"Ishino, can I look at your phone?"

"Yes."

Sayuri Ishino should have trusted Kamiyagawa, the life-saving benefactor, and unlocked the phone without much hesitation and handed it over.

Kamiya first opened her Line to check, but didn't see Nagatomo Masao's account.

Then I opened the address book again, and I didn't see any information related to Changyou.

He took out his mobile phone again and checked the address book, unlike the situation on Sayuri Ishino's side, Xiao Pingtou's mobile phone number was still kept in his address book.

Kamiyagawa dialed Masao Nagatomo's number from two mobile phones.

Ishino's mobile phone dialed this number, and the number was empty.

However, when I called from my mobile phone, it showed that the callee was not in the service area.

Kamiyagawa held two mobile phones and fell into deep thought.

Until Sayuri Ishino's slightly worried voice sounded beside him: "Kamiya-san, are you okay?"

"I'm fine." Kamiya gave her back Ishino's phone, "I still have some things to do, goodbye, Ishino."

"Oh, okay, goodbye."

Sayuri took back her phone and watched Kamiyagawa leave briskly.

Odd.

What happened to Kamiya-san today?

……

"Classmate, are you looking for the wrong classroom? There is no one in our class named Masao Nagatomo."

Kamiyagawa: "That's right. Who does the empty space belong to?"

"Ah...... Well, it looks like it's always empty."

Kamiyagawa: "Okay, thank you."

……

"Nagatomo Masao......? There's no such person in the baseball club, are you?"

Kamiyagawa: "Okay, excuse me."

……

Doodle.

"Hey, hello. Mr. Kamiya? How can you call me when you have time?"

"Ah, you said Kenji. Everything is normal with him, and the last time he hit that weird doll and doll, it should be regarded as a complete turning page. I have to thank you again."

"Details of the last exorcism...... Why do you ask? Who were you introduced to...... Well, you're here on your own."

……

Jingle Bell – Jingle Bell -

The crisp sound of a bell rings.

The little god of good fortune, dressed in a red and white kimono, appeared at the call of his old father.

Kamiyagawa: "Zashiki, do you remember Natomo Masao? It's from the same family you were in before...... Keep a flat head, a square head."

"Huh?"

Zashiki blinked and shook his head in confusion.

"What about Prajna, Mary? What about you? Do you still have an impression?"

Hannya first looked at the ignorant little Fukujin, then at Kamiyagawa, and nodded slightly hesitantly.

Miss Mary didn't have so many vivid facial expressions, her eyes always stayed on Kamiya, and she also nodded.

It seems that the two of them still remember Xiao Pingtou.

……

Kamiyagawa asked almost everyone he knew.,Almost everyone related to Nagatomo Masao.。

In the end, it was found that in their cognition, Xiao Pingtou did not exist.

The elimination of this cognitive level has even affected the strange story, and Fu Bao, who has been a "house god" in Changyou's family for a long, long time, also denied that he knew Changyou Zhengo.

The little old man who had seen Changyou was the same, saying that he had never seen this person.

Ask in this circle, the three of them become tigers, and everyone is gold.

Everyone swore by it, and of course, Kamiyagawa was a little confused, and almost thought that there was something wrong with his cognition.

But fortunately, he has always been the kind of character who is more self-assertive.

It's not me that's wrong, it's the world.

Plus his own two Shikigods, Mary and Prajna

It proves that Nagatomo Masao exists.

"So the current situation is that in this world, only I still have my Shikigami who remember that Xiao Pingtou once existed."

Kamiyagawa began to seriously sort out the current situation.

It is not yet known what happened to Xiao Pingtou, causing his existence in the real world and other people's perception of him to disappear.

But what is certain is that the unknown force he encountered must be very powerful and weird.

"People who know him don't remember him, and even the evidence of his life in this world, including the obvious objective existence of Line chat records, call logs, personal belongings and other things, have all disappeared...... It's a complete social annihilation of a person."

