As expected, with Miyauchi Hikage's explanation, the gazes of the students in the class on him couldn't help but become strange.
This classmate is quite handsome and also likes photography. Why on earth would he want to make a horror film?
If he liked to shoot portraits, considering his looks, it wouldn't be out of the question to consider dating him.
But why, of all things, a horror film?
The girl who had asked him the question now had a very awkward expression on her face.
Seeing that no one else in the class seemed to want to ask him any more questions, Miyauchi Hikage sat back down peacefully.
Aki Tomoya had become famous by resisting the school's rules, not hesitating to have a conflict with the dean of students in order to hold an anime screening at the school festival, and finally succeeding in making the school compromise.
But Miyauchi Hikage had no intention of challenging the school rules. As long as he didn't plan to screen a ghost movie at the school festival, this was not a big deal at all.
Don't be fooled by how conspicuous he seemed now. It was only temporary that the class had remembered his somewhat subtle hobby.
After a while, when the social network in the class had formed, no one would pay any more attention to him and Sakakibara Kōichi, these two unsociable guys.
Time quickly passed to the end of the first day of school.
After a friendly farewell to Sakakibara Kōichi, who had a strange expression and seemed to want to say something more to him, Miyauchi Hikage left the classroom.
He had originally wanted to wait for Miyauchi Hikari, but a text message came through. She had already found a best friend in her class and was planning to go shopping with her after school today.
Miyauchi Hikage couldn't help but retort in his heart at how easily girls could become familiar with each other.
However, just as he was about to walk out of the school gate, he heard some gossip about Kasumigaoka Utaha from some whispering people not far away.
The content was roughly that Kasumigaoka Utaha had gone to find a first-year girl after school.
But they didn't know what she wanted to do, so they could only speculate here.
Listening to these rumors, Miyauchi Hikage's face showed no fluctuation. He just quickened his pace and returned to his residence.
After confirming that no one had entered or left his room while he was out, Miyauchi Hikage finally took out his diary and began to write today's entry.
[The weather was very good today, so I played games at home all day. It was only at dinnertime that I remembered it was the first day of school.
I really envy you students. I'm starting to miss my own school life a little.
But I probably still wouldn't want to go back to my third year of high school. After all, once a person becomes lazy, it's very hard to change back.
In the past, I had the ability to get into the University of Tokyo. If I went back to my third year of high school now, I'd probably just have to find a job in a factory after graduation.
But speaking of which, @Tyrant's Eye, did you run into that "Dark Flame Master" today at the start of school?
I think it's still necessary to give you a heads-up first.
Although I don't mind what you do with Hamon, even if you're a severe chuunibyou, you should know that some things can't be casually revealed, right?
You wouldn't be so eager to show off that you'd directly use a Ripple Overdrive in front of others, would you?
If one day you're captured and taken to some research institute to be dissected, you can't blame me for that.
But speaking of you, I was reminded of another person who is somewhat similar to you. I don't know if she is also in this world.
Her name is Misaki Mei.
Back then, because you two were animated in the same year, you were often put together and seen as sisters in my past life.
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However, you use an eyepatch to cover the colored contact under your right eye, treating it as the Tyrant's Eye.
But Misaki Mei had to have her left eye removed in her childhood due to a malignant tumor, and later had a doll's eye installed.
It was just that she didn't expect this glass eye to allow her to see the death of others, which is why she usually uses an eyepatch to cover it.
In other words, your eye is fake, and hers is the real deal.
And the stories on your two sides are completely different.
You don't have to worry too much on your side. Anyway, if worst comes to worst, you can just go and hug the thigh of that "Thor Hammer user" in your family. If you want to find more chuunibyou friends, besides that black cat in your group chat, you can also take the copy of "The Mabinogion" from the Thor Hammer user's hands and go find your class president.
As long as you call her Mori-sama, she will be at your beck and call.
The story on her side is much more terrifying.
I don't know if you've seen the movie Final Destination. The setting on Misaki Mei's side has that kind of feeling.
Seriously speaking, on Yotsuya Miko's side, it's just being surrounded by ferocious-looking ghosts. As long as you reveal the fact that you can see them, you will encounter danger.
But on Misaki Mei's side, it's a death ritual where everything has been arranged.
Ahem, those with a faint heart can close the diary now and go watch In the Night Garden....
In short, it all originated several decades ago.
In that year, in Class 3-3 of the middle school Misaki Mei is now attending, there was also a person named Misaki. I'm not sure if there is a connection between them.
Anyway, that Misaki from decades ago was very popular in the class at the time, but for some reason, he suddenly died.
At that time, the teacher and students in that class could not accept this fact, and under some kind of mysterious guidance, they made the decision to "act as if Misaki was still alive until graduation."
And then, just like that, until the day of the graduation photo, it was only after the photo was developed that everyone discovered with horror that Misaki's figure had actually appeared in their class's graduation photo!
From then on, a curse appeared in Class 3-3 of that middle school.
Every few years, Class 3-3 would become a place for the dead to return. A person who had died before would appear in the class as a "superfluous person."
Because the curse would tamper with everyone's memory, no one could remember who the "dead person" was. Even the dead person themselves didn't know that they were already dead.
And in the year when there was a superfluous person, if the class did not take action, the people related to Class 3-3 would be constantly threatened with death.
These deaths did not come from the attacks of ghosts, but were accidents caused by a collection of seemingly low-probability events.
For example, you're in a hurry and fall down the stairs, and the pointed umbrella in your hand falls out and just happens to open, with the tip of the umbrella pointing right at your throat. It's that kind of accident.
And to stop the calamity of death, there are only two ways.
One is to find and kill the dead person.
As long as you can find an unreasonable contradiction in your own memory, confirm the true identity of the dead person, and then kill them with your own hands, you can end that year's calamity.
The second way is to choose an "non-existent person" in the class to offset the superfluous person.
As long as the whole class can act as if that person doesn't exist for a year, the calamity of death will not descend.
The premise is that everyone in the class can completely ignore their existence for that one year. Even just looking at them for an extra moment could cause the calamity to reappear.
And what's even more terrifying to think about is that for such a calamity that could cause multiple casualties every few years to appear in a specific class, for so many years, no one had ever thought of abolishing this class, or directly closing the school to stop the curse from happening.
Was it the existence of the curse that made everyone, including the school and even the higher-ups in the government, ignore this matter, or would doing so cause more unpredictable consequences, which made those people decide to sacrifice a batch of students every few years?
No matter which possibility, this curse that recalls the dead is not something an ordinary person can stop. The original work did not end this curse in the end, but only found the identity of the dead person in that year and killed them.
But you all don't have to be nervous. After all, I haven't even confirmed the existence of Misaki Mei. I just thought of this person from that eyepatch-wearing chuunibyou girl, and just happened to use it to pad out a diary entry. You can just listen to it as a horror story.
And even if Misaki Mei really exists, that calamity will only affect the teachers and students of Class 3-3 and their families. It won't affect you.
If there really is a fan of the grotesque among the people reading the diary who wants to watch Final Destination up close, then I suggest that when you transfer schools, it's best to transfer to the class next door to avoid being affected.]