The next day, Kitagawa's house.

Today, Hotaru Chiba consciously came to Kitagawa's house and received another leg treatment.

After three death-dead treatments, Hotaru Chiba's calf is slowly recovering to health.

Kitagawa Temple also listened to Chiba Cang explain the situation of Chiba Hotaru's calf, Chiba Hotaru now walks slowly for more than ten minutes with a cane every day, although it is still a little stiff, but this is already a very terrifying progress.

You must know that before, Chiba Hotaru's legs didn't feel at all, let alone lifting and putting her feet, she couldn't even feel her feet.

After the treatment, Eri Kitagawa took the initiative to come down from upstairs and asked to go to the studio with Hotaru Chiba.

At this time, Kitagawa Temple realized that Chiba Hotaru had real estate in Tokyo, which seemed to be a two-story bungalow with a studio in it. It's just that she's been away for a long time, so the house has been idle, and this time when she came back, the presence of Eri Kitagawa also made her ask someone to clean the inside and outside of the mansion again.

On weekdays, Chiba Hotaru and Eri Kitagawa stay in the studio to paint together, and from time to time mention her a few words.

Merely...

Why is Eri Kitagawa suddenly so diligent? He even took the initiative to ask for Kitagawa Temple

Kitagawa Temple saw Kitagawa Eri's hard-working attitude in his eyes, but he didn't break it.

It's good to work hard, but he also hopes that this girl is not hot for three minutes.

After the Chiba Hotaru sisters left with Eri Kitagawa, Kitagawa Temple cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and planned to sit down and watch "The Lost Mikawa".

Yesterday, when he sent Saki Sakurai, he also asked the other party about the spell.

"The spell found on 'The Lost Mikawa'..."

Kitagawa Temple flipped through the chapters of "The Lost Mikawa" and found a record of spells in the first volume of "The Lost Mikawa", "Enter".

As mentioned earlier, Yorito uses a first-person perspective and a reversal montage technique to introduce the characters in the story through one shot at a time.

The content of the volume "Enter" records that "after discovering that two of his friends have died, the male protagonist and his girlfriend search for information, and according to the spell introduction on the information, they hold a game of hide-and-seek for four people." ’

And Saki Sakurai's mantra is on the last page of the first volume.

That paragraph was also thoughtfully marked by the editor in bold black font.

'Mikawa, Mikawa, we have never forgotten you. ’

The content of this volume is also written in a strange and terrifying way, with the hero and heroine uncovering the secrets of the past while dealing with a sudden attack by a child ghost.

In "The Lost Mikawa", the children's spirits will use the grudge of murder to elevate themselves over time. The longer it drags on, the stronger they become. And the only way to break the game is to fight to the death and enter the Mikawa Elementary School in the strange talk.

The content of this volume is called 'Enter'.,The hero and the heroine are struggling to find a way to break the game.,By finding a monk.,Ways to go to major shrines to curb the curse of blue and purple.,But the effect is minimal.。 Eventually, they found a way to erase the curse in the library of the real-life Mikawa Elementary School. That is to win from the four-player game of hide and seek and escape from Mikawa Elementary School.

Kitagawa Temple thought in his heart.

But this inference is undoubtedly in conflict with reality.

In reality, the four-person game of hide and seek must be held in this game ceremony before it will be cursed by Mikawa Elementary School.

And the cursed person is the target of the resentful spirit in Mikawa Elementary School.

But yesterday, Kitagawa Temple had transferred all the curses on Mio Sakura and their bodies to their wrists, but they didn't see anyone attacking them after sleeping all night.

It's also possible that the wraiths don't focus on themselves because they know they're not so easy to deal with.

"Either way, we need to pay attention to the next step."

Kitagawa Temple took a sip of water and continued to flip through the contents of this volume.

Kitagawa Temple wrote down the location of the Mikawa Elementary School Library and how the ceremony was held, and then when I was about to turn to the next page—

The doorbell rang.

At the same time, the cheerful cry of Miku Kamiya came from outside:

"Temple-kun! Temple-kun! ”

Kitagawa exhaled, put the phone down, and opened the door.

Kamiya Mirai changed another set of clothes, a brown coat and white lining, matching her already long hair, looking youthful and beautiful.

