"And me! I'm going to talk weird too! I'm going to tell horror stories too! Seeing that everyone had finished speaking, and only herself was left, Eri Kitagawa immediately jumped up, her face was pale, and she wanted to pretend to be a storyteller.

But before she could stand firmly, she was slapped on the head by Kitagawa Temple.

She subconsciously raised her head, just in the eyes of Kitagawa Temple.

Beichuan Temple said nonchalantly: "I'm going to tell you a strange story alone." ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the stove on the other side, and his face sank slightly: "The rice is sherding." ”

......

It was late at night.

The mountain wind whistled at the bottom of the mountain stream, making a sharp 'boom' and 'boom' sound.

The girls were all driven to sleep by Kitagawa Temple, but he was still busy.

He was in charge of packing up the dishes, iron skewers, and barbecue grills.

After packing all these up, Beichuan Temple stretched its waist.

But he still didn't sleep.

After packing up his things, Kitagawa Temple moved to the side of the camping warden's chic cabin.

He reached out and knocked on the door: "I'm coming." ”

The door opened, and standing in the door was the old man whom the other girls had seen at noon.

Because the old man seemed to know something, Saki Sakurai also told this information to Kitagawa Temple, who came back with Kamiya Mirai and Eri Kitagawa.

Beichuan Temple made an agreement with the old man that he would come over in the evening to ask about something.

And the old man was obviously surprised that Beichuan Temple was able to come back, so he nodded and agreed.

This old man's name is Jingu Twilight, and he is the camping administrator in this area, after all, there are often people playing here in this area, and some combustibles left behind are also easy to cause mountain fires, so it is normal to set up a camping administrator.

Here he receives his salary, and sells some dry firewood and charcoal to the people who come to camp, and his life is not too difficult.

But this old man is inevitably too old, and the speckled old age spots, as well as the coughing sound that leaks from time to time, make people doubt his mobility.

"Come in, young man." Jingu Twilight stepped out of the way, and only when Kitagawa Temple entered the wooden house did he slowly walk to the old man's chair and sit down.

After he sat down, he didn't wait for Beichuan Temple to speak, and asked slowly, "Young man, you should have already entered that Western-style mansion, right?" ”

As he spoke, the old eyes of the Shrine Twilight barely widened, as if he wanted to see the current situation of Kitagawa Temple.

"I did go in, it should be the Rain Pavilion you mentioned Mr. Jingu."

"The House of Rain... These are truly unforgettable words. ”

Jingu Twilight sighed.

His local accent is very strong, unlike the standard Japanese language, and the pronunciation of the Kansai dialect is also very different.

And Jingu Twilight still had an inexplicable tone at the end of the sentence when he spoke, probably because of his local accent at that time, even if it was Kitagawa Temple, he had to mention a lot of spirit to barely understand the content.

Moreover, the tone of the other party was not particularly nostalgic, but more like the 'Rain House' left him with some unbearable memories.

The House of Rain... The House of Rain...

"It's a mansion that is shrouded in the pouring rain, but it's extremely conspicuous..."Jingu Twilight sighed, and asked at the same time, "Young man, did you enter the Rain Pavilion today?" Or are those two girls simply going down the wrong path? ”

"I'll bring them out after I enter the Rain House."

When Jingu Twilight heard this, his eyes, which were originally a little unopen, suddenly opened, and he looked at Beichuan Temple, and while watching, he muttered, "Entered the Pavilion of the Rain?" No... This should... The Western-style house... That place..."

As he spoke, he sighed, and the muddy old tears flowed unconsciously.

Beichuan Temple sat aside and waited for him for a long time before he barely calmed down and replied, "I'm sorry, I suddenly thought of some old things." ”

As he spoke, he coughed heavily, making people wonder if he would cough up his liver.

Kitagawa Temple asked, "Mr. Jingu, I would like to ask some questions about the Rain Pavilion, if it is convenient, can you answer me?" ”

This old man must have a lot to do with the religious building, and if he can help him, then going to the Rain House will save a lot of trouble.

