Hanako and Sachiko-san / Abby Lavinia ...

"Huh? You two actually knew about the Seven Mysteries?" Shirou asked the two girls in surprise.

"Shirou, do you want to hear it? Do you want to hear it?" Abigail hopped over like a little rabbit, smiling as she looked at Shirou.

"Yes, of course. That's why I came here," Shirou said.

"Now I will tell you the story of the Four Heavenly Kings, the ghosts of three of the Seven Mysteries of Time!" Abigail began to tell the story in a tone as if performing a Shakespeare play, standing on tiptoe and twirling in circles.

"Wait! Why are there three out of the Four Heavenly Kings?" Shirou asked, puzzled.

"Well, it's precisely because of this incredible event," Lavinia said with a smile.

"Shirou, do you still want to hear it or not? If you don't, I'm not talking anymore!" Abigail said, puffing out her cheeks, after being interrupted.

"Sorry, sorry, please continue," Shirou said apologetically.

Abigail composed herself and returned to storytelling mode, saying:

"Hmm, cough cough, speaking of the Four Heavenly Kings of Ghosts, I heard they've taken over this school! Like Miss Sachiko in the elementary school area, Miss Hanako in the high school restrooms, and Miss Kayako in the female teachers' dormitory..."

"Huh?" Shirou looked at the girl with a puzzled expression, as if he wanted to ask something.

"Hmm!?" Abigail warned Shirou with the look of a naughty child.

Shirou could only wave his hand dismissively, signaling her to continue.

Chapter 522 Delia and Sachiko

Only after Shirou shut his mouth did Abigail continue her favorite theatrical performance.

She ran behind the curtains, rolled herself up in the sheer fabric, and pretended to be a Western Ghost.

"It is said that the ghosts and the mysterious forces of this town had reached some kind of agreement, and at first everyone lived together peacefully. But... suddenly one day!" Abigail said in a sinister, drawn-out voice.

A thunderous roar!

It turned out that Lavinia had pressed the play button on the computer, and the sound came from the speakers.

Abigail began to recount the terrible rumors in a deep voice...

"Something is about to happen in this town. The mysterious power is about to disappear, so the ghosts have become restless. The low-level ghosts here have even lost their minds and are wandering around aimlessly... They may be controlled by a higher-level evil spirit, namely the legendary Four Heavenly Kings of Ghosts!"

Lavinia played that eerie, chilling music that sent shivers down your spine.

Abigail said, "First, there's the first act of the story, featuring one of the Four Heavenly Kings, Miss Hanako!"

When you go to the toilet, you walk into the stall and close the door. You hear sobbing coming from the next room, but when you step outside, you find that both toilet doors are open and there is no one inside.

However, whenever someone enters a toilet stall, sounds can be heard coming from the next stall.

Until you can't resist your curiosity and climb onto the toilet to peek into the next stall, you'll find that the door to the opposite stall is already closed. Then you look down...

But then they found that nothing was left?

You climbed down from the toilet, walked outside, and tried to push the adjacent bathroom door, but found it wouldn't open. That door had been closed sometime earlier.

You knocked on the door and called out to someone inside, but no one answered.

You think it's just a broken door, and that you're hallucinating. So you go back into the bathroom, and when you close the door, you hear sobbing again.

You came out again, couldn't help but lower your head, and crouch down on the ground with your hands, trying to peek through the crack under the toilet door...

But there was still nothing there. No feet, and no shoes either. It was all just me scaring myself.

Relieved, you returned to the restroom, sat down, and just wanted to take care of things quickly and leave.

Drip, drip, water droplets fell from above.

When you look up, you'll find that in the spot where you were trying to peek, there's a pale, soaking wet female student leaning against the ceiling, staring straight at you—that's Miss Hanako!

"If you're alone while using the toilet, a hand will reach out from inside and drag you into the toilet bowl, where you'll disappear!"

"Aaaaaaah!!!" At that moment, a piercing scream rang out from the speaker.

"How was it! Wasn't it terrifying, Miss Hanako!" Abigail peeked out from behind the rolled-up curtain and asked Shirou.

"I think the sound effects you guys are playing are scarier," Shirou said, rubbing his stinging ears.

"It's said that there are over a dozen corpses under the school toilets every year..." Lavinia said with a sinister smile, her eyes wide.

"No, no, nothing this terrible has ever happened since this school was founded." Shirou waved his hands repeatedly, then looked at the girl and asked, "Have you heard anything about what happened at the high school?"

Logically speaking, with both Jeanne d'Arc and her sister there, they wouldn't have ignored any ferocious evil spirits if they were present.

"No, that's not true. Apparently, Mikoto, who was dragged into the toilet, just had diarrhea," Abigail said, shaking her head.

