"How many people have died in that house?"
After returning to the rental, Mai Sada looked at Mizuno with surprise.
She had not heard the details of the house, but after hearing the price, she understood immediately.
In this era of aging, it was common for people to die in a house with a deceased person. Most of them were elderly people who died alone in their rental homes, and occasionally there were suicides. Some of the responsible agents would label the house as a place where a deceased person had died, and some would rent it out as a normal house. When that happened, it could be said that the landlord knew about it but did not report it.
"Two have died. The first was an old lady who lived alone, and the second was a young man who hanged himself in his room." When Mizuno said that, he did not feel any psychological barrier. "I think it was an unsuccessful comic artist."
It was because the death rate of elderly people was too high that landlords did not want to rent to the elderly. After a person died, the price of the house would drop, and that was the loss of property.
In the past, as long as the price was twenty to thirty thousand cheaper than a house of the same quality, many people would fight to rent this kind of haunted house. However, in the era of supernatural beings, no one would want to rent this kind of haunted house. It was possible that the dead would return one day.
Not only was the rental market affected, even haunted houses like XX Hospital were not doing well. According to rumors, they were going to close soon.
What if the ghosts inside the Haunted House were the real deal? That would not be seeking a thrill; it would be seeking death.
Normal people did not dare to play, and the government was trying to crack down on them. If they could turn into ghosts on their own, the haunted house operators who suffered from the loss of property would want to turn into ghosts.
"…" Mai Sada held her hair between her fingers.
"Don't worry, there won't be any problem with that house. I've confirmed it."
Of course, Mizuno had confirmed it. There were no ghosts in this world.
All the strangeness originated from him, the source of all evil, the culprit.
Mai Sada misunderstood and looked at Mizuno's face.
Mizuno must have killed all the ghosts in the house.
She had naively thought that there were many different kinds of ghosts on the Island nation, and Mizuno was just one of them.
"I'll clean up this place tonight." Returning a clean house to the landlord was a good behavior.
When she woke up the next morning, Sada Shini put on her clothes energetically.
She didn't open her mouth to say it, but from Sada's hesitant lips, Mizuno understood the meaning of the cohabiting girl.
Be it a young woman, a woman, or a young girl, they all had an extraordinary interest in houses. Because houses not only had the physical property of shielding them from the wind and rain, they also carried the emotional sustenance. Of course, in the modern society of money, a house that belonged to one's own was also a symbol of status. Living in the northern district and living in Setagaya would definitely bring a different psychological experience.
Naturally, Mizuno could not wait. In the dark, he was the mastermind behind all the supernatural things. His chess pieces were all famous big shots, but on the surface, he was just a normal high school student. With his own hard work, he managed to rent a good house, and it brought a completely different kind of psychological pleasure.
"It's here. Password lock. The new password is 596416."
"Thump, thump, thump." Standing in front of the door, Sada Shinya could hear her own heartbeat. Her every finger and every strand of hair was cheering from the bottom of her heart. This would be her "home" from now on.
But this house was too unsettling.
As soon as she opened the door, the first thing Sada saw was not the structure of the corridor in the house, but a dazzling talisman on the wall at the end of the corridor.
It was written in Chinese characters, assisted by distorted symbols.
The general idea might be to exorcise ghosts and demons.
Did it mean that if a ghost entered the door, it would be destroyed by the talisman?
Did only two people really die in this house?
Thinking of ghosts and gods, Sada pulled Mizuno's sleeve. Otherwise, Mizuno would be destroyed.
"What?" Mizuno was about to take off his shoes, but he thought that he still had to clean the room later, so he put them on first.
"Does that talisman have any effect on you?"
"Ha …" Mizuno, who did not know whether to laugh or cry, rubbed his nose, "If it wants to have any effect on me, it would have to be a real Bodhisattva."
Well, I am also the Bodhisattva.
In the future, I might have to play Buddha or something.
Mai Sada touched the goosebumps on the back of her neck and shook her head in resignation.
Forget it, forget it, as long as it's cheap, as long as it's cheap.
It's already so cheap, why do I still want it …
Besides, isn't there an old monster here? On the surface, his identity is Minister Yuriwaku. Only a blind ghost would dare to provoke him.
Ghosts and gods avoid me, ghosts and gods avoid me.
The house is very big, probably more than 40 square meters. When Mizuno first went there, he estimated that the area of the wall was close to 50 square meters.
"Renting it at such a low price … I made a profit."
Mai Sada walked around each room and nodded very seriously, "The landlord is probably crying."
Each room has air conditioning and a bed, but mattresses and quilts need to be prepared by themselves.
"If we don't rent it and leave it empty, he will cry."
The beauty of the new house made Mai Sada temporarily forget about the uneasy talisman. But as soon as the uneasiness brought by the talisman passed, Mai Sada dragged out another cardboard box from under the bed.
"These things …"
Mai Sada, who was tidying up the room, suddenly found a cardboard box from under the bed. There were stacks of neatly arranged books in the box.
Books, the box under the bed, Mizuno could not help but think of something bad. The kind of things that normal men would collect, the predecessor also bought a few books and threw them on the ground.
Sada blushed and directly turned her head away. She did not see what was on the cover of the book. Anyway, the things that men collected were definitely not good things.
"Leave it to me."
What surprised Mizuno was that among these books, one of them was actually a copybook of Chinese characters, and the other half were drawings, including manga drawings and a few ink paintings.
The Hiragana and Chinese characters written by ordinary people of the Island Nation were very awkward in Mizuno's eyes. Maybe it was because the Hiragana that was often used was curved, so the Chinese characters written by the Island Nation people were crooked. Excluding the calligraphers of the Island Nation, the level of calligraphy of ordinary people of the Island Nation was not flattering. As for ink painting, although it was rare in the Island Nation, it was also an important category of traditional painting.
The things left by the owner of the box made Mizuno look up. In this era of extravagance, there were not many people who could study calligraphy and ink painting. Mizuno opened a notebook.
[Tokyo, you are so big. Adachi, you are even bigger.]
[Tokyo has little money, but there are many wine worries at home.]
[Life is not a hundred years, death is a thousand years.]
[Mom is old. She can't make a sound when she walks by holding the wall.]
“？？”
Looking at these sentences full of despair, Mizuno probably understood why this person committed suicide in despair.
The previous owner had died, so this box of copybooks and ink stationery belonged to Mizuno, the latecomer. Wasn't this the idea of killing monsters in the game to get equipment?
Ink?
Mizuno's eyes lit up.