Jingu Twilight didn't hide it, after all, it was a long time ago, and he remembered it for a long time before he spoke:

"That Western-style house... It was built as a religious welfare home, but it is now an orphanage..."

Under the memories of Jingu Twilight, he slowly told what had happened before in the Rain Pavilion.

The Rain House is an orphanage in the suburbs of the mountains that was established at an unknown time, mainly to house and raise children who have lost their parents.

It is also a religious orphanage that promotes the Christian faith.

Jingu Twilight is eighty-three years old this year, and she has entered the old age.

When he entered the Rain House, he was only nine years old.

"There's food, warm clothes, companions of the same age, and a special teacher every day to teach you how to read and write, except for the daily morning prayer and Sunday services, it's like heaven."

"Actually, that's what I thought at the time."

"The House of Rain... Heaven, perhaps. ”

A child who was only nine years old was sent to a welfare orphanage under various prevarications from relatives.

He has already tasted the warmth and coldness of human affection, how can he not sink into such a wonderful place?

But things are far from being as simple as they seem.

What kind of people are the amiable welfare directors and teachers?

"During a big cleaning, I stumbled upon a room that resembled a bathroom... Inside the room..."

Jingu Twilight took a deep breath.

Seeing him like this, Beichuan Temple hurriedly asked him not to be too excited.

After his mood had completely calmed down, the old man squeezed the wrinkles on his face together and continued in a difficult tone.

The floor is a lattice floor.

In the middle is a large bathtub.

Directly in front of the bathtub, a crucifix is erected.

"The bathtub was covered with jet-black blood, and on the ceiling, there were more than a dozen corpses hanging from it..."

"Girls and boys, like livestock, through blood-stained iron hooks... Hook it into the mouth, or in the eye sockets, and hang like that. Like meat in a slaughterhouse. ”

Beichuan Temple's expression changed slightly when he heard this.

Originally, I thought it was an ordinary spiritual domain, but I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen in it.

Jingu Twilight continued to speak downward.

In the early years, after being treated coldly by his relatives, his mind was much more mature than that of ordinary children.

He gritted his teeth and didn't make a sound, but at that moment, he had already decided to leave the Rain Pavilion.

If you stay in the Rain House, you may be killed one day.

From that day on, he began to deliberately test some of his peers to see if anyone knew anything about the bathroom.

After such a temptation, he really found some other partners.

Two boys and one girl.

“... Jiuyuan, Xuezhu, Changchuan... They were the partners I found, and we agreed to escape the Rain House together, and then report it to the local Metropolitan Police Department, after all, there is no way to hide such a large number of corpses. ”

"And after a long period of observation. The disappearance of a child always happens after the rain. ”

"After that, there will be children filling the empty room... The dean will also tell us at this time that they have found a home for those children to adopt them, so that we don't have to worry..."

That's right, the House of Rain will make excuses for the disappeared children every now and then.

Some of the children have been transferred to other orphanages, while others have found families willing to adopt them.

But who knows? The children were all turned into corpses and lay in a room somewhere.

But the rainy weather is also an opportunity for Jingu Twilight.

First of all, when it rains, the dean will definitely do something to a certain child, and there will definitely be time for manpower arrangement. They can find that vacancy and escape from that place.

Similarly, the sound of rain can also hide the movement of them leaving the Rain House, and the people in the welfare home are not easy to search, so they are in a safer situation.

And yet—

"What we didn't expect was that the child who had been selected in advance during the escape operation that day was Nagagawa..."Jingu Twilight's breathing became rapid again.

He muttered to himself, "After discovering that Changchuan, me, Xuezhu, and Jiuyuan had disappeared, the dean sent people to search..."

"And after that?" Looking at the appearance of Jingu Twilight, Beichuan Temple roughly guessed the development of the matter: "You escaped alone?" ”

"Well, Changchuan, Xuezhu, and Jiuyuan, they all stayed in the Rain Pavilion forever... After that, the Rain House was inexplicably burned down due to a fire. Jingu Twilight shook her head and lamented, "Poor... The House of Rain... Poor thing..."

After lamenting, Jingu Twilight continued.

Thinking that this was the end of the matter, he chose to live here as a camping area administrator.

