The Troubles of Miss Nicola the Exorcist: Volume 2 [Complete] by Ito Iino

Author:Ito Iino
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf

All kinds of stalls stood along the street as the enthusiastic cries of the merchants clamored for attention. People laughed together merrily, dancing and singing. An air of festivity filled the entire area.

As one might expect from a harvest festival, produce made up most of what they sold at each stall. The many colored fruits overflowing from wooden wagons stood out. These all kept such a sheen that they must have come from a recent harvest, their colors so vivid that the wagons looked almost like jewelry boxes.

On the sides, street performers stirred up their audience with a series of acrobatic feats. Nicola could not keep up with them, even with her eyes darting back and forth.

Nicola found she walked beside different people as she weaved through the crowd. Before she knew it, she had settled into a steady pace alongside Alois.

Feeling eyes on her, Nicola looked up to one side and immediately locked eyes with Alois.

“Is something the matter?” she asked.

“No, I was just thinking that you look like you’re having fun,” replied Alois.

“Err, well... This is...fun...” Nicola admitted reluctantly, prompting Alois to snicker in amusement.

“You know, even though you and Char have memories from a past life, I never feel like I’m talking to someone older than me. Ah, I mean that in a good way!” said Alois before snickering again. He had turned away from Nicola, and she followed his gaze to see Char and Emma.

“Hey, sis, look over there,” Char called out, carried away by the festival atmosphere. “That looks tasty!”

“The passage of time alone does not make someone a grown-up,” Nicola muttered with a bitter smile. Nicola knew her ability to communicate and control her emotions were still very much those of a fifteen-year-old, in a negative way. In her past life as Rikka, the experience she had accrued in interactions with other people was hardly worth mentioning.

After all, anyone who could “see” as well as she could would trip up in relationships with other people at the first hurdle. From the beginning, she could not get along with her parents, and the more she grew and her world expanded, the more distorted it appeared.

As Rikka, she had never been “a good girl,” so in the end, the only proper relationships she had were with her mentor and the other apprentices. Of course, her communication skills would be poor.

If she had only attended school, things might have been different. However, the more one knew, the closer one became to the nonhuman world in everyday life. As a half-baked exorcist, places such as schools and hospitals were unexpectedly dangerous and to be avoided. Unable to attend school, Rikka spent her days cooped up in her mentor’s office as an apprentice exorcist.

She did not regret learning the skills she needed to defend herself but could not deny that her relationships with other people had grown thin. And she was sure that life had been the same for her junior apprentice.

“I can say this for myself, and I think for Char as well, that we are giving our childhoods a do-over.

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