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pictures?” He
asked.
    “ I suppose,” I shrugged.
    “ Hey Taisei, I'm not sure if you should do that,” said
Itsuki.
    “ Relax Itsuki. It's cool,” Taisei whipped out his phone and
began sliding his finger around the screen. He found what he was
looking for and handed me his phone.
I expected to
see them all dressed up in fake costumes, but the graphics were
exceedingly good and almost lifelike. It appeared to be a giant
raccoon, except it was the size of a person. Its teeth and claws
were sharp, long, and dripping what looked like blood.
    “ Hey this is pretty good, that blood looks almost real,” I
said.
    “ Of course its real. Man that guy got me good, I have this
whole scar now and everything,” Taisei pulled up his sleeve to show
me a bandage that extended from his wrist to the elbow. “But you
know that chicks always dig battle wounds,” he said while winking
at Kurumi, who in return scoffed and looked away.
    No they couldn't be serious, it couldn't be
true . I thought. I stared at the pictures,
and then at Taisei's arm, then back at the screen, and then at his
arm again. I repeated this for almost a minute, until the
realization finally hit me.
    “ OBAKE ARE REAL!” I screamed.
    “ Keep your voice down,” hissed Kiyori as he looked over his
shoulder and scanned the area for people.
    “ I thought you knew already,” whispered Taisei.
    “ No, I thought they were all stories.” I felt quite distressed
and Taisei had to pry his phone out of my fingers because I refused
to let go. “I didn't think they actually existed.”
    “ Great one Taisei,” said Kurumi. “Just wait
until Akito hears about this.   You're going to get
grounded ,” she added in a sing-song
voice.
    “ Does that mean there's really a raccoon monster, and a naked
fox lady who will eat your heart out?!” I asked.
    “ Geez,” moaned Taisei. “I really thought you knew already.
Especially since Kousuke Matsumoto was a well-known
exorcist.”
    “ GRANDPA WAS AN EXORCIST?!”
    “ What! You seriously didn't know about Kousuke Matsumoto
either,” said Itsuki. “Idiot!”
    “ I was only a little kid when he died!”
    “ I suppose it's not your fault then,” said Taisei. “It's a
shame though, Kousuke Matsumoto was pretty famous. He wasn't as
famous as Daisuke Matsumoto, but he still had a good reputation
back in the day.”
    “ DAISUKE MATSUMOTO WAS AN EXORCIST TOO!?”
    “ Hey will you shut up already,” said Kiyori. “I'm pretty sure
the classroom above us could hear you. You're almost as loud as
Souta.”
    “ No one told me that my brother Daisuke was an exorcist,” I
whispered.
    “ He was the best there ever was,” said Kurumi. “We have to
read up on him all the time.”
    “ Akito made me write a report last week as punishment for
missing my curfew, it really sucked,” said Kiyori.
    “ What were you doing out that late?” asked Kurumi.
    “ I had stuff to do, and then I missed the bus and had to walk
the rest of the way.”
    “ Yeah that happened to me too, but there's another bus that
comes from the opposite side of the road, and it goes until about
elev-”
    “ Hey!” I interrupted, trying to get them
back on track. “Do you think you could tell me more about Daisuke
Matsumoto?” I always wanted to know more about the guy I was named
after. Sis always got depressed if I asked, and sometimes cried. It
was like her   not so secret   weakness.
    “ Daisuke Matsumoto was pretty famous fifteen or twenty years
ago,” said Taisei. “Some people believe he may have been the
strongest exorcist there ever was. There wasn't an Obake out there
that he couldn't beat. Cats, dogs, raccoons, rats, and pigs all
fell before him.”
    “ But then he was trying to pick up a girl and it turned out to
be a fox Obake,” added Kiyori. “She plunged her hand into his chest
and ripped out his heart before he even had time to reach for a
protection charm.”
They all hung
their heads as though taking a moment of silence.