After the same name as the Abyss Lord

This returned diary is different from the other diaries found in Nogawa Kaoru's room. It looks older, not refined at all, and more like an ordinary exercise book.

Ye Zun opened it a few times but couldn't understand the text inside. He hesitated between asking Shen Yuan next to him to read and waiting for the priest after class at noon, and finally decided to wait for the priest at noon.

After all, the bad-tempered guy next to him had a hard time reconciling. At this time, asking the other party to do something seems a bit like apologizing to take advantage of the other party, and it is easy to be misunderstood.

Shen Yuan played with the flower boredly for a long time, and finally pinned the flower between two stacks of books.

Classes will start soon.

Ye Zun was still thinking about the contents of that diary, and he became a little anxious, but he had no choice but to endure it.

Suddenly, I heard the angry words from the teacher on the podium: "...It's really too much, to pick off the flowers that the gardening teacher carefully took care of and bloomed with great difficulty. Didn't the school teach you to love flowers and plants and prohibit vandalism? I like flowers!"

Ye Zun came back to his senses immediately, looked at the heartbroken teacher on the podium, then at Shen Yuan next to him and Manzhu Shahua on Shen Yuan's desk.

Shen Yuan leaned lazily on the chair, with an unclear smile on his face, and looked back at Ye Zun.

On that careless face, there was a contemptuous look of "ah, this time I got into trouble", but the background was still the familiar neurotic happy smile, as if he thought it was very funny.

"Are you secretly in love with the gardening teacher?" Not only that, he also smiled and asked the teacher on the stage indifferently.

The red-faced teacher immediately shouted: "Huh, what nonsense, go stand outside the classroom as punishment! Come and apologize to me after class!"

Seeing the escalation of the situation, Ye Zun immediately raised his hand: "Well, he didn't pick the flowers, I picked them..."

"He gave it to me." Shen Yuan's smile became brighter, and he raised his eyebrows contemptuously, with lazy and innocent eyes, "It's probably because of my appearance, which makes people want to confess and give flowers."

Ye Zun who was interrupted immediately looked at him.

— What nonsense are you adding fuel to the fire?

"I know there is another accomplice. Are young people openly falling in love at school and don't even buy and pick flowers? You two, go out and stand for punishment! Come with me after class, and apologize to the gardening teacher together!!!"

Ye Zun, who stood humiliated outside the classroom, lowered his brows and eyes, expressionless.

Shen Yuan next to him was still looking lazy, with a smile on his face, as if he was very interesting.

He turned his head sideways to look at Ye Zun's face, his dark eyes, blinking with a smile, his pupils were shining brightly: "I did not say anything wrong, is he really in love with the person who planted flowers? So I said , why are you angry?"

He should be angry, but after all, Shen Yuan was hurt because he sent the flowers he picked up. Ye Zun felt that the other party should be angry with him. Thinking about it this way, he couldn't get angry at all.

"Maybe, because you're right. However, I'm sending flowers as an apology, not a confession. There's no need for you to anger him by saying that."

Shen Yuan tilted his head to look at him, his smile seemed gorgeous, but his expression was very small, he blinked: "Isn't this bad? There are only two of us."

"Huh?" Ye Zun looked at him puzzled.

"I mean, it wouldn't be complete without being punished to stand in school, and standing here like this, it looks like the whole garden belongs to the two of us."

Ye Zun followed him and walked a few steps forward, looking down the railing on the back side of the teaching building, and there was a large sea of ​​fiery red flowers in the southeast.

The late cherry blossoms all over the campus are about to bloom. Under the gloomy sky, surrounded by foggy pink flowers and trees, the dark red manjusawa is getting more and more gorgeous.

"It's beautiful, because I wanted to watch it with you, so I made him angry on purpose." The person next to him leaning lazily on the railing said softly in a low and cool voice.

Ye Zun glanced at his side face, then looked at the beautiful sea of ​​flowers again.

