What Is Going On Here?
‘Wait.’
So right now, Group B’s Leader is beside me, and I’m here….
And over in that corridor are me, the Security Captain, and the mascot.
‘…What?’
A hallucination from the library Ghost Story?
But if you think about it, then the Group B’s Leader side—the side from decades ago, before contamination—would be the more natural hallucination…. But could someone who even has a physical body like this, someone who subdued a student, really be a hallucination? No….
……
I swallowed.
‘…Brown.’
-My friend is calling me.
Then I shifted my focus.
‘That Golden mascot over there.’
The yellow, cat-like mascot with branch-like antlers.
‘…Is that your friend?’
Was it being judged as me?
-Oh, that could be the case. But right now, I’m with Mr. Roe Deer!
An ambiguous answer.
‘Ha.’
And in the middle of all that, after calmly examining the state of the two entities, Group B’s Leader slowly informed me by writing.
-They don’t seem to be human after all.
-They look like entities belonging to this library Ghost Story, so let’s observe them a little longer.
“……”
So he had judged them to be something that was not human.
That judgment was correct.
Even if both of them had physical bodies, neither of them could be seen as ordinary, uncontaminated people.
“Um… the yarn, should I carry it…?”
Tha nk
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“Yeah….”
And the Security Captain’s pupils glimmered yellow as he picked up the yarn.
‘Looking at him like this, he really doesn’t seem ordinary….’
The two beings talking beyond the corner looked utterly abnormal from their appearance and way of speaking alone….
‘But.’
I kept forcing myself not to whip around and look back at the wolf leader while I watched the Security…