This Japanese Monogatari Isn't Lame
Chapter 211 - 182: As If Asleep (Target of 8,000 words reached, seeking monthly pass!)

Chapter 211: Chapter 182: As If Asleep (Target of 8,000 words reached, seeking monthly pass!)

From Kobayashi Seijiro’s hand, Beichuan Si obtained the phone number of the last survivor, Ebiya Rina.

But just as the other party had said, Ebiya Rina had a really bad temper. As soon as she heard that Beichuan Si was inquiring about the purple fingerprints, she immediately became like someone who had swallowed gunpowder and mocked Kobayashi Seijiro sarcastically:

"I’m telling you, Qingjing, you always crack those jokes that drive yourself insane and end up in the hospital. Are you now trying to come after me, too? Are there ghosts in this world? Evil spirits? Hoshino and I have told you before, stop making these disgusting jokes."

Kobayashi Seijiro, with the speakerphone on, turned from pale to purple with Ebiya Rina’s words: "Regardless, Ebi, you need to make time for this. It’s for your own good!"

"Heh heh!" The other party laughed coldly twice before replying, "I was actually planning to swing by and see you on my way, but seeing as you are already in such high spirits, you probably don’t need my visit. I’m hanging up the phone, it’s really killing my mood!"

Accompanied by the beep-beep-beep of the dial tone, the other party hung up the call.

Kobayashi Seijiro took a deep breath, obviously feeling a deep sense of helplessness towards Ebi on the other end. He turned his head to look at Beichuan Si, with a somewhat feeble tone: "That’s how it is, Ebi still doesn’t believe any of this. You heard it yourself, Beichuan."

However, as soon as Kobayashi Seijiro spoke, the silent Beichuan Si finally said:

"My thoughts are the exact opposite of yours. It’s not that Ebiya Rina doesn’t believe these things, but rather that she has started to realize the danger she’s in. That’s why she said what she did."

"Um..." Shen Gu Mirai also nodded thoughtfully, speaking slowly, "This kind of behavior is just too abnormal for a normal person. Even if she doesn’t believe it, there’s no need to mock you with such harsh language. The meaning in her words...rather than mocking you, it sounds more like she’s reproaching you."

"Reproaching me?" Kobayashi Seijiro’s face was filled with surprise.

"It seems like she desperately wants to avoid the things you’ve mentioned, but your repeated reminders of the incidents that have occurred does not allow her to maintain a calm demeanor to face the situation."

Shen Gu Mirai spoke her whole conjecture.

Only then did Beichuan Si speak.

His tone was simple and direct, his gaze serene: "Avoidance is useless."

Shen Gu Mirai and Kobayashi Seijiro listened and nodded slowly to the side.

Indeed.

Avoidance was of no use.

What was supposed to happen, what was about to happen...would all happen—

"That bastard!!!" Ebiya Rina clenched her fist tightly and slammed it down on the edge of the washbasin.

It was all Kobayashi Seijiro’s fault, that bastard, always talking about weird things, making her see things she should not have seen this past month.

Smiling malevolently, child ghosts, the unsettling feeling of being watched...

She had experienced all of these.

But the strong-willed and stubborn Ebiya Rina simply did not believe that evil spirits could exist in this world.

"How could there be evil spirits in this world! How could such things exist!"

Ebiya Rina’s mind was somewhat dazed, and it took slapping herself twice to come to.

Below the deliberately chosen long sleeves, there was a clearly visible purple bruise...

But Ebiya Rina was not frightened at all.

It was all just a hallucination, a hallucination brought on by too much stress.

Whether it was the occasional shadow of a child she saw or something else, it was all just hallucination.

She scooped up water and scrubbed her face vigorously, very hard.

After washing her face, Ebiya Rina reached for her handbag to grab a tissue.

She touched something.

It was a round and cold object.

Ebiya Rina turned her head strangely.

The object she grasped came into view.

It was a severed hand.

With traces of blood, the pale skin of a child’s severed hand.

Holding the severed hand, Ebiya Rina’s face showed a bitter smile:

"It’s an illusion...all of it...is an illusion..."

...

Beichuan Si made several more calls to the other party, but none were picked up, all ending with the tone of a disconnected call.

The echoing tones of the unanswered calls seemed to carry a terrifying, chilling resonance, making Beichuan Si feel that something wasn’t right. He put down his phone and looked toward Kobayashi Seijiro:

"Do you know where the KTV that Ebiya Rina frequents is?"

"Why are you asking this, Beichuan?" Kobayashi Seijiro touched his head in confusion.

Beichuan Si explained: "During the call just now, I heard the sound of the KTV speakers on the other end."

"Did you hear that?" Kobayashi Seijiro’s eyes widened.

Beichuan Si could hear that?

The KTV private rooms themselves were soundproofed, and since Ebiya Rina was on the phone, she must have been in the corridor or restroom... It shouldn’t have been so easy to hear.

Kobayashi Seijiro, who had the speakerphone on, didn’t hear it from up close, but Beichuan Si heard it from afar.

What kind of hearing and concentration was this?

He swallowed, thought for a while, and then said, "Ebi said she was planning to come and see me along the way today, so the KTV she was going to probably was ’MARY’ KTV in Shibuya. They often hold social gatherings there, and Ebi might have gone to attend one of those."

"Social gathering?"

Shen Gu Mirai overheard and her expression turned odd.

Japanese social gatherings were actually private friendship events for single men and women held by Japanese youth, where ’friendship’ meant dating.

In other words, Japanese social gatherings were essentially similar to Chinese matchmaking sessions.

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