Chapter 94: Report (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

“…Everyone, don’t be afraid. It’s not difficult.”

On the blackboard was written: cholecystenteroanastomosis—this is one word.

“Compared to general English, medical English pays more attention to changes in stress, as well as the connected pronunciation between roots and affixes, so oral English must be good.”

“Starting from today, everyone will memorize 200 words a day and persist in reading the original texts. As long as you do this for three or four months, you can basically get started.”

“This course happens to be from September to December, so there is plenty of time.”

After the class bell rang, Minamoto Kiyomoto packed up his textbooks and was about to go to the Faculty of Letters when he saw a familiar figure in front of the classroom door.

“Good afternoon, big brother,” Itomi Yuki bowed slightly, her movements graceful.

Her crystal-clear face, small pink mouth, and large eyes, her voice was small and crisp, and her mental state was completely different from last time.

She was holding a schoolbag in her hand, wearing a short-sleeved school uniform, and her tender legs were exposed from under the pleated skirt.

“Yuki?” Minamoto Kiyomoto looked at her with confusion. “What’s up?”

“I have other arrangements for the weekend, so I was wondering if I could go today?” Itomi Yuki’s tone was calm. She tucked her hair behind her ear, and her face was a little red.

The last time they parted, the two had agreed to go to the cultivator academy on the weekend.

Itomi Yuki would register her name there, so that she wouldn’t have to immediately participate in the battle to subjugate yokai like Minamoto Kiyomoto.

However, she was already seventeen, and there was not much time left. Starting from April next year, she had to participate once every six months.

“Of course, no problem,” Minamoto Kiyomoto said with a smile.

The two of them walked out of the building. Minamoto Kiyomoto sent a message in the group chat on his phone, informing the two miko of his next itinerary.

“Are you going out with your friends on the weekend?” he put away his phone and asked Itomi Yuki.

“No,” Itomi Yuki replied.

“Then what’s up?”

“It has nothing to do with you, big brother.”

“Could it be that you couldn’t wait to see me? So you said you had something to do on the weekend and came early?”

Minamoto Kiyomoto looked at Itomi Yuki. Itomi Yuki didn’t speak, but just showed a faint smile, hoping that he would be self-aware.

“Just kidding,” Minamoto Kiyomoto said.

The two of them returned to Hakusan Shrine and walked into the hidden realm from the large banyan tree.

Itomi Yuki looked at the surrounding environment with surprise.

“Where is this? Are we still in Tokyo?” she asked.

“Who knows,” Minamoto Kiyomoto stepped onto the mountain path.

Itomi Yuki was a little dissatisfied with his answer, but she forgot about it in a blink of an eye and was immersed in this incredible experience.

After walking for a while, she saw the shrine.

The black roof, the red pillars, quietly squatting among the tall white birch trees, it was a beautiful picture like a mythological illustration.

Passing the worship hall and the main hall, they came to a residence that finally had a little bit of life.

Itomi Yuki was soon attracted by the Japanese-style garden to the left of this residence.

The long, white outer wall, and the tall pine trees planted in the garden could be seen from here.

From different angles, one could also glimpse the surprisingly spacious hall and the extremely exquisite lattice windows.

“What’s that over there?” she asked Minamoto Kiyomoto.

“The witch’s lair,” Minamoto Kiyomoto changed his shoes and entered the house.

“Shirako, it’s her. I’ll leave her to you,” Minamoto Kiyomoto said to Shirako. After saying this, he went straight back to his room, leaving the living room to the two of them.

“Hello, I’m Itomi Yuki,” Itomi Yuki was very polite, and her tone was calm.

However, her eyes were curiously sizing up Shirako.

A golden bun, green eyes, a white, straight military uniform, she was so exquisite and beautiful that she seemed to have walked out of a fairy tale.

And the butterfly on her shoulder, with a perfect body proportion, was clearly only ten centimeters tall, but her legs didn’t look short at all.

If it weren’t for her small size and the wings on her back, she would have been a real person.

This is a shikigami, she sighed in her heart.

Shirako was also sizing up Itomi Yuki. Her originally stern face gradually softened a little. She also saw who Itomi Yuki’s temperament resembled.

“Put down your schoolbag,” Shirako began to roll up her sleeves.

