This Japanese Monogatari Isn't Lame
Chapter 369 - 260: Tired Woman (4000 words)_2

Chapter 369: Chapter 260: Tired Woman (4000 words)_2

"Although she has the power to enter other people’s dreams, using those dreams... to entice real people to perform various actions... it’s also possible to make people subconsciously forget certain things... and she possesses the same traits as general vengeful spirits... she can even materialize."

Seemingly sensing Beichuan Si’s emotions, Shenzhu Shihui bumped around and added a few more pieces of information about the tired woman.

"I understand," Beichuan Si nodded, then turned back to Shen Gu Mirai and asked, "Mirai, did any serious murder cases occur at Ochasaki High School in the past?"

Shen Gu Mirai was playing with the Voodoo Doll given to her by Beichuan Si; upon hearing his question, she hastily put the doll away and after a bit of thought, shook her head, "As far as I remember, there shouldn’t have been any serious incidents, at least in my three years apart from the Akisai Ikki case, nothing else happened."

"Think harder; perhaps it wasn’t during your time there."

This matter was too important for Beichuan Si to not press Shen Gu Mirai to think harder.

"Umm... I really don’t remember," Shen Gu Mirai shook her head.

Seeing that she truly couldn’t recall anything, Beichuan Si’s eyes flickered.

After a good while, he finally nodded.

"I see, I’ve also come up with an effective method to ward off the Faceless Woman."

Beichuan Si leaned in close to Shen Gu Mirai and whispered the method given by Shenzhu Shihui.

"... Yeah... it sounds reasonable... but upon closer inspection, it really doesn’t hold up..." Shen Gu Mirai muttered.

The method Beichuan Si told her was simple and impractical.

As previously mentioned, the tired woman utilized dreams to affect the physical bodies of real people, causing them to commit suicide or ’suffer accidental incidents’ while in a half-dreamy, half-awake state. Yet, the living also includes those with strong willpower.

By constructing an image of fearlessness with one’s mind, it might be possible to drive the tired woman out of the dream.

But while this sounds easy, it’s hard to do in a nightmare, who would think so much? Moreover, this method was far too detached from reality. If Beichuan Si said he would use death energy to enter her dreams... that, Shen Gu Mirai would have believed.

However—

Dreams are inherently divorced from reality. This method might just work wonders.

"Let’s hope for a dead horse to be a living horse doctor," Beichuan Si replied.

After all, Shen Gu Mirai lived next door to him, so if something sudden were to happen, Beichuan Si would be able to react swiftly.

At worst, he’d just stuff the Shinra Bell at her place, and Shenzhu Shihui would be able to provide timely feedback if any problems arose—

"I, I understand. But... after this matter is over... you have to give me time to practice tongue twisters."

Given that human lives were at stake, Shenzhu Shihui, at this critical moment, did not put up a fuss but simply kept muttering about the tongue twisters.

"If you do well this time, buying you a smartphone is also no problem," Beichuan Si thought to himself.

"R-Really?!"

Shenzhu Shihui was ecstatic.

She didn’t expect that by dealing with this matter, she could get a smartphone—what a profit!

Her face flushed red; she had long envied her peers who were constantly hunched over playing with sleek smartphones.

The dazzling screen, the body that looked so touchable—

Shenzhu Shihui decided to go without sleep, to inform Beichuan Si of any abnormalities as soon as she noticed them; this way, she’d be worthy of his smartphone.

The young girl on one side felt she had scored big, while Beichuan Si on the other side felt he wasn’t at a loss either.

Just a smartphone could make a very powerful good spirit work for him—any way he thought about it, it was worth it.

And this smartphone also had the effect of buying off a ghost’s heart, not unlike the needle and thread pack, the little house, the simple parallel bars he bought for Nishijou Kelian—all of similar ingenuity.

However, no matter what, the days ahead would definitely not be calm ones.

...

