Happy death in the reincarnation world

"what happened?"

Osamu Dazai knew Zhong Yuanzhong very well, and when he saw the change in his face, he knew that something was wrong.

Nakahara nodded, pointed to the line of names and said, "Mayumi Sato is the current Mandarin teacher in our class. Speaking of which..." He paused, and suddenly thought of a key point: "She seems to hate students very much. Talk about [Fox Ladder], and it is said that the temper has become worse and worse these days because of [Fox Ladder]. "

"This kind of thing doesn't appear in the safe room for no reason. It seems that it must be related to the [Fox Stairway]. If I guess correctly, it may involve the source of the Fox Stairway."

"You guessed right." Chuya Nakahara told Osamu Dazai the news he heard from Yokokawa today, and then said: "Reiko Yokokawa in the graduation photo, I suspect that it has something to do with Yokokawa from our class. Probably sister Brother-in-law relationship."

"The surname Yokokawa doesn't appear much. Since the copy restricts us to the school, the key information must not go beyond the scope of the school. So I think your guess accuracy should be very high." Osamu Dazai agreed.

"So what should we do now? Go back and find Mayumi Sato or Yokokawa?"

"I'm afraid that's the only way to go. At present, we don't have more information. I'm afraid that if we ask directly, they may not tell us the truth for some reason. After all, we are not even sure which side they belong to."

"Leave this kind of problem to us to solve it!" Kinoshita took Matsukawa Yuya out without knowing when, and he pushed Matsukawa Yuya out with a proud tone: "Although Yuya is a little older, but Once it comes to the search issue, it's still very stable." He said with a hearty smile, and gave a thumbs up: "In order to prevent him from accidents, I specially exchanged a lot of remedial props."

Zhong Yuanzhong also gave him a thumbs up: "Reliable!"

"I think you may need to hurry up." Ba Mamei, who was listening to the conversation at the side, suddenly said, and saw that she was holding a yellow gem in the shape of an Easter egg in her hand.The gemstone exudes radiance, and huge power pours out from it.

"Although my magic power is not good at perception, it is not a problem to temporarily cover the entire administrative building. I have to remind you that the principal has already gone upstairs."

"Why so fast!" Kinoshita was startled, it has only been less than 15 minutes since the principal left!

As if responding to Ba Mami's words, the melody of Moonlight, which was originally flowing slowly, suddenly made an electrical noise like a cassette.

Everyone's expressions changed—obviously, this was a sign that the safe house was about to fail.

It would not be too late if he chose to escape now, but he had just investigated a key clue, and no one wanted to leave here so easily.

"I think you should give up the idea of ​​escaping." Ba Mamei suddenly said again: "He has already reached this floor. He is talking to a teacher at the door now. Once we go out, he will find us immediately."

Everyone couldn't care about other things for a while, their eyes wandered around the room, trying to find a place to hide temporarily.However, this office is too small, there is no place where five people can hide at the same time.

Speaking of which, there are very few offices on this floor, so how come there is only so little space in the principal's office.

"Although I don't really want to use this trick, but there is no other way for the time being." Ba Mamei sighed, secretly urging the gem in her hand—that is, the power of the soul gem.The orange-yellow light spreads around like water, and crystal-like objects can be faintly seen in the air.

"Barrier!" Kinoshita said in surprise, "Do you have the ability to build a barrier?"

"It's just one of the abilities that come with it, and I haven't used it well yet." Ba Mami said and increased the output of magic power.Under her precise control, a small barrier continued to spread around, and the moment it touched Osamu Dazai, it shattered into countless fragments with a "crash".

"Eh?" Ba Mamei was stunned: "How could it fail?"

Although her magic is not partial to the enchantment system, there is no big problem with the simple formation of the enchantment.

Osamu Dazai, on the other hand, looked like "as expected".Ba Mami's barrier is diffuse, so the barrier wall will inevitably touch Osamu Dazai. This kind of power that does not belong to "science" will naturally be offset by [Disqualification in the World], thus losing its effect.

Even the enchantment has lost its effect, where else can they hide?

"If it really doesn't work..." Zhong Yuanzhong also made a gesture of wiping his neck: "I'm very fast!"

Kinoshita:".,...."

Shouldn't it be said that a family does not enter a house?This style of work is no one else.

"There seems to be a secret room here!" Matsukawa Yuya's voice hit their brains like a meteorite, and they were dizzy. They didn't react for a while, and they stared at each other. He looked closely at Matsukawa Yuya.

Matsukawa Yuya put one hand on the bookshelf, looked at them with eyes half sideways blinking, then lifted the hand pressed against the bookshelf and knocked against the wall.

The sound is a bit muffled, the sound is not real, and a little echo can be felt faintly - obviously there is no space inside.

"There is a secret room here!"

"Really!" Matsukawa Yu also seemed very happy, but he hung his head without laughing twice, looking sullen: "But I didn't find where the switch of the secret room is." He sighed, looking down from the wall with a sad face Putting down his hand, he inadvertently knocked over a book on the shelf.

