Zongman I fight weirdness in everyday world

“Siomiya-san is right.”

Kawasaki Saki patted Yukinoshita Yukino’s shoulder, directly changing the subject to soothe her self-blame.

“Speaking of… that Yuigahama Yui said before leaving that she wanted to fight against our ‘Love’ card? Among us, who has the ‘Love’ as their symbolic Tarot card? Yui?”

Clearly, when it comes to love brains, the members of the Super-Limited Club only think of one person.

Yukinoshita Yukino shook her head.

“No, Saki, you weren't aware at that time, Yui’s Tarot card isn’t ‘Love,’ but ‘The Hanged Man.’ Of course, maybe it has changed now, it’s hard to say. By the way, what is Hoshino doing? Why isn’t he participating in the online meeting?”

Hearing this question, Futaba Rio sighed helplessly, looking speechless.

“I called him. He said he’s busy right now.”

“Busy with what?”

“In a haunted hospital late at night, he’s following a cold, beautiful girl exuding an inviolable aura, enjoying her terrified yet stubbornly strong appearance to satisfy his twisted desires.”

Yukinoshita Yukino: “...The translated meaning is… he’s secretly following Yukino, investigating that hospital in Chiba City together, right…”

“That’s probably what it means.”

…

At the same time, in Chiba Municipal Hospital.

Yukinoshita Yukino walked along the corridor of the inpatient building. Although she could see nurses and family members of patients everywhere, and the corridor was brightly lit, she couldn't help but feel a little nervous when she thought about the strange events happening in this hospital.

At this time, Hoshino was following her about ten meters behind, shaking his head and thinking to himself.

“This Yukinoshita Yukino is really scared. She’s forgotten everything I taught her. She hasn’t even checked the surroundings and is just walking straight ahead. How can she investigate anything like this? It seems the professional training for exorcists still needs to continue.”

Thinking of this, Hoshino suddenly had an idea.

He had used it once in Kyoto Municipal Hospital to train the courage of the members.

It seems like it's time to replicate it once.

…

Five minutes later.

“How is it? I told you, right? Spacious, cool, quiet, and with so many people accompanying us, a perfect resting place.”

Listening to Hoshino's words, Yukinoshita Yukino, who was in the dark, was already on the verge of tears.

Having awakened her soul manifestation ability and having a Soul Avatar that is a Snow Woman, she is not afraid of the cold.

The key is…

What kind of normal person would run to the hospital morgue to sleep?

You sleep if you want, why do you have to drag me along too!?

Yukinoshita Yukino never expected that her first real “sleeping together” with Hoshino would be in such a place.

Could it be… is this heaven's punishment for her being so stubborn?

“Let’s get back to business. Have you found anything after investigating for so long?”

“No.”

Since they were talking about serious matters, Yukinoshita Yukino could only suppress the fear of being in the dark, cold morgue and tried her best to keep her voice from trembling, pretending to be calm as she replied.

“There’s no trace of a ‘Gate’ in the inpatient building, and I haven’t felt any special spiritual power fluctuations.”

“I see.”

Hoshino nodded noncommittally.

“There’s no trace of a ‘Gate’ in the underground level where this morgue is located either. Usually, these two places in a hospital accumulate the most negative emotions. Although I can’t draw a direct conclusion yet, based on my exorcism experience, I’m afraid there isn’t a ‘Gate’ in this hospital, but rather something that can cause strange phenomena and possess a human being, which is why we can’t directly sense the spiritual power fluctuations of the evil spirit.”

“Yes, that possibility is indeed the greatest.”

Yukinoshita Yukino took out her phone. Although the phone signal was weak in the underground morgue, preventing her from accessing the internet, she had already considered various situations and downloaded the hospital's information to her phone in advance for easy access.

“Hmm… let me see… Hayama Hayato’s mother, although she witnessed the strange events, seems to be relatively normal. According to Hayama-kun’s description, his mother is gentle and kind. I heard that she might even be promoted to vice president next year. She has a happy family, a good financial situation, and no bad habits. A person like that shouldn’t have the twisted desires necessary for an evil spirit to possess them. We can exclude her for now.”

“Similarly, the hospital director and most of the doctors are the same. Doctors are, after all, high-income and high-social-status elite professionals. If they were to have a strong, twisted desire for something… unless they experienced something particularly serious, like this person…”

Yukinoshita Yukino looked through the information that L helped her find and took out a photo of a middle-aged doctor in a white coat, looking gentle and refined, frowning slightly.

“If there really is someone in this hospital possessed by an evil spirit, after excluding those patients who were admitted and discharged during the period and didn’t have time to commit the crime, then from the remaining suspects… this doctor, Murakoshi-sensei, is the most suspicious.”

“His wife was in a car accident some time ago. She was originally declared brain dead during the rescue, and they were about to issue an official death certificate, but Dr. Murakoshi refused to let anyone touch his wife’s body at the time. Five minutes later, the brain waves of his wife, who had been declared brain dead, suddenly changed.”

Speaking of this, Yukinoshita Yukino pursed her lips, her expression a little complicated.

“Although Dr. Murakoshi’s wife is still unconscious, in a vegetative state, she was, after all, pulled back from the brink of death. From an emotional point of view… I hope this is just a miracle, and not…”

“How can there be any miracles in this world?”

Hoshino shook his head, his tone calm.

“It sounds nice, but we are exorcists. There is already enough evidence to make a judgment. This so-called miracle of Dr. Murakoshi’s wife coming back to life is the first strange event that happened in this hospital. Now it’s time to confirm it.”

“Okay.”

