This Japanese Monogatari Isn't Lame
Chapter 137 - 136. Video Recording (6th Update)

Chapter 137: Chapter 136. Video Recording (6th Update)

Beichuan Si watched them for a long time before he spoke, "Where is the videotape?"

Huh?

The youths couldn’t help but look at each other in confusion.

Shouldn’t he be allowing them to introduce themselves at this point?

If he didn’t even know who was who, how could Beichuan Si clarify the ins and outs of the matter?

Just as everyone was thinking about this, Beichuan Si spoke again.

His manner of speaking was very straightforward, "The one wearing a hat is woman A, the one with long hair is woman B, the one with wavy hair is woman C, the one standing next to Hirasaka Hikari is woman D, the one with short hair is man A, the one with a silver ring is man B, and the one wearing glasses is man C. Introducing all of yourselves is too much hassle, let’s leave it at that."

"Do we have any questions now?"

Uh—

The young people’s faces flushed with embarrassment at Beichuan Si’s rhetorical question, and the bespectacled young man raised his hand somewhat speechlessly, "No, no questions, Beichuan Mage."

But what they didn’t expect was that Beichuan Si simply gave them a pointed look, his voice remained unfluctuating,

"I know you still have questions, but now is not the time to answer them. You didn’t invite me here just to hear your introductions, but to solve problems."

I’m only here to solve problems; I’m not interested in the rest.

A shiver ran through the youths’ hearts.

The words Beichuan Si spoke inexplicably gave them the feeling of facing a ’professional.’

Meanwhile, the long-legged sisters labeled as woman A, woman B, and woman C by Beichuan Si were looking at him with even brighter eyes.

Handsome and with a youthful appearance, he was somewhat to their taste.

"The videotape is here, Beichuan Mage," Hirasaka Hikari spoke up at that moment.

He took out a flat white box from his girlfriend’s handbag and handed it to Beichuan Si.

He also spoke with gratitude in his voice, "I really appreciate your help last time, Beichuan Mage."

Hirasaka Hikari was thanking Beichuan Si for his assistance last time.

But Beichuan Si just shook his head, "It was mutually beneficial."

"But you still saved me," Hirasaka Hikari bowed to him, "Thank you very much."

"Mhm."

Beichuan Si accepted Hirasaka Hikari’s thanks and then looked toward the corner of the elegant room, where the video player and television were.

It seemed that Hirasaka Ichiro had prepared everything he needed in advance.

"Where did you find this videotape?" Beichuan Si took the videotape but did not hurry to watch it; instead, he turned back to ask.

"Um, I remember it was Hikari who found it," the bespectacled youth looked toward Hirasaka Hikari.

"Right." Seeing everyone looking at him, Hirasaka Hikari nodded, he paused for a moment, and then said,

"It was during our last hiking trip, I think. I got separated from Nannan and the others then, and I found it by chance while resting in a run-down cabin..."

A hiking trip?

It seems that he was talking about the camping disappearance incident last time.

"The cabin was very rudimentary and set in the wilderness, giving off an indescribable strangeness from the beginning. However, it started to rain in the Shenzhu Mountain Area at the time, so I had to take shelter inside."

"There were signs of someone having lived there. I found this videotape on a shelf there, and then I managed to regroup with Nannan... uh... woman D, using the locator."

Woman D must be Hirasaka Hikari’s girlfriend.

A cabin?

"Was there anything else on the shelf?"

"... Nothing else, it was empty except for the videotape and covered in dust. I remember it clearly."

So, aside from the videotape, there were no notes or anything of that sort.

Beichuan Si fell silent for a moment and then asked,

"Have you watched the videotape?"

He weighed the videotape in his hand and began to tear off the wrapping paper.

"... Among us... only woman D has watched it, I guess."

After all, she was Hirasaka Hikari’s girlfriend. It was quite normal for her to have watched the tape.

Oh?

Upon hearing this, a shadow of dark energy flashed through Beichuan Si’s eyes when he looked up.

Under his ’death sight,’ that girl named ’Nannan’ was clearly enveloped in a thick stream of resentment.

As everyone watched in astonishment, Beichuan Si stretched out his hand and pulled out the wisp of resentment.

Dark death energy twirled around Beichuan Si’s fingers, and for the first time, all the young people present could see it.

"What is this?!" someone exclaimed in surprise.

"The resentment of the deceased," Beichuan Si replied nonchalantly as he crushed the resentment in his hand.

"The resentment of the deceased?" The crowd echoed, looking at each other in bewilderment.

Having experienced Hirasaka Hikari’s situation, they had developed a certain capacity to accept such things.

Yet, when a supernatural scene was truly and tangibly presented before them, they were still astonished beyond words.

After all this, Beichuan Si finally spoke up,

"I’m going to watch the videotape now; you all can go home."

"Wait, but what if the videotape still appears the next day...?"

"It won’t. It won’t show up anywhere as long as it’s in my hands," Beichuan Si responded.

With this response, everyone relaxed.

And the college girls, who had been making eye contact with one another since earlier, boldly came forward and asked,

"Beichuan Mage! Could you give us your email or phone number? Or even just your SNS account would do. We’d like to invite you to dinner sometime."

Hmm?

Beichuan Si couldn’t help but size up these three college girls.

The girls were quite good-looking, easy on the eyes.

But what attracted Beichuan Si the most wasn’t that.

These girls... if they could hang out with Hirasaka Hikari, they must all be wealthy, right?

If that’s the case—

"Paper, pen."

One of the long-haired girls rummaged in her bag and produced a pen and paper.

Her eyes, gleaming like water, were fixed intently on Beichuan Si.

"Here!"

After a rustling sounds of writing, Beichuan Si returned the paper and pen to them, then began to hurry everyone out.

His demeanor caused even Hirasaka Hikari to be somewhat at a loss.

After all, this was his home.

Once the group of college students had left, Beichuan Si took out the videotape.

"Kikuchi Yu..."

Looking at the blurry name written in the lower right corner of the videotape, Beichuan Si shook his head.

He hadn’t expected the tape to be another creation of Kikuchi Yu.

He presumed that Kikuchi Yu had spent many years investigating Shenzhu Village; otherwise, it wouldn’t have been possible for him to build a cabin in the Shenzhu Mountain Area.

Drawn to Shenzhu Mountain since early on, his thoughts were always consumed by Shenzhu Mountain.

In the end, he rotted away on Shenzhu Mountain and only left behind these recordings.

Beichuan Si switched on the video player.

Inserted the videotape.

Along with the buzzing sound of electricity, the screen flashed white and grey.

The crisp sound of the Shinra Bell in the black and white background held no trace of sacredness, but rather a touch of eeriness.

Several images flashed across the TV screen—

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