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"On July 1953, 7, I seemed to be dead..."
This sentence came from Sakurai and his right hand at the same time. The two different voices overlapped and formed a response in the health room.
Putting the notebook into his shoulder bag, Sakurai turned his head and saw a mature woman with a broken neck, dark blue skin and tattered clothes standing next to him.
"Unforgivable...Unforgivable..."
"Unforgivable..."
"Kill you...kill you...unforgivable...unforgivable..."
The woman who kept repeating the same words in an extremely difficult and intermittent tone was undoubtedly the ghost of Shinozaki Sachiko's mother, Shinozaki Yoshie.
It is supernatural and spiritual at the same time, which is a very interesting form of expression. Are all the guys here (Tenjin Elementary School) such special guys?
Sakurai became interested when he saw such an interesting form of expression for the first time.
"So, you want to fight me?"
"You want to fight me when you know you can't possibly defeat me?"
As he raised his hand, the Aragami tooth slid into his palm, and Sakurai asked softly.
"Unforgivable...Unforgivable..."
"Unforgivable...Unforgivable..."
"You must protect Xiao Xing. For her... I can do anything..."
She raised her head stiffly and with difficulty, and met Sakurai's eyes. She cursed in a low voice, her words full of resentment and intimidation.
She is in...
She hated the world and hated Sakurai for wanting to hurt her most important daughter.
The ground began to tremble slightly, and continued to tremble continuously.
It was like an earthquake, followed by...
Sakurai's keen sense of smell detected a rotten, smelly, and extremely pungent smell.
The source of the smell is...behind Sakurai!!!
It seemed like something was quietly emerging behind him.
Without any hesitation, Sakurai raised the Aragami Fang, which lit up with a clang, and stabbed backwards.
There was a sound of a sharp object cutting through cloth, followed by a resentful and piercing wailing.
Sakurai glanced back and saw the dark tentacles made of mist with a faint foul smell quickly retracting.
It dodged reflexively like a beast encountering fire.
Even with Sakurai's eyesight, he could only barely see a tiny shadow.
Then, as if she had suffered a great deal of harm, Shinozaki Yoshie screamed and vomited a black, sticky liquid with a pungent smell.
After vomiting the mucus, Shinozaki Yoshie changed again. She lowered her head, and her dark eyes without any whites revealed her hatred for the living.
In his half-open mouth, some black mucus slipped from the corners and finally dripped onto the bulge in front of his chest.
It turned into light white smoke and dissipated into the air.
Her mouth was dark and nothing could be seen inside.
Such a Shinozaki Yoshie reminded Sakurai of Saeki Toshio, whom he had defeated not long ago.
Do all these ghosts with human appearance look like this?
"I want to protect, I want to protect...Xiao Xing, for her...for her..."
“I can do anything!!!”
Roaring sharply, with eyes full of resentment and sadness, Shinozaki Yoshie, as a mother, would never allow Sakurai to attack her most important daughter.
After her husband's death, she...
She is the only one!!!
"You are such a bother, you bastard."
"But I do feel this motherly love."
Sakurai took a step forward, and the soul flame attached to the Aragami fang extended to the palm of his hand, eventually igniting his right arm.
The invisible soul flame shone brightly at this moment.
It illuminated the dim health room and also illuminated Shinozaki Yoshie in the darkness.
"But if you do something wrong, you will pay the price."
"It is never reasonable to let others suffer the same thing just because of your own tragic experience."
"Maybe you and Sachiko Shinozaki are innocent, but..."
"Aren't those people you killed innocent?"
The flickering flames carried a kind of awe-inspiring power.
Sakurai raised his right hand and hit Shinozaki Yoshie's body with his fist.
Just like ice and snow touched by red-hot iron, Shinozaki Yoshie's body melted.
Finally, it turned into a pitch-black mist and merged into the Aragami Fang in Sakurai's hand.
"I'm sorry, but you don't have the right to live here."
After saying this, Sakurai picked up a half-photo of Shinozaki Yoshie, who was smiling sweetly, from the ground.
He turned and left the health room which was shaking and about to collapse.
96. The truth hidden in the cracks is about to surface~!
After a dizzying moment, Sakurai left the health room and returned to the corridor of Tenjin Elementary School.
Not too high ceilings, dilapidated environment and depressing atmosphere.
The difference from [just now] was that there was a certain [smell] in the air, like the strange stench of a fermented corpse that was exposed to the sun and then rained on.
In the dark and deep corridor, Sakurai narrowed his eyes.
After thinking for a while, he took out the blood-stained notebook from his shoulder bag.
What is written in the notebook are the memories of Shinozaki Yoshie who has been killed.
Today is Sachiko’s seventh birthday. We decided to have dinner together after school. The gift is a stuffed cat. I wonder if she will be happy?
After finishing a day's work, I was sorting out documents in the data room on the third floor...
The principal is here...
The notebook was stuck with blood at this point and no matter how hard he rubbed it, it wouldn't get open. In the end, Sakurai skipped this page and turned to the next one.
Xiao Xing is my pride. She would do anything for me. She killed many people for my loneliness and gave birth to many children.
What can I say? Kill the child and send his soul to me.
This kind of thing doesn't make me happy.
Sachiko, come and chat with me.
Let’s chat with mom.
Sachiko killed many, many people, and made it seem as if she had disappeared, completely erasing her entire existence.
It was impossible for that kid to bring so many people here and kill them all by himself.
It is to manipulate that person and make him commit abduction.
Sachiko...
Stop it!!!
is it?
Did Sachiko Shinozaki kill so many people just to keep her mother from being lonely?
It really is...
madness.
Sakurai thought so.
The scene of defeating Shinozaki Yoshie just now flashed before his eyes again.
Before this, he had killed countless ghosts with similar situations.
Kill them coldly and as a matter of course, without distinguishing right from wrong.
Sakurai only follows one basic rule, which is...
【He who kills shall be put to death】.
Those who have passed away can never come back alive, and no one can make up for the sins they have committed.
Unhelpful is probably the only adjective to describe this.
Yoshie Shinozaki was very pitiful. After her death, she was alone in the infirmary and unable to leave. She loved her daughter so much that she could only endure the loneliness and was unable to correct the mistakes her child made.
Sachiko Shinozaki is even more pitiful. After her important mother passed away, she didn't know what to do and chose to kill her children so that her mother would not be so lonely.
But——
This kind of thing is totally wrong.
To involve more people with your own sadness and despair is like dropping ink into a basin.
What we ultimately get is not comfort for the soul, but more sadness.
Sachiko Shinozaki, your mistake.
Let me correct it.
Let me take you to eternal rest.
but...