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During the day, she returned home feeling uneasy and began researching the thing she had seen the night before. She found a website that posted various paranormal videos, the theme of which was the pink Fall Guys exorcising various paranormal events that she had seen the night before.
Last night I ran into that Fall Guy! It's not some urban legend or hype, it's actually real!
And thinking back carefully... were those guys chasing me last night even human?
Well……
Then, she mustered up her courage and went to school the next day. Although it was a day off, she had to submit her performance schedule for the next period of time to her teacher.
After talking with the teacher, it was already very late. Kume Chinatsu had a mischievous streak and pretended to go to the restroom before leaving, but actually stayed at school.
When the night was deep and quiet, the idol girl, carrying her flashlight, slipped into the faculty office like a cat and began rummaging through it.
She was looking for the schedule of the upcoming school trip. The school had just received a large donation from the community this year, so they arranged an extra school trip. She was here for her best friends.
But unexpectedly, instead of finding the schedule, I accidentally discovered two suspicious people climbing over the wall into the campus, and it seems that I was also discovered!
Not to mention that the tall, aloof man actually pulled out a Fall Guy mask!
What happened last night is still fresh in my mind!
It shouldn't be him...
Run away quickly!
Feeling guilty and still shaken, Chinatsu Kume quickly put the proposal back in the drawer and opened the door to the faculty office.
Sliding door
The sound echoed down the quiet corridor.
Kume Chinatsu swallowed.
She was well aware of the school legends, but she had never taken them seriously before. However, now that she was thinking along the lines of Fall Guys and paranormal events being real, her school seemed to be getting weird.
The night breeze rustled against the window, causing the glass to sway slightly, as if someone were gently tapping on the thin pane, wanting to come in.
Chinatsu Kume frantically turned on her flashlight, looked around, but the corridor was still just a corridor, with nothing there. This deathly silence, so different from usual, made her even more uneasy.
Indeed, the school during the day and the school at night are two completely different worlds.
The beam of the flashlight became her only support. The panic in her heart made her look around involuntarily. She felt uneasy as long as she turned her back to the darkness for even a short while.
It felt like there was something lurking in the corner of the corridor, watching me from somewhere I couldn't see it...
The walls and the floor, these thick reinforced concrete structures, offered no sense of security; fear welled up from the depths of my heart.
No, I have to get out of here before those two find me. I absolutely, positively cannot let that weird man catch me! If he really is some kind of jelly bean, I'll be dead!
Just then, something seemed to flash by at the end of the corridor. Kume Chinatsu saw it clearly: a man in a white coat flashed by and went downstairs, seemingly coming from upstairs.
"Yes, the school doctor?" Kume Chinatsu wasn't sure, but the thought that it might be a teacher on duty or something gave her a sense of security, and she cautiously followed.
But she was so caught up in her panic that she didn’t notice why the person was going up and down the stairs without making any sound.
A strange figure in white, a panicked campus idol, and two villains heading towards evil spirits—the school, bathed in moonlight, seems to have become lively.
But some people hadn't arrived yet. Just then, a black luxury sedan slowly drove up to the school gate.
"Miss, this is the place, the agreed time of the waning moon."
The car door opened, and a person dressed as a shrine maiden slowly stepped out of the car, taking a deep breath.
Chapter 6 Bizarre and Evil Fall Guys
Ringo Shinzen has been investigating the so-called Fall Guys for a long time. She comes from a family of Onmyoji (yin-yang masters) and is now considered a fledgling shrine maiden.
Unlike the shrine maidens who serve the gods in shrines, Ringo Shinzen's family is more like mercenaries in the supernatural world, using talismans and shikigami to exorcise evil spirits.
Therefore, the Shinsen family does not pay much attention to dress and etiquette; she wore this shrine maiden outfit simply because she had just attended a family party...
She spun around on the spot, and her white shrine maiden outfit fell to the ground. After taking off the shrine maiden outfit, this so-called shrine maiden often wore a dowdy tracksuit, which even looked somewhat like... a Chinese school uniform.
As mentioned before, the Shinsen family doesn't worship any gods; they're more like mercenaries. Therefore, Shinsen Ringo chose to wear the most comfortable clothes.
The mysterious aura of a shrine maiden collapsed instantly, leaving only withered grass.
What kind of shrine maiden performs exorcisms like this?!
Ordinary people don't have the same strong supernatural perception as Tou Tang. Even an Onmyoji like Shinsen Ringo can't find evil spirits just by looking at them and sensing them. In fact, aside from the fact that these supernatural practitioners can really drive away evil spirits, in the eyes of ordinary people they are no different from charlatans.
