Tokyo life starting with painting.

Chapter 54 "Midnight Ring" Chapter [-] begins!

As the chief writer of the manga magazine "Morning" under Fuji Publishing House, Kazuya Akasaka prepared paper and pen as usual today.

It was his job, and Kazuya Akasaka actually liked his job.

but--

"Today should be the time for the release of the second chapter of "Midnight Ring", right?"

Akasaka Kazuya looked hesitantly at the weekly magazine "Aversion to Chill" from Urashima Publishing House in front of him.

Yes, as a professional comic reviewer, he hesitated in front of a horror comic magazine

the reason is simple.

He glanced up at the TV set in the corner.

This TV is a new one he just bought a month ago, and now

The entire screen of the TV was sunken, and there were not only smash marks, but also cracks on it. This kind of tragic experience, even if the skilled TV repairman came over, he would be helpless.

Akasaka Kazuya looked at the new TV that was completely broken, and then glanced at the old TV that was used as a spare.

He clutched his chest, so distressed that he could hardly breathe.

Then Akasaka Kazuya gritted his teeth——

It's all because of watching "Midnight Ring"!

At that time, he was so frightened that he jumped up and hit the TV screen with a bench.

Even his wife, who was watching TV next to him, was frightened by Kazuya Akasaka, and directly called the mental hospital, almost being twisted and sent to the mental hospital.

"But this time it will definitely not be the case."

Akasaka Kazuya thought to himself.

In fact, Mr. Higashino's "Midnight Bell" is just like that, that is, the painting is a little more realistic, and everything else is fine.

"The reason why I saw those messy things was because I was thinking wildly."

Akasaka Kazuya muttered to himself.

In other words, as long as I don't think about it, "Midnight Ring" is not as scary as I imagined.

Thinking of this, Akasaka Kazuya nodded with satisfaction.

He felt that he had figured out the routine of that teacher Dongye, and this time the second chapter of "Midnight Ring" would definitely not be tricked.

So Kazuya Akasaka exhaled, and called his wife instead: "Keiko, pour me a glass of water, I have to work."

"Going to work again?" Mrs. Akasaka glanced at Kazuya Akasaka with some trepidation, and then pointed to the TV: "Why don't you turn off the TV, Kazuya."

She still remembers last week that Kazuya Akasaka rushed to the TV with a vicious look and output a meal to the screen.

Now that the new TV is gone, she doesn't want the spare old TV to be "killed" by Kazuya Akasaka.

"Don't turn it off!"

His wife's terrified gaze deeply hurt Akasaka Kazuya's self-esteem. He slapped the table, showing that he didn't know who he was angry with: "Last week, I was just not mentally prepared. I definitely didn't this time." question."

Men are like that.

I can say that I can't do it myself, but I can't tolerate others saying that I can't do it.

"Really?" Mrs. Akasaka looked at her husband worriedly, hesitated for a while, and poured him a glass of water.

Finally getting his wife's approval, Akasaka Kazuya became in a good mood, so he made good mental preparations, then opened "Aversion to Chill", and went straight to the topic without hesitation.

The second chapter of "Midnight Ring".

This time, he will show his integrity as a professional troll, and he will definitely not save Dong Yesi any face.

Kazuya Akasaka thought very simply, since he couldn't find a place to spray in the first episode, he would look for it in the second episode.

After all, in most comics, the first chapter is often the best.

Most of the comics go backwards, the more prone to problems in the plot, and the first chapter is particularly excellent, and there are also some comics whose quality in the second chapter is unbearable to look at directly.

That's also what most of the comic book critics who reviewed Ring in the Night thought.

Because the first episode of "Midnight Ring" is so good!

It's so good that people can't even find a flaw.

And under such an excellent first episode, as long as there is a problem in the second episode of "Midnight Ring"-even a small problem that is innocuous, it will be infinitely magnified by those comic reviewers.

For no other reason, it's just because the first episode of "Midnight Ring" is so good, it's really good.

Even from a hostile standpoint, Akasaka Kazuya could only praise Mr. Higashino from "Midnight Ring".

As for asking that Mr. Higashino to draw a second episode that is as good as the first episode?

This is a bit of a joke.

How could the excellent beginning of the first chapter be copied so easily?

So Kazuya Akasaka turned to the second chapter of "Midnight Ring" without hesitation, and at the same time clenched his pen, ready to start killing.

Then he sees the first page

Why?It seems interesting that Tomoko died.

Oh, this new Reiko Asakawa is the heroine?

Cursed videotape?Will die after watching it for seven days?The death premonition plot is also good.

Oh, the date notice left on purpose in the first chapter turns out to be the death date reminder of the characters on the scene. How can there be such an expression?

Kazuya Akasaka also watched with relish.

The brand new mystery left by the second chapter of "Midnight Ring", where is the cursed videotape now?What should Reiko Asakawa do next?What's on the other side of the horror?

"It's really interesting and it's also very scary"

Akasaka Kazuya muttered to himself, and turned the page with his fingers.

then

He saw the foreshadowing that Dong Yesi deliberately planted behind.

On the last page of the manga, there is a horrifying and distorted death scene of a classmate who watched the video like Tomoko.

After more than ten pages of straightforward foreshadowing, a group of dead bodies suddenly popped up in the end——

It's no less than the effect of a ghostly face popping out of nowhere in a horror movie.

There is even more than that!

Because in the effect of empathy, Kazuya Akasaka felt as if he had entered that world.

What the heroine sees is what he sees.

The fear buried in the foreshadowing was instantly detonated by these dead and distorted faces.

"what!!!!"

Kazuya Akasaka, who had been fascinated by watching it at first, was also taken aback by the sudden attack. He jumped up from the sofa, then picked up the bench and aimed at "Aversion to Cold" on the coffee table and smashed it hard!

Bang! ! ! !

Click! ! !

The fragile coffee table couldn't bear Kazuya Akasaka's blow, and the whole thing collapsed directly.

But Kazuya Akasaka was obviously overwhelmed by fright, and the bench in his hand couldn't stop smashing on the table like a seizure.

""

Akasaka Kazuya's wife, Akasaka Keiko, saw this scene nearby, but without saying a word, she walked to the TV in silence, moved the TV away and called the mental hospital at the same time.

She now desperately hopes that the psychiatrist can prescribe medicine for her husband

　I'm collecting manuscripts... I'm trying to put it on the shelf for a [-]th update... Don't think too little now, I'm afraid you think too much when I put it on the shelf... Thank you for putting it in the next chapter.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)