Chapter 38: "The Grand Prize"

Masks eat people.

This seems to be an urban weird talk at all, and no one will believe it at all, and even the police have been vigorously refuting the rumors in the previous period.

But Misako Higashiro was different, she knew very well that it was true, because she had seen it with her own eyes before.

That morning, his mother went out with that damn mask, saying that she was going to Sunset Shrine to ward off evil spirits. When she came back, not only did she not succeed in exorcizing evil spirits, but she was directly attacked by evil spirits.

Her face was transformed into something like a Noh mask, and at first glance, it looked almost exactly like the dummy plastic mannequins in the clothing store.

Stiff but smooth skin, eyes without eyebrows, mouth with upturned corners but no smile, pale face with a shallow scar......

And her movements are strange, as often seen in zombie movies, her limbs are so stiff that they don't seem to have the flexibility of a human body at all.

Plus that disgusting, terrifyingly smooth face. It's really like a marionette being manipulated by something.

- Just looking at it makes people feel creepy, their backs are cold, and goosebumps fall all over the ground.

Fortunately, my father went to work at that time and was not at home.

And Misako Tojo herself, who is at home, has always been very concerned about the mask for no reason. Therefore, after seeing the strange characteristics of her mother's body, she subconsciously made a certain vigilance in advance.

So, when the thing suddenly stretched its neck, rushed to her with lightning speed, and opened its bloody mouth full of sharp nails and bit at her.

She was really able to react in time and escape.

Although her mind was blank because she was so shocked at the time, Misako Tojo had no idea how she escaped from the house, and she didn't know where she spent that day......

She couldn't remember it at all.

However, the scene at that time was so terrible and shocking that it seemed to be deeply engraved in her soul, so that she will never forget it.

Even during this difficult time, it was still the culprit who repeatedly woke the girl up from a nightmare in the middle of the night, and the sweat soaked the sheets.

Although there were also eyewitness reports from others who said that they had seen a monster with a face that looked like a Noh mask and would suddenly stretch its neck and bite off someone's head.

But these things are impossible to be believed, let alone by the police. And when everyone around you swears that this kind of thing is "ridiculous" and "impossible", what will the person who is the person concerned think?

When everyone around you thinks that this kind of thing is "the nonsense of a mentally ill person", then the confidence of the person concerned that he or she is not wrong will definitely be shaken.

Human beings are easily swayed by other people's opinions, so it is more credible to suspect that there is something completely incomprehensible in the world than to suspect that something is completely incomprehensible in the world.

However, while the few other witnesses suspected that they had misseen and kept silent, Misako Tojo firmly believed that what happened to her that day was definitely not a hallucination.

What's more, if others see it wrong, they will see it wrong, and there is no substantial impact...... However, for her, her mother really died because of it!

Human memories are very strange, things that once felt ridiculous and even ridiculous, even if they didn't care about it later, and felt that there was no value in remembering, but the impression was always left.

It can lead to the generation of a little little inconsequential doubts, which usually have little impact, but at a critical moment, what I once thought was ridiculous really became a reality, and then suddenly think back to those small doubts that I once had.

As a result, the doubts swelled rapidly, and either the truth was revealed, or they thought they had found particularly important key clues.

Dongcheng Misako is like this, after the baptism of negative emotions such as shock, horror, sadness, despair, etc., she suddenly remembered that before the incident, there was still more than half a month between it, and someone reminded herself of that incident.

It's just that she didn't think there was a problem at the time, although she was a little concerned about that face later, but she herself felt that she was suspicious, so she didn't remind her family or anything like that.

After all, she thinks so herself, and her family will definitely not care about it.

Now after what happened, in addition to sadness and horror, she also had a serious sense of self-guilt, always feeling that she actually had a chance to change all this, but she didn't seize that opportunity.

Misako Tojo didn't mean that she was angry or hated that person, she resented that the other party didn't force herself to do what she did more unreasonably when she didn't believe it, so as to change the tragedy.

She is just unwilling, very unwilling, her mother is gone, and the "murderer" has no news at all, looking at the appearance of those policemen, there is no hope of catching it.

The guilt, which was far stronger than sadness and horror after the incident, tormented her all the time. This made the girl feel that she had to do something to make up for her mistakes.

That's right, she felt that she had indeed committed an unforgivable mistake by not seizing the opportunity.

Misako Higashiro didn't know what she could do, but she knew that if she didn't try, she would never feel at ease......

At least! At least figure out what that monster is! At least find out the truth about the murder of your mother!

That's what sustains her at the moment, but it's just ...... There is no viable plan for empty motivation, and it doesn't seem to be an option.

After all, after that person said those words that day, it seemed to have completely disappeared, and Misako Higashiro never saw him come to the izakaya again.

