Ghost School
Special Episode 4: Ayui's childhood
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At Ayui's house, when Ayui had just come home...
There appeared a small 11-year-old boy with brown hair like Ayui and purplish red eyes. The boy ran out of the house and hugged Ayui.
The boy is Ayui's younger brother, Yasa Yugito.
"Sister Yui! Welcome!" Yugito Shouted
"You run so, you fall" Ayui said gently while stroking her sister's head.
"Sister Yui still treats me like a child..." Yugito's murmur
"You are a child" Ayui said with a small laugh
"I'll grow up soon!!" Yugito Shouted
"Yes, yeah. Hurry up and give your brother this gift to take care of you" Gurau Ayui
"of course! I'll give Brother Yui flowers that sangaaaaatttt much!"
"I wait, ya~"
"Look at it later!!" Yugito shouted and immediately ran back into the house.
"Basically, the boy was still noisy" muttered Ayui gompa
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After getting her things done and resting, Ayui called Yurin to preach. But Ayui's phone wasn't picked up by Yurin.
"Hm? Tumben not lifted. Maybe he's busy..." Ayui Gumam
Since the phone was not picked up, Ayui decided to send a chat message to Yurin.
..."Ririn, I'm home"...
"Now just wait for Ririn there is free time..." Ayui Gumam
While waiting for Yurin, Ayui read a novel to relieve boredom. But...
1 Hour passed...
5 Hours have passed...
Tomorrow has arrived...
The day has become blistering...
Until night came again...
The next day came, but there was no response from Yurin.
Ayui had even finished 3 novel books as well as read several other books.
"Something's wrong! As busy as Ririn is but it shouldn't have ignored my messages all along! There must be something!!" Thought Ayui was suspicious
Ayui had just wanted to send another chat message to Yurin to ask her how she was, but Yurin had already sent a chat message first.
..."Yui, there's a problem"...
"I'm guessing" Ayui thought
..."Why?"...
..."Maybe it's not a problem for you, but... Izumi's... I managed to untie us. So now Izumi is no longer in the world"...
Ayui.
"I've only been away for a few days, but there's been an incident like this..." Ayui Gumam
..."So you've been replying to my messages for a long time because of Izumi's problem? How are you doing?"...
..."I don't know. Of course I'm sad but I can't continue like that. Like you said, Izumi's place shouldn't be here. Maybe this is the best"...
..."Oh, yes, Yui. I have something to say besides that"...
..."What's?"...
..."Actually, when I was in 4th grade, I met Izumi. He helped me when I was lost. Unfortunately, I just remembered that now"...
..."Then, do you know that High School has been my favorite High School since SD? That's because I want to meet Izumi again who helped me. I used to think that if I went to school there I might see him again"...
For the second time Ayui was shocked by what Yurin said in the chat message.
..."A very complicated fate. In the end you really met him again"...
..."Yep. I'm so sorry to remember that now that Izumi is gone"...
..."Izumi is still looking, Ririn. It's just that we can't see it"...
After a while the two of them told each other and exchanged news, they finally ended the conversation and returned to their respective activities.
Ayui slammed her body into the mattress and stared blankly at the ceiling of her room.
"I can be sure Ririn likes Izumi. That must have hurt. At times like this I can't even comfort her" Ayui thought
"I did want the bond of the two of them to escape quickly, because it could endanger Ririn's life if it could not escape. But if it's this fast and hurts Ririn, I don't want to either" Ayui thought
"Ririn wasn't just a friend to me..."
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12 Years ago, when Ayui was 4...
"Lalalalala~"
Ayui played in the park with a large grass alone and accompanied by her parents who watched her from a distance.
Ayui plucked flowers and leaves and arranged them into one.
"Waaahh! The flower crown is done! Pretty, right?" Shouted Ayui happily, and showed it to the person beside her.
"Yes, it's beautiful. Quickly give it to your mother"
"Yep~"
Ayui ran over to her parents.
"Mother~ Yui make mother crown flower~"
"It's so good~ It's for mom?"
"Yes! Yui's friend told her to give it to mom" Ayui said happily, but her mother looked confused.
"Friends?" Ask her mother
"Yes! Here, he's beside Yui" Ayui said as she pointed at the person now standing beside her
"But... There's no one there..." Mumbled his mother
Apparently, the person that Ayui thought was a friend was actually the good spirit of the park's guardian, and Ayui did not know that he was a ghost.
