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Authors: M.C Queen
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“
I don't know, sometimes I really can't tell the
difference!”
“
Can everyone please just shut up!” Yelled Itsuki. “I have a
math test tomorrow!”
the door just in time to see Nina emerge from the bathroom. Her
face was covered in green goo and she was brandishing a hair drying
in one hand. She threw it, aiming from Kurumi's head, but luckily
Kurumi ducked in time and it went through the wall. I stared in
horror, unable to move or say anything. Although Nina wasn't
as skilled at exorcising as the others, her aim became dead on when
she was mad enough. I really hope those skills kick in if the fox
monster steps over my dead carcass and comes gunning towards
her.
Chapter
11
eventful happened until a few weeks later when I arrived at
homeroom one Monday to find my classmate, Yuto Murakami, had
attracted himself a large group of students. He was sitting on top
of his desk while everyone else crowded around. On Friday he was
just another quiet nobody, but that day everyone was looking
up at him like he was the messiah. I was puzzled how a boring guy
like him could pull in such a crowd, so I approached Keira for the
answers.
“
What's going on here?” I asked.
“
Just go over and listen,” said Keira without taking his eyes
off his cell phone game.
“
I was walking home late last night,” said Yuto in a hushed
voice. “You know, after club activities and stuff. The moon was
really bright, and the streets were dead, dead as a graveyard. The
wind blew through the trees, creating an eerie noise which was
like," he paused. "Ghosts calling out to me from beyond the grave.
I walked quickly, trying to get home faster. My shoes echoed on the
pavement like this,” he did an impression of stamping. “Everything
was fine, fine I tell you, until all of a sudden I saw someone else
in the distance strolling towards me. His hair was bleached blonde
and he was clad in a leather jacket and sunglasses. There was also
some sort of tattoo on his face. He looked pretty sketchy so I
guess he may have been in a gang. I panicked and dived behind a
nearby garden fence. I decided the best thing to do was to wait
until he passed by. The grass was cold and wet, but I refused to
move until that shady guy was out of sight.” Yuto paused, the
classroom was dead silent and we all waited for him to continue.
“It looked like he was going to walk by, but as soon as he reached
my fence he stopped. I was afraid he'd seen me, so I peered through
to see what he was doing. I was prepared to run for help if I had
to, but that was when it happened.”
“
When what happened?” Asked someone from the crowd.
Yuto took a deep breath. “Hair grew from his face, his figure
bent and shrunk until he was standing on all fours. He shed his
clothes and howled at the moon,” Yuto raised his hands for dramatic
purposes. “And before I knew it, he had transformed, into
a
werewolf!
”
girls even screamed and had to be consoled by a nearby friend who
wasn't too happy.
“
Don't be ridiculous, you're making it up,” she
said.
“
Yeah! Who would believe such a stupid story,” said a guy in
the front row. “It is just a story right?”
“
I swear that it really happened,” protested Yuto. “I was
there, I saw everything. It's still out there even as we
speak.”
“
His story gets better every time he
tells it,” said Keira. “The first time wasn't nearly this
exciting.”
“
Did you hear that!” I exclaimed. “For all we know there could
be rabid werewolves running around town. Aren't you
worried?”
“
He's just trying to get attention,” Keira suddenly gritted
his teeth and his fingers stopped punching the screen. “Damn, I
lost my game.”
standing off to the side, she gave a small nod to Itsuki and he got
out of his chair and left the classroom. I had a feeling he'd left
to find Taisei. Maybe werewolf extermination was one of their many
exorcist skills.
It was
difficult to concentrate for the rest of class when there was a
werewolf invasion on the horizon. What if Yuto's mysterious wolf
bit one person, who then bit another person, and before we knew it,
the whole town was infested.
I attempted
to find Taisei during lunch, but unfortunately he had just hit the
realization that the girl he liked, Yui Murase, had been flirting
with most of the school's male population. He was lying down on the
bench in the courtyard, obviously wallowing in misery. He was
surrounded by his fellow third year classmates who were attempting
to console him.
“
Yui. Why, why, why,” Taisei moaned. “That university student,
the electrician, and even Daiki Souma.”
“
It's not so bad man, you didn't know, the rest of us only
just found out too,” said one of his friends.
“
There are plenty of girls out there. What about that first
year you always hang around with?” Asked another. “The cute one
with the short hair and pigtails.”
“
That's my sister!”
found Kiyori at the back of the sports shed with a group of
friends.
Kiyori and I
had been getting along quite well, and I often hung out with his
group of friends in break time. His posse and I didn't hit it off
at first (they were tall, large, intimidating, and one of them even
had a beard) but I thought they were cool, despite their habit of
pushing the first years around. The only small snag in our
friendship was when the guy with the beard attempted to extort me
for my lunch money without realizing that Kiyori was my
friend.
The advantage of being friends was that no one tried to mess
with me anymore. There was once a stage where it looked like the
Daisuke
Matsu-morron
nickname might spread like wildfire, but luckily hanging out
with Kiyori's group helped put a stop to it.
“
Hey Daisuke,” called the guy with the beard. “What's
up?”
“
Hey..
You,”
I
said. I always called him
the guy with the
beard
in my
head so I couldn't remember his real name. “I just wanted to
ask Kiyori something.”
“
Hmmm,” said Kiyori. He was halfway through munching on a
bread bun.
