"Yep, this incident was caused by the Story of One Hundred Demons game. It might not be appropriate to say it like this, but I guess it counts as a way to face your fear directly. Transforming, or rather, transforming into the Green Lantern Walker." Seiji rubbed his chin. "Sensei, you know about the Green Lantern Walker, right?"
"Yes, that's the lantern that was lit during the Story of One Hundred Demons game in ancient times, right?" Mayuzumi answered.
"That's right, a lantern with a green lampshade, as well as a demon transformed from such a lantern. Some say that the specific form is a little demon who carries a lantern, a young married woman who likes to listen to ghost stories, or a female demon who collects ghost stories. At any rate, it's a demon with no specific appearance. "Something flashed in Seiji's eyes.
"I personally believe that the Green Lantern Walker is a beautiful female demon, and an extremely powerful existence among demons!
"That's because she was born from a hundred ghost stories, so isn't that the same as the Night of One Hundred Demons? One demon is equivalent to a hundred ghosts, so of course she's powerful!
"Sensei is a mangaka, and she's also very beautiful. In other words, she's a 'beautiful woman who constantly tells ghost stories!' Although she doesn't tell ghost stories, modern manga and fantasy stories are probably similar to ghost stories in the eyes of ancient people, so you can barely understand them as ghost stories.
"'A beautiful woman who tells ghost stories obtains a powerful power from the Story of One Hundred Demons ritual.' If you look at it this way, doesn't that match the image of the Green Lantern Walker? She can definitely transform into a powerful beautiful female demon!! "
Mayuzumi was rendered speechless.
"Cough cough, sorry, I got a little too excited." Seiji retracted his excited expression. "Please treat what I just said as a joke. My thoughts suddenly went berserk. Please forgive me for being rude."
* Pfft. *
The mangaka chuckled.
"Green Lantern Walker … a powerful female demon … Haruta-kun, honestly."
It was indeed rude to ask her to transform into a demon, but she didn't dislike it.
A beautiful and powerful female demon … if she really transformed into this, perhaps she would be able to completely overcome her fear. Mayuzumi thought to herself.
…
On the third day.
After Ling Yang left for school, Seiji took Mayuzumi to meet with the angel-attired "Seiji" and the others.
Then, everyone chatted and played cards … whoops, Mayuzumi followed Seiji's instructions and used her imagination to influence them.
After a while.
The angelic "Seiji" was the first to say, "I'm your partner, I'll fight for you!"
Seiji made a puppet and asked Mayuzumi to imagine it as an enemy.
Then, the angelic "Seiji" really took action. He rushed up and smashed the puppet with a punch!
A few more tests confirmed that the method was feasible.
Seiji and Mayuzumi were excited.
By the end of the day, Mayuzumi had influenced, or perhaps it should be said, transformed Seiji, Saki, Mai, and Hoshi, and even increased their combat strength.
The situation was better than expected.
The fourth day.
Chiaki, Mika, Kaori, and Mayuzumi were all successfully converted as well.
Mayuzumi set them up as a small team as she had expected.
Seiji became their opponent and tried to fight.
In the end, he was almost defeated!
The two small teams were so strong that Seiji was caught off guard and had to get serious to stabilize the situation.
"Not bad. Let's continue adding more partners and forming more teams. "
After the tests, Seiji gave Mayuzumi a big thumbs up.
The manga author flashed a bright smile.
The fifth day, the sixth day … time passed by one day at a time.
Mayuzumi transformed more and more NPCs, and her team became stronger and stronger.
Meanwhile.
Ling Yang's feelings for Seiji deepened by the day, and they got along better and better with each other.
She did homework and played games every day, and they even went out together on holidays, such as shopping, going to the amusement park, going on a field trip, going to the aquarium …
Seiji was also happy to see such a happy little girl.
Living together with Sensei and Ling Yang was quite a pleasant experience, if one ignored the actual situation.
… It was also an experience with many benefits.
After all, they were living together, and he saw the beautiful manga author's various appearances, such as when she cooked, when she bathed, when she woke up in a daze, when she accidentally did something stupid, or when she exposed herself … cough cough, at any rate, he would occasionally get to see her.
Not to mention the gentlemanly benefits such as bathing in the pool and drying her underwear. He was grateful for this.
When he felt that it was enough, Seiji and Mayuzumi attempted the next step.
"I have some things to do, so I won't be coming back tonight. Ling Yang, why don't you and Brother Harano take care of the house together?"
Ling Yang expressed her dissatisfaction with her "mother's" words, but after Seiji's gentle persuasion, she accepted it.
This night without her "mother" around, she didn't show anything. She spent the night in a normal manner with Brother Harano by her side.
This was a symbolic step.
After staying here for more than half a year, Mayuzumi finally left Ling Yang for one night!
After that, Mayuzumi would occasionally not return home like this, and Ling Yang slowly accepted the fact that her "mother" would occasionally not be home.
Next, she tried to extend the time she didn't return home.
At first, it was two days.
Then, it was three days.
Seiji paid close attention to Ling Yang's condition.
When the little girl showed obvious signs of loneliness, he entered her room before going to bed, comforted her, and told her a story that she liked to hear.
The story of the "Girl in the Plumage."
The gist of the story was that a young man found a luxurious feather clothing, and then met a crying girl. He asked her what happened, and learned that she had lost the feather clothing.
The young man returned the feather clothing that he found. The girl was overjoyed. After thanking him, she put on the feather clothing, transformed into a bird, and flew away.
Later, the young man grew up and met a beautiful woman. They fell in love, got married, and had a cute daughter.
Later, the husband felt that his wife was hiding a secret from him, so he secretly investigated and discovered that his wife was hiding a seemingly familiar feather clothing. He took it to ask his wife about it, but his wife sighed, put on the feather clothing, and flew away as a bird.
The husband regretted it greatly. He became seriously ill and died of depression.
His daughter was left alone and cried incessantly.
Finally, the daughter saw a large bird bring a feather clothing, so she immediately put it on and transformed into a bird as well, flying away with the large bird.
This was a rather sad bedtime story.
Ling Yang especially liked this story, and Mayuzumi had already told her many times about it.
In reality, the ethereal image of the feather woman that possessed her was probably a combination of her mother's image and the feather clothing woman's image in this story.
It was highly likely that this story represented an incredibly deep memory between her and her mother, Hinako Haza.
Seiji didn't know the specifics.
Mayuzumi had already asked Ling Yang why she liked this story so much. Her answer was: because it was good to listen to.
How was it good to listen to?
It was just that it was good to listen to.
There was no meaning to this answer at all.
Although he knew that it was likely meaningless, Seiji still tried asking. Why did she like this sad story so much?
"Because my mother returned and flew away with my daughter …" Ling Yang muttered to herself.
She then blinked with a confused expression.
"What did I just say? Brother Harano. "
Seiji also blinked as he looked at her.
"You said that this story was good to listen to."
"Oh … I see." The little girl nodded and closed her eyes.
Seiji took a deep look at her for a long while.
Ling Yang Tachibana … could it be that her true wish was …
He inwardly sighed.
He reached out his hand and patted the little girl's head.
"Good night, Little Ling Yang."
The little girl didn't respond. She seemed to have fallen asleep.
Seiji got up and left.
After he left the room and closed the door.
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