I won't tell the field I like him

After the exams, the summer vacation is here.

Every summer, the closer to the Obon Festival on July [-]th, the more active the monsters will be.

The Xishanyuan family has been very busy recently.Since joining Chang Yi Sect, the number of clients visiting him has increased day by day, and the Patriarch of the Xishan Yard is on the go all day, busier than in previous years.

Xishanin Qiyin sat in the corridor, enjoying the maid Ayaka fanning her while eating watermelon.

She chewed in small sips, looked at the uncles who were drinking tea and playing cards in the courtyard, and after swallowing, she asked Ayaka thoughtfully: "Father has gone out to eliminate demons, why don't the uncles go?"

Hearing this, Ayaka slightly raised her eyes to glance at the Patriarch's brothers, and replied in a low voice, "Miss, have you forgotten? The adults can't see monsters."

"I know they can't see monsters, but at least they can make a move. Can't they even help draw spells and formations? It's really not possible. It's better to be a coolie than to stay at home."

Qiyin from Xishanyuan frowned dissatisfiedly, her amber eyes saw the lazy behavior of the uncles, showing a touch of disgust, "If the uncles are willing to make a little progress and share the worries of father, our family will not take refuge Field house."

Ayaka lightly fanned Qiyin, agreeing in her heart, but dared not respond.

Qi Yin asked again: "Where's mother?"

Ayaka replied: "Back to Miss, Madam is arranging flowers in the Japanese room."

"Arranging flowers again..." Qi Yin sighed, "So this time father went alone to get rid of the demon again?"

Without waiting for Ayaka to answer, she stood up, looked up at the sky and let out a long sigh.

"Forget it, you still have to rely on me." Qi Yin stepped up and said to Ayaka without looking back, "I'm going to the warehouse to read books, Ayaka, go take care of your mother."

"Yes."

***

Xishanyuan Qiyin doesn't know how ordinary girls spend their summer vacation.But in her summer vacation, there are only endless ancient books to read, endless spells and magic spells to draw.

There are thousands of books and notes about monsters in the warehouse of the Xishanyuan family. Although most of them are difficult to read due to improper preservation, the remaining readable materials are already inestimable treasures for Qi Yin.

After flipping through a book of exorcising demons left by his ancestors, Qiyin Xishanyuan closed the yellowed pages and sighed sadly.

How did this happen.

How did it become like this unconsciously.

According to the records, the Xishanyuan family was once so brilliant, but why after hundreds of years, the people in the family don't even have the talent to see monsters.

My father has three younger brothers. Except for the second uncle who can barely see the afterimage of the monster, the third and fourth uncles can't see at all.

It's fine if you can't see it, and you idle around all day, drinking tea or playing cards, and you don't care about the family's glory at all.

They are elders, and Qi Yin knows that this is not going to work, but she is not qualified to preach in front of them.

After all, it was her father's younger brother, her relative by blood.

Her father once vaguely mentioned to her that it would be fine if her uncles were born in ordinary families, but since they were born in Xishanyuan's family, even if they don't take the road of exorcising demons, the blood of exorcising demons flowing in their bodies will attract the hatred of monsters .

Therefore, even if the uncles have no demon power, the father must protect them.

…………

Qi Yin picked up the brush, dipped it in ink, and drew an intermediate demon-eliminating array on the rice paper with her lips pressed together.

Picking up the pen, looking at the failed pattern on the rice paper, Qi Yin crumpled the rice paper into a ball irritably, and threw it into the wastebasket, only to find that the paper in the warehouse had been used up.

Look at the ink, there is not much left.

……… It was really exhausted fast enough, and the servants at home only replenished it last week.

Forget it, let's just go out and get some fresh air.

She left from the warehouse, tied up her hair and changed into casual clothes. After taking some money from Ayaka, she ignored a group of cousins ​​playing in the yard and left Nishiyamain's house.

***

In the stationery store on the fourth floor of Kanagawa Department Store, Xishanin Qiyin stood in front of the paper shelf, lost in thought.

I really want this dozen of kraft paper...but kraft paper is so expensive.

If you are just practicing elementary and intermediate formation diagrams, ordinary white paper will do.

But there are many kinds of white paper...

Qi Yin had always asked Ayaka to buy the highest grade rice paper before, and never considered anything else.

But because she has been observing the family's income and expenditure recently, Qi Yin realized the seriousness of the matter after discovering that the commission fee earned by her father risking his life to eliminate demons was far from enough for the family's expenditure.