“Okay, thank you for your trouble,” on the way here, Itomi Yuki had already heard Minamoto Kiyomoto talk about ‘loosening the bones’.

“It’s a little painful, bear with it,” as soon as Shirako’s voice fell, she put Itomi Yuki’s body into the ‘cobra pose’.

Her legs seemed to be broken. Only the upper half of Itomi Yuki’s body was like a beautiful snake lying on the ground.

Her face turned red, not from shyness, but from pain.

After just a few movements, her temples were already soaked with sweat.

Minamoto Kiyomoto put the textbook back in his bedroom, read a book for a while amidst the screams, and when the screams stopped, he walked back to the living room.

“Not over yet?” As soon as he walked in, he was stunned. The Itomi Yuki in front of him was still in the ‘plow pose’.

Lying flat on the tatami, her legs were raised towards the ceiling, then she straightened her legs and slowly pressed them down, approaching her head. After her toes touched the ground, she remained still.

From the side, her whole body was bent into a “つ” shape.

Therefore, Minamoto Kiyomoto saw the underwear under her school skirt. It was light blue with beautiful white lace.

Her smooth thighs were almost completely exposed.

Crystal clear beads of sweat were slowly sliding down her alluring curves.

“Ah!” Itomi Yuki, who was trying hard to forget the pain with one breath, exclaimed.

She wanted to put down her legs and hold down her skirt, but was mercilessly pressed back by Shirako and returned to the “つ” shape.

“Ah!” she moaned again, this time because of the pain.

“Regulate your breathing, maintain a smooth breath, and what about your divine power?” Shirako reprimanded.

Minamoto Kiyomoto had seen what he should have seen and was too lazy to go back to his bedroom. He turned around and came to the veranda, sitting under the wind chime.

In the pond in front of him, the lotus flowers transplanted from Ueno Park were still standing tall and graceful.

The ‘plow pose’ ended, and the most relaxing ‘lotus pose’ was the last movement.

Itomi Yuki was like an old monk in meditation, maintaining abdominal breathing. The white mist-like divine power flowed between her opened bones, and her whole body was filled with a sense of rebirth and comfort.

“Do you want to take a bath? There’s a hot spring,” Minamoto Kiyomoto didn’t turn his head.

Itomi Yuki loved to be clean and hated being sweaty, but she hesitated, “I didn’t bring any clothes.”

“Shirako, Miss Kamibayashi’s clothes…”

“No!” Before Minamoto Kiyomoto could finish, Shirako refused without thinking.

“Izayoi’s clothes… I don’t dare to touch them either,” Minamoto Kiyomoto muttered to himself, then said to Itomi Yuki, “If you don’t mind, you can wear my sportswear. It’s very clean.”

Itomi Yuki hesitated for a moment.

This was not just a matter of whether she herself loved to be clean or not. Later, she still had to go to the cultivator academy with Minamoto Kiyomoto. It would be too impolite to be covered in sweat.

“Thank you for your trouble, big brother,” she lowered her head and thanked him.

“Hmph, I’ll tell Lady Miko about this,” Shirako said to Minamoto Kiyomoto.

“Does what you said mean that you approve of my relationship with Miss Kamibayashi?” Minamoto Kiyomoto said with a smile.

“Monitoring! Do you understand, piglet?! Monitoring! I’m monitoring you!”

“Okay, okay, don’t be angry. Lady Shirako has also worked hard. Let’s go take a bath together.”

Itomi Yuki took Minamoto Kiyomoto’s sportswear and went to the open-air hot spring with Shirako along a stone path.

The hot spring was surrounded by a bamboo forest, with floor lamps scattered around. A lifelike stone-carved butterfly was placed in the upper left corner of the hot spring.

The butterfly was the water inlet, continuously pouring hot spring water into the pool.

“Is there a hot spring in this mountain? Is it a volcano?” she asked Shirako while taking a bath.

“It’s the bones of the piglet’s brother. As long as you put them in the water, the water will turn into a hot spring,” Shirako explained with her eyes closed—in a double sense.

“Big brother’s brother’s bones?”

After finishing the hot spring, Itomi Yuki’s school uniform was handed over to Shirako for washing, and her schoolbag was also temporarily placed in the shrine. She wore sportswear and went down the mountain with Minamoto Kiyomoto.

