Editing Internet Shrine Maiden Tsugumi-chan:Volume1 Chapter1 (section)

===Part 6===

“New ID: Did you see Chatty’s leg?”

::“New ID: That’s really bad. She must’ve gone to Mincemeat Drawbridge, right?”

:::“aaaa: The Chatty stuff is real. It’s not a laughing matter.”

“1234: I saw her leg myself…”

:“New ID: The whole thing was discolored. Maybe rotting? She’s so gross.”

:::“New ID: …Is occult stuff like that contagious?”

::“New ID: I heard it was cause of her the upperclassman on our team got hurt!”

:“Burner☆: That explains why the vending machine ate my change.”

“New ID: I don’t believe in that stuff, but would it be best to stay away from her?”



She couldn’t go to the classroom.

Everyone smiled and acted all well-behaved, but social media was full of one-time-use burner accounts.

But if she tried to stay home, her parents wouldn’t get off her back. And if a girl in her school uniform wandered around town during the day, the police would question her. She found herself stuck in the middle. She had to go to school, but she couldn’t bring herself to enter the classroom, so she wound up in the infirmary.

How many days had it been now?

She hadn’t gone to practice either. She knew she had to be getting out of shape by now.

She hadn’t even met Rainy. Because even seeing Rainy’s face felt like confronting how she was an outsider now.

Chatty wished she could stop counting the days.

The infirmary was an idyllic flower garden. Only for losers, but it was still comfortable. There she was cut off from all dangers and pains and she could tell it had been designed that way. This environment had not developed by chance. It had the unshakable comfort of a greenhouse.

“Don’t worry. I will always be here for you,” said the school doctor.

Yes. She alone hadn’t looked at her like there was something wrong with her. She had treated her like a human being instead of a freak of nature or vermin.

She was all Chatty had left in the school.

Only her.

“So I want you to listen to what I have to say and make a choice for yourself.”

That kind doctor looked Chatty straight in the eye.

And spoke.



“''If you’re only going to trouble everyone else by being here, you can always stay home from school for a while.''”



Her heart stopped.