'I've had families, and I know how cruel it is for them to take a child's life, but there's no way... I can't help it... There is no way. ’

'There is a lot to pay for raising the dead... For the sake of Haruna... I'm willing to give everything I have... As long as this does so Reiko comes back... I have no regrets. ’

The handwriting on this is neat, and there is not much pressure on Beichuan Temple when you look at it line by line.

But Beichuan Temple looked at the words in the past and felt that something was not quite right.

Holding his temperament, Kitagawa Temple continued to look down.

'I'm a folklorist, and that time I took my daughters, Haruna and Reiko, to see the wind in a mansion area left by the ancestors. It was raining heavily... The muddy mountain roads make it difficult to walk... With my daughter and wife, I made my way to the camp with difficulty, but that was the beginning of a nightmare...'

The rain drove the loose earth and rocks down the top of the head.

It's not a mudslide, it's just a landslide.

A huge rolling stone falls abruptly, hitting Kitano's daughter Haruna Kitano in an instant.

Just a falling rock has already beaten her daughter into a pulp.

The daughter's blue and white arms that hung weakly outside... The blood that kept oozing and being washed away by the heavy rain made Kitano Ryo Ryū's wife, Reiko Kitano collapse directly.

The daughter who was talking and laughing at the last moment has turned into a puddle of mud in the next moment, and only a severed hand is still intact.

'During that folklore examination, I found the spell notes left by the ancestors. I spend all my remaining energy studying those spells, hoping to discover a way to resurrect the dead... In the end, I got my wish... But that method... Is it really a cruel method that can be used to resurrect the dead? ’

'Using the intact remains of the deceased as a medium, the broken pieces of children's bodies are used to piece together a whole person... I can feel that this horrible spell is eating away at my heart...'

By the time he got here, Ryo Kitano's handwriting was already a little scribbled.

But as if he had forced his spirit, he continued to write.

'I have to do it... For Reiko, for Haruna... I hope God will protect my sanity from evil spirits. ’

The hooks and horizontal and vertical strokes of these Japanese symbols seem to carry an unwavering cruelty and determination.

"......" Kitagawa Temple.

So is it the point of no return to resurrect the daughter? This can also explain why Ryo Kitano killed the children.

But—

"Still something isn't right." Kitagawa Temple frowned.

Yes, even if the reason is clearly written here, Ryo Kitano's confession is also clear.

But that's still not right.

Kitagawa Temple exhaled and reached out to continue flipping.

'I killed someone. The child's name is Zhongjuji, and I took out all his intestines, and it stinks... That's right... Blood can't be wasted either. ’

The handwriting ended for the time being, but the palpitating madness had just begun.

Kitagawa Temple continued to look down.

'My daughter... I guess there's enough blood... The blood in the bath... Can you communicate your severed hand with your soul in the Yellow Spring? ’

Here is a question sentence, which shows that Kitano Ryo has no bottom in his heart, but the handwriting that is gradually scribbling and gradually going crazy does not only mean this...

The rest of the diary is simple.

Most of it was about what he did after the killing, and constant rhetorical questions.

Can the severed hand communicate with the soul?

Can the severed hand communicate with the soul?

......

This rhetorical question appears seven or eight times, and it doesn't change until the ninth time—

'Hehe... It seems that there are already children who have discovered something... But I've got him... As long as he's there, there's no need to worry about what happens. ’

Again, long, incomprehensible scribble.

Kitano's handwriting has become more and more casual, and the elongated lines can only barely be read, making people feel uncomfortable at a glance.

'I have the loveliest head as your daughter's head. ’

'I think my best arms are your arms, daughters.' ’

'I think my healthiest legs are your daughters. ’

'I take the best entrails as your entrails. ’

'Daughter, daughter, daughter-'

Quiet –

Countless blood-red 'daughters' were written on the next page of paper.

At a glance, the cold hairs stand on end, and the body seems to be trembling.

These words are like real human eyes, staring at Beichuan Temple.

