Chapter 088: She Deserved It! 

Ten minutes later,

Lin Ye had asked many questions, but many of them did not receive clear answers. She had lost many of her memories and couldn't communicate properly. She didn't understand many of his questions.

But, overall, they had established basic trust.

The biggest threat from this eerie task no longer posed a danger to him.

"Finding your head, helping you get revenge, I already have some ideas. So, can you trust me and let me take the items inside?"

Lin Ye stared at her, and the two of them quietly held eye contact for ten seconds.

'Rustling...'

The sound of hair moving.

The black long hair entangled around the president's office door slowly retracted. After a minute, a complete door appeared in Lin Ye's line of sight.

She agreed to let him enter.

"Thank you, now you go wait in the art classroom, and I'll take care of the rest!"

She glanced at Lin Ye and left, her figure quickly disappearing around the corner of the corridor.

Lin Ye went downstairs to meet up with Ryou Fujibayashi and the otaku.

"Lin-kun."

"Lin-kun, is it done?"

"Let's go to the president's office!"

"Mm-hmm."

Lin Ye led the way, and the three quickly arrived on the fourth floor.

The female ghost's figure had already disappeared.

Had she been eliminated? Or had she been successfully lured away?

Either way, it proved Lin Ye's strength!

'Crack...'

The three of them re-entered the president's office.

"Lin-kun, I'll handle this side,"

 "I'll take care of this side."

...

But no matter who searched, they couldn't find anything.

Ryou Fujibayashi looked at the ceiling, but there was still no sign of the head.

"Where could it be? This office doesn't seem to have a hidden compartment."

Lin Ye also pondered.

There was no head, but there were bones, as he had gathered from the information he received from her, and it was absolutely accurate. However, she didn't know exactly where they were, so searching was necessary.

But...

They had already searched everywhere.

The bookshelf had been moved, and the back was checked, but there was nothing.

Lin Ye's fingers tapped on the desk, producing a crisp 'thud, thud' sound.

"Lin-kun, maybe it's hidden in a very concealed place. Many novels have that space-folding idea, or hidden spots that only appear after certain objects are placed."

Ryou Fujibayashi smiled and suggested a new theory.

"That is possible,"

 but it didn't match the setup of this instance.

If it were a hidden place revealed through solving a puzzle, related clues would have already appeared.

Where else hadn't they checked?

Lin Ye glanced around and realized they had already searched the entire president's office.

It couldn't be that the bones had already been burned to ash and turned into something else, right?!

Lin Ye sighed and sat down.

At that moment,

The bracelet suddenly moved slightly.

Lin Ye looked down, and his calm heart began to race. A surge of anger, hard to describe, was building up inside him.

"Lin, Lin-kun, don't get angry, we will find it,"

 Ryou Fujibayashi immediately hurried to comfort him.

She knew how much pressure Lin Ye had been under in the eerie school building. After finally solving the female ghost issue, not finding the crucial head would be enough to break anyone's resolve.

The otaku trembled.

"We've found it."

"Huh?"

Ryou Fujibayashi gasped in shock.

"Right here."

Lin Ye stood up and looked at the black leather chair.

"What!"

Shocked,

 Ryou Fujibayashi stared wide-eyed, unable to suppress her gulp. Her voice trembled.

"This... this can't be where the head is, right?!"

"It's bones."

Lin Ye closed his eyes and slowly exhaled, his rationality slowly bringing calm to the rage flooding his mind.

"If that's the case..."

 "Her transforming into a vengeful spirit isn't impossible at all."

'Whoosh!'

Lin Ye grabbed the black leather of the chair with one hand and yanked hard. With a ripping sound, the chair revealed its true form.

Inside the sponge, filled with latex, were human bones, quietly embedded in it.

Cruel, terrifying a chair embedded with human bones.

Ryou Fujibayashi almost screamed.

As a nurse, she had seen corpses before, and even handled human bones, but making a chair out of human bones? This was the first time she had witnessed something so horrific.

Who did such a cruel thing?!