It is indeed very beautiful, but the normal flowering period of Bianhua is in late summer and early autumn, and the earliest is July. Why does it bloom in a large area in April?Is it because of the special training of the gardening teacher?

After class, the substitute teacher took Ye Zun and Shen Yuan to meet the gardening teacher and apologized for picking flowers.

In Shen Yuan's words, their existence is more like an excuse for the substitute teacher to find a gardening teacher.

Along the way, the substitute teacher was so nervous that he kept adjusting his suit and uniform. It was more like going on a date than taking the students to apologize.

Shen Yuan was contemptuous and lazy all the way, like walking in a garden, his attitude has nothing to do with being upright, and he has no time to care about it.

The gardening teacher's office and teaching area are in the southeast of the school, beside the sea of ​​flowers on the other side.

There is also near the activity center.

When the three of them were about to walk, they suddenly saw a lot of people running out of the teaching building, standing back and standing in the nearby open space, looking up one by one with their necks stretched out.

After a while, the open space in front of the teaching building was filled with people from all directions, as if some ceremony was about to be held.

"What's going on here?" The substitute teacher looked at these people in surprise and surprise.

And, he immediately grabbed a classmate and asked, "Hey, what are you all doing standing here?"

The boy caught by the substitute teacher didn't say a word, nor did he look at him, with a smile of admiration and surprise on his face, looking up at the high place with a fascinated expression, eyes full of anticipation, and even started to applaud.

"It's about to start." It's like watching a concert.

"It's amazing."

"look forward to."

Not only this student, but everyone in the empty space had the same expression and made all kinds of admiration sounds.

Except for Ye Zun and the three of them.

Ye Zun also felt weird, and followed their gazes and looked up.

The teaching building here has a total of six floors, and the architectural style is a bit European-style. Among them, the sixth floor is a large platform with a balcony extending out, making it like a grand theater stage in the air.

From a distance, it looks like a public performance is going on.

"Hey, the students above, how many times have I told you that you are not allowed to move around the edge of the balcony!"

The substitute teacher immediately shouted rudely to the top.

On the edge of the big stage on the sixth floor, a girl was spinning and dancing, and her figure spun to the edge from time to time. The guardrails on the edge were extremely low, and her movements were so big that it made people sweat.

"What's the matter? Can't you hear the music? Hey, go up and have a look, and tell the students not to move around the balcony."

The substitute teacher frowned, and said to Ye Zun and the others while evacuating the students who were frantically watching.

Ye Zun also faintly felt that something was wrong, and immediately ran towards the stairs, running up three or two steps at a time.

I don't know what happened, but cheers and applause erupted in the open space outside the corridor, filled with an abnormal and strange atmosphere.

——Obviously it’s broad daylight, normal school hours, why is it so strange?

Soon Ye Zun ran to the sixth floor.

What you see is a dance room like an indoor skating rink, with floor-to-ceiling windows and mirrors in all directions.

Contrary to what he thought, it was dark inside, no lights were turned on, and no other teachers and students were teaching or doing exercises.

All I saw were two girls in pale pink skirts dancing mesmerizingly like a pair of twin swans.

They didn't accidentally slide off the edge with too much movement, but they only danced on the small stage like a diving platform that extended out from the balcony, and you came and I spun around.

That would undoubtedly be dangerous.

But they smiled sweetly and danced with great concentration. The more dangerous they were, the greater the range of movements, the louder the applause and cheers below the playground.

The girls danced completely oblivious, as if they didn't notice the insecurity around them at all, they kept approaching the edge of the roof without paying attention, even if their feet slipped several times, they didn't care, they spun out and spun back.

Finally, the rotation became faster and faster, and the slippage of the feet became larger and larger. A girl spun and hit the low guardrail directly and turned outwards.

At that time, Ye Zun just ran to the middle of the stage, and immediately flew over, grabbing another girl who leaned towards the edge without any struggle.

