Naturally, while exploring Darkness, one was bound to go through absurd things and chilling experiences.
Being chased by ghosts, having public transportation suddenly head for some bizarre destination you’d never heard of, stepping outside your home only to find everyone on the street staring at you, and so on….
But many employees say that after experiencing enough of it, these kinds of things eventually become familiar.
‘Even I think I’ve gotten at least a little used to it.’
After all, wasn’t the Ghost Story right before this one the place where I’d gone in trying to clear a high-grade one successfully even though my limbs were being cut off, item and contamination or not?
But there are certain kinds of eeriness one never gets used to.
For example,
a Ghost Story that suddenly recognizes ‘me.’
“……”
My eyelid twitched as I turned the pages of the document.
There was even a crude reproduction of the picture on the wrapping paper, drawn by the field employee who had written the report.
—Oh, it seems the artist abandoned the aesthetics of the drawing in favor of being faithful to the original purpose of conveying information.
It was drawn terribly, but the point was that I could tell exactly who it was.
‘…Brown.’
—Speak freely, my friend!
‘That looks like me, right?’
—Considering the art style, and looking only at the mask and hair arrangement, it seems the two of us have reached the same conclusion.
“……”
On top of that, the product name was ‘Good Kid,’ and the flavor was ‘Cinnamon Churros’….
‘That’s…