Tokyo: I was tricked into marrying a yandere ghost

The haunted house was indeed very large. Kiyokawa Kiri and Kawakami Tomie walked for quite a while before the group finally stopped.

The staff reminded everyone that they could remove their blindfolds. Kiyokawa Kirito then realized that only two younger women remained behind him, and he was momentarily stunned. Fortunately, a staff member stepped forward and explained:

"Sixteen people participate in one round of the game, divided into groups of four, and each person is in a different room."

"Your next task is to find clues in the room that lead you out, rendezvous with the other teams, and find the exit to the outside world."

The rules are simple and easy to understand, just like those in an escape room.

The concept of an escape room doesn't exist in this day and age, so people are more used to describing it as a haunted house.

"That sounds interesting..."

Tomie Kawakami smiled dismissively; she didn't care whether the project was scary or not—the scarier, the better.

Even if she gets separated from the main group, it doesn't matter. It's just a good opportunity for her to flirt with Kiyokawa Mist. If there are a bunch of people pointing and gesturing around, how can she stick close to Kiyokawa Mist?

As for the two young women who looked like college students, she simply ignored them.

"Alright, let the game begin..."

As the staff left, a few moments later, eerie music began to play in the room.

Kiyokawa looked around and found several locked wooden doors in the room, and a small platform in the center of the room—in his understanding, the clues could not possibly be here, after all, what kind of stupid design would that be?

The two girls next to them, who looked like college students, were quite excited and even took the time to introduce themselves:

"My name is Kitagawa Maki, and this is Motokawa Eri. Have either of you been to a haunted house?"

"My name is Kiyokawa Kiri, and hers is Kawakami Tomie... I haven't been to many haunted houses. Do you two go often?" Kiyokawa Kiri asked with a smile.

It's clear that these two college students are haunted house enthusiasts. They probably heard about the haunted house in Yomiuri Land, which is similar to an escape room, so they came here specifically to play. And the reality was pretty much what Kiyokawa Kiri guessed.

The two college students immediately smiled and said that they were both experienced and would definitely find a way out of the haunted house.

Since that's what they said, Kiyokawa Kiri naturally chose to follow them.

The four's first target was naturally the only table in the middle. Upon reaching it, they discovered a diary on it. They took turns reading it, and Kawakami Tomie showed great interest, chuckling softly:

"It looks like a hospital-themed haunted house; this should be inside a sealed hospital room."

"The diary entries are about twelve years old. The patient... drowned her son and daughter in the lake. Her husband, who rushed home, found them and then sent her to a mental hospital."

"That's quite an interesting story," she added.

This story seems a bit familiar...

Kiyokawa Kiri took the diary, glanced at it casually a few times, and then put it down.

To be honest, he wasn't interested in this kind of activity at all, since he had already encountered something much more exciting—in his opinion, it would be more thrilling for the four of them to sit down in this hospital room and play a game of Ouija board.

Of course, thinking about it is one thing, doing it is definitely not the right thing to do.

After all, there are other people in the haunted house. What if something is actually summoned and scares them?

Thinking of this, Kiyokawa Kiri quietly stepped aside, handing the stage over to the three girls.

"There's a window over there; the clue should be there."

The experienced female college student pointed to a small wooden window not far away, and then immediately ran over to push it open.

......

Meanwhile, in the other room, four people who were clearly not normal tourists also took off their blindfolds.

When they heard the staff say "everyone, please separate first," they were all a little surprised, but the Thai man couldn't help but sneer.

"Perfect, this makes things easier for us..."

After the staff left, he said in a hoarse and low voice, "This sealed environment is the best place to take action."

"After he dies, we can shift the blame to the park and it won't involve your team leader."

Upon hearing this, the other three exchanged glances and then nodded slightly.

They were all members of the Eguchi-gumi, and the Thai man was a paranormal expert specially hired by Kohei Shimada—ever since those young people died mysteriously, he realized that it would be difficult to handle this matter on his own.

So many people died of cardiac arrest at the same time.

Anyone with a brain knows there's something extremely strange going on here.

As a local force of swords, guns, and cannons, the Eguchi-gumi naturally had ways to contact all sorts of people, including gods and ghosts—in fact, there are quite a few such people in Japan who have illegally immigrated.

Those with the ability might follow the example of their local predecessors and start a religion.

Those who lack the ability will cooperate with the Eguchi-gumi, hoping to make some shady money.

This Thai man was one of them. After receiving money from the Eguchi-gumi, he confidently promised to help resolve the problem of Kiyokawa Kiri. This led to the group following Kiyokawa Kiri to Yomiuri Land.

"Are you really confident you can kill him?"

One of the men in the suit, perhaps still somewhat wary, lowered his voice and said, "You saw how Sano and the others died."

"That kid's a bit strange, be careful not to let them find out."

"What do you know?" the Thai man scoffed.

He had seen far too many similar methods, considering that his country also had many supernatural and ghost stories.

Those few people who died of cardiac arrest were, in his view, simply cursed by Kiyokawa Mist. Such tricks were nothing to him, since the limitations of cursing were too great, requiring things like hair or nails from other people's bodies.

Those few people clearly had a conflict with Kiyokawa Mist, which is why their hair was accidentally taken and they were then cursed.

However, none of them were exposed. Even if Kiyokawa knew how to cast a curse, he couldn't ignore the rules of the supernatural and directly attack them. But he was different. Thailand has many curses that can be cast without any hair.

This is a haunted house, so it would be far too easy for Kiyokawa Kiri to die silently here.

Even when the police came, they would only think that Kiyokawa Kiri had suffered a heart attack from being frightened by the haunted house, rather than that he was being cursed.

"Just you wait and see..."

The Thai man pulled a blackened amulet from deep inside his clothes, then took out several strings of prayer beads from his pocket, and began preparing for the ritual with a cold smile.