Zongman I fight weirdness in everyday world

“Compressed biscuits…”

Hearing this word, Rio Futaba felt a little sad for that golden goat head.

After all, it suffered from not being able to speak and having an excessively ugly and inhuman appearance.

Otherwise, it could be like Hachishaku-sama…

No, that’s not right.

Thinking of this, Rio Futaba suddenly realized something.

What Yozora disliked might not be the golden goat head's strange language and ugly appearance.

But the very act of demanding living sacrifices and transforming humans into apostles.

As this guess arose in her mind, Rio Futaba asked.

“You… really dislike apostles?”

“You noticed?”

Yozora smiled and nodded, saying softly.

“That’s a disgusting thing that makes me sick.”

Rio Futaba frowned slightly, looking puzzled.

“But… when you face evil spirits and ghosts, these inhuman existences, although you occasionally show hostility, it’s not as strong as this…”

“This is different.”

Yozora shook his head, revealing a kind smile.

“Evil spirits want to devour human fear and souls to enhance their own power, just like I want to see them suffer and wail, being devoured by me in despair, it just depends on which side is stronger.”

“But apostles, these kinds of beings…”

When he said this word, although Yozora still had a smile on his face, his eyes revealed undisguised disgust.

“Transforming human souls into twisted things that only obey orders is truly disgusting.”

Rio Futaba nodded slightly, thoughtfully.

“I see… so you want to help Hina Amano because you don’t want her to become an apostle, and because you dislike that Weather God…?”

“That’s not it.”

To Rio Futaba’s surprise, Yozora still chose to speak frankly.

“That’s one of the reasons, but the main motivation is that I want to taste that guy’s flavor, want to eat him heartily.”

Rio Futaba rolled her eyes and sighed helplessly.

“You never change.”

After saying this, Rio Futaba raised her hand, twirling the gray long curls on her shoulder with her index finger, and asked casually.

“So, are you going anywhere else later?”

“I’m not going anywhere else. Tomorrow morning, I’ll gather the members and go to my house first to solve the problem of Shoko Makinohara.”

“Okay, do you want instant noodles?”

“Yes, but after eating instant noodles, I want to eat something else.”

Rio Futaba’s pretty face flushed red, and she scolded softly.

“Pervert.”

…

The next morning, at Yozora’s house.

Rio Futaba, Miruko Yotsuya, Yui Yuigahama, and Mai Sakurajima, the four spiritualists, naturally attended the meeting.

Yukino Yukinoshita, Kazusa Touma, and Saki Kawasaki also rushed over.

Only Kaito Kitagawa, who didn’t know the inside story, was away from Kyoto during this time, accumulating a pile of Sunny Girl commissions that needed to be processed overtime, so Hina Amano was absent.

“Shoko-chan…”

Looking at Shoko Makinohara, who was sitting on the sofa with a gentle and virtuous demeanor, a gentle smile on her face, and whose scale in a certain area seemed to be slightly better than her own, exuding a mature temperament, Miruko Yotsuya found it really difficult to associate her with the sickly little girl she knew before leaving Kyoto.

“Miruko-neechan.”

Shoko Makinohara had a gentle smile on her face and said softly.

“Although my appearance has changed, I’m still Shoko Makinohara, just treat me as before.”

Rio Futaba glanced at Shoko Makinohara and looked towards Hachishaku-sama, who was squatting in her exclusive corner, holding a box of milk and drinking it in small sips.

“Hachishaku, you’ve been guarding Makinohara-san’s side, do you know how she became like this?”

“I don’t know.”

Hachishaku-sama still had that innocent and ignorant appearance, shaking her head with a silly and cute look.

“She just became like this overnight, when I woke up in the morning.”

“This…”

The members looked at each other, not knowing how to speak.

Only Yukino Yukinoshita, who wasn’t familiar with Shoko Makinohara before and always spoke frankly, didn’t care about the atmosphere and said lightly.

“Is it that… puberty syndrome that Mai-senpai suffered from, right?”

After becoming an internal member, Yui Yuigahama had introduced the basic situation to Yukino Yukinoshita, including the reasons for each member joining the club, so she knew that Mai Sakurajima had suffered from puberty syndrome and couldn’t be “observed” for a while.

“Most likely…”

Rio Futaba pushed up her glasses, a hint of heaviness flowing in her eyes.

“To be honest, eerie events are easier to handle than puberty syndrome…”

Psychological analysis has never been Rio Futaba’s forte.

