"Ha-huh, it's okay, I'm back."

On the single bed of the low-rent apartment, Kamiyagawa, who had returned to consciousness, sat up suddenly.

Back in reality, he immediately went to check his left arm.

OK.

There are no maggots wriggling inside the body.

Then there is the emotional and thinking level.

When he was invaded by black maggots in the world just now, Kamiyagawa felt that his brain was uncontrollably filled with tyranny, killing, greed, and possessiveness, so that he could not think.

And now back to reality, there are still some remnants of this negative depravity.

But only a little bit, it can't control his thinking.

Sitting on the bed to adjust his emotions, this little bit of depravity finally slowly dissipated.

"It seems that although those maggots can't follow my return into reality, their influence on thinking and emotions can be brought back."

This should be the "danger" that Zashiki boy sensed when he was trying to avoid evil.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for the maggots to invade the body just now.

With the cooperation of Pranya, Tapir, and Mary, it only took more than ten seconds for Kamiyagawa to detect that something was wrong and to be sent out of the strange world by Mary with his head cut off.

If you have been in the body for a long time by those maggots, it is really hard to say whether your mind can return to normal after returning to reality.

"It's dangerous."

Thinking about it this way, Kamiya felt a little scared.

"Does it hurt?"

At this time, a familiar and cold female voice came from the mobile phone in Kamiyagawa's pocket, and Miss Mary in a black and red dress appeared from the bedside.

Mary is now slightly damaged.

The gothic skirt, which was originally extremely gorgeous and even a little exaggerated, is now stained with a lot of blood, and there are several cracks, revealing fair skin with wounds.

"It doesn't matter if it hurts or not, it's thanks to your decisive move to send me out." Kamiyagawa looked at Mary, "It's time for you to take a break from the idol. Maybe I would like to call out Prajna and put some medicine powder on you first?"

The doll girl in the red and black dress did not reply, but bent down slightly.

"Does it hurt?"

Mary gently rubbed Kamiyagawa's neck with her fair, soft, but cold fingertips.

I could smell the scent of roses mixed with benzoin on her body, slightly aggressive, but it smelled good.

"Huh? What happened to Mary?"

To Kamiyagawa's surprise, Mary's second re-questioning was not through an electronic device.

Instead, she spoke up on her own.

The voice of the speech sounded a little clumsy, but it was soft and serious. It's much more vivid and emotional than the usual rustling of electronic devices.

Miss Mary spoke on her own, and Kamiyagawa had encountered this situation once before.

It happened on the night that she became Shikigami in the contract.

That night, Kamiyagawa also used his chest to feel the beating of Mary's heart.

"Mary, heartbeat...... Saddened. Kill you, and Mary will be sad."

The goth girl said this, her cold fingers slid down Kamiyagawa's neck, and finally grabbed Kamiyagawa's hand and pulled it to her chest and pressed it.

"Mary, somewhat, guilty."

In a beautiful soft touch, Kamiyagawa really touched and felt the chaotic thumping heartbeat.

"What's going on? Obviously, you hacked me to death before, and you didn't blink an eye...... Doesn't Mary become more emotional?"

Kamiyagawa thought so in his heart, but his mouth was comforting, "It's okay, I asked you to do it. You didn't kill me, you saved me. I'm not really going to die in the inner world, so it's okay."

"To kill you is to save you."

"Stop! It can't be understood that way! I can only say that the situation just now really saved me."

"Oh." Mary listened to Kamiya's words and nodded, "As long as you want, although Mary will be sad, she will still listen to you and kill you."

「…… Thank you so much."

「……」

"Snort."

Kamiyagawa and Mary were chatting when the voice of Pranya suddenly came from them.

Soon, a beautiful figure with purple and white underpants outlined in the room, suspended in midair.

Pranya crossed his hands in front of his chest and rolled his eyes wide at Mary and Kamiyagawa.

It's not a betrayal, is it?

Anyway, give me the least respect, and press me into the statue of the god and don't let me out!

Kamiyagawa, this dog man, should really go to the inner world and die one more death.

"Uh......"

Seeing Pranya appear, Kamiyagawa withdrew his hand from Mary.

After that, the dog god, the tapir, as well as the Zashiki boy and the little old man also appeared in the room one after another, and the low-rent apartment, which was not too big, became visually crowded.

