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"Da out curses, Hajiic bullets around his body like a satellite, also activating "Lightspeed"(??) swiftly tidied up his surroundings It was a concern to him that he could not hear Kaori’s voice
Hajime was concerned that he couldn’t hear Kaori’s reply While spitting out curses Hajiic and made them orbit his body like satellites At the sahtspeed’ and swiftly tidied up his surroundings
Shifting to Kaori, with Haji it hard to keep up a brave front Kaori was really bad with horror, it would be very difficult to overcome her current predicament even under normal circumstances, but now her body wanted to freeze up just fro inferiority coh she wouldn’t admit it to herself, and the bottom line was that all she wanted to do was curl herself up and cry
Kaori scolded herself, shelike this, and forced her body to stand back up As soon as she was upright again she felt a hand on her shoulder Haji her on the shoulder Overcoht
"Hajime-ku-"
However, as she turned around Kaori noticed that so felt off about the hand on her shoulder To be more accurate, it felt too thin and too cold Kaori felt chills run down her spine as her intuition warned her that as behind her was not Hajime
If it wasn’t Haji to turn, now like a rusty machine, Kaori saw it Eyes, nose, mouth… and then even more holes It was the face of a woman dyed in a darkness as black as the abyss
"Fuwah~"
Kaori’s spirit was over in an instant, and her defensive instincts rendered her unconscious
In the 2 et up and faint, Hajihostly warriors This was only his rough estihostly veterans every 2-3 seconds
Just as he was beginning to think he had wiped thereatsword tore out fro a blow that boasted of enored the attack with the smallest movement of his body However it wasn’t over yet The warrior bounced the greatsword back into the air using the recoil froain
Haji the bloith his reatsith his knees, forcing it froround Then, with a swift ht into the large e ins to fade away
"Kaori! Where are you?"
Haji Kaori’s presence However, even without doing that Kaori was easily found
"I’ht?"
Haji towards hiainst against him with a beautiful smile
"It was… very scary…"
"Is that so?…"
"Un That’s why I want to be comforted"
As she said this Kaori threw her ared him At a distance so close they were practically nose-to-nose, Kaori locates Hajian to draw herself closer…
Gotsu (TN: Sound effect thunk)
With a Gotsu~tsu sound (TN: thunk) Donner’s muzzle met Kaori’s temple
"Wh-what…?"
Kaori appeared to be confused as Haji eyes and directed murderous intent towards her
"What? Of course I’ll kill enemies, no matter how they look like" and without a beat of hesitation he pulled the trigger
Karankara (Clang-clang)
There was the sound of a knife hitting the ground, it had fallen out of the hand of Kaori when she was shot She had intended to stab hi him With steady footsteps Haji back up, Kaori begins talking to Haji voice
"Haji!?"
However Hajiic bullet at Kaori
"Don’t you dare speak with Kaori’s voice! Do not degrade her body byit! Did you think I couldn’t see the truth? You are nothing but a piece of trash possessing her body"
Hajiic Stone Eye’ had already revealed to hi Kaori
With the truth clearly exposed Kaori, who until just a ed her expression and burst into hter
"Nyahahaha, even if you know the truth it is of no irl’s body is already mine!
As she said this the possessed Kaori raised herself off the ground and pushed Hajiround into the ? This is your woto hurt Kaori, the h her body, the only one ill suffer is you"
"If I disappear this woht with you!?"
At those words Hajih there was a good chance it wasn’t a bluff, there was no way to verify if it was true
Most people would probably become trapped by indecision in this situation, was the possessed Kaori hoping for this? She was giving her cat-like laugh again while ave her his reply
Zupan~! Zupan!
It was a pair of ic bullets The possessed Kaori’s expression was too shocked to reveal as to whether she had felt any pain Soon her expression shifted into one of frustration as she shouted at Hajiry voice
"Are you insane!? Do you not care what happens to this woman!?"
"Shut up you pile of trash! If I don’t attack then Kaori’s body would re as you aren’t killed her soul won’t break, right? Until you feel like leaving her body everything will be fine if I just torhostly woman was left speechless at his words When she looked into Haji stabbed by his ret thinking you could touch what’s ‘ih you’re an enemy I won’t kill you, I won’t let you experience the relief of death I’ll make it so you can’t escape Kaori’s body even if you want to I’ll force you to suffer until you go ic flowed out froht in the eddies and slowly began to sway in the energy There was no rage, bloodthirst or insanity in his eyes, they were like frozen chips of ice
Hajime was furious, more so than ever before He wouldn’t be satisfied with just kill his enemy this time, they host possessing Kaori had been too dense to realise she had picked a fight with so that should never be disturbed Only now, as she felt her gaze trapped in Hajime eyes, did she finally realise what she had awakened; a monster, one you would norain pressed against her forehead, the ghostly woht her was perined what this monster would probably do to her even one second seeh it did seereater than than any of the other apparitions they had encountered, in the face of this at The frozen wrath Haji
"Iwanttodisappear!Iwanttodisappear!Iwanttodisappear!Iwanttodisappear!Iwanttodisappear!Iwanttodisappear!"
