Editing Internet Shrine Maiden Tsugumi-chan:Volume1 Chapter1 (section)

===Part 17===

By the time Betsuzaki Yuhi arrived, it was fully dark out.

And what were those two doing waving fireworks around on a public street this late at night?

(Damn, Onee-chan’s phone is set to share her location, but the data was all glitched and I had to walk all over the place to find her.)

She heard a voice going “goo goo”.

After picking the baby up from the street, she approached the drawbridge.

“Hey, are you filming some kind of video? Sorry if I get in the shot!”

It was supposed to be a casual comment.

But they froze.

This was weird. When they saw her, both of them stared wide-eyed and motionless. They almost seemed horrified?

“Wait…” said Rainy. “Y-Yuhi. Where did you get that? ~ ~ ~ That’s…”

“That’s what, Onee-chan?”

“Don’t worry. She hasn’t been fully possessed yet. And this saves me the effort of removing her. But I didn’t expect she could use such a powerful lure.”

They were acting so carefully you would think they were dealing with unexploded ordnance.

Actually…were they?

Come to think of it, why had there been a baby on the side of the road? Why had she picked it up without even thinking about it? No. For that matter…was it even a baby at all???

It was kind of slimy and smelled strongly of the beach. Yes, like rotten seawater. All she had to do was tilt her head down to look and she would know what it was she was holding to her chest.

Her neck joint locked up painfully. She was afraid to check. But her heart couldn’t bear to go on without checking. Yuhi slowly, slowly lowered her gaze to-



:::“''Don’t look!!!''”



She received an impossibly furious admonition. From her usually easygoing gyaru sister. It made Yuhi freeze, which may have been fortunate in this case. Because it created a brief opening. Tsumugi chose that moment to rush forward. She used both hands to snatch away something the size of a cabbage and turned away from Yuhi. As if to make sure the girl wouldn’t see what it was.

But the effort was in vain because Yuhi caught a glimpse.



Of a bloody skull with a clump of rotting hair perched atop.

She could have sworn its empty eye sockets were staring straight at her.