When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace: Volume 9 [Parts 1 to 7] by Kota Nozomi

Author:Kota Nozomi
Language: eng
Format: epub

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In the end, I never got a reply from Toki or Yanagi. Those little punks, I swear! They’re not even pretending to take me seriously!

I was worried about them on a multitude of levels, but for the time being, I decided to interpret no news as good news and assume they were safe at the very least. I just didn’t have the time to be fretting over them at the moment. I shoved my phone into my pocket...then hid myself once again by a nearby utility pole to readjust the mask I was wearing, which had slipped most of the way down my nose, and push up my sunglasses while I was at it.

“Hitomi... Would you please explain to me why we are wearing such peculiar outfits and undertaking such an inexplicable set of actions?”

“Shhh! Keep quiet, Umeko! He’ll notice us!” I shouted—but, you know, in a whisper, which was actually really hard when it came down to it—at the very confused little girl who was accompanying me. From an outsider’s perspective, of course, that little girl probably looked like a little boy, on account of her outfit: a pair of shorts, a T-shirt, and sneakers, with her long hair bundled up and hidden away in a baseball cap. I’d also had her carry a bug net and a cage as accessories. She looked like an elementary school kid on his way into the mountains to catch some bugs over summer break, nothing more and nothing less.

“Your notions about this attire appear to overlook a glaring flaw: it is less than likely that any child would wander into the mountains in this weather,” Umeko noted dryly as she gestured toward the sky. It was, unfortunately, deeply overcast. Thick, heavy clouds clogged up the sky, and according to the weather forecast we were due for rain starting in the evening.

“N-Nah, I’m sure people will still buy it,” I said. “Keep in mind that elementary school boys are basically all idiots! We’re talking about the sort of creatures who wear shorts and T-shirts every single day, all year round!”

“A remarkable display of petty prejudice.”

“And hey, I bet there are types of bug that only come out in this sort of weather, most likely!”

“For the sake of argument, I shall concede that my garb may, perhaps, escape suspicion. Yours, however, is outlandish by even the most lenient of standards.”

“Ugh!” I grunted for lack of anything I could say in my defense. I was wearing a relatively unobtrusive coat, Hajime’s spare sunglasses, and a face mask, along with a knitted hat of the sort you usually only saw in wintertime. I have to admit...I looked like a total creeper. Stalker-chic, if you will.

“W-Well, what was I supposed to do?! You have to wear this sort of disguise when you’re tailing someone! It’s...I mean, it’s a rule, you could say?”

“If you wished to know where First was going, you need only have asked.”

I sighed. Imagine how much easier my life would be if that were actually an option.

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