It's not an illusion, the protruding floor near the balcony is indeed smoother than other places, even Ye Zun almost slipped along with it.

He grabbed the low railing with his other hand in time, and stared at the falling girl with wide-eyed eyes in horror, his field of vision was like a set of long shots——

Downstairs is the crowd cheering like a concert scene. In front of the crowd, there is a large area of ​​manjusawa, and in the distance, the misty pink cherry trees that are about to wither surround the school. In the air, there are girl dancers falling alone like petals.

In Ye Zun's sight, when she fell down, she didn't panic at all, with a sweet and selfless smile on her face, and the loud and enthusiastic applause around her was more enthusiastic than ever before.

The girl fell straight to the ground between the sea of ​​flowers on the other side and the crowd, the blood slowly splashed on her head, and there was still a sweet dreamy smile on her beautiful face.

Ye Zun's pupils shrank suddenly, and he saw that the area of ​​the sea of ​​flowers on the other side of the downstairs expanded several meters in an instant, like a dormant blood-colored monster expanding and growing up to swallow the blood oozing out of the ground.

The girl's body was quickly carried away by a few people who appeared in the crowd, and the others were still standing there, with expectant smiles on their faces, looking up and stretching their necks to look at Ye Zun.

Like, waiting for the second guy to fall from here.

—Are they crazy?Or am I crazy?What exactly is going on?

Everything that happened in front of my eyes was really absurd.

Ye Zun looked at his hand, he should have grabbed another girl, but now he found that he didn't grab anything, only a cherry blossom hairpin.

——Sakura hairpin?

The appearance of the girl who had just talked to the flower bed in the morning suddenly appeared in front of her eyes, overlapping with the girl who had just twirled in a pink dance skirt.

——Impossible, how could it be her?

Ye Zun was trembling with chills all over his body, he didn't notice that he was on the edge of the sloping roof, not far from the crumbling.

On the ground, only the substitute teacher looked normal. While angrily stopping the crazy students, he kept turning his head and waving his arms at Ye Zun, signaling him to back away.

[This place is really scary, jump down and escape with me? 】

Ye Zun turned his head abruptly, in the dark room on the sixth floor where the lights were not turned on, a person was standing in the middle of the stage and was looking at him, with a faint smile on his pale lips, weak and quiet.

——Yes, the self in the white pants and black shirt in the nightmare.

The world was suddenly dead still, as if being pulled back into the nightmare full of cherry blossoms and corpses in an instant.

Countless gray and white figures came out of the mirror behind "Ye Zun" in the middle of the stage. Their bare feet showed signs of being shackled, and their ankles were festered. They walked towards him one by one, passing him by. Gao Tai jumped down without hesitation.

boom!Boom!

One, two, three, four... Countless.

The feeling of being hit in the heart suddenly, Ye Zun sat there on his knees, unable to move, his body was frozen by the cold, and he couldn't even blink his eyebrows.

Even though he didn't look back, he seemed to have seen the corpses piled up like mountains on the ground, as well as the audience applauding joyously at this terrifying picture.

The other "Ye Zun" was still standing on the dim stage, looking at him weakly and quietly: 【Honey, if you can't save me, kill me, or let me kill you. 】

The other party didn't make a sound, the voice seemed to appear directly in Ye Zun's mind, or it seemed to be calmly read from Ye Zun's own mouth.

He blinked, his vision became black and dizzy, and gradually became clear. There was nothing in front of him, as if it was just an illusion of hypoglycemia.

Only Shen Yuan was in front of him, frowned slightly, and stretched out his hand to him: "You are okay, be careful, grab my hand and come here first."

Ye Zun didn't move, he wasn't sure if the Shen Yuan in front of him was real, endured the dizziness and slowly lowered his head, looking at the downward-sloping platform under his feet.

The protruding part is not only the floor is particularly smooth, but the terrain is obviously sloping down, like a malicious trap there.

He grabbed the railing and looked back at the audience downstairs.

