I looked out of Chiba's gaze, and it seemed that the corner at the end of the path was just extending into a darker dense forest, and I didn't think there was any "barricade" or anything, but his eyes were clearly saying "something is wrong"...

"What's wrong?"

Momoi asked softly. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the same time, I seem to be gradually realizing the reason why Norito Chiba's gaze "froze".

It seems to be...

A sense of indirectness suggests to me... It seems like a strange feeling is coming from the soles of my feet... I turned to Momoi to look at him, and slowly looked down on the three of us...

"Don't look!"

Norito Chiba shouted, his breath shortening...

"Don't look at either of you, don't look at it."

The three of us glanced at each other, and in the afterglow, something large and indescribable writhed under our feet...

"Poof", my nerves stretched to the limit, the pores of my body exploded in an instant, and a strange touch hit the soles of my feet like thunder and lightning, piercing my chest and brain in an instant, and I seemed to be able to hear the sound of my bones "kara" trembling.

"What is it...?"

I asked as I stared at Chiba with a stiff gaze, my hands involuntarily clenching the corners of my clothes.

"I don't know... However, with the nature of the shrine maiden's 'spirits', tell me that you must not look at-"

"What happens when you see it?"

Momoi's eyes couldn't help but move down, but in the end he held back.

"Momoi-san, if you read it... You may have a deep understanding of what it means to be 'doomed'—"

Norito Chiba replied to him very seriously, and as he spoke, he took off his backpack and took out a small bag from it.

"Take this in your mouth."

He took out three candies from the bag, and before Momoi and I could ask questions, he continued

"It is said that there is a strange road very close to hell, and when you walk, you can't look at your feet, no matter what happens, and if you don't look at it carefully, that part of the road will continue forever, and you will never reach the end, and not only that, but I don't think anyone can bear that kind of picture."

I can't imagine how terrible the situation was under my feet, but the extreme fear had taken away my body temperature in an instant, and my hands and feet were cold, and from the touch through the soles of my shoes, I suddenly had some strange thoughts, like stepping on...

"What does this candy mean..."

Momoi asked again.

"Make it unrecognizable to what is below."

- Identification?

Hearing this kind of word made my heart full of fear add a layer of chill to my bones, and I couldn't help but think that when people identify or identify others, they rely on their eyes to recognize each other, right, they always use "first seeing" to identify, if they can't "see first", they will produce a second sense "hearing" to identify, right, that's right... Here's what happens...

I didn't dare to think further, but I swallowed my saliva and trembled and froze and didn't dare to move.

"Let's go, we should be there after a little walk, and if you see the torii, you'll be fine."

Chiba Noria slowly raised her face a little higher, and there was no other superfluous expression on her face except for stiffness.

I was very careful with every step, and in this case, the more I tried to finish quickly, the more I couldn't speed up the pace, and my nerves were like strings being played to the limit with each step...

Our feet slowed down, and at this moment, someone grabbed my hand, I guessed Momoi, because when I looked back at him, he also looked at me and didn't say anything.

In a short time, in the dense shade of the trees, I could already see a corner of the torii gate, which is usually the gate that separates the realm of the gods from the world, and after the torii, it is supposed to be the approach that leads to the main hall of the shrine.

It was just as I was about to enter the approach when I heard another gust of wind blowing in my ears, and a chill rushed up my back, and I realized that Momoi and Chiba Norishi had walked in front of me, but... My hand... He was still being pulled.

At this moment, there was a sound of "whew" from the back, and my heart twitched violently, and I could tell that it was the sound of someone panting, and it was very close to me, and it seemed to be behind my ears..."Whew"-I gasped again, I heard it clearly, and in an instant, cold sweat rolled down my forehead and hung on my chin, I wanted to stop Momoi and Chiba, but I found that the voice was "locked" like the last time, and in my sight, the two of them had no intention of turning back, just kept moving forward.

――Why?

Didn't they notice that I was alone?

I didn't dare to look back, but the strange and extremely disturbing picture had already surfaced in my mind, and the fatal question of "whose hand was I holding on" repeatedly bombarded my brain, and I mustered up the courage to slowly lower my head...

Sure enough, a hand really appeared in the corner of the field of vision pulling me, and at the edge of the hand, it seemed that I could still see the brown skirt and part of the calf, which was obviously the lower body of "a certain woman".

Gradually... More and more I saw that the dress did not seem to be brown, but a dark brown, a color that was usually a certain crimson that had faded after a long period of solidification or drying, what did that "crimson" mean? You don't have to guess - only that "crimson" thing turns a deep brown after a long time, and I know very well, it's blood.

"Giggles" - suddenly there were two dry laughs behind me, I felt like I had been struck by lightning, and some kind of large-scale horror picture appeared in front of me... What the hell am I so close to... When my heart was about to burst--

Suddenly, "the woman" behind me suddenly bent down and poked her head in front of me... I closed my eyes suddenly, and before my whole body had a nervous breakdown, I screamed hoarsely and ran forward...

"Ruriki!"

Before I was woken up by Momoi, I felt that the world was gone.

"Ruriki-"

As soon as I opened my eyes, I met the eyes of the two of them, and then looked around, and we were already standing under the torii gate, with the straight approach in front of me, and the general outline of the shrine not far away.

"Ruriki, you just..."

Momoi didn't know how to express it, and was robbed of words by Chiba Nori

"Did you just see something strange again?"

"-Yes..."

I nodded, but I couldn't repeat what I had just seen.

"It's an inevitable phenomenon that happens when you don't make a decision, and it's the same as when you have sudden breathlessness."

I can roughly understand what he meant by this - if I don't kill someone, or if I don't do what the "lily of the valley puppet" is supposed to do, I'll be haunted by this kind of horror and I'll continue to experience the feeling of dying... At this time, I realized that maybe the reason why my uncle had to kill his classmates was that he couldn't stand the persecution of this "inevitable phenomenon"...

"Be quick, find the window as soon as possible and destroy it, and then put an end to everything..."

Chiba Norito said categorically, Momoi and I both nodded "um", and then walked into the stone steps leading to the main hall, just near the main hall, the approach became two entrances that split in two, and the main road leading directly to the main hall was the main road, and on the forked road on one side, there was a person standing...

- The man was wearing a school uniform with his back to us, familiar hair and back, and I knew who it was.