I'm a teacher in Tokyo!

This information was something Kotoko had painstakingly investigated.

Yoshizaki Kawa claimed that he knew about it in advance—

"Was it a precognitive dream? Some people with special talents do have dreams that resemble precognition, which is why you've been so kind to Kayako from the beginning?"

At this moment, Kotoko suddenly asked this question out of the blue.

"That's not true."

As for Kayako, I didn't know who she was at first, it was just because I felt guilty.

If I had known her true identity, I doubt I would have been able to overcome my fear and lend her a helping hand.

Kotoko nodded in agreement with Yoshizaki's words, her eyes showing approval.

"So, what did you dream about this time?"

“I dreamt of Tomie’s tragic death, like a sacrificial ritual, with her face being peeled off and her limbs being broken.”

Just thinking about that scene in the dream made Yoshizaki Kawa feel a slight pang in her heart. As a responsible teacher, seeing her students go through something like that, even if it was just a dream, she couldn't calm down.

Regardless of what happens to her after she dies, for now, she is my student who has not yet graduated.

"A sacrificial ceremony?"

Kotoko, however, recalled a case that the Saitama Prefectural Police had previously reported.

“Previously, the Saitama Prefectural Police Department found a body in a ditch there. The body had been pierced by multiple wounds from a dagger, needle, and knife, and died of asphyxiation. According to the police investigation, he had a criminal record and had contact with a certain cult after his release from prison.”

"And, most coincidentally—"

"Tomie-kun's location should be on the other side of the riverbank, right? That's where the body was found."

Upon hearing Kotoko's words, Yoshizaki suddenly remembered that Tomie had told him before that someone had died nearby, so she was afraid to go home and planned to stay in the dormitory for a while.

So it seems that's the matter;

I need to find some time to visit Tomie's family and see if anything is going on around her.

The thought flashed through his mind, and Yoshizaki looked at Kotoko: "I understand, Miss Kotoko. In my dream, the horror of this matter was even more terrifying than the previous Ju-on. Please take it seriously."

"Is the summoned thing terrifying?"

"It is a terror capable of destroying Japan."

Kotoko felt a chill run down her spine from Yoshizaki's tone. She became even more aware of the seriousness of the matter. She didn't think Yoshizaki was lying, because there was absolutely no need for such a thing.

"I understand, I will do my best to investigate."

Kotoko sighed inwardly, feeling that Yoshizaki was like a magnet, attracting all sorts of monsters to him;

If you ever have any problems that are difficult to solve in the future, or if you encounter any troublesome or demonic entities, just leave them with him.

Anyway, he's so cool, he can definitely hold back... right?

After giving these instructions, Yoshizaki got into the car that Kotoko had modified overnight and fitted with anti-skid tires.

Let's go pick up Kayako and the others today, and then we can think about other things!

……

Kayako was curled up in bed, her notebook lying to one side;

She didn't sleep with her notebook as before, but instead hugged the teacher's hat that she had secretly put in her schoolbag;

It felt like sleeping with my teacher.

In her loneliness last night, she received a call from her teacher in the middle of the night; she even felt it was a dream.

The teacher spoke such gentle words to me;

"We bathe together under the same moon."

How gentle he was! After hearing those words, all the grievances he had held back poured out at once, and he covered himself with the blanket and cried bitterly.

But she was happy that her teacher remembered it; he was always so gentle.

Kayako felt that if she recorded that sentence, she could listen to it a hundred times! Ten thousand times!

However, I was too happy last night and didn't have time to record anything.

She rubbed her slightly red and swollen eyes, looked at the scabbed teeth marks on her forearm, and immediately put on her clothes to hide the wound on her arm.

I'm going home today, so I can't let the teacher find out about this wound!

She got out of bed and suddenly noticed an open notebook on the side;

The notebook was still turned to the page of last night's diary. Kayako walked over, looked at it, and then fiercely crossed out everything that had been written last night.

"Any misunderstanding will melt away like ice and snow in the face of passionate emotions."

"I love my teacher—I want to give him everything I have."

"When you and your teacher are embracing in the future and you read this page, please blush and smile!"

She closed the notebook and hid it inside her schoolbag;

Pulling back the curtains, the outside world had transformed into a world of ice and snow.

At that moment, Kayako seemed to hear the roar of a car outside, and her eyes instinctively turned towards the door.

At the entrance,

The man in the overcoat crouched down and crawled out of the car. At that moment, he seemed to notice her, turned upwards, and waved.

Because of the glass, his voice couldn't be heard, but Kayako knew he was saying, "I've come to pick you up."

……

"Yoshizaki Kawa, what brings you here? Aren't you at work?"

Tomie's sharp tongue was still as sharp as ever, but when Yoshizaki saw her for the first time, he thought of last night's dream, and his gaze became somewhat complicated.

Everything I experienced in the dream felt like I had actually experienced it.

At the same time, when she saw the complicated look in the eyes of the guy in front of her, Tomie couldn't understand what kind of look it was.

Is it relief? Is it tenderness? Is it pity?

It was complicated, but for some reason, that look touched her heart.

So she spoke softer and softer.

"very nice."

Tomie didn't grasp the meaning behind those two simple words. She tilted her head, touched her cheek, and felt the lingering warmth of Yoshizaki's palm.

At this moment, Kayako, carrying her schoolbag, and Mako, with a blank expression, came down from upstairs;

Mako seems to be holding something in her hand?

Perhaps it's a prize won in the villa contest?

Never mind, it doesn't matter anymore.

None of this happened, that's good. I will change everything.

Looking at the three girls, Yoshizaki smiled.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 110 A Gift for the Teacher

The most fortunate thing in the world is to have personally experienced a tragedy that was about to happen, and then wake up to find that the tragedy did not happen.

And you can change the tragedy.

The medicine to undo regrets must be the most precious medicine in the world, bar none.

So Yoshizaki didn't retaliate when he saw Tomie talking back to him like that.

Kayako, carrying her schoolbag, originally wanted to be the first to get off the bus and hug her teacher;

But when she reached the top of the stairs, she saw Tomie sitting downstairs, idly drawing on a chair with her legs crossed. So she slowed down her pace until she met Mako and they walked downstairs together.

Even when he saw Yoshizaki River, he could only suppress his emotions and dared not show them at all.

But I'm sure the teacher will understand my intentions if they see my video.

—Or, should I "accidentally" lose that shameful notebook in a place where the teacher often sees it?

Then the teacher might be able to understand his own feelings by flipping through the notebook?

Kayako felt that after what happened yesterday, she and her teacher were probably... just one thin layer of paper away from being together?

Even so, she still didn't have enough courage to break through it;

Perhaps if I had been a little braver yesterday...

"Teacher, here you go, this is a gift I'm giving you."

At the same time, Mako handed over the cardboard box expressionlessly.

Seeing this, Kayako suddenly felt that if she had even half of Mako's courage, she might already be sleeping in her teacher's arms, or perhaps she would have been kicked out of the house...

Although the second possibility is more likely!