"Ruriki, do you believe in hell?"

This is the second person to ask me the same question. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Ten years ago... In the school registration register, Hegu's household registration is Yuanshan, and that place is the place where death is connected, which means "through hell".

"Last time, I just said that the 'Lily of the Valley Golem Window' can see hell, so I think I was talking about this, right?"

"Hmm."

"My grandmother told me the 'before' part, do you want to listen to it?"

"Of course."

"Legend has it that an evil spirit used his fingernails to open a window between Hell and this world, and the day the window was opened was when the lily of the valley flowers were blooming, and the location was in an abandoned shrine in Yuanshan, and the evil spirit saw the colorful scene of the human world through the window, so he secretly climbed out of the window and fled outside, but once the evil spirit walked out of this passage, the window would close, and then the evil spirit would not be able to go back, so..."

"You're going to find someone to open the window—?"

"Yes."

Chiba Dianu paused and said again.

"In the beginning, this thing was not something that could be done by just one person, and it needed a medium of transmission to form."

"The medium of delivery... What does that mean? ”

"A woman's gestation process."

Is it pregnant? I suddenly thought of the weird incident on that encrypted website, didn't it say that the woman got pregnant after peeking at the "window of the lily of the valley puppet"? Does it really mean... I looked at Chiba Nori, who stuck out the tip of his tongue and licked his lips and continued.

"The demon needs to find a woman and trick her into that window... Then the woman became pregnant, and the child she gave birth to was the first person to open that window, and only those who were formed 'in this way' could open that window, but in the process of this transmission formation, some bad things in 'that place' might also be brought to this side of the world, which is probably why we have always felt that there are two different 'dark things' around us-"

I think the thing that "brought from there" is undoubtedly "felt".

"That man is like a puppet who opens the window to death for the demons... That's why it's called the 'lily of the valley puppet'. ”

After saying this, during the pause of Chiba Nori, I couldn't help rubbing my arms and feeling chills all over.

"Once this 'work' begins, the 'lily of the valley puppet' needs to use death to keep itself alive, and in the following time, people must continue to die, and these dead people are almost all people around the 'lily of the valley puppet', death occurs in various unexpected ways, and there are also suicides... As a result, the cycle of bad luck begins to go on and on. ”

"Then why use the 'letter' to decide death?"

I asked again.

"I don't know... Even my grandmother didn't know. ”

Norito Chiba replied with a pout.

"Sustain yourself with death"... In other words, if no one dies, then the "lily of the valley puppet" will die, which is also consistent with my previous speculation, Hegu should be the first "lily of the valley puppet", that is, the person who was later codenamed "K" by me, but, if you think about it this way, why did Hegu suddenly die in an accident ten years ago? Did he die because no one died? I don't think it's that simple, it's easy for K to arrange one death after another, the reason must not be this, Yagi Ken They wrote a prank to Hegu under the signature of "Lily of the Valley Puppet", asking him to reply to the letter, otherwise doom is coming, if Hegu himself is a "Lily of the Valley puppet", why does he have to ask everywhere? Or is it...

I felt that there was only one last barrier between the great mystery and me, and I thought-

The real cause of the sudden death of Hegu ten years ago may be directly related to our "countermeasures".

"Does Hegu know that he is a 'lily of the valley puppet'?"

I asked, rubbing my temples.

Norito Chiba shook her head slightly.

"This is also the question I've been thinking about, if he doesn't know that he is a lily of the valley puppet, then the problem is the letter that the mischievous classmate wrote to him, I think it must be that letter that caused Hegu's death, but what kind of power did that letter use to make the 'lily of the valley puppet' die... That's what I think, what do you think? Rurishi. ”

“... Belch. ”

I stopped pressing my temples and asked suddenly.

"Should he be counted as a 'dead man' or a 'living man'?"

"How?"

Chiba Noria was a little confused.

"Didn't you say that he was formed by 'transmission'? Is that the product of 'that place'? So how to define his life and death? Which side is it? This world... Or hell? ”

"Uh..."

Chiba nodded and thought about it.

"I don't think he's a dead person or a living person, he's just a 'lily of the valley puppet', and he was born for that window."

"Seems to make sense."

"But in principle, he shouldn't be counted as a person of this world, he can't be called a 'person', people can't change their faces at will, and the 'lily of the valley puppet' can."

"Oh..."

"Why did He Gu choose to come to Shaojian Middle School at that time?"

I asked without knowing what to do.

"In fact, Hegu came with the 'Window of the Lily of the Valley Puppet', he has no autonomy at all, and he will appear there when that window is there, but I am still looking for reasons why that window came to the school."

"After the first 'lily of the valley puppet' died, how did the second one come to be? Also use the same method? ”

"That kind of gestational transmission is only for the first one, and I don't know how to take over after that, even my grandmother can't fully grasp the situation, that's all she can tell me, after all, the 'window of the lily of the valley puppet' is not an inherent historical problem for a long time, but an emergency, that is, even if you have been engaged in witches or onmyoji for many years, you have not calculated that such a thing will happen."

"Do you mean that the devil has opened a window?"

"Hmm..."

Chiba nodded calmly.

At this moment, my phone vibrated in my pocket again.

It was my father who called, and he was coming to pick me up, and said a few words of encouragement, so that I could wait for him at the same school, and I understood his worries very well, and I never objected to my father's request.

-- Girls are different, and their parents are very worried.

I thought of what Norito Chiba had said, but I thought my father would have offered to pick me up if I was a boy.

"If you want to go back, then we'll talk about it tomorrow, but the others..."

After I hung up the phone, Norira Chiba said with a pestle on his face.

I know he's worried about how to tell his classmates other than K who K is, but now that things have changed, if K is that person... It's going to...

"Isn't there still some time? I could go on and on. ”

I can't wait to say that I still have a lot of "unanswered" things that I want to discuss with him.

"Do you have any ideas for this?"

I asked.

"Find that letter—"

"Huh..."

"I think the content of the letter that those students wrote to Hegu ten years ago is very important, and it is not just as simple as asking him to reply, but the content of the letter, which is directly related to our way of resisting K, may be the 'talisman'... That's all I can think of at the moment. ”

Among those students, Ken Yagi was one of them, and what did they write to Hegu at that time... inadvertently let the "lily of the valley puppet" walk back to death...

"So, I would have thought that when Hegu died, the second 'lily of the valley puppet' was formed, but they didn't know it at the time... So that's how it ended up..."

"That is, suppose they know who the second one is, and write another letter like that to that person..."

"Yes, the 'lily of the valley puppet' will die."

When Chiba Norishi threw out this sentence, I felt that the air conditioning in this room was lower.