I loaded the ghost talk game

Aoyagi is not human.

If the scene he saw next to Kifune Myojin Shrine that night was real, then Aoyagi was definitely not a human.

To this day, Nagaoka Kazuhiko still remembers the horrifying scene at that time.

He remembers how windy it was that night.

Somewhere in the old wooden shrine, a loose structure creaked in the wind.

Nagaoka and his friend Jiang Chuan hid in the forest behind the shrine, lit cigarettes one after another, and started puffing away.

He also remembered very clearly the way the dark red sparks of the cigarette flickered in the shadows of the trees.

Then Jiangchuan discovered something, flicked the ashes of his cigarette, raised his hand and pointed somewhere: "Nagaoka, look over there, that guy... is Aoliu, right?"

Nagaoka followed his friend's instructions and saw a somewhat familiar figure in a small open space behind Kifune Myojin Shrine.

Although the environment is a bit dark, it must be Aoyagi who is in the same class.

However, as problem students, Nagaoka and Jiangchuan had little interaction with such good students, so they did not go over to talk to them.

Qingliu over there probably didn't notice the two people in the shadow of the forest.

So Nagaoka and Jiangchuan continued to smoke by themselves, while casually observing what Aoyagi was doing.

About half a cigarette later.

The two heard strange noises.

There was a rustling sound, like the sound made by some kind of sticky gelatinous substance squirming. It was obviously very subtle, but mixed with the sound of wind and the creaking and shaking of the loose structure somewhere in the old wooden shrine, it was very clear.

And this sound came from the direction of Qingliu.

Not far away, Qingliu, who was standing quietly with his back to the two of them, suddenly bowed down.

Immediately afterwards, there was an incredible scene——

Qingliu's body cracked.

Nagaoka didn't know how to describe the scene he saw at that time.

He saw that the green willow was broken into several pieces in an instant, as if there were invisible sharp lines in the air, cutting him irregularly.

Those bright red pieces of flesh shattered into the air, but none of them fell.

They are connected to each other by dense black lines, pieced together into a messy human shape, squirming and stretching in the dark forest.

And those rustling noises are caused by the continuous blending of the weird black colors in Qingliu's body!

Both Nagaoka and Jiangchuan were stunned by the horrifying scene in front of them.

They both covered their mouths to prevent themselves from screaming, but stared at each other in horror.

"run!"

Nagaoka no longer remembers how he and Jiangchuan escaped from the forest of the shrine.

But at that time, Qingliu still didn't seem to notice their existence.

Until they reached the main road at the foot of the shrine mountain, they didn't see the monster-like Aoyagi chasing after him.

The crowds participating in the celebration on the road also made the two of them calm down a little.

Nagaoka: "What should I do?"

Jiang Chuan: "Let's... find someone to go back and take a look?"

"What nonsense are you talking about! There's no way I can go back there. What if that thing is really still there?"

"Then what do you think we should do?"

"But, that guy Aoyagi is a monster. We have all seen it. We are in the same class at the same school with a monster, and we meet every day. We have to do something, right?"

"Jiangchuan, did you see the face of that thing just now?"

"No."

"Then it's not necessarily Qingliu, maybe it's just an image from the back."

"No, he must be right."

Obviously something big happened, but the two discussed it for a while, but unexpectedly did not come to any result.

Jiang Chuan seemed extremely convinced that the thing he just saw was Qingliu.

But Nagaoka still had doubts about this.

Taking a step back, if you really find out that a classmate you spend time with in the same class may be a monster in human skin, what should you do?

Tell anyone else?

No one would believe this kind of thing, right?

What's more, the target is Qingliu, the one who is so popular with teachers and classmates in the class.

…

Nagaoka and Jiangchuan still did nothing.

In fact, nothing can be done.

Until the day I go back to school.

That day, Nagaoka deliberately walked into the classroom with Jiang Chuan, and soon saw that familiar figure from behind.

Green willow.

Viewed from behind, it looked exactly like the silhouette of the monster I saw at Kifune Myojin that night.

