Chapter 28 (1/2)
If Wu Yan and not seen in the original work how this lifeform really looked like, even if he were to be beaten to death he would still not believe she’s Isumi’s great grandmother, no matter how one looks at her, she looked just like a little loli.
Biologically or psychologically….
Watching the ‘little loli’ throwing a tantrum jumping up and down in front of him, he felt various kinds of immense pressure.
“If you need help with anything just say it, I will do my best to…”
He said so as if everything has become clear to him.
Figures, it’s the last mission and it’s an artifact, how can it be accomplished so easily, it felt so unreal to him.
“Let me do the explanations.”
Isumi’s mom pulled away the ‘little loli’ and smiled gently at him.
“I will seriously listen and I hope you would seriously respond as well!”
He emphasized the ‘seriously’ part of his speech. He doesn’t need to listen to the next season of her love history.
He didn’t know if she had received the message but she pulled out a charm from her chest.
Rather than saying it is unique from other charms, it’s more like it’s old and tattered from what seems to be the ravage of time.
“And this is?”
He finds it odd that she would bring out a charm because from the charm, he felt something weird being given off by it.
Isumi uses charms as well, and he’s seen it. The effect is quite something but in the end it’s no more than a switch, an outlet to manifest her power, there’s nothing about the charm that’s special per se.
If she didn’t exert any power on the charm then the charm is nothing more than paper.
But this charm however had a weird aura to it. Some power is exerted on it and from the tattered looks, it seems the one who did so isn’t Isumi or her mother.
“This charm is a pa.s.s for a barrier!”
Isumi’s mom turned serious when she said this.
“A pa.s.s to a barrier?”
He glanced at Hinagiku to seee if she has any opinion on this matter but it seems she did not so he turned back to her mom.
“We the Saginomiya’s as an exorcist clan has to date, eliminated countless spirits…”
She has a rather proud look on her face, it seems she’s quite proud of her family’s achievement but she returned back to subject very soon.
“Competent as we are, there’s still some spirits that can’t be dealt with by our abilities, and these spirits tend to be much stronger than your run off the mill variants. They can only be sealed to keep them away from doing harm to human.”
“Seal.. is it?…”
He could more or less guess what she’s going to ask him to do.
Nodding she continued.
“These deviant spirits, thought not many, has acc.u.mulated over the decades and so has come to a point where they’re quite numerous.Therefore to prevent the sealing sites from increasing to a level where management would be impossible and the slightest breach of containment would create an unsalvageable mess, the head of one of the many generations decided to pool together the whole clan’s power and set a gigantic sealing barrier!”
“That is to say, because you guys can’t get rid of these spirits, you’ve decided to dump them all in this barrier yes?”
“Indeed, as long it’s of a certain level of strength and can’t be completely destroyed, we the Saginomiya’s will seal the spirit in there.”
Frowning he doesn’t know what to comment on, doing it like these there’re various pros and cons….
Noticing this she also sighed.
“I think Wu Yan-kun has realized it, doing this certainly could reduce a lot of ha.s.sle but at the same time it opened the door to other bigger issues as well….”
“Bigger issues?”
Hinagiku turned up her brows at her.
Helplessly shrugging he explained.
“If my guesses are correct, this would avoid being spread too thin but because the deviant spirits are all gathered at one place. When they have reached a critical ma.s.s these spirits would pose a significant hazard.” (Tl: imagine a toilet bowl where s.h.i.t acc.u.mulates and the plumbing broke for a long time)
“What!”
Surprised she turned her gaze over to Isumi and she could only shake her head.
Bitterly laughing as she continued.
“Yes, and with the pa.s.sage of times these spirits increased in number and strength and finally one day an accident happened!”
“The head of that generation returned from an exorcism and decided to go inside the containment to put the spirit away, but he never came back. The clan at that time almost lost their sense about the matter, they sent out recon parties into the barrier but none made it back alive. So the new head decided to fortify the barrier and completely sealing it off not allowing clan members to seal anymore spirits inside…”
Noticing something off he asked her.
“If that’s so then what’s the issue? Was the containment breached?”
“No way….”
Dryly laughing Hinagiku tried to confirm with Isumi’s mom.
Dismissing her thoughts by shaking her hand she resumed.
“No, sealing spirits into it anymore has been banned, and with the way it is, barring any unforeseen circ.u.mstances, containment breach absolutely won’t happen.”
Hinagiku heaved a sigh of relief, while he felt humored by the story before turning to Hatsuho.
“Since there’s nothing wrong with the barrier, is the matter at hand still something you require me to do with the barrier?”
“Yes it is!”
lifting the charm in her hands she proceeded.
“This is the only way pa.s.s to enter the barrier, only the holder of this charm and enter the barrier.”
“Wait wait wait!”
Upset, Hinagiku protested.
“Are you guys insinuating that Yan enter the barrier?”
Hatsuho just nodded grimly at her response.
“No way! I absolutely will not agree!”
Still shouting she continued.