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Capítulo VII- El Tercer Piso
Atsuki wouldn't have known she was craving ice cream until she licked the cone in her hands. She hadn't had it in a long time and was tempted to bite into the frozen treat, however, she knew she would regret it once her teeth would touch the ice cream. She asked the giant next to her, "Where are we going that's so important that you couldn't supervise Toge and Yuuta?"
"I trust Toge is able to exorcise it alone. Yuuta is there to observe and learn, they'll be fine. I'm taking you to an abandoned hospital." Gojou licked the bigger ice cream in his hands. He had an unusually sweet tooth for a 27-year-old man, at least that's what Atsuki thought.
"An abandoned hospital?" She halted. "Am I going on a mission?"
"Sorta. You've made a lot of progress in three months, too." He motioned his shoulder to tell her to keep following him.
"Really?"
"Yeah, why do you think I haven't let you watch any movies with that cursed corpse?"
"Wait, that's why? I thought you were sick of me getting hit." He laughed. "If this hospital is abandoned, how come we're only now exorcising this curse?"
"Curses, actually, and it was recently abandoned, but don't worry. They're curses you should be able to exorcise."
"Whoo, that's a relief. Why'd we get ice cream then?"
"It was on the way."
Atsuki nodded. As they continued to walk, the tall buildings descended into smaller ones along the pathway and they became more separate. It wasn't a far walk, it was a mere 10 minutes when they arrived at the gate. The duo was already finished with their ice cream by the time they arrived and Atsuki became overwhelmed by the sickening feeling the curses released.
Gojou opened the gate for her and gradually, she stepped through. The white hospital had patches of brown and green slithering along the walls to the grey-clouded windows. It was no more than three stories. A mixture of peoples' spray paint art and actual vandalism decorated the exterior.
"Emerge from darkness, blacker than darkness. Purify that which is impure."
The curtain dripped around them, sealing them in the black transparent dome. Atsuki hugged her arms to her chest. The hospital looked creepier than it did before. The grey windows were now black and grey replaced the off-white color of the hospital walls. Rather than it being mid-day, it looked like dusk was taking over for the night. She sucked it up and walked to the entrance with Gojou.
Honestly, if he wasn't here she probably would've never dared to step in.
The lights were off and the smell of metal and mold stenched the air. Atsuki grimaced at the curse with two long eyes sticking out of its head standing in the lobby. Its slim head looked like a neck to its yellow circular body. It struggled to balance itself on its two lanky legs.
