The Strange Tales of Tokyo Monk

Like the lingering echo after a bell is struck.

Before the old man could show a look of horror and fear in his eyes, his body, along with the other two heads and all the eerie and terrifying aura, were all destroyed on the spot.

Pinggong Qianye landed on the ground, clasped his hands together, and everything returned to calm.

Only a few golden lights remained around, as if telling something.

"Amitabha, please don't force me to strike."

After satisfying his desire to act, Pinggong Qianye put down his hands, put them in his pockets, and walked forward.

Unlike the second floor, the door of the room from which the old man had just escaped had only half of the seal left on it.

It was not the seal commonly used by the police to prohibit passage, but the seal used by Shintoism to prohibit evil spirits from leaving the room.

Unfortunately, with the passage of time and with no one living there to take care of it, the spirit-sealing strips have fallen off.

Fortunately, the house here has been abandoned and basically no one comes here, so no accidents have occurred.

A demon with a danger level of 3 is fully capable of wreaking a bloody massacre in a place like this.

When I opened the door, the smell of blood that had been hidden for a long time had become very faint.

Pinggong Qianye could clearly feel that a terrible murder had occurred in this house.

……

"On June 1995, 6, I finally got the lantern of the other shore left by the old ghost Horii!"

"On June 1995, 6, at 5 a.m., I could no longer resist my curiosity about the other side of the world, and tried to open the door using the method of Hyakumonogatari Kaidan."

"On July 1995, 7, I finally succeeded in seeing the other side of the world. It was so beautiful. That was where I should go."

"August 1995, 8, even though I might attract the presence of a terrifying being from the other side, I don't care at all.

Because I am dying, and the disease won’t let go of an old man like me! "

"On September 1995, 9, my wife, who was going to spend the rest of my life with me, questioned me and even wanted to set it on fire!

Ahhhhh!

How could she be so irrational!

I tried to communicate with her, but I couldn't convince her!"

"On September 1995, 9, at 2 a.m., I killed her."

"On September 1995, 9, during the funeral, my eldest son seemed to have discovered something. He looked at me in a strange way, as if filled with anger and fear."

On the 6th of the month, my good son, are you also going down the path of questioning and betraying me?"

"On September 1995, 9, at 7 p.m., I poisoned him to death. I watched him die in front of me."

"On September 1995, 9, my second son's eyes also showed his wariness and suspicion of me."

With the help of the flashlight, Horii Suzune could clearly see the diary that she had found in the box.

This should be the diary of Mr. Matsumoto who took away the lantern.

The Lamp of the Other Shore, is this the real name of the lantern covered with blue paper?

Or, was this just named by Mr. Matsumoto himself?

He actually killed his own wife and son. How cruel!

The diary only recorded up to September 1995, 9, and ended abruptly when he was about to kill his second son.

There is no follow-up plot, which means that something must have happened to Mr. Matsumoto in the days that followed.

He may have died of illness, or he may have been killed first by his second son.

Then how did his second son and his family die?

What a complicated and terrifying ethical murder case.

After reading the diary, Horii Suzune felt sad and glanced to the other side.

She was horrified to find that her father was lifting up a canvas, revealing a lantern covered with blue paper.

Fortunately, the lantern was not lit.

The next second, she saw it.

His father squatted down, lit the candle on the ground with the lighter he carried with him, and placed it inside the lampshade of the lamp.

The dark Japanese-style room was lit up with a blue light.

The dark room was dyed blue.

Chapter 6: Green Lantern

Green lantern.

When the lamp is about to go out, it lights up again, and the remaining flameless lamp casts a flickering shadow.

It is said that at that time there was a blue lantern. In ancient times, people who performed the Hundred Tales used to cover the lanterns with blue paper, hence the name.

Don't talk about ghost stories at night.

Talking about ghost stories will cause strange things.

——————"A Hundred Demons: The Lost Tomb, Volume 2, Fog"

In the room filled with green light, the green lampshade looked like a door that could connect to another world, attracting people's attention involuntarily.

Horii Suzune only took a glance and quickly looked away, went behind her father and tried to awaken his reason with words.

But it was of no use. His eyes were fixed on the candle flame inside the lampshade, as if there was something there that could not be ignored.

Words were of no use, so Horii Suzune was silent for a while, then she stretched out her snow-white, delicate hand and slapped Horii Yuji on the cheek.

Snapped!

There was a crisp sound, but it still had no effect.

