming increasingly intense.
This all indicated that there was an invisible monster in Yotsuya Miko’s home, and it was very close.
At this moment, there was a decorative ring on the watch’s face that was green.
Only then did Hikigaya Hachiman relax.
He had previously learned from the built-in manual that the ring on the watch displayed different colors to indicate the level of danger posed by the monitored spirit.
From safe to dangerous, they are: green, red, purple, and black.
But just then, the original green ring suddenly changed to purple, then flashed back to green, flashing in this cycle.
Hikigaya Hachiman only felt his scalp go numb.
What did this mean?
Dangerous and yet not dangerous?
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Just as Hikigaya Hachiman was feeling now, his wrist was tingling from the watch’s vibrations.
If he had to put it into words, even if he couldn’t see it, he understood that he was currently face-to-face with an invisible monster.
“Here, please have some tea.”
What appeared in his line of sight instead was Mrs.
Yotsuya, holding a cup of hot tea and handing it over.
Hikigaya Hachiman took the tea with a heart-pounding sensation.
It wasn’t until Mrs.
Yotsuya turned around and headed back to the kitchen that the watch on his left wrist eased its vibrations slightly.
Holding the steaming tea that emitted a refreshing fragrance, Hikigaya Hachiman’s heart finally calmed down.
What a feeling of having thorns at one’s back.
Forget it, I’ll just pretend I don’t know.
Wait, what do you mean “pretend”?
I really can’t see it anyway.
Thinking of it that way, I’m not afraid at all.
Unexpectedly, this method of Yotsuya Miko’s was surprisingly useful.
“Please, here are some snacks.” After placing the plate in her hand aside, Yotsuya Miko glanced distantly at her mother’s figure before looking at Hikigaya Hachiman again.
Hikigaya also looked up at Yotsuya Miko, using a very subtle gaze.
“Yotsuya-san, you wouldn’t want Mrs.
Yotsuya to………”
Yotsuya Miko clearly read the meaning in that gaze, and a smile appeared on her tense face for the first time.
As expected of Senpai, he is very sensitive.
Even though he can’t see, he still sensed the abnormality.
Moreover, facing such a terrifying monster, he could still remain composed.
When she saw it for the first time, she had been scared out of her wits.
Even now, she wouldn’t dare meet that monster’s gaze.
Thinking this, Yotsuya Miko looked again at her mother’s figure in the kitchen.
The face that had just been blooming with a smile seemed to freeze, her lips twitching forcefully.
Standing beside the busy Mrs.
Yotsuya was a man—the spirit of Yotsuya Miko’s late father—and a horrific monster was wrapped around him.
The monster, circling around Mr.
Yotsuya like a small dog, seemed to notice something.
It grinned, facing Yotsuya Miko’s direction, and then lunged forward.