episode_0005
by fnovelpia“Ah..?”
When I came to my senses, I found myself on the bed.
What happened…?
Oh yeah!
ghost! Cuzin!
I quickly got up and looked at my body, but it didn’t seem like there was anything wrong with my body.
Could it be that I was exorcised?
I didn’t do anything, but maybe I unconsciously exorcised the ghost…
But considering my IQ at the time, it didn’t seem like there was any chance.
If you keep picking odd traits or something, it seems like you were stupid, but not smart.
I am saying that I am much superior now.
So is it a good ghost?
Were there any good ghosts in the world?
Hmm… Hey, what should I do if I worry about it?
They say that all places where people live are the same, but even in a world where ghosts live, there are bad people and good people.
It would be nice if you could leave, but that ghost must have lived here in the past or has a repertoire like that.
I ran over, opened the door, and came out.
Now that I was sure that the ghost was not a threat to me, I gained confidence.
If he wanted to harm me, he would have done it a while ago when the door opened.
Maybe we can have a conversation.
Did you say that earlier?
“Ghosts come out!”
When I went outside, I saw that the fire was on in the hallway and the ghost from earlier was nowhere to be seen.
Oh?
Don’t ghosts hate bright places?
They even turned on the lights.
[curiosity]
You are curious.
It’s natural for children now, but they will still be curious even after they grow up.
It looks like you didn’t think very deeply when you randomly chose the shortcomings without considering the synergy between the characteristics.
Since you have chosen so many disadvantages, let me help you choose some more advantages.
Thoughts at the time: Kids are naturally curious.
[Simplicity]
This is a gift to you idiot.
Sometimes simplicity is the key to solving everything.
Case solving ability slightly increases.
I think my enemy is not a ghost or a changed world, but myself.
When I meet you, I’ll have a really good night.
I was very scared earlier, but the lights were turned on, making the house brighter, and there were small lamps in the shrine yard that illuminated the outside, so it wasn’t as scary as before.
Are you a good ghost?
“Ghost, where are you?”
The thought of not looking for it and the thought that I had to solve this problem if I was going to continue living here clashed with each other.
However, my curiosity about whether I could talk to ghosts, combined with the thought of solving the problem, pushed away my cowardice and started actively looking for ghosts.
Is this the mindset of Mutubers looking for ghosts in abandoned houses?
Dodo dodo
Assuming it was a water ghost, I ran to the bathroom where it had previously appeared and opened the door.
“Are you here?”
There is none.
It looks like the ghost is very shy.
I opened another door I had never checked before and checked.
Why are there so many boxes piled up here?
Come to think of it, this shrine lacked even the basic furniture needed for people to live, right?
It looks like they probably haven’t unpacked their belongings or prepared to move.
When I opened one of the boxes, I saw something that looked like a book.
Is it a comic book?
‘Paradise in another world! It was titled ‘Volume 3’.
The cover showed an indecisive man who seemed to be the main character just by looking at his appearance, and several women around him.
A warrior-like red-haired woman with a confident attitude and dog ears.
A brown-haired wizard who glares at the protagonist with a gloomy expression, but his red face is visible even when he covers it with a cone hat.
I don’t know what abilities she has on the outside, but she’s a blonde woman with a sinister smile.
I was bored, but it turned out well.
The fact that there are 3 volumes means that there is also 1 volume.
After rummaging around a bit more, I definitely saw other books.
Volume 1 only has one red-haired woman.
In volume 2, wizards also join in.
In volume 3, there is also a blonde woman.
Could it be that this is a harem story in which the number of women increases by one in each volume?
In volume 4, as expected, another woman seemed to have been added.
When I read novels or comics like this, I always wonder…
Doesn’t that mean you remember each of your girlfriends’ anniversaries?
How do you prepare gifts for birthdays and deal with it all when your girlfriends make a fuss on the magical day?
I think harems are great.
However, the female character added in Volume 4 looked a bit familiar.
That was really strange.
This is the first time I have seen a book since I came into this world.
I wondered if this book had existed in my past life, but I knew, both from my vague memories and instinctively, that this was the first time I had seen it.
But why is it familiar?
When I looked closely, I saw that the female character added in Volume 4 had been seen many times somewhere.
Short as a child, with curly ebony hair.
Black wings on the back.
Dressed like a young lady somewhere.
With the book in hand, I approached the mirror and looked at the cover and my reflection in the mirror.
Is it me?
Before I changed, did I choose so many of my shortcomings because I wanted to be a female character in a creative work?
no.
I was confident that I had actually read this book for the first time.
So what is this?
It became increasingly unclear.
The setting here is fantasy, but it’s just modern times.
I took out volume 5 and looked at it.
I saw myself wearing a shrine maiden uniform at the shrine.
What on earth is it about?
Previously, she was wearing Western-style clothing, but now she is wearing a gentleman’s and shaman’s outfit like an Eastern fantasy.
Seeing that this girl appeared continuously from volume 4 onward, it seemed like she was a very popular character.
First, I opened each box and took them out to see if there were any other books.
It must have been packed and left like this for a long time, so it was covered in dust, and when I touched it, the dust rose up and hit my face.
“Kek..”
