N-M Chapter 165 Story and Truth
Chapter 165 Story and Truth
Uchiha Ryo was somewhat surprised. "But she clearly can't see you..."
The spirit named Firefly lowered its head. "That was a long time ago. That child used to chat with me a lot when he was little. For a while, we would always watch fireflies together here."
"But one day, she suddenly couldn't see me anymore..."
Uchiha Ryo: "Suddenly... I can't see anymore?"
Firefly nodded, then gave a self-deprecating laugh. "Actually, I knew this before I met her. Some ordinary people with strong innate spirituality can see parts of the spirits in their childhood."
"As children grow up, their spirituality gradually dissipates...and they eventually become ordinary people. This is the reason why you humans say that children can see things that adults cannot."
At this moment, Zihu also ran over from a distance.
"Lord Firefly, this is the human who helped my sister."
Yingguang's expression remained unchanged, as if she had known Uchiha Ryo's identity all along.
"It's been so long since I've talked to humans this much. Would you like to hear my story?"
Uchiha Ryo sat down on the ground. "I'm bored anyway, so I might as well listen."
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The next morning, Uchiha Ryo knocked on the door of the girl's room next door. Then Yukinoshita suddenly pushed the door open and pulled Uchiha Ryo inside.
"Hey, what are you doing?"
The first thing Uchiha Ryo saw when he was pulled in by Yukinoshita was Fujiwara Chika, who was clinging to Chitanda.
"Oh my, is this something I can see without spending money?"
Yukinoshita rubbed her temples. "Fujiwara woke us all up early this morning as if he was having a nightmare, and then he started yelling that he saw a hanging figure in room number seven across the street last night."
Last night, I was outside for the first half of the night, and when I came back, I didn't find any monsters nearby.
Fujiwara Chika raised her head, still holding Chitanda tightly, and spoke slowly.
"Last night I suddenly felt thirsty, and when I sat up to get a glass of water, I vaguely saw a hanging shadow appear in the room across the street!"
Yukinoshita opened the window and looked across the street. "Could you be seeing things? After all, if something like that really happened last night, the hotel wouldn't pretend nothing happened, would it?"
Fujiwara Chika clenched her fist. "That's the problem. I clearly saw it yesterday, but there's nothing here this morning."
Chitanda Eru ruffled Chika's hair, then also put on a serious expression.
"Actually... I saw it too, that shadow of someone hanging."
Just as Fujiwara Chika got up to drink water, Chitanda, who was a light sleeper, also woke up and saw the shadow emerging in the darkness outside the window.
"When I woke up this morning, I thought I was seeing things, but Fujiwara said she saw the same thing."
Yukino: "What if the two of them were mistaken together? After all, there was only moonlight outside at the time, and it's normal to mistake something in such dim light."
Chitanda Eru rested her chin on her hand and suddenly brought her face close to Yukinoshita's.
"Yukino! What exactly did we get mixed up with?"
"this...."
Chitanda Eru raised her hand, "Let's all investigate! I'm so curious!!"
Uchiha Ryo: "Then let's just go find the landlady or Ai and ask them to let us check room number seven. It's an empty room anyway."
When the group of four found the landlady Hinatsuru and wanted to see room number seven, Hinatsuru Akina simply smiled and nodded at Uchiha Ryo.
"Did you tell them about what happened last night?"
"Last night?" Fujiwara Chika caught the key phrase.
"What did Ling and the landlady do last night?" Chitanda Eru asked, seemingly casually.
Yukinoshita's cold gaze swept over him. "Uchiha-kun, I misjudged you."
"Wait a minute!"
Uchiha Ryo noticed the strange looks the three women were giving him and quickly said, "What do you take me for? While I admire Cao Cao from the Three Kingdoms period, that's all!"
Hinatsuru Akina smiled. "I'm sorry, my wording was flawed. Although I don't know why you came to room number seven, I can roughly guess... I'm truly sorry."
The landlady opened the door. Room number seven was the same as the other rooms, except that a beam was placed between the two windows.
Hinatsuru Akina picked up a golden yukata from the low table beside her.
"I hung my clothes out to dry here last night. If you've mistaken something, it's probably a problem with this garment."
Fujiwara Chika exclaimed in surprise, "Eh!! So the shadows we saw... were actually just clothes hanging there?"
Chitanda: "Is that really true?!"
Yukinoshita: "If it's clothes, then why do you hang them out to dry at night, Aunt Hinatsuru?"
Hinatsuru Ai hugged her yukata tightly, "It seems this little one really didn't tell you about what happened last night..."
Uchiha Ryo said helplessly, "I'm not the kind of person who likes gossip, and it's late at night, even if I wanted to tell them, I couldn't get into the room."
This time, it was Hinatsuru Akina's turn to blink in surprise. "Eh? Didn't you guys book two rooms as a cover, but actually live together?"
Yukino Yukinoshita: "How is that possible?!"
Hinatsuru Akina looked at the others awkwardly, "I'm so sorry, I thought..."
At this moment, Chitanda suddenly asked, "Wait a minute, if that legend is just Aunt Hinatsuru hanging up laundry, then the legend of Fuchi Pond is also false!"
Upon hearing the words "Yuanchi," Hinatsuru Akina's expression turned slightly wistful and sad.
"Sometimes it's really hard to keep things bottled up inside. Would you like to hear a story?"
Fujiwara Chika and Chitanda Eru, with their strong curiosity, certainly wouldn't miss this opportunity to hear a story, because they both keenly sensed that Hinatsuru Akina must know something about Fuchi Pond.
Uchiha Ryo sat to the side, and the experiences he learned from Hotaru perfectly connected with Hinatsuru Akina's own story.
He finally pieced together the truth about the so-called Abyss Pool from the story.
25 years ago, Ayane Hina was only 8 years old...
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