I'm raising a fox fairy wife in Tokyo

Could this apartment be similar to the one at the Kamishiro family's place?

Is it a sacrifice to an evil god created by a modern person, or... something even more terrifying?

These issues all need to be clarified.

【Aaaaaaaahh ...

Using your brain isn't exactly within the fox's area of ​​expertise!

The brief operational meeting ended there.

Before we knew it, the clock had struck past midnight. Then, with a "click," it sounded like a light switch being turned off.

Immediately afterwards, a considerable number of footsteps could be heard inside the previously deathly silent apartment.

Even in the living room.

Both Takagawa Takayuki and Shinomiya Kaguya could clearly hear the sounds of people moving around outside the window.

The weird thing is.

Perhaps it was because the living room lights were still on.

The gray curtains, for some inexplicable reason, were now reflecting the situation in the hallway outside.

People kept gathering, seemingly standing behind the curtains, watching from the windows around the living room, motionless.

"!!!"

Anyone would be startled to suddenly see such a scene.

Kaguya Shinomiya covered her mouth and took a few seconds to calm herself down.

"Shall we go out now, Long?"

"Ah."

The girl clearly understood something.

The figures outside are clearly residents of the apartment building, so it's okay to go out, since both he and the boy are also residents.

the most important is.

What else would we do if we didn't go out?

There's nothing you can do staying in the room, but to conduct an investigation, you absolutely have to go out.

"Let's go."

They returned to the entrance hall, and then Takagawa Takayuki took Shinomiya Kaguya's hand and walked out of the house.

The corridor was pitch black.

The pale lights had all been turned off, and in the thick darkness, one could indeed see many human figures moving about.

In the distance, one could still hear faint whispers and curses.

"Don't worry about them."

The boy whispered in the girl's ear that the important thing now was not to care what these "possessed" residents were doing.

They are nothing but pathetic creatures influenced by the "spirit".

The focus now is—

Go find the source of the problems in the apartment, which is the old lady who died alone here.

It's in room 904, which is upstairs from where I live.

"Let's go, Kaguya, do you still remember the way?"

“I remember!”

Although the apartment's corridors were like a maze, this was no challenge for the genius girl. Memorizing the path she and the boy had taken was a piece of cake.

"Go this way."

They started walking ahead and leading the way.

Along the way, many dark figures remained hidden in the night. Some lingered in place, while others gathered together, waiting for the two to pass through the narrow corridor.

They would even make way for each other, pressing themselves against the walls.

To be honest, the corridor was already long, and the atmosphere was truly terrifying.

Kaguya Shinomiya's palms were sweaty.

Thinking about it, if it weren't for the boy beside her, she definitely wouldn't have been able to continue forward so peacefully at a time like this.

what……

A long time, a long time.

The two finally emerged from the corridor inside the apartment and arrived at the corridor along the exterior wall.

Unlike Tokyo.

The night in Kyoto is much dimmer, and there aren't many tall buildings. The scattered lights seem to spread out in front of you, extending intermittently, giving you a very quiet feeling.

Kaguya Shinomiya felt as if she had returned to the real world.

But turning around, the human silhouettes that were previously only visible in the dark corridor inside the apartment were now illuminated by the moonlight and a light that seemed to come from nowhere.

The black figures became clearer, transforming into living, breathing people.

They are the residents of the apartment.

At this moment, it seemed quite ordinary. Standing on one side of the corridor, some were whispering to each other, some were looking around, and some were occasionally casting glances at themselves and Gao Chuanlong.

Because it's so normal, it actually feels very abnormal. Who would come to the corridor in the middle of the night to do something like that?!

Under the influence of the spirit.

All the residents in this apartment building are acting strangely.

Pushing open the iron gate at the end of the corridor, Takagawa Takayuki and Shinomiya Kaguya quickly arrived at the 9th-floor corridor, which, like before, was filled with apartment residents wandering around.

After spending some time, we arrived at the door of room 904.

