Chapter 7: Lover of women

Chapter 7: Lover of women

Although Kaede hadn’t given me any details, I was still glad that there were still students left who hadn’t found a team yet.

Apparently they were all problem students but compared to being treated as a slave by Kaede’s spartan team, it was a more than satisfactory compromise.

Although it was painful to feel like I was being ostracized… it was probably a good idea to ask the teacher to introduce me to the leftover students.

As I was pondering and walking through the school building which was beginning to empty out with the end of afternoon classes.

Multiple figures suddenly appeared from the corners of the hallway and surrounded me.

"Haruhisa Furuya!"

The leading figure grabbed me by my shoulders and brought her well-featured face in front of my own.

"What the hell were you doing in the closed room with Miss Kuzunoha Kaede!?"

Karasuma Aoi, with several D class guys in tow, breathed heavily through her nose as she questioned me.

With a crisp and clean-cut face and a figure that could put a model to shame, her short black hair swayed gently.

She was the most problematic student in class D. Furthermore, as an exceptionally beautiful girl, she stood out from the rest of the class D which had a high percentage of guys.

She had a different type of charm from the awe-inspiring beauty of Kaede and a relatively easy to approach personality. Despite possessing beauty that could make a high school boy of her age feel slightly self-conscious, Karasuma was strangely well-liked by the guys. The reason for this was,

"Although I don’t think it’s possible, you weren’t playing doctor with the unattainable and famous Miss Kuzunoha, were you?"

"Of course not! I was just getting normal treatment! Look at this talisman on my ankle!"

"Miss Kuzunoha, the one who has ascended beyond the title of snow woman and is now feared as the liquid nitrogen woman, wrapped a talisman for you…? You bastard, did you seize Miss Kuzunoha’s weakness? You have no right to monopolize Miss Kuzunoha twisting her face in humiliation as she performs her service!"

"Go away, you maniac!"

Despite being a woman, she had a crazy strong love for women and an S temperament. She was a dunce who skipped school training to get a motorcycle license and learned to play an instrument because she thought, "these seem to be popular with girls".

A boy once said, "A lover of women can go into the women’s baths, how envious…". In response, this extraordinarily deplorable beautiful girl replied, "I can’t go to the hot springs at all because I’ll get too wet!".

That was Karasuma Aoi.

The guys that she brought along with her looked at me doubtfully.

"No, but it is suspicious isn’t it? The relationship between you and Miss Kuzunoha."

"You stayed in the infirmary too long for it to have been just a normal treatment. You couldn’t have really been playing doctor, were you?…"

Like I said, I wasn’t. Don’t take Karasuma’s reckless words seriously.

However, I also couldn’t tell them the truth about what happened in the infirmary.

I gave them a perfunctory excuse while hiding the crucifixes hanging from both of my hands.

"The reason why I was so late leaving the infirmary… is that Kuzunoha-senpai was threatening to turn me into a slave."

I wasn’t lying. I was also hoping that if I said this, their misguided jealousy would subside.

"What!? Kuzunoha-sama’s slave!? Why can’t I be her slave! How unfair!"

The guys erupted.

Were there only idiots in this school? Or was it just those around me?

"…If you want to be her slave so badly, why don’t you just ask her?"

It was Kaede. I was sure she would be more than happy to fully make use of them. Maybe as bait for evil spirits. Or as an experimental subject for new techniques. Or be used as a sacrifice for forbidden techniques.

"Look here Haruhisa, we can’t talk to Kuzunoha-sama so casually."

"Well, you know… if we displease Kuzunoha-sama, we might get kicked out of the entire exorcism industry."

"Ah, well, you’re not wrong."

I nodded in response to the guys who spoke sternly.

Kaede’s grandmother was the current president of the Exorcist Society.

Her family was one of nine famed families that controlled Japan’s exorcism industry.

Kaede herself was quite influential and did not put her bloodline to shame. If you offended Kaede, not to mention getting banned from the industry, you were probably going to get the privilege of experiencing a novel form of torture, such as getting your soul incinerated by a will-o-wisp. My childhood friend was a merciless woman, that one.

"Damn it, it’s so unfair that you will get to be enslaved personally by Kuzunoha-sama."

The guys looked at me as if doing so could put a curse on me.

"If you’re really that envious, one of you should let me join your team. Then I won’t get the chance to be her slave."

I tried telling them that to guarantee my own personal well-being as well as get myself a team. However, the guys easily rejected me, "Sorry, you can’t even use spirit detection…" Damn it.

"Oh, right. If I remember correctly, you haven’t teamed up with anyone yet, Karasuma. Why don’t you team up with Furuya?"

One of the guys shifted the topic to Karasuma.

Hearing that, I thought, "What?"

"Didn’t you turn in your team application the other day, Karasuma? You said something about managing to persuade B class student to let you join."

It’s going to be a harem party filled with only girls! Huzzah!… I had feeling she’d said something along those lines while making little leaps around the classroom.

"Erm, I couldn’t restrain my lust and got kicked out for fondling with the team members’ boobs and pulling on their nipples."

What the hell was this fellow doing?…

Could it be that this was the problem child that Kaede had been grimacing at?

As I looked at Karasuma dumbfounded, Karasuma seemed to misunderstand.

"Sorry, I can’t help you. My dream to get popular with women by is to become a professional exorcist with a harem party then go save idols and young ladies belonging to noble families from evil spirits."

Was she actually saying this stuff seriously, ths fellow…

"How can you talk so big when your grades are basically the same as mine?"

"Fufufu. My true power can’t be measured using the school’s standards!"

Karasuma proudly puffed her chest out.

Although I didn’t know how serious she was, she had managed to persuade a B class student to let her join their team even if it was only temporary. I wondered if she really had some kind of secret ability?

But well, could the words of an idiot really be trusted… just as I was dubiously suspecting Karasuma–

"Dogoooo!"

A thunderous rumble, as if a bomb had exploded, shook the school building.

"What!?"

I rushed out of the school building with Karasuma and the others to find the source of the sound.

Thud, thud…

The roar from earlier was followed by a sporadic trembling of the ground from the direction of the sports ground.

The ground shook as if a giant were taking footsteps on it and the sound was steadily coming towards us.

Several students came running out from the shadows of a path that lead from the school building to the sports field, looking frantic.

They ran towards us at a rapid pace.

"Run away!"

The guy running in the lead noticed our presence and shouted.

"A fool from B class caused their shikigami to go berserk!"

The next moment.

Boom…!

A huge demoness who stood at least ten meters tall appeared before us.