Mrs. Shimada and Ms. Yoshinaga looked at each other for a moment, and then their eyes turned to Miss Sakai.

"Sakai-san, you just said that you had a bad feeling when you entered the inn?"

Miss Sakai nodded.

Mrs. Shimada sighed, "You don't feel it when you enter the hotel, but after you enter the mountain, right?" ”

Miss Sakai was stunned.

"What's in the mountains?" Ms. Yoshinaga immediately asked.

Mrs. Shimada pointed in the direction to the right, "There is an abandoned temple on this mountain. ”

When I heard this, my heart lifted.

"I don't know what that temple was supposed to do. After my husband and I bought the land here, we converted the original building into a hotel. The house we are in now is a building that already existed here. We bought it and renovated it. The interior of the house has been changed in the layout of the rooms. I don't remember what the original interior of the house looked like. There is nothing strange about the seller, and there is nothing strange about this house. Mrs. Shimada's expression was soothed, her straight back was stiffened, and her whole person seemed to relax.

She continued: "There have been years of renovating houses, opening hotels, and nothing strange. We had a peaceful time. I was newly married, and I started a new life here, so I was very busy. The same goes for my husband. This was originally the room of our husband and wife. As you can see, there is not a lot of it. When the hotel was on track and we hired some helpers, the pace of life slowed down. My husband loves to read and I have studied illustration. But the bookcase wasn't full yet, and I couldn't make a decent work, so the accident happened......"

Mrs. Shimada looked in the direction she had just pointed, and her gaze seemed to pass through the paper door that led to the courtyard outside.

"We were all idle. We knew when we bought this place, and we only bought this piece of land halfway up the mountain to the foot of the mountain, and we don't know who the land on the mountain belongs to. Probably not a private place. But no one has ever been in the mountains. On that day, the sun was exceptionally good, and we walked out of the confines of the hotel and through the back door into the woods. There was a path in the woods, and it was the kind of path that people had stepped on. None of us had been along the road before. That day, the two of us walked along that road for a long time......" Mrs. Shimada withdrew her gaze, lowered her head, and looked at her rough hands, "just like that, we saw a torii gate, a shrine. They are all dilapidated and have been abandoned for a long time. The gods and Buddhas enshrined inside are gone, the shrine is empty, and there are no tributes in front. We don't know what it was originally dedicated to, or who built it. At the end of the road is the shrine. We went back the way we came. ”

"Father-in-law......" Mrs. Shimada's daughter-in-law suddenly spoke, her voice changing a little.

Mrs. Shimada glanced at her, "My husband has been very strange since that day, as if he was possessed by something, always in a trance, and sometimes he will say strange things. He was good and bad. I was found to be pregnant, and I thought his abnormal behavior was due to the fact that our baby was about to be born. And when my husband is sober, it is very normal. He himself believes that some of his performance is due to the birth of our first child. Mrs. Shimada looked at Ms. Sakai and Ms. Yoshinaga, "After Hikari was born, we became busy again. We are all first-time parents, and there are no elders around, so we can only figure out how to take care of the children by ourselves, and ask some elderly people in the hotel. We were in a hurry for two or three years, and my husband was still the same as he was good and bad, and we didn't take it seriously. After a few more years, Hikari grew up and I got used to this life, but my husband was still like that. We're just starting to find out about the problem. By then, it may have been too late......"

Mrs. Shimada sighed, "He has become more abnormal, and he has become more unawake when he is not awake." Several times, he ran to the shrine on his own, where he stood and did nothing. We can't do anything about it. Not long after, he drowned in the hot spring pool. It is the hot spring pool behind this room. ”

Mrs. Shimada's daughter-in-law and granddaughter-in-law were all pale, their eyes wandered, and they subconsciously looked at the room inside.

"So, there are actually five hot pools here?" Ms. Yoshinaga asked calmly.

Mrs. Shimada nodded, "After my husband died, I moved from here. Some things were packed up, and in a hurry, they were not cleaned up. She looked around, "After he died, I also lived here for a while with the light. Here, I feel more and more depressed, and the light often wakes up in the middle of the night. When we moved to another house, that feeling was gone. I always thought that my husband might still be here. It may also ...... It's something he brought out of the shrine, and it's still here. ”

The granddaughter-in-law of the Shimada family shivered and hugged Shimada Taiki tightly.

"I've closed this place. I never opened this place. Over time, I've forgotten about these things. Mrs. Shimada straightened her back again, "I can swear to you that nothing has happened in the inn other than my husband. I heard about Mr. Honda's death and went to see his body. He's not the same as my husband. My husband was calm when he died, he struggled. Mr. Police said the same thing. He accidentally fell into the water and was unable to get up after a fall. And my husband ...... He doesn't look like a drowning man. He didn't struggle at all in the hot springs, and he died like that......"

"That shrine ......," Mrs. Shimada's daughter-in-law's voice trembled.

"Probably still there. I've closed the back door a long time ago. The room was also sealed. Director Otsuka: They came over twice, but I didn't mention it. I told Director Otsuka that this was originally a suite, but the floor and ceiling were broken and had not been repaired, so the room was sealed off for safety. Mrs. Shimada said.

Miss Sakai nodded.

Ms. Yoshinaga said, "If so, it may be because of Mr. Honda's accidental death, which caused some changes. She paused, "Did Mrs. Shimada ever have a cat in the past?" ”

Mrs. Shimada shook her head, "I know what you're trying to ask. The cat that the tree saw, I've never seen before. There are wild cats on this mountain, but they are all very common cats. I've never seen a black and white cat like that. ”

Ms. Yoshinaga bowed her jaw, "Well, the matter must have something to do with the shrine." Can Mrs. Shimada take us to see that back door? There are more people in the crew, and the management is not very strict. Perhaps Mr. Honda's accidental death had something to do with it. ”

"Just to look at the back door? I don't want to go to that shrine. Thank you for your understanding. That place ......" Mrs. Shimada's face was a little gloomy.

"Just go look at the back door and see if anyone has ever gone out. We don't dare to run to a place like that. Ms. Yoshinaga said, "Let's get the director and them along." There are a few men here, and if something really happens, we have people who can deal with it. ”

Several people got up.

My body was being pulled, and it was supposed to be a woman who was eavesdropping outside and was leaving.

The body passed through the wall and floated out.

I saw the woman's back.

She didn't go back to her room, but went in the other direction.

When she heard the footsteps behind her go away, she stopped and slowly squatted on the ground.

A blank brain is now reactivated.

The woman trembled with fear and covered her mouth, not daring to make a sound.

She thought about her bathing in the hot springs, and remembered that Ms. Yoshinaga had said, "Three people died," and her body trembled uncontrollably.

The yin qi on her body floated lightly, drifted forward, and burrowed into the floor.

I saw something in my peripheral vision, and when I looked up, I saw the cat at the end of the hallway.

(End of chapter)