As soon as Beichuan Temple saw her, he asked, "You have the key to my house, why do you have to knock on the door and ring the doorbell?" ”

Belch...

Kamiya Mirai blinked and smiled: "This is not my house after all, I can't still take the key to open your door when you are at home, this is very rude." ”

When she said this, she did have a reason, but Beichuan Temple clearly knew that this little girl was not a person who liked to follow the rules at all.

But he doesn't bother to care about this kind of thing, Kamiya will come over in the future, so it's okay to entertain her.

Kitagawa Temple welcomed the other party into the house, and wanted to pour her tea, but he didn't expect Kamiya Mirai to pour her a cup of tea himself more skillfully than him.

Kitagawa Temple glanced at her more, and then began to flip through the "Lost Mikawa" on her phone.

"Tera-kun, are you still investigating the content of 'The Lost Mikawa'?"

Mirai Kamiya leaned over from the side.

Kitagawa Temple ignored her intimate movements and said: "Some of the content in "The Lost Mikawa" is really very interesting, and I recently found a relationship to contact the author Lai Hucheng, hoping to meet him. ”

"How much content have you read?" Kamiya Miku looked at the movement of his hand and suddenly spoke.

"Just finished reading the first volume." Kitagawa Temple stopped and looked at Mirai Kamiya: "Listen to your tone, you have already finished reading all the content?" ”

Kamiya Mirai told him yesterday afternoon that he had a personal matter to deal with, could it be that he went back to watch "The Lost Mikawa"?

"I read it all in one afternoon, and then spent a little more time sorting it out in the evening." Kamiya Mirai yawned a little as he spoke, and then took out his notepad from the small leather bag: "I hope the information I found can be helpful to you, Sijun." ”

"I'll relieve you with death breath later." Kitagawa Temple suddenly spoke.

After all, Kamiya Future stayed up late because of him, and Beichuan Temple still has to help with this.

Mirai Kamiya listened to this, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously hooked up a smile.

Then she found that she was a little too proud, so she coughed twice and nodded: "Okay, then let's get down to business first." ”

"First of all, let's talk about the book 'The Lost Mikawa'."

Kamiya Mirai faded the playful mood as soon as she got down to business, her eyes lit up, and she continued: "There are four volumes of 'The Lost Mikawa', each volume is about 160,000 words, and counting the 160,000 words of the introduction and the ending volume that was opened separately, it adds up to a total of more than 800,000 words. ”

"Introduction, I believe that Sijun has already finished reading it, so I won't repeat it here, but talk about the content of the remaining four volumes."

Mirai Kamiya took out a purple cover from his bag.

It was the printed version of "The Lost Mikawa".

"The names of the four volumes are 'Enter,' 'Hide and Seek,' 'Scratch,' and 'Transfer.'"

Under Kamiya Miraku's narration, Kitagawa Temple also roughly understood the meaning of the title of the four volumes.

The first volume of "Entering": It refers to the investigation of the hero and heroine while dealing with the attack of the resentful spirits in the dark, and entering Mikawa Elementary School.

The second volume of "Hide and Seek": Immediately following the content of the previous volume, after being sucked into Mikawa Elementary School, the male and female protagonists desperately dealt with the children's resentment, and finally escaped at the last moment, and at the same time as the game ended, the scratches of the blue and purple children slowly dispersed...

Volume 3 "Scratches": From the perspective of the first victim, it tells about the strange things that happen in his daily life. He began to have symptoms of visual and auditory hallucinations, and often saw children with pale skin and no facial features running back and forth at home, he went to see a lot of doctors, and the hero and heroine have been encouraging him. But it didn't work, and one night when he came home, a child ghost appeared and killed him with a piece of paper scissors. The blood-stained paper cutter is inserted into the eyeball and goes directly into the brain...

Volume 4 "Transmission": is the second victim, who also touches the seal, the perspective of a female friend of the male protagonist. After the death of the first victim, she remained absent-minded. And when she got off work at night, she met the murderer in the news, and the murderer killed her and threw her body. At the end of the volume, the killer also has a purple-blue scratch on his wrist.

Next is the final solo "Ending".

The content of "Ending" is a bit depressing, but it is also expected: after the hero and heroine escaped from Mikawa Elementary School, they thought that the matter was over, but the heroine was killed by a murderer who had been possessed by a child's resentful spirit, and the male protagonist went to deal with the murderer alone. After he used all his strength to kill the killer, blue and purple marks appeared on his wrists...