At this time, Qingliu was chatting and laughing with the girls in the class, and the atmosphere was very good.

Nagaoka and Jiangchuan just stared at each other's back without daring to breathe.

Then Qingliu seemed to finally feel the gaze from behind, and turned around: "What's the matter, Jiangchuan-kun?"

He smiled with a natural expression.

There is nothing different from usual, he is still the popular and good student.

It is completely unimaginable that such a person could be a monster.

So, facing Qingliu's question, Nagaoka just shook his head and sat back in his seat.

Jiang Chuan just grunted and walked away.

After the two classes in the morning, nothing happened and everything was as usual.

Although Nagaoka was still nervous and apprehensive, deep down in his heart, he seemed to be more relaxed and had a little bit of luck.

Maybe, he and Jiang Chuan just saw it wrong that night?

He just saw something in the dark forest as a supernatural monster.

Or maybe he and Jiangchuan really saw something strange behind the Kibune Myojin Shrine.

But that thing was not Aoyagi.

Anyway, there is still such a possibility, right?

This possibility will not affect future life.

When the third physical education class came, Jiangchuan found Nagaoka.

"Nagaoka, did you see it? Aoyagi is obviously a monster, but he pretends to be a good guy... Even Nonaka has been around it."

Perhaps because there was nothing abnormal in the school, Jiangchuan's fear of Aoyagi was obviously reduced a lot.

As for Nonaka, she was a girl in the same class that Jiangchuan liked.

It seems that she has always been very close to Aoyagi.

If you say that you are unwilling before, you can't do anything about it.

But now, Jiangchuan seems to think that things can't continue like this.

The girl he likes is being deceived by a monster in human skin, and she might get hurt later. He can't watch this happen.

"Jiangchuan, I think that night, maybe what we saw was not Qingliu." Nagaoka said.

"No! It must be him, I'm sure!"

Because of the emotional problems between adolescent boys and girls, Jiangchuan secretly pays more attention to Qingliu than Nagaoka.

So he is very sure that he is not wrong.

Jiangchuan: "Listen to me, Nagaoka. Since we ran into Qingliu's true appearance that night, we should find out Qingliu's true face and let Nonaka see it, let everyone see it. Nonaka can't stay with that monster, she will definitely get into trouble."

Nagaoka: "What are you going to do? No... have you done something?"

"I just sneaked back to the classroom." Jiangchuan looked around and confirmed that no one was paying attention to them before continuing, "I went to Qingliu's seat. I put a few thumbtacks in his lunch box. Listen, isn't there a disgusting black line under the monster's human skin? If you can cut its skin, everyone will definitely see it."

"Isn't this... not good?"

"Not good? It's not a human, it's a monster. Just wait and see, everyone will see it at noon, I'm saving everyone."

Nagaoka didn't stop his friend's behavior in the end.

Just like he had no intention of finding out "Qingliu's true face", he chose to wait and see.

At noon, when everyone was having lunch in the classroom, Nagaoka also paid attention to the situation of Qingliu sitting in front of him.

But Qingliu was normal all the time. He finished his lunch as if nothing had happened, and then got up and went out to clean the lunch box.

Then, for the whole afternoon, his friend Jiangchuan just sat in his seat in silence.

Nothing happened until the club activity started.

On the way home, Nagaoka got together with Jiangchuan again.

"Hey, you were just talking, right? You didn't put a thumbtack in Qingliu's lunch box."

His friend didn't do such a thing after all.

This is good.

"I put it." Jiangchuan's face was livid.

"What?"

"It ate the thumbtack in front of me. It looked at me with provocative eyes, and then ate the thumbtack! I told you, Qingliu was the monster that day. It was a monster..."

Nagaoka didn't see what Jiangchuan said with his own eyes.

Because at noon, he sat behind Qingliu.

But looking at his friend's words with certainty and his expression, it didn't seem to be false.

If Qingliu is really a monster, it means that it has set its sights on Jiangchuan, and may even have set its sights on itself.

When Nagaoka thought of this, his hair stood on end. He panicked for a moment: "Then we..."

