Why is my time traveling to the second dimension such a weird rule story?

What neither she nor Hayasaka noticed was that the erosion force that originally existed in the corridor of the black teaching building had been significantly weakened.

And not only that, the headless soldiers in the inner area of ​​Hayate Elementary School had basically stopped moving and turned into wooden stakes. The activity of the soldiers with heads was also significantly reduced, so the two dogs were able to pass safely without attracting the attention of the sentry tower that was supposed to kill all living things.

Something was being destroyed.

After some off-site forces violated the rules and made continuous modifications that should not have been made, extremely bad feedback began to be generated, and gradually expanded in the copy.

But now, Hayasaka, who knew nothing and whose mind was almost completely degenerated into that of a golden retriever, just relied on the vague impression in his memory and remembered that there seemed to be something very important in the ventilation duct, so he rushed in and crawled quickly inside.

"Awoo?!"

Kaguya, who had never understood what Hayasaka was excited about, saw that the other party took decisive action and followed without hesitation. She is now more and more certain that the other party has retained his memory and has obtained the ability to go back with Gao Hai like Zhenfei and Qianhua. So no matter how strange and inexplicable Hayasaka's behavior is now, she will still choose to follow him honestly. After all, for Kaguya, Hayasaka is her most trusted friend and the only one she can not doubt.

Clang-clang-

Amid the sound of rolling and crawling, the golden retriever broke through the partition of the ventilation duct and fell into a cold dissection room.

The things that should have existed in this room have undergone obvious abnormal changes. The refrigerator has become black and white as if it has lost its color. The lights are bright, but the ground is pitch black. The dissection table has fallen on the cabinet through the model, and the dissection tools are flying and drifting all over the sky. The texture on the wall also flew in the air, and the wall itself has become an absolutely smooth surface.

What happened, how did this place become like this?

Kaguya, who followed in, couldn't understand the strange appearance that seemed like the whole world was beginning to collapse, but seeing Hayasaka continue to move forward without hesitation, she didn't hesitate and continued to follow.

Coming out of the room, the corridor outside was even more distorted.

The ground was almost completely broken, and under the cracked ground were disordered colors, which was dazzling, and there were countless colors that were broken and fused.

The ceiling and walls were also almost unrecognizable. The doors that should have been sealed had been opened. Behind the doors were either empty, covered with bright red blood, or lying with deformed corpses. The same thing was that the areas behind the doors showed a more distorted and disordered appearance, and the original state was completely unrecognizable.

No strange power appeared.

Or the strange power that should have appeared had begun to contradict itself under the bad feedback, and began to lose the basis for normal operation, so it could no longer play a role in the two puppies running in the field and jumping on the broken floor.

The golden retriever kept running and accelerating forward.

Hayasaka, who could no longer tell where she was, was actually running around unconsciously, just wanting to find Gao Hai and return to her "master".

But Kaguya had already stopped.

She bit the golden retriever's tail and forcibly stopped the movement of the somewhat excited puppy.

The reason why she did this was simple, because she saw a very special room, a room that was not twisted or messy.

The room was lit with warm lights.

There were several figures sitting in the room, adults and children, they smiled gently, but for some reason left an empty chair, as if waiting for someone's return, just sitting quietly in the seat waiting, I don't know how many years they have been waiting.

Chapter 64: The person who failed to meet again and the sleeping lullaby

Felt the things left here that never really dissipated.

Felt the things that stayed, as if waiting for someone to return.

Those were people who couldn't bear to see abandoned children displaced, people who hoped to use their wealth to help the unfortunate to the best of their ability, and the moment when they met, got to know each other, and found that they had common ideals and aspirations.

They hit it off and chose to open an orphanage on the outskirts of the town, working together to adopt those abandoned children and teach and train them to grow up.

It was not smooth at the beginning. Although they were kind-hearted, they still had many deficiencies in their experience in doing things, so they often encountered various difficulties. The residents in the town didn't like these people very much, and regarded them as stupid and rich guys. For this reason, some people often tried to take advantage of them and cause various disturbances. As for the small troubles and problems in life such as food, clothing, housing and transportation, they came one after another, always leaving people no time to stop and rest.

Some people who couldn't hold on chose to leave, but some people stubbornly maintained it, unwilling to let those children who finally had a place to go back to the streets again.

