15 Behind the Figure of A Mysterious Man
Not long after, Mawaru arrived at Higashiyodogawa - Aikawa, "School building?" is this the correct address?
"Why?" This cute girl named Mawaru who is a spiritual power user wondered in amazement, "Actually I didn't come here."
"Did he trick me again?"
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Meanwhile...
The mysterious man who drove Mawaru had now boarded the Shinkansen and was leaving for Abenomotomachi (City/District in Abeno). He had ordered an executive train with private rooms.
*Shinkansen: Fast trains
"Yosh," the mysterious man was ready to open the door of the room, "No. 50 yeah, Hmm..." He muttered while looking at the contents of the room in front of the entrance.
Then he went into the room and locked it tight.
"Finally I can calm down, felt nervous and very tense I faced her." Grumbled the mysterious man who was relaxing in the private room of the executive train while placing the suitcase on the front seat.
"The train is leaving soon." Announcement from the platform!
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"Yosh, I'm going to sleep first." In the heart of the mysterious man while stretching out in his private room on the train. "I thought leaving her there was the right choice." The person in his mind was Mawaru.
The Shinkansen will reach my Abeno in about two hours. Before falling asleep, he had prepared an alarm from his cellphone that was installed to wake him up in 2 hours.
Not long ago asleep soundly, suddenly his cellphone rang indicating someone's important call.
"Take care of it! Even though I was silent! Tch!" he grumbled because the sound sleep he had planned was interrupted by the sound of his cell phone like a nature call.
The mysterious man lifted it with narrow eyes and mouth slightly yawning "Oooi~ who?"
"Hello..." Said the person who called.
"Oh Gen? What's wrong?" Unexpectedly, Mawaru's boss called.
"Um, nothing."
"Ha?" Strange! "Why call me when there's nothing to talk about...?" he thought.
"...."
"Yes, I'm closed again." Somehow this mysterious man had no intention of talking to Gen...?
"Eeee-! Wait a minute." Gen hurried to prevent it.
"Ng?"
"Senpai parted ways with Mawaru on purpose, right?" Gen spoke gravely, "Why did you do that? Didn't he-"
"It's okay, don't worry. Think of it as initial training for her," This time, what will Mawaru do if he doesn't have the potential to protect the artifact !? The mysterious man thought it might be the fastest way to measure her potential.
"B-but, with her current abilities... she's still a beginner." Gen was very worried about her, especially a girl who was still 14 years old going alone without a companion or parents near her.
"That's why I want her to train her strength independently. Gen, it looks like you are spoiling Mawaru too much. Regardless, she has to find a way through her instincts." Said the mysterious man seriously holding the phone while looking at the glass train carriage.
Then he closed the train carriage window with a small curtain (curtain) which is in the upper right corner of the window.
"Oi oi seriously, I'm worried about your daughter."
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"Jin-senpai."
[Jin Yoshioka] "It can't be helped, I wasn't the one right beside her." Said the mysterious man, staring sadly at the small table in front of him. Then he took out a bottle of wine from his backpack and took a sip. Unexpectedly this mysterious man is Mawaru's real father.
"Gen, for now... let Mawaru find out for herself, don't say anything. I'm sure, the stronger her instincts the more her instincts develop to respond to other people's feelings." With optimism, Jin believes that his daughter can develop more than that.
"Senpai didn't say it on the way?"
"Why did I say it, he doesn't even remember the figure of her father. That's why today is my toughest meeting. So, I end this call."
"O-oh." Gen becomes reluctant to be Mawaru's and junior from Jin.
Instantly Jin hung up the call.
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The 6th division office in Rakugaki (let's call it Another World) "Yare-yare, father and son are the same. Neither can tell one another." Gen said who relaxed after hanging up the phone then gave Mawaru another mission. He opened the cupboard that contained a pile of records of successful and failed missions that his subordinates had worked on, then he put them on his desk. Wearing his Haori Kimono, he went outside for a while to get a teapot and glass of Matcha tea in the kitchen.
Right now there is nobody here, we spiritual users are always taking time off every week. But, not the important members...
"Hah~ this room is lonely when she (Mawaru) is not there." He muttered as he looked at the office that looked like a family lounge with a wooden table in the middle containing mission documents and notes.
