You say this is a love game?

The scum who deserves to be killed will be killed.

As long as the guy who wants to turn over a new leaf has not done anything really unscrupulous, Mizutani Makoto will agree with him.

It is impossible for a person to never make mistakes in his life. What is important is what mistakes he made, what results he caused, and what consequences he should bear.

No matter from which angle, Makoto Mizutani did not blame Ota Akemi too much... After all, they are different from Hosokawa Toshiya, who is a truly hopeless scum.

Facing Mizutani Makoto's "apology", Ota Akemi fell into silence for a long time. Finally, she nodded vigorously and said in the loudest voice she had since they met: "I will definitely make Rika apologize!"

"If she doesn't agree, I'll gather the others to join me, and then we'll all carry her to the podium and force her to fall down! Then, I'll expose her dark history, including her browsing history when she borrowed my tablet! Everything, everything!"

Damn, what kind of cruel person is this?

By the way, why do you still keep her browsing history?

Girl, that's actually scary.

But that's an okay attitude.

Ota Akemi's attitude made Mizutani Makoto look at her twice more. Feeling amused, he took out a pair of [girl's loafers] from his backpack and threw them to her.

"Put it on. Your legs are not very good for running now."

If you speak well, there will be a reward.

Girls' Loafers

[Description: Loafers often worn by JK girls to school. The smooth lacquer surface is exactly like the girl's face. It slightly increases attack speed. Collecting the full set provides the wearer with a +1 agility bonus.]

[Evaluation: Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle, sizzle, sizzle...]

The loafers kindly provided by Miss JK are, as always, speechless in terms of reviews... Tongzi is a bit too flashy and depressing.

Mizutani Makoto used to think that these miscellaneous equipment were useless, but now it seems that the miscellaneous items can be put to use.

The rest is self-explanatory.

Mizutani Makoto arrived at the teaching building area.

According to Akemi Ota, she fled down the stairs in fear, but the others did not follow her, but instead ran to other parts of the building.

Looking for JK in the teaching building?

Hiss, it feels like a horror game.

Looking for the fuse of the circuit breaker all over the street... I just don't know if there will be a chase scene.

Oh, what's the chase?

Of course I was the one chasing and killing ghosts with a shotgun!

The exterior walls of the teaching building lost their bright colors during the day under the dim sky, and the brick and stone structure took on a cold and hard gray tone, blending in with the surrounding environment.

When Mizutani Makoto stepped into the corridor, the lights came on one after another, stretching the shadows of the three people very long.

Looking up, the end of the corridor looks like a portal to another world.

“The atmosphere is well prepared.”

Ota Akemi hunched her shoulders and unconsciously moved a little closer to Mizutani Makoto. She had noticed before that the boy's cloak rolled up behind him always exuded a faint warmth, like a stove in winter, which was very tempting to her even though she was soaked.

Also, this place really does look like a haunted house!

Honestly, she really wanted to throw herself on Mizutani-san...

"Jiazi, I'll have to trouble you to keep an eye on me and her from now on."

"Yes! Big brother!"

A blurry figure could be vaguely seen through the window glass of the classroom, and in the shadows inside the room, scarlet pupils were looking out.

Oh, it’s the voyeur girl and DK guy.

The quantity is okay.

This was a scene that Akemi Ota had never seen before. Makoto Mizutani guessed that the erosion of the cracks might be getting worse, and some old friends had sneaked out of the cracks.

"Is the music classroom still in its original location?"

“It’s still there!”

Then fight your way through!

war!

……

……

Rika Nishimura ran forward.

Following behind her was Ono Eri.

Yesterday, they encountered the legendary campus ghost story, and not just one, but two at once!

After this incident, everyone in the group suffered a serious psychological trauma. They confronted their elders at home and emphasized the seriousness of the matter. Then they insisted on not going to school, performing rituals to exorcise evil spirits, and refraining from any suicidal behavior. They locked themselves in the house and refused to go out.

It can be said that watching the horror movie "Suicide Awards" has some thoughts.

Until nightfall, they were still encouraging each other, suppressing the panic in their hearts, and praying that everything was just a nightmare.

But nightmares are indeed nightmares.

Unfortunately, the nightmare arrived as expected.

The four of them hid in their own rooms, hoping to escape the pursuit of the ghost story, but when the clock struck twelve at midnight, the piano sound of "Für Alice" ignored the obstacle of distance and reached their ears at the same time.

In the group chat, the girls' frightened discussion had not yet ended when their vision was filled with dark gray blocks. When the scenery in front of them became clear again, they opened their eyes and found themselves in the music classroom.

escape.

The moment they regained their mobility, the four fled without hesitation.

At first, the four of them ran away together, but Ota Akemi couldn't stand the oppressive atmosphere of the teaching building and was frightened and ran out of the building. She wanted to call out to Ota Akemi and warn her that there was still the bronze statue outside that she encountered yesterday, but Ota Akemi didn't listen to her.

They watched Ota Akemi's back as she ran away, but no one dared to chase her.

Rika Nishimura was also scared.

They had suffered together in the music classroom yesterday, but on the playground, she was the first to be spotted by the Ninomiya statue, and it chased her the entire way, before she finally managed to escape the school. This had left her with a deep psychological trauma from the Ninomiya statue, and she was reluctant to go outside the teaching building to face the behemoth.

So, Akemi Ota lost contact.

They didn't dare to act rashly, so they found a classroom to hide in, hoping that the arrival of dawn would drive away the evil spirits.

However, the campus at night seemed much more dangerous than it was yesterday after school.

