Night.

Old school building.

Kiryu unplugged the phone charging cable and stuffed the power bank back into his backpack.

"It's about 12 o'clock, let's go."

Midnight and early morning are definitely not an auspicious time, so Kiryu first-class and Yuka Mamiya are tentatively scheduled to act in the old school building at this time.

The likelihood of encountering strange stories is higher.

All they have to do is, one step, one step of the staircase.

The school building has 12 stairs, which is why there is a strange story of 13 stairs.

On the third floor, on the left staircase where Nagawa Weitai died.

Kiryu first-class and Mamiya Yuka one after the other, counting upwards.

“1”

“2”

“3”

With the faint light from the flashlight of the mobile phone, the two slowly walked up, walked one step, counted one step.

“10”

“11”

“12”

Kiryu first-class stopped.

At the end of the day, there are only 12 steps.

He waited quietly for the palace to finish counting.

Yuka Mamiya shook her head at him: "12th order." ”

"Is there something wrong?"

Kiryu is first-class, and I don't know why.

He looked at the wall on the right side of the staircase, and the blood splattered on the wall after Nagawa Weitai's head exploded like fireworks on a summer day.

Bloody and glaring.

The two went down the stairs.

Mamiya Yuka said: "Senior brother San, I have inquired about the rumors about the strange talk of the academy in your school. ”

"Oh, that's the one you said."

I'd heard it before, but Kiryu didn't pay much attention to it, and the possibility of the existence of these rumored weird stories was infinitely close to zero.

Do you have to clock in and out of office to make strange talks, all year round?

"It's similar to what I've found elsewhere and on the Internet," says Yuuka Mamiya, "and legend has it that a delinquent boy ran around the old school building because he angered his teacher, and then accidentally fell down and broke his head...... So, since then there has been an urban weirdo of the thirteen-staircase of the old school building. ”

Kiryu scratched his chin and nodded, "If it's a newly built school, what if the old school building doesn't exist?" Will there be this rumor too? ”

"I don't know" Mamiya Yuka shrugged: "In short, most of the urban legends I have learned are of this type. ”

"Count it again, if not, then it proves that someone used a strange method to try to hide the motive for the killing," Kiryu said, "and hand it over directly to the police and let the professionals investigate the murder." ”

"Hmm"

Yuka Mamiya nodded, agreeing with Kiryu's first-class decision.

“1”

“2”

“3”

The two of them went one after the other, and counted the stairs up again.

“11”

“12”

Kiryu is a first-class meal, because on top of the "12th step", there is still a ladder!

The alarm bell rang in his heart, and he quickly turned around and hugged Yuka Mamiya and jumped down the stairs.

"Ahh Yuka Mamiya was taken aback, but she still subconsciously hugged Kiryu's first-class neck.

"You...... You're so heavy," Kiryu staggered, nearly falling to the ground.

"Senior Brother Sang, your words are very rude!"

"I've counted to the 13th rank," Kiryu put down Yuka Mamiya with a serious expression.

"Really?"

Yuka Mamiya was successfully diverted, and then she excitedly took out her phone.

Tick, tick......

There is the sound of water.

"It's so sticky under your feet" Yuka Mamiya illuminated with her mobile phone and looked down.

It's all blood!

She looked up in the direction of the blood and it was actually down the stairs!

A man in a school outfit, with his back to the two, half of his skull vanished, leaving his brain naked in the air.

Just by looking at it, the stomach begins to move uncontrollably.

"Hmmm!"

Kiryu raised his hand and pulled out the demon sword flag.

His toes were dripping with blood, and he slowly walked up the stairs.

The stairs were slippery because they were all flowing blood.

The boy with his back to Kiryu's first-class turned his head reluctantly.

Ordinary slash out, but because it is a demon knife, it contains extremely powerful power, and it will cut off the boy's head in an instant.

"Not dead!"

Kiryu retreated quickly and landed beside Yuka Mamiya.

Yuka Mamiya, who was holding her mobile phone, asked, "Senior brother-san, how is it?" ”

"Prepare to escape."

"Huh?"

Kiryu first-class directly pulled Mamiya Yuka's arm, regardless of his struggle and opposition, and quickly rushed out.

Outside the old school building, he exhaled: "It's time for you to lose weight, is Officer Hai really willing to date you with such a heavy wind?" ”

"Junior brother, you're jealous."

Yuka Mamiya finished the recording on her mobile phone before she asked with a solemn expression, "What's going on?" ”

"That thing, it's not an ordinary weird thing."

Kiryu asked, "Do you remember the portrait of the Mona Lisa?" ”

"Hmm......" Yuka Mamiya nodded, and then surprised: "You mean......, this is also a fantasy demon?" ”

"That's right!"

Kiryu, who nodded, stared at the old school building with a first-class gaze, and after making sure that the Thirteenth Staircase Strange Tale had no intention of chasing him downstairs, he said, "If I remember correctly, like the portrait of the Mona Lisa, like the Thirteenth Staircase, it is a strange story like a family heirloom of many schools." ”

He swung his knife just now, and he was very sure that he had already slashed the other party, but the strange talk was not dead.

This is very much in line with the "fantasy demon" and will not be killed.

As long as its existence is recognized by the general public, and it continues to spread, reinforcing its fears, then the "fantasy demon" is real.

Forgetting is the only way to kill fantasy monsters.

"If it's the Mona Lisa, as long as I take the portrait away and wait for the time to cool, the rumors about the Mona Lisa will naturally disappear, but I can't resist that staircase, and even if I tear down the stairs of the old school building now, it shouldn't help."

Kiryu stared at the old school building: "After all, on the day of the sports meeting, the death of the thirteenth step just happened, and it is estimated that the rumors about this matter on the Internet will become more and more exaggerated, and it is impossible to forget it." ”

"Weird, isn't it?" "The rumors of the Thirteenth Ladder, no matter how the core of its development has changed over the years, what remains unchanged is that it will only appear at night. ”

"During the sports day, the student who died unexpectedly died in the daytime, right?"

"You mean that someone may have known about the Fantasy Demon before we did, and they plan to make the strange story come true through public opinion?"

Kiryu only felt a chill rush from his body.

The fantasy demon that cannot be killed is very difficult and complicated to form, and must first be recognized by the general public.

However, this is not very difficult, whether it is the "moving Mona Lisa portrait" or the "thirteen steps of the old school building", they are all rumors that have been precipitated over the years.

Nature has a foundation to be believed.

Fantasy demons, in fact, are similar to the legendary "gods", which are completely non-existent in reality.

But one relies on human fears to spread, and the other relies on human faith and incense.

Yuka Mamiya bit her fingers: "If there is really someone behind the scenes, what is his purpose?" ”

"I don't know what he's trying to do."

Kiryu said, "But one thing I'm pretty sure of is that person must have come to Hanadagaoka Middle School today, and he definitely knows Nagawa Weitai. ”

"If he wants to use sports to spread strange rumors among people, it must be the school's own people who can do it, and it can only be someone who knows Nagawa Weitai to trick him into the old school building."

"But how did he make the strange talk that can only appear at night can also appear during the day?"

"In other words, does he have the ability to control weird talk?"