I accidentally died yesterday [comprehensive]

After the graduation ceremony, they took a group photo. The whole class discussed where to travel, looked around according to the map, and finally pointed to the Izu Peninsula and said, "Let's go to the hot springs here."

Because of "The Dancing Girl of Izu", this is a familiar place. I took the bus to the place with my luggage on my back, and was shocked by the bustling tourists. There are many high school graduates who came to travel with them. In addition, there are famous tourists who come.

"This place is a little lower than Tokyo's latitude."

someone said.

"So we're going south."

Everyone was laughing and joking.

Kiemon arched his head, his head emerged from the pet backpack, looked around very critically, and said, "It's not bad, not bad."

It is impossible for Kurokawa to leave Uncle Kiemon at home when he travels, so the two went out together.

Fortunately, the students don't mind him bringing cats. After all, Mr. Kiemon is dexterous and cute. Wiping his own buttocks and dealing with cat poop is still ingenious, without much of the unique fishy smell of cats and dogs.

When we arrived at the place, everyone rushed to order a lot of non-alcoholic drinks, and the atmosphere quickly became lively. Kurokawa and Mr. Kiemon went to the separate cat and dog hot spring foot bath, and Kiemon took a shower. He sneezed, put on a bath towel, stared at a white cloth on his head, and let out a long breath: "Happy."

"excuse me."

"Guest what you want."

The door next to the hot spring was opened, and a little girl in a bathrobe walked in holding a plate. She was about eleven or twelve years old. Is she working here or the daughter of the owner? This is confusing.

She is thin and small, with no flesh on her body.

The whole person is as pale and thin as a piece of white paper.

She put the plate down, and then asked in a small voice, "Do you have any other orders?"

Seeing that there was no order, the girl got up and left consciously.

Kiemon held back his words, and waited for the girl to get up and leave before saying, "You're too young."

"Working here at such a young age?"

The voice just fell.

The door next to it was knocked again, and a rough voice sounded: "Excuse me."

"I brought you what you asked for, my guest."

The sliding door opened, and there was a tall man kneeling behind him, with a sweat towel tied on his head, short stubble on his chin, wearing a gray bunt, with two white ropes passing under his arms, one by one. The most typical hot spring waiter's attire.

but……

Why is there another one?

The waiter raised his head and touched his face in doubt: "What's wrong? The two guests are looking at me like that?"

Heichuan pushed the plate next to him: "Someone has already come here once."

The man was confused for a while and then suddenly realized: "Oh, my memory, I have already disturbed you once."

After saying sorry, he got up and went out.

"Hey."

Kurokawa asked from behind: "Is that little girl a relative of yours?"

The waiter turned his head in surprise: "What? What little girl?"

"Guest, you are really joking, we don't have children here."

Kiemon shuddered, he shook the hair on his body, "I can't soak anymore."

He got up from the hot spring, stumbled and asked, "That just now...was a ghost."

Having said that, it looks like a human being, and there is no difference from ordinary humans except that it is thinner and has no blood on its face.

Even Kurokawa and Kiemon didn't notice the aura of the undead on her body.

The two came out of the hot spring and walked towards the guest room in comfortable yukata. Passing the checkout counter on the way, they saw the proprietress knocking on the counter with a computer. When the proprietress looked up, she saw Kiemon and Mr. Kurokawa greeted warmly: "Are you going back to the house?"

"It's April now, and there are many sacrificial activities outside."

"Anything?"

Kiemon scratched his trousers, and Kurokawa knew that the cat's curiosity had arisen again.

The proprietress thought for a while: "Sacrificing to the mountain god, sacrificing to the god of fire, and sacrificing to the undead are mostly of this kind. If the guests are interested, just go outside."

Kiemon grabbed Kurokawa's trousers again.

Heichuan then asked: "...Is it like this, when we saw an eleven or twelve-year-old little girl in the hot spring, is it a relative of the master's family who is here to help?"

"Hey?"

The proprietress showed doubts on her face: "...you really know how to joke, how could we hire such a young child, and even if it is to help, there is no reason to let her go to the male soup."

There was silence for a while.

The proprietress Chi asked: "Is it because you have been soaking in the warm water for too long, and your blood is not flowing well. You should go back to the house and have a rest. I will bring a drink up later."

She suspected that Kurokawa had soaked in the hot spring for too long and was suffocated by sulfur gas.

