Following the guard, the three of them arrived at the rabbit nest. The weather was hot and there were no rabbit corpses on the ground.
"It is said that more than 20 rabbits died?" Yuka Mamiya asked.
The guard nodded: "Yes, these rabbits are fed by students, but they all died overnight last night."
Mamiya Yuuka lowered her head and began to check, but Kiryu Yishi was helpless. He was neither a pure detective nor a zoologist, so investigation was not his strong point.
The only thing that is certain is that there should be no strange stories at the scene.
Mamiya Yuka stood up, shook her head slightly at Kiryu Ichimei, and then said: "Can you please take us to the classroom with the "living portrait"?"
"What?" The guard was stunned. These two people claimed to be majoring in animal-related studies. Why did they let him take them to that classroom?
"We heard that something strange happened at Tongshou Elementary School." Yuka Mamiya cleared her throat and introduced herself: "I am a folklore student at Sumino University."
"Didn't you just say that you were..." The guard opened his mouth.
"Teacher Kiryu is indeed a relevant researcher. I came here for another matter," Yuka Mamiya said, "We just happened to come together."
Just say it like this, will the other party believe it?
Kiryu Yiyi looked at Yuka Mamiya with suspicion, and even prepared to be expelled.
But I didn't expect...
The guard nodded: "Yes, I understand!"
Just when Kiryu felt incredible, the guard said: "My nephew is also a student of Tongshou Elementary School. He said before that he saw moving portraits and was frightened. After going to the hospital for examination, he said he was mentally ill. Trauma, requiring hospitalization.”
"Recently, there have been several similar cases of students dropping out of school. To be honest, I felt something was wrong."
"By the way, is there a person named Narusuke Nono in your school?"
"Teacher Nuno? Yes." The guard nodded, and then asked: "What, Teacher Kiryu, are you and Teacher Nuno acquaintances?"
"I've only heard of his name as a psychic teacher."
"Psychic teacher?" The guard scratched his head: "How come I haven't heard of it? Does Teacher Nuno have that kind of ability?"
"Don't he wear a glove on his left hand every day?"
"No." The doorman shook his head.
"..." Kiryu Yiichi was confused: "Could it be that the Narusuke Nono of this world is not the teacher of Hell?"
When he thought about being exposed to countless worlds through Oshikiri Toru, he found the answer in his heart.
"It's as if in a certain world, Kiryu Ichizu is a real delinquent, and it seems that it doesn't matter that Narusuke Nono is an ordinary person here."
The three of them came to the door of a classroom, and the guard took out the key and unlocked it.
"That's the Mona Lisa."
The guard pointed to a portrait covered with a white cloth.
Kiryu Yiyi walked over directly.
Folklorist] has been activated.
In other words, this portrait is really a ghost story.
"Can I trouble you to go out first?" Seeing this, Yuka Mamiya said to the guard beside her: "We are not sure anything weird has happened, so it is best for ordinary people to leave here."
"Oh oh ok!" The guard nodded: "Come on!"
He left quickly and closed the door.
Kiryu Ichiru turned to look at Yuka Mamiya helplessly: "Shouldn't you leave?"
"Hehe! How can I leave at such an important moment!" Yuka Mamiya took out her mobile phone: "I want to record Mr. Kiryu's bravery in defeating demons."
"Then I should really thank you."
Kiryu pulled open the white cloth with force, but he didn't feel a very scary aura from the portrait.
"Is this... a portrait of Mona Lisa?"
He looked at the portrait with a strange expression.
In the portrait, a woman has her back turned to him.
This is the back portrait of Mona Lisa.
Mona Lisa, who had her back to the screen, suddenly turned her head.
"The portrait moved!" Yuka Mamiya exclaimed, but her hands holding the phone were very stable, not trembling at all.
"Um"
Kiryu Yiyi grabbed the white cloth and quickly retreated.
Then I saw Mona Lisa reaching out her hand, grabbing the drawing board, and crawling out.
"That's it?"
Kiryu Yishi looked at Mona Lisa rubbing against his legs like a puppy, and suddenly felt that something was wrong with his whole body.
"I seem to have seen similar conjectures on a certain project conducted by Mr. Kirizaki and Professor Oyama of Nanto University."
"What guess?"
"Fantasy Demon" Mamiya Yuka walked up to "Mona Lisa" and wanted to reach out to touch her, but Kiryuu's quick eyes and hands grabbed her wrist and pulled her away.
Katcha!
The chin of Guitan, who looked like a woman, suddenly split open and opened a big mouth full of teeth.
That face was like a mask, like the patterns on the wings of a human-faced butterfly, rather than a real face, whose true appearance was hidden under the mask.
Fortunately, Kiryu's first-class reaction was quick, so this bite was in vain.
"Don't come close! It should have a special sense of spiritual power. Maybe it feeds on it." Kiryu Yiyi stretched out his finger and released a little blue.
The gleaming light was like fireflies flying out of his fingertips.
"Mona Lisa" suddenly sprang up, swallowed the light in one gulp, and then circled intimately around Kiryu Yiichi.
"Just like a dog" Kiryu sighed.
He turned to the pale-faced Mamiya Yuka and asked, "What is the fantasy demon you just mentioned?"
Mamiya Yuka, who had recovered slightly, said: "Professor Oyama once believed that the modern Internet is an important way for the spread of ghost stories, but there are many ghost stories that obviously do not exist, such as Hanako, The Thirteen Steps, the Slit Girl, etc., because they are not certain It is a legend specific to a region, but a legend across the country, without any basis or origin. Most of those so-called legends are made up by students themselves, and no relevant information can be investigated at all."
"But some people still claim to have seen them."
"Teachers believe that the spread of such strange rumors, as well as the power of "belief" and fear, will make conjectures become reality. They call this kind of strange rumors "fantasy monsters", which will change with people's discussions. And appear and slowly become stronger.”
"Where are the means of elimination?"
"It makes people forget, or don't believe it exists."
Mamiya Yuuka looked at the Mona Lisa on the ground with some fear: "It must be the students of Tongshou Elementary School. The rumors spread among them, which led to the increase in the number of strange stories."
"At present, its strength is not strong and its speed is very slow. It is purely wishful thinking to catch the rabbit," Kiryu said: "But if we continue to discuss it like what you said, it may really become an invincible monster. "
"But if it's a lie, then why do animals die in large numbers?"
The two left the classroom, and the guard was still guarding the door.
"How are you two?"
"already solved"
After leaving Tongshou Elementary School, Mamiya Yuka curiously circled around Kiryu Ichiru.
"Where did you hide that painting?"
Kiryu raised his hand, and the portrait of Mona Lisa appeared.
"Well, it's right here."
Let go again and the portrait disappears.
"I'm a magician."
Mamiya Yuka wrinkled her nose: "It's weird if I believe you. It's probably magic, or something like that."
