At least in Junji Ito's worldview, doing evil will indeed be punished.

Tomie was so engrossed in reading Kayako's secret love diary that she made sarcastic laughs from time to time. She didn't notice that a strange atmosphere was spreading in the room.

Suddenly, a sound like scratching came from somewhere.

"Ka, ka-ka ...

Tomie's interest was interrupted. She looked around and found nothing. She put the scrapbook on the bed and walked to the door.

There was naturally nothing outside. The distance from the door to the stairs was only two or three meters. It was impossible to hide someone in such a narrow space.

However, the sound has not stopped.

"Kacha, kacha-ka ...

Tomie looked into the bedroom, and after coming out she realized that the sound came from inside the room. It sounded like nails scratching a blackboard, a harsh sound that would make one extremely anxious.

This was very strange, as she had just been in the house and hadn't seen any movement anywhere.

The noise that would make her nervous did not arouse any sense of vigilance in Tomie's heart, and she walked into the house without any precautions.

Is it a closet?

Tomie looked towards the open closet, her gaze moving upwards.

The location where the sound came from seemed to be above the closet mentioned by Ito Jun.

"Obaa-san up there, what are you doing?"

Tomie sneered, she felt she had guessed what had happened.

“Ka-ka ...

A cold air gushed out from the closet, mixed with hatred and anger. Any normal person would feel instinctive resistance, but Tomie was not a normal person.

She walked towards the closet, not afraid at all, and went straight in. She boldly climbed into the closet, bent over, touched the ceiling above, and found that a piece was loose.

Without thinking, she pushed open the ceiling tile, stood up, and entered the ceiling from chest up.

The triangular space above the ceiling was so dark that nothing could be seen clearly. The air inside the ceiling was a little cold. Not only was it very dry, but it also had a slight odor of mold and dust.

Tomie held her breath and looked intently.

At this time, she found something moving in the darkness.

The thing was like a giant lizard approaching its prey, lying on the narrow ceiling, moving straight towards Tomie. Like a cat's eyes, the thing's eyes emitted a sharp light, and the thing could be heard making sounds like "...ah...ah...ah...ah...ah...ah...ah..."

Tomie hurriedly tried to retreat from the ceiling, but only then did she realize that she could not move.

A force wrapped around her arms and chest, and the powerful brute force pulled Tomie out of the closet and dragged her into the depths of darkness.

In the kitchen on the first floor, Jun Ito was unaware of what was happening on the second floor and was calmly preparing today's dinner.

No matter what, even death row prisoners still have a last meal to eat, let alone him.

Ito Jun brought out all the prepared ingredients, and Tomie was no longer in the living room. He didn't care, because this meal was not prepared for Tomie in the first place.

Ito Jun lit the fire, picked up a piece of beef fat and spread it evenly in the pot.

When the oil is heated up, Ito Jun puts the thinly sliced ​​beef on top and sprinkles it with sugar. When it is tasty, he pours in soy sauce and cooking wine, and then adds green onions, grilled tofu, konjac, shiitake mushrooms, and Chinese cabbage. Finally, he covers the pot to prevent water loss.

Jun Ito picked up a sterilized egg and cracked it into the bowl.

He never eats raw eggs because they have a fishy smell, but he heard that the sukiyaki in District 11 must be served with raw eggs to be delicious, and the eggs used for sukiyaki are sterilized eggs, which have no fishy smell.

After waiting attentively for three minutes, Ito Jun opened the lid of the pot, picked up a piece of beef, put it into the beaten raw egg, rolled it around and put it into his mouth.

The smooth texture, the aroma of soy sauce, the sweetness of sugar, the novel taste made Ito Jun's eyes light up.

This bite of beef really has no fishy smell and tastes great.

Ito Jun was so busy eating that he completely forgot about Tomie whom he brought back.

At the same time, in the space above the ceiling, Tomie was still fighting with Kayako. The blood flowing from her wounds turned into bloody human heads, biting Kayako tightly. Kayako ruthlessly broke Tomie's neck. Tomie tilted her head and slapped her with her backhand. With a "pop", Tomie's palm slapped Kayako in the face.

