The Balloons

The movie's plot continued.

Hezi went to the nearest police station to report the incident.

Facing the police officer, Hezi anxiously described what she had seen:

"It's real! In that temple... a severed head was hanging my friend!"

"And that head looked exactly like my friend!"

"Then... it kissed Fujino Terumi's face! If you don't save him quickly..."

The police officer tried to calm Hezi down, "Could you... calm down and explain again?"

"What happened to the head?"

"It was...!"

Hezi didn't know how to explain for a moment:

"I thought my friend committed suicide by hanging, but it was a giant severed head that killed him! Hurry!"

"Just come with me quickly!"

Hezi led the police officer to the crime scene.

"This is it! I saw it here."

"Then where is your friend?"

"Over there!"

Hezi recalled the scene she had just witnessed and led the police officer to where she had been standing.

At this moment, the dark sky was empty, with only the rustling of leaves from the cold wind.

Hezi continued to explain to the police officer, "It was floating right there just now!"

"It must have flown off somewhere!"

The police officer looked helpless, "Hey, miss... I really don't understand what you're saying.

Are you sure you weren't dreaming?"

Hezi's words did not gain the police officer's trust.

The next day, during school.

Hezi shared what she had seen with the other high school girls.

Still, no one believed what Hezi said.

Hezi felt both sad and angry.

"Even you guys don't believe me?"

One of the high school girls responded, "I don't think you would lie, Hezi..."

Hezi quickly interrupted, "But Shiraishi-san is indeed missing right now!"

The female classmate hesitated, "That's true...

However, a face just like Shiraishi-san's, hanging Shiraishi-san herself...

That's too bizarre..."

Hezi then began to deduce Terumi's true cause of death:

"Terumi must have been hanged like this too..."

"What?"

The high school girls' faces showed expressions of astonishment.

Hezi stated with certainty, "I think the steel cable that hanged Terumi originally belonged to that ghost...

And the cable must have gotten tangled with an electrical wire and snapped... so it looked like suicide."

Many viewers recalled the scene they had seen at the beginning.

The hanged girl, her hair hanging down, was indeed quite shocking.

After Hezi's analysis, many viewers actually agreed with her explanation.

However, the problem now was how Hezi could convince the police.

Should the four high school students go to report it together? Strength in numbers?

Hezi continued to analyze, "And that 'head' that caused the commotion as a ghost must still be floating somewhere...

Shiraishi-san's face...

And Shiraishi-san's body must be hanging somewhere, swaying..."

The high school girl stopped her, "Hezi, stop... it's disgusting."

Hezi wanted to say more, "But... but..."

A female high school student suddenly looked up at the sky:

"..."

After watching for a while, she pointed at the sky and said:

"Ah... look at that.

Do you know what it is?"

"Huh? What?" Hezi asked, confused.

"That thing!"

The female high school student pointed at four balloons drifting towards them.

"I don't know what it is... it's too far, I can't see clearly..."

"...It looks like a balloon..."

"There are 4 of them!"

"I wonder if it's GG's balloon that broke its string and flew away?"

"But, if it were GG's balloon, the shape is too strange..."

Hezi was the first to notice something was wrong:

"Wait a minute... is that...

Could that be...?"

Hezi hurriedly confirmed with her companions: "Hey, do you see it? There are ropes hanging down from it!"

Her companions were confused:

"Huh?"

Hezi continued, "And... that's... a person's head!..."

A female high school student wearing glasses analyzed: "Indeed, there are ropes hanging down... and it looks like a circle below.

Hmm... the shape also looks like a face..."

A female high school student next to her said with a look of panic: "Oh no, Chiharu, please don't say things like that."

Hearing that, the girl named Chiharu hesitated a little: "Ah... am I seeing things?"

"That thing seems to be flying this way!"

"What... no way!..."

"It's true, it's getting closer!"

"Why? Why is it flying this way?"

"You guys look!

That!... It's so disgusting..."

As they watched, four Head Balloons, identical to the female high school students, with grotesque smiles on their faces, were lunging towards the four of them.

"That's..."

"That's our heads!"

Several female students, like startled quails, remained motionless, some muttering to themselves:

"Wh-why, are those our heads..."

The ropes beneath the Head Balloons were approaching the group.

"Waaah!"

The female students panicked. Two of the high school students were fitted with balloons identical to their own around their necks.

The balloons slowly lifted them into the air.

Chiharu watched the abducted high school students and shouted their names loudly from the ground:

"Taeko! Miyuki!"

Hezi grabbed Chiharu's shoulder and pulled her into a narrow alley.

Above the narrow alley, Head Balloons identical to Hezi and Chiharu were watching them with great interest.

The hunter was staring at its prey.

Chiharu, in a panic, asked Hezi:

"Hezi, what is that?"

Hezi explained: "That's my and your face!

...That thing wants to hang us!"

"Wh-why?"

Chiharu could barely accept reality.

Hezi said angrily, "Who the hell knows why!"

She pointed at Taeko and Miyuki, whose bodies were hanging from balloons.

"But the fact is... it's right in front of us, Taeko and Miyuki have both been hanged."

Tears streamed down uncontrollably, and Chiharu cried out:

"Why? Why were they hanged!

We didn't do anything wrong!"

"Waaah!"

A Head Balloon, identical to Chiharu, finally found the alley's "entrance" and stared at the two with amusement.

The next second.

The Head Balloon's rope was thrown, heading straight for Chiharu.

Helplessly, Chiharu shed tears, "Help... help... help me!"

Just then, a man pushed open a window. Seeing the two high school girls trembling and clinging to each other, he frowned:

"Ah! What's wrong?"

"Th-that..."

Chiharu's trembling hand pointed to the sky.

Following Chiharu's finger, the man was also startled:

"Whoa!"

There, two Head Balloons, identical to the beautiful girls before them, were grinning eerily.

"M-monsters..."

The man's legs felt weak, and he walked towards a drawer:

"You... wait a moment, I'll drive away that monster!"

The man pulled out a crossbow and aimed at the balloon identical to Chiharu, pulling the trigger!

Puff!

The crossbow accurately hit the Head Balloon's face. Air flowed out from the hole, and the Head Balloon's eerie grin turned into shock.

A few seconds later, the Head Balloon deflated, and a smile appeared on Hezi's face:

"Great! That thing's out of air, it was filled with gas!

Right, Chiharu?"

Hezi turned to look at Chiharu.

Chiharu, whose skin was rosy and elastic, was rapidly deflating. Her eyes were vacant, clearly dying with unfinished business.

Finally, they walked out of the alley.

Hezi looked up and found that the sky had been taken over by Head Balloons.

The sky was filled with heads, drifting in the wind.

"Waaah!"

On the big screen, Hezi screamed in fear.

Inside the cinema, panic spread everywhere.

The fear that had been lurking in the cinema was instantly ignited, and the crowd began to riot.

Couples helped each other out of the movie theater.

The female anchor's face lost all color, and she closed her eyes, muttering:

"I can't see! I can't see! I can't see!"

A girl in a black cloak, holding a spoon, was so scared she cried.

"Holy crap, even the Spoon Killer Demon is crying!"

In an instant, one-third of the people in the cinema were gone.

Of the remaining two-thirds, half were too weak-kneed to move from their seats in the cinema.

And the other half had a glint in their eyes.