Editing Ghost Hunt:Volume 5 Chapter 1 (section)

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After taking care of the luggage, myself, Ayako and others went to the Dining Room. I’m not sure why, but everyone was together in the Dining Room. That is to say, twenty people, all drinking tea.

After Ayako, Masako and I sat down, a man asked if we would like tea. In this manner it was really like a hotel.

I asked for a cup of coffee. Seated at the table, Minami-san from Minami Psychic Research, was talking very proudly to the people around him.

“Please leave it to me. There won’t be any trouble at all. Not only do we have advice from Professor Davis, in the worst scenario we can get help and advice from the American Alex Taunus (阿历克斯?塔乌纳斯) – everyone knows him, right?, he’s a famous psychic – and Uri Geller.”

Ales Taunus. Uri Geller.

Aren’t they both famous psychics? I think anyone in this field would know of Taunus, and Geller is a very famous person. Famous to the extent that it makes one feel that that Minami-san is lying.

Isn’t that fellow at a little great at least?

Minami-san continuously bragged about how wide his connections were. Psychics and researchers whom even I know of all appeared to be his friends.

The people around him wore expressions of half-doubt.

“He’s really incredible.”

I whispered to John who was seated next to me.

“Yeah. He actually knows of Professor Davis.”

Yeah. However one puts it, the Professor is a person nobody in the industry wouldn’t know of.

The Professor sat next to Minami-san, smiling calmly while replying to the fragments of English spoken by the people around him.

“Which county is the Professor from?”

“He is English.”

“So it is like that. How should I put it – he gives off the feeling of an English gentleman.”

“Yes indeed. However,”

John tilted his head.

“However?”

“Nothing much. However, the Professor is much older than I had imagined. … I originally thought he would be a much younger person.”

The Professor is probably around 40. I feel that he is young enough. Because the image of ‘Professors’ in my mind is that of an old man.

“Hey, can you speak English, John?”

When I asked that, John’s blue eyes were shocked wide open.

“I… ''do'' come from an English speaking country.”

… Yeah, I know that. It’s just that people fluent in English are a little hard to come by.

“… I’ve asked a really stupid question. Because your Japanese is not bad, John.”

“Thank you for saying that. Then, what do you want to do?”

“Could you act as interpreter in a while or something?”

After I said that, John laughed out loud.

“With the Professor?”

“Yeah. Regardless he is a famous person, and I want to speak to him.”

John smiled.

“Is he very ugly?”

“No. Just now Takigawa-san also said the same thing to me.”

What the ~~ Is Bou-san also~~?

“Even Bou-san too, can’t defeat a famous person.”

“What did Takigawa-san say to the Professor… could I ask?”

“Admiration?”

“Exactly. Takigawa-san admires the Professor greatly.”

Eh~~ that is to say he is a fan of the Professor. Putting it like that, Bou-san regularly uses anecdotes of the Professor as examples.

As we were chit chatting, Naru spoke to Yasuhara.

“Then, boss, let’s begin.”

… Eh. I felt a little unwell.

“Yes.”

Yasuhara doesn’t make others feel the slightest bit that he is the head of the “Shibuya Psychic Research”. After giving an honest reply, we, who are the muscle, stood up.