Living in Tokyo, all I want to do is laze around.

"Oh, right, I also need to deliver a bento to Grandpa."

The girl looked at the box in her hand and smiled sweetly, then returned the way she came.

Lush green shrubs, a cobblestone path, emerald green lake water, and branches extending from the shore into the lake.

Continuing down, you'll find the old imperial pavilion in the imperial garden, covered in ancient vines.

Hanabi Hanamaru saw Kai Uesugi sitting in a chair ahead. She smiled, picked up her lunchbox, and walked over with light and even steps.

"Grandpa, I've come to see you."

She noticed that her grandfather seemed to have fallen asleep again.

He sat in a chair, leaning on his cane with both hands, his forehead resting on it.

Hanabi Hanabi stepped forward and nudged his arm, whispering, "Grandpa, don't sleep, you'll catch a cold..."

"Grandpa... Hanabi brought you some food... By the way, Grandpa, what's your name? Hanabi doesn't know it yet..."

Hanabi Hanamaru gently pushed it again.

"grandfather."

"grandfather..."

"grandfather...?"

Hanabi Hanamaru suddenly covered her mouth and took a small step back.

"Grandpa!?"

The cherry blossoms were blown by a gentle breeze, they swept past the crowd and swirled across the ground.

If you looked up from the front of the chair at that moment, you could see a peaceful and happy smile on Uesugi Kai's aged face...

###Chapter 375 Haunted House Adventure###

Before me lay the gray, gloomy hospital lobby.

Judging from the layout, this should be the starting point for accessing various departments of the hospital.

The place was quite spacious, with dim lighting in the lobby, chairs lying haphazardly, broken glass, and a dark passageway leading to who-knows-where... Dark shadows seemed to accompany them all... Even though it was afternoon, it felt as quiet as the dead of night.

"Strange, how come... it got so dark as soon as we came in...?" Kitagawa Sakakisa huddled behind Kyuju Rika, suspiciously looking around.

“Aren’t you afraid?” Uesugi Kai said with a smile.

"Of course I'm not afraid..."

Crack!

Suddenly, the sound of shattering glass rang out. Kitagawa Sakakisa almost reflexively looked in the direction of the sound, but there was nothing there, only a dark expanse... and indescribable grime on the old floor.

"Uesugi... give me the flashlight..."

"No, there's only one flashlight. It's so dark here. If you lose it, we won't be able to get out."

"Don't...don't worry...I...I won't lose it." Kitagawa Sakakisa looked left and right, her voice trembling slightly.

Kai Uesugi looked toward the spot where the sound of breaking glass had come from, and his flashlight shone on a charred, rickety chair.

There were red bloodstains above the limping chair, and a yellowed, tattered scarf hung on its back.

Hanabi Hanamaru was hiding behind Kai Uesugi when the flashlight shone on her. She couldn't help but glance at him and was immediately startled, grabbing onto the back of Kai Uesugi's clothes.

Kai Uesugi noticed Hanabi Hanabi trembling behind him and asked Sakakisa Kitagawa, who was cowering in the shadows:

"You want to see this, right?"

"Yes, yes..."

"It's nothing, just a chair."

"But when we came in from the small room just now...didn't we see a woman on the information panel? She's the one who killed the doctor...she had that kind of scarf around her neck..."

Kitagawa Sakakisa felt increasingly uneasy. The atmosphere here was strange and dark, with only a dim light flickering at the entrance of the passage, making it seem extremely terrifying.

When they first entered the haunted house, the staff led the four of them into a dark little room.

The staff members wore white coats and masks, and didn't say a word.

After they entered, he turned around and locked the door to that room.

Only four people remained in that dark and gloomy cement room.

Immediately afterwards, the screen on the pitch-black wall suddenly lit up, broadcasting the mission they needed to complete in a horror movie style.

They found a mirror that Dr. Fujiko had lost during the medical dispute.

"What's the name of this hospital...?" Kitagawa Sakakisa asked nervously.

“Jikyu General Hospital,” Uesugi Kai replied casually.

Rika thought for a moment and said, "Dr. Fujiko is a surgeon, right? We should go look for her in the operating room."

"Which floor is her department on?"

