I'm a teacher in Tokyo!

However, Yoshizaki's usual gentleness lost its meaning in front of the pragmatist Mako.

"Forget it, teacher. I'll find a way to buy one myself later. I can't afford to pay for your camera if I break it."

This was also Mako's truest thought. The teacher was right; she wouldn't have to pay for it herself if it broke.

But how can I take such a valuable thing seriously?

Besides, I already owe the teacher a lot of favors, how could I possibly repay them?

—Back in the villa, Mako always remembered what the butler had said.

If it weren't for Mr. Yoshizaki, there would be no scholarships or the opportunity to enroll on my own; the evil principal would have embezzled them all long ago.

Seeing that Mako was unwilling to take the camera, Yoshizaki Kawa had no choice but to keep it for the time being, planning to find an excuse to hold an event in the future and give the camera to Mako.

After all, he had personally taken away what Mako loved most.

But there's nothing I can do. Who knows if Mako will suddenly take pictures of Kayako and the others?

It would be interesting if it turned into a free-for-all between Kayako, Mako, and Tomie.

Regardless of who wins or loses, I and this school will probably be wiped out.

……

Meanwhile, in the outer perimeter of Minakami Village.

Kotoko chanted incantations, breaking through the fog, and finally arrived at a cave under the guidance of Kunihiko Aso;

A clear spring flows gently through the cave, but inside lies a dead end.

Upon seeing this scene, just as Kotoko was about to ask a question, Kunihiko Aso's expression froze: "Oh no, the intersection is flooded. When I came here before, there was no water here!"

As he was speaking, he was about to step forward when, almost instantly, a hand suddenly reached out from the pool and grabbed him tightly.

Just as she was about to drag it away, Kotoko snapped her fingers. The next moment, the hand trembled and released its grip as if struck by lightning.

Only now did Kunihiko Aso look at the pool with lingering fear.

What came into his view, however, was a dense array of countless giant corpses, their hands clasped together, their bodies whitened from being submerged in water, displayed like they were in a museum.

There are countless.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 174 Beneath the Pool

The water in the pool was crystal clear.

But at the bottom, countless bloated corpses swayed slightly in the clear water with the surging undercurrent, their lifeless eyes staring blankly. But Kunihiko Aso knew that the feeling he had just experienced was not an illusion.

If it weren't for the mysterious woman behind him intervening, he would have been pulled underwater.

Kunihiko Aso had never encountered such a vicious ghost in the first half of his life. None of the ghosts he had met in the first half of his life were as evil as this one that could directly attack him.

At most, those evil spirits would attack him with illusions, but this time, Kunihiko Aso truly felt an extremely real physical sensation.

Furthermore, there was no camera in hand at that moment.

Having no weapon in his hand, he was filled with fear. Facing the pool, he dared not approach it any further and hid behind Qinzi.

At that moment, Kotoko slowly approached the pool. Upon seeing the corpse at the bottom of the pool, she frowned slightly and asked:

"Is this the only entrance?"

"Yes, all the previous entrances were buried, and I don't know the direction of the other entrances."

"By the way, I'm not going down. Anyway, if you just keep going straight ahead from this cave entrance, you'll enter the village of Kaishin. You guys figure out how to get in yourselves."

As the ground trembled slightly, the water pumps began to operate frantically, and the water level in the pool began to drop rapidly.

A moment later, the exorcists hurriedly carried in several water pumps. After setting up the machines, a few moments later, several exorcists sat cross-legged on the wooden platform, chanting scriptures to empower the water pumps and prevent them from being shut down by the curse.

Kunihiko Aso had no intention of swimming across the pool filled with corpses. Just imagine, the entire pool was filled with corpses and the water was full of filth. If he were to swim across it, even if he held his breath, he would definitely swallow a few mouthfuls.

Even setting aside the possibility of ghosts, if the corpse fluid contains bacteria or something, I might lose my life.

At that moment, four words suddenly came to mind: "Times have changed."

As the water was drained, an increasingly foul stench seeped out from the middle of the pool. The exorcists turned pale and looked like they were about to collapse. Just then, Kotoko placed her hand on their shoulders and chanted an incantation. The black aura that had been overflowing was immediately suppressed by some kind of power.

"Okay, continue the investigation."

The exorcist explained the strangeness of the place, and at that moment, Kotoko had to admit that she had misjudged it slightly.

Kotoko looked at the corpses displayed below, her gaze somewhat solemn. After a moment's thought, she patted Kunihiko Aso on the shoulder: "Let's go."