In the sight of Kitagawa Temple, the words seemed to be shaking, as if they were twisting and twitching—

In the face of such a strange and terrifying scene, Beichuan Temple had no waves in his heart, he turned the diary to the next page, and covered up all those words on the previous page.

There is only one line in this page of the diary.

A simple line of words.

'Why, haven't you come back to life?' ’

It seems that the ritual failed, and Kitano Haruna did not wake up as Kitano Ryo expected.

Kitagawa Temple looked to the next page.

On this page, Ryo Kitano writes the answer to the ritual failure.

'The ritual is missing something crucial. ’

There seemed to be some whisper ringing in my ears.

Kitagawa Temple narrowed his eyes and continued to look.

'That's the living... A living and resilient soul, using it as a ticket to communicate with the Yellow Springs... Haruna's soul will break away from the depths of the Yellow Spring. ’

What followed was a tone of hidden tyrannical excitement and mad agitation.

You already know what you're looking at here, right? ’

'Hahahahahahaha!!! ’

'You're the tough soul I chose!' A sacrifice to resurrect Haruna! Do you think I didn't find a map hidden under my drawing assignment?! Do you think I didn't find the last letter from those damn imps? I know it all! I understand them all! But I didn't say it! To be exact, I didn't write it! You're now under the curse I've set! Look at your chest! No matter where you run, your soul will eventually return to the House of Rain! Your flesh will be Haruna's flesh and blood! Your soul will be exchanged for the soul of Haruna! Hahaha - if you can keep seeing this page, you must have a soul that is more tenacious than ordinary people, and that soul will also be able to withstand the erosion of the Santu River and bring Haruna back. ’

'Only by killing me can the curse be completely removed!' But I have now been reborn as the most terrible of wraiths! Kill me... Can you do it? ’

Santugawa.

This is a Japanese legend about the underworld.

It is said that after death, a person crosses a river, and the name of this river is the Santu River, which has different speeds depending on the good deeds that the person has done in his life. If it is a heinous sin, it is a torrent that will fall into the river in an instant, and if it is an impartial ordinary person, it will be an ordinary river, with both urgency and slowness, and if it is a good person, the river will go away gently. No waves. This is the origin of the 'three paths' in the Santu River.

But Beichuan Temple ignored the legend of the underworld, he just flicked his fingers, and his heart moved.

Sure enough, there was a fraud.

Because Kitano Ryo didn't show any remorse when he killed Matsumoto and them, Kitagawa Temple didn't feel that the other party was the kind of person who honestly shed crocodile tears.

He had already expected this to happen, so he had let Nishikujo pity cover her kindness all over his body early.

Now there is no trace on his chest, and his body is not half unwell.

I think it was under the pitiful protection of Nishikujo, and the other party's curse didn't have half an effect.

And—

Kitagawa Temple burned a standing fire in his hand and burned the diary full of horror and resentment.

Regardless of whether he was cursed or not, Beichuan Temple also didn't want to give up the opponent's skill points.

Under the wrist of Beichuan Temple, the cold light flickered, and his eyes were gloomy, and he walked towards the atrium step by step.

At the same time, the system's prompt sounded in his ears -

'Condition (1) for mission completion has been met. ’

'Please choose the reward after leaving the realm. ’

At the foot of Kitagawa Temple, he took another look at the Kagura bell that kept jingling and ringing.

Outside the corridor, there were more than twenty resentful spirits standing on both sides, their resentful eyes nailed to the body of Beichuan Temple.

In addition to the dead children, there are also resentful spirits that have been formed by the staff.

I think these staff members were coaxed to work here by Ryo Kitano's rhetoric or supernatural abilities.

Human desires are endless, and so they also die here as evil spirits.

Kitagawa Temple took a slight breath, and then shook his feet-

The cold light flickered, and the shrill screams of the wraiths followed.

......

Needless to say, after killing all the remaining ghosts, Kitagawa Temple pushed open the door to the atrium.

On the children's last letter, Kitagawa Temple learned that the secret passage was in a corner.