The otaku was on the verge of losing control.

So scary. This place is just too terrifying.

I want to go home. Mom, where are you?

After a long moment,

 the oppressive, deathly silence slowly began to lift.

"We'll go to the art classroom."

 "When we get there, everything will end."

Lin Ye picked up the chair and walked ahead. Ryou Fujibayashi, watching Lin Ye's back, could only feel the suppressed anger radiating from him.

She couldn't help but think that Lin-kun was truly gentle.

He felt genuine sympathy and anger for the tragic fate of the female ghost.

Following Lin Ye, Ryou Fujibayashi spotted the female ghost in the distance, but Lin Ye didn't stop. He continued walking forward with steady steps. She took a deep breath, controlling the fear inside her, and followed close behind.

If Lin-kun wasn't afraid, then neither was she. Lin-kun felt sympathy and anger, so did she.

The fear inexplicably began to dissipate.

Only the otaku trembled, his legs shaking, but he didn't turn to run. He gritted his teeth, steeling himself, and moved stiffly to keep up.

The three of them passed by the female ghost, and nothing happened. The otaku breathed a sigh of relief and silently congratulated himself for making the right choice.

He had bet correctly: Following Lin-kun was definitely the right call.

'Crack…'

The door to the art classroom opened,

and the three of them entered one by one.

But at that moment, only Kyozaki remained in the art classroom.

"Hey, where's your girlfriend?"

The otaku looked around but couldn't see the girl with yellow hair.

"Didn't she stay with you in the art classroom? What do you mean by she went with us?"

"She left shortly after you all did. She came to me and said she was going to join you guys. You... didn't abandon her and get her killed, did you?"

At that moment,

Kyozaki is sharp, scrutinizing gaze grew colder as he quickly walked up to Lin Ye, but upon sensing Lin Ye was difficult to deal with, he shifted and took two steps to stand in front of the otaku, acting as if he was going to grab the otaku's collar.

"Watch your actions,"

Lin Ye's calm voice stopped Kyozaki is hand in midair.

"Hmph, Chiharu must have been killed because of you guys. You must have discarded her like a pawn."

He snorted and turned away,

"Why are you bringing a chair into the art classroom? Weren't you supposed to be looking for bones?"

"The bones are in the chair,"

Ryou Fujibayashi explained.

"Lin-kun, according to the note, as long as we bring the bones to the art classroom, we can leave the building, right?"

"Yes, the items are in the art classroom now, and after that, we can leave the building and this school."

"Finally, we can leave!"

The otaku was so overjoyed that he almost cried.

Ryou Fujibayashi also smiled, glad that they could finally leave and see her sister again.

She hoped her sister wouldn't worry too much about her safety.

"And you? Are you coming with us?"

Lin Ye asked Kyozaki.

"I won't thank you."

Kyozaki coldly replied.

"The fact that Chiharu died because of you guys will never be erased, even if I follow you out of here."

"Suit yourself,"

Lin Ye said, turning to head toward the art classroom door, with Ryou Fujibayashi and the otaku following suit.

With a loud 'clang,' the door to the art classroom slammed shut.

"Kyozaki?"

The otaku turned around, noticing Kyozaki hadn't come out with them.

'Click, click, click...'

He tried to open the door but found the doorknob wouldn't budge.

"It's locked! What's going on? Lin-kun, what is he...?"

At that moment,

the otaku realized Lin Ye was also missing, mysteriously vanished.

Not far away, the female ghost was silently watching.

The otaku was on the verge of tears.

This is it!

...

...

Meanwhile, in the art classroom, just beyond the door.

"Hahaha..."

"Hahaha..."

Kyozaki laughed loudly,

"Finally, it's in my hands. The bones of her body are finally in the art classroom."

"I can finally leave this building. I can finally escape the fate of being trapped here."

Looking at the bones under the black leather, Kyozaki couldn't hide his excitement.

He turned and walked towards the window of the art classroom, pulling back the curtain. He looked at the puppet, reached out, and removed the head from it.