However, the book did not fall, but abruptly stopped in the air in a drawn-out posture. With a slight "click", a crack suddenly appeared on the bookcase that was originally tightly attached to the crack of the wall. , The secret room door was opened.

Everyone: '...'

What the hell is this Chosen One!

Matsukawa Yuya's eyes were bright, and he proudly said with his hands on his hips, "As expected of me!"

The footsteps were getting louder and louder, and without Ba Mami's reminder, everyone knew that the principal was about to enter the house.

Osamu Dazai put the extracted graduation photo back to its original place, Kinoshita picked up Matsukawa Yuya who was still showing off himself, and all the people got into the secret room together.The moment the door to the secret room closed, the door to the principal's room opened.

The headmaster with a height of 1.6m[-] and a bald beer belly touched the top of his bald head with only a few hairs left after washing. He glanced around the headmaster's office suspiciously, but he didn't find anything strange. , After returning to the desk, he continued to deal with things.

But when Osamu Dazai and his party entered the secret room, the scene changed drastically.

The empty room the size of two classrooms was airtight on all sides, and a strong smell of blood permeated it.The only source of light is the two slowly burning candlesticks in the center, emitting a faint light.

Everyone took out their mobile phones and turned on the flashlights, and only then did they see the appearance of the secret room clearly.

The whole room is very empty, only an altar similar to a Buddhist niche is placed on the inside.In the middle of the altar is a sandalwood tablet with the four characters "Yokokawa Reiko" written on it.There are more than a dozen tablets of different sizes on both sides, but the words on them are much more complicated.

From "Avalokitesvara for Rescuing Suffering and Difficulty" to "Taishang Wuji Dao", that is, Taishang Laojun, and then to "Jehovah God", etc., the whole is a hodgepodge, and it is completely impossible to get which god this altar is dedicated to.

The only source of light is the incense candles used to worship in front of the tablet.It's just that the scent of the incense candle is not like the commonly used fragrance. It smells obedient, with a smell of burnt protein and an indescribable rancidity.Mixed with the smell of blood, it makes people sick.

Looking at the wall again, it is densely covered with red characters, which seem to be written in blood.When I looked closer, I realized that it was not blood, but cinnabar, which is commonly used by Chinese Taoists.The characters on the wall are not common onmyoji spells, but to the Japanese, they are like ghost drawers.

Aside from these spells, there were also some runes written on talisman paper on the wall, which they could barely tell were the spells of the Onmyoji.

It is not difficult to see that the buildings in the house are used to enshrine the gods and worship Reiko Yokokawa, but both the spells and the altar are too messy, just like a religious blind, thinking that they can be used for worship...or to quell disasters , I put it all in, regardless of whether these gods will fight if they meet across the country or not.

"Deliberately putting Reiko Yokokawa's name here means that the person who died ten years ago was Reiko Yokokawa?" Chuya Nakahara guessed.

"It's true at the moment." Osamu Dazai frowned: "Judging from the story Yokokawa told you, the biggest possibility is that Reiko Yokokawa is the first female student who died because of [Fox Staircase] ten years ago. But now The point of contradiction is why the principal deliberately built a secret room in the office..." He looked closely at every inch of the surrounding area: "Just looking at the structure here, I really can't say 'ceremony' or 'transcendence' ’ Such words.”

Rather——as if trying to imprison Reiko Yokokawa's soul here.

Osamu Dazai thought of the first instance he entered, the sacrificial space hidden under the clothing store, which was exactly the same as here, full of disgusting atmosphere.

"There is no breath of soul on this tablet." Ba Mami closed her eyes tightly, holding the soul gem in one hand, mobilizing the energy fluctuations around the magic sensor: "I wonder if everything is because of Reiko Yokokawa's She was imprisoned by ghosts for ten years, and she finally found a chance to escape not long ago, which triggered a new round of [Fox Staircase] nightmares. But the tablets here are very clean, and there is no soul left Either she left this secret room earlier, then the [Fox Staircase] is probably closely related to her. Or from the very beginning, Reiko Yokokawa's soul has disappeared in this world."

Osamu Dazai followed her words and continued: "If Reiko Yokokawa is not the root cause of the [Fox Stairway] incident, either there is an evil spirit above her, or the [Fox Stairway] was a man-made incident from the very beginning."

"Warrior?" Zhongyuan Zhong was also taken aback.

Osamu Dazai nodded and continued: "I've felt strange since you told me that story. Don't you think it's too weird that the book with [Fox Staircase] appeared? Why has the book been hidden for so many years? How could it be found so easily after Reiko Yokokawa's death? And why would such a book be found by an ordinary female high school student? Besides, it's the strangest thing that such a book would appear in the library, right?"

"Yokokawa Reiko died suddenly. All the evidence was pieced together from the book she found suddenly and the words of her best friend. The school, who didn't believe in evil, suddenly searched for the master's method, and there is such a big hidden in the principal's room. It’s not surprising that it’s called a ‘prison cell’.”

"For all kinds of things, human labor is the biggest possibility." Dazai Osamu focused his eyes: "It seems that the focus of everything is still on Yokokawa."