The next day, when the sun rose from the east, on the street of this not-so-large Western European town, a group of pedestrians were surrounding a corner of an unknown house, pointing around the snow-filled place and whispering something.

“Eh?”

ヾ(==)o?

After seeing this boring town, Little Annie, who was planning to leave this boring town and went to the east, was confused and had to come over curiously.

However……

“!!”

o(*)o!!

Soon, she saw that in the corner of the thick snow-covered wall where the crowd pointed, there was a little girl with long golden curly hair all over her head, her bare feet with her frozen blue-colored purple and stiff legs, and her thin, dirty linen coat?

at this time,

The warm sunlight began to rise and shone on the other party's petite, soft and already stiff body.

Moreover, Annie clearly saw that the other party was curled up there with a strange smile. Her little hands were holding a charred matchstick that was almost burned to her fingers. At the corner of the wall under her feet were scattered with a pile of yellow phosphorus matches that had not been burned and covered with snow. At the same time, there were more matches in the pockets of the other party's worn apron...

'look……'

‘She died?’

‘It must be dead!’

‘She is the little match girl? But didn’t she die two years ago?’

‘Is she not that, is she the daughter of Mapel, the tailor’s house in the south of the town? I recognize her. Look at the freckles on her face, it’s her!’

‘!!’

‘It’s true!’

‘How could she be here?’

'have no idea…….'

‘Has anyone informed her family?’

‘I went there early, but there was no one in her family now. The tailor and his wife delivered goods to the port early in the morning and would not be able to come back at night at the latest.’

‘It’s so pitiful, it seems that she will have to lie here all day at least…’

‘Not?’

‘But this was what she asked for, who asked her to come out alone at night?’

‘Strange, why did she dress like this?’

‘How could I know…’

‘It’s so scary! Go! Go! It must be made by that little match girl, she must be!!’

‘…’

‘Let’s go, don’t look at it, there’s nothing good to look at. I have to go back and talk to my family and tell them not to go out these days…’

‘It’s so scary!!’

As the people finished their discussion and scattered, there were only the frown Anne, a few idle men who were not afraid of death, and two town sheriffs who had to wait here for their families to collect the bodies.

Although this is not the first time they have seen such a thing, and there are always more than a dozen or twenty cases in this season every year, but I don’t know why, when they see this kind of tragic phenomenon of a little girl who is also a matchmaker killing her on the street again, they always feel cold in their hearts and numbness in their backs.

What they still remember in the archives room of the public security management agency in their town. Two years ago, it was because a little match girl who froze to death on the street that led to strange tragedies in the next two years! Moreover, those tragedies had one thing in common, that is, they were all nonsensical murders, and all the clues were pointed to a burned match. At the same time, they could not find any reason. In the end, they could only be considered as a unsolved case and settled it in a hurry?

‘??’

‘What are you looking at! Don’t look at it, stay away from this!’

'The little girl over there said, "Where are you, go back quickly, there is nothing good to watch here!"

‘And you guys, go quickly!’

After waiting for a while, he found that there were people around him watching and unwilling to leave. After one of the sheriffs took out a piece of rag and covered the frozen body of the little girl. Another sheriff waved the wooden stick in his hand in annoyance and drove away the idle men and Anne who were watching.

If such a thing happens again in the town, it will definitely spread panic in the town, which is definitely very unfavorable to their security work. Therefore, they do not want too many people to see this kind of thing, nor do they want this negative news to be spread too much, even if they almost never go out on duty on snowy nights.

“…”

()

Anne did not have the same knowledge as the sheriffs as the two policemen, but just turned her head to leave silently.

Because she recognized that the dead guy was the little girl who pretended to be a ghost last night who wanted to scare her and cheat her money! However, the other party was now really frozen to death like the rumored "match girl". There was a strange smile on the corner of his mouth, and he was holding the burnt matchstick in his hand.

To be honest, she never thought that something would really happen. In this small town, there was really a resentful spirit who could use matches to seek life?

But unfortunately, she slept soundly in the hotel last night and didn't pay attention to anything unexpected, because she had long been used to living like an ordinary little girl. If something important happens around her, her little bear will definitely remind her, but how could she know...

(Little master, that little girl seemed to be the little girl last night. Her soul was really burned away. This town is really weird!!

