Editing Ghost Hunt:Volume 5 Chapter 2 (section)

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After measuring the temperatures in the 10 rooms close by 3 times, we went back to the base. The huge room was piled with equipment. 

“How is it?”

When asked by Naru, who was adjusting a camera, I handed the small blackboard to him.

“There isn’t any location where the temperature is particularly low. However, if there isn’t a class for drawing up floor plans, I dare say somebody will get lost.”

“I don’t need it, but it looks like someone does.”

Who said that, hey.

“I met Minami-san in Room Number 8. He was actually using a very crude method to measure the temperature.”

“You met Minami-san? When?”

It was Bou-san who asked.

“In Room Number 8. It was when Bou-san and Yasuhara-kun… no boss were in that little room playing.”

“And the Professor?”

“He wasn’t there.”

“… whatever.”

Bou-san looked somehow rather dejected.

“Doesn’t he care a lot about the Professor’s work?”

Ayako giggled and looked at John who was by the side.

“Because Takigawa-san respects the Professor greatly.”

Bou-san somehow looked embarrassed, muttering things like ‘hey’, and ‘really’. Such a cute fellow.

“The Professor is such a great person.”

Looking at the grinning Bou-san, I said. Bou-san scratched his head embarrassedly.

“At the very least, such strict investigators are very rare…”

“Is this so?”

“Yeah. He is an extremely serious person. He writes papers just like the normal scientific papers.”

“Is that very rare? Isn’t a paper just a paper?”

“About that, just writing alone won’t do it. Foreign researchers are more serious; amongst the Japanese researchers there are those who don’t even write citations.”

I don’t quite understand. However, from Bou-san’s tone it should be something not to be coughed upon.

“The Professor had a composition, called ‘Paranormal Systems’. The foreword of that book had a sentence like this, ‘With regards to research into the paranormal, there is an argument as to whether it is scientific or the tricks of a fraudster. I still do not believe it is scientific. Therefore, I believe research into the paranormal should start to be recognized and researched scientifically.’”

Eh~~. That is to say, because paranormal research is still unscientific, that is why he conducted scientific styled investigations. Isn’t that put it very concisely? Eh eh eh.

“People who believe in paranormal phenomenon insist that it is all scientific. The opposition, allowing for no explanation, denounces it as fraudsters’ tricks. The Professor has said something really acute. Because the Professor himself is a clairvoyant, he knows that paranormal phenomenon does occur.”

John nodded.

“It is like that. The fact is, that book is a very serious reference book.”

“Is it?”

So it was like that. Hence he was completely blown away by the Professor. Eh~~, what a really cute personality.

“… however.”

I tilted my head.

“Compared to what you all have just said, claiming he was taught directly by the Professor, Minami-san was measuring the temperature very crudely.”

“That’s because Minami-san’s personality is that careless.”

Ayako cut in.

“However, that person called Minami, don’t you think he is a little suspicious?”

“Ah, do you think so too, Ayako?”

“Yes, yes. I can’t help feeling that he lacks integrity and can’t warm up to him.”

“Exactly. I, too, dislike people who only brag about themselves.”

John carelessly tilted his head slightly.

“Although I have never met the Professor before, I do remember hearing that he is a very young person.”

Bou-san looked a bit angry.

“Whatever, are you suspecting him? Being a ‘Professor’, isn’t he very young?”

“What that actually is… The Professor received his title from the 龙电巴古财团 (tl/n: some fictitious academy?). There are many organizations that assist in psychical research in the west, and the 龙电巴古财团 is one of them set up recently specially for this sort of research. On one hand it gives out the title of ‘Professor’ to outstanding researchers, on the other hand it organizes lectures at universities teaching this type of subject. Professor Davis has this sort of title, that is to say it is slightly different from the regular title of ‘Professor’…”

Hn~~. It’s really complicated.

“And if the Professor came to Japan, shouldn’t it cause a huge uproar? I haven’t heard any rumors of the Professor ever coming to Japan.”

Bou-san was also frowning.

“You’ve got a point…”

“It is like this, leaving the rest aside, the Professor is after all a famous psychic.”

“That –”

I nervously tried speaking.

“Because I’ve never learnt it before I’m not too clear. Is the Professor such an incredible psychic?”

Everyone looked at me disdainfully as though it was a matter of course. Wu wu wu.

“He is very incredible. Because he himself is a researcher of spirits, he is not that active in the psychic world.”

“Oh~~”

Bou-san gazed at the ceiling.

“The Professor only performed a public PK experiment some years ago. That experiment was also recorded. Initially only official research institutes are able to access this tape. Apparently it is an experiment where a large piece of aluminum was flung onto the wall.”

“He~~”

“And then, when a son of a rich family was kidnapped, the Professor rescued that child. This story is also quite famous.”

John nodded.

“Yes. It was the son of the boss of a large American automobile company. The Professor realized that the child was buried alive by some people. Then that tycoon gifted a very large research facility to SPR.”

He~~ Amazing. He rescued a person. Isn’t that very typical?

When we were discussing these things, someone suddenly spoke behind me. 

“Everyone, it looks like you’re chitchatting very happily.”

It was an unhesitating, ice cold sound.

Turning back, Naru stood there with a sarcastic smile on his face. Looking around, the number of cameras lined up on the ground had decreased.

“Yo, Naru-chan. When did you get here? Where did you go just now?”

Bou-san, with a numb expression, raised his hands, and faced Naru’s cold gaze.

“Of course it was to set up the cameras. Because I am here to work.”

… wa. He is trying to say he did not slack of and was working, perhaps.

“As for the set up, let me do it.”

I said that; Naru used his ice cold voice and spoke.

“Oya, I’m so sorry, Taniyama-san. I can’t let a female do heavy labor.”

… very cold. I could practically freeze to death.

“No, I want to do it. Please let me do it.”