Mizuhashi Yuzuki quickly replied: “It’s like this. My father’s hospital has just quietened down recently, and everyone was discussing whether to go out and relax together. But since they are medical staff, they can’t go too far, so they were only planning to find a place in the city to unwind. I thought it would be perfect for them to come to your place and accomplish what you want to do.”
Izumi Shirayuki sent a message: “Is that really appropriate? Our place has a haunting legend. What if something happens and scares the medical staff at your hospital?”
Mizuhashi Yuzuki replied: “Don’t worry about that. So-called ghosts don’t exist; there’s nothing to be afraid of. As for the people playing the ghosts, there’s no need to worry either. Don’t forget, those medical staff are all from a psychiatric hospital. They see mental patients all the time, so their psychological resilience is excellent. They won’t be scared easily.”
From the start, Mizuhashi Yuzuki never considered the haunting incident a major issue. She shared the same view as Izumi Shirayuki, believing it was a scheme cooked up by Spring Mountain Hot Spring Inn’s competitors, and didn’t take it seriously.
“A bunch of medical staff who spend their days watching mental patients… Are you sure they’ll come?” Izumi Shirayuki continued messaging.
“Relax, I’ve already discussed it with my father. He’ll bring some of the medical staff to that inn to relax later,” Mizuhashi Yuzuki replied.
“Then we’ll be troubling Uncle Mizuhashi,” Izumi Shirayuki messaged.
“It’s no trouble at all. Father was still hesitating about where to go to relax anyway. Now we’ve made the decision for him, which is good,” Mizuhashi Yuzuki sent a smiling emoji.
The matter was settled just like that.
After finishing her conversation with Mizuhashi Yuzuki, Izumi Shirayuki said to Tsukiyomi Ruri, “Fujiwara-san should be quite happy to know about this. I’ll go tell her first, so she can prepare.”
Tsukiyomi Ruri nodded.
Watching Izumi Shirayuki leave the room, Tsukiyomi Ruri burrowed into her bed, picked up her smartphone, and logged into the Reincarnator Forum. She browsed through posts one by one in the Chat Section.
Lately, she had been checking posts like this from time to time, learning about the situations of other Reincarnators and getting a good grasp on current events.
“Oh?”
Suddenly, a post caught Tsukiyomi Ruri’s attention.
<Seeking the person who destroyed the Demon Spirit Group. Bring evidence and DM me. A certain amount of Reincarnation Points will be provided as reward.>
Demon Spirit Group?
Tsukiyomi Ruri hadn’t expected to see information about this on the Reincarnator Forum and curiously opened the post.
She first glanced at the poster’s ID, and the sight made her pause. The poster was someone who also felt familiar—it was Flame Bird, the same person who had replied to her post in the Emotion Section.
Is this person related to the Demon Spirit Group?
Tsukiyomi Ruri began to read the post’s content carefully.
The content wasn’t complicated, and Tsukiyomi Ruri understood the situation with just two glances.
‘This Flame Bird is actually the Commander of the Flame Bird Group? I remember when I killed Kiryoki, a man appeared, acting haughty and aggressive. That man was from the Flame Bird Group, right?’
Tsukiyomi Ruri mused to herself. She hadn’t expected that she had already crossed paths with the Flame Bird Group’s Commander so early on.
Very few people had replied to this post, and those that did were just things like “+3 EXP.”
Replying to posts on the forum could earn experience to level up an account, but in Tsukiyomi Ruri’s view, that was just a badge with no real use.
‘If I ignore this post, I wonder if someone might give Flame Bird false information, dragging innocents into this. In that case…’
Tsukiyomi Ruri made a decision.
She went into her blacklist, first unblocking the previously blacklisted Flame Bird, and then sent a message: “You there?”
Flame Bird replied instantly: “You? Didn’t you blacklist me? Realizing now what a mistake it was to blacklist me?”
Tsukiyomi Ruri completely ignored Flame Bird’s words and sent a new message directly: “I know who killed Kiryoki and the man from the Flame Bird Group.”
She didn’t know Adachi Tsukasa’s name.
“You know? Who is it?” Flame Bird seemed slightly surprised.
“It was me,” Tsukiyomi Ruri admitted openly.
Flame Bird: “…”
This answer was clearly something Flame Bird hadn’t anticipated.
Tsukiyomi Ruri waited a moment before Flame Bird sent another message: “It’s really you? Let me tell you, I don’t care why you killed them. One of them was from my Flame Bird Group. Since you killed him, I won’t let you off.”
Tsukiyomi Ruri sent a message: “I know. Just come at me directly.”
“Very well,” Flame Bird continued messaging: “It seems you have some guts, at least. Then let’s set a time and place, and settle this score properly.”
Seeing this message, Tsukiyomi Ruri responded: “I’m busy recently. I won’t go.”
“You don’t dare come?” Flame Bird asked, sending a sneering emoji along.
“I said I’m busy recently. I was just informing you that I was the one who killed your subordinate,” Tsukiyomi Ruri replied.
She really was just notifying them. After saying this, without waiting for Flame Bird’s response, she blacklisted Flame Bird once again.
‘This Flame Bird is probably just a Mid-Level Reincarnator too, right?’
Tsukiyomi Ruri thought to herself.
The gap between each tier of Reincarnators is quite large, so it’s impossible to have a commander who is a Senior Reincarnator while the members are Mid-Level or Low-Level Reincarnators. This is because the difficulty of a Reincarnation World task is assigned based on the team’s highest combat power. Carrying a whole group is no easy feat.
So normally, Reincarnator teams are clusters of Senior Reincarnators together, or clusters of Mid-Levels together.
For example, the Demon Spirit Group was a Mid-Level Reincarnator team. As for the Low-Level Reincarnators who had appeared at the Demon Spirit Group’s base, they were actually like Inoue Keiko back then—personnel who hadn’t signed a Team Contract.
Therefore, since the man who had come to help Kiryoki was a Mid-Level Reincarnator, the Flame Bird Group should be a Mid-Level Reincarnator team as well.
…
Hino Kaoru had not left Spring Mountain Hot Spring Inn; she had been staying here for the past few days.
Now, in her own room, upon seeing the messages Tsukiyomi Ruri sent, Hino Kaoru was enraged beyond measure. Immediately, she tapped out a huge block of text in a flurry, fully expressing her anger and dissatisfaction through her words, laced with intense sarcasm.
Satisfied with the text she had written, Hino Kaoru clicked send.
Sorry, you have been blacklisted by this user!
Upon seeing this notification, Hino Kaoru’s hand tightened around her phone in rage. This smartphone, which she had just bought yesterday, immediately filled with cracks just like the previous one.
