After we broke up, my ex asked me to attack her

Chapter 345 The Most Tragic Future

The next morning, Kagura Hikaru brought Komori Ai and a bunch of lilies up the mountain to the shrine.

The long-standing unsolved case was solved, and the ghost of Mizuno Yuna regained her presence in the village after 30 years, becoming the poor girl that everyone talked about.

It is said that TV media will come to interview and report, but I don’t know whether it is true or not.

When Kagura Hikaru stepped onto the steps, the dilapidated shrine that he saw yesterday was nowhere to be seen. A dozen villagers, who had been seen before or not, were cleaning the dirt around the shrine with tools in their hands. They seemed very diligent and were talking and laughing with each other.

On the way here, he had a premonition when he saw that there were fewer dead leaves on the road. When he arrived at the shrine and saw this scene, he felt that it was as he expected.

One of the most beautiful qualities of a person is to mend the fold before the sheep are lost.

The shrine has been forgotten for decades because of the unexplained disappearance of the shrine maiden, making it a taboo that the villagers are reluctant to talk about.

With the solving of the shrine maiden murder case, old stories were dug up in this new era. The villagers seemed to finally remember the shrine that they had deliberately ignored for so many years, and out of respect, commemoration, and remembrance for the dead, they spontaneously arranged to renovate the shrine.

It's like a photo album that you can't find for a while, and it's placed in a corner and forgotten after many years. When you grow up, you accidentally find it when you are tidying up the room. Anyone can't help but open it and take a look out of curiosity. It's a similar mentality.

Kagura Hikaru walked towards the main hall of the shrine with an expressionless face and stopped in front of the money box.

As usual, he threw a 500 yen coin in, then placed a bunch of lilies on top, bowed politely, rang the bell, and closed his eyes to pray.

I opened my eyes, but didn't see the red and white figure.

It turns out that he has fulfilled his wish and become a Buddha, that’s good too.

He didn't know whether he was disappointed or relieved. He sighed softly, took Xiao Mori Ai's hand again, turned and left.

But just like yesterday's replay, a cheerful female voice sounded behind him.

"Hey, you come to someone's house to place flowers, sigh and leave, do you think this is a grave?"

Kagura Hikaru calmly turned her head and looked at the smug miko with her hands on her hips.

"You haven't become a Buddha yet? Is it because you have left too many karmas in the human world and no one wants you?"

"How rude of you! I am a shrine maiden after all, someone who serves the gods, how could I have bad karma!"

"Most religious people nowadays are rotten."

"Ah, it was the same in my time, I can't refute that."

The shrine maiden Mizuno Yuna jumped down lightly, touched the flowers in the air, then looked around the shrine and smiled.

The villagers are restoring the shrine on their own initiative.

Although it was just a tidying job, the main hall had been in disrepair for many years. To restore its former glory it would have to be rebuilt, and the villagers might not be willing to pay for it.

But she was already very happy to see everyone coming to visit the shrine after a long time.

"That's the eldest sister from the Inoue family. Oh, now I should call her grandma. I often went to her house to play when I was a child. Her family even bought a game console."

"Akita-sensei, he's still alive. Akita-sensei used to teach calligraphy, but he retired before I inherited the shrine."

"Hey, that person, is it Naruse? Haha, the little girl who chased after me back then has grown up now. She has so many wrinkles on her face. She doesn't look like me, who is still young and youthful!"

Mizuno Yuna seemed to be able to recognize everyone who came to the shrine, and pointed at them one by one and introduced them to Kagura Hikaru.

Judging from the text, it seemed like she was speaking with a smile, and she was actually smiling, but Kagura Hikaru could hear the sadness hidden in her tone.

Mizuno Yuna, who is dead but still lingers in the world, is like an existence in a mirror. She cannot penetrate the mirror and reach the real world. She can only watch.

Over the past thirty years, she may have seen her killer passing by again and again, and shouted loudly to show her existence, but it was useless because she was already dead and had nothing to do with the living.

She knows the name of everyone here and can recognize them, which means that Mizuno Yuna has actually been observing this village. If she just stayed at the shrine, she would not know what her childhood playmates look like now.

Realizing this only made Kagura Hikaru feel even more sad.

There is nothing more difficult and painful than insisting on doing something that is absolutely impossible to accomplish.

Mizuno Yuna has been observing her acquaintances from her previous life for thirty years. No matter whether they were happy or sad, she could not exert any influence on them and could only wander around unknown. If she had not turned into a ghost, she would probably have collapsed mentally long ago.

".I'm leaving today." Kagura Hikaru said to the shrine maiden.

"You're leaving?" The witch was stunned. "Where are you going?"

"Tokyo, I want to go back to school."

"Yeah."

"I will come back to see you during the summer vacation and New Year."

After saying that, Kagura nodded, turned around and left.

Komori Ai looked back at the witch and followed without hesitation.

The miko raised her hand, seemingly trying to persuade them to stay, but she finally retracted it, revealing a relieved smile, and shouted behind them: "Next time you come, bring gifts! Otherwise, I will definitely not let you go, Kagura-brother!"

Kagura Hikaru smiled inwardly and walked down the mountain holding Komori Ai's hand.

However, as he walks down the steps leading to the shrine, a small accident occurs and he is suddenly pulled into a foreseen fragment of the future.

After being tricked by the new ability so many times, Kagura Hikaru has long been accustomed to it. At this moment, she just remains calm and observes the direction of future scenes.

The future shown to him this time was on the platform of a tram station, and he saw himself, who was rare, wearing a school uniform. It seemed that the time point should not be far away.

But the him in that future seemed to be not right. He was sweating profusely, trembling all over, with his hands covering his ears, his back bent, his expression gloomy, and even a bit of self-destructive and world-weary.

But what surprised Kagura Hikaru the most was that she didn't find Komori Ai by her side, even though they had always been together.

On the other side of the track, the tram was approaching the platform with a clattering sound of brakes. Just as the tram was about to stop, Kagura Hikaru saw 'herself' walking across the yellow stop line in a trance and jumping off the platform.

Immediately afterwards, a splash of blood exploded below the invisible screen, and sounds of shock and screams were heard on the platform.

The future scene ended here. Kagura Hikaru opened her eyes and returned to the bottom of the shrine steps, surrounded by green trees and warm sunshine.

It turned out to be the case.

Kagura Hikaru stood there thinking for a few seconds, then with a bit of bitterness, held Komori Ai's hand tightly.

He has always felt very confused. Although he can clearly see himself in the foresight, he has never seen too far into the future, only his high school self.

In the past, I could still deceive myself by saying that I was just unlucky, but after seeing the real answer, I could no longer ignore that possibility.

——The reason why he couldn’t see himself growing up was because he had already died before he grew up.

If you ask for a future from someone who has no future, you will certainly get nothing.

Kagura looked back at the shrine above the stairs where the shrine maiden existed, with a dark light flashing in her eyes.

He might have to break his promise.

(End of this chapter)