Ghost Hunt Vol #3

Untitled Part 1

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READABILITYGhost Hunt Novel Translation

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Oct. 2nd, 2008 at 3:32 PM
There's quite a bit of stuff that was left out of the anime here.

I Can't Sleep Due to the Abundance of Evil Spirits
Prologue

Location: Tokyo, Shibuya Street. "Shibuya Psychic Research".

After opening the door, the autumn wind rushed inside. Outside by the cherry blossom tree, the smell of red tea wafted through.

I (Taniyama Mai, 16 years old, student) am working at "Shibuya Psychic Research", a paranormal investigation office. This office exists to perform scientific investigation of paranormal phenomena, ghosts, and extra-sensory perception. Even though I say it's a team, and only the director, his assistant, and the part-time assistant work here, there are three outside people who help too.

The staff is exceptionally small here, and the details of this office are kind of suspicious. The office is located in the Shibuya district of the city center and was newly built there. At a glance it looks like a coffee shop or an easygoing office. Outside, the air is very nostalgic. The trees on the streets are changing color. Movie ads for "An Unbelievable Story" had been pasted everywhere on the opposite sides of the street; I'm not sure whether or not it's a good movie.

Every Saturday, I come here to the office and do paperwork. I've organized the old issues of a Psychic Research Magazine by date.

Assembling things, registering things, transcribing table of contents, and ordering books. In other words, I do manual work. I guess the level of my job will only be this high. And now, we're not doing any ghost hunting. Because now things are moving slowly, and there's no other way to go about doing this. But every day, I continue to do who knows how much meaningless work.

The sound of the doorbell ringing.

Right. It's a guest!

The client who just came in looked like a girl in high school.

"Not here. I heard that this is where they do investigations on ghosts, but."

"Yes. That's right," I said.

But then the two girls looked at me with their round eyes. They were about the same age as me. They looked surprised.

"What kind of situation are you in?"

One of them answered in a timid voice. "It's about this headstrong girl. The one...who was possessed by a fox spirit. Can you help her?"

Oh, so it's about spirits. My office deals with spirits. "Is it a fox spirit?"

"Yes. ...My friend. A doctor looked at her, but she just seems to be getting worse. A spirit showed up too. Is the director here?"

I directed them to the sofa.