"Where did old man get his strength from?" Sakuragi thought uncomfortably when he saw Maki punching Uozumi continuously as if he was possessed. Sakuragi quickly approached Maki and dragged him away from Uozumi. Even he himself alone could not pulled Maki away from Uozumi. "When did old man became this strong?" Sakuragi looked at the stunned Uozumi and yelled at him, "don't just stare and watch! Help me!" Uozumi got back to his senses and helped Sakuragi to push Maki away from himself.
"You know what Kiyota-san, I'm getting tired of climbing these stairs. We've been climbing for ages and we still haven't reach the top," complained Miyagi leaning on the wall catching his breath. Kiyota too leaned on the wall catching his breath. "You know what; I think something is playing with us. We should reach the top by now but we stuck in these endless stairs," continued Miyagi as he observed his surroundings. Kiyota was about to argued but when he looked at his surroundings, he had to agree with Miyagi. There was a nothing but a flight of stairs with blood stains on the wall. Suddenly, they heard footsteps and more squeaky sound above them. "Oii… Miyagi… Did you hear something," asked Kiyota beginning to shiver in fear. "Yeah… for once I have to agree with one of Hanamichi's idea," answered Miyagi. "And what is that?" "RUN!" and both of them dashed downstairs rejecting the idea of finding Jin in the shrine.
"Hiro… Where are we going," asked Sendoh for probably the hundredth time since they left that abandoned house mentioning of a certain well. "For the last time Akira I don't know. I keep on having a flash about a well in my head so I'm gonna walk until I find that stupid well," answered Koshino also probably a hundredth time impatiently. Both Sendoh and Koshino had walked for quite awhile in the woods looking for a particular well. "I think Hanagata is still waiting for us to bring him some medical things for him," said Sendoh suddenly remembered about Hanagata sitting somewhere in the house waiting for them to returned. "He probably realized by now that we're not anywhere around the house," replied Koshino. There was a long pause between them as they walked silently through a thick mist that surrounded them in the woods. As they walked, the mist died down slowly and both of them realized they were standing in front of a village entrance.
"Since when Kenji has a long hair," asked Hanagata as he combed his hand through Fujima's hair to make sure whether is real or fake. He even shifted his position quite a number of times to check whether it is still Fujima who is lying on his lap or someone else who took over Fujima's place while he was sleeping. After a moment examined, Fujima finally stirred up signaling he was awake. He sat up and studied his surrounding as if he does not know where he is. Finally he turned to Hanagata who was looking at him curiously and surprisingly. He smiled and hugged Hanagata calling him "Haru…" "Who's Haru?" asked Hanagata even more curiously. Fujima let go of Hanagata and looked at him,"Haru… It's me, Kaoru…" Hanagata is getting more and more curious of Fujima's sudden behavior.
"I see the inn ahead of us," announced Mitsui softly making sure not to get the zombies attention that was guarding nearby the inn. "But how are we gonna enter the inn without the zombies see us," asked Kogure as he studied the distance between the zombies and the inn. Mitsui scratched his un-itchy head and said, "I know! We run so fast that the zombies won't see us!" "But isn't it the zombies ran faster too when they were chasing us earlier?" asked Fukuda slowly. Mitsui looked at Fukuda and looked at the starless sky. "I'm hopeless…" "No you're not! It's okay, the zombies are moving away," said Kogure giving Mitsui back his hope. "Now we can use your plan."
"Oi… I found an old photo," announced Hikochi loudly so the others in the inn could hear him. Uozumi, who was in the lounge room with Sakuragi and Maki called Hikochi to go to the lounge room and show them the photo. Hikochi obeyed and head to the lounged room. He sweat drop when he found Sakuragi busy tying Maki onto the wooden chair with a thick rope and Maki struggling violently while laughing. He wanted to ask but he threw that idea away from his head seeing Maki laughing like a maniac. "Where is the photo you mention earlier," asked Uozumi curiously. They heard footsteps heading to the lounge room and suddenly Rukawa and Akagi appeared in the lounge room. They had the same expression as Hikochi had earlier when they say Sakuragi still struggling to tie Maki up onto the wooden chair. Hikochi handed the old photo to Uozumi and they all looked at it, including Sakuragi who had done tying Maki up tightly. How shocked they were when they saw familiar faces in the photo. "They looked like Hanagata-san, Fujima-san and Jin-san," said Akagi in disbelief. "And this boy looked like the younger version of Koshino-senpai," continued Hikochi pointing at a small boy between the person who looked like Fujima and Hanagata. "All four of them looked happy in the picture. Heck, the person who looked like Fujima looked even more like a girl with that long hair. The person who looked like Hanagata did not wear glasses in this photo and the person who looked like Jin looked exactly like Jin" said Sakuragi as he studied the picture. The others agreed and surprised at the same time because it was the first time Sakuragi actually did not call someone in their nickname for the first time, other than Youhei of course. Uozumi turned the picture and it has a date on it. It says, "14th May 1890." They heard another set of footsteps and a figure entered the lounge room and it was Ikegami. He was holding two objects with his hand and they were an old weird looking camera on his left hand and an old scroll on the right hand. He handed the camera to Uozumi and the scroll to Akagi. Uozumi examined the camera and found a note sticking at the bottom saying, "This camera takes pictures of something you cannot see." Akagi opened the scroll and read it's contained. After he read it, he became troubled. He turned away from the scroll and looked at the others in the lounge room saying, "This place is cursed. It also said whoever was reborn as one of the villagers and come back will die the same way they had." After the announcement, all of them turned to looked at the old photo again which Uozumi was holding, frightened and shocked. The room was filled with silent, except from the laughing sound that came from Maki.
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About the date of the photo, i forgot the actual date when was the first camera was invented.
In a rush? Yes! School life is so busy and stressful! Thankfully I have a friend who is so free...