Yep. Ayui since birth has been blessed with a sixth sense that can see and communicate with subtle beings. But people don't think of Yui that way. For adults, what Ayui said about her 'friends' was just a hallucination.
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"Honey, don't take what Yui said seriously. He is in his active period. He may feel like he's playing with a friend so happy" said his father, Iruki
"But... Yui really..."
Ayui fell silent and did not continue her speech again after seeing the sharp gaze of her father who was behind her mother.
"Let's go back now. You must not be too tired because you are pregnant with a sister" said Iruki
Ayui's father immediately carried her and took her away from the park.
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Once at home, Ayui's father immediately told Ayui's mother to sleep so as not to get tired.
After making sure Ayui's mother slept, her father went to Ayui.
"Yui, did you see the guy in the park? How are her traits" asked Iruki
"Pulse... She's a little girl... The color of his hair and eyes is like leaves and his hair is very panjaaaaang"
"Yui talked to her?"
"Yes! Sounds pretty!"
Her father, Iruki immediately crouched down as she was with Ayui, and looked at her seriously.
"Yui, he's not human"
"?"
"Yui right now still can't tell them apart from humans, but Yui shouldn't be friends with them"
"Why?"
"Because they're not human. They shouldn't exist, and they could end up hurting Yui"
Iruki let out a heavy sigh, knowing that her son got his sixth sense ability from her.
"I didn't think Yui could see them..." Iruki muttered
"After this, Yui will learn with dad the things to do on spirits. Make sure this is unknown to others, including the mother"
"Yui don't want to... And why can't you know?" Ayui Gumam
Hearing that, Iruki immediately looked at Ayui sharply as if threatening her.
Ayui was silent with a pale face.
Looking at the frightened Ayui, Iruki again put on her usual face and sighed.
"It's for Yui herself. Father did not want Yui to be ostracized because of this special ability. To others, what Yui and father saw was a sinister thing. People will be afraid of us if they know what we're seeing"
"So this must be kept secret, no one should know, not even to the mother. This is only father and Yui's secret"
"... Fine..."
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1 week later, began to do a lesson about the spirit of his father secretly.
For the basic thing, a few months of learning that Ayui was able to distinguish between man and spirit. For Ayui's small size, it was already good enough for Iruki.
"Well, Yui already knows which spirits are. So, if Yui saw them, pretend not to know. Don't mind what they do and say"
"Yes, dad"
A few months did not feel like they had passed.
Until finally Ayui's sister, Yasa Yugito has been born 1 month after Ayui's 5th birthday.
Since her younger sister was born, Ayui has become easier to ignore the spirits, because Ayui is busy playing with her baby sister.
Until one day, something unexpected happened.
"Little baby~ Him ****seems***good meal"
The spirit appeared beside the baby basket, and the spirit tried to reach Yugito who was sleeping.
"Spirit! How'this? Dad said don't mind them as if Yui didn't see them" Ayui thought
The spirit touched Yugito's head. Yugito immediately cried loudly.
"Baby sister!!" Yui Shouted
Ayui immediately shook her hands ruffling the smoke-shaped spirit body into pieces.
"intriguing. This little boy can see me as it turns out"
The smoke flew slightly away and formed like a human back.
"If left when he grows up, he can be a spirit hunter. Must be killed now while he's a kid"
"A... What's..."
The spirit immediately stood in front of Ayui and extended its hand to Ayui.
"Dad!!!" Jerit Ayui
Ayui's consciousness began to fade from being too shocked.
After that scream, there was the sound of the door opening hurriedly.
"Yui!!"
"That's... Dad's Voice..." Thought Ayui
Ayui's consciousness disappeared completely and fainted.
At that time, Ayui was still not taught the types of spirits by his father, so he did not know that the spirit was an evil spirit.
A few hours later, Ayui woke up from her stupor.
The first thing he saw was his faithful father waiting for him to come to his senses.
"Dad..." Ayui Gumam
"You awake? You all right? Is anyone sick?" Iruki asked worriedly
"Yui it's okay. What about Yugito?"
"She's fine"
"Good..."
"Then, Yui. I want to give you something"
Iruki reached into something from her pants pocket. It was a bracelet. Iruki directly put it into Ayui's small hand.
"Wristbands?" Ask Ayui
"Yes. Keep wearing and don't take it off, okay?"
"Yes, Dad. Then, Yui wants to ask you something..."
"That one... Whahuh? There's human-shaped smoke..." Ayui Gumam
"..."
Iruki was silent for a moment.
