You say this is a love game?

It made a short, thin chirp, and its round, bird-like eyes, dyed red, stared straight at Mai Yajima.

The wind brought the message that Yajima Mai wanted.

“So that’s where it’s hidden.”

The girl hummed leisurely.

She hid her hands behind her back and staggered towards the busy streets of Night Light City.

From behind the tall building where she was.

Tiger thrushes with scarlet eyes took flight one after another. These summer migratory birds gathered together like a migratory flock, shrouding the rooftop like a dark cloud. Soon, cumulonimbus clouds from the distance drifted over, and thin raindrops fell from the sky, shrouding the entire world in a curtain of rain.

This is the red light district.

The light rain was like gauze, covering the entire street in a hazy wet mist.

The neon signs shattered into millions of pieces in the puddles caused by the light rain, and dazzling halos of various colors flowed on the asphalt road, like spilled paint, mixed with the reflections in the puddles, and their light danced in the girl's eyes.

This is the red light district.

It may be different from what many people know. Places like red-light districts are absolutely gray industries in Japan. There are even cases where Japanese police have repeatedly raided and cracked down on red-light districts. This shows that the country does not support the development of the sex industry in legislation.

But legislation is legislation, and capital will find its own way.

In a place like this, there are many seemingly illegal industries, but they are actually legal health centers. The services provided in the store are just bathtubs and waiters. You pay and the waiters help you take a bath. In theory, there is no obscene or illegal behavior during the process. Merchants and customers trust each other throughout the whole process and there are no conflicts.

But then again, you said the boss couldn't possibly install a camera in the bathroom, right?

Since there are no cameras, the boss has no idea what happened in the bathroom!

How could he know that you, a customer, could fall in love with the waitress at first sight, have a stormy love affair that lasted for an hour, and then end up breaking up miserably with all the love gone?

This doesn't make sense!

As for some custom shops?

The service they provide is only Oral Sex, which does not amount to "prostitution" as defined by the law.

In the gray industry, people's imagination and creativity can always make certain logic complete a strange closed loop, which was reflected as early as in the national gambling game of small steel balls.

The small steel balls themselves have no value. Even if you win, you can only get some small steel balls. At most, you can use these small steel balls to exchange for gifts in the store, and they cannot be exchanged for cash.

Among these redeemable gifts, there will be a kind of "small card", which can be called a gold coin card. These gold coin cards have no function and no value, and are only for personal collection.

But so far, everything sounds pretty normal, right?

But what a coincidence, in the same building, you can definitely find another shop owner who has nothing to do with the steel ball shop, and he just happens to be an avid card enthusiast who likes to buy back the cards exchanged for steel balls at high prices. All his acquisitions are due to his fanatical hobby of collecting steel ball cards. He has absolutely no relationship with the owner of the steel ball shop. The two of them don't even have any contact information. They are just strangers.

What else can you say?

Mai Yajima walks in this red-light district.

Even though it is raining, it does not affect the vitality of this street at all. The whole street comes alive in the evening.

The sweet, cloying scent of cheap perfume mixed with shochu wafted from the izakaya. A woman in black stockings, holding an umbrella, leaned against the alleyway, smoking, the flickering sparks of light illuminating the butterfly tattoo on her neck. Faded advertisements for sex shops were plastered on telephone poles. Some of the slogans were so brazen that even Yajima Mai, after glancing at them, felt a sense of surprise. She squeezed time out of her busy schedule to stand in front of the poles and observe the wording.

Can humans really summon huge jets?

Under the reflection of the bright lights and wine, Mai Yajima touched her belly with a thoughtful expression.

Humans are a species that pleases itself and has a reward system in the sexual realm.

For some reason, this thought flashed through my mind.

On both sides of the street, the signs of nightclubs and bars were particularly glaring in the rain.

She continued walking, the izakaya's curtains swaying slightly in the evening breeze, the sounds of drunken laughter and clinking glasses still lingering. Deep in the alley, a woman in a miniskirt stubbed out her cigarette, wading through the puddles in high heels under an umbrella. Cursing the weather, she glanced over. Seeing such a beautiful young woman like Yajima Mai there, she was stunned.

Especially Yajima Mai, who didn't hold an umbrella at all. Her hair tips were wet in the rain, but her body was not wet.

As she passed by, she seemed to accidentally bump into Mai Yajima's shoulder, and her face instantly became fierce.

"Hey! Where are you from, little brat? Is this where you're supposed to be?"

