Chapter 51: About the Matter of Me Blinking and Transmigrating

Uesugi Toru looked at these high school students, recalling that the atmosphere had been like this before they successfully summoned the Fox Dog Raccoon that day.

A bit nervous, a bit excited, but more than anything, the joy of going out to play with friends.

Among Japanese high school students, the so-called Courage Test, supernatural games — aside from a minority of supernatural enthusiasts who would be interested — are actually just an alternative form of matchmaking party.

On a moonless, windy night, men and women walk together, then draw close to each other because of imaginary danger, raising their favorable impressions, then becoming couples.

That's probably the standard pattern.

The boy called Miyamoto flexed his biceps, his expression full of disdain: "Didn't they say urban legends are all real? Then let's test it out!"

The female high school student leaned closer to him, asking curiously: "Speaking of which, are there any urban legends related to stations?"

"—Kisaragi Station."

The one who answered was not the strapping Miyamoto, but the frail glasses-wearing boy who had been staring at Uesugi Toru, observing him thoughtfully.

He said blandly: "They say the train arriving soon goes to Chang Shi, and that train's final stop is supposedly Kisaragi Station."

The female high school student covered her mouth: "Eh? Then aren't they all yokai?"

Miyamoto beside her set his hands on his hips: "What yokai or ghosts, watch me punch them all flying!"

"Hey, you students, don't talk about such scary topics in the middle of the night!" The auntie nearby frowned, finally unable to hold back and scolding at the top of her lungs.

Miyamoto froze for a moment, then laughed uproariously: "This is scary? Auntie, are you menopausal? Hahahaha!"

The several high school students beside him laughed along, making the auntie's face flush red, but in the end she still didn't curse out any dirty words.

Idiots.

Uesugi Toru didn't even need to think — these ones shouting the loudest, if they really ran into yokai, absolutely wouldn't survive three minutes.

Rather, that glasses-wearing boy who for some reason kept staring at him, and the ponytail girl going against Miyamoto's tune to apologize to the auntie, had a higher probability of surviving.

These two people might be the only two supernatural enthusiasts in this Courage Test.

Still quite like him and Shizuku back then.

"Nisun Adult."

Uesugi Toru said softly, making the white-hatted girl he was leading tilt her head up in puzzlement.

"Po?"

He let go of her hand: "You go scare them, don't let them board the train and throw away their lives for nothing."

"Po!"

Nisun Adult nodded, slowly drifting toward the high school students.

Toru-sama is truly merciful and amiable~ and so handsome too~

Nisun Adult drifted along while letting out a fangirl's laughter, this laughter also faintly echoing in reality under her control.

—Any yaoguai with even a shred of reason can control whether or not to manifest before ordinary people without Spirit Vision.

Miyamoto Ryo, boasting with two girls and subordinates not far away, naturally didn't hear it, but the glasses-wearing boy's complexion changed instantly, and he looked around, wanting to find Nisun Adult's trace.

"Hattori classmate." He asked the ponytail girl, "Did you hear any laughter?"

Hattori Ayako was about to reply, but horrifyingly saw a girl with a hollow face, wearing a white hat, suddenly appear before her eyes.

Her whole person tensed up in fright, and only after several seconds did she recover, her tone trembling slightly: "Maki classmate, this place... seems to really have a ghost."

"Ghost, huh." Maki Hitomi pushed up her glasses, her tone slightly excited, "Can you conveniently describe its appearance?"

"Wearing a white hat, white dress girl..."

—Hah?

Uesugi Toru heard the conversation over there, wondering why these two got excited discussing it after encountering a ghost.

Could it be Nisun Adult is too cute, not scary enough?

In the late-night platform, the high school students led by Miyamoto Ryo treated this "Courage Test" as an outing, laughing merrily; the auntie looked somewhat afraid, anxiously scrolling her Mobile Phone; the drunk salaryman uncle sat on the ground, craning his neck to look at the other side of the tracks.

Finally, Nisun Adult who had been trying hard to intimidate the duo, and the duo growing more and more curious.

Amidst such clamor, the train heading to Chang Shi arrived at the station.

"Train has arrived at the station..."

"Train has arrived at the station, passengers getting off at this station please prepare to disembark..."

A cold, mechanical female voice echoed in the Carriage; Uesugi Toru faintly heard the announcement's sound, but the station's name he couldn't hear at all.

Blocked by an unknown force?

"Popopo... Toru-sama sorry." Seeing the train arrive, Nisun Adult drifted toward him, whining dejectedly, "I didn't complete the task you entrusted."

Nisun Adult, a several-hundred-year-old spirit still acting childish? Are you still a child?

Although he thought this in his heart, Uesugi Toru still patted her head top to comfort: "This isn't Nisun Adult's fault oh, idiots and heroes alike cannot be scared off."

The train slowly stopped, the slightly old Carriage doors opening to both sides.

The salaryman uncle stood up first; although drunk, the salaryman's instinct drove him to immediately Enter the train.

Miyamoto Ryo: "Oh! It's here it's here, everyone hurry on board!"

But at some unknown time, Uesugi Toru was already standing at the Carriage door, a hoarse voice coming from under the Hood's shadow: "Don't board, because... this train goes to Chang Shi."

The final warning delivered, Uesugi Toru then led the now-manifested Nisun Adult and stepped into the train.

And Miyamoto outside the train sneered, pinching his voice: "I'm really so scared~!"

"Today's young people really are, all superstitious and weird." The auntie badmouthed a few sentences, hurriedly boarded the train; if she couldn't get on the last train she'd have to walk home.

Only the glasses ponytail duo still stood in place.

Hattori Ayako asked hesitantly: "Maki classmate, we... still board?"

Maki Hitomi pushed her glasses higher: "Came all this way, don't you want to personally witness the legendary Kisaragi Station?"

"Moreover, I'm also very interested in that Hooded person's true face."

He took the lead stepping into the train interior, and Hattori Ayako, seeing so many classmates on the train with not a shred of defense against danger, gritted her teeth and also boarded.

After a good while, amid the beep-beep-beep electronic echoes, the train doors slowly closed.

The moment Uesugi Toru stepped onto the train, he felt his heart suddenly grow tranquil and peaceful; the power belonging to the yokai was also faintly suppressed — not that it was completely unusable, but it had suffered no small weakening.

He looked toward the two-shaku Adult and sensed in his heart that the other party was feeling the same.

That is to say, at least inside this train it seemed not as dangerous as he had thought.

"Why aren't you people in front moving!" the auntie's irritable voice rang out, pulling Uesugi Toru out of his brief reverie.

Uesugi Toru pulled the two-shaku Adult to a spot with a view of the whole carriage and sat down, then slowly swept his gaze, using the corner of his eye to size up the passengers in the carriage.

Sitting directly opposite him was a JK wearing a miniskirt, crossing her legs and scrolling on her mobile phone, looking ordinary.

Only Uesugi Toru recognized the model of her mobile phone; it had gone out of production over a decade ago.

But there were currently no stars above her head.

Uesugi Toru looked thoughtful as he turned his gaze to the right...

How come someone is standing holding the strap instead of sitting in an empty seat?

He raised his head and met the gaze of Kitano Runa, whose face was full of bewilderment.

Kitano Runa's head was full of question marks.

She scanned her surroundings, expression stiff.

No, who can tell me where this is?!

(End of Chapter)