"Ishino, can I see your phone?"
"OK."
Ishino Sayuri must have trusted Kamiyagawa as her savior, so she unlocked the phone and handed it over without much hesitation.
Kamiya first opened her Line to check, but did not see Nagatomo Masao's account.
Then he opened the address book again, and also didn't see any information related to Changyou.
He took out his mobile phone again and checked the address book. Unlike the situation with Ishino Sayuri, Xiaopingtou's mobile phone number was still in his address book.
Kamiyagawa dialed Nagatomo Masao's number on two mobile phones.
When Ishino's mobile phone dialed this number, it showed that it was empty.
But when I called him on my mobile phone, it showed that the callee was not in the service area.
Kamitani held two mobile phones and fell into deep thought.
Until Ishino Sayuri's slightly worried voice sounded next to her: "Kamiya-kun, are you okay?"
"I'm fine." Kamiya returned Ishino's phone to her, "I still have some things to do. Goodbye, Ishino."
"Oh, okay, bye."
Sayuri took back her phone and stared blankly at Kamiyagawa leaving quickly.
strangeness.
What happened to Kamiya-san today?
…
"Classmate, are you in the wrong classroom? There is no one named Masao Nagatomo in our class."
Kamiyagawa: "That's right. Who does the empty seat over there belong to?"
"Ah...that one seems to be always empty."
Kamiyagawa: "Okay, thank you."
…
"Masao Nagatomo...? There is no such person in the baseball club?"
Kamiyagawa: "Okay, excuse me."
…
Toot.
"Hello, Mr. Kamiya? Why are you calling me when you have time?"
"Ah, tell me Kenji. Everything is normal with him. The incident with the weird doll that hit the spirit last time should be considered a complete change. I have to express my gratitude to you again."
"The details of the last ghost removal...why do you ask? Who introduced you here...well, you obviously came here on your own."
…
Ding bell——ding bell——
The crisp sound of bells rang.
The little God of Fortune, dressed in a red and white kimono, appeared at the call of his old father.
Kamiyagawa: "Zashiki, do you remember Nagatomo Masao? It was the family you stayed in before...who had a crew cut and a square head."
"ah?"
Zashiki blinked childishly and shook his head in confusion.
"What about Prajna, Mary? What about you? Do you still have any impressions?"
Hannya first looked at the confused little God of Fortune with confusion, then looked at Kamiya River, and nodded slightly hesitantly.
Miss Mary didn't have so many vivid expressions and movements, her eyes always stayed on Kamiya and she nodded.
It seems that the two of them still remember the little crew chief.
…
Kamiyagawa asked almost everyone he knew related to Nagatomo Masao.
In the end, they found that in their cognition, the person Xiao Pingtou did not exist.
This elimination of existence on the cognitive level has even affected Kaitan. He has been the "house god" of Nagatomo's family for a long time, but he also denies knowing Masao Nagatomo.
The little old man who had met Changyou did the same and said he had never seen this person before.
If you ask around this time, three people will become tigers, and everyone's opinion will make gold.
Everyone was so confident in what they said. Of course, Kamiyagawa was a little confused and almost thought there was something wrong with his own cognition.
But fortunately, he has always been the kind of character who insists on himself.
It’s not me that’s wrong, it’s the world.
In addition to his two shikigami, Mary and Prajna are also
It proves that Nagatomo Masao exists.
"So the current situation is that in this world, I and my shikigami are the only ones who still remember that Little Flat Head once existed."
Kamiyagawa began to sort out the current situation seriously.
It is currently unknown what happened to Xiao Pingtou, which caused his existence in the real world and other people's knowledge of him to disappear.
But what is certain is that the unknown force he encountered must be very powerful and strange.
"People who knew him don't remember him, and even the evidence that he lived in this world, including clearly objective Line chat records, call records, personal belongings and other things, all disappeared together... This is simply a complete insult to a person. Total social erasure.”