Although there is only one case of Mai Sakurajima so far, if analyzed based on the information currently available, puberty syndrome varies from person to person, and the solutions are also completely different.

The most difficult part is that people suffering from puberty syndrome are based on subconscious thoughts and don’t realize their own knots.

This is very troublesome.

Although puberty syndrome is said to be a disease, the cause of the disease cannot be found through normal examination methods.

In addition, Rio Futaba and Shoko Makinohara already know each other, so it’s too difficult to treat the other party as just a simple case without being disturbed by any emotional factors.

She would rather face terrifying evil spirits, at least she can clearly know what she needs to do, instead of being at a loss like now.

“Then let’s start with the basics.”

Yukino Yukinoshita looked at Shoko Makinohara sitting opposite her and asked softly.

“Makinohara-san, does your body still suffer from heart disease?”

Shoko Makinohara smiled shallowly, a bit of bitterness involuntarily rising in her smile, and nodded slightly.

“Yes… although my body has grown, it doesn’t seem to have changed my illness, it’s like I grew into the appearance of a sixteen-year-old overnight.”

“I see…”

Yukino Yukinoshita nodded noncommittally and looked at the other members.

“Although I don’t quite understand the specific causes of puberty syndrome, judging from Makinohara-san’s description, the reason for her onset is not out of fear of death, but out of a desire to grow up, so the question comes.”

Yukino Yukinoshita still had a calm look on her face and said slowly.

“Why is it growing to sixteen years old? Why not fifteen years old? Eighteen years old? Twenty years old? Why is it the same age as us? In a phenomenon like puberty syndrome that tends to be idealistic, this is probably not a mere coincidence, right?”

As the number one staff officer of the Super-Dimensional Society, Yukino Yukinoshita could notice things that Rio Futaba naturally also noticed.

It’s just…

Because she knows more than Yukino, she now considers more factors.

Seeing Rio Futaba looking absent-minded, as if she was thinking silently about something, Saki Kawasaki couldn’t help but ask curiously.

“Futaba-san, have you thought of any solutions?”

“This…”

Rio Futaba looked hesitant, glanced at Shoko Makinohara, then glanced at Yozora, and finally changed the subject.

“I don’t have any ideas, you guys go ahead and say yours.”

As soon as these words came out, Yui Yuigahama, Miruko Yotsuya, and Mai Sakurajima all felt something was wrong.

Rio Futaba has no ideas?

This is the super Futaba who resorts to quantum mechanics when things are undecided.

How could she not have any ideas?

Could it be that Rio Futaba already has a clue, but it’s not convenient to say it in front of Shoko Makinohara?

Is it something unspeakable?

I don’t understand.

Seeing everyone discussing her puberty syndrome, Shoko Makinohara suddenly made a move that surprised everyone present.

She silently stood up from the sofa, walked to Yozora’s side, then smoothed her skirt and sat directly next to him.

The air in the room suddenly fell silent.

Seeing the members staring at her, Shoko Makinohara smiled gently and brushed her long hair behind her ear.

“Sisters, please continue talking, don’t mind me.”

The women looked at each other.

How can we not mind?

No, Makinohara-san, what do you mean?

What is a love triangle balance?

Haven’t you seen that even Kazusa Touma, who has the most reclusive personality, the strongest possessiveness, and whose relationship with the other members is not very familiar, didn’t sit next to Yozora in today’s occasion, but sat there alone?

If you can’t sit together, then no one sits.

That’s called a subtle tacit balance.

But at this time, Shoko Makinohara’s sudden behavior broke this balance.

It’s just…

Yui Yuigahama opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but suddenly thought that Shoko Makinohara’s body has only grown to the state of a sixteen-year-old, and after all, her psychological age is still a primary school student, almost like Menma.

Would she think so complicatedly?

Thinking about the past… Shoko Makinohara did show admiration for Yozora, this big brother.

This makes sense.

After all, in Shoko Makinohara’s eyes, Yozora is the hero who saved her life and eliminated that powerful evil spirit.

The problem is…

Is it really just pure admiration for a hero?

Is there anything else besides that?

Probably… not, right?

Just when the women were hesitant, there was a brave woman who took the lead.

“Then I want to sit too.”

Kazusa Touma stood up and walked over, sitting next to Yozora.

She doesn’t care about those things, what atmosphere, what mood, what Shoko Makinohara’s psychological age.

Kazusa Touma only knows one thing.

If Shoko Makinohara can sit, can’t I, Kazusa Touma, sit too?