Sutochiru ch10

Now steel your resolve!!

We have secured Matsuo Yuki!

Good!

Identification test #1 cleared!
Eh? What is all this!?

Let's see who this girl really is!!

Secured...? Idenitification...? What's going on here!?

It's nothing. We just figured that since we ran into you again,

we wanted to become even closer friends with you, Yuki-san!

Ah, is that so!? I'm so happy~

Still the same Gulliblina as always...
An identification test?

You'd be freaked out if somebody asked you "you're a ghost, aren't you?" all of a sudden, right?
So we're gonna sneakily test her. That'll be the identification test.

Stuff like "can we touch her"?

Or maybe "does she show up in photos"?

Good. We'll use those two!

We'll throw in tests like that one at a time to determine whether Matsuo Yuki-san is a ghost or a human.
And then...

the final test will be
"can she buy something?".

Ghosts don't get involved with commerce.
If she can do that, we can conclude that she is definitely a human.
Yep yep.
...Well, whatever.
I've always thought of her as a human, though!

I should also mention the most important thing about these tests.
The most important thing?
We're gonna have a talk?
Yeah. Let's head to the park from back then.

We should act friendly until we get to the final test.

Let's take a photo later~
Ah, sounds good.

I'm sure the moment when she realise she's a ghost will be painful.

Honestly, why is she always so caring when it comes to stuff like this? She's making it sound serious...

Well, I still think she's a living and breathing human!
But I guess I'll play along and be friends with her until the final test
where we have her buy something!
Ah, that's right!

Since we got to meet up and all, I'll treat you all to some coffee.

Eh?
Eh?
Eh?

Four iced coffees, please.
Four iced coffees~

I'd like to pay with PoiPay.
Sure.

Please scan here.

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Sorry for the wait~

Let's go, shall we?

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Ah! This is the place!
I'm already getting nostalgic over it!

Here you go.

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I'm sorry...
Oh, so now you apologise, you dunderhead!!!

Identification test my foot!
Ghost my other foot!
You made us waste all that time!!
I was mistaken, okay...

Eeh~ Wh-Wh-What's going on!?

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This idiot here
was talking about whether the source of the phenomenon in your building was you yourself, Yuki-chan!
Stop...
Stop it...

She was saying that you might be a ghost!
Eeh~?

Bitter... Everything is bitter...
That's cos you're drinking iced coffee!!

I... never thought of it like that...
Amazing...

Do you mind if we test that theory?
We already did!! You proved everything on your own!!

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But I'm glad that you're not a ghost.

Hah

But

the fact you've still been thinking of me since then
makes me happy.

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Also, we're not exorcists. Sorry.
Eh!?

I see... So maybe the psychic phenomenon was Granny after all.

I think she's relieved because you're there, Yuki-san.

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Eh?
Your granny.

We're looking for a place to rent.

For a net café.

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That'll be our home
where everyone lives.

Home.

Why are you wandering around during the day, Yura-san?
Just like us.

I wonder...
I guess... it's simply cos I have nothing I wanna do.

Maybe that's why.
When I though Granny was the one causing the psychic phenomenon in that building,
I felt fired up for the first time.

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After you guys said it wasn't a psychic phenomenon,
I was relieved,
but at the same time, I felt weird.

It's because the thing I got fired up over disappeared
that I got like that...

Ah...
I see now...

?

It's because I've been so unsteady
that Granny's building became unstead too.

Hey! Don't go back into deciding-things-by-yourself mode again!!

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I think I understand the situation.
You're looking for a place to rent,

and I'm looking for something to get fired up about to put Granny at ease.
In order to solve both our problems,
I'll rent you my building, so...

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please let me in your home as well.

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Of course! We'd be glad to have you, Yuki-chan.
Ehehe. I'm so happy.

Hah
Looks like nature took its course.

Let's have fun from now on. All four of us~
It's not just four.

Eh?

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There's a maid too.
The number one maid.
From the bottom.

Haah
A maid, huh? Sounds fun.

We'd better introduce you. I wonder if Hattori-kun's back yet.
We'll need to tell Mameshiba-san too.
For let's, let head to our home.

You found a place to rent and this is that building's owner!?

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Wait, wait!
You should've told me sooner
that the owner would be coming.
Honestly, these street children.
Please, take a seat in this chair,
Owner-sama.
D-Don't mind me.

These two are the shop managers.
Mameshiba-san
and Mameshiba-san.
Hmm~?

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I can't tell them apart...
from their... masks?
You can't, huh? Makes sense~
That's part of the fun. Although I guess it's only fun for us. Ahaha.

The kind and talkative one over here is Mameshiba (豆柴)-san, spelt with the shiba from "shibainu".
Woof! Just kidding.

And this angry... silent one in the lighter color is Mameshiba (豆芝)-san, spelt with the shiba from "shibafu" (lawn).

Even we can't tell them apart unless they're lined up next to each other.
It seems Ozaki-chan can tell us apart, which is amazing but also frustrating.

I don't really get it, but it sounds fun.
Ah, it's you!
!

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You're the new home member, huh!?

This is Hattori-kun.
I bet you don't do any work either!

Don't become like Cham and the others! I'll refer you to my maid café, so how about you do some work too!?
I'd like to try working!

Eh? You're seriously gonna do work!?
Wasn't expecting that...!

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I like you! Let's go to our booth so you can change into some maid clothes.

Sure! I wanna see everyone's booth!

We're gonna be moving soon enough anyway.

Wait!

So we're gonna be living in a haunted building after all!?

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You'll get used to it in three days tops.
Kh... I didn't stand a chance of winning...

Yuki! You'd better calm down that granny of yours quickly, y'hear!?
Yeah!

Chamcham! Ozaki-chan! Stella! Hattori-kun!
I'll be in your care starting today!

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And don't forget Charmy.

Hattori-kun, Yuki-chan's rich so you won't have to do any work.
Really!? But I won't allow it.
I wanna work!

Chamcham-chan. Got a moment?
!

I wasn't sure if I should tell you this, but you should be the one to decide,
so I'm telling you first.

?
Telling me what?

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I've learned something
about Ozaki-chan.

Eh?

A clue to her lost memories...?

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