It Became a Time-Stop Slit-Eye

45. I can’t be in the dark!

The reason why I didn’t tell Hotaru Ichinose about Kenichi and myself is simple.

Because her heart is upright.

The Fire Miko, Hotaru Ichinose.

The protagonist’s childhood friend.

Cheerful personality.

He is very interested in other people’s relationships and is kind to most people.

The type who sincerely sympathizes with and tries to help a friend when something difficult happens.

If you think positively, he has a good personality, but if you look badly, he is far-fetched.

This personality also applies to Kenichi and me.

If he knows our situation, Hotaru will never stand still.

My friends are plagued by monsters every night and try to prevent the end of the world.

As a shrine maiden, she might throw away even her duty to protect the shrine and come running to us.

But it shouldn’t be like that.

For me, who plans to develop all the leading roles to the limit, I don’t like that kind of situation.

A shrine maiden must exist in a shrine.

She communicates with the gods, and until her powers grow to some extent, she has to, at least for a while.

If you have a fire shrine maiden by your side, it will definitely be of great help in dealing with all the monsters.

I once played mainly with Kenichi and Hotaru, and it was quite successful.

The all-weather support from swordsman-vanguard and shaman-heal, buff, miracle, and exorcism was a great combination.

I don’t know because I haven’t been to the second half, but it goes smoothly until episode 7.

[ Bad Ending! ]

Well, from episode 8 onwards, it seemed to have reached its limit, but it had bad endings close to 100 times.

That’s a common balance failure in dog dung manga, and in any case, the combination of Kenichi and Hotaru is very compatible.

A very useful combination, minus the major drawback that if you let Hotaru out of the shrine too early, she will not be able to fully build up her divine power due to lack of communication with the gods.

I actually thought about doing that, but unlike the original plan, Sento was easily taken over.

Thanks to that, the plan has changed quite a bit.

Now that he has a back-guard, a sorcerer, to match with Kenichi, it’s right for Hotaru to stay at the shrine for the time being.

It’s not like I’m an outcast, but I hope you stay quietly at the shrine and do some new work.

I didn’t tell you what I was hoping for, but that’s why I realized it a little late.

“Hmm, this is very difficult.”

I am the lifesaver who saved Hotaru.

Somehow, Hotaru’s likeability was high from the beginning, but there was a reason for that.

It may be okay to ignore it because it has already happened, but it didn’t go well with my personality.

‘In a world where I don’t save Hotaru, then what will happen to him?’

There’s no way I’ll die just like that.

If she dies there, she won’t be able to awaken as a fire priestess or appear in her games.

There’s no way she’ll ever die.

She also dismissed the relief that someone had killed Hotaru and pretended to be her, which popped into her mind at the moment.

If it turns out that the contents of the heroine were fake, even the ‘end of the day’ who have been scolded by players for being a dog dung mangem will face more ignorance.

In fact, after looking at it, it turns out that what’s inside Hotaru’s body is not a human, but an alien!

If such a reversal occurs, then the genre will not be exorcism high school, but just horror.

No matter how much I am a nursing aid, I had no intention of sucking on heroines whose contents were villains or aliens.

The reliability of ‘End of Love’ has hit rock bottom, but I decided to believe in this part.

‘Was it a route where, if left alone, I would be chosen by the gods and awaken as a shaman?’

The monstrous wolf was quite strong for the newly awakened shrine maiden to kill, but it is still more likely than Hotaru-villain, Alien Seol.

As the existence of ‘God’ is more volatile than magic or swordsmanship, and has a high instantaneous peak, there is a clear possibility that he would have survived on his own if he had awakened on the spot.

If you look at it that way, it’s pretty simple to draw conclusions about the case, but……

I am naturally suspicious.

Therefore, I added one more hypothesis.

‘Regardless of my possession, if Ichimaru Shiki saved Hotaru.’

Although not depicted in the game, it is possible that Shiki Ichimaru intervened in the back story and scenario.

Since I was already there at the time I possessed it, it is quite possible.

But there are also doubts.

Then why didn’t he save Hotaru until right before he died, and why was he there?

It’s possible that he just happened to come to the rescue……

Perhaps it was Ichimaru Shiki himself who called the monstrous wolf pack.

“Ah, no way!”

There is no way that a pure and honest person like me could possess a character with such a dark setting.

Today’s Marushiki Ichi is a young man who lost his parents when he was young and has lived a sincere life since his disappearance.

Well, anyway.

Otherwise, it was difficult in many ways.

After finishing all the schedules, I returned to the Shihei Mansion and scratched my head embarrassingly.

