She thought today would be another peaceful day for the Supernatural Research Club. Unexpectedly, an urgent call came. Ren answered the phone.
"Ren-kun!" Yui Yuigahama shouted in surprise.
"What's wrong?" Ren felt Yui's tone seemed a little panicked.
"School building… supernatural… I'm in… Ah!" Static! Yui's voice was intermittent. After a scream, only static remained.
"Yui?" Yukino looked up. She seemed to have heard Yui's scream.
Ren got up. "She mentioned the supernatural. It seems Yui has encountered the supernatural world, our club's first request." Although the first request was initiated by a club member.
*****
"Yui, what should we do? We've encountered a spiritual incident, haven't we?" A beautiful girl with long golden hair held Yui's hand tightly.
They were no longer inside the school. Originally, the two went to the school building together. Suddenly, the school building shattered like glass. In a blink of an eye, they appeared here, in a dark, desolate, and broken world of ruins.
Yui held her phone, which had no signal, tightly in one hand. She was also very scared and nervous, but she could only comfort her companion. "Yumiko, don't worry, I've already called Ren-kun. He will definitely come and save us."
Miura Yumiko asked in confusion, "Ren?" She knew that Yui and Ren were very close. But what could he do in this situation? Although in the class, no, it should be said that there was no student more outstanding than Ren in the school. Yumiko had also wanted to get along well with Ren. However, seeing Yui and Ren being very close, she felt that Yui seemed to like Ren. She didn't do so for fear of misunderstanding. But now they had encountered a spiritual incident. No matter how outstanding he was, it wouldn't matter.
"Yui, is Ren your boyfriend?" Yumiko asked in confusion. Love is blind. Only this could explain Yui's blind trust in Ren.
"Uh… no." Yui scratched her head awkwardly. Rather, it was that she had never given a reply. They liked each other, but she was flustered by the people around Ren.
"If he's not, why do you trust him so much?" Faced with Yumiko's persistent questioning, Yui didn't know how to explain it to Yumiko. She couldn't possibly reveal that Ren was a Psychic.
"Gah gah gah roar!!" The eerie shriek startled Yui and Yumiko. What terrified them even more was that a distorted, bloated, and several-person-tall monster, which looked disgusting and nauseating, crawled out of the ruins. Its ugly large mouth was filled with disgusting black and yellow teeth. Its 360-degree rotating eyes suddenly locked onto the two of them.
"Gah gah gah roar!" It let out another piercing shriek, and large amounts of saliva dripped down. And it began to walk towards the two of them.
"Monster! Run!" Yumiko's legs trembled, and she forcefully pulled Yui's hand and ran. But fear made her body go soft. Before she had run a few steps, Yumiko lost her balance and fell to the ground because her soft legs couldn't exert any strength. Yui, whose hand was being held, was also pulled down with her, taking a big tumble. Her knee directly scraped open and bled.
"Hiss! It hurts so much!" Yui gasped in pain.
In this short time, the monster had already reached the two of them. Its huge palm directly grabbed Yumiko. She was nearing that foul-smelling large mouth. This monster was going to eat her!
Yumiko screamed in terror, "No! Help!"
Yui also cried out anxiously, "Let go of Yumiko!" She wanted to jump up and pull Yumiko's leg, but she couldn't jump high at all. Every jump made her knee hurt again, causing her to fall to the ground.
Just as Yumiko was about to be eaten, the monster's body suddenly froze.
!!!
Yumiko thought the monster wasn't going to eat her. From Yui's perspective, however, the monster seemed to be motionless as if it had been frozen. Then, she saw the monster open its palm.
"Wow…" Yumiko fell from a high altitude. Just as she was about to scream, she found herself caught by someone.
"Ren-kun!" Yui shouted in surprise.
"Ren Student!" After Ren landed, Yumiko felt it was incredible. Yui was right, Ren really saved them!
"Why is this place so strange?" Yukino frowned, surveying the desolate ruins around them.
Yui: "Yukino, Marin, Megumi, Miko, you're here too!" Eriri was busy in the art club, so she wasn't called.
"Hehe, I didn't expect our Supernatural Research Club's first club activity request to be initiated by our own people." Marin waved to Yui and said with a chuckle.
Miko walked forward and helped Yui up.
"Aren't you surprised? This is a supernatural event!" Yumiko, in Ren's arms, didn't understand. Aren't these people afraid? The monster was right in front of them!
Megumi calmly stated the explanation Ren had already thought of for them: "We are from the Supernatural Research Club, specializing in handling supernatural events."
"Eh! So, Yukino, you all have Psychic abilities?" Yui, who was being helped up, gasped with her mouth open. The few of them just nodded, without elaborating.
"Am I the only ordinary person?" Yui only then realized that she was out of place!
"Um… actually, I'm also just an ordinary person who can see evil spirits." Miko said sheepishly.
…
This did give Yui a tiny bit of comfort.
"By the way, are you… okay…" Ren was silent for a long time. In reality, he was hesitating whether to speak, because his arm was all wet.
…
Yumiko finally discovered the scene that made her want to die of shame and indignation. She had just been so scared that she lost control of her bladder!? In Ren Student's embrace. And she got his arm wet! I want to die! I want to die! If Yukino and the others looked over, she would really commit suicide!
