Zongman I fight weirdness in everyday world

"I'll go then."

Yukino Yukinoshita, with her proud self-esteem, finally had a request, and the other members were unavailable, leaving her as the only suitable candidate. How could she not go?

Wouldn't that make her just a receptionist in the Super-dimensional Club, unable to help with anything, a complete freeloader?

Yukino Yukinoshita absolutely couldn't accept that.

That special training on Nichitou Island, where she was scared to tears, wasn't for nothing!

The time to prove her worth has come!

...

That evening, at Shoko Nishimiya's home.

"This is my sister, Yuzuru."

After introducing her, Shoko Nishimiya looked at her sister, Yuzuru Nishimiya, and said with a smile.

"This... is my sister's friend, Yukino Yukinoshita."

"Hello."

Yuzuru Nishimiya greeted politely, a stark contrast to her behavior in the original story.

Thinking about it, it makes sense.

Yukino Yukinoshita never bullied Shoko Nishimiya; on the contrary, this was the first time Yuzuru Nishimiya had seen her sister bring a friend home. Another detail was...

In front of this Yukino Yukinoshita, her sister didn't use writing but communicated directly through speech.

As a younger sister, Yuzuru Nishimiya was naturally very happy to see her sister make a friend.

"Yukino-san, this is my room."

After taking Yukino Yukinoshita to the second floor, Shoko Nishimiya opened the door to her room.

Yukino, the investigator carrying a heavy burden and executing a mission, immediately observed the room.

Very normal, very tidy.

Just an ordinary girl's room, nothing that seemed out of place, like creepy dolls or anything like that.

Thinking about it, Shoko Nishimiya isn't stupid. Having encountered a strange incident, even if she had such things, would she deliberately keep them?

Chapter 376: Reunion of the Menma Family, Meiko's Tarot Reading

"Yukino-san."

Shoko Nishimiya patted her bed, smiling as she said.

"Tonight... you sleep on the bed, and I'll sleep on the floor."

"How can I allow that?"

Although Yukino Yukinoshita rarely visits other people's homes, she's not Touma Kazusa. She understands basic social etiquette, of course.

"Of course, I'll sleep on the floor, and you sleep on the bed."

"You're a guest; how can I let you sleep on the floor?"

"Let's put that aside for now..."

Yukino Yukinoshita observed the room, noticing a curtain in the middle, dividing the originally single room into two sides. In the opened closet, there was also a bed and pillow.

"Is this... where your sister sleeps?"

Shoko Nishimiya nodded, making a cute response.

"Mm-hmm."

"I see..."

Yukino Yukinoshita nodded noncommittally, already making a judgment in her heart.

Although she's not a snob who cares about other people's family circumstances, as the special investigator for this Super-dimensional Club operation, it's necessary to gather more information about Shoko Nishimiya, and the family's economic situation is naturally included.

Although this is an apartment in a building, it's clear that Shoko Nishimiya's family isn't wealthy. The apartment isn't large, and there are only three rooms.

Allocating according to family members, Shoko Nishimiya's grandmother has one room, her mother has one room, and only one room is left, forcing Yuzuru Nishimiya to sleep in the closet, sharing a room with her sister.

What doesn't match this slightly cramped apartment is that Yukino Yukinoshita researched online and found that the hearing aid model Shoko Nishimiya uses is one of the best medical hearing aids on the market today, and it's very expensive.

In addition, it's already seven o'clock in the evening, but Shoko Nishimiya's mother is still at work and won't be home for a while...

With just this information, plus Shoko Nishimiya not mentioning her father, Yukino Yukinoshita can guess the general situation of her family.

A mother with two daughters, plus an elderly person to support, plus expensive hearing aids, regular hospital hearing checkups, various medications...

This heavy burden is all on Shoko Nishimiya's mother's shoulders.

Combining Shoko Nishimiya's comments at school about her mother's recent strange behavior...

Yukino Yukinoshita's mood became somewhat heavy.

Is this really the kind of pressure a normal person can withstand?

In the face of such circumstances, even if she can't hold on, it's normal for her psychology to become distorted...

If Shoko Nishimiya's mother develops a Palace...

How should it be resolved then?

...

At the same time, on the other side of Kyoto City, at the door of a familiar detached apartment.

"Huff... Huff..."

Menma took a deep breath, her chest rising and falling, her cute face revealing an uncontrollable look of nervousness.

"Yousei-niichan, Chiriko, Anaru..."

Menma turned to look at the three of them, took a deep breath, and tried to stay calm.

"I'm ready."

"Then let's go in."

"Mm."

Seeing the encouraging look in Yousei's eyes, Menma's mood instantly relaxed a lot. She walked step by step to the door of this familiar apartment, raised her hand, and gently knocked on the door.

Almost at the instant of the knock, the door was quickly opened. Menma's mother appeared at the door, looking at Menma, who had grown into a young girl. She paused slightly, then her hand trembled slightly as she carefully touched Menma's cheek.

Confirming the real touch in her hand, Menma's mother cried with joy, embracing Menma's slender and petite body, sobbing.

