I loaded the ghost talk game

"Ishino, can I see your phone?"

"OK."

Sayuri Ishino should have trusted Kamiyagawa, the savior, and unlocked the phone without much hesitation and handed it over.

Kamiya first opened her Line to check, but did not see Masao Nagatomo's account.

Then I opened the address book again, but I also didn't see any information related to Changyou.

He took out his mobile phone again and checked his address book. Unlike Sayuri Ishino's situation, Xiao Pingtou's mobile phone number was still kept in his address book.

Kamiyagawa called Nagatomo Masao's number on two mobile phones.

Ishino's mobile phone dialed this number, and it showed an empty number.

But when my mobile phone called, it showed that the caller was not in the service area.

Kamiyagawa held two mobile phones and fell into deep thought.

Until Sayuri Ishino's slightly worried voice sounded beside her: "Student Kamiya, are you alright?"

"I'm fine." Kamiya returned Ishino's cell phone to her, "I still have some things to do, goodbye, Ishino."

"Oh, okay, bye."

Sayuri took back her phone, and stared blankly at Kamiyagawa leaving quickly.

strangeness.

What happened to Kamiya-san today?

...

"Student, did you find the wrong classroom? There is no one named Nagatomo Masao in our class."

Kamiyagawa: "That's it. Who does the vacant seat over there belong to?"

"Ah... that, it seems to be empty all the time."

Kamiyagawa: "Okay, thank you."

...

"Nagatomo Masao...? Isn't there such a guy in the baseball club?"

Kamiyagawa: "Okay, excuse me."

...

doodle.

"Hello, you. Mr. Kamiya? Why are you calling when you have time?"

"Ah, you said Xianji. Everything is normal for him. The incident of bumping into that weird doll last time should be regarded as a complete turning point. I have to thank you again."

"The details of the last exorcism...Why do you ask? Who introduced you here...Uh, you obviously came here by yourself."

...

Jingle bells—jingle bells—

The crisp bells rang.

The little lucky god in red and white kimono appeared in response to the old father's call.

Kamiyagawa: "Zashiki, do you remember Nagatomo Masao? It's from the family you stayed in before...with a crew cut and a square head."

"ah?"

Zashiki Warji blinked and shook his head in confusion.

"Then Prajna, Mary? How about you? Do you still have any memories?"

Banruo first looked at the ignorant little Fukami suspiciously, then looked at Kamiyagawa, and nodded hesitantly.

Miss Mary didn't have so many vivid expressions and movements, her eyes stayed on Shengu all the time, and she also nodded.

It seems that the two of them still remember Xiaopingtou.

...

Kamiyagawa asked about everyone he knew, almost everyone related to Masao Nagatomo.

In the end, they found that Xiaopingtou did not exist in their cognition.

The elimination of existence on the cognitive level has even affected the ghost talk. Fu Bao, who has been a "house god" in Changyou's house for a long time, also denies that he knows Changyou Masao.

The same is true for the little old man who has met Changyou, saying that he has never seen this person.

Ask around this circle, three people become tigers, and one mouth makes money.

Everyone said it swearingly, and of course, Kamiyagawa was a little confused, almost thinking that there was something wrong with his cognition.

But fortunately, he has always been the kind of character who insists on himself.

It is not me who is wrong, but the world.

Coupled with his two shikigami, Mary and Hannya also proved the existence of Masao Nagatomo.

"So the current situation is that in this world, only I and my shikigami still remember that Xiaopingtou once existed."

Kamiyagawa began to sort out the current situation seriously.

It is not yet known what exactly happened to Xiaopingtou, which caused his existence in the real world and other people's cognition of him to disappear.

But what is certain is that the unknown force he encountered must be very powerful and weird.

"People who knew him don't remember him, even the evidence that he lived in this world, including the Line chat records, call records, personal items, etc. Total social obliteration."

"But why do I remember him? Mary and Banruo, who have seen him, also remember... Mary and Banruo remember Xiaopingtou, probably because of me. They are my shikigami, and they have a strong relationship with me. contract fetters. But Zashiki and the little old man didn't..."

