"Hmph, I knew you'd need this, Beichuan," Gangye Yoshiko hummed proudly as she took out some documents from her side bag and handed them over to Beichuan Si.

There were three sets of documents; clearly, Gangye Yoshiko had also considered Inari Oneji and Inari Keiichi.

"Ah... I don't need this sort of thing..."

"Take it."

Beichuan Si stared expressionlessly at Inari Oneji as she attempted to refuse.

Feeling the oppressive gaze of Beichuan Si, Inari Oneji shivered and shrunk her head, then averted her gaze somewhat guiltily, defiantly saying, "Fine, I'll take it... What's with the hostility?"

"This is yours," Beichuan Si handed another set to Inari Keiichi, who was beside him.

"Ah... okay."

Although Inari Keiichi hesitated for a moment, not knowing what Beichuan Si was planning, he still accepted the documents handed over by Beichuan Si.

After passing the information to them, Beichuan Si didn't say much more; after all, he had fulfilled his duty, and whether Inari Oneji and Inari Keiichi looked at them was none of his concern.

Beichuan Si started to flip through the documents himself, reading every word carefully.

On the other hand, Inari Keiichi and Inari Oneji held the documents in their hands, somewhat puzzled by the current turn of events.

It wasn't that they didn't respect Beichuan Si; they genuinely felt there was no need to check these things.

Wouldn't it be more reliable to just get rid of the vindictive spirit directly from here?

Did they really need to understand all this?

For a while, only the sound of Beichuan Si flipping through the documents with a rustling noise could be heard in the corridor.

After some time—

"Beichuan, that girl from the Four Directions Family just called me... seems like there's traffic on the road, she's planning to take the subway now..."

"If that's the case, then there's no need to wait anymore."

Before Gangye Yoshiko could finish speaking, Beichuan Si had already closed the documents and spoke in an even tone, "The three of us can go there directly."

"Go directly…?" Gangye Yoshiko hadn't expected Beichuan Si to be so straightforward. She blinked and looked towards the Inari siblings.

"What do you two think?"

"…If Brother Beichuan wants it that way, Ijiko and I have no problem with it."

Inari Keiichi tucked the documents away in the side bag, then looked at Beichuan Si very politely and said, "And since Brother Beichuan is so confident to have us go there directly… you must have some method to exorcise the vindictive spirit, right?"

He meant it as a mere courtesy, but he hadn't expected that Beichuan Si would nod casually and calmly say, "I do have some ideas."

This answer surprised both Inari Oneji and Inari Keiichi. They exchanged looks, even more astonished.

Beichuan Si already had a way to deal with the spirit before even seeing it? Could this be the purpose of the research materials?

Inari Oneji asked curiously, "So what method have you thought of?"

She was also somewhat curious about what kind of method Beichuan Si could have come up with.

Although Inari Oneji always proclaimed 'Brother Keiichi is the best in the world,' she knew that Beichuan Si before her must indeed be skilled.

After all, the 'purification' emanating from him was the purest form of malicious intent of the deceased vindictive spirits, something that only arises after an exorcism.

The method thought up by such a Beichuan Si... could not be a useless one.

Seemingly feeling the curiosity in the eyes of the Inari siblings, Beichuan Si also lifted his head, then under their gaze, he spoke his idea—

"Dismantle."

"Huh?" The Inari siblings blinked, seeming not to understand what Beichuan Si had just said.

"Dismantle," Beichuan Si repeated the word expressionlessly.

"Eh?" The Inari siblings still didn't grasp the meaning of Beichuan Si's words.

Seeing the Inari siblings looking as if they 'weren't very bright,' Beichuan Si couldn't help but frown, thought for a bit, and then explained:

"The meaning of the character 'dismantle' is to separate things that are together, and it also implies destruction..."

"???" Listening to Beichuan Si explaining as if he was teaching a child to read, Inari Oneji was completely dumbfounded and burst out loudly, "Not that... when did I ask you the meaning of this character? Do I look that foolish?"

"Yes," Beichuan Si replied bluntly.

No more—

Inari Oneji could no longer tolerate the young man before her.

Her face turned red, she leapt up and lunged towards Beichuan Si, her clawing gestures resembling an infuriated, fluffy cat.

Keiichi, who was standing by, hadn't expected his sister to be so quick, and he couldn't react in time. He could only watch as Inari Oneji took the leap.

Then—

She was clasped by the scruff of her neck by Beichuan Si.

In an instant, Inari Oneji's arms and legs flailed in the air. Despite her fierce expression, she posed no threat whatsoever against Beichuan Si's firm grip.

"Um… Brother Beichuan, my sister..." Keiichi's face changed, obviously worried his sister might be hurt.

To this, Beichuan Si simply waved his other free hand, indicating there was nothing to worry about.

It wasn't until Inari Oneji had struggled to the point of exhaustion that Beichuan Si let the gasping girl down.

"In fact, I didn't mean to underestimate you."

"My suggestion is actually to just tear down that entire apartment block."

"...Tear down the entire apartment block?"

Keiichi twitched his mouth.

Their kind of exorcists, handed down through their family, mostly thought about 'how to exorcise the vengeful spirits from their haunted places.'

But to Beichuan Si, he straightforwardly switched to construction mode and proposed demolishing the place plagued by vengeful spirits.

Not solving the problem, but getting rid of the place where the problem occurred?

What kind of novel solution was that?

Keiichi shook his head and said politely, "That… Brother Beichuan, we don't need to adopt such drastic measures just yet... It would probably be more convenient to go and perform an exorcism."

"Let's do it that way, then."

To Keiichi's surprise, Beichuan Si didn't continue to dwell on the subject and agreed with him instead.

"I thought we were going to spend more time on that topic..."

Keiichi murmured to himself, unable to help himself.

Meanwhile, Beichuan Si wasn't paying attention to Keiichi's murmurs. He stuffed the materials into his backpack and then said:

"Let's not delay, we should head out now."

"Okay."

Both Keiichi and Oneji had no objections to this.

After all, they were there to resolve the strange incident.

...

The trio soon took Gangye Yoshiko's car to the abandoned apartments at Ueno Road in Adachi District.

"I won't be going up." Yoshiko's head popped out from the car window: "I'd just be a burden on you professional folks... If there's an emergency, just shout my name. I'll bring reinforcements quickly."

Then she took another look at Beichuan and added, "Beichuan, this area has been contracted out, but we can still shoulder a certain degree of damage, so don't worry."

"Understood."

Beichuan nodded thoughtfully: "In that case, I'll demolish whatever I can."

"??? That's not what I meant! Beichuan!"

Yoshiko's mouth gaped open, and it took her a while to gather her wits and respond.

"Well, I'll just take it that way," Beichuan said calmly, then waved goodbye to Gangye Yoshiko, motioning the Inari siblings to follow.

"???"

Gazing at Beichuan's retreating figure, Yoshiko just stood there dumbfounded.

She was now contemplating how much budget they would need to allocate to cover the financial impact of such an unconventional approach to exorcism.

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