The little crew chief is very nice. I just mentioned it casually last time, but I didn’t expect that he actually started to help me take business.
Although he was very excited in his heart, Kamiya still maintained his composure on the surface, maintaining the image of an enigmatic spirit remover: "What happened to your friend, please tell me in detail."
Nagatomo Masao: "My friend's name is Masame Kenji. It's like this..."
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Masame Kenji is a friend whom Nagatomo Masao met while playing online games a long time ago.
Later, they got married offline. They were about the same age and both lived in Tokyo, so their relationship naturally started to get closer.
In the end, even if Nagatomo and Masame both excelled at the game, their real-life friendship still continued.
Masame Kenji is not a masculine boy like a boy with a crew cut, but looks relatively feminine and weak.
He is no longer studying at National Karin High School, but is currently studying at another private high school called Toyosei High School for Boys.
In Japan, private high schools are generally better than national ones, and tuition fees are much, much more expensive.
Generally, wealthy people will choose to go to private schools.
And this Fengcheng High School for Boys is even more heavyweight.
Within Tokyo, both educational resources and tuition fees are among the best.
Judging from the school where he studied, Kenji Masame, the client this time, is a wealthy owner, so there is no need to discount the spirit removal commission.
Xiao Pingtou and Kamiya walked out of the swimming pool together, and briefly talked about the basic situation of his "a friend".
Hearing this, Kamiyagawa couldn't help but interject: "So you really have a friend. Wait a minute, this friend of yours sounds quite rich?"
"That's right. Not that rich and powerful, but much richer than ordinary people."
"You guys met while playing games?"
"Um."
"Tsk, how come I haven't met any rich friends in the same city while playing games?"
"Kamiya-kun, I think this is not the point..."
"Sorry, please continue."
Xiao Pingtou clicked his head and continued to tell——
Masame Kenji has a hobby.
He likes to collect dolls.
Not a hand-made doll, but a simulated rag doll.
For a boy, this hobby is relatively rare.
But this kind of personal preference is not a sinful thing. You spend your own money to buy it and entertain yourself, and it doesn’t bother anyone.
Completely legal, reasonable and ethical.
In fact, even Zhengmu's parents are not too restrictive about it.
As time went by, Masame Kenji's room was filled with all kinds of dolls, and he even built an extra-large collection cabinet.
Among the collections he collected, some of them had faces that were too lifelike. They were the type that would definitely shock an unsuspecting person if they saw them at night.
However, Masame personally likes these dolls very much.
But the problem lies with these dolls.
Masao Nagatomo: "About a week or so ago, Masao picked up a doll and took it home."
"Picked one up?" Kamiya heard this and couldn't help but answered, "You don't want to pick up something like that, do you?"
Nagatomo Masao: "I think so too. But for a person like Masame who would fill his room with realistic dolls, he is not too taboo about these things. He told me that he found the doll on a trash can in a park.
When I first saw the doll, I seemed to be attracted by an inexplicable magic. In the end, after much struggle, I finally chose to take the doll home."
What Masame Kenji picked up home was a Japanese kimono doll.
She looks like a little girl with short hair.
In fact, strictly speaking, it is not exquisite, the workmanship is rough and a bit dirty, and it is far different from the collections in the main room.
But the kimono doll has an indescribable charm, which inexplicably attracts Masame Kenji.
He even happily placed the dolls he picked up in the most conspicuous place in his collection cabinet.
And something strange happened on the first night when Masame brought the kimono doll home.
According to Zhengmu, he heard faint crying and singing in the bedroom that night.
The sound came from the storage cabinet.
The song sounds like it is being sung by a little girl, and the lyrics can be heard clearly in the silent night:
"Surround it, surround it,
The caged bird,
I want to come out all the time.
In the darkness of dawn,
The moment when the crane and the turtle slip.
Who is that behind?"
This is a nursery rhyme that is well-known in Japan and most people have heard it.
The song is called "Caged Bird".
It is a ballad sung by children during games and has been passed down from the Muromachi period to the present day.
When playing the caged bird game, a child acts as a "ghost" squatting among a group of children, blindfolding himself.
The other children gathered in a circle and sang this nursery rhyme.
At the end of the song, if the "ghost" can guess who is the person facing him squarely, the guessed person will take over the "ghost"'s position and start the next round of the game.
In other words, the last sentence of this nursery rhyme has a meaning -
"The person facing the ghost directly behind him at the last moment will be the scapegoat of the caged bird."
Even Masame Kenji, who loves dolls and doesn't usually believe in monsters and gods, was really frightened by the singing coming from the direction of the collection cabinet that night.
He dared to pick up the kimono dolls and take them home just because he regarded the dolls as ordinary collectibles in his heart, and he thought that nothing would happen if he took them home.
But when something strange happens, you still have to be afraid.
Masame Kenji curled up on the bed all night, and the song from the direction of the storage cabinet also sang all night.
It didn't stop until dawn.
As soon as day broke, Zhengmu hurriedly escaped from the room.
Then at noon, when the sun was shining high, he took out the newly picked kimono doll from the collection cabinet and put it back on the trash can in the park.
The fear overcomes the doll's inexplicable attraction to the real purpose.
But things didn't end here.
The next night, Zhengmu, who had fallen asleep uneasily, was awakened by a burst of crying and singing.
There is another sound coming from the storage cabinet!
It was still the little girl's voice singing the song "Caged Bird".
Hearing this song, Masame Kenji's scalp went numb, but he was braver than the previous night and mustered up the courage to turn on the light in the room.
But, turning on the light makes it even worse.
Masame Kenji saw that the kimono doll that he had thrown away during the day was sitting in the most conspicuous position in the collection cabinet!
There seemed to be a malicious look staring directly at him in the doll's dirty, unrefined eyes!
At the same time, its mouth, which should not be moving and is just a line, is opening and closing strangely and stiffly, and a sound comes from the mouth——
