The Exorcism Tale of Hachiman

"Well...."

Just as Hachiman Hikigaya was looking around trying to find the prankster, Miko Yotsuya suddenly clutched her heart and cried out in pain in the classroom.

"Hey, are you okay?"

Upon hearing Miko Yotsuya's pained cries, Hachiman Hikigaya rushed back.

"fine..."

Yotsuya Miko lay on the classroom floor, weakly opening her eyes to look at Hikigaya Hachiman, a bitter smile appearing on her pale face: "It's just that it's coming..."

"it?"

"Yeah, I ran into it by chance on the street last week. After it realized I could see it, it kept following me and even left a mark on me."

As she spoke, Yotsuya Miko rolled up her sleeves to show Hachiman Hikigaya the mark left by the evil spirit on her arm.

But it's daytime now!

Seeing Miko Yotsuya's pained expression, Hachiman Hikigaya said in a deep voice.

The sun is the most terrifying nemesis of evil spirits.

No matter how powerful an evil spirit is, it cannot harm people when the sun is present. This is an ironclad rule that the system told him!

But the sun is about to set!

Yotsuya Miko smiled sadly.

Upon hearing this, Hachiman Hikigaya looked up and out the window. Sure enough, the sun had already set below the horizon.

Is it already this late?

Thinking of this, Hachiman Hikigaya took out his phone and glanced at the time. When he saw the numbers displayed on the phone, his pupils instantly dilated and contracted.

The speed at which time is passing is not right!

The time between him being caught by Hiratsuka Shizuka in the activity room after school and meeting Yotsuya Miko, all of this happened in no more than half an hour!

However, his phone told him that it was already past six o'clock in the afternoon.

More than ninety minutes have passed since school ended!

There's a problem...

Hachiman Hikigaya's heart tightened. He glanced at Miko Yotani on the ground, then bent down, picked her up, and ran towards the playground.

Stepping out of the classroom, Hachiman Hikigaya suddenly felt a sense of loneliness around him.

The narrow corridor stretched infinitely before him, then began to twist and turn.

A series of chilling laughs began to echo throughout the campus.

Hachiman Hikigaya, carrying Miko Yotsuya, went to the window and looked out at the playground.

Sure enough, the playground, which was just filled with members of various clubs, was now completely empty.

Just then, the last ray of sunlight disappeared below the horizon as the sun completely set.

Dark clouds gradually gathered over the entire campus.

Looking further into the distance, the buildings outside the campus wall begin to distort and are then shrouded in a layer of gray mist.

"Ding! High-level evil spirit detected. Automatically generate a high-level dungeon---Sōwū High School"

"What a fitting name for the dungeon..."

While complaining about how the system was being too lazy to use the school's name as the dungeon name, Hachiman Hikigaya began to examine the school's changed appearance.

The once bright and clean building had become eerie and terrifying, with the only source of light being the blood-red moon in the sky.

"This dungeon is definitely not one that a novice warlock like me can handle..."

After careful analysis, Hachiman Hikigaya made his final decision.

Judging from the situation in this instance, it would be quite easy for that high-level evil spirit to kill him.

"Sorry for dragging you into this..."

Upon hearing Hachiman Hikigaya's words, Miko Yotsuya, who was leaning against him, showed an apologetic expression.

After seeing Hachiman Hikigaya easily defeat the low-level evil spirit, she assumed that Hachiman Hikigaya was very powerful and capable of dealing with the evil spirit that was bothering her.

Unexpectedly, Hachiman Hikigaya's strength was so weak...

"I'm really sorry that I'm so weak..."

Seeing the expression on Yotsuya Miko's face, Hikigaya Hachiman spoke her mind.

"Feel sorry..."

When Hachiman Hikigaya revealed what was on her mind, Miko Yotsuya immediately lowered her head and apologized to Hachiman Hikigaya again and again.

She really just wanted to survive.

"It's alright, this isn't your fault."

