"Bang!"
In the dim room illuminated only by candlelight, a gunshot suddenly rang out.
Mr. Muraki, who was standing behind the tombkeeper, raised his hand expressionlessly. The bullet was fired from the pistol hidden under his robe and instantly penetrated into the chest of the defenseless tombkeeper in front.
"……cough!"
As if he still hadn't figured out what was going on, the gravekeeper's eyes widened, covering his chest that was gradually turning red, and slowly knelt down on the ground, with a puzzled look on his face.
"He...betrayed 'the Lord'."
The other believers in the room seemed to be frightened by the sudden gunfire, and there was silence at the moment.
Mr. Muraki put down his hand, lowered his head and looked coldly at the kneeling tombkeeper, and said:
"Not only was he controlled by filthy people and brainwashed by the vulgar worldly fallacies, he even wanted to misinterpret our teachings for them, pollute our faith, and tarnish our 'Lord'.
With such evil deeds, he... is no longer our companion. We should eradicate the traitor on behalf of the Lord! "
After speaking, Mr. Muraki turned to look at the other believers around him with cold eyes.
The believers looked at each other, no one spoke, and there was more or less a look of fear on their faces.
Although these people shouted to kill, in fact, no one had actually killed anyone with their own hands. In the past, when there were similar needs within the sect, the tombkeepers would do it. Now Mr. Muraki’s sudden The shooting really scared them.
"No, that's right!"
Finally, in this suffocating silence, a believer finally stood up and shouted:
"This guy has betrayed the 'Lord'! He must be eradicated!"
"Yes, yes! It must be eradicated! This must be the 'Lord''s idea too!"
"That's right! Kill him!"
When the first person stood up, the other remaining believers no longer hesitated and spoke in agreement.
Although they kept talking about the thoughts of "the Lord", everyone present knew in their hearts that they were killing people, killing people to cover up their crimes.
Kyoko and Hanada in the beginning, the gravekeepers in the present, and the little girl and the young police officer in the future...
"Well……"
I don't know if it was because of the gunfire, but the eyelids of Karasuma, who was originally unconscious, suddenly moved, and then slowly opened his eyes.
"It's all for 'the Lord'."
Unaware of Karasuma's awakening, Mr. Muraki's cold face finally showed a smile amidst everyone's comments.
There was still a dull pain in the back of his head, and Karasuma looked confusedly at the dim room and the strangers in robes around him.
who I am? where am I? What am I doing?
"Well!"
There was a stabbing pain in my mind, and the memories from before came flooding back in an instant.
Yes! When she was passing by the cemetery this morning, she was attacked by the tombkeeper who reported the crime!
damn it! Did it turn out that that guy also had a problem? Could it be that Kyoko’s classmate’s death had something to do with him? By the way, where is this place? Why do the clothes these people wear look like they belong to some religious group? Am I being kidnapped?
Small problem, my family has plenty of money. As long as we don’t break up the vote, everything else is easy to discuss...
"Oh? Are you awake?"
Finally, Mr. Muraki noticed the movements of Karasuma, whose hands and feet were tied on the bed beside him, and turned to look at her with a smile.
"You, you, you!" When he saw Mr. Muraki's face clearly, Karasuma's pupils suddenly shrank, and his heart suddenly became relieved.
【White teeth, white teeth, white teeth! Not a kidnapping! I'm being held hostage! 】
She remembered what the boy said to her in the police car last night about the Murakis possibly having problems. Combined with the current situation, how could she not have guessed that she was alone and taken hostage? What did these people want? Use her to threaten the boy!
"I, I advise you not to do stupid things..."
Kokarasuma, who huddled up in a ball on the bed, trembling with fear, looked directly at Mr. Muraki, who was smiling, and mustered up the courage to threaten:
"My family has a great background, and that wooden man is also very powerful. We have a very good relationship. If, if he finds out that you have tied me up, he will definitely kill you all..."
"Oh, is it so?"
"Of course! I advise you to let me go now. In this case, I can say a few good words to you when I go back and try to reduce your sentence. Otherwise, otherwise..."
"In this case, it seems that we need to modify our previous plan."
Seeing the scared look on Karasuma's face, who couldn't even pull off the tiger's skin, the smile on Mr. Muraki's face gradually became ferocious.
"We might as well dedicate her and the tomb keeper to our 'Lord' now. Then we can tell the policeman that it was the tomb keeper who brought her to this mountain, and deceive the policeman to come up and kill her too. Dedicated to the 'Lord', what do you think?"
"Oh!" Xiao Karasuma was so frightened that his whole body trembled and his face turned pale.
"madness……"
The gravekeeper's consciousness was gradually fading away. Although the injury on his chest did not kill him in an instant, it also made him lose the strength to resist. At this time, he was kneeling on the ground, listening to the excited shouts of these people. The sound of conversation and a whispered sentence.
These people are really hopeless...
He always thought that he could take these people to surrender, but he failed to live up to the young police officer's expectations of him...
But it doesn’t matter. The tombkeeper had already anticipated the current situation. Before going up the mountain, he had left enough clues and guidance at the foot of the mountain to help the young police officer find it...
There is no mistake. That cemetery is the only way to go up the mountain. During the conversation last night, the gravekeeper noticed that the young police officer had become suspicious of the mountain behind. He will definitely come over today to investigate. , and then, with the young police officer's ability, he must be able to detect the clues he left and finally find it here.
It doesn't matter, the end result is the same anyway...
"This...is fine."
Regarding Mr. Muraki's words, some believers immediately nodded in agreement, and then looked at the shivering little Karasuma on the bed, with a trace of fire flashing in their eyes.
"But if this is the case, why don't we use her to perform a 'holy' ceremony before doing this?"
"Ah, I happen to have this idea too..."
"Presumably in this way, the 'Lord' will like our sacrifices even more..."
"Hahaha!"
The room suddenly burst into joyful laughter from the male believers. Although Karasuma didn't know what the "holy" ceremony they were talking about was, as a female high school student, she could still understand the look in their eyes.
【It’s over, it’s over! 】
Boundless fear came like a tide. Under this extreme fear, her consciousness was on the verge of collapse. A figure suddenly appeared in her mind, causing her to shout almost instinctively:
"Wooden man! Come and save me quickly——"
"boom!"
Like a miracle, the next moment, the door to the room was kicked open from outside.
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(End of chapter)
