Tokyo: I was tricked into marrying a yandere ghost

Kiyokawa Kiri washed her face in the bathroom and then felt a little more refreshed.

To be honest, he didn't like attending these kinds of social events, and he didn't know many people there. But he couldn't resist Kawakami Tomie's insistence on coming. Fortunately, she promised to make an excuse to leave after they finished their coffee, so the afternoon was probably their real date.

Looking at herself in the bathroom mirror, Kiyokawa Kiri's gaze gradually deepened.

He noticed someone standing to the side of the restroom door. The figure was incredibly familiar; it was none other than the chairman whose true identity he had just discovered. The man was staring at him with a faint smile.

It's obvious they want to talk to me about something...

Kiyokawa Kiri remained calm, casually pulled out a few tissues, wiped her hands clean, and then came out.

"Chairman, is there anything I can help you with?" he asked very politely.

"It's nothing." Sadako Yamamura looked him up and down, then suddenly asked, "When did you and Tomie start dating?"

"...What happened during those few days in the hospital?"

"No, I have something I'd like to give you."

Sadako Yamamura shook her head, then took out a folded piece of drawing paper from her pocket.

Kiyokawa Kiri was somewhat puzzled, not understanding the other party's intentions, but seeing that the other party still insisted, she finally accepted it.

"You can open it and take a look now," Sadako Yamamura reminded her.

"Then I'll open it..." Seeing how mysterious the other party was, Kiyokawa Kiri hesitated for a moment, but still chose to unfold the drawing paper on the spot.

However, upon opening it, one finds a simple yet realistic sketch. The sketch depicts a boy lying on the ground, with a girl in a pleated skirt standing above him with her legs spread apart. The drawing is well done, but the content is very strange, leaving one with a sense of bewilderment.

"Is...is this me?"

Kiyokawa asked uncertainly.

Although the painting didn't depict the person's facial features in great detail, Kiyokawa Kiri still recognized the boy lying on the ground as herself based on a sense of familiarity, while the person standing on her was somewhat unrecognizable.

"This woman is Tomie Kawakami," Sadako Yamamura whispered.

"What do you mean...?"

Kiyokawa Kiri's eyelids suddenly twitched, and she had a bad feeling.

No matter how I look at it, I feel there's something wrong with this painting. Moreover, Sadako Yamamura has had supernatural abilities since childhood, and she even predicted volcanic eruptions when she was very young. This painting looks suspicious no matter how you look at it.

"Kiyokawa-kun should understand what I mean."

Sadako Yamamura paused, then said seriously, "I don't know what happened to Kiyokawa-kun, but you wouldn't normally date Tomie."

"This painting has the ability to foresee the future... which means that Tomie will ultimately hurt you."

Her words left Kiyokawa Kiri silent.

The latter glanced awkwardly at the corner of the cafe. Although he couldn't see anyone, he could still hear their laughter—Kawakami Tomie probably couldn't notice his conversation with Yamamura Sadako.

But that's not the point right now. The real question is why the other party just laid their cards on the table with me?

Moreover, she was holding such an ambiguous painting. Although I am very familiar with Sadako Yamamura's abilities, wouldn't directly showing me the content of the prophecy violate some supernatural rules?

"Chairman, why are you giving me this..." Kiyokawa Kiri asked with mixed feelings.

"I want to ask you for a favor later, and you can consider it as a condition for it." Sadako Yamamura took a deep breath and whispered, "I don't know what you've been through, but I can foresee... that you can save my mother."

Even for her, the ability to foresee the future has its limits.

Moreover, the current Sadako Yamamura is not the complete version, so it's already incredible that she could predict recent events.

Logically speaking, Kiyokawa Kiri shouldn't have experienced what he's going through now, but that unexpected hospitalization caused his fate to seem to change—when Yamamura Sadako met him at school after he was discharged from the hospital, she could clearly feel the incongruity about him.

So she began to use her supernatural abilities to secretly observe Kiyokawa Kiri.

Until now, she has come to a conclusion—the other party may have a way to cure her mother, even if not now, but only in some future timeline, that is enough.

"your mother......"

Kiyokawa Kiri hesitated for a moment, then began to think quickly.

Sadako Yamamura's mother was also a possessor of supernatural abilities; her name was Shizuko Yamamura.

According to the original story, Shizuko Yamamura gained supernatural abilities because of a certain stone statue. Her husband would often drag her into crowds to perform in exchange for money and fame.

But her good fortune didn't last long, and her abilities soon began to be questioned by others.

During one performance, due to excessive psychological pressure, Shizuko Yamamura's supernatural abilities failed, causing her husband's previously gained reputation to plummet. Unwilling to accept this, he even went to the deep mountains to practice asceticism, but contracted tuberculosis and eventually disappeared without a trace.

In despair, Shizuko Yamamura committed suicide when Sadako was nine years old, and Sadako was raised by other relatives in her family.

—The other party's mother has probably been dead for seven or eight years now. What does it mean to say these things now?

"Chairman, I don't quite understand what you're saying." Kiyokawa Kiri looked at the other person tentatively.

Fortunately, Sadako Yamamura had anticipated this. She remained silent for a short while before softly saying:

"I can't say too much right now, otherwise, once you know, it might change the future I originally envisioned."

"I know you want to find out why you lost your memory. I have a way to help you, but on the condition that you find a way to bring my mother back if you have the chance."

This is an equivalent exchange that is hard to resist.

After hearing what Kiyoyama Sadako said, Kiyokawa Kiri's heart rate quickened slightly.

The other party offered very generous terms and did not force her to do anything, but waited for an opportunity to do it... According to Sadako Yamamura, she must have seen what happened to her, which is why she was able to be sure that she had the ability to save her suicidal mother.

Should we agree?

Kiyokawa Kiri pondered for a moment, during which he even secretly asked Omi Kin in his mind.

But the latter remained silent, which was unusual and made it difficult to understand her attitude.

In the end, Kiyokawa looked at the drawing paper in her hand, pondered for a long time, and finally agreed.

"I understand... I can't guarantee I can do it, but I'll try to help you if I have the chance."