保護者の目
The Guardian's Eyes


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.

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