"Ha-huh, okay, I'm back."
On the single bed in the low-rent apartment, Kamiyakawa sat up suddenly after returning to consciousness.
Returning to reality, he immediately checked his left arm.
fine.
There are no maggots crawling inside the body.
Then there is the emotional and thinking level.
When black maggots invaded his body in the world just now, Kamiyagawa felt that his brain was uncontrollably filled with violence, killing, greed, and possessiveness, making him unable to think.
But now returning to reality, some of this negative and degenerate emotion still remains.
But only a little bit, it can no longer influence his thinking.
I sat on the bed and adjusted my mood, and the remaining depraved mood finally slowly dissipated.
"It seems that although those maggots cannot follow my return into reality, their influence on thinking and emotions can be brought back."
This should be the "danger" that Zashiki Warashi senses when seeking good fortune and avoiding misfortune.
Fortunately, the maggots had not invaded my body for long.
With the cooperation of Prajna, Tapir, and Mary, it only took a dozen seconds for Kamiyagawa to realize something was wrong and beheaded by Mary before being sent out of the Kaitan World.
If those maggots had been inside the body for a longer time, it would be hard to say whether his mind would be able to return to normal after returning to reality.
"so close."
Thinking about it this way, Kamiya felt a little scared.
"Does it hurt?"
At this time, a familiar yet 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 in a slightly battle-damaged state.
The gothic dress, which was originally extremely gorgeous and even a bit exaggerated, was now stained with a lot of blood and cracked in several places, revealing fair skin with wounds.
"It doesn't matter whether it hurts or not. Thank you for your decisive action and getting me out." Kamiyakawa looked at Mary, "It's time for you to go back to the shikigami statue and take a rest. Maybe you should call Hannya out and give you a compress first." Some powder?"
The doll girl in the red and black dress didn't reply, she just bent down slightly.
"Does it hurt?"
Mary gently rubbed Kamiyakawa's neck with her white, soft but cold fingertips.
I could smell the scent of roses mixed with benzoin on her body. It was slightly aggressive, but it smelled good.
"Eh? What's wrong with Mary?"
What surprised Kamiyagawa was that Mary's second question was not delivered through an electronic device.
Instead, she spoke up herself.
The speaking voice sounded a little awkward, but soft and serious. It's much more vivid and emotional than the usual sounds mixed in with the rustling current of electronic equipment.
Miss Mary spoke by herself. Kamiyagawa had encountered this situation once before.
It happened on the night when she contracted to become a shikigami.
That night, Kamiyagawa also used his own chest to additionally feel the heartbeat in Mary's chest.
"Mary, my heart is beating...sadly. If I kill you, Mary will be very sad."
The gothic ghost story girl said this, her cold fingers slid down Kamiyakawa's neck, and finally grabbed Kamiyakawa's hand, pulled it to her chest and pressed it.
"Mary, I feel a little guilty."
Amidst the beautiful soft touch, Kamiyagawa really felt the chaotic pounding of his heart.
"What's going on? You obviously hacked me to death before, without blinking an eye... Looking at it this way, has Mary become more emotional?"
Kamiyakawa thought this in his heart, but he comforted him: "It doesn't matter, I asked you to take action. You didn't kill me, but saved me. I won't really die in the other world, so it does not matter."
"Killing you means saving you."
"Stop! You can't understand it like this! I can only say that you were really saving me in the situation just now."
"Oh." Mary nodded after listening to Kamiya's words, "As long as you want to, Mary will be sad, but she will still listen to you and kill you."
"…Then thank you very much."
"..."
"laugh."
Kamiyagawa and Mary were chatting, and Hannya's voice suddenly came from beside them.
Soon, a beautiful figure with purple and white ruffles appeared in the room, suspended in mid-air.
Hannya crossed his arms in front of his chest and rolled his eyes at Mary and Kamiyagawa.
This is no longer a betrayal, right?
At least give me the most basic respect, press me into the shikigami statue and prevent me from coming out. Hey!
This bitch Kamiyagawa really deserves to go to the other world and die one more time.
"Well……"
Seeing Hannya appear, Kamiyagawa withdrew his hand from Mary.
