Chapter 22: Painting
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Under the eaves of Bunnai's house hangs a talking bird, repeating these words in a sharp and strange voice.
"What is it? What is it? ”
The bird said another thing.
What is it - I want to know what it is! I felt a pang of irritability when it screamed like that.
I bluffed the bird, and it immediately flapped its wings in the cage and jumped up.
"What is it? What is it? ...”
As soon as I walked away, it continued to bark.
I arrived at Fumina's house with Mizuzu, Momoi, and Chiba, and we were greeted by her mother, a woman with a sad and depressed face, who had struggled to support her body as she struggled to support her body that was about to fall apart, and her tired, empty eyes no longer knew how to react.
We brought some snacks and fruits, and Wen Nai's mother led us to the living room to sit down, and brought out cakes and black tea to entertain us, but we never saw Sister Wen Hui.
I had lost my mother—so it was very painful to see this gentle and virtuous mother suffering from bad luck.
I was going to ask about it right away, but seeing that she could no longer withstand the slightest shock, to be honest, I changed my mind and just came to see her.
-- However, we need to know the facts before we come here, but I really can't draw any conclusions about whether it will help the current situation in the future.
"Ruriki right?"
Funai's mother looked at me and asked.
"-yes, yes."
"I haven't seriously thanked you for the condolences you brought to the principal last time, I heard that the principal is your uncle, it's really good, it should be very convenient to study in your uncle's school."
"I did get some help from my uncle." I scoffed.
Don't mention uncle, change the subject, I still have classmates around me, it's not good.
"Sister Wen Hui... Is she not there? ”
I asked tentatively, and when I came, I felt an indescribable strangeness in the breath here, and I don't know if it was because of the air conditioning, I was getting colder and colder.
"Wen Hui, she... Right in her room. ”
"Can we go see her?"
"Look at her words... I'm afraid it's not very convenient. ”
Funai's mother frowned slightly, and took a sip of the tea unnaturally when it came to her mouth.
"- Sister Wen Hui, what's wrong with her?"
Momoi also acted like a leader, and even though the other party was an adult, he would often see himself directly as an adult, and speak in the tone of an adult talking to each other.
Funai's mother sobbed, and we hurried to comfort her.
"Are you alright?"
"Hmmm! - Well, Wen Hui's words, she... She's not Wen Hui anymore. ”
The poor woman covered her mouth with her hand and cried even harder.
Then she got up from her seat, walked to a cabinet with a window, took out a small medicine, poured a glass of water again, and swallowed two pills.
"I've had a terrible headache lately, so-"
Funai's mother said to the four of us: "That day, after the memorial service of Vennai, Wenhui began to be abnormal, she always said that there were snakes in the house, at first I thought there were real ones, and I specially bought a snake repellent medicine to scatter in the corner, but then I found out that the snakes she said were not the same thing as the snakes I understood. ”
With that, she walked back to the table and sat down, and seeing that neither of us had interjected, she continued.
"That day, Wen Hui said again that she saw the snake, she screamed and ran around the house, I asked her where the snake was - she pointed to her room door and said, 'It's inside, the snake is inside...' I had to push open the door and go in to check - but I didn't see anything, I looked on the floor, the corner, under the bed, and I didn't understand where she was talking about the snake?" Where are the snakes? I asked her, and she ran up to her on tiptoe, pointed to the table and said, 'It's up there...' and I went over to look..."
"What is it?"
"-- that's not a snake at all."
Vinnai's mother began to tremble, "There is a piece of drawing paper on the table, drawing a red window, and the child said that if I look through the window, I will see countless snakes..."
"Can you really see snakes?"
"No, but I saw something else - on the table, there were countless paintings like that stacked on top of each other, all of them with red windows, and then I found out that Wen Hui painted this kind of thing in her room every day, and she began to stop eating, drinking, or even sleeping, and she kept painting, and her room was piled up all over the place."
"Did Wennai's affair irritate her?"
"No, it's like... Something was controlling her..."
"Huh?"
"She told me 'that' that made her do this, and I asked her what 'that' was, and she said 'that' was in the room, and she couldn't say it - I thought it was horrible when Wen Hui said that..."
――It's exactly like what Yuto said, what is swaying their thinking?
"What is it? What is it? ”
I seemed to hear the bird under the eaves calling again with an unpleasant sound.
"Sister Wen Hui—is she still in the room now?"
Chiba Norishi was going to see it, because he had already stood up, and I guess he wanted to see what that window looked like, maybe the painting was the window of the lily of the valley puppet.
"Yes, it's still in there, it's still painting, she's like she's become a different person, I'm really worried about her..."
"Rest assured, we're going to talk to her." Momoi said.
Wen Nai's mother lowered her eyelashes in desperation, and her hand holding her apron finally let go, so she took us to Sister Wen Hui's room.
When I came to the second floor, my heart was already starting to beat harder, Sister Wen Hui's "that is in the room" and Yuto said "that is in the classroom" are exactly the same, they all claim to be "the one who made him do this" for their "behavior", I have an inexplicable intuition, I may have seen the "that" in their mouths.
- But why do you do all this meaningless and strange behavior?
While I was thinking, I heard a rhythmic sound coming from the room...
"Hmmm-hmm."
It's like the sound of things rubbing against each other, rhythmically coming out one at a time.
"Hmmm-hmm."
It's not loud, it sounds like something is hanging from top to bottom, and then it makes a sound when it swings from side to side and hits somewhere.
Everyone heard it and couldn't help but hold their breath, and Funai's mother called twice outside, signaling that the people in the room were ready and that a guest was coming.
-When the door opened, Shui Jing screamed--The scene in front of me finally made me understand how the sound of "Wow..." came from.
-- A rope hung from the ceiling, and Sister Wen Hui hung on it staggeringly, her hanging feet swinging from side to side, and when she hit the floor in the middle, she made that "swish" sound.
Fumina's mother screamed after seeing this, and Momoi and Chiba rushed up to hug Wenhui - but it was too late.
Sister Wen Hui was no longer breathing, and on the neck surrounded by ropes, there was an eyeball that rolled out and looked at the face below, the corners of her mouth were crooked as if she was smiling, which made people shudder, and her whole face had turned gray because she had long been suffocated.
- When she hanged herself, she looked below...
――The place below was right across from the table, so I walked over...
The table was full of paper—the red windows.
Chiba Nori, too, was paying attention to the paintings, and he folded one of them and put it in his pocket, turning his face and nodding at me slightly.
Momoi called an ambulance.
"Again, another..."
The birds under the eaves screamed in disgust, and Funai's mother rushed over to take down the birdcage and smashed it into the yard, the bird was not hurt, but just flapped its wings wildly in the cage...
Her out-of-control behavior was unexpected, but I understood it.