The problem should be on yourself.

The only thing Kamiyagawa can think of, the biggest difference between himself and others, is that he can freely travel between the inner and outer worlds through the gods and dead paper figurines provided by "Ghost Story".

"So, Changyou's disappearance is probably related to the other world?"

Such a guess came to Kamiya's mind almost naturally.

"He didn't go to the other world, did he?"

It was mentioned in the optional quest at Kisaragi Station——

[The strangers trapped in the world of ghost stories for various reasons are all in an unstable state of existence, so don't treat them in the way you normally treat living people. ]

It can be inferred from this that living people who directly enter the inner world will be greatly negatively affected.

Perhaps, the obliteration of their existence in the real world is a kind of negative influence?

"Also, Kisaragi Station..."

Kamiyagawa clearly remembered that the marker at Kisaragi Station did not exist at the beginning.

It didn't appear in the phone until after I clicked on the god tree in Aokigahara Jukai and rescued the female anchor named Eri Yoneyama.

"Assume that when the sign point of Kisaragi Station appears, it is the most active time of this foreign station. Can it be guessed that the tram leading to Kisaragi Station is in operation at that time?"

The famous urban ghost talk about what Kisaragi does when the train is in operation, the answer is obvious.

That is to send living people in the real world to another world.

"It can't be such a coincidence, can it? Xiaopingtou got on the tram that passed through Kisaragi Station last night, and thus entered the other world, causing his existence in reality to be completely erased?"

If all of Kamiya's previous guesses are true, then this development is possible.

And at this time, think carefully about Xiaopingtou's previous experience——

There is a zashiki boy in the family; Tanling with his girlfriend encounters Hanako; his good friend Masamune Kenji is haunted by an evil spirit doll.

Although this guy is masculine enough, with a strong yang look, he might have a special physique for striking spirits.

...

After thinking about it again and again, Kamiyagawa called Onizuka Kiri Hotaru.

After a few rings, the phone was picked up.

The voice of the little witch came from the other end of the phone: "Shengu? Why are you calling me at this time. I was in class just now, and the head teacher almost found my phone."

"Onitsuka, I want to ask you something." Kamiyagawa cut to the chase, "Is it possible for ordinary people to enter the other world where ghost stories exist, and disappear without a trace?"

"A stranger enters the other world? Hmm... Are you talking about a hidden world?"

"Shenyin is missing, right?"

"No, no. Ordinary disappearances cannot be considered real ghosts. There is a saying that for people who really disappear, even all the evidence of their own existence will be hidden by ghosts and gods. Have you ever heard of Shengu?" A spectator?"

On the other end of the phone, the little witch briefly told the story of the spectators:

It is said that a woodcutter lost his way while gathering firewood in the mountains. I saw a fairy playing chess, stayed on the edge of the chess game for a while, and then found the way out of the mountain. When I returned home, I found that my wife and children, including all the villagers, no longer knew me.

After several inquiries, the wife said that her child was born to a peddler from a foreign country when she was young and ignorant, but there was no trace of the so-called peddler afterwards.

In this way, the woodcutter lost his identity in this world and was forgotten by everyone.

After hearing the story, Kamiyagawa was silent for a while before speaking again: "Then is there any official record of this kind of person who was really hidden by the gods?"

"I'm not sure about this. But you think, if a person really disappears, even everything in the past disappears. Then who would know that he is missing? But I seem to have seen it, and I have checked There are records of people who don’t know their identities and can’t tell their origins suddenly appear somewhere.”

"knew."

"Kamiya, are you in any trouble?"

"I haven't."

"Remember to tell me if you have any troubles that can't be solved. If the two of us can't solve it, I will help you beg my mother-in-law. Don't look at my mother-in-law who always talks about me, but she actually loves me very much—ah, Stop talking, stop talking, I've been sneaking out of class for too long. I'll call you back later!"

beep -

Onizuka hung up the call.

