According to the poster's own account, the piano music that rings out in the middle of the night happens at exactly 10:30 PM.
Right now, it was only 5 in the afternoon, five and a half hours to go.
Naturally, Kaito wasn't foolish enough to wait around for that long.
Bringing Yumiko and Goto Hitori along, the three quickly got on a train and arrived at their destination: Tsukinomori Women's University.
This was a very famous aristocratic school in Tokyo. The students who studied here were either rich young ladies, top-tier talents who had won major competitions, or children of high-ranking officials.
Yumiko's family was merely middle class, while Bocchi's family was an average salaried household.
They hadn't thought much of it before arriving, but the moment they stood in front of the Tsukinomori gates, the two girls began to hesitate.
"This is the legendary ojou-sama school… They must be really strict with outsiders, right? Can we really get in?"
Bocchi weakly pointed in a direction, "The security guard over there… seems to be looking this way."
At this time of day, school was already over. The entrance was deserted, so Kaito and the others stood out like a sore thumb.
"What do we do, what do we do…", Yumiko looked nervously at the approaching security guard, "Club Prez, Club Prez, hurry up and use your invincible Fire Dragon Bomb to think of something!"
"Stop shaking me!", Kaito smacked her lightly on the head in annoyance, but didn't make any other moves. The security guard who had looked like he was about to confront them suddenly froze mid-step, went blank for a moment, then calmly turned around and walked back to the security booth.
"What just happened?", Yumiko was dumbfounded.
"I temporarily influenced his thoughts and made him forget what he was about to do."
Kaito strode toward the school gate, "For the next two hours, he'll ignore our presence, so we can just walk right in."
"You can even do something like that?", Yumiko didn't know what she was imagining, but her face flushed bright red.
'Influencing thoughts? Isn't this basically that 'altering common sense' plot from anime?'
'If Kaito ever use that power on me…'
'No! She can't keep thinking about it!'
Bocchi wasn't doing much better. Her head seemed to be steaming, and her eyes had turned into swirls.
Thunk!
"Ow!" x2
Ignoring the resentful looks from the two girls, Kaito calmly withdrew his fist.
'That'll teach you not to let your imaginations run wild!'
If he really wanted to do something, back in his previous life, he only had to crook his finger and plenty of female cultivators would've willingly joined him on the path to enlightenment.
The group quickly entered Tsukinomori.
As expected of a prestigious aristocratic academy, not only was the campus larger than Shuka's, but the facilities were also much more luxurious.
There was even a specially cultivated garden filled with all sorts of exotic flowers, along with a few pots of fresh, glistening cucumbers.
Though it was their first time here, with Kaito around, they didn't get lost.
Spreading out his divine sense, it didn't take long for him to locate a room in the large campus that clearly stood out from the rest.
Crossing the courtyard, the group arrived at a music classroom on the seventh floor of the academic building.
Coincidentally, even from a distance, a soft and pleasant piano melody drifted over.
'Looks like the poster wasn't lying.'
The music was enchanting. The moment it entered their ears, the tense and expectant emotions of the girls were magically soothed.
Their bodies and minds felt lighter, as if they had returned to the warm embrace of their mothers.
Pushing the door open, the mellow afternoon sunlight spilled through the window frame, casting a golden veil over the classroom.
At first glance, the classroom looked nothing out of the ordinary. Only at the piano sat a long-haired girl with chestnut-colored hair, her eyes tightly shut. Her slender fingers danced gracefully like butterflies flitting among flowers, passionately playing "Für Elise."
"There's actually someone here?", Yumiko looked a bit disheartened. Judging by the brown-haired girl's uniform, she was clearly a student of Tsukinomori.
'Was it another false alarm?'
But Kaito shook his head, "It's not that simple."
The girl playing the piano was indeed a real, living human.
But her condition was far from normal. Though her hands were pressing the keys, it wasn't of her own volition.
In Kaito's vision, clinging to the girl's back was a ghostly girl in a matching school uniform, her skin translucent.
The ghost girl was controlling the brown-haired girl's limbs like a puppeteer manipulating a marionette.
Clearly, this rendition of 'Für Elise' was being played by the ghost girl using the girl's body as a medium.
Miura Yumiko was just an ordinary person, so of course she couldn't see the eerie scene before them.
But Bocchi wasn't the same, she had long since activated her Yin-Yang eyes. The terrifying sight before her made her tremble, and she couldn't help but hide behind Kaito, tears welling in her sapphire eyes.
"K-Kurumizaka-senpai!"
"I'm here," Kaito remained calm.
Though the ghost girl was incredibly skilled on the piano, her spirit was clean, with no ominous or bloody aura.
Obviously, she hadn't had any malicious intentions until now.
But that was then, this was now.
The brown-haired girl's current condition was akin to being possessed. While not immediately life-threatening, prolonged possession would severely drain her life force, and she'd fall seriously ill afterward.
Kaito naturally wouldn't let this go on. Just as he was about to act, the music suddenly stopped.
The brown-haired girl, still lost in the trance of her performance, suddenly stood up. A moment later, like a puppet that had lost its strings, she collapsed.
Miura Yumiko jumped in fright and rushed forward to catch her.
At the same time, the ghost girl also floated over. Under Bocchi's anxious gaze, she performed a perfect tiger-drop prostration.
"P-please don't kill me, sir! I'm a good civilian! No, a good ghost!"
'Such a textbook dogeza!'
'Such a practiced plea for mercy!'
Bocchi was utterly shocked.
She'd expected a fierce battle, but before it even began, the opponent had already waved a white flag.
Considering the ghost girl's pure spirit form, Kaito didn't immediately send her off to reincarnation. Instead, he spoke succinctly.
"Explain everything. Why are you here?"
The ghost girl breathed a sigh of relief.
The young man before her was so handsome it made her heart skip a beat, but the deep, oceanic pressure radiating from him felt like a mountain pressing down on her head. Like a lamb meeting a tiger, she didn't even have the will to resist, which was why she had instantly begged for mercy.
Since he'd given her a chance to explain, that meant he was reasonable. At least for now, her life was safe.
She was just about to speak when—
"Wait a sec!", Miura Yumiko raised her hand.
As the only one present who couldn't see spirits, what the hell was with this "everyone else gets it but me" vibe?
She couldn't help but look eagerly at Kaito, "Club Prez~"
Kaito sighed but still reached out and lightly touched her forehead with a finger.
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