Only at a glance did something wrong with the little girl. She found that the other party was not frozen to death because of the cold, but that the soul was burned out first and then his body lost its vitality little by little, and then he dutifully reminded his little master.)

"Of course they know!!"

(╭╮)

"But!"

"Tibers, this happened last night, why didn't you tell me?!"

(￢д￢.)

Although Annie was not sad, she also insisted on saving the little girl who was not familiar with her and who had deceived her and didn't even know her name. However, she felt that since there was such a harmful thing in this town, if the bear could give her a prompt last night, she would definitely have a way to solve it.

(I’m sorry, dear little master, Xiao I fell asleep last night, and she was not familiar with you, so Xiao I didn’t go to “see” such a small thing…

(lll￢￢)

Tibers said that since he was served comfortably by Lin Daiyu and the two poop shovelers in the previous world for two years, he had already fallen in love with the comfortable feeling of "sleeping". Therefore, if it was not for the unforgivable things that threatened his little master or disturbed his little master's sleep, it would generally not take the initiative to pay attention to it.)

"hateful!"

o('^)o Humph!

Annie is very angry now. She never expected that the matter would be true...

However, she did not intend to take action, nor did she intend to use her means to search the entire town to find the other party, or use some kind of magic to find the real murderer. She just planned to go back first, find the "kind" bakery owner yesterday, ask the other party about the specific situation of the "terrible" legend, and then go to find the "match little girl" who may appear on her tonight?

The day passed quickly, and night fell soon...

Although the incident that happened in the morning had basically spread throughout the town, it did not cause much interference to the lives and rest of the townspeople, except that the tailor couple was said to be very sad?

Because the townspeople have long been used to it, there have been dozens of cases of that kind in the past two years. People have learned lessons and accumulated experience from it. That is: as long as it snows or snowstorms at night, don’t go out alone, even if you have to go out, there will always be no safety issues!

The terrible existence that I don’t know is, or the vengeful spirit that can be said to be the ‘Little Match Girl’, or it will not attack people at home, nor will it attack people in groups. As long as you don’t leave alone and no longer go out at night, it’s not a big problem for most townspeople.

So, even if people know that there are terrible dangers in the town, it doesn't affect their normal life too much... Besides, who is a scheming person who will not stay at their homes in the cold night, rather than going out to cause trouble for themselves?

so,

When the night completely enveloped, the streets of the town quickly became quiet, with no one... Even last night, the situation where people passed by quickly from time to time was completely gone!

After all, something terrible happened just last night, and it was still snowing outside tonight. No one would choose to go outside to make things uncomfortable for themselves at this time!

Of course, not daring others does not mean that little Annie doesn’t dare!!

“…”

(*￣3￣)

Just like the dim kerosene lamps or candles on both sides of the street, Little Anne shook her hands and wandered aimlessly on the deep knee-deep snow.

That's right!

She just ran to the street alone on a snowy night, just to wait for the terrible "match girl" who is said to be bound to appear in this kind of weather and give the singles a lot of fire! Of course, it was not the murdered fake she met last night, but another real guy who really hurts people.

"Teebos..."

(ー`ー)

"Tell me, we have been shopping here for almost an hour or two. It's dark and there are fewer and fewer windows on the lit side. Why hasn't the match-selling bad guy appeared yet?!"

(﹏,)

Little Annie's patience has always been not very good, probably the legendary "three-minute hot" type? So, after being patient and walking around with her own little bear for less than two hours, she, the incompetent "hunter", became a little impatient.

She was already wondering whether she wanted to come to the door and burn the other party, or would she continue walking and wait for the other party to come to the door again?

(Dear little master, she seems to be here!!

At this time, without waiting for his own bad little master to think more about the messy things, Tibers suddenly felt shocked and quickly reminded his little master.)

"I found it too!!"

(ψｏ▽′)o

With prepared and staring at her, how could she, Queen Anne, not be able to discover what her little bear could find? So, before the other party discovered her and came to her, little Anne teleported directly and disappeared in an instant!

When she appeared again, she had already appeared again in the corner where the little girl was frozen to death during the day, and once again found a little girl with long golden curly hair on her head, her bare feet with her frozen blue-colored purple and stiff legs, and her thin, dirty linen coat?

At this time, the other party was standing there with disheveled hair and straightforward, standing in the corner of the legendary "Match Girl" and the fake little girl who was frozen to death last night, and seemed to be a little surprised by her appearance?
To be continued...