The Endless Shuttle

"I'm afraid not."

Rope flatly refused.

"I came here for something important and difficult to explain. Ms. Akiba, I wonder how much you know about "Whirlpool"? "

Akiba Rumiho was taken aback.

Just by looking at the girl's expression, she obviously knows about "Whirlpool".

"...how do you know about the 'vortex'? "

"Don't answer questions with questions."

Speaking of Yoshikage Kira's famous lines, Lopez patted the back of the seat lightly.

In an instant, the magical girl stick in Akiha Rumiho's hand caught fire, and the girl was startled, and subconsciously threw it out.

At this point, the "armament" of the pink-haired girl was disintegrated.

"Say it."

"Well……"

Although she felt inconceivable about the phenomenon of spontaneous combustion without fire, Akiba Rumiho knew that the other party would not give her time to think about these insignificant things.

She bit her lip, hugged an arm very insecurely, and said slowly.

"Six months ago, I suffered from a disease. At first, I was only interested in the phenomenon of vortex rotation. Later, it has gradually evolved into something similar to obsessive-compulsive disorder. Whenever I see a vortex, I will be obsessed with it ..."

Luo Pei glanced at the vortex carved on the wall and the table, and agreed with the girl's words in his heart.

The specific manifestations of the "vortex curse" are different, but in the early stages of all types, people who are under the curse will be inexplicably obsessed with the phenomenon of rotation, as if they were charmed by the vortex.

"continue."

"... Not only mentally, but recently, my body has also started to change. Stomach pain, and this."

Akiba Rumiho pulled the pajamas off her wrist.

On the fair skin, a swirl-shaped imprint firmly occupied the position of the girl's arm like a tattoo.

Akiba Rumiho stamped the engraving again, her downcast eyes revealing sadness.

"All organs are undergoing changes that cannot be detected. I have seen many doctors, and most of them said that Phyllis can only live for three to five years..."

That's why they met at Liulin Shrine.

Systematic medical skills couldn't solve it, so I turned my attention to the theory of ghosts and gods.

It's not surprising that most of the emperors in ancient China were like this in their old age. It's just that Akiba Rumiho is more pure, simply doesn't want to die.

How could a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl bear the terrible footsteps of death.

Rope nodded.

Hearing this, he probably already knew that Rumiho Akiba was just a poor girl who was involved in a great curse.

I can't get any useful information...

I still have to find Akiba Rumiho's grandfather.

——the old man infected enough to recognize Rope's danger.

"So, for the sake of Felice's time limit, Mr. Luo Pei, can you let Felice go?" The girl looked at Luo Pei pleadingly.

"On the other hand, I can't do anything."

Luo Pei shook his head, took out the green jade gourd again, and threw it at Rumiho Akiba's feet.

The girl doesn't know why.

"Miss Akiba, how do you accept supernatural power?"

"……ah?"

"I mean, the ability to accept superpowers, magic, monsters, and supernatural events. Do you sometimes imagine that they really exist in this corner of the world?"

"...It has nothing to do with what we're going to talk about now, does it?"

Of course Akiba Rumiho had fantasized about it.

Her second illness level is almost so high that she has no friends, but just like the original protagonist Rintaro Okabe, Akiba Rumiho is very clear about separating the second wave and reality, and will not confuse the two.

"There will be soon."

Luo Pei gestured to Akiba Rumiho with his eyes, asking her to pick up the wine gourd on the ground.

"Miss Akiba, your symptoms are not a disease, but some kind of vicious curse. After drinking the wine from that gourd, it can cure your symptoms and extend your life."

"..."

Who would believe it!

Illegally intruding into the girl's room in the middle of the night, saying something inexplicable and then throwing a suspicious gourd, the real fool is obedient! ?

Akiba Rumiho resolutely refuses to pick up that beautiful gourd.

Luo Pei shrugged, but didn't care about it, and controlled the Gourd of Power not to disappear, and walked out of the girl's room under the girl's guarded eyes.

He came for the "Curse of the Whirlpool", and after knowing that it had nothing to do with Rumiho Akiba, he naturally went on to the next goal.

Luo Pei didn't want the crazy town of 6,000 people in Junji Ito's world to be staged in Tokyo, where this important plot took place.

The black-haired young man had just walked back to the living room, and before he had time to say anything to the three masks standing by the wall, a hurried voice sounded in the corridor.

"Miss! Liu Miho, are you okay?! I heard your voice!"

Old man's voice.

The door lock was corroded by the water of death, and the door of Akiba's house was open.

Soon, Luo Pei saw the old man he had seen in the Liulin Shrine.

Akiba Rumiho's grandfather.

Standing at the door, the old man also saw the black-haired youth.

And beside him, three floating ghost masks.