After politely declining Rikka's invitation to join a strange club called the "Far Eastern Magic Napping Society of Summer," Tenya left the school, preparing to look for a rental place nearby.
"Miko! Look quickly!"
"That guy at the school gate, I heard he's a transfer student from abroad!"
Girls' gossip is second nature.
Information about Tenya's identity had already spread throughout Sobu High School.
"Is that so?"
The girl with long black straight hair was expressionless, seemingly uninterested in Tenya.
Her pair of golden pupils silently observed her surroundings, as if she was wary of something.
Yotsuya Miko had well-defined features, a pretty face, and a calm and composed personality.
She looked no different from an ordinary high school girl. But she had an unknown secret.
That is, possessing "Yin-Yang Eyes," she could clearly see bizarre things that ordinary people couldn't.
For example...
"Can you see me?"
"Can you see me?"
A humanoid bizarre entity surrounded by black mist was constantly questioning passersby.
And none of the passersby noticed this bizarre entity right next to them. Only Miko could see it clearly.
"Gulp~"
Miko's fair cheeks immediately became even paler.
Calm down!
Calm down!
As long as I pretend not to see it, I won't get in trouble.
Miko tried hard to suppress the fear in her heart, her face still maintaining a calm expression.
"Hana, let's go to the cafe across the street..."
Miko pulled her best friend next to her, about to turn and move away from that bizarre monster.
But as soon as she turned around, she saw a bizarre head hanging upside down on a utility pole.
"Hiss!"
Miko's pupils dilated in shock.
She bit her lip tightly, almost unable to hold back a scream.
"Can you see me?"
"Can you see me?"
That bizarre head's empty eyes stared fixedly at Miko.
"What's wrong, Miko?"
"Aren't we going to the Milk Tea Cafe across the road?"
Han asked with a puzzled look.
"I... I changed my mind!"
"I want to drink black tea!"
Miko forced herself to stay calm, and subtly pulled Hana, bypassing the bizarre head in front of them.
Hana said, "Huh? The nearest black tea store is two kilometers away..."
"Then let's take the bus!"
After saying that, Miko didn't wait for her response. She immediately pulled her, and quickly got on the bus.
There are quite a lot of people...
After Miko got on the bus, she quickly scanned around and saw that the front and back rows were almost full of people, with only one empty seat next to a boy in the middle, and one empty seat at the very end.
Miko didn't think much and pulled Hana over.
"Hana, I'll sit here."
"You go to the seat at the back."
Hearing this, Hana was startled at first, then her gaze swept over the boy's face. As if thinking of something, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she grinned, giving Miko a thumbs up.
Hana teased, "Could it be that you want to hit on him?"
"Miko, you are surprisingly bold!!"
Miko's mouth twitched, and she said weakly, "No, it's not like that... never mind."
After sitting down, Miko glanced at the boy next to her out of the corner of her eye.
She has to admit, he really is a handsome guy.
No wonder Hana misunderstood her...
The boy, however, openly turned his head and looked directly at Miko's face.
"You are...?"
The boy was Tenya as most of the readers had expected.
At first, he was puzzled. There were clearly so many empty seats on the bus, but this girl came straight to the seat next to him as soon as she got on.
Could it be another attempt to hit on him?
Tsk~ There are so many face diggers in this school.
However, after he carefully looked at the girl in front of him, he felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
"Sorry! I didn't mean to disturb you." Miko subtly expressed her attitude.
She thought that the other person must have heard Hana's teasing, which was why he misunderstood that she intended to hit on him.
Actually, she really didn't.
The bizarre things she had encountered recently were enough to exhaust her mentally and physically.
How could she have the leisure to look at handsome guys?
"It's really ridiculous, don't you think? It's really funny, hahahaahahahaha!!!"
Suddenly, the woman sitting in the front row let out a rather exaggerated strange laugh.
"!!!"
Miko's face turned pale.
"It's really ridiculous, don't you think? It's really funny, hahahaahahahaha!!!"
This time, the sound came from behind, sending a chill down Miko's spine.
"It's really ridiculous, don't you think? It's really funny, hahahaahahahaha!!!"
"It's really ridiculous, don't you think? It's really funny, hahahaahahahaha!!!"
The eerie voices came simultaneously from various seats on the bus.
Miko's golden eyes suddenly widened.
In her vision, she saw that the passengers in every seat on the bus were emitting wisps of black mist, and one by one, they suddenly transformed into bizarre monsters.
They... they can even disguise themselves as humans?!!
Miko immediately became scared and started trembling.
"What's wrong?"
"Huh? It's chilly, did they turn up the air conditioning too high?"
Tenya noticed the anomaly of the girl next to him, and at the same time looked around at the empty seats with a puzzled gaze.
He felt that the bus was eerie, as if there was something unclean in here.
"It's really ridiculous, don't you think? It's really funny, hahahaahahahaha!!!"
Those bizarre monsters turned their heads one after another, their empty gazes converging on Miko.
"Haa...!"
Miko was terribly frightened, but she still desperately tried to maintain a calm expression.
Just then, a bizarre face with a long neck extended from behind, almost touching her shoulder, staring fixedly at her at close range.
"Why didn't you sit here with me..."
"Could it be... you can see me?"
Facing the bizarre entity's face-to-face stare, Miko couldn't hold on anymore. She felt like her heart was about to stop beating.
"Um..."
"H-hello, classmate..."
"I'm Yotsuya Miko from Sobu High School, second year, Class B..."
"C-can I get to know you?"
In order to deceive the bizarre entity in front of her, Miko had a flash of inspiration and decided to pretend to be hitting on Tenya.
"Miko! And you said you weren't trying to hit on a handsome guy?"
Han, sitting in the last row of the bus, was completely unaware of the bizarre entities inside the carriage.
In her view, there were clearly so many empty seats in the bus, yet Miko specifically sat next to that guy. She was clearly trying to hit on him.
"Yotsuya Miko..."
"You are Yotsuya Miko?!"
Tenya had already found the girl in front of him familiar, and as soon as he heard her name, he immediately remembered.
This was the female protagonist of a certain anime he had watched in his previous life, but that anime was not a regular slice-of-life series.
"Why are you so scared? Could it be..."
"You saw it?"
"Why are you so scared? Could it be..."
"You saw them?"
Tenya narrowed his eyes slightly, asking tentatively.
Did you see them?
Could it be that this guy in front of her is also like those monsters in disguise?
Miko immediately turned pale, and subconsciously moved her body away from Tenya.
However, all around her, front, back, left, and right, were spirits shrouded in black mist. She had nowhere to escape.
Tears welled up in her eyes, and immense fear began to gradually erode her spirit...
"You can see!"
"You can see!!"
"You can see!!!"