Mai Yajima was also stunned. She stared at the heavily made-up woman for a few seconds, then bowed politely: "Sorry, I wasn't paying attention to where I was going... By the way, do you know the KTV 'Night Butterfly'? That KTV..."

"I don't know, just get out of here, little brat."

The woman walked away cursing, leaving Yajima Mai shaking her head helplessly.

"You're so irritable when you speak. Even if you have good intentions, you won't convey them to others..."

Mai Yajima shook her head and walked around an intersection. A tiger thrush flew down from the sky and looked towards the end of the street with her.

The building, adorned with a neon sign reading "Ye Die KTV," looked particularly ostentatious in the rain. A man in a black suit stood at the entrance, a walkie-talkie dangling from his waist. From the revolving door, the faint sound of singing could be heard from the lobby. A sweet female voice mingled with the beat of electronic music, creating a scene of decadence and extravagance that never sleeps.

Among them was a girl named "Tomomi Iguchi".

"Mai Yajima..."

In the box, Tomomi Iguchi was muttering softly. The air conditioner in the room was blowing cool air. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. This slight movement made Tomomi Iguchi shiver and she subconsciously reached for the shoulder bag beside her.

The knife he was holding was cold, a fruit knife he had bought from the supermarket.

There were also seven or eight men in the box who were quite colorful in the true sense of the word. Their arms were all tattooed with tattoos, and their hair was either dyed blond or some other color, or at worst, their heads were shaved clean. None of them looked like good people.

In addition to the protection of her "boyfriend", there is also the "high-level monk who is good at salvation" who she managed to fool... The other party frowned when he saw the red light district. It was only after she persuaded him in every possible way that he let the monk sit next door temporarily. For this matter, she had to spend a lot of money to give it to the monk.

However, the bald man was asking her impatiently via text message where the ritual was being performed and what he wanted to do by bringing him to the red light district.

What kind of idiots are these?

I didn’t even understand the situation!

At this moment, Iguchi Tomomi's boyfriend—the young man with dyed blue hair—turned around, glanced at the waiter who had entered the private room to serve drinks, and jokingly put his arm around Iguchi Tomomi's arm, rubbing it and laughing: "What's wrong? Are you scared already? If a vengeful spirit really comes later, won't you burst into tears?"

"Crying? I think you're peeing your pants!"

Someone started to make a fuss, causing a burst of laughter.

The wine glasses clinked together and clinked glasses. As the wine glasses clung to each other, Tomomi Iguchi pushed her boyfriend and a look of embarrassment and anger appeared on her face.

"Naoto, stop it!"

Tomomi Iguchi curled up on the sofa. Seeing this, the young man comforted her. The girl took a deep breath to calm her wildly fluctuating emotions.

She was terrified.

The Yakuza present may not have noticed, but she knew exactly what was happening to her.

It's a ghost.

The evil ghost is taking your life!

In April, a girl named "Kikuchi Kaori" was tortured and dismembered by a perverted murderer. The sight of her being chopped into pieces like a human pig made people shudder even through the news, and also made the public call for a strict investigation of the murderer.

One day in May, a girl named "Fujii Sa" committed suicide by lying on the railway tracks. She left a scribbled suicide note for her family. The only words that were not crossed out were the words "I'm sorry". The changes in her mental state from writing the suicide note to committing suicide are simply a mystery.

A few days ago, a girl named "Kamei Reimi" was fished out of the river. It was said that her death was extremely horrific, with her face distorted. It seemed that someone pushed her head into the water and drowned her.

These three people have been good friends since elementary school and junior high school.

Even after entering high school, they still kept in touch, especially with Fujii Sa and Kamei Reimi. She was in the same school with them, and they would meet up to go shopping every now and then.

She just couldn't imagine that with Fujii Sa's free and easy personality, she would actually commit suicide by lying on the railway tracks?

And why did Reimi Kamei drown in the river?

Misfortunes happened to her old friends one after another, which made Iguchi Tomomi feel uneasy. It was not until a girl who called herself "Yajima Mai" contacted her that she realized what kind of terrible incident she was involved in.

How could such a thing be possible?

Did Mai Yajima come to see her?

Do not make jokes!

"That Yajima Mai girl is clearly dead..."

In the corner of the sofa, the girl watched the men raise their glasses to toast and then continued to call the waiters. The group of people were drunk and had no sense of crisis at all.