Although her strength was not great, it was extremely humiliating. Kayako grabbed Tomie's upper and lower lips with both hands and tore off Tomie's chin with force. The blood spurting out of Tomie's mouth splashed all over Kayako and gradually grew and took shape on Kayako's body.

An immortal monster and a famous ghost king, the two women were fighting in a small and dark space. Even though Kayako's power was greater than Tomie's, she was helpless facing Tomie's immortality.

The next day, the morning sunlight rushed into the bedroom. Ito Jun opened his sleepy eyes and sat up on the bed.

"Another day of life."

Ito Jun looked at the sky outside the window with annoyance. Waking up in a sober state did not make him happy. He hated the precarious life and the world where he had no idea when it would become extinct. There was no meaning in living now.

Of course, there is no point in dying. Pi Dan opened the passage between the underworld and the human world. If he died, he would become a real consumable.

After death, the best outcome is to become consumables.

If you survive, the best outcome is to become food on the Hell Planet.

Ito Jun no longer knew whether he should live or die.

He spent the morning in a daze. Neither Kayako nor Tomie disturbed him until one o'clock in the afternoon, when Ito Jun received a call from Qiangwei. She had already gained something about the gems.

"The results of the appraisal are out. Don't be too surprised. This gem seems to be the first material discovered by humans on Earth. The friend in charge of the appraisal wants to know where it came from. In short, this thing is very precious."

In the forest in the mountains where the last suicide attempt took place, Pidan, Ito Jun, Marceau, Qiangwei, and Banhua were sitting in the car. They put the car seats together and sat on them like tatami, listening to Qiangwei's explanation of the gem identification results.

"So, this thing is very valuable?"

"Yeah, if I sell it, I don't know how much it can sell for. So it's better not to let outsiders know that this thing comes out of the stomach of the preserved egg."

"Wow, it's not bad to take the money and have a good time before dying."

"If I had a lot of money, maybe I could heal my scars. Then, it seems like I would have no reason to commit suicide."

Qiangwei and Banhua have begun to imagine their life after getting the money, and their suicidal thoughts are disappearing.

It is obvious that the reason for suicide is lack of money. Having money can solve any problem that makes people want to die.

"Hey, this is Pidan's stuff."

Marceau said, frowning.

"It doesn't matter. If you want stones... Look, I vomited a lot again."

There was a large handbag next to Pidan. He opened the zipper and saw that the bag was full of gems.

"It doesn't matter if we split it equally."

Pidan's personality is a little too good. Although he is inferior and fragile, he is honest and generous. However, Ito Jun noticed that Pidan's pupils disappeared and his eyes were filled with white.

"There seems to be something wrong with my body, in my stomach. The doctor said there seems to be something wrong with the pylorus."

"Pylorus? What is that place?"

The print asked doubtfully.

"The pylorus is the place connecting the stomach and duodenum, the pylorus of ghosts."

Ito Jun leaned against the car door and said lightly.

"Ghost Gate? That sounds really weird."

"That's right, that's where this gem appeared from!"

"what?"

Qiangwei held the gem in front of her eyes. Her tone was deep, and a trace of fear flashed in her eyes. She was terrified and excited as she spoke out her crazy guess: "When Pidan was in a state of suspended animation, he saw a dazzling world. That should be the world after death, and it was in that world that he saw countless gems. Later, he was lucky enough to be resurrected, but for some reason, his stomach became the entrance between this world and another world, right near the pylorus, and the stones from that world came into this world through the door... This is not an ordinary stone, it is a human soul!"

"I once saw souls emerge from gems. After human death, their souls turned into such beautiful gems and piled up on the land of the underworld..."

Everyone stared at the gem, their eyes were deeply attracted by this gem that was transformed from a soul.

"Wow!"

Just then, Pidan suddenly vomited and his face became very big.

“Ugh!”

As soon as Pi Dan opened his mouth, beautiful gems shot out from his mouth like bullets. He spit out dozens of gems in one breath and did not stop. Like a flood, gems continued to pour out of his mouth.