One is to mourn the children who died, and the other is to stay here and die with the House of Rain.

"But the accident still happened, and the legend of the Rain House did not disappear there." Kitagawa Temple looked at Jingu Twilight.

He should have known about it.

Jingu Twilight nodded: "Whenever it rains heavily in this area, the Rain Pavilion will appear in its original place. There, the mansion would wait quietly for the intruders, and there were several subsequent disappearances of campers. ”

"There are a few points that I don't know very well, and I hope that Mr. Jinguya can help me solve my doubts." Kitagawa Temple was not interested in this kind of strange talk, he politely greeted him and continued: "I wonder why the dean of the Rain Pavilion tortured and killed children, and Mr. Jingu just said that the dean has an accomplice... It's very risky to do that. ”

"Why would they take the risk?" Kitagawa Temple asked softly.

Yes.

So far, the temple has not figured out the motive of the dean's crime, and the only thing they know is their abuse and murder of children.

Everything is about a relationship of interest.

Kitagawa Temple doesn't think that the dean is a group of psychopaths who take pleasure in killing children... That's ridiculous too.

This time Jingu Twilight shook his head, he didn't know that much at all: "I don't know... I had no idea that I was in fact so full of running away that I didn't have any motive for them. ”

After all, at that time, Jingu Twilight was just a child, and it was already very good to be able to escape, so there was still such a big supernatural power there to scrutinize the dean's thoughts?

This answer Beichuan Temple can only accept.

After all, Jingu Twilight was just a child at that time.

It was already eleven o'clock in the evening when I came out of the twilight of the shrine.

The fierce mountain cold wind blew on his face, taking away the body temperature of Kitagawa Temple.

In this crowded camping area, who would have imagined that there had been abuse and murder of children in welfare homes in the past?

"Rain House...", Kitagawa Temple muttered the name, only to feel that the cold air around him seemed to be thicker.

The motive for their murder is unclear, and it is unclear whether the Rain Pavilion can only be entered when it rains.

There's a lot more to investigate.

But if you want to say that the easiest way to investigate, it is really to enter the spiritual realm of the Rain Pavilion and look for clues from the past, right?

Beichuan Temple walked to the tent, and before he could get into his small tent, the tent on one side shook for a while, and a small head emerged from it.

Kamiya Miku.

"Did I disturb you?" Kitagawa Temple looked at Kamiya Mirai like this and asked.

"No, it's just that there are a lot of things I encountered today, and I can't sleep for the time being." Mirai Kamiya struggled out of his sleeping bag and put on his shoes and stood next to Kitagawa Temple; "I'm not like Eri's sister... She had fallen asleep early. ”

She has a big heart, but not so big that she can sleep peacefully at night after experiencing a life-and-death crisis at noon.

Eri Kitagawa was able to fall asleep because she didn't encounter any danger herself, and all dangers were attracted to Kamiya Mira.

"Regarding the matter of the Western-style mansion, did Sijun go and ask the old man?" Mirai Kamiya tilted his head in confusion.

Beichuan Temple nodded: "Asked some." ”

Then the two of them sat down by the tent in unison, and Kitagawa Temple began to tell the story that Jingu Twilight had told.

Kitagawa Temple's storytelling skills are far less outstanding than that of Twilight Jingu, and he will only shorten and shorten a matter to a certain extent in words that are too simple to tell Kamiya Mirai.

But Kamiya Mirai likes this style very much.

She listened with relish, and asked some questions from time to time, which can be regarded as complementing each other with Beichuan Temple.

"When I saw that there were so many children's spirits in that rain house, I actually felt that something was wrong... But I never thought this would happen..."

After listening to this, Kamiya Mirai let out a small breath.

Cruel, evil, cold...

No matter what derogatory terms are used to describe those who carry out the work and the accomplices, there is no sense of disobedience.

A bathtub filled with a child's blood, hollowed-out eye sockets... Crucifix...

"It's almost like it's being held... The rituals of some cult are the same. ”

Kamiya Mirai shook his head and said.

"Maybe."

Kitagawa Temple does not deny or affirm.

If you want to know what happened back then, just jump in and explore.