Chapter 988: Soft Mao Li Lan in the Classroom

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

"You are the only one who cares about who was scared," Akaso Kaze looks straight at him. "You specifically investigated the cause of Hosaka Hideaki's death after you were discharged, right?"

Seko Kunishige's face stiffens.

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

Akaso Kaze continues. "If one wasn't familiar with the books Hosaka borrowed beforehand, almost no one could have found these four books just right to create a ghost incident."

"Se-Seko?!" The art student stands up, looks at Seko Kunishige tremblingly, and asks Akaso Kaze: "Then what about the sports warehouse and the Cursed Stairs?"

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

Akaso Kaze looks at Seko Kunishige, who has lowered his head.

"As for the water under the stairs, I'm afraid ice cubes were placed behind that fire extinguisher on the wall after school. The ice melted the next day, wetting the floor. The wall corner was coated with wax, so everyone didn't notice the water flowing from the fire extinguisher."

Seko Kunishige raises his head, his expression resentful.

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

"It just so happened that someone mistook it for 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 holds 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 after Hosaka reminded me, but I panicked and lost my footing."

"Hosaka cushioned me 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 desk and chair in the sports warehouse?" Seko Kunishige asks, not believing it.

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

"Hosaka's signature was written in pencil; if we didn't do anything, it would have been erased immediately. 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 sports warehouse to graduate with us."

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

"You came to find me just for this?" Seko Kunishige says blankly. "It wasn't that someone bullied Hosaka?"

"Yes," the art student lowers his head. "I'm the one who caused Hosaka's death. I was the one who proposed the prank in the first place. If you want to hate someone, hate me." ===== CHAPTER 990 =====