Chapter 058 Chapter 58

"Why am I also a monster?" Miyuki held the lottery ticket in her hand, her panicked eyes filled with tears. She looked at Mayuko Yanagida helplessly.

Yanagida Maiko immediately clenched her lottery stick tightly, looked at Miyuki warily, and said, "Maybe... you should have washed your hands before going to the shrine? Maybe the money you threw in wasn't five yen?"

But she remembered that when Hideto Aburano handed the money to Miyuki, he threw it to her, and the coin fell to the ground. Miyuki had to search for a long time before she found it.

In such a dark night, was the money Miyuki touched really five yen?

Before, Hideto Aburano dropped several coins from his wallet onto the ground.

The 5-yen coin and the 50-yen coin are the same size and both have round holes inside. The size difference of the holes is only one millimeter. If you don’t put them side by side, you can’t see the difference in size with the naked eye, let alone in such a dark night.

When Aburano Hideto dropped the coins, Okita Shinro said, "It's just a few 100 yen coins," but everyone knew that he was just making a general statement. He didn't know how many coins were dropped from his wallet, and what the denominations were. It's impossible for someone who has 5 yen coins in his wallet to have no other denominations besides 5 yen and 100 yen. In Japan, 50 yen coins are much more commonly used than 5 yen coins, and are truly commonly used change.

Therefore, there is a possibility that Miyuki made a mistake.

When Miyuki heard what Yanagida Maiko said, her first thought was to deny it. She immediately shook her head and said that she checked it immediately after touching the coin, and it was indeed a five-yen coin...that's what it should be.

However, the more I thought about it, the less confident I was in my judgment. After all, it was too dark. There was only a ten between 5 yen and 50 yen. As for the difference in color, it would be strange if I could tell the difference on such a night.

But whether it was because of washing hands or because the coin had the wrong denomination, the result of getting the evil one was already determined. Now Miyuki only had two choices, leave the lottery here and leave by herself, or...

Miyuki looked at Yanagida Maiko.

Maiko Yanagida clenched the sign in her hand and slowly stepped back.

On the other hand, Hideto Aburano didn't run far. As a salaryman who sat in the office every day, he had used up all his energy by escaping several times after coming here. He was no match for Shinro Okita, a college student who joined a sports club. He was quickly caught by Shinro Okita, who threw the bad lottery ticket in Shinro Okita's face and then reached out to grab the lucky lottery ticket that belonged to him.

Aburano Hideto held on tightly, refusing to let go. He didn't know if the lot really had the power to protect him. If it did, he would be lucky to snatch it. He just wanted to live, that was all.

The live broadcast comment section became lively because of the fight between the two.

【Come on, grab it, if you get the signature you win! 】

【It is really a matter of life and death, and human nature can be seen. 】

[What's human nature or not? Just being able to survive is enough. Who in this world doesn't work hard to survive? It's just a matter of survival of the fittest.]

【It is said that people are just like animals, and the fittest survive. 】

[Aren’t humans just animals? No matter how advanced and intelligent we are, we are still part of the biological evolutionary circle.]

【Because knowing what morality is, one is a human being. 】

[Stop talking about those useless things. You can't persuade them to stop even if you talk to the sky.]

[Is this woman going to take action too? ]

[Let’s fight, hurry up, tear off the clothes! There’s nothing to watch about men, I want to watch women! ]

[There are such people everywhere. Can you clean up the comments? ]

[It’s a life-or-death situation, but there are always some people who have nothing in their heads making random comments here. ]

[What's the point of life and death? Isn't it just a short film? ]

[Neiguo’s films are amazing. ]

【Which one? 】

【Horror movie.】

[I still want to borrow a movie to talk about, but forget about horror movies. 】

[Really, Japanese horror movies are amazing, they can scare people to death, especially some scenes that are not even coded, just bloody and gory. ]

【Like the one behind?】

[Yes, like the one at the back.]

【……】

[Fuck——the one behind——]

Hideto Aburano and Shinro Okita were fighting each other, Miyuki and Maiko Yanagida were looking at each other, and neither of them noticed that something was slowly rising from the hand basin behind them.

In the darkness, I could only see a silhouette of something that looked like a human, but also not like a human.

It looks like a human because it has a head, a body, and limbs like a human, and you can see hands and feet on its limbs. It doesn't look like a human because no human has two heads, three hands, and four legs.

The thing crawled out of the hand basin, supported the ground with four legs and one arm, and staggered out. Dark liquid flowed and dripped from the thing.

Still no one noticed it, and the comment section of the live broadcast was filled with words such as [high energy] and [shielded].

Yanagida Maiko and Miyuki were confronting each other. Miyuki took two steps towards Yanagida Maiko and said, "Just lend it to me for a while, just that lottery ticket. I just need to wait here until Reino leaves, really..."

Maiko Yanagida shook her head. She didn't want to give up her chance to survive. This was what she deserved.

"I'll give you money, and when we get out, I'll give you a lot of money." Miyuki said again.