There are too many people who spend money in the family, but too few earners. The current Xishanyuan family, apart from the support from the Chang family, has already begun to use the property left by their ancestors.

Her father never told her that.Carrying everything alone, still giving her the best.

If she hadn't grown up recently and realized something was wrong, otherwise, she didn't know how long she would be kept a secret.

Sighing, Xishanyuan Qiyin hesitated for a long time, reached out and took down a few packs of the cheapest white paper, and chose the cheapest one among the many ink brands.

After putting everything in the basket, Xishanyuan Qiyin, who rarely went shopping, didn't go home immediately, and walked around the stationery store by the way.

Speaking of which, it was almost time to buy some new brushes, so she came to the shelf selling brushes again.

I don't have much choice, and I was just about to get some cheapest brushes to use, when I suddenly noticed that the customer standing next to me looked familiar.

Qiyin squinted her eyes and saw that this was not Rikkai University's discipline committee member—senior Genichiro Sanada! ?

"Huh?" Keenly aware of the girl's gaze, Genichiro Sanada, who was concentrating on which brush to buy, turned his head and frowned, "You are..."

Was discovered.

Xishanyuan Qiyin had no choice but to pull out a smiling face, nodded and said hello, "Senior..."

"I remember you." Sanada said, "You were the classmate who wore jewelry against the rules that day and refused to take it off after I found out."

After he finished speaking, he subconsciously cast his eyes on Qi Yin's wrist, and his eyes converged: "I'm wearing it today too."

Qi Yin subconsciously covered her prayer bead bracelet, but after thinking about it, she felt something was wrong, wait, what are you afraid of?

It's all holidays, and he's not in school, can he still demerit himself?

"Senior, although, I still want to clarify. These are prayer beads passed down from my ancestors, not jewelry."

Xishan Yuan prayed for the sound and said seriously, "It's for protecting the body from evil spirits."

"Protection from evil spirits? Superstition." Genichiro Sanada said with a straight face, "As long as you behave properly, walk upright, and be an upright person, you will naturally not be afraid of ghosts and ghosts."

Prayer from Xishan Temple: "..."

superstitious……

So this senior is this type?Then there is no communication at all.

Xishanyuan Qiyin rubbed her temples and asked, "So, senior, don't you believe that there are monsters in this world?"

Genichiro Sanada nodded: "That's right."

"Then what if I tell you that there is only one sitting on your shoulder right now?"

"what?"

"Senior, don't you feel that your shoulders are heavy recently?" Xishanyuan Qiyin pointed to a silly three-eyed monster on Sanada Genichiro's shoulder, and said, "It's [lazy monster]."

Sanada: "..."

Genichiro Sanada did feel that his shoulders were heavy these two days, but he didn't think it had anything to do with the monster the girl was talking about.

It was simply because he had over-practiced his swing recently in order to prepare for the county meeting, and the amount of exercise was beyond the load.

"Senior, do you need me to help you get rid of the monster?" Qi Yin asked.

"Nonsense." Genichiro Sanada frowned and scolded, "Don't lie."

………………really.

As long as it is invisible, humans will not believe their own words.

Xishanyuan Qiyin sneered in her heart, since she didn't believe her, then she wouldn't help him.

Just kidding, after all, it's also a job of exterminating demons, and she doesn't want to be a white job.

believe or not.

Xishanyuan Qiyin snorted, reached out for a few brushes, and prepared to leave.

Sanada frowned: "Wait."

She turned around: "Why? Senior still has something to do?"

"What happened last time was because I didn't know the situation, so let's not take this as an example."

Genichiro Sanada's gaze rested on the prayer beads on her wrist, and he nodded towards her, "It's natural to wear family heirlooms with you. I will delete the demerit last time from your file after school starts. .”

"Huh?" Qi Yin blinked, "Really?"

"Just don't wear it in the future, the school rules are still the school rules." After finishing speaking, Sanada also chose the brush, nodded to her and turned to leave.

Xishanin Qiyin stared at his back for a while, then suddenly rushed up, stood on tiptoe, stretched out his hand, and slashed Genichiro Sanada's right shoulder cleanly with a knife.

Senichiro Sanada felt a sharp pain and turned his head in disbelief.

The pink-haired girl looked at him with a smile, not only did she not feel ashamed, but also said: "For the sake of being a good person, senior, I will help you get rid of the monster on your shoulders, thank you."

"........."

