This Japanese Monogatari Isn't Lame
Chapter 348 - 250: The Hidden Place (8000 Word Goal Achieved!)

Chapter 348: Chapter 250: The Hidden Place (8000 Word Goal Achieved!)

The registry had just been opened by Beichuan Si when a pungent moldy smell wafted out.

Since Rain Hall appeared only on rainy days, the dampness in the air caused patches of green mold to form on numerous spots throughout the registry.

It was natural for it to emit an odor.

However, the handwriting on it was still somewhat legible.

The title page of the registry was inscribed with:

"May the Lord bless you, may the Lord forgive you, may the Lord guide you, my dear lambs, my dear children."

My dear lambs?

Such phrases were commonly used in Christianity.

Humans were the lambs raised by God, and it was God who shepherded them.

But the use of "my dear lambs" directly on this page was peculiar.

It was as if the person who recorded these things thought of themselves as God.

Beichuan Si pushed these disordered thoughts aside, lifted the pages of the registry with his fingers, and flipped downwards.

Indeed, the registry listed the names of some of the dormitory residents.

The format appeared to register the dormitory’s name on the far left, while on the right strip were the names and contact addresses of the residents.

Those with contact addresses were employees of the orphanage; the children residing in the orphanage had no such thing.

Beichuan Si skipped the employees, scanning rapidly down the page.

Finally, when he had flipped through about a third of the registry, a few isolated names began appearing.

Those were the names of the enrolled children.

According to Shengong Mu, the children marked with "found a family" or "found a new orphanage" in brackets were already murdered.

Each dormitory housed four children.

When Beichuan Si opened the first page, he saw a couple of children’s names marked "found a family" – Ichise Akira and Ishida En.

Their names were crossed out in a brutal red line.

Beneath the names of these two children, two new children’s names were added.

Perhaps these were the children Shengong Mu mentioned, who had replaced the two that had died and entered Rain Hall.

These substitutions all bore dates, approximately every month or two.

According to Shengong Mu, it was estimated by the monthly rainfall.

Having understood these patterns, Beichuan Si silently noted down these names and continued flipping further.

A few more pages later, he found the names of Jiuyuan, Katori Yuzhu, Fujiwara Nagachika, and Shengong Mu concentrated in the later pages.

Matsubara Kudayu, male, residing in Dormitory 1012 (found a family).

Katori Yuzhu, female, residing in Dormitory 1012 (found a new orphanage).

Fujiwara Nagachika, male, residing in Dormitory 1012 (found a family).

Shengong Mu, male, residing in Dormitory 1012...

Apart from Shengong Mu, it seemed all these children had been murdered.

That was inevitable.

After the escape plan was exposed, the person in charge surely needed to eliminate these unstable elements, and Shengong Mu was lucky enough to have narrowly escaped death.

Similarly, Matsubara Kudayu and the others were the last batch of victims.

Apparently, as Shengong Mu had mentioned, thereafter Rain Hall was razed by an unknown massive fire, so naturally, no one else was added.

"Dormitory 1012?" Beichuan Si silently noted down the dormitory name marked in vivid red ink.

He packed the registry into his backpack and checked the ledger on the table again.

Most of it detailed the monthly food purchases and various financial expenses, which were of little use to Beichuan Si.

He picked up his backpack and walked back the way he had come.

Outside, the heavy rain was still falling.

Rain Hall leaked somewhere, filling the air with a dense moisture.

To avoid an oversight like before, Beichuan Si re-explored the entire hall and found nothing before moving deeper into the western-style building.

The mansion was large, with a grassy courtyard for the children to play, and Jesus statues and crosses were erected everywhere.

Beichuan Si could even imagine how many children had considered such a beautiful environment their second home.

Unfortunately, this place was not a sanctuary for those children; most were buried here, turned into resentful spirits, wandering in this empty spiritual realm.

And due to the heavy rain, the indoors was pitch-black, with flashes of lightning occasionally making the crosses and statues of Jesus look eerie and terrifying.

The originally vivid red carpets were stained with dark marks.

From somewhere along the corridor, the twisted wails of resentful spirits echoed intermittently.

For Beichuan Si, such a place felt — oddly comfortable.

While he casually dispatched some of the resentful spirits he encountered, he was also pondering the system task.

From the first condition given by the system, it seemed the director wanted to perform a certain ritual for a specific purpose.

And that ritual likely required the mass slaughter of children.

To achieve this, Rain Hall was established, bringing in a flood of children...

"This line of reasoning should be correct," Beichuan Si murmured, halting his steps.

This was the "children’s dorm," commonly referred to as "kids’ dormitory."

Looking from here to there, the room numbers were neatly arranged.

Starting with 1001, Beichuan Si arrived in front of Dormitory 1012.