Although Kaname no Kirie set a standard flag, fortunately, the development of the situation did not go in the direction of the flag. After that, Shizuku also arranged for Kaname no Kirie to transfer to Domori Junior High School.

In the following days, everyone's life gradually returned to normal. Basically, every morning, Hinasaki Shinku, Kagami Kirie and Shiragiku would go to school, and then Shizuku, Shizumi Hisa, Yuki Onna and Kurosawa Aise would stay in the office. Then Shizuku would watch TV or deal with some troubles as usual, while Shizumi Hisa was mainly responsible for teaching Yuki Onna and Kurosawa Aise about modern knowledge.

Although one of them is a snow woman and the other is a shrine maiden, neither of them knows much about the modern world. In this regard, Shizumi Hisahisa is more reliable.

Shiragiku's school life was much smoother than expected. In fact, it can be seen from her behavior every day after school. At the beginning, Shiragiku would only give standard answers such as "Everyone is very friendly to me" when asked. But gradually, every time after school, she would talk about some interesting things in the class during dinner. Of course, most of them were about how Nueno Meisuke made a fool of himself, how he flirted with Teacher Ritsuko and got beaten up, or how he was so poor that he had to borrow money from students...

This shows that having a clown can indeed effectively open up a broken heart.

As long as that clown isn't me.

Seeing Shiragiku happily telling how Nueno Meisuke made a fool of himself in front of his students every day, Shizuku silently gave him a thumbs up in her heart.

I'll help him a few times for free in the future.

However, Baiju also has times when he feels depressed, and that is when his students react to psychics and monsters.

Bai Ju knew very well that when she was a child, because of her powerful spiritual power, the children in the village regarded her as a monster and refused to associate with her. But now, a hundred years later, she was surprised to find that the children in her class were not afraid of psychics, but thought they were handsome, cool and stylish, and even hoped to become psychics themselves!

This made Bai Ju feel extremely complicated. She was clearly a rat crossing the street that everyone wanted to beat, but in the blink of an eye she became a popular idol?

Is this ok?

In particular, the children told them that the teacher named Nueno Meisuke had a demon sealed in his left hand and possessed a demon hand that could destroy all demons and ghosts. And several of them excitedly told stories about how they had encountered demons or ghosts and were saved by Nueno Meisuke.

This made Bai Ju a little at a loss for words...Aren't they afraid?

Of course, from the words of these children, Baiju could feel that they really trusted the teacher named Nue Narumi. Although from her own point of view, after spending these days with him, she just felt that this Nue teacher was a little funny, and... well, it was hard to describe it in words.

Not only that, Shizuku also learned that Shiragiku had made several good friends at school. In addition to the heroine Inaba Satoko, she also had a good relationship with Nakajima Houko and Kikuchi Shizuka... Well, for Shizuku, this is certainly something worth congratulating.

After everything had calmed down again, she came to the Metropolitan Police Department again to report the final outcome of the case of Rishangshan.

"The old men up there were almost pissed off to death."

Inspector Inudo still looked lazy, leaning on the sofa and watching the horse racing.

"The incident at Rishang Mountain was even reported in a supernatural magazine. It caused quite a stir, and I was given a good lesson."

“But when those media reporters went there, all they saw was the Rishang Mountain which was being developed vigorously.”

In response to Inspector Inudo's complaint, Shizuku sneered.

"Media is like this, they only have a short-lived interest. Once they stir up a topic, they will stop paying attention to it. Rather than waiting for a scandal to be exposed after the development of Rishang Mountain is completed, it is better to stir up the topic ourselves in advance. Then everything will be fine, and we can also stir up the atmosphere, right?"

"That's true..."

Inspector Inudo helplessly put down the report in his hand.

"Forget it. This time it's all thanks to you. Otherwise, if the media had really dug up something troublesome, it would have been a headache for us."

At this point, Inspector Inudo couldn't help but sigh.

"But... the media is really annoying most of the time."

"oh?"

"The media is very good at spreading rumors, and because of this, it has caused us a lot of trouble."

Having said that, Inspector Inudo looked at Shizuku and asked.

"Do you know the unfortunate letter?"

