Fukigen na Mononokean Tsuzuki

Abenon, Abenon.

Let's have a pillow fight.

Nah.

Come on.

I told you he wouldn't.

Pillow fights are fun.

Open the door.

We got permission from Fuji-sensei.

The owner of the inn even told us to go all-out.

They even provided us with pillows they didn't need.

This is an official pillow fight!

Don't just hide in your room. Come on out!

It's open!

The room was tragically surrendered when Fuzzy attempted to escape...

Steady, steady...

Lucky!

I want to play, too, Haruitsuki!

Ready, and...

Fight!

Abeno, you're supposed to throw the pillow, not hit him with it!

This is a pillow beating!

Mystery 7 "The Dabbler"

Left.

Correct.

Yes!

Feeling dizzy?

Nope. And I didn't have to hold my breath even once!

Well, I guess you pass?

All right!

What? He passes even though he got four out of ten questions wrong?

It's harder to sense if something's on the left or right up close

than vaguely sense the direction at a distance!

Ashiya, Abeno!

The bus home is here!

It's the bus!

Got it! We'll be right there!

Thanks!

Abeno-san. Yahiko and Fuzzy, too.

Huh?

Because of you guys, I've gotten better at detecting the presence of yokai.

Thanks for helping me train for the past three days.

Are you okay now?

Yeah, I'm fine!

Then beginning tomorrow,

you can start using your garbage detection abilities at work.

Hunk of junk.

Line up, everyone.

You're still calling me a hunk of junk even after I passed?

Come in a little closer.

Ashiyan and Abenon, you guys didn't take any pictures?

Oh, yeah. We were kinda busy.

Later.

Bye.

Bye.

Bye-bye.

Hey.

There's something inside.

It's hard to talk when you're so guarded.

Um, what did you want to talk about?

Itsuki didn't give you my message?

What message?

He wants to apologize.

Apologize?

Itsuki and the Justice told me about what happened with the Executive.

That must've been a terrifying experience.

First, let me apologize for his rude behavior. Forgive us.

Uh... I'm fine now, really...

By the way, Ashiya-kun, do you like gambling?

Gambling?

I brought something to give you as an apology.

That's...

Itsuki.

Mr. Legislator, what's inside those boxes?

One is an empty, losing box.

The other, the winning box, contains a prize.

Losing and winning?

I actually made a bet with the Executive.

If you choose the winning box,

he said he'd allow you to conditionally enter the Underworld.

What?

What?

You mean he'll undo my banishment?

Uh-huh.

Is that what the Executive said?

Of course. He said it himself.

I had him sign an agreement, too.

Want to read it later?

What did you do to the Executive?

It's the natural result of his actions.

He attacked an employee of the Mononokean, an institution that serves me.

Of course I'm not taking that lying down.

Sorry, Mr. Legislator.

I'm forbidden from entering the Underworld?

If you can promise you won't enter, the Executive says he won't harm you.

If being re-admitted means the Executive will come after me again,

I'd rather stay banished.

And besides...

Will you protect another human?

Killing an employee is surely possible

for the master of the Mononokean, since he's above the law.

It could have a negative effect on Abeno-san.

It's better not to provoke him.

Um, Mr. Legislat—

Hey, hunk of junk.

Hunk of—

Pick the winning box.

If you pick the losing box, I'm failing you all over again.

Hunk of junk... Failing...

The "winning box," is it?

Right or left?

Um...

The left?

Correct.

That voice...

Were you listening,

Justice?

Yeah, I was listening.

The Legislator won the bet.

As promised,

you're conditionally unbanished from the Underworld.

I'll inform the Executive.

Conditionally?

What are the conditions?

The Executive's condition is that

every time you enter the Underworld,

the Legislator has to go see the Executive and beg on his hands and knees.

How peculiar. That's not the condition I agreed to.

Personally, I'd recommend this one.

Anyway, the actual condition is that

Ashiya Hanae is only allowed to enter

when accompanied by myself.

By you?

And you're currently satisfying that condition.

There's no problem with you entering now.

I'm falling, I'm falling!

It's okay if you fall.

Or do you still not believe me?

No!

I'm grateful you got me re-admitted, but I...

I'm not entering the Underworld again.

Tell the Executive I said that when you report the results of the bet to him.

I will.

All that after he chose the winning box?

But if that's his master's will, then I suppose it can't be helped.

I was thinking we could celebrate your re-admission here, but...

What a shame.

Celebrate? Do you have food?

I have snacks to eat with sake.

I picked the winning box like he told me to,

but was picking the losing box the right choice?

Given what your master's saying,