Just as Yukino Yukinoshita breathed a sigh of relief, thinking she could finally leave this cold and dark place, accompanied by the corpses in the morgue, Ye Xing suddenly reached out and covered her mouth.

"Mmm…"

"Don't talk."

Although the surrounding air was cold, at this moment, feeling Ye Xing's palm touching her lips, Yukino Yukinoshita's pretty face was already flushed, even a little hot.

What is he going to do?

Could it be…

But, here?

Doing this kind of thing in such a gloomy and terrifying morgue?

Ye Xing… does he have such bizarre hobbies? Is it because he has experienced it too many times that ordinary environments can no longer satisfy him, and he has to seek some stimulation that normal people can't accept?

But this… I'm afraid I can't handle it?

"Someone's coming."

When she heard Ye Xing's words, Yukino Yukinoshita belatedly realized that she had been overthinking.

Separated by the heavy metal morgue cabinet, she couldn't hear the movement outside at all, but Ye Xing, with his unusually keen hearing, could hear the approaching footsteps in the corridor outside.

A few seconds later, the owner of the footsteps pushed open the door of the morgue, and then, as if talking to someone, lowered his voice and said.

"I've done everything you asked me to do. If this is discovered by others…"

"Uh-huh, of course I know the reward you gave is a lot, but I don't understand why you want to do this kind of thing…"

"Understood, understood, I won't ask what I shouldn't ask. Okay, I won't say more, tonight is still the same as usual, right?"

"OK."

After hanging up the phone, the man began to pace in front of the morgue cabinets, muttering about the labels.

"Hmm… let me see, how many bodies should I move out tonight? It's best to have the kind that's easy to move and doesn't damage the appearance of the deceased… Otherwise, I really wouldn't feel good about it…"

Hearing this, Ye Xing completely understood what was going on.

No wonder when Yukino Yukinoshita and he came to the morgue, they didn't find any traces of spiritual power. The reason is that the so-called corpses running out of the morgue has nothing to do with evil spirits at all, it's purely manual operation.

"BYD, you guys are playing quite a game."

Just as the man in charge of guarding the hospital morgue was pacing back and forth, wondering which corpses to pull out tonight, one of the compartment's metal beds suddenly popped out, accompanied by such an unexpected remark.

"Ghost… a ghost!"

The man in work clothes took two steps back in fright, slumped on the ground, watching the "corpse" inside climb out of the bed, so frightened that his body curled up into a ball, trembling and incoherent.

"Don't… don't kill me… I… grievances have their source, debts have their debtor… You… you go find him…"

"BYD, you're so timid, yet you dare to do this kind of thing? It's really outrageous."

Ye Xing slowly walked to the man, looking at the other party who was so scared that he didn't even dare to look at him, and couldn't help but complain.

At this time, Yukino Yukinoshita also left the cold morgue with a sigh of relief, and also walked to the man, a bit of chill appearing on her pretty face, and said in a cold tone.

"Is this the guy who made those noises in the morgue?"

Hearing Yukino Yukinoshita and Ye Xing's words, the staff member seemed to realize something and tentatively asked.

"You… you guys… are you humans or ghosts?"

"Pa!"

Ye Xing didn't indulge the staff member at all, and directly slapped the other party's face. Even though he didn't use much force, this slap still made the staff member see stars and blood overflow from the corner of his mouth.

"BYD, you're still asking me? Do you even know what position you're in now? I ask, you answer, understand?"

The staff member covered his swollen cheek, his voice was slurred, but he nodded repeatedly, his attitude very sincere.

"Understood… understood."

He already understood his current situation. Not to mention why these two people were lying in the morgue cabinet, but just looking at this posture, they didn't seem like someone easy to mess with. In addition, he had indeed done something wrong, so how could he dare to make a fuss to the point of calling the security guards over?

Yukino Yukinoshita looked at the staff member and said in a cold tone.

"Say, why did you move the corpses out of the morgue cabinet, and also knock out those nurses on the night shift, and bring them to this kind of place to deliberately scare people?"

"Hey, miss… you can't talk nonsense…"

The staff member shook his head, not even caring about the burning pain on his face, and quickly explained.

"I didn't knock out those nurses, I was only responsible for moving them from the elevator entrance to the morgue, and also moving the bodies out to scare people. I didn't do anything like knocking them out or other outrageous things."

"Oh? Is that so?"

A few traces of coldness flashed in Yukino Yukinoshita's eyes, and she said in a cold voice.

"Then what's your reason for doing these things?"

"This…"

The staff member seemed a little hesitant, but he had only hesitated for less than half a second when he received another crisp slap on the other side of his cheek.

"You're hesitating here with me, huh? Are you going to talk or not?"

Ye Xing had an impatient expression on his face. Without waiting for the staff member to speak, he directly took out a black gun from his pocket, pointed the muzzle at the staff member's forehead, and released the safety, placing his index finger on the trigger.

"Last chance, or I'll happily send you off."

Seeing him suddenly take out a gun and point it at his head, the staff member was so frightened that he almost wet his pants.

What's the situation!?

Slapping a few times is fine, but how does the other party have a gun?

Listening to Ye Xing's tone, and seeing the other party's action of placing his index finger on the trigger, the staff member had no doubt that if he hesitated for even half a second… this young man would really shoot…

"I'll talk, I'll talk, Doctor Murakoshi gave me a lot of money and asked me to do this!"

"Doctor Murakoshi? I see…"

Ye Xing nodded slightly and said with a smile.

"You answered very well."

Just as the staff member breathed a sigh of relief, he saw Ye Xing turn the pistol upside down and smash the hard gun butt against his temple.

"A gun butt as a reward for you."