horror fairy tale

By: Jun Shuiyou

Wandering places, blood of loved ones, things left behind, call back wandering souls.

Fuji Yumiko of the Fuji family has always been fascinated by this kind of ghostly technique. Fuji found it interesting and once read two books in Yumiko's collection. It was always regarded as nonsense, but I didn't expect to meet him now.

After Fuji told the required conditions, everyone understood that what he wanted to recruit was not the soul of the mermaid, but the former housekeeper Adaro who never knew what role to play in this story.

"...I still have some questions and want to ask for a certificate, but this is not guaranteed." After Fuji described his thoughts, the consular butler just calmly asked how much blood was needed, and then took a clean cup Then he took out his Swiss army knife and drew a line directly on his wrist.Everyone was startled, Dashi rushed up to stop the bleeding but was flatly rejected, the consular butler watched the blood flow half a teacup indifferently, and then took the medicine from Feng who just ran to the room to get the first aid kit Gauze bandaged to stop bleeding.

Perhaps because everyone was still a little uneasy about the annex building deep down in their hearts, they chose the bedroom of the Consul Butler as the location for the ghost summoning, which was also the bedroom of Kyosuke Atobe and the former butler Adaro.On the way there, Cirou carefully pulled the clothes of the consul butler and asked softly, "Hey, Uncle Atobe, aren't you afraid?"

"What are you afraid of?" Atobe Sata was stunned, and then lowered his eyes: "What is there to be afraid of, that is my mother."

Back upstairs again, Fuji and Atobe Satsuki entered the house and left everyone else outside the door. Everyone saw at the door that Fuji put the Adaro diary on the ground, and then took Atobe Satsuki's The blood smeared all over the surrounding area, then turned around and made a silent gesture to them, and then gently closed the door behind them.

Not long after, I heard a woman's soft voice calling from inside: "Sa Tai."

For a moment, everyone outside the house held their breath, Kuwahara, Shinozu, Echizen and others had subtle expressions, and the woman's voice in the room was so familiar.

"Mother..." What followed was Atobe Sota's unbelievable voice.

"Mrs. Atobe." Fuji followed suit, "Forgive me, because there are some details..."

"Just call me Adaro." The woman's voice was full of sighs, "I never officially married into the Atobe family in my whole life."

"Well, Senior Adaro, you were the one who called me back and rescued Kaitang the night we first came to the villa, right?"

"It's me. My appearance surprised 'them' too. I thought they would stop, but I didn't expect that they were just preparing more elaborate plans."

"Then it should be you who saved Kuwahara, Ninzu, and awakened Echizen?" Fuji paused, as if waiting for the other party's reaction, and continued, "I thank you on their behalf."

"It's a pity." Youyou sighed, "Later, they were on guard against me, and the subsequent attacks were almost all prepared with two hands. If I go to save one side, I will definitely miss the other side."

"The first dream... I think you deliberately scared me and wanted us to leave early, right?"

"Yes... I didn't expect them to even prevent you from leaving the island when they started again..."

"You told me "Nordic Fairy Tales" with a dry mouth, and even left a reminder to guide me to check the storage room in the annex building, unfortunately..." Buer's voice was full of self-blame, and he quickly adjusted his mood Continued, "Now about this sacrifice, does Senior Adaro know anything?"

"Seven days, seven soul sacrifices, and a mermaid heart." The woman's voice became a little choked up, "It was all my fault back then, I harmed Lucy in vain, now that I think about it, I died with Kyousuke, like It's much better to linger here because of guilt..."

"What happened back then...?"

"Actually, you already know a lot of them. I later realized what the mermaid heart represents to the mermaid—the mermaid's heart contains the kindness and beauty of the mermaid, and the mermaid who lost the heart becomes ugly even if the soul is immortal. Lucy That's it, Lucy who is attached to the doll wants to truly change back to a "life", then she needs a "sacrifice". At that time, I was afraid and just wanted to escape, so Lucy controlled me for revenge. Killed Kyousuke with his own hands."

"……control?"

"Yes, maybe you have all experienced it more or less, the charm of the mermaid, the singing of the mermaid, just like the kid outside, who was controlled by the mermaid before."

"Is that so... Then this sacrifice, if it fails..."

"Sacrifice can only be performed once. If the sacrifice starts, as soon as the zero o'clock of the seventh day passes, and the conditions fail, then ashes will return to ashes, dust will return to dust, and the dead will return."

"That is to say, for the rest of the time, we only need to prevent her from killing any more people, or prevent her from getting a mermaid heart?"

"That's right... After Kyosuke's death, I put the crystallized mermaid heart on Satsuki."

"The red crystal diamond?"

Then the consular steward seemed to take out something and asked, "Mother, is this it?"

"...Yes, there is a mermaid heart by my side, which can protect you from being directly hurt by the mermaid..." The gentle voice faded away, and after a long silence, the people outside the door heard footsteps from far to near , Buer opened the half-opened door and said nothing, through the half-opened door, the few people standing in front could see that the place where Buer was smeared with blood in the room had disappeared, leaving only A pair of clogs and an embroidered umbrella...