After that, Inugami, Tapir, Zashiki Warashi, and a little old man also appeared in the room one after another. The low-rent apartment, which was not too big in the first place, became visually crowded.
"Ahem, everyone did a good job just now. If you hadn't been active, those black maggots would have brought me great danger and trouble."
Seeing everyone come out, Kamiyagawa cleared his throat and thanked his own Shikigami Kaitan.
"Ouch——"
After finishing speaking, only Inugami barked slightly in frustration.
"It's okay, Gouzi. You are very brave in combat. Sensing the abnormalities of those maggots is not your strong point."
Kamiyagawa comforted Gouzi, and the shikigami ghost stories in the room began to circle around him.
In fact, they all showed up to check on the master's physical condition.
After Kamiyagawa was burrowed into his body by black maggots, how abnormal he became, and the strange stories present were all there for all to see.
"Wait a minute, check it out, don't pull my clothes..."
"ah!"
"Aba Aba!"
The weird tales teamed up to check Kamiyagawa's body, and finally came to the conclusion that "it's nothing serious."
This conclusion was mainly drawn by the little old man with super-sensory abilities and the Zashiki-dashi child who could seek good fortune and avoid misfortune.
If both of them said it was fine, then it should mean that nothing really happened.
…
The weird shikigami disappeared one after another and returned to rest in shikigami statues or spiritual beings.
Kamiyakawa was left alone in the room again.
He began to review the experience of the game just now.
First, he took out his phone again and checked the kill prompt——
[The Pig King has died and received 647 soul crystals! ]
"The Pig King is indeed dead. Those weird maggots probably don't belong to him. When the Pig King turns into ashes and dissipates, those bugs are still there."
Moreover, King Inojisa is only C-level.
Both the evaluation given by the system and the number of soul crystals exploded after its death are enough to confirm this.
"So when King Inojisa entered the suspected second stage, he erupted with an aura that was comparable to a B-level ghost story. It probably has something to do with those maggots."
In addition, Kamiyagawa had just been invaded by black maggots, and he had gained some additional information about maggots at the cost of personal experience——
"Black maggots seem to be attracted to wounds and burrow into the target's body."
"The moment I was invaded by them, I felt that some of my inner qualities expanded rapidly and became extreme, leading to me losing myself and even being unable to think."
Kamiyagawa feels quite good about himself.
He doesn't think there's anything seriously wrong with him.
It's nothing more than that in the process of fighting against the enemy, sometimes one becomes excited and has a heightened desire to kill.
And there are some who are greedy for money and loot.
"I think these two points are just small things that are understandable without benefiting oneself at the expense of others.
Something wrong. But just now the maggots entered my body, and my thoughts became extremely violent and greedy. It should be that these two small problems were greatly magnified by those maggots. "
"Those things can capture certain negative qualities within the host and make these negative qualities become extreme, thus becoming the emotional root of depravity."
Kamitani thought about the feeling of being invaded by black maggots just now, and roughly made this guess.
"If you think about it this way, those bugs must have something to do with Touyama Yan, right?"
The smell of depravity and filth.
It can give King Inojisa an aura comparable to B-level.
In addition, Touyama Yanko is the designated boss of Aokigahara Pass in "Kaidan Monogatari", and it is difficult for Kamiyagawa not to think of this aspect.
"If what happened just now is really related to Tou Shanyan, I will have to go back to the Pig King's Cave to take another look at the situation after the CD of the Dead Paper Man gets better."
Considering the black maggots are really weird.
For the second exploration, you can let the kabuki puppet do it for you, and you can control it yourself from a safe position.
"Also, after beating the Pig King, I now feel even more that Shan Lao is hiding something from me. How much does Shan Lao know about the Pig King? And why does she want to kill the Pig King?"
"That old woman's ghost stories are too suspicious. After I adjust my state and all the shikigami are healed, I have to put on the ghost skin and confront her again."
…
It was still a bit cold in the autumn afternoon.
On the playground of Hualing High School, three classes are taking physical education classes.
A group of boys played football on the green field, sweating freely.
After the girls finished running, they gathered together in twos and threes to chat and discuss the latest TV series, or the newly discovered jewelry store or dessert shop.