"It seems to be three floors... The description didn't specify."

"Let's go first, let's check out Dr. Fujiko's department." Uesugi Kai glanced at the hospital map in the lobby. The map was made of plastic and had a hard texture, but it also looked like it had been burned.

The four walked deeper into the hospital corridor, surrounded by dilapidated doors, some tightly closed, some half-closed, and some completely open.

Although it is open, you can't see anything inside at all; once you look in, you are quickly swallowed up by the quiet darkness.

The space here is very small, and the corridor is piled with miscellaneous items.

Hanabi Hanamaru didn't dare open her eyes even for a moment, clinging tightly to Kai Uesugi's clothes from behind, following his steps.

She is genuinely afraid of ghosts; she's been timid since childhood.

When the power goes out at night and there are no lights, she will wake up Uesugi Kai when she needs to go to the bathroom and ask him to come with her.

The four people arrived at the stairwell. Turning left led to the stairs, and turning right led to the elevator.

The elevator was old and rusty on the edges and corners.

Elevator or stairs?

"The stairs, the stairs! Wait..."

"As soon as Kitagawa Sakakisa finished speaking, she looked back at the dark stairwell, a little worried... What if something comes out to scare her when she reaches the corner of the stairs..."

It was so dark there, what if a disheveled female nurse suddenly appeared...?

"Let's use the elevator instead..." Kitagawa Sakakisa changed her mind.

But as soon as she finished speaking, she glanced back at the lights shining down from above the elevator.

The light is coming from top to bottom.

In this dark corridor, the elevator doors seem deliberately highlighted by the light source, intentionally emphasizing the elevator's presence in the corridor.

"Stairs, stairs."

Seeing that Kitagawa Sakakisa couldn't make a decision, Uesugi Kai turned around and asked Hanabi Hanabi, who was hiding behind him, "Hanabi, where do you think we should go to the third floor?"

Hanabi Hanamaru simply shook her head behind him without saying a word.

After thinking for a moment, Kyushu Rika said, "Let's use the elevator."

"The elevator isn't working!"

"Then the stairs."

"The stairs... don't seem like that will work either."

Kai Uesugi glanced at Sakakisa Kitagawa; she was having trouble making a decision. "Let's take the elevator."

He stepped forward and pressed the button to open the door.

The elevator doors slowly opened, revealing the old, run-down space.

Hanabi Hanamaru whispered, "It's a bit eerie."

"Don't be afraid, it's all fake."

Kai Uesugi took the lead and walked at the very front.

After he went in, the three girls followed him in.

Kai Uesugi scanned the interior of the elevator, found nothing amiss, and pressed the button to go to the third floor.

The elevator doors slowly closed, making a creaking metallic scraping sound, and the lights began to flicker, as if it had been restarted after years of neglect.

Kitagawa Sakakisa looked at the metal plate above her head and said worriedly, "I hope nothing will suddenly appear here later."

Jiu Shi Li Xiang: "Generally speaking, this is all psychological."

After a moment of stiff movement, the elevator slowly began to ascend.

The upward arrows began to flash in sync with the lights, showing the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floors, while the faint smell of hospital disinfectant lingered in the air.

Just as the floor number was displayed as 3, the flashing lights inside the elevator suddenly went out.

With a snap, darkness instantly enveloped the four of them.

Hanabi Hanabi was so frightened that she quickly closed her eyes, Rika Kyuu took a step back, and Sakakisa Kitagawa kept urging Kai Uesugi to turn on the flashlight.

Kai Uesugi turned on his flashlight, illuminating the crack in the door.

Soon, the door opened.

Kai Uesugi gripped the flashlight and shone it through the slowly opening door crack. But the instant he raised his hand, even he felt a sudden tightness in his chest.

Ahead lay a dark passage with an emergency exit icon glowing green.

And below that crooked emergency exit.

Darkness enveloped the black figure.

"who!?"

The instant Uesugi Kai spoke, the woman's scream nearly pierced eardrums. Then the lights in the elevator flickered again, and the tense atmosphere mixed with the smell of hospital disinfectant instantly made everyone tense.

"I'm so sorry, so sorry, so sorry!"