Vol 3 Chapter 2 (1/2)
Chapter 2 - Small Client
Part 1
Let’s go a few hours back in time
“Seeii!”
With a sharp exclaranted by the king of the flame spirits to conquer the devil, burned and exorcized in a single stroke the revengeful ghost haunting the construction site
“Fuuu”
Confirhost’s annihilation, Ayano restored Enraiha back to its scabbard – her own body Immediately from behind, a vapid sound can be heard:
Bu, bu, bu
“!”
Looking over the shoulder at the sad sight, sproing, she faced the source of the noise with a villainous discerneration, contains several tihost
Basking in thosehands – giving such a dull sound But as evidence he wasn’t particularly sorry, his predatory smile didn’t disappear
“”
With a challenging look that could kill people by sight, Ayano stared at Kazu The usually sloppy facial expression A slack attitude from which you couldn’t feel a trace of tension That was acceptable Even if he appears relaxed, it’s impossible for this man to be less than prepared before a battle
But even so, around his head, or to be more accurate, fro, as one would expect, she cannot stomach The width of Kazuet fat,up in layers of clothes
At the top a fluffy down jacket Stuffed with lots and lots of feathers He seemed to be extre underneath to appear to have doubled the thickness of his arloves – the origin of those dull applause
No matter how you look at it, it’s a flawless winter-sports-watching-look
If he were to hold a warhost, Ayano would have tried to decapitate Kazuma first
Ayano focused that thorny glance on Kazu in this place was because he was supposed to act as Ayano’s guard To conclude, it wasn’t to watch other people’s fight from a safe place, with an appearance that would slon his movement
Despite it, this man is –
“Just by standing there distractedly, to be given ood social position, huh?”
Sarcasree of scorn doesn’t get through Kazuma’s thick skin
”I agree The suzerain favors me so!”
Toward Kazu response, Ayano felt a fairly serious killing intent She shouted, letting anger take it’s natural course
“I’m sick of it! Why does Father hire you for this kind of job!?”
“Don’t ask me that”
Certainly, so far, Juugo never allowed Ayano to take a job unassisted But, the duty of being an escort held so far by the practitioners of the branch families nowadays was entrusted to Kazuma alone
Of course, he was being paid
No matter how nasty his personality was, Kazuma is a top class practitioner His reo, even on these trifling ghost extermination jobs, obstinately continues to employ Kazuer Ayano does all the work by herself This man stands before her eyes for the sake of profit
You’re just a pimp!
Irritating but inevitable, Ayano decided to allow herself a hing man, she says in a tone that allows no objection:
“I’ to dinner”
Kazuhtly
“Do you want to extort ain?”
“Why are you co? They’re easy money at best”
“That’s different If I were to name it, my job is like insurance There is no need to e alone appears”
In reply to Kazuer in front of him
“In case of insurance, isn’t there supposed to be a refund?”
“If he were to refund every tio bankrupt”
“You’re safe Because you still make a lot of profit”
Obstinately, Ayano strongly insisted Even Kazu such a comfortable job and wasn’t in the mood to unconditionally refuse her Even his rebuttal lost their usual severity, containing sweetness similar in some respects to a pre-established harmony
“Well, fine If it’s just food”
In the end Kazu into a broad s
“Very well Let’s go then Yukari told me about a delicious French restaurant”
“French, huh?”
Kazu
“Whether it’s French of ethnic it doesn’t matter but will they let us in, dressed like this?”
Ayano turned around, twitching her eyebrows Her attire was the usual school uniform Because this suit is an ihty item
But Kazuma –
“Why don’t you dress properly?”
“Fool”
With a single word Kazuma cut down and threay Ayano’s criticism
“Why do I have to dress up in the exorcism business?”
“That wouldn’t be too bad Perhaps you will beco”
“Leave h to dress up for, right?”
It goes without saying but those words can’t help but incur Ayano’s displeasure Arching her eyebrows in anger she commands:
“Do you hearthe job wear a necktie Do you understand?”
“I refuse,” Kazuma answered instantly
That quick reaction clearly denoted that there is no place for negotiation
“What a cheapskate!”
“Do you think that’s where the problem is?”
During this vigorous match full of boos and irony the couple walked to the station Although the au as close as they like, looked like nothing else but some sort of matrimonial quarrel – maybe
Eventually both were ad down after searching for the most expensive (this is essential) restaurant
“Well, so like this”
“Don’t <so like=”” this=””>>on the ainst me?”
Ayano bent her head slightly to one side and gazed at Kazuma with a completely curious look
“ – Eh, you thought I didn’t?”
