tokyo creator

Chapter 147 This is the Old Rose Pavilion (Day 2 - Rainy Day - 1150 AM)

Corridor on the second floor, in front of a certain door.

Zhe Lukui suddenly whispered: "...the architectural layout of the old Rose Pavilion is exactly the same as the new one."

Upon hearing this, Hui Yuanchu was about to turn and press the door handle, but hesitated for a moment.

On the one hand, he suddenly realized where the familiarity he felt on the first floor came from.At the same time, he further thought: If it corresponds to the New Rose Pavilion, then the door he is about to open seems to be behind...

Zhe Lukui noticed Hui Yuanchu's hesitation and asked, "What's wrong?
"It's just..." Hui Yuanchu said vaguely, "I'm making some mental preparations."

"There are only four dolls inside. That's what you told me..." Oroku looked at him strangely, "Do I need any additional mental preparation?"

There are also four dolls in this room on the second floor. This is something Hui Yuanchu knew after he released the Soul Cicada downstairs.This is why they first chose this room as the object of investigation after going up to the second floor.

Hui Yuan didn't answer Zhe Lukui

——No, the problem is not the doll itself, but why the doll is in this room alone.

He just muttered something in his heart and had some vague premonition.

Finally calming down, Hui Yuanchu turned the door handle.

With a "squeak", the door slowly opened inward.

The situation in the house was completely displayed in front of the two of them.

Like the hall downstairs, the drawn curtains blocked most of the daylight, leaving the room in darkness.

In the middle of the empty room, there was only a tea table and two chairs.Of the four dolls in the room, two are sitting at the table and the other two are standing behind them.

As Oruru Aoi said, there are just four dolls and nothing else strange.

But Hui Yuanchu still couldn't help but take a deep breath.

"...It's just like being in the Rose Pavilion, right?" He said softly.

Beside him, Zhe Lukui remained silent, but her breathing became a little heavier unconsciously.

The scene before him was very familiar to Hui Yuan.

The architectural layout of the Old Rose Pavilion and the New Rose Pavilion completely correspond, and this room is the reception room on the second floor of the New Rose Pavilion.

What Haiyuan saw yesterday in the reception room of the New Rose Hall was - "Yellow Rose" Sato Yoshiko and "Red Rose" Fujihira Chihiro were sitting at the tea table, drinking tea and sorting documents.Behind them stood the calyxes of their respective subordinates.

And now, in front of him, in the reception room at the same location as the New Rose Pavilion, the inanimate dolls were posing in exactly the same distribution and posture.

Hui Yuanchu suddenly felt terrified.

Only then did he realize that the arrangement of the puppets they had just seen in the front hall downstairs was not meaningless, it was also a reenactment of the scene.

What was reproduced upstairs was the scene he saw of Sato Yoko and Fujihira Chihiro working.

The scene in the front hall downstairs... was at the same moment, Aoi Ori, Ayano Ijuin and others in the front hall of the New Rose Hall.

"This scene -" Hui Yuanchu said halfway, not knowing how to describe it.

Zhe Lukui said softly: "I know."

She walked up and began to examine the dolls.

Finally she concluded: "It's the same as downstairs."

These dolls also have different looks and figures.The coats and shirts are both custom-made by He Kuantang, and the underwear also fits the doll's own body and is different from each other.

Zhe Lukui stepped back to the door and took in the entire scene, looking a little confused: "...But, what does this mean? This place will not be open to others, so it is placed in such a serious way that it looks like a certain place. What is the purpose of this scene?”

"Is it some kind of ritual or memetic pollution?" Her brows furrowed even more.

"Perhaps it's because...from dolls to BJD, from Gunpla to soldiers, plastic figurine players will always pursue scenes and photography in the end?" Hui Yuanchu said absentmindedly.

Zhe Lukui rolled her eyes at him.

After confirming that there were no more clues here, they carefully exited the room and came to the last room with the dolls.

Haiyuan first knew that the corresponding location of the New Rose Pavilion was the tea room where Yoshiko Sato entertained him twice.

So, what does the doll here correspond to...

He pushed open the door.

As expected, there is also a Japanese-style tea room inside.In front of the tea table, a figure was sitting on his knees.

The curtains were half-opened, and a brighter light than the other rooms was projected in, illuminating countless light dust in the light path.