When he searched around, he found a patch of grass with a different sound.

And this is probably where the secret door exists.

Kitagawa Temple stretched out his hand and fumbled, and then he touched something that resembled a handle.

With both hands, he violently lifted the piece of land!

It seems that it has not been opened for a long time, and the door of the secret passage is lifted with a piercing 'click' sound.

In front of him was a familiar underground walkway, and Kitagawa Temple walked down without hesitation.

The tunnel seeped water everywhere, and slippery moss remained on the walkway stairs.

Kitagawa Temple touched his chin.

Is the bottom of such a seeping tunnel also flooded by stagnant water?

But what he feared didn't happen in the end.

Although the floor of the staircase is smooth, there is no water accumulation, and it seems that there is also treatment such as dredging the waterway.

Beichuan Temple continued to walk down with a flashlight, and heard the sound of the secret passage above rumbling and closing.

He was quite satisfied with the other party's acquaintance, so he didn't care about being closed at the entrance to the secret passage.

He continued to walk downward.

The deeper you go, the more you can smell the stench of rotting corpses and the disgusting smell of blood.

Finally.

Kitagawa Temple has come to an end.

In front of it is a basement that resembles a bathroom décor.

In the center of the basement was a long bloodstained table with iron shackles, and by looking at the size, you could tell that it was a child's hold.

The black blood, the hideous knife marks, and the bloody knives placed on the other wall all tell the tragedy that happened here.

This place is inexplicably electrified, and it is bright, which is fundamentally different from the Rain House above, which has been completely reduced to ruins.

Kitagawa Temple walks into this basement.

There is also a small room behind this basement.

Presumably, Matsumoto's head is long, Fujiwara Nagakawa's hands, Katori's legs, Nakaji's internal organs, and the corpse of various children's organs and corpses are hidden there.

As soon as he thought of this, Kitagawa Temple slowly pulled out Kaneda and walked towards the room.

But—

The footsteps of Beichuan Temple suddenly stopped, and he turned his head to look at the scene behind him.

Once again, the afterimage of the scene reappeared.

I saw a boy dressed in ordinary clothes kneeling down in front of a middle-aged man with kind eyebrows, crying and shouting, begging him to spare his life.

Under such a close observation, Beichuan Temple could even see that the middle-aged man's face had already flashed with a surging killing intent.

But in the end, the middle-aged man did not kill the boy, but helped him up, approached his ear with a sad smile, and slowly said words that made the other party's face change greatly.

Kitagawa Temple can just be heard.

You can also see the little boy nodding frantically in agreement with the other party in order to protect himself.

That little kid is...

Kitagawa Temple's eyes flashed.

The afterimage is gone—

The scene is back in the present again.

The dim light, the long empty table, and—

A middle-aged resentful spirit with a distorted body and a blue complexion.

Ryo Kitano appeared.

He carried the terrifying cleaver in his hand, and the sharp blade was stained with some human skin tissue and hair.

Looking at Ryo Kitano, Kitagawa Temple is actually not surprised.

He took it out, and the dead air in his other hand twisted, quickly forming a black sledgehammer.

It seems that because of the spell on his body, Kitagawa Temple can even feel a trace of human wisdom flashing in Kitano's eyes from time to time.

In other words, after overtaking the opposite side, maybe there will be a skill book bursting out?

Kitagawa Temple's expression changed slightly, and he only felt that he was slightly excited.

He has an indescribable fanaticism about the skill book, after all, compared to the skill point light up, the skill book is undoubtedly more mellow and natural...

Besides, Ryo Kitano should be a medium-level or high-level spirit. If you take him out, it will definitely be a good physical enhancement and skill points.

And he may still have the spell notebook that Beichuan Temple has been thinking about.

Just get rid of him-

No matter how you look at it, this deal is not a loss.

Kitagawa Temple's hand seemed to feel his mood, and the tip of the dagger that had fallen off the blood stain shone with crystal brilliance.

One side needs the soul of the other.

One side needs the skill points and skill book on the other side.

The stakes are aligned!