4 Chapter 4: Meeting the Son: Hello Miko, Goodbye Miko

"Good morning, Miko."

Natsuki Amamiya raised his hand to say hello.

"Morning~"

The girl with long straight black hair spoke sleepily.

Yotsuya Miko.

The eldest daughter of the Yotsuya family next door.

A quiet girl who loves learning.

The Amamiya family moved here three years ago. Natsuki Amamiya and Yotsuga Miko happen to go to the same junior high school. In a sense, they can be considered childhood sweethearts.

"The dark circles under my eyes feel heavier again. What have you been doing recently?"

Natsuki Amamiya asked casually.

"I didn't do anything." Yotsuya bit her lower lip gently, "I... just watched a horror movie, so I didn't sleep well."

"How dare you watch a horror movie alone, the heroine is so brave."

"..."

The two of them walked towards the school while talking.

When passing a crossroads, Natsuki Amamiya's eyes suddenly froze.

Among the crowd across the road, there was a particularly conspicuous female office worker. She was well-dressed, with a good figure and beautiful appearance. She was very eye-catching.

Amamiya Natsuki looked at the woman silently, but his eyes did not fall on the woman's face, but on her back——

Behind the female office worker, there was a huge, swollen, resentful baby spirit lying on its back. A long tongue hung out of its mouth. It flicked its tongue from time to time and rolled it towards passers-by. Unfortunately, no one could notice it.

"Um?"

Amamiya Natsuki suddenly caught a glimpse of Yotsuya Miko's pretty face, pale, looking down at her toes, her fingers tightly pinching her sleeves, her knuckles turning slightly white.

"Miko?" Natsuki Amamiya lowered her voice, "What's wrong?"

"I'm fine."

Yotsuya Mitiko bit her lip and shook her head with small movements.

The green light comes on.

Pedestrians waiting on both sides of the intersection took steps.

The beautiful woman acted accordingly, and the wraithful baby on her back squirmed happily.

Amamiya Natsuki took a deep breath silently and was about to cross the road when a hand suddenly grabbed the corner of his clothes.

"Wait a moment."

Yotsuya Miko looked up with mist in her eyes, looking like she wanted to cry but didn't dare to cry: "I suddenly remembered that I want to buy something... come with me to the convenience store?"

"What do you need?"

"Don't ask so many questions, move it."

Yotsuya Miko grabbed Amamiya Natsuki's wrist, turned around and left.

"call..."

Seeing the woman walking away with the grudge of the baby on her back, Yotsuya Miko quietly breathed a sigh of relief, with an expression of relief on her face.

Then... the expression on the girl's face became stiff again.

At the entrance of the convenience store, a twisted wraith wearing a convenience store uniform was bending down, seemingly bowing to the customers entering and exiting.

Even though he has turned into a wraith, he still doesn't forget to work. He is worthy of Japan!

Yotsuga Miko paused for two seconds and turned around silently: "I won't buy it. I suddenly remembered that I've got spare pencils in my schoolbag... Let's go to school."

"..."

Natsuki Amamiya silently looked at the twisted wraith at the door of the convenience store and thought of a possibility.

Can Miko see them?

If that's the case, is Miko actually a player of the weird game?

Amamiya Natsuki pondered for a moment, then decided to ask clearly. He bent down slightly and leaned close to the girl's ear.

"W-what did you do?"

Yotsuya Miko leaned back slightly, a faint blush on her pretty face.

"Weird game?"

Natsuki Amamiya whispered in her ear to avoid being heard by others.

"Hey, what game?" Yotsuya Miko looked confused and tilted her head in confusion, "What are you talking about?"

"It's nothing." Natsuki Amamiya straightened up and breathed a sigh of relief, "Let's keep walking."

It seems that I have thought too much. Miko isn't a gamer... This is the best, at least I don't have to worry about the unknown punishment after failing the game.

But here comes the question, why can Miko see the resentful spirit?

Just as Amamiya Natsuki was about to ask, a girl's clear and melodious shout suddenly came from the distance.

"See you!"

A girl with short blond hair and a wavy figure ran over happily while waving her arms.

"Ah, Amemiya-san, good morning."

The short-haired girl showed a bright smile to Natsuki Amamiya, which seemed to make the sun shine a little brighter.

"Good morning, Hana."

Natsuki Amamiya replied politely.

Hana Yurikawa.

The friends I met in the new semester seem to have evolved into good friends, and I occasionally meet them on the way to school.