Perhaps something extraordinary is brewing within this village of gods!

Otherwise, how could the resentment that has grown be so terrible?

"By the way, did you find the information about Kurosawa Yae that I asked you to look for?"

“Miss Kotoko, the corpses in this pool were used to suppress the resentment behind the door. After we drained the water, the resentment of these corpses could no longer suppress the aura behind the door.”

This operation left Kunihiko Aso dumbfounded, especially when the machine couldn't start due to the curse and the exorcists were empowering it, giving him the feeling that his brain had been destroyed.

At that moment, Kotoko suddenly remembered Yoshizaki Kawa's previous instructions and asked him about it.

"There's no news yet, but based on the information provided by the villagers and our general deductions, Kurosawa Yae probably didn't die in the village, but left and changed his name."

"Yes."

After giving her subordinates all the instructions, Higa Kotoko put on her high-top waterproof shoes and climbed down the stairs.

Of course, because the curse in the cave was too strong, only Kotoko could resist the power of such a curse.

So she was traveling alone.

As Kotoko jumped from the escalator into the mud below, almost instantly, countless images flashed before her eyes: running children, violent ghosts, swollen and screaming corpses. Finally, the next image was like a piece of paper squeezed into a ball, hitting her face, causing Kotoko to involuntarily take a step back.

When Kotoko took a step back, her face immediately turned ashen.

The curse here is beyond my imagination.

Furthermore, perhaps because she was near another door, Kotoko felt the power from the "door" in her arm becoming weaker and weaker.

At this moment, she felt as if she were fighting against the world, and was immediately given a rude awakening the moment she came down.

But when I was up there, the curse wasn't this strong, so why do I feel this way after coming down?

Kotoko was filled with doubts, but after feeling this terrible curse and having the thought that it was "invincible," she decided to postpone exploring this place.

"Let's get up there first and then figure out a solution."

The thought flashed through her mind, but just as Kotoko turned around to look behind her;

Where are the walls and rope ladders behind her now?

There was only a tunnel that seemed to have no end in sight, and inside that tunnel, the countless corpses of men, women, and children, hanging high above the cave by ropes, seemed to sense something.

The ropes that held them creaked uneasyly, and hundreds of corpses with different expressions turned to look at the intruders before them.

Kotoko sighed slightly at her recklessness. She had thought that stepping into the gate of Minakami Village wouldn't be a big problem.

After all, the curse at this cave entrance could be suppressed by a third-rate exorcist before, so there's no reason it should be very strong.

But now it seems,

This is a huge problem; if things go wrong, I might end up killing myself here.

Kotoko slowly unbuttoned her shirt one button at a time, then took off half of the tracksuit she was wearing and tied it around her waist.

On the rough skin exposed outside Qinzi's breast wrap, the incantations engraved with blood emitted a faint, weak light.

Almost instantly, she stepped on the rotting wrist that was about to grab her foot. As the wrist burned like paper and emitted a pungent smell, Higa Kotoko moved her wrist and, as if cutting melons and vegetables, carved a bloody path through the dense corpses in front of her.

Just then, all the corpses that had been blocking the wall suddenly shivered involuntarily, then frantically rushed in all directions, clearing a path in the middle.

The next moment, above the cave entrance, a girl, as delicate as a puppet and bound by countless blood-red threads, descended from the sky. Her stiff body was pulled forward by the blood-red threads, and all the corpses she touched turned into a pile of fine blood-red threads, which then merged into her back.

Her bloodshot eyes glanced at Kotoko, and upon sensing the human presence, a hint of human joy appeared on her contorted face: "Yoshi... Yoshizaki Kawa, where are you?"

"My sister, he promised me."

"Find her..."

Although the girl's logic was flawed, Kotoko naturally understood what she meant.

At this moment, what surprised Kotoko was not the power of the vengeful ghost in front of her, but why the girl in front of her knew the name Yoshizaki Kawa.

Could it be that Yoshizaki's so-called "precognitive dream" is not simply a precognitive dream?

Rather, it was as if their souls had left their bodies, and they had truly arrived at this place?

Chapter 175 Sister, wait for me

If that's not the case, there's absolutely no way to explain why the girl from Minakami Village below this pond would know Yoshizaki River's name.

Wow, if Yoshizaki's dream is really this incredible, then his identity is probably extraordinary!

After all, this is almost equivalent to an out-of-body experience, but for normal people, an out-of-body experience usually just means wandering around at home for a while.

Yoshizaki Kawa, on the other hand, has his soul constantly leaving his body in strange places.