On the street, where pedestrians and traffic are becoming more and more sparse, it has passed ten o'clock, there are almost no people on the road, the figures of Kihara and I are pulled by the street lamp and cannot see the shape, the doorbell of the convenience store not far away makes a crisp sound from time to time, and there are also passers-by who return late and cast questioning glances when they walk in front of us, "What time is it and you don't go home, I wonder if my family will be worried?" "It's like saying something like that. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Kihara ignored the passerby's eyes, and he brushed the hair on his forehead and looked at me and said.

"There's a strange record in the school's history, and I think... It probably had something to do with the bad luck that followed..."

-- Twenty-seven years ago, the school planned to tidy up and repair the interior of the old complex, and make a comprehensive record of the contents of the storeroom, and keep the useful ones, and throw away the useless and too old ones, and it was nothing to check the things, but the school required a clerical report, which was much more troublesome than the inspection, but the person who was assigned to do this did not want to register them one by one, so he thought of an easy way -- to go to the reference room to find the old records, and planned to copy them.

There were records of the establishment of the school in the reference room, and the man thought that there should be records of such facilities, and he began to look through many files, and before long, he did find records about the complex, but in that record, an incredible thing was recorded.

That's-

There is one more window, and at night, there is always one more window on the fourth floor.

It stands to reason that the number of rooms on each floor is the same, and so are the number of windows, but at night, there is an extra one in the middle of two of the windows on the fourth floor.

The man thought it was a little strange, if such a strange thing had been recorded, there should be rumors in the school, but he had never heard such rumors, and everyone seemed to never know about it.

And there is no time on the record, that is, I don't know who wrote this record, and it seems that no one has confirmed this matter, and there is almost no one in the school at night, except for the guards on duty, the teachers and students are gone.

――Who pays attention to the windows of the complex at night?

Driven by curiosity, he decided to find out in the evening.

He remained in his office that night until dark, and at nine o'clock he came to the bottom of the complex.

Nothing was seen, the complex was pitch black, and the number of windows had not changed.

But... No, I said there would be an extra window...

He had been staring downstairs, his neck aching from the back of his head, but nothing had changed, so he gave up on checking the question that night.

He had seen it two or three more times, and as always, there was nothing anomalous, and he was going to ignore the matter, nor had he asked anyone about the conclusivity of the matter.

Later, by chance, he finally confirmed the matter.

That day, because he was in charge of tidying up the storeroom of the complex, he tidied up until the evening, just on the fourth floor, and when he left, he found that the door of a classroom was open, and he thought that someone had entered, so he dared to go in and turn on the light to check.

-- When I turned on the light, something strange happened.

-- He saw that there was an extra one in the middle of the two windows, and it was still red.

There are only four open windows in the classroom, and the many ones are smaller than the others, not so much a window as a piece of glass, with no borders or compartments on it, and the color is red, so it feels very abrupt and creepy when you see it.

Under the light of the classroom, the scene from that window seemed to be different from other windows, as if something was flowing inside the glass... The man walked over tremblingly, intending to see...

"What did he see?"

All sorts of weird images flashed in my head.

"I don't know, the man committed suicide after fleeing home that night, and the police found that he had left a letter, which was full of words, but only three words—"

"What is it?"

Kihara didn't pay attention to my question and continued.

According to the clues of the letter, the police also found the strange record, but no matter how they corroborated it, they could not find the extra window, and the record was destroyed, but it inevitably reached the ears of some people, and later some people quietly corroborated it, but to no avail. Doesn't sound like someone is acting by someone who accidentally connected this place to 'somewhere'? ”

Kihara still had a faint smile on his face, and he was not surprised to say this kind of thing.

"That said... If the door of doom is opened by looking at that window, that person's actions have already contributed to this special situation, and then no one needs to look at the 'window' again, and doom will inevitably happen? Is that so? ”

"Well, it should be said that it only contributes to a 'special situation', which is like building a bridge, and once it hits the fuse, bad luck is about to happen."

"Fuse?"

"Hegu is the fuse."

"It turns out..."

"But that's just my idea, I just think it makes sense."

"Have you ever heard of Hegu once going home with a red glass?"

I said, looking at his hair-covered eyes.

"Oh... Haven't heard of it. ”

He was slightly surprised.

I recounted the incident, and Kihara's indifferent expression changed.

"In that case, I think my understanding should be changed, that person is not accidentally making this place a 'special situation', but is instructed... Hegu is not the fuse, but the culprit. ”

"The culprit?"

I don't quite understand it anymore, will the "culprit" have an accident?

"Didn't you just say that? The students hung the grain in the grove and asked about the whereabouts of the glass, which was not voluntary, as if they had been induced by 'something'..."

Indeed, both Dr. Sennan and I think so.

There have always been many doubts about Hegu's affairs, and he is very strange in his own right, in other words, Hegu received a "letter from the lily of the valley puppet" is a prank by those students? Or is it simply the result of "being arranged"...?

- Ruriki, do you believe in hell?

Kihara's previous words came to my ears again.

"What three words were written in the man's letter after he committed suicide?"

"-I can't see it."

"Just those three words?"

"Well, so the police were weird at that time, what was the 'can't see'?"

"That's why they found that strange record..."

"Yes."

"Kihara, do you think Hegu really died at that time? I mean the real grain..."

I had to start wondering about it, and he said, tilting his head to my side and looking at me.

"You also think Hegu could be two people?"