Tokyo Fall Guys beats up the supernatural

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The shout immediately subsided, turning into a furtive whisper: "Hey? Oh, I know—well, I've finished scouting! By the way, did you know there was a murder in Ikebukuro last night?"

"I've handled the murder case. It was right next to where I work. Now, continue." Dou Tang held his phone between his shoulder and continued cooking.

"Ahem, the new school you're transferring to has seven amazing campus surprises~"

Dou Tang frowned and said, "You actually believe those kinds of legends that bored students make up to amuse and entertain people?"

"Your comments are so sharp..." Lu Zizhen muttered, then continued, "It's true, you'll understand when you get to school."

Dou Tang nodded and hummed in agreement.

"Okay, that's all for now. Since my sister is still sleeping, I won't disturb her. See you another day."

Then came the busy voice. This woman was always decisive and efficient, never dragging her feet. She was also a hermaphrodite, and many peaceful evil spirits would be provoked into anger by her, and then Dou Tang would deal with them.

To put it bluntly, he's just a war correspondent who adds a sarcastic twist to the story.

After hanging up the phone, Dou Tang sealed his breakfast with plastic wrap, nodded, put on his shoes and coat, and prepared to go out.

“Brother…” A deep murmur stopped him. He turned around and saw Huaiyin sitting up sleepily, rubbing her eyes cutely with her head down.

"I had a nightmare..." She looked towards the entrance. Upon hearing this, Dou Tang quickly took off his shoes, walked over, and squatted down in front of her, asking, "How are you? Are you alright?"

Because of her constitution that attracts supernatural beings, she always has a lot of nightmares, especially when Dou Tang brings back some evil spirits to purify her. But logically speaking, the evil spirits last night shouldn't be strong enough to affect Huaiyin, right?

As if she had found a support, Huaiyin lunged forward and snuggled into Doutang's arms, rubbing her little face against his chest as if she were inhaling his scent.

This time, Dou Tang didn't resist her intimacy. Instead, he hugged her back, gently stroking her hair and back, and whispered, "Is it serious?"

"Hmm..." Huaiyin's body trembled, seemingly terrified, but she still bravely said, "I dreamt that I was lying on the beach, and a group of people grabbed me, threw me into the water, and slowly sank. Darkness enveloped me, and then came endless pain..."

Dou Tang frowned.

Huaiyin is two years younger than me, but she has experienced so much that... for her, recounting those terrifying dreams has become a normal part of her life, just to help Doutang.

Such a girl truly broke Dou Tang's heart, yet he dared not approach her, fearing that he would harm her and drag her into the deeper darkness belonging to evil spirits.

After a while, Huaiyin sniffed to suppress the urge to cry and continued.

"The person my brother killed last night was not the target of the vengeful spirit, but just a pitiful wretch. The real vengeful spirit has already found a way to come ashore, and he will go on to influence more people."

She paused, then added uncertainly, "He...he's not an ordinary vengeful spirit; he's very likely one of our targets."

Dou Tang nodded slowly, but did not reply. For him, the most important thing at hand was not some vengeful spirit.

"I'll take the day off from work today and stay home with you, okay?"

The younger sister nuzzled against his chest, dispelling her fear, then firmly shook her head, letting out a soft "hmm," denying his concern.

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Chapter 4: Fall Guys' Friends and School Are Quite Extraordinary!

That evening, Dou Tang, dressed in a black tracksuit and wearing a mask, stood mysteriously in front of the mirror, staring at himself for a long time before leaving the bathroom.

"Huaiyin, I'm going to explore a school with Zizhen tonight. Will you stay home with us?"

Huaiyin waved her hand and continued playing the game. Dou Tang couldn't do anything about it and could only sigh, "It's just going to your school."

Upon hearing that it was her school, Huaiyin seemed to perk up her ears. She made a mistake and a large "death" appeared on the screen, but she waved her hand dismissively: "I don't care, brother, you go ahead."

Dou Tang nodded and went out the door.

The corridors of old apartments are narrow, or rather, the corridors of apartment buildings throughout Japan are narrow, constantly reflecting the reality of extremely limited space in most parts of this island nation.

As he stepped outside, he reached into his pocket, pulled out a blue candy, and placed it under the doormat.

He then walked through the corridor where he could hear various conversations inside the apartment, stepped on the moldy and damp carpet, went up four floors, arrived at the apartment building lobby, and then swiped his card to exit.

"Hey, you're out here." I heard a casual greeting as soon as I stepped out.

Japan is a country that values ​​etiquette, or rather, it values ​​etiquette to an extreme degree. But Dou Tang is not like that, nor is Lu Zizhen, who comes from China in this world. Therefore, the two have quite compatible personalities.

