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Even though I knew the man standing on the fork in the road, I couldn't help but shudder when he turned around.

"Hey, why are you here?"

Chiba asked the person standing in front of us, his expression overpowering a kind of "I never expected" consternation.

The person in front of him cast a disdainful look at him at the beginning, and he curled the corners of his lips with a somewhat mocking smile.

"It's normal for me to appear here, but you, Chiba-san, you have inherited the 'spirit' of the shrine maiden family, and I'm afraid that the results of coming to this kind of place will not be very optimistic."

"You don't have to worry about this, you just take care of yourself."

Not to be outdone, Chiba Norishi responded, but, after a few seconds of silence, the faces of the three of us changed dramatically at a move made by the person in front of us, and even said, I feel unbalanced at this moment-

I saw him "snort" from his nose, and then put his hand in his pocket... When he took it out again, he had one more thing in his hand.

- Palm-sized square red glass.

I was so shocked that I couldn't describe it, as a "lily of the valley puppet" I knew very well that only a "lily of the valley puppet" would have this piece of glass, and I stared at the complexity of the matter, and before I could fully recover it, he continued

"No wonder I think it's different..."Lily of the Valley puppet' has another one, I should have noticed this problem when I killed Liao Tai that day, I thought it was the reason for the presence of 'Tou', it turned out to be..."

"Your... Since when? ”

I asked.

"Ruriki, you should have only become like this in the last few days, right? I was earlier than you, but in fact, not all of the students who died were 'the principal did it himself', many of them were due to me... However, you know why, and I can't do anything about it, and you probably don't know it, except for the 'reasons for being persecuted' that you've experienced... There is another bigger reason. ”

-- The bigger reason?

"What is it?"

"That's... Oh, I forgot, you can't just say it to someone, in fact, you don't need me to tell you, you'll understand. ”

With that, he turned and walked towards the house where the fork in the road leads... Suddenly, he stopped again.

"Rurishi, in fact, the 'lily of the valley puppet' has always been two, and it has always been like this since Hegu, so..."

In the middle of his sentence, he waved his hand behind his back to me, and quickly disappeared around the corner of the verandah.

I was at a loss for a moment, everything fell into a confusing thick fog when it was about to be clear, if there were two "lily of the valley puppets", before me, it should be the uncle and him, but... In Class D of the first year of high school in ninety-seven, who was He Gu and who was it at that time?

――“... At first, he said that there was a very strange person in the class, and at one point he suddenly said that there was not one, but two new transfer students..."

I remember that Uncle said this to me and Momoi in his office at that time, and Yagi Ken thought that the new transfer student was not just Hegu, but there was another...

I think that all the appearances of the uncle in the office that day were trying to cooperate with me and Momoi's investigation, why did he do that as a "lily of the valley puppet"? Could it be that ... He wants us to help him find "another"?

Undoubtedly, the "other" was him, the man who had just left, the classmate I knew.

- But...

If the duty of the "lily of the valley puppet" is to open the window for the evil ghost and use the "continuation of death" to ensure their normal survival, these alone, there is already a satisfactory answer to the historical formation of the "lily of the valley puppet", in this case, one "lily of the valley puppet" is enough, why should there be two?

I had to ask myself a difficult question...

――What is the "other lily of the valley puppet" used for?

When one of them dies and is replaced by someone else, does it affect the other? I won't believe it if the two have nothing to do with each other, if Hegu was replaced by an uncle, then who was the person's family just now?

I felt as if there was some lame place in this, and there was a very superfluous "situation" in the whole incident, and at first I had been plagued by horrific visions and sudden breathing difficulties, so I had been ignoring a problem, a "situation" that I didn't think was needed at all, and that was -

Letter from the lily of the valley puppet.

After becoming a "lily of the valley puppet", I learned that the "lily of the valley puppet" can actually kill someone, and there is no need to "write" to someone at all, why has there always been such a superfluous thing as "letters" in the past ten years? At that time, Ken Yagi: Was it really just a prank that they wrote to Hegu?

"Chiba, what now?"

Momoi asked, "I'm afraid I'll have to re-examine the whole picture."

"Find the window, my grandmother said, this is the only way."

"Hmm."

"What about the man? Leave it alone? ”

I asked, and they all understood who I was asking.

"Don't worry about what he's going to do, the point is, now, we just have to do what we do."

"-Hmm."

As we walked through the temple from the main road to the back of the temple, Chiba Norishi commanded again.

"Ruriki, please take out the glass and look at it again, and then do as I say."

I nodded, took the glass out of my pocket, and as he commanded, when I held it up to my eyes—two things happened at the same time.

The first thing that came to my ears was the shout of Chiba Nori.

"Ruriki, don't look at the glass..."

I was shocked because this Chiba Norishi ran out of the fork in the road... That is, not the one who just commanded me... What's going on? At the same time, my eyes were completely fixed on the glass...

The other thing is that everything that is presented inside the glass... All the mysteries I couldn't solve revealed the truth at this moment, as if something had finally broken through the blockade in the center of memory and was released madly.

At that time - yes, it was...

The truth wiped out all my consciousness like a swirling vortex, but I vaguely remember hearing Momoi scream at me at the end.

- Ruriki!

......

"Xiaoxi, do you want to hear me tell a story?"

Shimizu was wearing a thin dark blue sweater with her white nurse's uniform underneath, and she sat on the chair next to my bed, a steaming cup of hot coffee in her hand.

One afternoon in early spring, the temperature in the air-conditioned ward was still slightly cold.

"It's something you don't know, it happened in a school, it sounds a little weird, you haven't always been interested in these things, so I came to tell you today."

A nervous and somewhat secretive look appeared on Yuki's face, as if to say, "I can't tell anyone about this."

"Xiaoxi, are you listening to me? I'm just going to tell you about that because you don't have much energy, you've been hospitalized for almost two years, and I can't see you happy all the time, so ah, I'm going to tell you some anecdotes to stimulate you. ”

Xing said with a smile, and then showed the shallow dimples on his face.

"Well, I'll listen."

"Speaking of which, it's all my brother's reason, he just happened to be in his first year of high school this year, and school will start next month, but he doesn't want to go to school, saying that the class he was assigned to is a curse class, and misfortune will happen if he goes, I really don't have a problem with him, today's children always like to talk about ghosts and gods, and everything has to be contaminated with strange talks, I never believe in these things, but my brother showed me something that day, and it really scared me at the time-"

"What?"

"A letter."

(Thank you for the drunken dance Qingying reward, and that piece of peach blossom votes for me every day for valuable recommendations, which moved me to tears, every time I write to my brain cramps and want to die, I cry in my heart when I see your support, thank you very much, I can only repay you with "keep writing".) ）