Chapter 9

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Takeshi Genuchi reacted swiftly, slamming on the brakes and planting both hands firmly on the table. The veins on the backs of his hands bulged with force as he finally came to a stop, narrowly avoiding a collision with Kei Genuchi.

Kei Genuchi, bewildered, glanced at the cosplayer slumped in the chair, then at his son, who avoided eye contact and appeared awkward.

Though unsure of his son’s meaning, Kei roughly understood why the cosplayer was coughing up blood.

“Butler, notify the driver—we’re going to—” Before he could say the word “hospital,” a faint voice interrupted.

“No need.”

Kei instinctively turned his head. The boy who had been unconscious moments ago was awake.

The cosplayer had only briefly lost consciousness.

The cursed spirit they had just fought was not a high-level one—at most level two. If the cosplayer had not been injured, defeating a level two spirit wouldn’t cause him to cough blood; at worst, it would drain about sixty percent of his energy.

However, the problem was that although the cosplayer appeared fine now, with his ravaged organs healed, the blood he coughed up yesterday was real.

Even with subsequent blood transfusions, the body’s weakness could not be instantly restored.

A slight cough of blood and a brief fainting spell were not serious.

The cosplayer had recovered but the scene still looked alarming.

“Butler, have the kitchen prepare some nourishing broth to replenish blood and health!”

The butler, equally puzzled, opened his mouth as if to ask something, doubtless filled with countless questions, but ultimately said nothing, nodding silently in agreement. “Understood.”

The butler left for the kitchen, leaving the spacious, well-lit living room with only Kei, his son, and the cosplayer.

Kei wanted to speak with the cosplayer but it was inconvenient with his son present. Clearing his throat, he muttered vaguely, “Takeshi, weren’t you going back to Asakusa Temple? You should go.”

Having just gone through a crisis and witnessed the cosplayer’s ruthless methods in killing the cursed spirit, with blood and body fragments staining the table, floor, and even walls, Takeshi Genuchi was uneasy. He had already been suspicious of the cosplayer due to the strange aura he had seen around him, and today had planned to return to the temple to inform the abbot and inquire further.

Now, after this incident, his wariness of the cosplayer peaked.

How could his father have gotten involved with such a dangerous person? And even brought him home, seemingly needing something from him?

Did his father now know about the existence of cursed spirits?

Takeshi’s mind raced, but on the surface he calmly declined his father’s gentle urging: “No, I’m not leaving today.”

Kei muttered, “...That brat! When I don’t want you to go, you insist on leaving; now I tell you to go, and you won’t.”

“Cough cough.”

Father and son simultaneously turned to look at the cosplayer.

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