Fukigen na Mononokean Tsuzuki

Good morning!

Good morning.

Let's work hard again today!

No, you're off for the day.

Huh?

Won't it be hard to be around yokai after yesterday?

Take the day off.

Okay.

I take it back!

I'm not taking the day off!

You should.

I won't! I'm going to work, even if I have to crawl there!

Why are you being so stubborn?

Just take the day off.

I won't.

What?

What?

No matter how unpleasant or scary or tough it is now, I have to stick it out.

Honestly, I've been afraid to be around yokai since then.

If I take today off, I might be even more afraid tomorrow.

I refuse to take today off.

Just take the day off.

Huh?

You should take the day off work and come hang out with us.

Fusshi, I think you should make your invitation more specific.

You're right.

Ashiyan, Abenon.

Come on the photo club's overnight trip.

Overnight trip?

Mystery 6 "The Seedling"

It's this way!

Fuzzy, let's go!

Abeno-san, I found another one!

I found one!

There are more here!

I almost squashed you, Fuzzy!

Sorry for scaring you.

It seems you really can sense yokai now.

Yeah. I've been able to ever since the incident with the Executive.

But I have to focus and hold my breath.

What?

That's it?!

It's too dangerous if it makes you dizzy all the time.

You should take time off.

It's Fusshi.

Answer it.

Hello?

I'll call the Mononokean.

I appreciate the invitation, but sorry.

I can't go on the overnight trip.

Abeno-san and I have work on those three days and two nights.

I guess you can't help it, then.

I'll let Fuji-sensei know.

Why don't we go?

Fusshi, one sec.

Abeno-san, what did you just say?

Let's go on the overnight trip.

I didn't mishear him!

Fusshi, I take back what I said.

Abeno-san and I will both be going. Please let us come!

Yeah. Send me the details later.

Why did you suddenly change your mind?

We'll train on the trip so you can learn

to properly use your defective yokai-detecting abilities.

Train on the trip?

I'll think of some way you can train.

I don't mind that it's defective...

Huh?

Huh?

I-I'll do my best, sir!

I'm off to play.

Yahiko?

Will this be a training camp with the coach from Hell?

Okay!

So this is where we'll be training.

This isn't a sports team training camp.

We won't be working out.

We're just taking pictures, right?

I brought disposable cameras for students who don't have their own.

Fuji-sensei

You wind it and push the button?

It's analog...

That looks fun. Sensei, I want one.

Huh? Where's Abeno-san?

Pardon the intrusion!

Abeno-san, no fair having your own room!

Huh?

Ashiya, you didn't sense my presence at all, did you?

Yahiko?

I win!

He rode on top of the bus the whole way here.

Yahoo!

Yahiko did?

He was suppressing his presence.

Seriously? I didn't notice at all.

Yahiko, you shouldn't have followed us here.

Zenko will be worried.

Huh? It's not like that!

I came to play hide-and-seek with you.

With me? Which means...

Yahiko will be your training partner.

What?

Yahiko will be "it."

Your job is to hide while detecting his presence and avoiding him.

Yahiko is good at controlling his presence.

Once you've learned to sense him,

you'll have mastered your detection abilities.

Also, relaxing your shoulders should make your dizziness go away, too.

So that's why Yahiko's the perfect choice.

Don't hold back, Yahiko.

Sure thing, you hunk of junk.

Do your best to hide.

He's the perfect opponent.

The three-year-old versus the five-year-old...

3-year-old vs. 5-year-old

I'm ready to go anytime!

We'll start looking for you in ten minutes.

And if I'm able to hide for an hour, I win, right?

How high do I count to get to ten minutes?

Six hundred.

I think I can last an hour.

Here I go!

One, two...

What's up, Ashiya? Come take some photos with... us...

He's already gone.

I'll learn to sense Yahiko's presence

and improve my skills as an employee of the Mononokean!

Fuzzy is the only presence I detect nearby.

When I'm not focusing,

I can barely even sense Fuzzy, and he's right next to me.

But Abeno-san can sense them without even trying.

I should listen for footsteps, too.

I feel like a criminal on the run.

Found you!

Get up. Let's do it again.

Huh?

I heard another animal roaring in the distance.

Sounds a lot like Ashiyan, doesn't it?

Yahiko's been finding you in no time at all.

You may suck at this, but can't you least get the hang of it

enough to hide for thirty minutes?

Hunk of junk!

This fiendish duo...

Anyway, Yahiko, no one asked you to make this a scary hide-and-seek game!

You get that for free.

I don't want any free add-ons!

That's enough for today. Let's head back.

Aww!

It's already late.

We'd better hurry back to the inn.

Again...

Yahiko's been teasing me all day.

I wasn't able to sense him.

It's still the first day.

Tomorrow I'll do my best not to be found for at least thirty minutes!

Wait, Abeno-san!

If he can't find me, buy me some ice cream, Haruitsuki!

I have to buy it?

Yeah!

You can't sleep here.

Yahiko, hairball, wake him.