The Seven Mysteries (2)

The security room

"Is...it...still there?" one of the guards asked.

"I don't know, why don't you get out of the hiding place and look for yourself?!!!" another guard said.

The first guard kept shaking his head, indicating that he wouldn't get out of his hiding place.

"Then forget it!" the other guard said to his colleagues.

However, Paimon was not at her assigned position by Alexy anymore. She was floating around the school, trying to remember the way to the school's kitchen.

"Ehehe, they should have some food left in the kitchen, in case the guards are hungry." Paimon said to herself.

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"It seems that the stairs ghost can move freely and possess different stairs, not just the stairs on the West side of the main building, according to the witnesses." said Alexy, before looking back at the stairs, for which he fell and was put into a dangerous situation, which located at the East side of the main building.

"The same with the black ghost in the restroom, which was supposed to be in the toilet of the lowest floor of the West building, and the human figure possessing evil spirit." Chongyun said. "Hmmm, I think they won't return to their original spots, better proceed to find the 4 other evil spirits." he added.

"Ok, then, let's go the the Music and Art rooms. They are located in the East building." said Alexy.

Then the three of them went to the East building.

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Music room

"That's the musical instrument I told you." Alexy said and use his flashlight to point at the piano.

"What a strange musical instrument! It looks like a beast with teeth on its face and a big mouth to devour poor people on top of its body." said Chongyun, while looking at the piano.

(Why do you give such a creepy description?) Alexy thought.

"No, the evil spirit is not here." said Chongyun. "Do you know where the other musical instruments are kept, if evil spirits can move from things to things, they tend to possess objects of the same kind."

"There's an inventory for musical instruments."

"Where is it?"

Alexy pointed to a door at the end of the room and said: "There."

Chongyun walked to the door. He closed his eyes for a moment and said:

"I can feel it, the evil spirit is on the other side of this door."

Chongyun then tried to open the door, only to realize it had been locked.

"Leave it to me!" Noelle said.

She then took out some lock picking tools, and after a few seconds, the door was unlocked.

"Noelle, you know lock picking?!" Alexy asked with a surprised tone.

"Yes, it was taught to me by Captain Kaeya." Noelle answered with a warm smile.

"Hahaha, I have such an excellent student!" Kaeya laughed inside Alexy's mind.

(This guy is so shady!) Alexy thought.

"The priority is going in and investigating now!" Chongyun interrupted.

Chongyun turned the handle and opened the door. Inside the room, there were a lot of musical instruments of every types, guitars, trumpets, ukuleles, drums, etc. All of them were put in the room orderly, according to the type of each of them.

"Woah, I don't know my school has so many musical instruments, the curriculum does not seem to be the type of putting emphasis on subjects such as Music and Art." Alexy commented.

"It's in here!" said Chongyun.

Immediately right after Chongyun's words, the group heard music, which originated from one of the musical instruments in the room.

"COVER YOUR EARS!" Chongyun shouted, before taking out a bunch of talismans and threw them at the musical instruments. Hearing his shout, both Alexy and Noelle covered their ears.

"AAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!"

All of them heard a woeful scream when a talisman touched a musical instrument in the corner. It was a shamisen, a Japanese musical instrument that bears some similarities to a guitar.

And in front of them, the evil spirit that were possessing the shamisen appeared, it was a woman with not too long black hair, however, the front hair was long enough to cover her eyes. Her gown was scarlet red in color. She was holding the shamisen with both of her hands.

"Please have mercy, O mighty pure-Yang spirit exorcist..." the woman cried out.

But before the spirit could say more, Chongyun threw a talisman at her mouth, which shut her up.

"YOU EVIL SPIRIT! HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE YOU HARMED?!!!" Chongyun said angrily.

<<WARNING>>

<<Chongyun is losing control>>

(Wait, WHAT!)

Before Alexy's brain could proceed the information, he heard the shredding sound of paper. When he looked at the woman, the talisman on her mouth and on the shamisen had turned to dust.

"Tsk, young exorcists are usually amateurs, but it seems like you are not like them. However, do you really think those pitiful talisman can restrain me?!"

The woman began to play the shamisen in her hands. Remembering Chongyun's words from before, Alexy and Noelle covered their ears. But to their surprise, this time, they found that their bodies became numb and couldn't move at all.

"HAHAHAHA, you're all dead here!" she laughed before looking up and spitted fire from her throat.

It turned out that Chongyun could still move and he had leaped into the air to attack from above. Seeing the fire, he took out his claymore and slammed it down, after infusing it with Cryo power. The fire was extinguished and the claymore slammed into the evil spirit's face.

The music stopped and Alexy with Noelle could feel the sensation of their bodies again.

"ARGH, how could a weapon harm me? I'm a spirit!"

Chongyun did not say one word, he came close to the woman and began to slam his claymore, on which many talismans and charms were attached, onto her.

(He's so scary!) thought Alexy.

After hitting the evil spirit for about 10 times, Chongyun took out a lot of talismans and charms, imbuing them with so much Yang energy that was exuding from his body in the process.

'DISAPPEAR!"

And all of the talismans and charms began to float into the air, circling the evil spirit.

" I can't defeat you, but she, who is like you, can, ARGHHHHHHH!" the female evil spirit spoke before being exorcised completely. What remained was the shamisen she possessed before.

However, Chongyun did not stop there, he raised his claymore up and slammed it at the shamisen, destroying it.

"Chongyun, what have you done!!! This belongs to the school!" Alexy said.

But, to Alexy's surprise, the blue haired exorcist did not stop there. He turned around and slammed his claymore at a trumpet, destroying it.

<<WARNING>>

<<Chongyun has lost control>>

"Chongyun, STOP!"

But Chongyun did not stop at all, he began to swirl around like a beyblade, destroying everything in his claymore's path.

"Noelle, STOP HIM!"

"Yes, Master!"

Noelle swung her Favonius Greatsword at the beyblade Chongyun, strong enough to stop his movement. And then the enraged Chongyun swung his claymore at her, trying to crush his obstacle, but Noelle used her Elemental Skill, "Breastplate", and created a stone shield, protecting her. However, Chongyun did not care and kept slamming his claymore at the shield.

(Oh no, if this continues, Noelle will be in disadvantage)

<<WARNING>>

<<Chongyun is overheat with his Yang energy>>

<<Chongyun will explode in 10 minutes>>

<<If Chongyun ends up exploded, the system will take away 30,000 Moras and 160 primogems from the Host at compensation for letting the trial character suffer damage.>>

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AR: 6 (125/1500 EXP)

Primogem count: 310

Mora count: 31, 675