The Mystery Exploration Club ga was what led to this place.
I stumbled upon this RPG Maker ga when I was browsing sites to find a ga worth playing.
Since my first introduction to horror gas was a crude one, I had no hesitation in pressing the install button.
Having fun playing, losing, coming up with a strategy, and watching the ending.
One day, as the process was repeated, I failed at finishing this ga.
Then, I ended up exchanging bodies with Ella, the tutorial boss.
I had no doubts that this was a ga.
That is, until I stepped out of the world full of monsters, which is the main background of the ga.
Haven't we all thought about it at least once?
If you were to enter a ga set in modern tis, how would places that were not implented in the ga appear?
This is what I think.
I think that it would look similar to the original world it was based on.
And sowhat add sothing unique to the worldview.
The existence of the Institution was ntioned even in the ga, so I roughly expected it.
In the first place, it was easier to just accept what had already happened before my eyes rather than denying it.
'But it's not like I didn't consider this possibility.'
The possibility that this world isn't a ga.
I asked Jas to look into , but he couldn't find my identity, my ho, or even the last ga I played, so I had accepted it.
I did...
"This is a ga that exists in reality, right?"
[Yes yes! That's right! So could you please put away your scary face? And as a bonus, the toothy monster that's strangling my neck...!]
"Who is the producer?"
[It only says M.P. Probably an underdog. Oh, now that I think about it, all the missing gas were made by that person.]
"..."
"Huh? Alice, where are you going?"
"...I'm sorry. Sothing really urgent ca up."
I created a mirror.
A mirror that reflects . I can see myself looking sowhat nervous.
I stepped and moved from mirror to mirror. My destination is only one place.
I exited the mirror closest to my destination and walked.
I ran even though it was only a short distance.
It was a large, empty lot.
It was a place I had visited in the past, where I had muttered to myself, I see, and had walked away.
"..."
I stood in the center of the clearing and spread my aura across it.
Then sothing that was hidden was revealed.
"Lies."
A hidden grave of my senior.
I touched the grave with trembling hands.
This was a place filled with heterogeneous tombs in a city center full of buildings.
It's a very unique place that suited my senior perfectly.
For so reason, no other graves were visible, and only the grave of my senior was revealed.
"Why is only this grave hidden? It's like you're advertising that you had sothing to do with becoming like this..."
I slowly stopped caressing the grave and took out a shovel from the mirror.
What I am going to do from now on is an act that is extrely blasphemous to anyone.
I stuck the shovel into the dirt and used my weight to dig it up.
As I continued to dig, I found sothing solid.
It was a wooden coffin.
I quickly removed the surrounding dirt and ca face to face with the intact coffin.
I paused for a mont and opened the lid.
"...Ha."
The coffin was empty.
My body lost strength and I dropped the coffin.
And then I spoke to myself, or rather, with the hope that soone would listen.
"It was the senior, right? The one who made like this. The one who called when I had tried to rest behind the curtain."
It was a long ti ago, but I'm sure.
It was clearly senior's voice.
When Ella's wish ca true and our body naturally disappeared and was about to fall into rest, my senior's voice woke again.
"You knew everything, right? I don't understand... What exactly happened to ? Why did you put in the ga?"
My voice is shaking. I noticed that the informal language that had beco a habit of speaking had disappeared and I was only using the polite language I had always used towards him.
My words stopped, but I bit my lip and continued again.
"And if you were alive... Why didn't you co to see ?"
The air is heavy. This wasn't because of my mood.
The heavy air was a sign that it would rain soon, and dark clouds were also filling the sky, so it was almost certain.
Drip. And a raindrop falls.
Maybe it wasn't a raindrop.
"I an, I can cry now. I don't know if you ant for it to happen, but now if I have to say goodbye to a friend, I can cry a lot. It's different than before, right?"
My wish that Ella spoke of is for my own proof.
Just like Ella wanted to prove to soone that she wouldn't hurt her friends.
I may also have wanted to prove my sincerity.
I had wondered if it was because of Ella's personality, her devil nature, that I could consider the kids friends, that I was influenced by the perceptions and thoughts of others.
The proof that I had changed from soone who didn't shed a single tear even when my best friend died to soone who could truly consider children as friends.
I shed a tear at the last mont and proved it.
"Rember that? In the past, when you told a silly joke, my reaction was always the sa and you said it was boring. Maybe you didn't an it at the ti. But now!"