"You don't have any money." Yanagida Maiko frowned and said, "Aren't you an underground idol?"

Underground idols may not be poor, but underground idols who have never been famous are definitely not rich.

If they had money, they wouldn't have spent so much money on the promotion and wouldn't have ended up like this.

Miyuki's face flushed. Yanagida Maiko was right. She really didn't have much money. In order to support her dream of becoming an idol, Miyuki often borrowed money from others.

But now is not the time to dream or not, she wants to leave here alive.

Just as Miyuki was thinking about how to get the lottery ticket from Maiko Yanagida, she noticed that Maiko Yanagida's head was slightly tilted away, and she didn't seem to be looking at her, but at the side and back of her.

Then there was a scream, and Mayuko Yanagida hurried to the shrine, tightly grasping the money box used for prayers, and trembling all over.

Miyuki slowly turned her head and saw a strange and twisted creature crawling on the ground in a weird manner and rushing towards her.

Miyuki also screamed and almost dropped the sign with the word "murder" written on it, and turned around and ran away.

After only two steps, she changed direction and ran towards the fighting Okita Shinro and Aburano Hideto.

Aburano Hideto and Okita Shinro both heard the two screams, and they stopped moving, and at the same time saw the twisted crawling thing. Aburano Hideto cursed at Okita Shinro, let go of Okita Shinro and ran away, still holding the lucky lottery in his hand.

After Miyuki ran to a place not far from Okita Shinro, the monster changed direction. The monster chased Miyuki for a while, and then seemed to have seen a better prey. After seeing Okita Shinro and Aburano Hideto, it gave up on Miyuki and went straight towards them.

Okita Shinro cursed secretly, turned around and ran, but he ran in a different direction from Aburano Hideto. Soon, the monster caught up with him, turned in a different direction, and rushed towards Aburano Hideto, completely ignoring Okita Shinro who was closer.

When Okita Shinro saw that the monster did not catch up with him, he stopped. In the dim night, he vaguely saw the monster catch up with Aburano Hideto, and then he heard Aburano Hideto's screams.

The screams were getting closer and closer. Aburano Hideto, who had been running far away, was entangled by the monster and caught back, heading towards the hand pool.

Under the horrified gazes of the three people, Yuya Yuuto was dragged into the pool of water by the monster while wailing. Then, after the sound of gurgling water, everything returned to silence.

The appearance of that monster seemed to be just to drag Aburano Hideto down.

Now that its purpose has been achieved, it has disappeared.

Yanagida Maiko and Okita Shinrou heaved a sigh of relief. Okita Shinrou looked at the half of the lucky lottery ticket he had snatched. The remaining half was still in Aburano Hideto's hand. Now they should have been dragged into the hand-washing pool together. Okita Shinrou sighed helplessly.

Miyuki's legs went limp and she sat on the ground. The murder skewer in her hand was like a hot potato and she threw it to the ground.

"You still have time to leave now," said Okita Shinro.

Miyuki looked at Okita Shinrou standing in front of Yanagida Maiko in a protective manner, and knew that she had no chance of snatching the lottery. She nodded dejectedly, tied the lottery ticket to the shrine and hung it up, then turned and left.

"Be a polite person." Okita Shinro reminded.

Miyuki, who was looking depressed, raised her head as if awakened, turned around and bowed to the shrine, then walked away along the edge of the torii.

Yanagida Maiko said unhappily, "I shouldn't have reminded her."

"Some people have already..." Okita Shinro shook his head and said, "It would be great if everyone could survive."

Mayuko Yanagida seemed to sense something. She felt a chill in her heart when she looked at the hand sink. She felt uncomfortable when she thought about washing her hands with the "water" there.

"What do you think that is?" Yanagida Maiko whispered.

Okita Shinro recalled the appearance of the monster: "It looked like... a pair of girls that were stitched together."

Maiko Yanagida: "Girl?" She recalled the appearance of the monster, but because everything happened so quickly and she was very scared, she didn't pay attention. Now think about it, if the monster's limbs were taken off individually, they would be normal hands and feet, and very slender.

If it's a girl, she won't be over 20 years old.

"There is no shrine maiden in this shrine." Okita Shinro said in a low voice.

Generally, shrines are managed by shrine maidens, who are responsible for cleaning and performing auspicious duties.

Although this place is weird, there are shops and "bosses" in the town below, so the shrine on the mountain should also have a "shrine maiden".

"So, that's a miko?" Yanagida Maiko asked in disbelief, "Why does she look like that?"

Okita Shinro thought for a moment and said, "Do you know about sacrifices?"

Maiko Yanagida's eyes widened, and she understood most of what was said afterwards without Okita Shinro explaining anything.

A shrine maiden is someone who communicates with the gods.

Long ago, or in ignorant places, choosing pure women to serve as priestesses and offering them as sacrifices to the gods was a part of the annual ritual.

But here, apparently, something far more brutal happened.