For Duanmu Huai, destroying those evil spirits had been effortless. Better yet, he had met Aiko, a gyaru, in the process.
All in all, that was a welcome bonus.
Afterward, Aiko seemed to take an interest in Duanmu Huai too. He was good in bed and generous with his money, so she even invited him to hotels several times. Naturally, he never turned her down. To be honest, he rather liked a relationship that didn't get tangled up in too many feelings.
Duanmu Huai was close to Naruse Mio, Mary, and the others, so he would never casually make a move on them. Mary was an important companion to him, while he saw Naruse Mio as an adorable little sister.
Simply put, their relationships were complicated enough already, and he had no wish to make them more so.
Things with Aiko were much simpler: go on a date, have a meal, get a hotel room, then give her some spending money. After that, it was "See you next time, mister!" Clean and straightforward, with no trouble or entanglements. As far as Duanmu Huai was concerned, that was just fine.
As for why Aiko was doing this while still in high school, Duanmu Huai didn't ask, and Aiko didn't say. She must have had her reasons. But he wasn't about to be tactless. He had once heard a joke that sex workers in Hong Kong found customers from the mainland the most amusing. Afterward, the customer would sit there smoking and lecture them about how they were too young to be doing this kind of work...
Duanmu Huai wasn't that stupid. Hostesses in bars might have been forced into it by gangsters or their parents' debts. But someone like Aiko, picking up customers on the street, was almost certainly there by