This is the end of the whole story.

The male protagonist's perspective is obviously no longer normal in the end, he begins to talk to himself, and often sees the dead heroine calling for himself.

He's crazy, too, and could even become the next murderer.

So it can also be seen from here that "The Lost Mikawa" is a tragedy.

"But there are many, many details that can be seen from the contents of these volumes." Miku Kamiya took a deep breath, his eyes shining.

Indeed, in the contents of these volumes, Kitagawa Temple discovers many things that have actually happened in reality.

Let's say a roll of scratches.

When the killer killed the second victim, a purple-blue curse appeared on his wrist. This shows that the curse can be transmitted, and it is exactly the same as the incident of Ishikawa Kaito.

"And I also investigated and found something very important." Kamiya Mirai took out his mobile phone, called up the character encyclopedia, pointed to the information on it and said, "Raito Castle is indeed from a place called Mikawa. ”

This place of Mikawa actually exists.

It is located in an inconspicuous township in Kanagawa Prefecture.

"Really?" Kitagawa Temple approached.

"Well, if it's true, then maybe the book "The Lost Mikawa" may have a creative prototype in the first place."

Kamiya Mirai replied, pinching his snow-white chin.

Kitagawa Temple nodded.

In fact, many horror murder theories have archetypes in real life, so the horror stories created based on the small town of Mikawa are not incomprehensible.

Kitagawa Temple took out his laptop, plugged it in, connected to the Internet, clicked into the optional link from the character encyclopedia, and clicked on the blue comment link of 'Mikawa'.

An introduction to the town of Mikawa unfolds in front of Kitagawa Temple.

This is a small town with local wood carvings as a selling point, and it can also be seen from some pictures that the mountains and rivers here are beautiful, and the environment is almost untouched.

It's no wonder that this small town of Okawa is located near the Tanzawa Mountains in a remote corner of Kanagawa, and there is a large river in the area, which the locals call Mikawa, and the town of Okawa is called after Mikawa.

In recent years, the development of transportation in the small town of Yuchuan has sent out many young people, and those young people have also settled in big cities and are no longer willing to stay in the countryside.

Most of the people who remain in this kind of countryside are middle-aged people who have taken root as well as the elderly.

Looking at the delicate and simple wood carvings in the picture, Kamiya Miku's eyes were also full of brilliance: "Such a place, I really want to travel... It also says that there are hot spring resources over there, so it must be very good to soak in hot springs, right? ”

"....." Kitagawa Temple.

Kitagawa Temple's face twitched.

Girls will inevitably be like this, obviously they are still investigating a bloody case for the last second, and then they are attracted by another point and can't extricate themselves.

"Let's talk about it when we have a chance." The voice of Beichuan Temple replied flatly, and at the same time clicked the mouse to the search bar.

He wanted to check if there had been some incidents there.

Some of the cases that happened in "The Lost Mikawa".

The case of the disappearance of children, the town of Mikawa in the Danzawa Mountains.

Kitagawa Temple hammers in these keywords.

From the computer, the search terms of Beichuan Temple and some newspaper reports jumped out.

A small town in Mikawa in the Danzawa Mountains.

It's a region known for its beautiful scenery, but it's also in this area that painful things happen that the locals can't tell.

More than 10 years ago, in the XX primary school in the town, there was a case of missing children.

Next to the newspaper, it was supposed to be the children's photos and names, but it seems that due to poor storage, most of the handwriting and portraits are no longer legible. And it seems that in order to avoid suspicion, even the words "XX Elementary School" are used instead of "XX Elementary School".

At that time, the police station in the town sent police officers, and everyone worked together to search for the missing children, but nothing was found.

The eyes were fixed on XX Elementary School.

But nothing was found.

No one knows where the children have gone, as if everything is hidden in the dark.

Locals call it 'Mikawa Kamisaku'.

"Mikawa Kamisa...?"

Kitagawa Temple looked at the report above.

The so-called god of Mikawa should refer to the god of the river Mikawa.

In some parts of Japan, it is common to offer pure virgins to river gods, and even now, you can see memorial tablets or small sarcophagi made to comfort the spirits of dead girls along many large rivers in Japan.