Chapter 232: Hanako’s Curse
“Tsk, the last restroom. You’re still not planning to appear even now? Little friend.” He Jia’an pulled a wrinkled and tattered cigarette pack from his pocket, took out a cigarette that was deformed from being soaked in water and even emitted a strange smell, put it in his mouth, with his front teeth biting the cigarette butt, his sharp gaze scanned the surroundings of this restroom and then regretfully withdrew, mumbling slightly from his mouth, “Uncle here really wants to meet you, you know.”
Biting the unlit cigarette, He Jia’an walked out of the last restroom in the teaching building, stood in the corridor, looked at the clear sky, his eyes slightly drifting, thinking in place.
“Right, restrooms aren’t only in the teaching building and administration building.” He Jia’an turned around and went downstairs, heading toward the stadium by the edge of the playground, “Almost forgot there’s also a restroom in the stadium.”
Drip—
The moment he stepped into the stadium, a darkness wind came rushing at him.
The vast stadium with indoor lights off was dark and cold silent, any sound made here would form an echo and be amplified many times, probably from the bathroom or restroom area, the dripping sound like mosquitoes buzzing around the ears was very annoying, just like it was really dripping right by the ear, the physiological reaction brought by the darkness wind brushing past the ear complemented this sound perfectly.
He Jia’an walked straight past the volleyball court and badminton court, came to the back of the stadium, entered the corridor at the back field, could see that one end led straight to the men’s locker room and men’s restroom, while in the middle section extending down the corridor there was another corner branching off, that corner corridor led straight to the women’s locker room and women’s restroom.
Standing at the corner of the choice of direction, He Jia’an was just about to think in place about whether to go to the women’s restroom or men’s restroom first, when he noticed eerie lights flickering at the entrance of the women’s restroom.
The significant anomaly attracted He Jia’an’s attention, he headed toward the women’s restroom without hesitation.
“It can’t be unstable wiring.” He Jia’an bit the cigarette butt, thinking to himself, “Because the entire school has the power cut off right now.”
Lifting the curtain at the women’s restroom entrance, He Jia’an entered the women’s restroom, then a thick darkness cold breath like thousands of tiny snakes crawled all over his body, intense chill surged from the bottom of his heart, like cold ice picks piercing through the brain.
Everything was so sudden, hard for people to withstand.
But He Jia’an was too familiar with this feeling, he had felt this power called “blessing” more than once, it was a blasphemous thing constructed from all extreme negative emotions and malice, which would launch malicious invasions at all living beings.
He finally found Hanako, right in the women’s restroom of this stadium.
The feeling of eerie and cold far exceeded the nose’s sense of the foul smell inside the restroom, He Jia’an’s attention was completely drawn to the last toilet stall in the left row inside the restroom, he saw the stall’s door slowly opening, the dim stall that the flickering lights couldn’t illuminate was completely unlike how a stall should look, as if behind that stall it wasn’t the familiar restroom people know, but the ultimate darkness leading to the netherworld hell.
He Jia’an quietly watched the commotion of that toilet stall, himself standing motionless.
At a certain moment, He Jia’an noticed a light blue little hand slowly extending from behind the door, the small hand full of wounds of uneven sizes clinging to the edge of the door, from inside the stall came a girl’s hoarse clucking sound, a miserably dead girl was about to crawl out from behind the door.
He Jia’an spat out the cigarette that had long been bitten full of saliva in his mouth, quickly stepped closer a few steps.
The girl behind the door seemed dissatisfied with He Jia’an’s reaction, her movements suddenly sped up a lot, an entire arm wrapped around to the door edge.
“Ah—”
He Jia’an slowly raised his head, at this time he heard, the sound came from above, immediately after he saw a violently dead girl’s human head, topped with that pair of world-weary venomous black eyes, staring straight at him, mouth open, continuously emitting eerie cries.
When his attention focused on the girl’s eerie human head, He Jia’an suddenly felt his left calf sink and suddenly tighten, looking down, only then did he discover a headless torso tightly hugging his calf, the cross-section at the neck rough and jagged, the wound fresh and bright red.
“Ah!” A loud shout rang out, He Jia’an’s peripheral vision caught a black shadow falling from above, he immediately drew back to evade, only to see a round human head crashing down where he had just been standing.
“Uncle doesn’t like being held like this.” He Jia’an’s forehead was full of cold sweat, he tried to break free from the girl’s limbs restraining his calf, but it was like a python’s strangle, wrapping tighter and tighter, the more he forcefully pried her open, the stronger the tightening force, tight to the point he could clearly feel insufficient blood supply to his calf, a wave of powerlessness.
The pain in his calf made He Jia’an’s brain spin fast, he suddenly thought of something, quickly took out a New Year’s red envelope from his belt with one hand, then fiercely pressed it onto the back of that headless corpse.
The New Year’s red envelope sensed the evil power invading He Jia’an, bursting with intense red light, when the envelope’s cover stuck to the corpse’s back, it was just like a red-hot branding iron pressed onto the skin.
Hanako felt immense pain, released the restraint on He Jia’an, the separated corpse parts suddenly turned into two streams of thick black smoke curtain that rapidly gathered and intertwined, then suddenly darted out of the restroom.
He Jia’an looked at the New Year’s red envelope’s cover which was wet at one corner like it had been splashed with water, that corner’s original bright red turned dull and colorless, as if foretelling the usage limit of the New Year’s red envelope.
He didn’t think deeply about it, put the red envelope away on him, immediately chased out, tracking the black smoke curtain shuttling through the shadows all the way, then from the stadium back field exit, through the corridor connecting the teaching building and stadium, ran back to the teaching building area, ran wildly all the way, finally saw the smoke curtain drill into the men’s restroom on the first floor of the teaching building.
He Jia’an raised an eyebrow, this restroom he was all too familiar with, it was the restroom where Kikuhide Ichi last mysteriously disappeared.
Could this also be where Hanako last died?
He Jia’an chased into the restroom, saw the smoke curtain turn back into human form again, a distorted girl in body shape, emitting eerie cries from her mouth, like crying like resentment, slowly walked into the toilet stall where Kikuhide Ichi ultimately disappeared.
“Don’t run!” He Jia’an couldn’t easily let Hanako go, braced himself and chased after, closely following and rushing into the toilet stall.
Clang!
The stall door slammed heavily onto the door frame, between the door panel bouncing back and forth from elasticity, the flickering lights in the restroom also gradually subsided, the scene inside the stall switched back and forth between absolute darkness and the dim restroom scenery.
Bang!
When the Chosen Alliance investigator who had been secretly tracking He Jia’an sensed it, by the time he pushed open the door again, the scene inside the stall had long calmed and stabilized, just an ordinary toilet stall in the dark.
But here, He Jia’an’s figure could not be found anywhere.
Moments later, the Chosen Alliance investigator had no choice but to report this fact to Matsumoto Gin.
“Senior Matsumoto, He Jia’an… He Jia’an seems to have mysteriously disappeared too!”