"But why do I remember him? And Mary and Prajna, who had seen him, also remembered...... Mary and Prajna will remember Xiao Pingtou, and I guess it's also my reason, the two of them are my Shikami, and there is a strong contractual bond with me. And Zashiki and the little old man, they don't have ......."

The problem should be with yourself.

The only thing Kamiyagawa can think of, the biggest difference between himself and others, is that he can freely shuttle through the world of the surface and the dead paper man provided by "Strange Tales of Things".

"So, it's likely that the disappearance of the long friend has something to do with the inner world?"

Such speculation came to Kamiya's mind almost naturally.

"He can't have gone to the inner world, right?"

The optional mission at Ruyue Station is mentioned in it-

[Living people who are trapped in the world of strange tales for various reasons are in an unstable state of existence, so don't treat them the same way you would treat the living.] ]

It can be inferred from this that the living who directly enter the inner world will be greatly negatively affected.

Perhaps, the obliteration of their existence in the real world is a negative effect?

"And, Rugetsu Station ......"

Kamiyagawa clearly remembers that the marking point of Ruzuki Station did not exist at the beginning.

After I finished ordering the god of Aokigahara Kikai, I rescued the female anchor named Eri Yoneyama, and suddenly appeared in the phone.

"Let's say that when the Kirizuki Station marker appears, it's the most active time for this otherworldly station. Is it possible to guess that at that time, the train to the Rutsuki platform was in operation?"

The famous urban monster talks about what the Ruyue tram does when it is in operation, and the answer is obvious.

That is to send living people from the real world to the other world.

"It can't be that coincidental, right? Xiao Pingtou took the tram that passed through Ruyue Station last night, and thus entered the inner world, causing his existence in reality to be completely erased?"

If Kamiya's previous speculations are all true, then this development is a possibility.

And at this time, carefully recall the previous experience of Xiao Pingtou -

In the family, there is a boy with Zashiki; Encountering Hanako with his girlfriend Tanling; Good friend Kenji Masamome is haunted by an evil spirit doll.

Although this guy is masculine enough and has a very strong yang energy, he can't get a bit of a special spirit physique.

……

After thinking about it for a while, Kamiyagawa dialed Hotaru Onizuka's phone.

After a few rings, the phone is answered.

The voice of the little witch rang from the other end of the phone, "Kamiya? Why call me at this time. I was just in class, and my phone was almost discovered by the head teacher."

"Onizuka, I want to ask you something." Kamiyagawa got straight to the point, "Is it possible for ordinary people to enter the inner world where strange stories exist, and thus disappear without a trace?"

"The Living into the Inner World? Not...... Are you talking about the hidden gods?"

"Hidden is missing, right?"

"No, no. Ordinary disappearances are not truly hidden. There is a saying that people who are truly hidden by gods will be hidden by ghosts and gods even if they have all the evidence of their own existence.

The little witch was on the other end of the phone, briefly talking about watching the game

People's Stories:

It is said that there was a woodcutter who got lost while collecting firewood in the mountains. He met the immortals playing a game, stayed on the edge of the chess game for a while, and then found his way out of the mountain, and returned home, only to find that his wife and children, including all the villagers, no longer knew him.

After several inquiries, the wife said that her child was born to a foreign seller when she was young and ignorant, but the so-called seller was nowhere to be found.

In this way, the woodcutter lost his identity in this world and was forgotten by everyone.

After hearing this story, Kamiyagawa was silent for a while before speaking again: "Then officially, is there a record of such a person who has really been hidden by the gods?"

"I can't say for sure. But you think, if a person is really hidden, even everything in the past disappears. So who would have known that he was missing? But I think I've seen it, and there have been records of people who can't be identified and can't tell their background suddenly appear somewhere."

"Got it."

"Kamiya, are you in any trouble?"

"I don't."

"If there is a problem that can't be solved, remember to tell me, if the two of us can't solve it, I will help you beg your mother-in-law." Don't look at my mother-in-law's usual talk about me, but she actually loves me very much—ah, don't talk about it, I've slipped out of class for too long. I'll call you back later!"

Dudu –

Onizuka hung up the call.

