Hayate bit back the urge to yawn as he helped Isumi sort through a cluttered storage room at the Saginomiya family's estate. The young, soft-spoken, slightly eccentric exorcist was doing some spring cleaning, and her childhood friend Nagi had loaned her her butler, Hayate, to help out.
Hayate was a little daunted by how much junk was cluttering the storehouse, especially considering how traditional and immaculate the rest of the grounds looked. He was also a little disturbed by some of the more freakish looking artifacts and nicknacks.
But as he was carrying out a box of everything from shrunken heads to grimy prayer beads, he noticed a small, unremarkable looking black book. It was a little dusty, and there was nothing on the cover to identify it. When he grabbed it out of the box to examine it, however, he felt an electric tingle run up his arm.
Worried that there might be some kind of curse on the book, Hayate immediately dropped it with a yelp.
Isumi, hearing this, glanced over at Hayate.
"Ah," she said. "So that's where that went..."
"Hm? Oh, is this book yours, Isumi-san?" Hayate asked her.
"No," she said. "You can have it."
Hayate sweatdropped. "Just like that...? You're giving it to me just like that?"
Isumi nodded.
"It's a very powerful magical artifact that lets you change people by writing in it," she told him. "And it also changes the world so that everybody believes those changes were how things always were."
Hayate's eyes widened.
"Scary... what a scary sounding object... Are you sure it's okay to give it to me...?"
"It's out of my hands," Isumi said bluntly, though her tone was still soft. "The book has chosen you as its master."
"I... I see..." Hayate mumbled weakly, a little overwhelmed by this. Should he try using the book to see if it really worked as Isumi said?
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