Spell Return: The Wheel of Time

Chapter 83 No.80 Three Truths
"My name is Takahashi Munezhan. I am 22 years old. My parents divorced when I was very young. I have been living with my mother ever since. After graduation, I found a job in a well-known large company. My life is about to get better..."

"But last year, my mother... passed away unexpectedly."

Takahashi Munechan opened the door and had packed up to go to work when he ran into an old neighbor. After greeting the kind old man with a slight smile, he absentmindedly went downstairs.

He has lost his job in a large company. He was fired by the company due to long delays and emotional instability. Now he is working in a small company, and his salary is enough to live on his own.

Grasping the swaying subway handrail, Takahashi Munezhan stared blankly at the scene flashing by outside the window. Others on the subway were discussing yesterday's events with their companions in twos and threes.

Since yesterday's bizarre incident that spread across the country, officials have been trying to calm the masses, but it still caused quite a stir among everyone.

There have even been riots in many places, because in addition to the series of images yesterday, there is another thing that has also increased everyone's panic.

That is the dissemination of information. Tools such as telephones can still be used as usual, but when it comes to cross-border communication, everyone will find that they have encountered unprecedented obstacles.

Any information such as posted videos cannot be saved on these international software. Once posted, it will be inexplicably disappeared and banned.

Even if someone uses "technology" to successfully publish information, what awaits them will be deleted and banned in an instant. It is said that even international flights have stopped flying here.

This is only a preliminary situation. Even though all kinds of comments are flying, it has not reached the worst situation yet, and the official handling of the situation is quite strong. But what does all this have to do with Takahashi Munezhan?

No...it still matters after all...3
As someone who watched all of yesterday's video, Takahashi Munezhan even saved the video, and the hoarse voice kept echoing in his mind.

What made those words keep creeping into his heart like a devil's whisper was a strange dream last night.

In the dream, it was a man whose face he couldn't see clearly. The content of the dream was so short that he couldn't even remember it clearly. There was only one piece of information that he firmly remembered.

That was the scene in a park not far from his home. If what the man in the dream said was true, there was some so-called "medicine" hidden there that could see the truth clearly.

"Do you think there really is such a thing as a ghost?"

"Didn't you hear that person say it should be called 'curse'? And it would be incredible if it were true. I think some hackers on the Internet just did such shocking things to gain attention."

"But the things in the video are too real. I had nightmares last night..."

Listening to the students not far away, who must be high school students, they were whispering and discussing the matter, and fragmented pictures seemed to appear in front of Takahashi Munechan.

"Accidental death...curse..."

In the mottled light and shadow, he finally arrived at his destination, and then he repeated the work day after day.

Because Takahashi Munezhan didn't sleep well last night, he left the company and fell asleep. In his dream, he heard the strange sound from last night again, and the scene in the park kept repeating.

Until he was awakened by an angry roar and a slap on the table. It was a small leader of the company. Amidst the latter's spitting and scolding, he mechanically apologized and then continued to complete his final work.

As for those scoldings, he didn't listen to them, because Takahashi Munezhan knew that he would not be fired based on these alone, because there were not many people who could work in this company, and there were even fewer people like himself who could complete the work well. Without it, these vampires will not easily dismiss such a cost-effective labor force.

It was not too late to get off work today. As the night fell at nine o'clock, Takahashi Munezhan bought a box of lunch at the convenience store closest to his home and heated it up in the store.

Sitting on the bench outside, he opened a can of beer, took a big gulp, and prepared to satisfy his last appetite for the day.

The lunch box was very simple, with three vegetarian dishes, two plums, and a few pieces of fried tempura and fish steaks. Some of the rice was not heated thoroughly, and the mixture of warm and cold made it very uncomfortable.

But Takahashi Munezhan still ate without changing his expression. He was now like a machine, only knowing how to eat regularly, giving people the illusion that even if there was a stone in front of him, he could chew it into pieces and eat it.

His mind was not on the food at all. On this almost deserted street, a thought pushed through the earth wall in his heart and he struggled to crawl out.

The scene after learning about his mother's death resurfaced. Takahashi Zongzhan still remembered that he had to deal with the funeral affairs as if he had lost his soul.

The police also have surveillance videos of the mother's death. From the unprovoked fall to the final death, no suspects were seen in the continuous surveillance videos until a passerby discovered her and called the police.

The forensic examination revealed that the cause of death was heart problems. After the initial collapse, Takahashi Munezhan had to accept this fact, but there was one thing that he could never mind, like an invisible and intangible thorn stuck in his heart.

That was the cause of his mother's death. You must know that not long before that, he took his mother for an annual physical examination.

Except for some minor ailments caused by fatigue, everything else about my mother was normal and healthy. There was no problem with her heart, and her mother's relatives had no genetic history of heart problems.

Therefore, Takahashi Munezhan has always been worried about the cause of his mother's death. Of course, he had reported this situation to the police, but the police could not waste time on it when no other doubts could be found.

In the end, he even tried to find a private detective to investigate whether there was any hidden secret, but after trying all the methods he could, he came to the conclusion that his mother died accidentally.

He originally thought that this matter would be gradually covered up by time, but he did not expect that one day, this thorn would be picked out again by a word, and it would hurt him constantly.

Takahashi Munezhan put down his chopsticks and looked towards the end of the street. He walked to the end, turned left and then turned right less than 300 meters away... that's the park...

The thought that lingered in his mind like a nightmare emerged again, how about... just go and take a look?If that's true, and not a joke by a criminal or someone else, does that mean... that my mother's death was actually caused by that curse?
After a long silence, he picked up the beer and drank it in one gulp, then flattened it and threw it into the trash can along with the uneaten lunch box, which had become cold, and then he walked step by step towards the end of the street. .

