The Seven Mysteries (4)

"This means...we have been discovered from the start...and they set ambush waiting for us." Chongyun said. "It's my fault, I was too careless, I am an exorcist, I shouldn't have made this mistake!"

"Stop, Chongyun! You're blaming yourself too much." said Alexy. "I also take responsibility because I guide you around here."

"Stop the 'blaming myself' arc! Look!" Kaeya said and pointed at a corner of the yard, where some silhouettes were going out.

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"Please release Paimon, UwU!" Paimon shouted and then made a cute uwu face.

The first principal's statue, said nothing, but clenched the hand that was holding Paimon, indicating that it felt annoyed by her shout.

"Ouch...that hurt, you might break Paimon's spine...ahuhu!"

It was a mistake to do that because Paimon had begun to shout more than before, accompanied by crying.

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Seeing the scene, Alexy was prepared to turn off summoning Paimon to return her to the system's dimension, but he was stopped by Chongyun.

"Wait, don't do that, they will notice us right away, I have an idea. Since four of seven evil spirits are here, it's better to destroy them at once. I will use this..." Chongyun whispered to Alexy's ear.

"Ok, sounds good!"

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"Hey ghosts, over here!"

Hearing the taunted call, the four evil spirits turned around and saw Kaeya standing at the center of the yard.

"Come here, show me what you have!" Kaeya taunted.

The First Principal's statue immediately threw Paimon to the Biology human figure and dashed towards Kaeya.

"Ouch, that hurts, you stupid statue, you should treat Paimon with gentleness or else...hmmmm..."

The human figure stopped Paimon from opening her loud mouth any further.

Back at the center of the yard,

The First Principal's statue dashed at Kaeya, intended to injure him with its big body. But Kaeya dodged easily.

"The bigger you are, the slower you become, you knew that, no?" said Kaeya.

Angered, the statue turned around and used its hands to catch Kaeya, but to no avail, as Kaeya had dodged to the other side.

"Freeze!" Kaeya said as he used his Elemental Skill on the statue, applying Cryo on it.

Before the statue could attack Kaeya more, a Jumpy Dumpty landed on it.

BOOM

Melt

"ROARRR!"

"How becoming of you to use the First Principal's statue to roar!" said Kaeya.

Boom Boom Boom

The mines began to explore around the statue, from the above, Klee kept annoying the statue by sending bomb after bomb to its head.

"Be careful, don't break it, we don't want the ghost inside to go away and find another body!" Alexy said to Klee.

Seeing its companion meet difficulty in trying to defeat their enemy, the black ghost dashed towards Kaeya. However, Kaeya was faster than the ghost so he dodged every time it attacked.

"It's a shame that I can't attack you since you don't use a physical body like your companions over there." Kaeya said and pointed at somewhere on the floors of a building in the school.

The black ghost instinctively looked at where Kaeya pointed to and it saw Amber, who took out her bow and shot two fire arrows at the same time at the human figurine and the stairs.

At the same time, purple clouds appeared on top of them. Right after the human figure and the stairs had been hit by Pyro arrows, lightning came down and struck them, sending them flying straight to the center of the yard.

"Hehe, goodbye!" Kaeya said and dashed back to the building.

The black ghost intended to chase him, but it realized it couldn't move. It looked down and saw some chains tying it down. Not long after, a Yin-Yang diagram appeared on the ground.

"EVIL SPIRITS, BEGONE!" Chongyun shouted.

"ROARRRR"

<<Progress>>

<<5/7>>

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"Chongyun, you did it!" Alexy said.

"No, we all did it. If it was not for you guys buying time for me, I wouldn't have been able to set up the diagram and exorcise them at once." Chongyun said and swiped the sweat on his forehead.

"Are you ok? Do you need another popsicle?" Alexy asked with a worried tone.

"Ah no, I'm fine!"

"AAALEXXYYYYYYYY! How could you forget Paimon? Paimon was stuck with those evil spirits and Paimon thought that Paimon would be exorcise along with them!"

"Oof, sorry!"

"A simple apology is not enough. When we return, you have to give Paimon delicious food!"

"Hmmm...these evil spirits...they originate from human's negative emotions. Maybe..." Chongyun mumbled after he looked at the black smoke coming out of the things that used to be possessed.

"Oh crap, they are all badly damaged! I hope the school won't find out that I'm involved in this!" said Alexy when he turned to look at the state the human figure, the statue and the movable stairs.

"Maybe I can try to fix them!" Noelle said.

Alexy did not reply, but shook his head, Noelle couldn't fix those things, at least within a short time, as the school would assume on Monday.

Suddenly, all of them smelt a strong stench odor.

"What is happening? Why is there suddenly..." Alexy said as he pinched his nose.

"The evil spirit...it's pretty angry now...let go find the source of the smell!" Chongyun interrupted Alexy.

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The smell led the group to the back of the back yard of the school, where they put many trash bins and garbage beside a small back gate, where the trash collectors came through to collect the garbage.

"...the stench...it has become stronger than before...ew..." complained Paimon.

"Klee can't breathe anymore!" said Klee.

"The degree of this smell is too...unusually much." said Kaeya.

"There..." Chongyun pointed at the waste dump beside the gate.

All looked to the dump.

"Paimon doesn't see..." Paimon immediately stopped saying when she noticed something coming out of the dump. "Ah...what is that...Paimon is scared!!!"

"Outsiders...why must you disturb me?...why must you hurt my feeling...you are no different from them..." a female voice said. The voice sounded like it had a sore throat.

"Eekk!" Paimon did not dare to scream too loud, fearing she would be the first one to be attacked.

"Be careful...this is the evil spirit that has been controlling the majority of evil spirits in this place!" Chongyun declared.

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AR: 6 (125/1500 EXP)

Primoge count: 310

Mora count: 29, 675