Chapter 182

"Please do not worry."

Izumi Tsunomiya immediately took out a large number of talisman papers.

These were spirit-exorcising tools she always prepared, kept on her person at all times just in case.

"I have prepared many with me."

"Once we reach land, I will have Miss Maria and the others carry them with them at all times."

"If the diary has a protective function, Miss Maria and the others will be unable to protect themselves, so they must stay with the diary holder."

"Hmm, that is also a method."

Ren Amamiya's gaze locked onto those evil spirits.

"An island giving birth to so many evil spirits; the secrets of this island are not small."

"Sanzenin has no resistance against these things, right?"

"Hmm."

Izumi Tsunomiya looked slightly troubled.

"Mao Li is also very bad with those things."

Ren Amamiya blurted out Mao Li's situation as well.

Evil spirits of this sort are simply not suitable for girls.

"I personally dislike them too."

"However, once equipped with countermeasures, those evil spirits have almost no effect on me."

Izumi Tsunomiya agreed strongly as well.

"I do not like them either."

After confirming the situation, Ren Amamiya gathered everyone before the shore was reached.

"Everyone, come over here."

Those who heard the voice gathered over.

"First, a warning: this is not a good thing, especially for girls."

With just that sentence, all the girls present felt a bad premonition.

"Our destination, that Moon Shadow Island, has already produced more than a dozen evil spirits."

"???"

All the girls present were stunned for a moment.

Then, realizing what was said, their faces instantly changed drastically.

This was no joke.

"Izumi and I speculate that the birth of the evil spirits has a certain relationship with some events that occurred on that island."

"Those evil spirits were almost all born from human spirits."

"Evil spirits possess no subjective consciousness; they are almost all driven by negative energy."

"Under normal circumstances, their range of activity is at night, and always within the area where they once died."

"But this time is slightly unreasonable."

Speaking thus, Ren Amamiya turned and looked at the island not far away.

As the sun slowly set, the evil spirits active above that island began to become more active.

"The range of activity of those evil spirits is a bit too large."

"Under normal circumstances, such a phenomenon absolutely should not appear."

Izumi Tsunomiya stepped forward at this moment.

"Unless another special situation is encountered."

"The obsession possessed by the evil spirits is very strong, and the murderer is still on the island."

"This causes the evil spirits, due to excessive obsession and the intense negative emotions of being killed, to wander around the island."

"Isn't that very dangerous?"

Mao Li Lan could not help but interject.

Her face had turned pale at that moment; she found it very hard to accept supernatural matters.

Especially when knowing that those things truly exist.

"No."

Izumi Tsunomiya shook her head slightly.

"Those wandering evil spirits are not dangerous."

"If evil spirits are confined to a specific area, they are very dangerous; within the area where they died, the negative energy of the evil spirits is greatest, so they can affect human safety."

"But those evil spirits actively expanded their area of activity, which instead prevents their negative energy from causing substantial harm to people."

"The worst case is merely having nightmares at night, with the spirit easily becoming listless."

"That should be the mildest symptom."

But speaking to this point, Izumi Tsunomiya paused.

After thinking for a moment, she still decided to say it.

"According to my judgment, some serious murder cases must have occurred on that island."

"The island is far from the city, standing as an archipelago in the middle of the sea."

"If something major happened here, I'm afraid no one would know except the people on the island."

"And if those deceased were all sneaking into the island, perhaps even the island residents would not know."

The clever Nagi Sanzenin immediately realized it.

"Because there are people who sneak into the island like this."

"So, someone must be running some shady business on the island — that's why there are so many dead?"

Saginomiya Isumi gave a slight nod. That was exactly what she meant.

"I see."

"Those dead should be the people who were running some shady business and got disposed of." "Because they were disposed of, they carried tremendous resentment, and thus turned into evil spirits."

Suzuki Sonoko, hearing this, also roughly understood where those evil spirits had come from.

Being able to run shady business on a small island — it must have been for the money.

And their deaths were probably because the people behind it didn't want to split the money with them.

A bunch of idiots who risked everything for money, without ever considering whether their boss would actually keep such a promise.

No wonder they became evil spirits.

With resentment this strong, how could they not become evil spirits?

"The three most profitable trades in the world."

"Vice, gambling, and drugs."

"This little island really does look like a place infected with those three viruses."

"Far from the city, small population — perfect for running shady business."

Ren Amamiya truly could not find a place more suited for shady business than this little island.

PS: New book on the shelves, begging for subscriptions and votes.