As the chief writer of the manga magazine "Asanomi" under Fuji Publishing House, Kazuya Akasaka also prepared pen and paper as usual today.

It's his job, and Kazuya Akasaka actually likes his job.

But—

"Today should be the time when the second episode of "Midnight Bell" is released, right?"

Kazuya Akasaka looked a little hesitant at the weekly magazine "Bad Cold" of Urashima Publishing House in front of him.

Yes, as a professional comic book critic, he hesitated in the face of a horror comic magazine...

The reason is simple.

He glanced up at the TV in the corner.

This TV was a new one he had just bought the month before, and now...

The entire screen of the TV is dented,There are not only smashes on it,There are cracks,This kind of tragic encounter,Even if you let the skilled TV repairman come over, it is helpless。

Kazuya Akasaka looked at the new TV, which had completely broken, and then at the old TV that was used as a backup.

He clutched his chest, almost unable to breathe...

Then Kazuya Akasaka gritted his teeth-

It's all like watching "Midnight Bells"!

At that time, he was so frightened that he jumped up, and the bench smashed on the TV screen.

Even his wife, who was watching TV next to him at the time, was frightened by Kazuya Akasaka, and directly called the psychiatric hospital, almost sending him to a psychiatric hospital.

"But this time it won't be like that."

Kazuya Akasaka thought to himself.

In fact, Mr. Higashino's "Midnight Bell" is just like that, that is, it is drawn a little more realistically... Nothing else.

"The reason why I saw all that mess was because I was thinking about it myself."

Kazuya Akasaka muttered to himself.

In other words, as long as I don't think about it, "Midnight Bell" is not as scary as I imagined.

Thinking of this, Kazuya Akasaka nodded with satisfaction.

He felt that he had figured out the routine of Mr. Higashino, and this time the second episode of "Midnight Bell" would definitely not be hit.

So Kazuya Akasaka spat out and called out to his wife instead: "Keiko, pour me a glass of water, I'm going to work." ”

"Work again?" Mrs. Akasaka glanced at Kazuya Akasaka with some trepidation, and then pointed to the TV: "Otherwise, turn off the TV, Kazuya." ”

She still remembers that last week, Kazuya Akasaka rushed to the TV in a rage and put a meal in front of the screen...

Now that the new TV is gone, she doesn't want this spare old TV to be miserably 'poisoned' by Kazuya Akasaka.

"Don't turn it off!"

His wife's frightened gaze deeply hurt Kazuya Akasaka's self-esteem, and he slapped the table, revealing a look of not knowing who to talk to: "It's just that I wasn't mentally prepared last week, and this time it's absolutely fine." ”

Men, it's all like that.

I said I couldn't do it myself, but I couldn't allow others to say no.

"Really...?" Mrs. Akasaka glanced at her husband worriedly, hesitated for a moment, and poured him a glass of water.

Finally got his wife's approval, Kazuya Akasaka became in a good mood, so he was mentally prepared, and then opened "Bad Cold" and went straight to the point without hesitation.

The second episode of "Midnight Bell".

This time, he wants to play his ethics as a professional troll, and he will definitely not save face at all.

Kazuya Akasaka thought very simply.,Since you can't find a place to spray in the first word.,Then find it from the second word.。

After all, most comics tend to be the most brilliant in the first episode.

The further back most comics go, the more likely the plot is to go wrong, and the first episode is particularly good, and there are comics with the quality of the second episode that people can't bear to look at directly.

This is also the sentiment of most of the comic book critics who commented on Midnight Bell.

Because the first episode of "Midnight Bell" is so good!

It's so good that you can't even find a flaw.

And under such an excellent first episode, as long as there is a problem with the second episode of "Midnight Bells" - even if it is a harmless minor problem, it will be infinitely magnified by those comic book critics.

For no other reason, it's just because the first episode of "Midnight Bell" is too good, really too good.

Even in a hostile position, Kazuzu Akasaka can only praise the Higashino teacher of "Midnight Bell".

As for asking that Higashino-sensei to draw another second word that is as good as the first one?

That's a bit of a joke.

How can such an excellent beginning of the first episode be copied so easily?

So Kazuya Akasaka did not hesitate to turn to the second episode of "Midnight Bell", and at the same time clenched his pen tightly, ready to start the killing.

Then he saw the first page...

Ay? Seems to be a little interesting... Tomoko is dead.

Oh, this new Reiko Asakawa is the heroine?

Cursed tapes? Will you die after watching it for seven days? This death teaser plot is not bad...

Oh,The date prompt specially left in the first episode turned out to be the date of death prompt of the character who appeared... Is there such an expression?

Kazuya Akasaka watched with relish.

Where is the new puzzle left behind by the second episode of "Midnight Bell", where is the cursed tape now? What should Reiko Asakawa do next? What's on the other side of the horror?

"That's interesting... And it's terrifying..."

Kazuya Akasaka muttered to himself, and his fingers flipped another page behind him.

And then...

He saw the foreshadowing that Higashino Tsukasa deliberately planted behind.

On the last page of the manga, the horrific and distorted death of a classmate who watched the video like Tomoko remains.

After more than ten pages of flat and straightforward foreshadowing, such a group of corpses suddenly jumped out in the end-

It's no less than the effect of a grimace popping up in a horror movie.

And even more!

Because in the effect of empathy, Kazuya Akasaka feels as if he has entered that world.

What the heroine sees is what he sees.

The fear that had been laid down in front of me was instantly detonated by the dead and distorted faces.

"Ah!!!h

Akasaka Kazu, who was originally particularly fascinated, was also taken aback by this sudden attack, and the whole person bounced up from the sofa, and then picked up the bench and aimed at the "Bad Cold" on the coffee table.

Boom!!!!

Click!!

The fragile coffee table couldn't bear Kazuya Akasaka this time, and the whole thing fell apart directly.

But Kazuya Akasaka was obviously frightened, and the bench in his hand couldn't stop smashing on the table like a sheep's madness.

“....”

Kazuya Akasaka's wife, Keiko Akasaka, saw this scene from the side, but without saying a word, silently walked to the TV, and called the psychiatric hospital while moving the TV.

She is now desperate for a psychiatric doctor to prescribe medicine for her husband...

.......