Japanese Terrorist: What? I'll fight Hellstar!

After hearing Inudou Ranko's explanation, Amamiya Rin had only one thought left.

That's insidious! That's fucking insidious!

As human civilization developed, fewer people believed in gods and Buddhas, so the gods and Buddhas were diminished.

But humanity's fear of the unknown will not diminish, and there are indeed special creatures and phenomena in this world. Children cannot distinguish between truth and falsehood, so ghost stories have come into being.

Extreme negative emotions are easier to maintain than extreme positive emotions, and ghost stories need such a personality as a vehicle. Therefore, ghost stories born from rumors are generally harmful to humans.

The white-clad handsome boy who can extinguish the black-clad handsome boy is a very rare phenomenon, and it is often just a fleeting moment.

In summary, it works for bad things but not good ones.

The group tacitly agreed not to continue discussing the issue.

The deeper you go, the more you feel that bottomless despair.

Amamiya Rin shifted her gaze, her eyes returning to the rows of silently standing metal filing racks.

"Are all those files records of paranormal cases solved by the police history compilation office?"

Amamiya Rin asked curiously.

At a glance, there are at least several thousand volumes of archives here.

"We only investigated, and some of the information was unconfirmed, but just in case, we recorded even the rumors. There were also some things we knew about, but we couldn't resolve them."

"That's what Inudou Ranko said."

Amamiya Rin nodded silently. He leaned on his cane and walked to the file shelf.

Each shelf of the file cabinet was neatly stacked with kraft paper file boxes, with numbers and brief labels written on the sides in black marker.

He glanced at the label briefly.

[The Kidnapping of the Demon Mother and Child in Machida City]

[The Fox Spirit Incident at Huafeng High School]

[Strange noise incident in Daejeon Ward's sewers]

[Shibuya Ward Train Burial Incident]

The Satoshi Incident in Kanagawa Prefecture

[The Hokkaido Expressway Grandma Incident]

[Niushou Village] [Shuhai Village] [Inunaki Village] [Minakami Village] [Hikami Mountain] [Kinugawa River]...

The content was diverse, and Amamiya Rin discovered many paranormal events she had heard of, as well as places that appeared in horror games she had played in her previous life.

"These files are roughly categorized by time sequence, event type, and location."

Feng Haichun also walked over, pulled out a thick hardcover notebook from the edge of the file shelf, and handed it to Yu Gonglin.

"This is the table of contents, which gives you a general idea of ​​the events."

Amamiya Rin took the notebook and opened it to look at it.

The pages of the book have yellowed, and the handwriting, which includes both fountain pen and ballpoint pen, clearly indicates that it was recorded by different people at different times.

Amamiya Rin's gaze swept over them quickly.

[Campus Category (Code CS)] [Transportation Category (Code TC)] [Religion Category (Code RN)] [Mind Category (Code TG)] [Residence Category (Code HE)] [Regional Category (Code EN)] [Ritual Category (Code CY)] [Possession Category (Code AE)] [Cursed Object Category (Code EN)]...

Too much!

Whether it's the number or the types of paranormal phenomena, it would take at least a week to review them all.

Fortunately, there was a catalog, and Amamiya Rin quickly found her target: the files about dreams.

[Dream Category], Code: DM.

[DM-001: The Mass Sleepwalking Incident (Kanagawa Prefecture, 1975)]

[DM-002: The Premonition Incident (Osaka Prefecture, 1977)]

[DM-003: The Sarumu Incident (Tokyo Kita Ward, 1982)]

[DM-004: Aristus (behavioral concept.)]

……

[DM-007: The Dreamer Incident (Chiba City, 1998)]

……

There aren't many records about dreams, because most ghost-related paranormal events have the ability to give living people nightmares. Excluding dreams caused by ghosts, there are only eight purely dream-related events.

Two of them caught Amamiya Rin's attention.

One is Aristus, marked as a behavioral concept, and the other is the Dreamer event.

The concept of behavior was explained by Amamiya Rin in the table of contents.

Simply put, it means that as long as you believe and take the corresponding actions, you can create a special phenomenon.

Hanging a shimenawa (sacred rope) above the torii gate of a shrine is believed to ward off misfortune. Placing salt in a corner of the entrance hall has a similar effect.

These all fall under the category of behavioral concepts.

As for Aristus...

Amamiya Rin pulled the DM-004 file from the shelf; it contained only three thin pages.

The first page describes the effect of this behavioral concept—whispering in someone's ear while they are asleep allows one to enter their dream.

The next two pages are all real-life examples.

Amamiya Rin remembers this; it seems to be mentioned in "City Without Streets," which is also a work by Junji Ito.

There are really few supernatural events in dreams, is it because they are included in the dream entry ability of ghosts?

He closed DM-004 and reached in to pull out another file next to it.

Case Number: DM-007

[Case Name: The Dream Person Incident]

[Date of occurrence: September 20, 1998]

Location: Inage Ward, Chiba City

[Responsible Unit: First Investigation Division, Criminal Investigation Department, Chiba Prefectural Police Headquarters]

The report is very concise.

On September 20, 1998, 9-year-old Mari Igarashi was reported missing. The last recorded sighting was on the evening of the 12th of the same month, when she entered Hirano's apartment in Inage Ward with her boyfriend, Yuji Hirano. After her relatives and friends failed to contact her multiple times, they reported her missing to the police.

When the police first questioned Yuji Hirano, he said that Mari Igarashi had not left, but had become his internal organs and was traveling in his dream.

The First Investigative Division suspected a cannibalism case involving a mentally unstable individual and found signs of struggle at Hirano's apartment. Ultimately, they arrested Yuji Hirano on charges of murder and desecration of a corpse.

"Feng Hai, this file... Did Hirano Yuuji really eat Igarashi Mari?"

Amamiya Rin turned to Kazemi Junya and called out, waving the file in her hand.

Feng Haichun also came over, took the file, and looked at it.

"Oh, I don't know either. I only became a police officer this year."

After reading through the contents, Feng Haichun shook his head.

"This file is the part whose authenticity is unknown. There are quite a few of these. Although there is no evidence to prove it, the editorial office still made a record of it."

It should be true.

Before arriving, Amamiya Rin had reviewed his notes and could recall the general plot of "The Sandman's Room".

The protagonist recounts that in his dream, he wanted to replace himself. The female protagonist didn't believe him, but after following him back to his apartment, she saw the sleeping protagonist turn over inside out and immediately woke him up.

After that, they took care of the protagonist tirelessly for several days, but in the end, they still couldn't stop the protagonist from running out of the dream world.

The process of the protagonist emerging from the dream world involves the body's surface and interior being flipped over. The female protagonist, who had her body tied to the protagonist's, was instead swallowed along with him during the flipping process.