"Ahem, everyone did a good job just now. If it weren't for your positive behavior, those black maggots would have caused me a lot of danger and trouble."

Seeing that everyone had come out, Kamiyagawa cleared his throat and thanked his own Shikigami Talkers by the way.

"Whew-"

After speaking, only the dog god barked quietly in frustration.

"It's alright, dog. You're also very brave in battle, and sensing the abnormalities of those maggots is not your forte."

Kamiyagawa calmed the dog, and the Shikigami chatters in the room began to revolve around him.

In fact, they showed up to check the physical condition of the master.

After Kamiyagawa was drilled into his body by a black maggot, how abnormal he became, the strange talk present was obvious to all.

"Wait a minute, check it, check it, don't pull my clothes......

"Yikes!"

"Abaaba!"

The weirdos jointly examined Kamiyagawa's body, and finally came to the conclusion that "there is no big problem".

This conclusion is mainly drawn by the little old man with super perceptual ability, and the Zashiki boy who can avoid evil.

Both of them said it was fine, so it should be really nothing.

……

The strange gods dissipated one after another, and returned to the statue of the god or the spirit to rest.

Kamiyagawa was left alone in the room again.

He began to relive the experience of the game he had just played.

First, I took out my phone again and checked the kill prompt this time-

[King Pig Bamboo has died, obtained 647 soul crystals!] ]

"The Pig King is indeed dead. Those quirky maggots shouldn't belong to it. When King Pig Bamboo turns to ashes and dissipates, those bugs are still there."

Moreover, the King of Pig Pipes only has a C grade.

Whether it is the evaluation given by the system, or the number of soul crystals that burst out after its death, it is enough to confirm this.

"So when the King of Pig Pipes entered the suspicious second stage, he burst out with a momentum comparable to B-level weird talks, and it is estimated that it is inseparable from those maggots."

In addition, Kamiyagawa has just been invaded by black maggots, and it can be regarded as at the cost of personal experience to obtain some additional information about maggots-

"Black maggots appear to be attracted to the wound and burrow into the target's body."

"The moment I was invaded by them, I felt that some of my inner traits expanded dramatically and became extreme, causing me to lose myself and even my brain to think."

Kamiyagawa is a person who feels pretty good about himself.

He didn't think there was anything wrong with him.

It is nothing more than that in the process of fighting and killing the enemy, sometimes you will get excited and the desire to kill will be high.

And there is also some greed for money and booty.

"I think that in the absence of self-interest to others, these two points are just understandable and trivial

Defect. But just now when the maggots entered my body, my mind became extremely tyrannical and greedy, and it should have been greatly magnified by those maggots."

"Those things can grasp certain negative traits within the host, and make these negative inners become extreme, and thus become the emotional root of depravity."

Kamiyagawa thought back to the feeling of being invaded by black maggots just now, and roughly made this guess.

"If you think about it this way, those bugs can't have anything to do with Fallen Mountain, right?"

The breath of depravity and filth.

It can give the King of Pig Pipes an aura comparable to that of a B-class.

In addition, Hikoko Fallen Yama is the boss of Aokigahara Sekiji in "Strange Tales of Things", and it is difficult for Kamiyagawa not to associate with this aspect.

"If what happened just now is really related to Fallen Yamahiko, I will have to go back to the Pig King Cave to see the situation when the CD of the dead paper man is better."

Considering that black maggots are really weird.

The second exploration can be carried out by a kabuki puppet on his behalf, and he can control it from a safe position.

"Also, after beating the King of Pig Pipes, I now feel even more that Grandma Shan has something to hide from me. How much does Grandma know about things related to the King of Pigs? Why does she want to *** kill the pig king?"

"That old woman's strange talk is too suspicious, and after adjusting the state and the Shikikami have all recovered, I will have to put on the skin of the ghost and confront her again."

……

Autumn afternoons are still a little cold.

In the playground of Hualing High School, there are three classes in physical education class.

A group of boys played football on the green field, sweating freely.

After the girls' runs, they get together in twos and threes to talk about the latest TV series, or the newly discovered jewelry shops and dessert shops.

This is a campus scene where anyone who sees it will sigh that youth is really good.