I couldn't finish my sentence.
What on earth am I talking about? Was my first friend so precious?
The senior is now a suspicious person who is no different from an enemy.
"...I'm so stupid."
And foolish.
Drip. Drop. Drip. Drop.
It started to rain in earnest.
I just got caught in the rain. My clothes are wet and cold.
The occasional wind seed to lower the temperature and give a physical feeling of rolling waves.
"...It's cold."
When I was young, it wasn't bad to get caught in the rain sotis, but now it just makes my body heavier.
Was it really that difficult to take a single step out of the rain?
"Are you okay?"
I opened my eyes wide. I quickly looked back.
"Ha-rim. Why are you here?"
She was standing there holding an umbrella.
Looking at the bag she was wearing, it looks like she was on her way ho from school.
I seed to have coincidentally overlapped with Ha-rim's path.
She won't be able to see the grave, so my appearance won't look strange.
But she, Ha-rim, was looking at questioningly.
"Did you cry by any chance?"
"That can't be right. It's rainwater."
"I see. Being constantly exposed to rain is not good for your health."
Ha-rim put an umbrella over and led by holding my hand.
"Where are we going?"
"My house! There are extra umbrellas and the others are waiting."
My legs, which did not want to go anywhere, moved.
I walked as Ha-rim led.
Looking at the children waiting, it seed like they were all trying to play together because they had so free ti since school ended early.
"For so reason, I felt like soone was here, like I was connected to them, so I separated from the others and took a little detour down the street, and Alice was here."
"I see. Thank you for the umbrella."
"No problem, because we're friends!"1
Ha-rim smiled at , and I smiled back.
"Friends, yes."
We arrived at her house before we knew it. It was no different from the house I visited when I was Ella.
Because that world was a place that imitated the outside world.
As Ha-rim led into the entrance, the children welcod .
"Alice is here too!"
"I was surprised when Ha-rim suddenly walked away."
"Alice, you're all wet, you'll catch a cold."
As I looked at the children welcoming , my gloomy feelings seed to have been washed away.
I had vowed to keep my distance from them, but now it seems like I can't keep it at all.
"Let's take a shower first!"
"I want to go in too!"
When Eun-jeong said that, I punished her by flicking her forehead.
Then, I followed Ha-rim's guidance and headed to the shower room.
My clothes got wet, so I had to borrow Ha-rim's clothes, which felt strange.
Anyway, I grabbed the doorknob to take a shower.
...There's soone behind . I thought Eun-jeong had crawled in again, so I raised my hand to flick her again.
"?"
There was Ha-rim tilting her head.
Because she shared one umbrella, Ha-rim also got wet from the rain.
It is an unexpected crisis.
Even though we are the sa age outwardly, we will never be able to wash together.
I imdiately looked at the floor and asked her to wash first.
Ha-rim tilted her head to express her doubts, but went in first as if she was disappointed.
I guess she wanted to talk while taking a shower with .
Only after she washed up was I able to take a shower.
"Now that we're all gathered together, we're going to take a mont to discuss what happened today!"
If it's sothing that happened today, they're referring about that Vtuber. Co to think of it, I didn't erase their mories.
"..."
Jas said that the agency isn't strict enough to catch every minor paranormal activities.
No matter how I think about it, it didn't seem like a minor incident... It wasn't even a ghost in the first place.
Well, I think I understand what he ant.
He ant that if I don't erase their mories, he wouldn't bother to erase it.
I think I understand why Jas' subordinates made fun of him for forever staying as a sergeant.
Although I am grateful.
"It was really amazing, you know? I didn't know Kyeong-min would suddenly disappear!"
"Actually, I only vaguely rember it and it doesn't feel real... But anyway, thank you for saving ."
"Alice worked very hard. Eun-jeong also played a part."
"Hehe!"
It is true that Eun-jeong was a great help, but I was the one who suffered the most.
I found it annoying that Eun-jeong proudly puffed out her chest.
"...If you do sothing like that to again, I'll be angry."
"He... He..."
If you think about it, this kid seems to be the one who bothers the most.
Eun-jeong noticed my gaze and looked at , but I wasn't so angry that I'd make her anxious, so I lifted one arm and made space at my side.
Then she ca over and clung to .
"Squishy~"
I petted Eun-jeong like that. This devil-like kid. She looks cute when she stays still.
"The shampoo slls good~"
"Okay, okay."
Suho questioned while stroking his chin.