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Days continue to pass with Ayui who still does not know that the spirit that attacked him before was an evil spirit.
Ayui is now 8 years old and her sister Yugito is 3 years old.
This time too, again there is an evil spirit that attacks him because the spirit knows Ayui has a sixth sense and has the potential to become a spirit hunter.
"Poor man. ****Must be resolved from now on****"
"!!!"
While Ayui was playing with her sister, again a spirit attacked them.
Quickly the spirit flew towards Ayui.
However, the protector suddenly appeared in front of Ayui and the spirit instantly vanished once it hit the protector.
Ayui who was still a child and not equipped with enough education about the spirit, saw himself in front of his eyes the spirit disappeared when the spirit wanted to attack him.
Ayui who was still in shock, immediately fell down with a trembling body.
"Forget? Aka't? Didn't you get that cepelti?"
With her body still trembling, Ayui turned to her sister who was beside her.
"Yugito's... Can't see it..." Thought Ayui
"Thank God. Thank goodness my sister didn't get this power. He would be tormented if he saw things he shouldn't have seen"
"Sister... Big brother is fine" Ayui said with her slightly trembling voice
Yugito who did not understand just nodded with a confused face.
Shortly after, his father came and brought Ayui to talk to him.
"So I saw a spirit. I didn't catch up to him because he was so fast. You okay?"
With a pale face Ayui shook her head violently.
"Di... Her... He wants to kill Yui..."
Ayui hugged her father and cried.
"Yui's scared, Dad! Yui didn't want to see something like that!!"
"Dad understands. Dad was like that too. This sixth sense is not a gift to us, but we must accept it"
"How is... What if someone wants to attack Yui again? This could happen again, right?"
"..."
Iruki could not stop Ayui's fear. All Iruki did was try to calm her daughter down.
Iruki began to realize this could not be allowed to continue. Ayui needs more knowledge about spirits.
"Yui, we'll start more serious practice from now on"
"Exercise?" Ask Ayui
"Yes. Previously I only wanted Ayui to know which ones were human and which ones were spirit because I thought Ayui was too small to learn more. But now it seems like it's time for Yui to know"
"We'll start tomorrow"
Since then, Ayui again taught his father about the spirit more deeply.
As she continued to practice, Ayui's sixth sense strength grew more concentrated and she could sense the presence of spirits more sensitive than before.
"Eh, do you guys feel that Yasa is weird? I feel like he's a little weird"
"Yes, yeah. I feel that way too. Every time I got near him, I got goosebumps"
People don't hate Ayui. But no one likes it either. They talk to Ayui and try not to linger with him.
Then when Ayui Junior High, Ayui found out that his type of power was a type of weapon. Iruki takes Ayui to meet her friend who is also a spirit hunter. The reason Iruki brought Ayui to her friend was because her friend was also both a weapon type.
Ayui did not want to explore things that smelled of spirit. However, he was forced by his father to learn to strengthen his abilities.
"Huh... Dad's overreacting. I have no plans to become a spirit hunter, why was I told to learn to do so? After all, normal people cannot see something like that, why would I who just happened to be able to see it have to hunt them down? My schoolwork is more important than anything that can't be seen!" Gerrutu Ayui
"Because I have a sixth sense too, I don't have any close friends. Talking with good spirits is not allowed by Dad. What's the point of having this excess except just to torture?"
Until, when Ayui was walking in the school hallway, there were two evil spirits who were fighting each other.
When Ayui had just realized the existence of the spirit, Ayui saw that one spirit disappeared in the hands of another spirit.
Ayui was shocked by what she saw. And the spirit also realized Ayui could see it.
"There's still one more bully turned out!"
"No!!" Thought Ayui
Ayui immediately turned away from the spirit.
Then...
Wush...
The spirit entered Ayui's body.
"No... Get out of my body!!" Thought Ayui
"Safufu..."
The spirit controlled Ayui's hand to strangle Ayui himself.
"Ugh..."
"Lho's? You're Yasa Ayui, right?" Said the person behind Ayui
"Who is that?..." Thought Ayui
"Hey, why is your body shaking?" Ask and pat Ayui on the shoulder.
"Parr...!"
Wush...
Instantly the spirit disappeared and turned into black smoke coming out of Ayui's body.
"He's... He's out of my body!" Thought Ayui
Ayui immediately looked back to see the person who saved her with breath gasping for breath because it was still crowded.
"Ah... Ye... You're Asahi Yurin, right? I'm fine"
"Thank God. I was a little surprised to see you tremble. I thought what was up"
"A--- Ah, yes..."
