Chapter 79 - Volume 5 (2/2)

“………Yuzu. Is that alright?”

“So Onzada-kun, what was *that* that you threw out?”

“You, did you see it?”

I didn’t notice that I changed the subject, but Onzada-kun raised a pitiful voice.

“Something” had flown out of his hand. It was a disease that troubled 14 year olds, and he was throwing pebbles and nails.

“Ah,…… ehm, that’s right, I threw a shuriken.”

“Heeh…… then where is it?”

“………Don’t tell anyone.”

Onzada-kun looked around and brought his face close to my ear.

“That was because I threw it with “ki”.”

The answer fell far into the “disease” category, it would normally seem like it was too late for him, but I was satisfied with the answer.

At that time, something that was accumulating in Onzada-kun’s body was shot out through the palm of his hand, and it ‘shot out’ something. I don’t know if that’s the ‘ki’ that Onzada-kun is talking about, but the answer seems to be most appropriate.

If I hadn’t seen it, I might have thought that it was a shuriken.

“Is that something like…… a fighting game?”

I only have knowledge of that degree.

“It’s something like that…… but the real thing is much more amazing. You can attack things like ghosts, too.”

“Ghosts…… Onzada-kun can do those kinds of things, huh. Amazing.”

“Ooh, it’s because I was born in a temple.”

“Oh~~~”

Onzada-kun was a temple child. Indeed, I thought that his name was strange. To enter Takamine school, is he the child of some great shrine keepers?

And although I thought that it was impressive, did all ordinary monks have ‘ki’ or fly?

If all of the people in the world could do such things, then wouldn’t there be more people applying to work in the shrines?

I don’t know the circumstances of the shrines, but I don’t care, either.

“Onzada-kun, I want to try too.”

“………Haah?”

At my sudden words, Onzada-kun had a half-astonished-half-uncertain expression on his face.

“I’m not sure that the little childlike Yuzu can do it. It took a while before I could even rattle the can. It’s not child’s play, you know.”

Since when were you an adult, Onzada-kun…

“Give me a chance. Teach me, Onzada-kun. I’ll do it seriously.”

“……Well~”

Onzada-kun began to have doubts for a moment.

I was being serious. I wished that I could control my weird [Power] to some extent.

One more push.

“It’s alright, I can keep it a secret from everyone.”

“Well, you’ll be struck by your parents if you leak it out, so don’t say it! It’s said at the temple that if you practice too early, you’ll be unable to do it.”

“……I-I see.”

Onzada-kun seems to have chattered out his weakness to me. It’s a spontaneous kind of digging one’s own grave. What is it again…… it seems like he’s the “gets-carried-away-easily” kind of person.

“Yes, it’ll be a secret between the two of us.”

“Tha-that’s right.”

With one last push tipping him over, Onzada-kun suddenly became nervous and averted his gaze. What is it?

I managed to persuade him with that feeling, and began to learn the technique of the “temple”.

“……So, so, you suck up the spirit of nature from your soles, and store it under your belly.”

“………?”

“Imagine circulating the gathered spiritual power inside your body…”

I’m not sure.

I don’t need to collect it from the outside, since there’s that [Power] inside my body, so I can just use that.

Perhaps the quality of the power’s different? Is it not ‘ki’ spiritual energy? If I did it with mental power, I got the feeling that it’d be [Destroyed]……

*Gishiiiii………*

“”…………””

When I tried to stick out my hand to release the [Power], there was a sound like rushing air.

…… what was that sound? I wonder if I did something again……

“……B-Because it’s tiring if we do a lot all of a sudden, I think it’s better to stop here.”

“Th-that’s right. I should go home soon.”

It concluded like that.

Onzada-kun said he would teach me from now on whenever we meet.

“Well then, I’ll eat something then go home……”

“Something……?”

Onzada-kun, took out the contents of his sports bag that he’d brought with him.

“………”

When I saw it, I quietly took my distance from Onzada-kun, and drop-kicked Onzada-kun who had taken out the “brazier”.

“You’re the criminal!”

And when I went home… It’s certainly not my fault that all of the 90 year old zelkova trees in the school yard have suddenly withered and have their leaves fall……

Author’s Notes:

While we still can, the heartwarming part is progressing slowly.

Next time, the [Heroine] attacks.