“At least I did only good things while possessed, I don’t remember doing anything bad.”

I took a look around the Shihei Mansion.

Shiki-sama, Shiki-sama, the gasolines that keep sticking to each other and the beautifully decorated garden.

An antique mansion with a peaceful atmosphere.

Docomo, the dedicated fight-fighter, has a calm expression, but is very happy to see me.

Unlike my relatives, Rin, head of the Shihei family, openly welcomes me.

All of these were sights I hadn’t seen before.

I don’t know what ‘Ichimaru Shiki’ was originally, but at least he wasn’t a villain now.

I don’t know what bad things he did in other places in the past, but…….

I was living a hard life now.

Well, if someone from the past came to ask me, all I had to do was to be kind and proud.

That’s it for now.

I was about to go to my room after putting an end to these unanswered issues.

“Hmm?”

If it weren’t for the presence of people in the training building, it would have been.

I was thinking of taking a good rest today for tomorrow when I will be extremely tired and busy.

“Hmm, Kenichi is such a mean disciple to bother his master.”

I opened the door to the training hall feeling the corner of my mouth twitch.

What we see is Kenichi striking down a long sword.

During the day, he was downhearted because he had ruined the exam, but now he moves very vigorously.

“You seem to have improved your training now?”

Even though I spoke to him in an instant, Kitagawa Kenichi replied without a hint of surprise.

“I just thought it suited my aptitude rather than studying.”

Then he continued to strike the sword.

Huung—Huung—!

The sound of a cross-shaped sword cutting through the wind echoed through the stretching space.

I was a newbie when I first came here, but now the sword’s trajectory has not shaken.

Looking at that, I touched my chin.

“As expected, moving only your body rather than using your head is your aptitude, right?”

“…… There is no need to pinch it again.”

“hahahaha, Kenichi being an idiot is a fact without any shame.”

“It really kills.”

Frowning his face, Kenichi stopped swinging his sword and pointed the demonic sword at me.

“So, are you going to play?”

Originally, a true teacher does not reject the request of an idiot disciple.

I replied with a gleeful smile.

“If you want.”

I immediately drew my sword out of the air.

***

Weekend coming soon.

As a sincere person, I moved to form human relationships regardless of weekends or holidays.

The destination is the Kenju family’s mansion today.

Since it is a samurai family, unlike most of the members living in the gymnasium or training room, this was the study.

“It is surprising that you came to see me.”

Seiichiro Kenju.

The second son of the head of the family, Kozaburo, and the elder in charge of everything in the family.

A strange species born of tigers outside.

With his glasses on the bridge of his nose, he looked intelligent and smiled at me while arranging the books in the library.

“If you are curious about the martial arts of the Kenju family, as you can see, I am far from nothing.”

Seichiro said that despite being a member of Kenju, he learned jujutsu because he had no talent or interest in martial arts.

There is a lot of talk outside of Kenju that tigers raised cowards, but after talking with family members for a few days, they were quite popular.

His personality is benevolent, he is good at work, and as a samurai, he is vulnerable to witchcraft, but he solves those aspects well.

“Or were you interested in my sorcery?”

“hahahaha, I’m the curious type.”

To Seiichiro’s smiling face, I also responded with a wide smile.

Then Seiichiro Kenju seemed to have let go of his guard and came closer to me, shaking his head.

“Well, since you are staying at Sihei, a general shaman, you might be interested in shamanism.”

“I don’t know much!”

“Whoops, there is no human in the world who is good at everything from the beginning.”

“I want to do everything well!”

As I exclaimed energetically like a very motivated student, Seiichiro let out a chuckle.

“You are greedy, the more you want to know, the better…… So what are you curious about? He may not have as much talent and depth of learning as Shihei, but he has done his own research.”

“Ohh!”

I smiled and asked as if I had been waiting for that question.

“Then what forbidden witchcraft did you study?!”

“Yeah… ….”

Seiichiro, who was about to answer involuntarily, looked back at me with a frown on his face.

“…… Now, what did you say?”

The first law of non-performance in Japan.

A colleague who supports the main character with glasses, or a heroine who becomes amazing when she takes them off. She is

Or just a villain.

Therefore, the person in front of her was a villain.

“Mr. Seiichiro Kenju.”

Actually, episode 3 is in the dark. He is a person who oppresses the main character with witchcraft and political power.

I came to deal with it in advance because it would be annoying in many ways to deal with later.

I said as I pulled out the sword in the air.

“I will arrest you.”

Kenju Seichiro touched the bridge of her nose with shiny glasses.