“Was stretching your bones painful?” Minamoto Kiyomoto asked with a smile.

“Yes,” the sportswear was too big. Itomi Yuki’s sleeves and pant legs were rolled up a lot. “If I had known it would be so painful in advance, I might not have had the courage to do it.”

“Good medicine is bitter. The pain also proves that it’s good.”

“Poison is also bitter.”

“Hahaha!” Minamoto Kiyomoto laughed. “It’s really hard to fool girls nowadays.”

“Has big brother fooled many girls?” Itomi Yuki asked curiously.

“The only other person’s body I’ve seen is yours,” after saying this, Minamoto Kiyomoto said in a slightly serious and joking tone, “Don’t show your body to others again.”

Mentioning the rainy day, Itomi Yuki tried her best to remain calm, but her face turned red to the roots of her ears.

“I won’t,” she muttered with some embarrassment.

“I’ve heard people say that true courage is not not being afraid of death, but that a person who is afraid of death can still choose to die. You cherish your body so much, yet you can still do such a thing. It’s amazing.”

“…I know why big brother doesn’t have a girlfriend.”

“Oh? What’s the reason?”

“Not considerate at all. If I were Miss Kamibayashi, I would definitely not agree to you.”

Minamoto Kiyomoto stopped and looked at Itomi Yuki’s small face.

“Hmm?” Itomi Yuki tilted her head slightly and made a puzzled sound, but her face had a triumphant smile.

Minamoto Kiyomoto took out the remains of the red and black evil dragon from his sleeve.

“This is?” Itomi Yuki sized up this diamond-shaped object. There was a terrifying power hidden inside.

“I’ll give you one last chance to say I’m considerate.”

“Big brother, if you’re not considerate, I can still give you a chance to change, but forcing a girl will be directly rejected.”

The black light burst forth, and a red and black giant dragon grabbed Itomi Yuki’s petite body.

The huge body passed through the thick clouds and came above the sea of clouds.

The fierce wind howled, making Itomi Yuki’s whole body cold. Her tender face felt a stinging pain, and her eyes were hard to open.

She hadn’t reacted to what had happened yet.

She tried to muster up her divine power, and her body finally felt a little more comfortable. Her eyes finally opened.

The white clouds were like a sea. At the junction of dawn and dusk, the world was a golden color, like a heavenly palace.

Looking down, Tokyo was vast and dense, with dull buildings, vast green spaces, and asphalt roads that crisscrossed between the buildings like threads.

Itomi Yuki blocked the wind with her hand and tried to raise her head, seeing the huge, majestic, and sacred dragon body.

“Big brother?!” she shouted in panic, looking for Minamoto Kiyomoto.

“What are you calling me for?” the ferocious and domineering dragon head lowered slightly, and its scarlet eyes, which were several times larger than her, looked at her with a hint of a smile.

“Big brother?!” Itomi Yuki looked at this dragon in disbelief.

“It’s me.”

Itomi Yuki’s heart pounded. She had thought that having divine power, learning magical curses, and experiencing space travel was amazing, but she had never thought that a person could actually turn into such a behemoth.

While her heart was pounding, she also felt a strange sense of security.

Her divine power was quickly depleted. Before the strong wind could hit her face, an invisible wall protected her.

The strong wind turned into a cool breeze. She knelt on the dragon’s claws.

The giant dragon sometimes soared in the sea of clouds, and sometimes swooped down.

Winding through the continuous mountain ranges, flying over the dense forests of deep green and light green, and掠过 the colorful sea of flowers… the summer scenery along the way was like a colorful brocade, all in sight.

Shocked by the strange and magnificent scene, it was so beautiful that Itomi Yuki almost shouted like a child.

Passing over cities, railways, and mountains, in a blink of an eye, they had already flown out of the land, crossed the sea under the afterglow of the setting sun, and slowly landed on Izu Oshima with the wind.

“Big brother, you can actually turn into a yokai!” Itomi Yuki couldn’t hide her excitement and shock.

“It’s nothing special. In this world, only things that should exist will exist, and only things that should happen will happen.”

The red and black evil dragon suddenly collapsed and shrank, gradually turning into a human form, and slowly landed. The black light faded, revealing Minamoto Kiyomoto’s handsome and tall figure.