Beichuan Si briefly explained Shen Gu Mirai’s situation to Beichuan Hui Li and Nakajima Michika before taking her into the room that had always been kept vacant for her.

"Here’s the key." Beichuan Si tossed the house key to Shen Gu Mirai and then added, "I’m stepping out to meet an acquaintance, which might take some time. In the meantime, you can take the two below... Hui Li and Miss Nakajima out to eat. Got it? Try not to act alone."

As he spoke, Beichuan Si also handed over the Shinra Bell and Nishijou Kelian to Shen Gu Mirai.

With Shenzhu Shihui and Nishijou Kelian around, that newborn tired woman should be completely incapable of dealing with Shen Gu Mirai.

After all, in terms of the age of being a spirit, the other party was probably not even as old as Shenzhu Shihui, one of the Soul Suppressing Twins.

Nishijou Kelian leapt from Beichuan Si’s hand onto Shen Gu Mirai’s shoulder, her round little hand patted her cheek, exuding an aura of divine presence.

While looking at Nishijou Kelian, Shen Gu Mirai also reached out and poked her cloth doll’s face, saying, "Sister’s safety is in your hands now, little sister Kelian."

Nishijou Kelian struck a biceps-flexing pose, then reached behind her backside and pulled out a nurses’ outfit just small enough for a doll, and raised her hand as if to slip it over Shen Gu Mirai’s head.

Where she got it from was anyone’s guess; at least Beichuan Si hadn’t seen any place on Nishijou Kelian that could hide such a patched-up nurses’ outfit.

He couldn’t be bothered to comment and, after providing some information about Shenzhu Shihui, he turned and left.

Parked outside the Beichuan family home was a sleek, expensive white sports car.

Beichuan Si gestured to the car, and from the window emerged the eager face of Gangye Yoshiko, "Hurry and get in! Beichuan, your sister’s going to take you for a spin in her love car!"

"..." Beichuan Si.

He had just contacted Gangye Yoshiko in the bathroom, hoping she could help look into the matter at Ochasaki Middle School, but instead, this woman showed up to flaunt her new toy.

"Liangzi, I should have been very clear on the phone."

"I know. I’ve put the stuff on the side." Gangye Yoshiko lit a lady’s cigarette, thought better of it, and then pressed a button on the worktable.

The roof slid backward, and the rear cover opened. The hardtop sports car instantly transformed into a flashy convertible—

The woman’s family really was rich.

Beichuan Si thought silently.

He knew some details about Gangye Yoshiko’s family background.

It seemed to be about the big families in the police and political spheres, and at her young age of twenty-five or twenty-six, she had already been promoted to police inspector and had cracked several cases (harvested several heads that Beichuan Si had left behind), getting ever closer to Police Chief.

A young high-ranking official driving such a car.

Though the woman looked like a greasy middle-aged man, never stopping smoking or drinking, it had to be said, she indeed had wealth and power.

"I’ve got a feeling you’re thinking something impolite." Gangye Yoshiko said with her slender eyebrows furrowed.

"I’m not," Beichuan Si responded expressionlessly.

He was merely inferring information about Gangye Yoshiko; there was nothing impolite about that.

Beichuan Si would never admit it.

Gangye Yoshiko spat out a noise in irritation and glanced discontentedly at Beichuan Si.

"Tsks... With that perpetual expression on your face, who knows what you’re thinking?"

Beichuan Si didn’t care; he opened the car door and sat down confidently.

Seeing him like this, Gangye Yoshiko just shrugged her shoulders, extinguished the cigarette butt, and stuck it in the car’s ashtray, then started the car.

Gangye Yoshiko was a steady driver, her speed moderate. The conspicuous sports car merged into the flow of traffic, zooming toward the suburbs of Tokyo—

It really seemed like she wanted to take a drive, but Beichuan Si paid no attention to the changing scenery around him. Instead, he picked up the folder that was placed beside his seat.

Inside it were details about incidents that had occurred at Ochasaki Middle School...