Horror simulator, if you survive till tomorrow, you win

"Is it okay? The classroom needs to be renovated. This is too dangerous."

Akari said straightforwardly.

"I……"

Before Ito Jun could finish his words, Akari's face changed, and she rushed over and pushed Ito Jun to the ground.

At the same time, several huge stone slabs hit the place where Ito Jun was just standing, making a dull sound.

The classroom became chaotic. Two consecutive accidents scared the students. They were wary of the problematic ceiling and hurriedly ran out of the classroom.

The head teacher came quickly, and his face changed drastically when he saw the broken stone slabs and damaged electric fan in the classroom.

If any students are injured or killed due to the quality of the classroom, the school will not be able to continue operating. No parent would want their children to attend classes in a shoddy construction where deaths and injuries have occurred.

Ito Jun pondered in silence. While he and his classmates were accepting the school's arrangements, he was thinking about what was going on.

Ok, let’s go…

When the accident happened, a woman said this in his ear.

However, there was no woman around Ito Jun at that time who would say this.

In this regard, Ito Jun couldn't help but wonder, was the woman who said this a human or a ghost?

Let’s go…

Is this an attempt to take him to hell?

Ito Jun scratched his scalp anxiously.

This doesn't seem like Kayako's style. He did not violate the rules of the haunted apartment, and should have nothing to do with the haunted apartment. However, excluding these two, Ito Jun does not remember provoking any other monsters.

Because of this episode, the afternoon classes were held in an abandoned classroom in the old school building.

Although it has been abandoned, the old school building is still very solid. The activity rooms of more than a dozen school clubs are all here, including the art department.

"Great."

This was a good thing for Jun Ito. After class, it took him less than half a minute to walk to the art room and continue practicing sculpture.

When the bell rang for the last class, Ito Jun quickly walked to the toilet, washed his hands, and walked slowly towards the classroom.

The classrooms are on the upper floor, because most of the rooms are occupied by clubs, the empty classrooms are located on the top floor which is not very convenient.

As Ito Jun was walking on the stairs, he suddenly had a very strange feeling.

The bright sunshine cast a golden glow on the stairs, but Ito Jun's skin did not feel warm, but rather a little cold.

"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen—"

Ito Jun couldn't help but count the steps. He counted as he went up. When he reached the thirteenth step, Ito Jun's body became stiff.

The thirteenth step?!

A big word "danger" appeared above Ito Jun's head.

He still knew the thirteenth step of the famous seven wonders.

"Why……"

Ito Jun's eyelids twitched. This didn't happen in the simulator! There was no such thing as the electric fan suddenly falling down!

Ito Jun didn't dare to look back. In this situation, looking back would usually not end well.

So, moving forward?

There is a wall in front with a door on it, which looks like a corridor leading to the rooftop.

"Gamble."

Ito Jun made up his mind.

The worst case scenario is death!

Holding a soul stone, Ito Jun walked forward and pushed open the door.

"Crench--!"

The door opened, and golden sunlight shone in, casting a shadow on Ito Jun's body.

Ito Jun took a step forward, stepped on the entity, and then walked his whole body into the door.

The ground is soft.

The other side of the door was not a rooftop, but a muddy field covered with weeds. In front of Ito Jun was a whole faded yellow grassland. The endless grassland was like another world. On the grassland that symbolized nature, there were traces of man-made objects, such as telephone poles, iron towers, concrete buildings... and a handful of buildings standing among them.

Ito Jun turned around and saw the school behind him. The silent and silent school without any living people made Ito Jun feel scared.

"Walking up the thirteen steps will lead you to another world? This strange story is actually true."

Ito Jun covered his face with his hands and couldn't help sighing.

Not only Junji Ito's comics and famous horror movies, but even the seven wonders that every school has a different version of have become real phenomena. What kind of weird stories are not true?

Jun Ito put away the stone that housed his soul, and holding the Soul Stone in his hand, which he could throw like a bomb at any time, he tentatively walked out of the school, stepping on the soft weeds.

He didn't dare to go far, he just wanted to take a look at the surrounding environment.

However, even such a modest goal cannot be achieved.

The white figure swinging its body wildly entered Ito Jun's sight. Ito Jun looked directly at the thing, and his brain felt dizzy. Instinctively, he separated his consciousness from his body and looked at the white figure in his own eyes from a higher perspective.

The elongated silhouette, which resembled a human figure, appeared to have multiple circular protrusions, with only thin line-like parts connecting them.

When Ito Jun watched it, he felt that something was emerging from the area of ​​the brain responsible for storing memories, and his body involuntarily told a twisting urban legend.

It was as if paint was constantly flowing into his eyes, large amounts of blue began to encroach from the edge of his vision, and transparent protrusions popped out from his mouth and eyes.

If this continues, something bad will happen.

Realizing this, Ito Jun forcibly controlled his body and used his right hand to pull out the transparent protrusions that were coming out of his eye sockets and mouth.

However, the more he pulled out, the more it grew. Problems also occurred in Ito Jun's right hand. The fingers that touched the foreign objects became infected and gradually became transparent, and began to twist and deform.

Ito Jun raised the Soul Stone in his left hand and smashed it hard at the twisting and turning creature.