Hachiman Hikigaya shook his head at Miko Yotsuya in his arms, saying that this was not her fault.

Whether or not Yotsuya Miko was pulled into this space was not something she could decide. Presumably, the high-level demon had already set its sights on him when Yotsuya Miko first came into contact with him.

After all, people with spiritual power have much more delicious physical bodies than ordinary people...

Chapter 5 Spirit Flow Technique

As the two were talking, the blood moon in the sky became even more enchanting.

Accompanied by a shrill scream, a chilling wind suddenly swept through the entire academy.

Hachiman Hikigaya watched as the surrounding buildings decayed and weathered at a visible rate...

"We can't stay here any longer!"

Having made up his mind, Hachiman Hikigaya picked up Miko Yotsuya and ran.

Suddenly, several dark figures appeared on both sides of the corridor.

Immediately, a system alarm sounded in Hachiman Hikigaya's mind: "Multiple low-level evil spirits detected. Host, please be careful!"

"A low-level evil spirit?"

Hachiman Hikigaya was not surprised but delighted by the system's words.

What he lacks now is the means to deal with high-level evil spirits; these evil spirits in front of him are simply here to give him spirit coins!

"You can hide here for a bit..."

Looking at the evil spirits circling around him, Hachiman Hikigaya found a corner to put Miko Yotsuya down, told her not to wander off, and then summoned his demon-slaying sword from the void.

The metallic feel in his hand reassured Hachiman Hikigaya considerably. He looked up at the hesitant evil spirits around him and scoffed, "Who's going to come and die first?"

Perhaps because they heard Hachiman Hikigaya's words clearly, a demon couldn't resist rushing over as soon as he finished speaking.

Hachiman Hikigaya raised his sword to block the evil spirit's claws, and with a backhand slash, he severed the evil spirit's head from its body.

"Successfully defeated a low-level evil spirit, gaining 50 spirit coins!"

The system notification sound in his mind made Hachiman Hikigaya feel a surge of joy.

He quickly summoned his own data screen.

Name: Hachiman Hikigaya

Age: seventeen years old

Occupation: Novice Exorcist

Spiritual power: 100/100

Abilities: None

Weapon: Basic Demon-Slaying Sword

Spirit Coins: 225

The data is just as simple as before, the only difference is that the value in the Spirit Coins column has exceeded 200!

You can now exchange for abilities!

Seeing that he had finally collected 200 spirit coins, Hachiman Hikigaya quickly opened the spirit coin shop and bought the only item in the shop without hesitation—Spirit Flow Technique.

Immediately after Hachiman Hikigaya purchased the Spirit Flow Technique, his ability column automatically changed from "None" to "Spirit Flow Technique (Beginner)".

"Let's test its power!"

Looking at the three remaining low-level evil spirits, Hachiman Hikigaya's eyes flickered, and he formed the hand seal that had just appeared in his mind.

Suddenly, Hachiman Hikigaya felt the spiritual energy within his body rhythmically gathering in his right palm.

Instinctively, he reached out his hand.

A stream of water, composed entirely of spiritual energy, flew out from the right palm, piercing straight through the three low-level evil spirits, and finally flew out of the window and crashed into the teaching building opposite.

"Boom!"

A loud bang was heard, and as the smoke dissipated, one wall of the opposite teaching building was blown down!

At the same time, three notification sounds flashed through Hachiman Hikigaya's mind.

"Successfully defeated a low-level evil spirit, gaining 50 spirit coins!"

"Successfully defeated a low-level evil spirit, gaining 50 spirit coins!"

"Successfully defeated a low-level evil spirit, gaining 50 spirit coins!"

In an instant, the Spirit Coins column, which had just run out of money, rose back to 175.

So strong!

Retracting his right hand, Hachiman Hikigaya was filled with excitement as he looked at the power of the spell he had just unleashed.

He hadn't expected that the Spirit Flow spell, even as the most basic magic, would possess such power.

From this perspective, dealing with high-level evil spirits is not impossible...

“Amazing…”