"But why do I remember him? Mary and Hannya, who have met him before, also remember... Mary and Hannya will remember the little flat head, and it is probably my reason. They are my shikigami, and they have a strong connection with me. The contractual bond. But Zashiki and the little old man don’t have..."
The problem should be with you.
The only thing Kamiyagawa can think of, and the biggest difference between himself and others, is that he can freely travel between the inner and outer worlds through the Kannada and paper scapegoats provided by "Kaidan Monogatari".
"So, the disappearance of Nagatomo is probably related to the other world?"
Such speculations came to Kamiya's mind almost naturally.
"He didn't go to the other world, did he?"
It’s mentioned in the optional missions at Kisaragi Station——
[The strangers who are trapped in the world of ghost stories for various reasons are all in an unstable state of existence. Do not treat them the same way you would treat living people. ]
It can be inferred from this that living people who directly enter the other world will be greatly negatively affected.
Perhaps the erasure of their existence in the real world is a kind of negative impact?
"Besides, Kisaragi Station..."
Kamiyagawa clearly remembered that the marking point at Kisaragi Station did not exist at the beginning.
After I clicked on Aokigahara Juumi's kami and rescued the female anchor named Yoneyama Eri, it suddenly appeared on my phone.
"Assuming that when the Kisaragi Station mark appears, it is the most active time of this alien station. Can we guess that at that time, the tram leading to the Kisaragi Station platform is in operation?"
The answer is obvious as to what the famous urban ghost story Kisaragi Tram will do when it is in operation.
That is to send living people from the real world to another world.
"It can't really be such a coincidence, right? Little Pintou got on the train that runs through Kisaragi Station last night, and thus entered the other world, causing his existence in reality to be completely erased?"
If all Kamiya's previous speculations are true, then there is a possibility for this development.
And at this time, think carefully about Xiao Pingtou’s previous experience——
The family has a zashiki boy; he encounters Hanako while searching for ghosts with his girlfriend; and his good friend Kenji Masame is haunted by an evil doll.
Although this guy is masculine enough and seems to have a lot of yang energy, he might have a special physique that collides with spirits.
…
After thinking again and again, Kamiyagawa dialed Onitsuka Kirihota's phone number.
After a few rings, the phone was picked up.
The little miko's voice rang from the other end of the phone: "Kamiya? Why are you calling me at this time? I was in class just now, and my cell phone was almost discovered by the class teacher."
"Onizuka, I want to ask you something." Kamiyagawa got straight to the point, "Is it possible for ordinary people to enter the otherworld where Kaidan exists and disappear without a trace?"
"A stranger enters the other world? Hmm...are you talking about the hidden world?"
"Shenyin is missing, right?"
"No, no. Ordinary disappearances cannot be regarded as true disappearance. There is a saying that for people who have truly disappeared, even all the evidence of their own existence will be hidden by ghosts and gods. Have you heard of it? A spectator?"
The little witch was on the other end of the phone, briefly talking about watching the game.
People’s stories:
It is said that a woodcutter lost his way while collecting firewood in the mountains. He happened upon an immortal playing chess and stayed at the edge of the chess game for a while. Then he found his way out of the mountain and returned home, only to find that his wife and children, including all the villagers, no longer recognized him.
After several inquiries, the wife said that her child was born to a foreign salesman when she was young and ignorant, but there was no trace of the so-called salesman after that.
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: "So, is there any official record of such a person who was truly hidden by the gods?"
"I can't say for sure. But think about it, if a person really disappears, even everything in the past disappears. Then who would know that he is missing? But I seem to have seen it and checked it before. A record of a person who has no identity and cannot explain his or her life experience suddenly appearing somewhere.”
"knew."
"Kamiya, are you in any trouble?"
"Not that I have."
"If you have any troubles that you can't solve, remember to tell me. If the two of us can't solve it, I will ask your mother-in-law for you. Although my mother-in-law always talks about me, she actually loves me very much - ah, No more, no more, I've been away from class for too long. I'll call you back later!"