"Because it's so scary, so scary, the girls in the high school district are now afraid to go to the bathroom alone. So now these high school girls, whether they're day students or rich girls, are incredibly united, and new friendships are formed every day in the bathroom," Lavinia added.

"Huh? Hmm? The result was unexpectedly good?" Shirou blinked, sorting out his somewhat chaotic thoughts, and asked in confusion.

"Kukuku, well, that depends on whether there are any lone people... So let me tell you about the next Four Heavenly Kings, Miss Sachiko from the Elementary School District." Abigail said, pulling her head back into the curtains, and eerie background music began to play.

"In the elementary school district, every afternoon around 5 p. m., when you're going down the stairs, you can hear something like a ping-pong ball bouncing around and then falling to the ground..."

Curious, you ran down the stairs, wanting to catch the ball. Following the sound, you chased after it. You got closer and closer to the sound of the ping-pong ball, and excitedly, you grabbed the stairs with one hand, oblivious to everything else, and kept climbing down.

Dodo... Dodo...

One floor... two floors... three floors...

When you chase it to the corner and crouch down to pick it up, you'll find that it's not a ping-pong ball, but a primary school student's head.

Dodo... Dodo...

Then came the sound of ping-pong balls bouncing and falling from the stairs above.

If you look up, you'll see a girl holding a human head in her hands, throwing it down the stairs.

You're terrified and want to run away, heading towards the door, but you find it's pitch black on both sides, with no way out... because this school simply doesn't have a fourth floor staircase...

You try to climb up, but the ground slips, and you almost fall. Looking down, you realize that what you're standing on isn't a staircase at all—it's not wooden or concrete, but a pile of elementary school students' heads...

"--Ahhh!!!" At this moment, Lavinia pressed the sound effect, and a piercing scream came from the speaker again.

"How was it? Pretty scary, huh!" Abigail poked her head out from behind the curtains again and looked at Shirou.

"Ever since that news spread, the kids in the elementary school district no longer dare to play around on the stairs. They carefully count the floors and make sure they're on the right before they dare to go outside," Lavinia added.

"Is... is that so? It's right not to chase or play around when going down the stairs." Shirou raised an eyebrow, unsure how to respond.

Chapter 523 Lavinia

"The third incredible ghost story is about Kayako in the female teacher's dormitory." Abigail shrank back behind the curtains and began to tell a new story.

Legend has it that every night after midnight, three bursts of cat meows can be heard outside the female teachers' dormitory...

If you hear the first meow, anyone in the dorm must go back to their room, or they'll be targeted.

If you hear a second meow, those in the dorm should go to bed.

If the people here are still awake when the third meow sounds.

Children would run by outside, and then the women's souls would be drawn in, pulled into a deep, dark world called Kayako.

The teachers initially thought it was a joke, but it was already very late, so everyone went to get their beauty sleep, and nothing happened.

Only once, a teacher went out to meet with friends. She was usually very sociable and liked to mingle with people. That night, she drank alcohol and didn't come home until very late.

When she returned to the dormitory entrance, it was already past midnight.

A Black Shadow, resembling a child, suddenly darted out of the bushes and stood in front of her.

The female teacher broke out in a cold sweat. Upon closer inspection, she realized it was a cat, a Kuro Neko whose fur blended seamlessly into the night.

Strangely, this cat wasn't afraid of people at all. Instead, it stared intently at the woman behind her with its faintly glowing eyes, remaining completely still.

Meow~!

When the first meow rang out, the female teacher remembered the terrible rumors, avoided the unsettling Kuro Neko, and ran back to her dormitory.

Meow~!

When the second meow sounded, the female teacher took out her electronic card from her bag, intending to open the door, but her hand trembled and it fell to the ground. As she bent down to pick it up, she clearly heard something walking towards her from behind.

The female teacher didn't dare turn around or linger there. She quickly opened the door and ran inside. The dormitory was pitch black; all her colleagues were already asleep, and the surroundings were eerily quiet than usual.

The female teacher didn't care about any of that; all she wanted to do was get back to her room as quickly as possible, where her roommate was.

The female teacher reached out and pressed the doorknob of her room, turned the knob, but couldn't push the door open.

Just then...

"Meow~!" the cat meowed. The female teacher looked up and saw the Kuro Neko sitting on the windowsill outside, its eyes fixed on her.

The female teacher looked at the cat, at its faintly glowing blue-green eyes, and suddenly her face turned deathly pale. She saw a reflection in the glass window...

After that, the female teacher disappeared from the school, and no one knows what happened.

"No, no, I've heard about it. There was indeed a teacher who got drunk. It seems she didn't come home all night, and then she was found sleeping on the floor outside the dormitory bathroom. That teacher got married and left the school not long after."

