Chapter 400

"Hey, hey," Seko Kunishige interrupted, "Do you think it's me just because of this? Others could do this too, right?"

"Only you care so much about who is scared," Akaso Kaze looked straight at him, "You specifically investigated the cause of Hosaka Hideaki's death after you were discharged from the hospital, right?"

Seko Kunishige's face stiffened.

"I just asked the hospital where you were hospitalized, and there is still Hosaka's first visit record, which happens to be the time when Hosaka borrowed those four obscure books,"

Akaso Kaze continued, "If you weren't familiar with these books that Hosaka borrowed beforehand, almost no one could have found these four books to create a ghost incident."

"Se-Seko?!" The art student stood up, looked at Seko Kunishige tremblingly, and then asked Akaso Kaze, "Then what about the gym warehouse and the cursed stairs?"

"The gym warehouse was the start of the ghost incident, it should just be a coincidence,"

Akaso Kaze looked at Seko Kunishige, who had lowered his head.

"As for the water under the stairs, I'm afraid ice cubes were placed behind the fire extinguisher on the wall after school, and the floor would only get wet when the ice cubes melted the next day. The wall corner was coated with wax, so no one noticed the water flowing out from the fire extinguisher."

Seko Kunishige raised his head, his expression full of resentment.

"I went to the gym warehouse that morning for morning practice, and found Hosaka's desk hidden there, covered in dust. Hosaka's death wasn't an accident, but when I was discharged from the hospital, no matter how much I asked, everyone said he accidentally fell from the stairs."

"It just so happened that someone mistakenly thought it was Hosaka's ghost causing trouble, so I wanted to create a ghost incident to find the guy who hid the desk and chair in the warehouse, the guy who bullied Hosaka and pushed him down the stairs!"

"N-no," the art student held his head.

"No one pushed Hosaka, it's all my fault! That morning, we originally planned to move two newly arrived plaster statues to the art room to scare the teacher, but I was too nervous and walked too far, going up to the third-floor stairs. I only reacted when Hosaka reminded me, but I panicked and lost my footing."

"Hosaka was underneath to save me, and ended up getting hit in the head by the plaster statue, so no one harmed Hosaka, it's all my fault!"

"Then what about the desks and chairs in the gym warehouse?" Seko Kunishige asked, not believing it.

"We moved them there because we didn't want them to disappear," Sumi Tsukamoto said sadly.

"Hosaka's signature was written in pencil, and it would have been erased immediately if we didn't do anything. After that incident, everyone found a notebook in his desk with portraits of every classmate in the class, so we pooled money to buy new desks and chairs, and asked the teacher to keep his desk and chair, putting them in the gym warehouse to graduate with us."

"You never said you were childhood friends with Hosaka before, and I only found out now, so I wanted to talk to you today."

"You came to find me for this?" Seko Kunishige said blankly, "No one bullied Hosaka?"

"Yes," the art student lowered his head, "I was the one who caused Hosaka's death, and I was the one who suggested the prank. If you want to hate someone, hate me."

"I don't think Hosaka-kun blames you," Akaso Kaze suddenly spoke up.

"Actually, the first doctor called to the scene at that time was Dr. Araide. I just called him, and he said that at that time, Hosaka-kun kept saying: 'If I just fall here like this, the teacher will probably be scared,' so he shouldn't blame anyone."

"Re-really?" Seko Kunishige wiped the corner of his eye: "He's still the same as always."

"It's already 8 o'clock. It's already dark, let's go back first, and tell everyone the truth tomorrow." Akaso Kaze looked outside the window and said.

Watching everyone leave one after another, Akaso Kaze secretly grabbed Ran and turned to walk upstairs.

Ran blushed immediately.

Sumi Tsukamoto walked to the school gate and suddenly found that she had forgotten to bring something.

She walked back into the building.

The building was quiet, and Sumi Tsukamoto walked upstairs along the stairs.

A strange sound suddenly came to her ears.

Sumi Tsukamoto stopped.

She listened carefully and walked toward the direction the sound came from.

The sound came from the classroom of Class B, 2nd year of high school.

Sumi Tsukamoto looked inside through the small window on the door.

She suddenly widened her eyes, and a suspicious blush appeared on her cheeks.

She kept reminding herself to leave immediately, but her feet wouldn't listen.

Sumi Tsukamoto looked at the two people on the desk in the classroom, unable to help but feel her heart flutter, her face flushed.

She felt her body go a bit soft, leaned slowly against the door frame, and her breathing gradually became heavy.

Inside the room, Akaso Kaze, while holding the soft Ran Mouri, saw the girl outside the door through the Eye of Space.

He couldn't help but curl his mouth slightly.

After nine o'clock, Akaso Kaze opened the Gate of Space and sent Ran Mouri back to her room.

He placed her on the small bed and helped her cover herself with the quilt.

Seeing the girl's exhausted appearance, he was afraid she wouldn't recover until tomorrow.

Akaso Kaze turned and walked through the Gate of Space, returning to the classroom.

He drew magic power from a soul in the space.

Buzz.

Instantly recovered, full of spirit.