"Hmm... I remember it was about receiving a letter saying that if you don't send this letter to ten people, something bad will happen to you?"

"That's right. It's because the entertainment media published this kind of thing half-jokingly that we are in such a headache."

Inspector Inudo shook his head.

"But now there is something more troublesome than the unfortunate letter... Miss Shizuku, have you heard of the cursed videotape?"

"Um?!"

Hearing this, Shizuku, who was yawning, suddenly perked up.

Wait, could it be... that this is the one I was thinking of?

"Tell me in detail?"

"This is the latest intelligence we received..."

Inspector Inudo said this as he took out a case file.

"A high school student died suddenly for unknown reasons. But it wasn't just him, several of his classmates also died one after another. According to the police investigation notes, some of them said that they had watched a videotape before they died. It said that if they didn't show the videotape to others within seven days, they would die."

Oh? This, this, this is it!

At this moment, Shizuku was completely alert.

"What was the cause of death of those students?"

"Here are the forensic results. They all died of sudden illness, and there are no signs of poisoning. We are not sure whether there is a curse. We don't know what to do now, and we don't know where to track down the whereabouts of this videotape."

"Then leave it to me."

"Oh? Is it okay?"

Inspector Inudo was surprised to see Shizuku taking the initiative. Although Shizuku usually accepts commissions from the Metropolitan Police Department, this is the first time she has taken the initiative to take over the investigation.

"certainly."

In response to Inspector Inudo's question, Shizuku nodded vigorously.

“I know this!”

That’s right, for Shizuku, nothing is more familiar than this, okay?

Cursed videotape!

In other words... Sadako!!

There was no other protagonist in the most popular ghost movies back then!

Not only that, the reason why Shizuku wanted to find Sadako was that she wanted to see whether this Sadako was the movie version or the novel version.

Many people have seen the movie "The Ring" and know that Sadako was a beautiful woman who died in a well. Then her hatred turned into resentment and became a video. Then anyone who watched the video would die if they did not show it to others within seven days.

The reason why this movie was so popular at that time was because the curse in it, "If you don't show it to others within seven days, you will die", was quite special. Especially at the beginning, the movie "The Ring" itself was played in the form of a videotape, which made it even more immersive.

Of course, if we put it on the Internet today, everyone knows that this is actually a viral disease, but people in that era were still simple and easy to be deceived.

But in fact, according to the original novel, Sadako is not a woman at all.

In other words, she is half man and half woman.

According to the attributes in some current booklets, Sadako should actually be considered a FUTA in the strict sense.

Of course, from a medical point of view, Sadako's condition is actually a so-called "hermaphrodite", that is, hermaphrodite. According to the last description of the original book, the reason why she was killed was that the director of the hospital was attracted by Sadako's beauty and planned to rape her by the well.

However, Sadako was not an ordinary woman. If her secret was discovered, she would be socially dead. So she used her psychic powers to manipulate the hospital director to kill herself, and imprinted her thoughts on the videotape, turning into such a ferocious evil spirit.

However, in order to avoid making things so complicated, the movie simply set Sadako as a female.

Of course, it is not just about Sadako's gender. In fact, "The Ring" is not a horror novel, but a science fiction novel. The truth is revealed in the fourth part of the novel. It turns out that the world where Sadako and the protagonist live is not the real world, but a virtual world similar to the "brain in a vat" in The Matrix. Sadako is the mutated virus in it, similar to Smith in The Matrix. She wants to use this videotape to infect herself and spread, so as to completely destroy that world.

Well...it's a good thing that no other movies were made after "The Ring", otherwise I don't know how the audience would feel if three or four movies were made.

But the novel of "The Ring" seems to have been published earlier than "The Matrix"...

Shizuku was so concerned about this matter because, firstly, she wanted to find out whether Sadako in this world was a woman or a hermaphrodite. Secondly, Sadako was her childhood memory, so she naturally wanted to observe her carefully. Finally, if she could seal Sadako, then maybe when she met Kayako in the future, she could recreate "Sadako vs. Kayako" in reality and see who would win without a script and a director...

Thinking of this, Shizuku became even more excited. She couldn't wait to find out the truth.

"Leave this matter to me to investigate!"