This Japanese Monogatari Isn't Lame
Chapter 389 - 270: All Things Past (4000 words)_2

Chapter 389: Chapter 270: All Things Past (4000 words)_2

"The room where we held the Four Corners Game should be the place where Hinakabe Haru’s body was found— which is here at Ochasaki Middle School. This is why Mr. Temple and I came here to investigate, and it also explains why just a few of us got entangled by the opponent."

Hinakabe Haru, transformed into a tired woman, was quietly buried underground in cement.

Her power had not yet intensified.

At that time, Shen Gu Mirai and others found the room where Hinakabe Haru’s remains were buried and conducted the then-popular Four Corners Spirit Game.

This allowed Hinakabe Haru to successfully kill the first person, Akisai Ikki.

After that, it lay dormant again until today. With her power accumulated, Hinakabe Haru began to frequently target the people who had conducted the Four Corners Spirit Game.

This was Shen Gu Mirai’s guess.

"Not bad." Beichuan Si finally spoke.

Shen Gu Mirai, still as clever and insightful as ever, was always able to deduce the ins and outs of any situation from the smallest details.

And her thinking was very clear, one link leading to another, compellingly persuasive— even Nakano Youko understood.

Upon hearing Beichuan Si’s words, a blush appeared on Shen Gu Mirai’s fair cheeks, "Did I do well, Mr. Temple?"

"Indeed," Beichuan Si nodded.

Being able to infer a logical explanation with such limited information, Shen Gu Mirai indeed did well.

Seeing Beichuan Si nod, Shen Gu Mirai coughed twice, her cheeks flushing even more.

But she was not yet satisfied. Shen Gu Mirai’s fair hand rested on Beichuan Si’s shoulder, her cherry-pink lips moving close to his ear:

"Praise me."

Praise you?

After considering for a moment and deciding against arguing with Shen Gu Mirai, Beichuan Si simply praised:

"Nicely done."

"Huh—" Shen Gu Mirai paused.

Was that considered praise?

Before she could speak, Beichuan Si immediately interrupted her:

"This is also why Future and I were discussing just now."

Beichuan Si placed his hand on the large warehouse door in front, his gaze flickering slightly, "These three sports storage facilities are just a place we suspected, now that we’ve confirmed there is no corpse here, then the real hiding place should be—"

"Why would Beichuan know there is no corpse here?" After finally digesting what Shen Gu Mirai mentioned, Nakano Youko asked, puzzled.

"As Future mentioned earlier, extensive construction work was done here. If there were a body, it would have been excavated. After all, Tsuchiya Motomu doesn’t have the capability to hide it at a depth even an excavator can’t reach."

Moreover, most crucially—

A touch of death already lingered unwittingly in Beichuan Si’s eyes.

The corpse of tired woman Hinakabe Haru would carry strong resentment.

But around these three sports storage facilities, Beichuan Si hadn’t detected even a trace of resentment.

This also showed that Hinakabe Haru’s body was not in this place.

Since it was not here, the most likely place was near the small storage rooms the principal had mentioned.

Back then, places that stored cement, rebar, and various construction tools were left empty and deserted after relocation.

This place was also suitable for conducting a Four Corners Spirit Game.

Because, at that time, the construction materials had just been moved to the new playground storage, and this area was neglected in management, allowing Shen Gu Mirai and others to find this place and then conduct the game.

Coincidentally, Hinakabe Haru’s body was nearby, or perhaps just under the bare ground of the storeroom—

These combined reasons contributed to the tragedy.

Afterward, the tired woman erased Nakano Youko and Shen Gu Mirai’s memories of the warehouse where the Four Corners Spirit Game was once held.

Nakano Youko and Shen Gu Mirai slowly forgot the specific location, only remembering that the game was held inside Ochasaki Middle School.

Thankfully, Principal Tomatsu also mentioned earlier that because there were often delinquent students loitering around the warehouse, he had the junior high school storage area sealed off, otherwise, with the power she had gained, Hinakabe Haru would probably kill many students hanging around there.

"Let’s go." Beichuan Si led Shen Gu Mirai and Nakano Youko unhurriedly toward the junior high section.

...

Ochasaki Middle School’s middle school section.

Compared to the bustling high school section, the architecture here is much simpler.

Teaching buildings, office buildings, music and art activity buildings, a large cafeteria...

That’s about all the buildings.

As for some of the club activity buildings, they are shared with the high school section.

Although there is some greening, the entire architectural mass is too monotonous, looking very shabby, and can’t compare at all to the high school section.

"This place is still the same as before," said Shen Gu Mirai, looking at the familiar group of buildings and reminiscing about his life at Ochasaki Middle School.

Nakano Youko also expressed some emotion:

"Yeah, back then, I always envied the life of the high school section and dreamed of being promoted to high school. When I finally did get there, I realized that high school life was not all rosy at all."

The homework was less, and the club activities were plentiful, but what of it?

It was all just a product of ’happy education’.

To get into college, you had to have a specialized skill and balance it with your academics.

Heavy cram schools, club activities that gradually turned from pleasure to a burden, and a future that seemed hardly visible...

To be honest, if Nakano Youko had to choose, she would rather go back to the middle school section.

That was when she was truly happy, not like now, struggling and striving for advancement—

Beichuan Si never liked looking at the ambiance. While Nakano Youko was still reminiscing, he quickly scanned the surroundings and bluntly asked, "Where’s the old storeroom?"

"I have some recollection of the precise location, follow me, Mr. Temple," said Shen Gu Mirai, taking the lead.

They took a secluded path.

This path had not been maintained for a long time, but it was evident that Ochasaki Middle School had put in quite some effort to expand the middle school campus.

The group continued deeper.

"It’s over there," pointed Shen Gu Mirai.

Ahead, there was a ’no entry’ sign.

And at the same time, an iron fence had been erected.

Through this vertical iron fence, Beichuan Si saw several bare storerooms at the back.

These two connected storerooms were probably the size of two classrooms. Because of financial issues at Ochasaki Middle School, they had been left here, without extra manpower and resources to demolish them.

Next to it, the ground bore obvious construction marks, but it seemed the work had been abandoned halfway.

Beichuan Si stood outside the fence, his eyes gazing.

Under a clear blue sky, the two connected storerooms stood in place like aged, stiff old men, their metal roller doors already rusty, showing the impact of time and the elements.

These two storerooms, just like two isolated islands.

An indescribable feeling of deathly silence emitted from these chilling, unintentionally horrifying structures.

Beichuan Si quietly watched, and it took him a long time before he shifted his gaze.

He turned his head back again.

Unnoticed, the surrounding scenery around Beichuan Si had been swallowed by darkness, and the voices of Shen Gu Mirai and Nakano Youko gradually faded away.

The scene before his eyes was changing.

Finally, the scene froze.

In the pitch-black night, someone sneaking around with something on their back came to these two especially secluded storerooms.

By the moonlight, Beichuan Si could make out the person’s face.

It was a middle-aged male, not tall, somewhat short-statured, with a gentle and unassuming appearance—

It was Tsuchiya Motomu!

The days of the past were about to unfold before him.

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