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Bang.
The door was carefully closed.
Juju breathed a sigh of relief and quickly retreated to Amamiya Natsuki's side.
Thinking about it carefully, it was abnormal that the door of the Haunted House, which no one could leave, was easily opened!
"What do we do now?"
Juju looked up with her small face.
If Amamiya Natsuki hadn't reminded her about the two suns, she wouldn't have noticed it at all, and would have foolishly run out by now.
Once bitten, twice shy.
Juju had already made up her mind to obediently listen to Natsuki from now on; if he said go east, she'd go east, if he said go west, she'd go west, obediently, without hesitation.
"There's only one last room left to explore," Amamiya Natsuki said, "Find the key and enter the room."
Juju pursed her pink lips: "We already looked once, I didn't see any key anywhere."
"No, there's still one place we haven't looked."
Amamiya Natsuki's gaze shifted to Miss Wraith, whom he was holding in his hand.
"Eh?"
Juju was startled, and asked in confusion, "The key isn't on her, is it?"
"She doesn't even have clothes, let alone pockets."
"Not wearing clothes doesn't mean you can't carry things," Amamiya Natsuki said earnestly, "In European and American prisons, prisoners have to strip naked for a body check before entering, but some people can still smuggle items using the 'prison wallet' method..."
"You, you, you, what are you saying!"
Juju's small face quickly flushed red.
That was a Wraith, not a prisoner in a European or American prison; she wouldn't do something so awful!
Amamiya Natsuki was surprised: "Juju actually understood?"
"I didn't understand!"
The pink-haired girl turned her small face away, her ear tips red.
"High school students nowadays," Amamiya Natsuki sighed, "They know more and more things."
Juju glared at him indignantly: "You're also a high school student!"
"Since you understood, then the task of checking..."
"No! Absolutely not!" Juju couldn't help but retort, "If we do something like that, Miss Wraith will go berserk!"
"..."
At this moment, an emotionless voice suddenly sounded in their ears.
(I am a female high school student who wishes to remain anonymous. At a young age, I amassed a fortune. When playing poker, I hate hearing people say 'you can't have an A'.)
(As a paranormal enthusiast, I entered Musashino Elementary School. It is said that in the easternmost toilet stall on the second floor, there is a kaitai named Hanako.)
(At this very moment, the laughter of a little girl lingered outside the door.)
(I hope Hanako hasn't discovered me hiding in the second to last stall...)
The narration ended here.
"Could it be Kaguya-san?"
Juju blurted out.
Amamiya Natsuki glanced over at her words.
Are you also 'you can't have an A', which is why you can see through others' true nature at a glance?
"I don't know," Amamiya Natsuki shook his head, "Based on the information just now, I can't confirm it's Kaguya-san."
"Directly revealing the hiding place in the second to last stall, the narration is indeed sinister," Amamiya Natsuki said, "The possibility of kaitai being able to hear the narration has increased again."
Amamiya Natsuki turned his head, looking at the dark Wraith beside him: "Miss Wraith, can you hear the narration just now?"
"..."
Miss Wraith gave no response.
"What a pity," Amamiya Natsuki sighed, "Checking the body of a Wraith that doesn't react greatly reduces the fun."
Juju was shocked: "You, you really want to check there?!"
"Of course, one must be true to their word."
Don't use 'true to their word' for something so perverted!
"Here."
Amamiya Natsuki handed the flashlight to Juju, "Help me illuminate."
"..."
Juju took the flashlight, her expression extremely complex and conflicted. She wanted to stop him, but if he really did something like that, she felt she would lose her right to be human.
However, for the sake of passing the level, and with no other options...
Amamiya Natsuki reached out and took off Miss Wraith's paper bag hood, ignoring her blood-red eyes, and reached out to pry open her jaw:
"Juju, shine the light."
It was the mouth after all.
Juju breathed a sigh of relief, quickly stood on her tiptoes, and shone the flashlight over.
"Tsk, she didn't hide the key in her mouth," Amamiya Natsuki looked into Miss Wraith's mouth, "Didn't they say the most dangerous place is the safest?"
"Strange, why is her mouth full of dark things?" Juju asked curiously, "What is that?"
Amamiya Natsuki extended two fingers, touched it briefly, and quickly said: "It's ash and charcoal dust."
"Why would there be something like that?"
Juju tilted her small head.
Amamiya Natsuki pondered for two seconds, then suddenly said: "Do you feel like the temperature in the room is getting higher and higher?"
"It seems to have gotten hotter."
Juju raised her small hand, fanned herself in front of her, then scrunched up her delicate nose, "There also seems to be a strange burnt smell..."
Amamiya Natsuki looked at Miss Wraith, and threatened expressionlessly:
"Since the key isn't in her mouth, I guess I'll still check the prison wallet... I suspect Miss Wraith doesn't understand jargon, Juju, you explain it to her."
Juju's small face flushed red again: "I don't understand either!"
"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone," Amamiya Natsuki promised.
Juju bit her lower lip: "Then why don't you say it?"
Amamiya Natsuki said sternly:
"If I, a boy, talk about such topics with a girl, what if I get reported?"
"..."
No choice.
Juju finally agreed, her small face flushed, she leaned close to Miss Wraith's ear, and stammered out an explanation.
"I'm done," Juju breathed a sigh of relief, quickly backing away to create distance, "It's definitely useless, right... Eh, eh, eh?"
Under the flashlight's beam, Miss Wraith's eyes suddenly moved, and then a hoarse, unpleasant voice, as if her throat was ruined from shouting, finally sounded.
"Door..."
It proved.
This Miss Wraith still had some consciousness, unlike those evil spirits in reality that only had instincts left.
Since she had consciousness, methods of coercion and inducement could be arranged.
"She really spoke," Juju jumped in fright, instinctively hiding behind Amamiya Natsuki, "We tried, the bedroom door won't open."
"Door..."
Miss Wraith's voice was still hoarse and unpleasant, as she struggled to utter a single word.
"I think I understand."
Amamiya Natsuki raised an eyebrow slightly, walked to the bedroom door, reached out and took down the sign hanging on the door, flipping it to the back.
A key stuck to it appeared in their eyes.
Juju was speechless: "...The key was actually hidden in such a place."
A true case of hiding in plain sight.
Even harder to find than hiding it in her mouth, what a tricky one.
Amamiya Natsuki took the key and inserted it into the keyhole.
Click.
The bedroom door finally opened.
Amamiya Natsuki held up the flashlight and shone it inside. The light cut through the darkness, sweeping over the bed, where two figures could be seen lying.
Juju widened her eyes: "...How could this be?"
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