Strongest Onmyouji's Isekai Adventure ~ The Monsters are too weak compared to my Youkai Servant's~

Day three of the school festival.

Today is the real day for me, the treasure hunt.

"Pfft..."

"Seika, I'm scared..."

One of the highlights of the school festival, many students gather at the starting venue despite a fee to participate.

I'm motivated and ready.

There are expensive prizes at any rate.

"Yes, then, ladies and gentlemen, listen up."

Under the blue sky, a female student in the role of host raises her voice.

"We hid a lot of crates on this school property. You guys have a piece of paper on hand with tips right now, right? From those tips, you can first see where the first crate is. Inside the first chest is a piece of paper with a hint to the second chest, inside the second chest is a third and inside the third chest is a hint to the chest with the winning prize"

MC female students continue.

"There are many different tips that are across to you, but some of them are overlapping. And the number of crates will decrease as you progress with the first, second, and third, so it will be a competition for how quickly you can untick and reach the crate. Of course, only one team can win the prize!

I look at the paper at hand.

"There is no water in the river, there are no trees in the woods, there are no houses in the city"

That's all the tips are.

"First and foremost, this is the team's victory in finding a chest with the winning prize! Gentlemen, are you ready? Let's get started!"

Teams around them start running off somewhere in unison or raving within their peers.

"This is our tip?

Efa peeks into the paper at my disposal.

"There's no water in the river... um, what is it"

"Maybe the answer's a map."

Efa makes a stiff face.

"Ah, I see! So where's the first crate... the school library?

"I guess."

"Well, then, Seika, we need to hurry!

"No..."

I head to the shade in the corner of the venue. [M]

"What are you doing, Seika? The library's over there."

"I'm not going to the library. Leave the first chest, the second chest, and the third chest alone. If you're looking for something like that, you might find another team ahead of you."

"Yeah?"

I spread the folded paper in the shade of the tree.

That was a huge school floor plan made by sticking several sheets of paper together.

"This treasure hunt is the first team victory to find the last chest. So look for the last chest from the beginning"

"So, but how if you don't have any tips?

"Divination."

That said, I take out the pendulum.

I just tied a cheap ring at the end of the string, but this is enough.

Spell small. Not the usual Sanskrit, this time in Chinese.

Drop a pendulum over the map of the school and see how it reacts.

"Uh, what are you doing?

"When a pendulum comes near an object, the amplitude increases. Just a little bit, though."

"Oh, can you do that!? Besides, this is just a map..."

"Yeah."

It's called Hooch.

It is a Taoist divination method, but it has been arranged a lot since it was taken in by the Yin Yang Path.

After letting it loosen up on the plan for a while, there was eventually a place to react greatly.

"It's around here. All right, let's go, Efa."

"Yeah...... does this really hit you?

"It's okay."

I laugh at Efa.

"Fortune starts when you believe it."

****

The place we arrived was a painting lined up in the research building.

"Hmmm......"

It's a place where there's no such thing as a philosophy as passing between classes once in a while. Of course I don't see a crate.

Naturally, but from that fortune tells me 'somewhat around here'. Because the map is cluttered, and the pendulum doesn't point to a single point.

So I have no idea if the crate is hidden in the bushes on the side of the road, or if it is placed in the building again.

Efa tells you like you're in trouble.

"Uh, so we'll split up and probe?

"No... I'll narrow it down a little bit"

That sounds like a tough one.

I take out the human rattle and open the door.

Call-to-Action - Fox Dog Fox

It was the soul that looked ugly that took it out of phase.

There are three tiny eyeballs and two ripped mouths in a sphere with surprising brown hair.

It's such an old animal spirit that I don't even know what the original beast was... but it's a prized soul of divination, carefully selected by me.

"Se... Seika-kun, what is this...?

"Ah."

Efa stares at the fox dog fox.

Shit, you looked like Efa...

"Uh... picked it up"

"Again!? Seika-kun, you can't pick it up because it's so weird..."

"Ugh, yeah... no, but this guy is so useful"

Instruct the fox dog fox (dust) using the truth.

Then when I walk out, my brown soul follows me with a subtle twitch and tremble.

"Look. This is how you get closer and closer to what you're looking for as you walk around, you start to tremble louder and louder."

"Er, something disgusting... this is fortune telling too?

"Yes, I am."

The fortune of using animal spirits was also familiar in previous life.

I usually use it possessed by Song Qin (yes) and writing instruments, but when it comes to me, I can go straight ahead.

I'm sure you'll find it soon.

****

And after a moment (thirty minutes) or so.

In the shade of a tree on the side of the road, I snap my neck.

"I think it's around here..."

The fox dog fox (dust) now had three eyes open, eating up his teeth and shivering with rattles. 'Right here, right here!!' I feel a strong will.

Sounds like you're saying, "Find it."

"Efa, you know what I mean?"

"Anyone can tell... you're obviously upset, this face"

Efa points to the fox dog fox.

"But hey..."

I'll look around, but there's no shadow or shape such as a crate.

I also looked for all the bushes and such that were once nearby, but couldn't find them anywhere.

Hmm, that's crazy.

"Ah, Seika-kun, that!

Suddenly, Efa looked up at the tree and said:

Looking at the tip of his gaze, one of the high branches is on a small chest.

"In that place..."

It's not like I can't find it.

Or how am I supposed to take that?

"That's the last chest, isn't it? Seika-kun."

"Uh, yeah. I think so."

"Okay."

Efa waved her right index finger when she said so.

A small twinkle winds up.

It blew up exactly the chest that was on the branch.

The crate falls as-is - but on the verge of hitting the ground, its momentum suddenly slows down.

And landed with a little noise called Cotto.

What do you say, Seika-kun?

Efa asks me what I think with a full smile. [M]

"Wow... you've handled spirits a lot better, Efa"

Though spiritual species have access to the first hierarchy, things like consciousness are rare and can also be treated like tools.

What Efa calls' please 'should actually be close to' orders' too.

No spells, no truths, no magic formations, no marks, everything is an 'order' to the world, so Efa's spiritual art would be no different than using magic normally as a reality.

"The last one wasn't the wind, was it? Could you have manipulated the weight?"

"Yeah. Thanks to the children of the Dark Class brought here on the day of the induction ceremony. It's a small number, so that's all we can do."

Efa laughs at him.

This kid keeps growing......

"Oh, look! Let's see the chest!

Following the rushed Efa, I head to the chest, too.

When I removed the simple clasp and opened the lid - what came out of it was a luxurious necklace.

"Wow..."

Efa speaks up.

A variety of gems, large and small, are luxuriously embellished with exquisite pearls. Something was already glittering overall.

It's just...,

"... Efa, you want this?

"No, I don't think so."

"Right."

The design.

If you're an older, flashy madam, you barely have the sense to be forgiven. And slightly old.

I thought you said the prize was only donated, and maybe they pushed the unwanted.

"I have this for Seika."

With that said, Efa touched the Devil's Stone neck ornament she had raised on her neck.

I laugh and answer.

"I'm glad you took care of it. Shall we sell this then?"

Speaking of subtle design.

A luxurious item to this point would be worth a lot.

It's going to be seven or eight gold coins.

"Silver coins, I guess a hundred pieces a person is weak... Efa, is that enough?

"What, I don't get that much!

Efa says as surprised.

"Because I didn't do anything..."

"That's not true. You found the last chest and took it from the top of the tree. I couldn't have joined without Efa in the first place."

"But..."

"So it's half the selling price equally. Like?"

"Ugh... yeah"

Efa says with a slightly more complicated grin.

"Thank you, Seika. Enough."