The ghost’s sobs echoed louder as Hajier, when suddenly the Kaori’s body began to shine It was the sparkle of the restore-all-abnoric ‘Ten Thousand Heavens’, which Kaori had prepared as a precaution ahead of ti the ability of ‘Delayed Invocation’
While left duhost heard a voice from inside her
"–It’s okay, I’ll send you off properly"
Alongside these words the shining, pure white, light intensified The ghost felt afraid as the light wrapped around her, dragging her gently along with it towards the heavens However, as she gradually passed on to the next world and her consciousness began to fade she was overco of peace and relief
With one clap, Kaori sent her off and slowly began to open her tre underneath Kaori in the mounted position, looked directly up into Kaori’s eyes Ever since Kaori began to shine, the fading presence of the ghost’s existence had been reflected in Haji intent and focused on confirhost had truly left Kaori
Their faces were so close, and with Hajiaze filled with a mixture of relief and worry as he focused his eyes intently on her pupils, it would’ve been enough toher head Kaori pressed her lips on Haji of their lips, but for Kaori it was still her precious first kiss
Hajime whole body went stiffened in surprise for a moment In order to be certain that Kaori had been released Hajime had used almost all his concentration to examine her With his mind so distracted, naturally it wasn’t possible for hiently released his lips
"What are you…?"
"Perhaps it’s my answer?"
"Your answer?"
"Un Why did I follow you? Why do I want to keep on following you?… This is my answer to Hajime’s questions"
When she said this Kaori s, war here it had becoh, but now it shone once again
In fact Kaori had still retained her consciousness while possessed, though it felt like watching the world outside while trapped inside a glass room She had still been able to see Hajis like Kaori was ‘ihost and reached her heart
At the sight of this Hajime unbearable sadness had risen up in her chest, but at the same time she felt the nervous passion she had when she first confessed to hi of selfish, of alanting to be indulged, always st the circle of girls Yue allowed to surround Hajime, Kaori found it intolerable that she wasn’t allowed to hoard him all to herself, yet at the saine a future where she wasn’t by Hajinise that even if her capabilities were nowhere near Yue and the others, her feelings weren’t any less
"I like you Hajime-kun, no, I love you That’s why from here on I want our futures to be entwined"
"Won’t it only leave you feeling bitter? Just like it is with Shia, even if Yue weren’t there, it doesn’t necessarily mean that I will love you back"
"That’s true, it’ll probably be painful at times… I want to be monopolised, I want you to only look at me I feel so jealous of Yue sometimes, and so inferior when I compare ret it if I allow myself to be separated fro near Hajime is wonderful…and that’s how I’ve always felt In tiht now this is enough"
Pinching Hajime’s cheeks between both her hands, Kaori smiled softly
The expression on Hajime’s face was a complex mix of troubled and amazed, but Kaori had decided on her own, and if she believes that it’s the best decision for herself, Hajime wouldn’t say another word Each person had their own idea of happiness, deciding Kaori’s happiness for her is so he couldn’t do, nor did he want to
"… I see If Kaori is fine with this then I won’t say any h I’ll probably cause a lot of trouble, please don’t hateat such a late hour? From our time at school, up to our time here, you have always been an terrible troublemaker"
"That’s not true!"
"Really? Back at school you never read the situation and would casually come over and talk toeverywhere, and never noticing that every tier And then let’s not forget when a negligee-clad lady decided to visit a ht…"
"Uu, I remember, all I wanted to do was talk to you… Un, it was really e when I realized later that I had co her blushing face with her hands, Hajirin, patted Kaori on the shoulder gently, and turned to start walking towards the un to shine further inside the storeroo had lifted
However, he was stopped by Kaori tightly grabbing onto his sleeve If he looked carefully he could see that she was still a little unsteady Apparently the possession had dulled her body’s senses a little Now that the body had been released it hopefully wouldn’t take long for it to return back to it’s norested this, but it seems Kaori had an idea of her own and with a s?"
"Isn’t it better if we progress quickly? I don’t knohenwill surely coht?"
There was definitely some truth to her words,so Haji his head, and walked towards theKaori
Kaori wrapped her arhtly to his back Although he didn’t say anything, Haji that pressing up against his back
Kaori h that he could feel her hot breath in his ear Her lips, close enough that they were alently and a sweet sound reverberated inside his ears
"Haji about what happened earlier"
"Earlier?"
"Yes Why was it that you got so angry during that fight?"
"Saa, as I angry? I don’t know" (TN: "Don’t make a move on what’s ‘important’ to me" …Was he really an otaku before?)
"Mouu, please tell ht up in her flirtatious at forward at a brisk pace and without hesitation stepped into the ic circle