Unfortunately, he had still been contemplating suicide two days ago, so it was entirely normal for Kobayashi Saki to look at him that way.
After Kobayashi Saki had completely left the hospital room, Kobayashi Seijiro, who had been lying on the hospital bed, straightened up slightly.
He took a deep breath, exhaled, and repeated the process several tis before he turned to look at Beichuan Si:
"Beichuan, you want to know about what happened after the ga of hide and seek with four people, right?"
He probably knew Beichuan Si’s purpose by now.
After all, soone with supernatural abilities like him would definitely co for the hide and seek ga.
"I would appreciate it if you could tell ."
The other party wasn’t completely devoid of emotional intelligence, so Beichuan Si was sowhat reassured.
After pondering for a mont, Kobayashi Seijiro slowly began to describe the hide and seek ga:
"I rember there were many students from the school there, Shen Gu was also there, and I, along with Hoshino, Ichun, and Ebi, proceeded with the four-person hide and seek ga."
"It was really just to satisfy my own desire to perform... There were so many people watching, we couldn’t not do it, and running away would have been embarrassing. Then soone said, ’Let’s start.’"
"And I chanted the spell with them four tis, waiting in place for a long ti." Kobayashi Seijiro scratched his head, sowhat regretting why he had joined in the first place and why he couldn’t suppress his need to show off.
"But in fact, nothing happened that night. I just felt inexplicably cold, but seeing those envious glances from my classmates, I actually enjoyed it, so I didn’t mind the details."
Suddenly, Shen Gu Mirai spoke: "But things didn’t end that simply, did they?"
Kobayashi Seijiro admitted with so embarrassnt by nodding his head.
"Ever since that ga, I always felt like sothing was lurking in my room. It was a strange feeling. At first, it seed just like a psychological illusion, but then it beca clearer and clearer... as if soone was truly watching ."
A terrified expression slowly appeared on Kobayashi Seijiro’s face.
"Can you imagine? Shen Gu, Beichuan... that kind of gaze full of imnse hatred... as if it wanted to drink up your flesh and blood bit by bit, seeming to be everywhere, able to be in my room, outside my room, on the ceiling, and on the floor...possibly...even behind you."
Shen Gu Mirai shivered involuntarily.
"But this symptom... disappeared after a month or two." Kobayashi Seijiro swallowed, his eyes filled with fear as he stared at the empty floor, "But then, sothing even more terrifying happened."
"What?" Beichuan offered him so hot water.
"Thank you..." After gulping down the water and wiping his mouth, Kobayashi continued, "That thing...Beichuan, you should be very clear about it...it was childlike scratch marks, those purple-blue scratch marks."
"At that ti, my wrist inexplicably beca cold and a bit painful, and one day when I woke up, that purple-blue scratch mark had already appeared on my wrist...as if so malicious child had been tightly squeezing my wrist every day."
Beichuan looked at the trembling Kobayashi Seijiro, his expression changing slightly.
So that’s how the purple-blue scratch marks were ford?
"I knew then that it wasn’t a hallucination, it was real. Soone was truly beside , but I couldn’t see it, I didn’t know where it was, and just like that, I endured several more months...until that thing happened..."
Kobayashi Seijiro’s face was covered in cold sweat.
"That thing?"
"Yes, Ichun, who had played the ga with , died... His body was found at ho, as if soone had smashed a firefighter’s ax into his head."
"I was terrified at the ti, I thought I might be next, so I told my parents. But they didn’t believe at all! Absolutely didn’t believe ! That’s when I knew I had to gather my strength, eliminate Ichun and my other two companions."
Kobayashi Seijiro tugged at his hair, murmuring in agony, "But when I told the other two, they didn’t believe either."
"Hoshino and that girl called Ebi?"
"Yes, by then, the only survivors were the three of us. I told them about the scratches, but they thought I was joking and even said ’that kind of joke is really disgusting.’ Then what followed was Hoshino’s murder case by so maniac, dumping the body. To be honest, I was almost breaking down by then, hiding at ho all day long, feeling that I was next."
Kobayashi Seijiro’s palms trembled as he brought the cup of hot water to his lips and took a sip. "After that, I started to frequently see children with pale blue skin. They would hide anywhere in my room... When I wanted to change clothes, they would squat in the wardrobe watching you. When I wanted to grab a pen, I would open the drawer only to find it filled with the bloody severed hands of children."
"I just couldn’t stand that life anymore."
Kobayashi Seijiro’s face was deathly pale.
"So you chose to attempt suicide, and after failing, you were sent to the hospital, where you bumped into during your escape attempt. Right?" Beichuan Si, having pieced all the events together, asked.
"Um..." Kobayashi Seijiro nodded, his gaze sowhat vacant. "I really don’t want to die. I don’t want to die so horribly. Every ti I close my eyes, I feel like I can see those terrifying children’s spirits... They want to drag to Hell..."
Beichuan Si could understand what Kobayashi Seijiro was subconsciously saying.
This way of dying, like a frog boiled in warm water, is oppressively maddening.
Because you never know when the danger will co, nor do you know when you will die... you just know you will certainly die.
In such a situation, you can only live each day on tenterhooks.
It was understandable why Kobayashi Seijiro would beco semi-mad.
Beichuan Si asked his final question.
"Is that person, Ebi, still alive?"
"Still alive, I guess... I heard from my mother that she sotis cos to visit ."
Still alive.
Beichuan Si rubbed his chin and continued, "Then can you help get in touch with her?"
"It’s not a problem to contact her, but that person is really bad-tempered. Beichuan, I an, Beichuan Master, you definitely won’t enjoy her company."
"Regardless, we’ll have to make contact first and think about the rest later."
Beichuan Si’s tone was firm.
This made Kobayashi Seijiro sigh and nod, saying, "I understand. I’ll contact her right now and give you her phone number shortly."
Kobayashi Seijiro reached into the bedside table, pulled out his phone, and began making contact, while on the other side, Beichuan Si’s group wasn’t idling either.
The events Kobayashi Seijiro described were of great reference value.
Besides the symptoms after being cursed, another point was the timing.
Kobayashi Seijiro, Hoshino Nana, Ebi, and Ichun—that group of four—since the start of their hide-and-seek ga until now, nearly a year had passed.
Coincidently, "The Lost Mikawa" also had ntions of ti.
Since the seal was disturbed in March, the protagonists were cursed, and a full year had also passed.
At the end, when the murderer killed the female protagonist, the described scene of cherry blossoms falling subtly implied the passing of a year.
This implies that those cursed will be killed by the spirits and will all die within the span of a year.
This Ebi might start being unsafe now.
They need to find her before that and then ask her so questions.
That is what Beichuan Si needs to do now.
While he was pondering this, on the other side, Kobayashi Seijiro’s voice rang out.
"I got through."
Beichuan Si and Shen Gu Mirai both looked over.
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