"Wait on! Look at your face pale. Going to the UKS? I'll accompany you"
"No need! Me, I'm fine. I'm just a little tired of running"
"Aah!" Yurin flinched
Yurin put a bottle of drink in her hand.
"Here, just drink mine"
"But it's yours"
"It's okay. Don't bother with me. We are classmates" Yurin said with a faint smile.
".... Thanks...."
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Next day.
"Asahi" Call Ayui
"Yes? Why?" Ask Yurin
"Here, I returned the water yesterday" Ayui said and placed a bottle of water on the table where Yurin was
"It doesn't matter..." Yurin Mumbles
"He's a good man. He also spoke casually with me, unlike the others"
"So, can I be his friend?" Thought Ayui
"Asahi, would you like to have lunch with me?" Ask Ayui
"Eh? What can? Of course I want to"
Since then, Yurin and Ayui became close friends.
During the time with Yurin, there were events where evil spirits interfered while Ayui was with Yurin.
"Man! Man is a spirit hunter!"
"Bad spirits!" Thought Ayui was shocked
In a state of crisis the evil spirit was willing to attack Ayui, Yurin suddenly interjected and accidentally touched the evil spirit that was speeding.
"Eh, Ayui, want to go eat pancakes after school?" Ask Yurin
Wush...
But strangely enough, every time the evil spirits did something, they would vanish once Yurin touched them.
"What'sthis? Yurin is a normal human being, but why did the evil spirit disappear so touched by Yurin?" Thought Ayui
"Maybe it's just a coincidence"
"Yes, come on Yurin. We haven't eaten pancakes in a long time" Ayui replied
"By the way, just call me Ririn. We're this close, doesn't it matter if you use a short nickname?" Ask Yurin
Ayui jerks.
"Yurin is different from everyone else. While others felt I was a strange person, Yurin wanted to be friends with me" Ayui thought
"Yes, Ririn. Then call me Yui"
Yurin immediately smiled brightly and hugged Ayui.
"Of course, Yui!"
That was the story of how Ayui and Yurin got close.
When they are in 9th grade and start focusing on going to High School, as friends, they ask each other where their High School goals are.
"Ririn, where do you want High School?" Ask Ayui
"mmm... It was very far away, it was in a neighboring town. So I'm gonna split up with my parents"
"Why do you want to go to school there? There are many good schools in the city"
"I forgot the reason, but I felt I had to go to school there. I'd be very sorry if I didn't go to school there"
"That's an elite school. The school building is like a palace with its characteristic red color. Must be fun school there"
"Elite schools in neighboring cities that have such traits there are only 1. It must be hard to get in there. But..."
"If it's with Ririn, I'll try!"
"looks interesting. I don't have a purpose to go to. So being with Ririn might not be a problem"
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Once home, Ayui asked her father about the High School.
"Why are you there?!" Iruki asked in shock
"I... I'll be there..." Ayui Gumam
Iruki thought seriously for a moment.
"You can live alone without Mom and Dad?" Ask Iruki
"It's okay! I'm also with friends, so not entirely alone"
"Alright, I'll allow it, but there's one condition"
"What?"
"If you want to be there, Yui must learn to eradicate spirits again seriously. Then you have to ask how Mom decided"
"Yes! Yui will be training diligently!"
Eventually, Ayui gets approval from both her parents to go to school with Yurin.
But once in school, Ayui was shocked by the many spirits that roamed the school.
Moreover, there were 1 of the most dangerous spirits instead continuing to stick and close to Yurin.
"Can't be allowed! I have to train even harder to get rid of it!"
"Now I regret not training well before. I should have followed Dad's words"
After quite a long time, Ayui was finally able to sense and communicate with the spirit that kept clinging to Yurin, Arato Izumi.
"I'll take away the one who's bothering Ririn!"
But after various events that require Ayui not to eliminate Izumi, Ayui began to feel that the spirit was not that bad.
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Back to now.
"Izumi has returned without needing to be eliminated..." Ayui Gumam
"I just don't like Izumi who keeps sticking with Ririn. That'sallthatis. Apart from that, Izumi is actually quite good especially for him who is also an evil spirit. Kei is also an evil spirit but not that bad"
"Father may have misunderstood the spirit all along"
"Spirit is not much different from humans. Even though he's an evil spirit, it's just his kind of power, not necessarily that he's really evil"
"I have to change my perspective on spirits from now on"
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