"Hey, Miko, why are your dark circles getting worse again?" Hana Yurikawa's attention quickly fell on her good friend, "Staying up late is a girl's natural enemy."

"Ok, I know..."

Yotsuya Miko yawned again.

"I feel sleepy just after I wake up." 

"You haven't slept all night, right?" Lily Chuanhua opened her eyes wide.

Yotsuya Miko came up with the same excuse: "I watched a horror movie with my brother last night, and I didn't sleep well at night... That's it."

"Ah, I understand. When watching horror movies, even though I know they are all fake, I will still be too scared to sleep."

No, you don't understand.

The ghosts are all real.

And what about the invincible quilt?

I opened the quilt and found a human head lying inside. It would be a ghost if I could sleep!

You can't tell others about seeing a resentful spirit. No one can see it, only you can see it. There is no evidence to prove the existence of a resentful spirit... Either it is regarded as a chuunibyou, or it is suspected that you've got a mental problem, right?

Today is another day of despair.

"Snapped."

Lily Chuanhua raised her hand and slapped her forehead, making a crisp sound: "By the way, we ran out of pencils last night, let's go to the convenience store to buy some pencils?"

"Eh?"

Yotsuya Miko opened her eyes wide, and said in a hurry: "I can lend it to you..."

"The convenience store is right next to it, why do you need to borrow it?" The blond girl with big breasts hugged Miko's arm and pulled Miko towards the convenience store. She said in a clear voice, "Let's go, just in time to replenish some snacks."

As he spoke, he turned to look at Natsuki Amamiya: "Amamiya-kun, you go to school first."

"...She is indeed a good best friend."

Amamiya Natsuki silently agreed, watching Miko with tears in her eyes, being tricked by her good friend who knew nothing about it.

Convenience store entrance.

The twisted wraith in employee uniform bent down and looked at Mianzi: "Welcome... to you..."

Natsuki Amamiya pondered for a moment, turned on the Evil Spirit Banishing Halo, and took a few steps towards the tearful Miko.

Childhood sweethearts are bullied by evil spirits, so of course a man can't remain indifferent!

Soon he got within five meters.

As if being burned by flames, the employees' resentful spirits retreated backwards, and their bodies turned into mist, quickly dissipating and escaping.

"Eh eh eh?!"

Miko opened her eyes wide, with an expression of disbelief on her face, "How could it...disappear?"

"It looks like...it was dispersed?"

Mitsuko suddenly turned her head and saw Natsuki Amamiya standing behind her, nodding slightly to her.

"...Is it Natsuki?"

"Come on, let's go shopping."

My good friend interrupted Miko and pulled the doubtful girl into the convenience store.

Natsuki Amamiya turned to school.

I quickly walked to the private Shuchiin Academy.

This academy... understands everything, not much to say.

Natsuki Amamiya came to the shoe cabinet in the corner of the first floor and was about to change into indoor shoes. Suddenly, he saw an ice sculpture girl with black hair reaching her back and an indifferent aura standing in front of the girls' shoe cabinet. She was the girl from last night. Old teammate, Shinomiya Kaguya.

It has been half a month since the first grade started, and the two are still in the same class, but Natsuki Amamiya has never spoken to each other.

The aura of 'Ice Kaguya' is fully activated, and anyone who dares to get close will be frozen into ice sculptures.

"Strange..."

Amamiya Natsuki soon discovered that something was wrong with Miss Kaguya. Her body was stiff and she remained in the posture of opening the shoe cabinet, as motionless as a sculpture.

As he gazed, a moment later, a line of text appeared above Kaguya Shinomiya's head.

[It's so scary, so scary, so scary… What to do, what to do, what to do… Why is there such a thing in the shoe cabinet?]

Amamiya Natsuki looked over curiously and found that in Kaguya Shinomiya's shoe cabinet, there was a head of a resentful spirit, with a pair of red eyes staring directly at the ice sculpture girl.

Sensing Natsuki Amamiya's gaze, the man turned his head and looked straight at Natsuki Amamiya.

"Can you...see it?"

Let me say this again, are all you resentful spirits repeaters?

Natsuki Amamiya had no expression on his face as he walked up to Kaguya Shinomiya, and then activated the Evil Spirit Banishing Halo. The evil spirit with a human head in the shoe cabinet seemed to be roasted by flames, turning into black as it twisted and screamed. The smoke dissipated in an instant.