"We can definitely deal with him! He is just a monster in human skin, but he dares to look down on me."

"Are you going to continue?"

Compared to the fact that Qingliu is a monster, what Jiangchuan said with gritted teeth surprised Nagaoka even more.

Nagaoka didn't know what was wrong with his friend, who actually wanted to fight a monster.

"Nagaoka, we have to save everyone, we have to save everyone."

...

The subsequent developments were completely beyond Nagaoka's expectations.

Jiangchuan seemed to be possessed, and he was determined to prove to everyone that the dazzling and popular Qingliu was a monster in human skin.

What he did to Qingliu became bullying.

Even in Nagaoka's eyes, those actions were bullying.

Indeed.

Nagaoka and Jiangchuan are both problem students.

They smoke and skip classes to surf the Internet.

But these behaviors are limited to themselves.

But bullying is different, it is too bad, really too bad.

So even Nagaoka began to distance himself from Jiangchuan, who was a little out of control.

One day later, because Jiangchuan's behavior was really out of control, his parents were called in and he was ordered to suspend his studies.

Nagaoka still remembers the scene of that day.

I remember that Jiangchuan was pinned to the ground by two male teachers, struggling and roaring constantly, like a mad beast. His eyes were wide open, glaring at Qingliu, the victim:

"Come on! You monster, don't be hypocritical! Let everyone see your true face! Let everyone see what's under your human skin!"

"Let me go! I'm saving you! You idiots, you don't understand anything! Idiots! Let go, let go!"

At a certain moment, Jiangchuan, who was struggling, cast his eyes on Nagaoka again.

Perhaps, he hoped that his friend would stand up and speak for him.

But looking at his friend who had completely lost his mind, Nagaoka retreated again.

He didn't know why Jiangchuan became like this.

He couldn't tell whether what he saw behind the Kibune Myojin Shrine that night was Aoyagi.

He also didn't know whether what Jiangchuan said, "Aoyagi, that monster, has been provoking him," was true.

Perhaps, Aoyagi is actually fine?

Perhaps, Jiangchuan was just jealous that he and Nonaka were too close, so he did this?

When Jiangchuan saw his friend silent, his struggle finally weakened, and he just bit his lips in anger, biting until the corners of his mouth bled.

Perhaps, in the eyes of everyone now, compared to the harmless Aoyagi, Jiangchuan...

is more like a humanoid monster.

…

Egawa was taken away from school by his parents. It was said that he was going to receive psychological treatment.

And Nagaoka's life returned to peace. He no longer wanted to consider whether Qingliu was human or not.

But about half a month later, Nagaoka saw Egawa again.

That was in the classroom.

Egawa, wearing a thin shirt, walked straight into the classroom from the door.

His originally healthy body became extremely thin in a short period of time. His hair was messy and his eyes were full of red bloodshot.

He walked into the classroom from the back door as if no one was around, so that no one reacted.

Egawa passed by Nagaoka without even looking at his old friend.

He walked straight to Qingliu's seat.

"What's wrong, Egawa?" Qingliu still smiled at Egawa.

"Monster..."

Then, to everyone's surprise, a sharp origami knife cut Qingliu's neck.

At that moment, in a fleeting moment. Whether it was Jiangchuan who was swinging the knife or Qingliu who was attacked, they were all very calm.

It was as if the horrific attack had nothing to do with the two parties involved.

Bang!

The tables and chairs overturned, and Jiangchuan fell on Qingliu, with blood dripping from the origami in his hand, constantly raising and dropping it.

"I told you, he is a monster! Look, look!"

The strong smell of blood filled Nagaoka's nose.

He heard his classmates screaming, crying, and vomiting.

Jiangchuan used the origami knife to cut open Qingliu's abdomen in front of everyone, but those terrifying, dense black lines did not appear.

Under Qingliu's skin, there was only bloody flesh.

What happened next, what happened next, Nagaoka really couldn't remember, and he didn't want to recall it anymore.

He only knew that a large number of police came to the school.

He only knew that he never saw Jiangchuan again after that.