Kamiyagawa, on the other hand, looked at the phone with a black screen and fell into deep thought again.

……

Boom - Boom –

The monotonous sound of the tram running tirelessly repeats in my ears.

Nagatomo Masao opened his eyes in a daze, feeling as if he had had a long dream, but he couldn't remember the specific details of the dream.

"Where is the train?" Nagatomo Masao glanced out the window of the running train, but found that the scenery outside was extremely unfamiliar, "It seems to be ...... outside Daytime? I've slept for so long?"

Xiao Pingtou stood up from his seat in great astonishment, shaking his somewhat heavy head.

The situation is clearly very wrong.

Masao Nagatomo, a small flathead, only remembers that he went to Ueno Zoo on a date with his girlfriend Sayuri Ishino today.

Because school will start tomorrow, the two plan to have another day of fun on the last day of the summer vacation.

The process of dating is naturally very happy.

The young couple watched the giant pandas together and had dinner together.

In the end, as is customary, Xiao Pingtou first took the train to Sayuri Ishino to her door, and then took the opposite train home at the same station.

He came home a little late, just in time for the last train.

I remember that although it was the last train, there were still many people in the carriage, but it was not too crowded, and there were empty seats everywhere.

Changyou was sitting and exchanging messages with his girlfriend at the time.

I don't know how many times after sitting for a few stops, the voices of other passengers around me suddenly disappeared and became extremely quiet. Xiao Pingtou raised his head at that time, and he couldn't see anyone else in the carriage.

The tram car sways slightly with the operation of the train, and the lights in the car are bright and stable.

But there was no one.

Before he could react to what was going on, he heard the sound of the tram entering the tunnel.

All around was dark.

After that, Nagatomo Masao didn't know what was going on, and it seemed like it was now when he came to his senses again.

He looked around, and unlike he had been before he lost consciousness, the carriage was not empty now, there were other people besides him.

It was an aunt dressed as a housewife, about 40 years old.

With the same panic and overwhelm on his face, Changyou estimated that the other party's situation should be the same as his current situation.

"Little Student...... Where are we? I seem to have fallen asleep just now...... What the hell is going on?"

The aunt said.

Masao Nagatomo was just silent

He shook his head, indicating that he was not aware of the situation.

He got up and went to the other cars to check on the situation and saw that there were other people on the tram.

Counting him and the housewife and aunt, there are four more people.

an OL sister in professional attire; A female high school student who is about the same age as herself; a young man with a wolf's tail; and an old uncle with gray hair, but still wearing a suit, who still looks like a social animal.

The crew and tram captain were not found.

Everyone was in a similar situation to Nagatomo Masao, with uneasy faces and no idea what was going on.

The six people gathered together, and it took more than ten minutes before they all slowly calmed down, and then at the suggestion of the old social animal uncle, they exchanged their respective information and situations.

Through their interactions, they discovered that they had different times to board this strange tram.

Like Changyou, on the night of the 12th, the last train to take.

But there are others who take the car during the day on the 12th, and there are also people who take the car in the afternoon around the 5th of the month. The young man with a wolf's tail reported the ride time even last month.

The only thing the six have in common is that they have all switched to a tram in the opposite direction at the tram's terminus for various reasons.

In the process of riding the car, the surroundings suddenly quieted down, and then through a location tunnel, I lost consciousness.

When I wake up again, it seems like it's now.

People who ride the train at different points in time appear in the same space.

Things are starting to get weirder.

Just as the atmosphere on the train became more tense, there was a "clang" and the car shook violently, and then slowly stopped.

At the same time, the door slammed open.

The six people in the car looked out, and although it was daytime, it was gloomy outside.

The tram is parked on the edge of a modest platform.

On the shed on the platform, an older metal sign hangs with the name of the station, Ruyue Station.

"Rutsuki Station! We're at Rutsuki Station!?"

"This ...... Ruzuki Station is obviously just a story, right!?"

Several of the six people gasped when they saw the platform.

Ruyue Station is such a well-known urban weird talk.

The six people present had more or less heard of it, but they didn't know it, but they were in the minority.