Tokyo life starting with painting.

Chapter 7 Jingle Bell -

Hosokawa Koharu turned to the first page of the manuscript of "Midnight Ring".

Usually the first page of a manga is basically the cover of the manga, and the skill of drawing the cover can also reflect the author's skill of painting.

And the cover of Midnight Bell

Such a picture is on the too clean manuscript paper.

Judging from the background, this should be a small Japanese-style room.

In a small dark and damp Japanese-style room, a TV flickers with snowflakes

The background is black.

In the cold room, only the TV with snowflake screen exudes bright colors

With light, people's eyes will unconsciously chase the light.

But the bright colors emitted by the TV screen were not warm, but rather cold.

It's as if a cool palm is sliding down the neck, which makes people feel cold in the bottom of their hearts.

Hosokawa Koharu felt goosebumps, and nodded secretly in his heart.

The cover is pretty exquisitely drawn, and the color scheme is also exquisite. The author's painting skills should not be weak.

It seems that the author of "Midnight Ring" is still a bit smart, it seems that it is not half a bowl of water.No wonder he dared to write big words about "heart and epilepsy history".

But it's still too young to want to scare the editor like this.

Hosokawa Koharu thought in his heart, but turned to the next page under his hands, and began to formally review the plot.

Sunday, September [-]th.

In a small box at the top of the manuscript, there is such a date.

What does this leave a date mean?

Hosokawa Koharu was a little confused.

With this question in mind, she continued to look down.

The story begins between Asakawa Tomoko and her friend Tomoko.

In the middle of the night, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old female high school student was in puberty, and the two hugged each other and had sex with each other, telling each other colorful jokes from time to time

The relaxed atmosphere and the vivid painting skills of the author of "Midnight Ring" made the characters vividly restored, so Hosokawa Koharu couldn't help but smile a little.

But soon, Tomoko with long hair turned her head and spoke as if she just remembered something:

"Speaking of which, have you heard the strange talk about the video tape recently?"

"Video tape tales?" Tomoko Asakawa, who had been in a ball with Tomoko, was stunned.

Tomoko knows that Tomoko likes urban ghost talks more, and Tomoko usually booed with Tomoko.

But today was a little different, her face suddenly sank, looking a little gloomy and scared.

The cold expression of Tomoko Asakawa in this frame is in stark contrast to the cheerful and smiling expression of Tomoko in the previous frame.

The speed of the face change was as if the face and skin of Tomoko Asakawa were torn off bloody all of a sudden.

this painting skill

Hosokawa Koharu felt chills down his spine.

The story continues.

"Yeah. Video tape ghost story." Tomoko nodded, "A high school boy went to Izu Island with his family for vacation, and they lived in an old guest house."

The B&B hotel is very old, wooden, and covered with withered creepers. The hotel is surrounded by lush and cold forests.

Hosokawa Koharu felt as if he had become Tomoko in the story.

是 的

The image of the cartoon pulled and became three-dimensional.

When Hosokawa Koharu came back to her senses again, there was an excited Tomoko sitting in front of her.

The voice and expression of the other party are very real, as if they can be touched by reaching out.

"That high school boy wants to go out to play, but he doesn't want to miss the show he wants to watch," Tomoko looked at Koharu Hosokawa and continued excitedly: "So he planned to record the show on the VCR when he went to play. down, but"

Tomoko spread his hands.

"But there is no TV station in Izu Island that uses this channel, so nothing should be recorded. But when he was playing the video at home, a woman appeared on the channel, and she raised her hand—"

Snapped!

A crisp sound!

Pale fingers!Suddenly lift up!

As if to poke Hosokawa Koharu's face, Tomoko's expression also began to twist.

The long black hair began to dance, the red lips twisted, and the smile opened!Indescribably terrifying!Black 'ink' emerges from the black eyes.

"You're going to die within a week!"

Rumble!

An indescribable sense of fear rose from Hosokawa Koharu's heart, she rolled down from the office chair in embarrassment, and then Tomoko's figure was slowly pulled back into the manga and disappeared without a trace.

"call"

Hosokawa Koharu's facial muscles became stiff, and his face was covered in cold sweat.

She looked at the manuscript in her hand in disbelief.

It happened to be the expression of Tomoko Asakawa frightened by Tomoko.

This sense of substitution is too strong, right?

This feeling of fear seems to squeeze the heart out

But I still want to look down!

The more scared I am, the more I want to look down.

It's like an addiction.

I'm afraid, but I still want to see it.

Hosokawa Koharu twitched his fingers and flipped down.

Tomoko was a little happy looking at Tomoko Asakawa who was stunned.

After all, Tomoko who listened to the strange talk was really frightened by the strange talk he said.

"Later, the boy received a call. The only thing on the phone was 'you saw it'. A week later, the boy died."

Tomoko summed up the strange talk, seemingly satisfied with Tomoko's reaction.

But soon, she realized something was wrong.

When she couldn't stop her laughter, her friend Tomoko Asakawa's complexion became worse and worse.

At this time, Tomoko thought of one thing.

She looked at Tomoko Asakawa, and asked uncertainly after a while: "Tomoko, I remember that you traveled to Izu Island with Ito-kun and the others last week, right?"

The atmosphere became tense.

The dark night outside seems to symbolize some ominous omen.

Tomoko got down from the chair and sat on the carpet with Tomoko: "That night, Ito-kun found a strange video tape, and we watched it all."

Originally, Tomoko wanted to tell Tomoko with a relaxed smile, but in the end, Tomoko's smile disappeared.

She stared at the table, as if lost in memory: "I just remember that the phone rang after watching the video, and there was no one there."

Tomoko, who was still smiling, couldn't laugh anymore.

She just muttered to herself in a daze: "It's really scary." Then there was no more text.

"Others have heard this story, and everyone is very scared." Asakawa Yuko turned his head, unable to laugh at all: "Today is a week."

As soon as these words came out, Hosokawa Koharu, who originally thought there was still a one-week buffer period, only felt the shadow climb up his back, and goose bumps all over his body.

It was as if something that could not be seen directly was watching him in the dark.

Tomoko in the story was also petrified.

She looked at Tomoko's expression, raised and lowered her eyes, and after a while, she forced and embarrassedly smiled: "You just want to scare me, Tomoko."

silence.

Quiet.

There was no sound in the room.

It was as if even the air had condensed.

next moment--

Tomoko with a gloomy face smiled brightly, she hammered Tomoko's shoulder: "How did you guess that?"

The heavy-faced Tomoko showed an unbelievable expression, and after a while, he patted Yuko on the shoulder angrily and funny: "I can't believe it, you bastard——"

The two broke up happily again.

Yeah, Tomoko was just kidding.

The sense of terror was swept away, as if there was nothing there, and even the lights seemed to be a little bit brighter.

Even Hosokawa Koharu, who was still nervous just now, breathed a sigh of relief.

I was really scared!

She was really afraid that there would be a call to announce her death in seven days.

Hosokawa Koharu turned to the next page.

The composition of this page is very simple.

However, Hosokawa Koharu's originally relaxed mood suddenly lifted again.

Jingle Bell--

电话

Rang.

(End of this chapter)