He raised his mouth and looked at the classroom door.

Akaso Kaze opened the classroom door.

Sumi Tsukamoto, who was leaning against the door, couldn't help but soften and fall.

Akaso Kaze hurriedly hugged her.

"Lord Akaso?!" Sumi Tsukamoto's face was flushed, and she struggled to leave.

It's just that her hands and feet were soft, and her body was soft, so her struggling was just twisting in Akaso Kaze's arms.

Akaso Kaze closed the door and placed her on the desk.

Sumi Tsukamoto shook her head repeatedly, her eyes full of pleading.

It's a pity that she was the former captain of the karate club, but now she didn't even have any strength left.

Akaso Kaze asked: "Do you know what's going to happen?"

Sumi Tsukamoto nodded, then hurriedly shook her head again.

That at-a-loss appearance was truly cute.

Akaso Kaze touched her soft short hair and kissed her slowly.

Sumi Tsukamoto's last bit of struggle also disappeared in Akaso Kaze's gentleness.

In the classroom, the same thing happened as just now.

Yamagata Prefecture, because of its special geographical location, attracts many tourists from all over the country every year and is known as a paradise for hot spring lovers.

It happened to be winter, and Akaso Kaze came to the vicinity to handle some business, and by the way, went to the mountains to soak in the hot springs.

The snow-covered mountains have a special flavor. Although the weather is a bit cold, it makes people look forward to soaking in a hot spring even more.

The car drove through the wind and snow into the deep mountains. Akaso Kaze sat by the window, quietly watching the flying snowflakes.

The river in the distance had frozen, and occasionally vehicles could be seen carefully passing over the snow-covered bridge between the undulating mountains.

Although it is a deep mountain, it seems to have been developed quite well, and it can be considered a tourist attraction in Yamagata Prefecture.

The place he was going to this time was one of the hot spring villages. After booking a room at the Koto-ya Inn in advance, there was even a special car to pick him up, so he didn't have to find a place in the deep mountains himself.

The inn owner, who served as the driver, smiled: "Mr. Kaze, our hot springs are especially comfortable. You can try them out later."

"That would be great."

Akaso Kaze said casually.

Soaking in a hot spring is of course comfortable, otherwise he wouldn't have come here to rest.

Especially soaking in a hot spring in winter is particularly comfortable.

"We're here!"

The car soon arrived at a snow village, where a hot spring inn with a large area could be seen among the withered trees.

A sign engraved with "Koto-ya Inn" at the entrance was particularly eye-catching in the fluttering snow, and the landlady and several waitresses were standing under the eaves to welcome him.

As the inn's car stopped in front of the house, the staff immediately came up to greet them, and the landlady bowed slightly.

"Welcome, Mr. Kaze, we have been waiting for you here for a long time, please come in..."

People in this small place of course wouldn't know Akaso Kaze's reputation, and he didn't register with his real identity. Being so polite was mainly because he had paid money.

Akaso Kaze was long used to it.

He picked up his luggage and walked into the inn. The spacious lobby was decorated with many brightly colored long-sleeved kimonos on both sides, which were two different worlds from the gray-white snow scene outside.

It's really nice.

Akaso Kaze looked at the inn's courtyard, where there was a pool surrounded by stones.

The bare branches and the pool were covered with snow, and coupled with the faint mountains in the distance, it was a scene that was hard to see in Tokyo, making people want to step on the snow in the courtyard.

Akaso Kaze looked into the lobby and found a group of people sitting on the sofa.

The owner introduced them: the round-faced female editor Yasuda Yoriko, the romance writer Akechi Eri, a bald old man, and three young and beautiful women.

"Lord Akaso?" Female editor Yasuda Yoriko saw Akaso Kaze and said in surprise, "Why did you come here too?"

"Lord Akaso?" The old man who was talking hurriedly stood up to greet him, bowing and handing out his business card.

"It's such an honor to meet Lord Akaso in this place. I am Hando Kyoichi, a producer at Nichiuri TV. Please take care of me."

"Hello."

Akaso Kaze nodded to everyone, looked at them, and asked: "Are you here for a new show?"

"Yes," the female editor smiled, "Because it's a story about three young women making their mark in various fields, we plan to use the most active women in various aspects as the blueprint for this show. This time, we specifically invited three juniors from my alma mater, Odo University, to come here to discuss."

The two women sitting on the sofa looking quite arrogant straightened their bodies and looked at Akaso Kaze with shining eyes.

Although they were still in school, they had long heard of Akaso Kaze's name.

"This is a fashion model who is very active in Paris and New York," producer Hando introduced the cold-looking long-haired woman on the sofa, "She is also the daughter of Assemblyman Shibasaki, Miss Shibasaki Asuka."

"And this one next to her is Miss Anzai Ema, an oil painter who has won awards at the Toto Art Exhibition."

Akaso Kaze looked at the permed woman wearing a bandana. She was pretty, but it felt like none of them had very good personalities.

The third woman was better, dressed plainly, standing quietly to the side, looking at the snowy courtyard outside the floor-to-ceiling window, seemingly a bit introverted.