Lu Zizhen is 1.69 meters tall and always likes to wear high-heeled, tapered boots, which makes her appear taller.

She wore a black short-sleeved baseball jacket with transparent sleeves, and black flared trousers with wide slits on both sides, revealing her legs completely from the side. The trousers, adorned with various shiny steel studs, gave her a heroic style that was completely different from Japanese gyaru (gyaru, a Japanese term for sexy girls).

In other words, she's a very cool person.

She flicked the brim of her baseball cap; it was a YN brand and looked like a limited edition.

And she did indeed

She is dressed in trendy clothes, with thin but sharp eyebrows and piercing eyes, but she wears no makeup. Although she is bare-faced, she has a more sharp and assertive look.

Several gleaming silver chains and a GoPro strap hung around their necks; these were the devices they usually used for recording.

At the same time, Dou Tang noticed that there was another person next to her, a blond man with a fluffy coat, his jewelry was flamboyant and unrestrained, and he was grinning with a mouthful of rotten teeth.

"your friend?"

Dou Tang's eyes narrowed with hostility. His height of over 1.8 meters was quite outstanding in Japan, which made him even more intimidating.

Lu Zizhen shrugged and said, "If you don't come soon, I'm afraid I might just hit you."

She spoke in Chinese, so the blond guy who was flirting with her didn't notice. Instead, he leaned in, seemingly wanting to say something, but Lu Zizhen dodged forward with a hint of disgust and walked to Dou Tang's side, putting her arm around his shoulder and saying, "Hey, sorry, if you want to go on a date with me, you'd better beat this guy first."

Dou Tang rolled his eyes helplessly, then took half a step forward and said coldly, "Get lost."

The blond-haired man seemed a little intimidated, but also seemed to want to say something.

"Oh!"

A loud bang silenced him. Dou Tang, standing before him, threw a punch without hesitation. Accompanied by a gust of wind as sharp as a knife, the blond man's messy hair was almost blown into a slicked-back style.

The punch produced a muffled thud, giving Huang Mao a momentary sense of unreality.

Lu Zizhen let out an excited shout and clapped her hands.

"Get lost," Dou Tang continued.

The blond-haired man shuddered, remained silent, and slowly took a few steps back. Then, he withdrew his gaze from the monster and ran away in a panic, almost tripping over the steps beside him.

Lu Zizhen seemed quite satisfied, fiddling with her GoPro and looking at Dou Tang with a grin, even showing a hint of smugness.

Dou Tang frowned and asked, "What are you laughing at?"

How about the warm-up I found for you?

"You call this a warm-up?" Dou Tang was both amused and exasperated. "He was just an ordinary person who struck up a conversation, okay?"

"He hit on me, aren't you angry?"

Dou Tang could almost see the devil's tail swaying behind her. This person was good in every way, except that she had a foul mouth and too many bad intentions. Of course, she wouldn't dare to be foul-mouthed with her.

"Stop talking nonsense, let's go, tell me what's going on along the way."

"it is good."

The two walked together, one tall and dashing, the other fierce and aloof. Pedestrians on the road almost always gave way, and no one heard their conversation.

"Yiyan Private Academy, that's a pretty Chinese-sounding name, isn't it?"

Lu Zizhen walked to the edge of the roadside flower bed, her high-heeled boots moving steadily. She raised one hand and waved it, the transparent sleeve reflecting the light, making her slender arm look beautiful.

She held her phone in her other hand, talking about the information she had found, while Dou Tang looked up at her from the side, ready to reach out and catch his crazy friend at any moment.

"Yiyan Private Academy, the school your sister and you attended before the accident. You both left the school a year ago. Your sister kept her enrollment, while you transferred to another school, um..."

"Haven't you heard the rumors circulating at school?" She jumped down from the flowerbed and looked at Dou Tang.

Before? Dou Tang had absolutely no memory of the original owner of this body. He didn't remember anything. If he did remember, he would find that the person named Kume Chika that he picked up yesterday was actually his classmate!

"I don't remember," he replied honestly, shaking his head.

"Alright, then let me give you a little lesson."

Lu Zizhen seemed very proud, her head down with her eyes almost glued to her phone, and she started muttering to herself.

"Legend has it that twelve years ago, Yiyan Private Academy demolished its old campus to build a new one, so all the students had no choice but to go to a temporary school outside of Tokyo to study."

"Then, after the new school was built, strange things started happening frequently. Some people said they saw human-shaped water stains on the walls, others said strange groans came from the school at night, and many students' desks and chairs had strange slime on them..."