At the end of the light path is the doll's face hanging down.

Hui Yuanchu felt something familiar again from the doll's hairstyle and dress.

While retrieving similar memories in his mind, he had already walked over to Lu Kui before him, walked to the opposite side of the doll and bent down, looking at its front face that was just blocked by the hair from the side——

The moment he saw the doll's face clearly, Hui Yuanchu felt that his thoughts were interrupted for a moment.

——Yoko Sato, looking at him expressionlessly.

Half a heartbeat later, Hui Yuan finally came to his senses.The resin texture and glass eyes reminded him that what he saw was not Eiko Sato, but a doll made after Eiko Sato.

His eyes moved directly downward until he saw that the tea sets next to the puppet on the table were crooked and not aligned with the horizontal and vertical lines on the table. At this time, Hui Yuanchu was completely relieved.

This is definitely not Eiko Sato herself.

"What's wrong?" Zulu Kui on the side couldn't see the puppet's face yet, but could see something strange about him, so she asked.

"It's Yoshiko Sato." Haiyuan relaxed and stood up straight before replying, "...The face of this doll is modeled after Yoshiko Sato."

At the same time, he also better understood the impact of things like "dolls" on human beings.

Especially, when the doll no longer just "looks like a person", but "looks like a person you are familiar with", the increase in the power of the uncanny valley is no longer linear at all...

Therefore, in the two rooms just now, Haiyuan didn't think there was anything scary about those dolls... But now, in this familiar place, for a moment, he almost thought it was Sato Eiko himself, and that he would suddenly Attack yourself.

From the sudden appearance of this doll that looked like Sato Yoshiko, Haihara had an idea: maybe both of them had some kind of prejudgment about something just now - that is, these dolls are different, maybe It's not due to the producer's pursuit or quirks, but...

But for this, he still needs to confirm something as usual.

"Do you know Yoshiko Sato's bust and cup size?" Haiyuan asked Orilu Aoi while thinking about it.

As soon as the words came out, he realized how outrageous his words were, and hurriedly added: "Ah - I just want to know that if you know, you can confirm whether this doll is the same as a real person! You don't need to tell me the details, Just tell me at the end whether it's 'consistent' or 'inconsistent'."

But this time, he thought too much.

Oriuru Aoi didn't cast any strange glances, she just stepped forward and stretched out her hand to Sato Yoshiko's doll...

After a moment, her movements paused for a moment, then slowed down and touched for a while.

Finally, she turned back and frowned: "It's actually... inconsistent."

Huiyuan thought he heard wrongly: "Consistent?"

"No, Yi, Zhi!" Zhe Lukui said word by word, "It's at least two sizes smaller than the real person."

"...Huh?" Hui Yuanchu was dumbfounded.

Zhe Lukui pondered for a moment and said: "I guess you want to say - there is a possibility that the faces and figures of these dolls are not fictitious. They all come from some actual prototype. The differences between these dolls 'It's not some kind of careful design, it's just about being 'consistent' with the prototype."

"Well, yes!" Hui Yuanchu was very happy that Zhe Lukui coincided with him.

But looking back at the doll with the same appearance as Sato Yoshiko, he sighed again, "However, this conjecture has now been directly refuted by its condition..."

Orilu Aoi's personal verification revealed that the cup size is at least two sizes smaller than the real person. This is a difference that cannot be ignored.

"We can't be so arbitrary..." Orokuchi thought for a while and said, "In this way, after the search of the remaining rooms is completed, we will go back and take photos of the faces of all the dolls, and then record their respective sizes... …Then, retreat.”

"After we go back, we will compare the data in the database to see if these dolls really have 'prototypes'."

"Anyway, this exploration ends here. It's almost time. We also have a tea party in the afternoon."

Hui Yuanchu asked: "What about 'Asano Yingmi'?"

He didn't forget that this was the original purpose of him and Oroku Aoi coming here.But the current situation is really unexpected - they found no trace of "Asano Eimi" in this house, but they found such a bunch of dolls full of doubts.

"Didn't you just use the cicada swarm to detect it instantly... Anyway, it looks like it's not at home, so come visit next time."

Hui Yuanchu could only nod in agreement.

He also has a feeling that there will be no other gains from today's investigation of the old Rose Hall.

(End of this chapter)