"Actually, it's not entirely the fault of the Jians... Ken is not the kind of kid who bullies his classmates..."

Uncle lowered his head again, as if he was back in class D ten years ago. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"The day I took that group photo, it happened to be the afternoon of the first day of Hegu's entry into school, I didn't pay much attention to this student at that time, a few days later, Jian Lai asked me if the group photo had been washed out, he was anxious to see it, there were many class group photos at that time, and the time of the shooting was different, so I waited until I collected it before I took it to wash, I asked him why he was in a hurry to see it, he said that he stood in the last row that day, that is, the fourth row, and he felt that the position of the row of Hegu in front of him was wrong——"

"What's wrong?"

"I remember he said that he thought that Hegu had a double vision, not that he was blind, all the classmates were normal, there was still a person standing on the left side of Hegu, he felt scared at the time, and he didn't dare to ask the other classmates if they had found it, because Hegu was the most marginal position, and his left was empty..."

"Did Ken say what the person next to Hegu looked like?"

Uncle shook his head and continued.

"One day after that, Jian suddenly came to my office at the end of class, he said that he must read the school register, otherwise something big will happen, I am very strange, what big thing can happen, he asked me if I remember where the household registration of Hegu is, I asked him what happened? Why do you always talk about grain...? ”

Uncle stood up and walked to the window, then turned to look at us and said.

"Ken asked me if I had heard any rumors about Mt. Akira, which was said to lead to hell, and that if the whole village suddenly disappeared from a village in the mountain, they would all be led to hell, and anyone who had been to Mt. Gaki would never come back... From the point of view of the principal's identity, of course I wouldn't believe what he said, and besides, this rumor had nothing to do with Hegu, so I ended the conversation in a perfunctory manner, but I still checked the school admission register as a thing-"

"How?"

"Hegu's household registration is indeed Yuanshan, but even if the rumors say so, why is it related to Hegu? When he was about to ask Jian again, he didn't say anything, and when he mentioned Hegu, he just walked away with his head down. ”

"Did the principal ask Hegu himself?"

The uncle hesitated, as if to say, "How can I say it?" He rubbed his hair with his hands behind his head.

"Actually, it was Ken who prevented me from asking."

"-Why?"

We were puzzled.

"He said I should not ask about it again, as if he didn't say anything at all, I was very worried about his condition at that time, I don't know if something happened to him in the class, he told me that he was very scared, very scared, but he couldn't tell what he was afraid of, and then there was an accident in Hegu, and his condition was getting worse and worse, he didn't eat, drink, or sleep... Until he hangs himself in the room..."

Uncle lowered his head, the next few words were so small that I could barely hear them, and I understood that he still couldn't bear the process of remembering Jian's suicide.

... I suddenly thought of Wen Nai's sister Wen Hui - didn't she also experience the same situation as Ken.

To my surprise, Kenya told his uncle that there were snakes in the house.

"Nothing happened in the following year, and Ken's death hit me hard, but I had to do my school work well, so I could only face it with my spirits, but I didn't expect that after only one year, bad luck would come back."

The first "letter from the lily of the valley" from an unknown source was from 99, and the first person to receive it was also a boy, although he had more or less heard the rumors of the previous year, but the "accidental death" was caused by some kind of "spirit" or something else that could not be explained, which was really far-fetched, not to mention that people who did not believe it would not believe it, on the other hand, the school also blocked the fact of death, and the death of Hegu alone may not be able to contribute to the horror and validity of the rumors. That's why the student didn't take it seriously in the first place.

Who brought this "death"? ――When I have been thinking about this question for a long time, I feel that the cause of the incident is not simply a result of someone peeking at the "window of the lily of the valley", and if Hegu is the person who "transmits" bad luck here, then why did he choose this school as a place to spread bad luck... And the strange record that Kihara said, the extra window that person saw in the complex building was undoubtedly the "window of the lily of the valley puppet", why did this thing suddenly appear in the school? And everything you know from Yuruto... Every event is like beads that used to be strung together, and now it feels like you can see the beads all over the ground, but where is the thread that strings the beads...?

Thinking about it, the thunder sounded again in the clouds, and I looked out the window, and the rain seemed to be much lighter, and it became a continuous rain.

"The accident every other year has really attracted everyone's attention, especially the teacher, although on the surface to pretend not to believe those absurd words, but the teacher is more afraid than the students, the teacher is always suffering from the large number of students dying, the nerves are almost broken at the touch of a finger, so in 2003 the number of students in the first year of high school D class was limited from the past 35 to 20, as an artificial reduction in the number of deaths."

Uncle was still whispering, and the leaden gray and dull sky outside the window became the background picture of him standing by the window.

"At the beginning of the 03rd year, everyone prayed for a safe time, but it still happened, and some people said that they were almost suffocated when they received strange letters, and 'letters' became words that they didn't dare to mention, in order to avoid panic among the students, the teachers also silently set the rule of 'never say this', but you can't always 'endure' silently like this, you must do something, at least fight against bad luck... '03 also happened to be a turning point. ”

"Someone found out that the 'lily of the valley puppet' is among everyone, right?"

I asked.

"--Yes, that's why I thought of a 'reply' as a countermeasure... However, that can't be stopped..."

Uncle sighed deeply, and I understood that it was a kind of helplessness and powerlessness that the so-called "countermeasures" did not work at all.

"But... There's something I think you should take a look at. ”

As he spoke, Uncle turned around and took out a folder from the locked drawer on the bookcase, which he was about to open when he thought about it and handed it to me.

"See for yourselves."

After opening, a copy of the death report was interviewed...

"This man is..."

"This is the report of the death of the student who did not die on the spot in the hospital in the year 03."

Although it was a death report, the content made both Momoi and I speechless in surprise...

"June 8, 2003, the deceased Ayami, the following is her pre-mortem statement..."

――How is this possible? Everything I knew was turned upside down in this instant.