Chapter 32: Some Answers
Walking all the way, Kihara walked quietly next to me, I occasionally sneaked a glance at him, that incredibly beautiful face, in silence, his heart should be trying his best to hide the pain of death at the beginning of spring, showing a look of "not taking it to heart at all", I know that the more I pretend to be casual, the more I am struggling in my heart, I was going to say two words of comfort, but Kihara's silence really made me timid, thinking about it or giving up that kind of inappropriate thought. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"What's wrong? What is there to say? ā
Kihara suddenly said to me at such a time.
"Huh-?"
"It's okay, I haven't thought about that anymore, at this time, you have to be strong and look forward while enduring death, isn't it?"
I nodded slightly and looked back, yes, we who somehow got involved in this disaster-like nightmare of isolation from the world, when enduring the panic and anxiety caused by the mutation and darkness, what is even more terrifying is the change in everyone's mood of each other, think about the time when everyone was still talking and laughing on the bus before, it turned into a situation of killing each other in just a few hours, however, what is the mood of those students who received the "transformation instruction"? Why do you agree to do that, there is no coercion in the content of the letter, just out of curiosity? Or is there such a desire for the ability to do whatever it takes?
Who is to blame for the wrong start?
Why did Kihara put my name at the end? What's the point?
I'm a kid of the Tsurumaru family, so my "stand-in" is as simple as this man in black?
"What kind of eyes are you?"
When I found Kihara staring at me silently for some time, a chill ran down my back, and it was not Kihara that scared me, but something more terrible that seemed to be hovering around me like a ghost.
Kihara's eyes also began to overflow with something he had been hiding, and I could see that there were some things he hadn't explained to me, just waiting for me to find out.
"Ruriki-"
"Kihara, isn't my stand-in..."
"You realize?"
I felt my voice cut off in an instant, a shiver that I wanted to say but didn't dare to say suppressed me, and my heart felt like I had fallen down the stairs after a stumble, as if I would fall into the abyss in the next second.
Isn't I, born as the skin of an evil spirit, alternate in it, the existence of the so-called "substitute"?
It turns out that the facts are more terrifying than the novel, and it's no wonder it all goes so naturally, if the controller is close by.
"Kihara, Ghost Mountain Cangichi shouldn't be..."
This sentence sounds like a question to Kihara, but it is more like an answer I gave myself.
"The evil ghost who opened the window of the lily of the valley puppet is the ghost mountain Cangichi."
Kihara's indifferent answer still made me shocked again in the predicted answer, even though I have been talking about "evil ghosts", when the two words that can be easily said become a fact at my fingertips, I am afraid that there are few people in the world who can appreciate the nightmarish horror in it.
"Have you seen that? ... That 'stand-in' of mine... Is it the way I look? ā
"I'm not sure if it's what you look like, but I've probably seen it."
"When?"
"The first man in black who can burn his classmates to ashes, he should undoubtedly be the one who has that ability."
My state of mind has been turned upside down, and the facts are showing that I have been circling this hellish place with the most terrible of originators.
"Let's go, time is running out, the place we are going to will definitely go, and we must arrive before him."
"By the way, you don't seem to have written the name of a person on the list." I said.
"Ken Shimada, you say? There's no way he's going to have a stand-in, he's special, he's just a tool to open windows, so..."
"Kihara, do you know that there are two things about the lily of the valley puppet?"
"Two?"
"Well, actually, before 'coming back to all this', I was the Lily of the Valley puppet, and I went to the shrine in Gakiyama with Momoi and Chiba Nori, but there I met another Lily of the Valley puppet."
"Who?"
"Jin Chuan."
"This is really a bit surprising, but what surprises me is, how can you be a lily of the valley puppet?"
"Huh? Am I not that possible? ā
"No, it's possible for everyone, except you."
"How?"
"You are like a skin of Ghost Mountain Cangichi, although I say this a little disgusting, but this is the case, during the period when Ghost Mountain Cangichi is 'out', how can he take off the skin, if you are the one who guards the window for him, then what he wears when he comes out, that's what it means."
"Isn't that already off now? I'm here, and he's here at the same time..."
ā... That's why he's wrapped in a cloak, and he can't appear as a human being. ā
I hadn't witnessed the scene when the man in black appeared, and I couldn't appreciate the level of catastrophe just by listening to Sakura tell me about it, but at this time, the fear was infinitely expanding in every capillary of my body, thinking about the possibility that I would have to face a real evil ghost next, what he looked like, and even what unimaginable things he would do, and think about the time when I lost my memory. I'm afraid that what I've done is untrue, and that people who always tell ghost stories may not be able to appreciate my strange mood at the moment.
But what I didn't expect was that this mood would be even better in what happened next.
I noticed that something seemed to be blocking my view in front of me, and as Kihara moved the flashlight at will, I saw a living creature approaching, and as I moved, the living creature gradually took on a human form.
"Ruriki."
The person who called me out was Momoi, his voice was very clear, like a cool breeze blowing in summer, so I knew it was him as soon as I heard it, but when I saw him again at this time, I almost took three steps back with a shock, he was holding a gun, what shocked me was not the weapon that could kill, but the change of Momoi's whole person, I really don't know how to describe it, like a dream, the outline of Momoi's whole person seems to be blurred, and the glimmer of light shrouded in the top of his head from nowhere, I can see his pale and extremely calm expression without a flashlight, and the most important thing is the glowing black cloak on his body, his thin and tall body slightly reveals the outline in the cloak, there is a kind of cold beauty, ah! It should be said that there is a kind of eerie feeling, and I even feel that even his face is changing, in short, it is completely like the two of Momoi I know in the same situation.
"Momoi? You are..."
"Kill you!"