Kamiya Mirai was a strange girl. Everyone who knew her said so.
Even though she had outstanding academic performance, was pretty, and treated others well, she could not change her extremely bad criticism.
This was because this girl loved the paranormal and urban legends.
The paranormal was actually very popular among high school girls, but Kamiya Mirai's enthusiasm for it was too eccentric.
She had seen it with her own eyes. There was no other reason.
It was in April 2015, when she just advanced to junior high school.
At that time, a famous game was popular with the female students in the class.
The Four Corners Spirit Channeling game.
As a popular beauty in class, Kamiya Mirai naturally received an invitation to play.
Honestly, Kamiya Mirai could not really recall the flow of the game. She just remembered clearly that someone suddenly shrieked in horror while the game was in progress.
Kamiya Mirai subconsciously turned her head in the direction of the shriek…
No one screamed at all. It was just the sound of the night wind banging against the door.
However, Kamiya Mirai saw it with the help of the moonlight.
It was a woman who was nearly three meters tall, and her head was touching the ceiling.
Her skin was as bright as the moonlight.
When Kamiya Mirai came to her senses, the woman was already standing behind Classmate A, and her long scissors-like fingernails were inserted deeply into the classmate's throat…
After the game, Classmate A transferred schools. News came later that this classmate died from an inexplicable ejection of a steel beam from a construction site that penetrated her throat.
Kamiya Mirai concluded that there were indeed spirits in this world and therefore became interested in horror and spiritual occurrences.
In fact, Kamiya Mirai's behavior was not a passion for supernatural phenomena, but simply childlike curiosity about the unknown like '1+1=?'
Perhaps she also gradually became a little abnormal after meeting an abnormality that day.
However, she was still a dignified, stable, and mature female high school student.
At least Kamiya Mirai thought so.
It was this dignified and mature female high school student who was currently crouching in the lake park and peeping at Kitagawa Tera.
Kamiya Mirai had long planned to investigate this lake park by herself.
Being sensitive, she felt the same hair-raising sensation from four years ago when she saw the wraith.
Her intuition told her that there had to be some secrets here.
However, she delayed coming here to this day due to school work, her friends' invitations to New Year's shrine visits, family trips, and various other reasons.
"That's… Kitagawa Tera from Class 1?" Kamiya Mirai did not expect to see this person in this place.
If the commentaries on Kamiya Mirai were not good, then Kitagawa Tera's could simply be described as 'tragic'.
Although Kitagawa Tera's grades were good, and he would occasionally speak during morning assembly, those who heard about his deeds would no doubt show contemptuous expressions.
The version with the most truth was probably where, during physical education class, Kitagawa Tera stole the underwear of a female student who had rejected him.
Actually, stealing a few pieces of underwear is nothing much, Mirai Kamiya thought.
Desire spurred motivation. It was justifiable even if Kitagawa Tera stole all of her underwear.
… Because he had the ability to steal her underwear.
As long as he had the ability to do it without being discovered by Kamiya Mirai, then Kitagawa Tera had the right to it no matter what the 'trophy' was.
Despite understanding him, that did not mean Kamiya Mirai would recognize the mistake he made of being found out after stealing.
In her view, it was like having a bottle of aged red wine only to find that the original mellow taste had already deteriorated.
He is an unqualified pervert. Kamiya Mirai categorized while fixing her beautiful eyes on Kitagawa Tera's back.
That being the case, what is this unqualified pervert about to do now? Her curiosity swelled up once again.
As mentioned above, she was not a girl who felt ashamed of desires, nor would she jump out now to criticize Kitagawa Tera's behavior at school. Besides, the rumors might not be what had happened…
She would not be swayed by gossip. She only wanted to satisfy her curiosity.
What does Kitagawa Tera want to do here so early in the morning?
The cold wind blew on Kamiya Mirai's small face, causing slight redness on her cheeks and making her hands and feet cold.
She crept up behind Kitagawa Tera without making a sound.
Kamiya Mirai had absolute confidence in her tracking skills. Ordinary people would not even notice her.
Kitagawa Tera walked into the lake park, passed the swings and the seesaw, and walked around the lake until he came to the wooden bridge.
He quickly crossed the bridge. Kamiya Mirai followed closely behind.
But…
The mist engulfed her out of nowhere. Kamiya Mirai felt like her eyes were playing tricks. The next moment, she was already standing in front of the forest.
An abnormal cold wind blew from the forest path, bringing with it an inexplicable smell that stirred Kamiya Mira's little nose.
She wrapped her trench coat tightly around her subconsciously. She could feel the creepy, chilling wind passing through her thick gloves, causing her fingers to freeze.
Unconsciously, she was engulfed in the forest.
A suffocating feeling crept up her neck.
The dim path ahead had no Kitagawa Tera in sight, and the rear seemed to be cut off by darkness.
Kamiya Mirai swallowed, realizing that there was something wrong.
However, she could only force herself to move forward.
After the lake park was a dense forest. Due to improper repairs, the path here was muddy after the snow melted.
This was a place where few would come. Kamiya Mirai would not step on this dirt path if there were not any special reasons either.
Short trees swayed on both sides with dry branches clinging to each other like the claws of ghosts.
With a strange pressure in her heart, Kamiya Mirai walked quickly into it.
There was nothing at the end of the path, just short trees cutting it off.
Kamiya Mirai let out a small sigh of relief and was about to turn and leave…
But her beautiful eyes clearly caught a touch of blue hidden to her right.
She turned back.
It was a small house made of blue steel iron sheets, looking rusty after being exposed to the elements.
Kamiya Mirai's damned curiosity swelled up again.
What is that? Kamiya Mirai looked through the gap between the steel plates.
Something was lined up…
… One horizontal row and one vertical row.
There was something most striking in the middle.
It was a muddy female corpse covered with blood clots.
That pair of eyes that once lost its focus was locked on to Kamiya Mirai.
Deep within the dense forest, hidden corpse, a girl.
Cold wind howled…