"What was that? This is the first ti I've seen sothing like that since we created the club!"
Suho said that when they looked for the Vtuber ghost again, she left a ssage on the YouTube channel saying that it would be closed for an extended period of ti and ran away.
Seeing as Chika hasn't returned yet, I guess she's still being chased sowhere on the internet.
I feel sorry that Lost is getting chased for this long, so I'll have to ask Chika to co back around tomorrow.
"After all, there are supernatural things in this world that we don't know about."
"It's getting a little out of hand."
"But that's kind of fun."
Ha-rim nods her head. It was a gesture of agreent.
But Ha-rim continued her words as if that wasn't the only thing she wanted to say.
"Maybe we should be more careful."
Ha-rim began speaking as the club president.
"I think we need to be careful as long as there are such things, and frankly, we did sothing that we were told not to do last ti during the necromancy. If sothing supernatural happened, we could have been in trouble"
"That's right. Let's be more careful."
Kyeong-min agrees.
Ha-rim warned them that they should be more careful when taking action.
However, paradoxically, the activities of the Mystery Exploration Club also ant that they were not intimidated by this incident and kept investigating, only this ti more cautiously.
"Anyway, this is the first ghost we've seen. Let's record it."
Ha-rim took out a pen and wrote in a notebook. She said that one day, when she graduates, she will keep an identical copy of the book in the club room.
"Now then, let's talk about our next activity."
"Next activity? Is there sothing else?"
"Of course there is! The car scrap yard you see after passing the intersection. There's a strange noise there. It's like a machine, but like it's alive..."
The children are sitting and talking. Everyone exchanges opinions about the next activity with excited expressions.
I erased their mories because I was afraid they might be in danger, and I'm not thinking of restoring them.
...But if they can continue to enjoy only moderately safe stimuli like this, I thought maybe I wouldn't need to erase their mories.
POV Switch - 3rd person
"Let's see, what about the psychic we caught last ti?"
Carol asks one of her subordinates as she organizes docunts in her office.
Empty coffee cans piled up due to non-stop work roll and fall on the floor.
"He didn't seem to have any loyalty. As expected, he seems to have received a request from Pinocchio from the Workshop."
Carol sighed.
"I guess that's how it is. Haa... Why are the demons so unruly? They try to steal things because they don't get a deal. It's all because of a certain soone who made all of this and left them unattended."
"...?"
Her subordinate was suspicious of Carol's strange words, but it wasn't the first ti Carol had said sothing strange, so they ignored it.
"At least we can communicate well, right?"
"... That's right. Compared to Peter Pan, whose ability to communicate is questionable, he is a great person. If you look at it this way, our Alice is an angel... Oh, speaking of that, what happened to the place where Peter Pan appeared last ti?"
Her employee searched through the locker of D docunts she had organized.
She ran her fingers through each one until she found a title that started with P, then opened it and recited it.
"Peter Pan appeared in the disputed area around 17:26 with the sound of laughter. He was observed to float in the sky for about 3 minutes before disappearing. At the sa ti, about 120,000 soldiers and 700 civilians at the scene also disappeared. They all returned 2 hours later, but most of them were showing symptoms of narcotic psychosis."
After getting annoyed at the scale, Carol took a fresh can of coffee and gulped it down.
The employee didn't dare say a word about how that much coffee is bad for her health.
"It's no different from last ti. Please continue to research ways to efficiently treat the people caught using the isolates in the institution. The thods currently employed are ineffective in many ways and cost a lot of money."
"All right."
Tap. Tap tap. Silence ca again, and only the sound of tapping on the computer filled the space. Another few minutes later, Carol was rubbing her eyes as if they were hurting.
'The managent of the branch's quarantined entities went smoothly, and the new manager's handover was completed. The criminal caught last ti needs a more brutal thod to be quarantined more safely, so I contacted the committee... Oh, there's a lot of work to do. I don't know how I ended up in this job... Ugh... I miss Alice.'
Tiriring!
"What is it..."
A ssage ca in with various symbols.
An order from the upper levels of the institution. The ssage included everything from nurical codes to simple riddles, and even biotric recognition and fingerprint scans. It seed appropriate to say it contained all sorts of things.
'I wonder what orders they've given.'
Carol looked at the docunt step by step. Then she soon frowned.
"...This is quite troubleso. rrin, we've got one more task."
"Yes, just tell ."
"Information about the heads of research at other branches. Please gather as much as you can."
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