Since when, Nishimura Rika has felt a vague sense of sight, as if someone is staring at them... This ominous premonition reached its peak at around two o'clock. In the shadows, a monster with twisted limbs was wriggling. It looked like a high school boy, its whole body was bound in the shadows, but it was struggling to crawl out.

They screamed and ran out of the classroom.

But this is when the real nightmare begins.

When they came outside, they found that the whole world seemed to be seriously distorted. There was nothing unusual at twelve o'clock, but two hours later, the entire corridor was covered by a thin layer of shadow, and a large number of phantoms were struggling in it, like evil spirits about to break free from a cage.

They began to flee again.

But this time they were running around the teaching building like headless flies, turning around or making a turn almost every time they saw a ghost. Although those ghosts had not yet broken free from the shackles of the shadows, their image was enough to scare a group of powerless girls.

While escaping at a corner, by the time Nishimura Rika reacted, Yokoi Tsubaki had disappeared.

Ran away.

Or maybe he was dragged away by a monster.

Whenever she thought of this, she couldn't help but shudder.

Why does this happen?

The girl happened to look up, but suddenly held her breath.

She couldn't help but stand there in a daze, looking towards the courtyard. What appeared in her sight was a cherry tree.

Chapter 80: After getting caught in the rain, he took away other people’s umbrellas.

The moonlight above the sky, which should have been dark, was dyed blood-red when it fell into the atrium, so bright red that it illuminated the strange scene in the atrium without reservation.

A cherry tree stands here quietly.

The tall cherry tree is in full bloom, as if burning.

The red was blinding, alluring, each cluster of blossoms looking like solidified plasma, so thick it threatened to fall from the branches. The edges of the petals tinged with the pinkish-white of tender flesh. The cherry blossoms scattered in the breeze, but unlike the fluttering blossoms of April, they resembled the thick, sticky texture of torn skin flakes, clinging to them like strands of silk, a strange and eerie sight.

Is this... a cherry blossom tree?

“It wasn’t like this before!”

Nishimura Rika muttered to herself, wondering if she had caught a glimpse of the cherry tree in the courtyard when she was on the run. But back then, the tree had been ordinary, no different from what she saw on her way to school. How could it be so eerie and terrifying now?

Those clusters of heavy cherry blossoms are as terrifying as countless overlapping bloody handprints!

"No, this isn't right."

Ono Eri also shook her head vigorously, panicking, "The cherry trees in our school have bloomed before, and they're not late-blooming varieties... It's already June, and the flowering period has long passed. How could they still be blooming like this..."

Ono Eri couldn't think of a description, so she could only squeeze out the word "horrible".

As she said, the blooming of cherry trees in Japan is generally concentrated in April and May. For example, the cherry trees in June have entered the "leaf cherry" stage, that is, new leaves grow and sporadic sepals remain. At this time, the cherry trees should look like lush trees covered in green, and it is impossible for them to bloom so gorgeously.

I don’t know. I totally don’t understand.

Rika Nishimura suddenly caught a glimpse of movement in the shadows in the corner of the corridor, so she grabbed Ono Eri's wrist, gritted her teeth and ran again.

But this time, she thought differently.

"Eiri, listen—"

"We have to find Tsubaki and Akemi!"

"Looking for them?"

"Yes, no matter what, we have to find them... and escape together!"

As she spoke, Nishimura Rika felt a strong sense of regret and helplessness.

In fact, since last night, a thought has been flashing through her mind repeatedly.

It's all her fault.

The source of all the events was that she lowered her bottom line and became Yajima Shion's lackey in order to please her.

She is actually not very good at this kind of thing. It is true that she is good at socializing, but in the past, her socializing was all about making friends with people. Just like her and these three best friends, they should be equal to each other and be able to tease each other.

But Yajima Shion is different.

At the suggestion of her parents, she was given the task of getting to know more powerful families in high school and in the future college, and the children of the Yajima family were the special targets. All of this was to cope with the decline of the family business and find a way out.

To put it bluntly, between the two options of decline and becoming a dog for the big family, the latter is actually a good destination.

She had never had such a "flattering" social experience.

No matter from which aspect, Yajima Shion completely crushed her. From background to talent to ambition, she felt inferior to her. So in the process of trying to get close to Yajima Shion, she completely lost the initiative... In fact, this was not even an acquaintance, she was just being someone else's lackey.

When she realized this, she was extremely depressed.

Everyone present had her own pride. She was also a rich lady who grew up in a privileged family background. She was asked to bow her head and serve others like a dog... She was extremely unwilling in her heart, not to mention that Yajima Shion really treated her like a dog and casually threw a commission at her.

So, whether she was greeting Mai Yajima or preparing to bully Mai Yajima, she always looked impatient.

I am so ugly like this.

When she was preparing herself mentally before, she had similar thoughts. Especially when she saw Mai Yajima's attitude of not resisting during the bullying, she became even more angry... She couldn't tell whether the anger was directed at Mai Yajima or at herself.

And now, retribution has finally come.

If she hadn't insisted on dragging her friends along to play around with her, they wouldn't have been laughed at, much less criticized. They could still stroll around the streets and chat as usual, gossip about others behind their backs, and be pretty JK girls.

The most important thing is, if she hadn't had that experience, or if she had admitted her mistake earlier and apologized to Mai Yajima earlier, they would never have stayed in the classroom on a gloomy rainy day to discuss "countermeasures."

What else is there to discuss?

In the end, they didn't discuss anything, but instead heard the sound of piano symbolizing death.

The source of all this is her arrogance and stupidity.

It was her fault that she dragged her friends into this hell as well.