This Japanese Slice-of-Life Isn’t Lame - Chapter 48

Chapter 48: You Don’t Intend to Pay?

The sight of Kitagawa Tera holding Tsukishima Risa in one hand while asking questions looked a bit too weird.

Chinatsu Chiyuki was speechless and could only softly say, “Kitagawa-san, please be careful when you let her down. Risa’s body condition isn’t very good.”

Kitagawa Tera glanced sideways at Chinatsu Chiyuki, and after pondering, he finally let out a wisp of Cadaveric Aura into Tsukishima Risa’s nose.

Tsukishima Risa, who was originally making threatening gestures, suddenly quieted down. Her limbs, which were previously waving around wildly, hung limp.

“Kitagawa-san?!” Chinatsu Chiyuki cried out in worry.

“Don’t worry. I only let her sleep for a bit. Her reaction just now wasn’t very convenient for me to start.” Kitagawa Tera remained calm while the faint black aura hovered in the air. He reabsorbed the Cadaveric Aura and laid Tsukishima Risa flat on the bed.

He looked thoughtfully at Tsukishima Risa, who was in her pajamas.

Standing by the side, Chinatsu Chiyuki did not dare disturb Kitagawa Tera.

She watched Kitagawa Tera sizing Tsukishima Risa up.

Kitagawa Tera’s eyes flickered from time to time, and his eyebrows slowly wrinkled. After some time, he could not bear turning his head and asking, “How long has Tsukishima not taken a bath? It stinks.”

“????” Chinatsu Chiyuki. Is this the only thing bothering you?

Chinatsu Chiyuki was dumbstruck and finally awkwardly said, “Almost half a month now.”

That’s right. Reality differed from 2D. Even if you were a pretty high school student, you would smell if you did not bathe for a long time.

“Being unhygienic and staying up late are also important reasons for the weakening of the body.” Kitagawa Tera caught a glimpse of Chinatsu Chiyuki’s expression of consternation and continued matter-of-factly, “After this incident, I hope you can immediately let my patient… Tsukishima, take a bath.”

The occupational disease of a medical student reared its ugly head once again.

Kitagawa Tera shook his head, and under Chinatsu Chiyuki’s shocked eyes, a dense black aura suddenly appeared between his five fingers!

The grudge had remained on Tsukishima’s body for two to three weeks. With the increasing fusion, he could not treat it like Kamiya Mirai’s case and forcefully drag it out.

Kitagawa Tera ignored Chinatsu Chiyuki’s stupefied look as all kinds of thoughts flowed through his mind.

Although a portion of grudge had almost fused with Tsukishima Risa’s body, most of it was still lingering outside it.

In this case, he would start from the outside.

Kitagawa Tera clearly knew what to do, and he immediately manipulated Cadaveric Aura to surround the surface of Tsukishima Risa’s body.

At this moment, Tsukishima Risa’s quiet body suddenly moved like a boiling pot as countless black streams were being forced out.

Kitagawa Tera was concentrating on his end, while Chinatsu Chiyuki did not dare take a breath on her end.

“What is that?” Chinatsu Chiyuki suppressed her voice, face red, black eyes widened, looking at this incomprehensible scene.

The scene before her was obviously challenging her values and her outlook on life and the world that she had established over the course of time.

Although she had been mentally prepared, when the mysterious and eerie side of real life played out before her, the amazement in her heart surged.

Is this the source of Kitagawa-san’s confidence?

Chinatsu Chiyuki was lost in thought for a few minutes before regaining her senses.

She gulped and continued to look at Kitagawa Tera.

At this point, Kitagawa Tera had already entered the final stage and had compressed the black aura in Tsukishima Risa into a ball.

If Kamiya Mirai’s ball of grudge was the size of a rubber ball, then the black aura in Tsukishima Risa’s body was the size of a football.

The cold air permeated everywhere!

Chinatsu Chiyuki felt that that ball of black aura was like a living thing that was currently viciously and grudgingly staring at Kitagawa Tera and her.

The surroundings changed abnormally, the windows shook, ghost claws climbed, and the entire room seemed to indistinctly shriek hoarsely.

To that, Kitagawa Tera’s actions were very simple.

He moved his legs and put his hands together. Cadaveric Aura exploded at his fingertips and actually crushed this ball of black aura that was the size of a basketball in an instant!

The abnormal changes quelled.

The horrible shadow faded, and calm instantly restored in the room. It was as though the fearful things that Chinatsu Chiyuki had just experienced were only a hallucination.

While Chinatsu Chiyuki was still lost in thought and unable to extricate herself, the sound of tearing newspapers came.

She glanced over and found Kitagawa Tera tearing off the newspapers covering the windows.

“Kitagawa-san… what are you doing?

“What…?” Kitagawa Tera did not stop his actions and expressionlessly said, “Patients need more sunlight during their convalescent period.”

“Convalescent period?” Chinatsu Chiyuki was dumbfounded. It’s done?

From Kitagawa Tera entering the room to lifting and subduing Tsukishima Risa to exorcising the grudge, the entire process probably needed a few thousand words to describe but actually only took seven to eight minutes.

Especially the exorcising of the grudge, Chinatsu Chiyuki estimated that Kitagawa Tera probably did not even use five minutes.

Is… this really reliable?

While Kitagawa Tera was busy ventilating the room, Chinatsu Chiyuki walked over with some suspicion.

Tsukishima Risa’s breathing was steady, and her originally pale face showed rosiness. However, her body was still pale, likely the result of a lack of long-term nourishment.

But Tsukishima Risa’s face and breathing had already returned to normal, and she only needed to recuperate at home for a few days before she would recover and could go to school like before.

Chinatsu Chiyuki pulled her gaze away and turned to see what Kitagawa Tera was doing.

She found that he was already standing behind her unknowingly, holding a small ball of black aura in his hands.

“This was the grudge on you. I conveniently pulled it out while you were looking at Tsukishima,” Kitagawa Tera coldly explained as he crushed the grudge.

Conveniently pulled it out? Chinatsu Chiyuki’s entire face was flabbergasted. This thing can actually be conveniently pulled out?

Kitagawa Tera extended his hand. Chinatsu Chiyuki looked at his hand in a daze, seemingly trying to see if there was an exorcism talisman or some kind of fine salt on his hand.

After looking at it for a while, she did not see anything. Instead, Kitagawa Tera’s slightly doubtful voice came. “You don’t intend to pay?”

Er…

Chinatsu Chiyuki’s fair complexion immediately blushed red and then turned purplish.

So this is why Kitagawa Tera extended his hand!

Her face twitched. After a while, she slowly took out 100,000 yen from her purse and handed it to Kitagawa Tera.

“Then, that’s all for now.” Kitagawa Tera accepted the money satisfactorily before suddenly saying, “You can deal with Tsukishima’s mother later. I’ll leave first.”

Kitagawa Tera had exorcised Tsukishima Risa’s grudge, accomplishing his mission, and received the deserved remuneration, so it was time to leave.

After all, solving Tsukishima Risa’s illness was something peculiar, and it would be troublesome to have to explain it.

Kitagawa Tera could not be bothered to waste time on this kind of thing, so he left Chinatsu Chiyuki to deal with it.

Moreover…

Kitagawa Tera touched the ball in his pocket, and his heart moved.

New information came again.