Seeing this, Horii Suzune took out a brass bell from her pocket.

This is a small magic weapon that she bought from Hiramiya Chiye for 5 yen.

Ring ring ring!

A clear bell rang out, and the green light in the room seemed to dim.

Horii Yuji, who was squatting on the ground, moved slightly, with an expression of hesitation, struggle and confusion on his face, as if he was about to wake up from some state of addiction.

call.

There was a faint blowing sound around.

Inside the cyan lampshade, the flickering orange-red flame of the candle gradually turns cyan with the sound of blowing.

The green light that enveloped the room became increasingly dense.

Ring ring ring!

Horii Suzune shook the bell in her hand even harder and tried to step forward and kick over the green lantern.

Before she kicked out with her right foot, the green flame suddenly shrank and then bloomed rapidly, like a layer of green ripples.

Clang.

The bell that Horii Suzune was holding tightly in her right hand was blown away by a huge force and fell to the ground.

Horii Suzune, who lost her small protective weapon, instantly felt that her soul was being torn apart by some force.

Her shadow shone through the lampshade of the green lantern and was magnified and printed on the wall.

This should have been a very normal thing, but the shadow began to shrink, then walked down from the wall and walked towards Qingxuandeng.

When the shadow came in front of the green lantern, it had shrunk to the size of a bean sprout, and it seemed that it would be pulled into the candle's wick in the next second.

Horii Suzune could clearly feel that her soul would also be immersed in the wick.

At this moment, a pair of warm hands pressed forcefully on his right shoulder.

"Relax and move back with me."

It's Hiramiya-san's voice!

Horii Suzune subconsciously followed Hiramiya Chiye's instructions, relaxed her body, and stepped back step by step following the guidance of those hands.

The shadow, which was originally the size of a bean sprout, gradually grew larger as Horii Suzune's figure retreated, and gradually moved away from the Qingxuande and returned to the wall.

Restored to a normal shadow.

"amazing."

There was no fear in Horii Suzune's eyes. Instead, she was curious about the magical phenomenon of only the shadow remaining on the wall.

"It's amazing. They always make Newton's coffin unable to hold it down."

"Hiramiya-san..."

The fear in Horii Suzune's heart suddenly dissipated.

Soon, she thought of her father and asked Pinggong Qianye to help her father return to normal.

"It's not a difficult thing, but your father seems to want to catch up with her."

Under the gaze of Hiramiya Chiya's diamond eyes, Horii Yuji's soul is now deep in the flame of the burning candle inside the green lantern.

In addition to his soul, there was another soul imprisoned with him.

The reason why Horii Yuji had that strange feeling for so many years was because a part of his soul had been following that soul day and night.

"Isn't it dangerous?"

"will not."

Hiramiya Chiya answered with certainty that Horii Yuji had not suffered any harm over the years.

One reason was that only a tiny bit of his soul was taken away when he was young, and the other reason was that the other party had never had the intention of hurting him.

Otherwise, he only needed to swallow a wisp of Horii Yuji's soul. Even if he couldn't kill him, it would be enough to make him seriously ill.

"Now I am curious about what they will talk about in there."

Pinggong Qianye squatted down and stared at the green lantern carefully, with a look of delight on his face.

"Can I see it too?"

Horii Suzune came over, held down the hem of her skirt with one hand, and squatted down with her legs together.

"Close your eyes first."

Horii Suzune closed her eyes, and Hiramiya Chiye dipped her right index finger in some of her saliva, circulated her magic power, and tapped Horii Suzune's left and right eyelids.

"It feels a bit cool." Horii Suzune whispered.

"You can open your eyes now."

Pinggong Qianye withdrew his fingers and wiped them on his trouser legs, with no other unnecessary expression on his face.

Two dark shadows, are they human souls?

Can human souls really communicate with each other?

Whose soul will it belong to?

Horii Suzune looked at it in surprise.

About ten minutes later, the candle in the green lantern gradually burned out.

Hiramiya Chiye stood up and walked towards Horii Yuji. He patted Horii Yuji's shoulder three times with his right hand, then exhaled and blew out the candle in the green lantern.

The green light in the room dimmed instantly and gradually disappeared.

"Return to the soul!"

Hiramiya Chiye leaned close to Horii Yuji's ear and shouted angrily.

It was like a burst of thunder.

Horii Yuji's body trembled violently and he came back to his senses instantly.