I knew it was probably best to ask later when we were alone,
but there was only two minutes left of break time. I could not take
another hour of dealing with
werewolf
anxiety
(the
term I invented to describe my current feelings) and Kiyori's
friends were pretty cool, so I decided to just say it.
“
One of my classmates was almost attacked by a rabid werewolf,
and soon the entire town could be in the mist of a werewolf
infestation.”
“
Wow, that's intense bro,” said one of
Kiyori's friends, a pale guy who attached
bro
to the end of every sentence.
“Someone should really do something about that bro.”
“
Ha, Ha,” laughed Kiyori nervously. “He's so funny isn't he?”
Kiyori quickly grabbed my arm and pulled me aside. “We'll talk
about it at home later,” he hissed before pushing me back out into
the yard. I spent the rest of the day anxiously biting my nails
until school was over and we could finally go to
headquarters.
Chapter
12
werewolf,” said Akito. We were all gathered before him in the front
room. All of us were anxiously sitting seiza style on the tatami
floor (or in Taisei's case, lying on his back) as we waited for
Akito's verdict.
I felt a
sense of relief wash over me. “At least there's no longer any need
to worry about a werewolf infestation right?” I asked.
“
It's worse,” said Akito.
“
Oh, I knew it was too good to be true,” I
muttered.
“
Wolves are high level Obake who are capable of transforming
into human form,” said Akito. “It's no difficult task for them to
trick humans, lure them back to their lair, and then eat them
alive.”
“
But you don't have to worry about them sneaking up on you and
ripping your heart out right?” I Asked.
“
No
,” said
Kiyori in a spooky voice. “
They eat the
body whole
.”
“
Eh,” I felt a cold shiver run down my body.
“
Are you really sure it's them?” Asked Taisei. “What if this
first year was just making the whole thing up, didn't we already go
through this with the big foot scare?”
“
I'm not spending another week searching the city for
nothing,” added Kurumi. “My skin became so dry last
time.”
“
Always you and your skin,” Nina muttered under her breath.
Kurumi mustn't have heard, because they would have both been
arguing too loudly for me to hear what Akito had to say
next.
continued. “There's been a string of violent attacks in a nearby
city that I've been following for weeks. Muggings, shop windows,
smaller Obake suddenly leaving the area. These are all signs of a
wolf gang presence.”
Kiyori raised
his hand. “Hey Akito! When you made me write that composition on
wolf Obake, the textbook said that the organization made a truce
with them not to attack humans.”
“
Hmm,” nodded Akito. “That was true when I was your age, but
things have changed. Ever since the old pack leader died that truce
has be rendered invalid, and most of the wolves now run around
doing as they please.”
“
Err,” Kiyori ground his teeth. He was obviously annoyed that
he had to write a report which was a lie.
his face was enough to make me laugh until Akito turned around and
said “that reminds me, I think I've found the subject for your next
composition Daisuke.”
I began to
imagine what Akito would look like if he was stabbed with a
thousand pins, and I began to consider making my own Akito voodoo
doll.
“
That's why we need to treat this with up
most caution,” said Akito. “We don't know their intentions. They
could be after fun, money, or aiming for new territory. The
organization even assigned a special task force to combat this
insurgency. They requested that we don't make a move until their
agent arrives. Until then we will
scourer
the town and try to discover
their location, but we are forbidden from doing anymore,
understood?”
“
Looks like another sleepless night,” sighed Mana.
“
What are you talking about, there's no way you're going,”
said Taisei. “She's not seriously going right Akito? This looks
dangerous and stuff, and if Mana dies my parents are going to kill
me.”
“
But I hunt Obake all the time!” Mana protested.
“
These aren't low level Obake,” said Taisei. “We're dealing
with level one now!”
“
Mana's going it's part of her training,” said
Akito.
“
Ah hah!” Mana stuck her tongue out at her brother.
scowled. “Itsuki, it's your job to look after Mana!” He
snapped.
I asked if I
could also join in the hunt for the wolf monsters but Akito only
laughed. It was the first time that I'd ever seen him laugh. He
then directed me straight to the library and made me start reading
up on the wolf Obake.
I skimmed
through the pages while spending every moment wishing that I was
outside with the others.
I was
beginning to feel disheartened with the whole exorcist thing.
Everyone had made it out to seem dangerous and exciting, but until
then I hadn't done anything except read books.
I decided to build a fort out of the library books to kill
time while the others were gone. I did a pretty good job, but then
the encyclopedia of
100 cute but deadly
Obake
wasn't
as stable as it seemed and the whole thing came crashing down. I
realized while picking up the pieces that the answer to all my
problems had been sitting in front of me all along.
simple, I would use the information from the books to go find the
wolf Obake on my own. I grabbed the closest volume, and flipped
through the pages until I found what I was looking for.
It was as
Akito claimed. They were apparently very dangerous Obake who many
exorcists had died attempting to defeat. The book must have been
old because it claimed that all wolves served under one pack
leader, who once had central Japan under his control. Akito did say
that he was dead now, so even all powerful Obake had to die
eventually.
Of course I
had no plans to fight them. I didn't want to be eaten alive, but if
I managed to locate them and tell the others, then they would
finally take my skills seriously and allow me to go on more
exorcisms.
I picked up
the rest of the books and shoved them randomly back on the shelves.
I collected my book on wolves and readied myself for my first ever
Obake hunt. Looking back on it now it was comical how eager I was
to find a dangerous level one Obake, especially after the terrible
situation I got myself into.