Not only that, too many gems came out at once and filled Pidan's stomach. His belly swelled up like a pregnant woman. Such a large number of gems could not be spit out in a short time. After all, Pidan's mouth was only so big. As a result, Pidan's belly became bigger and bigger. When it was about to burst, Ito Jun took out a fruit knife.

Without thinking, he cut open Pi Dan's belly. The 20-centimeter cut was burst by the swollen belly, and thousands of soul gems splashed out from the cracked belly. Those gems were still stained with Pi Dan's blood.

Ito Jun dropped the knife and pushed the car door open. Thousands of soul gems poured out like a flood, and Ito Jun was also pushed out of the car by the large number of soul gems.

No one knew what kind of stimulation the soul gems all over the ground received, but they suddenly emitted white light. Misty smoke rose from thousands of gems, and the smoke turned into distorted human shapes. Those blurry faces looked down at Ito Jun and others from the air.

Ito Jun had an inexplicable strange feeling, which made his head dizzy and his perspective rose up, but he did not really leave his body.

"What is it?"

Ito Jun staggered in the grass. Something was attracting him. He could feel that there was something very close to him nearby.

The gems under his feet caused him to fall to the ground, and Ito Jun's head hit a gem. The hard gem almost broke Ito Jun's forehead.

"it is this?"

However, after this fall, Jun Ito found something that attracted him.

The gem that hit his forehead created a certain connection between him and Ito Jun.

He immediately picked up the gem and looked at it. He seemed to see himself, reflected in the gem... No! That was not the case at all!

Jun Ito understood everything.

What he saw was not himself reflected in the gem, but himself from another perspective. He was looking at himself from another perspective, a perspective of a higher dimension.

"I see... This gem is my soul stone."

Ito Jun's soul controlled his body and uttered these words.

Today, the gem held by Ito Jun's body is exactly Ito Jun's soul.

When Ito Jun held his Soul Stone, he could feel that his true self existed inside this small stone, and his consciousness was connected to the Soul Stone in the same dimension.

Suicide? Death? Don't even think about it! As long as the gem in his hand is still in the world and does not leave him, his body will always be under his control.

However, after leaving the underworld, his soul also lost the chance of reincarnation. If his physical body was destroyed, his soul would be trapped in this gem forever, living forever in another form.

"Why does it feel... like the Soul Stone of a magical girl?"

Ito Jun muttered to himself.

If you think about it carefully, the setting of the Soul Stone in "Black Conspiracy" is indeed very similar to the Soul Stone of the magical girl.

They are all manifestations of the soul, they are all a form of energy, and they are all consumables.

Chapter 4: The simulator is really useful

"Ugh!"

Ito Jun covered his face, looking depressed.

What does it mean to be unable to live or die?

This is called being unable to live or die.

If his body was gone, wouldn't he become an ultimate creature in outer space? He didn't know if the stomach of Hell Star could dissolve the Soul Stone.

Even death cannot bring peace, this world is so hateful.

"If you can't die...then you can only live!"

Ito Jun took a deep breath, raised his head and looked at the universe, and spoke to himself resolutely.

Compared to ordinary people, he already has a huge advantage. A mere Hell Star... he really has no way to deal with it!

"Let's take it one step at a time. First, we need to deal with the weirdness on Earth, and then we can think of a way to deal with Hell Planet."

Ito Jun rubbed his temple with his fist and looked at the soul stones scattered all over the ground.

The ghost that emerged from the stone has disappeared. Rose and Print are both picking up Soul Stones, but there are tens of thousands of Soul Stones, and they cannot pick them all up no matter how many hands they have. They can only take off their coats and put the Soul Stones in. Of course, only Print can do this. Rose is wearing a black dress, so no matter how hard she tries, she can only get about ten Soul Stones.

Ito Jun thought about it and picked up a few and put them in his pocket.

These soul stones are huge concentrations of energy. According to Ito Jun's memory, releasing all the energy of a soul stone can dissolve a building.

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