Not even two steps up the stairs, Takemi heard a voice call out to her.  Turning around, she recognised the boy as one of the others who'd snuck into the shrine the same night as her.  She nodded when he asked her if she was heading to the shrine.  Any new information she could get would be helpful.  Megumi’s attention turned immediately to the kid standing at the foot of the stairs, wondering if she was alright or if Takemi knew her somehow.

“No,” Takemi said, “I’m an only child.”  They didn’t look alike at all, either.  She couldn’t really comment on how the kid didn’t really seem like a normal kid.  When she considered how, even now, it was still sometimes hard for her to tell a more human-shaped ghost from a human.  The kid herself exposed her true nature by crying out at Megumi to be carried up the stairs.  That solved that, then.

“Well Nijima-kun, looks like you have your first job.”  Takemi clapped him on the shoulders, smiling, “at least Obariyon aren’t dangerous, so you’ll probably be fine.”  She did worry about his physique, but it wasn’t as if she’d run ahead of him.  If he collapsed, she’d be there to help him out.

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