First of all, there were a lot of comic books and novels.
Unlike the first book I saw earlier, there was only one package.
The book earlier had a strangely thick packaging.
Was this really a valuable book to the people who lived here?
But was there anyone else who lived there besides me?
Well, since I suddenly fell into this place, there must have been someone else who originally built this place.
I decided to stop looking for ghosts and find out more about the shrine.
Maybe ghosts were people who lived here too?
When I opened the other box, I found a calendar that looked like it was meant to be hung on wallpaper, and paper with the characters drawn on it rolled up.
And a doll that looks like me and is made of something like plastic.
Um… I know this.
Maybe this is something called goods.
Although my memories from before were blurry, things like recollections and common sense remained in my mind at least as knowledge.
Selling cartoon or animation characters as physical products.
But suddenly this thought occurred to me.
It was so sudden, but… What am I?
I don’t know if there is something that can be defined as me.
My memories before the change were also blurry and I don’t know if I even have my own memories or memories.
I felt like my body had been put into a body created by something transcendent that was not originally mine.
Almost no memories remained, and my body was no longer mine.
So can I define myself as the true ‘me’?
Maybe it’s something else that put a little bit of my memory into it when I traded with something transcendent before I changed?
Thinking complicated thoughts made my head hurt.
Originally, I was far from philosophy, but the only thing I knew about philosophy was Uncle Newton’s apple mukbang.
“What do you need to know?”
I decided to push aside the troubling thoughts and explore another room.
The boxes in this room seemed to contain nothing but comic books, novels, or goods.
The other room… I saw boxes stacked up like a mountain.
The problem was that the boxes were piled so high that I didn’t think I would have the strength to lift them with my small, fragile, soft body, and of course I could only imagine a future where I would get hurt while exploring this place.
If you get hurt here, there is no place to get treatment!
The village below was too far away, there were no telephones here, and all I could see was the end of the experiment where I went to the hospital and got caught, or the future where I was tormented by wreckers all day long.
The moment I closed it and turned around, I couldn’t overcome the intense curiosity that felt like it was pulling at the back of my head, so I decided to explore cautiously.
The boxes were stacked so high that they completely covered one wall, making it impossible to see anything.
Preparing to dodge backwards at any moment, I picked up a box with nothing on top and lifted it with all my strength.
“Wow!”
It was so light that I almost fell backwards!
Is it possible that you gained strength by sacrificing numerous shortcomings?
I guess I wasn’t a thoughtless person before I changed!
That’s right, I’m not a fool, but I guess I’m not a fool either before I change!
I carefully placed the lifted boxes in the corner and began to slowly move them.
Since it was impossible to remove boxes that were piled too high, we started removing boxes that were stacked low from the side. Some of the boxes were very heavy, but we eventually succeeded in removing part of the wall of boxes.
I’m sure I’ll have muscle pain tomorrow.
Then the wall behind began to reveal itself.
Strangely enough, the back wall had a level slightly higher than the original floor, and there was a small space where there were a few picture frames, one or two books, and what looked like an album.
It felt as if someone had deliberately stacked boxes to hide this space.
So what are the things contained in the box?
The overly light box looked like baby clothes.
It may have been a very precious item, but there weren’t many clothes, but they were neatly folded and piled up, and on top of the clothes, there were cute little shoes that looked like they were worn by a baby.
It’s cute.
So what is that heavy box?
There I saw a bag with a silver case that looked like something you’d only see in a movie.
I felt like I was a secret agent, so I opened the bag with excitement. It seemed like there was no password or anything, so it opened easily and I saw several syringes filled with a strange green liquid.
It was like a crazy mad scientist in a movie or cartoon, smiling strangely and turning test subjects into monsters with a syringe filled with this liquid.
Break it..
There were no signs of use yet, but the syringe had a dangerous feel to it, so I felt scared and quietly closed the bag.
And because I felt like someone was watching me, I looked around and noticed what was happening, and then carefully closed the box so that no trace of it had been opened.
I looked at the picture of the frame earlier, which didn’t seem dangerous at all.
There, I saw a middle-aged man smiling kindly and a woman who was a bit older but was clearly beautiful at first glance.
The two seemed to be a good couple, and the middle-aged man was putting his hand on the belly of a woman who appeared to be pregnant.
Could this couple have lived here?
So what am I?
As I was about to look through other picture frames and albums, I heard a sound from the floor.
To be precise, it was the sound of someone coming up the stone stairs.
Is it a ghost?
I ran to the floor to meet the ghost.
At first, I was very curious, but as I got closer to the floor, my steps slowed down and I started to feel more and more afraid.
When I didn’t see a ghost in person, I thought about meeting a ghost, but when I heard a sound that I assumed was a ghost, fear came back to me again.
There were even more footsteps than one, and there were two ghosts!
Couple ghosts… !
I thought about it again, and although the ghost did not harm me, there is no guarantee that I would be safe, and in fact, it may not have killed me to keep me fresh so that it could eat me along with the couple ghosts!
Although it did not appear beyond the torii, I had a feeling that it would arrive soon.
I quietly closed the door on the floor and locked it with the lock.
As expected, I’m scared to meet him in person…
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