Kurokawa thanked the proprietress for the gift, turned a corner with Kiemon, and walked to the guest room, "It really looks like a ghost."

One person and one cat discussed this matter.

"I didn't know I was dead, so wandering around in the hot spring?"

There are white paper doors on both sides, and yellow-brown wooden strips are erected in it. Walking in the corridor seems to be walking through the dense forest.

"Da da da."

This was the sound of Kurokawa's footsteps. Kiemon's paws were light, and there was silence for a while.

A white skirt floated past the left corner, looking like a child of eleven or twelve years old.

"It's her again."

Kurokawa said.

Kiemon asked, "Do you want to go up and say hello?"

"That's not necessary, presumably it will naturally appear in front of you when it's time to meet."

When Kurokawa and Kiemon returned to the room, the students were huddling together drunk. It was originally a non-alcoholic drink, but everyone was drunk if they were not drunk.

Seeing the two of them appear, someone asked, "You two went out to play secretly, didn't you?"

"It must be punished—what should be punished?"

"Hi--"

A lively person jumped up and clapped his hands: "I heard that this hotel has a silent storage room, so let Heichuan take out something from it."

"What's that place?"

Some people have doubts.

"Hey? Don't you all know that supernatural things often happen there?"

"what--"

The students were taken aback: "How could such a thing happen? Why didn't you say it earlier."

"These things are written in the evaluation of the hot springs, I thought everyone knew."

The person who made this opinion vividly described the ghost of the storage room: "Probably one night, the whole hotel was lit up, only the storage room at the end was dark, and a guest who got up at night was in the dark without knowing it. broke in, and guess what happened—”

Before everyone could answer, the man revealed the answer: "Nothing happened!"

"What kind of horror story is this?"

"Of course it doesn't count. What if that person was trapped in the storage for an hour?"

"When I came out, I kept saying things like 'everyone is gone, the world is gone'."

"Following investigations showed that this person was claustrophobic, but there must be some reason why he was frightened like this in a dark storage room."

The story aroused everyone's interest.

They also stopped talking about the punishment and proposed to save the activity until the evening.

"Anyway, there's nothing to do at night, so it's better to treat this as an adventure."

"Hey hey-"

Someone asked in a low voice: "Do you still remember what happened in the Qingmuma Hotel?"

Speaking of this, everyone thinks of the terrifying scream and face of the female ghost.

"But with Koike here, you should feel at ease."

"Tuk Tuk Tuk."

The door was knocked.

"Who is it?" Someone turned his head.

"It's the proprietress." Heichuan remembered that the proprietress was coming to deliver something, although he had already refused.

Kurokawa got up, and Kiemon followed him to the door. After opening the paper door, Kiemon took a small breath. Standing at the door was the little girl who appeared in the hot spring. Several cans of drinks: "Guest, this is your thing."

His face still had the same dull look, even his lips were not much bloody.

Kiemon quietly looked at the girl's shadow, only to see a faint layer of gray spread on the ground, what's going on, do ghosts have shadows too?

Kiemon leaned over quietly, gave a little "meow", and touched the girl's calf, and then a "wow wow wow wow wow wow" expression appeared on his face.

He made a mouth shape towards Heichuan: "I can touch it."

Kurokawa took the drink: "Do you work here?"

The little girl showed a panicked expression: "I'm really sorry, I'm taking over for my sister."

She smiled embarrassedly: "My sister drank a lot of wine last night, and I really couldn't get up this morning. I thought, it's just a few hours of work anyway, and I should be able to replace it."

"But I haven't formally explained to the boss yet... I really hope my sister can arrive soon."

Kurokawa took the drink and said goodbye to the little girl, and then entered the room with Kiemon. The classmate asked what happened outside, and Kurokawa replied: "It was a misunderstanding."

Kiemon stroked his beard: "I didn't expect to treat a living person as a ghost."

It was still during the day when everyone had nothing to do, so they packed up their backpacks and left the hotel. It was exactly as the proprietress said, because it was April when various shrines held sacrifices, and there were lively activities to celebrate spring farming. Most of these were in the The green farmland has also become a famous scenic spot because of the many tourists who come here.

Passing through the houses lined up, I saw everyone carrying a red statue. It is said that this is an imitation of the god of avoiding fire. It is a round basin containing water, but it is two meters long, wide and high. Carved from stone, it was carried by two dozen men in bunts to the shrine at the end of the street.