Sorry for saying too much. To put it another way, these people are far less capable than Dou Tang's supernatural special attack abilities.
Even in terms of on-the-spot pressure, this group is far inferior to Dou Tang.
After all, a bunch of charlatans holding talismans and rambling on are no match for a two-meter-tall, muscular, and flamboyantly pink Fall Guy.
Even demons and monsters have never seen anything like this before, let alone humans!
Other people chant incantations and burn incense to exorcise spirits, but what about him?
Ringo Shinzen has seen those videos. What are they? They're physical exorcisms!
Hands broken! Legs snapped! Ribs and fans shattered...
But tonight, she wasn't here for Fall Guys, but for a family matter—the school in front of her.
Within some of the school's walls lies a spirit that was dismembered and sealed within the walls when the school was built. As a result, it is unable to be reborn or be exorcised, and constantly suffers the pain of its soul being torn apart.
A ritual must be performed at the school every month to appease the spirit, otherwise all sorts of supernatural events will occur. Tonight, Ringo Shinsaki has come to soothe this soul.
But it seems someone got there first.
She jumped over the iron gate and entered the teaching building. The wall in front of the lobby on the first floor had been forcibly cut open, and the inside was empty. When she saw this, Ringo Shinzen's eyes changed immediately.
What was originally hidden here was the left hand of a dead, vengeful spirit.
Who did this? How did that person know about it? Aren't they afraid of vengeful spirits?!
And this mark… She reached out and touched the edge of the hole. The steel bars had been twisted and broken by tremendous force, as if someone had forcefully stabbed their hands into the wall and then dug a hole?!
This must be... no, this is not a grip strength that even humans can achieve!
Such a brutal style of behavior led to a frightening speculation.
Could that guy at school be the incredibly mysterious and famous Fall Guy who's been gaining popularity lately...?
No, no, no, no, no?
But worrying wouldn't solve the problem. Composing herself, Ringo Shinzen finally stood up, drew a short sword from her waist, held it in her hand, took two deep breaths, and walked deeper into the teaching building.
The main teaching building is a hollow square, and five cherry blossom trees are planted in the central courtyard of the campus, exactly at the four corners and the center. The remains of that vengeful spirit are buried under these five trees.
Besides that, behind the teaching building, behind the sports warehouse at the end of the baseball field, is the dry well where the legendary tengu is said to reside.
Ringo Shinzen slowly ascended the stairs, intending to go to the top floor first, because the most important skull of the vengeful spirit was buried in the walls of the top floor, which was also the place where the vengeful spirit's power gathered.
But as soon as she reached the third floor, she heard hurried footsteps.
Concealing the dagger behind her back, she stood at the top of the stairs and slowly peeked into the corridor.
A figure in a white coat disappeared around the corner with his back to her, heading down the left-hand corridor.
A white coat? Is it someone who broke into the school? Or what?
Curiosity and the courage to solve the problem led her to follow. The figure in the white coat moved extremely fast, and through the window, she could see that the figure was almost on the other side. At the same time, Ringo Shinzen confirmed that it should be a person.
wrong.
When the figure had run some distance away from her, Ringo Shinzen realized something was wrong.
Through the window, you can see all the corridors inside the teaching building. As the mysterious figure in the white coat moves forward, there is another similar figure moving forward in the corridor on the fourth floor.
On the fourth-floor corridor, a white shirt floated, seemingly with some dark patterns on it, drifting aimlessly, keeping pace with the woman in the white coat on the third floor.
It was as if... something was watching that woman from a floor away, or rather, it was manipulating that woman to run like a puppet.
Something's strange... Could it be that the vengeful spirits here have already started to move?
Without pausing, Ringo Shinzen accelerated her pursuit. Her sneakers began to glow faintly, and her rapid, powerful footsteps propelled her forward at a speed exceeding that of an ordinary athlete, quickly reaching the corridor where the woman in the white coat had been.
At this moment, the woman finally heard Ringo Shinzen's movements. At this point, she no longer cared whether the person behind her was the jelly bean man; she just wanted to be rescued as soon as possible!
"Help! Help!"
This person was none other than Chinatsu Kume.
Ringo Kamiya rushed forward, her short sword glowing with a golden light, and arrived beside Chinatsu Kume. She hesitated for a moment, then slashed at the collar of the white coat.
The clothes hissed like sulfuric acid corroding something, and some black smoke rose from them. Kume Chinatsu lost her strength, and her strange running finally stopped, and she knelt on the ground.
