Kinji is walking back alone reflecting on what happened. He is questioning himself, "What did the me in hysteria mode do?". When he is in hysteria mode, he doesn't feel like he has a grasp on reality, and feels like he wakes up from a big dream when he goes from Hysteria Mode to normal Kinji. He wants everything to be a dream, everything that had happened in the past, but fears fate has set him on this path. After the "dream" today, he is determined to become a normal citizen. Then thinks about Kikuyo, after just 10 days he got involved with the Yakuza and that Kikuyo will still be looking for him. He feels the him as of now is useless after being unable to think of what to do. He also feels sleepy and powerless after going through hysteria mode and doesn't feel like going to school tomorrow. However, he realizes if he wants to be normal he can't yield to these kinds of things and he can't be like Reki and earn money through mission. As he was thinking about this, a voice that sounded like a kindergarten child was heard.
"Money won't just fall from the sky by laying around over there Tohyama."
Kinji pays no attention after looking over in the direction of that voice.
"Don't pretend you can't see!"
Tamano jumps down and Kinji describes her as a humanfox. He also predicted that would happen and avoided looking towards her because she would jump from the place she was standing on, and her miniskirt would be flutter up. Kinji wanted to avoid another hysteria mode moment. In his mind, he is begging for someone to spare him since he already had to deal with Kikuyo.(lol, no can do Kinji)
"You actually went outside of 驱鬼结界(area where he stays right now after leaving Butei) by yourself, the Tohyama samurais are still just as hard to figure out as before."
Now he has no choice but to reluctantly face her, gave her an excuse. The reason why he doesn't want to face her is because she always wears a small miniskirt like a kindergartener's clothing. He doesn't know about what her back looks like, but he assumes since she has a tail, it should be quite clear(in terms of clothing accommodating for the tail).
"No matter how I dress I look like a young girl."
She did a little twirl as she spoke. Kinji was afraid that her butt would show but because she was short, he was in angle where he couldn't see. He felt very fortunate.
"Still a little girl....you are already 8 years old...."
The fox ears under her hat was hard to ignore. Even right now her tail was moving. Her appearance as a whole right now was abnormal. Kinji knows that she wants to be a kindergarten student, but Tamano's outer appearance looked 7-8 years old. The only way she was going to be able to pass that off was if she said she failed kindergarten. However, Kinji himself was on the verge of failing so he wasn't able to scold her.
In order to have her blend into society, she needed new clothes. But Kinji is a high school student, he would be mocked if he went out to buy little girls' clothing. Police would see him as a future child kidnapper and would keep an eye on him. If the people after him keeps increasing, he won't be able to take it anymore. (lol)
"Oh yeah, what are you doing this late at night?"
Kinji honestly answered the fox eyed Tamano, "....I don't know."
Tamano was carrying a money chest on her shoulders like a backpack. Like it was naturally the right thing to do, she was following Kinji from behind. Think about it, this scene was like Kinji carrying out a very serious crime of leading a student who was wearing kindergarten clothes by force while cruising the streets. Plus it was very late at night. The worried Kinji brought her to an uninhabited street, secretly taking her back home. (LOL, that image)
As soon as he entered the house he saw Reki's shoes already by the doorway. Seems she already arrived safely home after supplemental classes.
"Tohyama, let's perform an exorcism. You are so unfortunate, there may actually be evil spirits inhabiting your body. Let's expel them ok?"
Exorcism? Expelling her out away seemed to be physically impossible(owned).
"Ah, wait a second."
If grandpa saw Kinji bring a young girl home, he would bypass court and take him directly to the firing squad. But Tomano vivaciously ran straight towards the bathroom.
(After exorcising her craziness all day, she wants to take a bath?)
Kinji has no choice but to report to Reki what happened during the day and went after her. On the way, he passed by the bathroom.
"These modern clothes are so hard to take off."
".........!"
After opening the door to enter the changing room, he saw the struggling Tamano already half naked! She was wearing Hiraga Aya-san's children's underwear but she soon shakes out of that as well.
(Y-You are really daring....! To actually be completely naked!)
If this was discovered by grandpa grandma, Kinji will be completely killed.-----RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!! His mind was screaming as he turned around to return to the hallway, but just then Tamano called out for him.
"Hey, quit dillydallying, you have the responsibility to help me take a bath."
"D-Don't say it so loudly!"
Everyone in the house was currently sleeping, if someone were to awaken the curtains would fall on his life(aka dead)! He could only accept the enforcement of this bath circumstance. Kinji thought "Damn it, a difficult situation passes and another one arrives".
"Tohyama, let me stand on your shoulders. I want to grab that new bath soap over there."
"You want to use other people's bath soap....you devil, using dog shampoo should be good enough."
Kinji complained at the tail wagging devil who wanted to grab the milk soap from a high elevated area as he got the soap. He knew he couldn't let a little naked girl stand on his shoulders. Also prior to the bath, hygiene was also a problem. B-But she just said it was Kinji's responsibility. Does she want Kinji to wash that small body of hers? Kinji didn't have any affinity to young girls so hysteria mode wasnt a problem but its not just being naked, if he had to clean her, than there would be a huge uncertainty.
(If she was any smaller, Tamano would still be transformed into a girl....!)
Isn't this abrupt event even more of a crisis than eating dinner with the Yakuza!?
The god who is controlling my destiny, what are you doing? Are you crazy?(
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If she starts misbehaving it would be very troublesome and he would be much more susceptible to being caught by the police than the Yakuza. This bathroom was like a hell for him, if he were to escape it would be another hell. Kinji was harshly thinking to himself as he folded up the towel and slid the glass sliding door across.....Oh....? There was steam so he couldn't see in front. He was thankful that he could only vaguely see Tamano.
"......."
There must have been someone who warmed up the water already. What a waste of water. The bathrooms were large, but its not like it was a public shower room.
"......"
Thinking he escaped the reality (of having to see Tamano naked while washing her), suddenly the steam surrounding him thinned out and the figure of Reki appeared in the bathtub. His thoughts of "well, I guess I worried for nothing", were thoroughly crushed.