And just as everyone was stumbling and supporting each other as they moved forward, a little girl came here and became a member of this big family.

That was a smart girl. She could read faster than other children and recite various articles faster and more skillfully. She could also see the hard work hidden under the smiles of the adults who maintained the orphanage, so she always tried to share the pressure with the adults. For this reason, she also worked hard to become the king of the children, taking charge of other children when the adults were too busy, so that she looked like a big sister even though she was not the oldest among the children.

And the adults also really loved and felt sorry for this precocious girl. They knew that this smart child should not stop at a shabby orphanage in the future, she should go to a higher and farther place. So when the school quota came down, everyone unanimously decided to give this opportunity to the girl.

This is what happened before the story began.

It was the ordinary days of the ignorant people before the tragedy began.

But then, everything changed.

These...

These memories and emotions...

Kaguya, who was still in the dog form and had not recovered, slowly stepped into the room.

Her perception was not outstanding, not as strong as that of Miko or Takahashi, but as a player who had passed two dungeons and had been exposed to strange powers many times, she could already feel some of the things left in this room and experience those happy and regretful emotions.

What she didn't know was that this room was the family of Chiyo Hachiya who was taken away, and it was the final destination of everyone in the orphanage.

After using the people in the orphanage for research, Sato and other researchers threw the remaining residues and some debris left by these people into this room as garbage, and then completely sealed it like other rooms, and then ignored it.

The girl who destroyed everything in the end was searching back and forth in this dead ruin.

But she couldn't find even a trace, no possible trace, all the clues were premeditatedly destroyed after Takama-hara was opened, and no matter how smart a young girl was, she couldn't really break the schemes of these vicious adults.

"Woof?"

Hayasaka, who was sitting outside the room, made a confused call. She didn't quite understand what Kaguya was doing. She was anxious to find Gao Hai, but she hesitated because of the intimacy with Kaguya in her remaining memory. But if Kaguya continued to dawdle, with Hayasaka's current severely degraded mental state, she might abandon her and go find Gao Hai alone.

Clang--

With a loud noise, Kaguya, who had turned into a little husky, jumped onto the table with force, and then the table fell to the ground because of the unstable center of gravity.

The figures of the adults and children had disappeared, and had dissipated as the remaining fragments of memory were read.

But there was something left in this room.

It was an old black and white photo placed on the table.

In the photo, there were adults who smiled to hide their fatigue, adults who made faces with the children, children who posed in various innocent and lively ways, and children who pretended to be reserved and imitated adults. This scene is like a fragment of time that has been permanently frozen, and it is clearly presented in the photo. However, if you look closely, you will find that the figure of a child in the photo is very blurry, as if it has been erased by some force, and it is impossible to show a clear image. It can only be roughly determined that it should be a little girl.

Is there something wrong with the photo itself, causing this person to not be clearly photographed?

Or is it because... this is the person who should have been here, but for some reason disappeared and failed to reunite as he wished? That's why she doesn't have a clear image, so she can't be photographed?

After a brief hesitation, Kaguya stretched out her front paws and tried to pick up the photo, and then remembered that she was in the form of a dog and couldn't pick up things. So Kaguya had no choice but to open her mouth and spent some effort to pick up the photo that fell on the ground.

Although because she didn't retain her memory, Kaguya herself didn't know what this photo meant, nor did she understand the reason for the existence of this hidden room. But she could feel that this place was unusual and could not be measured by common sense. In addition, the photo was very likely to be an obsession, so she chose to take it away without hesitation. As long as Gao Hai could be found, she believed that he would know where this photo could be used.

"Awoo!"

The golden retriever, who had been quietly guarding outside the room, roared in warning at this time.

And Kaguya, who was in the house, also felt a little creepy at this moment.

[Pain... It hurts...]

In the vague voice, dark red blood dripped from the ceiling.

A huge monster was slowly emerging from above.

After the photo was taken away, this thing seemed to be stimulated to a certain extent, so it showed its body shape.

That thing was very fat, and its huge body was like a meat ball that was cut into pieces and pieced together. The surging yellow fat covered its body, and every step it took would cause sticky liquid to spread. The broken dark red meat pieces were mixed with the purple internal organs, and the hands and feet were all made up of broken limbs. The heads with the skulls or the faces peeled off protruded from the body of this thing, making vague and hoarse cries.

