mask……

Why did Ibuki's stringed Kagura mask suddenly appear on her face?

And... why is her body mutating towards the statue in the world of the bloody sacrificial feast?

One question after another appeared in Yayoi Amemiya's mind.

What happened now has exceeded her expectations for this journey.

Ibuki Yuzuru has more secrets than himself...

The appearance of this Kagura mask prevented Yuzuru Ibuki from completely turning into that terrifying sculpture.

However, the trembling of her body was still telling of her pain at the moment.

"what!!!"

With a shrill scream, Ibuki Yuzuru fell to the ground.

Yayoi Amemiya knelt down and helped her up, looking around vigilantly.

What can do to escape this world?

This is undoubtedly a false world. The real Venus orphanage is still in good condition, but the Venus orphanage in this world has been dilapidated.

This world is simply a mousetrap carefully crafted for Ibuki.

"Ms. Yayoi..."

Ibuki's trembling voice came from under the mask.

"Don't talk, rest." Yayoi Amemiya held down her movement to stand up.

"No...Miss Yayoi, listen to me...I heard..." Ibuki Yuxian's voice was intermittent, "The door...in this orphanage...the door back to the real world..."

Is this orphanage...

Yayoi Amemiya looked at the dead building in front of him.

Low skies, dark clouds, yellowed and broken walls, rusted iron fences, and a… terrifying monster statue.

Is the door back to the real world really in this kind of place?

The alienation of Ibuki's stringed body is also gradually disappearing, and it seems that it is suppressed by the blood light emitted by the Kagura mask, and her condition is better.

When the abnormality on his body completely subsided, Ibuki Yuxuan waved his hand, and the Kagura mask on his face turned into powder and dissipated in the air.

She stood up, reached out, and touched the closed iron gate.

"boom!"

The rotten and heavy iron door suddenly made a huge noise under the touch of Ibuki Yuri!

As if a spring had been flipped, the iron gate of the orphanage opened!

A stale breath penetrated into the nostrils of the two of them.

After the door opened, the rotten feeling became more intense...

Ibuki Yuzuru took a strange step forward and stepped into this horrible and dilapidated orphanage.

Suddenly, a piercing bird chirping sounded, as if mocking Ibuki Yuxian.

She raised her head sharply and looked in the direction of the birdsong. There was only a blackened wall, and there were no birds at all.

The sound just now seemed to be an illusion.

She walked in the silent courtyard, stepping on the rotting leaves and making a "squeaky" sound.

Here, there are few of her memories.

Yayoi Amemiya followed her in. Although she didn't know what was in the orphanage, this place was the only building that could be entered.

"Entering the courtyard...walking through the promenade...after turning the corner, there is a bright passage...at the end of the passage is a wooden door with a carved angel...behind the wooden door is the place where the dean leads us to pray...by the wooden door There is a chair, and many times... the dean sits there..."

"We pray... pray... for a good life..." Ibuki Yuzuru's intermittent words entered Yayoi Amemiya's ears, and she looked at her with some worry.

There seems to be something wrong with Ibuki Yuzuru's situation.

She hurriedly walked towards the corridor as if possessed by a demon. According to her, behind the corridor was a passage, and at the end of the passage was a prayer room, and her dean often sat outside the door of the prayer room.

She is like this now... is she trying to find the dean?

Or...she thinks that the door to the real world is the wooden door carved with an angel pattern from the prayer room?

"Wait, Ibuki."

Yayoi Amemiya grabbed her wrist.

Unexpectedly, Ibuki Yuxian has already made a "squeak" and pushed open the inner door of the orphanage.

A long corridor appeared in front of the two of them.

It seems to be the same as Ibuki Yuzuru's memory, and nothing has changed.

but……

Both of them stopped, and Ibuki Yuzuru also came to his senses at this moment.

The two sides of this corridor are covered with photos.

All pictures of kids...

Laughing, playing games, crying, quarreling, slapsticking...

However, the farther the photo extends, the weirder it becomes...

The movements and expressions of the children in the photos are less and less, until they are completely absent.

Just like... a posthumous photo.

The strange sense of terror overwhelmed, and Ibuki Yuxian immediately got goosebumps on his arms.

Do you really want to go?

While these are just photos,…

Ibuki Youxian looked at the dense photos on both sides of the corridor and felt a little uncomfortable.

Feeling this cold chill, she slowly turned her head and looked at Yayoi Amemiya. Before she could speak, she saw Yayoi Amemiya asking: "Just now you said, you heard a voice, and a voice told you that returning to the real worldThe door is in this orphanage, whose voice is it?"

Yayoi Amemiya's voice is still so calm.

Ibuki Yuxian still had some disbelief on his face, and replied, "It's...my own voice."

"After the mask appeared on my face just now, there seemed to be an extra me in my mind... She was telling me what to do next..."

"Why can you be sure that it is your own voice? The human mouth makes a sound forward, and the auricle is also forward. The sound you hear is mixed with the reverberation of the oral cavity, nasal cavity, skull, chest cavity, etc., as well as bones, internal organs, etc. Vibration, completely different from what others hear."

Yayoi Amemiya stared at Yibui Youxian: "Answer me, the voice you heard just now is your own voice that you perceive when you speak, or is it your voice that is played back after recording, and it is your voice in other people's ears."

Ibuki Yuzuru was stunned for a moment, and then she suddenly realized the problem.

That's right... If the voice just now appeared as her voice in other people's ears, then the "that person" in her mind is the outsider...

If it was based on the sound she felt herself, then the sound just now really came from some kind of mutation in her body or soul.

After careful recall, Ibuki Yuzuru replied affirmatively: "It's what I perceive, my own voice, Miss Yayoi!"

"Really..." Yayoi Amemiya nodded thoughtfully.

She looked at the long and narrow corridor covered with photo frames and said, "Let's go then, trust your judgement."

The moment they stepped into the corridor, the door behind them closed tightly with a bang.

However, the strange thing is that this corridor is still bright.

It has no lights, no windows that let in natural light...

It was almost as if, it was deliberately to let Yibui Youxian and Yayoi Amemiya see everything in this corridor clearly.