……

"Is that this?"

Takahashi Zongzhan couldn't help but his heart was beating wildly. Things were going very smoothly. He followed the scene in his dream and found a bag full of small white pills in a park with almost no people.

It was already incredible that he could correspond to this park he had never been to in reality based only on the memory in his dream, but this bag of white meatballs that was exactly the same as in the video made him feel a little more frightened.

Takahashi Munezhan put it in his arms and hurried back home. After locking the door, he locked himself in the bedroom and took out the bag of things.Then he turned on his phone and played the video he had recorded, fast forwarding to the scene where the man was feeding the woman a small pill.

Takahashi Munezhan took one out of the bag, then came to the screen and compared it carefully.

After repeated confirmations, he was able to confirm that this one was completely consistent in appearance with the one in the video.

As for whether you can see the so-called curse after eating it...

Takahashi Zongzhan swallowed, and his mother's smile appeared in front of his eyes again, but he could hardly shed tears.

The action was not difficult, he just pinched it and put it into his mouth. He didn't even need water to swallow it.

Takahashi Munezhan then knelt on the ground and waited for the follow-up. He was even prepared that this was just poison made by people who want to take revenge on society, but what he finally ushered in was not death, but...

"I don't feel anything. Is he still a liar after all..."

The disappointed Takahashi Zongzhan looked at the bag of pills, stood up after a while and threw them into the trash can.

With a sigh, he turned around and prepared to close the curtains to wash up and fall asleep, but the moment he grabbed the curtains, he stopped as his eyes glanced outside the window.

"what is that?"

Under a streetlight on the street outside, there was a strange shadow lingering there.

"Whose child is it? Are you still out so late at night?"

This was the first thought that came to his mind, but then a vague idea in his mind stunned him for a moment, and then drove him to get closer to take a closer look.

After seeing the shadow lingering under the street lamp clearly, Takahashi Zongzhan covered his mouth, not daring to make any sound.

There was a lost child somewhere near the street lamp. It was clearly a strange thing that looked like a dog.

"It's true! It turned out to be true!"

When the little monster seemed to notice something and started to look around, Takahashi Zongchan quickly retracted his body, his heart already filled with turmoil.

The idea of ​​treating a "dying patient" as a living doctor actually came true. This feeling made Takahashi Zongzhan's mind confused at this moment, and he had no other thoughts.

After staying in the bedroom for a while, he boldly checked his house carefully, but found nothing unusual, except for the strange thing under the street lamp, which couldn't be more real.

Takahashi Sousuke also tried to use his camera to covertly photograph the thing, but found that it was impossible to record it. Only he who took the pill at this moment could see it with his naked eyes!

Takahashi Munezhan, who had barely slept all night, went out excitedly the next day. He had thought a lot from last night to now... He began to slowly agree with what the man who turned into a monster said.

That pill has a time effect, this is the conclusion Takahashi Munezhan came to after guessing and practicing.

After going out in the early morning, he didn't see anything unusual. After guessing, he took one of the pills he brought with him, and then he saw the "reality" of this world again!
Different from the weird thing last night, the three obviously abnormal things Takahashi Munezhan saw along the way all seemed harmless to humans and animals.

They sounded more like bugs, but after he tentatively asked the people next to him, he found that no one saw them except himself.

Takahashi Munezhan, who was sitting in the company, was no longer interested in working. He was scolded by the disgusting ugly man again. After he left, a thin man next to him came over.

"Zong Zhan, ignore that bastard, just think that what he sprayed in his mouth is just feces... What's wrong with you these two days? I saw something wrong with you yesterday. Is it because of 'that incident'?"

This man's name is Ogi, and he is one of the few people in the company who can be considered a friend. This boy is older than him, and he is also unmarried. He has had several girlfriends before.

He usually likes some popular entertainment activities and is also keen on all kinds of gossip news. Now after comforting Takahashi Zongchan, he started talking about the incident that shocked the whole country the day before yesterday.

"Do you know that the official actions now are very unusual..."

Listening to his talk, Takahashi Munezhan had an idea in his mind, and then he interrupted Ogi: "Ogi... Do you believe what the person in the video said?"

Ogi paused for a moment and then turned the pen on his fingertips with some hesitation: "You shouldn't believe it, right? After all, if there is such a thing as a ghost, I have never seen it in my whole life, and no one around me has ever heard of such a thing. What kind of experience? Zong Zhan, have you ever seen a ghost? "

The second half of his sentence was almost a joke, but Takahashi Munezhan's serious expression did not change. He looked into Ogi's eyes and said seriously: "I saw him, just last night."

"Zong Zhan...you..."

What was handed to Ogi was Takahashi Munezhan's hand. There was a white pill lying quietly in the palm of his hand. Ogi looked at it for a moment before pointing at it and letting out a silent exclamation.

"Zong Zhan, you are not the kind of person who likes to joke. Why..."

Takahashi Munezhan still said seriously: "It's true. This is the key to seeing the 'reality' mentioned in the video..."

He then told Ogi everything from the dream he had to the things he saw after taking the pills. The latter still looked a little unbelievable. Could it be that the most ridiculous statement was actually true?

"I think not only you, but everyone is qualified to know the truth of the world. Ogi, if you don't believe it, you can see it after eating it."

Omu looked at the familiar little pill. He also knew Zong Zhan's character, and he didn't seem like someone who would make such a joke.

After going through an unknown struggle in his heart, Oda picked up the pills by accident...

(End of this chapter)