"Woo——"

Without any hesitation, Kaguya roared and accelerated immediately, and fled from the house in an instant.

[No... Don't... Cut me... It hurts...]

But the monster also crawled out of the house, stretched out its spliced ​​arms, and crawled out step by step. It seemed slow, but the actual speed was extremely amazing, chasing after it while crying and howling.

[Uncle... It hurts... It hurts... Don't...]

The painful cries were mixed with the sound of some kind of instrument being activated, which sounded like a drill or a saw, as if something was being processed, as if someone was using these things on the people who were tied up and unable to break free on the dissection table.

[It hurts... Don't... Don't...]

The wriggling flesh and blood had already crossed the distance that Kaguya and Hayasaka were running.

In just a few breaths, the thing blocked the way ahead, completely blocking Hayasaka and Kaguya's way forward, forcing them to face each other.

Damn, is it a dead end so soon?

Kaguya, holding the photo in her mouth, was desperate, but she couldn't think of a way to resolve the terrible situation in front of her.

[Ah... Ah...]

The monster was still panting in pain.

The monster's attack did not immediately fall on the two girls.

This thing obviously had a lag in its movements, just like the strange soldiers encountered in the inner area before. Because the two girls always maintained their status as dogs, the ghost story rules that usually apply to humans had problems, causing the monster to be stunned again and again when facing Kaguya and Hayasaka. It was clearly blocked from escaping, but it could not immediately launch an attack to get rid of the two of them.

"Woo... Awoo..."

The golden retriever Hayasaka bared his teeth. Although he was terrified, he still instinctively blocked the front of the husky and tried to protect Kaguya.

Kaguya, holding the photo, turned his head and looked back, but found that some of the things in the rooms he had passed by before had also run out. At this time, it was already a scene of chaos and there was no way to go back.

Neither forward nor back, so where can he go next?

After hesitating for a while, the monster still stretched out his hand and stretched it out to the two puppies in front.

In desperation, Kaguya turned his sight to the bottom of the broken floor, those completely distorted and chaotic colors.

[Red dragonfly in the sunset, please tell me~]

A simple, slightly out-of-tune song suddenly sounded at this moment.

The two puppies raised their heads at the same time and saw a female head with eyes removed, which was growing on the monster and was singing softly.

Her singing was not really beautiful. Even though her voice was not bad, it was ordinary and mediocre because she had no skills.

But, for some reason, after hearing this song, both Kaguya and Hayasaka felt a sense of relief, a feeling of being able to completely relax and not having to worry about anything.

[When did I meet you in my childhood?]

The hand that the huge monster stretched forward also slowed down at this moment.

In the sound of the human head humming softly, it seemed to become sleepy. The bloody heads stopped wailing one by one and soon yawned. The surging yellow fat stopped dripping and began to solidify slowly.

Kaguya felt a little dazed. She could remember a similar scene, remembering that when her mother was still alive, she held her in her arms, rocked her gently, and sang to her. That was a vague scene hidden deep in her memory.

...A lullaby?

[Red dragonfly in the sunset, where are you? ]

On the monster, more heads that were obviously adults began to sing along.

[Rested on the tip of the bamboo pole——]

Even the heads of the children began to hum the melody in a low voice, as if they were immersed in it.

[It's the red dragonfly~]

Slowly, in the gradually fading song, the monster stopped moving.

All the heads became quiet, breathing evenly as if they were asleep.

Kaguya seemed to be able to see such a scene, the children sleeping in the bed, and the adults who took care of the children with gentle smiles.

Even in the world of ghost stories deep in despair, those beautiful scenes still did not disappear completely, and there was still something left.

So next, it's time to move forward.

"Awoo!"

The golden retriever, who took the lead, jumped directly onto the monster's body, climbed over it, and then ran forward.

The husky transformed by Kaguya quickly followed, carefully holding the old photo, and followed Hayasaka in front of him, heading deeper into this broken space.

Chapter 65: Impossible cracking conditions and the moment of gambling

Takahashi closed his eyes.

At this moment, through the pen with blood as ink, he deeply felt the emotions that the girl named Chiyo Hachiya had felt before her death.

Loneliness, pain, despair...

There was no one around her to talk to, no one who would continue to care for her and love her, no one to rely on, and no one to protect. There was nothing else except the dead silence.

Is loneliness the key?