Kapitel 47: White Hair in the Ashes
Saori Tsuruyo anxiously picked up the closed notebook and nervously opened it again.
No matter how much force she used, she couldn't open it to any other page. The notebook would only open to the first page.
[My name is Li…]
The notebook paused for a few moments, quickly erasing the previous content.
[My name is Saori Tsuruyo, and I'm troubled by the final ritual of the funeral…]
"You sly thing…"
"Since you know this, then tell me, what do I need to do to successfully bury Big Brother?" Saori Tsuruyo asked, imitating Li Mo's tone.
[My name is Saori Tsuruyo, and I deeply admire someone. If I could, I would become his devout follower.]
[But even gods can fall, and can be "contaminated" one day, whether it is he, or she.]
[Contamination, if left unchecked, will only spread endlessly, until it assimilates all worlds.]
[I'm currently trapped in a difficult situation. I need to fulfill the final instructions that he left behind and completely bury this coffin.]
[But I'm alone, and can't lift the coffin while also holding the grave incense.]
"Then what if I don't hold the grave incense?" Saori Tsuruyo suddenly asked.
[My name is Saori Tsuruyo. At 6:00 PM tonight, I confirmed that Shigure Kira had no breath and no heartbeat. She was completely dead.]
[Shigure Kira couldn't possibly wake up. I no longer expected a miracle to occur. To complete the burial ritual as soon as possible, I used all of my strength to lift the black coffin and left the auditorium without the protection of the grave incense.]
[At 6:02 PM, I died.]
"How could that be..." Saori Tsuruyo was stunned.
The time she had to carry the coffin out of the auditorium was before 7:00 PM. Logically, there shouldn't be any head ghosts around.
As expected, Big Brother had been right.
Saori Tsuruyo bit her lip, remembering Li Mo's final reminder, telling them that they must take the grave incense when carrying out the burial.
Never get complacent!
Saori Tsuruyo reminded herself.
"Then did those who left early this morning all die? Forget it, what does it have to do with me? I've already tried to stop them. I shouldn't bear the responsibility for their deaths."
"Never mind about the others. I want to know how I can safely complete the burial ritual."
[My name is Saori Tsuruyo. At noon, I will take the grave incense and enter the school infirmary. Inside, I will find a piece of paper that's almost completely burnt to ashes. There'll be a strand of pure white hair on it.]
[I will take this strand of pure white hair back to the auditorium and place it on Shigure Kira's head.]
[At 1:00 PM, Shigure Kira will wake up. Her condition will be very good, so good that… it makes me afraid, because the closer Shigure Kira gets to me, the faster the grave incense burns.]
[But I won't have time to worry about this. I'll tell Shigure Kira about my thoughts, and she'll readily agree.]
[She'll carry the coffin, and I'll hold the grave incense. We'll work together to complete the final funeral.]
[At 2:12 PM, I'll throw the notebook into the black coffin. The black coffin will be successfully buried, and the funeral will come to an end.]
["Shigure Kira" will make me leave first and stay behind to deal with some "special matters." I had intended to join her team, but I was turned down because I wasn't an A-rank Valkyrie.]
[At 2:50 PM, I'll reach the school gate and climb over the wall next to it.]
[At 3:00 PM, I will leave St. Freya Academy.]
[My name is Saori Tsuruyo, and I have survived.]
Looking at the contents on the notebook, Saori Tsuruyo vaguely sensed something wasn't right. She racked her brain, but couldn't figure out what was wrong.
But she was certain that there was a problem with the first sentence, because Li Mo had said that the infirmary was a place that they absolutely could not enter.
But the notebook was telling her to go to that very place, a room that no one should enter, even if she had the protection of the grave incense…
Would the "me" that comes out really still be "me"?
"I don't have any other choice. Noon and the grave incense should be the factors that will protect me from the bizarre entities. I have to remember that."
"A piece of paper that's almost been completely burnt to ashes…is that something Big Brother left behind? Wait… it could be that special gun. It wouldn't cause too much damage when fired at a human, but if it hit a bizarre entity, it would ignite blue-purple flames."
"So that piece of paper is a bizarre entity, and it was burned to ash after being shot by Big Brother. There must be something strange about that strand of white hair on it."
"But risks and rewards are proportional. How can ordinary hair revive Shigure Kira, who's about to die?"
Saori Tsuruyo looked at the notebook hesitantly, a chill running down her spine.
"This is so terrifying… Every sentence seems to be for my benefit, but I'm also forced to completely do as it says. If this keeps up, I'll just become its puppet, and I might even get backstabbed one day."
Saori Tsuruyo understood Li Mo even more now.
"No wonder Big Brother only used this when there was no other choice. It wasn't that it wasn't useful, but rather, that he didn't dare to use it."
The notebook was too useful. It seemed like no matter what happened, as long as you asked for its help, you would be able to survive safely.
This would cause people to become extremely reliant on it. They might even become the notebook's agent in the human world, saying and doing whatever it told them to.
Most people would only focus on its ability to help them escape desperate situations and ignore how the desperate situations came about in the first place.
Perhaps the desperate situations, and the act of helping the host escape those desperate situations, were all orchestrated by the notebook itself.
"It's only 8:00 AM now. There's still some time until noon. I'll think about what I can do during this time…"
"I definitely can't leave the auditorium. Even if I have to leave, I have to take the grave incense with me. Otherwise, I'll probably die outside instantly."
Saori Tsuruyo calmly analyzed, pacing back and forth next to Shigure Kira.
Suddenly, as if she thought of something, she squatted down and placed her finger under Shigure Kira's nose, then leaned her head on Shigure Kira's chest to hear her heartbeat.
"Her breathing is very weak, and her heartbeat is also faint."
Saori Tsuruyo carefully turned Shigure Kira over. The stigmata on her back were becoming faded and blurry, as if weathered.
When the stigmata completely faded, the line connecting her to life would be immediately severed.
"So the notebook didn't lie. If I didn't do as it said, Shigure Kira would definitely die at 6:00 PM tonight."
"If she dies, then there's no way for me to complete the burial. So, I have to go to the infirmary, even if there's a trap there."
Saori Tsuruyo came to a conclusion and tried her best to see if there were any other hidden meanings in the notebook's words.
If Li Mo was here, the notebook wouldn't expose its intentions and secrets so blatantly. Even if it did explicitly state them, then they might not be true.
And because the host was now Saori Tsuruyo, the notebook could naturally reveal some of its secrets. Even if Saori Tsuruyo knew something was wrong with them, she wouldn't know what the source of the strangeness was, what they truly meant.
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