"Wait a minute, apart from the first one, the others are obviously just student couples doing something naughty, right?!" Dou Tang raised his hand and complained.

"Bad things? What bad things?" Lu Zizhen looked up with a seemingly serious and puzzled expression, but the teasing and provocative look in her eyes betrayed her true thoughts.

Dou Tang responded with a cold look.

Feeling awkward, Lu Zizhen coughed and continued, "But according to my investigation, many of these paranormal events are real. I think something must have actually happened."

"For example, there are water stains on the walls, and skeletal specimens that move on their own in the middle of the night. Not to mention, there is an old Showa-era well behind the school that has been sealed off. That well is very suspicious, and there are even legends that a tengu lives in it."

“Tengu…” Lu Zizhen frowned: “How could such a monster live in a well?”

"Why not?" Dou Tang asked curiously. He had encountered monsters before, but they were completely different from the famous Tengu.

"Think about it, you're a demon. Unlike earthbound spirits that are trapped in one place, you can soar anywhere. Would someone like you choose a well as your home?" Lu Zizhen gestured a circle as she continued, as if the scene in her mind was unfolding before her eyes: "How do you sleep in a well? Clinging to the well wall? And then suddenly a drop of water falls on your head while you're sleeping?"

"Buckets, and some people even vomit into wells when they're drunk. Tell me, what kind of crazy monster would do that?"

Dou Tang was speechless.

You're absolutely right... As the two chatted, they arrived at the outskirts of Tokyo, where a school gate made of red stone slabs stood before them, its steel retractable doors gleaming coldly under the streetlights.

Beyond the main gate, the dark gray teaching building was eerily sinister, with the glass facade in the very center of the front appearing lifeless, exuding an atmosphere of death.

Dou Tang became somewhat excited.

I've got it! There's a sinister smell. I've hit the spot!

Chapter 5: Campus Turmoil Erupts at Midnight

The two of them nimbly slipped through the gate. The campus was deserted in the dark of night, and there were no security guards even in the reception room, which Dou Tang found rather strange.

Lu Zizhen started thinking about her GoPro, and explained, "The security guard tonight is a fan of our website. He's the one who gave me the information. Tonight, he'll find a reason to stall his senior. As long as he doesn't cause too much of a commotion, it'll be fine."

Dou Tang shook his head, his neck cracking, looking eager to try.

In my mind, the Crown game was giving me hints.

[High-level evil spirits are nearby. Achieve your objective! Purify them!]

This system seems to treat all evil spirits as food, its prompts are always so cheerful, but the thought that these cheerful prompts refer to strange and unpredictable vengeful spirits is chilling.

There are several types of evil spirits, the most common of which are nameless vengeful spirits, which are low-level spirits that forget their own names and rely on living people to carry out their activities.

Above these, there are real vengeful spirits and high-level evil spirits that only appear in urban legends, such as the Slit-Mouthed Woman or the mysterious Kisaragi Station, which are high-level evil spirits. So far, Tou Tang has only dealt with one of them, which is the unknown monster that killed Kiryu's parents a year ago.

But I never expected that there was one hidden in the school that Huaiyin and I should have attended... Could this also be due to Huaiyin's spirit-absorbing constitution?

No, it shouldn't be. If the so-called haunting started twelve years ago, then it has nothing to do with Huaiyin.

Thinking of this, Dou Tang put aside his worries and took out a mask from his pocket.

He likes to wear a pink Fall Guy mask when he doesn't need to transform into a Fall Guy, as it makes it easier for him to appear in videos.

Seeing his appearance, Lu Zizhen asked curiously, "Is there really something dirty here?"

"Ah."

"Wow!" she suddenly exclaimed, "Doesn't that mean the students here live with all sorts of weird monsters and ghosts? Oh my, is this some kind of experimental zone for peaceful coexistence between humans and ghosts...?"

"..."

Dou Tang took out a flashlight, turned it on, and the bright beam swept across all the windows of the teaching building.

……what is that?

At a window on the fourth floor, a figure in a school uniform seemed to flash by. It looked like a girl, and it was clearly not an evil spirit but a human.

Dou Tang was certain that the guy must have seen the two of them too.

I'm wearing a mask, won't I be mistaken for a suspicious person?

Never mind, let's get down to business first.

Lu Zizhen, holding up her camera, asked, "Shall we start recording now?"

"No, let's talk about it when we encounter something."

The two talked quietly as they slowly walked into the teaching building.

………………

It's over, it's over, it's over!

Chinatsu Kume was in her faculty office when she saw two suspicious figures downstairs. As if something had pricked the back of her head, she quickly pulled her head back.