Chapter 365 328 – Shy Shizuka

Faced with Eriri's invitation, Takumi naturally had no reason to refuse.

"Looks like I'll have to speed up the plan. After school tonight, I'll deal with the people from the Holy Sword Project."

As Takumi agreed, he muttered that to himself in his heart.

Meanwhile, Yuki Nonaka, who had been sitting to the side in silence while watching Eriri invite Takumi, also had a flicker in her eyes.

Compared to the matter of Mio, she now cared more about Takumi.

Most importantly, the Hero Village had now raised Takumi's surveillance level to "S," while Mio's surveillance level had been lowered to "B."

The village had already sent more people over as well, and this made Yuki very worried.

She did not want anything to happen to Takumi, even if that meant going against the village's orders!

Having made up her mind, Yuki looked at the flashing message on her phone and silently turned it off.

As time passed, dusk soon approached.

As for Kotoko Iwanaga, this transfer student, Shizuka Hiratsuka had nothing left to say.

She had thought one Asia was already enough, but in the end, there was another one. And this one had been parachuted in so suddenly that she hadn't even known about it.

Kotoko was apparently the young lady of the Iwanaga family from the neighboring city. Hiratsuka-sensei truly had no idea how Takumi had managed to hook up with her.

Because of this, when school let out, Hiratsuka-sensei specially called Takumi to the office so she could question him properly.

When it was time to part, Takumi sighed deeply and bid her farewell.

"Shizuka Cutie, stop staring at me like that."

"Oh, right. From now on, I'm giving the nickname Little Shizuka to Yoshimoto-san, so don't miss it too much."

Hiratsuka-sensei's forehead was covered in black lines. Right now, she wanted nothing more than to punch him to death.

"You damn brat, that's enough already!"

When Hiratsuka-sensei reached out, intending to pinch Takumi's cheek to vent, he responded with a crisp slap.

Smack!!!

A clear sound rang out from the tight hip-hugging skirt, and a layer of ripples spread across it.

That wonderfully elastic fluctuation made one's blood run hot.

Hiratsuka-sensei also seemed to have had a button pressed, freezing in place for a moment.

As Takumi turned to leave, his palm brushed without a trace across the black stockings stretched over Hiratsuka-sensei's long legs, leaving a sentence behind.

"Shizuka Cutie, black stockings really do suit you. I'm giving you a thumbs-up!"

"That brat… So he noticed after all!"

Hiratsuka-sensei's face shifted from white to red, and a few faint wisps of steam seemed to rise from the top of her head.

She had deliberately worn a pair of black stockings today, and all day long, she had felt nervous and uneasy, afraid someone else would notice.

But the person she wanted most to notice had gone the entire day without mentioning it.

Now that Takumi had finally given his evaluation, Hiratsuka-sensei instead felt somewhat relieved.

"Hmph~ At least on that point, what he said wasn't bad."

While feeling embarrassed, Hiratsuka-sensei also felt a little smug.

She had specially looked at herself in the mirror too. Wearing black stockings had clearly raised her alluring aura by another level.

Fortunately, both her colleagues and students were all female. Otherwise, she would probably have died of embarrassment.

Looking around and seeing no one nearby, Hiratsuka-sensei let out a sigh of relief.

If anyone else had seen that, she would have needed to find an ant hole to crawl into.

After her brief bout of shyness, Hiratsuka-sensei returned to her car and took out other styles of black stockings. There was even a one-piece, hollowed-out black lace lingerie set.

If Takumi saw it, he would probably immediately cry out in surprise.

Wasn't this the very same lingerie with absolute suppressive power and charm that he had bought for Miyuki before?

"The saleswoman said something about how this would suit me really well… and somehow I ended up buying it. Ngh~~"

Blushing, Hiratsuka-sensei grumbled in embarrassment and decided to go eat her favorite ramen today to properly relax her mood.

However, as she drove onto the street, Hiratsuka-sensei gradually noticed something wrong.

"A people-repelling barrier?"

After fusing with a divine envoy chess piece, Hiratsuka-sensei had gradually begun to grasp her own power through the "skill tree," so she quickly noticed the abnormality.

If it had been the old her, perhaps she would have been driven away by the people-repelling barrier and subconsciously headed somewhere else.

But now, she drove in without obstruction and arrived in front of an abandoned warehouse.

After getting out of the car, Hiratsuka-sensei looked around in confusion.

Aside from the gloomy warehouse in front of her, she could not see anything else unusual.

The power she had recently gained made her bolder.

Even though she realized there was probably a problem, Hiratsuka-sensei still wanted to go in and investigate.

"Whatever demon or monster it is, I feel like I could blow apart a small mountain with one punch right now. What do I have to be scared of?!"

After giving herself a pep talk, Hiratsuka-sensei walked toward the abandoned warehouse and reached out to push open the door.

"If I were you, I wouldn't go near a place that looks dangerous at first glance."

A woman's voice came from the side, instantly startling Hiratsuka-sensei.

"Ah!!!"

She quickly turned her head and saw Yuki Tsukumo riding over on a motorcycle.

Yuki took off her helmet and looked at the trembling Hiratsuka-sensei with great interest.

"There aren't any fluctuations of cursed energy on you… Instead, you seem more like one of my kind?"

Perhaps because divine envoy chess pieces resonated with one another, Yuki quickly recognized that the other woman, like herself, was also Takumi's servant.

Hiratsuka-sensei, however, had clearly not yet mastered the method of identifying whether someone was the "same kind" through their aura.

Looking at Yuki, who had appeared so suddenly and was saying such strange things, Hiratsuka-sensei only found her odd.

But at the very least, the one who had appeared was a person, and that made her breathe a sigh of relief.

"Miss, it's almost nighttime. Could you not scare people like that…"

Halfway through speaking, Hiratsuka-sensei suddenly realized something.

She abruptly raised her head and met Yuki's playful eyes.

"You weren't blocked by the people-repelling barrier. You aren't an ordinary person either?"

"People-repelling barrier? This is a people-repelling technique, okay!!"

Seeing that Hiratsuka-sensei was even mixing up magic and techniques, Yuki could tell that she had definitely been an ordinary person before.

Hiratsuka-sensei, who completely failed to understand what Yuki meant, only found her inexplicable.

"I don't care what technique you're talking about. Are you an exorcist too? Did you come running over here as well?"

Faced with Hiratsuka-sensei's question, Yuki showed a carefree smile.

"I'm Yuki Tsukumo, a jujutsu sorcerer, not an exorcist."

"And one more thing. We're comrades~~"

"Comrades?"

Under Hiratsuka-sensei's blank gaze, Yuki looked behind her and casually said, "It means we're both Takumi's people. You fused with a chess piece he gave you too, didn't you?"

"Eh!!!"

Hearing that Yuki was Takumi's person, Hiratsuka-sensei instantly let out a cry of surprise.

How could she just come out for a drive and still run into someone connected to Takumi?

That guy really could sow seeds everywhere!!!!

While Hiratsuka-sensei was inwardly roasting him, the abandoned warehouse seemed to react to the arrival of the two women and began producing intense fluctuations.

Dark cursed energy, mixed with wisps of pitch-black magic, spread outward like a giant net.

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