This Japanese Monogatari Isn't Lame
Chapter 197 - 175. Beichuan Si Is Here (4000!)

Chapter 197: Chapter 175. Beichuan Si Is Here (4000!)

Everyone...had vanished.

My four friends disappeared at the entrance to the old school zone as if they had evaporated into thin air.

With the shadow of that doll flitting away and vanishing, there was nothing left in front of the old schoolhouse.

Beichuan Huili looked around frantically, her face filled with terror.

It took her a while to realize that her worst fear had come true.

"Did the supernatural ghost story event...happen?" Beichuan Huili scanned her surroundings in confusion.

She felt some regret.

Why hadn’t she stopped Sakura Miori and the others? Why did she let them court death?

And what was that little doll? Why did it fly out from her?

Countless unanswered questions flashed through her mind until she finally thought of someone.

"Brother Temple! Right, Brother Temple!"

Beichuan Huili hurriedly took out her phone and dialed Beichuan Si’s number.

...

Sakura Miori’s legs, which she had always been proud of, were trapped under a pile of discarded beams and had begun to deform.

The bone must have been broken.

"It hurts, it hurts so much, aahh!!! Ai! Nanako! Saki! Hui Li! Where are you? Come help me! Come and help me!"

As she cried out in pain, she placed her hand on the beams and called for her friends.

Sharp pain radiated from her lower leg, as if the entire limb were shattering.

But the silence around her was profound; it seemed no one could hear her cries of agony.

Sakura Miori struggled alone amid the ruins of the beams, her bright, beautiful eyes searching her surroundings.

Strange...

Where is this?

What place is this?

Why did she end up here?

Her face turned pale with pain, sweat rolling down her cheeks as she looked around the unfamiliar environment.

It was a wooden schoolhouse, with a somewhat low ceiling. Judging from the small wooden desks, this seemed like a primary school somewhere.

The stale air was stifling, and through the windows, she could see the sky tinged with an eerie, blood-red hue.

A smell of rot and dampness rose from the wooden floor, causing her to frown deeply.

The white and red walls were covered in black stains.

"Where is this?" Sakura Miori’s voice trembled.

Could she really have encountered some sort of supernatural event?

She swallowed hard and, while trapped, managed to pull out her mobile phone.

The background of the phone was a photo of her with her four best friends.

The moment she saw that photo, Sakura Miori’s gaze softened involuntarily.

That’s right, she still had friends... she still had companions... she must find a way out no matter what.

The signal icon showed she was out of the service area, meaning there were no communication towers nearby to reach her friends.

Sakura Miori took a deep breath.

Her emotions had now settled and calmed.

This kind of situation was mentioned in some survival manuals, so there was no need to panic.

Barely, she reached for a piece of square wood the width of a finger and, with all her strength, lifted her upper body slightly by pressing her right hand on the beams to create a narrow gap!

Then, she used her left hand to insert the wood into that gap as a fulcrum.

Tearing pain shot up from her lower leg!

Tears were nearly streaming from Sakura Miori’s eyes.

Yet slowly, slowly, she pulled her leg out from the rotting pile of wood.

Her lower leg was distorted from the pressure.

"Haha... now... I’m definitely going to be scolded to death by my mother," Sakura Miori put on a morose face, forcing a self-deprecating smile.

But... no matter what, she had to find Otomoto Ai and the others, and her leg needed to be stabilized and bandaged to guard against infection.

She heaved a heavy sigh, planning to rest a little before figuring out what to do next.

But what Sakura Miori could not have anticipated was that, behind her, in the grey-black glass of the school corridor, a small boy with hateful, whites-of-his-eyes-less eyeballs was staring at her.

A red, small-sized fire axe was clenched tightly in his hand.

On his pale, childish face, a cruel smile began to emerge.

...

"Saki, Saki."

"Wake up."

Sakurai Saki was woken up by a patting, to be exact, by Otomoto Ai.

"Ai...? What... what happened?" Sakurai Saki blinked, a bit puzzled, looking at Otomoto Ai in front of her.

"Let’s not talk about that for now, have a look around and see if you remember this place," Otomoto Ai immediately interrupted her best friend’s words and pointed around.

"Uhm..."

Sakurai Saki rubbed her head, not quite understanding what Otomoto Ai was getting at.

She looked around, confused.

It seemed to be a physics and chemistry lab, with shelves behind her crammed with bottles and jars, but upon a closer inspection, the contents seemed not to be scientific materials, but rather—they looked like—

Human eyes...?

"I wanted you to look at the surroundings," said Otomoto Ai coldly, situating herself in front of Sakurai Saki, who was about to stand up to get a better view:

While subtly blocking the view of the shelves, she asked, "Don’t you have any recollection at all?"

She had seen the contents of those cabinets a moment ago, which had given her quite a fright.

If Sakurai Saki saw them, she might actually throw up, wasting time and energy, so it was better to just block the view.

"Uh... let’s go outside and take a look," Sakurai Saki was also unclear, pushing her glasses up her nose and pointing towards the door.

"Okay," Otomoto Ai grabbed Sakurai Saki by the hand.

Outside the science lab was a long corridor, very square, with darkness spreading to the other end.

Their feet creaked on the wooden floorboards, and Sakurai Saki were somewhat worried that the floor might suddenly cave in.