An Unidentified Ghost and the Next-World Task Force – Part 07

“We might not have any Japanese yen, but we do have this.”

Hikaru pulled a small leather pouch from inside his jacket and took out a single stone. It glowed faintly with a reddish light.

“I-Is that what I think it is?!”

“Fuck! A stone from the other world?!”

“You’re too loud.”

Both Rinko and Amanda jolted upright so suddenly that Rinko’s chair slammed into the seat of an office worker behind her.

“S-Sorry!”

While Rinko repeatedly bowed in apology, Amanda reached out to grab the stone. But Hikaru casually pulled it away and slipped it back into the pouch.

“Let me touch it! Give it to me!”

“No can do. And again, you’re too loud.”

“But I need to examine it!”

“Amanda.” Hikaru stared fixedly at her. “For the third time, you’re too loud.”

A few customers were glancing over. For now, it just looked like foreign tourists causing a stir in a pub, but if anyone actually overheard what