(Sorry, reworked the second half of the previous chapter)

……

At this time, Linda and Zach, who were hiding outside the small courtyard, stood up.

The girl looked at the two of them and said to Rorschach:

"Wait a minute, I'll deal with it first."

Rorschach also saw the siblings and nodded.

The girl walked quickly up to Linda and Zach and said:

"Do not be afraid."

Linda asked:

"What was it just now? What the hell is going on? ”

"I'm sorry, you have to forget all this."

With an apologetic look in her eyes, the girl stretched out her finger to draw a circle, and uttered a burst of syllables in her mouth.

Immediately after, Linda and Zack had a trance in their eyes, and when the two came to their senses, they looked at each other in wonder.

"Zach, how did we end up here?"

"How do I know!?"

"Hurry home! If you are found by your father, you will be scolded to death! ”

"It's all your fault!"

Rorschach looked at the siblings and saw that they didn't seem to see him and the girl, and turned away as they argued.

The girl walked back to Rorschach and said with a smile:

"Well, they won't remember anything about here."

Rorschach carefully looked at the girl in front of her, she looked like she was sixteen or seventeen years old, with a ponytail, a little baby fat on her white and tender face, and a pair of big eyes.

He asked:

"You used magic on them?"

"Magic?"

The girl shook her head, "It's not really, it's a kind of hypnosis, but it's not very smart, the two siblings used to be here when they were children, and they accidentally opened a book, and then ...... And that's how it turned out. ”

Rorschach looked at her and said:

"Can you explain what the hell is going on?"

The girl looked around, pointed to the villa, and said:

"How about we go in and say?"

"Yes."

Rorschach nodded, followed the girl into the villa, and into the basement.

The girl put the storybook back on the shelf, turned around and sighed, and said:

"My name is Odeya Stein and I'm Mr. Stan's daughter."

Rorschach pointed to the storybooks on the shelves and asked:

"Your father is the author of these storybooks?"

"Yes."

Odya nodded and asked, "What do you call it, sir?" ”

"Rorschach." He replied.

"Are you an exorcist?"

"It's not."

"Okay......"

Odea shrugged, "But you must not be an ordinary person, are you?" You're not going to be a secret agent, are you? Like in the movies? ”

Rorschach looked at her expressionlessly and did not answer the question.

Odeya blinked her big eyes and smiled:

"Did you make me guess?"

"Tell me what's going on here?"

Rorschach interrupted the girl's self-talk.

"Hey......

Odeya smiled awkwardly, "It's been a long time since I've talked to anyone, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, in fact, I don't have much habit of listening to other people's secrets, but sometimes I can't help but ......"

"Talking about the ...... point"

Rorschach felt a little big, this girl couldn't be a talker, right?

"Okay, that's right."

Odeya licked her lips, "How to say, when my father was young, he stayed at home because of severe allergies, and all the children in this town threw stones at his window, and gave him all kinds of nicknames, laughed at him, humiliated him, he had no friends, so he started to create his own friends, monsters, demons, ghouls, to scare his neighbors, to scare and make fun of his little children......"

She shrugged her shoulders and continued:

In fact, it seems now that he was hiding at home and writing stories and self-anesthetized, but ...... Then they did appear, and one day, they really existed, and the monsters created by my father would come out of the books, so those books had to be locked up to prevent the monsters from coming out, and if the books were opened, you would see what would happen. ”

"Why didn't you destroy these books?"

Rorschach asked, "The monster that appeared just now must be a werewolf, it's not the kind of monster that only scares people." ”

"They weren't meant to be like that......

Odeya sighed, "I used to be just like a husky at best, stupid to death. ”

"You mean the monsters in the storybook have changed?"

"Yes."

Odeya nodded hurriedly, "They have changed, they have become more terrifying and more evil, my father used to write only children's books, but now the monsters in the storybook have become adult horror stories." ”

"Why is this happening?"

"I don't know."

Odeya shook her head and said, "My father left here a few years ago, leaving me here to guard these storybooks, more than half a year ago, a thief sneaked in here and stole a few storybooks, I have been looking for him outside, but I didn't expect someone to enter here again today, and it was still "The Neighbor is a Werewolf", why not "Hamster in the Store"?" ”

"Someone stole the storybook here?"

"Yes."

Odea looked at Rorschach, "The most important thing is that Slabbi's Revenge was stolen, Slabbi is the most evil and clever of them all, that thief must have released Slabbi, oh- oh my! I can't imagine what Slabi is going to do, is it going to destroy this town? ”

After listening to what Odeya said, Rorschach frowned and asked:

"Why did Slabi destroy this town?"

"Because Slabi hated his father so much......"

"When my father finished writing its story, he locked it up and never opened it once...... Although his father is no longer in the town, he has also transferred his resentment to the town, as it was created to destroy the town in the first place. ”

"A group of people came here the other day, you know?"

Rorschach asks a question about Rebecca.

"I know they wanted to write a story to their father, but he wasn't here."

"And then they left?"

"Yes."

Odeya nodded, "I don't know where my father is. ”

"Didn't they do anything?"

"Nope!"

Odea wondered, "Are they bad people?" But I don't think it looks, right? ”

Rorschach was puzzled, this was clearly not the style of the "believers". He asked:

"Who are they leading?"

"It's a blonde big sister, very beautiful."

"Did she say what her name was?"

"It's like ......"

Odeya thought for a moment, "Rebecca, it should be called Rebecca." ”

"I see."

Rorschach's eyes narrowed, his heart sank, things became strange, wasn't Rebecca being held hostage?

Odeya blinked and asked:

"You know her?"

"Hmm." Rorschach nodded.

"Oh——!"

Odeya showed a thoughtful expression, "It seems that your relationship is extraordinary, let me think about it, according to what is written in the story, it should be ......"

"Alright."

Rorschach interrupted her, "Do you have any clues to find Srabi?" ”

"Not yet."

Odeya shook her head, "But I think it's going to go somewhere, Town Middle School, and it's going to go there!" ”

"Why?"

"Because Smith Colona is there!"

"Who is it?"

"A typewriter, the father's story is done through that typewriter, it's special, it's spiritual. If Slabi gets a typewriter, it can rewrite the story, it can leave the town, it doesn't have to be tied here, we can't let it get a typewriter! ”

As soon as Odeya finished speaking, the lights in the basement suddenly went out.

Immediately after, a burst of eerie laughter rang out.

"Hee-hee-hee......"