I'm a teacher in Tokyo!

The key to all of this actually lies in those four words: abnormal electrocardiogram.

Humans are very sophisticated beings. When the heart beats, it emits bioelectric signals. By capturing these signals with magnetic poles, the state of the heartbeat can be determined through electrocardiogram (ECG).

In the front, even though the blood pressure was significantly elevated, the heart was beating normally.

But suddenly it went awry. After the electrocardiogram became abnormal, heart failure began. After heart failure, various methods could not restore it, and then it suddenly stopped beating.

"Ju-on—"

The heart failure came on so suddenly that Yoshizaki Kawa didn't think it was the poison. In previous tests, dimethyl methacrylate (DM) targeted the lungs and wouldn't cause heart failure in the short term, and the other poisonous ingredient targeted the nerves and wouldn't cause heart failure in the short term either.

Moreover, both have already been eliminated from the body, just when everything was about to be alright.

My heart started acting up for no apparent reason.

Yoshizaki even wondered if that damned Ju-on had grabbed his heart and tugged at it.

Kayako, if you keep messing around like this, your teacher might really have to send you some!

He sighed and stared blankly at the ceiling.

I'm planning to take a break.

……

Meanwhile, Kayako and Tomie walked side by side;

At the crossroads where they were about to part ways, Tomie suddenly extended an invitation to Kayako.

"Kayako, would you like to... come to my house?"

These words startled Kayako, who was deep in thought. She hesitated for a moment, then said, "Um... I..."

"I still have Xiao Hei at home, I can't abandon him..."

In fact, back at the villa, it was Kayako who personally handed Kuro over to Saito-sensei to raise.

“You can bring it to my house too, and my house is closer to the hospital, so it will be more convenient for me to take care of the teacher.”

Kayako was somewhat tempted after hearing that it would be more convenient to take care of the teacher.

"Well, okay... but I need to go home first and bring Xiao Hei with me."

"I'll go with you!"

At this moment, the two seem to be getting along more and more like sisters.

Meanwhile, in the darkness behind them.

A person with a masked face, dressed in dark clothes, with only their eyes showing, slowly peeked out from the corner.

Ninjas have almost disappeared from the world in this modern age.

However, some clans still train their children to become ninjas from a young age in order to maintain the ninja lineage.

Among them was a family that trained ninjas and followed the sect that Kotoko had destroyed.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 149 Aso Kunihiko

Ninjas are also known as hermits.

To endure is to conceal oneself, to hide one's true nature, to wait for an opportunity to act, and to use any means necessary to complete the mission.

This is the meaning of the existence of ninjas.

Unlike the samurai who are naturally respected and upright, ninjas are venomous snakes that lurk in the shadows, despised and hated, and who act by despicable means.

Samurai were respected for their ability to achieve great deeds.

The ninja is merely a knife hidden in the sleeve of the ruler.

A blade only has a deterrent effect and can cause harm when it is held by someone else and half of the blade is exposed.

Once abandoned by its master, the ninja's sword can be easily broken when facing a well-organized army.

Therefore, ninjas were not initially well-regarded and were generally used as assassins to carry out missions such as killing.

Then, during the turbulent Edo period, the major powers dared not act openly, but instead made constant covert moves, which led to the flourishing of ninjas.

The clan that used to be dedicated to training ninjas has also begun to decline. The man's name is Kohira Akutagawa, and he used to live in such a clan.

So when his father grew old and frail and died after attempting to control a vengeful spirit, he succeeded his father in successfully controlling a vengeful spirit and became the vice leader of one of the sect's divisions.

On the sidewalk behind me, a middle-aged man wearing glasses and a faded yellow overcoat was pointing a camera at a utility pole, seemingly preparing to take a picture.

Ah, which one was it again?

It is invisible, yet it can fly, pass through walls, and burrow underground.

He's nothing but a rat in the gutter, and now he's under the cult leader's orders to deal with this girl in front of him...

With the clan's decline, all the ninja's skills seem pale and powerless in the face of modern technology.

After the chaos ended, ninjas gradually declined along with the changing times.

Even if you become the strongest ninja, what good will it do?

But whether it was a stroke of luck or misfortune, his father met the cult leader on one of his occasions.

Never mind, let's take them all back.

By the time it was passed down to his father's generation, the family had become henchmen for the Japanese mafia—the ninja's methods, though not the highest form of justice, were highly sought after in the underworld.

But even with control of the vengeful spirits, he didn't believe he could restore the glory of the ninjas.

and so--

Because ninjas were born to obey orders and prospered because of the prosperity of their master's family, in this era even the so-called "master's family" no longer existed.

Demons are a perfect fit for the attributes of ninjas.

Just as Kodaira Akutagiro was about to make his move, his ninja instincts suddenly made him feel as if a gaze was coming from behind him.

Almost instantly, the shadow behind him moved slightly, and the next moment, Kodaira Akutagiro was as if propelled by some force, leaping onto the telephone pole and looking behind him;

Therefore, in order to accomplish the great cause of restoring the ninjas, the father resolutely led the family to join this sect.

Through him, he also learned that there are still incredible things in this world that cannot be explained by "science," and in this, he saw the future of ninjas.

Although he didn't think this strange-looking church could really lead the ninja path to glory, as a ninja raised from childhood, obedience to his parents was in his nature.

"Neuropathy."

Seeing this, Kodaira Akujiro cursed inwardly, "Who would take a camera out to take pictures at night for no reason?"

However, this guy is really rich. It is said that this kind of small camera is imported from the West and is very expensive, costing at least a million each.

—This is a rich lunatic!

In Kodaira Akujiro's eyes, the man on the sidewalk had already been labeled.

Oh no, we've lost them!

Only then did he notice that the two girls in front of him had disappeared into the darkness. He cursed under his breath again and then leaped up the telephone pole like a gust of wind.

……

Kunihiko Aso looked up at the telephone pole, and his eyes reflected a peculiar light under the streetlight.

"A strange and peculiar ghost from another world."

As a guesthouse researcher, he has been exploring the topic of ghosts in other worlds and through visits to unusual locations.

He discovered a peculiar stone that possessed special powers.

Based on research into this type of stone, coupled with Western photographic techniques—which were once rumored to possess the ability to capture the soul—were used to this practice.

This once made countless people afraid to take photos.

Based on these two points, he combined that special stone with a camera, and then used a special lens.

He then created what he was most proud of in his life—a camera.

The "摄" here refers to the act of capturing or photographing.

—By taking a picture of a ghost, it can be sealed within the photograph.

Destroying the photograph will destroy its ghost along with it.

He had heard that a natural gas leak had blocked the road in a certain area of ​​Saitama Prefecture. Realizing that something was wrong, he set off for this place to test his newly invented camera.

But when he arrived, he found that the supernatural phenomena of the place had disappeared, but something still remained that made him uneasy.

So he stayed there and even opened a photography shop.

He takes photos during the day and searches for ghosts at night.

Just now, he happened to arrive here, and with his specially modified glasses, he saw a dark shadow on the telephone pole. The shadow seemed to be staring at the two little girls in front of him.

So, in order to protect the safety of the two girls and incidentally test his camera, he decided to...

He pointed his camera at the dark figure, but to his surprise, the figure sensed him, jumped onto a telephone pole, and disappeared from his sight.

This is different from the demons that Kunihiko Aso once destroyed; it seems to have its own independent consciousness.