Being treated by Kazuma to dinner, as a matter of fact, this is not the first time Or perhaps I should say, it already became an after work custom
Harass, even if just a little, Kazu at all Ayano explained her actions like this and she herself truly believed so – at the very least, at a superficial level
“Before I met you I didn’t know”
Hands joined before her chest, like a dreaht:
”The meal other people treat me to could be so delicious”
Ecstatically and with eyes closed, she is looking forward to Kazuma’s reaction However, the severe retort she certainly believed would come, no matter how much ti at Kazuaze outside the
He didn’t hear a word from Ayano’s provocation
“What are you looking at?”
“Hmmm? Ah”
Brought back by Ayano’s voice Kazuma’s eyes barely return to her
“Nothing”
“hmm”
”Sorry to keep you waiting” For a short while the same quarrel-like unro chane
”ufuu ♥”
Ayano attentively watched the cha satisfied sounds, with a slass in one hand
”Well then, let's celebrate another job successfully finished - ”
The lass for the toast, Kazuma abruptly stood up
”Kazuma?”
”I'ent business I'll take care of the bill, so don't worry”
With those words, without looking at Ayano, he took the receipt and walked away
”Ehwait”
Ayano stared in a daze at Kazuister And just like that, without any sort of greeting, Kazuma left the store and disappeared in the middle of the crowd
”What's the matter with you”
At that tier made her body tremble
”What are you trying to say!”
Because this was a public place she barely ed to keep her voice down In that state, that violent eet angry at
The slender fingertips supporting the legs of the chalass broke it with a sinister sound
Part 2
After leaving the restaurant, with athat showed no hesitation, Kazu severalthere, he looked up at the sky
”Well then - what are you going to do?”
Facing the empty space, quietly, Kazuma asked -
”Will you coed out?”
The ansas a blow The light ball that suddenly appeared ca at Kazuma's head
That oblique attack froht ball flying before his eyes suddenly altered its angle and started cliround
A second dive
But this ti involved, its aim was off
”Good grief!”
The light ball flies around Kazuarding the laws of inertia, perfectly exceeds humans' perception capacity
By using his eyes alone, Kazuht ball's movement as a line not a point
But -
Lightly, his right hand stretched horizontally As it, just by doing that he can take so which has been placed there, a relaxed, natural movement
And yet, when the light track blended with his fingertips, as if it was soreed upon - Kazurasped it tightly
”It huts, it hurts, it huuuuuurts!!”
The high pitch shrill that gushed out of the light ball jolted his brain
Siure hidden inside ht was less than twenty centihtly sharp and transparent wings were growing from its back
Looking hard at the thing held in his hand, Kazu bored
”What, it was a bug?”
”Wrong! Bug is wrong!!”
Fro
It was belonging to the species referred to as pixies Living inside forests, mischievous but cute fairies They rarely ventured into human communities but as he unfortunately knew, not never
It happened at the end of the last year Together with Ayano, during the job at the school she was attending, it was the first ti called ”a fairy's prank”
Although he was the only whose good fortune wasn't da around was still fresh
”So, what do you want?” asked Kazuma with apathetic words
If the pixie were to say this is just ”a greeting because of a chance ” he was seriously determined to crush it
”You see, you see, I have a request, Contractor-sama”
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem this fairy just happened to pass by However, the response was ful Because he was called by a name it wasn't supposed to know
”Does thisthe party you want to ask a favor from, you start the attack?”
Cross-exa, the fairy answered
”Ah, that - that was a play for the sake of an i like that - ouuuuch!?”
”Ha - ha - ha”
With a dry laughter, Kazu more force He said with perfectly serious tone:
”Die at once!”
”Auuuuit huuurts, I' to die!”
With sober eyes Kazu fairy - Of course, without reducing the strength
Observing the way the fairy's hish, when it's breath becas, the fairy fell to the ground with a flop After several seconds -
”Auuuuuhow cruelGyaaaa!”
Kazuot up at last
While feeling a frail resistance from the sole of his foot, he fired the next question
”Well then, question number two Where did you find out about me?”
”Aah, how terrible!”
Just like that, the energetic fairy ju still in front of Kazury!”
”You don't remember about me?”
”You don't get it”
Waiving his hand quite bothered, flinging off the fairy's complaints and its body, Kazuma asked:
”What did you call me?”
Surely the pixie saw his face during that incident but he doesn't re it he was a Contractor It wasn't information easy to come by
”Ah - that? I heard it froe”, answered the fairy as a s outstretched, it continued with a triumphant air
”And so, it's been decided that only Contractor-sama can rescue our family from crisis I was sent because I was a close acquaintance”
”that so?”
close acquaintance - who are you talking about?
Although harboring that that sort of feeling, he can't flatly refuse the request of the patriarch of the fairy village Kazuma pressed forward
”So, what is that request?”
