Just Another Ghostly Story

Sleepless Nights (4)

"GYAAAHHHH!!!"

Mizuki screams at the sight of horror, that is her eye.

"I LOOK LIKE A DRUG ADDICT!!! HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?!!"

During recess, a female student is harassing, strangling the life out of a bespectacled male student and shaking him violently.
"OY OY! What's the meaning of this?! And what's with the spiral glasses AH?!"

Mizuki talks like a middle aged yakuza grunt. Demanding explanation from Daisuke for her unsightly new look like a bully shaking down a nerd, dropping his glasses in the process and revealing a classic numerical 3 as his eye.

He explains with his fingers pointing upward like a nerd even without his glasses, keeping up his deformed eye.
"In theory, that phenomenon is highly unlikely to be resulted from your new transformation method. Such state is not that different from normal state of dreaming. More specifically lucid dreaming. While there are the possibility of getting tired from frequent-"

"Huh?! Yer trying to escape the blame now?! What else could it be then?!"

"While frequent and continuous instances of lucid dreaming could tire your brain. Just the first instance shouldn't exhaust your brain anymore than a typical dream. Although.."

Resting his chin on his thumb, Daisuke shoot an inquisitive look while still maintaining the comical nerd eye towards Mizuki.

"There can always be some other factors beyond that..."

He stares analytically for a solid minute or two to the point where even the angry Mizuki is uncomfortable.
"Umm.. uhh... W-what is it..?"
The intense yet non hostile gaze cancels out even her rash attacks from just now.

"Nothing... we'll continue tonight. But just in case, I'll figure something else for you to do.

The duo is roaming about outside in their SP form (Reitai). While Daisuke is glued to the ground spraying and collecting samples, Mizuki is carrying a bunch of bags and bottles, walking behind him.
"I'm glad that I don't have to be up close with that horrible spray anymore but... do you really need my help with this...?"
She questions while yawning by the end.

Without turning to her he explains
"Even if we don't know how badly the spray can affect your real body, at least you can still help with the case like this"
He holds out his hand, holding a coagulated SP (Reichitsu) sample on the other end of his tweezers, signalling Mizuki to collect them inside one of the empty containers she's carrying.
"Also consider this a part of your training. Creating solid objects using your Reichitsu is the most basic thing you need to master"

"even so.. this is the tenth jar I've created tonight, and it's tiring when half of them keeps breaking..."
Her whining starts and ends with a yawn, an evident to her exhaustion.
As she loses focus from yawning, the next jar she's creating starts breaking immediately.
"Mou! This is boring!!!"

At school next day, Mizuki yawns some more while trying her best to keep her head up in class. Her sore eyes focusing on the teacher, struggling to keep open.
'Uuuhhh... I can't even focus during Matthew's class. His boring lectures aren't helping me stay awake'
Just earlier in class she was getting called out by that male teacher, nicknamed Matthew by the students from his original Matsumoto surname for being an English teacher. The stoic man is a bit on the stricter side when teaching even though his lesson are always so lengthy and unengaging.

Although with how many times he called her name earlier just to get her back inside the class, he's not fully to be blamed for getting irritated. Even Mizuki's promise to put more effort into listening to his lesson is not fruitful.