Shiki can understand her classmate 's surprise. After all, finding a Special Grade cursed spirit on the loose is hardly something that anyone could have reasonably expected to encounter without warning.

Ever since Okkotsu Yuta had been taken in by the Tokyo school, there haven 't actually been any instances where the Special Grade cursed spirit haunting him manifested itself. Which was likely in large part due to the fact that there simply hadn 't been any opportunities for it. Going by Okkotsu-san 's own account, he couldn 't really

control

when and where the cursed spirit decided to make itself known. In his experience, typically it only took corporeal form when he himself was threatened.

The implications of Orimoto Rika 's frenzied presence here

without

Okkotsu-san, then, didn 't bode well.

' But if there 's any bright side to be said at all about the current state of things, it would be that this at least confirmed Okkotsu-san to be alive.