by Julietta Suzuki, 192 pages
When she finds out that Kurama, a popular teen idol, has enrolled at her school, Nanami decides that hitting the books once more will be a good way to avoid the boredom of their quiet shrine home. Tomoe is not so keen on this plan, knowing that other spirits out there will target her as a tochigami, but he relents and lets her go--with certain conditions. But Tomoe forgets that as a powerful shinshi (a servant of a tochigami) he's not an unattractive prize, himself.
Privileged, arrogant Kurama's pretty funny, with his heavy eye-liner and "fallen angel from hell" idol persona. The fact that he's not really so terribly awful underneath the excess of attitude helps. Watching Tomoe pout about not getting to eat him is just as fun. I wasn't as interested in Narukami as an antagonist in the latter half of the volume, although her giving us the chance to see toddler-Tomoe (at least on the outside--inside he's still all his prickly grown-up self) get snuggled by Nanami and give dirty looks to Kurama makes it worth it. And when he gets his original body back, it's not exactly what Nanami's expecting, which points to more fun in the future.
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