"Now,"

 "With the complete corpse in my possession, I fear her no longer."

 Victory was his.

"The head was indeed inside the puppet's head. A great idea."

"Of course,"

 Kyozaki froze as soon as he finished speaking.

 He slowly turned around and saw that the art classroom, which should have been empty, now had another figure inside.

"How did you get in here? You shouldn't be able to come in."

He had clearly seen Lin Ye leave. Once the art classroom's door was locked from the inside, it should have been impossible to open unless using a key. Lin Ye had only ten keys, and they should have all been used by now.

So, how did this guy get in?

"You... did you leave a spare key?"

But there was another problem. If the door had been opened with a key, he should have heard the sound of it opening.

He tried to recall, but he hadn't heard any door-opening sound.

"No, all ten keys have been used,"

 "So... how did you get in?"

"Guess, Akiyama... Teacher."

At Lin Ye's calm response, Kyozaki suddenly realized something.

His identity had been exposed.

"When did you suspect me?"

 "When I saw you in the art classroom, I already suspected you. You've been replaced; you're no longer Kyozaki."

"Reason? I'm confident I played the part close enough to him. You and I are strangers. The only one who was close to me was Chiharu, but she didn't notice anything wrong with me. How could a stranger like you notice my problem?"

"Your attitude was a bit off, but..."

 Lin Ye took out a piece of paper.

"You said you came to the art classroom alone and hid."

"Is there a problem?"

"What's the problem?"

"You said, 'The black-haired female ghost hasn't come here yet.' How did you know her last name was Kuroshima?"

"Of course, it was written on the note."

Akiyama replied.

"The note you got didn't mention 'Kuroshima,' and we never told you her last name."

Silence.

 Endless silence.

A small slip-up revealed his abnormality.

"Of course, there's more,"

 "Ten keys, six participants, and there are fifteen classrooms in the entire building that are tightly closed."

"After the initial death of Zeyano, the classroom door in Class 2A opened."

"After Chiharu Miyata is death, the staff room, which should have been locked, also opened."

"With each death, a classroom door opens."

"This is actually a way to lower the difficulty of our search. Usually, the classrooms that open after a death have important clues. But that's not the main point."

"This rule shows that when only one of us remains alive, all the classroom doors in the building will open, and if you count the art classroom, all the doors, including the art classroom, will open and cannot be closed."

But by that time, for those involved, it would have lost any meaning.

"Remember when I counted the keys and locked classrooms in the art classroom? Nine keys, twelve classrooms. Including the art classroom, that's thirteen classrooms. The discrepancy is four. There were five of us in the art classroom, and including you, that's five. But if you're not human, it's just four."

"I see now."

 He understood.

Everything was clear.

This guy was truly sharp.

"You're impressive. I'll admit that. As a reward for seeing through my identity, I'll let you leave here alive. You can take your woman with you."

But Lin Ye remained so calm that Akiyama couldn't help but shiver.

 This guy doesn't want to leave?

"I'm in no hurry to leave. I have plenty of time now."

What does this guy want to do?

"You... aren't you worried about your girlfriend outside? She'll attack her. When she kills, she won't hold back at all. With your girlfriend's looks and figure, she'll definitely be tortured, disfigured, and dismembered, dying in pain and screams."

Faintly, there was a hint of excitement in his words.

"She was killed by you, wasn't she? Her body's bones were made into a chair and sent to the principal's office, right in front of the school principal, Kuroshima, her father..."

This was also the main reason why the principal committed suicide.

That middle-aged man didn't die because of the school's terrifying events or the mutation, causing a mental breakdown. It was because he discovered the secret of the chair.

"You really are a piece of trash. A monster."

Lin Ye immediately felt like a good person by comparison.

He would never let this bastard die so easily. A simple death would actually be a reward for this scum.

Akiyama, however, began to laugh loudly.

"Serves them right... The father and daughter deserved it. They had it coming!"

At that moment, he was filled with immense excitement.

Until now, he still believed he had done nothing wrong.

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