This Japanese Slice-of-Life Isn’t Lame - Chapter 18

Chapter 18: Collecting Grudges Is Similar to an Injection

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

Kamiya Mirai promised to return home to collect the money for Kitagawa Tera tonight.

Kitagawa Tera said nothing about this. He did not feel that a smart girl like Kamiya Mirai would fall out with him over money.

Afternoon classes ended.

Kitagawa Tera and Kamiya Mirai went to the multimedia room.

Apart from some specific clubs or teachers that used this place for teaching, it was empty most of the time. Thus, this was the best place to resolve the two grudges entwined on Kamiya Mirai.

Kitagawa Tera followed Kamiya Mirai into the room and did not get the chance to look around the surroundings before hearing some noises.

He turned around, and his eyes changed slightly. “What are you doing?”

He saw that Kamiya Mirai had already taken off the blue and white uniform top and was now working on unzipping the blue skirt.

Upon hearing Kitagawa Tera’s voice, Kamiya Mirai’s actions did not slow down.

She quickly took off her skirt too, turned back, and said matter-of-factly, “During exorcisms, shouldn’t you keep the entire body clean, free from everything, Tera-kun?”

“I don’t remember saying this,” Kitagawa Tera replied without a change in expression.

“Hehe. Seeing Tera-kun like this, don’t tell me you’re shy?” Kamiya Mirai confidently raised her chest. “It isn’t just me saying this, but Tera-kun is the only boy who has seen me like this. It’s normal to be shy!”

To Kamiya Mirai’s surprise, Kitagawa Tera took the teasing in stride and remained very calm.

He even expressionlessly extended his hands and placed it on her clothes, looking at her with those deep eyes. “In that case, I’ll help Kamiya-san take everything off.”

“Wait, wait, wait! I’m just joking! Kitagawa-san! Kitagawa-san!!!!” Kamiya Mirai started panicking.

She barely knew Kitagawa Tera and subconsciously started teasing him.

But Kamiya Mirai did not expect Kitagawa Tera to be so fierce and even reached out to help take off her clothes.

“Kamiya-san.” Kitagawa Tera’s voice suddenly dropped a few degrees, his face cold. “If you think it’s that easy to resolve the grudges of the dead, I’ll pass on the fifty thousand yen, and you can go where you’re supposed to go.”

Regardless of anything, the attitude needed to be proper.

Since Kitagawa Tera accepted Kamiya Mirai’s money, he would certainly help her with the exorcism, each according to their own needs.

But this did not mean that Kamiya Mirai’s attitude could be improper.

Life was precious.

Being a medical student in his previous life, Kitagawa Tera understood this far beyond ordinary people.

So what if someone was cute and beautiful?

After death, they would be nothing more than a handful of dirt.

Kitagawa Tera had no qualms getting an uncooperative ‘patient’ like Kamiya Mirai to look for another doctor.

Seeming to have sensed the seriousness in Kitagawa Tera’s voice, Kamiya Mirai’s small body trembled.

After a while, she apologized quietly, “I’m sorry, Tera-kun. I was a bit too full of myself.”

Kamiya Mirai knew that her playful behavior was disrespectful toward Kitagawa Tera and apologized sincerely.

Kitagawa Tera’s expression softened slightly, and he nodded.

“There are two different grudges on you. One grudge has lingered for too long and was not directed at you, so the remaining effect isn’t much. I assume you’ve either fallen seriously ill before or were unlucky for quite a while? As for the other grudge, it’s the one left behind by Hoshino Nana’s death.”

“The grudge left behind by Hoshino-san? But there was no conflict between Hoshino-san and me. Why would she…?” Kamiya Mirai asked while putting on her clothes.

“Pure evil thoughts produce wraiths. Hoshino Nana’s was not directed at you, but rather at ‘living people’. Maybe you think that the wraith is Hoshino Nana, but that is wrong.” Kitagawa Tera’s voice was dull. “Wraiths are purely non-human existences. In fact, she could establish a sliver of a connection with you through this trace of grudge on you.

“If I don’t get rid of this bit of grudge on you today, then she, who became a wraith, will one day appear at your bedside to reminiscence.”

Kamiya Mirai turned pale.

The idea of opening her eyes one day and seeing the staring face of Hoshino Nana, who had not died in peace, beside her made her feel a chill.

Fortunately, there was Kitagawa Tera.

Kamiya Mirai carefully raised her head and looked at Kitagawa Tera.

“Don’t worry. Since I’ve accepted your fifty thousand yen, I will settle this for you.” Kitagawa Tera seemed to sense what Kamiya Mirai was thinking.

“… If possible, I hope Tera-kun won’t measure our friendship with money.” Kamiya Mirai was a little speechless.

Despite me being so thick-skinned and wanting to become friends with you, why aren’t you giving me any face at all? Even if you don’t think I’m cute, I am still a girl, she thought in her heart.

Kitagawa Tera actually nodded after pondering over it. “Indeed, talking about friendship with a girl like you would hurt money.”

“Kitagawa-san!!!!” Kamiya Mirai shouted in complaint.

“I’m kidding.” Kitagawa Tera coldly brushed this aside and pulled a chair over. “Sit. I’ll try to do this as quickly as possible so you won’t feel any pain.”

“…” Kamiya Mirai’s mouth twitched.

If someone else had said this, she would have thought he was deliberately being lewd. But hearing this from Kitagawa Tera meant that the process was not going to be relaxing.

“T-Tera-kun.” Kamiya Mirai looked at Kitagawa Tera pitifully. “… Please be gentle.”

Hearing Kamiya Mirai say this reminiscent of how the patients in the hospital used to made Kitagawa Tera nostalgic.

He nodded. Right at the moment when Kamiya Mirai relaxed, black mist appeared between his five fingers, and he pierced the air that had appeared out of thin air at the back of her head!

Kamiya Mirai did not even have the time to react before Kitagawa Tera drew the grudges out.

This was the same logic as collecting a blood sample or doing an injection. While you were still thinking of telling the doctor to be ‘gentle’, they had already neatly drawn out the needle and pricked your finger. And before you experienced any pain, it was already over.

In fact, this process was not much different. Kamiya Mirai only felt cold and then a little pain at the back of her head. Then her entire body mysteriously relaxed all over.

This feeling was akin to removing a huge stone that had been pressing on her body.

Kamiya Mirai felt a lot more carefree.

The little girl turned her head and curiously looked at Kitagawa Tera’s palm.

She saw one big and one small ‘balls’ of scarlet silk-like mist twirling in Kitagawa Tera’s palm and tugging at one another.

Looking at these two balls of mist, Kamiya Mirai somehow felt a chill entangling her body and shivered slightly.