First Evening at Yokai Academy

"Oh... Uh, yes, I want to go with you guys!!" She says, cheerily. "No way I'm not hanging out with friends now that I have them!!" She says, brightly.

As for Luna, she says. "Oh, indeed! I've saw lots of people using their monster powers today!" She says, counting on her mind. Then a grin sprouts on her face. "Hey... Why don't you reveal you tail and ears too, eh?? I'm sure they're so fluffy!! Oh, and white! Like fluffy snow!!"

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Thus the girls go, finding an opening through the forest, a trail it seemed, joining with the chapel. Sumeryu could see the trail was used recently, with footprints still visible to her, looking like leather shoes, number 9, with wooden soles and rubber-lined heels, old-fashioned stuff. The individual also seemed to wear a long-hemmed dress, judging by how lowly bushes and thickets were swept and dragged. Overall, he seamed taller than the average Japanese adult, but seemed to move with lots of grace and dexterity.

Despite that, she could also still see the chapel behind, along with the school grounds through the murk, helping her guide the group, as the Earth now sank in darkness.

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"Hello?!! Who's there??" The group suddenly hears, the voice from a male adult it seems, though it had a light, pleasant tone, even in distress. They also find a hat lying on the ground. The hat is all black, very wide brimmed, lined with a velvety material and with a round top, a chord tied around it, with a pompom of black thread in its end.

"Oh dear, I hope, whatever you are, that you came to help, not to uh... Devour me... hick." He adds.

As the party turns at a curve, they finally see it, Sumeryu first, of course, but the oil lamp at his feet helped everyone else at that:
Wearing a long black cassock with a black sash, stood a man with long dark hair and green, there were a pair of glasses thrown at the ground next to his feet, as he was tied around a tree trunk by eerie looking vines, releasing a dark miasma, just like the mushrooms and trees the girls fought before. They seemed to coil around him, tightening their grasp little by little.

"Oh... A-are you students?? A-am I saved? Oh, good heavens, I can't see a thing..." He says, his voice still whimsical despite his predicament.

"Gaah!! F-father Tsuji?!! W-what are you doing here?? Aren't you too old to clim trees??" She asks, full of genuine worry.

"Ah! M-miss Momochichi??, is that you?? Phew... What a relief!! I thought it was another monster! Oh... Can you help me here? I was here, gathering herbs and then, alas! I was attack by these vines! Hmm... I'm afraid they're an inch away from crushing my bones..." He says, calmly.

On closer inspection, he seemed to be the author to those footprints, there was a basket full of herbs next to the tree, and he had a rosario fastened on his wrist.