Chapter 22: Seeing the Tiger
an hour ago.
Watching Mito Hayato walk into Fukuyama's apartment, Lost Island Love was only in a hurry with the vegetable basket in his arms.
Others may not know what happened in that apartment, but they only think that the mother and daughter, who have lost their breadwinner, committed suicide in despair in the apartment.
The apartment is still the same apartment, at most room 403, which is not easy to rent because it has died.
But in the eyes of the lost island love, the apartment has a different look.
It's not a reinforced concrete building, nor is it a gold dollar with every inch of land, but ...... Lair.
A bright yellow-and-black phantom of a tiger perched above the apartment, sometimes resting with its eyes closed, sometimes opening its eyes to look around.
The size of the tiger phantom is about the same size as an ordinary tiger in the zoo, and it can only be seen by the lost island love.
"It's all my fault for not stopping Mito-san from going." Lost Island Koi knows that the tiger is not his hallucination, "He will be killed by the tiger!" ”
She could see strange things.
She also forgot when she had been able to see things that ordinary people could not see, at first as a wandering soul in the streets, and then she could hear some strange sounds.
I once sat side by side with a rotting corpse in a bright dress when I was on the subway, and I also went to a hospital where the walls and ceilings were covered with flesh and intestines.
Or see a rolling ball on the side of the road, but it was actually deliberately thrown by a headless child, if you pick it up at the time......
And now, you can still get a glimpse of something like a tiger phantom.
From spirits, to resentful spirits, to evil spirits, to even stranger and even indescribable weird things......
Tiger Demon? Or is it a tiger demon like the apocalypse that has appeared recently?
Lost Island Love is just an ordinary person, and she doesn't know how to describe this tiger, but the only thing she is sure of is that the tiger hovering in Fukuyama's apartment is by no means the main body, but just a clone.
It seems that the tiger appeared before the suicide mother and daughter?
When she came home one afternoon, she suddenly saw a tiger above her apartment.
But in fact, as early as a few years ago, she found the same tiger in several wards of Tokyo, with exactly the same pattern, the difference is only in size.
It's just that in the horizon of Lost Island Love, Tokyo is already full of strange creatures of all sizes, and it doesn't matter if there are more tigers, just ignore them.
"If Mito-san dies inside, it's all my responsibility."
"I didn't stop him, and that's why Mito-san died."
After more than ten years of experience of seeing strange things, the biggest ability of the Lost Island Love Society is to 'ignore'.
Ignore ghosts, ignore monsters, ignore strange things, and protect yourself in this way.
By ignoring it, the island love can maintain the mental state of a normal person, and not be frightened and forced into a mental patient by the crazy and polluted world.
She knew she was absolutely normal!
"What to do, what to do, what to do."
Looking up at the phantom of the tiger, the lost island love squeezed the vegetable basket into deformation.
She bit her thumb and her heart twitched violently.
"Although I'm not familiar with Mito-san, although I've basically never spoken to Mito-san, I've forgotten what Mito-san's full name is......"
Lost Island kept biting her thumb, and the eyeballs in her sockets seemed to be shaking.
Trembling violently up and down, left and right, the trembling amplitude is not large, but the frequency is like a fly that is locked in a bottle and frantically hits the wall.
"But if I die because I didn't warn me, it's my responsibility."
"That's my responsibility."
Thinking lines are entwined in the mind of the lost island love, and as a normal person, there will definitely be a sense of guilt.
"Am I going to save him? But I'm just an ordinary person, and I don't have the ability to save him. ”
"And Mito-san still has something for the priest in his hand...... Those who can't deal with the tiger will be killed. ”
Lost Island Love hides around the corner, and she likes to hide like this.
"But I had to go home because I had to prepare dinner for my grandmother...... But human life is more important than food, but human life is more important than food. ”
She babbled on the pros and cons and looked in horror at the tiger pacing above the apartment.
I didn't dare to go, and I couldn't go because of the morality in my heart, and cold sweat kept oozing from my forehead.
She's already killed someone, and she can't hurt Mito-san anymore.
It was in this entanglement that the lost island love saw Mito-san coming towards him.
"Lost island-san, ...... you" Mito Hayato noticed that something was wrong no matter how dull he was, "know a lot about what happened in that apartment?" ”
"Hello?" Lost Island Love woke up suddenly, and she realized that there was no tiger pacing above the apartment.
The strange atmosphere that gripped the apartment was also swept away.
"The tiger is gone......" remembering that Mito Hayato was standing in front of him, and Oshima immediately stopped his voice, "I just heard from the neighbors that people have died in this apartment recently, and there are bad rumors......"
"What's the matter with the tiger?" Mito Hayato's eyes narrowed.
Even the monks of Shibamata Emperor Shakten could not be sure that the tiger demon was haunting until he saw the resentful spirit of Ueda Taiken, and at most thought that Ueda Taiken had become a demon ghost.
And how can this usually inconspicuous girl in front of her be a tiger?
The monk can't see it, but she can.
Does this classmate have more spiritual power than the monk, or is there something else weird?
"Tiger or something is just my mantra."
“?”
This sounds familiar.
Mito Hayato took a deep look at Ai Lost Island, but did not continue to ask: "If you know anything, you can tell me, this is a very important thing, all to prevent more tragedies from happening......"
Since the lost island love doesn't want to speak, then it is estimated that there is no result if you continue to ask, and the two are not familiar with each other, and Mito Hayato's understanding of the lost island love is only limited to the name.
Everyone has their own secrets, and after helping Emiko Fukuyama get rid of the spirit, Mito Hayato is not ready to continue to get involved in the 'tiger demon' matter.
No matter how big the tiger demon is, it has nothing to do with him, after all, Emmiko's one million is just a reward for the removal of spirits in room 403.
Besides, the Light should have no effect on youkai - unless they are bone spirits.
"As for the things in the apartment, I've got rid of them." Mito Hayato didn't hide that he could get rid of spirits, "But please don't tell other classmates that I'm ...... The matter of the Soul Eliminator. ”
"Hah...... Thank you, thank you, Mito-san. "Lost Island Ai breathed a sigh of relief.
She's afraid that people will chase after her, and it's good that Mito-san wasn't killed.
"Mito-san, don't worry, I don't have any friends in the class at all, and I won't talk to others!"
What is the inexplicable sadness of "......"?
"Have you been standing here waiting for me?"
"Huh?" Lost Island Love hugged the vegetable basket, "Because I was worried that Mito-san would have problems, I ...... unconsciously I'm standing here and waiting, Mito-san, I'm going home and cooking. ”
"Are you going that way? I'll just drop by, let's come along. ”