No nonsense.

After observing the room from outside for a moment, Gao Chuanlong kicked the door open.

There was a loud noise of "Boom!"

An ordinary door, of course, could not withstand such a superhuman blow from the boy, and it dented and flew off, revealing the situation inside the apartment to the two of them.

This place is completely different from the previous apartment.

The room inside was empty, filled with all sorts of clutter and garbage, and the stench was unpleasant.

But most importantly, the walls around the apartment are covered with all sorts of old photos.

From black and white to color, the variety is endless.

"Long, look..."

The photo appears to be of the elderly woman herself, depicting her life from birth to death.

We can see her as a baby, being held by her parents, until she enters school with friends by her side, then as a teenager smiling with a boy under a cherry blossom tree, and as an adult, marrying him, having children, and the happy family of three.

Then the children grow up, get married, and have grandchildren...

The photos covering the walls perfectly depict the old lady's ordinary yet happy life.

but.

Takagawa Takayuki and Shinomiya Kaguya, who knew about her past, both knew that from the time this old lady was born, her parents, friends, lovers, husband, children, son-in-law, grandson... all left her, leaving her all alone in the end.

In fact, it is true.

In all the photos, the old woman's relatives and friends are accompanied by a black figure.

Is it 【灵】?

Or is it some kind of curse?

Anyone who gets close to this old woman will become unfortunate and then die.

Kaguya Shinomiya was thinking this when she saw Takagawa Takayuki looking thoughtful.

The boy had clearly figured something out.

This is not a curse, nor is it the work of a spirit; it is simply...

Unlucky.

Life is a mix of good and bad luck. In extreme cases, it is possible for someone to be constantly plagued by bad luck and experience all sorts of misfortunes.

But this old lady's misfortune was not simply a matter of "bad luck".

What she experienced was that every time she felt happy in her life, someone around her would die unexpectedly.

Those dark figures are the Grim Reaper, who appears and accompanies a person before they die.

"grim Reaper?!"

"what."

It's not the Shinigami described by his Zanpakuto, but rather a "messenger of the underworld" in a certain sense. Everyone is accompanied by a Shinigami before they die.

"I understand, that's how it is."

Looking around at the black plastic bags, Gao Chuanlong spoke to himself.

This old lady.

He really is a pitiful guy...

Chapter 127 is about extremely rare Pokémon.

Do you have anyone you want to kill?

Not long after starting university, Yoshida Shoichi moved into a strange apartment.

It is said that as long as you sincerely worship that being, the person you truly wish to die will actually die.

So he started to do what the other residents did.

He stays up every night, wandering the corridors until someone finally falls asleep, and then kills them with any tool he can find.

Kitchen knife, spoon, spatula, stool, radio, cell phone, clothes hanger, mop...

It's like participating in a grand carnival.

The murdered person was dismembered, torn apart, gutted, and bones removed, and finally placed in the house of that being.

Some people tried to escape from the apartment, but it was too late.

Yoshida Shoichi had seen it.

The family of three, wanting to leave, loaded their furniture onto a rented van and drove off into the distance.

The other residents of the apartment would stand in the hallway, watching each other leave while performing an extremely terrifying curse ritual.

That was a ritual called "Miserable Worship".

With both hands moving from bottom to top, they repeatedly make a gesture of bowing to the other person.

This is the complete opposite of "worship," and it is not a blessing, but a ritual to pray for the other person's quick death.

And as expected.

A family of three who were planning to leave were hit and killed by a large truck at an intersection.

"Ha...hahahaha...hahaha..."

Yoshida Shoichi realized that no one could leave this apartment, no one at all.

The nighttime rituals continued.

Humans need sleep. No matter how hard you try to stay awake, someone will always fall asleep suddenly and become prey for others.

And so, perhaps thanks to his youth, Yoshida Masakazu managed to survive seven days in the apartment.

In the end, he succeeded in cursing and killing his college classmate.