Passing through the streets and walking up the hillside, there are still people on the mountain offering sacrifices to the mountain god. The priest chanted words, probably saying that he hoped that the mountain god would not be angry, not shake the mountains, not let the ground crack, and not let the houses fall down and so on.

The Sanshen Shrine is on the mountainside, surrounded by verdant greenery. In addition to the people participating in the shrine ceremony, there are more unrelated tourists like Kurokawa and Kiemon.

When they got down the mountain, at the foot of the mountain, they encountered a ceremony of offering sacrifices to the undead. All of them were dressed in white. The head priest held a white piece of paper in his hand, and tied a long piece of paper to a pole. The priest spun around as if dancing. It formed a full circle, like a butterfly spreading its wings.

Someone asked what it was for.

He replied, "I'm offering sacrifices to the dead."

In the past, fires and earthquakes took away the lives of many people, so there was this sacrifice.

After the priest finished dancing, Kurokawa and Kiemon discovered that the priest had a mask on his face. It was an oval mask that fit the shape of the face, with strange patterns painted on it with dry yellow and black oil paint.

... If you look closely, it looks like a yellow moth, and if you look closely, you can see a painful human face on the back of the moth.

Ask what this is.

The person who was questioned replied: "This is the face moth, the messenger of death."

The priest's mask may not be very secure, as soon as he shakes, the mask also shakes, and the yellow and black moths depicted on it are fluttering.

……

After returning to the hotel, we had dinner, and everyone soaked in the hot spring for a while, and returned to the house in comfortable yukata.

"Anyway, there's nothing to do at night."

One claps: "Start your daytime adventures now."

The rule of the game is that everyone is in a room, first tell a ghost story, and then go to the storage room without lights to stay for 3 minutes.

If you don't come back after 3 minutes, everyone will go to him.

"However, it is recommended that no matter what happens, you must come back. Even if you want to go to the toilet halfway, you should come back and say something. In case everyone looks for you but finds that there is no one..."

"Then, let's start the game."

The students have been studying all year round, and the ghost stories they know are nothing more than human-faced dogs, the high-speed mother-in-law and the Kisaragi train station, but many people also talked about the stories around them, such and such people met dead souls in the middle of the night, or There is a very personal experience such as the appearance of a third person in the family.

After speaking, everyone got up and went to the storage room. There was no light there as expected. I don’t know if it was because the boss didn’t repair it. After 3 minutes and 3 minutes, one person came back.

Soon to Kurokawa.

Kurokawa casually told a horror story that happened in Edo, then got up and walked to the storage room. A classmate said, "Kiemon should not go."

"If you are accompanied by a cat, you will definitely not feel afraid."

Kiemon meowed and sat down. He didn't love labor that much either.

After Kurokawa left, the next person started to tell the story: "Well... I'm talking about what happened in this hotel."

"...After hearing the news during the day, I was really concerned, so I couldn't help but check it out."

"To be specific, it should be the predecessor of this hotel...it was also a hot spring, but it was a hot spring that was destroyed by the earthquake."

Heichuan walked to the storage room at the end. He was a little sleepy. He would go to someone's house after this round was over. He turned a corner and followed the guidance to the storage room. A dark place without light was different. There was a light on in the storage room, and a thin yellow line of light pulled a slash across the floor outside.

Heichuan knocked, and then there was the sound of hurried footsteps, and the little girl's thin face was revealed from behind, "Oh, it's you, guest, how did you get here?"

The little girl opened the door, and Kurokawa saw the lights in the storage room. The storage room was about thirty or forty stacks in size. There were wooden boxes and some shelves for miscellaneous goods. There were two windows on the wall opposite the door. The glass windows, however, were foggy, as if stained with ashes from burning coal.

"Why are you here?"

Kurokawa asked.

The little girl scratched her hair in embarrassment: "...Well, I was discovered by the boss and locked up here."

"Hey."

She sighed sadly.

"But fortunately, it didn't cause any trouble to everyone."

The girl led Heichuan into the storage room, and the door closed behind him with a "click", and the storage room was filled with faint yellow light, as ambiguous as floating mist.

The little girl sat on the wooden box, took out an elementary school textbook as if she was doing calculations, then quietly raised her head and asked, "Are you a high school student?"

At first glance, it looks like scratching your head and scratching your head when you encounter a problem.

Heichuan nodded, took the textbook and helped her sit out, and explained the thinking and steps of solving the problem by the way.