The cultivator academy of Kanto was built on Mount Mihara on Izu Oshima.

Minamoto Kiyomoto did not hide his tracks. At this time, the place where they landed was already surrounded by people.

However, Minamoto Kiyomoto had contacted them in advance. What’s more, since the Kyoto Summer Festival, his yokai body curse was known to everyone, so everyone did not bombard him with curses without saying a word.

“Disperse, disperse!” a teacher directed the students who were watching the show.

A female teacher surnamed Amano, who was also a vice-principal, accompanied Minamoto Kiyomoto and helped Itomi Yuki register.

“Yuki usually doesn’t come to class, right?” After registering, Amano took the two of them on a tour of the academy.

“I will guide her,” Minamoto Kiyomoto said.

There was another reason. He didn’t want Itomi Yuki to completely lose the fun of an ordinary person.

“With Lord King of Tsukushi’s guidance, it will definitely be more efficient than at school,” Amano said. “However, the school can teach some basic professional knowledge. Yuki can come and listen, and she can also practice cooperation with her future teammates.”

“Thank you for your trouble, Teacher Amano,” Minamoto Kiyomoto thanked her.

“You’re welcome,” Amano said with a smile.

She turned slightly and said to Itomi Yuki, who was following behind them:

“The school only has a two-day break at the end of the month. On normal Sundays, there is a three-hour break at noon. Yuki can choose her own time and come to school to study at any time.”

“Okay, thank you, teacher,” Itomi Yuki was curiously sizing up the school.

Almost all the classrooms were university-style lecture halls. It was already 6 p.m., and ordinary schools had already been dismissed, but every classroom in front of her was full of people.

In the lights, these boys and girls, who were about the same age as her, were seriously attending class.

Walking to the corridor outside the building, she immediately heard an explosion.

“A class is having practical training,” Teacher Amano explained. “Do you want to go and have a look?”

Minamoto Kiyomoto looked at Itomi Yuki. Itomi Yuki hesitated for a moment and said:
“When I came out, I didn’t tell my mother in advance. I have to go back early today. Can I come tomorrow?”

“Of course you can,” Teacher Amano said with a smile.

“Is that it for today?” Minamoto Kiyomoto asked Itomi Yuki.

“Yes,” Itomi Yuki nodded.

Minamoto Kiyomoto said goodbye to Teacher Amano again, turned back into a red and black evil dragon, and flew away from Izu Oshima with Itomi Yuki.

At this time, the setting sun had already sunk into the sea. They were ten thousand meters high in the sky, and it seemed as if they could touch the stars with a stretch of their hands.

“Big brother, how do you turn into a dragon?” Itomi Yuki asked.

“Observe nature,” the giant dragon replied.

“Observe nature?”

“The sky has stars, the earth has dew, there is a Tathagata above, and a flying bird below. There are goldfish in the pond, and a crow stands on a withered tree—all of nature is a yokai.”

“I don’t understand.”

“When you understand, you can turn into a dragon.”

Tokyo was already brightly lit, like a floating sea of light.

Returning to Hakusan Shrine, Itomi Yuki thanked Kamibayashi Miko, changed back into her school uniform, took her schoolbag, and Minamoto Kiyomoto simply sent her back directly.

“Do you want to come in and sit for a while?” In front of Itomi’s mansion, Itomi Yuki invited Minamoto Kiyomoto.

“As your boyfriend?” Minamoto Kiyomoto said with a smile.

Itomi Yuki was stunned for a moment, then sighed and said, “Goodbye.”

“Goodbye.”

Itomi Yuki walked a few steps, then turned around. She looked at Minamoto Kiyomoto, wanting to say something, but because she was not good at expressing her emotions, she didn’t know what to say.

Finally, she raised her small hand and waved gently at Minamoto Kiyomoto with some hesitation.

“Hmm?” Minamoto Kiyomoto looked at her with confusion.

Itomi Yuki immediately withdrew her hand, turned around without saying a word, and entered the door.

Her mother immediately came over, “Yuki, where did you go? Why are you back so late?”

“I went for a walk with a friend. Mom, I’m hungry. Is there anything to eat?” Itomi Yuki replied, her eyes shining.

(End of Chapter)