Editing Ghost Hunt:Volume3 Chapter1 (section)

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After Itou-san left, the next group, which included Kugayama Minori-san, came in. A student who looked slightly younger than me, and a student who looked older than me, came in as well.

"Your request regards a...poltergeist in a classroom," Naru stated.

"Yes...erm, about that."

Kugayama-san nodded nervously.

In the track and field team, strange things happen in the dressing room. Lockers are toppled over, and equipment get scattered all over the floor.

"Then our equipment stopped working too."

"Did you not think that someone was trying to sabotage the team?"

"We thought so, at first."

"Of course, we thought someone was just up to mischief. We changed the key to the locker room. But there was nothing wrong with the key. One night, we even stayed by the locker room to catch the culprit, but no one came."

"I see. Yes, that is strange."

The other student nodded in agreement.

"But when we looked away for a moment, the shot puts, which were in boxes, were lined up perfectly beside each other on the floor."

"...I see."

Naru nodded slightly.

Well, that's definitely a poltergeist. I wonder if it rearranged those mechanical parts. I guess we'll find out.

"Are poltergeists behind all these things?"

"I don't know..."

Kugayama-san bowed her head. She seemed to have forgotten what he was about to say.

After Kugayama-san left, Satoko Miura's group came in next.

Although Bou-san and I began to feel this to be tedious, Naru persistently questioned the people who entered.

"So you are...Miura-san?"

"Yes."

Surrounded by friends, Miura-san had to stand on tip-toe to show us where she was.

"Please listen. It seems that someone got possessed."

"Yes...we'll see."

She started to act strange after she did Kimodameshi last month.

"There's a 'closed warehouse' in the gym. Several years ago, the caretaker of the warehouse died. Since then, there are rumors that strange things have been happening there."

The other girl picked off from where the previous girl had stopped.

"We did Kimodameshi after we finished our tests."

"Okay."

"We told hundreds of ghost stories there, and nothing strange ever happened. Except for this kid."

The girl pointed at Miura-san.

"I felt really bad."

"In the daytime, I'll see strange shadows. Since then, the strange figures will return the very next day."

"Please elaborate," Naru's said.

"Yes. Um, say I'm using the sink, okay? And then I see a figure. The mirror...reflects the wall, and even though it's odd, there will be a strange shadow on the wall. The weird part is there's also a rope on the wall, and it's in the shape of a noose."

The shadow seemed to be everywhere. It's always reflected on a nearby wall.

"Man, I have a bad feeling about this."

"That's it, then."

The next, plump girl opened her mouth.

"Didn't Ei-chan get hospitalized? I had a bad feeling about that."

After saying that, the girl spoke to Naru.

"Yeah, Ei-chan is hospitalized now. After we did Kimodameshi together, ghosts of children have been showing up at her desk. After a few days, Ei-chan had to go the hospital because there was a puncture in her stomach."

"You're kidding..." I murmered.

"It's true. She would suddenly feel frozen in the middle of class, and when she looked down, she'd feel something touching her stomach. So...when she bent down and looked into her desk, she'd see a hand stretching out, massaging her stomach."

We all screamed.

"She thought it was weird because the ghost would often massage her stomach, but then disappear soon after. She told me that when I visited her yesterday."

...Oh.

Tapping his finger on the table, Naru was thinking again. He crossed his arms, a hard expression on his face as he faced Bou-san. Naru looked like he was about to leave.