The cheering crowd of black people, with blurred faces, looks like a thousand people.

But he still saw countless hideous and pale ghosts in the crowd, whose skin was stitched with thick threads like centipedes.

It was the same as what he saw in Class One, Grade Two.

More and more, more and more... shuddering.

……

Soon, the head of the school and other teachers received the news and also came up.

"The place on the sixth floor was originally closed, and it was only opened during special performances. Why did some students come up?"

"Yeah, how did she know that she would have the key, it's her own responsibility no matter what she thinks."

"No matter what, it's impossible to just fall like this. Is there some kind of mental illness?"

"Many people downstairs said that she would not have fallen. She had been dancing for a long time, and finally it seemed that someone pushed her."

"What's the matter with this student, Kaoru Nogawa, why are you here..."

The substitute teacher said angrily: "I let him go up, Kaoru Nogawa, what were you doing at the end, when she fell, what were you in a daze for, why didn't you hold her?"

Ye Zun stood there, looking at the strange stage, the strange edge of the balcony, where it was now flat and ordinary, without the slope he had seen before.

He was in a trance: "I saw two girls dancing, and I grabbed one of them..."

"What nonsense are you talking about, everyone is watching, there is only one person, one!"

Ye Zun looked at the cherry blossom card in his hand: "That girl, how is she?"

"It has been sent to the hospital, and we have to wait for the hospital's notification, but this is the sixth floor, what do you think will happen?"

Those people were still talking, but Ye Zun's ears buzzed, the surrounding voices gradually faded away, and his consciousness gradually became unclear.

Looking at them, he vaguely felt that black lines began to appear on the skin of these people.

Although their faces were heavy and frowning, he felt that these people were indifferently suppressing titters, and they overlapped with the cheering audience with blurred faces in the open space.

——Is it the ghosts from Class [-] that started to spread out of control?They infected the whole school?

——Why do I see two dancing girls?Who is the other one?Is she the one who lured the girl with the card issued by Sakura to jump off the building?

He looked down at the pink cherry blossom hairpin, but in front of him was the scene of the two saying goodbye in front of the teaching building after the girl handed the diary to him in the morning.

She smiled brightly, but looked at him with a hint of hesitation: "Xun, I really... haven't read the diary."

So, have you actually seen it?

It was the diary that attracted the ghost who killed her.

What was written in the diary?

"Where are you going? As a witness, you have to wait for the police to record a statement."

"Although it's an accident, it's likely that he pushed it down..."

Ye Zun ignored those people, and walked towards the corridor with a dazed expression on his face.

Walking out of the sixth floor, I saw Shen Yuan waiting outside. Shen Yuan's eyes narrowed slightly, his expression was calm, and he seemed concerned: "Are you okay?"

"Yeah." Ye Zun was distracted, walked past him, and went downstairs.

He left the diary in the classroom, and he must go back and get it immediately, and must not let others see it again.

……

In the classroom, Ye Zun saw the priest standing in front of his desk at a glance.

Ye Zun came back to his senses, and immediately stepped forward to take the diary from the priest's hand: "No!"

Rin raised her eyes and looked at him quietly, and slightly raised the corners of her lips for a while, bringing out a little comfort: "You don't look well, come with me to the office for a while?"

Sitting in the priest's office, the same position as last time.

Ye Zun lowered his head slightly, without any expression on his face, calmly looking at the cherry blossom hairpin in his hand.

"That's the way it is. There is something wrong with this diary. She probably read the contents of the diary, and the ghost lured her to jump off the building."

Like last time, Rin handed him a cup of hot coffee to warm his hands, leaned on the desk and watched him: "Are you sure it's because of the diary?"

"I saw two girls at the scene, but the others only saw one. Not only that, but I also saw another me, saying to me, 'It's scary in here, jump with me and escape?'"

Just repeating the scene at that time, coldness seeped from the cracks in his bones, no matter how calm he was in his heart, he couldn't restrain the instinct of trembling on the physical level.

