I’m Really Unnerved In Tokyo

"Hey, we thought it was a rumor at the beginning, until the consciousness of the universe gave us guidance again... So you like this non-human type?"

"No... I just want to broaden my horizons. What I usually see is relatively ordinary..."

Mai Hanyu grabbed the computer, closed the page in the sub-section of the notebook that Araki Sousuke had just "accidentally" opened, and quickly opened a file to show him.

On the computer screen, there is a dense tree-like graphic table.

One side records the occurrence time of many strange cases, and the other side records the corresponding posts in the urban legend section of the 2CH forum.

"The truth of the matter is already within my grasp!"

"what is this?"

Looking at the dense information on the chart and the proud Mai Hanyu behind the screen, Sousuke Araki looked confused.

"This is the timeline I arranged for the incomplete statistics of my hackers on a whim..."

"Can't you see it? Maybe this is the difference between a genius and a mortal... Through the comparison of the timelines, it can be found that the publication time of the urban legend post is always before the corresponding case."

Hanyu Mai continued with an expression of "I'm merciful enough to tell you": "So I boldly assume that it must be the people of Black Claw, who are creating hidden energy field creatures and killing people through forums, in an attempt to spread terror to further obtain more information. More hidden energy fields, shaking the whole world!

"For this reason, I once instructed an unknown super hacker under my command to try to hack into the 2CH forum and obtain the permission of the moderator IBM700... But I found that the defense level of that account has far surpassed that of a world-class hacker. There must be a big problem in there, Talon must be behind the scenes..."

Saying so, Mai Hanyu opened a dodecagonal image.

"Look, this is my simulation of the man behind the scene based on the 'Urban Legend Maker IBM700 Hypothesis', through big data collection of writing style, posting time, behavior preferences, eccentricities, recent style changes and other details. Personality Traits Modeling Chart..."

On that dodecagonal image, the distorted shadow in the middle is extremely biased towards the outer words such as "antisocial", "negative", "male", "nerd", "under 30 years old", "lack of love" and so on.

This, it seems, describes a rather gloomy, nerdy, sociopathic young man.

"Wait, it's too rash to plunge into such a baseless hypothesis... It is also possible that someone deliberately imitated the crime and created panic based on the urban legend fabricated by netizens, so the case happened at the time of posting. And after that?"

Sousuke Araki, who was dizzy by a long list of professional terms and always felt that something was wrong, raised his own doubts.

As for the "unknown super hacker" who has done so much useless work diligently, you don't need to ask who it is.

"Imitation crime... I actually missed the possibility of this aspect... The logic of a mad scientist should be flawless... Is the actual experience of criminal psychology inferior to that of a 'sleeper'... It seems Going back, I want Houhai to overthrow all the data models and redo the personality traits of a copycat..."

As if being questioned by Sousuke Araki, Mai Hanyu instantly turned pale and fell into deep thought.

Atsukai Ludou, who was sleeping somewhere in Akihabara, was suddenly awakened by his own saliva.

...

Roppongi.

"Ahhhhh!!! Is the air conditioner too cold?"

The "Urban Legend Maker" Tsukage Chikusa, who was blowing on the air conditioner, drinking ice-cola, and watching anime, had an inexplicable itchy nose and sneezed.

At the moment when he was about to sneeze, he sensitively turned his face to the old-fashioned laptop, avoiding the contamination of the lovely silver-haired and pointed-eared heroine in "Zero-Starting Ghost World Life 2" on the other screen.

While wiping the droplets off the laptop screen, his gaze was caught by an anomaly in the game map.

On the map, the black vortex marked "Sadako" flickered to another location as if teleported.

This is not surprising.

This "work" was created at about the same time as "Sako" and is of the same type of weirdness. Both of them can move freely with the help of media such as songs and videos.

The key point is that the black vortex of "Sadako" moved above the black vortex marked "Curse Honya".

Could it be that someone was so unlucky that he got involved in these two works at the same time?

Since the disappearance of Taira Shomon and Headless Horseman, Tsukage Chikusa's recent "works" are following the wave of "Internet +" development, and are developing towards elusive communication methods such as network media and curses.

In addition to "Sadako" and "Sako", he also tried to project the "Curse Honya" adapted by netizens based on real events into reality.

Perhaps because the house that the netizens used as the material for creation already existed and the rules were close, "Cursed House" was successfully projected onto the abandoned house, and by the way, it controlled many things that existed in the haunted house. Wraith, making it a small black dot around that black vortex.

On one of the slightly larger black dots, "Kayakeqin" is impressively marked.

That was obviously one of the former residents who died in this haunted house.

According to his rules, anyone who has entered that house will be infected with the "Grudge", and will be hunted down by the vengeful spirits headed by "Gaya Gum", and the souls of the victims will also return to that house. Mansion, become the new "grudge".

After the whirlpool labeled "Sadako" coincided with "Curse Honya", they became entangled together as if they were fighting each other...

Seeing the two black vortexes continuously devouring and shrinking each other, Tsukage Chikusa rubbed her eyes.

This is a phenomenon that has never appeared before.

Logically, his works would not attack each other.

"Eye of the Gap" even became neighbors with the "Gap Girl", and they helped each other and got along friendly for a long time.

Whether it is a conflict of rules or other reasons, these two works have started to fight like life and death enemies.

Another even more terrifying thought enveloped Tsukage Chikusa.

Since there is also the possibility of devouring each other between works, is it possible that one's own "work" may hurt oneself?

Before he could contemplate, something even more puzzling happened.

The black vortex marked "Sako" on the map teleported directly from Shibuya to the location of "Curse Honya".

Since "Sako" as a song can attack several people at the same time, it often flashes around on the map, and even splits into many small vortex "multi-line operations".

This is the "proud work" that has earned him a lot of grievances recently.

Then, "Sako", who had just arrived at the location of "Curse Honya", disappeared.

"I...my lovely Sa-chan...what the hell happened..."

Tsukage Chikusa took the mouse with a pale face, and searched for Sako's location like looking for a needle in a haystack on the map, hoping that she was just dazzled.

However, the "work list" on the side of the map cruelly told him that this work was gone.

Just when he was heartbroken as if a thief hit him with a sap and took his beloved woman...

Placed on the game map, the black swirls marked "Sadako" and "Curse Honya" have merged into one.