Fuji walked out and closed the door again, and said softly, "Did you all hear that? Uncle Atobe wants to be alone for a while, so let's go downstairs first."

Atobe raised his eyes to look at Fuji's eyes without any objection, but just ordered: "Huadi."

"Yes."

"Watch Uncle at the door."

"Yes."

On the way to the living room, Xiang Ri, who was the most curious, asked first, "Hey, Fuji, what does that ghost look like?"

"Ghost? Adaro?" Fuji tilted his head as if thinking for a while, "Very typical European appearance, but wearing a kimono, similar to the one in the photo, but a little gentler."

"Gentle...what the hell..." Xiang Ri shuddered silently without knowing what he thought of.

"No two, no two." Kirihara also leaned forward and asked, "What does that mermaid heart look like? Where does the consular butler keep?"

"Chiya." Before Fuji could reply, Kirihara was stopped by Sanada in a cold voice, "Don't ask any more questions about the mermaid's heart."

Yukimura nodded in agreement: "The less people know about the appearance and location of the mermaid heart, the safer it is."

The group went back to the living room and sat down. Tezuka folded his arms and said calmly: "According to Adaro, I was controlled to attack the consular steward before to get the mermaid heart—the mermaid can't directly hurt the owner of the mermaid heart. And 'they' were not in a hurry to find the seventh sacrifice because they didn't get the mermaid heart. Indeed, I heard a very strange little girl singing that night, and for a long time my thinking was in the A state of confusion."

"I am very glad that you are back to normal, Tezuka." Atobe's index finger tapped the mole at the corner of his eye, "The housekeeper died, Ono was exposed, and they urgently need to find another 'puppet' that is easy to move to get the mermaid Heart. Now we are basically clear about those who are hiding in the dark. Ono Saki of unknown origin and the mermaid Lucy who died in vain on the island, they both used the kind of magic tricks that mermaids are good at before, and they easily put us in a trap. A state of bewilderment, while the former butler Adaro has been silently helping us."

"Minister." Kirihara curled up and looked at Yukimura for help. The panic that had just been suppressed came up again, "According to Senior Liu's notes, then until midnight on the seventh day, there are still more than 30 hours from now, what should we do?" manage?"

"More than 30 hours..." Fuji repeated subconsciously, but he still didn't say it because of the faint uneasiness in his heart. During this period of time, after seven days have passed and the mermaid soul dissipates, only Ono Saki is left... It is always much easier to deal with a 'person'."

Atobe took a deep look at Fuji, stood up and snapped his fingers: "Our top priority for the remaining 30 hours is to protect ourselves. We, as well as the staff of this villa, must use three or more people to protect ourselves. The above is used as the unit of action, including bedtime... No, simply shrink the line of defense, all members of the tennis club..." Atobe said and looked around, "We will sleep together in the living room tonight."

At night, neither Ono-san nor the mermaid Lucy took any action.After dinner, everyone returned to the room in twos and threes, took off the bedding, pushed the sofa and coffee table aside, and spread three rows of floor beds on the thick carpet in Atobe-kun's living room.

I don't know if gathering in groups has more soothing power, or it may be that everyone's nerves have really collapsed in the past two days, and it didn't take long for them to start snoring amidst the chatter.Lying on the left side of Fuji is Renzu, who seems to be recovering well, and the attack he received last night did not leave him with too much bad influence.

"Lying like this reminds me of a night in "Harry Potter." Renzu's flat glasses have long been thrown into the sea last night, and now he is lying on his back with his hands folded behind his head as a pillow, and he doesn't know what to say. To whom, "Because of some accidents, all the students slept in the Great Hall of Hogwarts at night. That night, the dome of the School of Magic reflected an endless starry sky." Ninjazu hooked the corners of his mouth, but the Atobe family did not In the dark, you can only vaguely see the faint light reflected from the crystal chandelier on the top, "In the end the protagonist defeated the big devil, everyone is happy, happy ending."

"I thought you just liked to watch romantic movies, but I didn't expect you to watch fairy tales." Atobe's joking voice came from the other side of Shinozu, but the voice gradually lowered in the second half, "We, all of you, I will definitely be able to leave here safely, and there will be no one less."

Everyone... Buer turned over and took out his mobile phone to check the time. As soon as he turned on the screen, he found that Echizen on his right was still staring at him with wide open eyes, "Echizen...haven't slept yet?"

"Hmm..." Echizen replied, "I slept too much yesterday."

"Let's go to bed early, tomorrow..." Buer was interrupted in the middle of his words, and Chichizen's voice was almost whispering: "Senior Fuji, we will all be fine, right?"

"Yes, everything will be fine." Fuji closed his eyes, hoping to convey some comforting power with a tone as gentle as possible, "Good night."

I'm afraid tomorrow... won't be so easy to spend...