"Clap."

As if something had hit the glass, Kurokawa looked sideways at the window next to him, a withered yellow moth stuck tightly to the window, and the off-white phosphor powder showed light marks on the glass. Traces and colors, similar to those on other empty areas of windows.

Wasn't it soot?

"Clap."

"Clap."

"Clap."

It was as if a storm was falling, and withered yellow moths touched the glass and piled up layer by layer. Even though the entire glass was fully occupied, they still kept falling down.

The moth's wings were covered, leaving only the black face in the middle of the insect's body, like a skull with its mouth wide open, its face twisted in pain.

The dense moths dropped phosphorous powder, which made the two sides of the glass very dirty.

The little girl hugged the book tightly and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

"They're here again."

She turned her head and explained to Kurokawa: "...I don't know why, every time I go back to the storage room, these moths will follow and fill up the front glass..."

"Do you go back to the storage room often?"

"Often?" The little girl laughed dryly: "It's just that being locked up here is very boring, so I secretly ran out to help, and then I was locked in again."

She made a back and forth movement, "Just like this over and over again..."

The two windows on the side have been occupied by human face moths.

As the wings vibrated, the skeleton faces on the worms opened and closed, as if they were saying something.

The girl's hands and feet were numb with fear, she stepped back quietly, opened the door of the storage room, "Guests, let's go out."

Outside was a dark hallway.

Moss grew on the board and it was wet. If you listen carefully, you can hear the "tick-tick" sound of water drops.

Black spots also appeared on the paper doors and white walls on both sides, and the surroundings were covered with dark green and deep purple, as if moldy.

The little girl stepped into the middle of the aisle as if no one was there, turned a blind eye to everything around her, and then told Heichuan: "Today, for some reason, many people came to soak in the hot springs in the morning, but they disappeared in the afternoon."

"There is no one else but you, the guest."

The whole hotel is immersed in this smell like rotting corpses.

There was no other light except the storage room. Kurokawa walked through the hot spring, the guest room where his classmates lived, and the cash register—nothing, only the little girl holding the first-grade textbook led the way.

"Wait a while."

The little girl said that the moths would disappear after a while.

On the way, the little girl held her textbook and talked about her family situation, "My parents have passed away for a long time, and only my sister and I depend on each other."

"My sister is very tired every day. She has to go to work during the day and drinks a lot of wine at night."

"Hey, if only I could grow up quickly, my sister won't be so tired."

"Is the guest looking for something in the storage room?"

Kurokawa said to play a game.

"What game?" the girl asked.

"Something like Hundred Monogatari." Kurokawa replied.

A look of envy appeared on the girl's face: "The guest must have a lot of friends."

After an unknown amount of time, they walked through the entire silent and uninhabited house, and then the little girl turned to him and said, "You can go back."

Passing through those decaying corridors, Kurokawa saw that the originally bright storage room was pitch black, like an abyss, and the little girl complained next to it: "Oh, the boss must have turned off the light."

Heichuan opened the door and went in, and the little girl said beside him, "Guest, please wait first, I will look for the switch."

After saying this, the little girl suddenly disappeared.

There was only silence and darkness in the room.

Kurokawa unscrewed the doorknob of the storage room again. Outside was a clean wooden walkway with bright lights. With the help of the light outside, he looked at the empty storage room behind him, with nothing in it.

Only a thin layer of ash fell on the ground, and there were many footsteps on it, which should have been left by Kurokawa's classmates.

Heichuan pushed the door open, and faintly heard the little girl calling "guest".

He followed the path in his memory back to his classmates' guest rooms. Just now, there was a lot of water stains on the ground here, and the green fungi had grown on their own. Now there are a lot of classmates sitting here.

Someone looked at his watch: "Wow—— Kurokawa, you stayed there for 5 minutes."

"Nothing happened."

Heichuan shook his head. When he sat down, he sniffed his sleeves, and always felt that there was a musty smell on them.

"Unfortunately, you didn't hear the story just now."

A person said mysteriously.

"It turns out the hotel was reconstructed."

"Yes, yes, I heard that it used to be a hot spring shop, but then there was a big earthquake in Izu, and the hot spring shop was damaged and could not be repaired at all."

"Because it is a wooden structure, it did not cause too many casualties."

"However, I heard that one person died. When the remains were being processed, a little girl's body was dug up in that storage room. I heard that the boss locked it in and did not escape."

"What a pity."