"Do you feel a little lighter on your shoulders?"

Let alone easy.

Genichiro Sanada, whose right shoulder bone was almost broken, turned black: "..."

"Senior, I know how to eliminate demons, remember to keep it a secret for me."

An impulse exorcised monsters in front of ordinary people, Qi Yin ordered with some concern.

Genichiro Sanada stared at her deeply, and raised his hand to press the brim of his baseball cap.

He was secretly called the devil's deputy head by the members of the tennis club. Seeing that the other party was a junior in the school and a girl, he suppressed his anger for the time being and did not pursue it.

"boring."

After leaving a word, Genichiro Sanada left with a serious face.

Qi Yin knew that she was probably regarded as a [speaking strangely] person by ordinary people, and was a little depressed, but soon relieved.

Forget it, get used to it.

Just about to go to the cashier to pay and go home, suddenly, she noticed two explicit gazes, and quickly reacted to look in the direction of the source of the gazes. Sure enough, she caught two eyes looking at her with excitement and curiosity. people.

A tall, fish-eyed boy with short black hair.

And a petite girl with long orange hair and two cute bows.

"Is something wrong?" Prayer asked.

"Ah, no!" The orange-haired girl who was caught immediately waved her hands in a panic, "I, we just came to buy manga equipment, and I just happened to overhear your conversation! I definitely didn't mean to eavesdrop! Yes, right, Nozaki-kun? "

The tall boy next to him nodded, "Well, it's definitely not collecting material."

Prayer: "..."

Not knowing what these two people were talking about, Qi Yin looked at them suspiciously, left without saying anything more.

Unexpectedly, after school starts.

As soon as Qiyin took her seat when she arrived at school, Yui Harano, who was sitting in the front seat of her, turned around and handed her a manga with an aunt's smile on her face.

Qi Yin took the manga suspiciously, ""Monthly Girls' Romance"?"

Yui Yuanno nodded: "Have you read the students of Xishanyuan? It is a super famous girl's manga monthly. There are many good-looking long-form manga serialized. But——"

Yuan Yewei quickly flipped through a few pages, found the page he wanted, pointed to the picture on it and said to Qi Yin: "This month, Teacher Yumeno Sakiko released a super beautiful short story, the heroine and the classmate of Xishan Institute You look so much alike!"

Similar to yourself?

Qi Yin looked suspiciously at the page of manga Yui Harano pointed to, and froze instantly after seeing the title clearly.

"The Demon Exorcist Boy and the Superstitious Girl: Between the Two ~ Invisible Love"

Prayer: "..."

This, what is this? !

Qi Yin's eyes were staring straight. She was about to pick up the manga and take a closer look, but the manga in her hand was taken away by a hand that suddenly stretched out from behind.

"Hey~ what is this, let me see."

The field Jingsi held up the manga and read the contents out loud.

[The boy said to the girl in front of him with a blank face: "I will help you get rid of the monster on your shoulders, you don't need to thank me."]

[The girl looked ashamed and angry: "What monster, you must be lying!"]

[The boy glanced at her flatly: "Really? But don't you feel that your shoulders are much lighter?"]

【The girl realized that her shoulders were indeed much lighter.But she still does not believe that there are monsters in this world, so she said bravely: "You are so boring!"]

[The boy looked at the back of the girl leaving, pressed down the brim of his baseball cap, lowered his head, "Bored..."]

After reading the contents of the manga, Chang Jingsi looked at Qi Yin, who was not feeling well, and asked with a smile: "Sister Qi Yin, what is this? This superstitious girl...why does she look the same as you?" Feel the same?

Prayer did not speak.

Yuan Yewei nodded and echoed Chang Jingsi: "Student Chang, do you also think that the heroine looks a lot like the classmate from Xishan Academy? Me too, I thought so when I first saw this story! And..."

Yui Yuanye pointed at the tall and indifferent demon-eliminating male protagonist wearing a black hat in the manga, and said thoughtfully: "Speaking of which, this male protagonist also looks very similar to Sanada-senpai in the third grade...

Prayer: "..."

Well, now she finally understands what the words "absolutely not eavesdropping" and "absolutely not collecting materials" meant by the two sneaky high school students in the stationery store that day.

Taking materials from real life, it’s fine for drawing manga or something, why do you have to swap her and Sanada-senpai’s settings!

Seeing the heroine say with a face that resembles her nine times that she doesn't believe that there are monsters in this world, this feeling is really awkward...