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The girl retorted with a blush.
However, she still succumbed to their teasing glances.
"I just... I just heard it from a friend."
"Huh? Reiko has a yokai friend who reads those kinds of books?"
The snow woman teased, her eyes filled with mockery.
"No way~"
Reiko quickly denied it.
Aside from her signature warm smile, this was the first time Aoba had ever seen the girl with a mixture of shyness and anger.
So pretty!
"Alright, but if what I unleashed last time was demonic power, it might actually be of some help."
"Really?! Thank you, manager!"
"Don't thank me yet, because I'm human and can't go alone, so..."
"Thank you, Snow Woman!"
The words are not finished yet.
Reiko immediately stood up and bowed deeply to the Snow Woman at a 90-degree angle.
"Alright, alright, you're such a considerate person, Aoba-sama, you don't even consider my feelings~"
The snow woman waved her hand lazily, but her expression turned serious in an instant.
"However, if it is really caused by an external object that causes the demonic power to go berserk, the commander-in-chief really needs to be careful."
Aoba understood in the blink of an eye.
Lingzi usually stays in the area on the edge of the 20th district.
Her monster friends were nothing more than minor monsters lingering on the edge of District 20.
Those monsters could never possibly control external objects that would cause their demonic power to surge.
Besides, that thing doesn't have legs and couldn't possibly run over by itself.
"Let's send the opossum team to scout things out first."
Aoba thought for a moment, "Just gather information from the edge; there's no need for in-depth investigation."
"Besides, compared to what we found out through investigation, Reiko experienced it firsthand, so she knows it better than we do."
Faced with Aoba's approving gaze, 420 Reiko wanted to smile and nod in response.
But then she remembered the snow woman's teasing, and her blush hadn't faded.
"I'll be happy to help!"
"Then I'll wait for Reiko to let me know."
Aoba smiled and looked at Reiko, "Although it's a bit impolite, I think Reiko has changed a lot."
? !
Have I changed?
The girl pointed at herself, her eyes glazed over.
"Yes, Reiko is shy now."
"Ah...the store manager is bullying me!"
"I didn't bully her, but I'm still really looking forward to meeting Reiko's monster friends."
"They are all very good monsters!"
Speaking of her friends, Reiko took out a somewhat damaged notebook from her small schoolbag.
The cover reads "Natsume's Book of Friends".
Turn it over slightly.
It contained many strange names, written in a very awkward font.
"Eh, is this the Book of Friends that Reiko was talking about?"
Aoba was somewhat surprised.
"Yes, I want to write down all their names, so that as long as the notebook is still here, they and I will be friends forever!"
Reiko was very proud.
This was a solution she had come up with with great difficulty.
"Are all these names monsters?!"
Even the Yuki-onna was surprised to see dozens of pages of yokai names.
You don't just tell others the names of monsters.
Once you tell someone your name, it's equivalent to unconditional trust!
This means entrusting everything about oneself to the person to whom one's name is entrusted.
That is the final resting place for monsters.
"Yes, all of them~"
"It seems Reiko will become a very good commander-in-chief in the future," Yuki-onna remarked with a smile.
"We must treat these monsters well. To bear the name of a monster means to bear its fate."
Is there really such a thing?!
Standing to the side, Aoba noticed that Yuki-onna's resentful gaze seemed to be directed at him.
"Then... do I count too?"
"Of course it counts." Yukino Fuyuki stretched, her eyes alluring. "I've entrusted everything to the Commander-in-Chief~"
"You need to take your responsibilities seriously!"
"Aoba... Lord!"
Chapter 134 Kasumigaoka: Lick your feet clean and I'll forgive you!
Crash-!
The rain is even heavier tonight.
The muggy temperature of early autumn seemed to have dropped to its lowest point at this moment.
The wooden door was blown open by the wind, making a creaking, scraping sound.
A cool breeze blew into the izakaya, suddenly chilling the warm atmosphere inside.
Tick-tock, tick-tock
The clock on the wall ticked away second by second.
It's 10:30 p.m.
The torrential rain did not stop.
Such weather had absolutely no effect on Thor and the others.
They even considered this kind of weather to be perfect for taking a bath.
Little Kanna sat by the door, staring blankly at the constantly opening and closing wooden door.
Thor was constantly serving the customers in the restaurant, going back and forth between the kitchen and the front of the house.
But they didn't complain at all when faced with these tedious and simple tasks; instead, their faces were filled with happy smiles.
Perhaps for a powerful dragon, experiencing this kind of ordinary life is already very precious.
"Continued Cup!"
"I want it too~"
"This toast is to freedom!"
"Goooooooo~"
At the table to the left of the bar, there were two respected teachers, yet they were drinking heavily late at night.
He was also saying some incomprehensible things.
In the corner in front of the bar, a girl in black stockings propped her head up and occasionally chatted with Reiko and Yuki-onna next to her.
When he got excited, he even made Aoba, who was standing at the bar, laugh.
"Hey Kasumigaoka-kun, it's already past ten o'clock, shouldn't we head back?"
Tomorrow is the cultural festival at Toyonosaki Academy.
The girl needs to get to school early.
Kasumigaoka Utaha looked up at the clock; it was just past 10:30 and the clock was ticking away.
The girl exclaimed in surprise, "Wow, how did tonight go by so fast?!"
"And the rain outside hasn't stopped yet?"
After packing her things, Kasumigaoka walked to the door and looked at the endless rain under the neon lights with a sense of inexplicable worry.
It's getting late.
It's still pouring rain.
Even though her home is very close to here, a girl will still be scared after all.
"Manager..."
The girl hadn't finished speaking.
A large black umbrella was already open at the entrance, and Qingye, who had taken off her apron, stood at the door.