Dead Account (デッドアカウント)

Cyber out!

Onipien Demon Sadface

Is that the best you can do...

Soji Enishiro?

Not a scratch?

What just happened?

How does he know my name?

Why did he show up here?

Is it because we have the same ability?

I don't give a shit!

C'mon, body... Move!

You...

You killed Akari.

Do you mean Akari@Hospital?

That was so sad.

After all the work I did to kill her,

you made it so her death was in vain.

Move!

Just move already!

You have to move!

I'm gonna kill you!

That's a tie to this world.

I'm just mouthing off.

It doesn't matter if I can't muster up the strength.

If you have ties to this world, you'll be reborn after you die.

Damn it.

Damn it!

A gust of wind? Inside the building?!

Who are you?

Just an exorcist.

Or rather...

a teacher.

His teacher, to be precise.

Azaki-sensei!

I see. A teacher.

Soji Enishiro's teacher.

Kasubata-kun, Urusugawa-kun!

That was fast.

Kasubata! Urusugawa!

Don't worry. They're not dead.

You mean it?!

They just took a dose of miasma, same as you.

Keep calling to them.

Kasubata! Hey!

Uh, look alive, you piece of shit!

Jackass!

Don't...

Don't?

Don't use... such vulgar language.

Urusugawa!

Don't stare.

Th-Thank goodness.

I'm sorry, you guys! Those ladies wouldn't let me go!

And you even ran into a mid-level?!

I feel so worthless!

Doing karaoke with those ladies while my students were in danger...

Hey, Sensei! The enemy's still here!

K is—

That's an EMP pseudo-barrier.

A barrier?

An electromagnetic pulse emitter created by the laboratory division.

It will block out electronic entities for three minutes.

But it breaks if a physical object passes through.

Not following in the slightest.

Dumbass.

Let's just say it's a mini-barrier that keeps ghost accounts and their powers out.

Stay put, you three.

So sad.

You did a good job, Enishiro-kun.

But I failed miserably.

What matters is that you didn't break.

You kept your head high.

That means you haven't lost yet.

Leave the rest to me.

A carp?

Gallant Carp!

Gallant Carp

Can't have fire in a building, so let's put that out.

You're his teacher.

So if I kill you...

that might make his ties to this world even stronger.

Look out!

He's on a different level!

There we go!

He's crazy good!

What kind of cyberkinesis does Azaki-sensei use?

That's not technically cyberkinesis.

Azaki-sensei doesn't use any.

He's just running his spirit power through a digital converter.

The fan is a special mechanism for doing so.

Most older exorcists with well-honed psychokinesis do the same thing.

Folks from the analog era struggle against digital ghost accounts.

Indeed. That's why we have the academy.

We need a new generation of digital native exorcists.

I'm just an old man.

Azaki-sensei!

When an analog exorcist digitizes their spirit power,

it converts to less than ten percent of what it was.

No way!

But there's no reason to worry.

Shall we dance?

His original ability was broken, so it's still broken in a weakened state.

Gallant Carp

Three Color Shimmer

Gallant Carp: Three Color Shimmer!

Yoimaru Azaki, the genius exorcist.

He distinguished himself as a child, and at eighteen, he vanquished a Guen Kabaki.

Guen Kabaki?

A calamity-level youma.

Apparently it earned him the super cringe title the Living Legend.

He's a legend? You kidding me?

But he suddenly retired from active duty.

He declined a leadership position in the Society

and devoted himself to training the next generation.

As much as it annoys me,

it's hard to imagine Azaki-sensei losing.

It stinks getting old.

Loath as I am to say "things were better back when,"

my hair's thinning and smartphones are too complicated.

Nevertheless...

I can't afford to embarrass myself

before the new generation!

He disappeared!

You beat him?

Nah.

He got away.

What are you doing, Garan-san?

Why did you pull me into the internet?

It was just getting fun.

K-sama, you told me you were just going to say hello!

You nearly ran out of charge out there.

I completely forgot.

No wonder it was so hard to move.

That's what makes you so charming, K-sama!

How inconvenient.

As a ghost account, I can't remain in the real world for long.

But K-sama, that problem will be resolved very soon.

Once the land of dead accounts is complete.

That's right. A mid-level ghost account.

Yes. And then Sad Boy K...

Yes.

Indeed, they were injured, but they're all fine.

He was on the verge of running out of battery.

In other words, he was in power saver mode.

Which means he wasn't fighting at full strength whatsoever.

You're kidding me. With all of that?!

You're saying we lost our best chance to exorcise him.

That's frustrating.

Hey, it's no big.

After all...

You're alive!

We're all alive!

We're... alive.

Relief. A new appreciation of how weak I am.

Self-recrimination. Admiration.

Let's get him next time!

I have a new goal.

I want to be like you.

Hey, don't try to be like me!

I'm an old man! An anachronism!

I wanna be like you, Sensei!

Let's go home.

Back to our classroom.

Sad Boy K

Follow

Tell me about your troubles.

Using Tweeter since August 2016

Following

Followers

Crested fifty thousand...

K is gaining more followers again.

Over three thousand in five days.

Almost like a cult leader.

A 100% follow-back ratio, but 10% are dead, and 1% become ghost accounts.

Sad Boy K

So, why the rise?

"If you follow this account, you die."

People treat it like a thrilling urban legend.

It'd be nice if the admins could ban it, yes...

What's he need all those follows for?

I guess he's sad and lonely, like his handle says.

People these days struggle with a lot.

Birds of a feather, then, eh?

It's frustrating.

These things wouldn't be happening if not for the plague of social media!

I feel we've gotten off topic a bit, yes...

Silence.

Miden Academy

Staff Footbath Conference

Miden Academy Principal

Kyuko Yabami (65)

Azaki. Why did Sad Boy K appear on a first-floor student mission?

Er, before that, Madam Principal...