A faint sobbing sound came from upstairs, seemingly from the floating shirt.
"Are you alright?" Ringo Shinzen examined her eyelids and, finding no trace of resentment entering her body, breathed a slight sigh of relief.
Her Shinto magic involves turning offerings into weapons or tools, so she can't expel resentment from the body on the spot like those who are good at using talismans. If Kume Chinatsu is possessed or corrupted, she can only control it here and then purify it later.
It seems unnecessary now.
"Who...who are you?" Chinatsu Kume asked.
"You don't need to know. Tell me, how were you controlled?"
Chinatsu Kume frowned, as if she was thinking about something.
"I...wait, did you...did you see a guy on campus wearing a Fall Guy mask?!"
Ringo frowned, and helped the still-shaken Chinatsu Kume lean against the glass in the corridor, saying, "Don't rush, tell me slowly..."
Her words of comfort were cut short as she saw a horrifying scene through the window.
In the height of summer, the cherry blossom trees in the courtyard did not bloom, only some green leaves remained, but under the dappled moonlight, they revealed hints of pink.
A burly, tall, and eerie creature was kneeling under a cherry blossom tree with its back to Ringo Shinzen, its round hands digging and raking, like a gravedigger who only appears in nightmares at night.
Seemingly sensing the gaze, the eerie creature slowly turned its head.
A pair of unfocused, cold, and indifferent eyes met Ringo Shinzen's gaze.
He was holding a piece of bone in his hands.
The bizarre scene pierced Ringo's heart. Unlike any vengeful spirit she had ever encountered before, she instantly understood that the ridiculous, comical, terrifying, and horrifying presence in the courtyard was something she could not contend with.
That's... Fall Guys.
Chapter 7: Kamen Rider Fall Guys Transformation!
It's as if it stepped out of a dream from everyone's youngest and most innocent period.
In that dream, you'll dream of your crush wearing a dress and holding your hand, you'll dream of jumping into an ocean full of syrup, you'll dream of being overwhelmed by the White Rabbit candy you ate during the day, and you'll dream of your toys coming to life and playing with you.
But looking back as you grow up, perhaps that was the most bizarre and fantastical dream you ever had.
Now the dream has become reality. In this late-night campus, you see a person transformed from a candy bean kneeling under a tree, bathed in the cold, clear moonlight.
It made his tender body look somewhat eerie, and the edges of his dream shattered into blades that pierced into the fragile reality, forming the most intense nightmare.
It digs, acting as a clandestine gravedigger, its body radiating evil resentment, as the vengeful spirit sealed for twelve years gathers in its hands…
At that moment, he turned his head. You knew he had spotted you. You knew his lifeless eyes had captured you. From this moment on, you were his witness, the one having a nightmare while awake.
Even if you are a famous idol on campus, or even if you are a witch who exorcises evil spirits, you cannot escape those eyes. In those eyes, the only emotion you can see is scrutiny and indifference.
What are we examining? We're examining whether you still have any value in living.
Chinatsu Kume also saw the monster in the yard. Still shaken and terrified, she clung tightly to Ringo Shinzen's arm, her breathing short and rapid, as if each breath was against her reason, and each sound would attract the monster's attention...
Ringo was also stunned. Although she had known about the existence of Fall Guys for a long time, seeing it with her own eyes now felt really... eerie.
Both of them were completely pale.
"call--"
Just then, a gentle breeze blew by.
At the end of the corridor, a white shirt appeared, floating in the air. The shirt fluttered, as if someone were holding it and swaying it continuously.
It drifted past a window, letting the moonlight shine on it. Under the moonlight, the dirty stains on its clothes seemed to come alive and become more vibrant.
It was a blood-stained garment, its origin unknown, and it was unclear whether it was related to the vengeful spirit sealed within the wall.
It seems that this clothing is the same one that controlled Chinatsu Kume from a floor away through the white coat, and now it has come downstairs.
"...Run!" Ringo Shinzen knew this was no time to be reckless. The real terror here wasn't some vengeful spirit or blood-stained clothes, but the tall, pink monster in the courtyard!
She grabbed Kume Chinatsu's hand, turned and ran, and the speed of the blood-stained clothes gradually increased, with the two sleeves stretched forward, trying to catch the two fleeing figures.
As she ran, she didn't forget to glance down at the yard again. At this moment, the jelly bean in the yard had stood up and was looking at her, one hand holding a bone, the other hand raised, and it actually... waved?
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