Dimensional Codex

After receiving Minamiya Natsuki’s entrustment, Airi left the school during school time and gave Nagisa and the others to Yukina/Setsuna to take care of them, and took the tram to No. 12 artificial island.

On the tram, Airi also took advantage of this opportunity to investigate the intelligence of No. 12 artificial island.

According to intelligence, the No. 12 artificial island was built by a chaebol named Tongjo consortium, and it was mainly used for psychological research and spiritual treatment. Therefore, compared with other artificial islands, this artificial island lacks a lot of modern flavor. The main focus is “Healing the soul in the countryside and nature.”

However, ten years ago, an accident occurred in the research institute of the Kirito consortium, causing a large number of casualties. After that, the entire research institute was closed, and the entire artificial island was in a semi-abandoned state because there was no Any more developers, so now No. 12 artificial island feels more like the rural area of ​​Itogami Island. At present, No. 12 artificial island has long lost its original function, mainly responsible for agricultural work such as crop cultivation.

This time the report came from the Iwatodai branch of No. 12 artificial island. According to the information passed, there have been three consecutive killings so far, and the victims are TV stations. The host of, the working girl of the convenience store and the director of Twelfth artificial island.

There were no witnesses in the three cases, and the police did not find any traces of prisoners at the scene. There were also no magic, curses, superpowers and other breath induction residues. However, the tragic death of the deceased does not seem to be suicide in any way, so the Iwatodai branch made a request for assistance in the investigation of the artificial island management company, hoping that Attack Mage would come to investigate it.

As for the “Late Night TV” mystery, according to intelligence, it appeared after the host of the first victim’s TV station disappeared. According to the discussion on the website and forum, everyone thought it was because The female lead does not look down upon death, which is why such a supernatural event occurs.

As for the second convenience store migrant girl who died, she was interviewed by the host of the TV station before her death. According to the client’s classmates, some of them saw the shadow of the migrant girl on TV, and then the She disappeared the next day, and the body was found after the rainy night of the next day.

Currently, the third deceased Twelfth artificial island director. After investigation, it was discovered that he had an improper underground relationship with the first deceased. That is to say, for the time being, looking at the strange story of “Late Night TV”, mainly It revolves around the female lead holder.

Of course, if that’s the case, then it’s not surprising. Similar content appears in a lot of urban ghost stories, such as someone dying unjustly, and then what weird situation arises. Find some ghosts for death. The kind of thing is not surprising. But since this time has sent professionals to investigate, there is still no sign of curse and magic…This is very strange.

“Hmm…?”

Just as Airi was looking up the information, suddenly, she noticed a blue light in the corner of her eyes, and Airi lifts the head to the left Looking around, I saw a butterfly with blue wings flying around in the carriage. It flapped its wings and flew from this side of the carriage to the other side of the carriage, and then gradually disappeared.

“………………”

Looking at the blue butterfly, Airi narrowed her eyes, thought for a moment, and then regained her gaze.

At the same time, the train broadcast sounded in her ears.

“I’m very sorry, all passengers, because of the route, the travel time was greatly confused, which caused the inconvenience to all passengers. I once again express my sincere apologies…”

When Airi came to the first No. 12 At the tram station platform on the artificial island, it was already late at night.

“I really didn’t expect to take the tram once, but it was still late. I would have stopped taking it.”

Get off the tram, Airi stretched out and spit out . Because this case is more troublesome and she needs to investigate some intelligence, Airi chose to take a tram instead of traveling with a projection broom like normally. After all, she didn’t want to watch the phone hit the telephone pole, that would be shameful.

No. 12 The artificial island seems to normally have very few people coming and going, and there are only people in twos and threes in the late night tram. I saw them get out of the tram, and then moved towards the exit in a hurry. Go in the direction. Airi patrolled around, then came to the station security room.

“Hello, I am Attack Mage Akatsuki Airi, I have something to ask.”

“Ah, hello, Attack Mage Young Lady.”

Looking at the license that Airi showed in front of him, the guards who were on duty in the security room immediately became restrained. For people like them in the “countryside”, Attack Mage is just like FBIagent. It exists only in movies and legends.