Seeing this, Iguchi Tomomi couldn't help but tremble violently.

She didn't want to die. No one could wait for death calmly.

After being informed by Mai Yajima, her first reaction was to contact her boyfriend, a yakuza, and desperately wanted him to help her. However, Naoto didn't take her words seriously at all, and even joked that since she was so scared, she could find some people to gather together in the KTV. Even if a female ghost came to the door, they would see how these energetic young guys would kick the ghost back!

So, half-heartedly, Tomomi Iguchi was brought here.

And next door was her last resort - a high monk her mother knew, and she invited him out without her mother's knowledge.

When she first came to the KTV, she could still manage to stay calm.

But as time passed, the illusion of safety created by the atmosphere gradually faded, and Iguchi Tomomi began to become more and more worried, even suspicious, always feeling that Mai Yajima would appear here at any time.

Naoto and the others didn't know the inside story, but how could she not know?

As early as this year's spring break, before school even started, Mai Yajima had already died.

She saw it all with her own eyes...she saw the "corpse" of Mai Yajima.

The sixteen-year-old girl who was bullied by them passed away with a broken heart on the eve of putting on new clothes and becoming a highly anticipated high school student.

Mai Yajima is dead.

Died in a small rental house.

Died in front of all of them.

Chapter 107 Even Buddha closed his eyes.

Speaking of the past, Tomomi Iguchi and her group, and Mai Yajima knew each other when they were in junior high school.

Of course, this kind of "recognition" may not be a good thing for Mai Yajima.

Bullying in Japanese schools is a common topic. Although some schools, due to factors such as student enrollment and school administration, have little breeding ground for bullying, we must not judge the entire issue based on the individual cases of a particular school. We must recognize that the fact that bullying in Japanese schools has gained a certain international reputation is undoubtedly rampant and extremely serious.

And Tomomi Iguchi and her relationship with Mai Yajima is just one of the millions of moments of bullying.

In Japan, a country with high incidence of school and workplace bullying, bullying among students requires almost no reason. It may be that someone is simply ugly, or someone is not sociable, or even someone's academic performance is too good, and they may be attacked by some dark small groups.

They fabricate little stories, and all kinds of contempt and slander follow one after another, both mentally and physically, eventually destroying people to the point of becoming autistic and even losing interest in life. Many students have even committed suicide because of this.

But from a realistic perspective, girls like Mai Yajima, who have been beautiful since childhood, are actually not easily bullied.

Just because of her pretty appearance, she has nothing to do with being "unsociable". Unless her family background has major flaws, or she has done something embarrassing that is so abstract that it cannot be refuted, there are many suitors willing to flock around her. Bullies are not stupid either. How could they choose such a future heartthrob as the target of bullying?

But someone wants them to do this.

The man was an adult, who looked like a butler or a bodyguard. They could see that he was just conveying another person's intentions, paying them to make things difficult for Mai Yajima.

Does anyone want to pay them to have sex with Mai Yajima?

What a joke! If I don’t handle this properly, I’ll end up getting myself into trouble!

Logically speaking, they should ignore such whimsical demands from society.

But what that person gave was too much.

And coincidentally, they also felt that the beautiful girl Mai Yajima, who shone brightly on the track and field team, was an eyesore.

Why is it that their family is so popular, even though they are from a single-parent family with their mother dead? Why can they still smile with such a self-assured smile?

Does it matter who exactly is the person who wants to teach her a lesson?

unimportant.

They had a good time and got paid - that's enough.

Thus, a long-term, purposeful bullying campaign began. At the behest of those behind them, they kept their bullying of Mai Yajima under control. After a malicious collision injured and disfigured her during a track and field competition, they focused even more on psychological abuse...

The humiliation to the body and reputation was rejected.

Otherwise, she actually wanted to take some funny photos and videos.

They had secretly guessed what the person behind the scenes was thinking, but after thinking about it, they realized that maybe the person just didn't want to destroy it in such a low-level way.

It's easy to ruin a girl's reputation.

But to completely destroy a person's spirit is a long and patient process.

However, the speed at which Mai Yajima declined was far beyond their imagination.

They thought it would take a long time to devalue the once radiant girl, but they seemed to have underestimated Yajima Mai's psychological trauma...or perhaps, they had always overestimated Yajima Mai's psychological endurance.

Born in such a family, with her mother dead and her father busy with his career, she blossomed alone, wanting to be a dazzling person...but at this time they extinguished most of her dreams.