Tsugumomo (つぐもも)

Who is she?

My sister?

And...

Mom?

Kiriha-san?!

Why?

Why...

...did we end up like this?

Tsugumomo:

A tsukumogami spirit that has transformed after many years,

obtaining a body and soul indistinguishable from a human's.

Tsugumomo

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Chapter 1

The Troubleshooters' Office

"The Troubleshooters' Office"!

Okay, enough! It's too hot as it is!

How am I supposed to sleep like this?!

Kiriha-san! How many times do I have to ask you to wear panties in bed?!

Tsukumogami born from an obi sash Kiriha

Wasn't on purpose. They always seem to find their own way off of me.

Local Goddess Kukuri

Local Goddess's Priestess Kokuyou

Why were we sleepin' in here, again?

I accompanied you to the washroom in the night, then followed you here.

You sure that wasn't the night before last?

None of this matters! Back to bed, Kazuya...

Hey, Kiriha-san!

How many times do I have to tell you to stop tempting Ya-kun?!

You tsukumogami tart!

Stop!

Older sister Kagami Kasumi

Come on, Ya-kun. If you don't get ready and eat soon, you're going to be late.

You're right!

Come on, Kiriha-san, aren't you coming?

We need to explain everything to the others today.

You seem exhausted as usual, Kagami-kun.

Osanai Osamu

Shiramine Shirou

It's because he never allows enough time.

Chikaishi Chisato

I wish I had more to allow, believe me...

Hey, Obina-san.

Where'd you go to school before this?

Is that your natural hair color?

Got any hobbies?

What music do you like?

What is all this?

How am I meant to answer so many questions at once?

Kiriha-san sure is a hit...

Hey, Kagami.

You're good friends with Obina-san, right?

Did you grow up together or something?

Uh, sorta.

Then she must've lived in your neighborhood, huh?

Neighborhood? We live in the same house, in fact.

Well, if you were friends back then,

did you bathe together and sleep together and all that?

Don't be foolish.

We still sleep together, to say nothing of bathing.

It's Kazuya's duty to wash my back, after all.

Judgment time!

Classroom 2-2 Provisional Courtroom

Defendant Kagami Kazuya

This perversion trial, held by our class of wholesome young men,

has now convened!

Judge S.S

Homeroom Teacher Iraha Isuzu

Okay, everyone to your seats.

What the—

Sensei!

Defendant Kagami Kazuya!

Judge S.S

You are charged with cohabiting

with a beautiful girl and engaging in lascivious activities!

It's a misunderstanding! Kiriha-san's just confused, that's all!

Her memory's, like... y'know!

Key Witness Obina Kiriha

Rude.

Kiriha-san!

No more jokes! Please?!

Your honor!

Juror C.C

I've seen the defendant in the bath and sleeping with Kiriha-san with my own eyes.

Chisato?!

I see no grounds for defense in this case!

Sensei! Sensei, I don't think this is a legal trial!

In the name of this assembly of wholesome young men...

I don't know what you expect me to do!

you are hereby sentenced to the maximum punishment!

Guilty of perversion in the first degree Execution by turtle-shell bondage pendulum

Culture Club Room Annex

Culture Club Room Annex

A tsukumogami, huh?

Indeed I am.

An obi tsukumogami, in fact.

I've been attending to exorcisms in this area with Kazuya here.

I see.

Then the younger form you had before was only temporary?

It's me!

That is a shame.

It is?

I meant to say, a surprise.

Incidentally, Kagami-kun...

This is a vacant room meant for one of the culture clubs.

Oh, yeah. What did you wanna talk about?

And for the record, there is no possible defense for the fact

that you're cohabiting with a babe!

What are you even...

To be honest, I need to ask you all for help.

You've seen it yourselves already,

but strange things keep happening at this school.

You mean the incidents caused by amasogi?

Oh, that thing where people's desires turn stuff supernatural, right?

Man, that was pure hell.

Shirou's atonement was smelling foul (for one week)

The longer an amasogi causes trouble,

the more intense the atonement it results in.

So I want to try to gather information that'll help us deal with them faster.

New Extracurricular Group Submission

Group name: The Troubleshooters' Office

Requested by: Class 2-2 Kagami Kazuya

Group Goal:

Member list:

Which is why I'm thinking of turning this room...

into a place where students can come for help with their problems.

Like, counseling?

What the heck?

I understand.

By getting information on rumors and troubles arising among students...

We might be able to uncover clues on amasogi!

Right!

But we wouldn't be able to do it alone.

I assume that's where we come in.

I gotta ask, why does all this stuff keep happening at our school, anyway?

A good question. I wonder if there's a particular cause.

There's...

The birth of an amasogi is tied to something called malison.

Malaysian?

No.

Malison... is like a type of fog that has the power to make wishes come true.

It occurs naturally throughout the world,

Malison

having a subtle influence over all things that happen.

We tsukumogami are generally the result of the accumulation of malison

over an extended period of time.

However, should an abnormally rich amount of malison come under

the influence of an intense desire or wish,

it can create an instant tsukumogami,

one born without any rational intelligence.

That's what amasogi are.

Then this malison gathers more easily in our school?

Yeah, but I'm asking why!

Because someone who attends school here has a condition

that causes them to attract malison.

They're born into every age,

dubbed "scorned children," and treated as the source of the scourge.

And it turns out...

that I'm one of those scorned children.

So this stuff is happening because of you, Kazuya?

Yeah. And honestly, I should probably be dealing with this stuff by myself—

You're wrong there.

It's true that denser malison increases the likelihood of amasogi being born,

but shunning the scorned children

merely results in the malison collecting elsewhere.

All that changes is the time and place in which the amasogi are born.

The real reason that amasogi are born

is a heart so weak that it is overtaken by avarice.

No one has the right to pass that blame on to the scorned child.

They are not at fault.

Yeah, you've got a point.

I'm the one who actually used that amasogi cologne, after all.

Right, it wasn't Kagami-kun's fault.

The best thing for us to do is prevent more damage where possible.

And that's what this troubleshooting office is for?

All right, I'm in!

I'll be splitting my time with the manga club, but I'll join you.

I'd love to help, too.

New Extracurricular Group Submission Group name: The Troubleshooters' Office Requested by: Class 2-2 Kagami Kazuya Group Goal: Member list: Class 2-2 Shiramine Shirou Class 2-2 Osanai Osamu Class 2-2 Chikaishi Chisato Class 2-2 Obina Kiriha

You may enter!

Hello

Hello! Did everything go well, then?

Student Council President Tadata Tadataka

Newspaper Club Nanakai Nanako

What are you two doing here?

I gave them word ahead of time.

It's thanks to Tadataka that we have use of this room, you know.

Oh, it was the least I could do!

I'll help, too.

But you both had to go through atonement because of me...

Stop that.

I just said it wasn't your fault.

And besides...

Nanako!

I'm grateful... to you... Kagami-senpai.

Her voice!

Atonement is basically one's punishment for giving in to an amasogi's temptation.

It's coming back little by little.