Toot——
Onizuka hung up the call.
Kamiyagawa, on the other hand, looked at the black screen of his mobile phone and fell into deep thought again.
…
Clang-clang-clang-clang-
The monotonous sound of the tram running tirelessly repeated itself in my ears.
Nagatomo Masao opened his eyes in a daze, feeling as if he had had a long dream, but he could not remember the specific details of the dream.
"Where is the train?" Masao Nagatomo glanced out the window of the running train, only to find that the scenery outside was extremely unfamiliar. "It seems...daytime outside? Have I slept for so long?"
The little boy stood up from his seat in shock and shook his heavy head.
Something is clearly wrong with the current situation.
The little flat-headed Nagatomo Masao only remembered that he and his girlfriend Sayuri Ishino went on a date at Ueno Zoo today.
Because school starts tomorrow, the two plan to have another fun day on the last day of 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 usual, Xiaopingtou first took the tram to send Ishino Sayuri to her door, and then took the opposite tram home at the same station.
He came home a little late, just in time to catch 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.
Nagatomo was sitting and exchanging messages with his girlfriend.
After sitting for an unknown number of stops, the voices of other passengers around me suddenly disappeared and became extremely quiet. When the little boy raised his head, he couldn't see anyone else in the carriage.
The tram carriage swayed slightly with the movement of the train, and the lights inside were bright and steady.
But there was no one.
Before he could realize what was going on, he heard the sound of the tram entering the tunnel.
The surroundings suddenly fell into darkness.
After that, Nagatomo Masao didn't know what happened, and it seemed like it was now when he woke up again.
He looked around. Unlike the situation before he lost consciousness, the car was not empty now. There were other people besides him.
She was an aunt dressed as a housewife, about 40 years old.
With the same look of fear and confusion, Nagatomo estimated that the other party's situation should be the same as his own now.
"Little classmate...where are we? I seemed to have fallen asleep just now...what happened?"
The aunt said so.
Nagatomo Masao was just silent
He shook his head, indicating that he didn't know the situation.
He got up and went to other carriages to check the situation and found that there were other people on the tram.
Counting him and the housewife, there were four more people.
An OL sister in professional attire; a female high school student about the same age as herself; a young man with a wolf tail; and an old man with gray hair but still wearing a suit and still looking like a social beast.
The conductor and tram conductor were not found.
Everyone's situation was similar to that of Nagatomo Masao. They looked uneasy and didn't know what was going on.
The six people gathered together. After more than ten minutes, they all slowly calmed down. Then, at the suggestion of the old social worker, they exchanged information and situations.
Through communication, they discovered that they boarded this strange tram at different times.
For example, Changyou took the last train on the night of the 12th.
But others took the bus during the day on the 12th, and some took the bus in the afternoon around the 5th of the month. The young man with the wolf tail reported that the bus ride was even last month.
The only thing the six people have in common is that they have all transferred to trams in the opposite direction at the tram terminal for various reasons.
During the ride, the surroundings suddenly became quiet, and then passed through a tunnel and lost consciousness.
When I wake up again, it seems like it is now.
People who took the tram at different times appeared in the same space.
Things started to get weirder.
Just as the atmosphere on the tram became more tense and uneasy, there was a "clang" sound, the vehicle trembled violently, and then slowly stopped.
At the same time, the car door suddenly opened.
The six people in the car looked outside. Although it was daytime outside, it was gloomy.
The tram was stopping at a simple platform.
On the shed on the platform, an older metal sign hangs, with the name of this station written on it - Kisaragi Station.
"Kisaragi Station! We are at Kisaragi Station!?"
"This... Kisaragi Station is obviously just a story, right!?"
Several of the six people took a breath when they saw the platform.
Kisaragi Station is such a famous urban legend.
The six people present have heard it more or less, but they are in the minority if they don't know.
