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Kihara didn't list the names of the whole class in the notebook as strangely as I did at the last glance, because he wrote my name at the end.

I didn't say anything, in fact I was also thinking about something, just going to see if I could match him, but when he continued to list everyone's names in double copies and mark them with "black" and "white" to distinguish between two columns, that is, the names in the black columns were copied in the white columns again, and then I realized that my childish and simple idea was simply the level of a schoolboy, and that Kihara's "found a problem" may be a metaphor for something that I had not known for a long time.

Immediately afterwards, he crossed the names of individual people, and there were two columns of names in black and white, and the crosseds were Miyayama, Yusuke, Kimi, Kanegawa, Ryota, and Akiya.

Among them, the names of Kanegawa, Ryota, and Akiya are in the "black" column, and the rest of Miyayama, Yusuke, and Kimi are in the "white" column.

-- List of deaths.

The crosses are all dead classmates.,The reason why it's divided into two columns, black and white, is probably the situation where Kihara said before, there is a "stand-in","Black" may represent the person in black.,"White" is the opposite of us, who are still in normal shape.,In other words-since the Wujiang Mansion came out,,We've had multiples on the basis of twenty people.。

After this conclusion was formed, I suddenly felt like five thunderbolts, like this... In this way, if there is a multiple, it is possible that there will be two "I"... In an instant, I seemed to understand why there was a contradiction in "that incident".

I still remember Sakura's "letter order" was "I must do whatever it takes to get Ruriki to reply", and I was very puzzled by this at the time, and I couldn't figure out what reason I had not to reply, but at this time, the question should be solved, and what if it was another "me" who didn't reply.

Kihara held up the list in front of me.

"Liulixi, look at who is missing who hasn't crossed the cross, these are the dead classmates I know so far."

Comparing the list to the list, I replayed the scenes of the tragic deaths of my classmates in my memory, and the names I could remember were almost the same as the names marked by Kihara, these are the few of them, etc... It seems that there is...

I suddenly thought of another person's name he didn't cross, I'm afraid he didn't know the fact of his death, I was a little embarrassed to think of that person's words, after all, they had a wonderful and shy love affair like a fairy tale, in this unpredictable place of life and death Thinking of these sweet and sour things like a dream, I have been in a state of extreme tension and defense, and my heart instantly overflowed with a strawberry-like sweetness, but this feeling was fleeting, and the cold and dark situation immediately pulled me back to the cruel status quo, And I found that no matter how hard I tried to save the situation, it was strange that Haruka was always the first to step through the door of death, whether it was "last time" or "this time", she always died first... After thinking about it for a long time, I crossed the back of Haruha's name, and I didn't read Kihara's expression when I handed the notebook.

"These... It's the classmate I know who has died until now. ”

I looked at the ground and whispered.

"-Oh."

He replied in a low voice, judging from the sound that he must be struggling and accepting in the face of irreversible facts at this time, but he quickly changed his voice and said.

"Rurihi, you should see the problem by making a list like this, right?"

"You can see that we all have a 'stand-in', and if you look at it this way, you can know whether the 'stand-in' is dead or 'yourself' is dead."

I only looked at Kihara at this point, and he didn't look sad on his face, but nodded at me with a little excitement to agree with me.

"One more thing, have you noticed that the content of all letters from men in black is the same?" He asked, looking away from his notebook to me.

"yes, I found out, so we all have a Men in Black version of the stand-in? And the men in black are all trying to kill me. ”

"That's right, that's what you say."

"However, it doesn't make sense, Sakura told me that these letters appeared in everyone's rooms after lunch, and as the letter said, the man in black was transformed by his classmates, so what happened to the other 'normal version'? It's like we've seen two Kanegawa..."

"I haven't figured this out yet, but the appearance of a stand-in is very similar to one thing."

"What?"

"I said that the birth of the child of the Tsurumaru family was a contract between Oniyama Soichi and the Tsurumaru family, remember?"

"Hmm."

"It goes back to the Kamakura period, the entanglement between Oniyama Soichi and Tsurumaru Mayu, because of that period of time that ordinary people can't understand the nightmarish and treacherous bond, they made a contract of death, I can't tell you what kind of bond it is, because I don't know anything about it like you, but I learned that the answer can be found in the ruined area."

"And what do you mean by 'similarity'?"

"Oniyama Cangichi has an identical twin brother, just like a stand-in. I've been to the wasteland once before, but when I got there, I realized that I had to go with you to be useful, so I turned back and came to you, and the rest of the things are the ones you know. ”

"Why... Must come with me? ”

"I can't tell you clearly, you'll understand when you go, it's not that I'm selling off, it's that I really can't tell what kind of situation it is..."

I'm silent, and I don't have to get to the bottom of it, mailbox? Wasteland? Indenture? What kind of connection exists, it seems that the answer is one step away from me, but when will this step be completed, looking at the trance-like and increasingly unreal passage in front of me, as if I am stepping into a dark and illusory otherworld, I feel that my eyes are beginning to become distorted and blurred, like a soul gradually withdrawing from my body...

"Ruriki, you're dehydrated."

Kihara woke me up and handed me a bottle of water.

"You haven't drunk water in a long time, and you're going to hallucinate if you take a little longer, drink quickly."

I took the only bottle of water I had left, and I suddenly regretted why I didn't search the backpacks of those dead classmates before, although this idea is very dirty and unpopular, but these lowly behaviors are "okay" when facing life and death.

I took a sip, but my heart became more and more uncomfortable, Kihara handed me this thing that was more precious than gold, what should he do?

"Drink it too."

I looked at him and said.

"I'm fine, I don't have to worry when I get to the scrap area, the supplies in my bag were taken out of that place, as long as you can get there."

I nodded, and he quickened his pace and continued to walk forward.