”This is a major incident!”
Planning to display its anger, the fairy rose slightly higher than Kazu forward
”Recently hue and stole the family's treasure!”
Contrastive to the excited fairy, Kazuma replied in a sober tone
”Well, that happens often”
”No, it doesn't! Even the patriarch said it is unparalleled in history!”
”That's wrong”, Kazuma declared with absolute confidence
The fairy's village is placed in a slightly different dimension from the material world humans inhabit Therefore, by physical means it absolutely cannot be reached
”I don't knohether it is unprecedented or not but it will happen again No reed, they are powerless”
For the sake of satisfying one's desire humans conquered all hardshi+ps Even if a dimensional barrier were to block their way, if it is necessary, it will, without exception be smashed
What's e inflicted on others
The affirood or evil, that is mankind's course of action - Kazuma knew it so
”Don't be so proud of such a thing”
”It doesn'tout the truth”
Even because of those eyes obviously filled with blanity, he affirms himself
”Moving on, the request is to find the treasure, right?”
”Uh-huh That's right If we don't have it, our entire existence will be in danger!”
See convinced that the request was already heard, the fairy began dancing, looking glad While quietly starring at that appearance, Kazuma let out the essential question
”Will there be a reward?”
The fairy petrified in the3 separate O's, it stared at Kazuma Kazuma also, calmly stared back at her Not less than one full minute, they stared at each other
”errrrContractor-sama”
Finally pulling herself together, the fairy asked Kazuma in a cracked voice
”What?”
”Contractor-sama, you made a contract with the spirits of the wind and becaht?”
”Yes”, Kazuma nodded in assent
”And because of that, wellwe, the pixies, are fairies affiliated with the wind, you could say the relatives of wind spirits”
”Thank you for especially teachingWhat of it?”
”So,well, as for the proxy of the King of the Spirits on this earth, isn't it natural to help his family in times of crisis, don't you think?”
”Ah, I see”
S sweetly, Kazuma kindly extended a hand to the fairy He softly wrapped his hand around that slass work
”Listen up, bug”
”No, hear me out, I'm not a”
With that fir to him like a mask, Kazu the fairy
”Wow - putting one's life on the line for the proof of one's identity, huh? Not what I've hoped for but that way of life can't be evaluated”
”Auuufine, so like me, just an insect”
Yielding to terror, the fairy sold her pride Kazuma nodded
”Listen really close, bug You should know aboutof Spirits, it doesn't mean I am burdened with some special sort of special duty”
”S-sneakydoes that mean that you took all the poithout any sort of risk?”
”Yeah”, Kazu the fairy
”That's why, if you want to request so me the stack of cash I'll listen to your story after that”
Saying those words he turned his back on the thrown out fairy and started walking
It wasn't a strategy, much less a joke Kazuma considered this discussion already over
”Wh - wait a minute!”
The duure, flew before Kazuma in a panic
”I understand, we'll give you soe's treasure”
”a fairy's treasure?” Kazuma frowned, very suspicious
”Solass beds or pretty stones you picked by the river or insect shells or - ”
”The fairy village is not a crow's nest! We have lots of gold and gems, you know!?”
Just by hearing that, Kazu up at that fairy with that apathetic face, he casually said:
”How much of those?”
”Uuu, huh”
”There doesn't see amount, huh? If your fa you own!”
”You'll go that far!?”
”That's the foundation of business, you know”, Kazu fairy
With sulky eyes, she glared at Kazuma
”I have to consult the patriarch”
After all, it became like this
”Please do And - ”
Nodding proudly, Kazued the topic
”About the treasure, what is it?”
”Eh?”
”So, the shape, thelike that If you don't tell me about those I can't search for it”
After understanding the looan to shi+ne She shouted with vigor
”You came around!?”
Answering to the fairy's srinned
”If it's the treasure of the fairy village, I pray it has enough value to satisfy me”
Instantly the fairy remembered that optical illusion-like mouth that seemed to split until ears Timidly, she asked:
”Sayjust for reference, ill you do if it doesn't satisfy you?”
”Annihilation, isn't it obvious?”
”isn't it obvious”
Toward the fairy, involuntarily repeating it, Kazurinned all the more
”When that ti in your memory that the destruction of your family was the result of the rashness of your speech, you can die”
Sizing it in his hand for the third ti himself fros and a pointed tail were to appear because she was hallucinating, that is definitely not the fairy's responsibility ”Auuuu”
”Well then”
Per for a while the fairy's scream, Kazuma returned to the topic
”Enough idle talk, tell me the job details”
”Well, you seeto call the announcement of my entire family's annihilation idle talk”
”You're noisy So, what kind of treasure is it?”