The impact with the twisting stone caused a moderate explosion, and soul energy burst out. The twisting body was greatly twisted on the spot, and then disappeared completely.

The pressure in his body disappeared, Ito Jun breathed a sigh of relief, then quickly touched his face with his hand and found that the transparent foreign objects that had just grown from his face and mouth had all disappeared.

Ito Jun's shoulders rose and fell as he gasped for breath, and he sat on the ground like a fool.

I had clearly experienced it safely once in a simulator, but when I actually experienced it, the mental stress was still extremely great.

After a moment, a strong sense of fear arose.

"Ahhh!"

Ito Jun jumped up and screamed, rushed to the place where he disappeared, picked up the Soul Stone, turned around and ran towards the school.

He passed through the school gate and escaped to the old school building. He counted thirteen steps in the corridor and a door appeared in front of Ito Jun.

Without thinking too much, he pushed the door open and walked in. A ray of blue light flashed, and Ito Jun returned to the old school building in the outer world.

Chapter 9 My Right Hand, My King's Power

Because he ran too fast, Ito Jun almost fell headfirst down the corridor. He hurriedly grabbed the railing to stop himself, stood on the stairs, and looked ahead with lifeless eyes.

Ito Jun didn't know how long he had been standing there. When he came to his senses, the old school building had not changed at all, and he could hear the sound of reading coming from the classrooms on the upper floors.

The class had already started, but Ito Jun had no intention of going to the classroom. He squatted down, and today's experiences flashed through his mind.

"Talent, can you tell the truth at first sight?"

Ito Jun raised his hand and touched his eyes.

Although the way of entering another world was different, he undoubtedly experienced the same thing as when his talent [See the Truth at a Glance] was activated.

In other words, he had eyes that could see ghosts and initially gained the ability to fight monsters.

"Buy one, get one free?"

However, it seems that it is not only the eyes that have mutated, but also the hands.

Ito Jun stared at his right hand raised in front of him.

This hand, from the fingertips to the entire palm, is transparent. Whether it is the nails or the flesh underneath, it is as transparent and flawless as the clear winter sky. It is as if the fingertips are melting into the air.

If the power of the eyes is the power to see ghosts, which puts him in the same realm as the weird, then what about the hands? Touch? The power of the eyes already includes touch, so what is the hand? What kind of power does this hand hide?

It is unknown for Jun Ito, as hands are not a talent mentioned in the simulator.

However, no matter what, this hand cannot be easily exposed to others.

Ito Jun put his right hand in his pocket, skipped class, went to a nearby store to buy a pair of leather gloves, put them on himself to cover up his mutated right hand.

At 3:30, Jun Ito arrived at a beach in Tokyo on time and found a store called TOOBLUE.

The boss's surname is Eguchi. He is a middle-aged man in his forties with long hair. There are two female employees in the store who are in their twenties, one is Kurorei and the other is Shirahama.

Jun Ito greeted the two shop assistants, changed into his employee uniform, and went to the front hall filled with tables and chairs to officially start work.

Because it is a seaside house, the guests are all young men and women who come to the beach to play. Women in bikinis and shirtless men, with the smell of sea water, laugh happily, and they are full of summer energy.

"Ito! The fried noodles for three are ready!"

"Ito, I'll take these over. Please go and clean table number five first."

"I see... Heiling, the guests at table two want an extra strawberry smoothie!"

"Shirahama, take this fruit salad to table one."

"Ito, five draft beers for table eight."

……

Although it is not the peak period at noon or in the evening, there are still many guests in Haizhiya, and the number of guests in each time period is never less than ten.

Probably because this is the only beach house on the beach, guests who are tired of playing outside will come in to rest or order a cold drink.

Jun Ito was not very adaptable at first, but the job was not very complicated, and it didn't take long for him to know how to deal with it.

"Huh...hot and tired."

Jun Ito looked at the bright sun outside, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and brought three cups of smoothies to the guests.

In such hot weather, if the salary was not high, Ito Jun would not come here to work. Convenience stores with air conditioning and not too tiring work are his first choice.

"what?"

"No, no, you heard it clearly, right?"

"Okay, come play with us?"

Ito Jun heard a call from the kitchen just now and was about to leave when he noticed that Miss Kurome was being harassed. She was standing next to table number four in distress, and two men with frivolous attitudes invited her.

“But I’m still working.”

Miss Kurorei said in embarrassment, her eyes wandering and looking at Ito Jun for help.

"So, why don't we wait until you get off work?"

"Yes, Miss Nai... has a great figure. It seems that she is very suitable for wearing a swimsuit. I really want to see it."

The two men were grinning and refused to let Heiling leave.

"Let's talk about it after get off work. Don't you see everyone is busy?"

Ito Jun walked over with a cold face, stood in front of Heiling, and confronted the two guests.

"This is the Sea House. Please feel free to order whatever you want. If it is not within our service range, we will not serve you."

Ito Junrei was impatient and spoke rudely.

"You little chuunibyou, this is a topic for adults, if you don't want to be scolded then go away."

The young man with dyed blond hair waved at Ito Jun with a contemptuous attitude.

Ito Jun was even more annoyed. What kind of middle school kid? He was already forty years old after two lives.

"You two!"