Yuichi had gone home, gotten changed, and then headed for the shopping district near the station.
He’d been told there was some evil threat to the local peace blending in here in the city, but it was all pretty vague, and most people would have no idea of where to even start searching. Yuichi had Soul Reader, though, which seemed like it would increase his chances of finding whatever it was.
Still, it seems pretty unlikely that I will...
He didn’t have any idea what it might look like. Did it even have a physical form? If so, would it be active during the day? Would it be the type of thing to go walking around in the city? He didn’t know anything about it.
Even so, he couldn’t refuse Furu’s request. She had basically said it was Aiko’s fault, and if it was, then Yuichi was the cause of that, too.
Aiko wasn’t doing anything wrong. Maybe she’d had a special birthright, and maybe that was causing trouble for others now, but Yuichi was convinced she wasn’t responsible for that. Therefore, he’d decided, even if Aiko didn’t know anything about it, he had to relieve her burden as much as possible.
“‘Evil’ is a pretty vague descriptor, though! Kinda raises some philosophical questions, too!” Mutsuko was walking beside him, as revved up as ever.
After coming home, Yuichi had tried to sneak back out, but Mutsuko had caught him. Then, perhaps out of boredom, she had decided to tag along. Now that she was with him, he couldn’t exactly just ignore her, so he’d ended up explaining the long and short of the situation.
“All that aside, Yuichi Sakaki...” Yuri Konishi said, walking on his other side. She had been with him since the shrine, and she was apparently planning to stick around. “Are you certain you should have undertaken such a vague request? If you can’t find them, won’t you just wind up searching endlessly?”
“Obviously, I can’t keep it up forever, but even if I can’t find it, the evil will try to do something eventually, and we’ll probably find it then,” he said. It would be best if they could find it before then, obviously, but if they couldn’t, he’d just have to deal with whatever happened.
Wait, when did I start assuming I’d be the one to deal with it?
Yuichi immediately chastised himself for his eagerness. If there were monster hunter specialists in this kind of thing, he should probably just leave it to them.
“So why are you coming along, Konishi?” he asked.
“Why wouldn’t I come along? I went all the way to that shrine to meet you, after all.”
“It’s not going to be all that interesting. We’re mostly going to be standing around staring at people.” Yuichi’s plan was to set up camp somewhere and watch the people come and go. His hopes weren’t high, but it was possible he could find something that way.
“People-watching, huh?” Mutsuko cried. “I know the best place for that!”
With that, Mutsuko dragged Yuichi along without giving him a chance to protest.