"Um, um... Could you please come to the office?"

Judging from the internal exchanges between the police officers just now, the subsequent police officers all respected these two young and beautiful police officers from Tokyo.

Presumably the two of them have the highest status.

Therefore, Kihara-sensei felt that if he really needed to explain, he should tell them both.

In the office.

Teacher Kihara took out a stack of drawing paper from the drawer of his desk.

It looks like a child's drawing.

She handed the paintings to Kanoya and Tsurumi and said, "This was painted by the children in my class two weeks ago in art class. The theme of their paintings was school. Then, this is Sugiyama and Takase's

Paintings, and these..."

Kihara-sensei pulled out six or seven pieces of drawing paper.

Children's paintings can be good or bad, but their brushstrokes are still childish and innocent.

These selected paintings have the same scene, which is the school playground. The children in the paintings are playing and playing games on the playground. However, it should be a happy scene, but there is something extremely abrupt and inconsistent.

place--

In the corners of these paintings, there is a strange shadow.

The children focused on using crayons with very strong colors to outline it. The interweaving of strong colors reveals an unstable mood.

The shadow showed a distorted human shape, with a total of six holes drawn in black circles on its body, which seemed to refer to the eyes. The six eyes seemed to be staring at the children in the game, and they seemed to be through

On the paper, Kanoya and others are spying on the painting.

And because the children's painting techniques are immature, the combination of such innocent brushwork and grotesque content makes the ferocious shadow in the painting even more terrifying and penetrating.

Among the several paintings, the painting signed "Sugayama Toshinichi", which is the work drawn by the child who disappeared this morning, has a more detailed description of the distorted shadow.

Sugiyama painted the humanoid shadow as three weasels stacked on top of each other.

The weasel at the bottom was holding a sinister sickle in its paws. Those weasels were glaring viciously at the children with their scarlet eyes, as if they were threatening, as if they would launch an attack at any time.

"Kamaitachi?"

Xiaolu and Tsurumi exchanged glances quietly.

At this time, Teacher Kihara spoke, her tone was trembling, and her eyes were full of fear:

"This is weird, right? After I got these paintings, I asked these children privately what the thing in the painting was and why they drew it. Then they told me that they didn't know

What is that thing, but, but... it is on the playground, it has always been there, and it has always been watching everyone."

"I was really scared at the time. I didn't know if there was something psychologically wrong with the children in the class or if there was something really going on in the school. I told the principal about it. The principal had some friendship with the priest of a nearby shrine.

I don’t know how they communicated. Anyway, last weekend, a priest came to the school to exorcise the spirits in the playground. After the secret ceremony, the priest told us that it was okay. The evil spirits lingering in the playground

Already driven away."
Chapter completed!