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……

After sending off the classmates, the girl, with her long straight black hair and unpowdered face, looked very listless, looked back at the izakaya, and then let out a long sigh.

“mail~mail~mail~”

At this moment, the mobile phone in her pocket vibrated slightly, and the prompt of a text message was heard.

Misako Tojo blinked, then fumbled for a moment before taking her phone out and finding that it was an email from someone from a small web chat room she had joined not long ago.

The people in it are all lovers of supernatural and strange stories, and there are even people who believe in various urban legends, and try their best to dig deep into various related rumors in reality, looking for clues such as real clues.

Misako Tojo doesn't know how much truth there is, but it's one of the ways she hopes to be able to "do something".

If there really is something that cannot be understood, then without finding any clues, she can only first think of the other side of the world that may exist.

At this moment, the person who sent her an email was a person she knew in the chat room, maybe because Misako Tojo had said that she was very interested in that aspect of things, and wanted to know more about it, and continue to pay attention to something, and the other party now sent her an email directly.

The girl blinked, and quickly frowned.

It seems to be a very real case, about an illustrator who is suspected of going to the hospital for a check-up, but accidentally discovers that he has "oligospermia", and the probability of having a child is very small.

Therefore, he suspected that his wife was cheating, and his son was born to the other party and other wild men. In a fit of rage, he returned home, tortured his wife to death, and apparently sealed his son in a closet and starved to death.

However, there is a suspicion here, because it is said that only the body of the wife who was tortured and killed was found by the criminal police in the family, but the whereabouts of the child's body are unknown.

And that wasn't enough, and a few days later, the illustrator found his son's teacher, as he suspected that the adulterer was his son's teacher.

As a result, when he went to the door, the teacher also happened to visit his home, and the two of them staggered their schedules. The crazy and cruel man killed the teacher's pregnant wife and dissected the fetus in her womb......

"Hmm——!!"

Although there are no photos, just looking at the text description, Misako Tojo feels a strange and uncomfortable feeling of disgust welling up in her heart.

The next ending is the point.

After all, if you only look at the above part, it is a particularly bad criminal case, although it reflects the darkness and ugliness of human nature, but it is not something that a girl wants to know.

The first is that the mad illustrator is also dead, in the house where he tortured and killed the teacher's wife, but that's exactly where the problem lies.

Because the criminal police who went to the scene to verify it speculated that it was the illustrator who killed the poor woman and cut her abdomen with a thick-bladed kitchen knife to remove the fetus inside.

But—

How the hell did the illustrator himself die? I don't understand this at all.

After all, all the windows are locked from the inside, and the doors are not only locked, but also chained. In other words, the house is in a completely enclosed state.

Judging from the situation at the scene, there is no evidence that the poor woman, who was killed and had her abdomen cut open to remove the fetus, had the ability to let her body move and stab the murder weapon that killed her in the back when the illustrator turned to leave.

What's more, the fingerprints taken from the handle of the thick-bladed kitchen knife stuck in the man's back were not the poor woman's.

And the teacher was also found dead in the illustrator's house, but he also couldn't figure out the cause of death, and no cause of death was found in the innocent person.

But the most important thing is that the fingerprints on the handle of the knife that killed the illustrator at the end actually belonged to the illustrator's wife, who should have died on the ceiling of his house a long time ago.

"Did it happen five or six years ago......

Misako Tojo frowned, looking at the last person in the email and swore that he had his own news channel, although he couldn't open the proof, but everything was true.

Even the internal files of the police department must have been recorded in this way.

This was an unsolved case that happened about five or six years ago, and it was a sensation at the time, but not many people remember it now. It's just that the person who sent the email said that he lived near the illustrator's house, so he was always concerned.

And he couldn't help but pay no attention to it, because over the years, the old house has been rented out to other people many times, and basically every family has been wiped out because of various accidents without exception.

- Everyone said that the room was cursed, and there was definitely something wrong with it......

If Misako Tojo really wants to chase this kind of thing, then that room is definitely the most likely to have "something".

At the end of the email, the other party is very careful to ensure that what he says is true.

He can't say for sure if there's really something terrible there, but if Misako Tojo really has something wrong with it, he won't be responsible for it, he just provides the information he knows, and lets the girl do what she does.

"Is that second-hand house in Nerima Ward? It's so close, I thought it was somewhere other than Tokyo......."

The girl swiped the screen of her phone and looked at the address sent by the other party and a real photo.

It was a fairly large Toutian villa, but it was very old, with a red brick doorpost with a "Tokuei" sign and a yellow band around the house that said "No Entry".

- Tokunaga is said to be the last family to die here, and the original family was Saeki.

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