"Come on, tell us! We've all been waiting to hear it!"
As the instigator of the game, Suzuka Kurihara noticed the atmosphere had grown a little stagnant. She immediately closed the supernatural manga with suspiciously BL-leaning themes in her hands, adjusted the glasses on her nose, and eagerly invited the newly joined Miyu Sakatsuki to speak.
Having received permission, Miyu Sakatsuki nodded. Holding the candle, she thought for a moment before speaking slowly in a calm yet slightly detached voice.
"Late at night, unable to sleep, you go out onto the balcony to enjoy the view. Then you see a man below stabbing a woman to death with a knife. As you pick up your phone to call the police, you suddenly make eye contact with him. While staring at you, the man raises his hand and points at you several times. Question: what is he doing?"
It was an unexpected story—or rather, not really a story in the strict sense, but a novel question.
Having listened to ghost stories for most of the evening, the little girls perked up with interest.
"Kid, just you wait! I'm coming up there to kill you!"
Ryuko Gakuzawa, the liveliest among them, abruptly stood up. One hand rested on her hip while the other pointed at everyone. Pulling faces, she put on a vicious expression and gave a theatrical performance that was more silly than scary.
"I mean you! Prepare yourself, Naname!"
Just as Ryuko Gakuzawa, playing the murderer, was getting into character and gathering her courage to pounce wildly at a certain longtime rival who often bullied her, the pink-haired, twin-tailed elementary schooler with perpetually narrowed eyes in the corner slightly lifted her eyelids. Her pink pupils gazed eerily at the hyperactive girl charging toward her.
A chilling gust swept through the