“What do you want to ask about?”

“Have you heard of this rumor about’Late Night TV’?”

“Ah , This matter…”

hearing this, the guard is also a patted hand.

“Of course, people outside may not know, but’Late Night TV’ is very famous here. To be honest, I have seen it before.”

“oh?”

hearing this, Airi squinted her eyes and glanced over the small TV in the duty room — this is why she asked the guards at the tram station. Compared with the ordinary person, this Occupations who frequently work night shifts are obviously more likely to see late night TV.

“Can you tell me more specifically?”

While talking, Airi took out the recording pen, which was also nodded.

“Well, no problem, I remember it clearly. It was a rainy night when I was on a night shift. The TV series “Goemon” that I like very much was shown on the TV. Then half of the time I saw it, it seemed that it was due to thunder, and the power was suddenly cut off. At that time, I suspected it was a trip. Just when I was going to check the situation of the switch, the TV suddenly turned on…”

Recalling the scene at the time, the guard looked a little nervous and uneasy.

“At that time, I didn’t think much about it, I thought it was a call…but at that time…the content on the TV was very strange…”

“Specific What is it?”

“Uh…I also said not quite clear.”

The guard shook the head.

“To be honest, the picture on the TV was very blurry at the time, it looked like it was shot in heavy fog. I could only see a silhouette dancing inside, which looked funny and a bit exaggerated. ………Then I remembered that there was a power outage, and the TV was impossible to start up…”

“What about then?”

“That’s the content of the first night.”

Faced with Airi’s questioning, the guard shook the head.

“Then on the second rainy night, out of curiosity, I turned off the TV according to the urban legend, and then waited until about two o’clock in the middle of the night, the TV turned on again, this time I watched I know the silhouette inside. It’s a girl. She’s not too old. She should be a high school student. What kind of show she seems to be performing…”

“Show?”

“Yes Ah, it’s kind of like a variety show. I saw that there was a stage, there were audiences and so on, and then she yelled there, and then the show ended… Then the next day, I heard that the girl just Dead…”

Said till here, the guard’s face is pale, if it were in the outside world, this kind of thing would have been laughed a long time ago, but it is because it is in the Demon District that it will Have enough credibility.

“Everyone said that late-night TV was the curse of the female lead holder of the TV station, because she was dumped by the director, so she committed suicide with resentment, and then used late-night TV to avenge everyone…”

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“In other words, only the power-off TV will see that weird program. If the TV is on, you can’t see it, right?”

“That’s right.”

“Very good.”

Airi lowered her head, sorted out the records, and then asked the guard again.

“Then I have one more question…”

However, Airi stopped before he finished speaking.

Because at this moment, what is in front of Airi is not the burly guard just now, but a pitch-black hexagonal coffin, which stands straight on the ground like this, motionless.

“………………”

It was not until this time that Airi found that all around appliances seemed to have stopped moving. She looked toward her mobile phone, and only saw it above The time displayed at the moment is midnight.

The bright moonlight came in from the window, smearing the whole room into a terrible green color. If you look carefully, you will see blood seeping through the corners and gaps all around. It feels like a very scary haunted house.

What’s the matter?

Airi took two steps back and looked at the coffin in front of her carefully. Then she turned and walked out of the guard room. At this moment, half of the silhouette was not visible in the station. When she reached the exit, Airi found that the street in front of her was empty. On the contrary, only the black coffin of in twos and threes was erected on the street. , Looks quite oozing.

“From the situation just now, have the people on this artificial island become a coffin?”

Airi walked to a black coffin and took a closer look.

“The guard not at all told me that something like this would happen, and the information found did not show anything similar. In other words, the person who became the coffin would not have any Perception, no memory. There is this kind of mutation, why is it not mentioned in the previous report? Is it because the members of the branch did not feel it?”

Mumbling to herself, Airi lifts Come, look at the night sky in front of you.

Under the night, a huge moon leaped over it. Under the moonlight, the entire No. 12 artificial island seemed to be shrouded by some unknown curse, sending out Death Aura like a cemetery. Not only that, Airi could also feel that in the darkness, Hidden a certain frenzy and ferocious breath.

“It’s a bit weird…”