Free How I was Murdered by a Fox Monster by M.C Queen

following morning.
I finally
gave in and yelled “fine, I won't be an exorcist!  I won't go
anywhere near them if you'll just be nice to me again!”
     
***
     
Despite my
sister's protest, I decided to ignore her and still go to
headquarters the following afternoon. It was my first observation
and I wasn't going to miss the chance to see an Obake again. I was
still slightly afraid, but I was also hoping that it would be as
big and scary as the last one. Maybe they would even let me have
some shots in. 
Everyone used
to call me an idiot back then and I can finally understand why. I
was so naive and stupid, I treated Obake like they were some cool
new toy, and it all came back to bite me in the end.
      The other exorcists and I gathered in front of
the shrine as Akito lectured us on exorcist safety. The others
stared at him with spaced out eyes, and I assumed they'd been
subjected to the same lecture a million times before. Taisei had
his head down, and I assumed he was in a deep contemplation about
Akito's words until I noticed he was just playing on his cell
phone.
When Akito
pulled out a charm and began meditating, I began to wonder if he
had tricked me into thinking we were going to have fun.
    “ What is that?” I hissed at Taisei.
    “ It's a location charm,” he said. “It begins to glow when
there's an Obake nearby.”
    “ But it's already glowing,” I said as I noticed the faint glow
that the paper was omitting.
    “ That's because we're all here, exorcists gain their spiritual
powers through a deal our ancestors made with Obake, so all of us
have a little Obake blood.”
    Obake blood?   I thought in shock.   No one had told me that before.
I never realized that I was part monster.
    “ Hey, Taisei, does that mean that any one of us could go crazy
and start eating people?” I looked around nervously. Kiyori
certainly looked like he would eat someone if he got hungry
enough.
    “ Don't be ridiculous” Taisei hissed. “It's barely anything,
just enough to channel into the charms.”
    “ Oh,” I felt relieved
Akito then
proceeded to walk around the perimeter searching for any hint of an
Obake nearby. I followed behind to see if the paper would really
glow brighter, and for some reason Souta also decided to accompany
me.
    “ It could be hours before we find anything,” said Souta. “Most
of our time is taken up by searching for Obake, sometimes we don't
find anything until five or six in the morning.”
    “ What!” I yelled. Souta had the tendency to over exaggerate
everything so I looked at Kiyori to confirm if it was true, he
nodded.
Akito did a
few more laps of the perimeter until he finally announced that he
had found a trace.
    “ This way!” He commanded.
We spent half
an hour climbing over the mountain until we finally located a small
raccoon Obake. Akito told me the town was full of them and they
were currently in the middle of fighting off a raccoon
invasion.
Akito stood
beside me and attempted to explain what was happening, but he spent
most of his time yelling out commands to the others.
    “ Watch your form Nina!”
    “ Stop taking pictures and pay attention Taisei! No Mana will
not take them for you!”
    “ Stop standing there Souta! Do something. Put up a
barrier!”
    “ Good job Itsuki!”
Much like
what I saw the previous day, the others fought it off until Itsuki
hit the raccoon with a lighting charm and it was reduced to a 
smoldering pile of ashes.
I asked
Taisei what their strategy was, only to be told “it's simple, we
steer the Obake in a certain direction and then Itsuki does all the
work.”
    “ Hey I'm not certain that's really fair,” muttered
Itsuki.
    “ Shut up you,” said Taisei. “Who was the one who said they
didn't like getting close to the Obake?”
    “ Yeah, but,” Itsuki suddenly went silent. It was the first
time I'd seen him unable to think up a witty retort. I decided to
celebrate the occasion by laughing at him until Akito whacked me
over the