Uzuki: That’s how it is. So, Kei-san, about the talismans I gave you two days ago…
Kei: Ah, those? I was saved thanks to them. Thank you very much.
As I lower my head *pekori* Uzuki-san responds curtly with a puzzled look.
Uzuki: Huh?
Kei: Thanks to the charms, I narrowly escaped death.
I proudly relate the sequence of events for its use, and subsequent effect.
Uzuki: …………
For some reason, she gives me a difficult look.
Kei: Uzuki-san, is something wrong?
Uzuki: ……No, it’s good that it wound up helping you, but… If only you had pasted them in the room’s four corners, like I explained at the beginning……
Kei: If I pasted them?
Uzuki: Then those twins, with only fleeting physical forms, couldn’t have entered in the first place.
Kei: ……Eh!?
Uzuki: The talismans work by linking with each other to form a barrier. In other words, it creates a wall of spirit energy to isolate the inside area.
Kei: …………
Kei: ……What was I doing, I wonder…
No response from Uzuki-san. In exchange, my stomach groans.
The fatigue I had shelved from the hike comes back with interest that would make toichi pale in comparison, and I collapse to the ground. (TN: Toichi – ten percent compounded daily. In other words, her stomach’s ready to break her kneecaps.)
At any rate, new talismans acquired.