As for Kamiyagawa, looking at the black screen of the mobile phone, he fell into deep thought again.

...

Bang clang -- clang clang --

The monotonous sound of trams running tirelessly repeated in my ears.

Nagatomo Masao opened his eyes in a daze, feeling as if he had had a long dream, but he couldn't remember the specific details of the dream.

"Where is the tram going?" Masao Changtomo glanced out the window of the running tram, but found that the scenery outside was extremely strange. "It seems...daytime outside? Have I slept for so long?"

Xiaopingtou stood up from his seat in extreme astonishment, shaking his somewhat heavy head.

Things are clearly not right now.

Masao Xiaoping's head only remembers that he went to the Ueno Zoo for a date with his girlfriend Sayuri Ishino today.

Because the school will start tomorrow, the two plan to have another fun day on the last day of summer vacation.

The process of dating is naturally very happy.

The young couple watched giant pandas together and had dinner together.

In the end, according to the usual practice, Xiaopingtou first took Sayuri Ishino to her door by tram, and then took the opposite tram home at the same stop.

He came home a bit late, just in time for the last bus.

I remember that although it was the last train, there were still many people in the carriage, but it was not too crowded and there were vacancies everywhere.

Changyou was sitting and exchanging messages with his girlfriend.

After sitting for a few stops, the voices of other passengers around suddenly disappeared and became extremely quiet. Xiaopingtou raised his head at that time, and he couldn't see other people in the carriage.

The tram car shakes slightly with the operation of the car, and the lights inside the car are bright and stable.

But there was no one there.

Before he could react to what was going on, he heard the sound of the tram entering the tunnel.

It was pitch black all around.

Afterwards, Nagatomo Masao didn't know what happened, and it seemed like now when he woke up again.

He looked around, different from the situation before he lost consciousness, the carriage was not empty now, there were other people besides him.

It was an aunt dressed as a housewife, about 40 years old.

With the same panic and bewilderment on his face, Changyou estimated that the other party's situation should be the same as his own now.

"Little classmate... Where are we? I seemed to have fallen asleep just now... What happened?"

The aunt said so.

Nagatomo Masao just shook his head silently, saying that he didn't know the situation either.

He got up to check the situation in other cars, and found that there were other people on the tram.

Count him and the housewife aunt and there are four more people.

An OL sister in professional attire; a female high school student who is about the same age as her; a young man with a wolf tail; and an old man with gray hair but still wearing a suit and still looks like a social animal.

The crew and tram conductor were not found.

Everyone was in the same situation as Nagatomo Masao, their faces were disturbed, and they didn't know what happened.

The six people gathered together, and it took more than ten minutes for them to calm down slowly. Then, under the suggestion of the old social animal uncle, they exchanged their information and situations.

Through communication, they found that the time to board this strange tram was different.

For example, Changyou took the last bus on the night of the 12th.

But other people have cars during the day on the 12th, and some people take cars in the afternoon around the 5th of the first month. That young man with a wolf's tail, reported a ride time that was even last month.

The only thing the six people have in common is that they have all changed trams in the opposite direction at the terminus of the tram for various reasons.

While riding in the car, the surroundings suddenly became quiet, and then passed through a location tunnel, and then lost consciousness.

When I wake up again, it seems to be now.

People who ride the tram at different times appear in the same space.

Things started to get weirder.

Just as the atmosphere on the tram became more tense, there was a "clang clang", the vehicle trembled violently, and then slowly stopped.

At the same time, the car door slammed open.

The six people in the car looked out. Although it was daytime outside, it was gloomy.

The tram was stopping on the edge of a crude platform.

On the shed on the platform, an older metal sign is hung, which says the name of this station - Kisaragi Station.

"Kisaragi Station! We are at Kisaragi Station!?"

"This... Kisaragi Station is obviously just a story!?"

Among the six people, several gasped when they saw the platform of this station.

Kisaragi Station is such a famous urban ghost story.

The six people present have more or less heard of it, but they are in the minority if they don't know.