Anyone who watches this will sigh and say that youth is such a beautiful campus scene.
At this time, the corner of the playground equipment room.
"Ishino-kun, I like you, please stay with me! I hope to protect you!"
A boy with a spiky head held a love letter in both hands and bowed at ninety degrees.
Opposite him is Sayuri Ishino, who has short hair and wears a hearing aid.
"Protect..."
Sayuri always felt like she had heard similar words from someone before.
"Well, thank you very much. But Okura-san, I'm sorry."
She unconsciously raised her hand to touch the hearing aid on her ear.
This new pair of hearing aids was something she bought together with Masao Nagatomo.
However, Sayuri no longer remembers this.
"Ah? Ishino-san..." The spiky-headed boy looked up with a frustrated expression, "Do you already have a boy you like?"
Ishino Sayuri nodded in a daze, but then shook her head.
"Anyway, I can't respond to your feelings, sorry."
She simply rejected the boy who showed her love, bowed slightly, and turned around to leave.
Walking out from behind the equipment room, Ishino met an acquaintance.
"Ah... Kamiya-san, Takao."
"Yes. Hello, Ishino."
"Kamiya-san's class, is there any physical education class now?"
"No. I came out of the health room just now and asked Mikami-sensei to write a leave note and prepare to go home early." Kamiyagawa shook the leave note in his hand.
"What's wrong?"
"It's nothing serious, just some insomnia and lack of sleep."
Kamiyagawa looked a little sluggish.
Ever since he learned that Hirata was trapped in Aokigahara through Kisaragi Station, Kamiya pushed the progress of the inner world until very late every night.
It's true to say that I haven't had enough sleep in the past two days.
"Then you should have a good rest." Sayuri said absently.
"Speaking of which." Kamiyagawa glanced towards the back of the equipment room, "You just refused, right?"
"ah?"
"Sorry, I happened to hear
, not intentionally. "
Since Kamiyagawa understood the Qiu Hao Zhan, he has always been in a perceptive state with sharp ears and eyes. Standing here and hearing the conversation around the corner, it was really not intentional.
"Actually, it's nothing." Ishino Sayuri said this, and then she seemed to have thought of something, and her tone became slightly excited, "Kamiya-kun, since you are a spiritual master, can I ask you a question?"
"you say."
"If I've been having similar dreams recently, does that mean something? I've been dreaming about a boy in the past two days. I can still see his face clearly in the dream, but I can't remember anything when I wake up. .I don’t know who he is, but I always feel, always feel..."
"What do you think?"
"Don't laugh at me when you say it. I feel that the boy I saw in the dream and I are lovers. He loves me very much and I love him very much. I was very scared in the dream, afraid that I would never dream of him again. ...Afraid of completely forgetting his existence. I always feel as if I have forgotten something important, and I don’t know why this is the case..."
As Sayuri Ishino said this, she suddenly became extremely depressed, and even cried a little unconsciously in her words.
Kamiyagawa:……
Perhaps sensing that she was a bit out of sorts, Ishino Sayuri calmed down a little: "Sorry, Kamiya-san, I said some incomprehensible words to myself. It's time for me to go to my friends. You have a good rest. Goodbye."
"See you."
Kamiyakawa looked at Ishino Sayuri's leaving figure, thoughtfully.
Speaking of which, after bringing Nagatomo out of Aokigahara, can Sayuri remember him again?
Kamiya still remembers when he and Onizuka were discussing the topic of "Kamiyaku".
The little witch once mentioned——
It is said that it is an official organization, and there have been records of people with no identity and unknown origin suddenly appearing somewhere.
If entering the other world and being obliterated from the original world is a permanent curse...
"That's such a tragedy."
Kamiyagawa didn't know how to deal with this kind of thing.
Trying to find a way out of the trouble for strangers in Aokigahara, so as to bring Xiao Pingtou out, is all he can do.
As for what happened next, he felt that he could not intervene.
Kamiyakawa put the leave note into his pocket, 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 toward the west.
The cold wind caused the yellow leaves to fall, and crows were cawing somewhere unseen.
"No matter what, hold on until I bring you out, little Flathead."