Did the ghost say the same thing to that girl?

Rin's eyes were clear: "Give me the diary, I'll see what's written in it."

Ye Zun looked up at the priest calmly, and shook his head: "No, I really want to know what is written in this diary, but I dare not let the priest read it. I am afraid that the priest will die, and nothing happens to the priest."

He was obviously terrified, his face was as pale as his lips, but he was just very calm, and said worried words to himself seriously.

There was a slight softness on Rin's face, and Qing Ling's eyes were quiet and unmoving: "It's okay, I won't die. You forgot, this is the job of the church."

He approached slowly and picked up the diary that Ye Zun put on his lap, but the other end of the diary was pinched by Ye Zun in his hand, and the strength of the other party was stronger than he thought, even with some force, he couldn't take the diary away smoothly .

But Ye Zun just looked at him quietly and docilely, without any stubbornness on his face, he just blinked calmly: "It's really not possible."

—that indescribable and unspeakable feeling.The nightmares I have had are all real, and they have begun to invade reality.It sounds like freaked out gibberish anyway, but it's true.

Ye Zun didn't really have much fear, he just knew and was sure that there was indeed something wrong with the diary, which contained the source of Pandora's terror.

Rin looked down at him, his brows and eyes were calm and gentle, and the other hand gently touched his head: "Are you worried? Then, let's watch together. As you said, I will face your fear with you. "

Ye Zun's eyebrows drooped slightly, his Adam's apple rolled, and the fingers holding the diary were so hard that they turned slightly white.

Rin's voice became softer and murmured: "I am a member of the church, and the Demon God's game is not aimed at me. Only you, the invited player, are in danger. Do you want to watch it together?"

This time, Ye Zun nodded: "Yes, I want to see."

He looked up at Rin again, his brown eyes were quiet: "Father, I'm not really afraid of ghosts, I'm just afraid, the feeling of not knowing what I'm afraid of."

This dungeon is different from the previous novice trial. He has never faced the attack of a ghost, but the dark, damp and pervasive nightmare shadow is eroding and approaching bit by bit, and the boundary between dream and reality is gradually melting, like Unknowingly drowning and suffocating him.

It wasn't a real danger, but it was everywhere, suffocating and pressing step by step, trying to choke his throat, and the coldness of gradually being out of breath.

Even struggling, I don't know where to put my strength.

He began to understand the drama written in Nogawa Kaoru's diary, the absurd, desolate sense of trance where the whole world has no boundaries and reality and dreams are confused.

If it wasn't for getting to know Rin, if it wasn't for Rin being by his side in this world, allowing him to escape for a short time, if he was the only one, he might have already been polluted by fear and sank without knowing it.

The slow voice murmured: "It's okay, there is me, I am by your side, always."

Ye Zun gently closed his eyes.

—I now begin to understand why some people indulge in illusory beliefs.

——Because it’s great just to exist, and I already feel redeemed by warmth.

The author has something to say: if you accidentally open Utan under the abyss, it will not survive alone, it will die or mutate quickly, but because of the existence of Mr. Snake who is with it, it will open for a long, long time.

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The original copy I smeared, the picture is a thick and dark night, too depressing and gray.

But because of the appearance of the priest, there was the dangerous and unpredictable Shen Yuan, and a ray of light began to inject, like a nocturnal wasteland, with a golden sunflower field blooming along the way.

He was indeed by Ye Zun's side all the time.

Because of too much interaction with Rin, it dilutes the tense and terrifying atmosphere of the dungeon, and slows down the pace of the story (in order to allow them time to interact, I deliberately chose the slow beginning of the dungeon in the early stage), but it also gives a ray of darkness to the darkness. A wonderful thing to look forward to.

It is very important to meet for the first time at the beginning, and many feelings need to be fermented and transformed at the time of the first meeting.

I hope that when I look back at the end, I can feel that these discarded parts are not mistakes.