"The truth of this story seems to be that the drunken female teacher lost control and resigned, right? Although for her, it seems to be more terrifying than encountering a ghost."

However, the teachers in the teachers' dormitory sometimes mentioned that they would have nightmares from time to time while they were sleeping.

She will constantly experience all the bullying and ostracism that happened in the classes she taught, only the targets will no longer be the students, but herself who laughed and pushed the matter away back then.

As for how they woke up, whether they were killed by the students in different ways or suffered some kind of torture, remains unknown.

Abigail gave a meaningful smile and said.

"Therefore, the teachers are very understanding of the students' feelings and take the initiative to talk to them and discuss things," Lavinia added.

"Huh? Why don't these ghosts seem scary at all? Could it be that Sadako is crawling out of a phone screen?" Shirou said in surprise.

"Hmm?" Abigail looked at Shirou with a puzzled expression, holding the curtains and tilting her head as she spoke.

"How should I put it, I always feel that the female ghosts in this school are quite educational when they're doing things," Shirou said after thinking for a long time, unsure how to evaluate it.

"So... this concludes my personal theater, Abigail, with Lavinia as the member behind the scenes." Abigail emerged from behind the curtains and bowed as she spoke.

Clap clap clap, Shirou clapped along, saying, "You acted very well."

"Hmph, that's right, my combination with Lavinia is invincible." Abigail hugged Lavinia, affectionately nuzzling her friend's face, and said proudly.

"But... wait a minute, speaking of the Four Heavenly Kings, you've only mentioned three so far, right?" Shirou asked, puzzled.

"Ah, the last one, since it's not scary at all, there's nothing to say about it," Abigail said.

"Hmm? What's going on?" Shirou asked.

Lavinia began, "The fourth of the Four Heavenly Kings, Miss Ruriko in the cafeteria, no matter if it's a used plate, bowl, chopsticks, or a dirty chair or floor, as long as it's left there overnight, it will be cleaned spotless the next morning, and the floor will be Gil clean."

Sometimes, they would even prepare hot meals and set them on the table for the kitchen staff. The older women who cooked in the cafeteria all said that there must be a kind-hearted fairy living in the cafeteria.

"What a virtuous ghost. I really hope my girls can learn from her," Shirou remarked with a touch of sentimentality.

"But the problem still exists. After all, it would be terrifying if a ghost suddenly went berserk and harmed people," Shirou asked, resting his chin on his hand in confusion.

"The ghosts have indeed appeared, but if they're angry because of what happened in the small world, they don't seem to have gone so far as to go berserk and hurt people. Do you know what the reason is?"

"Well, only the Four Heavenly Kings know the real reason," Abigail said, shrugging as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

"Hmm, the ghosts floating around here have all lost their minds. They don't seem like hanged zombies; they can't talk at all. So we can only lock them up like this." Lavinia tapped the large belly of Evil God No. 0, as if she wanted to study it carefully.

"Is that so? Thank you. But... what are your thoughts on the changes in the world? Or perhaps you still have unfulfilled wishes?" Shirou looked at the two girls and asked. Yes... facing problems, it's not just Servant who feel flustered and confused, but also the girls he was close to.

"We really like it here! We love all kinds of classmates and the teachers who teach us new things," Abigail said with a lovely smile, extending her hand to the white-haired girl beside her.

"Life here is so enjoyable that we worked together to protect this place and prevent ghosts from interfering with our happy campus life," Lavinia said with a smile, shaking her best friend's hand.

The two exchanged a glance, intertwined their fingers, and said in unison, "But... now it's your Shirou, and the Dragon Witch's job. It would be wonderful if everyone could leave this world smiling!"

Chapter 524 The Big Bag for Catching Ghosts

As Shirou walked out of the junior high school district, the words the two girls had spoken earlier still echoed in his mind. If he could, he would have hoped for a happy ending for everyone. But to force them to move, to leave them homeless, and to expect them to do it with a smile—was that something he could do?

It wasn't just the ghosts who felt angry and confused, whether it was the Imitation Heroic Spirits in the Black Tea House or Abigail and Lavinia.

This was not a decision he made on his own, so Shirou chose to discuss it with the three Jeanne d'Arc three sisters before deciding what to do.

After school in the afternoon, Shirou contacted the three girls in his family and arranged to meet them at the cafe.

"Hey! Shirou, I'm here." The silver-haired girl pushed open the door and walked in.

"Shirou!" Little Saint ran in, waving his hands as he spoke.

"I'm back." The blonde girl walked in, carrying her schoolbag.

"Ah, welcome back, everyone. I've prepared dinner, let's eat first," Shirou greeted the girls with a smile.