"..." Yumiko lowered her head. She clutched his collar tightly. It seemed she truly didn't want to die of embarrassment.
"Ah, never mind, I'll see this good deed through." Suddenly, Yumiko felt the wet skin on her body warm up. Soon, the dampness disappeared.
"Yumiko, are you alright?" Yui walked over with Miko's support, very worried about Yumiko.
Yumiko glanced at Ren with a complex expression before shaking her head: "I'm fine, I was just startled."
"Are your legs still weak?" Ren asked.
"No… not anymore…" Facing Ren, her speech was a little unnatural.
Seeing her say this, Ren put her down. Yumiko felt herself. All the dampness was gone, and she felt completely light! How did he do it? Miura Yumiko felt puzzled internally.
"Ren, what is this thing?" Yukino merely glanced at Yumiko before asking Ren what the monster was.
"I don't know, it's my first time seeing it." This ruined place, and this monster, it was his first time seeing both.
Miura Yumiko watched the monster remain motionless in its pose. "Ren Student, why did it suddenly stop moving?"
"My Psychic ability controlled it." Ren not only controlled it, he also tried to dominate its memories. But found that this thing had no memories at all, as if there was only a chaotic, disgusting mass in its brain.
"Looks like a useless piece of trash." Unable to obtain useful information, Ren was just about to deal with it.
*****
"Quick, get out of the way!" A delicate shout came. Then the few of them saw a girl wearing a white fox mask rushing over at extreme speed. Holding two swords, she rapidly sliced at the monster with a series of quick cuts. In a moment, the monster was cut into dozens of pieces, turning into ashes and disappearing. It was probably as dead as it could be.
"Ah, this… Ren-kun got his kill stolen?" Marin said in surprise.
"Kill stolen?" A puzzled voice came from the girl's mouth; she didn't quite understand. "This is filth, since you've been caught here, please leave with me." The girl said this and pulled out a talisman. But before she could use it, "Hiss!" The talisman suddenly ignited itself.
"What's going on?" The girl was completely bewildered.
"Hahaha, I really found a big meal." The speaker carried a crazed laugh, a laughter that made one feel insane. In the sky, black skin, white hair tied in twin tails… a girl? Perhaps she couldn't be called a girl; her eyes were different. Her right eye was normal, her left eye was pure black with a red dot. It didn't look like eyes a human could possess.
"Humanoid filth? You are a Basara!" The masked girl seemed to know the identity of the twin-tailed woman.
"Ah, my name is Shengguan, Onmyoji and humans, both are big meals." Her gaze swept over the few of them, her mouth already unable to close from excitement. She was arrogant, even already considering Ren and the others as prey that would surely fall into her hands.
The masked girl turned back and shouted to the others: "Run quickly, you'll die!" A Basara is the highest-ranking filth, and her current strength was simply not enough to deal with one. An Onmyoji's duty is to protect ordinary people, she had to fight with all her might.
"So this is Magatsubi." Ren's sudden remark caused the tense atmosphere to pause. He listened to what the girl said and had already figured out this place. Onmyoji, filth, Basara. These were precisely the settings of Twin Star Onmyoji. So this ruined world is Magatsubi, right?
"You…" The Basara named Shengguan was just about to question Ren. But she heard Ren coldly say: "I hate it when someone stands above me, get down yourself."
"Huh?" Just as she uttered the question, her pupils suddenly dilated. Her body moved on its own! By rolling, falling vertically and smashing into the ground, then rolling continuously, rolling in front of Ren and kneeling, unable to get up.
"My body! What's going on? My body is out of control!" Shengguan screamed in horror. She looked up to meet Ren's condescending, star-like eyes.
"What is going on?" The masked girl exclaimed in surprise.
Ren ignored her, instead looking at Shengguan: "Shengguan, a Basara, right?"
"Yes." Shengguan couldn't control her mouth and started answering.
"I say, you are guilty." Black wings spread behind him. Black mist enveloped Shengguan.
"Ahhhhhh!" A painful wail, completely opposite to the arrogant and excited laughter from before, resounded. In an instant, such a large Basara turned into ashes.
"What!" The masked girl let out a startled scream. Yui, Yumiko, and Miko were not scared by Ren's transformation and the humanoid monster turning into dust. Instead, they were scared by her scream.
"You all go back first, I need to deal with the Magatsubi matter." Wings flapped. With the existence of Chaos Wings, dozens of times the speed of sound without disturbing the airflow, Ren disappeared in the blink of an eye. Leaving everyone staring at each other in bewilderment.
*****
"Um, is Ren Student a god?" Miura Yumiko stared blankly into the distance. Today, her worldview completely collapsed.
"I'm not sure either, Ren-kun only told me he was a Psychic." Yui said, then looked at Miko who was supporting her.
"I… I didn't know Ren-senpai was so amazing!" Miko shook her head repeatedly. She had always thought Ren specialized in dealing with evil spirits.
Miura Yumiko noticed that Yukino Yukinoshita, Kato Megumi, and Kitagawa Marin seemed very calm. Kato Megumi's presence had been adjusted by Ren's dominance, connected with her thoughts. It was like having a remote control for presence installed in her head. Her presence changed with her thoughts. Now she could make others notice her at any time. This was also why Miura Yumiko and the others could notice her.