"Meiko... you've finally come back to my side... That's great, it's really great..."

Seeing the mother and daughter, who had been separated by life and death, reunited on this day, both Yurikawa Hana and Anjou Naruko couldn't help but have tears well up in their eyes, secretly wiping them away. After all, Menma was their childhood friend, and before Menma's accidental death, her mother had been very kind to them.

The reason Menma waited so long to see her mother wasn't due to some strange rule about humans and ghosts not being able to meet.

She simply wanted to be sure she had enough power, even without the ESP members of the Paranormal Quantum Mechanics Research Society present, even when she was alone, to protect her mother, father, and younger brother from the evil spirits that could appear at any time and try to devour her, before reuniting with her family.

Although the method was a bit strange, it was indeed Yusei who gave Menma this power.

After hugging for a good while, Menma's mother finally came back to her senses and noticed the three people standing not far away.

"Hana, Anaru... and... Yusei-kun..."

Menma's mother raised her sleeve, wiped away the tears from her face, and revealed a smile.

"Come in quickly, let's sit down and chat slowly."

Originally, Menma's mother had very complex feelings towards Yurikawa Hana and Anjou Naruko, Menma's childhood friends.

On one hand, they were her daughter's good friends when she was alive, and she knew that her daughter's death was not the fault of these two children.

But on the other hand, whenever she saw Yurikawa Hana and Anjou Naruko, who had grown into young women and become high school students, Menma's mother couldn't help but feel sad.

They were all good friends, but only her daughter, Honma Meiko, was forever stuck on that day.

Of course, now, a perfect ending had finally been reached.

Although Menma was still in a spirit form, she, like Hachishaku-sama and the others, could actively choose whether or not to appear in front of ordinary people, and could even directly remove the characteristic of being unable to be 'observed' by ordinary people, and live like a normal person.

Following Miyazumi Mitsuha's mother and Itomori Town, the Paranormal Quantum Mechanics Research Society once again achieved a perfect ending.

And Menma's mother would never forget the kindness of bringing her daughter back to her side.

This was far beyond the level of a life-saving grace.

When they entered the house, Menma saw that her father and younger brother were also waiting in the foyer.

"Satoshi!"

Seeing that her younger brother had grown from an infant who couldn't even walk steadily into a middle school student, Menma excitedly ran over and pointed to her cheek.

"Wow... you're taller than me now, do you still remember me? Satoshi?"

Honma Satoshi had a look of disbelief, and after a long time, he finally reacted and muttered.

"Sis... Sister? Is it really... Sister..."

Menma's father, who was standing aside, had the same expression, and was too shocked to speak.

From their perspective, about half a year ago, Menma's mother suddenly changed from her depressed state to a radiant one, no longer worshiping Menma's spirit tablet every day, and no longer placing a portion of curry rice in front of the spirit tablet every time she made it.

They originally thought that after so many years, she had finally come out of the grief of her daughter's accidental death, but unexpectedly, this afternoon, she suddenly said that the already deceased Honma Meiko was finally coming home, and asked the whole family to welcome her here?

At that time, Menma's younger brother and father's reaction was...

She's gone crazy, definitely gone crazy, developed a mental illness, and started fantasizing.

But unexpectedly...

"A ghost?"

"Hey, you kid, that's too rude, isn't it?"

Menma, who had always had a silly and even slightly ditzy image, rarely showed the majesty of an older sister in front of her younger brother, Honma Satoshi, grabbing his ear and shouting loudly.

"I'm a spirit, a spirit! Not a ghost!"

"Sis... I was wrong, won't it be okay if I was wrong...?"

Feeling the familiar touch on his ear and seeing Menma's shadow reflected on the wooden floor, Honma Satoshi confirmed it at this moment.

The sister in front of him was not some kind of ghost.

"The specific situation is a bit complicated..."

Menma's mother, who had known the truth for a long time, slowly opened her mouth.

"It's like this, although Menma did die many years ago, but this Yusei-kun... Eh?"

Menma's mother glanced around and found that only Anjou Naruko and Yurikawa Hana were left standing at the door, and couldn't help but wonder.

"Yusei-kun... where did he run off to?"

As soon as the words fell, everyone looked at each other, not knowing where Yusei had run off to, but then they heard a soft sound from the living room.

When the group came to the living room, the scene that appeared in front of them made everyone speechless.

They saw Yusei sitting casually in front of Menma's spirit tablet, holding a chocolate pie in his hand and munching on it.

"No..."

Before Menma's mother could speak, Menma herself rushed over, looking displeased.

"Hey, hey, hey, why are you stealing my offerings!"

Yusei said with a straight face.

"Don't be so stingy, what's wrong with eating your chocolate pie?"

"Go eat something else, I want to eat the chocolate pie!"

"I want to eat the chocolate pie."

"You... you're stealing Menma's offerings, Yusei-oniichan, you're so despicable!"

"You're not dead, how can it be your offerings? That doesn't make sense."

"I am dead!"