"All right, now get back to work." Gen smiled faintly then put the teapot and glass on the wooden table.
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"Tch! Troublesome senior, adding to my job." While matching Mawaru's radar which was confirmed to have arrived at Higashiyodogawa, Gen began to look for the right mission to train his abilities there this time.
Gen poured the matcha tea from the teapot into a glass then drank a sip of the matcha tea. Amid the scent of the matcha tea that stung his nose, he started to think of something.
"Hmm, yes. Because that place... is the former pendulum school of this Rakugaki site. It should be unavoidable chaos for spiritual users." He thought while monitoring Mawaru and prioritizing him to a safe place.
"However, knowing that something is ... part of the job."
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Return to Mawaru!
"Does that person intend to trick me !? Tch, if only I could use my abilities..." she thought irritably as he stared furiously at the Osaka High School building. For a moment this Mawaru beat the mysterious man with her fist and then poured out a certain amount of force in her fist to form her weak fist that hit the wall of the school fence. With a gloomy face, she sighed regretfully "Stop it, I must not destroy this building."
Then Mawaru remembers that the mysterious man was close to her superior named Gen Nishimura. "Maybe I asked Taichou-"
Suddenly Mawaru's cell phone rings.
Incoming call "Eh!? Gen Taichou."
"What's wrong? I just wanted to call him." She thought, then Mawaru raised the incoming call on her cellphone.
"Yo Mawaru..." Gen said casually.
"Enough~ is this the chairman's plan?" Mawaru boasted, "Who the hell was that mysterious man? She used to smile at me with his stupid smile and he was nice to treat me too but, why do I have to come here? It seems I was wrong on purpose-"
Not finished explaining at length, Gen just replied "Ahahaha, I'm worried about you."
"Tch, sounds like a lie." But it doesn't feel like the Gen chairman was lying when he said that, Mawaru started using her abilities.
"Mawaru, leaving the artifact aside. You can go to my Abeno tomorrow morning, I've already arranged it."
"Oh, this is true the chairman's plan." Mawaru lazily responded to his superior's words.
"Think of it, it's time for training before you go to my Abeno. You have to do spirit burials on the spirits that roam the school." Said Gen who gave the orders for his mission.
"Are those here are spirits of spiritual power users?" Mawaru asked to confirm it and considered the high level of spiritual power here even though it was felt.
"Yes, to be more precise this used to be ... the place of the pendulum," Gen said seriously.
Mawaru suddenly stared at that.
"Pendulum? That means the creator of this site?"
"Yes, the precious artifact that you have to guard right now belongs to that... there is a pack of evil spirits that will soon eat you."
"Why is that?"
"Because it, the artifact you hold is to determine the future leader. Either it becomes the god of creation or the god of destruction. And the spirit over there is a subordinate of the previous leader who failed to defend-"
"Until I find a suitable candidate, one day I have to fight an enemy like this?" Mawaru now understood what his superior's word practice meant, they were real spirits in the human world that inhabited this place.
"Yes, that is so." It's good that Mawaru was quick to understand, but the danger was also against them...
"OK." Mawaru finally put on a serious face.
"But, don't push yourself too hard."
"Yes," Mawaru was relieved a little by smiling faintly, but there was something stuck in her mind. "Gen Taichou! Who was the person that was with me? The chairman isn't changing the subject, is he?" Mawaru grunts as he prepares to enter the battlefield (even though she is only fighting against spirits).
"Ehehe, about that I can't answer it."
"Ehehe... tch! Suspicious."
Gen smiled faintly before ending this call.
"...."
"At least he can be considered a valuable person in your life today." She said softly on the phone then Gen hung up on the call.
Gen's words made Mawaru blush by remembering the moment with the mysterious man at the airport.
"Someone valuable, huh?" She muttered, "Maybe ... it was he who gave me this exercise." In Mawaru's heart who confirmed her guess to her previous superior.
"But, I don't know yet. Who is that mysterious man?" Mawaru who was preparing to fight infiltrated the school by jumping this fence was still thinking about it. Deep in her mind, "There must be a bond that connects our hearts so even though I can't know who he is... I can feel warmth when he is with me."
'He has taken care of me and served me something special like this.'
'Thank you, a mysterious man (who knows who you are).'
'From here on, you sensitize me and get stronger.'
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