Chapter 119 - Hiiragi-chan and the Haunted House — Second Part (1/2)
Hiiragi-chan and the Haunted House — Second Part
As I finally got used to the darkness of the haunted house, I managed to calm down.
“I-if you look at it closely, i-it looks somewhat cheap… You can see cardboard in some places.”
“Thief-kun, that’s pretty rude to the people who gave it their all to make it, you know?”
T-that’s true… I need to properly acknowledge the first-year students who worked their hardest for this.
“I also think it’s rude to the people that made it if you forever have your eyes closed.”
Fufufu, Natsumi-chan looked at Hiiragi-chan and laughed.
“I’m going home…”
Hiiragi-chan’s mental state was already in shambles.
“When I go home I will wrap myself in my blanket…”
Hiiragi-chan was trembling like a newborn fawn. I have to protect her…!
As we followed the faint arrows located underneath our feet, footsteps could be heard chasing after us. Picha, picha.
“Eh, what? W-who? Something is coming, Natsumi-chan!”
“Something is coming!”
She’s super excited… I thought she was going to spoil things and be like, “Actually, this is…”, but she isn’t doing it at all! Why is she being upright in a place like this!
I hurried my feet to get away when.
“Ginyyaaaaaaaaaah!?”
Hiiragi-chan let out a scream like that of a cat.
“Uuuuooowaaaahh!? Eh, what!?”
T-that scream surprised me…!
Right then, something cold brushed against my neck.
“Fuuooooowwaaaaaaann!?”
I thought my heart would jump out of my mouth. So, this is the reason Hiiragi-chan screamed—
A whispering voice came by my ear. A human one… female.
“… M… he… d… Have you… s… i…”
Whawhawhawhawhat!
“…My head… Have you seen it?”
When I turned to look back, a woman in white was standing there. There was what looked like blood splattered on her clothes, and nothing existed above the neck.
“————!?!?!?!?!?”
She slowly extended her hand towards me.
“My… head… Have you seen it…?”
“I-I don’t know…”
I had teary eyes. Why is it not there? The head. Is that special makeup!?
“… Fi… it…… Find… it…”
“Nonono. I can’t I can’t. I don’t know your face after all! I should hurry forward… the goal is—the door isn’t open!”
The door was locked in place. Ah, so this is the kind of thing where you have to solve the riddle first (shaky voice).
“What? What are you talking about? We can’t get out yet??”
Hiiragi-chan was speaking in a similarly shaky voice.
“……!”
The headless corpse grabbed me firmly and tried to separate me from Hiiragi-chan. Still, Hiiragi-chan’s grip strength was powerful, and it didn’t seem like she would let go.
“…!”
“You were just being pulled away. Why?? What is it???”
Hiiragi-chan was super panicked. Natsumi-chan was holding her laughter back, looking like a hamster stuffing its mouth with sunflower seeds.
Ah. I got it. It’s that! It’s that, right? The headless girl, right?
“Sensei, we’re heading back for a bit.”
“Why are we going back!? We were finally able to make it here… Natsumi, say something!”
“Ku-fufufu… fufufu, t-this is b-bad… I-I might die from laughter…”
While dragging along Hiiragi-chan, who wouldn’t move even a single bit, I went over to where we saw the head-only mannequin and gave it to the headless girl.
“Here! Is it fine with this?”
“……Tha… nk… you…”
With some sort of mechanism, the headless girl suddenly disappeared.
“C-c-c-c-c-c-come on, can’t she find it herself!? It was only back there! Hey you! Search up what it means when they say it’s darkest under the lamp post!!”
Since she was gone, I became indignant.
“Thief-kun… Being unable to say straight on, that’s so lame, it’s hilarious…”