At this time, at the corner of the playground equipment room.

"Ishino-san, I like you, please stay with me! I want to protect you!"

A boy with a hedgehog head, holding a love letter in both hands, bows ninety degrees.

Opposite him is Sayuri Ishino, who has short hair and wears hearing aids.

"Protection......

Sayuri always felt that similar words seemed to have been heard by someone before.

"Thank you very much. But Okura-san, I'm sorry."

Unconsciously she raised her hand and touched the hearing aid on her ear.

This new pair of hearing aids was bought by her with Masao Nagatomo in the company.

However, Sayuri doesn't remember this anymore.

"Huh? Ishino-san......" The hedgehog-headed boy looked up in frustration, "Do you already have a boy you like?"

Sayuri Ishino nodded in a trance, but then shook her head again.

"Anyway, I can't respond to your thoughts, I'm sorry."

She simply rejected the boy who was showing her love, bowed slightly, and turned to leave.

Walking out of the back of the equipment room, Ishino met an acquaintance.

"Ah...... Kamiya-san, Gui'an."

"Hmm. Hello, Ishino."

"Kamiya-san's class, is there a physical education class right now?"

"Nope. I just came out of the health room and asked Mr. Mikami to write a fake note, and I was going to go home early." Kamiyagawa shook the fake slip in his hand.

"What's wrong?"

"It's not a big deal, it's just that some of them are insomnia and lack of sleep."

Kamiyagawa looked a little sluggish.

Ever since he learned that Xiao Pingtou was trapped in Aokigahara through Ruzuki Station, Kamiya pushed the progress of the world late every night.

To say that there has been a lack of sleep in the past two days is really true.

"Then you need to get some rest." Sayuri preached somewhat absentmindedly.

"Speaking of which." Kamiyagawa glanced towards the back of the equipment room, "You just refused, right?"

"Huh?"

"Sorry, I heard that

, not intentionally."

Kamiyagawa has always been in a state of deaf perception since he comprehended the autumn slash, and standing here and hearing the sound of conversation around the corner is really not intentional.

"Actually, it's nothing." Sayuri Ishino said this, and then seemed to think of something, and her tone became slightly excited, "Kamiya-san, since you are a soul eliminator, can I ask you a question?"

"You say."

"If I've been dreaming about the same lately, doesn't that mean anything? I've been dreaming of a guy for the past two days. I could still see his face in my dreams, but I couldn't remember anything when I woke up. I don't know who he is, but I always feel, I always feel ......."

"What do you think?"

"Don't laugh at me when you say it. I think that I and the boy I saw in my dream are a pair of lovers, he loves me very much, and I love him very much. I was scared in my dreams, afraid that I would never dream of him again...... I'm afraid to completely forget his existence. I always feel as if I've forgotten something important, and I don't know why it's happening......

Sayuri Ishino said this, and suddenly became extremely depressed, and even unconsciously cried a little in her words.

Kamiyagawa: ......

Perhaps sensing some gaffes, Sayuri Ishino calmed down slightly: "I'm sorry, Kamiya-san, I said something inexplicable. It's time for me to go to my friend's, you have a good rest. Goodbye."

"Well, goodbye."

Kamiyagawa looked at the back of Sayuri Ishino leaving, thoughtful.

Speaking of which, after bringing Nagatomo out of Aokigahara, can Sayuri remember him again?

Kamiya still remembers discussing the topic of "Kamihiku" with Onizuka.

The little witch has mentioned-

It is said that it is an official organization, and there has been a record of people who have no identity and can't tell where they came suddenly appear somewhere.

If entering the inner world leads to the obliteration of the original world, it is a permanent curse......

"It was a tragedy."

Kamiyagawa didn't know how to deal with this kind of thing.

Trying to find a way out of the predicament in Aokigahara and bringing Xiao Pingtou out is all he can do.

As for what happened next, he felt that he could not intervene.

Kamiyagawa put the fake slip in his pocket and turned around and walked towards the school gate.

The days after the Mid-Autumn Festival are quite short, and the sun in the sky is slowly sinking westward.

The cold wind tore the yellowing leaves and withered, and the crows crowed somewhere out of sight.

"Anyway, hold on until I bring you out, little flathead."